This Is Not Your Country

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MORRISSEY song
Name	This Is Not Your Country
Album/single	Satan Rejected My Soul (single) 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 IMDB Russell Crowe as Stoney Hando quotes from the film:

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)

Live History

Play count (Morrissey concert): 0

Appears On

• Maladjusted
• Satan Rejected My Soul (single)
• Rare Tracks

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