New Model Army Song Archive

(Heaton/Sullivan)

Took a drink from the bottle in my coat
I can smell it now like it was yesterday
The cold November winds biting round those Bradford streets
Going downtown to the club where your band used to play
Well the years go by, and the choices come
We fall by the wayside one by one

Ch:
And there's nobody left but you now
There's nobody left but you

Stevie he was always just the quiet one
Got married, got buried the way that people do
Came back ten years later, tried to make up he was still young
With all the drugs and the girls and the stuff he thought he should have had
But you, your monsters became your friends
And you'll carry them with you till the bitter end

Ch
And there's nobody left but you now . . .
Only you, only you

Somehow you survived, well I don't know how
And you still burn the same, maybe a little slower now
You remember the winter of '79 and going down in the rain to the Royal Standard to watch the Ruts play?
Well the years go by, and the choices come
We fall by the wayside one by one

Thanks to Joerg and D.M.R. for suggesting some additions and corrections to the lyrics before the official version came out.
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(Cologne, Bizarre Festival, 17/08/96) - Bizarre Festival 1996 - Video (97)
Wonderful Way to Go - Maxi CD (Special Edition UK) (2/98)
Wonderful Way to Go - Maxi CD (Special Edition Ger) (2/98)
(Leeds Town and Country Club, 19/12/94) - Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
(Cologne, Bizarre Festival, 17/08/96) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)

Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals

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Falling

(Sullivan)

I said - Father, I'm going to change the world
He said - Don't you think that maybe, son, it's changed enough already?
Don't try to justify the things you live by
This fear you carry with you is not of your own making
Let it go - falling, falling, falling away

11,000 feet, we're out of breath and still climbing up
High above the snow-line in the glittering ice
And beneath us, like an ocean, the white clouds slowly drifting
Breaking up on the mountains
Let it go - falling, falling, falling away

Wasting all the years just waiting on a promise
Undelivered but still not broken
And the world rushes by you way out of control
Llike a carousel of noise with wild spinning lights

And sometimes we both sit here
Paralysed with tension, seized up tight
You want to make it safe, you want to make it ok
But this fear you carry with you is not of your own making
Let it go - falling, falling, falling away

Ch
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Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)

Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour

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Family

(Sullivan/Heaton)

Joey puts her makeup on really well
She looks cool in the flashing lights
And all the boys gossip about the shape of her legs
On these muddled up and drunken nights
And if it's all got to end up between the sheets
Well she can coo like a virgin dove
But really she just doesn't want to be alone
And if you want you can call that love

M6 southbound roadside cafe on a wild wet and windy night
There's a kid in a sleeping bag huddled in a corner
Trying to beg a light
He's got mum and dad tattooed on his arm
From when he thought that that would make it alright
He's got hope and fear on his young boy's face
Another innocent taking flight, saying

Ch:
Give me some place that I can go
Where I don't have to justify myself
Swimming out alone against this tide
Looking for family looking for tribe

They said go, get out, we've got our own lives to lead
Now that water is thicker than blood
And every house is divided into single flats
With their very own little welcome rug
The shopping mall it is teeming with life
Fighting for the goodies on the shelf
But there's those funny old people on the escalators, talking to themselves, saying

Well I survive on my own for a while or so
Upon a whim or a bottle of wine
Just trying to make sense of these new surroundings
I only changed my name a couple of times
Please take me back Joey, I'm really sorry
Can we try to make a happy home
But she's gone with someone else and they're starting a family
Trying for a clan of their own, so

Ch
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Thunder and Consolation - CD (2/89)
Thunder and Consolation - LP (2/89)
(Remastered) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/2005)

(High Tour 07/08) - Fuck Texas, Sing for Us - CD (11/08)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - DVD (4/15)

(Demo) - Demos for Thunder and Consolation - Bootleg LP

Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour

18/12/87 - Red Sky Coven - Topic Club, Bradford
Mar.-Apr. 88 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
May 90 - Red Sky Coven - Grootebroek, Germany Tour
24/07/90 - Justin Sullivan and Joolz - Hackney Empire, London
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

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Family Life

(Sullivan)

How did they do this to you?
How did they do this to you?
Were you the weapon that they used
As they tore apart the family
Did they bring you here as they were passing through?
How did they do this to you?

And now you don't want to go home
And now you say that you never will go home
Take a tram across the city
Past the places where your brother died
Of the comfort for the girls who work alone
And I can't tell you that you're not alone

In the cities of the far north
The skies are cold and clear
The loneliness is aching
And after all this time
And after all these words
Your hands are still shaking

Why did they do this to you?
Why did they do this to you?
Were they cut off from their past?
Did they try to kill the future?
Do we all forget the things that we once knew?
Why did they do this to you?

In these far northern cities . . .

Who was it that did this to you?
Who was it that did this to you?
Well if I could have my way
I would line them up against a wall
Do unto them as they have done to you
Who was it that did this?
Who was it that did this to you?
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Thunder and Consolation - CD (2/89)
Thunder and Consolation - LP (2/89)
(Remastered) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/2005)

(Impurity Tour 90) - Space - 7" (5/91)
(London Town and Country Club, 21/ or 22/02/89) - Green and Grey - Maxi CD (5/89)
(London Town and Country Club, 21/ or 22/02/89) - Green and Grey - 12" (5/89)
(London Astoria, 16/12/03) - Live 161203 - DVD (5/04)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)

(Demo) - Demos for Thunder and Consolation - Bootleg LP

(Nottingham Rock City, 28/2/89) - Like a Storm - Bootleg CD

Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Sep. 88 - UK Tour
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
May-Jun 89 - USA, Canada Tour
Jun.-Jul. 89 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
(Nobody Else) - Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen

18/12/87 - Red Sky Coven - Topic Club, Bradford
Mar.-Apr. 88 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
04/09/93 - Justin Sullivan - Freilichtbuehne, Luebeck (Anti Fascism Festival)
Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Europe Tour
Jan. 99 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour

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Far Better Thing

(Sullivan)

Ch:
That the things we love may remain here still
There is time to wait
And there's a time to kill
I see your outstretched hand through the closing door
But it's a far better thing I do
Than I have done before

In the white washed cancer ward with my hot blood running wild
I see the pain behind your eyes and the search for a reason
And the knowing and the fear of the passing season
Now please give me strength to cut and to keep our secret
Please give me strange to cut

And so it seems that murder's not so hard - I've eaten flesh and blood each day
And if I believe the things I write through the passing season
Then with a rifle in my hand and with a thousand reasons
I'll wait, far above the crowd in the summer sunshine
And history changes now, forever

Ch

From the barren land come the seeds of war
So it's a far better thing that I do
Than I have done before
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History - The Singles 85-91 - CD (3/92)
History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus Bonus 12") (3/92)
The Best - CD (2001)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD (5/2005)

Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
(Nobody Else) - Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)

Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
May 90 - Red Sky Coven - Grootebroek, Germany Tour
Oct. 91 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Vienna Tour

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Fashion

(Morrow/Sullivan)

You'd better watch your credibility
You know they're out there waiting just to slag you down
You'd better learn the latest watchwords
And remember only wear whatever's going down
Believe what you read in the NME,
Let other people tell you what you want to be
See the world how they want you to see

Ch:
Fashion - you know you're two weeks out of date
The spoilt generation - watch them biting at the bate
Fashion - can't you see I've cut my hair
The spoilt generation - What I am is what I wear

You know we've got the education and we've got sophistication
And we know the scene
We've got interesting concepts
And it doesn't really matter to us what they mean
We've got the right opinions, know what to say
I'm gonna be a somebody, I practice everyday
Dealing with myself in the fashionable way

Fashion is a weapon just to do you right down
If you don't know the rules you'd better leave town
God and the Devil in redundancy
Is the world full of shit heads or is it just me?

Thanks to Chris Hinkley and Aran who originally suggested some additions and corrections to the lyrics. This version is from the NMA website.
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(Demo) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)

Bittersweet - 7" (Plus Flexi) (5/83)

(Demo) - This Is For the Fans Not the Militia - Bootleg LP
(Demo) - State of Mind - Bootleg CD

14/09/81- Funhouse Bar, Keighley
02/10/82 - Trades Club Hebden Bridges
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)

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Fate

(Sullivan)

I put my hands into the roaring flames
I felt the pain as it started to burn
I've done the same thing over again and again
As if I never ever wanted to learn
Moving through the world at obsession speed
Leave a dust trail crossing the land
I'm crying out in fury to the gods of fate
Come on, get me if you can

I'm a master at the art of how to kill
I've killed the things that I love the best
There's blood on the walls of my home
Patterned with the coward's kiss
And love it is the key that unlocks the door
But you never know what's waiting behind
Crying out in fury to the gods of fate
Come and get me if you can

I'm screaming in the wind, screaming in the rain
Screaming in the face of the storm
Howling out in the roaring surf
With the waves crashing down into foam
To feel something without a weakness
She batters me down into the sand
Crying out in fury to the gods of fate
Come on and get me if you can

Now I understand what they told me years ago
How the stakes get higher and higher the further that you go

Now it's a bad time to look for forgiveness
It's a bad time for searching for home
The Wall came down in a thousand pieces
Now everybody's building their own
Disillusioned little children of the Western world
Time hangs heavy in our hands
We cry out in our fury to the gods of fate
Come on and get us if you can
We're crying out in our pride to the gods of fate
Come on and get us if you can
I'm crying out to the gods who couldn't care less
Come and get me if you can
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The Love of Hopeless Causes - CD (4/93)
The Love of Hopeless Causes - LP (4/93)
The Best - CD (2001)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)

(Nobody Else) - New Model Army . . . & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Rennes Ubu, 09/06/93) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)

Red Sky Coven Volumes 1 & 2 - CD (1/99)

Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Jul. 92 - Europe Festivals
27/08/92 - Queens Hall, Bradford
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
(Nobody Else) - Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Jun.-Sep. 98 - Europe Festivals
(Justin Solo) - Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe 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
Jul. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Festivals
Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan - Kaue, Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour

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51st State

(Cartwright/NMA)

Look out of your windows, watch the skies
Read all the instructions with bright blue eyes
We're W.A.S.Ps, proud American sons
We know how to clean our teeth and how to strip down a gun
We're the 51st state of America

Our star-spangled Union Jack flutters so proud
Over the dancing heads of the merry patriotic crowd
Tip your hat to the Yankee conqueror
We've got no reds under the bed
With guns under our pillows
We're the 51st state of America

Here in the land of opportunity
Watch us revel in our liberty
You can say what you like
But it doesn't change anything
'Cos the corridors of power
Are an ocean away . . .
We're the 51st state of America
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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)
51st State - 12" (10/86)
51st State - 12" (Bootlegged Bootleg on B-Side) (10/86)
51st State - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (10/86)
51st State - 7" (10/86)
Videos 86-89 - Video (89)
Collection - LP (5/91)
History - The Singles 85-91 - CD (3/92)
History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus Bonus 12") (3/92)
History - The Videos 85-90 - Video (3/92)
The Best - CD (2001)
(Remastered) - Great Expectations - The Singles Collection - CD (10/03)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)
The Collection - CD (10/04)
1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)

(Nottingham Rock City, 20/04/87) - New Model Army - CD (7/87)
(Nottingham Rock City, 20/04/87) - New Model Army - LP (7/87)
(Bonn Biskuithalle, 25/10/88) - Stupid Questions - Maxi CD (1/89)
(Bonn Biskuithalle, 25/10/88) - Videos 86-89 (Bootlegged Bootleg) - Video (89)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD (12/93)
(Nottingham Rock City, 20/04/87) - All of This - The "Live" Rarities - CD (4/99)
(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)
(Remastered) - The Ghost of Cain - Double CD (5/05)
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)

(Demo, Sweden 85) - Limited Edition 4 Track EP - Bootleg 7"
(Demo, Sweden 85) - We Never Asked for Any of This - Bootleg LP (plus Limited Edition 4 Track EP)
(Telford Ice Rink, 13/09/86) - This Is For the Fans Not the Militia - Bootleg LP
(London Town and Country Club, 23.12.86) - Join the Army - Bootleg LP
(Bonn Biskuithalle, 25/10/88) - In This Together - Bootleg LP
(Nottingham Rock City, 28/02/89) - Like a Storm - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - 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
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - We Never Asked for Any of This - Bootleg LP
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - We Never Asked for Any of This - Bootleg LP (plus Limited Edition 4 Track EP)
(Hamburg Logo, 23/03/91) - Raw Melody Men - Bootleg LP
(Norwich Waterfront, 31/05/91) - New Model Army - Bootleg CD

Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Feb.-Mar. 86 - UK Mini Tour
05/04/86 - Breekend Festival, Bree (Belgium)
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
13/09/86 - Ice Rink, Telford
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
06/06/87 - Reichstag, Berlin
Aug. 87 - USA Tour
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Jul. 88 - Northern Europe Festivals
Sep. 88 - UK Tour
25/10/88 - Biskuithalle, Bonn (WDR Rocknacht)
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
May-Jun 89 - USA, Canada Tour
Jun.-Jul. 89 - Europe Festivals
16/04/90 - Philipshalle, Duesseldorf (WDR Rocknacht)
Jun. 90 - UK Tour, Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
(Medley with Rockin' in the Free World) - Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK Tour
Jun. 91 - Germany Festivals
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada 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
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
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour

25/01/85 - Justin Sullivan - Apples and Snakes, London
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK Mini Tour
Mar.-Apr. 88 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
May 90 - Red Sky Coven - Grootebroek, Germany Tour
Oct. 91 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Vienna Tour

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Fireworks Night

(Sullivan/Dean)

All the mistakes that I have made
All the things I should have seen but I looked away
All the things we should have shared that we kept to ourselves
All the things that we shared we should have kept to ourselves

And I guess it's the modern way - the phone call that comes
flying out of a blue autumn day and suddenly everything
goes so and quiet and soon everyone seems to be alone
with their own thoughts. And now it's as if I'm standing
beneath a torrent of falling water, feeling things I don't
want to feel, remembering things I don't want to remember
But we said what we said and we made what we made

And so I say the things I have learned to say
Thankful for words that can be used
We were both like waves not able to break
Rolling and turning and turning and rolling
But still not able to break

And I'm numb, I'm numb like when you've been driving
so fast for so long that it feels as if you're hardly
moving at all, my body rigid with tension, my sould all
wound up like a twisted tree, the way we used to be when
we sang of passion and justice and faith was easy and
celebrated in a ritual of curling smoke, arms all raised up
towards the lights...

And we said what we said but we made what we made

And so by now you'll be further on than I ever went; and is
it still painless? Do you get to float and look down and do
all of that? Tonight would be as good a night as any...
you'll see the city alive like a great resting animal
lying in the lea of the hills and the moorland and
breathing little patterns of fire out into the cold dark
coming of winter. And I'm warming my back against
the heat of a bonfire - like the ones you so loved to build
and I'm thinking about it all - and I'm sorry and Im not sorry.

Our time was made up of confused emotions and little
whirlwinds and all that stuff we coulnd't really talk about
but most of all it was sealed in sacred moments like these
And then it was gone...
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Carnival - CD (9/05)

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Flying Through the Smoke

(Sullivan/Heaton)

Red dots - close my eyes - tunnel vision
the cooling towers like Cathedrals
Pitch black dark, brighter than the sun
Less than zero, more than infinity
Forever the graphics curling on the screen
Forever the numbers counting on and on
Flying through the smoke, flying through the smoke

See the body of people move across the floor
Dancing turning wheeling in the spinning lights
I remember the music and the noise so loud
All I could see was you moving your mouth
Tell me what was it you were trying to say
Tell me what was it you were trying to say
And all the time everything was moving away
like a slo-mo shot as the camera pulls across the crowd
across the faces caught in the last few seconds of life
And you - like a ghost at the feast
your eyes so small and dark and dead - you were uninvited
And me - trying to remember how nobody saw you
sitting next to me on the bus as it turned into Mainstreet
and the bomb in the bag at your feet
What was it you were trying to say
Tell me what was it you were trying to say
Flying through the smoke in a deafening roar
Screaming in the panic as the whirlwind hits
Tell me what was it you were trying to say
Too late to listen now
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Eight - CD (1/00)
(Justin Sullivan/Michael Dean Remix) Anthology - Double CD (02/11)

(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)

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Forgiven

Instrumental
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(Instrumental demo) - The Curse - Bootleg CDR (2009?)

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Freedom '91

(Sullivan)

It's time to rebuild in Dresden, the great machines come a-rumbling in
The desecration of the ruins and everything that might have been
You showed me the square in the melting snow
As the light was beginning to fade
But your melancholy eyes betrayed you
Just as you have been betrayed

I get culture shock coming back to the west - I can feel the wicked sting
I see the stores all glittering like idiot's gold - beckoning the innocents in
The constructed face of a civilised world, complete cosmetic control
But it's not far back to the caves and the trees
And soon it will be time to go

Ch:
Freedom? I don't hear any more songs of freedom
No more songs of freedom.

121st street and rising the western dream aspires
The crack kings like to drive German cars and there's children up for sale
The streets are left scorched and barren
There's eighty-seven channels satellite television
And gang murder hype from Tinseltown to sell a movie about Malcolm X

Ch:
But freedom?. . .

So pinned down and what do we get?
A longer piece of rope for our cute little necks
Sweet liberty and her faithlessness
Faithlessness

Ch
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Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)

Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Europe Tour
Jan.-Feb. 94 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Amsterdam Tour
Jul. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Festivals
Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour

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Frightened

(Sullivan/Morrow)

It's all out on the streets today
But you, you've found a place to hide
Too busy with the ratrace
You pass by on the other side
Your's is the face of the brand new Britain
With blinkers on your eyes
Find yourself position
And cling on for dear life
You're so frightened
Everybody's so frightened

The papers tell of rape and murder
Everything that you want to hear
Bad tidings on the radio
You find a way to name your fear
So you never pick up hitchhikers
Never talk to strangers
Believe the world outside your
Bolted door is evil
You're so frightened
Everybody's so frightened.

You are just a victim of your own bad dreams
While people are the same as we've always been
But through the blindness in your eyes
For just one minute I see them shine
- Love me . . won't you love me
and they all turn away

You never fight for anything
You always turn your face away
And you never get involved in trouble
Let all evil have it's way
So as the girl screams in the street below
You turn up the television
Perhaps you'll see it on the news
Well it's nothing to do with you
You're too frightened
Everybody's so frightened
Why is everybody so frightened
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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)

(London Town and Country Club, 23/12/86) - Join the Army - Bootleg LP

Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)

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