Killing An Arab - Easy Cure (original '77 Cure demo)

The first version of Killing An Arab, recorded in SAV Studios on 15/11/77 after Easy Cure landed their contract with Hansa (same session as I'm Cold on the Three Imaginary Boys remaster). Hansa wasn't impressed and would rather they covered Bowie instead. Never released.

I was standing on a beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the arab on the ground
See his open mouth
But hear no sound

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

I can turn and walk away
Or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun
Whichever I choose
It amounts to the same

Absolutely nothing

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

Feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes of
The dead man on the beach

The dead man
On the beach

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

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[rashtoka]

pathetic 

[Durandal1717]

@rashtoka

why?

[bensteinsrightear]

Probably because it sounds like it was mpeg compressed approximately 7 million times.

[tetsuconnor]

@rashtoka HEY TODAS LAS BANDAS EMPIEZAN HACIENDO COSAS ASÍ, SIEMPRE ES AGRADABLE ESCUCHAR LOS ORÍGENES DE LA GENIALIDAD!

[TheAmargao]

Finally, the stoners version

[NhadzIsCured]

i remember one Joy Division fan saying that they rip off this song from Warsaw...Oh God, this song was way ahead before Warsaw was planned to be released (It wasn't really).

[NhadzIsCured]

I'm smitten with his voice!

[NhadzIsCured]

@gixxerboy555 you think so? they're still touring now...

[BodiHenrik]

OMG!

it's so cool

[MX1974]

THIS FUCKIN GREAT!!

[MrBookertjones]

this version would be such an awesome intro to a apocalypse now type movie set in the middle east. helicopters over the desert

[quepasacalabasaa]

i'm so excited i found this!

[zenzizi]

@talkin79 I'm from Montreal and I wish I would have been fast enough to get tickets - The first albums are my favorites xD

[tibbalz]

@gixxerboy555 Not all Muslims are Arabs. In fact, most Muslims are not Arabic. The majority are Asian.