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Umbrella

(Rihanna)

You have my heart
And we'll never be worlds apart
Maybe in magazines
But you'll still be my star

Baby 'cause in the dark
You can't see shiny cars
And that's when you need me there
With you I'll always share
Because

Ch:
When the sun shines, we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be a friend
Took an oath, I'ma stick it out till the end

Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella

(Ella ella, eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella

(Ella ella, eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella, eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella

(Ella ella, eh eh eh, eh ehe eh)

These fancy things will never come in between
You're part of my entity, here for infinity
When the war has took its part
When the world has dealt its cards
If the hand is hard, together we'll mend your heart
Because

Ch

You can run into my arms
It's OK, don't be alarmed
Come here to me
There's no distance in between our love

So go on and let the rain pour
I'll be all you need and more
Because

Ch

It's raining
Ooh Baby ist's raining
Baby come here to me
Come here to me

It's raining
Ooh Baby ist's raining
You can always come here to me
Come here to me

It's pouring rain
It's pouring rain
Come here to me
Come here to me

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Jan. 09 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour

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Understand U

(Sullivan/Heaton)

Ch:
They don't understand you
None of them understand you

Tonight, as you stare at the ceiling again
With you lover turning away
Disappointment closing in
Like the walls . . . and you try . . .
You try to talk about love
And they put their arms around you
But still you feel all alone
Wonder why . . .

Ch:
They don't understand you
None of them understand you
And it doesn't have to be this way
I know you try to do the things they say

Just because you don't know what it is that you feel
Doesn't mean you can hide it away
Well you try to be less than you are but they know
Yes they know . . . and silence is a dangerous game
And words are dangerous too
And you've spoken the best that you can . . .

Ch:
They don't understand you
None of them understand you
And it doesn't have to be this way
I know you've tried to do everything that they say . . .
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The Love of Hopeless Causes - CD (4/93)
The Love of Hopeless Causes - LP (4/93)
The Best - CD (2001)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)

(Beauvais Theatre de Beauvais, 09/06/96 ?) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)

Jul. 92 - Europe Festivals
27/08/92 - Queens Hall, Bradford
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
Jun.-Jul.95 - Europe Festivals
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals

Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals

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Vagabonds

(Sullivan)

We follow the taillights out of the city
Moving in a river of red
As the colours fade away from the dusky sunset
We roll for the darkness ahead

Ch:
We are old, we are young
We are in this together
Vagabonds and children
Prisoners forever
With pulses a-raging
And eyes full of wonder
Kicking out behind us again

Nighttime City Beat the radio is calling
The lost and lonely in vain
Out here we are running for the wide open spaces
The roadsmell after the rain

Ch

And watching as a boy alone at the quayside
The ships loading cargo in the night
Their names all calling to faraway places
The years go past, the miles go by
And still this childhood romance will not die . . .
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Thunder and Consolation - CD (2/89)
Thunder and Consolation - LP (2/89)
(Remastered) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/05)
Vagabonds - Maxi CD (2/89)
Vagabonds - 12" (2/89)
(Edit) - Vagabonds - 7" (2/89)
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)
Anthology - Double CD (2/11)
1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)

(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men - CD (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men - Double LP (5/91)

(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Remastered) - Thunder and Consolation - Double CD (5/05)
(High Tour 07/08) - Fuck Texas, Sing for Us - CD (11/08)
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Cologne Palladium, 16/12/06) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - Triple CD (4/15)
(Christmas 2014 shows) - Between Wine and Blood Live - DVD (4/15)

(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
(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
(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

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)
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
(Voice for Violin Version) - Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
(Voice for Violin Version) - 03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen
(Voice for Violin Version) - Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
(Voice for Violin Version) - Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour

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Vanity

(Sullivan)

I'll teach you everything that I know now, Eddie
If you really want to take the time
But don't expect to get answers to anything, Eddie
There is just one thing I've learned
Through everything that I've done and tried
Everything I have justified
It's all vanity, all vanity
We try to have control
It's all vanity, all vanity
'Cos chaos rules it all

I always drive like a madman, Eddie
But you'll soon get used to that
I believe if you're moving fast enough, Eddie
You don't ever have to watch your back
I choose solid ground to make my stands
I stay off the streets at closing time
It's all vanity, all vanity
We try to have control
It's all vanity, all vanity
'Cos chaos rules it all

Remember how it was out at Bunglass
We climbed up to the peak and stood against the rocks
The photographs came - you couldn't see us
We were lost against the mountains like specks of dust
And the mirror never lies,
It's just these foolish eyes
And we all see what we want to see
What we need to see
What we have to see
And so will you do just the same one day, Eddie

Been to that place a thousand times
Looked over the edge so many times
Wanted to jump a thousand times

Well we talk about saving the world now, Eddie
It's our vanity gone mad
She'll survive us all perfectly well
When we're all long buried and dead
Clever monkeys with technology
Barely out of the caves and the trees
It's all vanity, all vanity
We try to have control
It's all vanity, all vanity
'Cos chaos rules it all

Eddie now let it go . . .

I turn my head away from here
Down towards the rolling seas again
I kneel and worship where I can
The ground comes swirling up and through these veins . . .
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Impurity - CD (9/90)
Impurity - LP (9/90)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD (5/05)
The Collection - CD (10/04)

(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)

(Newcastle Riverside, 14/06/90) - Fuck the Summer of Love - Bootleg 7"

Jun. 90 - UK Tour, Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour

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Vengeance

(Sullivan)

Escaped the net in '45
Hiding out in South America
Protected by money and powerful friends
Hoping the world has forgotten by now
All the things that you did in the Nazi Death camps
The thousands you tortured and killed
You can live you life in expectant fear
Until the day when you're made to pay

Ch:
I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard
Getting the bastard, getting the bastard

Man walks over dressed in flashy clothes
With an empty heart and a head full of money
Puts his arm around the lad of fifteen years
Talks sort of close like a long-lost brother
"It's really cool, all the pop stars do
If you don't try a little you'd really be a fool
Tell you what I'll do, I'll make the first one free
And when you want some more just come back to me"

Red Sky Coven version of second verse:
A girl walks home through a quiet street
Just got off the train, her mum waits at home
The man in the shadow, he sees his chance
Grabs her by the hand and bops her lip
She heads away, screaming, paralyzed with fear
Another court case later, while the lawyers drone
He shouts "Just look at her in that mini skirt
Man, she asked for it, she wanted it
You can't blame me"

Live version of second verse:
Loading up the barrels at the warehouse gates
Men in overalls on double rates
Put the stuff in the river and away for a beer
Don't worry too much, they don't live around here
And the poison seeps into every pore
Every child's eyes, every innocent's sore
Everybody knows behind the closed doors
Kick down the doors, kick down the doors

Ch

Top-dog fascist gets the boys in the corner
Plants poison where there was just confusion
Walks away scot-free and laughing
Rides on the tide as the cancer grows
And the business man on corruption charges
With millions of dollars in dirty money
Gets a thousand pound fine after months in court
While the lawyers get fat and the law gets bought

Ch
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
(Zion Train: Right to Silence) - Vengeance 1994 - Maxi CD (10/94)
(Zion Train: Rough Justice) - Vengeance 1994 - Maxi CD (10/94)
(Pressure of Speech: Right to Protest) - Vengeance 1994 - Maxi CD (10/94)
(Headman: Justice for All) - Vengeance 1994 - Maxi CD (10/94)
Vengeance 1994 - Maxi CD (10/94)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
Anthology - Double CD (2/11)
(Remastered) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)
(Zion Train: Right to Silence) - Vengeance - The Whole Story 1980-84 - Double CD (12/12)

(Brixton GLC Festival, 84) - No Rest - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (4/85)
(Brixton Academy, 16/06/90) - Purity - 7" (10/90)

(Brixton Academy, 16/06/90) - All of This - The "Live" Rarities - CD (4/99)
(Stuttgart Longhorn, 04/05/98) - New Model Army . . . & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)

(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD (5/05)
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)
(Concarneau Citadelle Ville Close, 31/07/93 ? (or Meer Akkerpop Festival, 25/07/93 ?)) - 1980-2010 - Triple DVD (2/11)

(9/94) - Big Guitars in Little Europe - CD (3/95)

(Rotterdam, 22/09/84) - This Is For the Fans Not the Militia - Bootleg LP
(Rotterdam, 22/9/84) - State of Mind - Bootleg CD
Demos for Thunder and Consolation - Bootleg LP
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - Heroes of a Ghost Town - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - European Tour '90 - Bootleg CD

(Norwich Waterfront, 31/05/91) - New Model Army - Bootleg CD

30/04/83 - Pavilion, North Ormesby
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe, UK Tour
(Sung by Joolz) - Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
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)
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
May-Jun. 91 - UK 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
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
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour

05/04/84 - Justin Sullivan - Captain's Cabin, London
25/01/85 - Justin Sullivan - Apples and Snakes, London
(Spoken by Joolz) - Mar.-Apr. 88 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
(Spoken by Joolz) - Sep.-Oct. 89 - Red Sky Coven - UK, Germany Tour
May 90 - Red Sky Coven - Grootebroek, Germany 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
Jul. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Festivals
Sep. 94 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Netherlands Tour

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01/04/99; last update 11/06/17