I'D LIKE TO BLAME IT ON THE DRINK
BUT THAT WON'T CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK OF ME
THIS TIME I'VE REALLY GONE TOO FAR
THIS TIME I'VE CROSSED THIS RUBICON
THIS TIME THERE IS NO TURNING BACK
THIS TIME I'VE CROSSED THE LINE
I'D SAY SOCIETY'S TO BLAME
BUT THAT WON'T HELP ME GET MY GOOD NAME BACK
MY MAMA SAYS PUT YOUR FAITH IN GOD
COS LET'S FACE IT HE KNOWS BEST
BUT HE'S A SECRETIVE BASTARD
AND HE HOLDS HIS CARDS TO HIS CHEST
WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
I'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
WELL DON'T TELL ME ABOUT THE BRIDGES I CROSSED
OR THE BOATS I'VE YET TO BURN
IF I COULD ONLY JUST TURN BACK THE DIRTY HANDS OF TIME
TO THE TIME WHEN WE WERE GREEN
BEFORE I CROSSED THE LINE
BUT THAT WON'T CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK OF ME
THIS TIME I'VE REALLY GONE TOO FAR
THIS TIME I'VE CROSSED THIS RUBICON
THIS TIME THERE IS NO TURNING BACK
THIS TIME I'VE CROSSED THE LINE
I'D SAY SOCIETY'S TO BLAME
BUT THAT WON'T HELP ME GET MY GOOD NAME BACK
MY MAMA SAYS PUT YOUR FAITH IN GOD
COS LET'S FACE IT HE KNOWS BEST
BUT HE'S A SECRETIVE BASTARD
AND HE HOLDS HIS CARDS TO HIS CHEST
WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
I'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
WELL DON'T TELL ME ABOUT THE BRIDGES I CROSSED
OR THE BOATS I'VE YET TO BURN
IF I COULD ONLY JUST TURN BACK THE DIRTY HANDS OF TIME
TO THE TIME WHEN WE WERE GREEN
BEFORE I CROSSED THE LINE
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How long have you been playing?
Since I was sixteeen
What was the first concert you ever went to?
Status Quo
What gear do you use?
Roland 100W cube. Fender srtat. Takamine acoustic.
Who was your biggest musical influence growing up?
Peter Gabriel
Are you in a band? Have you been in bands?
The Exiles, King Dumb, Critical Moment.
You're stuck on a desert island and only get to bring one album with you. What do you pick?
Quadrophenia



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Live show, Granada



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Burn it Down - Full album



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Critical Moment Live!



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Radio Silence




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Critical moment - Babylon, Live




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You fight in someone else’s war
You give in to your need
You take and take and still want more
No limit to your greed
As the new day enters
Old and shattered in its grief
No-one remembers me
Your lorry loads go rolling by
Bright gun metal shine
The wealthy and the well-fed
In TV rooms recline
As the newsreel flickers over torn and twisted dead
No-one remembers me
I have no strength to shout or cry
And even time grows weak
And in this vague and dusty hell
It’s only death I seek
As the hunger tightens
Choking out the last in me
No-one remembers me



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The Exiles - No one remembers me



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YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
You see no danger
Nobody calling
No need to enter panic mode
It’s just people talking
Just chat chat chat
You ignore all the signals
Forget to lock your door
You’ve heard it all a thousand times
You’re not listening anymore
You have been warned
Cover up your ears
Close you eyes
Cos you know them and it
Comes as no surprise
That it’s lies lies lies
You gave them all that you had to give
Your age your size and your sexual kicks
And though you still don’t know where you’re going to
A hundred thousand people follow you
You have been warned
This can’t be the end of the world
This can’t be the exit
It would be on all the TV news
They’d send us all a message
So you no danger
There’s nobody calling
You’ve heard it all a thousand times
You don’t listen anymore
You have been warned



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CRITICAL MOMENT - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED



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BETTER LIFE
CUT OFF THE PAST AND TRY TO LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND
AND BRUSH AWAY THE INSECT MEMORIES STILL CRAWLING IN YOUR MIND
‘COS THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY A WAY A WAY FROM HERE TO GOD KNOWS WHERE
A PLACE TO START AGAIN AND BUILD A BETTER LIFE
LEAVE THE PLASTIC BAG OF PHOTOS, LEAVE THEM ON THE FLOOR
AND MAKE YOUR WAY AWAY AWAY AWAY TOWARDS THE OPEN DOOR
THAT LEADS TO OUT THERE, SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE BUT HERE
A CHANCE FOR YOU TO TRY AND BUILD A BETTER LIFE
TRY AND BUILD A BETTER LIFE
YOU COME FROM FAR AWAY AWAY AWAY TO FIND A PROMISE LAND
WITH NOTHING TO YOUR NAME EXECPT THE CLOTHES IN WHICH YOU STAND
YOU ASK FOR NOTHING, NEXT TO NOTHING, JUST A HELPING HAND
A CHANCE FOR YOU TO TRY AND FIND A BETTER LIFE
TRY AND FIND A BETTER LIFE
YOU NEVER SAID GODDBYE THEY SAID
NEVER SHED A TEAR
YOU’RE RUNNING FROM YOURSELF THEY SAID
THERE’S NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR
THERE’S NOTHING HERE FOR ME YOU SAID
NO REASON I SHOULD STAY
ALL THAT’S LEFT IS PAIN YOU SAID
I GOTTA GET AWAY
DON’T TURN AROUND JUST KEEP ON MOVING STRAIGHT AHEAD
DON’T EVEN LINGER FOR A SECOND EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE OUT OF BREATH
FORGET THE DAYS OF MISERY AND HATRED THAT YOU LED
AND RUN AWAY AWAY AWAY TO BUILD A BETTER LIFE
BUILD A BETTER LIFE



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Critical Moment - Better Life




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Critical Moment - Versión de No sé no sé de Rumba 3.



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Granada, Spain
This town is just like Babylon
There’s a scaffold built on every lawn
And if you should put just one foot wrong
You’ll be swinging at the break of dawn
This is death by hanging
Death by hanging around
Scuffing around the shopping mall,
Nothing to do, nothing to say, nothing at all
And heaven knows I ain’t no latter-day saint
But Saturday ain’t what it used to be
This town is just like Babylon
There’s a scaffold built on every lawn
And if you should put just one foot wrong
You’ll be swinging at the break of dawn
This is death by hanging
Death by hanging around
Yes this is death by hanging
Death by hanging around



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Critical Moment Babylon



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I USED TO RIDE THE WAVELENGTHS
IN SEARCH OF A SOUND TO EASE MY SOUL
A NEW WAY TO DRESS OR TO ADDRESS MY OUTRAGE
IN THE WORDS OF A SONG
NOW I AM DEAD
DEAD ON MY FEET
AND THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS
THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS MY WAY BACK HOME
I HAD A NEED
A NEED TO BE TOLD
THAT I WAS UNIQUE BUT NOT ALONE
I COULD HAVE BEEN WITH YOU MY LOVE
AND TAKEN YOU ROUND THE WORLD IN A SONG
NOW I HAVE NOTHING
NOTHING AT ALL
AND THE RADIO IS SILENT
RADIO SILENCE



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Critical Moment - Radio Sience live recording.



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Granada, Spain
Our upbeat version of the great song Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel



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Granada, Spain
Let's Dance cover by Critical Moment




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Granada, Spain
WE WARM OUR HANDS BESIDE THE FIRE
ILLUMINATED
BY BOOKS IN FLAMES
AND WATCH THE ORDERED DEMOLITION
IN HIGH DEFINITION
OF YESTERDAY
OUR HANDS ARE TIED JUST LIKE OUR TONGUES
AS WE STAND
MOTIONLESS IN FEAR
WE SAY WE’RE WAITING
FOR THE BAR-BAR-BARBARIANS
BUT THEY’RE ALREADY HERE
WORRIED TO SAVE OUR SKIN
NOW THAT OUR BLOOD RUNS THIN
WATCHING AS EVERYTHING CAVES IN
WE WARM OUR HANDS BESIDE THE FIRE
AND FEEL ITS HEAT COURSING THROUGH OUR VEINS
TURN BACK THE CUNTURIES OF COLD INDIFFERENCE
AND START TO GROW AGAIN
THIS IS THE PRICE WE PAY
IF WE LOOK THE OTHER WAY
SO MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR US TO SAY
BUILD IT UP, WHAT THEY BURNT DOWN
BUILD IT UP, UP FROM THE GROUND
BUILD IT UP, BUILD IT UP, BUILD IT UP



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Critical Moment - Build it up (Live!)



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Critical Moment. Stalk. La Sala. Granada. Abril 2017



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Granada, Spain
Critical Moment - My Home single version



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IT IS SO EASY TO KILL A CHILD
YOU PUT A GUN INTO MY TINY HAND
AND KNOCK ALL SENSE AND INNOCENCE
FROM MY EYE
THESE ARE NOT DREAMS BUT TORTURED MEMORIES
OF THE OBSCENITIES THAT I WAS FORCED TO BE
I CANNOT DREAM
THERE IS NO BEAUTY NOW IN ANYTHING I SEE
OR IN ME
I’M JUST A CHILD
I’M JUST A CHILD
SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I AM ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD
AND I COULD CRY
SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I HAVE LIVED FOREVER
AND THAT WAR IS JUST A GAME CHILDREN PLAY
I’M JUST A CHILD
CHILD KILLER
I’M JUST A CHILD
AND I HAVE LIVED FOREVER
I’M JUST A CHILD
CHILD KILLER
I’M JUST A CHILD
I’M JUST A CHILD
CHILD KILLER
I’M JUST A CHILD
AND I HAVE LIVED FOREVER
I’M JUST A CHILD
CHILD KILLER
I’M JUST A CHILD
CHILD KILLER



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A child is forced to become a soldier. Who is the killer?



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Granada, Spain
This is our last chance
To salvage our romance
You say you’ll give it one more go
But it won’t last
Now we’re sharpening our claws
To the sound of slamming doors
And clutching bedroom straws
But it won’t last.
How we cling to each other
So we both fall together
How we cling to one another
So we both can fall together
Forever.
Now this love that you profess
Is a rope around our necks
And that's about as good as it gets
But we can't stop
And now we're sleeping back to back
Cos we fatally attract
And it gets no better than that
But we can't stop
How we cling to each other
So we both fall together
How we cling to one another
So we both can fall together
Forever.



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This love will kill us.



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This is green belt
This is bible belt
This is street cred
This is drugs
This is a law enforcement agent
This is a small town thug
This is white shirt
This is cute flirt
This is where your hero died
This is the last chance you ever get
to save your battered pride
This is it
This ain’t no dress rehearsal no no
This is it
This is well-meant
This is hell-bent
This is all you’d hoped to do
This is hair loss
This is dead loss
This is what they think of you
This is siren
This is wailing
This is a beating in my head
This is I wish I’d never heard of you
Or believed the things you said
This is it
I ain’t gonna tell you one more time no no
This is it
This ain’t no life after death
This ain’t no eternal rest
This is it
This ain’t no parallel world
This ain’t no fantasy girl
This is it.



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Granada, Spain
A tribute to urban love.



Tommy Dakar
- Guitar/vocals/songwriter
Audio
Granada, Spain
THIS IS A HOLE, THIS IS S HOLE IN THE GROUND
THIS IS THE KIND OF PLACE YOU GO
WHEN YOU DON’T WANT TO BE FOUND
WE CALL IT A GHETTO, THEY CALL IT A SLUM
BUT THIS IS WHERE WE SQUEEZE ROMANCE
LIKE BLOOD FROM A STONE
I TOOK YOU BY THE HAND
AND LED YOU THROUGH THE LAND
ALONG THE HIGHWAY, FREEWAY, AUTOPISTE AND THE AUTOBAHN
AND WE WATCHED THE SUN GO DOWN
OVER THE DIRTY SIDE OF TOWN
AND HELD EACH OTHER TIGHT
IN THAT BEAUTIFUL LIGHT
YOU MAY SAY THIS IS NO PLACE TO LIVE
BUT IT’S ALL THAT THERE IS
AND IT’S MY HOME
NO TIME TO STOP
COS YOU WERE JUST DRIVING THROUGH
IT MEANS NOTHING TO YOU
BUT IT’S MY HOME
THIS IS A HOLE
THIS IS A HOLE IN THE WALL
A PLACE TO CRAWL TO
WHEN YOU’VE HAD ENOUGH OF IT ALL
CALL IT A GHETTO
CALL IT A SLUM,
BUT THIS IS WHERE WE GO TO
WHEN OUR DAYS ARE DONE
YOU MAY SAY THIS IS NO PLACE TO LIVE
BUT IT’S ALL THAT THERE IS
AND IT’S MY HOME
NO TIME TO STOP
COS YOU WERE JUST PASSING THROUGH
IT MEANS NOTHING TO YOU
BUT IT’S MY HOME



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EXCUSE ME DO I KNOW YOU?
IT’S HARD TO TELL
ARE YOU THE SAME?
IN THE CROSSFIRE OF MY MEMORY
THERE’S A VISION OF YOU
SLIPPING AWAY
YOU HAVE SO MANY FACES NOW
ONE FOR EVERY DAY
YOU SAY IT’S CHANGE
IRON IN THE SOUL
I ACCUSE YOU
BUT YOU JUST LAUGH
YOU SEE ME HUDDLED IN THE CORNER
MY FEAR HELD IN MY ARMS
BUT YOU WANT NO PART
CAN I CALL THIS LOVE
IF IT’S NOTHIG I WOULD DIE FOR?
OH NO THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR
I’M NOT SURE THAT YOU AND I CAN CARRY ON THIS WAY
I CAN’T PUT MY HAND UPON MY HEART AND SAY IT’S LOVE
IS THERE NOTHING I CAN DO
TO GET A FEELING OUT OF YOU
SEE SOME PITY IN YOUR EYE
AS YOU BRUSH US ALL ASIDE?
YOU FIGHT PASSION WITH DISDAIN
COMBAT SYMPATHY WITH PAIN
CONVERT ALL MY HOPES AND FEARS
INTO NOTHINGNESS
AND YOU ARE EVERYTHING TO ME
AND I WANT SO MUCH TO BELIEVE
THAT WE CAN LOVE AGAIN
LOVE AGAIN
I DON’T KNOW IF YOU AND I CAN SOLDIER ON
I CAN’T STAND THE WAY YOU HAVE NO HEART
WHILE MINE’S STILL BLEEDING
I’M NOT SURE THAT YOU AND I CAN CARRY ON THIS WAY
I CAN’T PUT MY HAND UPON MY HEART AND SAY IT’S LOVE



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- Lyrics
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Granada, Spain
As Johnny Rotten would say, this is not a love song.



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Granada, Spain
Ladies and gentlemen a big hand please
For the next generation
They’re gonna save our souls
Save us all
And put the world to rights tonight
I can see them coming over the hill
And swarming along the coast
They’re gonna hit this town
They’re gonna burn it down
They’re gonna turn it upside down
Come a little closer and I’ll tell you some home truths
We’ve got a cupboard full of skeletons
Daddy didn’t do it and I didn’t do it
But we hope you’ll know what to do
So don’t let them put the blame on you or tell you what to do
You’ll get to heaven if you try
You’ll get to heaven by and by
Stop it now , it’s all you can do
I said drop it now, it’s over to you
If I could only help you see the way to go
For crying out loud, can’t seem to please the crowd,
Isn’t it funny, we can’t get it right for love nor money



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Granada, Spain
The next generation will save us....?



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Granada, Spain
END IT ALL
Think we’ve seen enough, been through enough
To understand why, you want to end it all
So go ahead, please be my guest
It’s just one more less
If you want to end it all
It’s a new day in paradise
It’s a new day but you went away
It’s a new day in paradise
It’s a new day but you went away
Some may grieve
Some may mourn
Shed a little tear
Cos you want to end it all
But we won’t judge
Or shake our heads
When you finally decide
You’re gonna end it all



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Don't!



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FRESH KILLS
YES IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AGAIN
MY WORLD THIS TIME ROUND
HATE FLIES IN FROM HIGH BLUE SKIES
AND THE WORLD COMES TUMBLING DOWN
THIS IS THE PRODUCT OF A MADDENING DREAM
ONE WE’D HOPED TO HOLD AT BAY
IT NOW REWRITES OUR DESTINY
THE AUTHOR OF OUR DAYS
WHEN THE DUST SETTLES,
WE’LL ALL HOLD HANDS
SING SONGS IN THE WRECKAGE
WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS, WE’LL ASK OURSELVES
WHAT’S THE POINT OF THIS CARNAGE?
WE SWEAR THAT THEY WON’T BEND OUR WILLS
AND TAKE THE ROAD THAT LEADS US DOWN
WE SWEAR REVENGE TO EASE OUR ILLS
AND TAKE THE ROAD THAT LEADS US DOWN
TO FRESH KILLS
YES IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AGAIN
DOWN TO ZERO THIS TIME ROUND
WE’RE FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE
AND WE BURN THE WHOLE WORLD DOWN
WHEN THE PAIN SETTLES, WE’LL BOW OUR HEADS
HUNT GHOSTS IN THE DAMAGE
WHEN THE SORROW CLEARS, WE’LL ASK IN VAIN
WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THIS GARBAGE
WE SWEAR THAT THEY WON’T BEND OUR WILLS
AND TAKE THE ROAD THAT LEADS US DOWN
WE SWEAR REVENGE TO EASE OUR ILLS
AND TAKE THE ROAD THAT LEADS US DOWN
WE SWEAR THAT THEY WON’T BEND OUR WILLS
AND TAKE THE ROAD
WE SWEAR REVENGE TO EASE OUR ILLS
AND TAKE THE ROAD THAT LEADS US DOWN
TO FRESH KILLS




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Granada, Spain
Fresh Kills is the name of the landfill site where they took the rubble from 11S




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Granada, Spain
An upbeat criticism of the sell out culture.



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- Guitar
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Granada, Spain
Unless I'm very much mistaken
This is not the way forward
They've got us sniffing out own arses
They've got us running round and round and round in circles
And you can take it now for granted
This is not what we wanted
And we've been taken for the fools we are again
Unless I'm very much mistaken
The man had a dream
It was only a dream
Revolution for sale



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