Understand U New Model Army

Understand U (Sullivan/Heaton) Ch: They don't understand you None of them understand you Tonight, as you stare at the ceiling again With you lover turning away Disappointment closing in Like

Nothing Touches New Model Army

me home I am very young Please take me home And yes I heard you screaming As you walked out of my door And yes I've seen those bloody faces Picked up from the floor I feel nothing and yet I understand

No Greater Love New Model Army

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 survive Grit your teeth and just stay alive And never understand

My People New Model Army

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

Jolene New Model Army

voice is soft like summer rain And I cannot compete with you, Jolene He talks about you in his sleep There's nothing I can do to keep From crying when he calls your name, Jolene And I can easily understand

Headlights New Model Army

Your pulse is beating faster now, like a bird flying hard against the wind; trying to understand all the crazed compulsions that you feel.

125 MPH New Model Army

vision Razor sharp and racing racing These moments, immortal No one touches this Ch: These things they flow as blood must flow Dust to dust and wind must blow Nothing that I need to know Or ever understand

Sunset New Model Army

Rome And I said it's beginning to feel OK The last time Well I gave you all my money I'm ashamed to remember now just why I did that I got bitter, I got jealous, but not as much as you Do you understand

Master Race New Model Army

Master Race (Sullivan) Well we all learned how to use a fork and a knife How sometimes we have to wear a suit and tie And understand these things are what give us the right To go around the world

Shot 18 New Model Army

I think I was a bit surprised I never knew I was so anaesthetised And triggers pull so lightly And people die so easy - I never realized Well I believe in common laws I believe in even scores I understand

Chinese Whispers New Model Army

things You'd probably call a crime But I don't feel guilty for anything All the tongues waggle But we just smile That'll keep the little buggers Going for a while I live within natural justice I understand

Whirlwind New Model Army

waters seething, bubbling out of control - come on take my hand and we'll dive A television blares in an empty room The poisoned waters glisten Goliath staggers round in a punchdrunk daze Doesn't understand

Smalltown England New Model Army

they're in Get drunk and stoned and wrecked again No tears of rage, no cries of pain Nothing ventured, nothing gained In smalltown England The world outside the pint in hand Is all so hard to understand

Curse New Model Army

friend or two I guess we were laughing how we made it through the bad old days When across the bar I caught a glimpse of you Sometimes they ask me why I don't sit with you I guess the'll never understand

Ballad of Bodmin Pill New Model Army

turns her head Watches through the window as he pulls away Funny how your racing brain drives you so mad When all the while you feel su numb Too old to be clean far too young to be broken Like an army

Fate New Model Army

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

I Love the World New Model Army

Oh God I love the world Well I never said I was a clever man But I know enough to understand That the endless leaps and forward plans Will someday have to cease You blind yourselves with comfort

White Coats New Model Army

makes the flowers grow But we don't know why And we all have the knowledge of DNA But we still die We perch so thin and fragile here Upon the land And the earth that moves beneath us We don't understand

The World New Model Army

Oh God I love the world Well I never said I was a clever man But I know enough to understand That the endless leaps and forward plans Will someday have to cease You blind yourselves with comfort lies Like

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...

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...

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...