Leave Us Alone New Model Army

Leave Us Alone I know that it happened I know that story But that was years and years ago Still you're pushing And still you're claiming The pound of flesh you say I owe Ch: We've already paid

Stranger New Model Army

Stranger (Sullivan) When it comes down, we know we’re alone you could scream and nobody would hear Today my face in the glass is a stranger’s furrowed with the lines of fear All the little truths

A Liberal Education New Model Army

A Liberal Education (Sullivan/Morrow) 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

Bittersweet New Model Army

Bittersweet (Sullivan/Morrow) Once upon a time it was easy Everything kind of fell into place Now this feeling won't leave me We lost the power and we lost the pace It's staring straight between

Marrakesh New Model Army

Marrakesh (Sullivan) They found us in the courtyard At our table in the shade We toasted our last few moments And then the end came They took us back to the airstrip In that beaten up old car

Vagabonds New Model Army

We roll for the darkness ahead Ch: We are old, we are young We are in this together Vagabonds and children Prisoners forever With pulses a-raging And eyes full of wonder Kicking out behind us

Before I get Old New Model Army

every mountain peak Before I get old The Northern Lights and the Southern Cross The harvests and the miles of dust And the blowing wind across the world So wrap this coat around yourself And leave

The Attack New Model Army

We meet again at daybreak For the day that will be ours We're tomorrow's history So just check your weapons, say your prayers Now the evening's over Voices muffled in the cold night mist We leave

Fate New Model Army

my hands into the roaring flames I felt the pain as it started to burn I've done the same thing over again and again As if I never ever wanted to learn Moving through the world at obsession speed Leave

Eleven Years New Model Army

Eleven Years (Sullivan/Heaton) Stevie said now don't look round they're watching us Two girls in the corner of that dodgy club And the grey eyes, the storm that I've come to know and wish for

Sunset New Model Army

and no-one gives a damn That was the last time I get a morbid satisfaction watching sunset in all its degradation We were in a restaurant for wannabes clinking glasses in celebration We had to leave

My Country New Model Army

Sullivan/Morrow) Tell all the people who believe what they read in the press Tell all the folk who stare from behind suburban walls The enemy is not some nation far across the sea The enemy is with us

Here Comes the War New Model Army

they shout give us our fair share, give us justice . . . . . . . . here comes the war On a grey morning to the south of here two young men in makeshift uniforms peer into the misty light . . . .

Purity New Model Army

vanity goes on Or in the message of the preacher With his morals and obsessions The wars that we wage upon ourselves Purity is a virtue, purity is an angel Purity is for madmen to make fools of us

Bury the Hatchet New Model Army

Bury the Hatchet (Heaton/Sullivan) Bury the hatchet with a smile and a curse The world is big enough for both of us The pack's been shuffled now - we've got different hands There's different enemies

Modern Times New Model Army

the beginning I see a flood of painful memories and the bitter hurt and wounded pride that comes with our defeat We set out with our heads held high - so sure our ground, our righteousness, the new

Lights Go Out Us Remix New Model Army

just one of the millions waiting in line Ch: Now, now the lights go out - there's no warning Now, now the lights go out - there's no reason Now, now the voices cry - we don't need you now History gave us

Big Blue New Model Army

Big Blue (Sullivan/Heaton) So let us sing of what remains, there shall be stillness in our hearts; There shall be a sweetness in our lives, bye and bye.

Tales of the Road New Model Army

lighter We went stumbling forward through the corridor Up the broken stairway to the top of the trail of shattered glass Damp mattresses in the doorway, an old abandoned take-away Nothing much to tell us

Lights Go Out New Model Army

my father Said - I've got to be king He said son - you've got to do your time I've done 53 years and I haven't yet done mine You're just one of the millions waiting in line Ch History gave us

Master Race New Model Army

Master Race (Sullivan) Well we all learned how to use a fork and a knife How sometimes we have to wear a suit and tie And understand these things are what give us the right To go around the world

No Rest New Model Army

is no rest for the wicked ones Dear God what have we done There is no rest for the wicked ones Dear God what is this evil that we've done Is it that we wanted more than you gave Why did you put us

My People New Model Army

My People (Sullivan) Stare across the crowd, the fear and love in their faces The children of the tribes, prisoners of the flags unfurling Protect us in these changing times, The warm embrace,

Ballad of Bodmin Pill New Model Army

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 su numb Too old to be clean far too young to be broken Like an army

Higher Wall New Model Army

at immigration In the border zone We are your bastard children All coming home And every day you try to build a higher wall Every day you try to build a higher wall And your money cannot stop us

Drummy B New Model Army

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

Drummy B Billy McCann Version New Model Army

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 And I see you as I walk away Standing by your barricade It's all over now between us

Wars of Purification New Model Army

Wars of Purification Everyone's crucified, nobody wins In the wars of purification Now history she dances in circles around us Learn your lesson well And grow up fast, and grow up strong The

Family Life New Model Army

And now you don't want to go home And now you say that you never will go home Take a tram across the city Past the places where your brother died Of the comfort for the girls who work alone And I

Heroes New Model Army

Ch If you knew then What you know now to be true You never would have started This whole chain we're going through And you love us now But you hate us still And we hate you now But we love you

Grandmother's Footsteps New Model Army

Come with me my little innocents there's a game that we can play see how much we can change your world while you look the other way turn around as if to see if you can catch us cheat and all you'll find

Green and Grey New Model Army

might have been And what may yet come true And I get to pass a rainy mile Thinking of you And all the while, all the while I still hear that call To the land of gold and poison That beckons to us

Green and Grey (Live) New Model Army

about what might have been And what may yet come true And I get to pass a rainy mile Thinking of you And all the while, all the while I still hear that call To the land of gold and poison That beckons to us

Poison Street New Model Army

dark Like a couple of kids You gave me live You gave me light and thunder Like a blind man sees For the very first time In Poison Street we'll go crashing through the walls that history made for us

Waiting New Model Army

waiting Down in the bus station doing time We watch the world go passing by Waiting, always waiting It's all on tomorrow Don't worry today Another year over But it's all okay They told us

Family New Model Army

gossip about the shape of her legs On these muddled up and drunken nights And if it's all got to end up between the sheets Well she can coo like a virgin dove But really she just doesn't want to be alone

Ballad New Model Army

Ballad (Sullivan) When they look back at us and they write down their history What will they say about our generation?

Believe It New Model Army

Believe It (Heaton/Sullivan) In the unlit room With my head in my hands The walls between us now seem unscalable I cannot control Anything There's weapons down beside your bed And every night

R&R New Model Army

R&R (Sullivan/Dean) Days into weeks of Sunday afternoons Nothing much for us to say nothing real for us to do Just watch the carousel go round and round in endless circles in the pupil of the

225 New Model Army

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

51st State New Model Army

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

Changing of the Light New Model Army

sky turns to fire A catching in the heart Standing between the worlds In the changing of the light Across the desert the wise men travelled Following a dream I see the same star shining above us

Understand U New Model Army

You try to talk about love And they put their arms around you But still you feel all alone Wonder why . . .

Trust New Model Army

Trust (Sullivan) Walking home on a foggy night Walking home alone Wishing there was power in my fingertips To burn through this solid stone How the hell am I supposed to know what mood you're

Vanity New Model Army

have control It's all vanity, all vanity 'Cos chaos rules it all Remember how it was out at Bunglass We climbed up to the peak and stood against the rocks The photographs came - you couldn't see us

No Sense New Model Army

Bitter words leave such a bitter taste Well yes I meant to hurt you But it was never meant to go as far as this And still I can make no sense Out of these things that I do And I still put myself through

Nosense New Model Army

Bitter words leave such a bitter taste Well yes I meant to hurt you But it was never meant to go as far as this And still I can make no sense Out of these things that I do And I still put myself through

See You in Hell New Model Army

See You in Hell (Sullivan/Heaton) As we touched down on the tarmac They strode out to greet us It was under a blue snake-skin sky With a handshake of welcome They set their agenda With their

Afternoon Song New Model Army

Afternoon Song (Sullivan/Heaton) 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

Sex (The Black Angel) New Model Army

Sex (The Black Angel) (Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton) Look at my eyes - you know what it is I want you, I want you The way your body moves beneath that dress And all the nights I've spent away alone