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For Those Wavin’ the Flag

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    The Green Man (TGM) & Kingz – Changes (22 Years of Basswerk)

    The Green Man & Kingz first met and started making and performing music together in 1997 following The Green Man’s „Infinity“ release, which touched Kingz’ musical nerve. In 1998 they were both part of the Basswerk Sessions Vol. 1 compilation and Kingz became Cologne’s most accepted MC with a residency at Basswerk Sessions and touring through Germany, but stopped performing in 2001. It wasn’t until 2016 that they started making music again - having been connected as friends during the years. The widely appreciated “The moment is now“ track (relased 2016/ Basswerk 39) marked their comeback. The focus moved more to production and Kingz really took the place as a vocalist and lyricist. With a Basswerk’s 20 years anniversary release planned which got support by Kulturamt Köln in 2017, they elaborated their intersections in musical taste and histories culmulating in their very own sound.

    The album is also about political and life themes/issues of our time. They discussed and debated lyrical themes, which came to life and on point with the help Kingz’ wife Vera Obeng. One track after another emerged and it became clear that this would be more than a compilation contribution, instead it became a whole new album project. However it wasn’t finished until the very end of 2018 and took them more than 2 ½ years of intense work to realise the visions and bring everything on point.

    Additionally, various musicians did remixes of „The moment is now“ (including Basswerk resident Decon, Basicand Thorsten Quaeschning). They will be released on a separate EP.

    So this album, the Remix-EP and also the above mentioned compilation are now part of a series of „22 Years of Basswerk“ releases in 2019 (supported by Kulturamt Köln). Check out the main other part of the project: „The Green Man (TGM) presents: 22 Years of Basswerk/ The Collab Sessions“ (CD with 16 collab tracks/remixes by The Green Man (TGM) with Digital, Klute, Aqua Sky, Skarra Mucci, David Boomah, Gregor Schwellenbach, Gourski, Seibel, Navigator, Freeze, Chevy, Brian Brainstorm, Thorsten Quaeschning (Tangerine Dream), Triou, FR33M4N & Zera) and various 2019 releases/ EP’s.

    The Green Man & Kingz - Changes

    1 The Paths that We Take
    2 We Keep Destroying the World
    3 Where it Began
    4 Sincere (More Decency, More Grace) (Long Album Version)
    5 Changes
    6 For Those Wavin the Flag
    7 Feels Like Home (with Ultima C)
    8 A Journey
    9 Feeling Fresh
    10 Heroes
    11 The Moment is now

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lyrics

For Those Wavin’ the Flag


For those wavin’ a flag

Glorifying the rag



Kind o’ weird

Something that always bothered me 

When I looked at it closely

The care people take in their pride

Where they cried their first cry

Of their nationality - being part of a majority

Basking in reflected glory



If problems arise? 

Time to blame the minority

“Don’t you realise?

It's for the sake of the country”



No no no - you're mistaking me

There's nothing wrong with a healthy sense of national identity

It's a delusion of a nationalist

To exclude others in cold blood claiming that life's bliss

So conceited arrogant and egotistical 

They don't care if the changes for others are detrimental 

And them be calling themselves patriotic
They just don't get it!



In defence of the weak 

They're just "tagging along"

Their future’s bleak

So they just want to be among

You're lucky If the cap fits - wear it

It doesn't? Well tough shit - bear it



This desire for othering

Is not an innate quality

On the contrary

Time after time in history

We're justifying war - claiming we’re defenders 

Killing the small - we're just pretenders


For once take up the viewpoint of the other

Not always assuming our culture or nation is better

So much energy wasted for the wrong cause

When we could be getting closer
Avoiding senseless wars 

Time could be spent on cooperation
Enriching the diversity of our nation
Yeah

Let's devote ourselves to cooperation
Enriching the diversity of our nations

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from the green man & kingz - changes, released February 15, 2019

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