Marillion - White Russian

Marillion - White Russian from " Clutching At Straws " (1987)


Lyrics :
Where do we go from here?

They're boarding up the synagogues uzis on a street corner
You can't take a photograph of uzis on a street corner
The DJ resigned today they wouldn't let him have his say
A surface scratched where the needles play uzis on a street corner

Where do we go from here?

Terror on the Rue de St. Denis, murder on the periphery
Someone else in someone else's pocket, Christ knows I don't know how to stop it
Lay poppies at the Cenotaph, the cynics can't afford to laugh,
I heard in on the telegraph there's uzis on a street corner

Where do we go from here?

The more I see the more I hear the more I find the fewer answers
I close my mind, I shut it out but you know its getting harder
To calm me down, to reason out, to come to terms with what it's all about
I'm uptight, can't sleep at night, I can't pretend everything's alright.
My ideals my sanity, they seem to be deserting me
But to stand up and fight I know we have six million reasons.

They're burning down the synagogues uzis on a street corner
The heralds of the holocaust uzis on a street corner
The silence never louder than now, how quickly we forgot our vows,
This resurrection we can't allow, the uzis on a street corner.

Where do we go from here?

We buy fresh bagels from the corner store
Where swastikas are spat from aerosols
I sit in the bar sipping iced white russians
Trying to score but nobody's pushing
And everyone looks at everyone's faces
Searching for signs and praying for traces
Of a conscience in residence,
Are we sitting on a barbed wire fence, chasing the clouds home

We place our faith in human rights
In the paper wars that tie the redtape tight
I know that I would rather be out of this conspiracy

In the gulags and internment camps
Nameless faces in frozen ranks
I know that they would rather be
Standing here besides me chasing the clouds home

We place our faith in human rights
In the paper wars that tie the redtape tight
I know that I would rather be out of this conspiracy

In the gulags and internment camps
Nameless faces in frozen ranks
I know that they would rather be
Standing here besides me chasing the clouds home
Racing the clouds home

You can shut your eyes, you can hide away
It's gonna come back another day

Racing the clouds home
But where do we go from here?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Marillion
• Fish
• White
• Russian

[TheSpacemonkey62]

Marillion started out progressive but that all changed with MISPLACED CHILDHOOD album which was much more commercial with KAYLIEGH and LAVENDER.

[bouard35]

@TheSpacemonkey62 I disagree, Misplaced Childhood is very far to be a commercial album. If we've to follow you, Fugazi is also a commercial album with the hits "Assassing" and "Punch and Judy ?

[Kageification]

@bouard35 And if the spacemonkey believes that, does that make clutching at straws commercial?

[bouard35]

@Kageification I really don't care about that, listen to the music, it's the only important thing here.

[petra07]

the first 45 secs reminded me of that "you know my name" by chris cornell very much...

btw..is there sth rlly progressive written by marillion? dont know much about the band yet and most of the songs i listened to still sound pretty "comercial" even tho i think theyre listed as progressive...

[bouard35]

@petra07 Marillion isn't a really progressive rock band, but they've written many progressive rock songs : "Grendel", "The Web", "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Incubus", "Fugazi", "Bitter Suite", "White Russian" ... if we want to stay in the 80's.

[wasagoodkid]

God, marillion made some great songs, makes you wonder why theyre never played on the radio or mentioned on tv, and oh the shite that does get played!...

[Gettotaco]

Racing the clouds home! 

[dgcmusi]

@alwaystapetheolive The fish years I feel were the best Marillion. There were no winners when Fish left . He and Marillion lost. I saw them live twice in New York City .

[Queenesy]

4 am, how did I ended up here? Im up tight, can't sleep at night....well, it's never too late to listen to Marillion. this song burns my deepest core. Fish truly has a poet's soul! thank you big uncle for an amazing master-piece.

[alwaystapetheolive]

Fish was, and still is, a total legend. Marillion were amazing back in the day....., comparisons can't be made with Hogarth Marillion....., he brought something completely different to the remaining four, their music is still very good, but in my, and many others opinion, the early era was just awesome. I suppose you had to see Fish Marillion "live" to have that opinion, I did, seven times.

[ghostsharklegend]

What pic is that? Its really good.

[pondguru]

Awesome....Beautiful work from an excellent band.

Makes me want to smash up the radio when I hear the crap we get force fed today.

[jacksbacknow]

Saw Marillion 3 times live....twice with Fish... Fantastic.. then with Hogarth...I do appreciate the music.. i do ....just found myself bored half way through.... just didn't hold me entranced like Fish

[Neueregel]

awesomeness

[praetorianus72]

R.J Dio and Fish, best vocalists ever

[MAGNUM2F]

this is a class tune! with customary superb lyrics...