1. |
Spoke InThe Wheel
04:11
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Spoke In The Wheel
Isn’t bald isn’t bruising
Has its flaws, it has it’s uses
It is not the rain, It is like the day
It’s more like a little spoke in the wheel
Doesn’t con though it muses
Neither fawn neither aged
It is not the Lord
Though it shuns the fall
Its more like a little spoke in the wheel
Fall, wintorm, ire raise
Fall, wintorm, ire raise
Has its cause, it has its face
It doesn’t cost to embrace
It doesn’t mind the rain, it is like the day
But it’s more like a little spoke in the wheel
Neither wired nor invalid
Cannot be made could not be harassed
It doesn’t rhyme with thumb
And it never sings the blues
It’s more like a little spoke in the wheel
See it pawned see it vacant
Neither fawn, neither aged
It is not the Lord
Though it shuns the fall
It’s more like a little spoke in the wheel
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2. |
Long Hard Road
03:52
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Long Hard Road
It’s a long hard road
With no bed to get down on
But this naked blinding sun
Is what keeps me up and moving on
Friends and peace of mind
Aren’t the easiest things to find
But this naked blinding sun
Is what helps me love my brother so
But this long hard road
It really keeps me up and moving on
It really helps me love my brother so
Take me to the sullen man, let me see him smile
Take me to the sullen man, let me get him high
But this long hard road
It really helps me love my brother so
Take me to the sullen man, let me see him smile
Take me to the sullen man, let me get him high
Long hard road, long hard road
Long hard road, long hard road
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3. |
Big North Lights
02:30
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Big North Lights
Have you seen the northern lights
Take you there for a penny my friend
Have you seen the big north lights
Take you there for a penny my friend
Brighter than the New York light
Kinder than the neon light yes
Warmer than any London light yes
Northern lights are humble lights my friend
Hop on board and I’ll sail you up
We’ll get there in an hour or so
Bring a flask and a heavy coat
We’ll get there before the dawn comes up
Brighter than any neon lights
Kinder than any London light
Warmer than the New York lights
Northern lights are humble lights my friend
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4. |
Left Us To Burn
05:22
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Left Us To Burn
She gathered up the whole collection
Paid the bailiffs with her purse she did
Pit ponies and the down beat shelters
Rolled us up into a ball she did
See her waltzing in her middle aged heels
See her feet on the blood red ground
Starts us kindling in the poorest fields and…
Left us to burn
Left us to burn
One day ships will never sail from Hendon
And the big black God is under siege
For she’s pissed on us a sea of petrol
Flicked a spark into that breeze
See her waltzing in her middle aged heels
See her feet on the blood red ground
Starts us kindling in the poorest fields and…
Left us to burn
She left us to burn
There’s no food without farms, that’s the weasel that she was
Built an ark for her kind, filled with pain and caviar
While she left us to burn, from her safe and bloody shore
While she left us to burn, being the weasel that she was
She left us to burn
Left us to burn
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5. |
Heart Of The City
02:39
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Heart Of The City
Give me the heart of the city tonight
I want the heart of the city tonight
I want to catch this name in lights
Be the main part of the city tonight, tonight…
Show me a mug with a wristwatch as big as his hand
Show me a mug with a wristwatch as big as his hand
Once he’s had his use he’ll be a stepping stone
To reach the heart of the city tonight
Release this ball and chain, these streets are not the same
Give me the heart of the city tonight (heart of the city)
I want the heart of the city tonight (heart of the city
Release this ball and chain, these streets are not the same
Give me the heart of the city tonight (heart of the city)
I want the heart of the city tonight (heart of the city
Tonight, tonight
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6. |
Too Much In Love
02:19
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Too Much In Love
Too much in love
Too much in love
I must be…
Too much, too much
Too much in love
I’m there to be took, there to be used
All’s gone heady, I’m weak and no use
Like a vestal virgin, in an old man’s shoes
I must be, too much in love…
Too much in love
Too much in love
I must be…
Too much, too much
Too much in love
She was a child, child to me
Half my age and as sweet as can be
My heart went boom, could not stop
I must be, too much in love…
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7. |
In The Heal Of The Night
03:01
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In The Heal Of The Night
In the heal of the night when the blaze has blown
In the heal of the night there was song unsung
When the men of mind did the whine and song
In the heal of the night there was song unsung
On the Wetherby side by the Roman stone
Four hundred lines keeled by lung
In the douse of the light where the cold wind blowed
In the heal of the night there was song unsung
In the spirit of life we were taught to sing
With the spirit of life we were taught to bring
Not the worldly calls for they eat too much
Let the demi-gods go, they are out of touch
In the heal of the night when the blaze has blown
In the heal of the night there was song unsung
When the men of mind did whine and song
In the heal of the night there was song unsung
We were taught to hide we were taught to cry
All the things that the real men despise
In the douse of the light where the cold wind blowed
In the heal of the night there was song unsung
Young spirit in the old, old spirit in the young
Young spirit in the old, old spirit in the young
Look out for the young
Look out for the young
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8. |
We Are Storm
03:35
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We Are Storm
We are flawed we are
Bound down see us
Careless corpse see us…
Steal the dawn
We are storm
We are storm
See us born see us
Wind down see us
Fly low to our, blind goal
We are storm
We are storm
Many oaths that are
Bound down they are
Blind mistruths they are
Threats to who, they inform
We applaud in our
Safe score see us
Careless corpse see us…
Wind down
We are storm
We are storm
We are flawed we are
Bound down see us
Careless corpse see us…
Wind down
We are storm
We are storm
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9. |
Salutation Road
02:47
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Salutation Road
Tell Belle I got a ticket,
I’m proud I’m getting with it
Tell Belle I got a ticket home
Too many nights get ya bumping and ya grinding
Lord lead me down Salutation Road
Belle, I got the first train home
Salutation Road, I got the first train home
Salutation Road, I got the first train
Too many nights get ya bumping and ya grinding
Lord lead me down Salutation Road
Belle, I got the first train home
Moon-howl home coming hungry
Moon-howl home coming hungry
Moon-howl homeward point me home
Lead me N.E. where the ships are
Lead me North East when the ships are home
Lord, when the ships are home
Tynemouth North Shields!
Salutation Road, I got the first train home
Salutation Road, I got the first train
Too many nights get ya bumping and ya grinding
Lord lead me down Salutation Road
Belle, I got the first train
Tell Belle I got the first train
Tell Belle I…
Got the first train home…
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10. |
Endurance
02:34
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Endurance
She tries to walk and free her heart
The weather stalls the angry march
As if a friend…
Her giving hands can give no more
How can she bear this heavy load
Such a cross to bear…
And just before she throws it all
The gift for life within her calls
Its holy call…
But if this road is for endurance
If endurance means a son
If endurance means a marriage
Then the pain is fun, purely fun
His forearms tend his crying head
Echoing leaving things and yells
Lonely yells…
If this was this and that was that
The sobbing eases as he stands
Such a lonely stand…
And just before he blows it all
The gift for life within him calls
Its holy call…
But if this road is for endurance
If endurance means a son
If endurance means a marriage
The pain is fun, purely fun
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11. |
Morning Time
03:54
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Morning Time
Morning time morning time
I’m sitting on the coach happy in the mind
I’m leaving my folks and the cares behind
Yes I’m independent I’m no child
I’m gonna catch me the big north lights
Those angry loathsome wuthering heights
Dusk is coming and the coach is cold
There’s frost on the window and the passengers old
I’ll cadge me a ciggy off Rambling Joe
Ah he’s the nicest man I know
He cut two throats in the dark Soho
I’m independent I’m no child
I’m gonna catch me the big north lights
The angry loathsome wuthering heights
Morning time morning time
I’m sixteen years as free as the seagull
Morning time morning time
The coach lights fade the coach lights blare
I said the coach lights fade the coach lights blare
And I hope the skirts will fly up there
I’m independent I’m no child
I’m gonna catch me the big north lights
Those angry loathsome wuthering heights
Move yer arm buster!
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12. |
Migrants
03:18
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Migrants
Is there an end to this clangour
Why must we chase, when we have our own pace
We'll say goodbye to the city
Find a hole where we can hide away and be
Lovers like the rest
In our own place
With paper cups and plates
Let Mindlesness emotion be...
Should we be found we'd be branded
Oh let the brand be mild
For we have each others arms
On and on, forever
No longer torn, no longer children
We, are lovers like the rest
That's all
Tirelessly in awe
Let mindlessness emotion, be...
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Martin Stephenson Invergordon, UK
Born Durham 27th July 1961
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