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New Model Army - 1984 - lyrics

The vans they come in convoys now
Stealing through the dawn
Silent in the countryside
In the hills up to the north
There's road blocks on the Meden bridge
There's click click clicking on the phone
They're sealing off our villages
Sealing off our homes
Her father crossed the battle lines
In the first months of the war
She frowns down at the soup kitchen
She doesn't have a father anymore
It's cold in the early mornings
Standing with your mates
Staring at the thick blue line
Armed and ready at the gates
This ain't some tinpot story arriving from a distant shore
But our own sweet green and pleasant land in 1984
The servants of our great nation
Have lied in the name of us all
While the officers of peace and order
Are busy breaking every law
There's hundreds on trumped-up charges
Hundreds on the streets
The future of our villages
Sown with bitter seeds
And hatred starts to rumble where there was no hate before
In our own sweet green and pleasant land in 1984
Nobody wanted to see the blood
As the blue lights flash through in the night
But all the words fell on deaf ears
And now the blind frustration bites
Two nations under one crown divided more and more
In our own sweet green and pleasant land in 1984

New Model Army - A Liberal Education - lyrics

Take away our history
Take away our heroes
Take away our values
And leave us here with nothing
We were in the garden of Eden
Just as children mess around
We only leant against the tree
And the apple came tumbling down
You gave us what we asked for
But never what we wanted
We were only children
How could you have been so stupid
We went up to the steel walls
That guard the sacred town
We only whispered to ourselves
And the walls came tumbling down
We didn't want a victory
We just wanted to fight
But you wouldn't fight
You just gave in
You went and spoiled every game
You broke an everlasting chain
And nobody respects you for your weakness
Take away our idols
Take away our faith
Take away our hatred
And put us in this vacuum
Then say be yourself, please yourself
Express yourself some more
It's your right to do what you like
Because we can't really be bothered with you at all
We didn't want a victory
We just wanted to fight
But you wouldn't fight
You said it isn't nice to fight
You went and spoiled every game
You broke an everlasting chain
And nobody respects you for your weakness

New Model Army - All Of This - lyrics

Sullivan/Heaton
There's a sentry in a uniform
To watch the VIPs along the wall
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
In the name of the people
All of this 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 aphrodiasiac now
The fuses on the table slowly wired
In the name of the people...
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
In the name of the people

New Model Army - Ambition - lyrics

Open out onto the stage
the smalltown star tonight
flexes out for fame and fortune
into the light
the way she tears into the heart
makes me realise
that i never understood hatred
till i looked into those eyes - she cries
No one's going to talk down to me again
no,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
and 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
yeah,love will keep you warm
and love can build a cushion
to keep you safe from harm
but hate will drive you onwards
yeah,hate will drive you upwards
till you get back all the bastards
whoever tried,oh how they 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,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
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

New Model Army - Ballad Of Bodmin Pill - lyrics

Smash glass against the wall
Curse the music on the radio
That the neighbours play
Door slams, she turns her head
Watches through the window
As he pulls away
Funny how your racing brain
Drives you so mad
When all the while you feel so mumb
Too old to be clean far too young
To be broken
Like an army we come
Cut back, left behind
I watched you self - destructing
Oh so many times
Shot down, once again
Sitting in a chair crying
What am I going to do with my life ?
Just learn to hide the way
That you really feel
Never let them know that you're scared
But understand that you're not
The special only one
Watch us now, watch us real close
CHORUS:
How we all dance with this fire
Cos it's all that we know
And as the spotlight turns toward us
We all try our best to show
We are lost we are freaks
We are crippled, we are weak
We are the heirs, we are the true heirs
To all the world
Let's go build a fire down on the empty
Beach when the waves are crashing high
White heat purify as the sparks fly up
Into the great black sky
Sacrifice these crutches to the crackling
Flames
Stand as silhouettes against the dawn
It's far too late to try to sleep now
Seems I'm never tired any more
CHORUS:
I want to dance with this fire
Cos it's all that I know ...
We are lost we are freaks ...
And we try our best to show ...
I am lost I'm a freak ha ha
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New Model Army - 51st State - lyrics

Cartwright/NMA
Look out of your windows, watch the skies
Read all the instructions with bright blue eyes
Were W.A.S.P.s, 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

New Model Army - Afternoon Song - lyrics

(SullivanHeaton)
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 across 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

New Model Army - Drummy B (Billy McCann Version) - lyrics

The bonfires blazed across the city, the smoke swirling into the sky
We were standing shoulder to shoulder, Billy McCann and I
Our faces ruddy and burning as we stared into the flames
But I know now the things that we saw that night were not the same
Ch: And I see you as I walk away, standing by your barricade
It's all over now between us - Billy McCann goodbye
So we'll sit up at the bar for the last time the way we used to do
And I'll toast the love that you showed me and the faith I gave to you
And we can drive out and watch the sunrise from the top of the Glenshane Pass
And I won't make you answer the questions I've always tried to ask
Ch: And I see you as I walk away standing by your barricade
And though you never will forgive me, Billy McCann goodbye

New Model Army - 225 - lyrics

She stares at the screen
At the little words of green
Tries to remember what to do next
There's a trace of frustration
That across her face
Searching for the key she should press
And I would help her
If I only know how
But these things are a mystery to me too
And it seems that the corporate
Eyes they are watching
She fears for her job
And the moments are passing
I stare at her nametag
And think to myself
Both you and I, we never asked
For any of this
So let's take a walk
Up past the chemical works
Where the sky turns green at night
And we'll talk about
Getting away from here
Some difference kind of life
But even in the freshest mountain air
The jet fighters practise overhead
And they're drilling these hills
For uranium deposits
And they'll bury the waste
For our children to inherit
And though this is all done
For our town benefit, I swear
We never asked for any of this
This golden age of communication
Means everyone talks at the same time
And liberty just means
Some freedom to exploit
Any weakness that you can find
Well turn off the TV just for a while
Let us whisper to eachother instead
And we'll hope that the Corporate ears
Do not listen
Lest we find ourselves committing
Some kind of treason
And filed in the tapes
Without rhyme, without reason
While they tell us that it's all
For our own protection, I swear
We never asked for any of this
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New Model Army - 125 M.P.H. - lyrics

I'm heading north I'm heading home
Doing 125
I close my eyes and count to ten
Ha ha yeah I'm still alive
Perfect perfect tunnel vision
Razor sharp and racing racing
These moments, immortal
No one touches this
Ch:
These things they flow as blood must flow
Dust to dust and wind must blow
Nothing that I need to know
Or ever understand
These things they flow as blood must flow
Dust to dust and wind must blow
You can die before you get old
But me, I'm going to live forever
The music plays, the party swings
The gaiety walls come closing in
I catch your eye, you take my hand
Out into the night we run
Dancing down those deadend streets
Howling at the moon like little kids
Out on the grass at the top of the hill
Your breath tastes sw . . .
Ch
And if I say I hate this place
Don't take it as personal
And just cos I want to kill somebody
Doesn't mean to say that I will
And I don't think that that makes me crazy
And anyway I'm way past caring
There's a ride leaves out of here at 9.00
What do you say, what do you say
Ch:
Tonight we'll flow . . .
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