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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
There's only one way of life
And that's your own My father when I was younger Took me up on to the hill That looked down on the city smog Above the factory spill He said this is where I come When I want to be free Well he never was in his lifetime But these words stuck with me I ran from all of this And I climbed that highest hill And looked down on my life Beneath the factory spill I looked down onto my life As the family disgrace Then to all my friends on the starting line Their wages off to chase And all my friends and all their jobs And all the bloody waste CHORUS I grew up, learned to love and laugh Circled A's on the underpass But the noise we thought would never stop Died a death as the punks grew up And we choked on our dreams We wrestled with our fears Running through the heartless streets Chasing our ideas And the problems of the world Won't be solved by this guitar And they won't stop coming either By the life I've had so far And the bright lights of my home town Won't be getting any dimmer Though their calling has receded now Like some old distant singer And they don't seem so appealing To the eyes of this poor sinner CHORUS |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
The Bar was dark, quiet and still
And nothing could be heard The dust lay undisturbed At a table near the back, underneath a fan Two men shared a joka about the normal folk The cards are on the table The winners takes it all The game is nearly over One man about to fall I don't believe in heaven I don't believe in hell I don't believe what I'm seeing This is no game, can't you tell "I'm calling your bluff" the first man said "The people went to war, they always wanted more How could I ever fail to lose They can't take it any more, they want to end the score" The second man showed his hand Some walked barefoot across the land Many have seen the future And are doing the best they can CHORUS The clock ticked past the final hour Which of the men had lost? and what was the cost? The glasses now were empty and gone To wash away the shame, and take away the pain One man left the table The other, head in hands Paid the bill for the defeated the only thing left that stands CHORUS |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
The Boatman
If I could choose the life I pleased Then I would be a boatman Along the canals and the rivers free No hasty words are spoken My only law is the river breeze Would take me to the open seas If I could choose the life I pleased Then I would be a boatman If I could choose the life I pleased Then I would be a rover And if the road was not for me Then I would choose another Across the mountains and the valleys deep I would take these weary feet If I could choose the life I pleased Then I would be a rover But these things are so hard for me I cannot choose my own destiny And all the things that I want to see Are so unclean I wish I could choose the life I please But I am not a free man Others choose my destiny But my will's never broken I know someday I will be Everything that I dreamed I'd be If I could choose the life I pleased I would be a boatman. |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
There's one too many, two too many holes
Getting bigger in the garden wall And the people looking in are getting busy, they're getting bad They're trying to suss it all They're trying to get to me, to take my liberty Got to go go, get out of here, away-way, you don't want me here Got to go go, get out of here, go home I said this means nothing to me They way we were is the way I wanna be This means nothing to me The way we were is the way I wanna be They're sending in the elite, complete with guns To advertise the way to go Faxing through the fax to make it clear That they're the ones who know They're trying to get to me, to take my liberty Got to go go, get out of here, away-way, you don't want me here Got to go go, get out of here, go home I said this means nothing to me They way we were is the way I wanna be This means nothing to me The way we were is the way I wanna be |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
It's warm by the river, the weir keeps us cleen
The woodsmoke and cigarettes are all that we need Marking the dirt with twigs and simple words spoke Kicking the dust so we can just Dance the dance that plays with fire Play guitar and play inspired You said you would leave not ever Underneath the sky forever It's cool by the sea when the pavement is hot We take a walk down there to see what we've got An old man collecting fifty beautiful words Cleaning the beach so that he can teach us to CHORUS It's cool by the pane glass on the high street we played But there's always a penny in the music we made So far from home, with no means of return Burning the bridge, so we always CHORUS We're so far from home No need to return There's so much that we have though And so much we have learned |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
The year is 1991, it seems that freedom's dead and gone
The power of the rich is held by few Keep the young ones paralized, educated by your lies Keep the old ones happy with the news Tell the singer not to singthis song Tell the poet that she's wrong And in the courts you'll win the case with lies Cos you sold them down the river-o Do I belong to some ancient race I like to walk in ancient places These are the things that I can understand I don't believe in your modern way Don't care about the things you say Your policies have failed the test of time Cos you sold them down the river-o Now in a land not far away, there's men in prison because they say The colour of your skin is not a question Did you rally to their side? No, you sat back and let them die I don't know how you get to sleep at night CHORUS Your money market goes round and round The pound goes up, the dollar goes down Another South American forest cut down You need the power for your new towns Cos you get scared when the night comes down Won't you tell me where it is that we are bound? CHORUS |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
Gunshots shatter the peace of night
it's just another fire fight for the people of this little town but for the dying soldier well, he's feeling ten years older as he's lying face down on the ground all the words that are in his head are all the words his mother said as she would put him to bed back home CHORUS: your daddy, well he died in the falklands fighting for another man's cause and your brother he was killed in the last war now your mother's , well she's lying home alone Every day she sees your face on the picture on the fireplace with your brother as he was leaving school then a day came five years ago you said "mother, i need to know" and you spoke the words your brother spoke before "I've seen the things my daddy's done and I've seen the medals that he's won and i know this is what he would have wanted-for me" but CHORUS Now she wonders at it all Just in his name did he break, your heroes fall And how many more are gonna answer the call They're gonna fight, fight and die in another country's war They're gonna die for religion, they didn't believe in at all They're gonna die in a place, they should never been at all Oh, never been at all 'Cos CHORUS |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
Well its headlights, and white lights, and Black Tar Rivers
They're dragging me around this country as it withers The billboards, signposts, standing in the way Tell of the state of the nations, that we find today And we play and we play and we play To every day, every day To every day And in the front rooms of old towns far from the city With beaten up guitars and hearts full of pity The people gather round singing songs from everywhere They're torn from the nation, left without a care CHORUS And we'll rid the bloody world for a moment in a word And we'll rid the bloody world cos The words that you heard when you were young will always stay The one's that always stay make the world go away Warm night, clear sky, European town Outside the bars singing their hearts out to a crowd With open boots, violin, banjo and a voice The exiled buskers are happy with their choice CHORUS |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
I met you in '82, over a crate of beer and not a few
I cracked a can and so did you, we're gonna change the world The ghetto kings of downside town – the estates and parks of our hallowed ground Doing anything that we found, and on the river flowed You'd take a drink from the Rev. Jimmy Jones You'd cross the street on the path the gunman roams Thrown aside and left to waste, that was you – you knew your place Wander round, get off your face, and on the river flowed CHORUS: On and on the riverflow – we the undertow On and on the riverflow – we the undertow I don't know how you made it through all the smoke and brew you do It sure has left its mark on you, but you're still with us today Life goes on and round we go and words can kill these things I know Sometimes you cut me deeply so, but on the river flows You'd set the table for the barber Sweeney Todd You'd clip the wings of any rising god But man can't live on hope alone, it can be cut, all that is grown Broke your spirit but not your bones, and on the the river flows CHORUS You're working now – forced to the race I know it left a bitter taste But the rising tide has covered your face Nothing you can do But I still remember the day you said That river flowing through my head Would take me far or leave me dead And all you said was true |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
I thought i heard someone calling me
i've seen the pictures on TV and i made up my mind that i'd go and see with my own eyes It didn't take too long to hitch a ride with a guy going south to start a new life past the place where my friend died two years ago Down the 303 at the end of the road flashing lights - exclusion zones and it made me think it's not just the stones that they're guarding Hey hey, can't you see there's nothing here that you could call free they're getting their kicks laughing at you and me As the sun rose on the beanfield they came like wolf on the fold and no they didn't give a warning they took their bloody toll I see a pregnant woman lying in blood of her own i see her children crying as the police tore apart her home And no they didn't need a reason it's what your votes condone it seems they were committing treason by trying to live on the road CHORUS |
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from Levellers - Levelling The Land (1992)
15 years
I never was a violent man Said the man in the bar with his head in his hands he's Trying his best to understand the cause of his dismay But the years of gin have broken him they've left him cold where he's fitted in but It's too late now to turn around and find another way And the laughs in the late night lock-in have Faded away when he gets in the girl from fifteen years ago Has packed and gone away That's never how it used to be What happened to all that energy You took one too many liberties, I'm tired of being afraid So after the fight she took flight Hiding swollen eyes and a wounded pride The best years of her life denied, and sold for liquid shares CHORUS and The victims of their world, are advertised on posters just A beach and a pretty girl, if you just take this potion theres another week 'til his cheque comes through He's got a fiver left now to spend on food But the doors of the bars are open, and he breaks another rule well He sits on a stool that bears his name Hes got a favorite glass well its called the same he's never been kept waiting, 'cos he pays a landlord's wage CHORUS |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
Car horns and rumba music
Through the city's broken heart Is this the devil's own back yard It was fourty years ago That the gangster he fell To a rag bag of men The world remembers well Happy Birthday Revolution I'm standing here Watching the world Fall apart Our leader he was young Galant and divine It was the age of blood and romance They shot him in Bolivia No tear did we cry For how many men Can chose the way that they die Happy Birthday Revolution I'm standing here Watching the world Fall apart We paint him on buildings With sadness in our eyes If we suffer hungry days We call it sacrifice Some say his dream is full of holes We have dignity and pride We have independence Or is it just a yankee lie Happy Birthday Revolution I'm standing here Watching the world Fall apart |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
I'm in pain baby,
A little hung over maybe Have you seen my head Has anybody seen my head Just when did I become invisible Tell me when did I become invisible So sorry officer, I'm so sorry officer But have you seen my legs Has anybody seen my legs Just when did I become invisible Can you tell me when I became invisible I can walk through walls Even through lives Nobody notices my disguise But tell me when did I become invisible I was here yesterday I'm sure I was here yesterday Do you remember my face Please remember my face Just when did I become invisible Telll me when did I become invisible I can walk through walls Even through lives Nobody notices my disguise But tell me when did I become invisible |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
The NATO bombs were like sleeping pills
When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis I took enough to make me ill When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis I was public enemy number one When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis I chewed semtex like bubble gum When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis Now Slobodan was a tennis pro When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis I turned fuckin'Eskimo When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis I found a place where I could die When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis I found god but I lost an eye When I smoked the weed that killed Elvis Happiness was a girl I knew When I smoke |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
At the edge of the world nothing is said
Call a witness Conversation is dead We pray for the coming But we don't hear a word We're all waiting around the edge of the world The loneliest place I know is my own street And your very own words Are the hardest to eat From the shadows of plastic Where you shout to be heard You're just sitting around at the edge of the world The telephone is lying there on the floor Somehow the moss just creeps round the door And everyone's crying from a painfull blow That came down the cable centuries ago Three men from the East Correctly concurred And left us in shackles At the edge of the world The edge of the world Waiting in pieces at at the edge of the world. |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
She's the queen of my life
Every day it seems a miracle She's the love of my life Every time she lights a candle She turns and says to me Can we do it again tomorrow We make the most of our time What's here today is ours to follow When there's a fire in her eye She breaks the chain and frees the animal And turns and says to me Can we do it again tomorrow She holds the key to my mind She stole my heart It seems incredible When she's near it's all right When everything just seems impossible She turns and says to me Can we do it again tomorrow |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
Half an hour is gone and here we belong
Living it so it can't be wrong Cos I was born the wrong way round Growing up while coming down But I didn't even know this When you took me by the hand That you Talk ever so lightly Lately And you walk Ever so slowly I didn't know and I didn't care What there was that could catch your breath But a moment gone is a moment caught And in half an hour I was taught That I didn't need to know this When you walked out of the night That you talk ever so lightly Lately And you walk Ever so slowly I didn't move and I didn't breath To be there where you were I didn't think cos I didn't know That half an hour spent And all of the days and all of the ways Will be there when you are gone Cos you talk ever so lightly Lately A nd you walk Ever so slowly Half an hour's gone and we're still together Walking now beneath the weather All the dreams, all the pains All that's come back again But we don't need to be there When it comes on oh so low Cos you talk ever so lightly Lately And you walk Ever so slowly Come on this time but not for us To be there when we're gone And all of the world and all of the days Are just half an hour long And all of the lives of all of the gods Will envy us our song Cos you talk ever so lightly Lately And you walk Ever so slowly |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
There's a man on the mountain
Who hides himself away A voice on the wind there Is telling him to stay He knows on the outside The world has looked away From that night in the valley When they took them all away Now the rock of ages Has broken at his feet The history of centuries Lies scattered down the street The houses are all empty now Left broken there to die The children's playground Burned and gone With no-one left to cry Can you hear it Can you hear the sound of voices Carried on the wind He dorwned himself in sorrow And he dorwned himself in drink He dorwned himself in self-pity Until it made him sick He knew he was no master Just a slave to himself To the voices that have tortured him That he'll take to his grave Can you hear it Can you hear the sound of voices Carried on the wind Time passes slowly Sometimes he's at a loss And he wishes he could change it all But you can't turn back the clock So he picks up the broken pieces Of that so sacred rock And he takes them to a safer place Where they'll be forever lost. |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
This is the tale of old England
We've got rocks and coke We've got kids that smoke Pram pushers and devil's folk In old England What's the weather Sunshine or rain Smiling faces asking for a change Watch the news Could grow great again From the harvest to the flatlands We're for sale in old England From the back streets to the old lanes We're for sale in old England In old England Where every penny's pinched In old England What's the weather Sunshine or rain Smiling faces asking for a change Watch the news Could we grow great again From the harvest to the flatlands We're for sale in old England From the back streets to the old lanes We're for sale in old England In old England There's a hand in my pocket There's a fight for my life He was sitting on the fence When they moved to the right The sham is a shame And there's always the rain And everybody's loving it From the harvest to the flatlands We're for sale in old England From the back streets to the old lanes We're for sale in old England In old England |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
Been some places in my time
Seen some faces down the line But nothing like you Ain't nothing like you Nothing like you North wind blowing cracks my lips Cold tomorrow's tearing strips Nothing like you Look at the things you've got now It's all modern day tragedy I hear the things you say now Oh such a travesty Look at the things you've got now It's a modern day tragedy All the things you say now Oh such a travesty Look at the things you've got now It's a modern day tragedy I hear the things you say now Oh such a travesty |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
Take a look at the lines
In the jigsaw of humankind What's there to see Who reaches for stars Who'll sit and stare And confuse their vision With pictures not there Is the real world so far Dreams come from life No not for everyone Dreams come from life Here they go on and on Cos I, oh I, oh I never would have thought of that Because dreams come from life No not for everyone Dreams come from life Here they go on and on Microsoft touch he future embraces us Dreams turn to dust There's nobody here Because dreams come from life No not for everyone Dreams come from life Here they go on and on Cos I, oh I, oh I never would have thought of that |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
As the blood flowed
Lorraine knew That there'd be nobody coming Nobody's coming As the blood flowed Lorraine knew That there'd be nobody coming The call came in Lorraine shot down Her husband pulled the trigger And then he blew his brains out At the other end The police took a call They didn't believe That he was dead at all So they wouldn't help her And she knew It had been 20 years Since they fell in love He's brought a lot of pain But now he's brought a lot of blood And he's taken more Than his share We can't lose a life The police chief said There's an armed man in there Who'd be better off dead As Lorraine bled from the legs And as the blood flowed Lorraine knew That there'd be nobody coming Nobody's coming As the blood flowed Lorraine knew That there'd be nobody coming Speak to me now But all she could say Was, I don't want to die like this So they said they're on their way But they never heard That she was Lorraine So they didn't let her die With even her name As she left us all in pain And as the blood flowed Lorraine knew That there'd be nobody coming Nobody's coming As the blood flowed Lorraine knew That there'd be nobody coming |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
She took the world up
She was higher than the sky She didn't have a need She didn't really want for anyone he didn't ask for any of this She painted in the dark Truth turned into light But men came in the night To set her world alight She didn't ask for any of this But the red sun burns Brighter in the night Red sun burns Can make you feel all right But everywhere you go There's still not enough For everyone They left her in the ash Tears lay in her eyes She swore no one would take More than they could create She didn't ask for any of this She took the world on She was higher than the sun She didn't have a need Didn't really want for anyone And she didn't ask for any of this But the red sun burns Brighter in the night Red sun burns Can make you feel all right But everywhere you go here's still not enough For everyone |
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from Levellers - Hello Pig (2000)
You smile at the rain
While counting your change That's what you do Take a walk in the town That saw you drown That's what you do Chance come and make me These times are for taking Gold and silver All that you've got Dance before me in a glass Was the closest that I ever got Rubies Diamonds All that you've got Crawling over broken glass Can't buy you love Lights are erased Get out of my way So much to do The bills that you pay Are here to stay One more for you Love please believe me These times are for taking Gold and silver All that you've got Dance before me in a glass Was that closest that I ever got Rubies Diamonds All that you've go t Crawling over broken glass Can't buy you love Brass and tin For your sins Thank you Messages come Messages sent That's what you do Looking so tired Hired and Fired That's what you do Breath don't forsake me These times are for taking Gold and silver All that you've got Dance before me in a glass Was that closest that I ever got Rubies Diamonds All that you've got Crawling over broken glass Can't buy you love |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
There's only one way of life
And that's your own My father when I was younger Took me up on to the hill That looked down on the city smog Above the factory spill He said this is where I come When I want to be free Well he never was in his lifetime But these words stuck with me I ran from all of this And I climbed that highest hill And looked down on my life Beneath the factory spill I looked down onto my life As the family disgrace Then to all my friends on the starting line Their wages off to chase And all my friends and all their jobs And all the bloody waste CHORUS I grew up, learned to love and laugh Circled A's on the underpass But the noise we thought would never stop Died a death as the punks grew up And we choked on our dreams We wrestled with our fears Running through the heartless streets Chasing our ideas And the problems of the world Won't be solved by this guitar And they won't stop coming either By the life I've had so far And the bright lights of my home town Won't be getting any dimmer Though their calling has receded now Like some old distant singer And they don't seem so appealing To the eyes of this poor sinner CHORUS |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
What a beautiful day (hey hey)
I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind It was on the fifth of November, when time it went back Some say that that's impossible, but you and I we never looked back And wasn't it incredible, so beautiful and above all Just to see the fuse get lit this time To light a real bonfire, for all time And what a beautiful day (hey hey) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind I was drinking in my night club It felt good to be back When Hepburn said I love you And Flynn said, make mine a double jack Was then we planned the revolution To make things better for all time And when Guevara said that's crazy And ordered up a bottle of wine What a beautiful day (hey hey) What a beautiful day (it's a beuatiful day) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind And what a beautiful day (hey hey) I'm the king of all time (it's a beautiful day) And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind In there on the big screen, every night I've seen The way all things could be For me, for me, for me, for me The news broke after midnight, That we pulled the temples down without a sound But the generals they were hiding out The ministers, Well! They'd all gone to ground Wealth re-distribution, became the new solution So I got a paper bag, but you got the one with all the holes And what a beautiful day (hey hey) What a beautiful day (it's a beautiful day) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind (What a beautiful day) What a beautiful day I'm the king of all time (it's a beautiful day) And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind Oh yea, nothing is impossibe In my all powerful mind That's because nothing is impossible In my own powerful mind |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
There's a young boy in the queue
Not much else for him to do He's had a drink, he's had a few Down the pub on Hope Street Dear old lady you're looking thin Got a shopping bag with your life in Your old man's going through the bins So it goes on Hope Street Rain on me come pouring down Clean the dirt of this old town Tell the sun to come around And show his face on Hope Street There's a fight right down the street The betting shop has got him beat Blew his money for the week on a horse called Hope Street No old faces out today Someone took them all away Cleaning up or so they say The dirty face of Hope Street Everyday I look at you Dressed up in your ties of blue Saying there's not much you can do To help the kids on Hope Street They don't seem to even care That it was you that put them there You seem to think they like it there Hanging out on Hope Street |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
Belaruse no longer feels the sun
But it's under the skin of everyone Belaruse forgotten by the blind That is until the next time Remember all your yesterdays In the deep blue Before the world came And rested there on you And if the sun and moon Were both to doubt Sure enough they'd both go out When you can't walk in your field Feel water in your hands You've been touched by the doubt of man Remember all your yesterdays In the deep blue Before the world came And rested there on you Remember all your yesterdays In the deep blue Before the world came And rested there on you |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
Amid the Sound and Lights
On a table with friends Everybody's fine They're all drinking wine, yeah Was there you fell in love In a crowded room Not for the first But for the thousandth time, yeah So you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your Love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you You gonna be a good soul From now on, yea And when the sap first rose Back in the day You thought you'd play it smart The trail of broken hearts, yeah You said they won't find you They won't find you They won't find you Just living in a box for two But now you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you So when you catch an eye And your dancing heart Starts telling you the lies You're doing it to survive What else could hurt So much it makes you cry Yes, you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you You gonna be a good soul From now on, yeah |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
Here she comes - the great Leveller
King and serfs bow before her If you feel her eyes on you - run She'll come and put her arms around you You lie and say she hasn't found you You'll run to her she's there to greet you Are you lost to us forever Tied in lust strapped in leather Is the cost way beyond you Do you love her more than you love yourself CHORUS Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Am I far in the distance Am I the cure or a symptom Should I go when you tell me to Can you tell I've never loved her Because my life is for another Who's up and down But will take me there I don't claim to understand her But hand in hand I am with her Bright and clear and with a future You can come and join us if you dare CHORUS Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel I look - Then you don't see I talk - Then you don't hear I walk then you will crawl low You've got to let her go I sing - But you can't speak I laugh - But you can't smile l love - But you lie low Got to let her go ..... |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
I never thought I'd see the day
When you became what you've become It's easy now just to look away And leave your conscience on the run Spend so much time not looking for answers Someone else's to blame As long as you don't take the drop To you it's all the same Blood, sweat and tears Really don't matter Just the things that you do In this garden Some time I like to get away Chase a thought and fly The people here will never change They're too scared to look outside Community spirit neighbourhood watch Curtains twitching all the time Got to have a look at what next door's got Cos your credit's on the line The other day I saw a fox He was running for his life His eyes were wide but his mind was shut To the redcoat's bugle calls But when he got home his path was blocked By some 'sportman's' clever guise And if this how far your culture's got Then I deny it The crackdown starts The law descends and the nightmare starts again Though they tighten the security net There's always one who gets away ... |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
When you're standing by the roadside
And it's a long way to go Ah, to carry me to carry me, carry me, carry me, friend Oh, to carry me Together in this mad land far from truest of hands well I'll carry you if you'll carry me, carry me, carry me, friend Oh, carry me And we'll petrol Bomb the state we'll blow away the hate But we'll do it in our minds If we can take the time we'll build ourselves a road from what we know each take our part and now's the time to start Oh yea take Oh it must be Oh it must be Oh it must be But Jane's taking Heroin and Paul is getting pissed Steve is getting stoned to fucked to fight Sarah's on the Acid and Sean has blown his mind someone's busy hiding to fucked to fight Yea, Some have found religion and some have run away and some they formed a party to find a way Yea, some joined the system some just look away and some just bite their backsides to find a way And there is a way ... Yes, there is a way ... Yes, there is a way ... When you're standing by the roadside and it's a long way to go Well I'll carry you if you'll carry me, carry me, carry me, friend well I'll carry you |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
He thought he was as drunk as can be
New white skinny rebel was he Because he knew what mattered It's all in a clatter of the bands he's seen His words of wisdom would shock Whether he meant them or not He'd save the world All the boys and the girls But another single's all he'd be That's sad That's right Another night Of someone else's fantasy He thought he was cool with his tunes He practised the knack in his room And in the evening he'd DJ With the slider at eight plus Believing that at his feet we swoom Now he's always there in the queue While down on the dance floor it's you And when he starts playing He's up there playing You don't notice that they're not his tunes He thought he could measure the world Because he loved the flag when unfurled First he's a lawyer, excellent debator You should have heard the mud he hurled Now you've seen his face on TV Leading parliamentary When he makes decisions That meet your derision He reminds us all that we're free |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
Julie was a lonely girl
She said she was born that way She always felt that way She left home at age sixteen Got a job that's what you're supposed to do That's what you've got to do She fell in love and settled down In a council place there on the edge of town She'd feel alone in a crowded room Cry when she heard a happy tune It would be nice to holiday Till they took her job away They just took her life away And doing nothing isn't fun When you've nothing from witch to run Nowhere left to run She'd visit the social every day Every time be turned away Every time be turned away A hundred stairs to her new room Over glass and blackened spoons Children grow old so soon Past the kids who gather there Pain masked by narcotic stares But no one really cares Her dreams were cut up and bled dry A million voices in her cry Julie waits, her world is her window And Julie hates, just what she doesn't know And Julie hates, she hates the world below But Julie loves, She loves too much to know |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
Well this is murder
Yea, On the dog train When all the brakes have failed And I'm going down hill And if you see me wave Yea, I'm only saying bye bye There's not a single tear Here in my eyes La, La, La .......... And if you've heard this before Yea, I'm gonna say it again But life was easier when I didn't have a clue Because this is murder I'm getting dog tired Let's make the world brand new How about you La, La, La .......... (I love this, I love life)...... |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
It's warm by the river, the weir keeps us cleen
The woodsmoke and cigarettes are all that we need Marking the dirt with twigs and simple words spoke Kicking the dust so we can just Dance the dance that plays with fire Play guitar and play inspired You said you would leave not ever Underneath the sky forever It's cool by the sea when the pavement is hot We take a walk down there to see what we've got An old man collecting fifty beautiful words Cleaning the beach so that he can teach us to CHORUS It's cool by the pane glass on the high street we played But there's always a penny in the music we made So far from home, with no means of return Burning the bridge, so we always CHORUS We're so far from home No need to return There's so much that we have though And so much we have learned |
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from Levellers - One Way Of Life (2006)
Do you fancy a drink,
Just the one, To clear your head, We won't be long. It's a beautiful day, To waste away, There's plenty of time, For another one. You know you shouldn't do it, But see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Make mine a short, I'm getting there, But where that is, I couldn't care. There must be something I havn't tried, Perhaps that bottle before my eyes. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Through the haze, The sun goes down, It's getting late, Let's hit the town. Call some friends, To paint it red, And feed the animal, In your head. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. They throw you out, You hit the night, You go to a club, You feel alright. You get a pill, You take just half, Then take the rest of it, For a laugh. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Across the floor, You think you see, The one in your dreams, Your fantasy. But that last drink, Has made you blind, You need the bar, But it's hard to find. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. There's a brand new game, You want to try, You line them up, And it's the first to die. You think you've won, But it's time to leave, And back to your's, For a cup of tea. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. When you find your keys, And you all fall in, You spend an hour, In search of skins. When all seems lost, And it's looking grim, You find the bottle, Of Christmas gin. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. The rest is blank, And that's the worst, An empty head, For an empty purse. You had a laugh, So you think, But in the morning, You just stink. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. So you fancy a drink, Just the one, To clear your head, We won't be long. |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
look out
the ship you sailed now has gone without you has left you all alone and you just stood and watched look out for the last man alive don't wonder how he has lived, so long as the ice around you starts to melt don't panic, im holdin your life belt or i'll just stand and watch look out for the last man alive don't wonder how he has lived, so long you were never meant to be when you first put out to sea look out for the last man alive don't wonder how he has lived, so long |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
When you're staring at the walls
And your heart begins to sink Seems that no-one ever calls And you've nothing left to think Well i would love to make you happy But i'm busy with my mind Cos i would love to make your world right I need your help and yo need mine When your queing with the rest Hurrying to wait in line I'm the one thats behind you I'm behind you all the time Its monday again, drives you insane There's more to gain, when you touch the flame And i have seen you from afar Wondering if you have seen me Seen you sitting in your car Just staring at the sea Ive seen your head slumped at the bar Wont you buy a drink for me Cos this old world aint very large I hope one day you'll talk to me |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
My friend, well he walked me down these roads I've never known,
The salvation of my soul, myself the only goal. There were pleasures I thought I'd seen, some I never knew, There were people dressed in rainments of an uncertain hue. The chances I thought I'd had, many I'd missed, There were devils bearing gifts and angels on the piss. For my sins I will confess and I will never lie. There's nobody that was ever here that's never wondered why, And I've lived my life the best, every second to defy. Will nobody that was ever here grieve me when I die? On the first day I met myself coming back from the third; I believed in what I was doing, I swallowed every word. Every word that I was told by the Great and the Good, I bit the poisoned apple 'cause I felt that I should. For my sins I will confess and I will never lie. There's nobody that was ever here that's never wondered why, And I've lived my life the best, every second to defy. Will nobody that was ever here grieve me when I die? When I die .. And now that I come to it, I can recall what it was I achieved just before my fall. I saw visions of ugliness, I visited shame, But I know should I come to it I'd do it all again. For my sins I will confess and I will never lie. There's nobody that was ever here that's never wondered why, And I've lived my life the best, every second to defy. Will nobody that was ever here grieve me when I die? 'Cause I've lived my life the best, every second to defy. Will nobody that was ever here grieve me when I die? When I die .. And will nobody that was ever here grieve me when I die?.. |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
if your smiling you'd better smile, for us all
if your laughing you'd better laugh, for us all well you better from now on yeah you better from now on if your thinking you'd better think, for us all if your talkin you'd better talk, for us all well you better from now on yeah you better from now on if your dancing you'd better dance, for us all if your learning you'd better learn, for us all well you better from now on yeah you better from now on if your lying you'd better lie, for us all if your crying you'd better cry, for us all well you better from now on yeah you better from now on cos we all need you hope you need us too if your singing you'd better sing with us all and if your swinging you'd better swing with us all well you better from now on yeah you better from now on if you think you can carry on cos we all need you and we hope you need us too |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
Take this cause and this lie
Go tie a knot around the world Take up arms its your right To tie a knot around the world If that's all you want That's all you'll be Statistically unkown to me Cos its not what you fight or how that you win You're embracing the night when you begin A soldier, a hero that's not what you became tonight A trophy, a figure, all on the news at ten tonight If that's all you want That's all you'll be Statistically unkown to me |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
I dreamt i felt a steel knife
slide smooth across a throat the blood that came forth well it ended all the hope this was the passion and this was the pain this was a beginning and this was the end don't tell me that it's over Take me out of this sun let this darkness carry on take me out of this sun I woke to find this whole world weary in its fight searching for the mercy left fumbling in the night A moments liberation when the world is done the gentle touch of lovers and this whole things begun so don't tell me that it's over I dreamt i felt a steel knife slide smooth across a throat a moments hesitation before you kill the hope is this the passion is this the pain is this the ending or do we start again just don't tell me that it's over Take me out of this sun let this darkness carry on take me out of this |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
He came of second best when he first came round here
In a town that's built on money built on fear Just don't fake life, he's been told a thousand times You see the wheels that we turn in keep dragging us down He was amazed to see the fallen here Tried so very hard to fight the fear Then when he saw the end and it werent very far It slipped from his grasp And he stumbled there in the dark Just don't fake life you've been told a thousand times He took a troubled heart and then he gave it out Took a violent change of circumstance to shout There can be nobody better to turn things around Yes there can be nobody better to turn things around Just don't fake life you've been told a thousand times |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
You see the mist above the water
Blinding all that's there to see You fell in love with natures daughter Or the idea you see So many moments were made there A chance to stay perhaps to flee But when you've taken what you wanted There was nothing left to see She said she'd wait for you As you closed her eyes All the things weve said and done They're not enough so run child run Oh run child run And who alone knows what theyre doing In a place that seems surreal Any fool can plan his ruin In a world that's down at heel So as the mist clears from the water Will it give you second sight Can you remember what youre here for And will you take it as youre right? She said she'd wait for you As you closed her eyes |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
Have you ever wondered, dare you ever ask?
Just who it is that's pulling your strings so fast Do you ever think have you ever been so sure? Just who that is keeps asking you for more Sure enough you know it and you know it in your heart When you were born they had you from the start And when you find you've got nothing left to say They'll cut your strings and they're starting from today Guess who's the daddy who's really in control Guess who's got your number and who owns your soul When you remember all the places you have been Every situation well nothings what it seems When you start asking and getting no reply They'll cut your strings for daring to ask why Guess who's the daddy who's really in control Guess who's got your number and who owns your soul TRUTH AND LIES no disguise Guess who's the daddy who's really in control Guess who's got your number and who owns your soul |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
You'll find us caught in the middle
of our everyday in every way you'll see us looking for a reason in everyday in everyway we slave and steal but what we just don't want we just can't feel no we just can't feel were always surprised when we don't get heard when we speak our words when we speak our words Its not enough we say cos we the damned we wait you'll find us with a painted smile trying to get things done just to get along you'll find us trying to chase down dreams as they float upstream as they float upstream its been so long weve forgotten how to care for the things we lost that are deep down there but through every new fad, through every phase pleased every god worship every craze Its not enough we say cos we the damned we wait Pass the time with a little bit of distraction we pass the time with a little self destruction we grasp at times moments of satisfaction Cos we the damned we wait |
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from Levellers - Truth And Lies (2005)
You were born out of one
But you were made as two You were made to go on You've forgotten what to do So wake up noe I'm begging you You sleep ans sleep on It's all you ever do Has your comfort now gone When you look around the room And remember the fire, the fire in you The sleeping excuse that's all you ever do And its really no use When there's so much left for us to do Can you make some time For what is always yours and mine I've seen you cutting loose I've seen you stretched out On the line Try and remember the truth Without you we're all no use Wake up my friend |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
Well this is murder
Yea, On the dog train When all the brakes have failed And I'm going down hill And if you see me wave Yea, I'm only saying bye bye There's not a single tear Here in my eyes La, La, La .......... And if you've heard this before Yea, I'm gonna say it again But life was easier when I didn't have a clue Because this is murder I'm getting dog tired Let's make the world brand new How about you La, La, La .......... (I love this, I love life)...... |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
What a beautiful day (hey hey)
I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind Was on the fifth of November, when time it went back Some say that's impossible, but you and I would never look back And wasn't it incredible, so beautiful and above all Just to see the fuse get lit this time To light a real bonfire, for all time And what a beautiful day (hey hey) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind I was drinking in my night club It felt good to be back When Hepburn said "I love you" And Flyn said, "Make mine a double, Jack" Then we planned the revolution To make things better for all time And when the Guevara said "That's crazy" And ordered up a bottle of wine What a beautiful day (hey hey) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind In there on the big screen, every night I've seen The way all things could be For me, for me, for me, for me The news broke after midnight, That we pulled the temples down without a sound But the generals they were hiding out And the ministers, Well! They'd all gone to ground Wealth re-distribution, became the new solution So I got a paper bag, but you got the one with all the holes What a beautiful day (hey hey) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind Oh yeah, nothing is impossible In my own powerful mind That's because nothing is impossible In my own powerful mind |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
Amid the Sound and Lights
On a table with friends Everybody's fine They're all drinking wine, yeah Was there you fell in love In a crowded room Not for the first But for the thousandth time, yeah So you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your Love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you You gonna be a good soul From now on, yea And when the sap first rose Back in the day You thought you'd play it smart The trail of broken hearts, yeah You said they won't find you They won't find you They won't find you Just living in a box for two But now you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you So when you catch an eye And your dancing heart Starts telling you the lies You're doing it to survive What else could hurt So much it makes you cry Yes, you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you You gonna be a good soul From now on, yeah |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
Well I married me a wife
She gave me trouble all my life Ran me out in the cold rain and snow The rain and snow, rain and snow Ran me out in the cold rain and snow She came running on down the stairs Combing back her long blonde hair And her cheeks were as red as a rose As a Rose, as a rose And her cheeks were as red as a rose As a Rose, as a rose She said I aint got no use for your red apple juice And I'm not gonna be treated this way This Way, This way And I'm not gonna be treated this way I see you all sitting in the shade Counting every dime I made I'm so broke and I'm hungry too I'm Hungry Too Ooh Hungry Too Ooh I'm so broke and I'm hungry too |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
And it will stop
A day that lasts forever Just as the sun sets It will rise at dawn for ever after And I'm sorry If it ain't that sweet Just living in the world you meet But that should never stop you Because far away Is close at hand There in the drifting sands And far away is close at hand In the imaginations Of every woman and every man And I'm sorry if it ain't that cool Just living in the world of fools But it will stop All that you can see Is there to tell you Rain must fall for the sun to shine There down upon you And I'm sorry if it ain't that cool Just living in the world of fools But that should never stop you |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
You´re there in black and white
Hundreds watch you every night You´ve been starring in a film on every weekend On video and stills with all of your friends You´re there in black and white Hundreds watch you every night You cannot hide You cannot hide You cannot Cos we can see you every where / in the daytime We can see you every where / in the nightime We can see you every where / for a lifetime We can see you every where You´re great in every scene You very natural It's As if you cannot see The spotlight on you But when you fluff a line The director says you´re doing time You cannot hide... When you´re walking home In the evening afterdark Remember don´t hide Show your best side Cos your the star in a film... You cannot hide You cannot hide You cannot hide You cannot hide You cannot...... |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
I'm so glad to see you
and the things that you do are so chemically free it's a wonder to me you're still smiling I hear you're top of the heap you own nothing that's cheap and how is London town is it getting you down just lately Now you're on top of the world Looking down on the nation You're the boy with the girls Who's above all creation you're The man with the plan Whose going to do all he can for himself And do they buy what you sell all that you took from us well they say that loves not for sale and have I hit the nail you've been holding Have all the friends that you've made for the prices you paid come to lie at the feet and worship your cheat that you made. (repeat chorus and first verse) I believe you. I believe you. I believe you. Can you remember when we spoke back in those gone days. I believe you. We believe you.I believe you. We believe you. I believe you. We believe you. Can you remember when we spoke back in those bad days. I believe you. We believe you. I believe you. We believe you. I believe you. We believe you. You should have told us that you never meant a word that you said. |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
Oh there was once a man who had lost his own smile
And he wandered the country mile after mile Never quite knowing what he wanted to find For his heart it lay heavy with the weight of his mind And he looked at the land through the tears in his eyes For he knew that there were those who would will her to die And he wept for his mother as he lay at her feet And he heard a voice singing him softly to sleep I'll be your queen, I'll be your mother - I'll be your mystical child Be your best friend, your lover - Your wife for all time Will there ever be another, in this life of mine Will there ever be another, like my mystical child So he climbed a high hill and he looked out to sea And he heard a voice calling out softly to him Open your heart boy for it needs to be free And the next time you're crying come running to me So he walked through the valleys the trees and the fields And he came to a river where she waited for him And they looked at the water of life flowing by And he heard a voice saying 'you're not alone in the fight' |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
Kick the sheets off get out of bed Good morning de ja vu Is this the best thing in my head Good morning now what to do Look at my day What's the first appointment Lunch in heaven What a disappointment CHORUS I could run away with Captain Courageous I could live on fruit in Montego Bay I could run a bar in a war torn front line I could do it all But just not today Good morning T.V what's been said Around the world whilst I'm in bed Nothing changes Cos we're still being fed On little white lies And stale white bread Look at my day What's my next appointment Dinner in hell What a disappointment I live for you and you live for me For four hours every day Another social misery for hours and hours (every day ....) I could free my mind Become a rich mans guru I could take the time To feed the world Could drink all day Until I find All the answers I could do it all But just not today ..... |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
In the life in front of you and me
Seems there is no logic - No place that you must be And there are times that it gets so hard to see To find the valid reasons - For the things that come to be But you must try to set your spirit free You know you cannot hide from spiritual disease And it seems you cannot please the present company Who could claim to know the answers Is just the way we're meant to be Love is stronger in survivors Survivors follow destiny If you like we could go down to the sea We could watch the evening tide - catch the boat to Honalee We could fly above the dark city Gettin higher in the sky with every breath you breathe And if you cry about the things you leave It's yourself you should be asking, about what you really need And you know it is no lie - For it only takes belief |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
Down the hill I wander,
Just to watch the world go by. Passers by pass under, Underneath the clear blue sky. No-one seems to notice, No-one seems to even wonder why. And as I sit I sail away, It is as if I broke the line. Cause nothing really matters, Nothing matters all the time. But no-one seems to notice, No-one seems to even wonder why. |
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from Levellers - Mouth To Mouth (1997)
Here she comes - the great Leveller
King and serfs bow before her If you feel her eyes on you - run She'll come and put her arms around you You lie and say she hasn't found you You'll run to her she's there to greet you Are you lost to us forever Tied in lust strapped in leather Is the cost way beyond you Do you love her more than you love yourself CHORUS Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Am I far in the distance Am I the cure or a symptom Should I go when you tell me to Can you tell I've never loved her Because my life is for another Who's up and down But will take me there I don't claim to understand her But hand in hand I am with her Bright and clear and with a future You can come and join us if you dare CHORUS Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel I look - Then you don't see I talk - Then you don't hear I walk then you will crawl low You've got to let her go I sing - But you can't speak I laugh - But you can't smile l love - But you lie low Got to let her go ..... |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
There's a young boy in the queue
There's not much else here for him to do He's had a drink, he's had a few Down the pub on Hope Street Dear old lady, you're looking thin Got a shopping bag with your life in Your old man's going through the bins And so it goes on hope street Rain on me come pouring down Clean the dirt off this old town Tell the sun to come around And show his face on Hope Street There's a fight right down the street The betting shop has got him beat He blew his money for the week On a horse called Hope Street No old faces out today Someone took them all away Cleaning up or so they say The dirty face of Hope Street Rain on me come pouring down Clean the dirt of this old town Tell the sun to come around And show his face on hope street Rain on me come pouring down Clean the dirt of this old town Tell the sun to come around And show his face on hope street Everyday I look at you Dressed up in your ties of blue Saying there's not much that you can do To help the kids on Hope Street You don't seem to even care That it was you that put them there You seem to think they like it there Hanging out on Hope Street Rain on me come pouring down Clean the dirt off this old town Tell the sun to come around And show his face on hope street |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
Do you wake up every day
In a world that seems crazy A world you love to hate Are you scared or do you feel pretty safe Do you think you have nothing Or do you think you've got it made You know it feels like you're going insane I've done everything you told me To take away the pain Then you change my medication again It's getting harder to tell Just who or what's insane Do your nightmares tear you apart Do you wake up screaming Shouting in the dark The demons keep you awake Does the clock tick more slowly With every breath you take You know it feels like you're going insane I've done everything you told me To take away the pain Then you change my medication again It's getting harder to tell Just who or what's insane Does each day seem like the next You turn on the morning Coz turning offs the best Do think that it will never change Or does mass self delusion meddle with your brain You know it feels like you're going insane I've done everything you told me To take away the pain Then you change my medication again It's getting harder to tell Just who or what's insane You see I think I know it all I think I know the way You've given me the power By making me insane You know it feels like I'm going insane Well maybe you love me better a little bit deranged But it may be a different way If it keeps on the way it's going There'll be no-one staying sane |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
It's simple cos it is the people
Fighting for and claiming what remains Dreaming this is not dreaming This is the exodus from the game Dance beneath the stars We the sound system We the collective With an open heart We the solution Should be respected At midnight the pharises plant the poison False evidence to bring all back in line It's no method just dealing out by justice When no-one here's committed any crime We'll turn the dust to soil Turn the rust of hate back into passion It's not water into wine but it's here And it's happening Massive but passive To bring the peace back Respect here for all the people Good copper jah lawyer all good minds Can see there is no evil The only wrong is fighting changing times |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
She's the maid of the river
So beautifully plain As fresh as the country That gave her her name As crisp as the snow And as swift as the rain She shone like the sun Before all of our games She shone like a jewel But her price was not gold She cried more than most When her story was told But her people were evil Left her barren and cold And her heart went to market Where her body was sold I said : 'Hey, hey won't you take me away 'Cos I can't see the point In the dawn of the day When so many killers gonna take you away They'll leave nothing left except hatred' She's the goddess of love The goddess in green The goddess of all That I've ever seen The goddess of hope The goddess in brown The goddess of all That you've burned to the ground There's all kind of hatred Flows out of man's hands There's the hatred that strangles The throat of a man But the worst of all hatred Is that which is planned Against what we have In this goddess of land |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
Saturday to sunday's waste
Then monday's soon around It's always time to leave The nightlife first And catch the last bus out of town And the sentiment of the last song that I heard Stays with me as if I'd written every word I thought I saw an open door With a bright light shining through But what it was I don't recall But I think you've seen it yoo And there are the days and the ways I've known Dreaming that this bird has flown And if you burnt your fingers in the fire Remember me and my desire It might be easier this way If you're trying to change the world I saw a film just made for me Said you've got to walk the line The day will come when I feed the flames I'm just biding my time These are the days and the ways I've known Dreaming that this bird has flown |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
Come onto me, it's easy for a long life
Don't be denied forever under the night Come along To be this free Is what you want to Breaking the line forever under the sun It will be done together for each to be one Come along To be is easy Taking the stars Across the road at the end of this place It's not far and anyone can go there It's waste ground There's no name on this place But it always has and always will be there There's no fence, no walls, no fools Just the summer sun And what you choose But was it only yesterday Tomorrow came And handed you the tools To burn it down Your forgotten ground The golden bough with a rope Lies there for you to climb Higher and higher But by this rope you can hang If you've forgotten why it was You came there And you burn it down Your forgotten ground When you are old and see this Know this is cold That when the sun rises Tall shadows will hold The ground you loved To you is broken Taken from you And I carve my name And then you wrote yours The black smoke Will rise up to cover the stars Nothing said to be forever Except for the night That will come When we burn you down |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
He thought he was as drunk as can be
New white skinny rebel was he Because he knew what mattered It's all in a clatter of the bands he's seen His words of wisdom would shock Whether he meant them or not He'd save the world All the boys and the girls But another single's all he'd be That's sad That's right Another night Of someone else's fantasy He thought he was cool with his tunes He practised the knack in his room And in the evening he'd DJ With the slider at eight plus Believing that at his feet we swoom Now he's always there in the queue While down on the dance floor it's you And when he starts playing He's up there playing You don't notice that they're not his tunes He thought he could measure the world Because he loved the flag when unfurled First he's a lawyer, excellent debator You should have heard the mud he hurled Now you've seen his face on TV Leading parliamentary When he makes decisions That meet your derision He reminds us all that we're free |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
There's nothing new
In this sad story The slaughter of innocence Without glory At the foot of your hill Without warning The centre of operations They attack in the morning Now you can lie Like a lame before them You can dance in the dawn You can even ignore them But with your skin on file There's no escape P.C. Keen's got the snap shots And he knows your face And the press will declare That you're all mad and insane And you'll be accused Of not playing the game You'll stand in the court And declare your bravery For fighting all this That brings us all slavery But they won't even see you hey won't even hear you Because you are the truth So nothing can save you And the southern intelligence unit will say: 'Thanks to you P.C. Keen You've saved the day' |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
Do you fancy a drink,
Just the one, To clear your head, We won't be long. It's a beautiful day, To waste away, There's plenty of time, For another one. You know you shouldn't do it, But see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Make mine a short, I'm getting there, But where that is, I couldn't care. There must be something I havn't tried, Perhaps that bottle before my eyes. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Through the haze, The sun goes down, It's getting late, Let's hit the town. Call some friends, To paint it red, And feed the animal, In your head. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. They throw you out, You hit the night, You go to a club, You feel alright. You get a pill, You take just half, Then take the rest of it, For a laugh. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Across the floor, You think you see, The one in your dreams, Your fantasy. But that last drink, Has made you blind, You need the bar, But it's hard to find. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. There's a brand new game, You want to try, You line them up, And it's the first to die. You think you've won, But it's time to leave, And back to your's, For a cup of tea. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. When you find your keys, And you all fall in, You spend an hour, In search of skins. When all seems lost, And it's looking grim, You find the bottle, Of Christmas gin. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. The rest is blank, And that's the worst, An empty head, For an empty purse. You had a laugh, So you think, But in the morning, You just stink. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. So you fancy a drink, Just the one, To clear your head, We won't be long. |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
You know the sky is blue
And the wind cuts right through The sun shines on you alone Every step takes you nearer, nearer home And I love the river That carries us on In one direction Bringing me nearer, nearer home But you haven't made it yet No you still haven't made it yet The sky turns gray And the river runs high Running faster Passes you by Ghosts of life Are following you With a bit of luck You can make it through I thought I heard you sigh When you thought that you were there But the world turns for you alone Every step takes you nearer, nearer home But you haven't made it yet No you still haven't made it yet The sky turns gray And the river runs high Running faster Passes you by Ghosts of life Are following you With a bit of luck We can make it, make it through But you haven't made it yet No you still haven't made it yet |
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from Levellers - Zeitgeist (1996)
Wasting time at nowhere very special
Seems almost a part of it these days I know every crack along the pavement I remember what you said in '88 You said: 'It's time to leave this town The world keeps turning 'round The only thing that keeps me here is you' I'm drinking in the same bar where I met you Without you it wouldn't be the same We talk for hours and hours 'bout different places You said that you would see them all some day You were always so good with words The tales you told we've heard The thing you said to me that day Will never fade in memory Time is unforgiving You know that I won't make it without you No matter just what window you look out of The view just never ever seems to change And I swear that we ain't getting any younger But we'll chase all of our dreams all the same Just another lonely winter's day... |
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