The Stranglers - Valley of the birds (live)

A nice post-Cornwell track. From the Eurolive album. (Poland 2000)

"Ray decided to be silly after all
He'd died a 1000 times before in the viet war
So he strapped himself in and he took his chances
Into the valley of the bird, absurd
I don't remember what it was the old man said
I know I' d tempted fate a 1000 times before
So we strapped ourselves in and we took such chances

And had a flight for the brother who can't be
Birdman, looking for the
Wasteland, trying to get my
Face tanned it's beautiful here
Doing it we're flying in the valley of the birds- fly

We decided one for all and all for one
And when I do, I really want to go in style
So without a sense of reason we explored
Like throwing stones into the great unknown

Birdman, looking for the
Wasteland, trying to get my
Face tanned it's beautiful here
Doing it we're flying in the valley of the birds- fly"

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[BackFromTheGrave]

Real strangled  sound!!!!!!!

[villehermannivalo666]

i fucking love this song with a passion strangler<3<3<3<3

[MrBaggie09]

love this song

[kalisteboat]

Am i alone to find that he has a strange similar voice of Dave Gohan from Depeche Mode ?

[TomGreenUK]

Love the intro sound effects on the original record.

[theskafest77]

Och! Byłem na tym koncercie! To było w Lublinie. Łza kręci się w oku... :) Było naprawdę świetnie.

[garrry1]

brilliant, thanks for posting, the stranglers did some brilliant tracks with paul roberts, 'face', 'daddy's riding the range', 'no reason' etc etc etc

[trifelgeputinage]

Couldn't agree more.

[felixbroadcast10]

I'm not sure if i like this lead singer or not but this is agreat song and he does make a decent fist of it!

[captaincrap1995]

This is my favourite MK2 song

[FP51DPO]

Thanks Paul for your comments...

[johnanthonyp]

The reason why this is a stand out song Post- Cornwell as I understand it is because Greenfield wrote and arranged it. The rest of their drab output was commandeered by Ellis and Roberts. As he said in the book, Greenfield felt marginalised in this line up. Outside of 'Time to die' (which I believe ws written by JJ) and this nymber I think this era was woeful. It was a bad move adding these two to the line up. It's better now but it will never match the classic line up. No group could.