Big Country

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[fox69]

"1000 Stars"

"1000 Stars"



Now we play our final hand
Move in closer, understand
This time like never before
Only the black queen scores
A card so high and so wild
We should burn it

The luck of a thousand stars
Can't get me out of this
The luck of a thousand stars
Losing its charm

There are people I have loved
Hypnotized by lies
In defensive disguise
Some say protect and survive
I say it's over

The luck of a thousand stars
Can't get me out of this
The luck of a thousand stars
Losing its charm

Hold me through the darkest night
I feel secure in your arms
While all the city's on fire
It's not between you and me
But we are losing

The luck of a thousand stars
Can't get me out of this
The luck of a thousand stars
Can't get me out of this
The luck of a thousand stars
Losing its charm

 

[fox69]

"1000 Yard Stare"

"1000 Yard Stare"



You should have called me a brother
You should have been real close
But you knew I loved you brother
Enough to take over your post

But you were asleep my brother
I didn’t mean you no harm
You were asleep when they came through the wire
And I couldn’t reach the alarm

I guess it’s always with me
I guess it will always be there
When I step on the runway I always will see
The boy with the thousand yard stare

I wanna tell you brother
I didn’t want to be there
It was my time for sleeping brother
But I went and left you up there

I guess it’s always with me
I guess it will always be there
When I step on the runway I always will see
The boy with the thousand yard stare

You’ll never leave me brother
Though I watched them fly you back home
I’m still in country brother
I won’t make the world on my own

I guess it’s always with me
I guess it will always be there
As I step on the runway I always will see
The boy with the thousand yard stare

I guess it’s always with me
I guess it will always be there
As I step on the runway I always will see
The boy with the thousand yard stare

I guess it’s always with me
I guess it will always be there
As I step on the runway I always will see
The boy with the thousand yard stare

 

[fox69]

"After The Flood"

"After The Flood"



Shi-ya!

I’m waiting on a summer
That’s never gonna come
Searching for the sunlight
But I can’t find it

Huh!

They’re trying to do the right thing
In a world all wrong
Holding back the troubled
Waters are rising

The morning comes
As the light breaks through (the light breaks through)
The new days dawns
And I run (And I work things through...and I run)

Under the sky
Under the sky
Under the sky
Under the sky

I’m waiting on a miracle
Today and tomorrow (tomorrow)
After the flood
Well I’m gonna find you (find you)

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

The morning comes
And the light breaks through (the light breaks through)
The new days dawns
And I run (And I work things through...and I run)

Under the sky
Under the sky
Under the sky
Under the sky

After the flood
I wandered like a bad moon on the rise, oh!

Rising
Rivers are rising
Rising
Rivers are rising

Under the sky
Under the sky
Under the sky
Under the sky

Under the sky
Under the sky
Under the sky

 

[fox69]

"Ages Of A Man"

"Ages Of A Man"



We walked up to the river
You led me in waist deep
I looked down upon the swirling waters
By your feet

You were so strong and perfect
Pushed against a wave
I struggled close behind you
I was hoping I was saved

You took me to the mountain
Marched me up its side
We looked down together
I was trembling inside

For you told me once of Isaac
And what was meant for him
Then you turned to smile at me
And I was calm again

You oh you oh you
Took my hand
And led me down the ages of a man

You oh you oh you
Took my hand
And led me down the ages of a man

You took me to the darkest place
Deep below the earth
Showed me what the simple lives
Of men had once been worth

You said, “This is what we come from
And here we will return
Makes no difference who you come to be
Or what you’re worth”

You oh you oh you
Took my hand
And led me down the ages of a man

You oh you oh you
Took my hand
And led me down the ages of a man

You oh you oh you
Took my hand
And led me down the ages of a man

You oh you oh you
Took my hand
And led me down the ages of a man

 

[fox69]

"All Fall Together"

"All Fall Together"



I forget how it started
But everyone knew of the cause
Hard out of the sun
With a vengeance and all was then lost

They crawled into homes
Yet all of the old ways were gone
It left nothing to run to
But no one can help how they’re drawn

We will all fall together
A black sky in the rain
And you can laugh and I will sing
We’ve changed forever

Survivors set out on a trail in a search for salvation
Looking for remnants of sense in the end of a nation

We will all fall together
A black sky in the rain
And you can laugh and I will sing
We’ve changed forever

All fall together
A black sky in the rain
And you can laugh and I will sing
We’ve changed forever

All came together and steadied themselves on the shore
Knowing the terror would find them much worse than before

We will all fall together
A black sky in the rain
And you can laugh and I will sing
We’ve changed forever

With nothing to live for and nothing more left of your pride
Can you face all the black in your heart that will not be denied

We will all fall together
A black sky in the rain
And you can laugh and I will sing
We’ve changed forever

We will all fall together
A black sky in the rain
And you can laugh and I will sing
We’ve changed forever

We will all fall together
A black sky in the rain
And you can laugh and I will sing
We’ve changed forever

 

[fox69]

"All Go Together"

"All Go Together"


A skyhole here, the sun’s let in
It melts the ice, it melts my skin
The oceans rise, the lands recede
Cities crumble, vermin feed

We will all go together when we go, when we go
We will all go together when we go
We will all go together when we go, when we go
We will all go together when we go

The chainsaw roars, the forests fall
The natives hide, the cattle call
The water boils with toxic waste
We catch the fish to get a taste

We will all go together when we go, when we go
We will all go together when we go
We will all go together when we go, when we go
We will all go together when we go

The atoms split to heat the town
And build a bomb to knock it down
Nothing is done for all of this
Till most to blame is most at risk

We will all go together when we go, when we go
We will all go together when we go
We will all go together when we go, when we go
We will all go together when we go

A skyhole here, the sun’s let in
It melts the ice, it melts my skin
The oceans rise, the lands recede
Cities crumble, vermin feed

We will all go together when we go, when we go [repeat to end]
We will all go together when we go

 

[fox69]

"All Of Us"

"All Of Us"



Bad weather gathers all along the coast
When the storm clouds gather and my blood runs cold
If we can’t go further when we get to the shore
Then we have to turn around and fight some more

We’ll go together I have room in my soul
That’s enough of watching people trading hearts for gold
I can see you on the beach on your knees
Spilling more salt in an already dead sea

We’ll feel the wind and the rain in our face
You can it do yourself but I heard of a place
It’s got to be now and it better be together
When spirits make a meeting you can feel it forever

Bad weather gathers all along the coast
When the storm clouds gather and my blood runs cold
I can see you on the beach on your knees
Spilling more salt in an already dead sea

Run away with me again
Time for us to grow
Run away with me again
All of us alone

 

[fox69]

"Alone"

"Alone"



The mid-day sky was grey and purple
At least it wasn't blue
I want the sky to be the way I am
And what I do
For I have been a lost and lonely
Sailor on your sea
Run aground by trusting signals
You were sending me

The streets are filled with empty faces
Nothing here is new
It's just the same in other places
I have journeyed to
I was the first across the water
The last across the land
I walked out of the silver mine
My pockets full of sand

Alone inside my head
Alone inside my room
I feel alone inside my head
Alone inside my tiny little world

It's not my life in those old pictures
The ones you threw away
For I was always someone else
And always far away
Walking in the darkest places
Where the mission meets
Waiting for the ground to open up
Beneath my feet

Alone inside my head
Alone inside my room
I feel alone inside my head
Alone inside my tiny little world

Alone inside my head
Alone inside my room
I feel alone inside my head
Alone inside my tiny little world

 

[fox69]

"Angels & Promises"

"Angels & Promises"



Heavy is the silence
That hangs upon my soul
The velvet glove of the honest truth
As unmistakable as you
Here we are all bound together
No matter win or lose

Angels and promises
Prisoners and silences
(Say a prayer)

The factory of the innocents
The souls that you can’t see
Your father’s hands weren’t the only fists
That took the best of me
Here we are in the same ship sailing
Across an unknown sea

Angels and promises
Prisoners and silences

Cardinals, sinners and saints
In this world, we’re all the same

I’m walking on a mountain without a summit
Swimming in a sea without a shore

Say a prayer
Say a prayer

Angels and promises
Prisoners and silences

Say a prayer
Say a prayer
Say a

Oh Lord
Where did the feeling go?
Oh Lord
I never felt so low

Oh-oh
Angels and promises
Oh-oh...