Big Country piosenki

Here I stand with my own kin At the end of everything Finally the dream has gone I've nothing left to hang upon I came here with all my friends Leaving behind the wait of years Leaving alone in a flood of tears Out on a prospect that never en...

I see a land Stood at the crossroads Burnt by the fire Scarred by the flames Blood on my hands Smoke in my lungs Blisters on my fingers Nil by mouth It takes all that you are All that you can be It takes all that you can give Still gives back what...

Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' You're gonna spread your wings And you'll...

It's 3 A.M., I'm going home I watch the white lines pass alone There is no moon so I just drive I feel like the last man alive I find a voice on the radio It sounds like someone I used to know He sends out songs that are sad and slow For us with nowher...

I dreamed I heard that you were dead I dreamed I searched an empty bed For a sign of you And the sea called hard to me Like a cell without a key And I felt the distance I watched the tall ships go With the drift wood on the flow With pride that grows in hardsh...

What a drag it is These gold lame' jeans Is this the coolest way To get though your teens Well, I cut my hair weird I read that it was in I looked like a rooster That was drowned and raised again What are you gonna do Tell you what I'm a-gonna do Wh...

Maps on the back of your hands Point to the cross Scratches on walls in a room Draw out your loss Your islands are conquered and you are returned To the throne Martyrs take penance and fill up the mattress With stones Chorus Pull straws with holy men Stain all...

Here comes the great divide, I walk the slide That only killers will fear Here comes the skill of choice, and all the noise That I will ring along Here comes a sign of hope, a length of rope To measure all our living I was the mother’s son, I took the fun And...

The desert dust was rising From a military convoy As it ran into the city With a cargo of despair It waved away the roadblocks As it dodged among the car bombs For the cameras of the tourists In the foxhole inn In the shadows of the ghetto There's a...

Don’t be afraid to make this journey Here with me There’s no disgrace, no guilt or shame In having faith To feel the same To live again It’s all right to dream There is a land, there is a sea There is a place where we can be There is a hope, there i...

Virgil Caine is the name, and I worked on the Danville train Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive By May the tenth, Richmond had fell It was a time I remember oh so well The nigh...

There were you and me Seems like twenty five years ago This old city was different then How were we to know I've got to live my life In a simple way Got to live it all In a single day, a single day The one I love is still in you And the one I want is...

Long ago I heard a tale I never will forget The time was in the telling and the banquet scene was set The sky was rolling blindly on, the daylight had not gone She washed her hair among the stones and saw what was to come All this will pass There will be blood...

I came from the hills with a tear in my eye The winter closed in and the crows filled the sky The houses were burning the flames gold and red The people were running with eyes filled with dread Ah my James They didn't have to do this We chased t...

We talked and smoked all through the night You led me where I had no sight Till birdsong broke the morning light And I was weak with strange delight Teacher will you show to me The bond between the land and sea For I am new to mystery I want e...

Thirteen valleys he has wandered for her love For he thinks he is the one that she dreams of But her bed was made elsewhere From the first day she got there Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out "It could'...

Held his cards close to his chest And smiled across the mud Blew the smoke from a green flak vest And laid back like a god Saved my life a million times Before I knew his name Watched him die between the lines Praying for his pain For all the struggl...

I should have called you brother I should have been real close You know I loved you brother Enough to take over your post I guess it's always with me I guess it will always be there When I step on the runway I always will see The Boy with the...

Maybe it could be a problem Tall clouds gather over there We know where we should be going But I'm wondering if we really dare Just remember your big umbrella Leave your good dress on We'll be safe under your big umbrella If we walk away from the storm...

There's an ill wind on the lowlands A famine in the hills A rust storm on the northern seas A dust storm on the skills Where is the law that holds me In a grey unpleasant land I will not dance for the medicine man With the happy pills at hand I will pack up my...