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Four Minute Warning (song) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Four Minute Warning (song)
"Four Minute Warning" is the first single to be released from Take That band member Mark Owen's second solo studio album, ''In Your Own Time''. The single was released on 4 August 2003.〔 The single peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart,〔 making it his third UK top 10 single. It sold over 80,000 copies in the UK. It was Owen's first single to be released on Island Records, after he was dropped from RCA in September 1997. ==Synopsis== The song is based on the Four-minute warning, a public alert system conceived by the British government during the Cold War (1953–1992), which was based on the estimated time it would take an ICBM from detection to reach its target. Owen's lyrics, on one level, depict people in denial of their own demise and the political circumstances that cause it. On the other, it gives the listener the impression of the shattered dreams of a group of people caught up in a nuclear strike on an unnamed British city. They also give a snapshot of the society through the people Owen portrays, while at the same time narrating the period between the UKWMO issuing a warning and the impact in real time (Owen's song is slightly over four minutes long). This is done with a countdown in the lyrics akin to Crass's song ''They've got a bomb'', which appears on their album The Feeding Of The 5000. Each time the chorus is repeated, one minute is removed from the countdown. The lyrics near the end of the song provocatively ask the listener what would they do if such a warning was given, provoking listeners to empathise with the characters. The Chorus is an allusion to Peter Donaldson's warning message.
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