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« Reply #690 on: June 20, 2004, 11:36:18 AM » |
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The Levellers - What A Beautiful Day
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 the time went back,
Well, some say that that's impossible,
But you and I would never look back.
And wasn't it incredible,
And so beautiful and above all,
Just to see the fuse get lit this time
And 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 nightclub,
It felt good to be back,
Well, Hibben said "I love you"
And Flynn said, "Make mine a double Jack."
It was then we planned the revolution,
To make things better for all time,
The barman said "That's crazy,"
And ordered up a bottle of wine.
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.
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'd pulled the temples down without a sound,
The generals, they were hiding and the Ministers,
Well, they'd all gone to ground.
We helped redistribution,
Became the new solution,
So I've got the paper bag
And you've got the one with all the holes.
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.
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 yeah, nothing is impossible
In my all-powerful mind,
That's because, nothing is impossible
In my all-powerful mind.
The Levellers - Fifteen 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.
All 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.
It's never how it used to be,
What happened to all that energy?
You took one too many liberties,
And 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,
Sold for liquid shares.
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.
And the victims of their world,
Are advertised on posters,
Just a beach and a pretty face,
And you just take this potion!
Well, it's another week till his cheque comes through,
He's got a fiver left now to spend on food
But the doors to the bar are open,
And he breaks another rule.
He sits on a stool that bears his name,
He's got a favourite glass, well, It's called the same
And he's never been kept waiting
Cause he pays the landlord's wage
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.
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.
The Levellers - Another Man's Cause
Gunshots shattering the peace of night,
Just another firefight 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
And all the words his mother said
As she put him to bed back home
"Your daddy, when he died in the Falklands,
Fighting for another man's cause,
And your brother he was killed in the last war
Well, your mother now 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 the 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 your daddy, when he died in the Falklands,
Fighting for another man's cause,
And your brother he was killed in the last war
And your mother, well, she's lying home alone.
And now she wonders at it all,
Just in whose name did these brave young heroes fall,
And how many more are gonna answer that call,
They're gonna fight, and die, in another pointless war,
They're gonna die for a religion they don't believe in at all,
They're gonna die in a place where they should never have been at all,
Oh, never been at all,
Cause, your daddy, when he died in the Falklands,
Fighting for another man's cause,
And your brother he was killed in the last war
And your mother, well, she's lying home alone.
And your daddy, when he died in the Falklands,
Fighting for another man's cause,
And your brother he was killed in the last war
And your mother, well, she's lying home alone.
The Levellers - The Riverflow Lyrics
I met you in 82, over a crate of beer and not a few
I cracked a can and so did you, we're going to 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 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
On and on the river flow - we are the undertow
On and on the river flow - we are 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 deeply so, but on the river flows
You'd set the table for 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 river flows
CHORUS
You're working now - forced to the race
I know it left a bitter taste
But the rising tide had covered your face
Nothing you could do
But I still remember the day you said
That the river flowing through my head
Would take me far or leave me dead
And all you said was true
The Levellers - Liberty Song
There's one too many, two too many holes
Getting bigger in the garden wall
And the people looking in are getting busy, getting bad
Trying to suss it all
They're trying to get to me, to take my liberty
Got to go, go on, get out of here, cos
This means nothing to me
The way things were is the way I wanna be
They're sending the elite, complete with guns
To advertise the way to go
Facing through the fa to make it clear
That they're the ones who know
They're trying to get to me, to take my liberty
The Levellers - The Road Lyrics
Headlights, white lines, black tar rivers
Dragging me around this country as it whithers
The billboards, signposts, standing in the way
Tell of the state of the nations, that we find today
And we play and we play
To every day, every day
To every day
In the front rooms of old towns far from the city
With beat up guitars and hearts full of pity
The people gather round singing songs from everywhere
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
Out side the bars singing their hearts out to a crowd
Open boots, violin, banjo and a voice
Exiled buskers, happy with their choice
CHORUS
The Levellers - Battle Of The Beanfield
I thought I heard something 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, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're 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 seen a pregnant woman
Lying in blood of her own
I seen her children crying
As the police tore apart their 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
And I say,
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me
Bastards
Remember what you heard,
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me
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