WE CAN'T STOP WHAT'S COMING

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Released on Cineola, 'We Can't Stop What's Coming' was THE THE's first new single in 15 years. Matt Johnson is joined by former THE THE members Zeke Manyika on percussion, James Eller on bass and Johnny Marr on guitar in order to pay tribute to his late brother Andrew Johnson, aka Andy Dog, who designed many of THE THE’s record sleeves and whose artwork is also featured on the sleeve of this new single. Also featured are Meja Kullersten on backing vocals, Chris Whitten on drums and Iain Berryman on keyboards.

'We Can’t Stop What’s Coming' was also featured in The Inertia Variations, the new documentary directed by Johanna St Michaels, which forms part of a wider multimedia project inspired by the poem of the same name by British-born, Los Angeles based poet John Tottenham.

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'We Can’t Stop What’s Coming' V2 was manufactured following the overwhelming demand for vinyl editions of the orginal version for Record Store Day 2017. To preserve the collectors value of the more rare 'Record Store Day' black vinyl first edition, V2 is pressed on old English white vinyl and is minus the etchings on the b-side.

To refocus attention back to what this song was really all about, and its dedication to the late Andrew Johnson, we donate 50% of the profits from all website sales of V2 to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk, who cared for Andrew at the end of his life.

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	1.	WE CAN'T STOP WHAT'S COMING 04:14	lyrics	buy track
	So here you live Trapped inside the days Your pen moving across the page Back to where? It has begun Uncoiled, unspun What you were, what you will become The days, setting with the sun Wake up it’s time to go The taste of tears still in your throat Silence from your songs Reminds us, when you are gone We can’t hate the river for flowing Can’t blame the wild wind blowing Can’t slow time from running We can’t stop what’s coming The bonfire is burning The bird returning An owl by night A mourning crow Inside a shadow that grows A darkness in the darkness A stranger on the shore Outside your window Knocking on your door When there is rain it pours ‘Til there is pain, no more Wake up it’s time to go The taste of tears still in your throat Silence from your songs Reminds us, when you are gone We can’t hate the river for flowing Can’t blame the wild wind blowing Can’t slow time from running We can’t stop what’s coming

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released April 28, 2017

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THE THE England, UK

THE THE was formed in 1979 by Matt Johnson. His genre is all his own: it is music of long shadows, high hopes, channeled anger, feverish passions and sweetly disturbing poignancy. It is pop and rock, blues and folk, soul and polemic. It spans alienated electronics to twisted cinematic soundtracks, guitar tumbling swing to crimson ballads, rants and prayers to diaries and hymns. ... more

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