The Battle Rages On
© 1993 BMG International
The Battle Rages On
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
Been so many words so much to say
Words are not enough to keep
the guns at bay
Some live in fear some do not
Some gamble
everything on who gets the final shot
Oh don't talk to me of
love
It's obvious it's not enough
Annihilation kill them
all
Capitulation watch the mighty fall
The road to glory is lined
in red
And though the reason now is gone
The battle rages
on
Was it love or hate that got here first
Hate's a habit it's
hard to shake the curse
Kill to live and live to die
Human nature
you let the strong survive
Oh don't talk to me of love
Be
serious it's not enough
Annihilation kill them all
Capitulation
watch the mighty fall
The road to glory is lined in red
And trough
the reason now is gone
The battle rages on
Lick it up
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
My shoes are heavy
My feet are winding down
I look for her in
comers
But she's not around
What I eat is eating me
It hits me
hard
I'm one jack short of a royal flush
A stranger holds the
card
Here come the salvation in the shape of my guitar
And I'm
gonna ride it like a shooting star
I don't want your money
I
don't want your soul
I don't need a reason
I just want to get
right down and lick it up
Mother Mercy told me
A picture never
lies
She told me no self respecting hero
Ever cries
The
prisoner walks in circles
The victim walks alone
Scissors cut the
paper
The paper wraps the stone
Standing at the entrance to
the gates of paradise
The lights go down the heat goes up that's when
I cry
I don't want your money
I don't want your soul
I
don't a reason
I just want to get right down and lick it up
I
put my faith in fortune reaching for the sky
The only game in town
that gets me high
I don't want your money
I just want to get
right down and lick it up
I don't want your soul
I just want to
get right down and lick it up
I don't need a reason
I just want to
get right down and lick it up
Anya
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord)
I'm so far away
From everything you know
Your name is carried
on the wind
Your ice blue waters Anya
Where do they flow
Where
have they been
Where have they been
A hidden
passion
Touching a spark
Flame of revolution
Burning wild in
your gypsy heart
Your gypsy heart
Anya - The spirit of
freedom
Anya - Oh Anya
The light of freedom buried
Deep
within your soul
Across the puszta plain to see
The rhapsody of
angels
Refuse to dance alone
What do they mean
What do they
mean
Your jewel flashing
Across the dark
Forbidding
distance
I love your gypsy heart
Your gypsy heart
Anya
Talk About Love
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
Talking real world, all that pain
Try to fix it still comes out
the same
Get down to Rosie's
Won't you pull that plug
Last
week
Someone made a mess of that rug
Talking big house way up
town
One day one day
I'll put the money down
All that baby talk
it's for the birds
Let's make some honey
Honey in so many
words
Oh no
Don't want a serious conversation
I just want
to get you serious
Serious
I want to talk about love
You
talk about the weather
Rain or snow
Talking cold wind
The way
it's going to blow
Talking good times night and day
Talk talk a
stronger man
Could lose his way
Aphrodite now there's a
girl
Good good loving
She spreads around the world
Forget your
dancing all that boogaloo
Drag that purse over here
I got to talk
to you
Oh no
Don't want a serious conversation
I just want
to get you serious
Serious
I want to talk about love
Time To Kill
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
Consider your position position your defense
Why don't you let me
ask you is it mere coincidence
Feeding speculators on a downhill
gravy train
Like vultures ripping out the eyes to reach the dying
brain
Listen to the wind - a silent scream
Tearing at your
broken heart
Like a forgotten dream
And there's a time for
peace a time for war
Wondering what we've been put here for
A time
for giving a time to take
A time for love and a time for hate
A
time for beg and a time to steal
So you gamble on that spinning
wheel
Of all these things I've had my fill
Lord I need some time
to kill
Ten percent of nothing is exactly what you got
You
thing you've got the given right to take another shot
I'll take away
your money all you've got is coloured beads
Find a piece of land
where you can sow your seeds
Listen to the wind - a silent
scream
Tearing at your broken heart
Like a forgotten
dream
There's a time for passion a time for pain
A time to
learn that we're all the same
A time to remember a time to
forget
Wondering how we're going to pay our debts
A time for
thunder a time for rain
Waiting for the seasons to change
Of all
these things I've had my fill
Lord I need some time to kill
Ramshackle Man
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
My clothes don't fit and I have no point of view
I got a bad
reputation but I don't believe it's true
I had something going but I
blew it down the can
Not exactly what I planned
I'm a ramshackle
man
That's what I am
I look like a joker but I feel like a one
eyed jack
Shuffling around never get to the top of the park
I said
to the dealer put the ace in my hand
But he couldn't give a
damn
I'm a ramshackle man
That's what I am
I sit down
thinking bout the things I have to do
I start out fine then I pick up
something new
Stumbled through the door that's how it all
began
Now it's buried in the sand
I'm a ramshackle man
That's
what I am
The stars shine bright when the boys come out to
play
Never feeling more than I'm feeling right here today
I used
to be fresh but now I'm second hand
I do what I can
I'm a
ramshackle man
That's what I am
A Twist In The Tale
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
As you watch from your house on the hill
World keeps spinning
around you you're standing still
And a thought rivers enters your
mind
Something happened once in my life
A fading picture of you
that's so hard to describe
I've been where the sun never
shines
That's alright there's a change in the story
That's
alright there's a change in the plan
A twist in the tale
Face
in the mirror head in the clouds
Hanging on to a dream that you can't
do without
As it drops like a stone without trace
Give what you
want take what you need
Squeezing so hard there's no room to
breathe
And your flavour has fallen from grace
That's alright
there's a change in the story
That's alright there's a change in the
plan
A twist in the tale
I saw you dancing
Dancing on
air
You were lost in the in the starlight
No one but me really
cared
Every question turns out a lie
Can't you swallow the
truth for once in your life
I loved you but don't ask me
why
It's alright there's a change in the story
It's alright
there's a change in the plan
A twist in the tale
Nasty Piece Of Work
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord)
I got my feelers out
Pleasure I can give you pain
I'm the
demon of misfortune
Let me tell you that bad luck is my
game
Fires burning make you cold
You can touch but you can't
hold
It's an even split
Between zip and the number on your
ticket
Nothing to brag about dragging in the dirt
I'm a nasty
piece of work
Down get down on your knees
Running gonna bring
you down
I'm the demon of disorder
You know I'm gonna drive you
into the ground
As you're stepping through the door
My shadow
crawls across your floor
Your dream of love
It's not enough it's
gonna come to nothing
You ain't seen nothing it's gonna get
worse
I'm a nasty nasty
It's an even split
Between zip and
the number on your ticket
Your dream of love
It's not enough it's
gonna come to nothing
Nothing to brag about dragging in the
dirt
You ain't seen nothing it's gonna get worse
I'm a nasty piece
of work
Solitaire
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
Door
Don't close the door
I want to feel the cold
I want to
see the light
Momma where you gone
This is no dream
Can't make
it right if it's wrong
Dancing with strangers
Fighting with
friends
It's a matter of time between love and despair
Falling
over the line
Empty hearts and icy stares
Call me
Solitaire
The eyes
In the face on the wall
Follow me round
the room
Follow me everywhere
A heart without an echo
A man
without a child
Alone with all my sorrow
Dancing with
strangers
Fighting with friends
It's a matter of time between love
and despair
Falling over the line
Empty hearts and icy
stares
Call me Solitaire
One Man's Meat
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
Cold beer and a strange cigarette
Getting you high getting you
wet
Falling in love falling out of debt
Straight gay black or
white
Strutting in the dark hiding in the light
Doing it wrong
doing it right just doing it
You got your life on the one
hand
Mine in the other
I got the right we all got the
right
One man's meat is the other man's lousy luck
One man's
meat is someone's empty well
One man's meat is some guy's aching
butt
One man's meat is another man's living hell
Short fat
thick or thin
Take it in the gut take it on the chin
Living in
glory living in sin
Hard day's work going down slow
Riding the
road where the greengrass grows
Watching in die what d'you
know
Watch it
You got your life on the one hand
Mine in the
other
I got the right
One man's meat is the other man's lousy
luck
One man's meat is someone's empty well
One man's meat is some
guy's aching butt
One man's meat is another man's living hell
