Big Country

[fox69]

"Lone Star"

"Lone Star"



In the word of the midnight traveller
Everything I see I could feel
For the way of the midnight traveller
Hides the world that the day makes real

In the word of the silent dancer
Everything I hear I could feel
For the step of the silent dancer
Is the sound of us standing still

I wouldn’t want to give all our dreams away
I wouldn’t want to give all our life away
Shine on lone star
Always lead us on
Shine on lone star
Always lead us home

You can call me a midnight traveller
Everything you see
I call you a silent dancer
But nothing that you hear is real

I wouldn’t want to give all our dreams away
I wouldn’t want to give all our life away
Shine on lone star
Always lead us on
Shine on lone star
Always lead us home

I wouldn’t want to give all our dreams away
I wouldn’t want to give all our life away
Shine on lone star
Always lead us on
Shine on lone star
Always lead us home

Shine on lone star
Always lead us on
Shine on lone star
Always lead us home

 

[fox69]

"Long Way Home"

"Long Way Home"



Come on lay your hands on me
Feel the will of God’s TV
I will save you every one
And you can pay me when I’m done

100,000 Jesus children
All dressed up and no-one with them
Lead them not into temptation
With your tales of hell’s damnation

Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home

Out upon the China Sea
Boats will run eternally
Storms on land and storms assail
Captains roar and the women wail

A half a million Nixon babies
Some with toys and some with rabies
Hunted by the man in black
No room here man send them back

Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home

Underneath your own safe sky
You may never wonder why
Some will never make their peace
Some have never been released

Fires in the L.A. sky
The truth ran out and justice died
You better arm the National Guard
Cause final notice has been served

Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home

Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home
Searching for the long way home

The long way home

 

[fox69]

"Longest Day"

"Longest Day"



I’ve had enough, give me the strength to carry on
Bring me my dove, be my shelter from the storm
Oh let me be, let me keep my life my own
Just let me see a way for me to be alone
I need a friend, I need a place where I can hide
I’m lost again, I need a spell to turn the tide

But like the dog that howls in the night
You fill my broken heart with fright
When I touch you the whole world sighs
When you touch me the whole world cries

The longest day will be forever and a lifetime
The longest day will try your love like none before
But I must stand and I must fight for what is wrong is now my right
The longest day will fill my life for evermore

Will I lie, will I face the fire in you
Or will I fly, will I find out what is true
I will be there, I will be waiting there for you
And who will care when we have done what we must do

But like the dog that howls in the night
You fill my broken heart with fright
When I touch you the whole world sighs
When you touch me the whole world cries

The longest day will be forever and a lifetime
The longest day will try your love like none before
But I must stand and I must fight for what is wrong is now my right
The longest day will fill my life for evermore

I could use some love
I could use some kissing
I could use some gloves
Or maybe just some lessons

I’ve had enough, give me the strength to carry on
Bring me my dove, be my shelter from the storm
I will be there, I will be waiting there for you
And who will care when we have done what we must do

The longest day will be forever and a lifetime
The longest day will try your love like none before
But I must stand and I must fight for what is wrong is now my right
The longest day will fill my life for evermore

 

[fox69]

"Look Away"

"Look Away"



This time we run
This time we hide
This time we draw on all the fire we have inside.
We need some time
To find a place
Where I can wipe away the madness from your face.

Our name is out
Our name is known
Our name is everywhere but who knows where we're flown.
I never meant
To kill a man
But I will show you how to live like no one can.

So look away look away
Hide your eyes from the land where I lie cold.
Look away look away
From the lies in the stories that were told.
Look away look away
From the love that I hide way down deep in my soul.

I met you wild
In a snowed up town
When I was waiting tied and bound to be sent down.
Then I broke loose
You weren't around
So I raised banks and trains until I tracked you down.

Now look away look away
Hide your eyes from the land where I lie cold.
Look away look away
From the lies in the stories that were told.
Look away look away
From the love that I hide way down deep in my soul.

You followed me
When I said no
You lay with me when there was nowhere safe to go.
We made some friends
but now it's done
I always knew that we would never find the sun.

So look away
look away
Hide your eyes from the land where I lie cold.
Look away look away
From the lies in the stories that were told.
Look away look away
From the love that I hide way down deep in my soul.

 

[fox69]

"Loserville"

"Loserville"



It’s a monument valley of concrete
On the plain where the styrofoam roams
She hits the trail by the charity store
For the cavern of the mobile phones

She wades ankle deep across wino creek
To the rail where the stagecoach waits
And there should be one in a day or so
If it isn’t running late

’Cause she lives on a reservation
With a baby called “shut up and wait”
And the missionary school by the alehouse
Is teaching him how to hate

In Loserville…Loserville
It’s 15 miles outside of luck
They live on beer and pills

Now she takes him over to grandma’s
Because her cousin gets back tonight
All day he’s been out hunting
And they’re gonna do the thing with the pipe

’Cause her man is a long time missing
He got lost in the firewater fight
Sometimes she hears him when the moon is out
Screaming at the door in the night

In Loserville…Loserville
It’s 15 miles outside of luck
They live on beer and pills

Loserville…Loserville
A couple of lifetimes out of hope
Out there over the hill

It’s the fastest growing false economy
The capital of welfare state
They built a wall around Loserville
But they didn’t build a gate

I spent half my life getting out of this place
It’s everybody’s well-laid plan
You can take the boy out of Loserville
But you can’t take the place from the man

Loserville…Loserville
It’s 15 miles outside of luck
You live on beer and pills

Loserville…Loserville
A couple of lifetimes out of hope
Out there over the hill

 

[fox69]

"Lost Patrol"

"Lost Patrol"



We lay the night in anguish
Snakes drawn out by the tide
The compass of decision
Falls always on one side

But many went before us
And still the cries are clear
There is no beauty here
Just the stench of wine and beer

We save no souls
We break no promises

We can do nothing more than move
Headlong through the gloom
The thorn between our lips
Is the missionaries tune

Men with open arms
Turn their faces half away
Observe as we approach
We have not come to save

We stand as thick as vines
Though the fruit is torn away
There is no beauty here friends
Just death and dark decay

We save no souls
We break no promises

We save no souls
We break no promises

 

[fox69]

"Made In Heaven"

"Made In Heaven"



Listen now, there’s no time to explain
I’ve been here such a short time, I will be here again
If you hear my voice in the darkness, if you hear my words in the rain
Don’t be afraid, it only says you did not wait in vain

Even the bad things are made in heaven
Even the cold heart, even the cruelest love
All the run down days, all the run down living
Even the bad things are made in heaven (and I will be coming)

I looked out all around my life and I missed what never was
Looked at sinners and I looked at saints and never knew the cause
Sometimes you can tell just how this world is going to be
But it makes me wonder when I look at you just how you look at me

Even the bad things are made in heaven
Even the cold heart, even the cruelest love
All the run down days, all the run down living
Even the bad things are made in heaven (and I will be coming)

You may find a traveling man whose eyes are wild and free
But lay away those fancy things and keep them safe for me

Even the bad things are made in heaven
Even the cold heart, even the cruelest love
All the run down days, all the run down living
Even the bad things are made in heaven

Listen now, there’s no time to explain
I’ve been here such a short time, I will be here again
If you hear my voice in the darkness, if you hear my words in the rain
Don’t be afraid, it only says you did not wait in vain

Even the bad things are made in heaven
Even the cold heart, even the cruelest love
All the run down days, all the run down living
Even the bad things are made in heaven

I looked out all around my life and I missed what never was
I looked at sinners and I looked at saints and never knew the cause
Well sometimes you can tell just how this world is going to be
But it makes me wonder when I look at you just how you look at me

Even the bad things are made in heaven
Even the cold heart, even the cruelest love
All the run down days, all the run down living
Even the bad things are made in heaven (and I will be coming)

Even the bad things are made in heaven
Even the cold heart, even the cruelest love
All the run down days, all the run down living
Even the bad things are made in heaven (and I will be coming)

 

[fox69]

"Magic In Your Eyes"

"Magic In Your Eyes"



Sometimes in the morning
Before the world is dawning
The way your hair is falling
Makes me want to cry

Our mystery has gone
But there’s magic in your eyes
There is magic in your eyes

Just before you wake up
Another day is breakin’
If I’m not mistaken
The sun is gonna rise

Our mystery has gone
Our mystery has gone
Our mystery has gone
But there’s magic in your eyes
There’s magic in your eyes

Meantime we’re agreein’
The causes of my leavin’
Words that I believe in
Steps that I must make

There’s no way of knowin’
The way that we are goin’
Seeds that we are sowin’
Chances that we take

Our mystery has gone
Our mystery has gone
Our mystery has gone
But there’s magic in your eyes

There’s magic in your eyes
There’s magic in your eyes
There’s magic in your eyes
There’s magic in your eyes

 

[fox69]

"Mary"

"Mary"



I was waiting
For a sign of something
Was there only one thing
I could call my own

I was looking
For a new beginning
For a way of winning
All that I was owed

Oh, Mary
How could they see
When I lose it all
You bring it back to me

I was dreaming
Of a new day dawning
With the Monday morning
Running in my eyes

Oh, Mary
How could they know
First they took my heart
Then they break my soul

Oh, Mary
How could they see
When I lose it all
You give it back to me

I was hoping
For a moon at midnight
For a flash of sunlight
In the northern sky

I was searching
For the dreams of dreamers
For the scheme of schemers
Where the modest lie

Oh, Mary
How could they know
First they took my heart
Then they break my soul

Oh, Mary
How could they see
When I lose it all
You give it back to me

Oh, Mary
How could they know
First they took my heart
Then they break my soul

Oh, Mary
How could they see
When I lose it all
You give it back to me

 

[fox69]

"Medicine Show"

"Medicine Show"



There’s a trailer park
On the edge of the swamp
The air is cold
And the bedclothes damp

There’s not much chance
Of cutting loose
When you’re tied and tied
To your excuse

How can you dream
When you cannot sleep
The walls are thin
And your clothes are cheap

And you better get some rest
You’ve got two dead-end jobs to keep

Throw away your dreams my dear
The world we knew has disappeared
Kiss the kids before they go
Send them off to join a traveling show
Send them to the old-time medicine show

If your baby cries tonight
Will you make it sleep outside
You learn to lie before he reads
Family don’t bring guarantees

Out here we dream of better things
We let our wildest dreams have wings
When you don’t have far to fall
Dreams are better than them all

Throw away your dreams my dear
The world we knew has disappeared
Kiss the kids before they go
Send them off to join a traveling show
Send them to the medicine show

It’s getting dark
We better get down on our knees

There’s a trailer park
On the edge of the swamp
The air is cold
And the bedclothes damp

How can you dream
When you cannot sleep
The walls are thin
And your clothes are cheap

Throw away your dreams my dear
The world we knew has disappeared
Kiss the kids before they go
Send them off to join a traveling show
Send them to the old-time medicine show