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Track: Dissidents
Artist: Thomas Dolby
Album: The Flat Earth

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Name: Thomas Dolby
Spotify Genres: new wave, synthpop
Followers: 182,971
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Singer/songwriter, musician and record producer, born on October 14, 1958 in London.

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Release: Thomas Dolby - Dissidents
Year: 1984
Genres: Electronic
Styles: New Wave, Synth-pop

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LYRICS

One more young writer slid away in the night
over the border he will drown in light
hold it -- wait a minute
I can't read my writing, my own writing!
like tiny insects in the palm of history
a domino effect in a cloud of mystery
my writing is an iron fist
in a glove full of vaseline
but dip the fuse in the kerosene
I too become a dissident

Courting disaster we ran in the night
wings of an angel torn in flight
check it -- verify it
it's all here in writing, down in writing!
at the hands of the press
and in the eyes of the government
I fell from grace
I too became a dissident
like tiny insects in the palm of history
a domino effect and an early end to this story
my writing is an iron fist
in a glove full of vaseline
but dip the fuse in the kerosene
I too become a dissident