All around you slow decay Wanna feel the sun of the new day Forget the chances that you lost Shedding innocence like falling dust All the things you learned too...

Burning searing sun Soft through the skin Bring your grace down here Tearing past the grey shadows of today Stroke away the fear Cold and steaming moon Call dow...

It's 4 o'clock in the morning We're still putting the world to rights The whiskeys started talking There's a fire in your eyes Conspiracy lies heavily In every ...

As the blood flowed Lorraine knew That there'd be nobody coming Nobody's coming As the blood flowed Lorraine knew That there'd be nobody coming The call came i...

Seized and charged and don't you know it You were caught for a crime But you didn't do it These city walls that call you stranger Your surprise local death will...

This place looks familiar, they always are, Came here again to meet you, forgotten star, What's that can I hear you talking? What's that you say? Every cloud ha...

Jesus, Mother, Mary, God All of you who claim to know the soul What's your view? Let me take you by the hand Show how it isn't planned What they say about you ...

When I dream, I get pictures of the world I've never seen I'm playing parts upon the silver screen I'm anything my dream wants me to be The picture always ends ...

Gunshots shatter in the peace of night Just another fire fight For the people of this little town But for the dying soldier Well he's feeling ten years older As...

Now you're walking that well-healed ground Upon a fragile course The Gin Lane talk has been getting you down Cos the hero Blake could not be found And there's a...

Everybody knows the story They've got the details, what the score is But if you want the truth, girl You may need more than a day You need to move just a littl...

1,2,3,4 In a strange land far from these shores lay two men and a woman killed by the law No matter what country Under the sun You can't mete justice From the...

I thought I heard something calling me I've seen the pictures on TV And I made up my mind that I'd go and see With my own eyes It didn't take too long to hitch...

I'm the king of all time nothing is impossible in my all powerful mind It was the fifth of November when time went back some say that's impossible but you + I w...

Bombs go off in London, Stirring panics rhythmic creep The city turns it's shoulders, Smooths the cracks and tries to sleep Split the Gulf sky red As the oil f...

Belaruse no longer feels the sun But it's under the skin of everyone Belaruse forgotten by the blind That is until the next time Remember all your yesterdays I...

Time after time you fail to agree About the things to believe in The thoughts of the ancients Just couldn't be Without changes in rhythm and time If you put all...

A hollow heart and empty head make the streets run red a careless desire leaves a child a future of fire but you don't care how could you care Blind Faith It'l...

Fired forty rounds in the centre of town He thought to bring the world around Sleepless nights with God and Christ The new messiah To burn the world, to change ...

Four hundred honest men Ran to Cromwell's Call Four hundred honest men Now waiting by the wall They'll bury us down further in the ground, Than we ever dug dow...

Kick the sheets off get out of bed Good morning de ja vu Is this the best thing in my head Good morning now what to do Look at my day What's the first appointme...

When you're standing by the roadside And it's a long way to go Ah, to carry me to carry me, carry me, carry me, friend Oh, to carry me Together in this mad lan...

You´re there in black and white Hundreds watch you every night You´ve been starring in a film on every weekend On video and stills with all of your friends You...

I'm so glad to see you Hear the things that you do are so chemically free it's a wonder to me you're still smiling I hear you're top of the heap you own nothing...

It's an open invitation Everybody's free to come Try to solve the situation The four corners have been undone And it's no mystery Just a thin line in the sand N...

My friend, well he walked me down these roads i'd never know The salvation of my soul, myself the only goal There were pleasures i thought i'd seen And some i n...

Dance before the storm These are dangerous time we live in I heard a man once say If you're prone to flights of fancy Your dreams can fly away See the sights a...

(Nick Burbridge) Dirty Davey's down the front and he's met the coppers there They'll be taking you in cos they hate your skin And he's dragged away by the hair ...

She's the queen of my life Every day it seems a miracle She's the love of my life Every time she lights a candle She turns and says to me Can we do it again to...

Well this is murder On the dog train When all the brakes have failed And I'm going down hill And if you see me wave I'm only saying bye bye There's not a single...

Take a look at the lines In the jigsaw of humankind What's there to see Who reaches for stars Who'll sit and stare And confuse their vision With pictures not t...

Don't fall under temptation If drinking for the nation Is getting you down 'Cause it takes a lot of work Filling up your belly And eating dirt It takes a lot o...

At the edge of the world nothing is said Call a witness Conversation is dead We pray for the coming But we don't hear a word We're all waiting around the edge ...

Elation: [Verse 1] Oh there was once a man who had lost his own smile And he wandered the country mile after mile Never quite knowing what he wanted to find For...

You gave me my birth Then you made me pay What is it worth Cast me away You've really done it now Dying in my arms You stand here with nothing But you've still ...

When Johnny comes marching home again, hurah tada He's coming by bus or underground, hurah tada The world no doubt will she'd a tear To see his face so beaten i...

It's simple cos it is the people Fighting for and claiming what remains Dreaming this is not dreaming This is the exodus from the game Dance beneath the stars W...

Well I fell down from the tree of life Hit the branches on the way Way down to the root Found what's been bothering me And I'll tell you If you can hear above t...

He thought he was as drunk as can be New white skinny rebel was he Because he knew what mattered It's all in a clatter of the bands he'd seen His words of wisdo...

And it will stop A day that lasts forever Just as the sun sets It will rise at dawn For ever after And I'm sorry If it aint that sweet Just Living in the world ...

It's warm by the river, the weir keeps us cleen The woodsmoke and cigarettes are all that we need Marking the dirt with twigs and simple words spoke Kicking the...

15 years I never was a violent man Said the man in the bar with his head in his hands he's Trying his best to understand the cause of his dismay But the years ...

If your smiling you'd better smile, for us all If your laughing you'd better laugh, for us all Well you better from now on Yeah you better from now on If your t...

Come onto me, it's easy for a long life Don't be denied forever under the night Come along To be this free Is what you want to Breaking the line forever under ...

Summer came around early this year And winter swung around soon after The scent of spring was high with fear The autumn crows call disaster (Chorus)The North w...

Galahad fell in love Seven days before the hunt She was not of his class So the love was never to last They went down to look for the scraps Wherever they could...

I know you're anticeptic Your deodorant smells nice I'd like to get to know you But you're deep frozen like the ice He's a germ free adolescent Cleanliness is h...

You smile at the rain While counting your change That's what you do Take a walk in the town That saw you drown That's what you do Chance come and make me These ...

I know so many people who think they can do it alone They isolate their heads and stay in their saftey zones Now what can you tell them And what can you say th...

Car horns and rumba music Through the city's broken heart Is this the devil's own back yard It was fourty years ago That the gangster he fell To a rag bag of me...

Pushed from the start Do it right and maybe you'll take a part Call a spade a spade Put on your blinkers maybe then you'll be made To walk the streets Head full...

You know the sky is blue And the wind cuts right through The sun shines on you alone Every step takes you nearer, nearer home And I love the river That carries ...

There's a young boy in the queue There's not much else here for him to do He's had a drink, he's had a few Down the pub on Hope Street Dear old lady, you're loo...

There's a young boy in the queue Not much else for him to do He's had a drink, he's had a few Down the pub on Hope Street Dear old lady you're looking thin Got ...

I'm in pain baby, A little hung over maybe Have you seen my head Has anybody seen my head Just when did I become invisible Tell me when did I become invisible ...

They took me to the battlefield Saw the mushroom clouds Said, "I Can see the colours Even when my head is bowed" They showed me the destruction The slaughter a ...

Julie was a lonely girl She said she was born that way She always felt that way She left home at age sixteen Got a job what you're supposed to do That's what yo...

Do you fancy a drink Just the one To clear your head We won't be long It's a beautiful day To waste away There's plenty of time For another one You know you sh...

I spy with my little eye, the sun shining brightly The clouds rolling by the last days of winter Now seem so far away and everything looks green When it used to...

Look out The ship you sailed now has gone Without you has left you all alone And you just stood and watched Look out for the last man alive Don't wonder how he...

Wasting time at nowhere very special Seems almost a part of it these days I know every crack along the pavement I remember what you said in '88 You said: 'It's...

(US mix, remixed by Andy Wallace) There's one too many, two too many holes Getting bigger in the garden wall And the people looking in are getting busy, gettin...

The life that I have chosen And there will be content And the salt sea shall be frozen Before that I repent Repent I shall not ever Until the day I die For the ...

She's the maid of the river So beautiful plain As fresh as the country That gave her her name As crips as the snow And as swift as the rain he shone like the su...

Make You Happy Lyrics WHEN YOU'RE STARING AT THE WALLS AND YOUR HEART BEGINS TO SINK SEEMS THAT NO-ONE EVER CALLS AND YOU'VE NOTHING LEFT TO THINK WELL I WOUL...

Do you ever think that we might be the same Or do you see the world in such a different way? It seems that parties, raves and lazy summer days Have now all gone...

Been some places in my time Seen some faces down the line But nothing like you Ain't nothing like you Nothing like you North wind blowing cracks my lips Cold t...

Far Away: [Verse 1] And it will stop a day that lasts forever Just as the sun sets It will rise at dawn for ever after And I'm sorry if it aint that sweet Just ...

Can you hear the sound of the fiddle and the drum passing them fade Can you hear the sound of chanting in the streets screaming for better days you've heard it...

Now it sees that night is day My uneasy focus has slipped away Drunk from the poison cup Brings sheer relief to me Head full of the news Twenty-first century Br...

There's only one way of life And that's your own My father when I was younger Took me up on to the hill That looked down on the city smog Above the factory spi...

He was on the outside but it was not his own choice the city schemes had swallowed his dream and silenced his voice She was on the inside looking for a way to...

There's nothing new In this sad story The slaughter of innocence Without glory At the foot of your hill Without warning The center of operations They attack in ...

I don't care if it rains or freezes As long as I've got my plastic Jeezus Riding on the dashboard of my car I'm afraid, He'll have to go He clashes with my radi...

Pour some metal on your heart my dear The puzzle is nearing its end Pour some metal on your heart my love The destruction of the world is at an end I've seen al...

Since you came along high above the scene You've taken all the worry out of me You brought a change that chemicals can't find I'm no longer thinking that I'm li...

Wine is sweet & gin is bitter Drink all you can, but you won't forget her You talk too much, you laugh too loud You see her face in every crowd That's the pric...

Well I married me a wife She gave me trouble all my life Ran me out in the cold rain and snow Rain and Snow She came running on down the stairs Combing back her...

She took the world up She was higher than the sky She didn't have a need She didn't really want for anyone he didn't ask for any of this She painted in the dar...

I met you in 82, over a crate of beer and not a few I cracked a can and so did you, we're going to change the world The ghetto kings of downside town-the estate...

You see the mist above the water Blinding all that's there to see You fell in love with natures daughter Or the idea you see So many moments were made there The...

Down the hill I wander, Just to watch the world go by Passers by pass under, Underneath the clear blue sky No-one seems to notice, No-one seems to even wonder ...

Saturday to Sunday's waste Then Monday's soon around It's time to leave the nightlife first And catch the last bus out of town And the sentiment of the last son...

The year was 1991, it seems that freedom is dead and gone The power of the rich is held by few Keep the young paralyzed, educated by your lies Keep the old ones...

This is the tale of old England We've got rocks and coke We've got kids that smoke Pram pushers and devil's folk In our England What's the weather Sunshine or ...

In the life in front of you and me Seems there is no logic - No place that you must be And there are times that it gets so hard to see To find the valid reasons...

There was Robbie Jones He used to walk so tall You know he'd hurt no one at all Chased the girls around the world Danced them round the dance halls We'd have a ...

If I could choose the life I please Then I would be a boatman On the canals and the rivers free No hasty words are spoken My only law is the river breeze That t...

The devil went down to Georgia He was looking for a soul to steal And he was in a bind 'Coe he was way behind And was willin' to make a deal When he came upon a...

Do you wake up every day In a world that seems crazy A world you love to hate Are you scared or do you feel pretty safe Do you think you have nothing Or do you ...

The Bar was dark and quiet and still And nothing could be heard The dust lay undisturbed At a table near the back, underneath a fan Two men shared a joke about ...

I spy with my little eye The sun shining brightly The clouds rolling by The last days of winter Now seem so far away And everything looks green When it used to ...

Do you ever stop to think from time to time 'Bout the way the world's been left behind In another place, in another time We could maybe change the way we think ...

There isn't much to gain By living all the same way The years just slip away But it's too late then to play If you live from day to day You can play the game yo...

THE RIVERFLOW (THE LEVELLERS) I met you in 82, over a crate of beer and not a few I cracked a can and so did you, we're gonna change the world The ghetto king...

Well its headlights, and white lights, and Black Tar Rivers They're dragging me around this country as it withers The billboards, signposts, standing in the way...

The NATO bombs were like sleeping pills When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis I took enough to make me ill When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis I was pub...

I never thought I'd see the day When you became what you've become It's easy now just to look away And leave your conscience on the run Spend so much time not l...

Burning searing sun soft through the skin bring your grace down here tearing past the grey shadows of today stroke away the fear cold and steaming moon call do...

You taste a drink in your hometown you smile for the things you've known that's when you were playing games you couldn't hope to play today Dare you look to th...