‘Stand, The (Full Version)’ [4:41] (MacDonald/Peters/Sharp), The Alarm
Lead Vocals:Mike Peters
Lyrics
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Come on down & meet your maker Come on down & make the stand Oh 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 (had no name) I swear he had no name Come on down & meet your maker Come on down & make the stand Come on down, come on down, Come on down & make the stand. As I crawled beneath the searchlights Looking through the floorboards of this life I met Doctor Strangeloves cousin He bore the marks of time "Hey! Trashcan where you going boy Your eyes are feet apart Is that the end you're carrying Shall I play the funeral march (play the march) Play the funeral march" Come on down & meet your maker Come on down & make the stand Come on down, come on down, Come on down And we'll make the stand. Come on down & meet your maker Come on down & make the stand Come on down, come on down, Come on down, we'll make the stand. When I looked out the window On the hardship that had struck I saw the seven phials open The plague claimed man and son Four men at a grave in silence With hats bowed down in grace A simple wooden cross, It had no epitaph engraved (it had no) It had no epitaph engraved. Come on down & meet your maker Come on down & make the stand Come on down, come on down, Come on down, we'll make the stand Come roll out the red carpet come bugler sound the horn the hero is returning you've got to welcome him to his home Don't say I didn't wam you this prophecy is coming true I can hear cavalry thundering Riding over the hill Riding over the hill Come on down & meet your maker Come on down & make the stand Come on down, come on down, Come on & make the stand. Come on down & meet your maker Come on down & make the stand Come on down, come on down, Come on down, we'll make the stand. (repeat) Come on AND WE'LL MAKE THE STAND
Notes
:Produced by Mick Glossop
Recorded at Ramport Studios, London, February 3rd 1983
Mike Peters Notes
:Stephen King wrote a novel called “The Stand” and in the
beginning book he writes an author’s note and he says that
all the places he visited to compile the information and the
research for his book and all the characters that he met that he
wanted to characterize in the book, that he totally distorted
them all to fit his novel.
So I’d read his novel and put quite
a bit of it in the song. I totally distorted his novel to fit my song.
(1984, Backstage Pass, 91X)
Dave Sharp Notes
:”The Stand” is probably my favorite Alarm song so far because it was the first real time we’d succeeded in making the sort of record that you could put on and feel better as the result. To me, that is what making music is all about.
(Strength Tour Program, 1985)
Eddie MacDonald Notes
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Nigel Twist Notes
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