Hey now now
Hey hey hey
You may be rich
You may be poor
You may have nothing in this world at all
You may be black,you maybe white
You may be a prisioner in your own times
You may be lost. You may be found
You may have been beaten up and knocked to the ground
You may have belief, suffer from deceit
Or you just might be blind
Oh no no
You may affect the truth
You may be seen as false
You may be...
quot;This next song's about Ireland
It's called Across The Broderquot;
Across the Irish border
And hidden in a car
There's guns and ammunition
That were smuggled to Armagh
Well that's not right - and they should stop the fight
And they should sort it out
And they let them march and let them shout
Kill it shoot it down
And if you Bum it to the ground
Kill it light the fuse
What's the point and ...
I run for my life
Under the black sunlight
On deserted streets
Uneasy dreams I sleep
In this forgitten place
I'm a forgotten face
Sometimes I don't exist
Like the dust swept aside
Fade away on the wind fadeaway
To walk away into the tide walkaway
That's the end
That's the end
The end of the great black gold
That's the dream
That's the dream
The dream that I wake up to
The dawn of the great bla...
It's funny how they shoot you down
When your hands are held up high
And you open up your heart and soul
But that's not enough for most.
I remember this much
There is nothing
You shouldn't speak of
If you got something to say
And there is no one
To be scared of
Just get them out of the way
GOING OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY
My heart is open wide
You can take anything that you want from me
there is n...
Do you wake up in the middle of the night
Find your eyes are on full beam
Totally wired
Sweat stains and troubled dreams
Your throat is burnin' dry
Caught in your worst nightmare
You cannot deny
And now you've become
What you said you'd never become
Hate yourself for all the things you've never done
You tell yourself you're too old
I know you're still young
You're wanting to scream
You still h...
Change upon faces
Changing hands
Change in my father
And my fathers land
Change, change
Change, change, change, change, change
Change in the weather
And it flies through a flag
Change in the places
I knew as a lad
Change, change
Change, change, change, change, change
Change on the mountain
Where green was turned black
Change on the valleys
That take it all back
Change in a worker
With sweat on...
It's been a long time comin'
And it's good to be back
Been in a head on collision
With a medicine man
I've been down in the alley
Where the odds are stacked
Down on my knees
Had to turn back
CHANGE
CHANGE
I need a change
OH LORD
CHANGE
CHANGE
I need a change
OH LORD OH LORD
Down in a no mans land
Between sorrow and sweet
Where the devil himself
Sits on the judgement seat
Where you drown in you...
Picture you on a pedestal
So avant-garde of mind
Standing in the last ditch
Where fallen heroes lie
Stand to the left of centre
Stand to the right sometimes
All good politicians
Speak in riddles and in rhymes
I'm looking under tables
I'm looking under chairs
Been searching for an answer
Been searching everywhere
Yeah
Day by day
Hour by hour
Who's gonna fly my flag
In the corridors of power?
Yo...
I'm a lonely man walking lonely streets
I'm soaked to the skin with the pain of my unease
From such a strained existence
The tension in this world keeps me from sleep
I'm hungry and cold
There's a weight hanging over my shoulders
A rain black cloud of doubt
Have I got enough love
Have I got enough hope?
Enough strength to face the world each day?
I know there's an answer somewhere in this nigh...
You are the power and the glory
You are the weakness in defeat
Like the rise and fall of the British Empire
You make me sick with your conceit
You are, you are the weakness
You are, you are, you are
You are the sickness that??? in my soul
You are you are you are the maker
You are called greed and you???e a cheat
You are you are you are the deceiver
You are not welcome in my life
You are the ma...
Take this song of freedom
Put it on and arm yourself for the fight
Our hearts must have the courage
to keep on marching on and on
Hey now
The iron gates clang in a steel mill town
A man breaks down to that unemployment sound
He takes a last walk down that old coast road
In the dying death throes of all that he knows
The sight of those men walking through the gates
Was like a lame pit pony at the end of its days
Fire, Fire, Fire
In a Deeside town eight thousand went down
In a February day in the driving rain
No winners ju...
I'm a man
Torn in two
State and nation
I've got to choose
For on these streets
That I spit upon
There's no money in my pocket
No soles on my shoes
Ain't got no religion
But the workingman blues
Oh I, I've got the workin' man blues
Oh I'm kicking the dirt off my shoes
Devolution workingman blues
I don't dance
No rich mans tune
I won't play
The poor mans fool
Within these eyes
That you look upon...
I'm a man
Torn in two
State and nation
I've got to choose
For on these streets
That I spit upon
There's no money in my pocket
No soles on my shoes
Ain't got no religion
But the workingman blues
Oh I, I've got the workin' man blues
Oh I'm kicking the dirt off my shoes
Devolution workingman blues
I don't dance
No rich mans tune
I won't play
The poor mans fool
Within these eyes
That you look upon...
Mission bells ring out from kingdom hall
A lone voice cries on the hillside
The winds from the north blow the sea to the shore
I walk away in the fateful moonlight
Love forsaken man, love forsaken land
For God's sake don't look back
Into the crucifix night
The storm of a cross
I live to love again and again
All my life
Oh Eye of the hurricane
I walk away in the wind and the rain
Into the eye o...
One, two, three, four
My father said quot;Son, now my life's work is done
There's a future for you, there's a job to be done
Stop fighting the system 'cause the system won't break
Get your hair cut boy and learn from my mistakesquot;
Now I said to my father quot;Father give me a break
There's a million more chances that I'm bom to take
I don't want to die like I saw you die
In a dead end job i...
Take this song of freedom
Put it on arm yourself for the fight
Don't let them blind your eyes now
Or listen to the devil liar
Feelings growing getting stronger
But even now my hands are tied
I feel restricted I can't cut loose This ball and chain that's round my neck
What can I say that's not been said before
Until there's a better way i'm gonna stay this way
Come gather round you people to me...
People are saying money's falling off the trees
But I don't see nobody here with a piece
Nobody got it, everybody want it
Even people out there begging on the streets
From Red Square right down to the sea
Step down off the side-walk and you might see
Something going on make a poor heart bleed
Sounds like a new age world stampede
God save somebody
God save somebody
Well all through the land
Eve...
Well the docks lie crippled
In the northem towns
The boys have all gone away
Trying to find work down south
And mister I walk in the valley of the shadow
Won't someone have mercy on my soul
On my soul, soul, soul
HALLOWED GROUND how sad is the sound
In a valley that once sang out sang proud
HALLOWED GROUND where the ships run aground
To die in the harbour in a rust ridden town, town, town, tow...
So this is Christmas and what have you done
Another year over a new one just begun
So this is Christmas I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones, the old and the young
And so this is Christmas for weak and for strong
For rich and for poor ones the road is so long
And so Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one without any fear
War is over if you want it
War is over...
So this is Christmas
And what have you done?
Another year over
A new one just begun
So this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and for poor ones
The road is so long
And so Happy Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Let's hope, It's a good one
Without any fear
War is over
If you want it
War is ove...
Hardland ripped torn apart
Hard dreams leave scarred
In the lines of my face
The story of faith
Hardland
I came back
Home to a hardland
Where a man is judged
By the scars on his face
Where that sliding scale still operates
To come home, I had to go away from here
HARDLAND
I saw a land
Standing at the crossroads
I saw her wrath
Burning in a burned out home
Saw her tears
In rivers running cold
H...
A union made in the heavens
Untouched by an outside world
Driven by the needs of lovers
To the beauty of the One unearthed
Sanctify, mystify
A vision of the light
Sacrifice the gift of life
Above the sky there??? no higher
A love that scales mountains
Hell or high water
A love that is oceans deep
A love to set us free
In paradise lost they found it
On the slums of a shanty town floor
They're d...
Once you held your finger on the trigger
Now the gun is pointing at your head
Once you reigned supreme
Over all that you could see
Now you walk on the other side of the street
How the mighty fall
I've seen it all before
From the highest heights
To the lowest of lows
How the mighty fall
Once your words were the first and last on the subject
Now they hang like a noose around your neck
Once you h...
Love on this wasteland holds no dominion
I refuse to lay me down
On the grapevine comes the saying
quot;Son, you'll reap whatever you sowquot;
I sow the seeds of my love
Deep undying true love I sow
There is beauty out there somewhere
I will leave no stone unturned
There's a guitar and a bugle
I hear the sound of distant drums
Fire and water rage through my mind
Love on
Love on this wasteland
...
Memories come flooding back
The bitter pain of disappointment
Of once of having love but now I only feel loss
I'M LIVING ON A KNIFEDGE
AT THE END OF THE LINE
I'M TAKING ALL THE HARD SELL
I'M LOOKING FOR A LIFE LINE
Hey now now
Oh oh oh
When you ain't got no-one in this world
It makes you feel useless
It gives you nothing to live for nothing to die oh no no
For I'm burning up burning up burning...
I cry my soul to sleep
Somewhere in the starless night
I yearn for safety's keep
Away from hurt outside of time
Oh wherever I run I can??? hide
From the knife in the light
I close my eyes to be free
Of all the loneliness I feel
So many against me
So many seek to harm me dear
Oh protection sweeping over me
You???e my hope my shield
Lead me through the darkness
Lead me through the bitter tears
G...
The future??? deserted waiting there for you and me
No past is going to stop us blowing down this road apiece
Why we???e come too far, too far to turn back now
We can??? just throw it all away when something good goes wrong, oh no
Nothing has been written which says which way we have to go
I??? not looking for commitment written in stone
No everlasting promise no no
Let the river
Let the river...
Love can give you everything
Then take it all away
She can take you to the water
She can make you thirst for days
Tell you what you want to hear
In the same breath she can steal
And that's why love don't come easy
Love can take you to the mountain
Love can make it move
Love can shine her burning torchlight
In the bed of fools
Love can be your witness
She is judge as she condemns
And that's why...
Well,
There's a young boy standing
Staring at the world
You know he can't control his anger
You can see it in his eyes
He's gonna smash the window
He's gonna tear down the walls
Hey mister you don't understand it
Take a look at it through my eyes
These are the kids they're powerless
So you tell them so
These are the kids they're powerful
Don't say you haven't been told
And we'll go
MARCHING ON...
I was born of nineteen fifty nine
That'll be the day rock'n'roll died
Far away on a dark and stormy night
Brought into the new decade
The sixties and her pearly gates
A hard rain fell and the times forever changed
In the back of a car with the wind in our hair
Speeding down the road going anywhere
Was it true we were really going nowhere?
Sixty eight rang like a ricochet
The world arose to a n...
Pit shaft wheels turn for the last time
In the Rhondda tonight
The Davey lamps that shone so brightly
There's no more need for their light
As the last piece of coal is cut
From the belly of the black seamed hole
A man walks home alone
Past a church full of mourning souls
Throughout his lifetime he has fought
He has given his life
In tears the congregation sing
Cwm Rhondda Oh my Lord
Great is t...
See them run
Like characters in paintings
Turners frightening 'scapes
Industrial inside a nation of no escape
There's no escape in my frightened face
As we run run run
And turn to stone
OH LORD hear me now
The fanfare sounds in a Newtown Jericho
OH LORD the wailing sound
Of helpless souls in a Newtown Jericho
See them fall
The rebecca ride at dawn
Petticoat ghost and tom
Working to reclaim the...
A thousand miles before us
Long is the road
The mountain high
And the valley low
Our love is stronger than we know
In the tears of a river
I see the wrong
Hear the mountain cry
Cry anger
Feel the pain in the valley below
I want to run
Where the sunlight beats on my face
I want to feel
The wind in my hair
THERE ARE NO FRONTIERS
That we can't cross tonight
There are no borderlines
To keep us apa...
Well, back in '75
When the kid was on the line
And he felt no pain
'Cause there was none
He would bend in the wind
Take in anything
Like sniffin' roses
And it was alright
Until he fell
And cut his hand
He just could not understand
He'd run away
Blame pretense
For defence
Or plain innocence
Say that's alright
The harder it fights
I'm one step closer to home
The deeper it bites
I'm one step clos...
Somewhere in this world
I know that love exists
I've known it in a kiss
Sometimes in my sleep
I've been searching
For more than these few glimpses
For a love that lasts all eternity
There is a light, a light that never dies
Oh no, see it shine, shining in my sorrow
There is a light, a light that never dies
I'm all alone now
The crowds have all gone home
There is a silence
Silence in my world
I...
All I want is someone to believe in
But who to believe is hard to define
When some say the future is unwritten
Some say the simple things in life are the best
When all is dark and dusty down the tracks
And all paths from exile have roadblocks on all points
Saying quot;No, No way out of here, go back from where you came fromquot;
And some say when you're down you fight the hardest
Some tighten ...
Daylight breaks on the streets of my life
Where no sun shines there bums refusal to die
In the shadows of heartache my dreams come alive
I've been searching for love to give meaning to life
Oh no, you make me feel real
Oh no, I've got you, you've got me
And that's all we need
A reason to believe
Tonight my love will never die
Tonight I will lay down my life
Wherever we run wherever we go
Tonig...
The first heaven is silver
And you are silver, you shine white light
The second heaven's sacred
And you are sacred of pure soul
The third heaven is pearl
And your name is forever written
Oh, don't walk away
No, don't walk away
I'm walking in the presence of love
I'm walking in the seven heavens
I'm alive with the agony, the ecstasy
Strive for the pleasure and the pain
I'm walking in the presen...
Outside in ruthless city canyons
Rivers of people oveflow
Gunshots in the skyway valley madness
Ricochet as my mind starts to implode
Oh no, no
Help me
Help me
I'm trapped in a Prison without prison bars
Help me
Help me
I'm trapped in a Prison without Prison bars
Everyday someone's trying to sell me something
Through coloured images flashing on my t.v. screen
But my mind is stripped there's no...
Under the anvil of the sun
Sweat, like a train
I come, I come,
My body to dust
Scorched by the might of the sun
Burning light, burning white heat
Like wildfire
I sweat a fever
My body screams
Disintegrates in the heat
Our love is the FAITH that keeps on burning
I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
I love to feel the rain on my face
I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
I love to feel ...
Let me put my arms around you
Give me refuge in your soul
I have drunk from fire water
Free spirits rising in the world
The new moon rises from the darkness
Lord I need a healing prayer
Give me a medicine for fever
Give me the cure, give me the cure so I can see
Raw
Burnt back to the bone
Raw
You gotta leave this child alone
Raw
I ain't got no home
I??? Burnt right back
Burnt right back to the...
quot;OK This is a song called reason 41.
One two three fourquot;
Well I used to wonder why that
When it's black there is no white
And why that when it's day
There is never any night
I got talking to a soldier and he tried to set things right
He said, quot;If you want peace them you will always have to fightquot;
Hey
I went searching in the desert
Where it just began to rain
And I met up with t...
A renegade
Rides a run away train
To liberate
Tear these bonds assunder
A fugitive
Running from a chain gang
Comfort me
Grant me absolution
Running all my life
Running all my day
Running through the night
Seems like forever
Take me now
I'm so tired
Take me now
This time, forever
RESCUE ME
I'm on the run like a refugee
RESCUE ME
Oh come on rescue me
I'm destitute
I'm looking for protection
I wa...
Early one morning
Across the fields of dawn
Crooked is the shadow
That falls on my land
Storm clouds overhead
Like birds of prey in wait
How can we undo
What cannot be undone
I feel the darkness heavy
Heavy on my heart
There's distance between us
Tearing us apart
How many rivers must I cross?
Somehow, somewhere I will find a way
How many rivers must I cross?
Somehow, somewhere I will find a wa...
There's colors on the streets
Red, white and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There's a warning sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people saying, ?They'd be better off dead?
Don't feel like Satan but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on r...
You say that there's no place to run to
Is that any kind of place for you to hide?
You say no one is telling you the truth anymore
Then for God's sake who's telling lies?
Now you might need something to believe in
That???l help you to see what is right
So save it 'til later and later and later again
Save all your crying 'til later
Take a hard, hard look around
Save all your crying 'til later
Y...
I
Dream in red
Of the things
That this world could be
And is not
I
Walk in the glow
Of a thousand candles
Burning, burning slow
Sunrise
Sunset
Daylight
Daybreak
Watching
Waiting
Hoping
Asking
Begging
Pleading
Shouting
Scarlet Red
Scarlet Red
Scarlet Red
Scarlet Red
Scarlet
Blood
On the page
Of a thousand words
I've written
Can't express
I
Walk in the light
Of a world I wish
I wish to set on fi...
Well take a look and listen to the things that I have said
Well could I really tell the truth with a rifle at my head
Yeah, I gunned down a president
Yeah I have done a crime
But now you've got to listen 'cos I'm running out of time
But it's not me that you're after it's not me that's gonna pay
But it's not me that is guilty
That's a man with the C.I.A.
Well I got put in jail because I got int...
Shelter, oh
I've been branded
I've been washed up and left for dead
I've been cast out from this world
I'm in exile
I'm stranded on the streets
Ain't got no place left to run
No one wants me anymore, anymore, anymore
Now they hunt me down
C'mon and take me to the shelter
SHELTER give me what I want tonight shelter
SHELTER take me undercover tonight
SHELTER
I've been tortured
I've been raging i...
quot;Sonquot; said the preacher quot; ???or I break the news
Let me take you to the heart of this promised landquot;
Built on the green hill far away
Where somebody cried Somebody died in the wind
You don??? have to run to the palaces of gold
Bricks and mortar one day must surely fall
And son you will look Monroe right between the eyes
And pray that somehow
Someone??? gonna come along
And save...
And now they're trying to take my life away
Forever young I cannot stay
Hey
On every corner I can see them there
They don't know my name they don't know my kind
They're after you with their promises
Promises of love
They're after you to sign your life away
Yeah, yeaoh
Sixty-eight Guns will never die
Sixty-eight Guns our battle cry
Sixty-eight Guns
Sixty-eight Guns
Oh, the Sixty-eight
Living in...
There's a fire beneath my skin
There's a fever that makes me ill
Got a love, a love that kills
I've got twenty four hours to live
Comeback, I'm begging you please
Comeback, I'm down on my knees
Comeback, I'm begging you please
I don't know why and I don't understand
How you sold me down the river
I don't know why
I don't understand
How you sold me down the river
SOLD ME DOWN THE RIVER
There's ...
Well I find myself in reverie
'Bout what we might have had
And what might have been
We had something going once
That was such a long, long time ago
It was way back in '76
Our friendship formed of pure innocence
We first met in Mathew Street
Where we heard something that would set us free
A sign stands over a door, it says
quot;Four lads who shook the worldquot;
In the depths of those heady nig...
GIVE ME LOVE
GIVE ME HOPE
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
Who will light the fire
That I need to survive
Who will be the life blood
Coursing through my veins
Like a river flowing
That will never change
I need someone
I can depend on
'Cause I'm a man of emotions
Who can't hide the tears
I'm a man of feeling
Who can't hide the pain
I'm alone on the outskirts of town
Where no one kno...
And if you know what is the answer
Why don??? you tell me
What does it feel like
To be free
What does it feel like
Take a look at the punks
On the run from all the ministers
Collecting for the criminals
And the judges or the blame
If you???e innocent or you???e guilty
Or you???e never been given a chance
And you'll never find an answer
There??? always, always, always, always
Just one more link...
I've swept the floors of all my kings
I've opened doors and let the tourists in
Days of wine and roses
Prime ministers, red robes
These days are gone
I've stood on guard as my Queens were born
I've cut the grass on many English lawns
Of strawberries and ice cream
Of cricket and cold beer
These days
London Tower's burning. Parliament's ablaze
Buckingham Palace has gone
Somewhere in the distance...
Every day I get up from off the floor
I keep on coming back for more and more
So many times I get it in the face
I keep on running ' til my dying day
Rain on the roadway, thunder in the sky
The light of day disappears from sight
As the road opens up in front of my eyes
These wheels are burning up the miles
As the road opens up in front of my eyes
The only limitation is in my mind
I drive awake...
I'm a man who bites hard on the bullet of silence
If only you could feel the pain I hide
Know me, like I know you
Still water running deep in the cavern of my soul
So many roads lead nowhere
Know me, like I know you
Like a rock, waves clash over me
Standing silent, waiting to be set free
The rock, the rock, the rock
Will never let you down
The rock will never fall
Or tumble to the ground
The r...
Oh I have been out searching with the black book in my hand
And I've looked between the lines that lie on the pages that I tread
I met the walking dude,religious, in his wom down cowboy boots
He walked liked no man on earth
I swear he had no name had no name
I swear he had no name
Come on down meet your maker
Come on down make the stand
Come on down, come on down,
Come on down make the stand.
...
Come on let's rock and roll now
In the dirty towns on the dirty streets
There??? a violent wind that blows
Across the generations men like me
Have been swept to these crossroads
Blown out of house, blown out of home
Blown down the road
On the wind that blows away my words
Blows away my reason
Blows away my soul
Taking my existence
Oh, the wind blows away my words
There??? a rushing sound that ...
Your head on my shoulder
Two months you???e been a soldier
I feel so sick inside
Two months you??? have been alive
So no one here knows your surname
No one knows from where you came
The Red Cross takes you to your grave
For which your government kindly pays
WHITE CROSS upon the hillside
There lies that unknown soldier
No one can remember your name
So here I stand by your graveside
The steel he...
Declare yourself an unsafe building
Suffer the indignation of your world,
To climb the ladders you've gotta suss out the snakes
Remember your height remember to never look down.
'Cause now you've made your choice you've gotta take your chance
Find a way out now you're
unsafe unsafe
Come out of the cupboard and into the real world
Open the window and let some light into your life
It's dark in t...
quot;I'd like to sing this song called Up For Murderquot;
Well take a look and listen to the things that I have said
Well could I really tell the truth with a rifle at my head
Yeah, I gunned down a president
And I have done a crime
But now you've got to listen 'cos I'm running out of time
It's not me that you're after it's not me that's gonna pay
It's not me that is guilty
It's a man at the C....
Walk forever by my side
Never lose sight of the day
When we will run through all our weakness
On through the fields
Strewn with our broken dreams
Walk forever by my side
Stay forever in the light
Never lose sight of the way
For I alone can't face the future
I need your strength
To help me make it through
Walk forever by my side
Stay forever in the light
Walk on 'til morning
All my days are you...
People
Light up your light tonight
I wanna see you shine
Fight despair
Don??? let it get you down
Don??? let it tie you down
There??? a man with a wife and three children
Who??? been told he can??? work
There??? a boy who??? been told there??? no future
He??? been led by the blind.
And I can hear them crying
As they try to sleep through the night
I can hear them cry
I can hear them cry
WE ARE ...
Home where my heart beats
Where my love waits for me
Where the winds of change
Howl into my face
There's rain off the headlands
Closes in by day
Don't cry, don't cry
Wipe you tears away
The rivers are rising
There is a flood in me
I can feel the heat
In the air that I breathe
Home
WHERE A TOWN ONCE STOOD
Home
Before a storm
Home
WHERE A TOWN ONCE STOOD
Home
Before a storm
Distant horizons
Drow...
Born into a war and peace
Forced to choose between a right and wrong
Each man kills the thing he loves
For better or for worse
Face to face with a ragged truth
Mixed up and torn in two
And turned your back on the only thing
That could save you from yourself
WHERE WERE YOU HIDING
WHEN THE STORM BROKE
WHEN THE RAIN BEGAN TO FALL
WHEN THE THUNDER AND THE LIGHTNING STRUCK
AND THE RAIN AND THE FOUR...
Guys wearing gas masks are levelling their guns
At school children singing whilst studying sums
It??? a clear sign of violence
And it's laced with heavy support
This whole situations been dragged through the dirt
By gargoyles and monsters and man eating birds
Who act like the jury but you never see them stand up in court
It's savage and ugly the riots unfurl
But these are the ways of this wond...