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Big Country


A little something about Big Country
Big Country front man Stuart Andamson got his start with The Skids, one of the few Scottish punk bands to receive wide exposure in this London-dominated genre. The Skids had a handful of top ten singles in their four years of performing and recording, but after their 1980 album "The Absolute Game" Adamson decided he'd had enough of Skids singer Richard Jobson's virtual artistic control of the band. Adamson teamed up with fellow Scottish guitarist Bruce Watson, and Big Country was born. The Celtic flavor of their music was brought out on their debut album "The Crossing" by producer Steve Lillywhite, who had done the same service for early '80s Irish breakthrough U2. And like U2 - and fellow Scottish bands Simple Minds and Aztec Camera - Big Country found that there was an audience for their guitar driven tunes west of the Atlantic when they scored a hit here in the States with "In A Big Country." The band has continued to record, though they have yet to repeat the commercial success of their debut.

Lyrics shown below : "In a Big Country", "Chance"

In a Big Country

I never saw you
look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through,
another season passes by you
I never took the smile
away from anybody's face
And that's a desperate way
to look for someone who is still a child

*In a big country
dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice
fires the mountainside
Stay alive

I'm not expecting
to grow flowers in the desert
But I can live and breathe
and see the sun in wintertime

Chorus

So take that look out of here,
it doesn't fit you
Because it's happened
doesn't mean you've been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor,
come up screaming
Cry out for everything
you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth
were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here
with every single hope you had shattered


Chance All the rain came down On a cold new town As he carried you away From your father's hand That always seemed like a fist Reaching out to make you pay He came like a hero from the factory floor With the sun and moon as gifts But the only son you ever saw Were the two he left you with Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Now the skirts hang so heavy around your head That you never knew you were young Because you played chance with a lifetime's romance And the price was far too long Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low