[ Introduction | Song Index ]
(Sullivan/Heaton)
As we touched down on the tarmac
They strode out to greet us
It was under a blue snake-skin sky
With a handshake of welcome
They set their agenda
With their smiles never touching their eyes
We've been here before on the edge of a promise
Surrender is all that remains
But we'll see them in hell
We'll see them in hell
We'll see them in hell
We'll see them in hell before then
You made me a coward
I can't stand what I've become
What I most of all regret is not what I did
But all the things that I left undone
Like nobody learns, and nothing is changed
You ask me to follow again
But I'll see you in hell
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
Red Sky Coven Volumes 1 & 2 - CD (1/99)
21/04/96 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
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(Sullivan)
Waiting in the setting sun at the end of the road
The armies have moved away like the fading gold
I stand sentry by the rusting gate but no one comes
Nothing moves this way in the valley of stone
The evening shadows steal across the hills
And only the seasons change, only the seasons change
And I've seen so much more than I wanted to see
The flies all swarming round in the blistering heat
Layer upon layer here of the same old curse
The red blood draining down into the blood red earth
In the end we all tell these stories just the same
And only the names are changed, only the names are changed
The empires rising, falling like the seas
Their voices are just the whispers in the trees
I lock the chain upon the gate for the end of the day
I clean the gun that I'll never use and lay it away
As the stars spread like splinters of the sun
And only the seasons change, only the seasons change
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Navigating by the Stars - CD (2/03)
(Europe, UK tour Jan. 04) Red Sky Coven Volume 5 - CD (1/09)
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(Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton)
Look at my eyes - you know what it is
I want you, I want you
The way your body moves beneath that dress
And all the nights I've spent away alone in sleeplessness
It's a hunger that we can fill
Racing, racing
And every nerve tingles with it
I want you, I want you
You know the way that I can make you feel
Of all the faces in the crowd, there's only you
Pull down your hair a little
Open up your mouth a little
You're beautiful, you're the best
This feeling that you know oh so well
Your oldest friend from the fires, the fires of hell
And I want you now
Driving down
Driving down
Into the fires
Every stretch and move is like a dream
Eating, biting, scratching
And all there is, is these racing pulses
And the breathing
Forget all the lies that they gave to you
Believe in this 'cos how could this feeling not be true
Driving down
Driving down
And I want you now . . . now . . .
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Lyon Salle Moliere, 10/10/85 ?) - Brave New World - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (11/85)
(Rotterdam, 22/9/84) - This Is For the Fans
Not the Militia - Bootleg LP
(Rotterdam, 22/9/84) - State of Mind - Bootleg CD
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
Thou shalt not kill
- remember that?
You learnt it again and again when you were young
They said weapons have this safety catch
Your moral conscience tells you kid what's right, what's wrong
Well they make out like they're so surprised
But it's easy when you're civilised
Count to ten, close your eyes
The way it's always been . . Shot 18
I think I was a bit surprised
I never knew I was so anaesthetised
And triggers pull so lightly
And people die so easy - I never realized
Well I believe in common laws
I believe in even scores
I understand the rules of war
The way the slate is cleaned . . Shot 18
Who wants another Christian
martyr
Who wants someone else's pain
Who wants the world on their shoulder
Who wants to have to cry in vain
Who wants to have an open sore
Eating away deep inside you
Who wants to torture themselves
When there's plenty eager to do it for you
Well years might heal all the scars
But I don't know if you feel like you have that time
And if I was the man that killed your father
And if I said I'm sorry would that change your mind
Well noone should be so surprised
That words don't pay for victims' lives
It's teeth for teeth, eyes for eyes
The way it's always been . . Shot 18
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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)
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK Mini Tour
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(Sullivan/Nelson/Dean/White/Gill)
Between the chords of a song years ago
You saw a crack of light or was it a cause to follow?
You've been chasing ever since around these streets
For just the promise of a promise and nothing more to keep
You drove us like a crazy man through those narrow cobbled streets
You said 'there's nothing to fear' and we all smiled
Round and round in that little car while the city lay asleep
The city lay asleep
With sky in your eyes, sky in your eyes
The next day we went up to a ruined temple
high on a cliff above the opal sea
And watched as the angry storms chased around the bay
and suddenly the wind rose up and the thunder cracked
and you looked like you were home with your
weather-beaten face fixed in some kind of ecstasy
When the lightning hit the road just a few yards away
We all jumped up and shouted out but you never moved
Just stared ahead like you'd seen a ghost
So who was the ghost?
One part left behind, one part already gone
And one part standing here with sky in your eyes
With the sky in your eyes, with the sky in your eyes
If they won't make you captain then you sail your own ship
With your own colours tied to the mast
Setting sail for the far side of anywhere
Beyond and behind your thousand yard stare
With the sky in your eyes, with the sky in your eyes
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High - CD (8/07)
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(Heaton)
Instrumental
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Living in the Rose (The Ballads EP) - Maxi CD (6/93)
Living in the Rose (The Ballads EP) - 12" (6/93)
B-Sides and Abandoned Tracks - CD (9/94)
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(Sullivan/Morrow)
Turn left at the lights about 50
yards down
There's a pub in the corner and I'll meet you inside
At quarter to eight and we'll go into town
And find out what everybody's been saying
About us
Smalltown walls have eyes and ears
Stories fly thick and fast round here
Truth and lies are all the same
Whatever you do don't rock the boat
You've got to play the game, play the game
Ch:
Is it a crime to want something else
Is it a crime to believe in something different
Is it a crime to want to make things happen
To spit in the faces of the cynical fools
The incrowd know that the shell is thin
They all protect the cage they're in
Get drunk and stoned and wrecked again
No tears of rage, no cries of pain
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
In smalltown England
The world outside the pint
in hand
Is all so hard to understand
And if visions of the world come clear
They're not allowed to interfere
Ch
The smell of hot food from the takeaway curry
Diesel fumes from a passing lorry
Waiting in the queue in the pouring rain
For the chip shop up on Bowling Lane
Well last week we all got really smashed
We couldn't stand up, it was a real laugh
And this week's going to be just the same
And the next and the next, again and again
They say you've got to have fun while you're young
'Cos they can't believe there's anything else except this
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
(The John Peel Session) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - CD (6/88)
(The John Peel Session) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - LP (6/88)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
(The John Peel Session) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(The John Peel Session) - Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)
(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)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD
(5/2005)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90 ?) - The Collection - CD (10/04)
(Bonn Biskuithalle, 25/10/88) - In This Together
- Bootleg LP
(Nottingham Rock City, 28/02/89) - Like a Storm - Bootleg
CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - 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
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - We Never Asked for
Any of This - Bootleg LP
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - We Never Asked for Any of This - Bootleg
LP (plus Limited Edition 4 Track EP)
(Norwich Waterfront, 31/05/91) - New Model Army - Bootleg
CD
30/04/83 - Pavilion, North Ormesby
20/01/84 - The Tube (TV Channel 4)
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Feb.-Mar. 86 - UK Mini Tour
05/04/86 - Breekend Festival, Bree (Belgium)
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
Aug. 87 - USA Tour
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Jul. 88 - Northern Europe Festivals
Sep. 88 - UK Tour
25/10/88 - Biskuithalle, Bonn (WDR Rocknacht)
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
May-Jun 89 - USA, Canada Tour
Jun.-Jul. 89 - Europe Festivals
16/04/90 - Philipshalle, Duesseldorf (WDR Rocknacht)
Jun. 90 - UK Tour, Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK Tour
Jun. 91 - Germany Festivals
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada Tour
Jul. 92 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
(Reggae Version) Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
18/12/87 - Red Sky Coven - Topic Club, Bradford
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(Sullivan)
I woke still half-dreaming I was falling out of the trees
and tumbling down into the sky
It’s cold, so cold sometime before dawn
searching for a light and reaching round for my clothes
That we believe, so must call, rise
The convoys roll into the coming daylight
Let it not be said that everything must die
without some mark being made of its passing
Ch:
As if all the world should now hold its breath
These are the days that we’ll recall
when the masks are off the faces
and there’s something to fight for
All the lines drawn down in the Soul
You can let your anger burn crazy
There’s talking-drums echoed down towards the
Kennet
Canal
and wood-smoke sweet on the air
And the Yellow Jackets stand with the
Thick Blue Line
backs to the woods in the fresh thin carpet of snow
Snelsmore Wood, The Chase, Enbourne Road
Reddings Copse, Tothill down through Andover Grove
Let it not be said that everything must die
without some mark being made of its passing
Ch
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Eight - CD (1/00)
(Nobody Else) - New Model Army . . . &
Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
(Europe, UK tour Jan. 04) Red Sky Coven Volume 5 - CD (1/09)
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
(Nobody Else) - Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan - Kaue, Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
Jan. 99 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
Mar. 99 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
30/09/99 - Justin Sullivan - Markthalle, Hamburg (Move for Mumia)
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(Sullivan)
I met someone like Jesus in the spring of ’98
He was so full of love and I was so full of hate
So I nailed him on a cross where he belonged
told myself it’s what he would have wanted all along
and I drove into the night looking for something to burn
Oh how I love these little parables that I never cared to learn
And I don’t know what this feeling is but it’s just dripping through
me
There’s always something in the corner of my life that I cannot quite see
And I’m not sleeping well, all my dreams are so real
I dreamed I set fire to my house, watched the great beams come crashing down
And later on I was standing in the ashes of the stairs
They asked me what happened, it was an accident I said
And I don’t know what all this means and I don’t care, it’s nothing
to me
But there was something in the corner of that dream that I could not quite see
And there’s a happy family snapshot when you were very
small
But there were visits to the doctor, you can’t remember what for
The curtains drawn in silence on a summer’s afternoon
And the flies buzzing in the room
And you don’t know what this feeling is and you can’t explain it to
me
But there was something in that family photo that you cannot quite see
And I don’t know what all this means but it’s just dripping through
me
There’s always something in the corner of our lives that we cannot quite
see
Thanks to Beetlenuts for sending
me the lyrics before the official version came out.
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Eight - CD (1/00)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the Road - CD (3/04)
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(NMA/Joolz; words by Percy Bysshe Shelley; feat. Joolz)
Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
Wherefore weave with toil and care
The rich robes your tyrants wear?
Wherefore feed, and clothe, and save,
From the cradle to the grave,
Those ungrateful drones who could
Drain your sweat - nay, drink your blood?
Wherefore, Bees of England, forge
Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
That these stingless drones may spoil
The forced produce of your toil?
Have ye leisure, comfort, calm,
Shelter, food, love's gentle balm?
Or what is it ye buy so dear
With your pain and with your fear?
The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge, another bears.
Sow seed, - but let no tyrant reap;
Find wealth ,- let no impostor heap;
Weave robes, - let not the idle wear;
Forge arms, - in your defence to bear.
Shrink to your cellars, holes, and cells,
In halls ye deck another dwells.
Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see
The steel ye tempered glance on ye.
With plough and spade, and hoe and loom,
Trace your grave, and build your tomb,
And weave your winding-sheet, till fair
England be your sepulchre.
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The Disagreement of the People - Sampler CD (95)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
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(Sullivan)
Inside, all the secrets are held inside
Where the hot black river runs
When I gaze upon your face
And love and the hand in the burning flame
A debt of the blood to pay
To betray or not betray
Ch:
Turn, turn, the dance goes on
Silver the secret moon
Sooner or later one of us will break
And say what we must not say
Eyes, a room full of watching eyes
In the second before we smile
Always I see your smile
Ch
Into the streets when the clock strikes three
Closing our eyes for the kiss on the cheek
Walking away, not glancing behind
To say what we must not say
Say what we must not say
Ch
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Twilight Home - Maxi CD (1/03)
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
If I could save you, I surely would;
I'd take the world with you, the way we should.
I'd drown your violence in a sea of blood;
I'd drown the pain for you in the breaking waves,
I'd crown your innocence with the golden sun,
I'd drown your violence in a sea of blood . . .
South-West bound on the winding
A-roads - days of scorched
brown rolling hills
and ripened fields, down to where the sun glistens on the sea beneath
Pentire.
Diamond light, evenings becoming cool and fresh as the seasons change. I can't
wait to see you again - feels like something good is going to happen, as if
reborn
in the last days of summer, burned to the core and then somehow, made young
once more - as if you were going to be the one crowned Harvest Queen.
All the black will fade away in glory days, and Indian
summer;
you and I, sun and moon, different paths, always together;
all the black will fade away in the sharpened days that will soon be coming.
All love and change is one, all love and change forever . . .
And I can feel it falling away,
and I can feel it falling away from you . . .
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Wonderful Way to Go - Maxi CD (2/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
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(Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson)
Well you walk the thinnest of the ice
So easy to hurt
We drove through the dark in the pouring rain
And barely said a word
So dress your wounds as best you can
And close your tired eyes
Try to climb away from here
Towards the empty skies
And I'll meet you there
High above it all
In the kiss of air, the lover's breath
Visions rise from each little death
As Moses stands and turns his gaze
Away from the feuding tribes
Walks towards the mountains
And through the rocks he climbs
God he orders Moses
Bring the people to my will
'Leave me be' cries Moses
Keeps on walking up the hill
And I'll meet you there
High above it all
In the kiss of air, the lover's breath
Visions rise from each little death
And should the Devil come
And should he say -
'All of this will I give to you, if you
Just bow down and worship me'
I'm on my knees . .
"The white twisted clouds and the endless shades of blue in
the ocean
make the hum of the spacecraft systems, the radio chatter, even your own breathing
disappear.
There is no cold or wind or smell to tell you that you are connected to Earth.
You have an almost dispassionate platform - remote, Olympian and yet so moving
that you can hardly believe how emotionally attached you are
to those rough patterns shifting steadily below"
(quotation from Thomas
Stafford, astronaut)
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Impurity - CD (9/90)
Impurity - LP (9/90)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD (5/2005)
The Collection - CD (10/04)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Space -
Maxi CD (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Space - 12" (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Space - 10" (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Space - 7" (5/91)
(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)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - History - The Singles 85-91 - CD (3/92)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus Bonus
12") (3/92)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) -
The Best - CD (2001)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD (5/2005)
(9/94) - Big Guitars in Little Europe - CD (3/95)
(Norwich Waterfront, 31/5/91) - New Model Army - Bootleg CD
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK Tour
Jun. 91 - Germany Festivals
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada Tour
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
(Acoustic) - 25/07/98 - WOM Record Store, Karlsruhe
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg
- Europe Tour
Jul. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Festivals
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(Traditional)
Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days
gone by
My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly
I stepped on board a vision and I followed with the wind
And I shortly came to anchor at the cross of Spancil Hill
It being the 23rd
June the day before the fair
When Ireland's sons and daughters in crowds assembled there
The young and the old, the brave and the bold their journey to fulfill
There were jovial conversations at the fair of Spancil Hill
I went to see my neighbors to hear what they
might say
The old ones were all dead and gone and the young one's turning grey
I met with the tailor Quigley, he's as bould as ever still
Sure he used to make my britches when I lived in Spancil Hill
I paid a flying visit to my first and only
love
She's as white as any lily and as gentle as a dove
She threw her arms around me saying "Johnny I love you still"
Oh she's Ned the farmers daughter and the flower of Spancil Hill
I dreamt I held and kissed her as in the days
of yore
She said, "Johnny you're only joking like many's the time before"
The cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud and shrill
And I awoke in California, many miles from Spancil Hill
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Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
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(Sullivan/Morrow)
The natives are restless tonight, sir
Cooped up on estates with no hope in sight
They need some kind of distraction
We can give them that
And they'd kill if they only had something to kill for
They'd die if they only had something to die for
They'd cheer if they only had something to cheer for
We can give them that
So it's off to war we go (I couldn't believe it)
Bring out all the flags (I never believed it)
Fight the good fight
Sir, it's working like a dream
Half the nation are hooked on the bait
Waiting for the next victorious installment
We can give them that
'Cos it's no surprise that young men are heroes
It's no surprise that young men are strong
It's no surprise that young men are foolish
We've known that all along
Exciting pictures on News at Ten (I couldn't
believe it)
Read all the crap on all the front pages (I never believed it)
Fight the good fight
Ch:
Dead men in the South Atlantic
It's meant to warm our hearts
They think that they died for you and me
Oh God, what a farce, what a farce
And now it's the repeats
Plugging the Falklands and the Falklands' spirit
Show the pictures again and again
Till the next war comes around
'Cos we'll kill if we only have something to kill for
We'll die if we only have something to die for
We'll cheer if we only have something to cheer for
That is worthy of the name
Oh yes the next war (I never believed it)
See the propaganda in TV fiction (I never believed it)
Enemies with horns and tails
Ch:
Dead men in the South Atlantic
It's meant to warm our hearts
To think they died for you and me
Oh God, what a farce
There's crippled men back home in England
Doesn't it warm your hearts
They think they fought for peace and freedom
Poor boys, what a farce, what a farce
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
(The John Peel Session) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - CD (6/88)
(The John Peel Session) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - LP (6/88)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
(The John Peel Session) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(The John Peel Session) - Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Hamburg Logo, 23/03/91) - Raw Melody Men - Bootleg LP
30/04/83 - Pavilion, North Ormesby
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
05/04/84 - Justin Sullivan - Captain's Cabin, London
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(Ben E. King)
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
I won't be afraid
No, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me
Ch:
So darling, darling
Stand by me
Whenever you in trouble
Won't you stand by me
If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
Or the mountains should crumble in the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry,
No, I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me
Ch
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Oct. 91 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Vienna Tour
Dec. 95 - Red Sky Coven - Germany 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)
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
Hey there Matthew Hopkins, are you listening to us - we're
still here
Bloodstone,
Tiger Eye, what the hell - we're still here
The dreaming Earth moving in your sleep - it's all real
And everything you tried to keep so secret will one day be revealed
There's grit in the oysters there's wind in the trees
There's a full moon rising and salt in the seas
And we're outside of the line
Still running - outside of the line
Heinrich Kramer,
Jacob Sprenger - we're still here
Can you hear us Torquemada - we're still here
The rolling of thunder, there's holes in the sky
We'll meet you again on the opposite side
Outside of the line
Still running - outside of the line
The scent of datura, the beat of the drum
Seven by seven, all the ravens have flown
The crack of the lightning, there's holes in the sky
We'll meet you again on the opposite side and we're
Outside of the line
By the earth and the fire and the water and air
By the blood pouring in my veins I swear
Outside of the line
Still running - outside of the line
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Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
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Stoned, Fired and Full of Grace
(Sullivan)
Now the changes come on quicker than the speed of thought
Our will be done
We stare in wonder at the palaces of glass and steel
Waiting for the rain to come
Ch:
But I'm stoned, fired and full of grace
Everything will be forgiven
The further on we go
Stoned, fired and full of grace
Here in the breath of heaven
Left for dead on the side of the road
Through all the wasted lands I've dug for silver and gold
But no trace was ever found
I always thought that there was something different on the other side
Before the wall came down
Ch
The earth and wine and blood are drying now
After the burning of the day
We were singing songs about death and love and love and death
And what else is there anyway
Ch
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Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
(Europe, UK tour Jan. 04) Red Sky Coven Volume 5 - CD (1/09)
Apr. 01 - UK, Europe Tour
Nov. 01 - Jes'n'Dean - UK, Europe Tour
Mar.-Jun. 02 - Justin Sullivan & Friends - UK, Europe Tour
Mar.-May 03 - Justin Sullivan & Friends
- UK, Europe Tour
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(Sullivan)
When it comes down, we know we’re alone
you could scream and nobody would hear
Today my face in the glass is a stranger’s
furrowed with the lines of fear
All the little truths denied, all the little deaths we died
I always thought that it was worth something
All the little rays of hope, always coming back when we needed them most
I always thought that it was worth something
Once we went back to the house we were born in
The glass was smashed and there were boards on the doors
and it seemed so right that the past was all laid to waste
and our trail covered up and lost
All the little truths denied, all the little deaths we died
I always thought that it was worth something
And all the battles leave their scars
and the gods of Fate still laughing at
us
I always thought that it was worth what it cost
Let everyone else decide who’s right - I don’t care
any more tonight
I only know that it is worth something
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Eight - CD (1/00)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the Road - CD (3/04)
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
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(Sullivan)
It's not a crime to be innocent
These things we have not done
But you're not some little child
Spring is past and gone
Well I know my craving heart
And I've seen your vicious eyes
And I think we know the truth
Both you and I
Don't flutter your lashes like a little girl
And ask me why it's such a cruel cruel world, no
Ch:
Don't ask any more stupid questions
You already know the answers to
Well you can kill with the best of them
But your smile remains so sweet
When someone comes to eat me alive
Well I like to see their teeth
If you really want I can name the names
Be an angel of death at the children's games, so
Ch:
Don't ask any more stupid questions
You already know the answers to
Well I know that you do
There comes a time in your life
You've got to grow up fast
And I think that your time
Is coming now here at last
It's not a crime to be innocent
These things we have not done
But you cannot run forever
Spring is past and gone
Waiting in line at the fortune teller
Waiting to hear some more pretty lies, he says
Ch:
Don't ask any more stupid questions
You already know the answers to
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Stupid Questions - Maxi CD (1/89)
Stupid Questions - 12" (1/89)
(Stupid Mix) - Stupid Questions - 12" (1/89)
Stupid Questions - 7" (1/89)
Thunder and Consolation - CD (2/89)
Thunder and Consolation - LP (2/89)
(Remastered) -
Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/2005)
Videos 86-89 - Video (89)
Collection - LP (5/91)
History - The Singles 85-91 - CD (3/92)
History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus Bonus 12") (3/92)
History - The Videos 85-90 - Video (3/92)
The Best - CD (2001)
(Remastered) - Great Expectations - The Singles Collection - CD (10/03)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)
The Collection - CD (10/04)
(Impurity Tour 90. Reggae Version) - Space
- 12" (5/91)
(Impurity Tour 90) - Space - 10" (5/91)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD (12/93)
(Cologne, Bizarre Festival, 17/08/96) - Bizarre Festival
1996 - Video (97)
(Munich Babylon, 03/05/98) - New Model Army . . . &
Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(London Astoria, 16/12/03) - Live 161203 - DVD +
CD (5/04)
(Demo) - Demos for Thunder and Consolation - Bootleg LP
(Bonn Biskuithalle, 25/10/88) - In This Together
- Bootleg LP
(Nottingham Rock City, 28/02/89) - Like a Storm - Bootleg
CD
(Nottingham Rock City, 28/02/89) - Sadistic Pleasures - Bootleg 7"
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - Heroes of a Ghost
Town - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - European Tour '90 - Bootleg CD
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - We Never Asked for
Any of This - Bootleg LP
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - We Never Asked for Any of This - Bootleg
LP (plus Limited Edition 4 Track EP)
(Hamburg Logo, 23/03/91) - Raw Melody Men - Bootleg LP
(Norwich Waterfront, 31/05/91) - New Model Army - Bootleg
CD
Sep. 88 - UK Tour
25/10/88 - Biskuithalle, Bonn (WDR Rocknacht)
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
May-Jun 89 - USA, Canada Tour
Jun.-Jul. 89 - Europe Festivals
16/04/90 - Philipshalle, Duesseldorf (WDR Rocknacht)
Jun. 90 - UK Tour, Europe Festivals
(Reggae Version; Medley with Betcha) - Jun. 90 -
UK Tour/Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
19/01/91 - Wembley Arena, London
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK Tour
Jun. 91 - Germany Festivals
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada Tour
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Jul. 92 - Europe Festivals
27/08/92 - Queens Hall, Bradford
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Jul.-Aug. 93 - Europe Festivals
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
Jun.-Jul.95 - Europe Festivals
21/04/96 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals
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
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
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(Lovin' Spoonful)
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin' dirt-'n'-gritty
Bend down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around people lookin' half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match-head
Ch:
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Just bide the heat, it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the nights
In the summer in the city, in the summer in the city
Cool town, evening in the city
Dressed so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
'Til I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Runnin' upstairs, gonna meet you on the roof top
Ch
Hot town, summer in the city...
Ch
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Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe/UK Tour
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
Nov. 99 - UK/Europe Tour
|
(Sullivan)
All through the night we were battered by storms in the darkness
But at dawn the wind dropped away and we sighted the land
Suddenly there, a break in the cloud, like the coming of God in the world
In diamonds of sun on the water
Diamonds of sun on the water
Somewhere beneath the noise of our lives there is stillness
In points of light from the fireflies to the stars
Where arm in arm, come Abel and Cain, walking down to the sea
To gaze at the sun on the water
Just to gaze at the sun on the water
Once all our paths led us onwards
Now they are guiding us home
From the courts of the kings, we are returning
One by one
Now from desks in the cities with faraway eyes
All staring out over the roofs
We're dreaming of sun on the water
Dreaming of sun on the water
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Navigating by the Stars - CD (2/03)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
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(Sullivan)
Coming in at night all the desert highways
Crackle with the static of a thousand little radios
Everyone talking, no-one listening
Well by now I should expect that
Down into the city I smell artificial green
A glasshouse full of growing things
That are not what they seem to be
Look away, look away, the procession's leaving town
The emperor rides naked and no-one
gives a damn
That was the last time
I get a morbid satisfaction watching
sunset in all its degradation
We were in a restaurant for wannabes clinking glasses in celebration
We had to leave before something bad occurred
And Niko grabbed the keyes
We drove out in the early morning with the radio jammed on
R'n'B
Drive away, drive away, and he turned to me and smiled
Said, how does it feel to be living through the
Fall of Rome
And I said it's beginning to feel OK
The last time
Well I gave you all my money
I'm ashamed to remember now just why I did that
I got bitter, I got jealous, but not as much as you
Do you understand that?
Ten hours drifting half awake and finally touching down
I went out in the rainy morning and kissed the blessed ground
Coming home, coming home and the most of it is done
And the worst of us is left behind in the place where it belongs
That was, the last time
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
Lost Songs - Double CD (2/02)
Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour
01/04/99; last update 01/11/09