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(Sullivan/Heaton)
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 smiles never touching their eyes
We've been here before on the edge of a promise
Surrender is all that remains
But we'll see them in hell
We'll see them in hell
We'll see them in hell
We'll see them in hell before then
You made me a coward
I can't stand what I've become
What I most of all regret is not what I did
But all the things that I left undone
Like nobody learns, and nothing is changed
You ask me to follow again
But I'll see you in hell
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
(Beauvais Theatre de Beauvais, 09/06/96 ?) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
Red Sky Coven Volumes 1 & 2 - CD (1/99)
21/04/96 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
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(Sullivan)
Waiting in the setting sun at the end of the road
The armies have moved away like the fading gold
I stand sentry by the rusting gate but no one comes
Nothing moves this way in the valley of stone
The evening shadows steal across the hills
And only the seasons change, only the seasons change
And I've seen so much more than I wanted to see
The flies all swarming round in the blistering heat
Layer upon layer here of the same old curse
The red blood draining down into the blood red earth
In the end we all tell these stories just the same
And only the names are changed, only the names are changed
The empires rising, falling like the seas
Their voices are just the whispers in the trees
I lock the chain upon the gate for the end of the day
I clean the gun that I'll never use and lay it away
As the stars spread like splinters of the sun
And only the seasons change, only the seasons change
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Navigating by the Stars - CD
(2/03)
(Europe, UK tour Jan. 04) - Red Sky Coven Volume 5 - CD (1/09)
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(Sullivan/Dean)
There are lines of hills around us
I'm back in my father's land
Billowing clouds and the lazy old wind blows
Bringing the turning and all of the change
Seven times sun, seven times
rain
It's been too long since I walked with you
Through the woods and the city streets
When I feel you running through my veins
I have no fear of what is to come
Seven times rain, seven times sun
We are what the gods have made us
We can go consenting through the world
We can watch our children growing away
Into the people that they'll become
Seven times rain, seven times sun
I have a friend on the other side
We smile across the wire
But we never could decide on
Who was to be Abel and who was Cain
Seven times sun, seven times rain
And I'm OK up here flying
I just don't know where to land
It took me nearly a lifetime to understand
The world has no anchor and no chains
Just seven times sun, seven times rain
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Between Dog and Wolf - CD (9/13)
Between Dog and Wolf - Double LP (9/13)
(Between Dog and Wolf Tour 13) -
Between Wine and Blood - Double CD (9/14)
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(Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton)
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 sleeplessness
It's a hunger that we can fill
Racing, racing
And every nerve tingles with it
I want you, I want you
You know the way that I can make you feel
Of all the faces in the crowd, there's only you
Pull down your hair a little
Open up your mouth a little
You're beautiful, you're the best
This feeling that you know oh so well
Your oldest friend from the fires, the fires of hell
And I want you now
Driving down
Driving down
Into the fires
Every stretch and move is like a dream
Eating, biting, scratching
And all there is, is these racing pulses
And the breathing
Forget all the lies that they gave to you
Believe in this 'cos how could this feeling not be true
Driving down
Driving down
And I want you now . . . now . . .
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Remastered) - Vengeance - The Whole Story
1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(Lyon Salle Moliere, 10/10/85 ?) - Brave New World - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (11/85)
(Rotterdam, 22/9/84) - This Is
For the Fans Not the Militia - Bootleg LP
(Rotterdam, 22/9/84) - State of Mind - Bootleg CD
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
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(Ramones)
Well the kids are all
hopped up and ready to go
They're ready to go now they got their surfboards
And they're going to the discotheque Au Go Go
But she just couldn't stay she had to break away
Well New York City really has is all oh yeah, oh yeah
Ch:
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now
Well she's a punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk a punk rocker
Punk punk a punk rocker
Punk punk a punk rocker
Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go . . .
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Apr. 01 - UK, Benelux Mini Tour
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
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 kid what's right, what's wrong
Well they make out like they're so surprised
But it's easy when you're civilised
Count to ten, close your eyes
The way it's always been . . Shot 18
I think I was a bit surprised
I never knew I was so anaesthetised
And triggers pull so lightly
And people die so easy - I never realized
Well I believe in common laws
I believe in even scores
I understand the rules of war
The way the slate is cleaned .
. Shot 18
Who wants another Christian martyr
Who wants someone else's pain
Who wants the world on their shoulder
Who wants to have to cry in vain
Who wants to have an open sore
Eating away deep inside you
Who wants to torture themselves
When there's plenty eager to do it for you
Well years might heal all the scars
But I don't know if you feel like you have that time
And if I was the man that killed your father
And if I said I'm sorry would that change your mind
Well noone should be so surprised
That words don't pay for victims' lives
It's teeth for teeth, eyes for eyes
The way it's always been . . Shot 18
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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)
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK Mini Tour
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(Freed/Brown)
I'm singin' in the rain
Just singin' in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again.
I'm laughing at clouds.
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love.
Let the stromy clouds chase.
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just singin'
Singin' in the rain
Dancin' in the rain . . .
I'm happy again . . .
I'm singin' and dancin' in the rain . . .
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Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and
Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
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(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
Between the chords of a song years ago
You saw a crack of light or was it a cause to follow?
You've been chasing ever since around these streets
For just the promise of a promise and nothing more to keep
You drove us like a crazy man through those narrow cobbled streets
You said 'there's nothing to fear' and we all smiled
Round and round in that little car while the city lay asleep
The city lay asleep
With sky in your eyes, sky in your eyes
The next day we went up to a ruined temple
high on a cliff above the opal sea
And watched as the angry storms chased around the bay
and suddenly the wind rose up and the thunder cracked
and you looked like you were home with your
weather-beaten face fixed in some kind of ecstasy
When the lightning hit the road just a few yards away
We all jumped up and shouted out but you never moved
Just stared ahead like you'd seen a ghost
So who was the ghost?
One part left behind, one part already gone
And one part standing here with sky in your eyes
With the sky in your eyes, with the sky in your eyes
If they won't make you captain then you sail your own
ship
With your own colours tied to the mast
Setting sail for the far side of anywhere
Beyond and behind your thousand
yard stare
With the sky in your eyes, with the sky in your eyes
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High - CD (8/07)
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(Heaton)
Instrumental
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Living in the Rose (The Ballads EP) - Maxi CD (6/93)
Living in the Rose (The Ballads EP) - 12" (6/93)
B-Sides and Abandoned Tracks - CD (9/94)
(Instrumental demo; Working title "Banished") - The Curse - Bootleg CDR (2009?)
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(Sullivan/Morrow)
Turn left at the lights about 50 yards down
There's a pub in the corner and I'll meet you inside
At quarter to eight and we'll go into town
And find out what everybody's been saying
About us
Smalltown walls have eyes and ears
Stories fly thick and fast round here
Truth and lies are all the same
Whatever you do don't rock the boat
You've got to play the game, play the game
Ch:
Is it a crime to want something else
Is it a crime to believe in something different
Is it a crime to want to make things happen
To spit in the faces of the cynical fools
The incrowd
know that the shell is thin
They all protect the cage they're in
Get drunk and stoned and wrecked again
No tears of rage, no cries of pain
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
In smalltown England
The world outside the pint in hand
Is all so hard to understand
And if visions of the world come clear
They're not allowed to interfere
Ch
The smell of hot food from the takeaway curry
Diesel fumes from a passing lorry
Waiting in the queue in the pouring rain
For the chip shop up on Bowling
Lane
Well last week we all got really smashed
We couldn't stand up, it was a real laugh
And this week's going to be just the same
And the next and the next, again and again
They say you've got to have fun while you're young
'Cos they can't believe there's anything else except this
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
(The John Peel Session) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - CD (6/88)
(The John Peel Session) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - LP (6/88)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
(The John Peel Session) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD
(6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(The John Peel Session) - Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)
(Remastered) - Vengeance - The Whole Story
1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(The John Peel Session) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(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)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/05)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90 ?) - The Collection - CD (10/04)
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Bradford St. George's Hall,
10/06/85) - 1980-2010 - Triple
DVD (2/11)
(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)
(Norwich Waterfront, 31/05/91) - New Model Army -
Bootleg CD
30/04/83 - Pavilion, North Ormesby
20/01/84 - The Tube (TV Channel 4)
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
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
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
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)
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)
(Reggae Version) Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
18/12/87 - Red Sky Coven - Topic Club, Bradford
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(Sullivan)
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 reaching round for my clothes
That we believe, so must call, rise
The convoys roll into the coming daylight
Let it not be said that everything must die
without some mark being made of its passing
Ch:
As if all the world should now hold its breath
These are the days that we'll recall
when the masks are off the faces
and there's something to fight for
All the lines drawn down in the Soul
You can let your anger burn crazy
There's talking-drums echoed down towards the Kennet Canal
and wood-smoke sweet on the air
And the Yellow Jackets stand
with the Thick Blue Line
backs to the woods in the fresh thin carpet of snow
Snelsmore Wood, The Chase,
Enbourne Road
Reddings Copse, Tothill down through Andover Grove
Let it not be said that everything must die
without some mark being made of its passing
Ch
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Eight - CD (1/00)
(Nobody Else) - New Model Army . .
. & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City
23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD
(10/04)
(Europe, UK tour Jan. 04) - Red Sky Coven Volume 5 - CD (1/09)
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
(Nobody Else) - Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan - Kaue,
Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
Jan. 99 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
Mar. 99 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
30/09/99 - Justin Sullivan - Markthalle, Hamburg (Move for Mumia)
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(Sullivan)
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 what he would have wanted all along
and I drove into the night looking for something to burn
Oh how I love these little parables that I never cared to learn
And I don't know what this feeling is but it's just dripping through me
There's always something in the corner of my life that I cannot quite
see
And I'm not sleeping well, all my dreams are so real
I dreamed I set fire to my house, watched the great beams come crashing
down
And later on I was standing in the ashes of the stairs
They asked me what happened, it was an accident I said
And I don't know what all this means and I don't care, it's nothing to
me
But there was something in the corner of that dream that I could not
quite see
And there's a happy family snapshot when you were
very small
But there were visits to the doctor, you can't remember what for
The curtains drawn in silence on a summer's afternoon
And the flies buzzing in the room
And you don't know what this feeling is and you can't explain it to me
But there was something in that family photo that you cannot quite see
And I don't know what all this means but it's just dripping through me
There's always something in the corner of our lives that we cannot
quite see
Thanks to Beetlenuts for
sending me the lyrics before the official version came out.
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Eight - CD (1/00)
Anthology - Double CD (2/11)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between
Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between
Wine and Blood Live - DVD (4/15)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the Road - CD (3/04)
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(NMA/Joolz; words by Percy Bysshe Shelley; feat. Joolz)
Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
Wherefore weave with toil and care
The rich robes your tyrants wear?
Wherefore feed, and clothe, and save,
From the cradle to the grave,
Those ungrateful drones who could
Drain your sweat - nay, drink your blood?
Wherefore, Bees of England, forge
Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
That these stingless drones may spoil
The forced produce of your toil?
Have ye leisure, comfort, calm,
Shelter, food, love's gentle balm?
Or what is it ye buy so dear
With your pain and with your fear?
The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge, another bears.
Sow seed, - but let no tyrant reap;
Find wealth ,- let no impostor heap;
Weave robes, - let not the idle wear;
Forge arms, - in your defence to bear.
Shrink to your cellars, holes, and cells,
In halls ye deck another dwells.
Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see
The steel ye tempered glance on ye.
With plough and spade, and hoe and loom,
Trace your grave, and build your tomb,
And weave your winding-sheet, till fair
England be your sepulchre.
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The Disagreement of the People - Sampler CD (95)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
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(Sullivan)
Inside, all the secrets are held inside
Where the hot black river runs
When I gaze upon your face
And love and the hand in the burning flame
A debt of the blood to pay
To betray or not betray
Ch:
Turn, turn, the dance goes on
Silver the secret moon
Sooner or later one of us will break
And say what we must not say
Eyes, a room full of watching eyes
In the second before we smile
Always I see your smile
Ch
Into the streets when the clock strikes three
Closing our eyes for the kiss on the cheek
Walking away, not glancing behind
To say what we must not say
Say what we must not say
Ch
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Twilight Home - Maxi CD (1/03)
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
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 breaking waves,
I'd crown your innocence with the golden sun,
I'd drown your violence in a sea of blood . . .
South-West bound on the winding A-roads - days of scorched brown
rolling hills
and ripened fields, down to where the sun glistens on the sea beneath Pentire.
Diamond light, evenings becoming cool and fresh as the seasons change.
I can't
wait to see you again - feels like something good is going to happen,
as if reborn
in the last days of summer, burned to the core and then somehow, made
young
once more - as if you were going to be the one crowned Harvest Queen.
All the black will fade away in glory days, and Indian summer;
you and I, sun and moon, different paths, always together;
all the black will fade away in the sharpened days that will soon be
coming.
All love and change is one, all love and change forever . . .
And I can feel it falling away,
and I can feel it falling away from you . . .
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Wonderful Way to Go - Maxi CD (2/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
Anthology - Double CD (2/11)
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(Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson)
Well 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 close your tired eyes
Try to climb away from here
Towards the empty skies
And I'll meet you there
High above it all
In the kiss of air, the lover's breath
Visions rise from each little death
As Moses
stands and turns his gaze
Away from the feuding tribes
Walks towards the mountains
And through the rocks he climbs
God he orders Moses
Bring the people to my will
'Leave me be' cries Moses
Keeps on walking up the hill
And I'll meet you there
High above it all
In the kiss of air, the lover's breath
Visions rise from each little death
And should the Devil come
And should he say -
'All of this will I give to you, if you
Just bow down and worship me'
I'm on my knees . .
"The white twisted clouds and the endless shades
of blue in the ocean
make the hum of the spacecraft systems, the radio chatter, even your
own breathing disappear.
There is no cold or wind or smell to tell you that you are connected to
Earth.
You have an almost dispassionate platform - remote, Olympian and yet so
moving
that you can hardly believe how emotionally attached you are
to those rough patterns shifting steadily below"
(quotation from Thomas Stafford, astronaut)
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Impurity - CD (9/90)
Impurity - LP (9/90)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD (5/05)
The Collection - CD (10/04)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) -
Space - Maxi CD (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Space - 12" (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Space - 10" (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Space - 7" (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men - CD (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men - Double LP (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - History - The Singles 85-91 - CD (3/92)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus
Bonus 12") (3/92)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - The
Best - CD (2001)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD
(5/05)
(Cologne Palladium, 16/12/06) -
1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(9/94) - Big Guitars in Little Europe - CD (3/95)
(Norwich Waterfront, 31/5/91) - New Model Army - Bootleg CD
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK,
Europe)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK Tour
Jun. 91 - Germany Festivals
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada Tour
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
(Acoustic) - 25/07/98 - WOM Record Store, Karlsruhe
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and
Dave Blomberg - Europe Tour
Jul. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Festivals
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(Michael Considine/Traditional)
Last night as I lay dreaming of
pleasant days gone by
My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly
I stepped on board a vision and I followed with the wind
And I shortly came to anchor at the cross of Spancil Hill
It being the 23rd
June the day before the fair
When Ireland's sons and daughters in crowds assembled there
The young and the old, the brave and the bold their journey to fulfill
There were jovial conversations at the fair of Spancil Hill
I went to see my neighbors to hear
what they might say
The old ones were all dead and gone and the young one's turning grey
I met with the tailor Quigley, he's as bould as ever still
Sure he used to make my britches when I lived in Spancil Hill
I paid a flying visit to my first
and only love
She's as white as any lily and as gentle as a dove
She threw her arms around me saying "Johnny I love you still"
Oh she's Ned the farmers daughter and the flower of Spancil Hill
I dreamt I held and kissed her as
in the days of yore
She said, "Johnny you're only joking like many's the time before"
The cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud and shrill
And I awoke in California, many miles from Spancil Hill
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Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
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(Sullivan/Morrow)
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
And they'd kill if they only had something to kill for
They'd die if they only had something to die for
They'd cheer if they only had something to cheer for
We can give them that
So it's off to war we go (I couldn't believe it)
Bring out all the flags (I never believed it)
Fight the good fight
Sir, it's working like a dream
Half the nation are hooked on the bait
Waiting for the next victorious installment
We can give them that
'Cos it's no surprise that young men are heroes
It's no surprise that young men are strong
It's no surprise that young men are foolish
We've known that all along
Exciting pictures on News at Ten
(I couldn't believe it)
Read all the crap on all the front pages (I never believed it)
Fight the good fight
Ch:
Dead men in the South Atlantic
It's meant to warm our hearts
They think that they died for you and me
Oh God, what a farce, what a farce
And now it's the repeats
Plugging the Falklands and the Falklands' spirit
Show the pictures again and again
Till the next war comes around
'Cos we'll kill if we only have something to kill for
We'll die if we only have something to die for
We'll cheer if we only have something to cheer for
That is worthy of the name
Oh yes the next war (I never believed it)
See the propaganda in TV fiction (I never believed it)
Enemies with horns and tails
Ch:
Dead men in the South Atlantic
It's meant to warm our hearts
To think they died for you and me
Oh God, what a farce
There's crippled men back home in England
Doesn't it warm your hearts
They think they fought for peace and freedom
Poor boys, what a farce, what a farce
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
(The John Peel Session) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - CD (6/88)
(The John Peel Session) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - LP (6/88)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
(The John Peel Session) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD
(6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(The John Peel Session) - Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Remastered) - Vengeance - The Whole Story
1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(The John Peel Session) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(Hamburg Logo, 23/03/91) - Raw Melody Men - Bootleg LP
30/04/83 - Pavilion, North Ormesby
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
05/04/84 - Justin Sullivan - Captain's Cabin, London
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(Ben E. King)
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
I won't be afraid
No, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me
Ch:
So darling, darling
Stand by me
Whenever you in trouble
Won't you stand by me
If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
Or the mountains should crumble in the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry,
No, I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me
Ch
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Oct. 91 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Vienna Tour
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
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(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
88.2 is your Saviour station
God hangs like a shadow high above the nation
Like a phantom hurricane
91.6 is Classic Soul
Obama flyer still hanging by the
side of the road
Like a long last prayer
And the pawn shops glisten like the porn girl stars
And the cheap imitation armoured cars
Roll up and down past empty bars
Showing re-runs of the glory years
But now the Champion of All Time is getting battered and bruised
The blows come raining down
He's standing there terrified to lose
But he's punch-drunk and he's going down
94.7 is the Weather Channel
Floods and droughts and plagues
straight out of the Bible
And the scientists shake their heads
And the air-con unit rattles and dies
The golf course green but the wells are dry
All looking to heaven with anxious eyes
As the vapour trails drift across cloudless skies
96.4 is Classic Rock
Some of the kids that were sent
are not coming back
It's like a ritual sacrifice
Pressed uniforms and body-bags
And the smalltown church all decked with flags
And the waiting beds unslept in
By the ghosts all up in Arlington
And as the leaves blow on an autumn day
The funeral gathering kneels to pray
Make it OK, make it OK, God, please, make it OK
101-point-nothing is the shock jocks
Where every week is Hate Week
And we can scream and rage about everything
Then get back in the box that they keep us in
As the great land stretches on
Where the endless hopes are born
All caught in a false dawn that lasts forever
And the great land stretches on
Where the endless dreams are born
All caught in a false dawn that lasts forever
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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/Heaton)
Hey there Matthew
Hopkins, are you listening to us - we're still here
Bloodstone, Tiger Eye, what the hell - we're
still here
The dreaming Earth moving in your sleep - it's all real
And everything you tried to keep so secret will one day be revealed
There's grit in the oysters there's wind in the trees
There's a full moon rising and salt in the seas
And we're outside of the line
Still running - outside of the line
Heinrich Kramer,
Jacob Sprenger - we're still here
Can you hear us Torquemada -
we're still here
The rolling of thunder, there's holes in the sky
We'll meet you again on the opposite side
Outside of the line
Still running - outside of the line
The scent of datura, the beat of the drum
Seven by seven, all the ravens
have flown
The crack of the lightning, there's holes in the sky
We'll meet you again on the opposite side and we're
Outside of the line
By the earth and the fire and the water and air
By the blood pouring in my veins I swear
Outside of the line
Still running - outside of the line
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Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
(Beauvais Theatre de Beauvais, 09/06/96 ?) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
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Stoned, Fired and Full of Grace
(Sullivan)
Now the changes come on quicker than the speed of
thought
Our will be done
We stare in wonder at the palaces of glass and steel
Waiting for the rains to come
Ch:
But I'm stoned, fired and full of grace
Everything will be forgiven
The further on we go
Stoned, fired and full of grace
Here in the breath of heaven
Left for dead on the side of the road
Across these wasted
lands I've dug for silver and gold
But no trace was ever found
I'd always thought that there was something different on the other side
Before the wall came down
Ch
The earth and wine and blood are drying now
After the burning of the day
We were singing songs about death and love and love and death
And what else is there anyway
Ch
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Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD
(10/04)
(Europe, UK tour Jan. 04) - Red Sky
Coven Volume 5 - CD (1/09)
Apr. 01 - UK, Europe Tour
Nov. 01 - Jes'n'Dean - UK, Europe
Tour
Mar.-Jun. 02 - Justin Sullivan & Friends - UK, Europe Tour
Mar.-May 03 - Justin Sullivan &
Friends - UK, Europe Tour
Many thanks to Monty for help with the lyrics!
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(Sullivan/Dean)
Well, my bags are packed, I'm ready to go
Whichever way the world is tilting
Because I won't get back the part of my soul
I sold to the devil for a coffee
for the road
I never wanted to get anywhere
I never wanted to get anything
Desire is the point of everything
Ch:
There's a line of shadow on the far horizon
It could be stormclouds and it could be mountains
All my life I've been gazing to the far horizon
It could be stormclouds and it could be mountains
I have never been a wise man – living too fast and
recklessly
Too quick to judge, too quick to act and forgive and forget
And always gone before the reckoning
I grew up listening to the distant hum
Of the traffic on the Great Western
Road
Wishing I was gone
Screaming out to the wind – bring it on, bring it on
Ch:
There's a line of shadow on the far horizon
It could be stormclouds and it could be mountains
All my life I've been gazing to the far horizon
It could be stormclouds and it could be mountains
Breaking open . . .
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Between Dog and Wolf - CD (9/13)
Between Dog and Wolf - Double LP (9/13)
(Between Dog and Wolf Tour 13) -
Between Wine and Blood - Double CD (9/14)
(Between Dog and Wolf Tour 13)
- 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)
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 the little truths denied, all the little deaths we died
I always thought that it was worth something
All the little rays of hope, always coming back when we needed them most
I always thought that it was worth something
Once we went back to the house we were born in
The glass was smashed and there were boards on the doors
and it seemed so right that the past was all laid to waste
and our trail covered up and lost
All the little truths denied, all the little deaths we died
I always thought that it was worth something
And all the battles leave their scars
and the gods of Fate still
laughing at us
I always thought that it was worth what it cost
Let everyone else decide who's right - I don't care
any more tonight
I only know that it is worth something
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Eight - CD (1/00)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the Road - CD (3/04)
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
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(Sullivan/Dean)
Am I ever going to wake?
I'm still there on the switchback roads -
Up and up in the still of the afternoon -
Past trees and rocks and on up into the clouds,
Swirling, drifting, hiding everything
Like the lies - like the lies I told you.
And in the village square,
Gathered before the feast, all eyes to the South
And suddenly the mist drew back and there it was
Strogoula – King of Mountains,
Like the truth, immovable and all laid bare,
I turned around and saw you,
You were falling, falling, faster falling
Tumbling rivers, broken bridges down through canyons
Falling falling, rushing water falling
You can't choose who you love
No, no, no you can't choose who you love
But you should never be there silently denying your own heart
As you listen and the cock crows, once, twice, three times
As the day breaks
So am I ever going to wake?
From the smiling faces around the screaming child
Who must be taught well and soon
That love is hard and cruel
And you only respect the things that you can't break -
For protection comes at a price that you must pay
And pay and pay
And you can't choose who you love,
No explanation or reason can ever be enough
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Winter - CD (8/16)
Winter - Double LP (8/16)
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(Sullivan)
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 seen your vicious eyes
And I think we know the truth
Both you and I
Don't flutter your lashes like a little girl
And ask me why it's such a cruel cruel world, no
Ch:
Don't ask any more stupid questions
You already know the answers to
Well you can kill with the best of them
But your smile remains so sweet
When someone comes to eat me alive
Well I like to see their teeth
If you really want I can name the names
Be an angel of death at the children's games, so
Ch:
Don't ask any more stupid questions
You already know the answers to
Well I know that you do
There comes a time in your life
You've got to grow up fast
And I think that your time
Is coming now here at last
It's not a crime to be innocent
These things we have not done
But you cannot run forever
Spring is past and gone
Waiting in line at the fortune teller
Waiting to hear some more pretty lies, he says
Ch:
Don't ask any more stupid questions
You already know the answers to
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Stupid Questions - Maxi CD (1/89)
Stupid Questions - 12" (1/89)
(Stupid Mix) - Stupid Questions - 12" (1/89)
Stupid Questions - 7" (1/89)
Thunder and Consolation - CD (2/89)
Thunder and Consolation - LP (2/89)
(Remastered) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/05)
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)
(Impurity Tour 90. Reggae
Version) - Space - 12" (5/91)
(Impurity Tour 90) - Space - 10" (5/91)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD
(12/93)
(Cologne, Bizarre Festival, 17/08/96) - Bizarre
Festival 1996 - Video (97)
(Munich Babylon, 03/05/98) - New Model Army . . .
& Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City
23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(London Astoria, 16/12/03) - Live
161203 - DVD + CD (5/04)
(Cologne, Bizarre Festival, 17/08/96) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Demo) - Demos for Thunder and Consolation - Bootleg LP
(Bonn Biskuithalle, 25/10/88) - In
This Together - Bootleg LP
(Nottingham Rock City, 28/02/89) - Like a Storm -
Bootleg CD
(Nottingham Rock City, 28/02/89) - Sadistic Pleasures - Bootleg 7"
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - Heroes of
a Ghost Town - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - European Tour '90 - Bootleg CD
(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. 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
(Reggae Version; Medley with Betcha) -
Jun. 90 - UK Tour/Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
19/01/91 - Wembley Arena, London
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK Tour
Jun. 91 - Germany Festivals
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada Tour
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)
Jul.-Aug. 93 - Europe Festivals
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
Jun.-Jul.95 - Europe Festivals
21/04/96 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals
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
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
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(Lovin' Spoonful)
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin' dirt-'n'-gritty
Bend down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around people lookin' half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match-head
Ch:
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Just bide the heat, it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the nights
In the summer in the city, in the summer in the city
Cool town, evening in the city
Dressed so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
'Til I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Runnin' upstairs, gonna meet you on the roof top
Ch
Hot town, summer in the city...
Ch
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Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe/UK Tour
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
Nov. 99 - UK/Europe Tour
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(Sullivan)
You used to say that this town was built in a wrong
place
I could always feel something was strange – such a strong taste
You were so much in love with her that it drew you away
To chasing shadows out across the moors on an August day
So follow them down past the church where she lies
Pennistone Fell and the path
to the skies
Ch:
They only said that you'd gone again
Maybe this time not coming back
Just another setting sun
Lost to the world, lost to the world
You were always trying to understand where the heart
goes
With the ghosts rushing through the grass as the wind blows
You were so much in love with her that it drew you away
For what is real and what is make-believe – well, who is to say?
So follow her down past the stone where she lies
Pennistone Fell and the path to the skies
Ch
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Between Dog and Wolf - CD (9/13)
Between Dog and Wolf - Double LP (9/13)
(London The Forum, 23/11/13 -
Between Dog and Wolf Tour 13) - Between Wine and Blood - Double CD
(9/14)
(London The Forum, 23/11/13 -
Between Dog and Wolf Tour 13) - Between Wine and Blood - Double LP
(9/14)
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(Sullivan)
All through the night we were battered by storms in
the darkness
But at dawn the wind dropped away and we sighted the land
Suddenly there, a break in the cloud, like the coming of God in the
world
In diamonds of sun on the water
Diamonds of sun on the water
Somewhere beneath the noise of our lives there is
stillness
In points of light from the fireflies to the stars
Where arm in arm, come Abel and Cain,
walking down to the sea
To gaze at the sun on the water
Just to gaze at the sun on the water
Once all our paths led us onwards
Now they are guiding us home
From the courts of the kings, we are returning
One by one
Now from desks in the cities with faraway eyes
All staring out over the roofs
We're dreaming of sun on the water
Dreaming of sun on the water
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Navigating by the Stars - CD
(2/03)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
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(Sullivan)
We sang aloud into empty space - get ready 'cause here we come
Passing trucks lighting up your face - get ready 'cause here we come
Through a night of a billion stars and black coffee and the past
receeding
And now the road snakes through the fields of mist and the dawn is
slowly breaking
Sunrise - will you remember the golden fire?
Everybody has a favourite road - National 7 into the great wide
open
It joins up all the points in time, the great loves and the lost and
the broken
We watched the fireworks bloom across the sky high above the crowds all
cheering
We lay awake until the town grew quiet just holding breath and waiting
for
Sunrise - will you remember, breaking East
of Eden?
Sometimes the world works out the way you want it
Sometimes you say the things that you meant to say
Sometimes the moments break clear and certain
Sometimes the things you fear just roll away
So back here with my favourite song - get ready
'cause here we come
Straight ahead into the beautiful dawn - get ready 'cause here it comes
Sunrise - will you remember 'cause I will, will
Sunrise - it was all real, you know it was real
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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)
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 that
Down into the city I smell artificial green
A glasshouse full of growing things
That are not what they seem to be
Look away, look away, the
procession's leaving town
The emperor rides naked and
no-one gives a damn
That was the last time
I get a morbid satisfaction watching sunset in all its degradation
We were in a restaurant for wannabes clinking glasses in celebration
We had to leave before something bad occurred
And Niko grabbed the keyes
We drove out in the early morning with the radio jammed on R'n'B
Drive away, drive away, and he turned to me and smiled
Said, how does it feel to be living through the Fall of Rome
And I said it's beginning to feel OK
The last time
Well I gave you all my money
I'm ashamed to remember now just why I did that
I got bitter, I got jealous, but not as much as you
Do you understand that?
Ten hours drifting half awake and finally touching down
I went out in the rainy morning and kissed the blessed ground
Coming home, coming home and the most of it is done
And the worst of us is left behind in the place where it belongs
That was, the last time
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour
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01/04/99; last update 09/07/17