Better Than Them

This is our town,this is Friday night
dressed in our rags and our rage and our best
piercing eyes looking for something,
anything,just anyone..
stare across the floors they begin to dance
missing all the rythms and the chosen right steps
and we laugh and we drink in our corner again
we're better than them... (we're better than them)
we're better than them... (we're better than them)

Divided we were born,divided we live
divided we fall,yeah,divided we die
still we tell ourselves over and over again
we're better than them... (we're better than them)
we're better than them...

With our hunger and our hatred
we all walk this town
with our fear and our weakness
just holding on
with our doubt and our emptyness
and this cold,cold frown
we got to be so important
we'll put the whole damn world down.

And we build the walls that we can hide behind
and our finest weapon is our poisoned pride
here in this town where the jealousies burn
we're watching you... (we're watching you)
and truth is only what we need it to be
to bring us survival through each and every day
where nowhere is safe and nowhere is home
just be cool... (be cool)

And what was she wearing and what did he say
who goes with who and what did they do ?
yeah, we tell ourselves over and over again
we're better than them (we're better than them)
we're better than them (we're better than them).......

My Country

Tell all the people who believe
What they read in the press
Tell all the folk who stare
From behind suburban walls
The enemy is not some nation far across the sea
The enemy is with us every single breathing day.

So yes, i will fight for my country
The land that i love so well
Yes - for justice
A land fit for all our futures
Yes,i will fight for my country
The land that i love so well
Hear the voices
Of our history echo all around.

Fight all the ones who divide us
Rich against poor
Fight all the ones who divide us
White against black
Fight all the powers who want their missiles
In our earth
Fight all the people who would
Lead us into war.

And yes, i will fight for my country...

No rights were ever given to us
By the grace of god
No rights were ever given
By some united nations clause
No rights were ever given
By some nice guy at the top
Our rights - they were bought by all the blood
And all the tears of all our
Grandmothers,grandfathers before.

For all the folk who gave their lives for us
For all the folk who spit out - never say die
For all the fires burning on our highest hills
For all the people spinning tales tonight
Fight all the powers who abuse our common laws
Fight all the powers who think they only owe themselves.

And yes,i will fight for my country... (ad infinitum)

No Greater Love

There's storm clouds amassing over in the west
Up above the moor
The city shines in grey,mills closing down
On the valley floor
All you can do here is survive
Oh,grit your teeth and just stay alive
And never understand.

The young ones they dance with fire
In their hearts till the years go by
Till older,defeated they stare in their beer
At closing time
No greater love could there ever be
Than what i feel for you

You saved my life from this..

While kings are in their counting houses
People just wait here in silent rows
They spat and they jeered in a last
Desperate fear as they watched us go
Oh,and now remember how we turned and ran
Yeah,head into the wind running hand in hand
We laughed until we cried..
So many tears..
Oh,so many tears...

No Rest

4 o'clock in the morning,
Still we cannot sleep
Turning over
Turning round
Twisting in our sweat
They say there is no rest for the wicked ones
Dear god - what have we done?
There is no rest for the wicked ones
Dear god - what is this evil that we've done??
There is no rest for the wicked ones
Dear god - what is this evil that we've done??

Is it that we wanted more than you gave
Why did you put us then
In this smalltown grave
Humility - is that what you want?
Why did you make us then the way you did??
Yes, we have pride
Yes, we have pride -
Is this our sin?
Is this our sin?!

4 o'clock...

Is it the times that we've been out fighting ?
Well i'll tell you all those times -
We never really hurt anybody
Or is it that we were eating
While other people were starving
Is this our crime ?
Is this our crime ??!

4 o'clock...

Is it the times we laughed about it all
Through all those whisky nights so far away
Yes, we have betrayed you
Yes, we have betrayed you -
Is this our crime ?
Is this our crime ?!

4 o'clock...

Young, Gifted & Skint

Young,gifted and skint -
that's where it int...
look how easily it happened
look how easily i fell
now i'm up to here in debt
there's a noose around my neck
there's a price upon my head.

My past was all in borrowed time
(stupid stupid borrowed time)
now that the deed is done
i'm waiting for the axe to fall
fantasies grow in my brain
run away and start again
dissappear and change my name...

...Money makes the world go round
fear makes it turn much faster
can't pay the rentman a single thing
don't let the man from the gas board in
maybe this is all a dream
maybe i'll wake up again
maybe this could all be clean...

Drag It Down

They started work this morning
Down at city square
They're pulling down the statues
Of our great grandfather's hero
The new books say he wasn't such
A great man after all
And anyway remember that the times
They are a-changing.

Pull it down,drag it down
Drag it down,pull it down
Till there's nothing to look up to
But the brand names on the posters
All around.

They proved on television last night
God was just a lie
He never made the world at all
It was just some sweet old-fashioned rate
So melt down all the ornaments
Move out all the graves
And let us build the disco that we need
For our young 'braves'.

Pull it down, drag it down
Drag it down, pull it down
Till the hopes and dreams of all
The ages past are shattered on the ground.

We think we are so clever
Killing heroes, killing magic
Till everything that's sacred
Is brought down to our level
For mammon is a jealous master
Leaves no room for any other
All the questions left unanswered
All the answers gone forever
So bow to the woman in the finest fur
Bow to the man with the ace street cool
Bow to the woman with all the power
Bow to the man with all the money
In whose sight are we equal now?
In whose sight are we equal now?
In whose sight are we equal now?
In whose sight are we equal now?
Now that we've killed god
Now that we've killed god
Oh,now that we've killed god.

Pull it down,drag it down
Drag it down,pull it down
Till there's nothing to look up to
But the brand names on the posters
Pull it down,drag it down
Drag it down,pull it down
Till the hopes and dreams of all
The ages past are shattered on the ground.

Shot 18

Thou shalt not kill - remember that ?
You learnt it again and again when you were young
They said weapons have this safety catch
Your moral conscience tells you kid
What's right, what's wrong
Well they make out like they're so surprised
But it's easy when you're civilised
Count to ten, close your eyes
The way it's always been...
Shot 18.
Shot 18.
Shot 18.

Well, i think i was a bit surprised
I never knew i was so anaesthetised
And triggers pull so lightly
And people die so easy - i never realised
Yes, i believe in common laws
I believe in even scores
I understand the rules of war
The way the slate is cleaned...
Shot 18.
Shot 18.
Shot 18.

Who wants another christian martyr
Who wants someone else's pain
Who wants the world on their shoulder
Who wants to have to cry in vain
Who wants to have an open sore eating away deep inside you
Who wants to torture themselves
When there's plenty eager to do it for you.

Well years might heal all the scars
But i don't know if you feel like you have that time
And if i was the man that killed your father
And if i said i'm sorry - would that change your mind ?
Well no one should be so surprised
That words don't pay for victims' lives
It's teeth for teeth, eyes for eyes
The way it's always been...
Shot 18.
Shot 18.
Shot 18.

Shot 18.
Shot 18.

The Attack

Now the talking's over
Plans are laid and the hour is set
Glances round the table
Eyes all shining,dark and bright
We meet again at daybreak
For the day that will be ours
We're tomorrow's history
So just check your weapons,say your prayers.

Now the evening's over
Voices muffled in the cold night mist
We leave the house together
Home to rest up in the last few hours
Heads against the pillows
With eyes that will not close
Of all the dreams that we've ever had -
This is the one
Oh,this is the one.

Now the night is over
Dawn cracks under like a breaking shell
Now the waiting's over
As we walk in silence through the empty streets.

We meet beneath the tower
Greetings empty lixke the taste inside
Turn towards the valley
And the day that has waited all our lives
Even in this age of concrete
Even in this age of reason
There comes a time when you put your life
Into the hands of the gods...