Chain of Command

(Partridge)

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Recordings

1. Single version, 2'33.
   Released on 17 August 1979 as a single, included free with original copies of Drums and Wires.
   Also available as a bonus track on compact disc releases of Drums and Wires.

2. Demo version.
   Recorded in March 1979 at Redbrick Studio, Swindon Town Hall.
   Engineered by Steve Warren and ‘Bubble’.
   Released on 2 December 2002 on Fuzzy Warbles Volume Two in the U.K.
   Colin Moulding - bass
   Dave Gregory - guitar
   Terry Chambers - drums

   Andy: “Barry out, Dave in, that's got Go 2 out of our system, now we can relax a little. . . Not! Virgin want to hear demos of our newest material, better buy a pen and get scribbling. A makeshift studio in the basement of Swindon Town Hall, Red Brick, rings to the rafters, (heating ducts really) with some spanking tunes. Here's one now, recorded March '79, you can almost feel the eggboxes.”

[Thanks to R. Stevie Moore]

Art

Lyrics

How bright are the fires of thought
In a chain of command
How bright is the medical torch
When it's put in our hand

My microbes and I
Can't wait to lay down and die
We realise that we must be spent
Like the cells that dissolve when a brainwave is sent
How bright are the fires of thought
In a chain of command

My bloodgroup and me
A body of soldiers are we
To the wound we quickly flowed
And we fought with the weapons in our
Chemical code
How bright are the fires of thought
In a chain of command

© 1979 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.

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