@ALBUM: no.rest.for.the.wicked From:DANH@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (RAMI ZAKH) ==================================== New Model Army - No Rest For The Wicked @SONG: FRIGHTENED It's all out on the streets today but you,you've found a place to hide too busy with the ratrace you pass by on the other side your's is the face of the brand new Britian with blinkers on your eyes find yourself position and cling on for dear life you're so frightened everybody's so frightened. The papers tell of rape and murder everything that you want to hear bad tidings on the radio you find a way to name your fear so you never pick up hitchhickers never talk to strangers believe the world outside your bolted door is evil you're so frightened everybody's so frightened. You are just a victim of your own bad dreams while people,well we are the same as we've always been but through the blindness in your eyes for just one minute i see them shine - love me..won't you love me and they all turn away. You never fight for anything you always turn your face away and you never get involved in trouble let all evil have it's way so as the girl screams in the street below you turn up the television perhaps you'll see it on the news well,it's nothing to do with you you're too frightened everybody's so frightened why is everybody so frightened? everybody's so frightened. @SONG: AMBITION Open out onto the stage the smalltown star tonight flexes out for fame and fortune into the light the way she tears into the heart makes me realise that i never understood hatred till i looked into those eyes - she cries No one's going to talk down to me again no,no one's ever going to patronise me again i'm going to get out of this town steal myself a crown i'm going to get myself some power if it's the last thing that i do. Heading out of Bradford with a ticket on the train and a faith as hard as steel and sharp as any pain gets pictures in the papers smiling oh so good while she lies in bed with racing dreams hot as blood cos love will make you happy yeah,love will keep you warm and love can build a cushion to keep you safe from harm but hate will drive you onwards yeah,hate will drive you upwards till you get back all the bastards whoever tried,oh how they tried - to put you down. And when she's gone forever please don't lay her down to rest in a quiet little churchyard along with all the rest throw a great big party to remember that she lived give her headlines on the TV to remember who she is cos no one's ever going to talk down to her again no,no one's ever going to patronise her again she's going to get out of this town steal herself a crown she's going to get herself some power if it's the last thing the last thing that she does if it's the one thing that she does if it's the only thing..that she ever does. @SONG: GRANDMOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS Come with me my little innocents there's a game that we can play see how much we can change your world while you look the other way turn around as if to see if you can catch us cheat and all you'll find are shining presents laid down at your feet... take the bait.. take the bait.. take the bait.. Television is flash and Coke is nice and you can have the rest dream those dreams you've always had of wealth and power and sex we'll run your mines,your factories and we'll take our little toll and you can have these missiles too while we maintain control. Creeping,creeping footsteps around the world around the world while they promised us everything we've ever wanted,ever wanted. (*2) Hush now,don't you cry (cry) don't you realise your crime... your crime... your crime... your crime... your crime... Like lambs go to the slaughterhouse we know our rights from wrongs and we go down to the shopping-mall with 30 silver coins and somewhere out in South America where the forests lie in ruin they shout - we'd better get these natives some clothes because their videos are coming in soon... Creeping,creeping footsteps... @SONG: BETTER THAN THEM This is our town,this is Friday night dressed in our rags and our rage and our best piercing eyes looking for something, anything,just anyone.. stare across the floors they begin to dance missing all the rythms and the chosen right steps and we laugh and we drink in our corner again we're better than them... (we're better than them) we're better than them... (we're better than them) Divided we were born,divided we live divided we fall,yeah,divided we die still we tell ourselves over and over again we're better than them... (we're better than them) we're better than them... With our hunger and our hatred we all walk this town with our fear and our weakness just holding on with our doubt and our emptyness and this cold,cold frown we got to be so important we'll put the whole damn world down. And we build the walls that we can hide behind and our finest weapon is our poisoned pride here in this town where the jealousies burn we're watching you... (we're watching you) and truth is only what we need it to be to bring us survival through each and every day where nowhere is safe and nowhere is home just be cool... (be cool) And what was she wearing and what did he say who goes with who and what did they do? yeah,we tell ourselves over and over again we're better than them (we're better than them) we're better than them (we're better than them)....... @SONG: MY COUNTRY Tell all the people who believe what they read in the press tell all the folk who stare from behind suburban walls the enemy is not some nation far across the sea the enemy is with us every single breathing day. So yes,i will fight for my country the land that i love so well yes - for justice a land fit for all our futures yes,i will fight for my country the land that i love so well hear the voices of our history echo all around. Fight all the ones who divide us rich against poor fight all the ones who divide us white against black fight all the powers who want their missiles in our earth fight all the people who would lead us into war. And yes,i will fight for my country... No rights were ever given to us by the grace of god no rights were ever given by some United Nations clause no rights were ever given by some nice guy at the top our rights - they were bought by all the blood and all the tears of all our grandmothers,grandfathers before. For all the folk who gave their lives for us for all the folk who spit out - never say die for all the fires burning on our highest hills for all the people spinning tales tonight fight all the powers who abuse our common laws fight all the powers who think they only owe themselves. And yes,i will fight for my country... (ad infinitum) @SONG: NO GREATER LOVE 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 survive oh,grit your teeth and just stay alive and never understand. The young ones they dance with fire in their hearts till the years go by till older,defeated they stare in their beer at closing time no greater love could there ever be @SONG: than what i feel for you you saved my life from this.. While kings are in their counting houses people just wait here in silent rows they spat and they jeered in a last desperate fear as they watched us go oh,and now remember how we turned and ran yeah,head into the wind running hand in hand we laughed until we cried.. so many tears.. oh,so many tears... @SONG: NO REST 4 O'clock in the morning, still we cannot sleep turning over turning round twisting in our sweat they say there is no rest for the wicked ones dear god - what have we done? there is no rest for the wicked ones dear god - what is this evil that we've done?? there is no rest for the wicked ones dear god - what is this evil that we've done?? Is it that we wanted more than you gave why did you put us then in this smalltown grave humility - is that what you want? why did you make us then the way you did?? yes,we have pride yes,we have pride - is this our sin? is this our sin?! 4 O'clock... Is it the times that we've been out fighting? well i'll tell you all those times - we never really hurt anybody or is it that we were eating while other people were starving is this our crime? is this our crime??! 4 O'clock... Is it the times we laughed about it all through all those whisky nights so far away yes,we have betrayed you yes,we have betrayed you - is this our crime? is this our crime?! 4 O'clock... @SONG: YOUNG,GIFTED & SKINT Young,gifted and skint - that's where it int... look how easily it happened look how easily i fell now i'm up to here in debt there's a noose around my neck there's a price upon my head. My past was all in borrowed time (stupid stupid borrowed time) now that the deed is done i'm waiting for the axe to fall fantasies grow in my brain run away and start again dissappear and change my name... ...Money makes the world go round fear makes it turn much faster can't pay the rentman a single thing don't let the man from the gas board in maybe this is all a dream maybe i'll wake up again maybe this could all be clean... @SONG: DRAG IT DOWN They started work this morning down at city square they're pulling down the statues of our great grandfather's hero the new books say he wasn't such a great man after all and anyway remember that the times they are a-changing. Pull it down,drag it down drag it down,pull it down till there's nothing to look up to but the brand names on the posters all around. They proved on television last night god was just a lie he never made the world at all it was just some sweet old-fashioned rate so melt down all the ornaments move out all the graves and let us build the disco that we need for our young 'braves'. Pull it down,drag it down drag it down,pull it down till the hopes and dreams of all the ages past are shattered on the ground. We think we are so clever killing heroes,killing magic till everything that's sacred is brought down to our level for Mammon is a jealous master leaves no room for any other all the questions left unanswered all the answers gone forever so bow to the woman in the finest fur bow to the man with the ace street cool bow to the woman with all the power bow to the man with all the money in whose sight are we equal now? in whose sight are we equal now? in whose sight are we equal now? in whose sight are we equal now? now that we've killed god now that we've killed god oh,now that we've killed god. Pull it down,drag it down drag it down,pull it down till there's nothing to look up to but the brand names on the posters pull it down,drag it down drag it down,pull it down till the hopes and dreams of all the ages past are shattered on the ground. @SONG: SHOT 18 Thou shalt not kill - remember that? you learnt it again and again when you were young they said weapons have this safety catch your moral conscience tells you kid what's right,what's wrong well they make out like they're so surprised but it's easy when you're civilised count to ten,close your eyes the way it's always been... shot 18. shot 18. shot 18. Well,i think i was a bit surprised i never knew i was so anaesthetised and triggers pull so lightly and people die so easy - i never realised yes,i believe in common laws i believe in even scores i understand the rules of war the way the slate is cleaned... shot 18. shot 18. shot 18. Who wants another christian martyr who wants someone else's pain who wants the world on their shoulder who wants to have to cry in vain who wants to have an open sore eating away deep inside you who wants to torture themselves when there's plenty eager to do it for you. Well years might heal all the scars but i don't know if you feel like you have that time and if i was the man that killed your father and if i said i'm sorry - would that change your mind? well no one should be so surprised that words don't pay for victims' lives it's teeth for teeth,eyes for eyes the way it's always been... shot 18. shot 18. shot 18. Shot 18. shot 18. @SONG: THE ATTACK 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 we're tomorrow's history so just check your weapons,say your prayers. Now the evening's over voices muffled in the cold night mist we leave the house together home to rest up in the last few hours heads against the pillows with eyes that will not close of all the dreams that we've ever had - this is the one oh,this is the one. Now the night is over dawn cracks under like a breaking shell now the waiting's over as we walk in silence through the empty streets. We meet beneath the tower greetings empty liXke the taste inside turn towards the valley and the day that has waited all our lives even in this age of concrete even in this age of reason there comes a time when you put your life into the hands of the Gods... ==============================================================================