07. Lurhstaap New Model Army - The Marquee London 14.02.1991

New Model Army - The Marquee London 14.02.1991

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[71chunky]

The name Lurhstaap has confused many NMA fans for years. Its actually Bastard spoken backwards. The band where in the recording studio messing around with effects from the sound board. Someone said the word bastard into a microphone, they reversed the recording

and the sound Lurhstaap came out.

[Shukria123]

November 9 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

And these changing winds still blow cold and hostile...

[Shukria123]

Beware the trinkets that we bring...

[Shukria123]

When New Model Army first recorded this song, as a warning to the East Germans, they say, "But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile." Or: "These changing winds can blow cold and hostile."

When New Model Army sing this song now, they say, "These changings winds blow cold and hostile...." because that is what the former East Germans have faced for the past 18 years..

[Shukria123]

I tried to post the lyrics of this song, but this site would only let me post a max of 500 characters, so I had to post a few chunks at a time.

Please start at the bottom and read the lyrics starting from the last post to the most recent.

[Shukria123]

Now the rats they leave one stricken ship for another sailing past

Your world was going nowhere slow while ours goes nowhere fast

And now it's gone, all is gone

But these changing winds can blow cold and hostile

[Shukria123]

And in the shadows of the crowded square, a thousand paper deals go down

And hungry sharks from everywhere smell the blood and head for town

Innocence starts to peel away - How money changes everything

The past it eats the future up and this blind desire eats everything

Published by Attack Attack Music/Warner Chappell Music Ltd

[Shukria123]

The freedom passion and the two faced call

They dance together upon the wall

With nothing left to break the fall

Now twenty-five miles north in the great dark woods

The college buildings stand

And the ghosts of hope walk silent halls at the death of the Promised Land

All is gone, all is gone

But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile

[Shukria123]

One swallow never made a spring

You can buy a crown - it doesn't make you king

Beware the trinkets that we bring

When the visionary dreams set hard and grey as flesh made into stone

You tore the statues to the ground crying - let my people go

And now they're gone, all is gone

But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile

[Shukria123]

In this song NMA are talking to the East Germans as the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989. They're warning them about the dangers of money and capitalism - "Beware the trinkets that we bring." This song is amazing in that NMA could see what was going to happen after unification - the mass unemployment in the former East, etc. - before unification even happened. This song is very prophetic and very true about life in our money-based society.

"but these changing winds can blow cold and hostile.."