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Find out what’s coming up in our four-year programme of cultural activity across England's High Streets Heritage Action Zones, continuing until 2024.
These are the lyrics to the song New Planet City by Beccy Owen and Dan Bye.
Verse 1
This place is plasticine - moulded with fists and heart
Rev up the time machine - let’s make a fresh start
This could be a place built on hope
This could be a place built on art
This place is plasticine
We can pull it apart, we can pull it apart
And make a fresh start
Verse 2
This place is plasticine - moulded with fists and heart
Rev up the time machine - let’s make a fresh start
This could be a place where cultures collide
Sorrow and hope are livin’ side by side
This place is plasticine
We can pull it apart, we can pull it apart
And make a fresh start
Verse 3
Smash it all together
A mashup of colour
The past and the future
They are one another
Verse 4
This place is plasticine - new planet city
This place is plasticine - new planet city
Make a fresh start
Middle 8
Build on the past
To build up the future
Whatever you’ve been
It’s always a part of you
Build on the past
To build up the future
Whatever you’ve been
It’s always a part of you
Verse 5
We could always flatten it to gravel
Fill it with fountains and with singing
Or we could see what will unravel
If we build on what we’re bringing
Outtro
[Two voices sing overlapping parts repeat this section four times]
[Voice 1] This place is plasticine [Voice 2] To build on the past, we build on the future
[Voice 1] New planet city [Voice 2] Whatever you’ve been, it’s always a part of you
End
Find out what’s coming up in our four-year programme of cultural activity across England's High Streets Heritage Action Zones, continuing until 2024.
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