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{{Songbox
| Name = This Is Not Your Country
| Name = This Is Not Your Country
| Album =  
| Album = [[Satan Rejected My Soul (single)|Satan Rejected My Soul]]<br>[[Rare Tracks]]<br>[[Maladjusted]] (2009 Edition)
| Length = 7:25
| Length = 7:25
| Writer = Morrissey/Whyte  
| Writer = [[Writer::Morrissey]] / [[Writer::Alain Whyte]]
| Producer = [[Danton Supple]]  
| Producer = [[Producer::Danton Supple]]  
| Recorded = Circa mid 1997
| Recorded = Circa mid 1997
| Release =  
| Release = December 1997
| ArtistType = Morrissey
| ArtistType = Morrissey
}}
}}
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==Information==
The title is likely taken from a line in the 1992 film "[[Mention::Romper Stomper]]". From [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105275/characters/nm0000128 Russell Crowe as Stoney Hando quotes from the film] - IMDB:
<blockquote>
Hando : What'd you run into me for?<br>
Tiger : I didn't mean it, mate, that guy pushed me.<br>
Hando : What'd you run into me for? What are you doing here? *What* are you doing here?<br>
''[grabs Tiger by the shoulder]''<br>
Hando : I'm gonna tell you something.<br>
Hando : I want you to listen to me now, OK? This... is... not... your... country.<br>
''[proceeds to beat him up]''
</blockquote>
== Lyrics ==
<poem>
Road blocks and fire
Barb wire upon barb wire
This is not your country
 
Armoured cars, corrugated scars
Graffiti scrawls:
"This is not your country"
 
Home sweet fortress
Gunshot - we hate your kind
Get back!
This is not your country
 
I need some air
And I'm stopped and repeatedly questioned:
"Born and raised ?"
But this is not my country
 
We're old news
All's well
Say BBC scum
One child shot, but so what?
 
Laid my son
In a box, three feet long
And I still don't know why
 
A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared
In my own country


We're old news
All's well
Say BBC scum
Everybody's under control
Of our surveillance globes


==Information==
We're old news
All's well
And thirty years could be a thousand
And this Peugeot ad
Spins round in my head


== Lyrics ==
British soldier pointing a gun
And I'm only trying to post a letter
A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared, and I'm scared, I am scared


{{lyrics
Old news
|
All's well
}}
BBC scum


You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth (repeated)
</poem>


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Latest revision as of 21:31, 11 February 2023

Cover art
MORRISSEY song
Name This Is Not Your Country
Album/single Satan Rejected My Soul
Rare Tracks
Maladjusted (2009 Edition)
Length 7:25
Writer/composer Morrissey / Alain Whyte
Producer Danton Supple
Release December 1997
Recorded Circa mid 1997

Information

The title is likely taken from a line in the 1992 film "Romper Stomper". From Russell Crowe as Stoney Hando quotes from the film - IMDB:

Hando : What'd you run into me for?
Tiger : I didn't mean it, mate, that guy pushed me.
Hando : What'd you run into me for? What are you doing here? *What* are you doing here?
[grabs Tiger by the shoulder]
Hando : I'm gonna tell you something.
Hando : I want you to listen to me now, OK? This... is... not... your... country.
[proceeds to beat him up]

Lyrics

Road blocks and fire
Barb wire upon barb wire
This is not your country

Armoured cars, corrugated scars
Graffiti scrawls:
"This is not your country"

Home sweet fortress
Gunshot - we hate your kind
Get back!
This is not your country

I need some air
And I'm stopped and repeatedly questioned:
"Born and raised ?"
But this is not my country

We're old news
All's well
Say BBC scum
One child shot, but so what?

Laid my son
In a box, three feet long
And I still don't know why

A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared
In my own country

We're old news
All's well
Say BBC scum
Everybody's under control
Of our surveillance globes

We're old news
All's well
And thirty years could be a thousand
And this Peugeot ad
Spins round in my head

British soldier pointing a gun
And I'm only trying to post a letter
A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared, and I'm scared, I am scared

Old news
All's well
BBC scum

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth (repeated)

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