Lyrics

Mission bells ring out from kingdom hall A lone voice cries on the hillside The winds from the north blow the sea to the shore I walk away in the fateful moonlight Love forsaken man, love forsaken land For God’s sake don’t look back Into the crucifix night The storm of a cross I live to love again and again All my life Oh I, I of the hurricane I walk [read more]

Somewhere in this world I know that love exists I’ve known it in a kiss Sometimes in my sleep I’ve been searching For more than these few glimpses For a love that lasts all eternity There is a light, a light that never dies Oh no, see it shine, shining in my sorrow There is a light, a light that never dies I’m all alone now The crowds have all [read more]

The first heaven is silver And you are silver you shine white light The second heaven’s sacred And you are sacred of pure soul The third heaven is pearl And your name is forever written Oh don’t walk away No don’t walk away I’m walking in the PRESENCE OF LOVE I’m walking in the seventh heaven I’m alive with the agony, the ecstasy Strive for the pleasure and the pain I’m [read more]

Daylight breaks on the streets of my life Where no sun shines there bums refusal to die In the shadows of heartache my dreams come alive I’ve been searching for love to give meaning to life Oh no, you make me feel real Oh no, I’ve got you, you’ve got me And that’s all we need A reason to believe Tonight my love will never die Tonight I will lay [read more]

A renegade Rides a run away train To liberate Tear these bonds assunder A fugitive Running from a chain gang Comfort me Grant me absolution Running all my life Running all my day Running through the night Seems like forever Take me now I’m so tired Take me now This time, forever RESCUE ME I’m on the run like a refugee RESCUE ME Oh come on rescue me I’m destitute [read more]

Back in ’75, when the kid was on the line He felt no pain ’cause there was none He would bend in the wind, take in anything Like sniffin’ roses and it was alright Until he fell and cut his hand He just could not understand He’d run away, blame pre tense for defence or plain innocence Say that’s alright, the harder it fights I’m one step closer to home The [read more]

The docks lie crippled In the northern towns The boys have all gone away Trying to find work down south And mister I walk in the valley of the shadow Won’t someone have mercy on my soul On my soul, soul, soul HALLOWED GROUND how sad is the sound In a valley that once sang out sang proud HALLOWED GROUND where the ships run aground To die in the harbour [read more]

See them run Like characters in paintings Turners frightening ‘scapes Industrial inside a nation of no escape There’s no escape in my frightened face As we run run run And turn to stone OH LORD hear me now The fanfare sounds in Newtown Jericho OH LORD the wailing sound Of helpless souls in Newtown Jericho See them fall The rebecca ride at dawn Petticoat ghost and tom Working to reclaim [read more]

Sad eyes on a hard shoulder A car crash and a broken dream Lone voice on a mobile phone in vain Calling out Sad face on an empty train Going nowhere and back again Loan shark on an advertising page Calling out The life you seek does not exist anymore Window shopping always seems much better Reality doesn’t always fit the picture Of the life you dream Calling out The [read more]

See the city lights, neon flashing by Watch the tide roll in underneath the sky The world is full of people rushing home Past empty shopfront doorways Where lonely people sleep alone Stars that do not shine look on a golden clock Black hands of time move on a face once shot Shot by an estranged gunman who’d lost his aim Some people stop to stare then looked away In [read more]

It’s going to be a good year, a good year for every one We’re going to have a good time, a good time, a real good time Somethings going to change in our little lives Say goodbye to all the tears you cry All the loneliness you feel inside All the little fears you cannot hide It’s going to be a good year, a good year for every one We’re [read more]

Waves are crashing down on the golden sands On the days of our lives Rays of light are falling like the passing time Hold on tight my love Where have they gone, where have they gone Where have the good times gone Winds are blowing from the silver seas Blowing through our memories From the clouds of all of our yesterdays Hold on tight my love Where have they gone, [read more]

Lazy days, lazy days Lazy, hazy days We sit and watch the world go by All our cares are floating on the tide Lazy days, lazy days Lazy, hazy days We float away into our dreams We make believe that nothing here is real Lazy days, lazy days Lazy, hazy days

I used to wonder why and what lies over the horizon I went looking for the answer when the answer was right here all of the time I went looking for direction I travelled far I travelled wide I found myself back where I started what I wanted was right here all of the time In you I see the world In you I see my girl In you I [read more]

I was running with the Backhanders From the Mona to the Mermaiders From the East end to the West paraders Through the car park and up the stairs You can forget all your troubles, forget all of your cares I’m going up Downtown I met the Twist in there one new years eve [In the nineteen seventies] I said let’s start a band and sound like Lou Reed I was [read more]

Hit the town, hit the town We’re going out, we’re going to hit the town The light are bright, the lights are bright We’re going out all the lights are bright We’re going to have some fun We’re going to have some fun Northern soul boys and skinhead girls Suedeheads dancing on the fighting floor Purple hearts, dexy’s, blues and chalk Doing the mercenary skank once more Hit the town, [read more]

They come from the cities from the Midlands and the Potteries They wear Ben Sherman shirts, Brutus, Levi sta-press and Skinner jeans From the land of hope and glory They’ve come for the glittering glam rock ballrooms A flash of GX scooters all green, red, white and blue From the land of hope and glory

Waiting for the summer, waiting for the sun Waiting for the summer, waiting once again

Where are we going and what are we going to do when we get there? We’ve been everywhere but we always end up back were we started What do we want and will we know it when we see it? We’re looking for something but we don’t know what it is that we’re missing Where are we going?, What are we saying? Where are we going and what are we [read more]

And the sea is always calling

1959 – I came alive 1963 – First memories On a football pitch – 1966 1968 – I came of age I’m in the crescent Always in the present I’m in the crescent From splash point to the harbour bridge Past the sky tower where the pavilion stood From the Foryd river past the white sand dunes The war memorial and the bowling greens I’m in the crescent Always in [read more]

Wide awake in darkness, in shadows and blackness I’m in tune with radio frequencies bouncing off satellites I’m so spiritualised, I can hear God speaking with angels I’m wired to the light that’s connected to my mind Brilliant dreams and visions, cosmic thought, infinite energy No beginnings, no endings, no middle, no in between I’m alive I’m alive in seconds, in minutes, in hours In days and nights, months and [read more]

There is a place within my heart that will forever be 1983/84 We thought that we had nothing, we really had it all The walls were coming down all around us We were looking over our shoulders when the future overtook We were so far ahead of everything we got left behind in the crush In Life, In Death Before And After In love, In war 1983/84 We were looking [read more]

Declare yourself an unsafe building suffer the indignation of your world To climb the ladders you’ve gotta suss out the snakes Remember your height Remember to never look down For now you’ve made your choice You’ve gotta take your chance Find a way out now I have declared myself unsafe Unsound, Unknown, Unwanted, Unnecessary I’ve been condemned I’m UNSAFE Come out of the cupboard and into the real world Open [read more]

In the poppy fields…… we come and go In the poppy fields…… we lose control In the poppy fields…… where we come from In the poppy fields…… we are gone In the poppy fields…… I remember I remember everything, I remember you and I I remember stones on a window pain and how you cut my hair I remember yesterday as if it was today In the poppy fields…… I remember In the poppy fields…… we let it [read more]

Sunrise washing over me Daylight cleansing my soul Freedom so crystal clear A new chapter in the book of my life A new song in a different key Walk on in a new direction A new chapter in the book of my life Morning has broken free Silence beautiful cry Time is eternity A new chapter in the book of my life A new song in a different key Walk [read more]

There’s a train a comin’ round the bend There’s a road up ahead There’s a night after day There’s a day after night There’s a train a comin’ round the bend Father…. one day we will meet again Sister…. I know we will speak with you Mother…. everything will be alright In the night after day In the day after night There’s a train a comin’ round the bend There’s [read more]

Broken glass everywhere People pissing on the stairs, you know they just dont care I cant take the smell, I cant take the noise Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat I tried to get away, but I couldnt get far Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed [read more]

You say you need me like you need hypertension If I fell to sleep right now I know you’d put me right out of action To say we have lost control would be an understatement This thing that we’re undertaking….. this ain’t love this is war Whatever I say to you whatever I try to do I can’t do the right thing…. right for doing wrong to you To say [read more]

He was born down in the ghetto He was raised on the fear of the city streets of black america Baptised a God fearing man But there’s a southern religion that would crucify black america Hey man don’t be fooled All of the colours are beautiful Hey man don’t be fooled A flag cries and the colours bleed for you Red, white and blue His money’s good in any white [read more]

Blowing down a highway in a cadillac Yellow rose of Texas on a radio band I don’t know where I’m going or when I’m coming back I heard about a promise in these hard heartlands There’s a lonely hotel in the distance A tumbleweed shotgun shack I’m just another lonely rider On the road to hell and back Levi’s and bibles Scattered across this land Scarecrows and crosses Of promises [read more]

I want to believe in the heaven’s above me I want to have faith in all I see To put my trust in God and man To know that there is more to life I want to see what cannot be revealed I want to understand my dreams To know that there will be an answer To know that day will follow night I want to believe all the fighting [read more]

We’ve got to find a way to heaven Before our lives reach the ends Oh why is life oh so fatal? Each day is filled with emptiness The world is full of cruel beauty We fall asleep so afraid If there’s a God in the heavens When will he answer our prayer? Love is not of the earth Love is spiritual Look through the windows of the soul Heaven is [read more]

When both sides are right and no one will admit to wrong And they stand and face each other to the death like fighting cocks All reason stays lost buried in our history’s fog Our innocence gunned down in the street like a pistol shot And everybody’s talking saying nothing much All angry men who concede no ground and give nothing up As the green shoots of hope are trampled [read more]

Love is a revolution that opens up my eyes Love is the armageddon of blindness Love is the soul of the martyr who’s coming back to life Love makes the poor man equal to the godlike Love is a revolution Of the mind and the spirit Love is a revolution I was blind to it Love is a revolution Love is a true uprising… the undenying right Love gives all [read more]

Silver rivers reflect the sun On black highways I will be done Mile on mile of empty heat I will wait for you… I will not look back Chasing shadows all night long Indian nation… a tattooed arm Manifest destiny drives my car I will follow you…. I will not look back I breathe the air I watch the sun Rise and fall In twenty four hours I breathe The [read more]

Please don’t leave me in the morning Stay tonight and through the day For I can’t face the new horizon Another day, another moment If I can’t have you I don’t want nothing Can’t go on living If I can’t have you I have thought about the future Life means nothing without you Heaven’s a place so far away Don’t ever leave me alone again If I can’t have you [read more]

I was a stranger moving from place to place Driven by a need for something I could not explain I was lost in a no-mans land between night and day Travelling a road that was leading me astray Every time I tried to find it Every time I tried to find it I’d lose my way All I wanted , all I needed All I wanted was you I’ve been [read more]

What on earth is this world coming to What on earth is going down What on earth is happening to us Is everything I feel POETIC JUSTICE What happened to our better world a comin’ What happened to our brave new vision What happened to our dreams of the future Is everything I see POETIC JUSTICE Can you hear it on the ghetto In spray can speak In confession whispered [read more]

Set me alight and watch me burn Set me up to watch me fall Turn me over and take me down You’ve got me where you want me There’s no way out You put a GUN TO MY HEAD Fire, Fire, Fire Cold metal up against my face Point blank within range Shakedown, shakedown to takedown You’ve got me where you want me There’s no way out You put a [read more]

Give me love Give me hope Give me strength Give me someone to live for Who will light the fire that I need to survive Who will be the life blood coursing through my veins Like a river flowing that will never change I need someone I can depend on I’m a man of emotion who can’t hide the tears I’m a man of feeling who can’t hide the pain [read more]

I was dreaming on the seventh day Across a thousand years of time and space There’s still some things that must be spoken Now that all the barriers are broken A star man came down on my TV In a two tone suit and silver shoes Six strings on a twelve guitar All my dreams are made of stars The rock and roll still burns in me It’s a long [read more]

You’ve been living life like it’s rock and roll You’ve been taking too much of what you can’t control You’ve been dancing with the devil In your midlife crisis baby You’ve been pulling stutches from out of your face You’ve been trying to keep up in a young man’s race You’ve been drawing down while the interest rates go higher Stealing contradictions from an unmarked grave You’ve been robbing the [read more]

I don’t know where to start or where to begin I don’t know where the end or where the future is Under surveillance, under attack Under pressure but I’ll never crack Cease and desist, I am taking control Cease and desist, my life is my own Cease and desist In order to create you must first learn how to destroy Because whatever doesn’t kill you will only make you strong [read more]

I can hear the crying, the silence in your sleep I can feel the pain you breathe I can read the troubled, writing in your dreams I know what you hope and pray for Let it rain down Let it rain down on me When your heart is speaking to the daggers in my throat Don’t tell me, don’t tell me I can feel the silence, climbing up the walls [read more]

Someone will come who needs no answers Someone will come who is not blind Someone will come who can see what I can’t see Someone will come in time BE STILL, be calm, be peaceful Someone will come without a warning Someone will come without a name Someone will come without a creed and with nothing to gain Someone will come tonight BE STILL be calm, be peaceful Someday you’ll [read more]

Today, just like yesterday I’m ascending and descending Travelling, not arriving That’s the story of my life I’ve been close Closer than close Not close enough Somewhere, I don’t know where There is someone, someone somewhere I’ve been close Closer than close So Close

I’m sinking in the quicksand I’m superman in the superdrag I’ve been reprogrammed I’m about to crash I am trafficking I’m the traffic king TRAFFICKING I’m a lighting crack on winter grass I’m an electric flag, white on black I’ve been reprogrammed I’m about to crash I am trafficking I’m the traffic king TRAFFICKING

Close your eyes What do you see Use your sense of touch Within your heart Your sense of hope Be guided by your feelings You are ALL SEEING All hearing, all believing You are ALL SEEING Don’t be afraid Of your fear Let it be a strength Don’t be denied Don’t deny Let go of all your demons You are ALL SEEING All hearing, all believing You are ALL SEEING

Down in the gutter of my life story I’m lying in a bed with a dream playing in my head Spitting blood into a test tube I used to be half a man I used to be useful I walk with the demons and the devils Shadowboxing the ghosts of my reflection in windows All the pigeons and the statues Are staring down at me At the drunk and the [read more]

In the end it’s you and me and no one else This is the way of life It’s alright, it’s O.K. We can make it through tomorrow It’s alright, it’s O.K. There is no one left to follow In the end for you and me it’s now or never This is the way of time It’s alright, it’s O.K. We can make it through tomorrow It’s alright, it’s O.K.

This is the sound of the future calling Breaking news on the hour everyday This is the sound of tomorrow now The revolution will be broadcast wherever you are Wherever you stand This is the sound of the alarm calling The sound of the four minute warning This is the sound of the ALARM CALLING Calling to the outside Too much broken information Tomorrow has got to be cancelled just [read more]

Sometimes you’ve got to take one step back to go two steps forward Sometimes you’ve got to stop believing to find the faith Sometimes you’ve got to face up to defeat to find victory Sometimes you’ve got to live with a lie to get to the truth What’s done is done, now has just begun I’m right back where I started from Hello, hello my friend This is the first [read more]

Everything is black and white as the room spins all around me Everything is upside down there’s a cardboard box at my feet I’m going through hell and I can’t speak I’m going through hell and I can’t breathe This situation is under control Everything is as it should be but that’s acceptable Everything is in the right place so unpredictable I’ve took enough hits in life to get through [read more]

Here it comes the reaping of the whirlwind that was promised us And all the streets are littered with the tension and the pressure A culture spreads it’s needles round like flowers in the garden The only thing that comes for free is the air we need to breathe. This is where I come from This is MY TOWN When I last looked everything was black and white but now it’s [read more]

Oxygen from a life support system Flowing through the blood in my veins Oxygen from a life support system Keeping me a live again Send the troops to get me Send an atomic bomb Fightback with all that you’ve got Fightback with all that you are Fightback if you want to stay alive I see a man, see a man at the edge He’s at the point of giving everything [read more]

Black is black and white is white My love for you borders on psychedelic Filed under A, evaluated Zero’d in on and left to die in the eighties KILL TO GET WHAT YOU WANT [DIE FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN] One step back, two step’s forward Failure a chance to start all over again Creative truths, distorted lies In the new underground I survived the Nineties KILL TO GET WHAT [read more]

From 1977 I’ve got a safety pin stuck in my soul A badge pinned to my heart Says “I can’t be bought or sold” Whatever were we thinking of When we were shooting our mouths off The truth is alive From 1977 until the THREE SEVENS CLASH I fought for what I believe in On the punk rock barricade A suburban revolution Broadcast on street airwaves Whatever were we trying [read more]

Give me love Give me love hope and strength Give me love hope and strength to carry on Through the white washed corridors and the U.V. Lights Past deserted dreams to the end of night Past the click click click click click of the killing machines Until you put your hand again in mine Give me love Give me love hope and strength Give me love hope and strength to [read more]

A spiral scratch gave me my life back A vinyl solution ended my confusion I heard a voice in the noise pollution 45 RPM 45 45 RPM 45 45 RPM keep on running to the end The two sevens clash kick started my life soundtrack A sonic revolution broke the disillusion 45 RPM 45 45 RPM 45 45 RPM keep on running to the end 45 Revolution per minute

After the final chord has faded The lights have all burned out After the rain has washed us from the streets After the sound there comes a silence I hope I can live without The crashing of these drums and these guitars I have given everything that I can give And more when what I gave was not enough AFTER THE ROCK AND ROLL HAS GONE After the sound of [read more]

Freedom is a bullet exploding from a gun Freedom is a voice that’s afraid to speak Freedom is a soldier who wants to come home Freedom is no food and no place to sleep Here come the RIOT SQUAD now Freedom is an old man who’s forgotten who he is Freedom is the drug that blurs the lines Freedom is a flag burning on a TV Freedom is the profit [read more]

A century of stars and light are flashing right before my eyes A century of life undiscovered Everyone must pass this way walk right through this passageway Lay your clothes down at the gate and walk into the brand new day All I’ve got is this dirty little BADGE OF HONOUR All I’ve got is you and I It’s up to us to make a truce, it’s up to us [read more]

I was lying in the wreckage when I heard it calling I was falling through the skies when I heard it speak Calling out in the voice of the stranger The words of the preacher and the medicine man Somewhere there is a country Somehow that flies no flag Someway we’ll make that HIGHER CALL I was drowning in the water when I heard it whispering I was fighting in [read more]

Anytime you need a place to hide Anytime you need somewhere to run Anytime at all, anytime at all Anytime of day you feel afraid Anytime you need a helping hand Anything you want, anything you need All I’ve got is this BADGE OF HONOUR All I’ve got is this show of strength All I’ve got is this bleeding heart for you Anytime you feel like giving up Anytime you [read more]

I don’t know how to look into the future I don’t now how to see what’s going down I don’t know how to stop what’s going to happen But I know how you make me feel right now In you I COME ALIVE I should of known that somehow we could make it I should of known something was going down Should of looked beyond the perifery of my imagination [read more]

I’ve been pushed and I’ve been beaten down but I am… still hanging around Been made to eat the dirt off my shoes… they said “don’t come around here you know the rules” I’ve worn the colours the red white and blue don’t make no difference… you know that it’s true ‘Cause this is life in all it’s glory… it’s dirty, it’s filthy, it’s beautiful too Don’t let them beat [read more]

CHANGE is alive on the street today Change makes some people afraid Change only happens when you look away Change in the twenty first century Change, change always seems to happen when you look away Change, change it can make you feel alive or take your breathe away CHANGE is a time bomb a ticking clock Change has more power than an atomic bomb Change is the small voice that [read more]

Could be the middle of night… or the middle of the street It could be uptown, downtown… or even where you sleep I hear the marching drum… I hear a song unsung It could be your dream, my dream… I’m not the only one ‘Cause I’m a soldier marching in an army I got no gun to shoot all I’ve got is ONE GUITAR I see the risin’ smoke… I [read more]

Bruised and battered are the broken people trying to find the will to survive Bruised and battered are the broken people living on the end of the line Anarchy isn’t just a word that Johnny Rotten used to piss us off Anarchy is a form of expression like the needle is bound to the cross Send for the black mariah, send for the c.s. gas It’s time to take CONTROL [read more]

See that man fighting on the city street See that child crying to be free Don’t ask me questions, don’t ask me why I’m just another lonely passerby LOADED I’m just another lonely passerby See that crowd marching on the government See that flag flying in the bitter wind I don’t understand, I don’t know why I’m just another lonely passerby LOADED

Some people carry their lives in plastic carrier bags Some people live in their cars or their office space Some people sweat it out on electric treadmills Watch meteorite showers scratch the night sky Some people see themselves through other peoples eyes Through video cameras, through mobile phones Some live outside in cyberspace they’ve learnt digital gone broken english Some live in photographs or flowers by the roadside Some have [read more]

Economic pressure going to take control of me Economic pressure from the government to the street Economic pressure under heavy skies Economic pressure in my baby’s cry Economic pressure got a hold on me tonight Walk the street through the litter and rain Overcrowding the pavement Walk the streets see the drunken saints Waiting on a saviour RELEASE THE PRESSURE Economic pressure blames it all on friendly fire Economic pressure [read more]

Fire in the hole, war coming down As Wall Street crashes to an all time low To find inspiration where there is none You’re going to have to take DIRECT ACTION Free man of this land, he knows what’s going down He’s got a King James Bible right by his side To find the truth in a web of lies You’re going to have to take DIRECT ACTION I’d give [read more]

All I have to give to you is everything you see All I am and all I have been, all I’ll ever be All I have to say to you is everything you hear All my hopes and all my dreams no secrets will I keep I would paint the sky a purple shade Dye the blue sea black Spray the clouds in tangerine Make the trees electric blue for [read more]

Early one morning across the fields of dawn Crooked is the shadow that falls on my land Storm clouds overhead, like birds of prey in wait How can we undo what cannot be undone? I feel the darkness heavy on my heart There’s distance between us, tearing us apart How many rivers must I cross? Somehow, somewhere I will find a way How many rivers must I cross? Somehow, somewhere [read more]

It’s funny how they shoot you down when your hands are held up high And you open up your heart and soul but that’s not enough for most I remember this much There is nothing you shouldn’t speak of If you’ve got something to say And there is no one to be scared of Just get them out of the way GOING OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY My heart [read more]

Memories come flooding back, the bitter pain of disappointment Of once of having love but now I only feel loss I’m living on a KNIFEDGE At the end of the line I’m taking all the hard sell I’m looking for a lifeline When you ain’t got no-one in this world, it makes you feel useless It gives you nothing to live for nothing to die for I’m burning up, such [read more]

Yes, I saw a man today Had a spike drove through his head I could feel his love his hate Written in ink upon his face You can run but you can’t get away You can try but you can’t change What happened to the love we made? What happened, what happened? We took a look and then we looked away Yes, I read news my friend Young girl was [read more]

The creeds and the colours are out of control on the streets And a strange kind of glory exists we are what we eat A diet of violence and crime feed our screens every night Society mirrors it, photocopies it, lives it as life White Noise, a blinding light White Noise, the only sound in the void White Noise A child grows up without seeing his own fathers eyes And [read more]

There’s something that must now be spoken Now that all the barriers are broken down I want to bury my words in the heartland soil Too much has fell on stony ground I never lost that true gut feeling That a generation could bring change And even though it’s been eroded And worn away with time I still believe we’ve got to try I refuse to break The promises we [read more]

Too young to care, too old to fight Ain’t bothered about your life Drop out far out, don’t go to school Get out while the going’s good Sign up for the dole, dig a hole For your bone and moan, “ain’t got any cash” Hedonistic man with your can And your head of sand, take the lie of the land LET’S KEEP THE FLAMES OF HOPE ALIVE And never let [read more]

In the dirty towns on the dirty streets There’s a violent wind that blows Across the generations men like me Have been swept to these crossroads Blown out of house, blown out of home Blown down the road On the wind that blows away my words Blows away my reason Blows away my soul Taking my existence THE WIND BLOWS AWAY MY WORDS There’s a rushing sound that is sometimes [read more]

Forcefed a diet of psychobabble Comedian parodies at my expense Suppress my anger with a veil of complacency I drown the sorrows, I count the days I wish I knew what I knew then I was so much older, I’m younger now I am the addiction, the anaesthetic The apathetic conduit of my own fate I drink the poison of the working classes down If life was an ocean I [read more]

Under the anvil of the sun Sweat, like a train, I come, I come My body to dust, scorched by the might of the sun Burning light, burning white heat Like wildfire, I sweat a fever My body screams, disintegrates in the heat Our love is the FAITH that keeps on burning I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME I love to feel the rain on my face [read more]

All I want is someone to believe in But in who to believe is hard to define When some say “the future is unwritten” Some say “the simple things in life are the best” When all is dark and dusty down the tracks And all paths from exile have roadblocks on all points Saying “No, No way out of here, go back from where you came from” And some say [read more]

It’s been a long time comin’ and it’s good to be back Been in a head on collision with a medicine man I’ve been down in the alley where the odds are stacked Down on my knees, had to turn back CHANGE, change I need a change, Oh Lord Down in a no mans land between sorrow and sweet Where the devil himself sits on the judgement seat Where you [read more]

So, it’s come right down to this No right ways or wrong ways are to blame Sleep, well that is just for children All my black and white visions fade to grey Fading out again, fading out again When the dream has gone, It’s all over The fire’s gone out, all burnt out Let it go, Let it go, Let it go Before it takes control Before it takes you [read more]

Do you wake up in the middle of the night Find your eyes are on full beam, totally wired Sweat stains and troubled dreams, your throat is burnin’ dry Caught in your worst nightmare, you cannot deny And now you’ve become what you said you’d never become Hate yourself for all the things you’ve never done You tell yourself you’re too old, I know you’re still young You’re wanting to [read more]

She’s got two to think of now Someone else to think about She’s got two to think of now She’s got love and she’s got hope She don’t know if she can cope She’s got bottles full of questions she can’t hide She’s got a message deep inside Affecting different frames of mind She’s got boxes full of feelings she can’t describe She’s got two to think of now Someone [read more]

I used to be a sweet and innocent child See the world in pictures of black and white Now it’s all fading into one big crazy Twenty first century attitude I can’t move I can’t sit still Positives and negatives are making me ill I can’t speak but I’m not dumb I might look like a hero but I feel like a bum Into the twenty first century, a schizophrenic [read more]

Across the Irish border, hidden in a car There’s Guns and ammunition that were smuggled from Armagh Well that’s not right and they should stop the fight And they should sort it out. Let them march and let them shout KILL IT SHOOT IT DOWN Burn it to the ground KILL IT LIGHT THE FUSE What’s the point, what’s the use KILL IT SHOOT IT DOWN Burn it to the [read more]

Try to stop me I will carry on Try to oppose me I will prevail My life has been shot down I’m not ready to fall Whenever you condemn me You only make me strong I get my strength from life itself I get my water from the well. I’ll never fall at your feet I’ll never bow down if our eyes should meet I’ll never give it up WITHOUT [read more]

I have been out searching with the black book in my hand And I’ve looked between the lines that lie on the pages that I tread I met the walking dude,religious, in his wom down cowboy boots He walked liked no man on earth I swear he had no name Come on down & meet your maker Come on down & make THE STAND As I crawled beneath the searchlights [read more]

My father said, “Son, now my life’s work is done There’s a future for you, there’s a job to be done Stop fighting the system ’cause the system won’t break Get your hair cut boy and learn from my mistakes” Now I said to my father, “Father give me a break There’s a million more chances that I’m born to take I don’t want to die like I saw you [read more]

Hardland ripped & torn apart Hard dreams leave scarred In the lines of my face The story of faith in this HARDLAND I came back home to a hardland Where a man is judged by the scars on his face Where the sliding scale still operates To come home, I had to go away from the HARDLAND I saw a land standing at the crossroads I saw her wrath burning [read more]

We can’t all be right We can’t all be wrong We can’t be all things to everyone all the time We can’t all have faith We can’t all believe We can’t all be standing on the same street We live beneath the same blue skies Shining down on all our lives The colours change but we’ve all been made From the same red blood that stains the page Of this [read more]

I lay me down Beside still waters I close my eyes to dream aloud The way ahead Is forever calling A chance to live, to begin again In another country Across the two divides In another country I lay down This is another country now Another country born of life A chance to live, a chance to breathe A chance to be all you can be This is ANOTHER COUNTRY [read more]

I’ve swept the floors of all my kings I’ve opened doors and let the tourists in Days of wine and roses Prime ministers, red robes These days are gone I’ve stood on guard as my Queens were born I’ve cut the grass on many English lawns Of strawberries and ice cream, cricket and cold beer These days London Tower’s burning, Parliament’s ablaze Buckingham Palace has gone Somewhere in the distance [read more]

Do you still remember me and all the things I said Do you still bleed inside whenever you hear my name Have you burnt the photographs, wiped those videotapes Do you still dream about all the things we never done Do you still choke inside on words we never spoke Now you’ve got the things you wanted wrapped in a lawyers code All is forgiven, all is forgiven I ain’t [read more]

I’ve been away, I’m back again So much to say, no time to waste A door opens as another one closes My love for you is softly spoken I’m COMING HOME Night falls the new day is breaking I need a little of your love hope and strength I’m COMING HOME

I don’t know where I’ve been going or where I have come from Everything here looks the same as the same place you belong Did they promise you a place in paradise for life? It’s all right – it’s all right – all right Is the SUPERCHANNEL going to save you? You want what I’ve got – I want what you’ve got We’ll get what we’ve got coming to us [read more]

Once you held your finger on the trigger Now the gun is pointing at your head Once you reigned supreme Over all that you could see Now you walk on the other side of the street How the mighty fall I’ve seen it all before From the highest heights To the lowest low How the mighty fall Once your words were the first and last on the subject Now they [read more]

I’ve been branded I’ve been washed up and left for dead I’ve been cast out from this world I’m in exile I’m stranded on the streets Got no place left to run No one wants me anymore Now they hunt me down SHELTER take me undercover tonight SHELTER give me what I want tonight shelter SHELTER I’ve been tortured I’ve been raging in the breach In this wicked world Persecution [read more]

Sometimes there isn’t an answer Sometimes there isn’t a reason Sometimes there’s no explanation For the unexplained Sometimes no one is guilty Sometimes no one’s to blame Sometimes no one can be found For the unexplained Sometimes there is no cure Sometimes there is no healing For the unexplained Sometimes you get given somethings You not did wish for It wasn’t in the contract For the unexplained Sometimes this is [read more]

There is a place that I call home A place I always will come from A place that made me who I am A place that made me feel like I belong It’s a line that can never be broken This place sustained me in my youth, shaped the man I hoped to be From my mother’s womb to the delivery suite I’m someone that my father was to me [read more]

Truckstops, interstates and highways Roue 95 in a silver star Something invaded my head space A foreign body in a foreign place Video cameras, and a black suitcase Stitches out, USA Today Mickey, Disney, and Ronald Duck I don’t know whose for real, I’m all messed up Five years without ever knowing Piss in bottles and giving blood Stand up poets on an open mic stand Shouting over drunks and [read more]

Big Phil and the suicidal kid came into town Scratch ran the Kavern records empire And discovered the big new sounds The middle of nowhere sound of EDWARD HENRY STREET Puma Pete and Richie Mod and Paul from the catholic school Eddie Mac and my brother Steve got caught breaking all the rules The middle of nowhere blues of EDWARD HENRY STREET Down to Kevin’s egg packing station to play [read more]

Collapsed empires like broken tiles Snow on the ground, a winter’s sky I open the door and the world flows by Pavements, streets and yesterday news Tomorrows hurting in today’s blues My realities are these tender rules Every high and low Every near and far Goodbye, hello, everybody Come together come together Come together now Put your loneliness in mine and RISE No major headlines, no big news day Just [read more]

And now they’re trying to take my life away Forever young I cannot stay On every corner I can see them there They don’t know my name they don’t know my kind They’re after you with their promises [Promises of love] They’re after you to sign your life away SIXTY EIGHT GUNS will never die SIXTY EIGHT GUNS our battle cry Living in the backstreets That’s our home from home The painted [read more]

Your head on my shoulder, two months you’ve been a soldier I feel so sick inside, two months you’d have been alive So no one here knows your surname, no one knows from where you came The Red Cross takes you to your grave for which your government kindly pays WHITE CROSS up on the hillside There lies that unknown soldier No one can remember your name So here I [read more]

Born into a war and peace forced to choose between a right and wrong Each man kills the thing he loves for better or for worse Face to face with a ragged truth, mixed up and torn in two Turned your back on the only thing that could save you from yourself WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE WHEN THE RAIN BEGAN TO FALL WHEN THE THUNDER AND [read more]

Take this song of freedom put it on and arm yourself for the fight Our hearts must have the courage to keep on marching on and on

Well, I find myself in reverie About what we might have had and what might have been We had something going once that was such a long, long time ago It was way back in ’76 our friendship formed of pure innocence We first met on Mathew Street and we heard something that would set us free A sign stands over a door, it says “Four lads who shook the [read more]

You may be rich, you may be poor You may have nothing in this world at all You may be black, you maybe white You may be a prisioner in your own times You may be lost, you may be found You may have been beaten up and knocked to the ground You may have belief, suffer from deceit Or you just might be blind You may affect the truth, [read more]

There’s a young boy standing Staring at the world He can’t control his anger You can see it in his eyes He’s gonna smash the window He’s gonna tear down the walls Hey mister you don’t understand it Take a look at it through my eyes These are the kids they;re powerless So you tell them so These are the kids they’re powerful Don’t say you haven’t been told And [read more]

Walk forever by my side Never lose sight of the day When we will run through all our weakness On through the fields Strewn with our broken dreams Walk forever by my side Stay forever in the light Never lose sight of the way For I alone can’t face the future I need your strength To help me make it through Walk forever by my side Stay forever in the [read more]

Now I never knew her but her story it touched my heart It was in the New York Post that I heard her story told She was a rising star of her day so the story goes But her dream got crushed in the darkness one Sunday morn Now she met her death of the rooftop of 929 An apartment building on the Upper West Side Witnesses heard Caroline, 23 [read more]

I used to put the flowers in the dressing room I’m no longer a child I’m all grown up now I’ve set them up seen them let me down I’ve been in the crowd swirling round and round All as one, with those songs of Freedom Saying all the things I could never say And I rode with fate on a wing and a prayer And there were four in [read more]

The iron gates clang in a steel mill town A man breaks down to that unemployment sound He takes a last walk down that old coast road In the dying death throes of all that he knows The sight of those men walking through the gates
 Was like a lame pit pony at the end of its days [Fire, Fire, Fire] In a Deeside town eight thousand went down
 On [read more]

I’m a lonely man walking lonely streets I’m soaked to the skin with the pain of my unease From such a strained existence The tension in this world keeps me from sleep I’m hungry and cold, there’s a weight hanging over my shoulders A rain black cloud of doubt Have I got enough love, have I got enough hope? Enough strength to face the world each day? I know there’s [read more]

Goodbye my friend and fare thee well if we ever meet again I’m glad I had the chance to know you I hope you think of me as I think of you We had our chance and we blew it away We never got past the past You say that you can live with that If that’s alright by you, it’s fine by me May your heart always be strong [read more]

I live my life first and last and I give thanks for it I’ve searched my heart for the truth and I found peace in it I found love in it, hate in it, all life in it And it just don’t get any better than this No it just don’t get any better No better than this From the highest heights to the lowest low I’ve experienced it I’ve [read more]