Summer UK '93
Controlled substances in hand
Flash photos on location
Final end solution
Road block
Cash from chaos received
This sun burns more than you believe
The smell of C.S. gas
Confusion of the mass
Cold sweat
Warning
Out of control
You know we know
Turning your face away
But where to go
Shake it down by any means
You know you've seen this all before
Broken words from loud hailers
Hands raised in the air
And no tune
Armed surveillance last dance
Sparks fly at the first glance
Helpless face within the flame
First purge of the new game
Crass press
All around you slow decay
Wanna feel the sun of a new day
Forget all the chances lost
Shedding innocence like falling dust
All the things you learned too young
The songs you knew but never sung
Waited a long time and wasted more
Forgotten what you waited for
Excuse me ma'am for being so rude
Feels like 100 years of solitude
My mind is numb but my mouth's okay
And you can listen or walk away
No solutions built to last
Just petty scores to settle fast
The N.M.E. was nothing to you
And the maker, well the maker of who
This walkman generation
In search of sweet sedation
While forests choke under a lever sky
And the Exxon birds that will never fly
We tried, we cried, we fell, we lied
This life's like a white knucke ride
Crack babies born too young
And L.A. kids who dance to the gun
So forget this so called dirt of mine
It's just the dust and diesel of passing time
It's all around you - a tragedy, look
So forget the cover and read the book
Do you ever stop to think from time to time
'Bout the way the world's been left behind
In another place, in another time
We could maybe change the way we think
Take the blinkers from our eyes
Do you think that she was maybe not alone
Do you think there's someone out there
Do you think that they might know
And if they don't do you think they should be told
Cos she's living in a nightmare
Running out of her control
Take the rope
Take the blindfold from your eyes
Take the rope from 'round your neck
And take the blindfold from your eyes
And you'll never be surprised
When they tell you that they love you
While they're eating you alive
Do you think you have the strength to carry on
Or has the black cat got your tongue
Don't worry now the world's gonna be allright
Cos the land has been here longer
Than the likes of you and I
They took me to the battlefield
Saw the mushroom clouds
Said 'I can see the colours
Even when my head is bowed'
And they showed me the destruction
The slaughter a la carte
And isn't nature wonderful
But is this art?
They took me to the hospital
And pulled aside the sheet
Said 'Look at that pulsating.
Just listen to the beat'
And they showed me the incision
Then took away the heart
And isn't nature wonderful
But is this art?
They took me to the scientist,
Who opened up a phial
He said 'This is only chicken pox
And rhino bile'
And they showed me what it did to mice
They said 'This is just the start'
And isn't nature wonderful
But is this art?
They took me to the tenement
And kicked down the door
They said:'Have you seen the copulation,
Practised by the poor
We select the ones to breed
Then we reject the part'
And isn't nature wonderful
But is this art?
Dirty Davey's down the front
And he's met the coppers there
They'll be taking you in cos they hate your skin
And you're dragged away by the hair
It's a kick in the head and a prison bed
And you tell me it's the law
Well Davey's out on two weeks bail
And he's down the town to score
When it all falls in and he's pinned by the chin
And they've busted every floor
Davey's down the old grey squat
And he's lying with his lass
When there's a brick through the pane
And he's out on the lane
With the bailiffs and the glass
The court comes up on a monday morning
And Davey's in the dock
He can't stop his tears
When he gets two years
And he can't turn back the clock
Well Davey's had it up to here ...
Banging his head on the wall
So he's tied his pants to the prison bars ...
And he's hung till he's clear of it all
There's a law for the rich
And a law for the poor
And a law for Dirty Davey
His body's gone but his soul lives on
Here's to you Dirty Davey
Corrupt, corrupt from the bottom to the top
And you tell me it's the law
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 ...
Fired forty rounds in the centre of town
He thought to bring the world around
Sleepless nights with God and Christ
The New Messiah
To burn the world to change the days
Can be done in better ways
But to make news and front page
You've got to aim higher
They didn't build Jerusalem
They didn't find the land
For reasons of security
They couldn't get the plans
And we're left standing watching from below
No new songs and no new heroes
Standing on the sidelines watching the flow
Waiting till the day the circle's broken
Took the mic to save day
The rock star's going to have his say
interpret this in any way as if it matters
Cos nothing's black and nothing's white
Nothing appears to be quite right
It'll be this way until the day
The circle's shattered
I hear an old song yesterday
About a better world
You know the story
They're all the same
The boy gets the girl
From the tips of your fingers
The rest is numb
You begin to feel the warmth of the sun
It's slipping away been taking away
All you once knew
Taking it back takes all you've got
No time to sit and watch it rot
Believe it's yours and not the lies
Or all hell to you
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 what you're supposed to do
That's what you've got to do
She fell in love and settled down
In a council playce 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 wich 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 windows
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
There isn't much to gain
By living all the same way
The years just slip away
But it's too late then to play
If you live from day to day
You can play the game your own way
There's a million things to say
In a million places
For her it stays the same
Though a million towers have tumbled
And you can hear her pain
Voiced in a distant rumble
And when it starts to rain
All your monoliths will crumble
It's always been the same
Don't you feel a little bit humble?
She came up to me, she said:
'Wanna know a mistery?
There's a whole wide world for you to see
You're just a player in the game'
Well I've nothing left to say
Except take the time to ramble
In a million different ways
There's a million paths to travel
And when there's something in the way
Take your time please remember
There's hope yet in the rain
And a voice in distant thunder
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
Then 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