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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 sun
Waiting for the summer, waiting once again
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 ...
And the sea is always calling
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...