Lurhstaap New Model Army

Lurhstaap (Heaton/Sullivan) One swallow never made a spring You can buy a crown - it doesn't make you king Beware the trinkets that we bring When the visionary dreams set hard and grey As flesh

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

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

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 ...

Ballad New Model Army

Ballad (Sullivan) When they look back at us and they write down their history What will they say about our generation? We're the ones who knew everything still we did nothing Harvested everything...

Family New Model Army

there's those funny old people on the escalators, talking to themselves, saying Ch Well I survive on my own for a while or so Upon a whim or a bottle of wine Just trying to make sense of these new

Tension New Model Army

Tension (Sullivan/Morrow) Like a desert, so smooth So calm, like velvet Like wire, so taut So stretched, like steel The surface is rippling And straining and cracking From within Like a bomb jus...

Before I get Old New Model Army

Before I get Old (Sullivan) 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...

Believe It New Model Army

Believe It (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 c...

Leeds Road 3am New Model Army

thoughts The Mondeo shoots the lights at sixty-five Swerves, catches the red car that spins and rolls Lands upside down in a crumple of metal and shattered glass The girl sits trapped inside watching new

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher New Model Army

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson) Your love, liftin' me higher Than I've ever been lifted before So keep it up, quench my desire And I'll be at your side forevermore ...

Hit the Road Jack New Model Army

Hit the Road Jack (Ray Charles) Ch: Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more Woo! Woman, oh woman, don't t...

Rasputin New Model Army

Rasputin (Boney M) There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was 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...

Sunset New Model Army

Sunset (Sullivan) Coming in at night all the desert highways Crackle with the static of a thousand little radios Everyone talking, no-one listening Well by now I should expect that Down into the ...

Notice Me New Model Army

Notice Me (Sullivan/Morrow) I'll take any drug in the whole damn world If you'll only notice me Mainline poisons by the score Please will you notice me I'll break any law, hurt anybody For God's ...

We Gotta Get Outta This Place/In a Rut New Model Army

We Gotta Get Outta This Place/In a Rut (The Animals/The Ruts) In this dirty old part of the city Where the sun refused to shine People say I'm crazy for even tryin' Now my girl you're so young a...

Adrenalin New Model Army

what we say So we wound him up like a clockwork dog and we watched him trotting away Two weeks later there's a feature in the paper called 'Britain's Urban Shame' It's got the teenage thugs of the new

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...

Marrakesh New Model Army

Marrakesh (Sullivan) 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 airstrip In that beaten up old car And...

R&R New Model Army

R&R (Sullivan/Dean) Days into weeks of Sunday afternoons Nothing much for us to say nothing real for us to do Just watch the carousel go round and round in endless circles in the pupil of the Dea...

Fashion New Model Army

Fashion (Morrow/Sullivan) You better watch your crowd ??? I know they're up they're waiting just to slag you down You better learn ??? ??? remember only well whatever's going down Believe what yo...

Get Me Out New Model Army

Get Me Out (Sullivan/Heaton) 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 sweep...

Courage New Model Army

Courage (Sullivan/Heaton) We walk every morning in silence Past the mills on Whetley Lane Where the lights went out for the very last time And they never came on again The spokesman all shred cro...

Whisky in the Jar New Model Army

delight in the hurley and the bowling But I take delight in the juice of the barley And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early Ch And if anyone can aid me 'tis my brother in the army

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 Bu...

R.I.P. New Model Army

R.I.P. (Sullivan/Heaton) This all started the way things do With a laugh and a cup of tea around the fire As we sheltered from those wicked winds In front of that old TV And we traded ideas as we...

The Monster Mash New Model Army

The Monster Mash (Bobby Pickett) I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from the slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise Ch: He did the ...

Queen of My Heart New Model Army

Queen of My Heart (Sullivan/Heaton) To the Queen of my Heart, from the King of Nowhere . . . I have watched you arming, and how you wave your sword in the air; always fighting the shadows as they...

What a Wonderful World New Model Army

What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white...

Long Goodbye New Model Army

Long Goodbye (Sullivan) Holed up in your little room, we talk for hour on empty hour, pacing up and down between the walls that we have built ourselves. No more with the long goodbye, I can't st...

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 in...

Carrying On New Model Army

Carrying On My friend, is it still ringing in your ears Through all those blessed and poisoned years You will still say I was wrong But you'll miss me when I'm gone Carrying on, carrying on, carry...

Smalltown England New Model Army

Smalltown England (Sullivan/Morrow) Turn left at the lights about 50 yards down There's a pub in the corner and I'll meet you inside At quarter to eight and we'll go into town And find out what e...

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 so go...

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. The great moon riding s...

A Change is Gonna Come New Model Army

A Change is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke) I was born by the river in a little tent And just like that river I've been running ever since Ch: It's been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna co...

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 clic...

My Country New Model Army

My Country (Sullivan/Morrow) 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...

Purity New Model Army

Purity (Sullivan) The rains move in eastwards 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 ...

Vanity New Model Army

Vanity (Sullivan) 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 Thro...

Ambition New Model Army

Ambition (Sullivan) Stepping out onto the stage The smalltown star tonight Flexes out for fame and fortune Into the lights The way she tears into the heart Makes me realise That I never understoo...

The Hunt New Model Army

The Hunt (Sullivan/Heaton) We went into town on the Tuesday night Searching all the places that you hang about We're looking for you In the back street cellar dive drinking clubs In the discotheq...

Young, Gifted and Skint New Model Army

Young, Gifted and Skint (Sullivan/Morrow) 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...

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 mi...

Rainy Night 65 New Model Army

Rainy Night 65 (Heaton/Sullivan) It's a silent scream in rain town How far have we fallen now? And the rain come wash away The promised land that is here to stay We came back, things left undone ...

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...

No Pain New Model Army

No Pain (Sullivan) Across the town on the other hill, your lights glow from a different world. You always found a place to hide - nails and cross to lay beside; with all the ghosts that we denied...

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 I'm ne...

All of This New Model Army

All of This (Sullivan/Heaton) There's a sentry in a uniform To watch the VIPs along the hall Strategical discussions taking place Behind the steel plated wall The agents issue the statements To t...