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Dignity is the first track to be taken from The Columbus Memoirs, the third album from Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha, which is due for release in June 2022.

Dignity is the album’s closing track. The lyric tackles, head-on, the utter inhumanity of our heartless mistreatment of refugees and other migrants. Message meets musicianship. This isn’t pigeon-holed pop. Nick doesn’t sing. Signia Alpha don’t simply fit neatly into the slot of some category. Why would they? It’s not what they’re about.

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For those on the run
From the prison, the gun
For those who escape
After torture and rape
For those who are homeless and hopeless and stateless
For those grown so thin, they could almost be weightless

For those left too weak
Or too frightened to speak
Like the poor kid who hid
But who saw what they did

For those who've not eaten
The pursued and the beaten
Who fled when the harvest had failed
Who came home to loved ones impaled

For those who've walked and walked and walked from far away to here
For the traveller who doesn't need a bloody souvenir
For those who wake up from their dreams
Shaken by shadows and screams

For those who were lucky to lose just a limb
For those from the boat who were able to swim

Yes, dignity
If you please

For those not given the chance to choose
Who carry the little they've got left to lose
For those who've been moved on so often before
That they don't even care where they are anymore
For those for whom water is worth more than gold
For those who've held children whose bodies turned cold

For those who now know that they'll never return
For those who've watched all that life meant to them burn

Just give me some dignity
Just give me some dignity

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released January 28, 2022
Dignity (lyrics: Toczek, music: Webster/Ingham)


Signia Alpha line-up:

Matt Webster - drums, bass, 12 string acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Wulf Ingham - guitars, lead guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, mandolin
Keith Jafrate – saxophone
Chris Walsh – flute, backing vocals
Harris – additional guitar noodling, backing vocals

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Nick Toczek - vocals

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Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha Bradford, UK

Poet Nick Toczek began collaborating with Matt Webster in 2019.
They released Shooting the Messenger in 2020. A mix of indie, jazz and funk grooves with Toczek’s surreal poems and stories.
Walking the Tightrope followed in 2021 & included a guest appearance by The Damned’s Paul Gray.
A third album in 2022. Webster plays many of the instruments with contributions from guests, including Paul Gray, ... more

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