------------------------------------------------------------------------ Impurity / New Model Army Get Me Out Space Innocence Purity Whirlwind Marrakesh Lust for Power Bury the Hatchet Eleven Years Lurhstaap Before I Get Old Vanity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get Me Out Get up early every morning Just to put your make up on The wardrobe's full of useless clothes Your winter coats are gone The jackal pack is feeding The motorway sweeps down The council tries to bribe the rick Just to stay in town Ch: Get me out Get me out of this place Get me out of this trap Get me out of my brain Ysidro down to Melbourne The pressure starts to build The bullets fly at random When you least expect they will Everybody feels guilty So anyone can pay I'm just surprised it doesn't happen every bloody day Ch: Get me out So here come the nineties The temperature is rising I cannot seem to loose the stains When I wash my hands One world is rising, One world is dying And one has got it's precious head Buried in the sand Ch: Get me out... (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson 1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Space 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 And close your tired eyes Try to climb away from here Towards the empty skies And I'll meet you there High above it all In the kiss of air, the lover's breath Visions rise from each little death As Moses stands and turns his gaze Away from the fending tribes Walks towards the mountaines And through the rocks he climbs God he orders Moses Bring the poeple to my will 'Leave me be' cries Moses Keeps on walking up the hill And I'll meet you there High above it all In the kiss of air, the lover's breath Visions rise from each little death And should the Devil come And should he say - 'All of this will I give to you, if you Just bow down and worship me' I'm on my knees... "The white twisted clouds and the endless shades of blue in the ocean make the hum of the spacecraft systems, the radio chatter, even your own breathing disappear. There is no cold or wind or smell to tell you that you are connected to Earth. You have an almost dispassionate platformremote, Olympian and yet so moving that you can hardly believe how emotionally attatched you are to those rough patterns shifting steadily below" (quotation from Thomas Stafford, astronaut) (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson 1990) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Innocence Ch: We scream, you run Fall out - fall out You scream and we're gone Fall out - fall out There must have been times in the smoke and the beat on the dancefloor When all of the doors, they were opening for you There must have been times when you thought you were kings of the world With the chemicals eating away at your reason But now you're shut down, closed in We build our own little jails I've had to watch this thing so many times Another little death of innocence Ch: Now we scream... None of us saw the clever image you hold of yourselves The things that you thought were so cool were just a joke to everyone else Didn't they tell you when you pulled a stupid expression That when the wind changed you'd be stuck with it forever And now you're shut down, closed in With all the money you owe I've had to watch this thing so many times Another little death of innocence Ch: Now we scream... (Sullivan/Heaton 1990) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Purity The rains move in east wards 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 The battle against corruption Rages in each corner There must be something better, something pure And the call it is answered Frim the caves ti the cities Come the dealers of Salvation on Earth We've seen the restless children At the head of the columns Come to purify the future with the arrogance of youth Nothing is as cruel as the Righteousness of innocents With automatic weapons and a gospel of the truth Ch: Revolution for ever Succession of the seasons With in the blood of Nature All raised to rot and die This purity is a lie Now immaculate conception in sterilised laboratories How this vanity goes on Or in the message of the preacher With his morals and obsessions The wars that we wage upon ourselves Purity is a virtue, purity is an angel Purity is for madmen to make fools of us all So forgive yourself my friend All this will soon be over What happened here tonight is nothing at all Ch: Revolution for ever... I will always see Brendan At that broken down piano His fingers thick and red shaking on the keys Battered by the years Of alcohol and working Still playing with the faith that never leaves So sit us down, buy us a drink Tell us a good story Sing us a song we know to be true I don't give it damn That I never will be worthy Fear is the only enemy that I still know (Sullivan 1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Whirlwind 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 But still I joined the other And I'm in love with every strange unfolding day As the storm begins to break cover So let the whirlwind blow - through the ice, the melting snows - across the freezing skies and the tiny lights below And so we shutter up the doorways As the ripples move towards us For a moment stop breathing She wakes and stirs beneath our feet The order try to stand their ground While every battlefront is slufting They still believe that they can hold the reins But then they've got no sense of history So let the whirlwind blow - through the ice, the melting snows - across the freezing skies and the tiny lights below - the water seething, bubbling out of control - come on take my hand and we'll dive A television blares in an empty room The poisoned waters glisten Goliath staggers round in a punchdrunk daze Doesn't understand what hit him I saw which was the winning side But still I joined the other And I'm in love with every strange unfolding day As the storm begins to break cover Let the whirlwind blow - through the ice, the melting snows - across the freezing skies and the tiny lights below - the waters seething - we watch the oceans rise and the governments starts to fall - across the freezing skies until the lights go out below (Sullivan/Heaton 1990) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marrakesh They found us in the courtyard At our table in the shade We toasted our last few moments And then the end came They took us back to the awstrup In that beaten up old car And we rattled across the African scrubland In silence Our hands locked together And with cold steel cuffs Sometimes I wish it was still that way Now a whole world has died since then So many faithless days I was born 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 you Is it too late now to come back for you Now beneath this lonely junction On the northbound MG We spray our words of signature On the concrete bridge And between the words of wisdom And the slogans of despair Someone's just gone and written 'I'm sorry' there Well I always swore I'd come back for you Is it too late now to come back for you You're the only one I'll ever love (Sullivan 1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lust For Power Across the flatlands we came out of nowhere special Like a peasant revolution- make shift weapons in our hands We crashed the gates so hard we'd never heard that kind of sound before And braced ourselves for victory and the spoils of the land Defences melt away before our frozen blank surprise From the palace now we stare into a million waiting eyes Ch: I've got my trophies on the wall The heads I've hunted down the hall And I guard my winnings well Carry them with me when I fall Now the daylight hours pass Like the people I have lost In the triumph of the hour In the bloody cause - lust for power Like a vision she dances through the shafts of light Everything I've ever dreamed about focu'sed true and 'bright And fortune opens up the ground blackens out the sky I kissed her once, I kissed her twice But I couldn't remember why When I was young they taught me well to always play to win But they never said what happens when you've won the bloody game Ch: I've got my trophies on the wall And all desires is satisfied But still the hunt goes on It's funny how this feeling stays With all the reasons gone We've seen them fat and bleated those who cure could hold a flame I've run for home and words gone by but nothing seems the same I can watch the world in secrecy From one side of this glass From the other my reflection and I don't know which is worse The streets are lined with glittering stores and a million fated calves I can catch myself sometimes these days and all I do to laugh, laugh Ch: I've got my trophies on the wall (Sullivan 1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bury The Hatchet Bury the hatchet with a smile and a curse The wrold is big enough for both uf us The pack's been shuffled now - we've got different hands There's different enemies for both of us now There's noone round here who remembers those tunes When we were little tings of our own different sides Was I the punk who stole your thunder Or was it all just the other way round? Ch: Now it's gone, done, the fend is over Funny how vendettas just turn into a bore Gone, done, the fend is over I really can't be bothered anymore Bury the hatchet with a smile and a curse The world is big enough for both of us But oh how that bitching was fun while it lasted Until I got to realise noone really cared Ch: So it's gone, done It's such a waste of my time Thinking of you And all the stuff that I hear Which may or may not be true I never did like you - probably never will But I bet you can live with that fact pretty well People get to drinking, they get sent imental Maybe I'm a bastard human after all 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 And this whole thing is just ridiculous (Heaton/Sullivan 1990) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11 Years 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 Before I caught a breath Well she was standing there We walked the streets of our town just talking And the dawn broke grey and freezing through the deserted blocks Just when your life is stale and there's reason there for everything Something comes to kick you up inside Ch: Eleven sweet years and no nearer home A hundred thousands miles through this battle zone Still high on the wire above the hollow darkness Trying not to lock down No Rest for the wicked is still how it goes Twisted up and turning my bed alone And separation pains like a blunted amputation Pushing endless coms in the telephone Ch: Eleven sweet years So rest in these open arms And he until they come for you And tell me everything that you've ever felt Tell me everything you want to see Forever running even when we are standing still Driven on and fired up as the whirlwinds blow And shouting out inside I'm proud of you, I'm proud of you Ten thousand footsteps echo down the Brixton Road Ch: Eleven sweet years (Sullivan/Heaton 1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lurhstaap One swallow never made a spring You can buy a crown - it doesn't make you king Beware the trunkets that we bring When the visionary dreams set hard and grey As flash made into stone You tore the statues to the ground Crying let our people go And now they're gone, all is gone But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile The freedom passion and the two faced call They dance together upon the wall With nothing left to break the fall Now twenty-five miles north in the great dark woods The college buildings stand And the ghosts of hope walk silent halls At the death of the promised land All is gone, all is gone But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile One swallow never made a spring... And in the shadows of the crowded square A thousand paper deals go down And hungry sharks from everywhere Smell the blood and head for town Innocence starts to peel away How money changes everything The past it eats the future up And this blind desire eats everything Now the rats they leave one stricken ship For another sailing past Your world was going nowhere slow While ours goes nowhere fast And now it's gone, all is gone But these changing winds can blow cold and hostile (Heaton/Sullivan 1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Before I Get Old 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 your face Before I get old I'll watch the sun set over every sea From every city wall, every mountain peak Before I get old The Northern Lights and the Southern Cross The harvests and the miles of dust And the blowing wind across the world So wrap this coat around yourself And leave what's done behind There's so much left for us to do And yet there's so little time I'm going to pull the fences to the ground Watch the twisted towers come tumbling down And start again I want to be a hero and a villain And a father and a son Take care of my body and abuse it still Until everything goes numb So let's make this dance and never fear That there's any real reason why we're all here Live real fast, still not die Before I get old (Sullivan 1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vanity 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 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 a madman, Eddie But you'll soon get used to that I believe if you're moving fast enough, Eddie You don't ever have to watch your back I choose solid ground to make my stands I stay off the streets at closing time It's all vanity, all vanity We try to have control It's all vanity, all vanity 'Cos chaos rules it all Remember how it was out at Bunglass We climbed up to the peak and stood against the rocks The photographs came - you couldn't see us We were lost against the mountains like specks of dust And the mirror never lies, It's just these foolish eyes And we all see what we want to see What we need to see What we have to see And so will you do just the same one day, Eddie Been to that place a thousand times Looked over the edge so many times Wanted to jump a thousand times "Well we talk about saving the world now, Eddie It's our vanity gone mad She'll survive us all perfectly well When we're all long buried and dead Clever monkeys with technology Barely out of the caves and the trees It's all vanity, all vanity We try to have control It's all vanity, all vanity 'Cos chaos rules it all Eddie now let it go... I turn my head away from here Down towards the rolling seas again I kneel and worship where I can The ground comes swirling up and through these veins... (Sullivan 1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Justin Sullivan - vocals, lyrics, guitar, keyboards Robert Heaton - drums, guitar, b. vocals Nelson - bass, guitar, b. vocals, keyboards, spoons all violins played by Ed Alleyne Johnson live guitar played by Adrian Portas