‘Now That The Night Is Over’ (Seventeen)

‘Steeltown (1984 E-Zee Hire demo)’ [3:20] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: The iron gates clang in a steelmill town A man breaks down to that unemployment sound A woman gives her love to a man disowned A man who’s alone in a world without hope She gives him the strength to run his miles Forge a will of iron, fuel for the fire FIRE FIRE FIRE And the odds are [read more]

‘Knife Edge (1984 E-Zee Hire demo)’ [5:51] (Macdonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Petrol fumes, littered street and the beauty of unemployment The writings on the walls of empty houses Going to waste I’m living on a knife edge On the breadline Taking all the hard sell Looking for a life line When you ain’t got nothing in this world It makes you feel useless It gives you nothing to live [read more]

‘Scarlet (electric demo)’ [5:42] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: I Dream in red Of all 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 Rage Blood On the page Of a thousand words I’ve written Can’t express I [read more]