Ghost Train New Model Army

Ghost Train (Sullivan) It's a long warm September And we're both still alive And the sea is like a painting Beneath the mirror sky Raise the dead Raise the dead We'll go riding on the ghost

Ghost of Your Father New Model Army

Ghost of Your Father (Sullivan) It took fourteen hours to hitch from London to Portsmouth I can picture you in your battered old coat Blown by the trucks on the side of the road Cursing the world

Lullaby New Model Army

Loving a ghost lost in confusion of time - but our love remains through these brightest hours. And my secret world . . . And your face I remember - and your breath I remember . . .

All of This New Model Army

name of the people All of this is done in the name of the people They read their books and study hard Cigarettes lit in the claustrophobic gloom West of the University Road The world outside is ghost-like

Flying Through the Smoke New Model Army

you were trying to say And all the time everything was moving away like a slo-mo shot as the camera pulls across the crowd across the faces caught in the last few seconds of life And you - like a ghost

Western Dream New Model Army

In this whirlpool made Of a thousands years Either live in these ghettoes And know your place Or you trample over everyone In the human race I wish we could find Another way to go Without the Ghost

R&R New Model Army

seduced, stainless the bad smell of poverty disguised, deodorised There’s just the scent of money and privilege intact A century of madness put to sleep to start over again Here comes the Presidential train

Ambition New Model Army

going to patronise me again I'm going to get out of this town Steal myself a crown I'm going to get myself some power If it's the last thing that I do Heading out of Bradford With a ticket on the train

Vengeance New Model Army

you what I'll do, I'll make the first one free And when you want some more just come back to me" Red Sky Coven version of second verse: A girl walks home through a quiet street Just got of the train

Green and Grey New Model Army

there was no need for those guys To hurt him so bad When all they had to do Was knock him down But noone asks to many questions like that Since you left this town Ch: And tomorrow brings another train

Green and Grey (Live) New Model Army

Well there was no need for those guys To hurt him so bad When all they had to do Was knock him down But noone asks to many questions like that Since you left this town Ch: And tomorrow brings another train

Gasoline Brand New

You're screaming "it wasn't me" So there's a sickness that is going round But no one's got a vaccine I think it drowned in holy water I think it's time we all come clean I swear it's like dying To catch a ghost

Brave New World New Model Army

Brave New World (Sullivan/Heaton/Harris/Joolz) The office lines are busy And the girls are working hard Tonight they'll be out clubbing With their boyfriends busy wishing they were Gentlemen

Brave New World 2 New Model Army

Brave New World 2 (Sullivan/Heaton/Harris/Joolz) The thick black smoke comes rising up, silent in these dreams There's faces leering through the haze, that ripples in the heat And words are just

Mixam New Model Army

Mixam (Sullivan/Dean) Cassandra’s still shouting from the city walls but no one ever hears And far below the traffic moves like fish upon the ocean floor to the rhythms of the tide We’re holding ...

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? We're the ones who knew everything still we did nothing Harvested everything...

Family New Model Army

there's those funny old people on the escalators, talking to themselves, saying Ch Well I survive on my own for a while or so Upon a whim or a bottle of wine Just trying to make sense of these new

Tension New Model Army

Tension (Sullivan/Morrow) Like a desert, so smooth So calm, like velvet Like wire, so taut So stretched, like steel The surface is rippling And straining and cracking From within Like a bomb jus...

Before I get Old New Model Army

Before I get Old (Sullivan) I'm going to kiss the girls, make them cry Live too fast, still not die Before I get old I'm going to see you raised above this place Watch the moments shine upon your...

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 I c...

Leeds Road 3am New Model Army

thoughts The Mondeo shoots the lights at sixty-five Swerves, catches the red car that spins and rolls Lands upside down in a crumple of metal and shattered glass The girl sits trapped inside watching new

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher New Model Army

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson) Your love, liftin' me higher Than I've ever been lifted before So keep it up, quench my desire And I'll be at your side forevermore ...

Hit the Road Jack New Model Army

Hit the Road Jack (Ray Charles) Ch: Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more Woo! Woman, oh woman, don't t...

Rasputin New Model Army

Rasputin (Boney M) There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was s...

Killing New Model Army

Killing (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson/Blomberg) It was summer when they finally came, the law of force and line upon line of machine upon machine, back into the greenwood, closer to the heart of things...

Sunset New Model Army

Sunset (Sullivan) Coming in at night all the desert highways Crackle with the static of a thousand little radios Everyone talking, no-one listening Well by now I should expect that Down into the ...

Notice Me New Model Army

Notice Me (Sullivan/Morrow) I'll take any drug in the whole damn world If you'll only notice me Mainline poisons by the score Please will you notice me I'll break any law, hurt anybody For God's ...

We Gotta Get Outta This Place/In a Rut New Model Army

We Gotta Get Outta This Place/In a Rut (The Animals/The Ruts) In this dirty old part of the city Where the sun refused to shine People say I'm crazy for even tryin' Now my girl you're so young a...

Adrenalin New Model Army

what we say So we wound him up like a clockwork dog and we watched him trotting away Two weeks later there's a feature in the paper called 'Britain's Urban Shame' It's got the teenage thugs of the new

Prison New Model Army

Prison (Sullivan) The curtain breathes, the air swims The sweat dries cold on the shivering skin The sheets they twist and turn again Round and round My mother she feeds and cares for me Shackled...

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 And...

Get Me Out New Model Army

Get Me Out (Sullivan/Heaton) Get up early every morning Just to put your make up on The wardrobe's full of useless clothes Your winter coats are gone The jackal pack is feeding The motorway sweep...

Fashion New Model Army

Fashion (Morrow/Sullivan) You better watch your crowd ??? I know they're up they're waiting just to slag you down You better learn ??? ??? remember only well whatever's going down Believe what yo...

Courage New Model Army

Courage (Sullivan/Heaton) We walk every morning in silence Past the mills on Whetley Lane Where the lights went out for the very last time And they never came on again The spokesman all shred cro...

Heroin New Model Army

Heroin (Sullivan/Joolz) He said - come on now little darling If you love me like you say You can just lie there and sniff the smoke You don't have to use your vein And you knew all the stories Bu...

Whisky in the Jar New Model Army

delight in the hurley and the bowling But I take delight in the juice of the barley And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early Ch And if anyone can aid me 'tis my brother in the army

R.I.P. New Model Army

R.I.P. (Sullivan/Heaton) This all started the way things do With a laugh and a cup of tea around the fire As we sheltered from those wicked winds In front of that old TV And we traded ideas as we...

Queen of My Heart New Model Army

Queen of My Heart (Sullivan/Heaton) To the Queen of my Heart, from the King of Nowhere . . . I have watched you arming, and how you wave your sword in the air; always fighting the shadows as they...

The Monster Mash New Model Army

The Monster Mash (Bobby Pickett) I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from the slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise Ch: He did the ...

The Cause New Model Army

The Cause (Sullivan) Headline in the paper tells of fighting in the streets Teenage battles; six arrested Mutters in the council chambers, something must be done Before our city streets become in...

What a Wonderful World New Model Army

What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white...

Long Goodbye New Model Army

Long Goodbye (Sullivan) Holed up in your little room, we talk for hour on empty hour, pacing up and down between the walls that we have built ourselves. No more with the long goodbye, I can't st...

Headlights New Model Army

Headlights (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson) Lit up like a Christmas tree, the oil refinery glows in the night; and down by the shoreline the seagulls fly white, against the black. The great moon riding s...

The Passenger New Model Army

The Passenger (Iggy Pop) I am a passenger And I ride and I ride I ride through the city's backside I see the stars come out of the sky Yeah, they're bright in a hollow sky You know it looks so go...

A Change is Gonna Come New Model Army

A Change is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke) I was born by the river in a little tent And just like that river I've been running ever since Ch: It's been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna co...

Carrying On New Model Army

Carrying On My friend, is it still ringing in your ears Through all those blessed and poisoned years You will still say I was wrong But you'll miss me when I'm gone Carrying on, carrying on, carry...

1984 New Model Army

1984 (Sullivan) The vans they come in convoys now Stealing through the dawn Silent in the countryside In the hills up to the north There's road blocks on the Meden bridge There's click click clic...

Smalltown England New Model Army

Smalltown England (Sullivan/Morrow) Turn left at the lights about 50 yards down There's a pub in the corner and I'll meet you inside At quarter to eight and we'll go into town And find out what e...

My Country New Model Army

My Country (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...

Purity New Model Army

Purity (Sullivan) The rains move in eastwards In waves of succession Drawing lines of grey across the sky With history just as close As a hand on the shoulder In hunger and impatience we cry The ...