Green and Grey New Model Army

Green and Grey (Heaton/Sullivan) The time I think most clearly The time I drift away Is on the busride that meanders Up these valleys of green and grey I get to think about what might have been

Green and Grey (Live) New Model Army

The time I think most clearly The time I drift away Is on the busride that meanders Up these valleys of green and grey I get to think about what might have been And what may yet come true And I get to

I Wish New Model Army

I Wish (Sullivan/Morrow) Today seems so special like a beginning or an end And there's so many thousand people here After all the grey days we're shining once again And I wouldn't be anywhere

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

1984 New Model Army

In the first months of the war She frowns down at the soup kitchen She doesn't have a father anymore It's cold in the early mornings Standing with your mates Staring at the thick blue line Armed and

Marry the Sea New Model Army

Marry the Sea (Sullivan) In the tall grass upon the dune He rests his head on you It's warm wind and a faded sky You watch him drifting far away Dreaming, drowning Ch: Did you marry a man

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

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 and

Changing of the Light New Model Army

Changing of the Light (Sullivan) The sky is broken in grey and in silver The wind blows clean We watch the shadows chase across the hillside And out to sea You and I, we're nearly full circle

Nothing Touches New Model Army

Nothing Touches (Sullivan) We drive in silence Beneath the grey dawning skies Past the cooling towers Where the white clouds slowly rise I watch the world through motionless eyes Nothing touches

No Greater Love New Model Army

No Greater Love (Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton) There's storm clouds amassing over in the west Up above the moor The city shines in grey, mills closing down On the valley floor All you can do here is

225 New Model Army

225 (Sullivan/Heaton) She stares at the screen At the little words of green Tries to do remember what to do next There's a trace of frustration That crosses her face Searching for the key she

Killing New Model Army

The wind blows down from St George's Hill through to Stanworth Woods, and to the East, on this grey and pallid dawn the lights from the rigs blinking out across the poisoned sea, a little group of ships

The Cause New Model Army

(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 infested And

Paekakariki Beach New Model Army

Paekakariki Beach (Sullivan) I saw you walking away from the battlefield Through the clearing smoke to the other side Lay down your weary head And gazing up two ocean birds are wheeling , turning

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.

Lurhstaap New Model Army

Lurhstaap (Heaton/Sullivan) One swallow never made a spring You can buy a crown - it doesn't make you king Beware the trinkets that we bring When the visionary dreams set hard and grey As flesh

Spancil Hill New Model Army

Spancil Hill (Traditional) Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly I stepped on board a vision and I followed with the wind And

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

Jolene New Model Army

begging of you please don't take my man Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Please don't take him just because you can Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair With ivory skin and

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.

Here Comes the War New Model Army

they break like waves of hunger and desire upon these eroded shores . . . . carrying the curses of history and a history yet unwritten . . . .

Sunset New Model Army

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 city I smell artificial green

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

Better Than Them New Model Army

Better Than Them (Sullivan/Heaton) This is our town, this is Friday night Dressed in our rags and our rage and our best Piercing eyes looking for something Anything, anyone . . .

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

The Price New Model Army

The Price (Sullivan/Morrow) Splashing through the water on the motorway The headlights shine every drop of rain And every mile takes a minute and every minute lasts an hour And there's so many

No Pain New Model Army

Now, in rippled arcs across the sky the great white birds of winter fly, and the wheel turns, and people change - scattered ashes to the wind.

Queen of My Heart New Model Army

I have watched you arming, and how you wave your sword in the air; always fighting the shadows as they move behind you, and the beating wings that hover around you . . .

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

The Mermaid New Model Army

The Mermaid (Traditional) It was Friday morn when we set sail And we were not far from the land Our Captain he spied a mermaid so fair With a comb and a glass in her hand Ch: And the ocean

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

Running in the Rain New Model Army

Running in the Rain (Sullivan) So many words are spoken Round and round and round and round So many confidences broken In this town Too many cigarettes I don't want to feel like this anymore

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

Before I get Old New Model Army

raised above this place Watch the moments shine upon your face Before I get old I'll watch the sun set over every sea From every city wall, every mountain peak Before I get old The Northern Lights and

Brother New Model Army

Brother (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson) It's been a long dry season in tinderbox town And the ghetto cars go cruising up and down and round and round With tinted windows and the screech of tires Poverty

Ballad New Model Army

unsatisfied I was never much one for the great "big bang" theory Going out in a blaze of suicidal glory Not foolish and brave, these leaders of ours Just stupid and petty, unworthy of power . .

Whisky in the Jar New Model Army

Whisky in the Jar (Traditional) As I was going over the far famed Kerry Mountains I spied Captain Farrel and his money he was counting I first produced my pistol and then I produced my rapier

Lullaby New Model Army

You've the breath of my mother, the life of a stranger; and there's so much to tell - so much I need to know. All of the stories, and reasons . . .

Courage New Model Army

crocodiles tears In the glory of the News at Ten But the proudest eyes are long since dry And they're never going to cry again Ch: Dear Friend, I salute your courage And I toast to your health

Modern Times New Model Army

Modern Times (Sullivan/Nelson) It seems strange to write about these things now but the time has probably come when we should accept whatever is past and gone and never will return . . .

Western Dream New Model Army

Western Dream (Sullivan/Heaton) Gather round and listen And I'll tell you how's it's done How they manage to make idiots Out of everyone Take a human population With their hunger and their pain

Heroes New Model Army

Heroes (Sullivan) We are not children any more The fists you made they are come Bashing at your door Your legacy is waiting in the wings And there's something so familiar In the hunger that

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

Song to the Men of England New Model Army

Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear?

Far Better Thing New Model Army

Far Better Thing (Sullivan) Ch: But the things we love They remain here still There is time to waste And there is time to kill I see your outstretched hand Through the closing door But it's

Drummy B New Model Army

Drummy B (Sullivan/Heaton) The bonfires blazed across the city The smoke swirling into the sky We were standing shoulder to shoulder Billy McCann and I Our faces ruddy and burning As we stared

Drummy B Billy McCann Version New Model Army

The bonfires blazed across the city The smoke swirling into the sky We were standing shoulder to shoulder Billy McCann and I Our faces ruddy and burning As we stared into the flames But I know now the

Living in the Rose New Model Army

Living in the Rose (Sullivan/Heaton) The lovers they kiss and slowly they turn for drawing a breath there is nothing but time A thousand million years before we crash in the sun And I know we

Southwest New Model Army

South-West bound on the winding A-roads - days of scorched brown rolling hills and ripened fields, down to where the sun glistens on the sea beneath Pentire.