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Big Big Train – Big Empty Skies (1997) | Track profile | Dork

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Big Empty Skies

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Big Empty Skies

Release date: 1997

From English Boy Wonders

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"Big Empty Skies" is a track by Big Big Train, from the album English Boy Wonders, released 1997. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Big Empty Skies

Driving over the wasteland

Coming over the rise

Where the light fades in broken trees

Under big empty skies

Did you wait for the fire

When the atom was burned

You could wait for forever now

As the question you asked

Take me to your leader

Take me to your leader

Is so sadly misplaced here

Like real faith in the church

Like her faith in the holy man

Like her faith in this Earth

Take me to your leader

Take me to your leader

Take me to your leader

Take me to your leader

We don’t need you anymore

You’re naked in our eyes

Don’t care for you anymore

Can you offer more than lies

I can’t have you anymore

But I’ll meet you in the sky

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Track details

From English Boy Wonders

1997

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Album

English Boy Wonders

Release year

1997

—Albion Perfide
—The Shipping Forecast
—Cloudless And Starry And Still
—Fell Asleep
—Reaching For John Dowland
—A Giddy Thing
—28 Years
—Two Poets Meet
—Boxgrove Man
—Out Of It
—Pretty Mom
—Brushed Aside
—Big Empty Skies
—Right To The End Of The World Tra-La

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