Uploaded by skapaul69 on Mar 7, 2008
BIG COUNTRY NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING
He sits and says he's sick and tired of the argument
He's heard them all and it makes no change when the money's spent
And all his life he's had to watch the way he's went
No less in need no less deceived by the violence
She stands and says let my man go
Let them all go free
But the diamond's talk
And fools gold is bought
Where the market's free
The sticks come down
The bombs go off
The world is guilty
She holds no power
Just a love of truth
For her own country
I'm not waving
I'm drowning
I've come too far out here
I'm not waving
I'm drowning
And there's no way you can hear
I was too far out all of my life
I'm not waving but drowning
For everyone whose life is run by their daily bread
Another one holds a loaded gun at someone's head
And we stuck fast and our petty fears are already dead
While division rules and tradition's roles
We are all mislead
I'm not waving
I'm drowning
I've come too far out here
I'm not waving
I'm drowning
And there's no way you can hear
I was too far out all of my life
I'm not waving but drowning
I'm not waving
I'm drowning
I've come too far out here
I'm not waving
I'm drowning
And there's no way you can hear
I was too far out all of my life
I'm not waving but drowning
Uploader Comments (skapaul69)
Top Comments
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thanks for posting this gorgeous song
3 years ago 5
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A sorry statement - but I love this song, play it when I'm travelling to work......thanks for posting!
3 years ago 3
All Comments (9)
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One of their beauties!
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One of my favorites and one of the best they ever did.
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wee gem of a song SHOUT
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Not drowning but waving...
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Thanks for the post.... I'd forgotten how much I love Scottish men... and their honesty
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Played this song all the time when it first came out, it stills sounds beautiful.
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thanks...totally brilliant!
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Lyrics & Music: Stuart Adamson
Title lifted straight from a Stevie Smith poem because I liked the images of someone appearing in control but in reality floundering. This came from the same demos as "Over The Border" and I think it's another of those "close but no cigar" songs. I think during this period a lot of people didn't want us to be the Big Country we were and maybe we were trying to be something that wasn't us.
— Stuart Adamson, Restless Natives & Rarities liner notes
skapaul69 3 years ago