Ride It On/Lions After Slumber

"Ride It On"/"Lions After Slumber" is a 7"split single by Delays and The Veils, released in November 2003 to promote the album Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before... a compilation of interpretations by current Rough Trade bands of classic songs released by the label.

"Ride It On/Lions After Slumber"
Single by Delays/The Veils
from the album Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before...
Released	17 November 2003
Length	6:58
Label	Rough Trade
Producers	Graham Sutton, Matthew Ollivier
Delays singles chronology
"Hey Girl" (2003) "Ride It On" (2003) "Long Time Coming" (2004)
The Veils singles chronology
"Guiding Light" (2003) "Lions After Slumber" (2003) "Lavinia" (2003)

"Lions After Slumber" was originally released in October 1981 as the B-side of The "Sweetest Girl" (in UK, US and Germany) by Scritti Politti.^[1] The title and final line is a quote from Shelley's poem The Masque of Anarchy, often cited as the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance. "Rise, like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number!”^[2]

Track listing

• 7" (RTRADES153)

1. "Ride It On" (Delays, originally by Mazzy Star) – 3:28
2. "Lions After Slumber" (The Veils, originally by Scritti Politti) – 3:30