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(Sullivan?)
He stood in the dark, uniformed criminal (prim and?)
legitimised
He swore in the name of his God, cross his heart and hope he dies
Oh, how he laughed away, and as his memories try to cope
He will try to always hide, and I'm amazed more and more and
In the name of the law (In the name of the law .
. .)
In the wake of eyes so pale
In the mind that wants your pain (minor wars to play?), a dream so cold
In the mind of the insane (In the name of the law
.
. .)
In the raging eyes of pain, the simple thought, the mind's a game
The dreams are bound
Made out of (They haven't?) the need for any great
conspiracy
In a nation of fools paranoia supplies the key
It sure is easy when all minds are adrift in lunacy
He knows there all cold lies, and we know what they said to me and
In the name of the law (In the name of the law .
. .)
In the wake of cold remains it turns to death
A worn out verse of cold
Cursing in the rain
Coming off the train
And the walls come closing in
In this lazy town
The dreams come out to sea
Trucks are going by and
You are lost and cold
Though we will hide them all
Tears in the rain
Hide the toll
He stood in the dark, uniformed criminal (prim and?)
legitimised
He swore in the name of his God, cross your heart and hope he dies
Till the man shakes the cold and icy freeze that has his hold
He will die and no mercy comes and the freezing ice rages on
In the name of the law (In the name of the law .
. .)
In the worn out verse declared in the race to death
In the worn out old God
In the name of the law (In the name of the law .
. .)
In the worn out verse to pay, in the race for gold
In the worn out icy God, in the race to the death
(In the name of the law .
. .)
In the words that died in vain, in the worn out parting word
In the race to death
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(Demo) - Once Were Warriors - Bootleg CDR
Thanks to Monty for the
lyrics!
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(Sullivan)
Spring comes like a kiss upon the mouth
Soft and sweet with all the power of the earth behind
Broken fever and soaking sheets
Twisted round our bodies in the cool of the morning
Turning the cards over one by one
I see the faces staring back from across the ages
And everything tastes so strong, so strong
But you could never sense 'cause
Ch:
According to you
There isn't anything left to believe in
Because you never could see
That there is everything that we are receiving
We joined the battle between right and wrong
When we were all so young and certain
And now we pass the passions on
In the broken light streaming through the shredded curtain
They bring you scapegoats to sacrifice
Anything or anybody just to nail your pain to
They bring you promises you know are lies
So you feel betrayed in everything that you cling to
Ch
I looked up from the clouded screen
And saw the vapour trails writing signatures across the sky
I feel the blood rushing hot just beneath our skin
I get it all, I get it all
Ch:
According to you
There isn't anything left to believe in
Come back to us all
Where there is everything that we are receiving
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Between Wine and Blood - Double CD (9/14)
Between Wine and Blood - Double LP (9/14)
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(Sullivan)
We were in the corner, the Clanduff by the door
On opposite sides of the dance hall, staring across the floor
The lights go out, the fists fly in, it's the usual Friday scene
Cos adrenalin is the
strongest drug that there has ever been
There's this funny little bloke asking all these
questions writing down what we say
So we wound him up like a clockwork dog and we watched him trotting away
Two weeks later there's a feature in the paper called 'Britain's Urban
Shame'
It's got the teenage thugs of the new estates with our photographs and
names
Ch:
So we cut our hair to prove it
And we wore the clothes to prove it
And we armed ourselves to prove it
And we chose our place to prove it
And we danced that way to prove it
And we made ourselves believe it
Until all the world believed it
Until even you believed it
And I was just a little part but I felt the wheels
turning
And these are all just little flames but the whole damn city's burning
Now that we were famous they watched everything
that we did
We were the villains of the neighbourhood, heroes to all the kids
And even when that old bloke died we pretended that nothing was changed
We just broke the silence with some stupid song and went on with the
stupid game
Ch
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Better Than Them (The Acoustic EP) - 12" (7/85)
Better Than Them (The Acoustic EP) - Double 7" (7/85)
Adrenalin - LP (11/85)
(Electric Version) - History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus Bonus 12")
(3/92)
B-Sides and Abandoned Tracks - CD (9/94)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/2005)
(Remastered Electric Version) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD
(5/05)
Videos 86-89 (Bootlegged Bootleg) - Video (89)
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World
Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
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(Sullivan/Dean)
We traced the contours of the west across the hanging highlands,
Kicking snow from our boots huddled outside the cafe doors.
Lee Marvin on the jukebox and all our hearts stolen,
The beginning is in feeling things we never even saw.
I remember sleeping in the long grass,
I could hear the traffic rolling,
I woke early in the morning and I felt the fallen dew
And when the motorbikes roared out of the woods
I just stood there smiling
We were always after something,
We were always chasing something.
And now the white birds have long flown across unravelling nations
And a thousand ghosts pass through us all every day.
They blow like the wind through empty rooms of empty houses
Until nothing feels as close to us as far away.
And when the wheels came off the tracks
Worn out by years of rolling,
I was thrown from the wreckage and landed beneath the trees -
Through the half light I looked above
And watched the branches waving
We were always after something
We were always chasing something
Until moving becomes everything
Until moving just becomes everything
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Winter - CD (8/16)
Winter - Double LP (8/16)
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
Time passes slow
Fields stretch out across open acres
Time passes slow
The giant steps of mankind touch
us so little in the great lands
Our little storm
Whirls away out across calm wide oceans
In this sacred breath
You and I falling for ever and ever and ever
The news peoples' dull voices bring the distant tidings of great disasters, politicians speaking in some solemn tones, the crisis of a different world, the panic of the thousands, the destiny of millions, so far away
Time passes slow
Sunlight sparkles on rippling waters
And the trees they sway
I don't believe in the things that I can't see
Our little storm
Whirls away out across calm wide oceans
In this sacred breath
You and I falling for ever and ever and ever
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The Love of Hopeless Causes - CD (4/93)
The Love of Hopeless Causes - LP (4/93)
The Best - CD (2001)
Anthology - Double CD (2/11)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the Road - CD (3/04)
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless
Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
I was working shift on the six o'clock, quiet in
the pale dawn.
Found a bird caught in the machinery - set it free and watched it go .
. .
Quit the job that very day, and flew into the sky just following after
this aimless desire, the awful desire, the aimless desire, worthless
desire.
Now I've found causes and I've found families, but nothing ever
lasts;
I've known people I'd die for - if only they had asked.
Where I'm from is not my home, and neither's where I'm bound;
Just following after this aimless desire - worthless desire . . .
So tonight, beneath the bridge where the fires burn,
God . . . take the freedom back, deliver me
from the aimless desire, the worthless desire . . .
And chimera she waits, and I
have still got this hole in me;
still got this hole inside of me . . .
Live version of last
verse:
Now the fates,
they promised everything - and everything's a lie
Still got this hole inside of me - never understood why
So tonight, beneath the bridge where the drifters' fires burn,
God . . . take the freedom back, deliver me
from the aimless desire, the worthless desire . . .
Can you see the
real me?
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
(Paris La Cigale, 16/05/98) - New
Model Army . . . & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(London Astoria, 16/12/03) - Live
161203 - DVD + CD (5/04)
Red Sky Coven Volumes 1 & 2 -
CD (1/99)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Jun.-Sep. 98 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany
Tour
Jan. 99 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
Mar. 99 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
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(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
False
Maria
rises up from the corporate slab, all clad in flawless steel
"Hello Boys" she says and the pack dogs gather, slavering around at her
heel
And the women try to stretch their faces, hoping to look more like her
And then chanting her name, they hurl themselves
Deep into the all-consuming fire
So onwards to the feast
to end all feasting, onwards to Midas
Hall
Where the treasures of the world reproduce themselves like a hoard of
cancerous cells
You can track the spread of the virus by the newsreader's colourful
attire
Let's go there now, reporting live,
From the chaos scenes at the all-consuming fire
And save us from
these justifications when every one of them is a lie
Pax Americana reigns and rains from two miles in the sky
Men rise from their beds and they shave their heads and they wait for
the orders to come
But there's still no word, there's still no word
There's still no word from the Front
And while a billion hungry eyes are watching us from beyond the citadel wall
We've found a thousand ways to lay waste the planet and we're going to
use them all
A culture in just two dimensions is all that we require
Because it burns so well, it burns so well
So blazing bright in the all-consuming fire
The Captain abandoned ship
years ago but nobody thought to inquire
And so the band plays on, we
sail gently west
So gently
into the all-consuming fire
Thanks to Janek who let me take
the lyrics from his site New Model Army . .
. & Nobody Else before the album was out
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High - CD (8/07)
Played at live gigs since 04/04
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
There's a sentry in a uniform
To watch the VIPs along the hall
Strategical discussions taking place
Behind the steel plated wall
The agents issue the statements
To the waiting press who circulate the words
Justification propaganda
Western foreign policy across the world
Ch:
In the name of the people
All of this is done in the name of the people
They read their books and study hard
Cigarettes lit in the claustrophobic gloom
West of the University Road
The world outside is ghost-like in the room
Frustrated and impatient and
Intelligence sharp and twisted like a child
Death is an aphrodisiac
now
The fuses on the table slowly
wired
Ch
Hold me tight, hold me fast
Standing here on the wrong side
Of this bullet-proof glass
There are no questions left for us to ask
It's soldiers
night at the discotheque
Pick up a girl and drink to home afar
Spending money like water
On the watered drinks available at the bar
The ones who never were given much
Never asked much of anything in recall
But there's a black bag in the
corner
And it doesn't belong to anyone here at all
Ch
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The Ghost of Cain - CD (9/86)
The Ghost of Cain - LP (9/86)
(Remastered) - The Ghost of Cain - Double CD (5/05)
(New York Ritz, 05/12/86) - Poison
Street - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (2/87)
(New York Ritz, 05/12/86) - All of This - The "Live" Rarities - CD
(4/99)
(Remastered) - The Ghost of
Cain - Double CD (5/05)
(9/94) - Big Guitars in Little
Europe - CD (3/95)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the
Road - CD (3/04)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
(London Town and Country Club,
23/12/86) - Join the Army - Bootleg LP
(Hamburg Logo, 23/03/91) - Raw Melody Men - Bootleg LP
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour
(UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
(Acoustic/Full Band Version) - Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
18/12/87 - Red Sky Coven - Topic
Club, Bradford
May 90 - Red Sky Coven - Grootebroek, Germany Tour
Oct. 91 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Vienna Tour
04/09/93 - Justin Sullivan - Freilichtbuehne, Luebeck (Anti Fascism
Festival)
Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Europe Tour
Jan.-Feb. 94 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Amsterdam Tour
Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan - Kaue, Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
12/12/98 - Justin Sullivan - Mean Fiddler (A Fight For Justice - Mumia
Abu Jamal Benefit)
30/09/99 - Justin Sullivan - Markthalle, Hamburg (Move for Mumia)
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(Sullivan)
Stepping out onto the stage
The smalltown star tonight
Flexes out for fame and fortune
Into the lights
The way she tears into the heart
Makes me realise
That I never understood hatred
Until I looked into those eyes - she cries
No one's going to talk down to me again
No one's ever going to patronise me again
I'm going to get out of this town
Steal myself a crown
I'm going to get myself some power
If it's the last thing that I do
Heading out of Bradford
With a ticket on the train
And a faith as hard as steel
Sharp as any pain
Gets pictures in the papers
Smiling oh so good
While she lies in bed with racing dreams
Hot as blood
Cos love will make you happy
And love will keep you warm
And love will build a cushion
To keep you safe from harm
But hate will drive you onwards
Hate will drive you upwards
Till you can get back all the bastards
Who ever tried to put you down
And when she's gone forever
Please don't lay her down to rest
In a quiet little churchyard
Along with all the rest
Throw a great big party
To remember that she lived
Give her headlines on the TV
To remember who she is
Cos no one's ever going to talk
Down to her again
No one's ever going to patronise her again
She's going to get out of this town
Steal herself a crown
She's going to get herself some power
If it's the last thing that she does
If it's the one thing that she does
If it's the only thing that she ever does
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No Rest for the Wicked - CD (5/85)
No Rest for the Wicked - LP (5/85)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/05)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - Live
21.4.85 - Video (85)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - Space - Maxi CD (5/91)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - History - The Videos 85-90 - Video (3/92)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD
(12/93)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - All of This - The "Live" Rarities -
CD (4/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City
23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) -
1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Rennes Ubu, 09/06/93) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Norwich Waterfront, 31/05/91) - New Model Army - Bootleg CD
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Apr.-May 85 - UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK Tour
Jun. 91 - Germany Festivals
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Jul. 92 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
25/01/85 - Justin Sullivan -
Apples and Snakes, London
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK Mini Tour
Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
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An der schoenen
blauen Donau
(On the Beautiful Blue Danube)
(Johann Strauss)
(Waltz)
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23/12/87 - Rock City, Nottingham
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(Sullivan/Dean/Gill)
I live on an angry planet, amidst the crowds and the
endless noise
In debris of the broken families
and the cracks in the grand designs
And all the vengeful gods are back gathering strength as the continents
collide
Some live by the
bloody sword and die by the bloody sword, some by beauty and desire
I live in the shadow of the great volcano, I live by the good soil and the fire
And of course I know that the days are numbered but we will go down to the wire
Ch:
And the pressure moves the mountains, seven billion and counting
As the monkey tribes advance across the bleak terrain
Sown with seed of mono-culture, wind and rain and revolution coming
But we know it isn't personal - we just live on an angry planet
They say that we're all kings and queens in the new
world - except for those that aren't
They say we can follow our dreams to the very top of the tree - except
for those who can't
They say that meek shall inherit the
earth except that they shan't
Ch:
And the pressure moves the mountains, seven billion and counting
As the monkey tribes advance; all in a rush of blood the jet stream
blowing
High above the zombie hordes all banging war drums, raising flags
As the pressure moves the mountains, seven billion now and counting
As the monkey tribes advance across the ruined land
Sown with seed of mono-culture, war and rain and revolution coming
But I know it isn't personal - I just live on an angry planet
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Between Wine and Blood - Double CD (9/14)
Between Wine and Blood - Double LP (9/14)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between
Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)
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(Sullivan/Dean)
You could be there - on a dark October night
Waiting for the moment to be swimming across the freezing river
Holding a plastic bag of belongings just out of the water
Climbing up the banks on the other side hiding in trees
So cold that you hardly show as a target
On the heat seeking gear of the Border Control
But you made it - you're another one over
Sleeping on a bench in a railway station in the heart of Europe
Haven't eaten anything for two days straight
But where there's a will, there's allways going to be a way
And every door is guarded and every guard costs
money
So the women are bought and kept and raped and sold as slaves
Because the family borrowed from the Man
And the Man has always got to be repaid
For the deals of the Borders and the fake IDs
And the stolen passports, all locked away
While the women are working and gagging down on their knees
And somewhere in the back of Terminal Three
In the clogged-up corridors of the Immigration Authorities
Whole families with the wrong bits of paper
Are waiting to be sent back to where they came from
Escorted by officials out across the tarmac
With their wrist bound tight with cable-ties behind their backs
It's dawn and there's fog in Rotterdam harbour
And the guard's on his break and the dogs are chained by the wire
Three figures come out from behind the cranes
And make it across the train tracks
Clamber aboard a Panamanian
freighter headed for the Isle of
Grain
Find a place to hide in a stack of containers
Another payload of World Trade because
Goods are free to move but not people
Oil is free to move but not people
Jobs are free to move but not people
Money is free to move but not people
And today they got a man hauled off a truck in the Port of Calais
We watch them in silence as they lead him away
Clutching his battered suitcase
But his face betrays him - lost and scared and defeated
Sitting in the back of the white Port Authority van
Well where do any of us come from? It's pretty hard to say
While high in the sky above us tonight
The bombers are heading the
other way - south and east
Into the blood red crimson sunrise of another Imperial day
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Carnival - CD (9/05)
(A cappella) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Rotenburg ob der Tauber, Taubertal
Festival, 13/08/06) -
BD3 EP - CD (11/06)
(Cologne Palladium, 16/12/06) -
1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
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(Sullivan)
I went up to the mountain, apocalypse dreams in my head
There was fire upon the horizon but it was just the sunrise turning red
Maybe it's time, maybe it's time . . .
Each night I walk to the edge of the city out to
where the darkness begins
I made a promise out here a long time ago and I've been waiting ever
since
Maybe it's time, maybe it's time . . .
The world has become an empty place
Of great, wide landscapes and weird painted skies
Dawn breaking open in islands of light
And people move as shadows never touching at all
I've never been afraid to die, (maybe scared to live)
I've been across every ocean just chasing after the
storms
My crew long dead or deserted now and the seas nothing but calm
Maybe it's time, maybe it's time - to turn this ship around
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Navigating
by the Stars - CD (2/03)
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan -
Kaue, Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
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(Heaton/Sullivan)
Rolling up tab ends that the baby's collected
Waiting for the number that clicks on the wall
It's open season on the weak and the feeble
Their meagre ambitions their impotent fury
There's bullet proof glass in case there is trouble
No doors in the building between this side and that side
I've tried to wrestle some unbalanced nightmare
Tell myself over that I don't really live here
But the boys run away leaving blood on the pavement
And a little crowd gathered to watch you pick yourself up
Joining the queue at the video library
To watch ninety five minutes of simulated torture
The conference hall rings to the standing ovation
The people in blue ties rise
from the podium
Crazy with power, blinded by vision
The mass-chosen leaders for a brutalized nation
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Thunder and Consolation - CD (2/89)
Thunder and Consolation - LP (2/89)
(Remastered) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/05)
(Instrumental demo) - Roly - Bootleg CDR (2009?)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) -
Raw Melody Men - CD (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men - Double LP (5/91)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD
(12/93)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City
23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Remastered) - Thunder and
Consolation - Double CD (5/05)
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle,
16/4/90) - Heroes of a Ghost Town - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - European Tour '90 - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - Vagabonds - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - We Are Old, We Are Young . . . -
Bootleg LP
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - State of
Mind - Bootleg CD
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and
Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
16/04/90 - Philipshalle, Duesseldorf (WDR Rocknacht)
Jun. 90 - UK Tour, Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada Tour
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
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(Elvis Presley)
Are you lonesome tonight, do you
miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?
I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a stage
And each must play a part.
Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart.
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I'll never know.
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you.
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you.
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then make them bring the curtain down.
Is your heart filled with pain,
shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?
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23/12/87 - Rock City, Nottingham
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(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
Written up high on a Belgrade wall in 1991
I saw the words of a prophet in a ten foot scrawl
Arm yourselves and run
Now the streets are quiet for the closing deals
And the Fimbulwinter
days to come
And the beats all sound like the hammering of steel
Arm yourselves and run
You can watch revolutionaries/jihadists come
You can watch them fall
Year zero for another age as another age is born
Each fire must rise and rage
Until it burns itself to ashes in the dawn
In the cold smouldering dawn
So I remember the words on a Belgrade wall from 1991
Some back street prophet in a ten foot scrawl
Arm yourselves and run
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Today Is a Good Day - CD (9/09)
Today Is a Good Day - Double LP (9/09)
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(Sullivan)
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 will be ours
We're tomorrow's history
So just check your weapons, say your prayers
Now the evening's over
Voices muffled in the cold night mist
We leave the house together
Home to rest up in the last few hours
Heads against the pillows
With eyes that will not close
Of all the dreams that we've ever had
This is the one
Now the night is over
Dawn cracks open like a breaking shell
Now the waiting's over
As we walk in silence through the empty streets
We meet beneath the tower
Greetings empty like the taste inside
Turn towards the valley
And the day that has waited for us all our lives
Even in this age of concrete
Even in this age of reason
There comes a time when you put your life
Into the hands of the gods . . .
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No Rest for the Wicked - CD (5/85)
No Rest for the Wicked - LP (5/85)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/05)
(Janice Long Show) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - CD (6/88)
(Janice Long Show) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - LP (6/88)
(Janice Long Show) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
(Janice Long Show) - Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Janice Long Show) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
05/04/84 - Justin Sullivan -
Captain's Cabin, London
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK Mini Tour
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(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
Across the land the air is still
The leaves are falling golden one by one
Like the paper money falls
Or the soldiers stealing homeward
There is only beginning
And there is beginning of the end
All the peoples are moving
Like the waters of a great flood
Ch:
And everything is beautiful
Because everything is dying
So we went down to the beach
And built a fire to remember
We took the last bottle of wine
And drank a toast to mortality
And we scrawled across the cold wet sand
With our bare feet 'We Told You So'
And watched the waves steal it away
I caught you smile and I heard you say
Ch
So who wants to live forever
When these moments will only come the once?
Staring into the embers of the fire . . .
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Today Is a Good Day - CD (9/09)
Today Is a Good Day - Double LP (9/09)
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