Big Country - Flame Of The West Lyrics






A stranger came by traveling
He went to every door
He said he’d lost his people
He had come to look for more

And many did believe him
As he talked upon the square
The spell he wove upon us
Fills my body with despair

And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests

He had the voice of an angel
And the face of a saint
And though they fell behind him
I knew what it was he meant

His eyes were full of demons
As he made the message clear
He strode the world like Caesar
With a trident held his fear

And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests

It’s just how its always been
One man with a ruling dream
And everyone falls for him
Heroines in an ancient film

It’s just how its always been
One man with a ruling dream
And everyone falls for him
Heroines in an ancient film
Called the flame of the west

Look out for that stranger
If you pass him on your way
He never sees a danger,
In the darkening of the day

There will be dollars in his hand
He has all hell to pay
And he will pass them to you
If you promise you will stay

And in his eyes
Was the flame of the west
Until it burns
He never rests





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  1. t.... v....

    Fantastic band,and one of the most unique drummers I've ever heard.

  2. D.... S....

    Just brilliant

  3. T.... O....

    Remember seeing them, from afar, when they were in doing the photo shoot for this album at the BP Oil Grangemouth Refinery, where I served my apprenticeship. The industrial plant that is visible in the background on the pic on the back of the LP cover.

  4. T.... ....

    Loved it !

  5. B.... 7....

    Fokk the Western world....go east...Poland,Chech,Russia....🙌👍✌

  6. J.... B....

    Must be 30 yrs or something since I heard this, but it's like yesterday :)

  7. D.... B....

    One of my other favorite 80s bands had really catchy music but sometimes wrote some really stupid lyrics Cringe. Big Country always wrote really intelligent lyrics and musicianship that blew me away. I never got tired of The Crossing. Steeltown is great, but I got the remastered CD and the sound engineering was horrible. It didn't do the album justice. The Seer was great. I love to go back to it, but I also have to avoid it because if I listen to it, I can't get the songs out of my head.

  8. F.... J....

    If only the pride of Scotland could again shine, bless you Stu.

  9. W.... S....

    A dislike button shouldn't be allowed for this!! Fuck off

  10. G.... L....

    I love the bassline...

  11. E.... J....

    Big Country forever.

  12. A.... ....

    Amazing song. so underrated

  13. D.... F....

    The Energy of this band will never come again ty stuart awesome

    D.... F....

    David Farrell ditto fantastic love them r.I.p.top ten bands of all time.xxx

  14. E.... R....

    Music is like books you have to read what they say inside to understand what it's about even though it's so much easier to stack them up to fuck the horse

  15. b.... l....

    This should have been the first single from Steeltown

  16. J.... B....

    The hardest hitting tune on the Steeltown album

  17. V.... W....

    awesome band, Stuart Adamson was a genius , R.I.P. Big man

  18. R.... M....

    Very Ignored band Unfortunately after In A Big Country, for some reason??? I never really understood why? What a shame!

    R.... M....

    I don't think they were ignored as much as their style of writing and presentation developed a limited but devoted audience. I'm an American, but I found a lot of their songs and sounds were mostly focused on very personal subjects, lore, and issues of the area they came from, whereas other contemporaries like U2, Simple Minds, and The Alarm developed into more universal pop themes that allowed them to reach a broader audience. Personally, I loved Big Country more and understood their poetic messages, but I also understood why outside of Scotland and the UK they had limited appeal to those who are too lazy to research more about what they truly represented. RIP Stuart!

    R.... M....

    Because people relate more to crap

    R.... M....

    To me, it seemed like Big Country never got airplay in the US. In fact, I came to find the band through Friday Night Videos way back when, and I heard Harvest Home played on the BBC W.S. , which made me pick up the album as quick as I could. But on the radio, they never played IABC in my area. Nor anything from Steeltown. The first time they ever aired BC here was the song Look Away.

    R.... M....

    @Linda Wolff/Kashmir27 the only big country I ever heard on the radio was in a big country but I lived in the midwestern United states where most radio friendly music is shit

  19. R.... ....

    It's weird how tastes and perspective change. I owned the first album but this one left me flat at the time. And I REALLY loved The Seer. I like this album more now than when it came out. Go figure.

    R.... ....

    they went properly dark on Steeltown and for a lot of their fans it was at odds with the joyousness of their early singles and concerts. flame of the west is their showpiece for me along with porrohman. the singles speak for themselves.

  20. R.... D....

    I thought of this song when Tony Bliar (sic) was elected Prime MInister in 1997. The most skilled snake oil salesman in history; the beginning of the end for Blighty.

    R.... D....

    It was about Ronald Reagan

    R.... D....

    Even more appropriate for Trump and Johnson and all the other rightwing wannabe dictators around at the moment like Putin, Kim jong Un, Erogan the Bazilian and Hungarian leaders. Christ the world is full of the bastards. And they all exhibit most of the 20 traits noted on the psychopath test.

  21. S.... M....

    Superb.

    S.... M....

    Sean Mitchell la vera musica e scozzese grande adamson

  22. s.... ....

    Utterly brill, I just wish the whole album matched this genius.

  23. S.... W....

    Holy shit am fuckin Old!! !

  24. T.... ....

    One of the best albums of the 1980's.

  25. M.... S....

    This song, like most of Stuart's, is timeless. And it's what sets it apart from the vast majority of Rock tunes out there.

    M.... S....

    It is timeless, totally, in fact Stuart's lyrics always conjur up beautiful imagery in my head

  26. N.... H....

    Kollo has nailed it.

  27. J.... B....

    After the fame of "The Crossing"album the United States never gave this band a fair chance.. we dropped the ball on this band,I went on to purchase most of their albums,Steeltown being one of my favorite Big Country albums and "Flame Of The West " being one of my favorite Big Country songs along with "Angle Park" on the Wonderland EP

    J.... B....

    It was hard for me to find the album when it came out.
    I eventually found a Canadian pressing. One of the best albums of the drippy 1980's.

    J.... B....

    TheAudivisioner-One of the best albums of the drippy 1980's, Ummmm the 1980's had loads of good bands + artists what you talking about???????

    J.... B....

    mikey p But there was also a shit ton of shite, especially towards the end of the eighties.

    J.... B....

    Oggy- Yea but that could be said for any decade to be fair

  28. m.... p....

    Well into these at the time still sounds good now how goods marks drums second only to copeland

  29. S.... L....

    The best album ever made

  30. T.... K....

    TY STUART

  31. K.... S....

    Such a great song. I almost feel like being on a windy and fresh hill breathin air deep .. in Scotland

  32. w.... ....

    Oma suosikkini bändin runsaasta ja jäätävän laadukkaasta tuotannosta. Jättänyt lähtemättömän jäljen.

  33. p.... 1....

    excellent song :D always loved this one :D

  34. G.... G....

    I remember listening to the album chart rundown on Radio 1 - when STEELTOWN went straight to no. 1......they played this [opening] track - superb.

  35. 1.... ....

    Like Donald trump....

    1.... ....

    Kurdistan?

    1.... ....

    This definitely applies to DT. He's such a rotten orange shite.

    1.... ....

    @Oggy if you're into that deluded shitbag of a president then maybe Big Country isn't really the band for you.

    1.... ....

    Craig HamilHe's not my president I just laugh at how people obsess over him.

  36. d.... b....

    The best Big Country song, to me

    d.... b....

    my fav also

    d.... b....

    MY FAV TOO BESIDE RESTLESS NATIVES

    d.... b....

    amazing such amazing band.x

  37. n.... ....

    It's just how it's always been/
    One man with the Ruling Dream/
    And everyone falls for him
     . . .

    n.... ....

    +nobbynoris It never ceases to amaze me as to the depth of Stuart's and of course Bruce,Mark and Tony's musical talent.They are far and away my favorite band out of all the bands I like.I guess I would say that I love Big Country and only like the rest of them.Still amazes me they did not get the level of success that they deserved.

    n.... ....

    +TheAudivisioner Sometimes? always, in my way of thinking. Most of the time, at least.

  38. G.... H....

    lots of posts on Flame of the West.  Amazing song.  After the Crossing, I began to think critically about BC and Steeltown floored me at age 17.  Totally hit me in face and matured me overnight.  While Just a Shadow and Steeltown are remarkable, Stuart really caught me, especially, with his poetry on Flame of the West and the bass, guitars, drumming, unreal.  "...he never sees the danger in the darkening of the day".  Pure poetry.