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Echo & the Bunnymen – New Direction (1987) | Track profile | Dork

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Echo & the Bunnymen

New Direction

Release date: 6th July 1987

From Echo & the Bunnymen

Adult Alternative

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About This Track

"New Direction" is a track by Echo & the Bunnymen, from the album Echo & the Bunnymen, released 6th July 1987. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Echo & the Bunnymen.

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Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen

Lyrics

New Direction

[Verse 1]

Out on a limb

Did you see what the cat dragged in?

Take it on the chin

Catching fire on a roof of tin

You've learnt to speak and you're professing

The right to teach us our direction

But I found out on close inspection

True imperfection

[Pre-Chorus]

I'm looking for a new direction

Where in the world am I?

I took the word, the word was resurrection

Then you took me out to climb

[Pre-Chorus]

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Kissing the spires

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Souls on fire

[Verse 2]

Inside of my head

I heard what the good Lord said

"Beware", he said

"If you don't you might end up dead"

You suck the air right out of me

But though you suck you cannot see

That life and living is not free

Though you live you do not breathe

[Pre-Chorus]

I'm looking for a new direction

Where in the world am I?

I took the word the word was resurrection

And then you took me out to climb

[Chorus]

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Kissing the spires

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Souls on fire

[Bridge]

I have changed

But still my heart

Remains intact

And true love stays

But will our hearts

Retain their lack of

[Pre-Chorus]

No sense and no direction

Who in the world am I?

I took the word the word was resurrection

And then you took me out to climb

[Chorus]

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Kissing the spires

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Souls on fire

[Post-Chorus]

Start confessing

Start confessing

[Instrumental]

[Outro]

All my evils would be blessed

If to God I did confess

Wipe the slate and see if I

Ate the bread and drank the wine

So as you're leaving I take possession

Just take the bottle and start confessing

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Track details

From Echo & the Bunnymen

1987

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Album

Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & The Bunnymen

Release year

1987

1The Cutter
3:53
2Back of Love
3:15
3The Killing Moon
5:48
4Seven Seas
3:19
5Never Stop
3:31
6Rescue
4:27
7I Want to Be There (When You Come)
3:39
8Don't Let It Get You Down
3:51
9A Promise
4:03
10Silver
3:19
11People Are Strange
3:38
12Do It Clean
2:45
13The Game
3:51
14Rust (Radio Edit)
4:15
15Lips Like Sugar
4:52
16Nothing Lasts Forever
3:55
17Bring On the Dancing Horses
3:56
—All in Your Mind
—Bedbugs and Ballyhoo (LP version)
—Over You
—Jimmy Brown
—New Direction
—All My Life
—Bombers Bay
—Satellite
—Blue Blue Ocean
—Lost and Found

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Echo & The Bunnymen — New Direction

Echo & The Bunnymen — New Direction

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Ian McCulloch, Les Pattinson, Will Sergeant
Producer: Laurie Latham
Engineer: Paul Gomersall, Stuart Berry
Bass: Les Pattinson
Drums: Pete de Freitas
Guitar: Ian McCulloch
Vocals: Ian McCulloch
Lead Guitar: Will Sergeant
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