Flying Through the Smoke New Model Army

Flying Through the Smoke (Sullivan/Heaton) Red dots - close my eyes - tunnel vision the cooling towers like Cathedrals Pitch black dark, brighter than the sun Less than zero, more than infinity

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

Wonderful Way to Go New Model Army

Was in the woods behind this little town we went flying up through the silhouette trees, then crashing down colours brighter than I've ever seen.

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

Headlights New Model Army

Headlights (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson) Lit up like a Christmas tree, the oil refinery glows in the night; and down by the shoreline the seagulls fly white, against the black.

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.

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

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

Orange Tree Roads New Model Army

Orange Tree Roads (Justin Sullivan) It was late, we were driving home in the rain I thought I saw something flying across the two-lane It was white like an angel - or like curse There and gone

The Burning Season New Model Army

The Burning Season The quality of the recording I have is so poor that I hardly understood anything. Sorry.

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

Innocence New Model Army

Innocence (Sullivan/Heaton) Ch: We scream, you run Fall out - fall out You scream and we're gone Fall out - falling out There must have been times in the smoke and the beat on the dancefloor

Spancil Hill New Model Army

I shortly came to anchor at the cross of Spancil Hill It being the 23rd June the day before the fair When Ireland's sons and daughters in crowds assembled there The young and the old, the brave and

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

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

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

No Sense New Model Army

Bitter words leave such a bitter taste Well yes I meant to hurt you But it was never meant to go as far as this And still I can make no sense Out of these things that I do And I still put myself through

Nosense New Model Army

Bitter words leave such a bitter taste Well yes I meant to hurt you But it was never meant to go as far as this And still I can make no sense Out of these things that I do And I still put myself through

The Dream New Model Army

The Dream The man can't sleep tonight There's something on his mind worth thinking He wonders how far he ever stretched away from the past Does he know he's going nowhere I don't know if he knows

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

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

Heroin New Model Army

Heroin (Sullivan/Joolz) He said - come on now little darling If you love me like you say You can just lie there and sniff the smoke You don't have to use your vein And you knew all the stories

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

Mixam New Model Army

Mixam (Sullivan/Dean) Cassandra’s still shouting from the city walls but no one ever hears And far below the traffic moves like fish upon the ocean floor to the rhythms of the tide We’re holding

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 ???

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

Killing New Model Army

Killing (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson/Blomberg) It was summer when they finally came, the law of force and line upon line of machine upon machine, back into the greenwood, closer to the heart of things

Believe It New Model Army

I count them all Ch: Is this where we've come to - I don't believe it After everything that we've been through - I don't believe it Take a look around here - I don't believe it I look into my own

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

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

1984 New Model Army

1984 (Sullivan) The vans they come in convoys now Stealing through the dawn Silent in the countryside In the hills up to the north There's road blocks on the Meden bridge There's click click

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

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

Space New Model Army

Space (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson) Well you walk the thinnest of the ice So easy to hurt We drove through the dark in the pouring rain And barely said a word So dress your wounds as best you can

Ghost Train New Model Army

Ghost Train (Sullivan) It's a long warm September And we're both still alive And the sea is like a painting Beneath the mirror sky Raise the dead Raise the dead We'll go riding on the ghost

Someone Like Jesus New Model Army

just dripping through me There’s always something in the corner of my life that I cannot quite see And I’m not sleeping well, all my dreams are so real I dreamed I set fire to my house, watched the

White Light New Model Army

White Light (Sullivan/Heaton) It's another heroes' sunset I'm riding on the Great North Road Coiled and tensed in wonder As the land turns burning gold Ch: Out in the sun, out in the wind

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

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

Vanity New Model Army

Through everything that I've done and tried Everything I have justified It's all vanity, all vanity We try to have control It's all vanity, all vanity 'Cos chaos rules it all I always drive like

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

Refugee New Model Army

Refugee (Heaton/Sullivan) My room is dark, and very small; there's a place to wash at the end of the hall.

Love Songs New Model Army

Under darkening thundering towering skies We live through these painful days Walking like strangers in streets of damnation Under the enemy's gaze Well we all create monsters Come back for their masters

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 . . .

Lovesongs New Model Army

Lovesongs (Sullivan/Heaton) Under darkening thundering towering skies We live through these painful days Walking like strangers in streets of damnation Under the enemy's gaze Well we all create

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

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

Werewolves of London New Model Army

Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon) I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's Going to get

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