welcome to the wild country 1991 (Lyrics Courtesy of Elisa)

I have a signed copy of the original jap release (mint/mint condition) for sale @ £50 including standard postage anywhere in the world (I paid £47 for it). I accept Paypal, concealed cash or UK cheques.

Remastered version (with colour photo copy inserts- boo, but with 2 extra tracks- woo hoo!)

1. Jack Won't Let You Go 

2. Welcome To The Wild Country 

3. Driving In The Rain

4. Kiss Me  

5. Jackal In Your Mind  

6. Heartache Reborn  

7. All  I Ever Wanted Was You   

8. Just Like My Father Said It Would Be 

9. Mr. No No 

10. The Possibilities Of Loving You 

11. Another Day

Jack won’t let you go ‘cos he’s scared of you making out all on your own

Jack just refuses to see that you’re tired of his home and his indignity

So you get your kicks in another man’s bed who lets you live so you don’t play dead

"Naughty girl" say all the uptight but who’s to blame you staying out all night

Jack won’t let you go, Jack’s home all alone

He left you lying on a beer stained pillow

Jack won’t let you try, close to his mother and she never did try

Jack’s home alone, you’ve gone to your lover and you’ve gone all dry

A paranoid infant, this instance lets you know that Jackie’s on a dead row

Part of me is up for sale, a downtown jacket and the wind in the dirty old sails

Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more

Jack won’t let you go, Jack’s home all alone

He left you lying on a beer stained pillow

Rip off your clothes like there’s no tomorrow

Welcome to the wild country, it’s a helluva ride and a place to go hide

You’re alone in vicious country, I see danger in your eyes, innocence and lies

All I can say is the best thing I own is you

All I can hope is to hope that you feel it too

Welcome to the ride, welcome to the wild country

Welcome to the ride, welcome to the wild country

Welcome to the dry country, where the battlefield is worn, a new war is born

Bathe in this vicious country where the swimming ain’t free and you pay for me

All I can say is the best thing I own is you

All I can hope is to hope that you feel it too

Welcome to the ride, welcome to the wild country

Welcome to the ride, welcome to the wild country

Don’t be misled by the first time you meet me

Don’t be afraid to feel

Cos I am the calm before the storm and this wild country is real

All I can say is the best thing I own is you

All I can hope is to hope that you feel it too

Welcome to the ride, welcome to the wild country

Welcome to the ride, welcome to the wild country

Everybody’s looking for the miracle girl

To drive away the pain

I could tell by your lack of affection

You didn’t want to ride with me again

And everybody’s looking for someone to love

Don’t wanna end up alone

But in the haet of a vicious moment

I took the car

And babe I drove you home

And we’d talk about being a family

And how all our children be raised

But nothing really feels the same

Guess I’ll keep on driving in the rain

I got home and I lay on my bed and I wished that you would call

I could smell you on my covers

I could see your pretty picture on the wall

I could smell your pretty hair against the wall

And all my friends came round and the partied all night

Didn’t seem like fun

‘Cos every song they played on the radio

Reminded me of the things we’d done

And we talked about making a difference

And we talked about doing things right

But nothing really feels the same

Guess I’ll keep on driving in the rain

Driving in the rain

I’ll have to catch you later

Gonna go buy me a thrill

If you can’t buy a thrill in Brooklyn

Then you never ever will

And all the girls come clean

With a tantalising smile

With a bag across their shoulders

The most beautiful girls that I’ve seen in a while

Kiss me, before the sun breaks out for dawn

I’m a lonely, lonely man

And I got no love at home

Why don’t you kiss me!

You’ll have to pay the waiter

I’ll give to you later

And if I can’t give it to you later

Then I never ever will

You’re such a heavenly machine

Greatest legs that I’ve ever seen

Know what I mean when I say I love you

I wanna make love to you, I wanna make sure you kiss me too

Kiss me, before the sun breaks out for dawn

I’m a lonely, lonely man

And I got no love at home

Why don’t you kiss me!

I’m sick and tired of love troubles

I’ve searched my whole life to find my perfect world

And then when she shows I realise we come from different worlds

Her with her money

She’s never had to work for anything at all

And me I was born to work for each and everything I own

She say "pack all your troubles and leave me"

I say "the argument’s over now everything’s fine but I feel like a jackal!

She says "silver bells and pretty clothes they often make me smile

But nobody could afford the way you held me and kissed my mouth goodbye"

I wanted to trust you but now you don’t trust me

You swear that you need me all of the time

But I know I’m a jackal in your mind

I’m sick and tired of love’s sorrows

Facing all the things that I really want to hide

The child in me grows, it lives its life and feeds on my insides

Never showing, it never had a chance to see a happy time

My parents it seems were hellbent on destroying all my pride

They say "pack all your troubles get outta here"

I say "I can’t bring my friends round I’m scared what they’ll find

And they’ll think I’m a jackal"

She says "silver bells and pretty clothes they often make me smile

But nobody could afford the very first time we met and you said hi"

I wanted to kiss you and I wanted you to kiss me

All those moments long lost in time

But now I’m just a jackal in your mind

I packed my bags and took my life across the water into clear blue skies

And some say I’m lucky to have what I got

But no matter where you are it’s still the same old life

I got new friends and neighbours

I left all my old ones behind but

There ain’t no escaping ‘cos love tracks you down

And you find yourself lost in some crazy foreign town

How can I possibly love you when I feel so alone

And how can I possibly love with a cold heart of stone

Heartache reborn

I changed my clothes I changed my hair

I changed my life style I changed my views

You can hide behind clothes, you can hide from your friends

But alone with a mirror, you face the truth again

And the truth made me angry ‘cos I thought that I’d left it behind

So I can’t give you nothing ‘cos I’m wrapped up in me

And I can’t help thinking the man I used to be

How can I possibly love you when I feel so alone

And how can I possibly love with a cold heart of stone

Heartache reborn

I don’t care about the clothes they say I’m wearing

I don’t care if they don’t like my hair

And I don’t care which town I choose to live in

As long as I can play some rock ‘n’ roll there

Yeah!

If the glamour don’t get then loose women will

And you’ll fid yourself lost amongst crazy foreign people

How can I possibly love you when I feel so alone

And how can I possibly love with a cold heart of stone

Heartache reborn

Last night I dreamt of all the women in the world

Last night I dreamt an awful sorrow

Jealousy’s got it in for me

Life’s a gamble if you don’t look pretty

Hope I look pretty for tomorrow

You swore that you weren’t faking

You said you never lied

I remember my heart aching

And all the times I used to cry

You said you loved me and I believed it true

But it’s silly of me to think that someone

Loves me like the way I love you

Now I know it’s true

All I ever wanted was you

Last night I dreamt that you did call me on the phone

Last night I dreamt you said you loved me

Catch my breath and the I want to know

How to be happy when there’s no tomorrow

Jut now I realised that I’m dreaming

I gave you all my future, I gave you all my time

I remember all those long nights

And the time you said goodbye

You hurt my feelings and broke my heart in two

But it’s silly of me to give someone

The passion and the feelings I gave you

Last night I came home and walked into my room

And realised that there was enough room for two

And now I feel so alone in my self made hole

That I wished that I could die

And the years pass me by

All the times I used to cry

Remember the day that I found out about you and that guy

And you drank the tears that ran down from your eyes

And then you tried to turn the argument

And put the blame on me

And all the promises you promised

Showed how frail that a promise can be

Just like my father said it would be

That’s why my mother cried

Just like my father said it would be

‘Cos the day you told me lies

was the day that little thing between us died

you can throw your guns down on the table

you can cry your tears and all your stillborn lies

and you can try to turn the arguments

and pin all them things on me

but your guilt still shows and your conscience grows

‘Cos you heart got broke by the fella you seen

Just like my father said it would be

That’s why my mother cried

Just like my father said it would be

‘Cos the day you told me lies

was the day that little thing between us died

In your arms it’s suicide

To throw your love in the wasted fields of life

And you trade your best friend for a one night stand

As you spread your legs won’t you ever understand

I get that feeling

That same old feeling

Every night

Just like my father said it would be

That’s why my mother cried

Just like my father said it would be

‘Cos the day you told me lies

was the day that little thing between us died

Mr. No No putting on a show and he’s gonna show us all the light

And Mr. No No telling you straight you’re all a bunch of low life

The no no man got it all to do ‘cos he couldn’t get it done tonight

Took your money and he made a run

Now he’s riding down the road of Texas in a Cadillac

It’s no no time and your sins ain’t free

Spiritual life ain’t what it should be

Cry for forgiveness and bleed for your soul

Pay for what you’d die for

I knew an old lady who didn’t have a lot

Somehow she managed to lose everything she’d got

Low and behold, there behind it all

It’s the no no man

Your soul is beyond yourself, your soul is beyond anyone else

Throw him your money to build him a home, pay for his rehearsal

I knew an old man who couldn’t pay his keep

Bought himself a place in heaven now he’s on the street

Low and behold, there behind it all

It’s the no no man

Everyone pray with the no no man spend your life giving

Giving what you can

What you haven’t got you won’t miss

So give it to the non no man

"No, no" he say "no, no" he say "don’t do that, don’t do this"

"No, no" he say "no, no"

Georgie and Cindy got so much in love that seldom were seen out alone

And everyone told them they couldn’t be happy

The age of true love has gone

You can do anything you want to do if you want to achieve something else

That no other can do

You ask the possibilities of loving you?

Baby I’d die for you

Georgie and Cindy got so much in love that they bought a house of their own

And everyone laughed when they said "it’s for real, the age of true love has come"

You can be anything you wanna be

If you just put your head where your heart is

Your dreams will break free

You ask the possibilities of loving you?

Baby I’d die for you

You gotta

Get yourself a new life and throw your chains away

Find out what you were born to do

And do it right away

Power is believing and I believe in you

If you believe in yourself

You can make your dreams come true

It’s summer outside and the weather is fine gonna buy myself an ice cream

I put all the troubles going on in the world in the back of my mind for another day

When it’s cold outside everything’s still fine ‘cos I buy myself some warm clothes

And I don’t care nothing of hunger and pain nor the wind or the rain

Or the cold damp shopping bag ladies

That’s me, that’s me

And then I cried all night and then I cried all day

And now I’ve seen the light we’ll just have to make another day

There’s no real pride and there’s no real care in the world we live today

And as the rich get more the poor just want something

To feed all their children a better way

And I hold my hand high up to the sky I’m guilty on all charges

‘Cos I don’t care nothing of hunger and pain or the wind or the rain

or the cold damp shopping bag ladies

that’s me, that’s me

And then I cried all night and then I cried all day

And now I’ve seen the light we’ll just have to make another day

I say I can’t take no more

And I go watch kids dying on a huge TV

Devouring world disasters makes me feel tall

I can’t hide no more

Me and the hypocrites say that we want a better way

But we’ll just have to make it another day

Won’t we

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