smalltown england

• new model army'nin 1984 tarihli vengeance albümünden bir şarkı. küçük bir yerin insanlarından bahseder. anlatıcı, yaşadığı yerde kısılıp kalmıştır, eleştirdiği halde buraya hapsolduğunun bilincindedir. justin sullivan bu şarkıyı pek kinayeli söyler. sözleri de şöyle:
  
  turn left at the lights about 50 yards down
  there's a pub in the corner and i'll meet you inside
  about quarter to eight and we'll go into town
  and find out what everybody's been saying about us
  
  smalltown walls have eyes and ears
  stories fly thick and fast round here
  truth and lies are all the same
  whatever you do don't rock the boat
  you've got to play the game, play the game
  ch: is it a crime to want something else?
  is it a crime to believe in something different?
  is it a crime to want to make things happen?
  to spit in the faces of the cynical fools
  
  the incrowd know that the shell is thin
  so they all protect the cage they're in
  get drunk and stoned and wrecked again
  no tears of rage, no cries of pain
  nothing ventured, nothing gained
  in smalltown england
  because the world outside the pint in hand
  is all so hard to understand
  and if visions of the world come clear
  they're not allowed to interfere
  ch: is it a crime to want something else? . . .
  
  the smell of hot food from the takeaway curry
  diesel fumes from a passing lorry
  waiting in the queue in the pouring rain
  for the chip shop up on bowling lane
  well, last week we all got really smashed
  we couldn't stand up, it was a real laugh
  and this week's going to be just the same
  and the next and the next, again and again
  they say you've got to have fun while you're young
  'cause they can't believe there's anything else except this
• benzer temalı new model army şarkıları için (bkz: green and grey) , (bkz: ballad of bodmin pill)
• amaç o mu bilmiyorum ama nakaratlarını çıkardığınız zaman günümüz irlanda gençliğinin birebir tanımını yapan bir şarkıdır bu.. o kadar olur..