Levellers - The Road

From the album - Levelling the Land:

Headlights, white lines, black tar rivers
Dragging me around this country as it whithers
The billboards, signposts, standing in the way
Tell of the state of the nations, that we find today

And we play and we play
To every day, every day
To every day

In the front rooms of old towns far from the city
With beat up guitars and hearts full of pity
The people gather round singing songs from everywhere
Torn from the nation, left without a care

CHORUS

And we'll rid the bloody world for a moment in a word
And we'll rid the bloody world cos
The words that you heard when you were young will always stay
The one's that always stay make the world go away

Warm night, clear sky, European town
Out side the bars singing their hearts out to a crowd
Open boots, violin, banjo and a voice
Exiled buskers, happy with their choice

CHORUS

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Levellers
• Levelling
• Land
• Road
• Brighton
• Folk
• Rock
• Waterboys

[wolfiefoxxx]

I'm seeing them in April, Wooo Cant wait!

[ccfc10]

@wolfiefoxxx ahh lucky, they're not coming to london this tour

[mwallaby]

This song is why I started busking :)

[stolenfaeriechild]

One of my fave Levellers songs!

[GreenmanXIV]

@TheUgsmash I've four Levellers CD's SWMBO says they make her feel sad. She says the same thing about 'The New Model Army'. Thank God for headphones and skunk.

[dragonfitter]

@MrBillytree they are from brighton

[TheUgsmash]

if i ever go on holiday to another country i must not listen to the levelers especially this song... they make me think of the great british countryside and being free, anyone else get that too?

[dragonfitter]

@levelledout it certainly was

[BrianJones1888]

Fantastic lyrics, fantastic band, great feeling of riot for liberty

[SuperAlim2]

they were on after flogging molly at beautiful days and were amazing

[vexingdave]

beautiful days 2011 was AMAZING WOOOOOOOOW

[tkdcaz1]

@MrBillytree - they're from Brighton if I'm not mistaken. Couldn't get a lot further from your blighted isle while being mainland UK if they tried. And btw, even if they did come from NI, they would be British, regardless of your nationalistic stance on the subject.

[wolfmweh]

@MrBillytree

From memory, Mark was born in Germany and the rest of the lads are English. But I'm not even double checking that info :)

[TraceurJordan16]

saw them yesterday, they were absalootly amazing! best live band i have EVER seen!!