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Available on bandcamp:
https://meantraitors.bandcamp.com/album/angry-heart

From '' Angry Heart ''
Label: Kix 4 U Records -- KIXCD 3369
Format: CD, Album
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1995

Tracklist
01. Don't You Die
02. Angry Heart
03. You Broken Jaw
04. Too Clever To Be Good
05. Trans-Siberian Express
06. Killin' An Arab (Written By - The Cure)
07. Erotic Nightmares
08. Main Street Of The Past
09. Cool Fans Of Damned Fuckin' West
10. Four Johnnies
11. Man With The Scar
12. Straight On
13. I'll Meet You In The Fog
14. Lamborghini's Noise
15. Clown
16. King "Sorrow"
17. Liar, Liar...

Guitar, Vocals - Stanislav Bogorad
Bass - Misha Duboff
Drums - Marc Lauber

Written-By - Stanislav Bogorad

Artwork By [Computer Design] - Anton
Artwork By [Paintings] - Jenia Nikulin

Engineer - Reto Mandelkow
Producer - Stanislav Bogorad

Recorded in October 1995 at Intonations Studio, Grossvernich, Germany.

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This one was uploaded originally in March 21, 2011-14.5k views)

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"Killing an Arab" is the first single by The Cure.
It was recorded at the same time as their first LP in the UK, Three Imaginary Boys (1979) but not included on the album. However it was included on the band's first US album, Boys Don't Cry (1980).

Composer Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus" (Cure News number 11, October 1991). The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach, in which the Arab of the title is killed by the song's narrator; in Camus' story the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a beach, overwhelmed by his surroundings. Meursault is condemned for his honesty about his feelings. He is considered an outsider (or 'stranger') because "he refuses to lie" and "doesn't play the game".
The track has a controversial history, since it has often been viewed as promoting violence against Arabs. In the US, The Cure's first compilation of singles, Standing on a Beach (1986), was packaged with a sticker advising against racist usage of the song. It saw controversy again during the Persian Gulf War and following September 11th. "Killing an Arab" was the only single from the Three Imaginary Boys era not to be included on that album's 2004 remaster although it remains available on the album Boys Don't Cry.
The song was revived in 2005, when the band performed the song at several European festivals. The lyrics, however, were changed from "Killing an Arab" to "Kissing an Arab". Smith added a whole new opening verse when the band performed it at the Royal Albert Hall, London on 1 April 2006 as "Killing Another". The "killing another" lyric has also been used during the 2007-2008 4 Tour.
This song lends two of its lines to the titles of one of The Cure's compilation albums, Standing on a Beach, and to its CD/video counterpart Staring at the Sea.
"Killing an Arab" has been covered by Frodus on the 1995 Radiopaque compilation Give Me The Cure and again in 2004 by DJ Riton. Also, the Electric Hellfire Club copied it on their 2000 Cleopatra Records compilation Empathy for the Devil. Recently, Santigold covered the song at Lollapalooza 2009.

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Lyrics

Standing on the beach
With a gun in my hand,
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand,
Staring down the barrel
At the arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth
But I hear no sound.

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killin' an arab.

I can turn
And walk away
Or I can fire the gun,
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun,
Whichever I chose
It amounts to the same
Absolutely nothing.

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killin' an arab.

I feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand,
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes
Of the dead man on the beach.

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killin' an arab.
Killin' an arab
Killin' an arab.