These are hard days
And the long hot summer goes on forever
Always never say always
In these days when there is nothing to hold onto

Only me only you
Through all these claims of permanence
And justifiable innocence
Just to hold onto
All that they left for you

People come people go
Nothing is constant the river flows
Sadness there is sadness in time
And glory is so unbecoming

Only me only you
Through all these claims of permanence
And justifiable innocence
Just to hold onto
All that they left for you

On the edge overtime
Looking out watching the passing years
There is rhythm in the work we do
But where is the peace in our time

Only me only you
Through all these claims of permanence
And justifiable innocence
Just to hold onto
All that they left for you

Well I am leaving for Sydney now
You know I have to leave here
Ain 't no revelation going to change my mind
It is not that this is a small town
It has got nothing to do with fear
You know it is not easy leaving your friends and family behind

And ride that train
And overtime see just how much you can really leave behind

Sometimes I wish that you could come to
Maybe we could start again
Maybe there is an answer in some foreign place
What it was you said to me
There is nothing you cannot find here
Well I don’t believe there is anything to find anyway

And who are we to hope for anything at all
Who are we to believe that our chance will come again?

It is not going to be easy I know
Nothing is easy anywhere
It is not as if I give a damn or really care
There is a sparkle in your eye a memory that I hold
Have mercy on my dreams and give me a thought as I

Ride that train
Ride that train
Ride that train
And overtime see just how much you can really leave behind

Over the ruins
The setting sun
Through the hole in the wall the beams of light

Silhouetted in the sky silent weapons stand
Such beauty in the instruments of death

And it’s a long way to the face of it
Please take me home

The water flows from a broken pipe
In the silence sets the dust
A small child crouches on the road
Doing what we all must

And it’s a long way to the face of it
Please take me home

This city is almost ancient
Look at it heart
See the scares and the blood
If you sit and you listen
You can hear some people praying

It is such a long way
For peace to come

I realise what I said before was out of line and I won’t say those things anymore. I will give to you something that I owe and I will say to you that I’ve still got a long way to go

Ah pink and blue the joke is on me and on you.
Ah pink and blue the joke is on me and on you.

Now you could say nothing has really changed and all the images they are just the same
Now all this grit just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and when I can help myself I try and spit it out.

Day by day we do all the say we get up and go to work and earn out pay
But sometimes you’ve got to let nothing stand in your way and never stop working for a brand new day

We were almost grateful work was hard to get
We stared out in the asbestos pit for a few quid a week
But there are something’s in this land
Better left alone and in out thousands we scraped the filth that buried us

He said lord have no mercy on those that crucified us
They know damn well what they do

Anna came to this country and now she is left alone
Her man had so much sickness he left some in their home
It was just for a while until the got on their feet but the mine was a life sentence
It was them they sentenced me

He said lord have no mercy on those that crucified us
They know damn well what they do

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties stare at us in court, as we slowly die they wont loose this is their game
But to all those men who sentence me to this life of misery I say to you you are damned

He said lord have no mercy on those that crucified us
They know damn well what they do

He said lord have no mercy on those that crucified us
They know damn well what they do

We see everything written on the wall
We watch the destruction watch the forests fall
There are rules they have all been broken
In the name of money in the company of greed

In the name of in the name of money
In the name of in the name of money

We know the colour of money as it sings
Watch it rule the world and the misery that it brings
What is this blindness we live they take their toll
In the name of money for the company of greed

In the mane of progress
In the name of mercy
In the name of royalty
In the name of god
In the name of freedom
In the justice in the name of money
For the company called greed

In the name of in the name of money
In the name of in the name of money

To this blazing sun
We came from far away
Left our home in the mountains
And the cities that we made

We knew what to rely on
And we knew what the earth could yield
And for the next generation
We ploughed the field

Now and then ten by ten
We took a stand sang the songs of victory
Our voices blowin in the wind

Workers cut the cane
Working we staffed the lines
Working we built this city
To tear it down again

Now and then ten by ten
We took a stand sang the songs of victory
Our voices blowin in the wind

Time oh how time passes
The lessons pass with the generations
But these songs are sung for decades
And the faces never change

The roads are long
In the center of this land
And the heat it shimmers
Over bitumen and dirt

But it takes more than heat and it takes more than fire
To make the blood boil in this land

On the same using borrowed time
On the same over and over
On the same using borrowed time
On the same over and over

Sometimes the earth cries blood
Sometimes the earth cries fire
And there is nothing left but scars on the modern funeral pyre

Hot summer nights the sweat on your brow
as you look for the freedom in living
You close your eyes for a moment and listen to the world
so unforgiving

You can take it or leave it that’s all that they give
and only a moment for choosing
The bright lights of the game show
Can’t you see we are all loosing

Television mercy
Don’t shed no tears
No one can hear when you sing alone

Take it some how and you take it today and you say
Well what am I here for
It always seems to be always has to be all that you can live for

You can take it or leave it that’s all that they give
and only a moment for choosing
The bright lights of the game show
Can’t you see we are all loosing

Television mercy
Don’t shed no tears
No one can hear when you sing alone

These songs they say they are worlds away
Meaningless and sick with time
And you wonder why you have to scream to be heard
In the darkest reaches of the age

We will we will we will go on.
We will rise, we will fall get up and stand tall
We will go on

It is history spray painted on the wall
The past echo’s forgotten in the night
In times like these you need to hold someone
Brace yourself for another fight

We will we will we will go on.
We will rise, we will fall get up and stand tall
We will go on

The city lights shine out like beacons in the night
Unrelenting they touch the sky
And we could have been any thing any thing at all
But for one mistake you pay the price

And it is history spray painted on the wall
And the past echo’s forgotten in the night
And we could have been any thing any thing at all
But for one mistake you pay the price

We will we will we will go on.
We will rise, we will fall get up and stand tall
We will go on

In times like these
In times like these
In times like these
In times like these

I knew the seasons well
The people who pass through your life
And all the broken records of what we have inside
As time will tell if there is meaning left in this world
The city limits from the GPO to hell

Here in the darkness of the night of the night
We played for freedom in those days
Here in the dark rooms out of sight
We played for freedom in those days

I knew the opera well
All the masks that you had to wear
The nights were hot so hot that no one cared
And at night the city is quiet
Left to the wanders those who dare
Break the fragile silence
Oh I Remember

Here in the darkness of the night of the night
We played for freedom in those days
Here in the dark rooms out of sight
We played for freedom in those days

In those days
In those days
In those days
In those days

The years in which we live

It is time for a term a new Africa dawn
And I think how it could be with you next to me
It is always just as easy to look into the past or the future they are both what you make of them

Hearing facing the shallow cries of unity in the years in which we live

A friend of mine she said to me sometimes it seems like no ones on my side
I said I think we all know that feeling
And there’s no greater wisdom than careful thought for the future in what you make of it

Hearing facing the shallow cries of unity in the years in which we live

Facing the years in years in which we live

It doesn't’t matter where you come from or what you have done together we can make history

It doesn't’t matter where you come from or what you have done together we can make history

Hearing facing the shallow cries of unity in the years in which we live
in which we live
in which we live
in which we live

Standing in the line
Coo ee all the time

They never listen and they never learn
The rules of the road and the luck to burn
Before you know it there is no time left
And your left sitting by yourself

The sun shines of forever
The wind whispers in the trees
The sea greets the lonely sailor
And the earth swallows me

Heartbeat in the night
Streetlight shinning so bright
And the scares never heal on the bloody road
Its just walk on lines

They never listen and they never learn
The rules of the road and the luck to burn
Before you know it there is no time left
And your left sitting by yourself

The sun shines of forever
The wind whispers in the trees
The sea greets the lonely sailor
And the earth swallows me

White light cuts the night
Heartache they have got no right

Time

It time to come in from the cold
Stop sending your children to war
You can’t pay lives with gold

But I am poor and there is so much to be done in so little time you can't hold back the flood of water of the crime

If I had my way I'd pull down the prison walls
And capture all the bigots and scrape mercy from their souls

But I am poor and there is so much to be done in so little time you cant hold back the flood of water of the crime

Land of so many gods

They all came down from the mountains stood and looked out over the sea
Made castles in the sand wiped the blood from the land and thought for a moment
Now the silver jets cross the mountains raining death from the sky
It’s an eye for and eye and a bloody revenge and they cannot wipe the blood from their hands

And there is nothing to justify terror no nothing at all nothing to justify terror no nothing at all

Some how in that nightmare people go on living their lives clutching to the sky clutching for hope a hope to pull peace to earth
In a land with so many gods its people who do the fighting and the dying
And the war planes of Jerusalem they can not wipe the blood from their hands

In a world full of puppet masters pulling strings in glorious rhetoric they don’t give a damn about the blood stained lands
They rave on about terror then order bloody retaliation and think that because they are so far away the blood can't reach their hands

but it can

They all came down from the mountains stood and looked out over the sea
Made castles in the sand wiped the blood from the land and thought for a moment
In a land with so many gods it's people who do the fighting and the dying
And the war planes of Jerusalem they can not wipe the blood from their hands

They keep the select memories of the way we were
And in time all life is forgotten
Except for the scares in the land

They say the winners write history
The losers bare the scares
Over time everything this time they have taken it
to far

Every body loves a party
We all love a parade
But the shallowness here is frightening
And the blood still stains the earth

We are not allies this is stolen land and to celebrate the theft of it is
Taking it a little bit too far

They keep the select memories

Take Me

In the beginning it was all that I could say
and you took it with you when you went away
I remember that night when it was so damn hot
I remember that night like it was part of me

And through the window I can't see the world only the house next door
And through the window there is nothing now that wasn't there before

What can you say when two different worlds clash
I know its happening all over the earth
And you try to say all that you feel inside
But no words can reveal what’s inside of you

Take me and think of glory and think of the potential there
Take me and think of great things and all the lovers of the earth

Hour by hour step by step some days everything is hanging
I remember once feeling peace in this world it seems so long ago
If there is mercy in this world something will happen to lay my soul to rest
Maybe that just the way it is for me and all the rest

Begin Again

You can sit wait your life away
But it is time to begin again
Sometimes the clues are hidden
In the course the course of history

I hope for us (begin again begin again)
I put my faith in the earth
And in all the lessons of history and
Begin to begin again

There is no time left
They can’t take any more
Someday the losers become the winners
Someday we can begin again

And where have I seen you before
Where have I heard those lies?
You can’t get away from it
When history comes knocking at your door

Where waiting we've been waiting for generations
Working doing all we can
We have the lessons of history
And we will we will begin again

Someday

With stars in our eyes we are standing in the dark
Trying hard to live up to the past
The children of no one with no future left to face
We wear the twisted smiles of the last of the race

How the hell can we stand this
How the hell can we stand alone

I have something left to say
I will return someday
I have something left to say
I will return someday

Like the ghosts of the past the future haunts us now
The times that we live in the future yet to face
Gone are the days when there was someone left to call
No one wins when there is no one left at all

Suddenly we reach the beginning again
and the world turns full circle
I count my fingers and I count my pride
and the world turns full circle again

The angels of death

The angels of death fly low
Red white and blue from the sun
Thundering in from the heavens
Crying death with their guns

They don’t need a reason
They don’t need no justification
They did it this time they will do it again
Mother will the death squad come again

This time it is the end
There is no food left to burn
Dead children they cannot play
Dead children they cannot starve

They don’t need a reason
The don’t need no justification
They did it this time they will do it again
Mother will the death squad come again

The angels of death a distant roar
Behind a bloody stain
A bloody stain fragrant death
Whose war is it any way?