New Model Army are an English England rock rock music band musical band . They have been variously classified as a punk punk rock band, post-punk, folk rock, indie rock, gothic rock, rock noir and even metal heavy metal music amongst others. [read more] - Before I Get Old
I'm going to kiss the girls, make them cryLive too fast, still not die - before I get oldI'm going to see you raised above this placeWatch the moments shine upon your faceBefore I get oldI'll watch the sun set over...
- Marrakesh
They found us in the courtyard at our table in the shadeWe toasted our last few moments and then the end cameThey took us back to the airstrip in that beaten up old carAnd we rattled across the African scrubland in...
- Bury The Hatchet
Bury the hatchet with a smile and a curseThe world is big enough for both of usThe pack's been shuffled now - we've got different handsThere's different enemies for both of us nowThere's no one round here who...
- Whirlwind
I felt a shiver in the heat-haze and the waiting time is overStrange tongues on the airwaves as the voices call from distant landsI saw which was the winning side but still I joined the otherAnd I'm in love with every...
- Space
You walk the thinnest of the ice, so easy to hurtWe drove through the dark in the pouring rain and barely said a wordSo dress your wounds as best you can and close your tired eyesTry to climb away from here towards...
- Innocence
Ch: We scream, you run - fall outYou scream and we're gone - falling out There must have been times in the smoke and the beat on the dance-floorWhen all of the doors, they were opening for youThere must have been...
- Get Me Out
Get up early every morning just to put your make up onThe wardrobe's full of useless clothes, your winter coats are goneThe jackal pack is feeding, the motorway sweeps downThe council tries to bribe the rich just to...
- Lurhstaap
One swallow never made a springYou can buy a crown - it doesn't make you kingBeware the trinkets that we bring When the visionary dreams set hard and grey as flesh made into stoneYou tore the statues to the ground...
- Vanity
I'll teach you everything that I know now, EddieIf you really want to take the timeBut don't expect to get answers to anything, EddieThere is just one thing I've learnedThrough everything that I've done and...
- Lust For Power
Across the flatlands we came out of nowhere specialLike a peasant revolution - makeshift weapons in our handsWe crashed the gates so hard we'd never heard that kind of sound beforeAnd braced ourselves for victory and...
- Purity
The rains move in eastwards, in waves of successionDrawing lines of grey across the skyWith history just as close as a hand on the shoulderIn hunger and impatience we cryThe battle against corruption rages in each...
- Eleven Years
Stevie said now don't look round they're watching usTwo girls in the corner of that dodgy clubAnd the grey eyes, the storm that I've come to know and wish forBefore I caught a breath, well, she was standing there.We...
- Trust
Walking home on a foggy nightWalking home aloneWishing there was power in my fingertipsTo burn through this solid stoneHow the hell am I supposed to know what mood you're inWhen you're changing all the timeI thought...
- Marry The Sea
In the tall grass upon the duneHe rests his head on youIt's warm wind and a faded skyYou watch him drifting far awayDreaming, drowning Did you marry a man who married the sea?He looks right through you to the distant...
- Apocalypse Dreams
I went up to the mountain, apocalypse dreams in my headThere was fire upon the horizon but it was just the sunrise turning red Maybe it's time, maybe it's time . . . Each night I walk to the edge of the city out to...
- R.I.P.
This all started the way things doWith a laugh and a cup of tea around the fireAs we sheltered from those wicked winds in front of that old TVAnd we traded ideas as we watched each other with those ambitious bright...
- Carrying On
My friend, is it still ringing in your earsThrough all those blessed and poisoned yearsYou will still say I was wrongBut you'll miss me when I'm goneCarrying on, carrying on, carrying on And now I watch the falling of...
- Southwest
If I could save you, I surely would;I'd take the world with you, the way we should.I'd drown your violence in a sea of blood;I'd drown the pain for you in the breaking waves,I'd crown your innocence with the golden...
- Refugee
My room is dark, and very small;there's a place to wash at the end of the hall.I hear strange languages through the wall,I hear them shouting in the street below.I listen now to anything, anything at all;just to keep...
- One Bullet
In a ring of men, with money changing handsAll the gypsy kings, they were gathered from miles aroundI was tapped on the shoulder, stripped to the waistBut I was quick, quicker than all of themI watched him fall, then...
- Drummy B
The bonfires blazed across the city, the smoke swirling into the skyWe were standing shoulder to shoulder, Billy McCann and IOur faces ruddy and burning as we stared into the flamesBut I know now the things that we...
- Ten Commandments
Down comes Moses with the Ten CommandmentsHewn on a tablet, just the bitterest pillBreaks up the party in the valley belowSays obey my orders and you're doing God's will And disciples of Jesus, lost and forgottenWhen...
- Brave New World II
The thick black smoke comes rising up, silent in these dreamsThere's faces leering through the haze, that ripples in the heatAnd words are just some place to hide, a wall that we can run behindWhen truth is itching,...
- Deadeye
To the thoughts of the many from the minds of the fewVoice of reason, censored viewThe truth is the News and the News is the truthAs if that'll do as a lame excuse forKilling the slavers, taking the slavesBurying the...
- Modern Times
It seems strange to write about these things now but the time has probably come when we should accept whatever is past and gone and never will return.Looking back to the beginning I see a flood of painful memories and...
- Ballad 2
Crackle in the lines so far away, the late night DJ starts to playThat sacred song goes phasing through the airwaves of the nightBeyond the lonely light house beam, beyond these black and restless dreamsShe'll wake...
- Courage
We walk every morning in silencePast the mills on Whetley LaneWhere the lights went out for the very last timeAnd they never came on againThe spokesman all shred crocodiles tearsIn the glory of the News at TenBut the...
- Prison
The curtain breathes, the air swimsThe sweat dries cold on the shivering skinThe sheets they twist and turn again, round and roundMy mother she feeds and cares for meS***led to responsibilityAll her precious dreams...
- Rainy Night 65
It's a silent scream in rain townHow far have we fallen now?And the rain come, wash awayThe promised land that is here to stayWe came back, things left undoneLike uncut stoneAnd little breathes and nothing fills,...
- Heroin
He said - come on now little darling, if you love me like you sayYou can just lie there and sniff the smoke, you don't have to use your veinAnd you knew all the stories, but this sweet boy would never do you harm You...
- Freedom
It's time to rebuilding Dresden, the great machines come a-rumbling inThe desecration of the ruins and everything that might have beenYou showed me the square in the melting snowAs the light was beginning to fadeBut...
- No Sense
Are we still not speaking?Bitter words leave such a bitter tasteYes, I meant to hurt youBut it was never meant to go as far as thisAnd still I can make no sense out of these things that I doAnd I still put myself...
- Burning Season
I'm sick of the sight of some snot-nosed kid Cutting a swathe through the age of deconstructionPicking at the sores of the dying beast And winning all the prizes for imaginationI don't know what we've got to lose But...
- Tales Of The Road
The caravan flipped over two, three timesWent spinning down the carriagewayBreaking up into splintersWheels turning around in the dust at the foot of the hillAnd all the old clothes, the pots and pans and the...
- Brave New World
The office lines are busy and the girls are working hardTonight they'll be out clubbing with their boyfriends busy wishing they wereGentlemen please take your seats, there's champagne in the boardroomLet's drink a...
- History
know that it happened, I know that storyBut that was years and years agoStill you're pushing and still you're claimingThe pound of flesh you say I oweCh: We've already paid for it We've already strung for itWe've...
- Ghost Of Your Father
It took fourteen hours to hitch from London to PortsmouthI can picture you in your battered old coatBlown by the trucks on the side of the roadCursing the world just until one pulls overThe cab is warm, the driver is...
- F#NY
Took a drink from the bottle in my coatI can smell it now like it was yesterdayThe cold November winds biting round those Bradford streetsGoing downtown to the club where your band used to playWell the years go by,...
- Curse
Another foggy night in hometownCruising the backstreet pubs with a friend or twoI guess we were laughing how we made it through the bad old daysWhen across the bar I caught a glimpse of you Sometimes they ask me why I...
- The Cause
Headline in the paper tells of fighting in the streetsTeenage battles; six arrestedMutters in the council chambers, something must be doneBefore our city streets become infestedAnd mummy turns to daddy says "where was...
- A Liberal Education
Take away our historyTake away our heroesTake away our valuesAnd leave us here with nothingWe were in the garden of EdenJust as children mess aroundWe only leant against the treeAnd the apple came tumbling down You...
- Vengeance
Vengeance!!Decades of whipped fleshIndoctrinated with nothingness;Disolved my mind to searve your needsFor this you shallPerish!Your battle was not my ownAs you sat'n your stupid throneI many times almost gaveMy life...
- Revengeance
You came for us as children, while we sleptRobbed us of our youth, our innocenceDon't think that we've forgotten, don't think that we'll forgetYou, you've got a number, you've got a nameYou can run, you can hide but...
- Tension
Like a desert, so smoothSo calm, like velvetLike wire, so tautSo stretched, like steelThe surface is ripplingAnd straining and crackingFrom within Like a bomb just tickingAnd waiting like hoursAnd hours keep...
- Vengeance
You came for us at birth with your proven techniques for molding model citizens, forced us into compartments where we didn't fit inBrought us with a full schedule of television and revised history classes that had us...
- Betcha
We know we can hurt each other real badYou know my weak spots, I know yoursHow come we egg each other on and onLike battered boxers staying the course? How come we never ever come to blowsWhen we want to break each...
- No Words
No words, no words can explain the anger from years and years of being beaten downNo words,no words can relay.. no words,no words can eraseBrainwashed, domesticated, bound in chainsNo words, no words can relayAs the...
- Notice Me
I'll take any drug in the whole damn world if you'll only notice meMainline poisons by the score - please will you notice meI'll break any law, hurt anybody - for God's sake notice meCut my wrists and slash my face...
- No Mans Land
You say that you'd rather be really poorThan scratching, saving, scrimping all the penniesLooking in the windows at what you can't affordAlways hungry, never starving In no man's land the days are longYou say that...
- Prescient Dream
Between the eyesof deaththe trees of hopewas grownand watered by thehands of the fateThe flowers of lifewas blownif i make it to the endwe could all sit backand laughAhead i see the wayit's a cracked and broken pathIf...
- Night Falls
Every last ounce of sympathy, every last bit of emotionSaturated with this bitterness and situations, stacked end on end end on endAnd tonight there will be no resolve for those who lay awake clutching their...
- Waiting
There's absolutely nothing on my mindThe television flickers in my eyesWaiting, always waiting Down at the bus station, doing timeWe watch the world go passing byWaiting, always waiting It's all on tomorrow, don't...
- Conflicting Ideas
When the scientists find our remnants,what will they say? When they find our bloated carcasses, ridden with sickness and cancer's, what will they find? And what... what will they say?Will they recognize our self-abuse...
- Vengeance
Escaped the net in '45, hiding out in South AmericaProtected by money and powerful friendsHoping the world has forgotten by nowAll the things that you did in the Nazi Death campsThe people that you tortured and...
- The Day After
The skin hangs from bodies that tried to run from a blinding flashThe children have no mouths with which to speak, were they ever alive?An empty shell now stands where yesterday a hospital stood, medicating the sick...
- The Price
Splashing through the water on the motorwayThe headlights shine in every drop of rainAnd every mile takes a minute and every minute lasts an hourAnd there's so many miles until I'm home again And staring through the...
- Running In The Rain
So many words are spokenRound and round and round and roundSo many confidences broken in this townToo many cigarettes, I don't want to feel like this anymoreI go running, running in the rain The television...
- Spirit Of The Falklands
The natives are restless tonight, sirCooped up on estates with no hope in sightThey need some kind of distractionWe can give them that'Cause they'd kill if they only had something to kill forThey'd die if they only...
- Call To Arms
From hands that beat us senseless come offerings of apparent helpFrom mouths that told judges lies come pleas of disarmamentAs we lay wounded in growing numbers with explosive furyThey fly the white flag at half...
- Pain
Accept me, Feed meGrow wounds, please me;Bleed more to me, for youfor me!blood rushes through melife - hell miseryhurt, you won't surviveblood, your body criespain, death - a darkened lightAccept me, Feed meGrow...
- Questioning Faith
So passed down the agesSo we wrote the pagesChapters of existence(When)Man created god.As a path is changedAs a hearth is bornSerenity displacedYet you hear the hornWords die in youA faith that's not trueA door in my...
- *** (The Black Angel)
Look at my eyes - you know what it isI want you, I want youThe way your body moves beneath that dressAnd all the nights I've spent away alone in sleeplessness It's a hunger that we can fillRacing, racingAnd every...
- To The Dogs
As we find ourselves barely conscious,we struggle to our kneesLooking for a sign that says this is life, and not a dreamThere is a sign and it read: "hope is the leash of submission"Moral bondage forges its cage, once...
- 1984
The vans they come in convoys now, stealing through the dawnSilent in the countryside in the hills up to the northThere's road blocks on the Meden bridgeThere's click, click clicking on the phoneThey're sealing off...
- Great Expectations
When I was young I dreamed and dreamedAbout all the things that I was going to beA brave explorer holding court or a really famous astronautA handsome pop star on the screen or captain of the England teamThey said...
- Smalltown England
Turn left at the lights about 50 yards downThere's a pub in the corner and I'll meet you insideAbout quarter to eight and we'll go into townAnd find out what everybody's been saying about us Smalltown walls have eyes...
- Bittersweet
Once upon a time it was easyEverything kind of fell into placeNow this feeling won't leave meWe lost the power and we lost the paceIt's staring straight between the eyesSomething isn't rightThe harder we try the more...
- Christian Militia
There's a witch hunt coming, screaming out on it's rebirthThere's a crusade coming, Hellfires back here on earthSee the light in their eyes shine, listen to their words like swordsThe Christian militia is marching now...
- Beginning Of The End
Clutch our chests and gasp in disbeliefSquint our eyes to see, if we missed the fine print to small to readCheck our pulses to see if our hearts still beatNo help from anyone to help us understandThis confusion, this...
- Mambo Queen Of The Sandstone City
I get lost in the maelstromI lose concentrationI see fish in the waterBut too fast for meSo I go climbing up the long roadThat leads out to the backstreetsAnd in a great walled gardenIs the place that I'm looking...
- Today Is A Good Day
This storm is beautifulIt breaks the breakableIt blows unstoppableThey had claimed victoryThey look so stupid nowIt's ashes in their mouthsThere are new soft people For the new soft wintersBut they cannot touch usI...
- La Push
We live in a bowl made of sky and starsPerched on the edge of the worldAnd around the Reservation everyone drives In pick-ups and beaten-up carsAnd the rattles and drums they rise and they fallThe circle unbroken in...
- Peace Is Only
I'm always restless like bubbling waterAs all of Nature explodes out of the EarthYou only get a moment in the eye of the stormYou can catch your breath before stumbling onI can feel the air, I can feel my pulseAnd...
- Autumn
Across the land the air is stillThe leaves are falling golden one by oneLike the paper money falls Or the soldiers stealing homewardThere is only beginningAnd there is beginning of the endAll the peoples are...
- Arm Yourselves And Run
Written up high on a Belgrade wall in 1991I saw the words of a prophet in a ten-foot scrawlArm yourselves and run Now the streets are quiet for the closing deals And the Fimbulwinter days to comeAnd the beats all...
- States Radio
88.2 is your Saviour station God hangs like a shadow high above the nationLike a phantom hurricane 91.6 is Classic Soul Obama flyer still hanging by the side of the roadLike a long last prayerAnd the pawn shops...
- North Star
On the strand beneath the towering cliffs, We said goodbye to the helmsmanThe best man I ever sailed with Across the seven oceansSteering, gazing out ahead As the ragged crew were singingAnd the wild life and stories...
- Ocean Rising
I dream of the ocean and the beautiful skies rolling out to seaI dream of the ocean and the rip of the tide west of FinnistairThe weight of the water pouring down, holding on to meI dream of the ocean, rising, rising...
- Disappeared
We were brothers there, we were running awayIn a mountain town on the other side of the worldAnd I remember the night as clear as dayI wanted to leave but you had to stayYou were high on romance And on a one-on-one...
- Bad Harvest
I was raised in the years of the harvestThere were fields to the far horizon turning to the sunI have killed more than I could eatI live in a house filled with bonesBut now the rain doesn't fallAnd the wells are...
- God Save Me
There's a drug that can make you feelLike the greatest of the kings and queensThere's a drug that can make you feelLike the happiest of slavesThere's a shadow that passes across the sunThere's a shadow that passes...
- White Coats
Well we know what makes the flowers grow - but we don't know whyAnd we all have the knowledge of DNA - but we still dieWe perch so thin and fragile here upon the landAnd the earth that moves beneath us, we don't...
- Nothing Touches
We drive in silence beneath the grey dawning skiesPast the cooling towers where the white clouds slowly riseI watch the world through motionless eyesNothing touches . . nothing ever touches Raised as son of Empire,...
- Vagabonds
We follow the taillights out of the cityMoving in a river of redAs the colours fade away from the Dusky sunsetWe roll for the darkness aheadWe are old, we are youngWe are in this togetherVagabounds and children...
- Chinese Whispers
Such a sensitive opinion in one so youngWould you like to know about everything that we've doneYou believe what you read in the printed liesBut you won't believe the evidence of your own eyesAnd yes I've done a lot of...
- 225
She stares at the screen, at the little words of green Tries to do remember what to do nextThere's a trace of frustration that crosses her faceSearching for the key she should press And I would help her if I only know...
- Inheritance
Mother, Father, I'm doing OKOn the other side of the country, far awayAnd though I know the things that you want to hear me saySometimes these things are hard Mother, Father, I am your sonRight down to the long thin...
- Ballad Of Bodmin Pill
Smash glass against the wallCurse the music on the radio that the neighbours play.Door slams, she turns her headWatches through the window as he pulls awayFunny how your racing brain drives you so madWhen all the...
- Family
Joey puts her make-up on really wellShe looks cool in the flashing lightsAnd all the boys gossip about the shape of her legsOn these muddled up and drunken nightsAnd if it's all got to end up between the sheetsShe can...
- I Love The World
The roll of distant thunder breaks, the afternoon of silence wakesThey hurry through from Petergate as if they know this danceIn fury blind, I drive at night across the moors, the open roadsBeneath the freezing starry...
- Family Life
How did they do this to you?How did they do this to you?Were you the weapon that they usedAs they tore apart the familyDid they bring you here as they were passing through?How did they do this to you? And now you...
- Green And Grey
The time I think most clearly, the time I drift awayIs on the bus-ride that meanders up these valleys of green and greyI get to think about what might have been and what may yet come trueAnd I get to pass a rainy mile...
- The Charge
Our history speaks in thunder from a thousand village hallsIn blood and sweat and sacrifice, in honouring every callSo the forces gathered against the thorn a-piercing in their sideA brave new world is beckoning so...
- 125 Mph
I'm heading north, I'm heading home doing 125I close my eyes and count to ten - Ha ha, I'm still alivePerfect, perfect tunnel vision, razor sharp and racing, racingThese moments, immortal, No one touches this Ch:...
- Stupid Questions
It's not a crime to be innocent, these things we have not doneBut you're not some little child, spring is past and gone Well I know my craving heart and I've seen your vicious eyesAnd I think we know the truth, both...
- Archway Towers
Rolling up tab ends that the baby's collectedWaiting for the number that clicks on the wall.It's open season on the weak and the feebleTheir meagre ambitions, their impotent furyThere's bullet proof glass in case...
- Changing Of The Light
The sky is broken in grey and in silverThe wind blows cleanWe watch the shadows chase across the hillsideAnd out to seaYou and I, we're nearly full circleIt's just a touch awayAnd all the seeds we've sown in a...
- Turn Away
The candle flickers and the shadows move distorted on the wallThere's a wire slowly stretching And now you ask him all the questions, the same ones as beforeBut you know that he is lyingAnd with your arms around him...
- Leeds Road 3am
The Festival is over and the strings of coloured lights are blowing crazy in the coming windOne bulb comes loose, shatters on the groundThe empty streets pick up the sound, it echoes like a tiny gunshot ringing...
- Wipe Out
This is where we go to - to the blue of the oceanOn the 30 westbound to the diamond waterLost out in the white waves - salt purificationBright eyes and breathless - this is how Love feels Wash away the black stuff,...
- You Weren't There
Well, you say it's such a small, small worldflying Club Class back from the far-eastcurled up safe and warm in the big chairyou were drifting through the skies of anywhereGet the courtesy car to the Sheratonthere's...
- Orange Tree Roads
It was late, we were driving home in the rainI thought I saw something flying across the two-laneIt was white like an angel - or like curseThere and gone in a second in front of usIn our house all the trophies are...
- R And R
Days into weeks of Sunday afternoonsNothing much for us to say nothing real for us to doJust watch the carousel go round and round in endless circlesin the pupil of the Deadeye until you just feel numbIt's virtual...
- Stranger
When it comes down, we know we're aloneyou could scream and nobody would hearToday my face in the glass is a stranger'sfurrowed with the lines of fearAll the little truths denied, all the little deaths we diedI always...
- Flying Through The Smoke
Red dots - close my eyes - tunnel visionthe cooling towers like CathedralsPitch black dark, brighter than the sunLess than zero, more than infinityForever the graphics curling on the screen Forever the numbers...
- Someone Liek Jesus
met someone like Jesus in the spring of '98He was so full of love and I was so full of hateSo I nailed him on a cross where he belongedtold myself it's what he would have wanted all alongand I drove into the night...
- Snelsmore Wood
I woke still half-dreaming I was falling out of the treesand tumbling down into the skyIt's cold, so cold sometime before dawnsearching for a light and reaching round for my clothesThat we believe, so must call,...
- Paekakariki Beach
I saw you walking away from the battlefieldThrough the clearing smoke to the other sideLay down your weary headAnd gazing up two ocean birds are wheeling, turning Paekakariki Beach on the other sideBy the green of the...
- Mixam
Cassandra's still shouting from the city walls but no one ever hearsAnd far below the traffic moves like fish upon the ocean floorto the rhythms of the tideWe're holding on so tight because it seems as if we're moving...
- Ghost Train
It's a long warm September and we're both still aliveAnd the sea is like a painting beneath the mirrored skyRaise the dead, raise the deadWe'll go riding on the ghost train, together raise the dead Through the summer...
- See You In Hell
As we touched down on the tarmac, they strode out to greet usIt was under a blue snake-skin skyWith a handshake of welcome, they set their agendaWith their smiles never touching their eyesWe've been here before on the...
- Aimless Desire
I was working shift on the six o'clock, quiet in the pale dawn.Found a bird caught in the machinery - set it free and watched it go Quit the job that very day, and flew into the sky Just following after this aimless...
- Killing
It was summer when they finally came, the law of forceand line upon line of machine upon machine, back into the greenwood, closer to the heart of things we go - beneath the wires stretched against the sky,spitting out...
- Sunset
Coming in at night all the desert highwaysCrackle with the static of a thousand little radiosEveryone talking, no-one listeningWell by now I should expect thatDown into the city I smell artificial greenA glasshouse...
- Over The Wire
Behind all the rusting cranes, in the lengthening shadows of the Empire daysthere's a world that waits, but it's not needed.In the teeming rows behind the goal - yelling for blood on the pitch below;where does all the...
- Gigabyte Wars
Well, you never grow up, you just get older, carrying all the familiar burdens with you, walking back on the hometown streets on a night devoid of stars.No one ever said it was going to be just, you really ought to...
- Lullaby
So where do we begin? It must be thirty-five years . . .You've the breath of my mother, the life of a stranger;and there's so much to tell - so much I need to know.All of the stories, and reasons But your face I...
- Long Goodbye
Holed up in your little room, we talk for hour on empty hour,pacing up and down between the walls that we have built ourselves. No more with the long goodbye, I can't stand another tear;I won't wait for the bell to...
- Queen Of My Heart
To the Queen of my Heart, from the King of NowhereI have watched you arming, and how you wave your sword in the air;always fighting the shadows as they move behind you,and the beating wings that hover around you . ....
- Big Blue
So now let us sing of what remainsThere shall be stillness in our heartsThere shall be a sweetness in our lives, bye and bye.There's a beach I know at the edge of the world, mist rising up from the breaking waves...
- No Pain
Across the town on the other hill,your lights glow from a different world.You always found a place to hide - nails and cross to lay beside;with all the ghosts that we denied.Now, in rippled arcs across the sky, the...
- Whites Of Their Eyes
Raised in the fields in the back of beyond,hauled into position as a prodigal son.I was not Abel - I was a Cain;the kind you find a use for every now and again.I can't abide what things have become,they think that...
- Wonderful Way To Go
- Headlights
Lit up like a Christmas tree, the oil refinery glows in the night;and down by the shoreline the seagulls fly white, against the black.The great moon riding shotgun - rolling out across the veil of clouds,and you were...
- Brother
It's been a long dry season in tinderbox townAnd the ghetto cars go cruising up and down and round and roundWith tinted windows and the screech of tiresPoverty likes to ride in the best disguiseThe boys get bored, set...
- My People
Stare across the crowd, the fear and love in their facesThe children of the tribes, prisoners of the flags unfurlingProtect us in these changing times,The warm embrace, the killing price . . .My people right or wrong...
- Understand U
Ch: They don't understand youNone of them understand you Tonight, as you stare at the ceiling againWith you lover turning awayDisappointment closing in like the wallsAnd you try, you try to talk about loveAnd they put...
- These Words
Through the years of decay we walk like tigers in cagesWith each passing turn the smaller and smaller the circlesEvery weapon and word legitimate now as protectionBut these things should never be spokenThese things...
- Living In The Rose
The lovers they kiss and slowly they turnfor drawing a breath there is nothing but timeA thousand million years before we crash in the sunAnd I know we will be still here in Her arms In the thick black night we could...
- Here Comes The War
Today, as you listen to this songAnother 394,000 children were born into this world They break like waves of hunger and desire upon these eroded shores Carrying the curses of history and a history yet unwrittenThe oil...
- Believe It
In the unlit room with my head in my handsThe walls between us now seem unscalableI cannot control anything There are weapons down beside your bedAnd every night I count them all Ch: Is this where we've come to? I...
- White Light
It's another heroes' sunsetI'm riding on the Great North RoadCoiled and tensed in wonderAs the land turns burning gold Ch: Out in the sun, out in the windI'm nearly ready now to come back again We are silent in this...
- Afternoon Song
Time passes slow - fields stretch out across open acresTime passes slow - the giant steps of mankind touch us so little in the great lands Our little storm whirls away out across calm wide oceansIn this sacred breath,...
- Bad Old World
Dear Justin, I know it's been a long timeRemember all those nights we spent sitting up talking in your front roomAbout leaving this worn out world and starting again far away in a better placeWell that's where I am...
- Fate
I put my hands into the roaring flamesI felt the pain as it started to burnI've done the same thing over again and againAs if I never ever wanted to learnMoving through the world at obsession speedLeave a dust trail...
- The Attack
Now the talking's over, plans are laid and the hour is setGlances round the table, eyes all shining, dark and brightWe meet again at daybreak for the day that will be oursWe're tomorrow's historySo just check your...
- Frightened
It's all out on the streets today but you, you've found a place to hideToo busy with the ratrace, you pass by on the other sideYours is the face of the brand new Britain with blinkers on your eyesFind yourself...
- Ambition
Stepping out onto the stage the smalltown star tonightFlexes out for fame and fortune into the lightsThe way she tears into the heart makes me realiseThat I never understood hatred until I looked into those eyesShe...
- Shot 18
Thou shalt not kill - remember that?You learnt it again and again when you were youngThey said weapons have this safety catchYour moral conscience tells you kid what's right, what's wrongWell they make out like...
- My Country
Tell all the people who believe what they read in the pressTell all the folk who stare from behind suburban wallsThe enemy is not some nation far across the seaThe enemy is with us every single breathing day Ch: So...
- Better Than Them
This is our town, this is Friday nightDressed in our rags and our rage and our bestPiercing eyes looking for something - anything, anyone.Stare across the floor as they begin to danceMissing all the rhythms and the...
- No Greater Love
There's storm clouds amassing over in the west up above the moorThe city shines in grey, mills closing down on the valley floorAll you can do here is survive, grit your teeth and just stay aliveAnd never understand...
- No Rest
Ch: Four o'clock in the morning and still we cannot sleepTurning over turning round, twisting in our sweatThey say there is no rest for the wicked onesDear God what have we done?There is no rest for the wicked...
- Young, Gifted And Skint
Young, gifted and skint - that's where it in'tLook how easily it happened, look how easily I fellNow I'm up to here in debt, there's a noose around my neckThere's a price upon my head My past was all in borrowed time,...
- Grandmother's Footsteps
Come with me my little innocents, there's a game that we can playSee how much we can change your world while you look the other wayTurn around as if to see if you can catch us cheatAnd all you'll find are shining...
- Drag It Down
They started work this morning down at city squareThey're pulling down the statues of our great grandfather's heroThe new books said he wasn't such a great man after allAnd anyway remember that the times they are...
- The Hunt
We went into town on the tuesday night Searching all the places that you hang about We're looking for you In the back street cellar dive drinking clubs. In the discotheques and the gaming pubs We're looking for you...
- Master Race
Well we all learned how to use a fork and a knifeHow sometimes we have to wear a suit and tieAnd understand these things are what give us the rightTo go around the world acting superior We live with missiles and the...
- All Of This
- 51st State
- Ballad
When they look back at us and they write down their historyWhat will they say about our generation?We're the ones who knew everything and still we did nothingHarvested everything, planted nothing. Well we live pretty...
- Western Dream
Gather round and listen and I'll tell you how's it's doneHow they manage to make idiots out of everyoneTake a human population with their hunger and their painAnd the weaknesses that cripple them again and againInvent...
- Heroes
We are not children any moreThe fists you made they are come bashing at your doorYour legacy is waiting in the wingsAnd there's something so familiar in the hunger that we bringWe don't want to be like you, don't want...
- Lovesongs
Under darkening thundering towering skiesWe live through these painful daysWalking like strangers in streets of damnationUnder the enemy's gazeWell we all create monsters, come back for their mastersThe prices the...
- Poison Street
We were singing in the rain - like we invented singingThere's a light in the sky from a million street lightsAnd we danced all the steps from all those old time moviesRolling down the hill with laughing heartsIn...
- Lights Go Out
I went to my mother, said - please make me kingI went to my mother, said - I've got to be kingShe said son - well you've got to wait your turnPatience is a virtue that you never seemed to learnYou were born with...
- Higher Wall
We're out here on the borders with our favourite few possessionsTraded stories whispered round the fireAs shadows in the searchlights, mugshots in the filesWaiting in the camps behind the wireKick the door until it...
- Far Better Thing
In the white washed cancer ward with my hot blood running wildI see the pain behind your eyes and the search for a reasonAnd the knowing and the fear of the passing season Now please give me strength to cut and to...
- Adrenalin
We were in the corner, the Clanduff by the doorOn opposite sides of the dance hall, staring across the floorThe lights go out, the fists fly in, it's the usual Friday sceneBecause adrenalin is the strongest drug that...
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