Summer in the City New Model Army

Summer in the City (Lovin' Spoonful) Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck gettin' dirt-'n'-gritty Bend down, isn't it a pity Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city All around people

Vagabonds New Model Army

Vagabonds (Sullivan) We follow the taillights out of the city Moving in a river of red As the colours fade away from the dusky sunset We roll for the darkness ahead Ch: We are old, we are

Southwest New Model Army

Southwest (Sullivan/Heaton) If I could save you, I surely would; I'd take the world with you, the way we should.

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

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

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

Living in the Rose New Model Army

Living in the Rose (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

No Greater Love New Model Army

No Greater Love (Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton) 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

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

Far Better Thing New Model Army

Far Better Thing (Sullivan) Ch: But the things we love They remain here still There is time to waste And there is time to kill I see your outstretched hand Through the closing door But it's

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

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

Love Songs New Model Army

Under darkening thundering towering skies We live through these painful days Walking like strangers in streets of damnation Under the enemy's gaze Well we all create monsters Come back for their masters

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

The Charge New Model Army

The Charge (Sullivan/Heaton) Our history speaks in thunder From a thousand village halls In blood and sweat and sacrifice In honouring every call So the forces gathered against the thorn A-

Lovesongs New Model Army

Lovesongs (Sullivan/Heaton) Under darkening thundering towering skies We live through these painful days Walking like strangers in streets of damnation Under the enemy's gaze Well we all create

Sunset New Model Army

the city I smell artificial green A glasshouse full of growing things That are not what they seem to be Look away, look away, the procession's leaving town The emperor rides naked and no-one gives

Tales of the Road New Model Army

Tales of the Road (Sullivan) The caravan flipped over two, three times Went spinning down the carriageway Breaking up into splinters Wheels turning around in the dust at the foot of the hill

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

Here Comes the War New Model Army

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 . . . .

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

Family Life New Model Army

Were you the weapon that they used As they tore apart the family Did they bring you here as they were passing through? How did they do this to you?

R.I.P. New Model Army

(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 watched

Rip New Model Army

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 watched each other With those

Jolene New Model Army

him just because you can Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green Your smile is like a breath of spring Your voice is soft like summer

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

Drummy B New Model Army

Drummy B (Sullivan/Heaton) The bonfires blazed across the city The smoke swirling into the sky We were standing shoulder to shoulder Billy McCann and I Our faces ruddy and burning As we stared

Drummy B Billy McCann Version New Model Army

The bonfires blazed across the city The smoke swirling into the sky We were standing shoulder to shoulder Billy McCann and I Our faces ruddy and burning As we stared into the flames But I know now the

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

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

The Attack New Model Army

The Attack (Sullivan) 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

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

Vengeance New Model Army

Vengeance (Sullivan) Escaped the net in '45 Hiding out in South America Protected by money and powerful friends Hoping the world has forgotten by now All the things that you did in the Nazi Death

Fate New Model Army

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

Changing of the Light New Model Army

Changing of the Light (Sullivan) The sky is broken in grey and in silver The wind blows clean We watch the shadows chase across the hillside And out to sea You and I, we're nearly full circle

Orange Tree Roads New Model Army

Orange Tree Roads (Justin Sullivan) It was late, we were driving home in the rain I thought I saw something flying across the two-lane It was white like an angel - or like curse There and gone

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

Christian Militia New Model Army

Christian Militia (Sullivan/Morrow) There's a witch hunt coming Screaming out on it's rebirth There's a crusade coming Hellfires back here on earth See the light in their eyes shine Listen to

Whisky in the Jar New Model Army

Whisky in the Jar (Traditional) As I was going over the far famed Kerry Mountains I spied Captain Farrel and his money he was counting I first produced my pistol and then I produced my rapier

Winter Song New Model Army

Winter Song All rise for the king in all his rage and glory All kneel for the queen, her secret silver whisper 'cross the snowbound field slowly the silent procession moves And we follow behind,

Gigabyte Wars New Model Army

In the gigabyte wars - round and round we go, beneath the vapour trails - tangled up inside in a web of lies, hostages of fortune and savage tales.

My People New Model Army

My People (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,

Running in the Rain New Model Army

Running in the Rain (Sullivan) So many words are spoken Round and round and round and round So many confidences broken In this town Too many cigarettes I don't want to feel like this anymore

Leeds Road 3am New Model Army

Leeds Road 3am (Sullivan/Dean) The Festival is over and the strings of coloured lights are blowing crazy in the coming wind One bulb comes loose, shatters on the ground The empty streets pick

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.

No Pain New Model Army

Now, in rippled arcs across the sky the great white birds of winter fly, and the wheel turns, and people change - scattered ashes to the wind.

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

Higher Wall New Model Army

Higher Wall (Sullivan/Harris) We're out here on the borders With our favourite few possessions Trading stories whispered round the fire As shadows in the searchlights Mugshots in the files Waiting

Wipeout New Model Army

Wipeout (Sullivan) This is where we go to - to the blue of the ocean On the 30 westbound to the diamond water Lost out in the white waves - salt purification Bright eyes and breathless - this