(Sullivan/Heaton) The lovers they kiss and slowly they turn For drawing a breath there is nothing but time A thousand million years before we crash in the sun A...

Holed up in your little room, we talk for hour on empty hour, pacing up and down between the walls that we have built ourselves No more with the long goodbye, I...

Sullivan/Heaton Under darkening thundering tavering skies We live throogh these painful days Walking like strangers in streets of damnation Under the enemys's g...

Busted out to the halfway house At the top of Undercliffe Road You and me and your motorbike In the ice and drifting snow 3 am and empty, the city ours alone An...

So where do we begin? It must be thirty-five years You've the breath of my mother, the life of a stranger; and there's so much to tell - so much I need to know ...

One swallow never made a spring You can buy a crown - it doesn't make you king Beware the trinkets that we bring When the visionary dreams set hard and grey as...

Across the flatlands we came out of nowhere special Like a peasant revolution - makeshift weapons in our hands We crashed the gates so hard we'd never heard tha...

They found us in the courtyard at our table in the shade We toasted our last few moments and then the end came They took us back to the airstrip in that beaten ...

In the tall grass upon the dune He rests his head on you It's warm wind and a faded sky You watch him drifting far away Dreaming, drowning Did you marry a man w...

Well we all learned how to use a fork and a knife How sometimes we have to wear a suit and tie And understand these things are what give us the right To go arou...

Cassandra's still shouting from the city walls but no one ever hears And far below the traffic moves like fish upon the ocean floor to the rhythms of the tide W...

It seems strange to write about these things now but the time has probably come when we should accept whatever is past and gone and never will return Looking ba...

Tell all the people who believe what they read in the press Tell all the folk who stare from behind suburban walls The enemy is not some nation far across the s...

Stare across the crowd, the fear and love in their faces The children of the tribes, prisoners of the flags unfurling Protect us in these changing times, The wa...

(Sullivan) Stare across the crowd, the fear and love in their faces The children of the tribes, prisoners of the flags unfurling Protect us in these changing ti...

There's storm clouds amassing over in the west up above the moor The city shines in grey, mills closing down on the valley floor All you can do here is survive,...

You say that you'd rather be really poor Than scratching, saving, scrimping all the pennies Looking in the windows at what you can't afford Always hungry, never...

(Sullivan) Stare across the crowd, the fear and love in their faces The children of the tribes, prisoners of the flags unfurling Protect us in these changing ti...

Across the town on the other hill, your lights glow from a different world You always found a place to hide - nails and cross to lay beside; with all the ghosts...

Are we still not speaking? Bitter words leave such a bitter taste Yes, I meant to hurt you But it was never meant to go as far as this And still I can make no s...

We drive in silence beneath the grey dawning skies Past the cooling towers where the white clouds slowly rise I watch the world through motionless eyes Nothing ...

I'll take any drug in the whole damn world if you'll only notice me Mainline poisons by the score - please will you notice me I'll break any law, hurt anybody -...

- I'll take any drug in the whole damn world - If you'll only notice me - Mainline poisons by the score - Please will you notice me - I'll break any law, hurt a...

In a ring of men, with money changing hands All the gypsy kings, they were gathered from miles around I was tapped on the shoulder, stripped to the waist But I ...

It was late, we were driving home in the rain I thought I saw something flying across the two-lane It was white like an angel - or like curse There and gone in ...

Behind all the rusting cranes, in the lengthening shadows of the Empire days there's a world that waits, but it's not needed In the teeming rows behind the goal...

I saw you walking away from the battlefield Through the clearing smoke to the other side Lay down your weary head And gazing up two ocean birds are wheeling, tu...

We were singing in the rain Like we invented singingThere's a light in the sky From a million street lights And we danced all the steps From all those old time ...

I met a Moko man from the other side The room began to capsize as he was telling me his tales And all my beliefs and best belongings Were flying useless through...

The curtain breathes, the air swims The sweat dries cold on the shivering skin The sheets they twist and turn again, round and round My mother she feeds and car...

The rains move in eastwards, in waves of succession Drawing lines of grey across the sky With history just as close as a hand on the shoulder In hunger and impa...

To the Queen of my Heart, from the King of Nowhere I have watched you arming, and how you wave your sword in the air; always fighting the shadows as they move b...

Days into weeks of Sunday afternoons Nothing much for us to say nothing real for us to do Just watch the carousel go round and round in endless circles in the p...

This all started the way things do With a laugh and a cup of tea around the fire As we sheltered from those wicked winds in front of that old TV And we traded i...

It's a silent scream in rain town How far have we fallen now? And the rain come, wash away The promised land that is here to stay We came back, things left undo...

The rock is made of diamond, the rivers wash with gold The sun beats down in rhythm, pounding on our reason Pounding on our reason, ringing in our skulls Someti...

My room is dark, and very small; there's a place to wash at the end of the hall I hear strange languages through the wall, I hear them shouting in the street be...

This all started the way things do With a laugh and a cup of tea around the fire As we sheltered from those wicked winds in front of that old TV And we traded i...

So many words are spoken Round and round and round and round So many confidences broken in this town Too many cigarettes, I don't want to feel like this anymore...

- So many words are spoken - Round and round and round and round - So many confidences broken - In this town - Too many cigarettes - I don't want to feel like t...

We were singing in the rain Like we invented singingThere's a light in the sky From a million street lights And we danced all the steps From all those old time ...

As we touched down on the tarmac, they strode out to greet us It was under a blue snake-skin sky With a handshake of welcome, they set their agenda With their s...

Look at my eyes - you know what it is I want you, I want you The way your body moves beneath that dress And all the nights I've spent away alone in sleeplessnes...

Look at my eyes - you know what it is I want you, I want you The way your body moves beneath that dress And all the nights I've spent away alone in sleeplessnes...

- Look at my eyes - you know what it is - I want you, I want you - The way your body moves beneath that dress - And all the nights I've spent alone in sleepless...

Thou shalt not kill - remember that? You learnt it again and again when you were young They said weapons have this safety catch Your moral conscience tells you ...

Heaton) Justin Sullivan - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica Robert Heaton - drums, guitar Nelson - bass Ed Alleyne-Johnson - violin Adrian Portas - guitar

Turn left at the lights about 50 yards down There's a pub in the corner and I'll meet you inside About quarter to eight and we'll go into town And find out what...

I woke still half-dreaming I was falling out of the trees and tumbling down into the sky It's cold, so cold sometime before dawn searching for a light and reach...

I met someone like Jesus in the spring of '98 He was so full of love and I was so full of hate So I nailed him on a cross where he belonged told myself it's wha...

Men of England, wherefore plough For the Lords who lay you low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear? Wherefore feed and clothe ...

Inside All the secrets are held inside Where the hot black river runs When I gaze upon you face And love And the hand in the burning flame A debt of the blood ...

If I could save you, I surely would; I'd take the world with you, the way we should I'd drown your violence in a sea of blood; I'd drown the pain for you in the...

You walk the thinnest of the ice, so easy to hurt We drove through the dark in the pouring rain and barely said a word So dress your wounds as best you can and ...

The natives are restless tonight, sir Cooped up on estates with no hope in sight They need some kind of distraction We can give them that 'Cause they'd kill if ...

- The natives are restless tonight, sir - Cooped up on estates with nmo hope in sight - They need some kind of distraction - We can give them that - And they'd ...

Hey there Matthew Hopkins, are you listening to us - we're still here Boodstone, Tiger's Eye, whet the hell - we're still here The dreaming Earth's moving in yo...

When it comes down, we know we're alone you could scream and nobody would hear Today my face in the glass is a stranger's furrowed with the lines of fear All th...

It's not a crime to be innocent, these things we have not done But you're not some little child, spring is past and gone Well I know my craving heart and I've s...

It's not a crime to be innocent, these things we have not done But you're not some little child, spring is past and gone Well I know my craving heart and I've s...

Coming in at night all the desert highways Crackle with the static of a thousand little radios Everyone talking, no-one listening Well by now I should expect th...

Down comes Moses with the Ten Commandments Hewn on a tablet, just the bitterest pill Breaks up the party in the valley below Says obey my orders and you're doin...

Like a desert, so smooth So calm, like velvet Like wire, so taut So stretched, like steel The surface is rippling And straining and cracking From within Like a ...

- Like a desert, so smooth - So calm, like velvet - Like wire, so taut - So stretched, like steel - The surface is rippling - And straining and cracking - From ...

you saved my life from this While kings are in their counting houses people just wait here in silent rows they spat and they jeered in a last desperate fear as ...

Now the talking's over, plans are laid and the hour is set Glances round the table, eyes all shining, dark and bright We meet again at daybreak for the day that...

Headline in the paper tells of fighting in the streets Teenage battles; six arrested Mutters in the council chambers, something must be done Before our city str...

Our history speaks in thunder from a thousand village halls In blood and sweat and sacrifice, in honouring every call So the forces gathered against the thorn a...

We went into town on the Tuesday night Searching all the places that you hang about We're looking for you In the back street cellar dive drinking clubs In the d...

Splashing through the water on the motorway The headlights shine in every drop of rain And every mile takes a minute and every minute lasts an hour And there's ...

Splashing through the water on the motorway - The headlights shine every drop of rain - And every mile takes a minute and every minute lasts an hour - And there...

Through the years of decay we walk like tigers in cages With each passing turn the smaller and smaller the circles Every weapon and word legitimate now as prote...

(Sullivan) Through the years of decay we walk like tigers in cages With each passing turn the smaller and smaller the circles Every weapon and word legitimate n...

I stared at the mountain, the mountain stared at me I couldn't hold it's gaze, I couldn't bare what I might see Tell Mary I never chose to come but all too late...

All rise for the king in all his rage and glory All kneel for the queen - her secret silver whisper Across the snowbound fields, slowly the sad procession moves...

Walking home on a foggy night Walking home alone Wishing there was power in my fingertips To burn through this solid stone How the hell am I supposed to know wh...

Now the thick warm cream light Fades down into the mist from the sea Three surfers – tiny black specks Out across in the great waves Lanterns of the little town...

Chorus: They don't understand you None of them understand you Tonight, as you stare at the ceiling again With you lover turning away Disappointment closing in l...

(Sullivan/Heaton) Ch: They don't understand you None of them understand you Tonigh, as you stare at the ceiling again With your lover turning away Disappoi...

We follow the taillights out of the city Moving in a river of red As the colours fade away from the dusky sunset We roll for the darkness ahead Chorus: We are ...

We follow the taillights out of the city Moving in a river of red As the colours fade away from the Dusky sunset We roll for the darkness ahead CHORUS: We are o...

I'll teach you everything that I know now, Eddie If you really want to take the time But don't expect to get answers to anything, Eddie There is just one thing ...

Escaped the net in '45Hiding out in South AmericaProtected by money and powerful friendsHoping the world has forgotten myAll the things you did in the Nazi deat...

There's absolutely nothing on my mind The television flickers in my eyes Waiting, always waiting Down at the bus station, doing time We watch the world go pass...

I'm wondering, I'm asking, I'm feeling, I'm seeing I'm wondering, I'm asking, I'm reaching, I'm finding I'm wanting I watched you get the things that you could...

Sullivan/Heaton Gather round and listen And I'll tell you how's it's done How they manage to make idiots Out of everyone Take a human population With their hung...

I felt a shiver in the heat-haze and the waiting time is over Strange tongues on the airwaves as the voices call from distant lands I saw which was the winning ...

Well we know what makes the flowers grow But we don't know why And we all have the knowledge of DNA But we still die We perch so thin and fragile here Upon the ...

Well we know what makes the flowers grow - but we don't know why And we all have the knowledge of DNA - but we still die We perch so thin and fragile here upon ...

It's another heroes' sunset I'm riding on the Great North Road Coiled and tensed in wonder As the land turns burning gold Chorus: Out in the sun, out in the wi...

(Sullivan/Heaton) It's another heroes' sunset I'm riding on the Great North Road Coiled and tensed in wonder As the land turns burning gold Ch: Out in the ...

Raised in the fields in the back of beyond, hauled into position as a prodigal son I was not Abel - I was a Cain; the kind you find a use for every now and agai...

This is where we go to - to the blue of the ocean On the 30 westbound to the diamond water Lost out in the white waves - salt purification Bright eyes and breat...

This is where we go to - to the blue of the ocean On the 30 westbound to the diamond water Lost out in the white waves - salt purification Bright eyes and breat...

The wolf he howls, howls up at the moon, out on the steps beneath my hotel room Was in the woods behind this little town we went flying up through the silhouett...

Well, you say it's such a small, small world Flying Club Class back from the far-east Curled up safe and warm in the big chair You were drifting through the ski...

Young, gifted and skint - that's where it in't Look how easily it happened, look how easily I fell Now I'm up to here in debt, there's a noose around my neck Th...

Young, gifted and skint - that's where it in't Look how easily it happened, look how easily I fell Now I'm up to here in debt, there's a noose around my neck Th...

Young,gifted and skint - that's where it int look how easily it happened look how easily i fell now i'm up to here in debt there's a noose around my neck there'...