Smalltown England Lyrics

This is our town, this is Friday nightDressed in our rags and our rage and our bestPiercing eyes looking for something - anything, anyone.Stare across the floor as they begin to da...Read Full Lyrics

The time I think most clearly, the time I drift awayIs on the bus-ride that meanders up these valleys of green and greyI get to think about what might have been and what may yet co...Read Full Lyrics

We follow the taillights out of the city Moving in a river of redAs the colours fade away from the dusky sunsetWe roll for the darkness ahead Chorus:We are old, we are young, we ar...Read Full Lyrics

Rolling up tab ends that the baby's collectedWaiting for the number that clicks on the wall.It's open season on the weak and the feebleTheir meagre ambitions, their impotent furyTh...Read Full Lyrics

Our history speaks in thunder from a thousand village hallsIn blood and sweat and sacrifice, in honouring every callSo the forces gathered against the thorn a-piercing in their sid...Read Full Lyrics

Well we know what makes the flowers grow - but we don't know whyAnd we all have the knowledge of DNA - but we still dieWe perch so thin and fragile here upon the landAnd the earth ...Read Full Lyrics

The wardrobe's full of useless clothes, your winter coats are goneThe jackal pack is feeding, the motorway sweeps downThe council tries to bribe the rich just to stay in town Choru...Read Full Lyrics

You walk the thinnest of the ice, so easy to hurtWe drove through the dark in the pouring rain and barely said a wordSo dress your wounds as best you can and close your tired eyesT...Read Full Lyrics

Ch: We scream, you run - fall out You scream and we're gone - falling out There must have been times in the smoke and the beat on the dance-floor When all of the doors, they were ...Read Full Lyrics

The rains move in eastwards, in waves of successionDrawing lines of grey across the skyWith history just as close as a hand on the shoulderIn hunger and impatience we cryThe battle...Read Full Lyrics