Lust for Power New Model Army

Lust for Power (Sullivan) Across the flatlands we came out of nowhere special Like a peasant revolution - makeshift weapons in our hands We crashed the gates so hard we'd never heard that kind

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

Live is Life New Model Army

Live is Life (Opus) Ch: Live Live is life Labadab dab dab live Live is life When we all give the power We all give the best Every minute of an hour Don't think about the rest Then you

Archway Towers New Model Army

Archway Towers (Heaton/Sullivan) Rolling up tab ends that the baby's collected Waiting for the number that clicks on the wall It's open season on the weak and the feeble Their meagre ambitions

Ambition New Model Army

Ambition (Sullivan) Stepping out onto the stage The smalltown star tonight Flexes out for fame and fortune Into the lights The way she tears into the heart Makes me realise That I never understood

Drag it Down New Model Army

Drag it Down (Sullivan/Heaton/Morrow) They started work this morning Down at city square They're pulling down the statues Of our great grandfather's hero The new books said he wasn't such a great

Killing New Model Army

That which walks the corridors of power is a virus that mutates; immune to all resistance, and every turn of history . . .

The Charge New Model Army

Our history speaks in thunder From a thousand village halls In blood and sweat and sacrifice In honouring every call So the forces gathered against the thorn A- piercing in their side The brave new

Ballad New Model Army

Storehouses full with the fruits we've been given We send off the scragends to suckle the starving But still we can't feed this strange hunger inside Greedy, restless and unsatisfied I was never much one for

Rasputin New Model Army

He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar In all affairs of state he was the man to please But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze For

51st State New Model Army

under our pillows We're the 51st state of America Here in the land of opportunity Watch us revel in our liberty You can say what you like But it doesn't change anything 'Cos the corridors of power

I Love the World New Model Army

yourselves with comfort lies Like lightning never strikes you twice And we laugh at your amazed surprise As the Ark begins to sink This temple that is built so well To separate us from ourselves Is a power

The World New Model Army

yourselves with comfort lies Like lightning never strikes you twice And we laugh at your amazed surprise As the Ark begins to sink This temple that is built so well To seperate us from ourselves Is a power

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

Heroes New Model Army

And the man has the skill And the man has the power But the boy has the will to win And so much time . . .

Grandmother's Footsteps New Model Army

Television is flash and Coke is nice and you can have the rest dream those dreams you've always had of wealth and power and sex we'll run your mines,your factories and we'll take our little toll and you

The Price New Model Army

gathering mists on the window I see that paying prices came so soon And I swear that those eyes cut deeper into me Than they've ever cut into you Ch: And still the fires won't go out That no power

Rainy Night 65 New Model Army

And the rain come wash away The promised land that is here to stay We came back, things left undone Like uncut stone Little breathes and nothing fills, things broken Still we're all looking for it

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

My Country New Model Army

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 every single breathing day Ch: So yes, I will fight for

Spirit of the Falklands New Model Army

Morrow) The natives are restless tonight, sir Cooped up on estates with no hope in sight They need some kind of distraction We can give them that And they'd kill if they only had something to kill for

Whisky in the Jar New Model Army

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 Saying stand and deliver for

Winter Song New Model Army

Winter Song All rise for the king in all his rage and glory All kneel for the queen, her secret silver whisper 'cross the snowbound field slowly the silent procession moves And we follow behind,

Paralysed New Model Army

Paralysed Screeching fingernails across the room Desperate cornered in the dust Scratching space men on the cavern wall Searching for the second blow I don't know what I'm waiting for Am I dreaming

Chinese Whispers New Model Army

we've done You believe what you read in the printed lies But you won't believe the evidence of your own eyes And yes I've done a lot of things You'd probably call a crime But I don't feel guilty for

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

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.

The Hunt New Model Army

The Hunt (Sullivan/Heaton) We went into town on the Tuesday night Searching all the places that you hang about We're looking for you In the back street cellar dive drinking clubs In the discotheques

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 for

Poison Street New Model Army

Till the shadows go melt away And I love you now Like I love you always ever Kissing in the dark Like a couple of kids You gave me live You gave me light and thunder Like a blind man sees For

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

alone and lucky And I'm just used to it that way My dice still roll in sixes And yours still turn up ones And I have taken my good fortune And I've run and run But I always swore I'd come back for

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

Family New Model Army

and fear on his young boy's face Another innocent taking flight, saying Ch: Give me some place that I can go Where I don't have to justify myself Swimming out alone against this tide Looking for

Big Blue New Model Army

We'll be flying for the sake of flying - singing for the sake of singing, looking back down on the lonely world . . . Dive . . . dive . . . diving down . . .

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

Shot 18 New Model Army

Who wants the world on their shoulder Who wants to have to cry in vain Who wants to have an open sore Eating away deep inside you Who wants to torture themselves When there's plenty eager to do it for

Snelsmore Wood New Model Army

Snelsmore Wood (Sullivan) I woke still half-dreaming I was falling out of the trees and tumbling down into the sky It’s cold, so cold sometime before dawn searching for a light and reaching round

These Words New Model Army

should never be spoken These things should never be spoken I stand undefeated alone in the ring just pacing The sweat and the blood dried on my hands all wasted I'm shouting "come back and fight for

A Liberal Education New Model Army

our values And leave us here with nothing We were in the garden of Eden Just as children mess around We only leant against the tree And the apple came tumbling down You gave us what we asked for

Freedom New Model Army

, freedom I don't hear any more songs of freedom No more songs of freedom So the 21st street rising The western dream aspired The crack kings like to drive German cars And there's children up for

Running in the Rain New Model Army

cigarettes I don't want to feel like this anymore I go running in the rain The television programmes Go round and round and round and round Oh God, I wish you were Still here Oh yes, I'm sorry for

Frightened New Model Army

Frightened (Sullivan/Morrow) It's all out on the streets today But you, you've found a place to hide Too busy with the ratrace You pass by on the other side Your's is the face of the brand new

Vagabonds New Model Army

Vagabonds (Sullivan) We follow the taillights out of the city Moving in a river of red As the colours fade away from the dusky sunset We roll for the darkness ahead Ch: We are old, we are

Lights Go Out New Model Army

- 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 meaning, gave us a place Gave my father reasons for

Afternoon Song New Model Army

across open acres Time passes slow The giant steps of mankind touch us so little in the great lands Our little storm Whirls away out across calm wide oceans In this sacred breath You and I falling for

Carrying On New Model Army

carrying on The empty roads we travelled now are filled With all the grave processions of desperate will All looking to burn out in glory You know just how that feels But I've made my choice For

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

One Bullet New Model Army

sometimes, when I’m on my own I think of her sometimes, when I’m on my own We fought the once and she went down I’m sorry now, but you can’t go back I was wrong and I have paid Carry it with me for

Lights Go Out Us Remix New Model Army

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 meaning, gave us a place Gave my father reasons for