@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