[ Introduction | Song Index ]
(Sullivan)
We were in the corner, the Clanduff
by the door
On opposite sides of the dance hall, staring across the floor
The lights go out, the fists fly in, it's the usual Friday scene
Cos adrenalin is the strongest drug
that there has ever been
There's this funny little bloke asking all these questions
writing down what we say
So we wound him up like a clockwork dog and we watched him trotting away
Two weeks later there's a feature in the paper called 'Britain's Urban Shame'
It's got the teenage thugs of the new estates with our photographs and names
Ch:
So we cut our hair to prove it
And we wore the clothes to prove it
And we armed ourselves to prove it
And we chose our place to prove it
And we danced that way to prove it
And we made ourselves believe it
Until all the world believed it
Until even you believed it
And I was just a little part but I felt the wheels turning
And these are all just little flames but the whole damn city's burning
Now that we were famous they watched everything that we did
We were the villains of the neighbourhood, heroes to all the kids
And even when that old bloke died we pretended that nothing was changed
We just broke the silence with some stupid song and went on with the stupid
game
Ch
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Better Than Them (The Acoustic EP) - 12" (7/85)
Better Than Them (The Acoustic EP) - Double 7" (7/85)
Adrenalin - LP (11/85)
(Electric Version) - History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus Bonus 12") (3/92)
B-Sides and Abandoned Tracks - CD (9/94)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/2005)
(Remastered Electric Version) -
Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/2005)
Videos 86-89 (Bootlegged Bootleg) - Video (89)
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe,
Japan, UK)
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
Time passes slow
Fields stretch out across open acres
Time passes slow
The giant steps of mankind touch us so little in the great lands
Our little storm
Whirls away out across calm wide oceans
In this sacred breath
You and I falling for ever and ever and ever
The news peoples' dull voices bring the distant tidings of great disasters, politicians speaking in some solemn tones, the crisis of a different world, the panic of the thousands, the destiny of millions, so far away
Time passes slow
Sunlight sparkles on rippling waters
And the trees they sway
I don't believe in the things that I can't see
Our little storm
Whirls away out across calm wide oceans
In this sacred breath
You and I falling for ever and ever and ever
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The Love of Hopeless Causes - CD (4/93)
The Love of Hopeless Causes - LP (4/93)
The Best - CD (2001)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the Road - CD (3/04)
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour
(Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
I was working shift on the six o'clock, quiet in the pale
dawn.
Found a bird caught in the machinery - set it free and watched it go . . .
Quit the job that very day, and flew into the sky just following after
this aimless desire, the awful desire, the aimless desire, worthless desire.
Now I've found causes and I've found
families, but nothing
ever lasts;
I've known people I'd die for - if only they had asked.
Where I'm from is not my home, and neither's where I'm bound;
Just following after this aimless desire - worthless desire . . .
So tonight, beneath the bridge where the fires burn,
God . . . take the freedom back, deliver me
from the aimless desire, the worthless desire . . .
And chimera she waits, and I have still
got this hole in me;
still got this hole inside of me . . .
Live version of last
verse:
Now the fates, they promised
everything - and everything's a lie
Still got this hole inside of me - never understood why
So tonight, beneath the bridge where the drifters' fires burn,
God . . . take the freedom back, deliver me
from the aimless desire, the worthless desire . . .
Can you see the real me?
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
(Paris La Cigale, 16/05/98) - New Model Army
. . . & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(London Astoria, 16/12/03) - Live 161203 - DVD +
CD (5/04)
Red Sky Coven Volumes 1 & 2 - CD (1/99)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Jun.-Sep. 98 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
Jan. 99 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
Mar. 99 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
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(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
False Maria
rises up from the corporate slab, all clad in flawless steel
"Hello Boys" she says and the pack dogs gather, slavering around at her heel
And the women try to stretch their faces, hoping to look more like her
And then chanting her name, they hurl themselves
Deep into the all-consuming fire
So onwards to the
feast to end all feasting, onwards to Midas Hall
Where the treasures of the world reproduce themselves like a hoard of cancerous cells
You can track the spread of the virus by the newsreader's colourful attire
Let's go there now, reporting live,
From the chaos scenes at the all-consuming fire
And
save us from these justifications when every one of them is a lie
Pax Americana reigns and
rains from two miles in the sky
Men rise from their beds and they shave their heads and they wait for the orders to come
But there's still no word, there's still no word
There's still no word from the Front
And while a billion hungry eyes are watching us from beyond the citadel wall
We've found a thousand ways to lay waste the planet and we're going to use them all
A culture in just two dimensions is all that we require
Because it burns so well, it burns so well
So blazing bright in the all-consuming fire
The Captain abandoned ship years ago but nobody thought to inquire
And so the band plays on, we sail gently
west
So gently
into the all-consuming fire
Thanks to Janek who let me take the lyrics
from his
site New Model Army . . .
& Nobody Else before the album was out
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High - CD (8/07)
Played at live gigs since 04/2004
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All of This
(Sullivan/Heaton)
There's a sentry in a uniform
To watch the VIPs along the hall
Strategical discussions taking place
Behind the steel plated wall
The agents issue the statements
To the waiting press who circulate the words
Justification propaganda
Western foreign policy across the world
Ch:
In the name of the people
All of this is done in the name of the people
They read their books and study hard
Cigarettes lit in the claustrophobic gloom
West of the University Road
The world outside is ghost-like in the room
Frustrated and impatient and
Intelligence sharp and twisted like a child
Death is an aphrodisiac now
The fuses on the table slowly wired
Ch
Hold me tight, hold me fast
Standing here on the wrong side
Of this bullet-proof glass
There are no questions left for us to ask
It's soldiers night at the discotheque
Pick up a girl and drink to home afar
Spending money like water
On the watered drinks available at the bar
The ones who never were given much
Never asked much of anything in recall
But there's a black bag in the corner
And it doesn't belong to anyone here at all
Ch
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The Ghost of Cain - CD (9/86)
The Ghost of Cain - LP (9/86)
(Remastered) - The Ghost of Cain - Double CD (5/2005)
(New York Ritz, 05/12/86) - Poison Street
- 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (2/87)
(New York Ritz, 05/12/86) - All of This - The "Live" Rarities - CD (4/99)
(Remastered) - The Ghost of Cain - Double CD (5/05)
(9/94) - Big Guitars in Little Europe - CD
(3/95)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the Road
- CD (3/04)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
(London Town and Country Club, 23/12/86) -
Join the Army - Bootleg LP
(Hamburg Logo, 23/03/91) - Raw Melody Men - Bootleg LP
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe,
USA, Canada)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
(Acoustic/Full Band Version) - Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
18/12/87 - Red Sky Coven - Topic Club, Bradford
May 90 - Red Sky Coven - Grootebroek, Germany Tour
Oct. 91 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Vienna Tour
04/09/93 - Justin Sullivan - Freilichtbuehne, Luebeck (Anti Fascism Festival)
Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Europe Tour
Jan.-Feb. 94 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Amsterdam Tour
Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan - Kaue, Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
12/12/98 - Justin Sullivan - Mean Fiddler (A Fight For Justice - Mumia Abu Jamal
Benefit)
30/09/99 - Justin Sullivan - Markthalle, Hamburg (Move for Mumia)
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(Sullivan)
Stepping out onto the stage
The smalltown star tonight
Flexes out for fame and fortune
Into the lights
The way she tears into the heart
Makes me realise
That I never understood hatred
Until I looked into those eyes - she cries
No one's going to talk down to me again
No one's ever going to patronise me again
I'm going to get out of this town
Steal myself a crown
I'm going to get myself some power
If it's the last thing that I do
Heading out of Bradford
With a ticket on the train
And a faith as hard as steel
Sharp as any pain
Gets pictures in the papers
Smiling oh so good
While she lies in bed with racing dreams
Hot as blood
Cos love will make you happy
And love will keep you warm
And love will build a cushion
To keep you safe from harm
But hate will drive you onwards
Hate will drive you upwards
Till you can get back all the bastards
Who ever tried to put you down
And when she's gone forever
Please don't lay her down to rest
In a quiet little churchyard
Along with all the rest
Throw a great big party
To remember that she lived
Give her headlines on the TV
To remember who she is
Cos no one's ever going to talk
Down to her again
No one's ever going to patronise her again
She's going to get out of this town
Steal herself a crown
She's going to get herself some power
If it's the last thing that she does
If it's the one thing that she does
If it's the only thing that she ever does
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No Rest for the Wicked - CD (5/85)
No Rest for the Wicked - LP (5/85)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/2005)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - Live 21.4.85
- Video (85)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - Space - Maxi CD (5/91)
(London Marquee, 21/04/85) - History - The Videos 85-90 - Video (3/92)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD (12/93)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - All of This - The "Live" Rarities - CD (4/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Norwich Waterfront, 31/05/91) - New Model Army - Bootleg CD
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Apr.-May 85 - UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK Tour
Jun. 91 - Germany Festivals
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Jul. 92 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
25/01/85 - Justin Sullivan - Apples and Snakes,
London
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK Mini Tour
Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
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An der schoenen blauen Donau
(On the Beautiful Blue Danube)
(Johann Strauss)
(Waltz)
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23/12/87 - Rock City, Nottingham
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(Sullivan/Dean)
You could be there - on a dark October night
Waiting for the moment to be swimming across the freezing river
Holding a plastic bag of belongings just out of the water
Climbing up the banks on the other side hiding in trees
So cold that you hardly show as a target
On the heat seeking gear of the Border Control
But you made it - you're another one over
Sleeping on a bench in a railway station in the heart of Europe
Haven't eaten anything for two days straight
But where there's a will, there's allways going to be a way
And every door is guarded and every guard costs money
So the women are bought and kept and raped and sold as slaves
Because the family borrowed from the Man
And the Man has always got to be repaid
For the deals of the Borders and the fake IDs
And the stolen passports, all locked away
While the women are working and gagging down on their knees
And somewhere in the back of Terminal Three
In the clogged-up corridors of the Immigration Authorities
Whole families with the wrong bits of paper
Are waiting to be sent back to where they came from
Escorted by officials out across the tarmac
With their wrist bound tight with cable-ties behind their backs
It's dawn and there's fog in Rotterdam harbour
And the guard's on his break and the dogs are chained by the wire
Three figures come out from behind the cranes
And make it across the train tracks
Clamber aboard a Panamanian freighter headed for the
Isle of Grain
Find a place to hide in a stack of containers
Another payload of World Trade because
Goods are free to move but not people
Oil is free to move but not people
Jobs are free to move but not people
Money is free to move but not people
And today they got a man hauled off a truck in the
Port of Calais
We watch them in silence as they lead him away
Clutching his battered suitcase
But his face betrays him - lost and scared and defeated
Sitting in the back of the white Port Authority van
Well where do any of us come from? It's pretty hard to say
While high in the sky above us tonight
The bombers are heading the other way - south and east
Into the blood red crimson sunrise of another
Imperial day
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Carnival - CD (9/05)
(Taubertal Festival, 13/08/06) - BD3 EP - CD (11/06)
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(Sullivan)
I went up to the mountain,
apocalypse dreams in my head
There was fire upon the horizon but it was just the sunrise turning red
Maybe it's time, maybe it's time . . .
Each night I walk to the edge of the city out to where the
darkness begins
I made a promise out here a long time ago and I've been waiting ever since
Maybe it's time, maybe it's time . . .
The world has become an empty place
Of great, wide landscapes and weird painted skies
Dawn breaking open in islands of light
And people move as shadows never touching at all
I've never been afraid to die, (maybe scared to live)
I've been across every ocean just chasing after the storms
My crew long dead or deserted now and the seas nothing but calm
Maybe it's time, maybe it's time - to turn this ship around
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Navigating
by the Stars - CD (2/03)
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan - Kaue, Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
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(Heaton/Sullivan)
Rolling up tab ends that the baby's collected
Waiting for the number that clicks on the wall
It's open season on the weak and the feeble
Their meagre ambitions their impotent fury
There's bullet proof glass in case there is trouble
No doors in the building between this side and that side
I've tried to wrestle some unbalanced nightmare
Tell myself over that I don't really live here
But the boys run away leaving blood on the pavement
And a little crowd gathered to watch you pick yourself up
Joining the queue at the video library
To watch ninety five minutes of simulated torture
The conference hall rings to the standing ovation
The people in blue ties rise from the
podium
Crazy with power, blinded by vision
The mass-chosen leaders for a brutalized nation
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Thunder and Consolation - CD (2/89)
Thunder and Consolation - LP (2/89)
(Remastered) -
Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/2005)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody
Men CD - CD (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men CD - Double LP (5/91)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD (12/93)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Remastered) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/2005)
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/4/90) - Heroes
of a Ghost Town - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - European Tour '90 - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - Vagabonds - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - We Are Old, We Are Young . . . - Bootleg
LP
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - State of Mind
- Bootleg CD
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour
(Europe, UK)
16/04/90 - Philipshalle, Duesseldorf (WDR Rocknacht)
Jun. 90 - UK Tour, Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada Tour
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
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(Elvis Presley)
Are you lonesome tonight, do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?
I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a
stage
And each must play a part.
Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart.
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I'll never know.
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you.
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you.
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then make them bring the curtain down.
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come
back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?
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23/12/87 - Rock City, Nottingham
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(Sullivan, Nelson, Dean, White, Gill)
Written up high on a Belgrade wall in 1991
I saw the words of a prophet in a ten foot scrawl
Arm yourselves and run
Now the streets are quiet for the closing deals
And the Fimbulwinter days to come
And the beats all sound like the hammering of steel
Arm yourselves and run
You can watch revolutionaries/jihadists come
You can watch them fall
Year zero for another age as another age is born
Each fire must rise and rage
Until it burns itself to ashes in the dawn
In the cold smouldering dawn
So I remember the words on a Belgrade wall from 1991
Some back street prophet in a ten foot scrawl
Arm yourselves and run
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Today Is a Good Day - CD (9/09)
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The Attack
(Sullivan)
Now the talking's over
Plans are laid and the hour is set
Glances round the table
Eyes all shining, dark and bright
We meet again at daybreak
For the day that will be ours
We're tomorrow's history
So just check your weapons, say your prayers
Now the evening's over
Voices muffled in the cold night mist
We leave the house together
Home to rest up in the last few hours
Heads against the pillows
With eyes that will not close
Of all the dreams that we've ever had
This is the one
Now the night is over
Dawn cracks open like a breaking shell
Now the waiting's over
As we walk in silence through the empty streets
We meet beneath the tower
Greetings empty like the taste inside
Turn towards the valley
And the day that has waited for us all our lives
Even in this age of concrete
Even in this age of reason
There comes a time when you put your life
Into the hands of the gods . . .
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No Rest for the Wicked - CD (5/85)
No Rest for the Wicked - LP (5/85)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/2005)
(Janice Long Show) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - CD (6/88)
(Janice Long Show) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - LP (6/88)
(Janice Long Show) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
(Janice Long Show) - Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
05/04/84 - Justin Sullivan - Captain's Cabin,
London
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK Mini Tour
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(Sullivan, Nelson, Dean, White, Gill)
Across the land the air is still
The leaves are falling golden one by one
Like the paper money falls
Or the soldiers stealing homeward
There is only beginning
And there is beginning of the end'
All the peoples are moving
Like the waters of a great flood
Ch:
And everything is beautiful
Because everything is dying
So we went down to the beach
And built a fire to remember
We took the last bottle of wine
And drank a toast to mortality
And we scrawled across the cold wet sand
With our bare feet 'We Told You So'
And watched the waves steal it away
I caught you smile and I heard you say
Ch
So who wants to live forever
When these moments will only come the once?
Staring into the embers of the fire . . .
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Today Is a Good Day - CD (9/09)
01/04/99; last update 01/11/09