Now we play our final hand Move in closer, understand This time like never before Only the black queen scores A card so high and so wild We should burn it The ...

I forget how it started But everyone knew of the cause Hard out of the sun with a vengeance And all was then lost They crawled into homes And yet all of the old...

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 w...

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...

THE MIDDAY 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 ...

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 cru...

Heave lads, an audience awaits Heave lads, the final scene is set (Spotlights protect me) Heave lads, curtains clear the debt Waiting in empty halls Smiling be...

If beauty is an ecstasy and anger keeps you poor A hungry man is never free, a rich man never cured Things were never what they used to be Now every crowd has i...

If beauty is an ecstasy and anger keeps you poor A hungry man is never free, a rich man never cured Things were never what they used to be Now every crowd has i...

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 ...

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot With a pink motel, boutique, and a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got ti...

Thirteen valleys he has wandered for her love For he thinks he is the one she dreams of But her bed was made elsewhere From the first day she got there Now he w...

Out beyond the river where you and I would ride And we would skin the buffalo, the last ones left alive But once again it passed me by, I know it always will So...

All the rains came down on a cold new town as he carried away from your fathers hand that always seemed like a fist reaching out to make you pay he came like a...

It wasn't in her diary It wasn't in her stars She didn't hear it at the mall It only makes things worse Charlotte's in her icebox Needs someone to blame Anothe...

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 w...

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 hom...

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 ...

It's a holy place if you see things that way Then they rattle the bones and the analysts play From his backward collar on a worn out book Another working class ...

I've come on a few years From my Hollywood highs The best of the last The cleanest star they ever had I'm stiff on my legend The films that I made Forget that I...

It was a long hot day At the end of the Summer I had a chill in my heart Like the start of the Winter And I didn't know what to wear I wasn't sure what to say ...

I don't like to ask you But there are no choices left On that fateful day When you wore your wedding dress Did the sun shine brightly The clouds just drift on t...

I was driving to Damascus when a sandstorm rose The road disappeared and the axle froze I was low on gas and lower on hope I covered my eyes and I felt for the ...

I'd better be leaving She said then she whispered They're waiting for me at the fairground tonight I'll never be back and I'll never be missed But I leave somet...

East of Eden By Big Country 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 ...

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...

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice In the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream waits at the window wearing the face That she keeps in a jar by the door...

Somewhere there are orange trees Somewhere skies are blue Somewhere us a bridge across The world from me to you Sometimes in the darkest sky Sun comes shining t...

Between a father and a son Between the city and the one Before the teacher and the test Before the journey and the rest A shining eye will never cry The beatin...

Flame of The West By Big Country 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 believ...

Thank you ma'am for asking Yes I'm on my own I guess it's kind of obvious I'm eating here alone I'm grateful for the company Tired of talking to myself Don't y...

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 c...

Today, cast out all of the devils you hold Away, to the time where you youth had been sold Remove, all the robes worn by sacred ideas Forget, false accounts of ...

The eagle soared above the clouds The deer run in the hills And I may walk in cities Where the wolf once had his fill Here is strength for us to find To turn th...

I Could Be Happy Here By Big Country 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...

Stand up Hold my hand I hope you understand Here where time is still I walk the hill Stand here Close to me Here for all eternity I wait as others will I walk t...

Lines form on my face and hands Lines form from my ups and downs I'm in the middle without anything And I'm a boy and I'm a man I'm eighteen and I don't know wh...

We all make our plans We all have our choices Try on different faces Talk in other voices I said a lot of things That never let me sleep Made promises I really ...

It's a wild night and a new road Keeps me too long from your door For we always go slowly Who never goes sure You ask which way you should travel I ask where yo...

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...

In This Place By Big Country 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 ...

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 ev...

I could walk in To the sunset With my best girl by my side I would pull her up beside me And together we would ride Hey Ma Hey Pa Look at me standin' tall Brot...

It went so well for you With a place right where you wanted And the ones to fill it too But some blows break the spell That it hits you everyday Until you need ...

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 sa...

They hit the bank on a dog-day afternoon With the black top popping and the radio out of tune They looked so young and wild and people sighed For desperate men ...

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-o...

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 yo...

It's a monument valley of concrete On the plain where the styrofoam roams She hits the trail by the charity store For the cavern of the mobile phones She wades ...

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 clea...

Can't help about the shape I'm in I can't sing, I ain't pretty, and my legs are thin Don't ask me what I think of you I might not give the answer that you want ...

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 ...

I believe what I believe And hope that I am not deceived By little details I receive For you know I never look twice Something far outside of me A part of whic...

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 ...

I searched the globe from A to Z Found a lot that made no sense to me I learned a man is just a man There's nothing more to understand What I'm looking for is a...

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 SUBSIDE...

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 wai...

I don't have the magnetism of a national hero I'm not desperate enough to Carry 'round a bomb in a bag And I hate to clean up behind my dog He's a pretty big gu...

(written by Brian Ferry and Phil Manzanera and first released by Roxy Music) Texas Oh that's where I Belong It seems to me Lonesome star Shine on The big coun...

They found an alien baby in a Russian wood A man in the delta named Johnny B Goode A two-headed cow and a fish that walks A vampire lover and a monkey that talk...

Coming out into the day and all that I can see Is the red and white of the King's army I'll meet with them among the pine I'll meet with them by noon The dirge ...

In your fine green ware I will walk with you tonight In your raven hair I will fine a summer night Upon far flung soil I will run you through my head In my dai...

Alone among the hills and stone Through summer sun and winter snow The eagle he was lord above And Rob was lord below 240 years We lived without hope and witho...

I know the very ground you walk The colors that you wear I know the love of which you talk I know for I am there Let it rise and fall forevermore For I have see...

She would never say where she came from Yesterday don't matter now it's gone When the sun is bright or in the darkest night No one knows, she comes and goes Go...

We sail into nothing Sail on crystal wings We sail into nothing And never need these ships again No When I am tired Tired of the fight You come to me And it's ...

What would you be if the waves set you free And the wind in your hair brought you sailing to me Tied up on the shore would you weary no more? When will it be, w...

Lori says to Billy we've been working for a long time On this story trying to find a happy ending We looked so long and hard for it Maybe there just isn't one S...

There's a place where all roads end A place where we can meet again If things begin to end I hope that I can make amends Hey kid there's nothing wrong with you ...

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 strange...

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 wo...

I walk through the debris of cardboard and clothes Trying to work out where everything goes I'm short of you and a book or ten And I'd love to hear those Leonar...

Steeltown By Big Country Here I stand with my own kin At the end of everything Finaly the dream has gone I've nothing left to hang upon I came here with all my...

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 ...

Virgil Caine is the name, and I worked on the Danville train Till Sherman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just...

Oooo you and me Seems like 25 years ago The whole city was different then How were we to know? Live my life in a simple way Gonna live it all in a single day S...

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 ...

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 the flames gold and red The people were ru...

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 wil...

(written by and first released by Smokey Robinson) People say I'm the life of the party Cause I tell a joke or two And though I might be laughing at (?) the pa...

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...

Thousand Yard Stare By Big Country 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 ...

They took a southern working man and chained him to a car Claimed before the judge we didn't pull him very far Anyway, he looked at us with murder in his glance...

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 ...

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 F...

for the song "where the rose is sown" by big country: we're at war all the papers say we will win i read today we are strong it wasn't us we are right ...

I lived a thousand years In someone else's shoes I lived a thousand lives With someone else's blues I talked so many nights With voices I don't know Wore someo...

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...

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 co...

Down at the corner store Never busy any more He's in the back room talking pie In there all by himself Counting bugs up on the shelf Watching the window fill wi...

There's only seconds of your life That really count for anything All the rest is killing time Waiting for a train Come the revelation brother I was sitting by ...