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England Keep My Bones, 2011
Written by Frank Turner and Nigel Powell
In this rousing rocker, found on what I believe to be Turner's best album, Turner notes how life can kick us around and make things look unremittingly bleak, and that's when you're liable to call it quits: "When you've lost the fight, yeah, you've lost that hunger / To pull yourself through the day." But then, he implores an unseen entity — maybe the invisible hand of friends and family in solidarity — to slap him around a bit if he ever loses faith. Throw him in the English Channel until he sobers up and remembers his main tenet of life: "As long as I've got me a place to sleep / Clothes on my back and some food to eat / Then I can't ask for anything more." A psalm for the downtrodden and folk-rockin'.
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