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| Harvest Home |
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Who saw the fences falling
Who broke the ploughman's bread
Who heard the winter calling
Who wore the tailor's thread
How many sheaves were counted
How did the carriage shine
How many thoughts were doubted
How did the landlord dine
Just as you sow you shall reap
Who led the mayday feasting
Who saw the harvest home
Who left the future wasting
Who watched the families go
See where the bowls are empty
See where the arms reach
See where the butter melted
See where the altars creak
Where were the days of promise
Where were the gifts divine
Where were the heroes honest
Where was the summer wine
Watch how the waves must shatter
Watch how the shore divides
Watch how the nets will tatter
Watch Canute and his bride
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| Fields Of Fire (400 Miles) |
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Between the father and his son
Between the city and the one
Before the teacher and the test
Before the journey and the rest
The shining eye will never cry
The beating heart will never die
The house on fire holds no shame
I will be coming home again
Four hundred miles
Without a word until you smile
Four hundred miles
On fields of fire
Between a woman and a boy
Between a child and his toy
Between the woman and the boy
Between the child and a toy
Before the following of the west
Before the journey and the rest
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| In A Big Country |
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(come up screaming)
(come up screaming)
I've never seen you look like this
Without a reason
Another promise fallen through
Another season passes by you
I never took the smile away
From anybody's face
And that's a desperate way to look
For someone who is still a child
(Chorus:)
In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lovers voice fires the mountainside
Stay Alive
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
You can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime
Chorus
Chorus
So take that look out of here it doesn't fit you
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor and come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
You can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
Big County/Virgin Music Ltd� |
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| Chance |
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All the rain came down
On a cold new town
As he carried you away
From your farther's hand
That allways seemed like a fist
Reaching out to make you pay
He came like a hero
From the factory floor
With the sun and moon as gifts
But the only son you ever saw
Where the two he left you with
Oh Lord where did the felling go ?
Oh Lord I never felt so low
Now the skirts hang so heavy
Around your head
That you never kenw you where young
Because you played chance
With a lifetime's romance
And the price was far too long
Oh Lord where did the feeling go ?
Oh Lord I never felt so low
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| Wonderland |
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Wonderland, 1984
If you could feel how I must feel
The winds of quiet change
If you could see what I must see
Still hidden in the rain
But when the thunder rolls
It comes and covers up my soul
And you will take my hand
And be with me in wonderland
I am an honest man
I need the love of you
I am a working man
I feel the winter too
If you could hear what I must hear
Then nothing would replace
The fifty years of sweat and tears
That never left a trace
But when I look at you
I see you feel the same way too
You still remember other days
When every head was high
I watched that pride be torn apart
Beneath a darker sky
With innocence within ourselves
We sing the same old song
And you will take my hand
And make believe it's wonderland
Music and Lyrics by Big Country
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| East Of Eden |
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I feel the way the wind blows
It tells me where you've been through
I watch the way the sun sets
Until the night's inside you
Some days I just don't worry
I let it walk through me
Some days I need to bury
The very depths of me
So out here to the east of Eden
I let salvation be
I was waiting
I was watching
Would it ever be before me
And I found that hope and a lucky card
Were all I had to walk with me
(Had to walk with me)
I watch the way the crow flies
I know it always seems so easy
But if I see it in a grey sky
Can I be sure about the way it leads me?
Some days I just don't worry
I let it walk through me
Some days I call upon
The very depths of me
So out here to the east of Eden
I watch your soul run free
I was waiting
I was watching
Would it ever be before me
And I found that hope and a lucky card
Were all I had to walk with me
I was waiting
I was watching
Would it ever be before me
And I found that hope and a lucky card
Were all I had to walk with me
Some days will stay a thousand years
Some pass like the flash of a spark
Who knows where all our days go
Out here we lie together
Outside the thunder gathers
Why care about the weather
It always ends in dark
I looked west in search of freedom
And I saw slavery
I looked east in search of answers
And I saw misery
Some days I just don't worry
I let it walk through me
Some days I walk into
The very depths of me
So out here to the east of Eden
I let my conscience be
I was waiting
I was watching
Would it ever be before me
And I found that hope and a lucky card
Were all I had to walk with me
Lyrics Stuart Adamson
Big Country music� |
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| Where The Rose Is Sown |
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Where The Rose Is Sown
We're at war All the papers say
We will win I read today
We are strong It wasn't us
We are right Who started this
Leave your work I just left school
Leave your home I am no fool
Take up arms It left me strong
Sound alarms The school bell rings
Sons of men who stand like gods
We give life to feed the cause
And run to ground our heathen foe
Our name will never die
This time will be forever
Join up here I wave good-bye
We need you My breast sighs
Have no fear I must try
God will be With braver men
Take the vow I know it's right
Praise the flag The good fight
We're at war I'm on my way
We will win Why do I pray
I wait here in this hole
Playing poker with my soul
I hold the rifle close to me
It lights the way to keep free
If I die in a combat zone
Box me up and ship me home
If I die and still come home
Lay me where the rose is sown
Sons of men who stand like gods
We give life to feed the cause
And run to ground our heathen foe
Our name will never die
This time will be forever
Lyrics Stuart Adamson
Big Country music� |
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| Just A Shadow |
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Just A Shadow
It went so well for you
With a place right where you wanted
And the ones to fill it too
But some blows break the spell
That it hits you every day
Until you need to hit as well
It's just a shadow of the man you should be
Like a garden in the forest
That the world will never see
You have no thought of answers
Only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell
It all seemed fine for you
Till the struggle of ambition turned in violence upon you
Sometimes a landslide comes
If you're hiding it that avalanche
You need a place to run
It's just a shadow of the woman you should be
Like a garden in the forest
That the world will never see
You have no thought of answers
Only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell
Did we ever have it good while we lived in Eldorado
Did we find the gold we should
If it really was the truth
Why are faces filled with anger
That should only shine with youth
It's just a shadow of the people we should be
Like a garden in the forest
That the world will never see
You have no thought of answers
Only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell
I know there is no need for what's been done
I know there is enough for everyone
But frustration brings a heavy hand to bear
And there never is hand outside that cares
Still the promise comes of living fit for all
If we only get our back against the wall
I look at backs that pushed the wall for years
Scarred by many knives and too much fear
Lyrics Stuart Adamson
Big Country music� |
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| Look Away |
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This time we run
This time we run
This time we draw on all the fire
We have inside
We need some time
To find a place
Where I can wipe away the madness from your face
Our name is out
Our name is known
Our name is everywhere
But who knows where we've flown
I never meant to kill a man
But I wail show you how to live
Like no one ever can
Look away, look away
Hide your eyes from the land where I lie cold
Look away, look away
From the lies in the stories that were told
Look away, look away
From the love that I hide
Way down deep in my soul
I met you wild
In a snowed up to town
I was waiting tied and bound
To be sent down
Then I broke loose
You weren't around
So I raised banks and trains
Until I tracked you down
You followed me
When I said no
You lay with me
When there was nowhere safe to go
We made some friends
But now it's done
I always knew
That we would never catch the sun
Stuart Adamson� |
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| The Teacher |
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The Teacher
We talked and smoked all through the night
You led me where I had no sight
Till birdying broke the morning light
And I was weak with strange delight
Teacher will you show to me
The bond between the land and sea
For I am new to mystery
I want everything laid out for me
All of history
You showed me walls around the world
Where seekers passed and flags unfurled
You wove a tale in silken curls
And blew the mist in silver swirls
Stuart Adamson� |
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| One Great Thing |
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If there's one great thing
To happen in my life
If there's one great day
If there's one great height
Let it be the time for peace
Let it be the time of right
If there's one great thing
To happen in my life
I've seen to much of what fighting has done
I've seen too much anger
I've seen it far to young
And talk will come to nothing
While the shouting still goes on
But we are only singers
And too many songs are sung
I've seen the way of martyrs
I've seen the way of kings
I've seen the hope that love can bring
I only hope what pleases me
Will also pleasure you
For mine can never be the hands
That make a dream come true
Stuart Adamson
Tony Butler� |
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| King Of Emotion |
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Peace in Our Time, 1988
I know where all that time has gone
Blown and drifted listening to an August night
I see where I was wrong
But how could I know that you were right
When you said I would need something wild
Something crazy to carry me
I would see you naked and weary
But with pride in your eyes that put shame in me
I wait to find the things I need but I know
I want that love
King of Emotion
Stronger than you and so much deeper than me
I know that love is
King of Emotion
King of Emotion take a walk with me
You know where all that time has gone
Grown up and left
Washed out like an April day
See all those pretty little things you knew
Worn and faded they lie cast away
You would need something wild
Something crazy to carry you
You would see me naked and weary
But with pride in my eyes that put
Shame in you
Until you find the things you need I know
Lyrics by Stuart Adamson
Music by Stuart Adamson
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| Broken Heart (Thirteen Valleys) |
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Broken Heart (Thirteen Valleys)
Peace in Our Time, 1988
Thirteen valleys he has wandered for her love
For he thinks he is the one that she dreams of
But her bed was made elsewhere
From the first day she got there
Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out
It could have been me
A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on
Thirteen valleys she has gone since morning came
She gave so much that only love remains
But her lover is long gone
With the money she sent on
Now she wanders thirteen valleys crying out
That broken heart will be forever and a lifetime
That broken heart will try your love like none before
You may fight or you may run
For what was fast is now undone
A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on
Thirteen valleys lying silent in the haze
Filled with promises and spirits that we raised
But with the spirits all are ghosts
Of the ones we hurt the most
And they wander thirteen valleys crying out
Lyrics by Stuart Adamson
Music by Stuart Adamson
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| Peace In Our Time |
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Peace in Our Time, 1988
Who holds the money, who holds the need
Who holds the strings of misery or the purse of greed
And the gunmen reap while the gangsters sow
And law is cheap when the smugglers go
Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
Give us peace in our time
In sun kissed rooms in city slums
Minds are restless till the airmail come
From the forest floor to the western mind
Like a chat show topic on a party line
And the hardest love of all is to forgive
As the world comes jumbling down
Let all the rain come down on blind desire
Like a thundercloud that holds a prairie fire
I hear the blame I see the cause
A stronger voice a stronger law
But buyers buy and sellers sell
Public consumption of a private hell
Lyrics by Stuart Adamson
Music by Stuart Adamson
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| Save Me |
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Save Me, 7" Single, 1990
Through a Big Country, 1990
No turning back
No looking around
I wasn't searching
See what I found
Inside the spaces
Inside of me
If there's a reason
What will it be
Come on and save me
Come on and save me
I want to know if you're
The one that's going to change me
Go on and change me
Hey re-arrange me
I need to know that you're
The one that's going to save me
I thought I knew
I had my hope
Swing in the changes
Ring out the old
I'm happy chasing
What I can't reach
I'm still embracing
Secrets I meet
I wasted time
That wasn't mine
I hung the jury
I fled the crime
Break off tomorrow
Shake off the past
I know that sorrow
It never lasts
Stuart Adamson
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| Heart Of The World |
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Heart Of The World 7" Single, 1990
I believe in strangers
Wherever they may be
All the souls who shape the world
Look pretty strange to me
I Never met no president
Or shook a ghandi's hand
But I believe we need a love
That they may understand
Heart of the world
Heart of the world is black
Without the love
Love to bring it back
Heart of the world
Heart of the world is blue
Without the love
Love of me and you
I believe in heroes
Whoever they may be
I never saved no universe
Or set Mandela free
Never sang with Lennon
Or played in Jimi's band
I believe we need a love
That they may understand
I believe in anyone
Whoever they may be
Who feels the love that I feel
And who sees the need I see
Stuart Adamson
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| Republican Party Reptile |
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No Place Like Home, 1991
My cousin PJ gets crazy just as much as he can
Real party reptile for a northern man
He's dressed like a republican
He thinks conservative
But he drives faster than I ever did
He's into nuclear power and insider deals
He has a scene with baby oil and heels
He's my favorite politician
Then he comes on weird
Says I'm not fit for this office let's get out of here
My, my, loves his ma and apple pie
Well, well, he's the party's favorite guy
I hope you like it
You know I'm going to take good care of you
I hope you like it
I hope next time you bring your friends with you
He's a drinkin', huntin', shootin', fishin' son of a gun
He knows a surgeon's gonna keep his wife young
Got industrial kickbacks in an offshore bank
Knows who to stand on and he knows how to thank
He likes to come take me for a night with the boys
He talks about the NRA and their toys
Got an automatic rifle in his pick up truck
He drives me home when he's in no state to walk
Lyrics by Stuart Adamson/Bruce Watson
Music by Stuart Adamson/Bruce Watson
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