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  1. new model army şarkısı


    green and grey
    (heaton/sullivan) 1987

    the time i think most clearly, the time i drift away
    is on the bus-ride that meanders up these valleys of green and grey
    i get to think about what might have been and what may yet come true
    and i get to pass a rainy mile thinking of you
    and all the while, all the while, i still hear that call
    to the land of gold and poison that beckons to us all
    nothing changes here very much, i guess you'd say it never will
    the pubs are all full on friday nights and things get started still
    we spent hours last week with billy boy, bleeding, yeah queuing in casualty
    staring at those posters we used to laugh at:
    never never land, palm trees by the sea
    well there was no need for those guys to hurt him so bad
    when all they had to do was knock him down
    but no one asks to many questions like that since you left this town

    ch: and tomorrow brings another train
    another young brave steals away
    but you're the one i remember
    from these valleys of green and the grey

    you used to talk about winners and losers all the time - as if that was all there was
    as if we were not of the same blood family, as if we live by different laws
    do you owe so much less to these rain swept hills than you owe to your good self?
    is it true that the world has always got to be something
    that seems to happen somewhere else?
    for god's sake don't you realise that i still hear that call
    do you think you're so brave just to go running to that which beckons to us all?

    ch: no, not for one second did you look behind you
    as you were walking away
    never once did you wish any of us well
    those who had chosen to stay
    and if that's what it takes to make it
    in the place that you live today
    then i guess you'll never read these letters that i send
    from the valleys of the green and the grey
    (marooned, 02.07.2004 10:28)
  2. new model army'nin ruha derinden nüfuz eden şarkısı, bana göre başyaptılarından. 9 nisan 2006 istanbul konserinde kapanış parçası olmuş, çalıncaya kadar kitleyi epey bağırtmışlardır.
    (panait ıstrati, 16.01.2007 23:42)