Big Country

The mid-day sky was grey and purple
At least it wasn't blue
I want the sky to be the way I am
And what I do
For I have been a lost and lonely
Sailor on your sea
Run aground by trusting signals
You were sending me

The streets are filled with empty faces
Nothing here is new
It's just the same in other places
I have journeyed to
I was the first across the water
The last across the land
I walked out of the silver mine
My pockets full of sand

Alone inside my head
Alone inside my room
I feel alone inside my head
Alone inside my tiny little world

It's not my life in those old pictures
The ones you threw away
For I was always someone else
And always far away
Walking in the darkest places
Where the mission meets
Waiting for the ground to open up
Beneath my feet

Alone inside my head
Alone inside my room
I feel alone inside my head
Alone inside my tiny little world

Alone inside my head
Alone inside my room
I feel alone inside my head
Alone inside my tiny little world

I don’t think too much, I don’t look inside
For the things I hid away for all those years
Have faded now or died
So don’t you look through me, with those strangers eyes
For the world keeps turning underneath my feet
If I go on with the lies
Hey baby just you go out tonight, it’s only me that cries
And love is waves away, we are waves away
And love is waves away, seven waves away
That’s me down here, shining up your shoes
Keeping my head down like I always do
When you walk in with the blues
There’s nothing to be said, nothing to be done
For I laid my head down at your most famous feet
When you said I was the one
Hey baby don’t you stay out tonight, and say it isn’t fun
And love is waves away, we are waves away
And love is waves away, seven waves away
And love is waves away, we are waves away
And love is waves away, seven waves away
And the sound that comes from you sleeping
In the darkness is a doorway
And the sun that beats on the window
In the morning is a doorway
And the sun that calls through the window
Every morning is a doorway
It doesn’t hurt anymore, It doesn’t get me down
But I might just swim out on the waves tonight
And lay right down and drown
Do you really want to be here tonight, or are you just around
And love is waves away, we are waves away
And love is waves away, seven waves away
And love is waves away, we are waves away
And love is waves away, seven waves away
And love is waves away, we are waves away
And love is waves away, seven waves away

There was a crooked man and he wore a crooked smile
He built a crooked highway and it ran for miles and miles
With money from the revenue and sponsorship from Ford
But it barely holds together with the goodwill of the Lord

In the penthouse of the baron, the little children sleep
Daddy talks to smugglers while armed gorillas creep
Poison for the great unwashed, business for the mob
Another teenage murder, it's trouble on the job

Now I see what I must see
The poor do time the rich go free
You keep the faith and they keep score
Is this what you are working for

A newsleak in the city, another scandal breaks
Sex and drugs in city hall, someone on the make
Legal bounty hunters aim their lawsuits well
The victim talks to Playboy says I guess I'll go to hell

There were you and me
Seems like twenty five years ago
This old city was different then
How were we to know
I've got to live my life
In a simple way
Got to live it all
In a single day, a single day

The one I love is still in you
And the one I want is in there too
The one I love is still in you
I don't have the time that I used to

I can be your miracle man
Maybe it's my day
I was always a lucky man
Teach me how to pray
I believe in you
You know it too
You can leave me out
But what I do is what I do

The one I love is still in you
And the one I want is in there too
The one I love is still in you
I don't have the time that I used to

The one I love is still in you
And the one I want is in there too
The one I love is still in you
I don't have the time that I used to

The one I love
The one I want
The one I love
The one I want

The one I love is still in you
And the one I want is in there too
The one I love is still in you
I don't have the time that I used to

The one I love is still in you
And the one I want is in there too
The one I love is still in you
I don't have the time that I used to

Come on lay your hands on me
Feel the will of God's TV
I will save you every one
And you can pay me when I'm done
100,000 Jesus Children
All dressed up and no-one with them
Lead them not into temptation
With your tales of hell's damnation
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Out upon the China sea
Boats will run eternally
Storms on land and storms assail
Captains roar and the women wail
A half a million Nixon babies
Some with toys and some with rabies
Hunted by the man in black
No room here man send them back
Searching for the long way home

Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Underneath your own safe sky
You may never wonder why
Some will never make their peace
Some have never been released
Fires in the L.A. sky
The truth ran out and justice died
You better arm the National Guard
Cause final notice has been served
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
The long way home

Gonna take a message to mother
Tell her that I'll be home soon
Let her know I'm still undercover
Hiding out behind the moon

The selling of America
Its going on now town by town
The selling of America
You better keep it underground

...Ha...

Better get a message to mother
Tell her that our workers are doomed
You better call on General MacArthur
And tell him that the invasion is due

The selling of America
Its going on now town by town
The selling of America
You better keep it underground

Here come the dollar bombers

...Hey hey ya ya...

I guess you better get the word to the boss man
A wire from the industries ba???

Tell him that their over the border
Trying out the white house for size

The selling of America
Its going on now town by town
The selling of America
You better keep it underground

The selling of America
Its going on now town by town
The selling of America
You better keep it underground

What did you learn in school today
Did you learn to run when the teachers pray
Did they teach you enough to know the state you're in
Not enough to get out, not enough to win
What did you learn at home today
Did you learn to hate in the proper way
Did your liberated parents patronize your friends
Cos they had enough money, cos they had the right skin
I wander 'round thinking, well, what kind of place is this
Well maybe it's in the parks, maybe it's in the stores
But I know if we're being honest, it's in the people
But they're all caught up in the traffic
Listening to the weather
Well dog, I know we're not in Kansas, the sky's all colored wrong
I know we're not in Kansas, the days are all too long
I sure don't understand this, that's what you're howling for
I know we're not in Kansas, Kansas anymore
What did you learn in your job today
Did you learn to sleep while the boss is away
Did you shut your mouth when he called you down
Cos there's not much work in that kind of town

I wander around thinking, well what kind of place is this
Where they say hey well what did you do in the war
And I ask well hey man well what did you do with the peace
Well we built these real safe weapons, so we could sleep with ease
Well dog, I know we're not in Kansas, the sky's all colored wrong
I know we're not in Kansas, the days are all too long
I sure don't understand this, that's what you're howling for
I know we're not in Kansas, Kansas anymore
Well what kind of place is this
On the wrong side of the rainbow where the twisters never come
And they tore up all the yellow bricks and they sold them to Japan
And still the advertisers tell you, hey, there's no place like home
Well dog, I know we're not in Kansas, the sky's all colored wrong
I know we're not in Kansas, the days are all too long
I sure don't understand this, that's what you're howling for
I know we're not in Kansas, Kansas anymore
I know we're not in Kansas, the sky's all colored wrong
I know we're not in Kansas, the days are all too long
I sure don't understand this, that's what you're howling for
I know we're not in Kansas, Kansas anymore

Look at him now, another used man
Wearing the passing of his dignity with all the courage that he can
He stood in the storm, carved out in stone
He said I've worn my honesty with pride in everything I've done

So where were you when my ship went down
Where were you when I ran aground
Where were you when I turned it around
Where were you when they burned me down

You see her now, all tired and worn
She never thought her life would come to be so cold or so alone
She walked in the light, fought bondage for love

She said I cast off the chains that I was born with but it never was enough

Chorus

Silent souls washed up on the shores
Left to walk the sands evermore, evermore

Look at you now just chasing your life
Make like the saviour of the planet
You're just trying to get by
Now you may walk the line, you may see it all through
But I know you cry yourself to sleep at night just wondering what to do

A skyhole here, the sun's let in
It melts the ice, it melts my skin
The oceans rise, the lands recede
Cities crumble, vermin feed
We will all go together when we go, when we go (repeat 2)
We will all go together when we go
The chainsaw roars, the forests fall
The natives hide, the cattle call
The water boils with toxic waste
We catch the fish to get a taste
We will all go together when we go, when we go (repeat 2)
We will all go together when we go

The atoms split to heat the town
And build a bomb to knock it down
Nothing is done For all of this
Till most to blame is most at risk
We will all go together when we go, when we go (repeat 2)
We will all go together when we go
A skyhole here, the sun's let in
It melts the ice, it melts my skin
The oceans rise, the lands recede
Cities crumble, vermin feed
We will all go together when we go, when we go (repeat to end)
We will all go together when we go

We could both be something still
We could spend our lives fulfilled
We could leave the battlefields
No more arrows, no more shields
When the dust of war subsides
Will I find you by my side
We could be at peace out there
Before the summer fair

We'll live tomorrow girl
Today has come too soon
We'll live tomorrow girl
Beneath a pink marshmallow moon

On the road to monterey
I will be with you one day
Ride the length of highway one
Silhouettes against the sun
You can be my surfer queen
I will be your football team
We could build a love machine
At least you let me dream

We could find a secret room
Somewhere in the house of gloom
Meet the lost and lonely man
With his lost and lonely plan
He will say what I said then
You have loved and will again
Even though the gift of rain
Is destined to remain

Black cars come and black cars go
Full of secrets you will never know
Tires hiss in the rain be feels through the night?
Shadows move behind the glass, no one worries no one asks
Politions come and go so fast...

I dont mean to do no harm I dont wanna cause alarm
I try to be cool I try to stay calm
But something weirds going on at Chesters Farm...

This is the place where the monkeys die
This is the cage where the mutants fly
On the wings on a industry funded research lay
This is where the tests are made
Where are finest minds parade
upon the planet fools have paid have made...

I dont mean to do no harm I dont wanna cause alarm
I try to be cool I try to stay calm
But something weirds going on at Chesters Farm...

I dont mean to do no harm I dont wanna cause alarm
I try to be cool I try to stay calm
But something weirds going on at Chesters Farm...

Something back and the bugs gone wild
The biological demon child
Its alive and among us resistance is futial...

I dont mean to do no harm I dont wanna cause alarm
I try to be cool I try to stay calm
But something weirds going on at Chesters Farm...

I dont mean to do no harm I dont wanna cause alarm
I try to be cool I try to stay calm
But something weirds going on at Chesters Farm...

Who saw the fences falling
Who broke the ploughman's bread
Who heard the winter calling
Who wore the tailor's thread
How many sheaves were counted
How did the carriage shine
How many thoughts were doubted
How did the landlord dine
Just as you sow you shall reap
Who led the mayday feasting
Who saw the harvest home
Who left the future wasting
Who watched the families go
See where the bowls are empty
See where the arms reach
See where the butter melted
See where the altars creak
Where were the days of promise
Where were the gifts divine
Where were the heroes honest
Where was the summer wine
Watch how the waves must shatter
Watch how the shore divides
Watch how the nets will tatter
Watch Canute and his bride

Who holds the money, who holds the need
Who holds the strings of misery or the purse of greed
And the gunmen reap while the gangsters sow
And law is cheap when the smugglers go

(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time

In sun-kissed rooms in city slums
Minds are restless till the airmail comes
From the forest floor to the western mind
Like a chat show topic on a party line
And the hardest love of all is to forgive
As the world comes tumbling down

(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time

Let all the rain come down on blind desire
Like a thundercloud that holds a prairie fire
I hear the blame and I see the cause
A stronger voice and a stronger law
But buyers buy and sellers sell
Public consumption of a private hell

(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time

(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time

It went so well for you
With a place right where you wanted and the ones to fill it to
But some blows break the spell
That it hits you every day until you need to hit as well

It's just a shadow of the man you should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
You have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

It all seemed fine for you
Till the struggle of ambition turned in violence upon you
Sometimes a landslide comes
If you're hiding in that avalanche you need a place to run

It's just a shadow of the woman you should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
And you have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

I know there is no need for what's been done
I know there is enough for everyone
Frustration brings a heavy hand to bear
And there's never been a hand

Did we ever have it good
While we lived in Eldorado did we find the gold we should
If it really was the truth
Why are faces filled with anger that should only shine with youth

It's just a shadow of the people we should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
You have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

I know there is no need for what's been done
I know there is enough for everyone
Frustration brings a heavy hand to bear
And there never is a hand outside that cares
Still the promise comes of living fit for all
If we only get our back against the wall
I look at backs that pushed the wall for years
Scarred by many knives and too much fear

It went so well for you
With a place right where you wanted and the ones to fill it to
But some blows break the spell
That it hits you every day until you need to hit as well

It's just a shadow of the man you should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
You have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

It all seemed fine for you
Till the struggle of ambition turned in violence upon you
Sometimes a landslide comes
If you're hiding in that avalanche you need a place to run

It's just a shadow of the woman you should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
And you have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

I know there is no need for what's been done
I know there is enough for everyone
Frustration brings a heavy hand to bear
And there's never been a hand

Did we ever have it good
While we lived in Eldorado did we find the gold we should
If it really was the truth
Why are faces filled with anger that should only shine with youth

It's just a shadow of the people we should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
You have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

I know there is no need for what's been done
I know there is enough for everyone
Frustration brings a heavy hand to bear
And there never is a hand outside that cares
Still the promise comes of living fit for all
If we only get our back against the wall
I look at backs that pushed the wall for years
Scarred by many knives and too much fear

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Written By ADAMSON, WILLIAM STUART
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I came from the hills with a tear in my eye
The winter closed in and the crows filled the sky
The houses were burning in flames gold and red
The people were running with eyes full of dread
Ah my James
They didn't have to do this
We chased them for miles I had tears in my eyes
Through forest and moor as the clouds filled the sky
The storm broke upon us with fury and flame
Both hunters and hunted washed down in the rain
Ah my James
They didn't have to do this
I know I can never return
To the time of hope when I was born
Let the strength of peace run through my hand
When we walk away from the&nbsp;?stormy shore?
Then I will be afraid no more
And now I'm sure of where I stand
Let the strength of peace run through this land
And nobody smiled as we took back our own
While rain beat upon us the thunder would moan
And nobody smiled when we knew what was lost
We knew well enough only time proves the cost
Ah my James
They didn't have to do this
Ah my James
They didn't have to do this
I know I can never return
To the time of hope when I was born
Let the strength of peace run through my hand
When we walk away from the&nbsp;?stormy shore?
Then I will be afraid no more
And now I'm sure of where I stand
Let the strength of peace run through this land

All the rain came down
On a cold new town
As he carried you away
From your father's hand
That always seemed like a fist
Reaching out to make you pay

He came like a hero from the factory floor
With the sun and moon as gifts
But the only son you ever saw
Were the two he left you with

Oh Lord where did the feeling go
Oh Lord I never felt so low

Now the skirts hang so heavy around your head
That you never knew you were young
Because you played chance with a lifetime's romance
And the price was far too long

Oh Lord where did the feeling go
Oh Lord I never felt so low

Oh Lord where did the feeling go
Oh Lord I never felt so low

Oh Lord where did the feeling go
Oh Lord I never felt so low

Oh Lord where did the feeling go
Oh Lord I never felt so low

Oh Lord where did the feeling go
Oh Lord I never felt so low

This time we run
This time we hide
This time we draw on all the fire we have inside.
We need some time
To find a place
Where I can wipe away the madness from your face.

Our name is out
Our name is known
Our name is everywhere but who knows where we're flown.
I never meant
To kill a man
But I will show you how to live like no one can.

So look away look away
Hide your eyes from the land where I lie cold.
Look away look away
From the lies in the stories that were told.
Look away look away
From the love that I hide way down deep in my soul.

I met you wild
In a snowed up town
When I was waiting tied and bound to be sent down.
Then I broke loose
You weren't around
So I raised banks and trains until I tracked you down.

Now look away look away
Hide your eyes from the land where I lie cold.
Look away look away
From the lies in the stories that were told.
Look away look away
From the love that I hide way down deep in my soul.

You followed me
When I said no
You lay with me when there was nowhere safe to go.
We made some friends
but now it's done
I always knew that we would never find the sun.

So look away
look away
Hide your eyes from the land where I lie cold.
Look away look away
From the lies in the stories that were told.
Look away look away
From the love that I hide way down deep in my soul.

There was a crooked man and he wore a crooked smile
He built a crooked highway and it ran for miles and miles
With money from the revenue and sponsorship from Ford
But it barely holds together with the goodwill of the Lord

In the penthouse of the baron, the little children sleep
Daddy talks to smugglers while armed gorillas creep
Poison for the great unwashed, business for the mob
Another teenage murder, it's trouble on the job

Now I see what I must see
The poor do time the rich go free
You keep the faith and they keep score
Is this what you are working for

A newsleak in the city, another scandal breaks
Sex and drugs in city hall, someone on the make
Legal bounty hunters aim their lawsuits well
The victim talks to Playboy says I guess I'll go to hell