Levellers are an English rock Rock music band influenced by punk Punk rock and traditional English music English folk music . They are based in Brighton, England where they were founded in 1988. They got their name from the Levellers, a radically democratic faction of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army; or simply, according to guitarist, Simon Friend, a word they chose from a dictionary. Strongly interested and outspoken about green... [read more] - Warning
(I don't have to tell you things are bad, everyone knows it; it's a depression. Crowds are running wild in the streets, but nobody anywhere seems to know what to do with them -- now listen ... You know the air is...
- Dirty Davey
Dirty Davey's down the frontAnd he's met the coppers there They'll be taking you in cos they hate your skin And you're dragged away by the hairIt's a kick in the head and a prison bed And you tell me it's the law Well...
- 100 Years Of Solitude
All around you slow decayWanna feel the sun of a new dayForget all the chances lostShedding innocence like falling dustAll the things you learned too young The songs you knew but never sung Waited a long time and...
- Is This Art
They took me to the battlefield Saw the mushroom cloudsSaid 'I can see the colours Even when my head is bowed'And they showed me the destructionThe slaughter a la carteAnd isn't nature wonderful But is this art? They...
- This Garden
I never thought I'd see the day When you became what you've becomeIt's easy now just to look awayAnd leave your conscience on the run Spend so much time not looking for answers Someone else's to blameAs long as you...
- The Likes Of You And I
Do you ever stop to think from time to time'Bout the way the world's been left behindIn another place, in another timeWe could maybe change the way we think Take the blinkers from our eyes Do you think that she was...
- Belaruse
Belaruse no longer feels the sunBut it's under the skin of everyoneBelaruse forgotten by the blind That is until the next time Remember all your yesterdaysIn the deep blue Before the world came And rested there on...
- Broken Circles
Fired forty rounds in the centre of town He thought to bring the world around Sleepless nights with God and Christ The New Messiah To burn the world to change the days Can be done in better waysBut to make news and...
- The Player
There isn't much to gainBy living all the same way The years just slip awayBut it's too late then to playIf you live from day to day You can play the game your own way There's a million things to sayIn a million...
- He's Just No Good For You
Don't you get the feelin' thatYou've done this kind of thing beforeYou've been kicked in the teethAnd now you're goin' back for moreCome with me - get out of the mess you're inYou take your life in your handEvery time...
- Beautiful Day
CHORUSWhat a beautiful day (hey hey) I'm the king of all timeAnd nothing is impossible In my all powerful mindIt was the fifth of November, when time it went backSome say that's impossible, but you and I never looked...
- Elation
Oh there was once a man who had lost his own smileAnd he wandered the country mile after mileNever quite knowing what he wanted to findFor his heart it lay heavy with the weight of his mindAnd he looked at the land...
- Four Winds
Summer came round early this yearAnd winter swung around soon afterThe scent of spring was high with fearThe autumn crows call disasterThe north winds blow so coldChilling the warmth of my desireAnd the whispered...
- Belivers
Time after time you fail to agreeAbout the things to believe inThe thoughts of the ancients just couldn't beWithout changes in rhythm and timeIf you put all the prophets, mystics and saintsIn one room togetherThere'd...
- Pout
Pour some metal on your heart my dearThe puzzle is nearing it's endPour some metal on your heart my loveThe destruction of the world is and an endI've seen all the hiding placesThose written in styleI've seen all the...
- Pretty Target
Since you came along high above the streamYou've taken all the worry out of meYou bought change that chemicals can't findI'm no longer thinking that I'm living in a medium timeI won't let you down No I won't let you...
- Falling From The Tree
Well I fell down from the tree of lifeHit the branches on the wayWay down to the root found what's been bothering meAnd I'll tell you if you can hear above the dinI just can't get back to where I've beenIf I ever...
- Wild As Angels
I remember it was warm like it used to beThen still a child like I want to beWith heavy wings I can recall the freedom flownNow that's unknownSense of random, wild as angelsThis is the life that we have knownSense of...
- Aspects Of Spirit
You're walking that well-healed groundUpon a fragile courseThe gin lane talk has been getting you downCos the hero of Blake could not be foundAnd yes, there's a lot of faking going downThe smoke that clouded your...
- Come On
It's an open invitation Everybody's free to comeTry to solve the situation The four corners have been undone.And it's no mysteryJust a thin line in the sandNever fails to frighten me When you don't understandCome on...
- Zeitgeist
Flung highThe salutationsThe deep curseAnd the shudders closedThe spring houseIn the makingA good houseOf the many stonesIn my soulAnd fears I don't knowI hear there's a marchWe should golost on this roadare there any...
- Just The One
Do you fancy a drink,Just the one,To clear your head,We won't be long.It's a beautiful day,To waste away,There's plenty of time,For another one.You know you shouldn't do it,But see no reason why,So you blow your...
- Death From Above
a little hungera little wonder ofdeath from abovedeath from aboveoh mary marywhat are we askin ofdeath from aboveyes love im sinkini wonder just how farwhat was i thinkinof when i fell aparti see the moon movecover me...
- Man-An-Tol
So I find myself amongThe brave south western hillsRunning like a mad man on the moor!Let the sweet Atlantic rainWash away my illsThe men-an-tol shone strangely in the stormI get the strangest feeling in the air...
- The Riverflow
I met you in 82, over a crate of beer and not a few I cracked a can and so did you, we're going to change the world The ghetto kings of downside town-the estates and parks of our hallowed groundDoing anything that we...
- Sell Out
The year was 1991, it seems that freedom is dead and gone The power of the rich is held by fewKeep the young paralyzed, educated by your liesKeep the old ones happy with the newsTell the singer not to song his...
- 15 Years
I never was a violent man Said the man in the bar with his head in his handsTrying his best to understand the cause of his dismay But years of gin have broken him And left him cold where he fitted inIt's too late to...
- Far From Home
It's warm by the river, the weir keeps us clean The woodsmoke and cigarettes are all that we need Marking the dirt with twigs and simple words spokeKicking the dust so we can justDance the dance that plays with fire...
- Battle Of The Beanfield
I thought I heard someone calling me I've seen the pictures on TVAnd I made up my mind that I would go and seeWith my own eyesIt didn't take too long to hitch a ride With a guy going south to start a new life Past the...
- Another Mans Cause
Gunshots shatter the peace of nightIt's just another fire fightFor the people of this little townBut for the dying soldierHe's feeling ten years older And he's lying face down on the groundAll the words that are in...
- The Boatman
If I could choose the life I pleasedThen I would be a boatmanAlong the canals and the rivers free No hasty words are spoken My only law the river breeze Would take me to the open seas If I could choose the life I...
- The Road
Headlights, white lights, black tar riversDragging me around this country as it whithersThe billboards, signposts, standing in the way Tell of the state of the nations, that we find today And we play and we play To...
- Three Friends
Burning Searing Sun Soft thru the skinBring your grace down here Tearing past the grey Shadows of today Stroke away the fearGold and Steaming moon Call down a tune Lend us your earGlide by the curves Which your secret...
- World Freak Show
In the past the fools would payTo see the freaks of the day Contradictions of the norm The bizarre, the wonderful and deformed No need for the tents and the cages now The world comes to my eyesIn the front of my TV...
- Ballad Of Robbie Jones
There was Robbie Jones He used to walk so tallYou know he'd hurt no one at allChased the girls around the world Danced them round the dance halls We'd have a drink and then he'd sink Into nostalgic talkWe carried him...
- Together All The Way
You taste a drink in your home town You smile for the things you've knownThat's why you are playingGames you couldn't hope to play, todayDare you look to the futureThe speed the pages turn todayYour hope for...
- No Change
Can you hear the sound Of the fiddle and the drum Passing then fade Can you hear the sound Of chanting in the street Screaming for better days You've heard it allYes we've all heard it allBut tell me what has...
- Blind Faith
A hollow heart and empty headMake the streets run red A curless desire leaves a childA future of fire But you don't care How could you careBlind faith, it'll beOK Everybody tells you soDon't look it'll go...
- Carry Me
When you're standing by the road side And it's a long way to go Oh to carry meTo carry me Carry me Carry me friend Oh to carry meAnd together in this mad landFar from the truest of hands Well I'll carry youIf you'll...
- Outside Inside
He was on the outsideBut it was not his own choice The city schemes had swallowed his dreams And silenced his voice Get away - run! She was on the insideLooking for a way to be free She was doing nine to lifeWorking...
- Barrel Of A Gun
In a strange landFar from these shoresLay two men and a womanKilled by the law In no matter what countryUnder the sun There can be no justice Through the barrel of a gunA car bomb they say The S.A.S. on offense Shoot...
- The Game
The Bar was dark, quiet and stillAnd nothing could be heardThe dust lay undisturbedAt a table near the back, underneath a fanTwo men shared a joke about the normal folkThe cards are on the tableThe winners takes it...
- I Have No Answers
Tell me now, I want the answer for Famine Salvation Bloodshed War All the blood that's run beforeWhy can't politicians fight their own warsI have no answers for The problems caused by government and lawThe only...
- Social Insecurity
Well it's another social workerIn his government disguise Sitting behind his bullet-proof glass Trying to tell me ´bout my rights And i don't like the way that he'sAsking me these questionsI can read between the...
- Cardboard Box City
Have you seen them in every stationBegging in their separate waysSome of them are no more than childrenSome of them are runawaysI don't care for your opinionI've seen you turn your face the other wayAnd you said...
- What You Know
Have you seen an ocean Deep and wideHave you been an island Lost insideHave you ever walked the streetsIn black and white But you're in colour Alienated and afraid You look in from the outsideAs you go throughYou keep...
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