Ride It On/Lions After Slumber

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| name = Ride It On/Lions After Slumber

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| type = single

| artist = Delays/The Veils

| album = Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before...

| released = 17 November 2003

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| length = 6:58

| label = Rough Trade

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| producer = Graham Sutton, Matthew Ollivier

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| artist = Delays

| type = Single

| prev_title = Hey Girl

| prev_year = 2003

| title = Ride It On

| year = 2003

| next_title = Long Time Coming

| next_year = 2004

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{{Extra chronology

| artist = The Veils

| type = Single

| prev_title = Guiding Light

| prev_year = 2003

| title = Lions After Slumber

| year = 2003

| next_title = Lavinia

| next_year = 2003

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"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.

"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.{{cite AV media notes|title=The "Sweetest Girl"|others=Scritti Politti|year=1981|publisher=Rough Trade Records|type=12" vinyl}} 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!”{{cite book |first=Aldous |last=Huxley |author-link=Aldous Huxley |chapter=Shelley |title=An Encyclopedia of Pacifism |location=London |publisher=Chatto and Windus, in association with the Peace Pledge Union |year=1937 |pages=93–94}}