Over the Wire New Model Army

Over the Wire (Sullivan/Heaton) Behind all the rusting cranes, in the lengthening shadows of the Empire days there's a world that waits, but it's not needed . . .

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

Turn Away New Model Army

Turn Away (Sullivan) The candle flickers and the shadows Move distorted on the wall There's a wire slowly stretching And now you ask him all the questions The same ones as before But you know

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

Leeds Road 3am New Model Army

Leeds Road 3am (Sullivan/Dean) The Festival is over and the strings of coloured lights are blowing crazy in the coming wind One bulb comes loose, shatters on the ground The empty streets pick

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

Higher Wall New Model Army

Higher Wall (Sullivan/Harris) We're out here on the borders With our favourite few possessions Trading stories whispered round the fire As shadows in the searchlights Mugshots in the files Waiting

The Attack New Model Army

The Attack (Sullivan) Now the talking's over Plans are laid and the hour is set Glances round the table Eyes all shining, dark and bright We meet again at daybreak For the day that will be ours

Ballad 2 New Model Army

Ballad 2 Battle line so far away A late night DJ starts to play That sacred song goes fading Through the airwaves of the night Beyond the lonely light house beam Beyond this black and restless

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,

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

Better Than Them New Model Army

Stare across the floor as they begin to dance Missing all the rhythms and the chosen right steps And we laugh and we drink in our corner again We're better than them . . .

R.I.P. New Model Army

each other With those ambitious bright eyes Those eyes that saw every detail of the world so clear And we bided our time impatiently Until the hunger really burned And the softest sweetest kisses

Rip New Model Army

ambitious bright eyes Those eyes that saw every detail of the world so clear And we bided our time impatiently Until the hunger really burned And the softest sweetest kisses were lost Amidst the thunder

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

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

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

Waiting New Model Army

Waiting (Sullivan) There's absolutely nothing on my mind The television flickers in my eyes Waiting, always waiting Down in the bus station doing time We watch the world go passing by Waiting

Ballad New Model Army

We're the ones who knew everything still we did nothing Harvested everything, planted nothing Well we live pretty well in the wake of the goldrush Floating in comfort on waves of our apathy Quietly

I Love the World New Model Army

I Love the World (Sullivan/Heaton) The roll of distant thunder breaks The afternoon of silence wakes They hurry through from Petergate As if they know this dance In fury blind I drive at night

51st State New Model Army

51st State (Cartwright/NMA) Look out of your windows, watch the skies Read all the instructions with bright blue eyes We're W.A.S.Ps, proud American sons We know how to clean our teeth and how

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

Long Goodbye New Model Army

No more with the long goodbye, I can't stand another tear; I won't wait for the bell to toll - straight on for the days ahead, straight on for the days ahead . . .

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

BD7 New Model Army

BD7 (Sullivan/Heaton) Well the warm wind it blew through the sixties But it didn't blow much round here Disappointment ??? I didn't want it any way ??? white paint ???

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

Highway Patrol Man New Model Army

named Franky and Franky ain't no good Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down I get a call over the radio Franky's in trouble down town Well if it was any other man, I'd put

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

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

No Rest New Model Army

No Rest (Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton) Ch: 4 o'clock in the morning And still we cannot sleep Turning over turning round Twisting in our sweat They say there is no rest for the wicked ones Dear God

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

The Charge New Model Army

piercing in their side The brave new world is beckoning So the olden world must die In the offices of the city At all the tables of oak and power The snares are laid and baited For the approaching

Big Blue New Model Army

There's a beach I know at the edge of the world, mist rising up from the breaking waves towards the cliffs, as green as god.

The World New Model Army

The roll of distant thunder breaks The afternoon of silence wakes They hurry through from Petergate As if they know this dance In fury blind I drive at night Across the moors, the open roads Beneath the

Whirlwind New Model Army

Whirlwind (Sullivan/Heaton) I felt a shiver in the heathaze And the waiting time is over Strange tongues on the airwaves As the voices call from distant lands I saw which was the winning side

Wonderful Way to Go New Model Army

Wonderful Way to Go (Sullivan/Heaton) The wolf he howls, howls up at the moon, out on the steps beneath my hotel room.

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

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

One Bullet New Model Army

One Bullet In a ring of men, with money changing hands All the gypsy kings, they were gathered from miles around I was tapped on the shoulder, stripped to the waist But I was quick, quicker than

Fate New Model Army

Fate (Sullivan) I put 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

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

Western Dream New Model Army

weaknesses that cripple them Again and again Invent a splendid party Where the dreams can be won And with bright flashing lights The heartaches are gone With sex and with money And with everything

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

Tales of the Road New Model Army

Tales of the Road (Sullivan) The caravan flipped over two, three times Went spinning down the carriageway Breaking up into splinters Wheels turning around in the dust at the foot of the hill

Vengeance New Model Army

Vengeance (Sullivan) Escaped the net in '45 Hiding out in South America Protected by money and powerful friends Hoping the world has forgotten by now All the things that you did in the Nazi Death

Vanity New Model Army

Vanity (Sullivan) I'll teach you everything that I know now, Eddie If you really want to take the time But don't expect to get answers to anything, Eddie There is just one thing I've learned

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

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

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