Тексты песен «Skyclad»


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Skyclad - Bombjour!

Hello, bombjour! Good morning (good morning). The obvious drawback in building a bomb, is the needing somewhere (or someone) to test it on. What happened to European Community? Consciences with diplomatic immunity...

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Skyclad - Brimstone Ballet

"Though I may seem callous" cried old Thomas Malthus, "Paupers are better off dead. That we have to feed them is something we need Like a musket shot straight through the head." Not much of a smiler - our man Wat Tyler...

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Skyclad - Building A Ruin

My life is a sentence that carries no pardon, I can't put you out of my misery now. So stunned by the beauty of this madhouse garden - I've taken my chances (then lost them somehow). This body's a temple - a shoddy...

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Skyclad - Bury Me

You came, you saw, you conquered as a woman of your word. So to say farewell like Judas is a thing i find absurd. You shook my world - (you sucked me in then spat me out in bubbles), The effects of your affections stay...

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Skyclad - Cancer Of The Heart

There's a simple diagnosis for this vicious symbiosis feel the growth of rogue psychosis we are the cause - we are the cure Across each continent and nation spread without discrimination, we refuse our medication - yet...

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Skyclad - Cardboard City

Hands locked in darkness - a nocturnal greeting We flutter like moths round the brazier's flame Shrouded in shadow - our clandestine meeting Here where past and present are one and the same. No-one dies in Cardboard...

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Skyclad - Catherine At The Wheel

Her face caught in the headlamp glare, There waiting for a ride. Stood all alone - so far from home, He beckons her inside. A smile that has two meanings - slips his fat hand to her knee, But swiftly learns how quick to...

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Skyclad - Civil War Dance

While sons and daughters of the empire Stained the map red, white and blue Back at home the storm clouds thundered Dole queues lengthened - unrest grew 'til the tides of fresh opinion Washed away the world they knew...

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Skyclad - Come On Eileen

Poor old Johnny Ray Sounded sad upon the radio He moved a million hearts in mono Our mothers cried and sang along and who'd blame them Now you're grown, so grown, now I must say more than ever Go toora loora toora loo...

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Skyclad - Constance Eternal

On wednesday the seventh your flight departed, you waved us goodbye - we stood on the ground as one journey ended another one started - you passes overhead (your wings made no sound) This world's just a rock - mow a...

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Skyclad - Crux of the Message

[Adapted from the poem "The Storm" by Alison LR Davies] It starts as a faint purr, rippling, beckoning, stealing the evening's baking heat. It steps to the side, foot tapping, hop skipping. Without formation,...

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Skyclad - Cry Of The Land

Vibrant and real I lie Mantled by the open sky The wind and waves my lullaby I am the land. Why do you view me with Eyes unable to see The beauty in all that is pure When it's left to live free? So hot the fires...

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Skyclad - Dead Angels On Ice

Mother I'm so sorry for this thing I've gone and done, But surely you'll forgive me - after all I am your son. Live to race - thrill of the chase to me was all that mattered, As we crash I hit the dash - my baby face is...

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Skyclad - Deja-Vu Ain't What It Used to Be

Have you heard the one 'bout when a most unlucky fella, Went visiting a fair-ground for to see a fortune-teller? She said; "Of all the palms I've read - yours is by far the worst. I'm duty-bound to tell you,...

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Skyclad - Desperanto (A Song For Europe?)

This is our song for Europe, I thought we saw the borders fall? Guerre sans Frontiers - And it seems nothing changed here at all. They're building a Tower of Babel in Brussels - It's called the Euromisery, And once...

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Skyclad - Do They Mean Us?

Dance 'round the maypole, rappers and mummers Stepping in and out of time Cockneys, Brummies, Tykes and Geordies Players in this pantomime From Notting Hil to Tyneside Mela Marching ghosts of colliery bands Farmers...

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Skyclad - Earth Mother, The Sun And The Furious Host

He was just a lad of fifteen years Who barely fit his breeches A latter day Dick Whittington Who dreamt of fame and riches His teachers took him to one side And promised him the earth When all he really wanted Was a...

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Skyclad - Eirenarch

You say I'm a free man, But what does that mean to a social security number? A grey suit as sharp as a new guillotine, Bought and paid for while dragging us under. Tell me what use is a citizens charter - When blood is...

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Skyclad - Emerald

Down from the glen came the marching men With their shields and their swords To fight the fight they believed to be right To overthrow the overlords. To the towns where there was plenty They brought plunder, swords and...

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Skyclad - Fainting By Numbers

Number One - the only number I can really trust, Dual faceted - these people that insidetalk to when I must. In triplicate my body hangs - left drying in the sun, Four horses at the starting gate - their riders waiting...