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Green And Grey (BBC In Concert 5th Nov 1990)
New Model Army
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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 the rainy mile
Thinking of you
And all the while, all the while
I still hear you call
To the land of gold and poison
That beckons to us all
Nothing changes here very much
You used to say it never will
The pubs are all full on Friday nights
And things get started still
We spend our last week with people
Bleeding, yeah, queueing in casualty
Stared 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 so bad
When all they had to do was knock him down
But no one asks too many questions, not anymore
Since you left this town
And tomorrow brings another train
Another young phrase steels away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of the green and the grey
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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 lived by different laws
Do you owe so much less to these rhinespent 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 you call?
Do you think you're so brave just to go running
That wind beckons to us all?
And tomorrow brings another train
Another young phrase steels away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of the green and the grey
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No, not for one second did you look behind you
As you were walking away
Never once did you wish any of us well
The fools who had chosen to stay
But 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
Valleys of the green and the grey
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