Poison Street New Model Army

Poison Street (Sullivan/Heaton) We were singing in the rain Like we invented singing There's a light in the sky From a million street lights And we danced all the steps From all those old time

Vengeance New Model Army

you'd really be a fool Tell you what I'll do, I'll make the first one free And when you want some more just come back to me" Red Sky Coven version of second verse: A girl walks home through a quiet street

Curse New Model Army

And tell me - how do you shut it all out And how do you live with yourself now And I hope that she's really happy now Now she's got her cake and she went and ate him too Heads down, out on 47 Poison

Turn Away New Model Army

him to turn away He disappears into the tide All your love it cannot save him And everybody holds a secret That draws them with its breath The one that will destroy them Oh the warming glow of poison

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 discotheques

Rasputin New Model Army

Then one night some men of higher standing Set a trap, they're not to blame "Come to visit us" they kept demanding And he really came Ch: Ra Ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen They put some poison

Refugee New Model Army

I hear strange languages through the wall, I hear them shouting in the street below. I listen now to anything, anything at all; just to keep the ghosts away, not to let them come.

Gimme Shelter New Model Army

See the fire sweepin' our very street today, Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull lost its way. War, children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away. Rape! Murder!

Green and Grey New Model Army

get to think about what might have been And what may yet come true And I get to pass a rainy mile Thinking of you And all the while, all the while I still hear that call To the land of gold and poison

Green and Grey (Live) New Model Army

grey I get to think about what might have been And what may yet come true And I get to pass a rainy mile Thinking of you And all the while, all the while I still hear that call To the land of gold and poison

Ghost of Your Father New Model Army

behind misted-up glass As the ambitious and lucky get to feed on the carcass When you feel so much in such a small space Do you think you can keep on running Like the papers that blow down your empty street

Freedom New Model Army

cosmetic control But it's not far back to the caves and the trees And soon it will be time to go Ch: Freedom, freedom I don't hear any more songs of freedom No more songs of freedom So the 21st street

Drag it Down New Model Army

Drag it Down (Sullivan/Heaton/Morrow) They started work this morning Down at city square They're pulling down the statues Of our great grandfather's hero The new books said he wasn't such a great

Frightened New Model Army

Frightened (Sullivan/Morrow) 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

Lights Go Out New Model Army

enslave So today at the office we picked up the cheque The handshake of gold, the stab in the back The old men went home silent and bowed The young men went drinking, drowning it out So in every street

Master Race New Model Army

The opposition, we ain't doing so well Our understanding is weak and our knowledge is small And though kids scrawl frustration on the back street wall Most of them can't even spell bastard Ch

Lights Go Out Us Remix New Model Army

to enslave So today at the office, we picked up the cheque The handshake of gold, the stab in the back The old men went home silent and bowed The young men went drinking, drowning it out So in every street

Brother New Model Army

cars go cruising up and down and round and round With tinted windows and the screech of tires Poverty likes to ride in the best disguise The boys get bored, set fire to the sheds at the end of my street

Leeds Road 3am New Model Army

Near the top of Rushton Street, there’s a parked Mondeo in the shadows The lighting of a cigarette illuminates four faces not talking, just waiting The man in the front passenger seat holds the phone

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...