Iron Man Records releases to be included in British Library Sound Archive

Something happens while you are orbiting the Nation's capital on the M25 for 25 hours in a van with a dangerous madman jumping around and shouting instructions from the back seat. James at British Library Sound Archive has been in touch, he wants to catalogue and archive all the releases on Iron Man Records. The music will become part of the nation's audio & cultural heritage and it will be available (on a restricted access server) to anyone holding a British Library readers pass (writers, researchers, fans etc.). You have to go in person either to London or to the other site in Boston Spa, Yorkshire. The Library do not allow…

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Ride Your Ride

Sorry I'm Late, I had trouble getting here I met a man, yes another strange one I was standing, Looking up at the thunderclouds He said he was, the man who keeps the sky   What kind of people are these Who put more value on property than people Who put their wealth before their wisdom Who fill the air with dust and all these poisons   I can carry, the sound with my bare hands Of the ships bells passing in the night I tend to the roofgardens of the world Rest your tears, let me show you how to make it rain   The path of life is not…

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Days

I can see the lights of this place Out across the water Silently they pass on the tide The watchers keep me awake Do not look your days in the eye I can feel the freezing on my skin And these thoughts are something lost On the oceans of memory Awash with pictures that flash and fade Do not look your days in the eye Do not look your days in the eye They will only look deeper into you Do not look your days in the eye And now I'm falling, I'm falling overboard Silently they pass on the tide And I'm slipping through these dreams On a clear night…

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Stop the Engines

I have come down unknown paths To the sand on the shoreline Like a last man standing at the ends of the earth I have come here to speak With the ocean With the ocean   I do not recognise your currency Stop the engines Stop the engines   The silence is seething all around me The spirits of the dead will live again The tide slips and flows with the cycles of the sun and the moon The spirits of the dead will live again   From far across the water like a silvery dawn The words blew in from the atlantic "If you lock yourselves in cages of fear…

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Brother

This could be anywhere my friend The same things day after day Don't be afraid cos I'm just someone to lean on You're not alone you're like a brother to me   You're like a brother to me   "X" Marks the spot I know you'll never give in It's too late to stop all of this now These bridges are burning and I'm feeling them pushing and Pushing and pushing I have my dreams and I've got my reasons   You're like a brother to me   You take the sting out of my eye All these straight lines and these walls You take the needles from my side You…

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Footprints

I am forever Walking these shores Of sand and these white horses The tide will wipe out my footprints But I know you will find me   And what is right What is wrong What is true What is not   Their shadow, which destroys the land Soars like an eagle across the sun Take a look at the cities and all of these towns All these motorways and these roads   And what is right What is wrong What is true What is not   Your business of good, and business of bad They don't mean a thing my friend   If you go to the rivers or to the…

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This Business

This business is a bloody one And these hands are dripping Every night I can hear them Banging on the inside   This business   I've tried to turn my eyes away But still I hear them I don't know if I can do this anymore I find the words so hard to find   This business   Can't go on in silence As if all time stands still Shadows gather round us And there's a devil.....that lies within   I can't go on in silence I could never draw that line Like the black ice of a frozen heart There's a devil deep inside   This business There's a devil.....…

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Threads

There's always someone, to take your place There's always something, to spend your money on You never find the time, to do what you wanted to You have other reasons, why you could never stop   It's just a job, it's just a job to you   And now I'm hanging, by the smallest thread And I'm looking, for a cliff to sleep on All this picking, through these wasted days Watch me change my shape, slip into another form   It's just a job, it's just a job to you   Let me take you to the fields Let me feed from your touch It's just a job to you…

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Mir

Silence, is such a fearful sound Someone pull me, from this metal box Far above the atmosphere I'm looking down to where the oceans never sleep They never sleep   Electric storms and solar flares Flashing through my dreams This waking nightmare In the wakefulness of the ocean There's a medicine For the spirit That cannot rest I'm waiting for the tidal wave   Close your eyes Let the whirlpool, take you under Close your eyes Can you see the colours burn Close your eyes I'll Take you.....   How long can I keep awake Across this endless silence And all these meteor showers All this time, this precious time Spinning…

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