Тексты песен «Billy Bragg»

What will with do when the war is over, tender comrade When we lay down our weary guns When we return home to our wives and families And look into the eyes of our sons What will you say of the bond we had, tender...

A police car, a screaming siren Pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete A baby wailing, a stray dog howling The screech of brakes and lamplight blinking That's entertainment That's entertainment A smash of glass...

You thatcherites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear You thatcherites by name lend an ear You thatcherites by name, your faults I will proclaim, Your doctrines I must blame, you will hear, you will hear Your doctrines...

Well, the fields belong to the farmers And the forests belong to the king These days our pleasures are all behind fences We have to pay for everything So turn around and come on down The beach is free Just turn...

Strange as it may seem I once had my football dreams But I was always the last one, the last to get chosen When my classmates picked their teams I guess that was the way it stayed In every game I played Life just...

The busy girl buys beauty The pretty girl buys style And the simple girl buys What she's told to buy And sees her world Through the brightly lit eyes Of the glossy romance of fashion Where she can learn Top...

At night the Baby Brotherhood and the Inter City Crew fill their pockets up with calling cards and paint their faces red, white and blue Then they go out seeking different coloured faces and anyone else that they can...

I wish that I could remember The first moment that we met If only I could remember That sweet moment that we met If I knew then that I would spend The rest of my life with you I imagine I would held your gaze A...

Father mows the lawn and Mother peels the potatos Grandma lays the table alone And adjusts a photograph of the unknown soldier In this Holy of Holies,the Home And from the tv an unwatched voice Suggests the answer is to...

Stand up, all victims of oppression For the tyrants fear your might Don't cling so hard to your possessions For you have nothing if you have no rights Let racist ignorance be ended For respect makes the empires...

Saw some guy on the TV yesterday He's selling poison by the ton "How can you do such a thing?" a woman asked And he replied, "Well, the secret is to hook 'em young Look, I'm not responsible for the lessons children...

When he drops you off, I will not say Who was that who so quickly drove away... The things you've done and the places you've been When I open the door for you I will not let them in... As long as you come back to...

Here we are, seeking out the reds Trying to keep the communists in order Just remember when you're sleeping in your beds They're only two days drive from the texas border How can a country large as ours Be scared...

I understand your needing And wanting is no crime But I can't help feeling That you and your mother are just wasting your time Choosing Saturdays in Summer I dare you to wear white Love is just a moment of giving And...

The Milkman of Human Kindness - Billy Bragg If you're lonely, I will call If you're poorly, I will send poetry I love you I am the milkman of human kindness I will leave an extra pint If you're sleeping, I will wait...

I woke up this morning To find that we have outlived the myth of trust You woke up this morning To the fact we've lost the things You took for granted between us Because I grew up in awe of the girl next door And...

Sometimes when you lose your way to me I think you don't care at all If you don't get here soon I'll tear that clock down from the wall Your family and friends don't understand They treat me so strange The book you said...

The fear of a daughter runs high in the mind of a father to be For something is growing inside But we don't talk about it,do we In the long empty passionless night Many times to herself she has prayed That the baby...

My friend said she could see no way ahead And I was probably better off without you She said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back And she could make me happy like you used to But I'm sorry to say I turned...

The people's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their hearts' blood dyed to every fold Chorus: Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath it's folds...