Someone's Dying

I slipped away from a sleepy stillness
A blind man cried
Pale faces stared
Cos someone's died
They steel your clothes and make you grand
For your final stand
A funeral pyre of cleansing fire
On these hallowed lands
There's no-one here i know
Black suits and a perished moon
Light the candles, start the wake
Your embers burnt out too soon
Someone's dying, Someone's dying

I walked away
No I crawled away
To an endless pain
Through the winter storm clouds
So these dreamless nights
And the empty days
They seem so strange
Through the winds of hell fire
And in the breeze
Oh the summer trees
I'm on my knees
For you now sweet child
Can't let you go
Oh you'll never know
Just how much i loved you now

I walked away from the girl with the flowers
Tears fall like blood, i felt her pain
I grew old, without your love
Sombre days and bitter rains
Everything just falls apart
It breaks my heart
I call your name, it's all in vain
This is my darkest day
I kissed your eyes and said goodbye
Dust to dust beneath black skies
I wish you well and stay clear of hell
Till another place, another time
Someone's dying, Someone's dying

Through the rain and snow
To where the angels go
In the afterglow
Is where i'll meet you
You're dust and bone
And your blood runs cold
Now long dark nights bleed me
Ive met the devil here
Near your grave stone dear
But i showed no fear
Cos you were with me
In your land of ghosts
And tormented souls
You'll waltz right through heavens door

Words & Music: Stevenson (1981)

Scallywags

Someone's Dying (Part 1 & 2)

R.I.P. (Radio Edit)

Rainy Days

Rainy days, always in my way
After all these years, the pain don't fade away
Oh Dad, you're never coming back
From that fateful heart attack
Which left me on my knees
Fighting back the tears
And I still miss you
And I still need you 
And I still love you

These rainy days, have broke me many ways
And where was god, when i cried out his name
Oh Dad, you left me way too soon
You never saw me bloom
And even though I've tried
I'm hollow deep inside
And I still miss you
And I still need you 
And I still love you

How many more rainy days?
I've a million memories of the days we played
How many more rainy days?
I can't wait to see you in another world


How many more rainy days?
I've a million memories of so very few days
How many more rainy days?
I can't wait to see you in another world

Lyrics: Stevenson (1986)
Music: Stevenson (1986)

Rainy Days

Y E A H !

I'm on a train that's going nowhere
Keeps getting faster all the time
Though you may say I'm full of bullshit
You don't know so i don't really mind
If I'm gonna have a future
I'm gonna have to change this structure around say yeah

No time too fine, need a life gonna shine
If I got a problem I know what to do now
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah) Yeah
Got wings wanna fly no sky too high
Come on baby take me to the limit say
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah) Yeah

I'm gonna have to change my ticket
To get to where i wanna be
Not quite sure of the destination
There's so many places i wanna see
I know that life don't owe me nothing
I guess i'm gonna have to do something about it say yeah

No time too fine, need a life gonna shine
If I got a problem I know what to do now
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah) Yeah
Got wings wanna fly no sky too high
Come on baby take me to the limit say
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah) Yeah

No time too fine, need a life gonna shine
If I got a problem I know what to do now
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah) Yeah
Got wings wanna fly no sky too high
Come on baby take me to the limit say
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah) Yeah

Lyrics: Mirfin (1991)
Music: Bellis/Stevenson (1991)

Yeah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zelj4XJXUBA

Acid Rain

Here comes the News
The atmosphere has been abused
(Rain me down) Let it carry on pouring
Storms break the skies
I raise my hands to shield my eyes
(Rain me down) Let it carry on pouring

Rain on me, Rain on down
Acid rain burns the holy ground
Let it rain, let it pour
Oh like a cloudburst, like the thunderbreaks
You're raining down on me . . . 
Oh Acid Rain

So cry the trees
Poison clouds upon the breeze
And the rains of fire, still carry on pouring
Rains of disease
Yet still we reap the killing fields
And the Rains of fire, still carry on pouring

Rain on me, Rain on down
Acid rain burns the holy ground
Let it rain, let it pour
Oh like a Monsoon, like a Hurricane
You're raging down on me . . . 
Oh Acid Rain

Rain on me, Rain on down
Acid rain burns the holy ground
Let it rain, let it pour
Oh like a landslide, like an avalanche
You're crashing down on me . . . 
Oh Acid Rain

Rain on me, Rain on down
Acid rain burns the holy ground
Let it rain, let it pour
Oh like a typhoon from the fires of hell
You're pouring down on me . . . 
Oh Acid Rain

Music: Stevenson/Bellis (December 1990)
Lyrics: Stevenson (December 1990)

Warning! Golbal Warming EP

Acid Rain

Acid Rain (Ft. Mark Love on Vocals)

The Joy Poet

Europe is dying 1993
The old man harbours his memories
Violins swimming, swirling through his ears
As the earth is swallowed by the sea

Vienna is drowning now!
Oh Vienna is drowning now!

Amber clouds burst and split the blackened skies
The old man wakes and he writes
His ink well has spanned five thousand summer nights
Now all the river's are running wild

Oh! the earths a raging fireball the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No-one's seen, no-one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down

Beaches and wastegrounds washed by poisoned seas
The old man lives without machines
He has no wireless, he has no TV
He cannot hear the frightened trees

Oh! the earths a raging fireball the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No-one's seen, no-one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
The earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
Burning down, down, down, down
Going down, down, down, down
Burning down, down, down, down

Warning! Glabal Warming EP

The Joy Poet (2021 Version - Ft. Mark Love)

The Joy Poet (2021 Version) (Ft. Mark Love on Vocals)

ON THE RUN

In a dirty bed sit
In the dead end part of town
The wolves are at my door
And I'm begging a pound
I steel a gun and shoot a stranger
I'm not the man i used to be

What have i done (What have I done)
What have i done (I'm on the run)
What have i done (I pulled the trigger)
I'm on the run (Just for fun)

In a railway station
Platform 2 is where I'm found
Held up in a luggage van
On a train that's nowhere bound
I'm heading for a cold asylum
The sound of sirens all around

What have i done (What have I done)
What have i done (I'm on the run)
What have i done (I pulled the trigger)
I'm on the run (Just for fun)

Oh momma 
It wasn't my gun
The trigger just slipped
All we were doing was having some fun
The law are on my back
I'm a wanted man
Oh Momma, oh Momma
Help me if you can
I'm not going down
I'm not going down
Can't you see, can't you hear, can't you feel
I'm out of control

What have i done (What have I done)
What have i done (I'm on the run)
What have i done (I pulled the trigger)
I'm on the run (Just for fun)
What have i done (What have I done)
What have i done (I'm on the run)
What have i done (I pulled the trigger)
I'm on the run (Just for fun)

Lyrics: Stevenson (1991)
Music: Bellis/Stevenson (1991)

Den Of Thieves (ReVamped)

On The Run

A Man Dressed In Black
  
I see him walking down the street one day
He turns and looks, looks my way
But as i turn to say
He fades away
    
He's a stranger in this vicinity
He Looks like an agent of mystery
And in the long dark shadows
He walks the city streets

He's a man, Dressed In Black
And Like the speed of light he moves through you
He's a man, Dressed In Black
Through the wind and rain, i'll still keep searching for you

Down Avenues and boulevards
He flits through Cafe's and City bars
I Thought i saw him smoking
By a burned out car

He's like a ghost who floats from place to place
One day i'm gonna meet him face to face
But like drifting gunsmoke
He fades and leaves no trace

He's a man, Dressed In Black
And Like the speed of light he moves through you
He's a man, Dressed In Black
Through the wind and rain, i'll still keep searching for you

No Face, No Trace, A Silhouette through Mist And Haze
This Stranger, He's Dressed in Black
No Name, Always The Same, He Flickers Through Cinematic Frames
This Stranger, He's Dressed in Black
        
He's a man, Dressed In Black
And Like the speed of light he moves through you
He's a man, Dressed In Black
Through the wind and rain, i'll still keep searching for you
For You, for you, for you, for you

Stranger, Stranger
Stranger, Stranger

Lyrics: Stevenson (2012)
Music: Hubbard/Stevenson (1984)

A Man Dressed In Black

The Joy Poet

Europe is dying 1993
The old man harbours his memories
Violins swimming, swirling through his ears
As the earth is swallowed up by the sea

Vienna is drowning now!
Oh! Vienna is drowning now!

Amber clouds burst and split the blackened skies
The old man wakes and he writes
His ink well has spanned ten thousand summer nights
Now all the river's are running wild

Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
   
Beaches and wastegrounds washed by poisoned seas
The old man lives without machines
He has no wireless, he has no tv
He cannot hear the frightened trees

Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
Burning down, down, down, down
Going down, down, down, down
Burning down, down, down, down

Lyrics: Stevenson (Dec 1990)
Music: Bellis/Stevenson (Dec 1990)

  
A song about about an old reclusive Austrian Poet who writes poems about the beauty in the world. But the poet has been cut off from society for so long he doesnt realise the world is dying around him from global warming and all the harm man has done to the planet.

The Joy Poet

Behind the colonnades stands a bamboo house
Where i spent my childhood day's
Now that seems worlds apart
'cos all the toxic sprays and insecticides
Have destroyed my secret garden
Now there's nowhere to hide

What are we eating?
Why are the rains on fire?, fire?, fire?
What are we reaping?
This is The Harvest of the Blind

A panoramic view
Now walls rise up and spoil the love
I alway's knew
As tears fill up my eye's
My bleeding heart can't take the lies
I hate it all ~ as the black rains fall

What are we eating?
Why are the rains on fire?, fire?, fire?
What are we reaping?
This is The Harvest of the Blind

Do you remember the day's
We used to sit and watch the blue skies ~ rolling?
And do you remember the times
We'd lay in fields of our desire?
Now they're gone
Oh Take me home
Now they're gone
Oh! take me home
Take me, yeah!

What are we eating?
Why are the rains on fire?, fire?, fire?
What are we reaping?
This is The Harvest of the Blind

What are we eating?
Why are the rains on fire?, fire?, fire?
What are we reaping?
This is The Harvest of the Blind

Harvest Of The Blind (Ft. Mark Love on Vocals)

Runaway Train

Black heart inside your shell
Everything you touch, turns into hell
But i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you
You ripped the love, right out outta my heart
You took me in and you spat me out
Still i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute warning on the radio
Don't you know
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

With cold eyes you'd stare at me
You've taken everything that you could see
But i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you
Now you're free you're running wild
Like a pyromaniac spitting out fire
Still i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute (2 minute warning) warning on the radio (And it said)
Told you so
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

The train keeps rolling
It just keeps rolling
This train keeps rolling
It just keeps rolling along

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute warning on the radio
Return my soul
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

Music: Stevenson 1992
Lyrics: Stevenson 1992


Runaway Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vphAdA7Mfws

Song For Someone

I've played the fool
So many times before
I've had it up to my neck
With all this crap I've had to endure
Now I'm not gonna take this lying down
Get outta my face you've lost the crown
You ain't my princess anymore

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)
This is a song for you
This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)
This is a song for you
Just for you

There's no hard feelings
There's nothing left to say
If you wanna make a mess of these things
Then thats alright by me
I refuse to say it's ok
Gonna change things along the way
Keep Your hassles away from me
Close aint good girl
Put some distance in our way
What am i supposed to say 
I'm the loser either way
Heart of stone no where to go
It's all over anyway
Don't beg me darling just walk away

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)
This is a song for you
This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)
This is a song for you
Just for you

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)
This is a song to you
This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)
This is a song for you

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)
This is a song to you
This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)
This is a song for you

Music: Stevenson / Bellis (January 1991)
Lyrics: Mirfin (May 1991)

Song For Someone

Song For Someone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vphAdA7Mfws

The girl on the train
Broke my heart in vain
Couldn't look away
Couldn't think what to say
The girl on the train
Made me feel insane
She's in my head
I wanna her in my bed

But i can't get her outta my brain that girl on the train
No i can't get her outta my brain that girl on the train

That girl on the train
Made me feel so strange
Cos those green eyes
Had me hypnotized
That girl on the train
Was a white hot dame
She dressed to thrill
And it's me she killed
The girl on the train
Took her coat and case
Left her seat in haste
And she walked away
The girl on the train
Went back to the rain
Wish i knew her name
I'll never see her again

But i can't get her outta my brain that girl on the train
No i can't get her outta my brain that girl on the train

Stoking
My feelings
She makes me feel insane
Faster
Heart beating
Chasing
Desire
Take me
Make me 
Go higher

But i can't get her outta my brain that girl on the train
No i can't get her outta my brain that girl on the train
But i can't get her outta my brain that girl on the train
No i can't get her outta my brain that girl on the train

Trains EP

The Girl On The Train (Radio Edit)

The Girl On The Train (Radio Edit) (Ft. Mark Love on Vocals)

Runaway Train

Black heart inside your shell
Everything you touch, turns into hell
But i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you
You ripped the love, right out outta my heart
You took me in and you spat me out
Still i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute warning on the radio
Don't you know
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

With cold eyes you'd stare at me
You've taken everything that you could see
But i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you
Now you're free you're running wild
Like a pyromaniac spitting out fire
Still i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute (2 minute warning) warning on the radio (And it said)
Told you so
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

The train keeps rolling
It just keeps rolling
This train keeps rolling
It just keeps rolling along

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute warning on the radio
Return my soul
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

Runaway Train (Ft. Mark Love on Vocals)

Midnight Blues

11:59
On a blue sunday evening
Another lazy weekend's gone by
Without your loving baby

The night air is cold
You know the north wind blows how she blows
If there was a light in your window girl
That's where I'd be coming home, coming home

But time is on my side

12:15
Can't get you out of my head, out of my head
You know you hurt me sweet child
With all those bad things that you said

Monday morning
I feel a blue day dawning
Do you remember those sweet September skies?
Oh girl, oh girl

But time is on my side

Long, long days of pain
Can't take heartache again
You got me drowning in the whiskey baby
You got me, you got me
The Midnight Blues

Long, long days of pain
Can't take heartache again
You got me drowning in the whiskey baby
You got me, you got me
The Midnight Blues

Long, long days of pain
Can't take heartache again
You got me drowning in the whiskey baby
You got me, you got me
The Midnight Blues

Lyrics: Stevenson (1991)
Music: Cooper/Stevenson/Bellis (1991)

Midnight Blues

Bohemian Highway

Everybody's hooked on something
Everyone has their habits to feed
You man get a buzz from stealing
But me I'm a nicotine freak
Everyday the world gets madder
Joy riding the teenage craze
Fuck me i don't need that shit man
I'd Like to think I've got more brains

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies
Kill the ozone so we'd all die
You'd kill your mum for her gold ring
To get your fix of Heroin
But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay
Bohemian
Highway
Bohemian Highway

Everybody's high on something
Everybody's building bombs
God damn the worlds a nightmare
Every maniacs wielding a gun
Everyday the world gets faster
Ram raiding a teenage craze
But me i don't follow that stuff man
You must have shit for brains

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies
Kill the ozone so we'd all die
You'd kill your mum for her gold ring
To get your fix of Heroin
But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay
Bohemian
Highway
Bohemian Highway

Our Cities Aren't safe when you're around
Our Streets Aren't safe when you're around
Our homes Aren't safe when you're around
No no, Just go

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies
Kill the ozone so we'd all die
You'd kill your mum for her gold ring
To get your fix of Heroin
But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay
Bohemian
Highway
Bohemian Highway

Whatcha gonna say to the devils son?
Whatcha gonna do when the Hoodoo comes?
Whatcha gonna do when you face his gun?
Whatcha gonna do when the Voodoo comes?
When the Voodoo comes?

Bohemian Highway

ECHOES

Sunlit ripples on the sea
Beyond my reach
I reminisce about your memory
And I can't breathe

You're an Echo, Echo

Voices blurring, I run like a gun
And all the echoes of our summer, glimmer in the sun
And the weightless waves wash over me
They never seem to fade away

Cast a pebble to the sea
Stand by me
Singing songs that echo me
You're all a dream, all a dream, all a dream, all a dream
all an Echo, Echo

Sunset brings evening, and night stock perfumes
Feel the coldness of the twilight, crimson is the moon
The weightless waves wash over me
They never seem to fade away

I sit on a quiet beach
And gaze into the sea
And I think you're everything
To me

Naked and bleeding, the ocean glistens gold
Waking in the mist and light, dawn is moments old
And the weightless waves wash over me
They're never gonna fade away

I sit on a quiet beach
And gaze into the sea
And i think of everything
That's happened to me

La la la la la la la la la
Dream Forever, Dream Forever

La la la la la la la la la
Dream Forever, Dream Forever

Music: Hubbard/Stevenson 1983/2008
Lyrics: Stevenson 1982

Den Of Thieves

Echoes

Face The World

From sunlight to moonlight
We're worlds apart
I'd swim every ocean
To make you my world

You're there in the sunshine
I'm here in the rain 
    
Don't wait for me
I can never be yours
So run to the sun
While I face the world
   
You're there in the twilight
I'm here in the haze
 
Don't wait for me
I can never be yours
So run to the sun
While I face the world

You're there in the bright lights
Im here in the shade

Don't wait for me
I can never be yours
So run to the sun
While I face the world

Don't wait for me
I can never be yours
So run to the sun
While I face the world

Lyrics: Stevenson (March 1982)
Music: Stevenson (July 1981)

(I've Got To) Face The World (Without You)

Last Train To Hell

Hahahahahahahahahaha Yeah
Oooooooh yeah

Well I'll be leaving
You'll be as free as a bird
Don't you cry now sweet child
Cos you can take on this world
Didn't mean to hurt you
Didn't mean to make you so sad
I'm as cold as the winter babe
And girl I'm hurting so bad

Got a gun full of lead
Gonna put it to my head
And then you'll know
I'm on the Last Train to Hell

I'm out on the freeway
Been a driving for miles and miles
The shadows grow long now
From the ever lasting skies
Someone once told me
You had the loneliest eyes in the world
But i was blind, i was so blind baby
And now i want to burn

Got a gun full of lead
Gonna put it to my head
And then I'll know
I'm on the Last Train to Hell

Got a gun full of lead
Gonna put it to my head
And blow it off
I'm on the Last Train to Hell

Take me there, yeah
take me, take me

Hahahahahahahahahaha Yeah

No more pain
Last Train to Hell
No more pain sweet child
Last Train to Hell

Lyrics: Stevenson (Aug. 1992)
Music: Stevenson (Feb. 1986)

Last Train To Hell

THE RAIN POURED DOWN ON ME TOO

I met you under Berlin lilac trees
English Spy falls for spandau queen
1944 and this war it never yields
Autumn leaves fall down gold & green

There's danger on the German radio
As the rain it poured down on me
It's crazy our dark and hidden secret
But my love for you goes on and on

I kissed you but you seemed so uncertain
We talked by lanterns for hours in the twilight
I held your hand as we closed the curtains
As the bombs rained down all through the night

There's danger on the German radio
As the rain it poured down on me
It's crazy our souls in isolation
But your love for me goes on and on

I saw the rain as it bathed on your pretty face
I caught your eyes as they lit up the sky
Souls scream as the city burns to ash again
Sit in darkness as the sirens wail by

There's danger on the German radio
As the rain it poured down on me
It's crazy and it seems so uncertain
But this war it goes on and on

Music: Hubbard/Stevenson (1984/2008)
Lyrics: Stevenson (1983)

The Rain Poured Down On Me Too

THE RAIN POURED DOWN ON ME

I met you under Berlin lilac trees
English Spy falls for spandau queen
1944 and this war it never yields
Autumn leaves fall down gold & green

There's danger on the German radio
As the rain it poured down on me
It's crazy our dark and hidden secret
But my love for you goes on and on

I kissed you but you seemed so uncertain
We talked by lanterns for hours in the twilight
I held your hand as we closed the curtains
As the bombs rained down all through the night

There's danger on the German radio
As the rain it poured down on me
It's crazy our souls in isolation
But your love for me goes on and on

I saw the rain as it bathed on your pretty face
I caught your eyes as they lit up the sky
Souls scream as the city burns to ash again
Sit in darkness as the sirens wail by

There's danger on the German radio
As the rain it poured down on me
It's crazy and it seems so uncertain
But this war it goes on and on

Red Rains brought blood and flames
Red rains, red rains
Red Rains brought blood and flames
Red rains, red rains

Music: Hubbard / Stevenson (1983 /2004)
Lyrics: Stevenson (1982)

The Rain Poured Down On Me

This Is War Too

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
I'm playing with voodoo, I've put a curse on you
Like a dog of war, I howl at the moon
A soldier of fortune, I'm gunning for you
Trapped in my headlights, you're lost in the dark
I'm seeking revenge, for this broken heart
You're locked and you're loaded, i seek you from afar
So be my enemy, Cos this is war

So Will You Fight (Let's Do It)
No compromise (Rise to it)
Die with pride (Let's do it)
So do it now, now, do it now do it, do it, do it now hoo-ha

From shore to shore, from coast to coast
You're in my sights, wherever you go
You can run all day, you can run all night
But you can't hide, from this raging fire
You're blind to the light, you're blind to the dark
There's no place on earth, you can hide your black heart
You're under my spell, be you near or far
So be my enemy, Cos this is war

So Will You Fight (Let's Do It)
No compromise (Rise to it)
Die with pride (Let's do it)
So do it now, now, do it now do it, do it, do it now hoo-ha

What You gonna do? (I'll fight, I'll fight with you)
What you gonna say? (I'll fight, I'll fight today)
This time, this time, this time oh oh, this time, this time, this time oh oh
What you gonna do? (I'll fight, I'll fight with you)

So Will You Fight (Let's Do It)
No compromise (Rise to it)
Die with pride (Let's do it)
So do it now, now, do it now do it, do it, do it now
So Will You Fight (Let's Do It)
No compromise (Rise to it)
Die with pride (Let's do it)
So do it now, now, do it now do it, do it, do it now hoo-ha

This Is War Too (2021 Version)

Bohemian Highway

Everybody's hooked on something
Everyone has their habits to feed
You man get a buzz from stealing
But me I'm a nicotine freak
Everyday the world gets madder
Joy riding the teenage craze
Fuck me i don't need that shit man
I'd Like to think I've got more brains

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies
Kill the ozone so we'd all die
You'd kill your mum for her gold ring
To get your fix of Heroin
But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay
Bohemian Highway
Bohemian Highway

Everybody's high on something
Everybody's building bombs
God damn the worlds a nightmare
Every maniacs wielding a gun
Everyday the world gets faster
Ram raiding a teenage craze
But me i don't follow that stuff man
You must have shit for brains

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies
Kill the ozone so we'd all die
You'd kill your mum for her gold ring
To get your fix of Heroin
But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay
Bohemian Highway
Bohemian Highway

Our Cities Aren't safe when you're around
Our Streets Aren't safe when you're around
Our homes Aren't safe when you're around
No no, Just go

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies
Kill the ozone so we'd all die
You'd kill your mum for her gold ring
To get your fix of Heroin
But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay
Bohemian Highway
Bohemian Highway

Whatcha gonna say to the devils son?
Whatcha gonna do when the Hoodoo comes?
Whatcha gonna do when you face his gun?
Whatcha gonna do when the Voodoo comes?
When the Voodoo comes?
When the Voodoo comes?

Music: Stevenson (1984 / 1993 / 2013)
Lyrics: Stevenson (1993 / 2013)

Bohemian Highway (Radio Edit)

Face The World

You're there in the sunshine
I'm here in the rain 
    
Don't wait for me
I can never be yours
So run to the sun
While I Face The World
   
You're there in the twilight
Im here in the haze
 
Don't wait for me
I can never be yours
So run to the sun
While I Face The World

You're there in the bright lights
Im here in the shade

Don't wait for me
I can never be yours
So run to the sun
While I Face The World


Don't wait for me
I can never be yours
So run to the sun
While I Face The World

Lyrics: Stevenson (March 1982 / 2013)
Music: Stevenson (July 1981)

(I've Got To) Face The World (Without You) (Radio Edit)

This Is War Too

An eye for an eye now, A tooth for a tooth
I'm playing with voodoo, I've put a curse on you
Like a dog of war, i howl at the moon
A soldier of fortune, I'm gunning for you
Trapped in my headlights, lost in the dark
I'm seeking revenge, for this broken heart
You're locked and you're loaded, i seek you from afar
So be my enemy, cos this is war

So will you fight 
We'll do It
No compromise
Rise to it
Die with pride
We'll do it
So do it now, now, do it now, do it, do it, do it now

From shore to shore, from coast to coast
You're in my sights, wherever you go
You can run all day, you can run all night
But you can't hide, from this raging fire
You're blind to the light, you're blind to the dark
There's no place on earth, you'll hide your big black heart
You're under my spell, be near or far
So be my enemy, cos this is war

So will you fight 
We'll do It
No compromise
Rise to it
Die with pride
We'll do it
So do it now, now, do it now, do it, do it, do it now

What you gonna do 
We'll fight, we'll fight for you
What you gonna say
We'll fight, we'll fight today
This time, this time, this time
This time, this time, this time
What you gonna do 
We'll fight, we'll fight for you

So will you fight 
We'll do It
No compromise
Rise to it
Die with pride
We'll do it
So do it now, now, do it now, do it, do it, do it now
So will you fight 
We'll do It
No compromise
Rise to it
Die with pride
We'll do it
So do it now, now, do it now, do it, do it, do it now
Hu-ha

Lyrics: Mirfin / Stevenson (1985/2013)
Music: Hubbard / Stevenson (1985)

This Is War Too (2021 Version) (Radio Edit)

Runaway Train

Black heart inside your shell
Everything you touch, turns into hell
But i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you
You ripped the love, right out outta my heart
You took me in and you spat me out
Still i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute warning on the radio
Don't you know
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

With cold eyes you'd stare at me
You've taken everything that you could see
But i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you
Now you're free you're running wild
Like a pyromaniac spitting out fire
Still i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute (2 minute warning) warning on the radio (And it said)
Told you so
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

The train keeps rolling
It just keeps rolling
This train keeps rolling
It just keeps rolling along

You're out of control (Don't you know that)
There's a 2 minute warning on the radio
Return my soul
You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

Music: Stevenson 1992
Lyrics: Stevenson 1992

Runaway Train (Radio Edit)

ECHOES

Sunlit ripples on the sea
Beyond my reach
I reminisce about your memory
And I can't breathe

You're an Echo, an Echo

Voices blurring, I Run like a Gun
And all the echoes of our summer, Glimmer in the sun
The weightless waves wash over me
They never seem to fade away

Cast a pebble to the sea
Stand by me
We're singing songs that echo me
You're all a dream, all a dream, all a dream, all a dream
all an Echo, Echo

Sunset brings evening, and night stock perfumes
And the coldness of the moonlight, crimson is the moon
The weightless waves wash over me
They never seem to fade away

I sit on a quiet beach
And gaze into the sea
I think you were everything
To me

Naked and bleeding, the ocean glistens gold
Waking in the mist and light, dawn is moments old
And the weightless waves wash over me
They're never gonna fade away

I sit on a quiet beach
And gaze into the sea
And i think of everything
That's happened to me

La la la la la la la la la
Dream Forever, Dream Forever

La la la la la la la la la
Dream Forever, Dream Forever

Music: Hubbard/Stevenson 1983/2008
Lyrics: Stevenson 1982




Echoes (Radio Edit)

Midnight Blues

11:59
On a blue sunday evening
Another lazy weekend's gone by
Without your loving baby

The night air is cold
You know the north wind she blows how she blows
If there was a light in your window girl
That's where I'd be coming home

But time is on my side

12:15
Can't get you out of my head, out of my head
You know you hurt me sweet child
With all those bad, sad things that you said

Monday morning
I feel a blue day is dawning
Do you remember those sweet September skies?
Oh girl, oh girl

But time she's on my side

Long lonely days of pain
Can't take heartache again
You got me drowning in my whiskey baby
You got me, you got me . . .
The Midnight Blues

Long lonely days of pain
Can't take heartache again
You got me drowning in my whiskey baby
You got me, you got me . . .
The Midnight Blues

Long lonely days of pain
Can't take heartache again
You got me drowning in my whiskey baby
You got me, you got me . . .
The Midnight Blues

Lyrics: Stevenson (1991)
Music: Cooper/Stevenson/Bellis (1991)

Midnight Blues (Reprise)

The Joy Poet

Europe is dying 1993
The old man harbours his memories
Violins swimming, swirling through his ears
As the earth is swallowed up by the sea

Vienna is drowning now!
Oh! Vienna is drowning now!

Amber clouds burst and split the blackened skies
The old man wakes and he writes
His ink well has spanned ten thousand summer nights
Now all the river's are running wild

Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
   
Beaches and wastegrounds washed by poisoned seas
The old man lives without machines
He has no wireless, he has no tv
He cannot hear the frightened trees

Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
Burning down, down, down, down
Going down, down, down, down
Burning down, down, down, down

Lyrics: Stevenson (Dec 1990)
Music: Bellis/Stevenson (Dec 1990)

The Joy Poet (Reprise)

Last Train To Hell

Well I'll be leaving
You'll be as free as a bird
Don't you cry now sweet child
'cos you can take on this world
Didn't mean to hurt you
Didn't mean to make you so sad
I'm as cold as the winter babe
And girl I'm hurting so bad

Got a gun full of lead
Gonna put it to my head
And then you'll know
I'm on the Last Train to Hell

I'm out on the freeway
Been a driving for miles and miles
The shadows grow long now
From the ever lasting skies
You know someone once told me
You had the loneliest eyes in the world
But i was blind, i was so blind
And now i want to burn

Got a gun full of lead
Gonna put it to my head
And then I'll know
I'm on the Last Train to Hell

Got a gun full of lead
Gonna put it to my head
And blow it off
I'm on the Last Train to Hell

No more pain
Last Train to Hell
No more pain sweet child
Last Train to Hell

Lyrics: Stevenson 1992
Music: Stevenson 1986 / 1992

Last Train To Hell (Radio Edit)

ON THE RUN

In a dirty bed sit
In the dead end part of town
The wolves are at my door
And I'm begging a pound
I steel a gun and shoot a stranger
I'm not the man i used to be

What have i done (What have I done)
What have i done (I'm on the run)
What have i done (I pulled the trigger)
I'm on the run (Just for fun)

In a railway station
Platform 2 is where I'm found
Held up in a luggage van
On a train that's nowhere bound
I'm heading for a cold asylum
The sound of sirens all around

What have i done (What have I done)
What have i done (I'm on the run)
What have i done (I pulled the trigger)
I'm on the run (Just for fun)

Oh momma 
It wasn't my gun
The trigger just slipped
All we were doing was having some fun
The law are on my back
I'm a wanted man
Oh Momma, oh Momma
Help me if you can
I'm not going down
I'm not going down
Can't you see, can't you hear, can't you feel
I'm out of control

What have i done (What have I done)
What have i done (I'm on the run)
What have i done (I pulled the trigger)
I'm on the run (Just for fun)
What have i done (What have I done)
What have i done (I'm on the run)
What have i done (I pulled the trigger)
I'm on the run (Just for fun)

Lyrics: Stevenson
Music: Bellis/Stevenson

On The Run (Radio Edit)

Taken from our new 2013 album "Coming Back To Life".

My Pierrot Dolls - A Picture In Oils (Extended Version)

The Joy Poet

Europe is dying 1993
The old man harbours his memories
Violins swimming, swirling through his ears
As the earth is swallowed by the sea

Vienna is drowning now!
Oh Vienna is drowning now!

Amber clouds burst and split the blackened skies
The old man wakes and he writes
His ink well has spanned ten thousand summer nights
Now all the river's are running wild

Oh! the earths a raging fireball the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No-one's seen, no-one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down

Beaches and wastegrounds washed by poisoned seas
The old man lives without machines
He has no wireless, he has no TV
He cannot hear the frightened trees

Oh! the earths a raging fireball the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No-one's seen, no-one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
The earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it
Burning down, down, down, down
No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning
Going down, down, down, down
Burning down, down, down, down
Going down, down, down, down
Burning down, down, down, down

Lyrics: Stevenson (Dec 1990)
Music: Bellis/Stevenson (Dec 1990)

A song about about an old reclusive Austrian Poet who writes poems about the beauty in the world. But the poet has been cut off from society for so long he doesnt realise the world is dying around him from global warming and all the harm man has done to the planet.

The Joy Poet (2021 Version)

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A Man Dressed In Black

I see him walking down the street one day
He turns and looks, and looks my way
But as i turn to say
He just fades away
He's a stranger in this vicinity
He looks like an agent of mystery
And through the dark shadows
He stalks the city streets

He's a man, dressed in black
And like the speed of light he moves through you
You're a man, dressed in black
Through the wind and the rain, I keep searching for you
I keep looking for you
I'm a gunning for you
I keep searching for you

Down avenues and boulevards
He flits through cafe's and city bars
I thought i saw him smoking
By a burned out car
He's like a ghost who floats from place to place
One day i'll meet him face to face
But like a haze of gunsmoke
He fades and leaves no trace

He's a man, dressed in black
And like the speed of light he moves through you
You're a man, dressed in black
Through the wind and the rain, I keep searching for you
I keep looking for you
I'm a gunning for you
I keep searching for you

No face, no trace, a silhouette through mist And haze
This stranger, he's dressed in black
No name, always the same, he flickers through cinematic frames
This stranger, well he's dressed in black

He's a man, dressed in black
And like the speed of light he moves through you
You're a man, dressed in black
Through the wind and the rain, I keep searching for you
I keep looking for you
I'm a gunning for you
I keep searching for you

Lyrics: Stevenson (2012)
Music: Hubbard/Stevenson (1984)

A Man Dressed In Black (2021 Version)

A Man Dressed In Black (2021 Version Radio Edit)

This Is War Too

This Is War Too (Radio Edit)

***Our New album "Scallywags" is now available on Spotify and all major streaming platforms. It includes our cover of "Blood And Roses" by The Smithereens.

Carnival Of Thieves were formed by Andi Stevenson in December 1990 and come from Rotherham in the North of England. 

The music is a blend of Hard Rock, Stoner Rock & Seminal Punk also influenced by many sub genres of Rock from the late 60's onwards. So far we've released 4 albums. Our new album Den Of Thieves (ReVamped) was released to all online streaming services on Monday 4th April, 2021. It includes 15 songs plus 14 free bonus songs. We have plans to release it as a Double album on CD/Vinyl as soon as we have the budget for it. We are currently working on a new album called "Scallywags" which is about 75% completed and we will look to release this in July/August later this year.

ALBUMS:
Welcome To The Carnival (1995)
Roll Up! Roll Up! (1997)
Den Of Thieves (2014)
Den Of Thieves (ReVamped) (2021)
Scallywags (To Be Released August 2021)

VIDEOS:
Song For Someone (2014)
Acid Rain (2014)
The Girl On The Train (Promo) (2016)
Don't Lie To Me (2020)
The Joy Poet (2021)

Influences: Deep Purple, New Model Army, The Cult, Gun (UK), Black Stone Cherry, Monster Truck, The Ruts, Greenleaf, Ultravox! (1976-1978), The Doors, Tool, Clutch, Ghost, Spiritual Beggars, Airbourne, Wolfmother, Black Sabbath, Green Lung, The Hellacopters.

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