Big Country

[fox69]

"Close Action"

"Close Action"



A score of years this line has run
Above the crests that drown the sun
A mile high the turbines turned
The stokers sweat the monkeys burned

I will carry you home
With the gods in my eyes
I will carry you home
While the westerlies sigh

The continents will fly apart
The oceans scream and never part
Divided souls can never rest
Must join the nations break the test

I will carry you home
With the gods in my eyes
I will carry you home
While the westerlies sigh

I will carry you home
With the gods in my eyes
I will carry you home
While the westerlies sigh

For endless hours the sirens wail
Await the tide that brings the sail
Cling the walls and close the shore
The lovers wait who walk no more

I will carry you home
With the gods in my eyes
I will carry you home
While the westerlies sigh

I will carry you home
With the gods in my eyes
I will carry you home
While the westerlies sigh

I will carry you home
I will carry you home
I will carry you home
I will carry you home

 

[fox69]

"Come Back To Me"

"Come Back To Me"



The day they had a party
Right out in the street
Flags and flowers and singing
For the homecome hero's treat

I sat in the kitchen
Without a fire on the range
I knew this house had lost the cause
To ever make me warm again

Come back to me
Days are all too long
Come back to me
You never should have gone
I was so young and full of pride
And you were wild and strong
I never knew how weak I was

I watched them gather round him
When he stepped down from the car
While tears fell on my cigarette
He handed out cigars

I have your child inside me
But you will never know
I never will forget you
While I watch that child grow

Come back to me
Days are all to long
Come back to me
You never should have gone
I was so young and full of pride
And you were wild and strong
I never knew how weak I was

I was so young and full of pride
(I never, I never, I never…)

I will always be here
Fading by the day
I will wash the bloody hands
And cast the bowl away

As the years hang on me
You will always be young
And one day I will lie down
Where the rose was flung

Come back to me
Days are all to long
Come back to me
You never should have gone
I was so young and full of pride
And you were wild and strong
I never knew how weak I was

 

[fox69]

"Comes A Time"

"Comes A Time"



It’s a holy place if you see things that way
Then they rattle the bones and the analysts play
From his backward collar on a worn out book
Another working class poet with an abstract look

So take me up to the edge of the world
And push me over again
Lead me up to the edge of the world
There comes a time

Now, shake your hair and rattle your cans
It’s a service funded by a self-made man
Talks to victims and industrial spies
He feeds you tobacco for the four-minute mile

So take me up to the edge of the world
And push me over again
Lead me up to the edge of the world
There comes a time

With some strange god and a good right hand
We can chase the ghost from the promised land
If the promised land turns out as it should
We can flood the place with consumer goods

When the African general meets the bingo queen
And the collective farmer joins the teenage dream
When the miracle worker saves the chat show host
And the caveman paints another holy ghost

So take me up to the edge of the world
And push me over again
Lead me up to the edge of the world
There comes a time

So take me up to the edge of the world
And push me over again
Lead me up to the edge of the world
There comes a time

We can storm the walls in our leisure wear
While we trap the beast in his stormy lair
Then we’ll smooth his image and we’ll save his soul
While we fill our schools with the gold we stole

With some strange god and a good right hand
We can chase the ghost from the promised land
If the promised land turns out as it should
We can flood the place with consumer goods

 

[fox69]

"Crazytimes"

"Crazytimes"



Without the sky we get too hot
On our small and fragile spot
Best row with the oars we’ve got
It’s a crazytime that we are in

They call you queer, they call you thick
And teach you with a rattlin’ stick
Grow up up either dead or quick
It’s a crazytime that we are in

These are crazytimes
These are crazytimes
We best row with the oars we’ve got
Cause we’re living in such crazytimes

We get weak when we are strong
We know the right, choose the wrong
Most of us just sing along
It’s a crazytime that we are in

These are crazytimes
These are crazytimes
We best row with the oars we’ve got
Cause we’re living in such crazytimes

If it’s going to get better/rougher
We should rent a place to hide
Take a moment to recover
Take a moment to decide

Without the sky we get too hot
On our small and fragile spot
Best row with the oars we’ve got
It’s a crazytime that we are in

These are crazytimes
These are crazytimes
Best row with the oars we’ve got
Cause we’re living in such crazytimes

These are crazytimes
These are crazytimes
Best row with the oars we’ve got
Cause we’re living in such crazytimes

These are crazytimes
These are crazytimes
Best row with the oars we’ve got
Cause we’re living in these crazytimes

 

[fox69]

"Devil In The Eye"

"Devil In The Eye"



Take a little care when you put your lips
To her long cool neck
One kiss will be too much, a hundred not enough
Treat her with respect

If I could tell this to you would you believe it was true
You might just laugh I expect
And say you feel sophisticated
Confident and ready for the next

Has no time for modesty,
Doesn’t care for honesty
Deals in broken promises
Will spell you with her lies

Has no time for modesty
Doesn’t care for honesty
Deals in broken promises
We’ll look the devil in the eye

You’ll be the class fool, a perfect asshole
You’ll be the guy in control
And make decisions based on derision
And wake up deep in a hole

Wishing the ground would open beneath you
Enough to swallow you whole
So you don’t have to face the wreckage
You left scattered from the night before

Has no time for modesty
Doesn’t care for honesty
Deals in broken promises
Will spell you with her lies

Has no time for modesty
Doesn’t care for honesty
Deals in broken promises
We’ll look the devil in the eye

You will be dazzled by the pictures she will paint
Colours she will bring
And feel so safe and warm, far away from harm
Wrapped up in her wings

And slowly drift through the day, letting it all slip away
Without a care in the world
And wake up in a cold sweat
Screaming for her touch to ease your troubled soul

Has no time for modesty
Doesn’t care for honesty
Deals in broken promises
Will spell you with her lies

Has no time for modesty
Doesn’t care for honesty
Deals in broken promises
We’ll look the devil in the eye

We’ll look the devil in the eye

 

[fox69]

"Dive Into Me"

"Dive Into Me"



It was a long hot day
At the end of the summer
I had a chill in my heart
Like the start of the winter

And I didn’t know what to wear
I wasn’t sure what to say
I was standing alone
At the tail of the river

Dive into me, into the raging sea
Follow your heart, down where it’s deep and it’s dark
Dive into me, into the healing sea
Put your life into my hands and take the chance
Dive into me

So we loaded up the car
Drove deep into the mountain
Where the river was born
In time’s holy fountain

And we spoke about how it ran
All the way to the ocean
Trusting its path
To a natural motion

Dive into me, into the raging sea
Follow your heart, down where it’s deep and it’s dark
Dive into me, into the healing sea
Put your life into my hands and take the chance
Dive into me

Sometimes swirling waters drag you down
Knowing how to swim doesn’t mean you’ll never drown
Come the storm you hold in fear
Whoever’s by your side
Sometimes you’re just drifting on the tide

Dive into me, into the raging sea
Follow your heart, down where it’s deep and it’s dark
Dive into me, into the healing sea
Put your life into my hands and take the chance
Dive into me

 

[fox69]

"Don't You Stay"

"Don't You Stay"



I don’t like to ask you
But there are no choices left
Upon that fateful day
When you wore your wedding dress

Did the sun shine brightly
The clouds just drift on through
The way that clouds on wedding days should do

So don’t you stay another day
And let your heart go on its way

Does your blood run thin like water
Does he treat you like he ought to
I guess it’s time you should be on your way

With the tears upon your lips
The day you made your vow
The words rang out around the church
Do you hear them now

Did the preacher take your hand
And gently place the ring
Did the congregation stand to sing

Now don’t you stay another day
And let your heart go on its way

Does your blood run thin like water
Does he treat you like he ought to
I guess it’s time you should be on your way

We keep the darkest lies
For the sweetest smiles
We keep our best goodbyes
For the hardest miles
For the coldest night

So don’t you stay another day
And let your heart go on its way

Does your blood run thin like water
Does he treat you like he ought to
I guess it’s time you should be on your way

Don’t you stay another day
And let your heart go on its way

Does your blood run thin like water
Does he treat you like he ought to
I guess it’s time you should be on your way

 

[fox69]

"Dragging My Name"

"Dragging My Name"



Nothing was ever so simple
Nothing ever turns out neat
For a fallen disciple
Lying here at your feet
You were someone to believe in
Someone that I could turn to
I wasn’t worth deceiving
Hope you know you didn’t have to

So leave me with my dignity
Leave me with my pride
Even though the best of me
Is broken up and put aside
Don’t go dragging my name around
Don’t go dragging my name
Don’t go dragging my name around
If there’s one thing that I won’t stand
It’s you dragging me all over God’s land

I never went to the water
Never laid a hand on you
Like a lamb to the slaughter
I laid myself down for you
On my own at the temple
Everything I thought was true
It’s just a little incidental
Something I was going through

So leave me with my dignity
Leave me with my pride
Even though the best of me
Is broken up and put aside
Don’t go dragging my name around
Don’t go dragging my name
Don’t go dragging my name around
If there’s one thing that I won’t stand
It’s you dragging me all over God’s land

Nothing was ever so simple
Nothing ever turns out neat
For a fallen disciple
Lying here at your feet
I never went to the water
I never laid a hand on you
Like a lamb at the slaughter
I laid myself down for you

So leave me with my dignity
Leave me with my pride
Even though the best of me
Is broken up and put aside
Don’t go dragging my name around
Don’t go dragging my name
Don’t go dragging my name around
If there’s one thing that I won’t stand
It’s you dragging me all over God’s land

Don’t go dragging my name
Don’t go dragging my name around
If there’s one thing that I won’t stand
It’s you dragging me all over God’s land

 

[fox69]

"Driving To Damascus"

"Driving To Damascus"



I was driving to Damascus when a sandstorm rose
The road disappeared and the axle froze
I was low on gas and lower on hope
I covered my eyes and I felt for the rope

The wind was howling and the air it stung
I breathed in dust and it burned my lungs
And through the dust a driver came
Small and twisted and his face was plain

He said love them all
All that you need when your heart is small
Love them all
You're gonna find them when they fall

It was not hard to make him out
He simply spoke while I had to shout
He asked me where you driving child?
His voice was clear but his eyes were wild

I said I'm going to the city
To meet the high and proud
And let them know that anger
Is the nature of the crowd

He said love them all
All that you need when your heart is small
Love them all
You're gonna find them when they fall

Love them all
All that you need when your heart is small
Love them all
You're gonna find them when they fall

He said your words are lost on the dead
When you belong to them
Once I was dead and I knew the words
Of those dry and hollow men

And he took the rope and he hitched me up
Freed me from the dust
And he helped me round the pilgrims up
And lead them to the bus

He said love them all
All that you need when your heart is small
Love them all
You're gonna find them when they fall

Love them all
All that you need when your heart is small
Love them all
You're gonna find them when they fall

Love them all
All that you need when your heart is small
Love them all
You're gonna find them when they fall

 

[fox69]

"Dust On The Road"

"Dust On The Road"



Little girl racing the setting sun
Kicking up dirt from here to Jackson
Got to be home by supper time
Or her brand new daddy’s gonna tan her hide

While the little girl’s momma she walks the floor
She was Miss Mississippi back in ’84
Daddy’s got a belly full of cheap red wine
Momma knows that daddy’s not the marrying kind

Dust on the road catches your eye
Flies from the wheels of other lives
Like shiny cars
As the years go by
Leave you behind
Dust on the road

Red and blue lights on a bedroom wall
Grown man’s voice says down the hall
By the bed side a little girl prays
The Lord moves in mysterious ways

Momma walks in saying it’s all right now
An angel of mercy in a coat and gown
In the cracked rear view of a beat-up Olds
Everything fades in the dust on the road

Dust on the road catches your eye
Flies from the wheels of other lives
Like shiny cars
Like the years roll by
Leave you behind
Dust on the road

Dust on the road catches your eye
Flies from the wheels of other lives
Like shiny cars
Like the years roll by
Leave you behind
Dust on the road