The Sound

Primary members: Adrian Borland, Graham Bailey (aka Graham Green), Michael Dudley, Bi Marshall
Band Biography
Albums of focus: From the Lion's Den (1981)
Songs for study:

"Sense of Purpose" (live, Old Grey Whistle Test, British TV, 1980)

Look in my eyes
See the lust and the love
Look in my eyes
When I'm talking to you

I'll take my life
Into my own hands
I'm the one that I will blame
I'm the one that understands

What are we going to do?
While we still got the strength to move
What are we going to do?
I'm asking, I'm asking you

 

A call to arms, a call to use arms
A call to brains, a call to use some brains
A call to the heart, a call to have a heart
To have a sense of purpose again

Are we where we want to be
All wrapped up in our safety?
Comfort and complacency
It hurts me, it hurts me so

What are we going to do?
While we still got the strength to move
What are we going to do?
I'm asking, I'm asking you

 

"Winning" (from From the Lion's Den, 1981)

What holds your hope together?
Make sure it's strong enough
When you reach the end of your tether
It's because it wasn't strong enough

I was going to drown,
Then I started swimming
I was going down,
Then I started winning

Winning - winning
Winning - winning

 

When you're on the bottom
Crawl back to the top
Something pulls you up,
and a voice you can't stop

I was going to drown,
Then I started swimming,
I was going down
Then I started winning

Winning - winning
Winning - winning

"Skeletons" (from From the Lion's Den, 1981)

There's a gaping hole in the way we are
With nothing to fill it up anymore
No flesh, no blood, just broken bone
A frame to hang our lives from

We're living like skeletons
We're living like skeletons

Won't someone wake the dead in me
Won't someone shake the dust off me
Give me water, give me bread
But don't give me up for dead

We're living like skeletons
We're living like skeletons