DESCRIPTION:
Faraway People is the title track of Reg Meuross' forthcoming album which will be released in 2017. Recorded at Kitchen Floor Studios London with Roy Dodds.
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The names in the song are real. They are a tiny few of the thousands who have died as a direct result of cuts to their disability allowance by Atos, or because of the bedroom tax.

Original lyrics © Reg Meuross www.regmeuross.com

FARAWAY PEOPLE

Carl Payne, Leanne Chambers and Terry McGarvey
There but for grace luck and fortune go we
Wayne Grew, Linda Wootton and poor David Coupe
But for the whim of our government go me and you

Stephanie Bottrill lived only on custard
While her small income paid for a bedroom unused
One cold winters day she walked under a lorry
Her benefits cut and assistance refused

Julian Little was bound to a wheelchair
His machine in the spare room to keep him alive
‘it’s a luxury people like you can’t afford’
Said the council and Julian withered and died

CHORUS
These are the voices of faraway people
The man in the street and the hospital bed
The scandal of governments unfit to govern
Look down look down look down
You’ll be unfit to work when you’re dead

Seven ropes swinging and seven souls singing
Lifted from poverty lifted from pain
Freed of their guilt and relieved of their burden
For the price of a hotel or lunch on the plane

For 300 pounds you spend a day on the benches
And award for a week just a sixth of that fee
To a man who faced death for this land in the trenches
And sooner than starve hangs himself from a tree

Look into the eyes of Nicholas Barker
Barely able to hold up the gun
Or young Christelle Pardoe clutching her baby
As she leaps 5 months gone into oblivion.