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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners (2003)
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... |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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 |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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 |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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 ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By ADAMSON, WILLIAM STUART <i>Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing</i> |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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 ?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 ?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 |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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 |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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. |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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 |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
Here I stand with my own kin
At the end of everything Finally the dream is gone I've had enough of hanging on I came here with all my friends Leaving behind the wait of years Leaving alone in a flood of tears Out on a prospect that never ends All the landscape was the mill Grim as the reaper with a heart like hell With a river of bodies flowing with the bell Here was a future for hands of skill We built it all with our own hands But who could know we built on sand But now it's barren all too soon There is no miracle in ruin We set the flame and it burned so blue With open eyes I watched it grow A sea of palms in an ocean of snow Hands with the courage to start anew Here was a home for the lost and scared Out of the yards and run dry dock The call of the steel that would never stop Here was a refuge for those who dared In a steeltown When the heat's on I went down And the heat turned on me There I stand with my own kin At the end of everything Finally the dream has gone I've nothing left to hang upon In a steeltown When the heat's on I went down And the heat turned on me |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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 |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
If you could feel
How I must feel The winds of quiet change If you could see What I must see Still hidden in the rain But when the thunder rolls It comes and covers up my soul And you will take my hand And be with me in wonderland Chorus I am an honest man I need the love of you I am a working man I feel the winter too If you could hear What I must hear Then nothing would replace The fifty years of sweat and tears That never left a trace But when I look at you I see You feel the same way too And you will take my hand and be With me in wonderland Chorus You still remember other days When every head was high I watched that pride be torn apart Beneath a darker sky With innocence within ourselves We sing the same old song And you will take my hand And make believe it's wonderland I need the love of you I am a working man I feel the winter too Chorus Wonderland (four times, fading out) |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
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 |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
I never saw you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you I never took the smile away from anybody's face And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered |
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from Big Country - Without The Aid Of A Safety Net [live] (1995)
We lay the night in anguish, snakes drawn out by the tide
The compass of decision falls always on one side But many went before us, and still the cries are clear There is no beauty here, just the stench of wine and beer We save no souls We break no promises We can do nothing more than move on headlong through the gloom The thorn between our lips is the missionaries tune Men with open arms turn their faces half away Observe as we approach that we have not come to save We stand as thick as vines though the fruit is torn away There is no beauty here, friends, just death and dark decay |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
I never saw you look like this without a reason Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you I never took the smile away from anybody's face And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
I wouldn't want to go home on a night like this
When I find out that some of the past has been missed And the light in the window has burned it's fuse I pull everything inwards but everything's loose Everything inwards, but everything's loose Everything inwards, but everything's loose I wouldn't want to stay out with news like this All the engines too loud all the pavements hiss How the scouts in the stairwell will ?meet? again I pull everything inwards but everything's ?changed? |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
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 ?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 ?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 |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
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 |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
We lay the night in anguish, snakes drawn out by the tide The compass of decision falls always on one side But many went before us, and still the cries are clear There is no beauty here, just the stench of wine and beer We save no souls We break no promises We can do nothing more than move on headlong through the gloom The thorn between our lips is the missionaries tune Men with open arms turn their faces half away Observe as we approach that we have not come to save We stand as thick as vines though the fruit is torn away There is no beauty here, friends, just death and dark decay |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
A score of years this line has run
Above the crests that drown the sun A mile high the turbines turned The stokers sweat the monkeys burned I will carry you home with the gods in my eyes I will carry you home while the westerlies sigh The continents will fly apart The oceans scream and never part Divided souls can never rest Must join the nations break the test For endless hours the sirens wail Await the tide that brings the sail Cling to the walls and close the shore The lovers wait who walk no more |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
Beween the father and his son
Between the city and the one Between the teacher and the test Between the journey and the rest The shining eye will never cry The beating heart will never die The house on fire holds no shame I will be coming home again Four hundred miles Without a word until you smile Four hundred miles On fields of fire Between the woman and the boy Between the child and a toy Between the following of the west Between the journey and the rest |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
Night hangs on the city like a blanket on a cage
A sacrifice prepared Laughter lies on faces where the sun has never shone The fear of life is strong We are waiting in the forest deep and dark behind the wall What is hidden in our hearts Absolves of all worry when our fate is in the hands Of a demon or a god Porroh man come from the inside of time Takes his dust from a moving line On our knees with our eyes on the ground Those once lost have now been found Save us from all worldly pain Save us from the glowing rain Save us all from love and hope |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
The autumn howled around the heads
That hung so slack with lips so red The blooms had withered leaves were shed Tongues stuck in jaws sad clowns parade The crushing whine began its call And pointed fingers at us In Angle Park The lights are dim, the statues grim In Angle Park The fountains crack In Angle Park The beaten cry behind white dress The clowns stuck fast upon the mesh While mothers wring their hands of tears The spelling books are in arrears The evil genius hugs his wife As tiles ring with fear of life The window fills with beating hearts Beat on blindly beat it In Angle Park The lights are dim, the statues grim In Angle Park The fountains crack In Angle Park In Angle Park The lights are dim, the statues grim In Angle Park The fountains crack In Angle Park |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
Bad weather gathers all along the coast
When the storm clouds gather And my blood runs cold If we can't go further When we get to the shore Then we have to turn around And fight some more We'll go together I have room in my soul That's enough of watching people Trading hearts for gold I can see you on the beach On your knees Spilling more salt in an Already dead sea We'll feel the wind and the rain On our face You can do it yourself But I heard of a place It's got to be now And it better be together When spirits make a meeting You can feel it forever Bad weather gathers all along the coast When the storm clouds gather And my blood runs cold I can see you on the beach On your knees Spilling more salt in an Already dead sea Run away with me again Time for us to grow Run away with me again All of us alone |
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from Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
Bridge just south of town They've been working on it for years now Just about finish up 'fore it occurs to anyone They built that damn thing just about a foot off the ground Way way higher than the road around So if you happen down that highway, 'specially at night Hit the bridge at fifty-five Feel like you might just take flight And every time the crossing comes as a surprise See my flying I've found quiet in this room Down by where the trains run I've learned to hear the rumble, long before it comes And the things I'm working on Are invisible to everyone Something 'bout an empty hip or the angle of the sun Every time the crossing comes as a surprise See me flying Maybe these stitches in my throat Have just about dissolved Like the sad moan of the drunkard walking home from the bar I hear the thin song of the fire house when they sound the alarm I hear the church bells on Sunday... ringing out Used to be a town of dirt and horses Now it's all liquor and cars There's still a whole lot of nothing up between those stars Take the dog out for a walk On the Episcopal church lawn My God we're still tryin' to find a way To get ourselves beyond And every time the crossing comes as a surprise See me flying |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
A stranger came by traveling
He went to every door He said he'd lost his people He'd come to look for more And many did believe him As he talked upon the square The spell he wove upon us Fills my body with despair And in his eyes Was the flame of the west Until it burns He never rests He had the voice of an angel And the face of a saint And though they fell behind him I knew what it was he meant His eyes where full of demons As he made his message clear He strode the world like Caeser With a trident held as fear And in his eyes Was the flame of the west Until it burns He never rests It's just how it's always been One man with a ruling dream And everyone falls for him Heroines in an ancient film It's just how it's always been One man with a ruling dream And everyone falls for him Heroines in an ancient film Called the flame of the west Look out for that stranger If you pass him on your way He never sees a danger In the darkening of the day There will be dollars in his hand He has all hell to pay And he will pass them to you If you promise you will stay |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
I feel the way the wind blows
It tells me where you've been through I watch the way the sun sets Until the night's inside you Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I need to bury The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I let salvation be I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me..... had to walk with me I watch the way the crow flies And though it seems so easy But if I see it in a grey sky Can I be sure about the way it leaves me Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I call upon The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I watch your soul run free I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me Some days will stay a thousand years Some pass like the flash of spark Who knows where all our days go ? Out here we lie together Outside the thunder gathers Why care about the weather It always ends in dark I looked west in search of freedom And I saw slavery I looked east in search of answers And I saw misery Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I walk into The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I let my conscience be I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
Here I stand with my own kin
At the end of everything Finally the dream is gone I've had enough of hanging on I came here with all my friends Leaving behind the wait of years Leaving alone in a flood of tears Out on a prospect that never ends All the landscape was the mill Grim as the reaper with a heart like hell With a river of bodies flowing with the bell Here was a future for hands of skill We built it all with our own hands But who could know we built on sand But now it's barren all too soon There is no miracle in ruin We set the flame and it burned so blue With open eyes I watched it grow A sea of palms in an ocean of snow Hands with the courage to start anew Here was a home for the lost and scared Out of the yards and run dry dock The call of the steel that would never stop Here was a refuge for those who dared In a steeltown When the heat's on I went down And the heat turned on me There I stand with my own kin At the end of everything Finally the dream has gone I've nothing left to hang upon In a steeltown When the heat's on I went down And the heat turned on me |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
We're at war All the papers say
We will win I read today We are strong It wasn't us We are right Who started this? Leave your work I just left school Leave your home I am no fool Take up arms It left me strong Sound alarms The school bell rings Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever Join up here I wave goodbye We need you Oh my breast sighs Have no fear I must try God will be with braver men Take the vow I know its right Praise the flag The good fight We're at war I'm on my way We will win Why do I pray ? Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever I wait here in this hole Playing poker with my soul I hold the rifle close to me It lights the way to keep me free If I die in a combat zone Box me up and ship me home If I die and still come home Lay me where the rose is sown Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
The day they had a party
Right out in the street Flags and flowers and singing For the homecome hero's treat I sat in the kitchen Without a fire on the range I knew this house had lost the cause To ever make me warm again Come back to me Days are all too long Come back to me You never should have gone I was so young and full of pride And you were wild and strong I never knew how weak I was I watched them gather round him When he stepped down from the car While tears fell on my cigarette He handed out cigars I have your child inside me But you will never know I never will forget you While I watch that child grow Come back to me Days are all to long Come back to me You never should have gone I was so young and full of pride And you were wild and strong I never knew how weak I was I was so young and full of pride (I never, I never, I never…) I will always be here Fading by the day I will wash the bloody hands And cast the bowl away As the years hang on me You will always be young And one day I will lie down Where the rose was flung Come back to me Days are all to long Come back to me You never should have gone I was so young and full of pride And you were wild and strong I never knew how weak I was |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
I dreamed I heard that you were dead
I dreamed I searched an empty bed For a sign of you And the sea called hard to me Like a cell without a key And I felt the distance I watched the tall ships go With the drift wood on the flow With pride that grows in hardship And I knew you were below I hear your voice And it keeps me from sleeping Why must it always be dreams When your voice comes to me I dreamed you felt the typhoon spit And walked into the heart of it While the sea gulls cry I know how to feel that call It never suited me at all But some are born to it And you seemed so bright and hard Like a bloody edge of sword But if you’re an enemy Then you look a lot like me I hear your voice And it keeps me from sleeping Why must it always be dreams When your voice comes to me I dreamed you sailed me to the swamp In a black boat You spoke to me of things Of the shame that years will bring And I felt your hand shake Though you always seemed so hard Now I never see the sword And I find the enemy Has to feel the same as me I hear your voice And it keeps me from sleeping Why must it always be dreams When your voice comes to me |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
You make me smile with all the feeling
That you deal in like a gambler It makes me feel that I'm a winner Or a sinner and I'm branded I feel your skin so warm beside me And I can hide me in your dreaming You hold me near inside your fear And I can feel the blood that's running Just like Josephine, it will not be tonight Still I have the dream, still I have the sight Will you and I always be like this, will you and I always have this I only see those sad grey eyes, I only hear you singing I am the ticket, you the prize, when begins the winning It's all we have, the time between us And no one's been us for a moment You talk to me just like no other Like the brother that I never had I look at you and you will turn and smile For a little while be happy I want you with all that loving brings Like a church bell rings for the morning Just like Josephine, it will not be tonight Still I have the dream, still I have the sight Will you and I always be like this, will you and I always have this I only see those sad grey eyes, I only hear you singing I am the ticket, you the prize, when begins the winning Oh be my woman and I will be your man Like I know I can if you let me Just fill my heart and I will fill your soul Like I know I can if you let me “Alexandra” will never sound the same Not a Roman game just a feeling And I will know the time I heard that name Will never be the same only better Just like Josephine, it will not be tonight Still I have the dream, still I have the sight I only see those sad grey eyes, I only hear you singing I am the ticket, you the prize, when begins the winning I only see those sad grey eyes, I only hear you singing I am the ticket, you the prize, when begins the winning |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
If I hold my hand to you
Though you never asked me to You will know it’s time for the rains to come And you must help me through If you feel the fear on me That I know the eye can’t see It comes with the sadness that the autumn brings So we know what has to be In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run We are not dust we are not stone Just as the wild seed is sown No one knows how we bring it home We only take as we have grown When you put your arms on me Are they meant to set me free Or hold me like his master’s voice And put the spell on me I only have these hands I only have the land I fear you like the frost that the spring can bring Or the fire of a cattle brand In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run We are not dust we are not stone Just as the wild seed is sown No one knows how we bring it home We only take as we have grown If I hold my hands to you Though you never asked me to You will know it’s time for the rains to come And you must help me through When we take all this to town And I buy the wedding gown We will find the newborn year As the winter crashes down In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
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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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
Just as one life turns from birth
Just as the ring finds its worth Just as the leaf turns to gold So you and I will be sold Chorus Sold for the work done While we could feel young Sold for the new son Gold for the pure one Where does our home lie When is our own Lonely the cold cry Only unknown Dark comes the night on the aged Hard comes the day still unpaid yet All in a bed still unmade it Chokes like the tomb and it says its Chorus (three times) Unknown, unknown Chorus Where does our home lie When is our own Lonely the cold cry Only unknown Unknown, unknown |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
Texas
That's where I Belong It seems to me Texas Lonesome star Shine on The big country Texas With open skies And you For company Texas Oh prairie rose How happy I should be Hey hey You can take it from me Hey hey I'll be coming, you'll see Hey hey Oh what a state to be in Hey hey You're tantalising me Texas I will compose In fancy rhyme Or just plain prose Texas A song of praise to you Prairie rose Texas Though I'm not sure I can explain Your strange allure Texas Prairie rose - A crown of thorns A scented flower Hey hey I'd better leave right away Hey hey I can hear you calling me Prairie rose |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
If you could feel
How I must feel The winds of quiet change If you could see What I must see Still hidden in the rain But when the thunder rolls It comes and covers up my soul And you will take my hand And be with me in wonderland Chorus I am an honest man I need the love of you I am a working man I feel the winter too If you could hear What I must hear Then nothing would replace The fifty years of sweat and tears That never left a trace But when I look at you I see You feel the same way too And you will take my hand and be With me in wonderland Chorus You still remember other days When every head was high I watched that pride be torn apart Beneath a darker sky With innocence within ourselves We sing the same old song And you will take my hand And make believe it's wonderland I need the love of you I am a working man I feel the winter too Chorus Wonderland (four times, fading out) |
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from Big Country - Steeltown (1996)
The stories of the world are sung
In places that were never young I have counted every one Chorus All the clouds will come to you So the sun never comes through And we will hide From twenty years of winter sky The faces of the world are hung In places I was never born Some will smile while others moan Chorus Pictures of the world are shown In places I have never known Who will know who shaped the stone Chorus Still it turns and says to me In words that come uneasily Answers are not meant to be Chorus |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
I know where all that time has gone
Blown and drifted, listening to an August night I see where I was wrong But how could I know that you were right When you said I would need something wild Something crazy to carry me I would see you naked and weary But with pride in your eyes that put shame in me I wait to find the things I need but I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me You know where all that time has gone Grown up and left, washed out like an April day See all those pretty little things you knew Worn and faded they lie cast away You said you would need something wild Something special to carry you You would see me naked and weary But with pride in my eyes that put shame in you Until you find the things you need I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me Until we find the things we need I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
Thirteen valleys; he has wandered for her love
For he thinks he is the one that she dreams of But her bed was made elsewhere From the first day she got there Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out "It could've been me I said it could've been me." A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on Thirteen valleys; she has gone since morning came For she gave so much that only love remained But her lover is long gone With the money she sent home Now she wanders thirteen valleys crying out Now she wanders thirteen valleys crying out "It could've been me I said it could've been me." A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on That broken heart will be forever and a lifetime That broken heart will dry up love that's gone before And you may fight, and you may run But what was past is now undone A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on Thirteen valleys lie in silence in the haze Filled with promises and spirits that we raised But the spirits all are ghosts Of the ones we hurt the most And they wander thirteen valleys crying out And they wander thirteen valleys crying out "It could've been me I said it could've been me." A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on It could've been me I said it could've been me A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on That broken heart will be forever and a lifetime That broken heart will dry up love that's gone before And you may fight, or you may run But what was past is now undone A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
I should have called you brother
I should have been real close You know I loved you brother Enough to take over your post I guess it's always with me I guess it will always be there When I step on the runway I always will see The Boy with the thousand yard stare But you where asleep my brother I didn't mean you no harm You where asleep When they came through the wire And I couldn't reach the alarm You'll never leave me brother Though I watched them fly you back home I'm still in country brother I won't make the world on my own I guess it's always with me I guess it will always be there When I step on the runway I always will see The Boy with the thousand yard stare |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
You've got everything I want
You've got everything I need Maybe we'll go out walking tonight You've got everything I need I know you would be so warm I want you to keep from harm Maybe we'll go out driving tonight Maybe it wouldn't be so wrong All the seasons rushing over me All the secret wounds that bleed All the seasons rushing over me Take me further from my need For all the places we might go Places I will never know I would trade them all for one empty room With you and I left there alone All the seasons rushing over me All the secret wounds that bleed All the seasons rushing over me Take me further from my need |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
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 |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
There’s an ill wind on the lowlands
A famine in the hills A rust storm on the northern seas A dust storm on the skills Where is the law that holds me In a grey unpleasant land I will not dance for the medicine man With the happy pills at hand I will pack up my things and go Head on down to Australia Just strap on some wings and I’ll blow Right here in my time, right here in my mind Right here in my life, this is a time for leaving I will not sing a chain gang song I will not walk the line The company store won’t have my soul And I won’t have his dime You could take my job and shove it If I just had one to give You could take my pain and love it But you won’t know how I live I will pack up my things and go Take a train over Canada Tie up my strings and I’ll blow Right here in my time, right here in my mind Right here in my life, this is a time for leaving If I fill my eyes up with the sun And I hold my face to the blazing sky My shadow will be cast behind me And I’ll look no more at its beaten eyes This is a time Listen to the city fall Listen to the warm wind call Listen to me my love This is a time for leaving Right here in my time, right here in my mind Right here in my life, this is a time for leaving This is a time for leaving |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
High above the forest in an unseen place
Where the clouds will gather on another race In the dungeon depths of an unknown cave There's a stream that springs with a world to save And it gathers up strength as it rolls along And it gathers up hope for everyone But it runs to plains where the farmlands weep Through the brand new gardens where rich men sleep I'm gonna find it, I'm gonna prove it And show the whole damned world how to use it When I find it, when I prove it I know that some damned fool is gonna lose it For it's the river of hope, from the pool of tears It's the river of hope, it's the river we lost for years Past the chemical plant where the junk flows in By the nuclear project where the children swim Under bridges in a city where the bodies float And the summer smell keeps the flies remote I'm gonna find it, I'm gonna prove it And show the whole damned world how to use it When I find it, when I prove it I know that some damned fool is gonna lose it For it's the river of hope, from the pool of tears It's the river of hope, it's the river we lost for years Through the swamp of a ghetto where the mission was lost Where the dope is king and the silver boss Past the trash and wreckage from the garbage trucks Past the oil slick where the jail boat docks To a home in some sea at the nations end Where the submarine is freedom's friend If we need that river like we did before There can be no need for it lives no more I'm gonna find it, I'm gonna prove it And show the whole damned world how to use it When I find it, when I prove it I know that some damned fool is gonna lose it For it's the river of hope, from the pool of tears It's the river of hope, it's the river we lost for years For it's the river of hope, from the pool of tears It's the river of hope, it's the river we lost for years |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
All the years I spent in this place
The friends I knew here, I loved every face I loved the smoke, the heat and the noise But the profits too small For the black-suited boys Oh angel, it's coming down stone by stone It's breaking up home by home Take it away, take it away In this place I will lay my life down In this place I will let you carry me As I age so my learnig grows I still touch the vision I still smell the rose in this place All the years I lived in this place The people I knew here, I loved every face I loved the parties, the funerals and fights The supermarket needs my land I have no rights Oh angel, it's coming down stone by stone It's breaking up home by home Take it away, take it away In this place I will lay my life down In this place I will let you carry me As I age so my learnig grows I still touch the vision I still smell the rose in this place All the years I spent in this place The childeren we raised here, I loved this country, the land of my birth But how much am I wnated How much am I worth Oh angel, it's coming down stone by stone It's breaking up home by home Take it away, take it away In this place I will lay my life down In this place I will let you carry me As I age so my learnig grows I still touch the vision I still smell the rose in this place |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
If you will take my love
If you will take my stand If you will be the one If you will take my hand If you will never run I could be happy here If you could take my pride If you could take my tears If you could take my side If you could take my fears If you could take turn the tide You could be happy here But I see what is done in my home-land But I see what is done in my name Can you see what is done in your home-land ? Can you see what is done in your name ? Tonight we keep our pride Tonight we dry our tears Tonight we leave our sides Tonight we shead our fears Tonight we turn the tide And we are happy here But I see what is done in my home-land But I see what is done in my name Can you see what is done in your home-land ? Can you see what is done in your name ? |
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from Big Country - Peace In Our Time (2005)
I've had enough, give me the strength to carry on
Bring me my dove, be my shelter from the storm Oh let me be, let me keep my life my own Just let me see a way for me to be alone I need a friend, I need a place where I can hide I'm lost again, I need a spell to turn the tide But like the dog that howls in the night You fill my broken heart with fright When I touch you the whole world sighs When you touch me the whole world cries The longest day will be forever and a lifetime The longest day will try your love like none before But I must stand and I must fight for what is wrong is now my right The longest day will fill my life for evermore Will I lie, will I face the fire in you Or will I fly, will I find out what is true I will be there, I will be waiting there for you And who will care when we have done what we must do But like the dog that howls in the night You fill my broken heart with fright When I touch you the whole world sighs When you touch me the whole world cries The longest day will be forever and a lifetime The longest day will try your love like none before But I must stand and I must fight for what is wrong is now my right The longest day will fill my life for evermore I could use some love I could use some kissing I could use some gloves Or maybe just some lessons I've had enough, give me the strength to carry on Bring me my dove, be my shelter from the storm I will be there, I will be waiting there for you And who will care when we have done what we must do The longest day will be forever and a lifetime The longest day will try your love like none before But I must stand and I must fight for what is wrong is now my right The longest day will fill my life for evermore ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By STUART ADAMSON <i>Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing</i> |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
No turning back No looking around I wasn’t searching See what I found Inside the spaces Inside of me If there’s a reason What will it be Come on and save me Come on and save me I want to know if you’re the one that’s gonna to change me Go on and change me Hey rearrange me I need to know if you’re the one that’s gonna to save me I thought I knew I had my hope Swing in the changes Ring out the old I’m happy chasing What I can’t reach I’m still embracing Secrets I meet Come on and save me Come on and save me I want to know if you’re the one that’s gonna to change me Go on and change me Hey rearrange me I need to know if you’re the one that’s gonna to save me I wasted time That wasn’t mine I hung the jury I fled the crime Shake off tomorrow Break off the past I know that sorrow It never lasts Come on and save me Come on and save me I want to know if you’re the one that’s gonna to change me Go on and change me Hey rearrange me I need to know if you’re the one that’s gonna to save me Come on and save me Come on and save me I want to know if you’re the one that’s gonna to change me Go on and change me Hey rearrange me I need to know if you’re the one that’s gonna to save me |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
I never saw you look like this without a reason Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you I never took the smile away from anybody's face And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered - 간 주 중 - I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered - 간 주 중 - I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
Beween the father and his son
Between the city and the one Between the teacher and the test Between the journey and the rest The shining eye will never cry The beating heart will never die The house on fire holds no shame I will be coming home again Four hundred miles Without a word until you smile Four hundred miles On fields of fire Between the woman and the boy Between the child and a toy Between the following of the west Between the journey and the rest |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
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 |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
If you could feel
How I must feel The winds of quiet change If you could see What I must see Still hidden in the rain But when the thunder rolls It comes and covers up my soul And you will take my hand And be with me in wonderland Chorus I am an honest man I need the love of you I am a working man I feel the winter too If you could hear What I must hear Then nothing would replace The fifty years of sweat and tears That never left a trace But when I look at you I see You feel the same way too And you will take my hand and be With me in wonderland Chorus You still remember other days When every head was high I watched that pride be torn apart Beneath a darker sky With innocence within ourselves We sing the same old song And you will take my hand And make believe it's wonderland I need the love of you I am a working man I feel the winter too Chorus Wonderland (four times, fading out) |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
We're at war All the papers say
We will win I read today We are strong It wasn't us We are right Who started this? Leave your work I just left school Leave your home I am no fool Take up arms It left me strong Sound alarms The school bell rings Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever Join up here I wave goodbye We need you Oh my breast sighs Have no fear I must try God will be with braver men Take the vow I know its right Praise the flag The good fight We're at war I'm on my way We will win Why do I pray ? Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever I wait here in this hole Playing poker with my soul I hold the rifle close to me It lights the way to keep me free If I die in a combat zone Box me up and ship me home If I die and still come home Lay me where the rose is sown Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
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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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
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. |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
I know where all that time has gone
Blown and drifted, listening to an August night I see where I was wrong But how could I know that you were right When you said I would need something wild Something crazy to carry me I would see you naked and weary But with pride in your eyes that put shame in me I wait to find the things I need but I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me You know where all that time has gone Grown up and left, washed out like an April day See all those pretty little things you knew Worn and faded they lie cast away You said you would need something wild Something special to carry you You would see me naked and weary But with pride in my eyes that put shame in you Until you find the things you need I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me Until we find the things we need I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
I feel the way the wind blows
It tells me where you've been through I watch the way the sun sets Until the night's inside you Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I need to bury The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I let salvation be I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me..... had to walk with me I watch the way the crow flies And though it seems so easy But if I see it in a grey sky Can I be sure about the way it leaves me Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I call upon The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I watch your soul run free I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me Some days will stay a thousand years Some pass like the flash of spark Who knows where all our days go ? Out here we lie together Outside the thunder gathers Why care about the weather It always ends in dark I looked west in search of freedom And I saw slavery I looked east in search of answers And I saw misery Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I walk into The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I let my conscience be I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
If there's one great thing to happen in my life
If there's one great day, if there's one great height Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right If there's one great thing to happen in my life I've seen to much of what fighting has done I've seen too much anger; I've seen it far too young And talk will come to nothing while the shouting still goes on But we are only singers and too many songs are sung If there's one great thing to happen in my life If there's one great day, if there's one great height Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right If there's one great thing to happen in my life I've seen the way of martyrs; I've seen the way of kings I've seen the hope that love can bring I only hope what pleases me will also pleasure you For mine can never be the hands that make a dream come true If there's one great thing to happen in my life If there's one great day, if there's one great height Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right If there's one great thing to happen in my life |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
We talked and smoked all through the night
You led me where I had no sight Till birdsong broke the morning light And I was weak with strange delight Teacher will you show to me The bond between the land and sea For I am new to mystery I want everything laid out for me All of history All of history You showed me walls around the world Where seekers passed and flags unfurled You wove a tale in silken curls And blew the mist in silver swirls Teacher will you show to me The bond between the land and sea For I am new to mystery I want everything laid out for me All of history All of history Teacher will you show to me The bond between the land and sea For I am new to mystery I want everything laid out for me All of history All of history All of history All of history |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
Thirteen valleys; he has wandered for her love
For he thinks he is the one that she dreams of But her bed was made elsewhere From the first day she got there Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out "It could've been me I said it could've been me." A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on Thirteen valleys; she has gone since morning came For she gave so much that only love remained But her lover is long gone With the money she sent home Now she wanders thirteen valleys crying out Now she wanders thirteen valleys crying out "It could've been me I said it could've been me." A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on That broken heart will be forever and a lifetime That broken heart will dry up love that's gone before And you may fight, and you may run But what was past is now undone A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on Thirteen valleys lie in silence in the haze Filled with promises and spirits that we raised But the spirits all are ghosts Of the ones we hurt the most And they wander thirteen valleys crying out And they wander thirteen valleys crying out "It could've been me I said it could've been me." A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on It could've been me I said it could've been me A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on That broken heart will be forever and a lifetime That broken heart will dry up love that's gone before And you may fight, or you may run But what was past is now undone A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
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 |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
The eagle soars above the clouds
The deer ran in the hills And I may walk in cities Where the wolf once had his fill And here is strength for us to find To turn the old to new And wipe our eyes of misty years And see the future through I chose this place to call my own The only grace I've ever known I never tire of legends grown We dream too much and time has flown Eiledon, I will be there Eiledon, my dream is there So let me fill my children's hearts With heoroes tales and hope it starts A fire in them so deeds are done With no vain sighs for moments gone Eiledon, I will be there Eiledon, my dream is there Eiledon, Eiledon, Eiledon, Eiledon So let us soar up with the eagles In wild country among the deer And wake the wolf in every city And reckoning is drawing near Eiledon, I will be there Eiledon, my dream is there Eiledon And here is strength for us to find To turn the old to new And wipe our eyes of misty years And see the future through |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
Long ago I heard a tale I never will forget
The time was in the telling on the bank the scene was set The sky was rolling blindly on, the daylight had not gone She washed her hair among the stones and saw what was to come All this will pass There will be blood among the corn and heroes in the hills But there is more to come my boy before you've had your fill Men will come and rape the soil as though it were their own And they will bathe their feet in oil as I have bathed my own All this will pass All things must come Just as I tell you here Stones will stand together as if searching for the stars And all come crashing down again before they reach too far She turned to face the setting sun, I turned to walk away But then she called my name again and beckoned me to stay All this will pass All things must come Just as I tell you here She told me of the famous sons who write their names in peace Yet be cut down before the time has come for our release Just as I tell you here Even now I wait for the coming day Even now she waits in the dawn For the tales she tells, for the gifts that she will sell For the sight she knows, for a vision that still grows With the dream in her eyes no one's seen I listened for so long that day that I can hardly tell If what she said was heaven sent or brought to bear in hell That men of hope would stand alone and still be cast a lie Just as Romans cast them on the day they were to die All this will pass All things must come Just as I tell you here Even now I wait for the coming day Even now she waits in the dawn For the tales she tells, for the gifts that she will sell For the sight she knows, for a vision that still grows With the dream in her eyes no one's seen |
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from Big Country - Through A Big Country (1996)
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 |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
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. |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
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 |
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I've never seen you look like this without a reason Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you Shock I never took the smile away from anybody's face And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered Shock, 1, 2 I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive Ha Shock |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
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 |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
I know where all that time has gone
Blown and drifted, listening to an August night I see where I was wrong But how could I know that you were right When you said I would need something wild Something crazy to carry me I would see you naked and weary But with pride in your eyes that put shame in me I wait to find the things I need but I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me You know where all that time has gone Grown up and left, washed out like an April day See all those pretty little things you knew Worn and faded they lie cast away You said you would need something wild Something special to carry you You would see me naked and weary But with pride in my eyes that put shame in you Until you find the things you need I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me Until we find the things we need I know I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me I want that love King of Emotion Stronger than you and so much deeper than me I know that love is King of Emotion King of Emotion take a walk with me |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
We lay the night in anguish, snakes drawn out by the tide
The compass of decision falls always on one side But many went before us, and still the cries are clear There is no beauty here, just the stench of wine and beer We save no souls We break no promises We can do nothing more than move on headlong through the gloom The thorn between our lips is the missionaries tune Men with open arms turn their faces half away Observe as we approach that we have not come to save We stand as thick as vines though the fruit is torn away There is no beauty here, friends, just death and dark decay |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
If there's one great thing to happen in my life
If there's one great day, if there's one great height Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right If there's one great thing to happen in my life I've seen to much of what fighting has done I've seen too much anger; I've seen it far too young And talk will come to nothing while the shouting still goes on But we are only singers and too many songs are sung If there's one great thing to happen in my life If there's one great day, if there's one great height Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right If there's one great thing to happen in my life I've seen the way of martyrs; I've seen the way of kings I've seen the hope that love can bring I only hope what pleases me will also pleasure you For mine can never be the hands that make a dream come true If there's one great thing to happen in my life If there's one great day, if there's one great height Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right If there's one great thing to happen in my life |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
I feel the way the wind blows
It tells me where you've been through I watch the way the sun sets Until the night's inside you Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I need to bury The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I let salvation be I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me..... had to walk with me I watch the way the crow flies And though it seems so easy But if I see it in a grey sky Can I be sure about the way it leaves me Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I call upon The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I watch your soul run free I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me Some days will stay a thousand years Some pass like the flash of spark Who knows where all our days go ? Out here we lie together Outside the thunder gathers Why care about the weather It always ends in dark I looked west in search of freedom And I saw slavery I looked east in search of answers And I saw misery Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I walk into The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I let my conscience be I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
Maps on the back of your hands point to the cross
Scratches on walls in a room draw out your loss Your islands are conquered and You are returned to the throne Martyrs take penance and Fill up the mattress with stones Pull straws with holy men Stain all the atlas pink And let us find a beach Where we can cross our hearts Stand in the wind as the carousels spin Wear out your welcome again Stand on the silence of mountains and Wear out your welcome again Mornings hit hard with an uncontrollable light Piercing the senses that click deep in the night Crouched in a pillow of straw feet on the floor Creeping a path to the mat that holds back the door Pull straws with holy men Stain all the atlas pink And let us find a beach Where we can cross our hearts Build up great railways that run Through the horns of the moon Hold up a city with cast iron museum walls Explain your machines to the boys feed them with tools Bring out the skill in your skin polish your hair Pull straws with holy men Stain all the atlas pink And let us find a beach Where we can cross our hearts Stand in the wind as the carousels spin Wear out your welcome again Stand on the silence of mountains And take a look down to the sea Stand in the wind as the carousels spin Wear out your welcome again Stand on the silence of mountains And take a look down to the sea |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
Here I stand with my own kin
At the end of everything Finally the dream is gone I've had enough of hanging on I came here with all my friends Leaving behind the wait of years Leaving alone in a flood of tears Out on a prospect that never ends All the landscape was the mill Grim as the reaper with a heart like hell With a river of bodies flowing with the bell Here was a future for hands of skill We built it all with our own hands But who could know we built on sand But now it's barren all too soon There is no miracle in ruin We set the flame and it burned so blue With open eyes I watched it grow A sea of palms in an ocean of snow Hands with the courage to start anew Here was a home for the lost and scared Out of the yards and run dry dock The call of the steel that would never stop Here was a refuge for those who dared In a steeltown When the heat's on I went down And the heat turned on me There I stand with my own kin At the end of everything Finally the dream has gone I've nothing left to hang upon In a steeltown When the heat's on I went down And the heat turned on me |
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from Big Country - Classic (2003)
Long ago I heard a tale I never will forget
The time was in the telling on the bank the scene was set The sky was rolling blindly on, the daylight had not gone She washed her hair among the stones and saw what was to come All this will pass There will be blood among the corn and heroes in the hills But there is more to come my boy before you've had your fill Men will come and rape the soil as though it were their own And they will bathe their feet in oil as I have bathed my own All this will pass All things must come Just as I tell you here Stones will stand together as if searching for the stars And all come crashing down again before they reach too far She turned to face the setting sun, I turned to walk away But then she called my name again and beckoned me to stay All this will pass All things must come Just as I tell you here She told me of the famous sons who write their names in peace Yet be cut down before the time has come for our release Just as I tell you here Even now I wait for the coming day Even now she waits in the dawn For the tales she tells, for the gifts that she will sell For the sight she knows, for a vision that still grows With the dream in her eyes no one's seen I listened for so long that day that I can hardly tell If what she said was heaven sent or brought to bear in hell That men of hope would stand alone and still be cast a lie Just as Romans cast them on the day they were to die All this will pass All things must come Just as I tell you here Even now I wait for the coming day Even now she waits in the dawn For the tales she tells, for the gifts that she will sell For the sight she knows, for a vision that still grows With the dream in her eyes no one's seen |
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