November 2010 Archive

The Life You Seek Does Not Exist

Sad eyes on a hard shoulder A car crash and a broken dream Lone voice on a mobile phone in vain Calling out Sad face on an empty train Going nowhere and back again Loan shark ...

Broken Silence

See the city lights, neon flashing by Watch the tide roll in underneath the sky The world is full of people rushing home Past empty shopfront doorways Where lonely people ...

It’s Going To Be A Good Year

It's going to be a good year, a good year for every one We're going to have a good time, a good time, a real good time Somethings going to change in ...

Where Have All The Good Times Gone

Waves are crashing down on the golden sands On the days of our lives Rays of light are falling like the passing time Hold on tight my love Where have they gone, where have ...

Lazy Dayz

Lazy days, lazy days Lazy, hazy days We sit and watch the world go by All our cares are floating on the tide Lazy days, lazy days Lazy, hazy days We float away into our dreams We ...

In You I See The World

I used to wonder why and what lies over the horizon I went looking for the answer when the answer was right here all of the time I went looking for direction ...

Up Downtown

I was running with the Backhanders From the Mona to the Mermaiders From the East end to the West paraders Through the car park and up the stairs You can forget all your troubles, ...

Mercenary Skank

Hit the town, hit the town We're going out, we're going to hit the town The light are bright, the lights are bright We're going out all the lights are bright We're going to ...

Land Of Hope Glory

They come from the cities from the Midlands and the Potteries They wear Ben Sherman shirts, Brutus, Levi sta-press and Skinner jeans From the land of hope and glory They've come for the ...

Waiting For The Summer

Waiting for the summer, waiting for the sun Waiting for the summer, waiting once again

Wherearewegoingandwhatarewegoingtodowhenwegetthere?

Where are we going and what are we going to do when we get there? We've been everywhere but we always end up back were we started What do we want and ...

The Sea

And the sea is always calling

1959/The Crescent

1959 - I came alive 1963 - First memories On a football pitch - 1966 1968 - I came of age I'm in the crescent Always in the present I'm in the crescent From splash point to ...

Alive

Wide awake in darkness, in shadows and blackness I'm in tune with radio frequencies bouncing off satellites I'm so spiritualised, I can hear God speaking with angels I'm wired to the light that's ...

1983/84

There is a place within my heart that will forever be 1983/84 We thought that we had nothing, we really had it all The walls were coming down all around us We were ...

Unsafe Building

Declare yourself an unsafe building suffer the indignation of your world To climb the ladders you've gotta suss out the snakes Remember your height Remember to never look down For now you've made ...

In The Poppy Fields

In the poppy fields...... we come and go In the poppy fields...... we lose control In the poppy fields...... where we come from In the poppy fields...... we are gone In the poppy fields...... I remember I remember everything, I ...

A New Chapter

Sunrise washing over me Daylight cleansing my soul Freedom so crystal clear A new chapter in the book of my life A new song in a different key Walk on in a new direction A new ...

Train A Comin’

There's a train a comin' round the bend There's a road up ahead There's a night after day There's a day after night There's a train a comin' round the bend Father.... one day we ...

The Message

Broken glass everywhere People pissing on the stairs, you know they just dont care I cant take the smell, I cant take the noise Got no money to move out, I guess I ...

This Is War

You say you need me like you need hypertension If I fell to sleep right now I know you'd put me right out of action To say we have lost control would be ...

Beautiful Thing

He was born down in the ghetto He was raised on the fear of the city streets of black america Baptised a God fearing man But there's a southern religion ...

Levi’s And Bibles

Blowing down a highway in a cadillac Yellow rose of Texas on a radio band I don't know where I'm going or when I'm coming back I heard about a promise in these ...

What The World Can’t Give Me

I want to believe in the heaven's above me I want to have faith in all I see To put my trust in God and man To know that there is more to ...

Spiritual

We've got to find a way to heaven Before our lives reach the ends Oh why is life oh so fatal? Each day is filled with emptiness The world is ...

Who’s Gonna Make The Peace?

When both sides are right and no one will admit to wrong And they stand and face each other to the death like fighting cocks All reason stays lost buried in our history's ...

Love Is A Revolution

Love is a revolution that opens up my eyes Love is the armageddon of blindness Love is the soul of the martyr who's coming back to life Love makes the poor man equal ...

Breathe

Silver rivers reflect the sun On black highways I will be done Mile on mile of empty heat I will wait for you... I will not look back Chasing shadows ...

If I Can’t Have You

Please don't leave me in the morning Stay tonight and through the day For I can't face the new horizon Another day, another moment If I can't have you I don't want nothing Can't go on ...

All I Wanted

I was a stranger moving from place to place Driven by a need for something I could not explain I was lost in a no-mans land between night and day ...

Poetic Justice

What on earth is this world coming to What on earth is going down What on earth is happening to us Is everything I feel POETIC JUSTICE What happened to ...

Gun To My Head

Set me alight and watch me burn Set me up to watch me fall Turn me over and take me down You've got me where you want me There's no way out You put a ...

Strength

Give me love Give me hope Give me strength Give me someone to live for Who will light the fire that I need to survive Who will be the life blood coursing through my veins Like ...

The Rock And Roll

I was dreaming on the seventh day Across a thousand years of time and space There's still some things that must be spoken Now that all the barriers are broken A star man came ...

Rat Trap

You've been living life like it's rock and roll You've been taking too much of what you can't control You've been dancing with the devil In your midlife crisis baby You've been pulling ...

Cease And Desist

I don't know where to start or where to begin I don't know where the end or where the future is Under surveillance, under attack Under pressure but I’ll never crack Cease and desist, ...

Raindown

I can hear the crying, the silence in your sleep I can feel the pain you breathe I can read the troubled, writing in your dreams I know what you hope and pray ...

Be Still

Someone will come who needs no answers Someone will come who is not blind Someone will come who can see what I can't see Someone will come in time BE STILL, be calm, be ...

Close

Today, just like yesterday I'm ascending and descending Travelling, not arriving That's the story of my life I've been close Closer than close Not close enough Somewhere, I don't know where There is someone, someone somewhere I've been close Closer ...

Trafficking

I'm sinking in the quicksand I'm superman in the superdrag I've been reprogrammed I'm about to crash I am trafficking I'm the traffic king TRAFFICKING I'm a lighting crack on winter grass I'm an electric flag, white on ...

All Seeing

Close your eyes What do you see Use your sense of touch Within your heart Your sense of hope Be guided by your feelings You are ALL SEEING All hearing, all believing You are ALL SEEING Don't ...

The Drunk And The Disorderly

Down in the gutter of my life story I'm lying in a bed with a dream playing in my head Spitting blood into a test tube I used to be half a man ...

It’s Alright / It’s OK

In the end it's you and me and no one else This is the way of life It's alright, it's O.K. We can make it through tomorrow It's alright, it's O.K. There is no one ...

Alarm Calling

This is the sound of the future calling Breaking news on the hour everyday This is the sound of tomorrow now The revolution will be broadcast wherever you are Wherever you stand This is the ...

Right Back Where I Started From

Sometimes you've got to take one step back to go two steps forward Sometimes you've got to stop believing to find the faith Sometimes you've got to face up to defeat to ...

Situation Under Control

Everything is black and white as the room spins all around me Everything is upside down there's a cardboard box at my feet I'm going through hell and I can't speak I'm going ...

My Town

Here it comes the reaping of the whirlwind that was promised us And all the streets are littered with the tension and the pressure A culture spreads it's needles round like flowers ...

Fightback

Oxygen from a life support system Flowing through the blood in my veins Oxygen from a life support system Keeping me a live again Send the troops to get me Send an atomic bomb Fightback with ...

Kill To Get What You Want [Die For What You Believe In]

Black is black and white is white My love for you borders on psychedelic Filed under A, evaluated Zero'd in on and left to die in the eighties KILL TO GET WHAT YOU WANT ...

Three Sevens Clash

From 1977 I've got a safety pin stuck in my soul A badge pinned to my heart Says "I can't be bought or sold" Whatever were we thinking of When we were shooting our mouths ...

Love Hope And Strength

Give me love Give me love hope and strength Give me love hope and strength to carry on Through the white washed corridors and the U.V. Lights Past deserted dreams to the end of ...

45 R.P.M.

A spiral scratch gave me my life back A vinyl solution ended my confusion I heard a voice in the noise pollution 45 RPM 45 45 RPM 45 45 RPM keep on running to the ...

After The Rock And Roll Has Gone

After the final chord has faded The lights have all burned out After the rain has washed us from the streets After the sound there comes a silence I hope I can live without The ...

Freedom (Riot Squad)

Freedom is a bullet exploding from a gun Freedom is a voice that's afraid to speak Freedom is a soldier who wants to come home Freedom is no food and no place to ...

Badge Of Honour (Part Two)

A century of stars and light are flashing right before my eyes A century of life undiscovered Everyone must pass this way walk right through this passageway Lay your clothes down at the ...

Higher Call

I was lying in the wreckage when I heard it calling I was falling through the skies when I heard it speak Calling out in the voice of the stranger The words of ...

Badge Of Honour (Part One)

Anytime you need a place to hide Anytime you need somewhere to run Anytime at all, anytime at all Anytime of day you feel afraid Anytime you need a helping hand Anything you want, anything ...

Come Alive

I don't know how to look into the future I don't now how to see what's going down I don't know how to stop what's going to happen But I know how you ...

Milk And Opportunity

I've been pushed and I've been beaten down but I am... still hanging around Been made to eat the dirt off my shoes... they said "don't come around here you know ...

Change III

CHANGE is alive on the street today Change makes some people afraid Change only happens when you look away Change in the twenty first century Change, change always seems to happen when you look ...

One Guitar

Could be the middle of night... or the middle of the street It could be uptown, downtown... or even where you sleep I hear the marching drum... I hear a song unsung It ...

Control

Bruised and battered are the broken people trying to find the will to survive Bruised and battered are the broken people living on the end of the line Anarchy isn't just a ...

Loaded

See that man fighting on the city street See that child crying to be free Don't ask me questions, don't ask me why I'm just another lonely passerby LOADED I'm just another lonely ...

Plastic Carrier Bags

Some people carry their lives in plastic carrier bags Some people live in their cars or their office space Some people sweat it out on electric treadmills Watch meteorite showers scratch the night ...

Release The Pressure

Economic pressure going to take control of me Economic pressure from the government to the street Economic pressure under heavy skies Economic pressure in my baby's cry Economic pressure got a hold on me ...

Direct Action

Fire in the hole, war coming down As Wall Street crashes to an all time low To find inspiration where there is none You're going to have to take DIRECT ACTION Free man of ...

Transcendental

All I have to give to you is everything you see All I am and all I have been, all I'll ever be All I have to say to you is everything ...

Rivers To Cross

Early one morning across the fields of dawn Crooked is the shadow that falls on my land Storm clouds overhead, like birds of prey in wait How can we undo ...

Blaze Of Glory

It's funny how they shoot you down when your hands are held up high And you open up your heart and soul but that's not enough for most I remember this much There ...

Hallowed Ground

The docks lie crippled in the northern towns The boys have all gone away trying to find work down south And mister I walk in the valley of the shadow Won't someone have ...

Knife Edge

Memories come flooding back, the bitter pain of disappointment Of once of having love but now I only feel loss I'm living on a KNIFEDGE At the end of the line I'm taking ...

What Happened To The Love We Made?

Yes, I saw a man today Had a spike drove through his head I could feel his love his hate Written in ink upon his face You can run but you can't ...

White Noise

The creeds and the colours are out of control on the streets And a strange kind of glory exists we are what we eat A diet of violence and crime feed our ...

Unbreak The Promise

There's something that must now be spoken Now that all the barriers are broken down I want to bury my words in the heartland soil Too much has fell on stony ground I never ...

Lie Of The Land

Too young to care, too old to fight Ain't bothered about your life Drop out far out, don't go to school Get out while the going's good Sign up for the dole, dig a ...

The Wind Blows Away My Words

In the dirty towns on the dirty streets There’s a violent wind that blows Across the generations men like me Have been swept to these crossroads Blown out of house, blown out of home Blown ...

The Wasting Land

Forcefed a diet of psychobabble Comedian parodies at my expense Suppress my anger with a veil of complacency I drown the sorrows, I count the days I wish I knew what I knew then I ...

Rain In The Summertime

Under the anvil of the sun Sweat, like a train, I come, I come My body to dust, scorched by the might of the sun Burning light, burning white heat Like wildfire, I sweat ...
risedeluxe

Rise – Deluxe Edition : Mike Peters (2010)

Tracks DISC ONE ORIGINAL 1997 STUDIO MIX COMPLETE RISE STUDIO RECORDINGS ALL UNRELEASED MIXES / VERSIONS WHITE NOISE [ULTRA] IN CIRCLES KALEIDOSCOPE HIGH ON THE HILL RISE TRANSCENDENTAL MY CALLING I WANT YOU FESTIVAL OF LIGHT YOU ARE TO ME THE WASTING LAND FIRST LIGHT DOWN THE ...

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