The Rifles Album

The days of old
And all the stories from our shores
Have gone away
I'm gonna return for evermore for
A brand new craze around that's makin all the waves
It's teachin you how not to act and how not to behave now

Tell me why should I
Turn away my eyes
From where I reside
To only find that all my time is wasted

They're not ever gonna listen
Not until you react
So perhaps there is science in violence
I don't ever want to listen to all that
Outside at my door
So am I at the wrong?

The water hermit 'lone at night and everlasting trial
Take the bus but still they constantly remind
Yes it's nice to want some music
Though I want to hear the songs you like

Tell me why should I
Turn away my eyes
From where I reside
To only find that all my time is wasted

They're not ever gonna listen
Not until you react, so perhaps there is science in violence
I don't ever want to listen to all that
Outside at my door,
So am I at the wrong?

The world is ours and ours alone

They're not ever gonan listen
Not until you react
So perhaps there is science in violence
I don't ever want to listen
And it's a fact that what the body don't hear
The body will fill for sure

The world is ours and ours alone
The world is ours and ours alone
The world is ours and ours alone

Today could be the day you might make a change
Lock yourself indoors and plan a getaway
Take a walk outside in the heavy weather
The British Summer time's just great whatever
Join a local gang and get a cool nickname
Make your lifelong sweetheart your ball & chain
Convert your self belief for a new Religion
or leave the TV on make a decision when you're

Waiting for the day you're not looking for something else

Go put your last Ј5 on the lottery
If you're not in it to win it well then you won't receive
Then maybe place all your winning on an outsider
And if it wins you'll be grinning and you can celebrate
Six months of our lives are at a red light
And there's a thousand chances to get it right
So put your foot in the door because it's free admission
Or leave the TV on make a decision when you're

Waiting for the day you're not looking for something else

Break away your ties and find a new squeeze
Show a local scheme your generosity
Stand back in the shadows and be a right hand man
Buy a brand new semi next door to the Taliban
Who knows what's around the bend
Stay up get drunk with all your best friends
Celebrate your side to a new division
Or leave the TV on make your own decisions

Waiting for the day you're not looking for something else

Don't let your day grow long before it comes a week
Go and make a change before the Big Sleep

The walls around come down and they're crashing around me
And there's a taste in my mouth that feels like the bitter end
And if I get away from the pain and the voices that hound me
Well I'm not quite sure I've got the strength to start over again

But if I make it to the setting sun
Well I might have a story to tell before the day I'm gone

If I fall to sorrow, and find it hard to see to the end
Do I have the heart to go, and try it again?

So far away from me to see
When no relief is at the door terminally
I've no intention to sing a sad song
But everything I wanna say never felt so wrong
And every hour in my day feels like a week

Those days you find yourself in a place without a light...

Sometimes you might find you feel a little like
You're on the wrong side of life
Where's no light. But it's gonna turn around
Sometime so nevermind

The place you thought you'd never be
Close to the bone but still too far away to see
You've got the voice and all the intention
But your head wont't pay your heart no attention
And your heart just won't relay the news down to your feet

'My my' what a silly thing to think you're the only one what you thinking of
'My my' what a silly thing to think you're the only one to feel lonely

Walk out of the door and make my way up the street
Cold wind in my eyes runs a tear down my cheek
Not a soul to be heard so no point to complain
At least the sound of the birds compensates for the rain
Hit the queue for the bus and then join the line
Same faces for the last ten years of my life
See them more than my friends I couldn't tell you their names
Shattered glass on the floor the kids have run out of games

And I don't see that's ever gonna change

One hour passes till I'm back on my feet
A stone's throw I will be walking till I'm off the street
Hang my coat to dry, settle down with the herd
Some I really don't mind, some just get on my nerves
Turn my back to the clock cause it slows the time
Take out a cigarette and hear the match strike
Turn the radio on to drown the sound of the rain
Same bands same songs play again and again
And I don't see that's ever gonna change

Tell me I'm not right say what you like I'm miles away
And expect nothing changing except for the name of the day.

From my place of work I move away in haste
Time there moves slow but rushes when I'm away
Pass a girl from my school the conversation's brief
Gotta catch that train, get myself some relief
I meet up with friends and they knock off at six
I pull at five and walk about for a bit
Watch the world go by through an empty glass
And I know that won't be the last 'so'

Tell me I'm not right say what you like I'm miles away
And expect nothing changing except for the name of the day.

Creep back into bed and I pull up the sheet
High over my head and undercover my feet
Till the room goes dark and i'm miles away
Jump to the alarm and start another day!

Won't you please stop telling me
I know you're not so blind to see
That everything that was correct
Is wrong and I know that it ain't just me
But given half the chance to be near you
Would only make a start in a new decline
And if I gave my heart a convincing listen
I'd be giving me a warning sign

No form of apologies
Would ever start to stitch the seam
Now it ain't that hard to see
That we were only cutting teeth dear
Would only make a start in a new decline
A long way to go to get no where
But you can't put a price on a piece of mind
If I gave my heart a convincing listen
I'd be given me a warning sign so
For the last time, drop me a lifeline

Days alone they roll into a week
I can't get away when you fall down at my feet
And I'm happy with sweet memories
So why would I wanna go and make more history

So don't you say that it's gonna be
Another chance that we won't repeat
Did you think I would turn around
Now you know that I know what a fool would believe
When given half a chance to be near you
Would only male a start in a new decline
And if I gave my heart a convincing listen
I'd be giving me a one way sign 'so'
For the last time just drop me a lifeline

All the time that you put me on the back foot
Why would I wanna go and make more history

Winter Calls when I'm alone and at the end of the day
Like any fool who'd been the owner to a pretty face
Now time it separates us to a different place
I'd be alright if I could only stop thinking

And if I'm happy cause you say you are I'd be lying
And if I said I was a man that don't need anyone at all

Then I know I was wrong

But don't leave me out in the cold
Foolishly shaking my bones
If you don't want my heart let me know
I get lonely when winter calls

Winter calls the start of june until the end of May
Cause any rule I've ever had I've always had to break
I find I sit around trying to compensate
I feel alright at times but only when I'm drinking

And yes it hurts to know that I am not your obligation
But I don't want to spend a lifetime waiting...

And if I'm happy cause you say you are I'd be lying
And every time I close my eyes I'm hearing warning sirenes
The thought of you in someone else's arms and I feel violent
And if I said I was a man then maybe I was fool...

This little town hasn't changed so much, not since the time of night
When we would lie out and talk like we couldn't be touched
Then you'd go away when the morning was light
But sure enough well we had to grow up
And there's nothing like a full time job to put out your fire
We were young and wasn't in love but maybe we were happy
Getting carried away

Now that seems so long ago, out the door and down the road
I'm sometimes sick when I'm alone of the times we had and now we don't
But out in the past we were running around that
Sometimes so fast with your foot on the ground
It was so hard to stand you never could tell
That all I saw was you

And every place that we talk about don't seem so far away
When you rely on yourself and the one you're around
And always believe everything that they say
But little talk isn't always enough and just cause you're
Still here now doesn't mean you're a liar
We were young and that was enough
And life has a habit of getting in the way

Windy walks and days in bed
All our differences unsaid
Hand in hand we both entwine
Underneath a dreary grey skyline

And all we think about is that someday we might
Have more to think about and less time to decide
But if time is on our side then tell me why

We have to fall apart, and go around again
I don't know where to start because we never end
We could be Romeo and Julie of our times
If we could only stop the tears we have

Windy walks and days in bed
All our differences unsaid
Hand in hand we both entwine
Underneath a dreary grey skyline

If we could only see the differences from a heartache
And a lie, so don't tell me that's the end
cause that's the lie

The difference between a heartache and a lie.

When he was younger he could rumble like a hurricane
And leave you lying with a hunger for some novocaine
Hit the switch on the lights in a heartbeat
Just like your worst nightmare with a mean streak
But all the talent and the money's only gonna breed
Every Queen every King you're ever gonna need
And they'll be nothing of the man and the legacy
By the time that they get through

Every time you close your eyes you see your memory
'Boy you dream a lot'
Cause you're really not that man you used to be

When he was younger he could rumble like a hurricane
But now he stands out like a puddle in the pouring rain
Trying hard to chase an ever fading memory
Before the days of grace are never gonna be
So gather round and buy a ticket for the funeral
Bring your camera and flowers for the general
Sit around and reminise about the glory days

Every time you close your eyes you see your memory
'Boy you dream a lot'
Cause you're really not that man you used to be

Every time you close your eyes you see your memory
'Boy you dream a lot'
Cause you're really not that man that people see

Everyday that I don't see your face is a tragedy and
Time away could be time staring into your eyes
Everyday that I don't see your face feels forever to me
And all the while I'm away you'll be there on my mind

And we might find, in our lifetime
When the lights go out, that the tears fill up in our eyes
But it's only for the meantime
And before too long I will be right there at your side

Everyday that I don't see your face is a tragedy and
I'm afraid that we might lose the feeling inside
Because there's no other sound that can make me go weak at knees
like the sound of your voice on the end of a line

And we might find, in our lifetime
When the lights go out, that the tears fill up in our eyes
But it's only for the meantime
And before too long I will be right there at your side...
For a while

Maybe it's the make-up or a part of my design
Maybe you could put it down to changing of the times
I couldn't begin to tell you all the reasons to why
But everybody seems to get a high from bringing me down

I know I'm only taking my time
I try to explain but it's not that easy 'no'
If I'm wrong and maybe you're right
But I can't do nothing with a ten tonne weight on my mind

(Oh) I don't want to live my life...
"Never Gonna Get Your Act together Mr Lazy Bones"
(Oh) ...being just another part of the scenery
Working my days away

Some will catch a break and make a million over night
Some will put their faith upon a man in the sky
I wouldn't begin to tell them all a wrong from right
So why does everybody get a high from bringing me down