Cold Heart of England-Steve Knightley

[ti:Cold Heart of England] [ar:Steve Knightley] [al:Track of Words - Retraced] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cold Heart of England - Steve Knightley [00:11.07]Hard winds are blowing [00:13.06]Down the high street today [00:15.56] [00:16.30]Just look around you [00:20.73] [00:21.48]Family firms are selling up [00:23.64] [00:24.20]Moving away [00:26.15]Now the names that surround you [00:31.22] [00:32.17]Though they're familiar [00:33.81] [00:34.50]You don't feel at home [00:36.82]'Cos you could be in Kansas London or Rome [00:41.88] [00:42.57]All closing down in these small country towns [00:46.99] [00:47.63]In the cold heart of England [00:51.81] [00:52.78]And you don't see the stars [00:55.06]When the lights overspill [00:58.03]It's too bright and too strong [01:02.19] [01:03.22]From hundreds of homes on the sides of the hill [01:08.25]Just where did we come from [01:12.65] [01:14.11]Now we've been told to build ten thousand more [01:18.92]Let's cover this countryside we came here for [01:23.79] [01:24.45]Trees coming down on the edge of the town [01:28.62] [01:29.54]In the cold heart of England [01:33.14] [01:34.45]So it's Saturday night [01:36.51] [01:37.23]With the boys in the square [01:39.46] [01:40.25]The cars and the fights [01:42.10]Broken glass everywhere [01:45.13]I've no picture postcard [01:48.15]To send you from there [01:49.79] [01:50.41]It's the cold heart of England [01:54.79] [01:58.25]So it's grey supermarkets [02:01.07]Instead of green fields [02:03.68]Will pay all our wages [02:08.25] [02:09.28]We're choking in traffic [02:11.27] [02:11.86]Tied to the wheel [02:13.62] [02:14.13]Like cattle in cages [02:18.91] [02:19.85]These market forces [02:22.42]Swept us along [02:24.10] [02:24.96]Now we've arrived and [02:27.55]The old market's gone [02:29.49] [02:30.25]Feeling let down in this [02:33.00]Small country town [02:35.10]In the cold heart of England [02:38.68] [02:40.25]And if you work within limits [02:43.09]The law will allow [02:45.53]You'll find the land's under concrete [02:48.43]Instead of the plough [02:50.70] [02:51.22]Where are you swampy [02:54.38] [02:55.34]Cos' we need you right now [02:58.46] [02:59.70]In the cold heart of England [03:03.78] [03:05.09]It's the cold heart of England