First New Day - Twelfth Night

How can we fight the diseases of the poor

When colour of a nation is reasoning for war

Men force your surrender, then ask you to believe

With the lives of many millions embroidered of their sleeves

Is this reason — a price to pay?

Give us reason — A FIRST NEW DAY

Acid emotion — child of suicide

Bewilderment and hunger are hurting you inside

While hopes find protection in the sanctuary of live

Another voice is silenced in the quite of the night

Is this reason — a price to pay?

Give us reason — A FIRST NEW DAY

All breathe together, suffocate the fear

Let each of us in comfort share the pain, the tears, the years

Don’t let their hate be the dowry of a youth

Too humble for importance —

Too honest for the truth

Is this reason — a price to pay?

Give us reason — A FIRST NEW DAY

Give us reason — A FIRST NEW DAY

KEYBOARDS: CLIVE MITTEN, ANDY REVELL,

RICK BATTERSBY, ANDY SEARS

DRUMS

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VOCALS: ANDY SEARS

WRITTEN BY: ANDY, BRIAN, CLIVE, RICK AND ANDY

ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON: 'ART AND ILLUSION' MFN.36 Oct 1984