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America (It's on TV)
04:15
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A man is walking bare-foot heading straight out for the sun
I don’t know where he’s come from
Got no home no family no keys he got no car
In this land of opportunity he’ll take his chance
Surrounded by four horse-men in priestly robes of white
Don’t need to know the story now of who’s wrong or right
I’ve seen the movies so I know how it must end
The black hats as the enemy, the white hats as your friend and saviours
Take a walk across America, tell me what do you see?
Take a walk across America, it’s on TV
There Jesus Christ had blonde hair and of course his eyes were blue
Cos those who seek the ultimate try first in Hollywood
They say they’ve seen the future cos it’s written on the walls
And if it costs a billion bucks it’s good for one and all
You know they’re telling stories, you so want them to be true
But if you shared it in the real world, no-one would believe you
No need to leave your couch again, why travel there at all?
And now that you can stream it, well isn’t that a ball?
Come with me,
Take a walk across America, tell me, what do you see?
Take a walk across America, not just TV
When the pressure gets on top of you just plug in to the tube
Turn it up and breathe it in no way that you can lose
Be it Hutch or be it Starsky, Ironside or old Five-O
They all believe it’s homicide, what do they know?
Quince did the autopsy and the story’s in the Trib
He died of his naivety when he saw the script
Small guy v corporation, you’ve seen it too
Coz when he tried out in real life, that was the end of Lou
Take a walk across America, tell me, what do you see?
Take a walk across America, it’s just TV
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Another Country
06:33
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This man wants me to put a cross by his name
He stands on the doorstep and smiles so brightly
His eyes are sparkling can’t be much over 23
Perhaps he still believes the dream
This man is older and bolder with his years
Says we’ve lived through harder times than these
No compassion all he wants is all he sees
Hates this interruption to his climb just a waste of time say
Oh there’s got to be someway better than this
Some other way to play the game
I can’t see too much changing
Whoever wins the game it always stays the same
This guy says he still got some years on me
That no schooling can ever steal
But if I work hard and fit into my place
I could be him in years from now
And so the wheel turns and nothing ever changes
As the rebels become respectable
Like the bad boys made prefect they snap up their new found power
Become the Marshalls of this rat race
Oh there’s got to be someway better than this
Some other way to play the game
I can’t see too much changing
Whoever wins the game it always stays the same
I read of a town they named after Jesus
Where they tell of my dreams of a way of life
Should I sail and put my name upon their list
Or do I stay and fight the fight?
I remember the old song
That shining steeple that sword in my hand
Oh but this ain’t no Jerusalem
And the grass ain’t growing as we planned
Oh there’s got to be some way better than this
Though what it is I do not know
What happened to that other country?
I dreamed of long ago so long ago?
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The Eternal Soldier
03:56
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I don’t believe we’ve met I’m the eternal soldier
I hear them preaching of the great things I have done
Scorched to hell or burned to a cinder
With battle-axe or spear or tommy gun
You wouldn’t know me in the street
I’m just an ordinary guy
Wouldn’t give me a second glance
You’d just, pass on by, pass on by
Aint no pro ‘tween the wars I work the railways
Farm the land or work in some factory
But for my love for my laird or for my country
You’ll find me there with my life to lay at your feet
You wouldn’t know me in the street
I’m just an ordinary guy
Wouldn’t give me a second glance
You’d just, pass on by, pass on by
I come home blind and soon forgotten
Where is this land fit for heroes we thought we’d won
Nothing changes we’re always forgotten
Until next time then again we’re your number one
You wouldn’t know me in the street
I’m just an ordinary guy
Wouldn’t give me a second glance
You’d just, pass on by, pass on by
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Dead Men
04:20
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Dead men tell no secrets, they can be lies
They can be heroes or so despised
Die for their country or detray all they should love
Roast in hell or reign so high above
Dead men, it’s all surmise
But, if it’s in the papers, I guess it must be true
There’ll be a new enquiry, I heard it on the news
Such a shame, this suicide
But the guy was crazy, it was in his eyes
In time we could have saved him from his internal hell
But left him for a minute, now he’s hanging in a cell
Dead Men, it’s all surmise
If it’s in the papers, I guess it must be true
There’ll be a new enquiry, I heard it on the news
So who knows, what happened on the rock
The years pass by, is it all so easily forgot?
Well I can know what I read in the print
Or on the TV when I don’t even want to think
Dead men, it’s all surmise
If it’s in the papers, I guess it must be true
There’ll be a new enquiry, I heard it on the news
I heard it on the news
I heard it on the news
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NiC Hamilton England, UK
Born in a cross fire hurricane......or somethink.
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