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New Model Army — I Love The World

Album: Thunder And Consolation
Avg rating:

5.6

Your rating:

Total ratings: 90

Released: 1989
Length: 5:08
Plays (last 30 days): 0

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The roll of distant thunder breaks, the afternoon of silence wakes
They hurry through from Petergate as if they know this dance
In fury blind, I drive at night across the moors, the open roads
Beneath the freezing starry skies, racing in some trance
These cities are illusions of some triumph over Nature's laws
We've seen the iron carcass rust and buildings topple into dust
And as the waters rise, it seems we cling to all the rootless things
The Christian lies, technology, while spirits scream and sing
Oh God I love the world

Well I never said I was a clever man but I know enough to understand
That the endless leaps and forward plans will someday have to cease
You blind yourselves with comfort lies like lightning never strikes you twice
And we laugh at your amazed surprise as the Ark begins to sink
This temple that is built so well to separate us from ourselves
Is a power grown beyond control, a will without a face
And watching from outside I wish that I could wash my hands of this
But we are locked together here, this bittersweet embrace
Oh God I love the world

And if one day the final fire explodes across the whitened sky
I know you've said you'd rather die and make it over fast
With courage from your bravest friends, waiting outside for the end
With no bitterness but an innocence that I can't seem to grasp
I know somehow I will survive - this fury just to stay alive
So drunk with sickness, weak with pain, I can walk the hills one last time
Scarred and smiling, dying slow, I'll scream to no one left at all
I told you so, I told you so, I told you so . .
Oh God I love the world

Comments (22)add comment

Usually, if I don't care much for a song, I'm not moved enough to even rate it, so my ratings have inadvertently ranged at least "5+". This gets my first "2" in six years of listening and a hell of a lot of rating. I'm reserving the "1" rating for something akin to Kim Jong Il singing karaoke Celine Dion. This rates only 1 point better...

Posted 13 years ago by brookap [ Reply ]

Funny, what I heard was

I want to be Muse
I want to be Muse
I want to be Muse

Posted 13 years ago by rtrudeau [ Reply ]

another one like that and I'm switching channels for the day!!!

Posted 13 years ago by Moaner [ Reply ]

Excellent! The playlist has been getting a little mellow lately. I, for one, wouldn't mind a little harder and faster paced music here from time to time.

Posted 13 years ago by Imkirok [ Reply ]

I hate this song

Posted 13 years ago by dcoy [ Reply ]

I saw "Thunder and Constipation" as the album title. I think that's not inconsistent with the singer's earnestness and urgency.

Posted 13 years ago by Dave_Mack [ Reply ]

I love the world
Repeat
   Repeat
      Repeat

   Ok I got it, I got it

Posted 13 years ago by michaelc [ Reply ]

Funny how the ratings are allllll over the place!

Posted 13 years ago by djblitz [ Reply ]

Never heard this before, but that is some freaking genius drumming there!

Posted 13 years ago by jhorton [ Reply ]

MEH... never really understood this genre of music. You don't need talent to play the same riff 1000 times and bang a drum as hard as possible while screaming I LOVE THE WORLD a million times. A solid 1 rating from me.

Posted 13 years ago by lsfeder [ Reply ]

This reminds me a little of the fare on morrow.com. Intense prog. Not my usual cup of tea.

Though this is still hard to avoid and not listen. I ... MUST .... listen .... !

Posted 13 years ago by westslope [ Reply ]

spinal tap ?

Posted 13 years ago by coding_to_music [ Reply ]

Ok, if we have to listen to this can we at least get some Spinal Tap here?

Posted 13 years ago by Jelani [ Reply ]

Great! And the guys are still in power! Rock on!

Posted 13 years ago by mabra70 [ Reply ]

vandal wrote:

Can't. . . help. . . myself. . . compelled. . . to. . . keep. . . listening. . .

Exactly!

Posted 13 years ago by Businessgypsy [ Reply ]

Wow, thanks for playing this great song! (I had to double check that I wasn't playing old CDs!) One of several great rock pieces off of the Thunder and Consolation album. The crowd response is predictable, I've encountered the same response when I play T&C for my friends.

Posted 13 years ago by ri_shelton [ Reply ]

Can't. . . help. . . myself. . . compelled. . . to. . . keep. . . listening. . .