@ALBUM: NEW MODEL ARMY
The Love of Hopeless Causes


{ transcribed by the Tobias Reckhard (jester@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de)
  please note that the lyrics are transcribed from the CD inlet, not from the
  lyrics actually sung on the album (there are a few differences) }


JUSTIN SULLIVAN - vocals, guitars, keyboards
ROBERT HEATON - drums, guitars, b. vocals
NELSON - bass, guitars, b. vocals
additional guitars by ADRIAN PORTAS




@SONG: HERE COMES THE WAR    4.27
(Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson)

Today, as you listen to this song, another 394,000 children
were born into this world....they break like waves of
hunger and desire upon these eroded shores....carrying
the curses of history and a history yet unwritten....the oil
burns in thick black columns, the buzz saws echo through
the forest floor....they shout give us our fair share,
give us justice....
....here comes the war

On a grey morning to the south of here two young men in
makeshift uniforms peer into the misty light....and
figures dart behind the trees as a snap of rifle rounds
echoes out across the fields....well they hardly know their
sacred mother tongue....but they know their duty to defend
the flag hanging limp and bloody above the village church....
while a thousand miles away in a warehouse complex down by
the river....young money men play paintball games....
....here comes the war

Put out the lights on the age of reason....

Blow out the candle and tell us another of those great stories....
the ones about serial killers....let dreams flow into savage
times....do you hear the sirens scream across the city,
we've had three hot nights in succession....the riot season is
here again....dear lord lead us back into the valley of the
shadow of death....
....here comes the war

Did you think we were born in peaceful times?...

Faster, faster....like a whirling dervish spinning round....
faster, faster....till the centre cannot hold....faster, faster....
You screamed give us liberty or give us death
Now you've got both, what do you want next?....
....here comes the war

Put out the lights on the age of reason




@SONG: FATE    3.20
(Sullivan)

I put my hands into the roaring flames
I felt the pain as it started to burn
I've done the same thing over again and again
As if I never ever wanted to learn
Moving through the world at obsession speed
Leave a dust trail crossing the land
I'm crying out in fury to the gods of fate
Come on, get me if you can

I'm a master at the art of how to kill
I've killed the things that I love the best
There's blood on the walls of my home
Patterned with the coward's kiss
And love it is the key that unlocks the door
But you never know what's waiting behind
Crying out in fury to the gods of fate
Come and get me if you can

I'm screaming in the wind, screaming in the rain
Screaming in the face of the storm
Howling out in the roaring surf
With the waves crashing down into foam
To feel something without a weakness
She batters me down into the sand
Crying out in fury to the gods of fate
Come on and get me if you can

Now I understand what they told me years ago
How the stakes get higher and higher the further
    that you go

Now it's a bad time to look for forgiveness
It's a bad time for searching for home
The Wall came down in a thousand pieces
Now everybody's building their own
Disillusioned little children of the Western world
Time hangs heavy in our hands
We cry out in our fury to the gods of fate
Come on and get us if you can
We're crying out in our pride to the gods of fate
Come on and get us if you can
I'm crying out to the gods who couldn't care less
Come and get me if you can




@SONG: LIVING IN THE ROSE    3.48
(Sullivan/Heaton)

The lovers they kiss and slowly they turn
For drawing a breath there is nothing but time
A thousand million years before we crash in the sun
And I know we will be still here in Her arms

In the thick black night we could lie in the grass
And gaze at the sky and watch the satellites pass
A thousand million miles the earth She will turn
Then still we will be here in Her arms

And if we could float away in our dreams
There's a city that waits under the sea

The days to pass living in the rose
The seeded land slow and old
The scented air heavy and warm
Whispers, touches . . .



@SONG: WHITE LIGHT    4.44
(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
	I'm nearly ready now to come back again

We are silent in this worship
Beneath the breathing of the summer trees
They sparkle in a dance of silver
As the light falls through the leaves

Ch:      Out in the sun, out in the wind
	I'm nearly ready now to come back again

So from the wisdom of trances, the armies of Jesus
To the voodoo possessions, the different disguises
At dusk in the mountains all bowed in surrender
A thousand voices calling out a million names

We knelt as we lit the candles
Around the little shrine
Take me back to the white light
I want to go there again
Ch:      Out in the sun, out in the wind
	I'm nearly ready now to come back again



@SONG: BELIEVE IT    4.01
(Heaton/Sullivan)

In the unlit room
With my head in my hands
The walls between us now seem unscalable
I cannot control
Anything
There's weapons down beside your bed
And every night 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 sweet heart - I don't believe it

Oh how they talk about us
When we're far away
Behind their frigid eyes
They know know more than they ever say
They only tell you the truth
When they get drunk enough
It's a town of cornered animals
Teeth bared - out of control

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
	I take a look around here - I don't believe it
	Is this where we're going - I don't believe it

And every night I clench my teeth and fail to get to sleep
I cannot bear the stillness drawn across the surface of the world

I have never learned to throw the first punch
Perhaps the more you know the more you get scared
In the end you left on your mission
To find a reason for all this pain
And how I wish I'd gone with you
Over and over and over again

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
	And I look into my own sweet heart - I don't believe it


@SONG: UNDERSTAND U    3.33
(Sullivan/Heaton)

Ch:      They don't understand you
	None of them understand you

Tonigh, as you stare at the ceiling again
With your lover turning away
Disappointment closing in
Like the walls... and you try...
You try to talk about love
And they put their arms around you
But still you feel all alone
Wonder why...

Ch:      They don't understand you
	None of them understand you

	And it doesn't have to be this way
	I know you try to do the things they say

Just because you don't know what it is that you feel
Doesn't mean you can hide it away
Well you try to be less than you are but they know
Yes they know... and silence is a dangerous game
And words are dangerous too
And you've spoken the best that you can...

Ch:      They don't understand you
	None of them understand you

	And it doesn't have to be this way
	I know you've tried to do everything that they say...



@SONG: MY PEOPLE    4.38
(Sullivan)

Stare across the crowd, the fear and love in their faces
The children of the tribes, prisoners of the flags unfurling
Protect us in these changing times
The warm embrace, the killing price...
My people right or wrong

Remember running from the hall as the voices screamed behind us
I felt I'd die for you in the sunlit hills of our home
The moments come the recede away
The empty words, the hollow light of day...
My people right or wrong

And outside is cold
Staring up at the lighted window
And in the bitter home
The thicker the blood the faster it keeps on flowing

Get in your place, boy
Let's take what's ours, boy
Understand the price, boy

I've seen those who try to make a life without kin for ever
So I've taken my place uncertain at your shoulder
The last few prayers, the whistle blow,
And into the fray once more we go
My people right or wrong



@SONG: THESE WORDS    3.36
(Sullivan)

Through the years of decay we walk like tigers in cages
With each passing turn the smaller and smaller the circles
Every weapon and word legitimate now as protection
But these things should never be spoken
These things should never be spoken

I stand undefeated alone in the ring just pacing
The sweat and the blood dried on my hands all wasted
I'm shouting "come back and fight for I am the king"
But the lights are all out and the people are gone
We always burned brightest when no one was watching
Now I kiss the lines on your beautiful face
But these things should never be spoken

And sometimes your hunger for life seems like desperation
And when I read about the world these days all I can feel is hatred
The fortune teller is closing her doors
She looked into the crystal and saw nothing at all
They're waiting round here for something to happen
They won't really want it when it rolls out to greet them
But these things should never be spoken
These things should never be spoken




@SONG: AFTERNOON SONG    2.35
(Sullivan/Heaton)

Time passes slow
Fields stretch out across open acres
Time passes slow
The giant steps of mankind touch us so little in the great lands

Our little storm
Whirls away out across calm wide oceans
In this sacred breath
You and I falling for ever and ever and ever

The news peoples' dull voices bring across the distant tidings of great
disasters, politicians speaking in some solemn tones, the crisis of a
different world, the panic of the thousands the destiny of millions,
so far away

Time passes slow
Sunlight sparkles on rippling waters
And the trees they sway
I don't believe in the things that I can't see

Our little storm
Whirls away out across calm wide oceans
In this sacred breath
You and I falling for ever and ever and ever



@SONG: BAD OLD WORLD    3.32
(Sullivan)

Dear Justin, I know it's been a long time
Remember all those nights we spent sitting up talking in your front room
About leaving this worn out world and starting again far away in a
better place
Well that's where I am now... but still thinking about you

Ch:      I'm never going back there
	I'm never going back the bad old world

I was travelling with Laurel way up on the north coast
She's got family living up here in a nearby town
We found a piece of land that looks out towards the north sea
islands across the bay
And the sun is shining on the water today as I look out of
our front door

Ch:      And I'm never going back there
	I'm never going back to the bad old world
Are you still scared of the future?.. well that doesn't surprise me
You could come up and stay here a while, back off from the killing wheel
I used to think it was me who'd somehow sold out or given in
on sime almighty cause
But what difference would it make... it feels good to be out here

Ch:      And I'm never going back there
	I'm never going back to the bad old world