Big Country

[fox69]

"Message Of Love"

"Message Of Love"



Ex-spy in a square in Berlin
Got holes in his knife-tipped shoes
He’ll tell you the missile codes man
He’ll sell you the warhead to

Guy driving my yellow taxi
He had a T-72
I’m doubled up in the back seat
I’m getting a closer view

A working illustration of the golden rule
Whoever ends up with the gold will make the rules

We need a message of love
Something that we can be sure of
Send us a message of love
One thing that we can be sure of

We drive to Checkpoint Charlie
We just drive right on through
We park above the bunker
That’s what you’re meant to do

Beneath the TV tower
Beside the union hall
Two hookers in plastic trousers
Selling little pieces of the wall

A working illustration of the golden rule
Whoever ends up with the gold will make the rules

We need a message of love
Something that we can be sure of
Send us a message of love
One thing that we can be sure of

A working illustration of the golden rule
Whoever ends up with the gold will make the rules

We need a message of love
Something that we can be sure of
Send us a message of love
One thing that we can be sure of

We need a message of love
Something that we can be sure of

We need a message of love
Something that we can be sure of
Send us a message of love
One thing that we can be sure of

 

[fox69]

"Monday Tuesday Girl"

"Monday Tuesday Girl"



Alright darlin’ is this the place for us to be together
Maybe honey we would be safer here in better weather
Listen darlin’ get me some oxygen before I pass out
Maybe honey I would feel safer here out in the fallout

Alright darlin’ I’ve waited years for us to share this moment
Maybe honey I waited so long you forgot what we meant
Listen darlin’ bring me some oxygen before I pass out
Maybe honey we would be better off out in the fallout

Monday Tuesday girl who are you now
Monday Tuesday girl
Monday Tuesday girl who are you now
Monday Tuesday girl

If things were better here
We’d maybe last another year
Monday Tuesday girl who are you now

Alright darlin’ say it’s all down to me well I saw it
Maybe honey we would be better off without the worries
She says “listen darlin’ bring me some alcohol before I pass out”
Maybe honey I would be better off out in the fallout

Monday Tuesday girl who are you now
Monday Tuesday girl
Monday Tuesday girl who are you now
Monday Tuesday girl

If things here get much worse
We’re gonna need your mother’s hearse
Monday Tuesday girl who are you now

Monday Tuesday girl who are you now
Monday Tuesday girl
Monday Tuesday girl who are you now
Monday Tuesday girl

If things were better here
I’d maybe stay another year

Monday Tuesday girl who are you
Monday Tuesday girl who are you
Monday Tuesday girl who are you now

 

[fox69]

"Never Take Your Place"

"Never Take Your Place"



Last night I dreamed I saw you there
I dreamed your eyes are blue
And someone’s hand upon your hair
I dreamed I saw that too

And not a word that I could say
A thing that I could do
Would ever make you look my way
Or let me look on you

Whip your dogs away from here
There’s no more oil and there’s no more beer
Whip your dogs away from here
You’ve no more left to fear
Push away boys, push away boys, it’s time we left this place
All the gold of Africa could never take your place

Some fool is hung around your neck
And who around your waist
Or was it all before we met
And in some other place

Or was it just a ghost of me
Lost in another time
Or someone I forgot to be
Who changed his dream for mine

Whip your dogs away from here
There’s no more oil and there’s no more beer
Whip your dogs away from here
You’ve no more left to fear
Push away boys, push away boys, it’s time we left this place
All the gold of Africa could never take your place

Last night I dreamed I saw you there
I dreamed your eyes are blue
And someone’s hand upon your hair
I dreamed I saw that too

Whip your dogs away from here
There’s no more oil and there’s no more beer
Whip your dogs away from here
You’ve no more left to fear
Push away boys, push away boys, it’s time we left this place
All the gold of Africa could never take your place

Push away boys, push away boys, it’s time we left this place
All the gold of Africa could never take your place
All the gold of Africa could never take your place

 

[fox69]

"One Great Thing"

"One Great Thing"



If there's one great thing to happen in my life
If there's one great day, if there's one great height
Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right
If there's one great thing to happen in my life

I've seen to much of what fighting has done
I've seen too much anger; I've seen it far too young
And talk will come to nothing while the shouting still goes on
But we are only singers and too many songs are sung

If there's one great thing to happen in my life
If there's one great day, if there's one great height
Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right
If there's one great thing to happen in my life

I've seen the way of martyrs; I've seen the way of kings
I've seen the hope that love can bring
I only hope what pleases me will also pleasure you
For mine can never be the hands that make a dream come true

If there's one great thing to happen in my life
If there's one great day, if there's one great height
Let it be the time for peace; let it be the time of right
If there's one great thing to happen in my life

 

[fox69]

"One In A Million"

"One In A Million"



I believe what I believe
And hope that I am not decieved
By little details I recieve
For you know I never look twice

Something far outside of me
A part of which I could not be
Things I would not care to see
I don't have the time for advice
I don't want to hear your advice

Your one in a million
Thats no lie
My One In million
Needs no disguise

If I put my faith in you
Put everything in place for you
Have it all replaced by you
I know that I won't do it twice

Brush your lips across my brow
Take this fever from me now
If you know when then I know how
Then we melt like strawberry ice
Melt just like strawberry ice

One in a million
Pleasure and pain
One in a million

A little sunflower in the rain

One in a million
Tell me the truth
Are you one in a million
Or just some baggage from my youth

There you are
On and on and on
Inside my head like a whisper
There you go
On and on and on
Inside my world for a moment

Well listen to this one
Here's the proof
One in a million
It's not like you're someone that I used

How did we come from that to this
How did we fill the emptiness
Where did we learn to cry and kiss
And melt into strawberry ice
Melt just like strawberry ice

One in a million
Thats no lie
My one in a million
Needs no disguise

 

[fox69]

"Over The Border"

"Over The Border"



I was holed up out in Denver in the snow
Some sense of adventure left but nowhere else to go
On an endless highway

Howlin’ in my room
Howlin’ in my ear
Howlin’ in my soul

I stayed up all night to watch a new sunrise
Lit up the Rocky Mountains, and I realized
You never really leave home

You can run
But you never lose the world that you are from
Over the border we must cross
Over the walls and damn the cost
Over the border for our sins
With the spirit of the people who light a fire in the wind

Crossed the backbone of the continent
Down to the ocean’s moan
Gave myself up to its healing
Felt like I had always known

You can run
But you never lose the world that you are from
Over the border we must cross
Over the walls and damn the cost
Over the border for our sins
With the spirit of the people who light a fire in the wind

You can run
But you never lose the world that you are from
Over the border we must cross
Over the walls and damn the cost
Over the border for our sins
With the spirit of the people who light a fire in the wind

You can run
But you never lose the world that you are from
Find the ridge that we could cross
Find the love that we had lost
Count the lives and clean the cause
With the spirit of the people who light a fire in the wind

 

[fox69]

"Pan American Irish Girl"

"Pan American Irish Girl"



Some men sing of pirate gold
Some men sing of freedom
Others claim to know the truth
And others still believe ’em

I have heard the band of hope
I joined in the chorus
I have looked straight through the past
Found out where the fore is

Now some would sing to change the world
Some to change a tailor
Some to rise the child’s fear
Some to soothe the jailor

If I had a chance to sing
Sing the song for you
I would sing a simple song
Love I have for you

Sing out to me
I will sing out to you
I will sing across the sea
Like drunken sailors do

A lonely song of love
For a Pan American Irish Girl

Songs of peace and songs of war
Songs aloud at school
Words to make our nation rise
Lines to lay the rule

If I had a chance to sing
Sing the song for you
I would sing a quiet song
Love I have for you

Sing out to me
I will sing out to you
I will sing across the sea
Like drunken sailors do

A lonely song of love
for a Pan American Irish Girl

Sing out to me
I will sing out to you
I will sing across the sea
Like drunken sailors do

A lonely song of love
for a Pan American Irish Girl

Sing out to me
I will sing out to you
I will sing across the sea
Like drunken sailors do

A lonely song of love
for a Pan American Irish Girl

 

[fox69]

"Pass Me By"

"Pass Me By"



Johnny comes to town
With his shoes turned out
Saying things are looking up
He’s on the street
With his eyes gone wild
He speaks with the voice of a child

When you see me
You pass me by
You don’t hear me
You pass me by

No roof and the rains have come
He says he lives in the sun
He light a candle and he’ll tell you why
He needs the width of the sky

When you see me
You pass me by
You don’t hear me
You pass me by

If you meet me somewhere out there
Don’t you ever pass me by
If you see me waiting out there
Don’t you ever pass me by

He is sometimes here and often gone
Who knows which road he is on
Stay sad and hold up proof
Which one is sure of the truth

When you see me
You pass me by
You don’t hear me
You pass me by

If you meet me somewhere out there
Don’t you ever pass me by
If you see me waiting out there
Don’t you ever pass me by

If you meet me somewhere out there
Don’t you ever pass me by
If you see me waiting out there
Don’t you ever pass me by

 

[fox69]

"Peace In Our Time"

"Peace In Our Time"



Who holds the money, who holds the need
Who holds the strings of misery or the purse of greed
And the gunmen reap while the gangsters sow
And law is cheap when the smugglers go

(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time

In sun-kissed rooms in city slums
Minds are restless till the airmail comes
From the forest floor to the western mind
Like a chat show topic on a party line
And the hardest love of all is to forgive
As the world comes tumbling down

(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time

Let all the rain come down on blind desire
Like a thundercloud that holds a prairie fire
I hear the blame and I see the cause
A stronger voice and a stronger law
But buyers buy and sellers sell
Public consumption of a private hell

(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time

(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time
While I have a life to live
Then I have no life to give
(Give us peace) Give us peace in our time

 

[fox69]

"Perfect World"

"Perfect World"



I searched the globe from A to Z
Found a lot that made no sense to me
I learned a man is just a man
There’s nothing more to understand

What I’m looking for is a perfect world
One that I can share with a perfect girl
What I’d like to find is a perfect girl
One that I can share with my perfect world

I read the books I watched the stars
And looked upon the face of Mars
I bathed in sun and walked in rain
It taught me how to laugh again

What I’m looking for is a perfect world
One that I can share with a perfect girl
What I’d like to find is a perfect girl
One that I can share with my perfect world

We got a manifestation
A little bit of animal domestication
Got civilisation
And that old time religion

We got an empire creation
Some industrialisation
Tiny little bit of space exploration
And then a world conflagration

What I’m looking for is a perfect world
One that I can share with my perfect girl
What I’d like to find is a perfect girl
One that I can share with my perfect world

And look what I found
It’s a perfect love
With the sea below
And the stars above