Songs

‘Working Class Hero’ [3:29] (Lennon), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: As soon as you�re born They make you feel small By giving you no time Instead of it all Till the pain is so big You feel nothing at all A working class hero Is something to be A working class hero Is something to be They hurt you at home And they hit you at school They hate you if [read more]

‘No Frontiers (acoustic)’ [3:05] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: A thousand miles before us Long is the road The mountain high The valley low Our love is stronger than we know In the tears of a river I see the wrong Hear the mountain cry Cry anger Feel the pain in the valley below I want to run Where the sunlight beats on my face I want to feel The [read more]

‘Change II (acoustic)’ [2:06] (Sharp/Twist), The AlarmLead Vocals:Dave SharpLyrics: 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 CHANGE CHANGE I need a change OH LORD Down in a no [read more]

‘Rivers To Cross (live)’ [??:??] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 Heavy on my heart There’s distance between us Tearing us apart How many rivers must I cross? Somehow, somewhere I [read more]

‘Croesi’r Afon (live)’ [4:48] (The Alarm Welsh translation by Gareth Morlais), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Mae’r haul yn codi, Gan wenu ar y brad. Cam yw y cysgod Sy’n syrthio ar fy ngwlad. … Stormydd ar y gorwel …Cymyiau yn y gwynt Sy’n chwipio baneri’r Ddraig Goch Yn gynt ac yn gynt Mae duwch dwfn fy nghalon Yn pwyso arnaf i. ‘Dwi ‘mhell oddi cartre gwranda at fy nghri! mi [read more]

‘New South Wales, A’ [4:46] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Pit shaft wheels turn for the last time In the Rhondda tonight The Davey lamps that shone so brightly There’s no more need for their light As the last piece of coal is cut From the belly of the black seamed hole A man walks home alone Past a church full of mourning souls Throughout his lifetime he has fought [read more]

‘Scarlet’ [4:17] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I Dream in red Of the things That this world could be And is not I Walk in the glow Of a thousand candles Burning, burning slow Sunrise Sunset Daylight Daybreak Watching Waiting Hoping Asking Begging Pleading Shouting Scarlet Rage Scarlet Rage Scarlet Rage Scarlet Rage Scarlet Blood On the page Of a thousand words I’ve written Can’t express I Walk in the [read more]

‘Love Don’t Come Easy’ [4:08] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Love can give you everything Then take it all away She can take you to the water She can make you thirst for days Tell you what you want to hear In the same breath she can steal And that’s why love don’t come easy Love can take you to the mountain Love can make it move Love can shine [read more]

‘Breaking Point’ [4:12] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 [read more]

‘Where A Town Once Stood’ [4:09] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Home where my heart beats Where my love waits for me Where the winds of change Howl into my face There’s rain off the headlands Closes in by day Don’t cry, don’t cry Wipe you tears away The rivers are rising There is a flood in me I can feel the heat In the air that I breathe [read more]

‘No Frontiers’ [3:53] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: A thousand miles before us Long is the road The mountain high And the valley low Our love is stronger than we know In the tears of a river I see the wrong Hear the mountain cry Cry anger Feel the pain in the valley below I want to run Where the sunlight beats on my face I want to feel The [read more]

‘Rivers To Cross’ [3:42] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 Heavy on my heart There’s distance between us Tearing us apart How many rivers must I cross? Somehow, somewhere I will [read more]

‘Corridors Of Power’ [3:04] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Picture you on a pedestal So avant-garde of mind Standing in the last ditch Where fallen heroes lie Stand to the left of centre Stand to the right sometimes All good politicians Speak in riddles and in rhymes I’m looking under tables I’m looking under chairs Been searching for an answer Been searching everywhere Yeah Day by day Hour by hour [read more]

‘Hardland’ [4:09] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Hardland ripped & torn apart Hard dreams leave scarred In the lines of my face The story of faith Hardland I came back Home to a hardland Where a man is judged By the scars on his face Where that sliding scale still operates To come home, I had to go away from here HARDLAND I saw a land Standing at the crossroads [read more]

‘How The Mighty Fall’ [4:19] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 of lows How the mighty fall Once your [read more]

‘Devolution Working Man Blues’ [4:11] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I’m a man Torn in two State and nation I’ve got to choose For on these streets That I spit upon There’s no money in my pocket No soles on my shoes Ain’t got no religion But the workingman blues Oh I, I’ve got the workin’ man blues Oh I’m kicking the dirt off my shoes Devolution workingman blues I [read more]

‘Sold Me Down The River’ [5:25] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: There’s a fire beneath my skin There’s a fever that makes me ill Got a love, a love that kills I’ve got twenty four hours to live Comeback, I’m begging you please Comeback, I’m down on my knees Comeback, I’m begging you please I don’t know why and I don’t understand How you sold me down the river I [read more]

‘Prison Without Prison Bars’ [3:48] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Outside in ruthless city canyons Rivers of people oveflow Gunshots in the skyway valley madness Ricochet as my mind starts to implode Oh no, no Help me Help me I’m trapped in a Prison without prison bars Help me Help me I’m trapped in a Prison without Prison bars Everyday someone’s trying to sell me something Through coloured images flashing [read more]

‘Change II’ [2:52] (Sharp/Twist), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike Peters/Dave SharpLyrics: 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 CHANGE CHANGE I need a change OH LORD OH LORD Down in [read more]

‘Firing Line’ [3:22] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Always on the outside Always looking in Always been the loser I never seem to win I was brought up with nothing But the shirt on my back Pretty soon I learned how to get by On what little I had Oh I, I spend my time On the firing line Unwillingly mine Oh I, I spend my time On the firing [read more]

‘Bells Of Rhymney (Live)’ [3:05] (Lyrics:Idris Davies Music: Pete Seeger), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: “This is a song that I hope will make any Welshman proud to be on this stage this evening. This is a song of Wales, this is called The Bells Of Rhymney” O what can you give me? Say the sad bells of Rhymney. Is there hope for the future? Cry the brown bells of Merthyr. [read more]

‘Strength (live)’ [6:48] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 Coarsing through my veins Like a river flowing That will never change I need someone I can depend on ‘Cause I’m a man of emotions Who can’t hide the tears [read more]

‘Lead Me Through The Darkness (acoustic demo)’ [3:10] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I cry my soul to sleep Somewhere in the starless night I yearn for safetys keep Away from hurt outside of time Oh wherever I run I can�t hide From the knife in the light Lead me through the darkness Lead me through the emptyness Guide me to my only home Lead me through the shadows I [read more]

‘Black Day (acoustic demo)’ [2:08] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Trouble in mind Always seems to haunt me Now that the wind has changed west to east Now I�m rising The flood had decreased And all I need is the air that I breathe I see the black, black day I wanna leave it behind I see the black, black day I wanna leave it behind Trouble has come To [read more]

‘Prison Without Prision Bars (acoustic demo)’ [2:31] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I hear a gunshot break the silence I hear that sound �most every night My mind is stripped there’s no reaction I’m trapped in a Prison without prison bars Help me Help me I’m trapped in a Prison without bars Help me Help me I’m trapped in a Prison without prison bars Everyday someone’s trying to sell me [read more]

‘Know Me Like I Know You (acoustic demo)’ [3:01] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I�m a man who bites hard on the bullet of silence If only you could know the pain I hide And know me like I know you Still waters running deep in the caverns of my soul So many words that got trapped down deep And know me like I know you Know me Know me [read more]

‘Breaking Point (acoustic demo)’ [3:02] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: three��four Do you wake up in the middle of the night Find your eyes are on full beam You’re totally wired Sweat stains on your bedsheets Your throat is burnin’ dry Caught in your worst nightmare you cannot deny Become what you said you’d You�d never become You hate yourself for all the things you’ve never done You tell yourself [read more]

‘Serve One Another (acoustic demo)’ [2:25] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: � four For every tear that�s shed in greif Someone cries tears of joy For every ounce of blood that�s spilled Someone gives their blood for life Our love is greater Much greater than we know Our love will concer I know I know it will By love Serve one another By love Give for each other By love [read more]

‘Uphill Battle (acoustic demo)’ [1:30] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: As I walk through this broken land See the tears of a river Hear the mountain cry In the sky way bleak, black night From the cries just down a lightning strike Oh, running all my life Oh, still running tonight It�s an uphill battle Running every day of my life It�s an uphill battle I�m running I�m still running [read more]

‘The Rock (acoustic demo)’ [3:08] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Oh I have waited for you In the crossfire of isolation This tension will find release Sweatstain, confusion I�m black, get white eyes at night Where angels and men Still fear to tread And no-one�s ever holding back Stood like a raft in the wind There is a sea crashing over me There is a rock That will it�s ground [read more]

‘Crossroads (acoustic demo)’ [2:00] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I�m at the crossroads I�m standing here I�m all alone Don�t know if I should follow I�m standing at the crossroads I stood for years Always on the threshold Too scared to cross Too afraid to follow After all these years Of wanting it so bad Don�t know if I wanna cross anymore At the crossroads I�m standing here I�m all [read more]

‘New Frontier (acoustic demo)’ [2:51] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Tonight you and I We�re standing together On the edge of the new frontier There�s no pain that can break Or cause us heartache No walls we cannot break down Within these lonely streets Standing the dust in their eyes We�ll leave the wrecks Of our lonely past behind We leave it hung and dry Tonight we�re breaking out There [read more]

‘How the Mighty Fall (acoustic demo)’ [3:18] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Once you held your finger on the trigger But now the gun is pointing at your head Once you reigned supreme Over all that you could see But now you walk on the other side of the street How the mighty fall I’ve seen it all before Cause the harder they come The harder they fall How the [read more]

‘Hardlands (acoustic demo)’ [3:29] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Oh I was born Deep in the heartland Where a man is judged By the scars on his face Where that sliding scale still operates I was born, raised in the way of the HARDLANDS Ripped and torn apart HARDLANDS I�m carrying the scars HARDLANDS Hard, hard, hard, hardlands I hear a song �Land of hope and glory� I see a [read more]

‘Tears Of A River (acoustic demo)’ [2:18] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Strange is the silence All on my own Whenever I�m with you There�s never silence Only noice, sweet, sweet sound When we are quiet Our love is a raging, raging sound I long to hear, hear you I long you be near, near you Oh I want you I want you Oh I want you I want you [read more]

‘New South Wales (acoustic demo)’ [2:39] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Pit shaft wheels turn for the last time In the Rhondda tonight The Davey lamps that shone so brightly There’s no more need for their light As the last piece of coal is cut From the belly of the black seamed hole A man walks home alone Past a church full of mourning souls Throughout his lifetime he has [read more]

‘Strength To Strength (acoustic demo)’ [4:29] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Every day in the struggle to survive I see good and I see bad We�ve seen our dreams turn to dust And now we must rebuild them There�ll be no more 2nd chances We must not lose it again Tonight my friend until the end Tonight from strength to strength We were young and easy We didn�t know what [read more]

‘Knife Edge (Live Chicago Vic 1987)’ [5:05] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 LIFE LINE Right now Hey now now Oh oh oh Let the bells ring out When you [read more]

‘Strength (Live Chicago Vic 1987)’ [7:38] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: GIVE ME LOVE GIVE ME HOPE GIVE ME STRENGTH GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR (Let’s go) 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 ‘Cause I’m a man of emotion [read more]

‘This Train Is Bound For Glory (Live Chicago Vic 1987)’ [3:30] (Woodie Guthrie), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: This train is bound for glory, this train This train is bound for glory, this train This train is leaving town, hitting the road & getting on down This train is bound for glory, this train (this train) This train is bound for glory, this train (this train) This train is leaving town, [read more]

‘Dawn Chorus (Live Chicago Vic 1987)’ [6:47] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 it 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 [read more]

‘My Land Your Land’ [3:04] (Sharp/Twist), The AlarmLead Vocals:Dave SharpLyrics: My land your land All through the years My land your land Don’t give me no tears That’s the way it should be That’s the way it is My land your land All through the years Green green summer All torn to rags Green green summer All torn to rags Is this one nation Or just a row of flags [read more]

‘Elders And Folklore’ [3:30] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: In the heart of darkness I’ve waited for you Since the world’s creation In the depths of Hades In the Garden of Eden Jerusalem I stumbled I fell. Since the dawn of man Time honoured I ran Saints in the light Angels in hell Unholy city Jericho I wait for you. Come away, come away Away with me I’ll show [read more]

‘Pastures Of Plenty’ [2:40] (Woodie Guthrie), The AlarmLead Vocals:Dave SharpLyrics: It`s a mighty hard road that my Poor hands have hold As I travel along on this hard dusty road Out of your dustbowls and this` where we roam Your deserts was hard and your Mountains was cold The edge of your city You`ll see us and then We come with the dust and we Blow with the wind Green [read more]

‘Presence Of Love’ [4:01] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: The first heaven is silver And you are silver you shine white light The second heaven is 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 seven heavens I’m alive with the [read more]

‘World On Fire’ [4:09] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I was alone I was torn I was lost in the city of Angels You came with your love Your love and shelter You lit a signal fire upon the hill You lit a beacon I found my way back home I could set the world on fire I’d watch as the flames Burned higher and higher Oh I could set [read more]

‘World On Fire (First Mix)’ [4:25] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I was alone I was torn I was lost in the city of Angels You came with your love Your love and shelter You lit a signal fire upon the hill You lit a beacon I found my way back home I could set the world on fire I’d watch as the flames Burned higher and higher Oh I [read more]

‘World On Fire (Take 1)’ [4:17] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I was alone I was torn I was lost in the city of Angels You came with your love Your love and shelter You lit a signal fire upon the hill You lit a beacon I found my way back home I could set the world on fire I’d watch as the flames Burned higher and higher Oh I [read more]

‘Rain In The Summertime’ [5:12] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 [read more]

‘Rose Beyond The Wall’ [3:40] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Out come the flags and banners again The memorial band plays on Lloyd George my fathers friend And light breaks on the streets Where no sun shines Where my fathers lived and died But time moves on in this my town The sound of the wind is blowing Rushing over hill and vale As the new day dawns And a [read more]

‘Time To Believe’ [3:26] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: It’s time Time to reconsider Time to search my soul My life in these few pages Time to write the book of my manhood Water flows beneath the bridge There’s still time There’s still time to believe My mind Is burning fire emotion I push everyone to the edge I’ve only found destruction How long can I go on I’ve been [read more]

‘One Step Closer To Home’ [4:01] (Twist/Sharp), The AlarmLead Vocals:Dave SharpLyrics: Well, back in ’75 When the kid was on the line And 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 pretense For defence Or plain innocence Say [read more]

‘Permanence In Change’ [4:04] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 [read more]

‘Hallowed Ground’ [4:17] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Well the docks lie crippled In the northem 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 [read more]

‘Newtown Jericho’ [4:05] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: 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 a Newtown Jericho OH LORD the wailing sound Of helpless souls in a Newtown Jericho See them fall The rebecca [read more]

‘Shelter’ [3:08] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Shelter, oh 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 Ain’t got no place left to run No one wants me anymore, anymore, anymore Now they hunt me down C’mon and take me to the shelter SHELTER give me what I want tonight shelter [read more]