The Gentry Cove-Dirty Pretty Things

[ti:The Gentry Cove] [ar:Dirty Pretty Things] [al:Waterloo To Anywhere] [by:] [offset:0] [00:13.13]Run they said to a promised land [00:15.37]Run and find us a helping hand [00:17.82]Don't come back till the sun is gone [00:20.26]Don't come back till the war is won [00:22.81]We all set out with our hearts in hand [00:25.25]A cold wind covered up a line in the sand [00:27.81]All so young [00:28.99]Nothing to lose [00:30.18]Pieces of silver and a dead mans shoes [00:32.74]And oh do you know what I'm saying [00:36.48]Strike a light to guide us [00:38.85]Somewhere [00:43.67] [00:51.88]Tempest swells our worlds collide [00:54.14]Arrows from above and the salt in our eyes [00:56.70]Then as the sky began to bruise [00:58.94]We all sought shelter from the breaking news [01:01.44]Oh did I ever show you [01:05.43]All the great memorials all the factory floors [01:10.80]And oh though you know I don't know you [01:14.48]Now that were here [01:16.85]Let's make them proud [01:20.18]On and on and on and on and on and on we go [01:25.57]Traipsing over bridges [01:27.76]Over corpses down below [01:30.83]And all the while we could have smiled [01:33.45]For one thing on our minds [01:36.38]The very thing you strive for [01:39.07]Is the thing that makes you blind [01:42.25]Run they said to a promised land [01:44.50]Run and find us a helping hand [01:46.99]Don't come back till the sun is gone [01:49.43]Don't come back till the war is won [01:51.92]Tempest high stories tall [01:54.29]Thought that we learnt nothing at all [01:56.74]Then at last the day was saved [01:59.19]With flowers borrowed from a dead friends grave [02:02.14]And oh even still I don't know you [02:05.46]Maybe I'll show you [02:07.79]If you've eyes to see [02:13.22] [02:20.52]And so farewell [02:22.39]And so farewell [02:24.51]And so farewell [02:26.76]And so farewell to it