Lyrics Cowboys in Flames

SEE WILLY FLY BY

In this suburb of Babylon, they don’t like to wait

They kill the messenger ‘cos the message was late

Kill the child starving at the gate

Predicting the rain of the state

See Willy fly by, in the by and by

In the never you mind, in the wait and see

In the us and them, in the them and us, in the them and me

He’s the exception that proves the rule

All your dreams are a lie

Now much will you swallow when Willy flies by?

There’s something rotten round here, nobody forgot

All the rest on the bottom, white men still on the top

Walk and talk with Suzie, shoot to cripple and main

Shoot to kill again and again and again

Gonna build me a house, on a mountain so high

Sit in my car and stare up at the sky

The dream is a lie, put it to the test

One man rising up on the backs of the rest

On the backs of his family, all the duds and the Does

‘Til the sun melts his wings and down we all go

See Willy fly by, in the by and by

In the never you mind, in the dollar store light

In the there you go, in the wait and see

In the us and them, in the them and us,

In the should have been me

He’s the exception that proves the rule

All your dreams are a lie

See trains all leaving without you, when Willy flies by

OUT THERE A WAYS

You’re just out there a ways

It’ll be alright

You’re just out there a ways

With your flagging career

And your peeling veneer

You’ve still got it

You’re just out there a ways

There’s always big, big money

Big, big thrills

Big, big clean-up

And big, big bills

Out there a ways

You’re just out there a ways

It’ll be alright-you’re just out there a ways

(Repeat chorus)

You’re a recent divorce from your menagerie

You’re still standing

You’re just out there a ways

You’re the queen of the ball-warts and all

Hang on tight

We’re going out there a ways

(Repeat chorus)

Out there a ways

You’re just out there a ways

It’ll be alright

You’re just out there aways

WACO EXPRESS

Everybody’s on the bandwagon again

Get on board the Waco Express again

She’s got thirteen gears twelve in reverse

A funky mess in a silver purse

Everybody’s on the bandwagon again

The reason why you don’t tell me you love me

The reason why you don’t tell me you care

The reason why you just tower above me

Is darlin’ you’re scared

Everybody wants a sure thing these days

Nobody wants to go out on a limb these days

Everytime I see you asking for more

You turn into a puddle out on the floor

Nobody wants to go out on a limb these days

(Repeat chorus)

(Repeat 1st verse)

TAKE ME TO THE FIRES

When my time expires

Take me to the fires

And we’ll all go

The only way we know

Thanks, I’ll live my life now

Not tomorrow

You won’t see my face

In so higher place

Oh dear father, please listen to me

I’ve not long to live, standing on this cliff

One side the land lays, but these jagged old rocks

Are so way for a good man to go

Offer so redemtions, there’s no takers near

Just you mind your manners, we’ve got company here

I’ve had a feeling about those crusty old men

I’m not sure if they’re angels or ghosts

(repeat chorus)

You can’t stake no claim on my last name

When it’s time to go, just throw me in that hole

And there I gladly lay, cuz this world wears me out

With all these offerings of false gold

The dogs want my money, the vultures want my eyes

From where I’m standing I realize

One side the land lays, but those jagged old rocks

Are starting to look real good to me

(Jump you bugger jump!)

(repeat chorus)

I’ve seen the light

I’ve seen the light

I’ve felt those flames

Throw another one on

We’re going down

I’ve seen the lights

I’ve felt those flames

COWBOY IN FLAMES

You feel disgusted and confused

Manipulated and abused

You’re not the reason, you’re just the means

It’s a brutal little lesson in being free

40 days & 40 nights, out of mind is out of sight

Talking trash, conspiracies

Handing all your weapons to your enemies

I claw at another door and everything will slip away

> There’s so much money washing round out there

Can’t a little bit come my way?

Uh Uh Uh Oh! PUNISHMENT PUNISHNMENT!

Earthbound & heaven seat

Brainwashed, lobotomised

Cowboy in flames, bombs in the sky

General Custer’s on the trail

His last letter’s in the mail

It’s propaganda, it’s marketing

Oooh General Custard died for your sins

And the good old rock where we once stood

Has got too old to be much good

And the good old ways are sick and lame

Third world on horseback

Cowboy in Flames

DOLLAR DRESS

She is dancing with death in the Dollar Dress

There’s a box in an attic in a run down northern town

There’s a key on the shelf so you can look inside

There’s a song that will pick you up and spin you round

A photograph and a letter left behind

Can you prove you’re alive? Do you know where you’re been today?

Sown into the fabric of your life, washed and mended, worn away

She is dancing with death in the dollar dress

The hooter sounds and the whole town shakes again

A line of ghosts clock out at the factory gates

Cousins, sisters and brothers are spirited home

They block the streets and make the traffic wait

Will the flag still fly, if the wind don’t blow today?

It’s sown into the fabric of your life, washed and mended, worn away

OUT IN THE LIGHT

As the night wears on – it gets so black

As the night wears on – it gets so black

There was a time you shined like chrome

What turned you into such a hack?

Won’t you tell me why

It looks so apealing

It looks so disguised

Won’t you tell me why

It loses it’s charm when its

Out In The Light

Shiny new car on the showroom floor

Shiny new car on the showroom floor

There was a time you ran so hard

What turned you into such a bore

(repeat chorus)

My love is an anchor, my heart is a stone

My love is an anchor, my heart is a stone

Should ever you wander far and wide

Hope you have the good sense to find your way home

FAST TRAIN DOWN

On my way out on a westbound train

Well it gets in my blood – it gets in my brain

They say all that you need is a dollar and a dream

But a lifetime is such a long time to wait

From the shores of the Atlantic

To that evil desert town

Unseen forces pull us forward

And I’m riding that Fast Train Down

Spent thirteen years in this old warehouse

The boxes come in and the boxes go out

I caught my first glimpse of sunlight today

When I pinned my hopes on the westbound train

The conductor holds his wallet

while the steward eyes his watch

Unseen forces pull us forward

As I’m riding that fast train down

You pull on the arm and the wheels turn round

Press on the handle and it all swirls down

Push on the button someone comes to ease your pain

And you rattle them bones – you’re at it again

So count your winnings, count your losses

Pawn your trumpet, hock your crown

Unseen forces pull us forward

And I’m riding that fast train down

DO WHAT I SAY

Do what I say don’t do what I do

There’s already one of me and we don’t need two

Drinking all night and sleeping right through the afternoon

Oh! Do what I say don’t do what I do

Saturday night, sunday morning I’m staring at the door

Sitting here waiting ’til you stumble in around about half past 4

You’re in trouble, you’re seeing double

Is there on of me or two?

Looking at you, looking at me, looking at you

I called home I got the ansafone I said “don’t wait up for me”

When I got home full of PBR it was only half past 3

The bed was empty, the sheets were cold, you forgot what I told you

Oh! Do what I say don’t do what I do

I don’t think it’s asking too much that you be here for me

You say it’s all double standars & hypocritical old bollocks

We drink hard all night ‘cos we work hard all day

You say you’ll do what I do but you won’t do what I say

THE DEATH OF COUNTRY MUSIC

My body is a temple safer than a prison

But I’ve done some demolition and in a world gone wrong

The Death Of Country Music rattles round the planet

So we light a flame and fan it deep int the night

Where the city casts its shadow we leave the straight and narrow

And tomorrow and forever seem so far away

Where the dancefloor’s overcrowded and the music’s getting louder

People do some breathing while they’re cheating death

Tonight the west is sleeping and the desert will be creeping

Inch by inch across the continent

And the bones of country music lie there in their casket

Beneath the towers of Nashville in a black pool of neglect

So we cast our nets in the water, dragged the pool and caught ‘em

Grind ‘em up and snort ‘em, deep into the night

And we spill some blood on the ashes

Of the bones of the Jones and the Ca-ashizz

Skulls in false eye-lacher whast riders in the sky!

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