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New Model Army

Beginning

Release date: 25th August 2016

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About This Track

"Beginning" is a track by New Model Army, from the album Winter, released 25th August 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

New Model Army

New Model Army

Lyrics

Beginning

E watched her as she faded away

Back down through thirty thousand days

Like a river flowing backwards or upstream

To the source of everything

How we all clutch onto that thread

We brought with us to find our way through

The darkness ahead

Until everything just reminds us

Of things left far behind us

We hold on to the beginning

Hold on to the beginning

The cities had been all in flame

That summer when the rage came

We were heading home from some great gathering

The boys on the top of the bus

They gave us their badges, their names, they gave us their trust

All the tokens of faith

You found them where you'd put them away

For a moment like today

To hold on to the beginning

Hold on to the beginning

I climbed and climbed to reach the view

Of the hills behind stretching away

In line on line of faded blue

Back to what we first believed in

How we all clutch onto that thread

We brought with us to find our way back

To hold on to the beginning

Hold on to the beginning

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Track details

From Winter

2016
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Winter
Winter
New Model Army
Release year
2016
  1. —Drifts
  2. —Part the waters
  3. —Weak and strong
  4. —Die trying
  5. —Winter
  6. —After something
  7. —Devil
  8. —Burn the castle
  9. —Born feral
  10. —Beginning
  11. —Echo November
  12. —Strogoula
  13. —Eyes get used to the darkness

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