Big Country - In A Big Country

Big Country were a rock band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, popular in the early to mid-1980s but still releasing material for a cult following. The band were notable for music heavily accented with traditional Scottish folk and martial music styles, as well as for playing and engineering their guitar sound to resemble the bagpipes, fiddles and other traditional folk instruments.

The album "The Crossing" was a hit in the United States, powered by "In a Big Country", their only U.S. Top 40 hit single. The song featured heavily engineered guitar playing, strongly reminiscent of bagpipes.

Former members:
Stuart Adamson
Bruce Watson
Tony Butler
Mark Brzezicki

(Adamson was found dead in a room at the Best Western Plaza Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii on 16 December 2001)

Lyrics:
Come up screaming
Come up screaming

I've never seen you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through
Another season passes by you
I never took the smile away from anybody's face
And that's a desperate way to look
For someone who is still a child

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

So take that look out of here it doesn't fit you
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered

I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

Category:

Music

Tags:

• In
• Big
• Country
• Scotland
• Rock
• New
• Wave
• Bruce
• Watson
• Tony
• Butler
• Mark
• Brzezicki
• Stuart
• Adamson
• The
• Crossing
• Scottish
• Folk
• Bagpipes
• Fiddle

[Mrporkandbeaner]

My favorite song of all time! 

[ressing]

Listening from Fife! Happy Hogmanay to each and all, chin up, rock on.

[tri42pi]

que tema mas bueno

[donquixote2u]

"The song featured heavily engineered guitar playing, strongly reminiscent of bagpipes." - so I WASN'T just imagining that! lol

[TheBigjohn67]

what a great band... and this is one of the best intros in rock history stay alive!!!

[ThePurefuckingMayhem]

too bad this dude was depressed so he kileld himself

[indaz1]

i love many styles of music and this is one of them

[ChihuahuaboyDH]

A great song from Big Country! Too bad this was their only singles release in the U.S.. "In A Big Country" peaked on Billboard's Hot 100 pop singles chart in July 1983! R.I.P., Stuart Adamson.

Bravo, Big Country!

[horkguy16]

Makes me want to go 3 wheelin.....

[thecarebearhideaway]

@EricSmiles Thanks so much! I appreciate your kind comment! This song takes me back too as you can see! :-) Good times then! ♥

[EricSmiles]

@thecarebearhideaway Well said. This song takes me back.