Big Country

[fox69]

"Into The Fire"

"Into The Fire"



Floodwaters rising on the flatlands tonight
Been here before I guess we’ll get through again
Get your photographs and hide them all away upstairs
Then tie the shutters down against the rain

Last night I took a walk into the fire
Of a young man’s dreams
Someday soon I’ll leave that innocence behind me
Until then I’m here

Then I looked into your eyes
And saw the years I spent in them
I was amazed to find they still show clear
Out to the edge of every chance I ever took with you
Shining in the darkest places of my fear

Stay free and throw your cares into the future
Let them all come out
Be true and pass those dreams onto someone
Before you wear them out

Come on baby, come on angel
Take a walk into the fire with me now
Come on angel, come on come on my darling
We can talk into the fire here and now

I love the warmth of summers I remember
I see you shimmering in seven veils of haze
I hear the rainfall of a lifetimes worth of autumn
Running on my shoulders like November days

Last night I took a walk into the fire
Of a young girl’s dreams
Someday soon I’ll leave that innocence behind me
Until then I’m here

Come on baby, come on angel
Take a walk into the fire with me now
Come on angel, come on come on my darling
We can talk into the fire here and now

Come on baby, come on angel
Take a walk into the fire with me now
Come on angel, come on come on my darling

 

[fox69]

"Inwards"

"Inwards"



I wouldn’t want to go home
On a night like this
When I find out that some of the past
Has been missed

And the light in the window
Has burnt it’s fuse
I pull everything inward
But everything’s loose

Everything inwards but everything’s loose
Everything inwards but everything’s loose

I wouldn’t want to stay out
With news like this
All the engines too loud
All the pavements hiss

How the scouts in the stairwell
Will meet again
Pull everything inwards
But everything’s shame

Everything inwards but everything’s loose
Everything inwards but everything’s loose

I wouldn’t want to stay out
With news like this
All the engines too loud
All the pavements hiss

How the scouts in the stairwell
Will meet again
Pull everything inwards
But everything’s shame

I wouldn’t want to go home
On a night like this
When I find out that some of the past
Has been missed

And the light in the window
Has burnt it’s fuse
I pull everything inward
But everything’s loose

Everything inwards but everything’s loose
Everything inwards but everything’s loose

 

[fox69]

"John Wayne's Dreams"

"John Wayne's Dreams"



I could head into the sunset
With my best girl by my side
I could pull her up beside me
And together we would ride

Hey ma, hey pa
Look at me standing tall
Brother, sister
Look at them bad guys fall

I’m walking and talking real slow
Out where the tumbleweeds blow
Hey ma, hey pa
L let those wagons roll

I played poker with a doctor
Stand straight up and called him a cheat
Then I walked those twenty paces
Gunned him right down in the street

Hey ma, hey pa
Look at me standing tall
Brother, sister
Look at them bad guys fall

I’m walking and talking real slow
Out where the tumbleweeds blow
Hey ma, hey pa, let those wagons roll

Don’t wake me up
I’m dreaming John Wayne’s dream
Under a sky so big on the prairie green
Please leave my here in John Wayne’s dream

I’d ride shotgun on a stagecoach
Keep those bandits from my girl
I would pull her round the waist, man
Run my rough hands through her curls

I said hey ma, hey pa
Look at me standing tall
Brother, sister
Look at them bad guys fall

I’m walking and talking real slow
Out where the tumbleweeds blow
Hey ma, hey pa
Let those wagons roll

Don’t wake me up
I’m dreaming John Wayne’s dream
Under a sky so big on the prairie green
Please leave my here in John Wayne’s dream

Hey ma, hey pa
Look at me standing tall
Brother, sister

Look at them bad guys fall
I’m walking and talking real slow
Out where the tumbleweeds blow
Hey ma, hey pa
L et those wagons roll

 

[fox69]

"Just A Shadow"

"Just A Shadow"



It went so well for you
With a place right where you wanted and the ones to fill it to
But some blows break the spell
That it hits you every day until you need to hit as well

It's just a shadow of the man you should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
You have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

It all seemed fine for you
Till the struggle of ambition turned in violence upon you
Sometimes a landslide comes
If you're hiding in that avalanche you need a place to run

It's just a shadow of the woman you should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
And you have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

I know there is no need for what's been done
I know there is enough for everyone
Frustration brings a heavy hand to bear
And there's never been a hand

Did we ever have it good
While we lived in Eldorado did we find the gold we should
If it really was the truth
Why are faces filled with anger that should only shine with youth

It's just a shadow of the people we should be
Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see
You have no thought of answers only questions to be filled
And it feels like hell

I know there is no need for what's been done
I know there is enough for everyone
Frustration brings a heavy hand to bear
And there never is a hand outside that cares
Still the promise comes of living fit for all
If we only get our back against the wall
I look at backs that pushed the wall for years
Scarred by many knives and too much fear

 

[fox69]

"Keep On Dreaming"

"Keep On Dreaming"



Born too soon for a future
Born too poor for love
Born too far from the warmth of the sun
Or a place in the heavens above

It’s a cold, cold night in the circus
A colder night in the zoo
Light up the fires down in Carton Town
Where the feet and the fingers are blue

I said keep on dreaming
Hey, hey, keep on dreaming

I hear talk of chances
Chances gone to waste
Well it’s hard to see opportunity
With a hand drawn across your face

We never chose the doctor
We never chose the school
We never chose the family
Or the winning smile of the fool

I said keep on dreaming
Keep on dreaming
Like the life you have is the life you want
Keep on dreaming

Some of us dream in the morning
Some of us simply will curse
Others will put their defenses to work
Protecting the bad from the worse

A band plays in the valley
A nightmare in every head
And people all sing hallelujah
When they mean heaven help us instead

Ah keep on dreaming
Keep on dreaming
Like the life you have is the life you want
Keep on dreaming

Ah keep on dreaming
Keep on dreaming
Like the life you have is the life you want
Keep on dreaming

Keep on dreaming
Keep on dreaming
Like the life you have is the life you want
Keep on dreaming

Keep on dreaming
Keep on dreaming
Like the life you have is the life you want
Keep on dreaming

 

[fox69]

"King Of Emotion"

"King Of Emotion"



I know where all that time has gone
Blown and drifted, listening to an August night
I see where I was wrong
But how could I know that you were right
When you said I would need something wild
Something crazy to carry me
I would see you naked and weary
But with pride in your eyes that put shame in me

I wait to find the things I need but I know

I want that love
King of Emotion
Stronger than you and so much deeper than me
I know that love is King of Emotion
King of Emotion take a walk with me
I know that love is King of Emotion
King of Emotion take a walk with me

You know where all that time has gone
Grown up and left, washed out like an April day
See all those pretty little things you knew
Worn and faded they lie cast away
You said you would need something wild
Something special to carry you
You would see me naked and weary
But with pride in my eyes that put shame in you

Until you find the things you need I know

I want that love
King of Emotion
Stronger than you and so much deeper than me
I know that love is King of Emotion
King of Emotion take a walk with me
I know that love is King of Emotion
King of Emotion take a walk with me

Until we find the things we need I know

I want that love
King of Emotion
Stronger than you and so much deeper than me
I know that love is King of Emotion
King of Emotion take a walk with me

I want that love
King of Emotion
Stronger than you and so much deeper than me
I know that love is King of Emotion
King of Emotion take a walk with me

 

[fox69]

"Kiss The Girl Goodbye"

"Kiss The Girl Goodbye"


They hit the bank on a dog-day afternoon
With the black top popping and the radio out of tune
They looked so young and wild and people sighed
For desperate men need desperate passers by

You gotta kiss the girl good-bye
Then begin
Kiss the girl good-bye
You know when and I know why
We kiss the girl good-bye

They left the strip just before the hurricane blew
The governor turned his head and the customs man knew
They looked so lean and wired the controller asked why
Well desperate men need a desperate kind of sky

One of them was a sailor
Another one was a fishing man
The third one was a farmer’s son
And they kissed their girls good-bye

Kiss the girl good-bye
Then begin
Kiss the girl good-bye
You know when and I know why
We kiss the girl good-bye

Kiss the girl good-bye
Then begin
Kiss the girl good-bye
You know when and I know why
We kiss the girl good-bye

They hit the street with the moon in a funny mind
For a drive past shooting for a deal done just in time
Well they look so young that something’s got to give
Well desperate men have desperate lives to live

One of them was a brother
Another one was a married man
The third one was a mother’s son
They kissed their girls good-bye

Kiss the girl good-bye
Then begin
Kiss the girl good-bye
You know when and I know why
We kiss the girl good-bye [x4]

 

[fox69]

"Last Ship Sails"

"Last Ship Sails"



The tower blocks
Looks so beautiful
In their own way

The cityscape
Is a fallen scene
Of protest on the streets

As a shadow trails
On the concrete
Separating you from me
And you from me
And you from me

The last ship sails
The last ship sails
The last ship sails
Tonight, tonight

The last ship sails
The last ship sails
The last ship sails
Tonight, tonight

The sky scrapes the horizons
Of smoke and industry

As beneath my feet
A river flows of continuity

I was not the first
I won’t be the last
To come around
Come around
Come around here

The last ship sails
The last ship sails
The last ship sails
Tonight, tonight

The last ship sails
The last ship sails
The last ship sails
Tonight, tonight

Whoa-oa
Whoa-oa

Whoa-oa
Whoa-oa

I was not the first
I won’t be the last

I was not the first
I won’t be the last

The last ship sails
The last ship sails
The last ship sails
Tonight, tonight

The last ship sails
The last ship sails
The last ship sails
Tonight, tonight

Whoa-oa
Whoa-oa

Whoa-oa
Whoa-oa

 

[fox69]

"Leap Of Faith"

"Leap Of Faith"


What you gonna do
When the sun don’t shine no more
What you gonna do
When the moon don’t climb no more
What you gonna do
When the tears won’t fall no more
What you gonna do
When the sun don’t shine no more

Head on down to the world again
Find your pride in the face of sin
What you gonna do
When the sun don’t shine no more

I know you have the strength in you
The love to make that leap of faith
The time is right to let it go
Make that simple leap of faith

I know you have the strength in you
The love to make that leap of faith
The time is right to let it go
Make that simple leap of faith

What you gonna do
When your smile won’t smile no more
What you gonna do
When your cares won’t care no more
On a wild, wild night then you might believe
All the worn out lines of a stranger in need
What you gonna do
When the sun don’t shine no more

I know you have the strength in you
The love to make that leap of faith
The time is right to let it go
Make that simple leap of faith

I know you have the strength in you
The love to make that leap of faith
The time is right to let it go
Make that simple leap of faith

Will you fly
Over my stormy sea
Will you cry
Everything that I wanted to hear
Had to hear

I know you have the strength in you
The love to make that leap of faith
The time is right to let it go
Make that simple leap of faith [x4]

 

[fox69]

"Living By Memory"

"Living By Memory"



I work the graveyard shift at this station
Down on Twelfth
Spend my time selling cigarettes and talking
Mostly to myself

No one waits for me at home
Getting used to life alone

Living by memory
Eat, sleep, breathe
Just mindless routines
Slowly killing me

Living by memory
Living by memory

I remember it like yesterday
It was a Tuesday, October ‘92
There was a wreck out on the highway
You might have heard it on the news

Always think it’s someone else
In a moment I was by myself

Living by memory
Eat, sleep, breathe
Just mindless routines
Slowly killing me

There’s a peace that waits for me
At Heaven’s door
But tonight my past
Is all I’m living for

And my memories
Eat, sleep, breathe
Surviving on used-to-be’s
Slowly killing me

Living by memories
Eat, sleep, breathe
Surviving on used-to-be’s
Slowly killing me

Living by memory
Living by memory