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The Time is Now


Reclaim the common land
Reclaim the common right
Keep the vision burning bright
The future is behind
The past lies ahead
Woven together with a timeless thread.

Open the prisons
Set free the dreamers
Don't be fooled by the lies and hate
Untie the borders,
Unwind the fences
Don't be fooled by the terrorist state.

Governments may try
To divide us all
Bu the strongest barrier
In time must fall
And we rise up again, in the dawn of another day
Reclaim the common will and find our common way.

Shut the army bases
Free the corporate spaces
Tear down the detention centres
Remember the past
Look to the future
Reclaim the present, the time is now

Reclaim the common land
Reclaim the common right
Keep the vision burning bright
Remember the past
Look to the future
Reclaim the present, the time is now

Our lives and the earth are not for sale
Reclaim our lives, the time is now

Written for a commemoration of the Chartists' mass meeting on Kennington Common in 1848. Although the Chartist movement did not immediately achieve any of its aims, it was of great significance and later in time, all its demands were realised, including the legalisation of trade unions and, eventually, universal suffrage.

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from Songs for interesting times, released April 4, 2012
All songs written and performed by camilla
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Camilla Cancantata Knighton, UK

Camilla Cancantata, composer and improviser, and founding member of Footloose, a community arts group.

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