Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Dave Edmunds - I hear you knocking (1970)

Dave Edmunds (Wales)

I hear you knocking

Year: 1970

Chart history
Highest position
Country
#1
Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Zimbabwe
#2
Switzerland
#3
Canada, Germany, New Zealand
#4
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, USA
#5
Spain







You went away and left long time ago
Now your knocking on my door
I hear you knocking
But you can't come in
I hear you knocking
Go back where you been

I begged you not to go but you said goodbye
Now your telling me all your lies
I hear you knocking
But you can't come in
I hear you knocking
Go back where you been

You better get back to your used to be
'Cause your kind of love ain't good for me
I hear you knocking
But you can't come in
I hear you knocking 
Go back where you been

I told you way back in '52
That I would never go with you
I hear you knocking
But you can't come in
I hear you knocking
Go back where you been


Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle emptiness (1992)

Manic Street Preachers (Wales)

Motorcycle emptiness

Year: 1992


Chart history
Highest position
Country
#17
Great Britain
#21
Netherlands
#35
Belgium, New Zealand














Culture sucks down words
Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles
Organise your safe tribal war
Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto

Each day living out a lie
Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

Life lies a slow suicide
Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths
From feudal serf to spender
This wonderful world of purchase power

Just like lungs sucking on air
Survivals natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

Drive away and it's the same
Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim
Your joys are counterfeit
This happiness corrupt political shit

Living life like a comatose
Ego loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness everlasting nothingness


Sunday, November 20, 2016

Catatonia - Dead from the waist down (1999)

Catatonia (Wales)

Dead from the waist down

Year: 1999


Chart history
Highest position
Country
#7
Great Britain
#44
New Zealand














The sun is shining
We should be making hay
But we're dead from the waist down
Like in Californ-i-a
Victory is empty
There are lessons in defeat
But we're dead from the waist down
We are sleeping on our feet
We stole the songs from birds in trees
Bought us time on easy street
Now our paths, they never meet
We chose to court and flatter greed
Ego-disposability
I caught a glimpse and it's not me
Make hay not war
Make hay not war
Make hay not war
Or else you're done for
When we're dead from the waist down
There's no contracts binding
No bad scene beyond repair
But when you're dead from the waist down
You're too far gone to even care
We stole the songs from birds in trees
Bought us time on easy street
Now our paths, they never meet
We chose to court and flatter greed
Ego-disposability
I caught a glimpse and it's not me
Make hay not war
Make hay not war
Make hay not war
Or else we're done for
When you're dead from the waist down
Make hay not war
Make hay not war
Make hay not war
Or else we're done for
When you're dead from the waist down
When you're dead from the waist down
Dead from the waist down
Dead from the waist down