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Damocles Pounding drums and intense strings lead into the angriest song on the record – the band's dark unpicking of knife crime. “I wanted to write a song that addressed the issue for a long time. It cannot continue,” says Simpson. “How can we live in a society where people can do that to each other?” The intensely dramatic song even finds Simpson considering the merits of reinstating hanging: “I don't want it back but when I wrote the lyrics I thought to myself, the only way out of this is to make them afraid of doing it.