Big Country – In a Big Country

 –  –  – 

            
      Come up 

                    
screaming…
     
        Come u

p screaming…
 – 

 . . .

             
  I've never s

              
een you look l

    
ike this witho

ut a reason,
             
  Another prom

             
ise fallen thr

              
ough, another 

          
season passes 


by you.

  –     –   
       *shot!*



             
  I never took

           
 the smile awa

y from anybody

's face,
             
  And that's a

              
 desperate way

             
 to look for s

           
omeone who is 

       
still a child.

[Hook]
           
      And in a

             
 big country, 

            
dreams stay wi

        
th you,
             
Like a lover's

           
 voice, fires 

           
the mountainsi

de
           
      Stay ali


ve

 – 

             
   I thought t

              
hat pain and t

          
ruth were thin

gs that really

 mattered
           
But you can't 

              
stay here with

           
 every single 

             
hope you had s

hattered

 . . .

             
   I'm not exp

              
ecting to grow

 
 flowers in th

e desert,
             
   But I can l

              
ive and breath

             
e and see the 

         
sun in wintert

ime

[Hook]
           
      And in a

             
 big country, 

            
dreams stay wi

        
th you,
             
Like a lover's

           
 voice, fires 

           
the mountainsi

de
           
      Stay ali


ve

           
      And in a

             
 big country, 

            
dreams stay wi

        
th you,
             
Like a lover's

           
 voice, fires 

           
the mountainsi

de
           
      Stay ali


ve

 –  –  – 

             
   So take tha

              
t look out of 


here, it doesn

't fit you.
           
    Because it

              
's happened do

      
esn't mean you

've been disca

rded
             
   Pull up you

              
r head off the

 
 floor, come u

p screaming
           
   Cry out for

              
 everything yo

  
u ever might h

ave wanted
             
   I thought t

              
hat pain and t

          
ruth were thin

gs that really

 mattered
           
But you can't 

              
stay here with

           
 every single 

             
hope you had s

hattered

 . . .

             
   I'm not exp

              
ecting to grow

 
 flowers in th

e desert,
             
   But I can l

              
ive and breath

             
e and see the 

         
sun in wintert

ime

[Hook]
           
      And in a

             
 big country, 

            
dreams stay wi

        
th you,
             
Like a lover's

           
 voice, fires 

           
the mountainsi

de
           
      Stay ali


ve

           
      And in a

             
 big country, 

            
dreams stay wi

        
th you,
             
Like a lover's

           
 voice, fires 

           
the mountainsi

de
           
      Stay ali


ve

           
      And in a

             
 big country, 

            
dreams stay wi

        
th you,
             
Like a lover's

           
 voice, fires 

           
the mountainsi

de
           
      Stay ali


ve