The Dissidents - Numbers Station

  

  A couple of years ago I posted a song by an anarcho/political punk quartet from Philadelphia called The Dissidents (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-dissidents-no-air.html). I commented that it was hopefully just an introduction to a band we'll hear more from and happily, that is now the case.

  They've a split ep with Manchester hardcore punk outfit Vitriolic Response which will be released on 7" vinyl on September 1st but which is available on Bandcamp now :  https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/album/the-dissidents-vitriolic-response-split-ep

  Vitriolic Response contribute a couple of impressively ferocious blasts of punk fury whilst The Dissidents kick things off with 3 equally pissed off tunes. I'll play the opening track, Patronised, on the next Just Some Punk Songs show. It's a message to guys who talk down to women, who have "so many words but nothing to say." The song I'm posting below though concerns itself with the short wave radio stations which have been arounds at least since World War 1 and which are believed to be intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. 

  It's called Numbers Station...

Waves, waves flying out through the air High frequencies reach everywhere Are you receiving out there chorus Numbers Station (x4) Null 258 Signal sends the message through Wires inside us picking up a secret code Towers rising from the wilderness No one knows who put them there or what they’re for Chorus Run, try to stay out of the light Messages sent in plain sight Making their way through the night Chorus Hidden network pulsing out around the globe If you know the sequences you can decode We are thousands moving in the underground Making something beautiful from what we’ve found Chorus Hidden networks pulsing round the globe Thousands moving in the underground Wires inside of us (x4)