Big Country

[fox69]

"Dynamite Lady"

"Dynamite Lady"


I’d better be leaving
She said then she whispered
They’re waiting for me at the fairground tonight
I’ll never be back and I’ll never be missed
But I leave something here
And that doesn’t seem right

All of the time I just travel and travel
Am I running away or am I running home
There’s a man and a family
Somewhere in the suburbs
I forget his name and I can’t find the town

Boom goes the world of the dynamite lady
Making her way with a flash and a bang
Boom goes the life of the dynamite lady
Picking up the pieces wherever she can

All of my days hang on one fiery moment
A hushing of crowds and a dimming of lights
And I lie curled up like a child in the darkness
I die if its wrong I’m reborn if it’s right

Boom goes the world of the dynamite lady
Making her way with a flash and a bang
Boom goes the life of the dynamite lady
Picking up the pieces wherever she can

I walk through the clouds and I don’t hear the cheers
There’s a sound in my head that you almost could see
And the look in their eyes says I might as well live
It was already over before the dust cleared

Boom goes the world of the dynamite lady
Making her way with a flash and a bang
Boom goes the life of the dynamite lady
Picking up the pieces wherever she can [x3]

Making her way with a flash and a bang
Picking up the pieces wherever she can

 

[fox69]

"East Of Eden"

"East Of Eden"



I feel the way the wind blows
It tells me where you’ve been through
I watch the way the sun sets
Until the night’s inside you

Some days I just don’t worry, I let it walk through me
Some days I need to bury the very depths of me
So out here to the east of Eden
I let salvation be

I was waiting, I was watching
Would it ever be there for me
And I found that hope and a lucky card
Were all I had to walk with me
Had to walk with me

I watch the way the crow flies
I know it always seems so easy
But if I see it in a grey sky
Can I be sure about the way it leads me

Some days I just don’t worry, I let it walk through me
Some days I call upon the very depths of me
So out here to the east of Eden
I watch your soul run free

I was waiting, I was watching
Would it ever be before me
And I found that hope and a lucky card
Were all I had to walk with me

I was waiting, I was watching
Would it ever be before me
And I found that hope and a lucky card
Were all I had to walk with me

Some days will stay a thousand years
Some pass like the flash of a spark
Who knows where all our days go

Out here we lie together
Outside the thunder gathers
Why care about the weather
It always ends in dark

I looked west in search of freedom and I saw slavery
I looked east in search of answers and I saw misery
Some days I just don’t worry, I let it walk through me
Some days I walk into the very depths of me
So out here to the east of Eden I let my conscience be

I was waiting, I was watching
Would it ever be before me
And I found that hope and a lucky card
Were all I had to walk with me

 

[fox69]

"Eastworld"

"Eastworld"



I have come from the Eastworld
From the concrete and the dust
At the end of the empire
For the lifting of the curse

I have come for your hardware
To the strip shows and the bars
I have come to see Madonna
Swim in rivers filled with cars

All bound for miracle land today
All bound for miracle land today
Western men untie my hands
Lead me through the shifting sands
All bound for miracle land today

Take me to your banker
Let me default on my loan
Give me twenty years of payments
And a debt to call my own

Let me camp out on the welfare
Dig a hole to get my high
Show me rows and rows
Of oriental toys that I must buy

All bound for miracle land today
All bound for miracle land today
Western men untie my hands
Lead me through the shifting sands
All bound for miracle land today

The airwaves talk to me deep into the night
I trust the voice of Radio Free Europe

I have come from the Eastworld
With a missile for a god
Where my mouth was always empty
My feet were barely shod

All bound for miracle land today
All bound for miracle land today
Western men untie my hands
Lead me through the shifting sands
All bound for miracle land today

All bound for miracle land today
All bound for miracle land today
Western men untie my hands
Lead me through the shifting sands
All bound for miracle land today

 

[fox69]

"Echoes"

"Echoes"



Hold it down
Let the body sway
Swing the lead around

Hold it down
Let the lights revolve
Move your home to town

There is no love to offer me
Only shadows of my youth
It echoes

Move it up
Turn my face away
Make the morning mine

Move it up
Let the meeting go
Watch the dice man shine

There is no youth to offer me
Only shadows of my world
It echoes

Call to me softly
And years fall away
Hold me and move me
Before daylight fades

Hold it down
Let the body sway
Swing the lead around

Hold it down
Let the lights revolve
Move your home to town

Move it up
Turn my face away
Make the morning mine

Move it up
Let the meeting go
Watch the dice man shine

There is no love to offer me
Only shadows of my youth
It echoes

Call to me softly
And years fall away
Hold me and move me
Before daylight fades

Call to me softly
And years fall away
Hold me and move me
Before daylight fades

 

[fox69]

"Eggplant"

"Eggplant"


Don’t change me
So keep me right
Don’t hurt me
So hold me tight
Don’t desert me
So keep me inside

My old man’s got a really nice number
He’s on pay as you earn
He’s got money to burn
And his brother runs a dodgy little business
Selling fish eggs to the farmers
While his misses takes sewing from the
woman next door
And her brother’s got a job at Ford doing them
Little silly bits are
Now in the windows
What the windows
Well the side windows

Money can’t change me
Money can’t save me from the taxman
Money will make you money oh yea
Money will make you money oh yea
Money can make some money oh yea
I want some of your money oh yea

[?] give his money to the bloody taxman
Now I’ll explode just get my (goat/coat[?])
Cause I never had a stolen a ten bob note

Last night you wiped your feet like I’m a rug
And I crawled like I was a bug
Then made to feel like I was a slug
Oh life’s a drag when you’re a snail
A strong smell of turpentine prevails
Let us know let us know what tomato may
bring
It may be a strange ballad
[?]
But I never liked salad
[?]

Money can’t change me
Money can’t save me from the taxman
[?]
Taxman he’s the taxman oh yea [changed entire line]
Money will make you money oh yea
Money can make some money oh yea
I want some of your money oh yea

Here them say [added entire line]
There’s a message from the nation
From the police foundation
They’re gonna [?] taxation
For your own salvation
And a big eruption
And a persecution

When I make a foundation
Don’t change me
So keep me right
Don’t hurt me
So hold me tight
Don’t desert me
So keep me inside
Don’t think about it
So hold me tight

I’m against crustation
Don’t change me
See sterilisation
So keep me right
And to my frustration
Don’t hurt me
Then immunization
So hold me tight
Mass hesitation
Don’t desert me
And to my indignation
So keep me inside
I see your castration
Don’t think about it
And then big germination
So hold me tight

I see God visitation
[?] on TV nation
And then simulation
Is our big frustration
And then big crustacean
Have no sanitation
Man I have no explanation
But I give them (salutation/saltation[?])
And in my adulation
I will have infuriation
Like a big impregnation
Big big fertilization go!

 

[fox69]

"Eiledon"

"Eiledon"



The eagle soars above the clouds
The deer ran in the hills
And I may walk in cities
Where the wolf once had his fill
And here is strength for us to find
To turn the old to new
And wipe our eyes of misty years
And see the future through

I chose this place to call my own
The only grace I've ever known
I never tire of legends grown
We dream too much and time has flown

Eiledon, I will be there
Eiledon, my dream is there

So let me fill my children's hearts
With heoroes tales and hope it starts
A fire in them so deeds are done
With no vain sighs for moments gone

Eiledon, I will be there
Eiledon, my dream is there
Eiledon, Eiledon, Eiledon, Eiledon

So let us soar up with the eagles
In wild country among the deer
And wake the wolf in every city
And reckoning is drawing near

Eiledon, I will be there
Eiledon, my dream is there Eiledon

And here is strength for us to find
To turn the old to new
And wipe our eyes of misty years
And see the future through

 

[fox69]

"Everything I Need"

"Everything I Need"



You’ve got everything I want
You’ve got everything I need
Maybe we’ll go out walking tonight
You’ve got everything I need

I know you would be so warm
I want you to keep from harm
Maybe we’ll go out driving tonight
Maybe it wouldn’t be so wrong

All the seasons rushing over me
All the secret wounds that bleed
All the seasons rushing over me
Take me further from my need

For all the places we might go
Places I will never know
I would trade them all for one empty room
With you and I left there alone

All the seasons rushing over me
All the secret wounds that bleed
All the seasons rushing over me
Take me further from my need

 

[fox69]

"Far From Me To You"

"Far From Me To You"



Somewhere there are orange trees
Somewhere skies are blue
Somewhere is a bridge
Across the world from me to you

Sometimes in the darkest sky
The sun comes shining through
And tonight it seems
So far from me to you

Some of us are safe alone
Some of us pretend
We can always start again
The things we never end

Some of us are born to fall
Others to stay true
But tonight it seems so far from me to you
Yeah tonight it seems so far from me to you

So tell me if you hear me come on
Tell me, tell me, can you hear me come on
Tell me if you can hear me, come on and tell me
I’m awake for you

And sometimes in the darkest hour
Love comes shining through
And it doesn’t seem so far from me to you
No it doesn’t seem so far from me to you

Listening in the darkness to a voice I call my own
Shameful that my emptiness is turning me to stone
In the silence of the night love comes shining through
And it doesn’t seem so far from me to you
No it doesn’t seem so far from me to you

I’m deep into my darkest hour
Love comes shining through
And it doesn’t seem so far from me to you
No it doesn’t seem so far from me to you

 

[fox69]

"Fields Of Fire"

"Fields Of Fire"



Between a father and a son
Between the city and the one
Before the teacher and the test
Before the journey and the rest

The shining eye will never cry
The beating heart will never die
The house on fire holds no shame
I will be coming home again

400 miles without a word until you smile
400 miles on fields of fire

Between a woman and a boy
Between a child and his toy
Between a woman and a boy
Between a child and a toy

Before the following of the west
Before the journey and the rest

400 miles without a word until you smile
400 miles without a word until you smile
400 miles on fields of fire

 

[fox69]

"Flame Of The West"

"Flame Of The West"



A stranger came by traveling
He went to every door
He said he’d lost his people
He had come to look for more

And many did believe him
As he talked upon the square
The spell he wove upon us
Fills my body with despair

And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests

He had the voice of an angel
And the face of a saint
And though they fell behind him
I knew what it was he meant

His eyes were full of demons
As he made the message clear
He strode the world like Caesar
With a trident held his fear

And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests

It’s just how its always been
One man with a ruling dream
And everyone falls for him
Heroines in an ancient film

It’s just how its always been
One man with a ruling dream
And everyone falls for him
Heroines in an ancient film
Called the flame of the west

Look out for that stranger
If you pass him on your way
He never sees a danger,
In the darkening of the day

There will be dollars in his hand
He has all hell to pay
And he will pass them to you
If you promise you will stay

And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests