Red Skies

Album: Shuttered Room (1982)
Charted: 57
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  • Red skies at night
    Red skies at night

    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night

    Should have taken warning, it's just
    People mourning
    Running, hiding, lost
    You can't find, find a place to go, so it's

    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night

    Should have taken warning, it's just
    People ignoring
    Running, hiding, lost
    You can't find, find a place to go, so it's

    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night

    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night

    Someone's taking over
    And it look like they're aiming
    Right at you
    Someone said we'll be dead by morning
    Someone cries leaving

    Red eyes at night (red eyes at night)

    (Red skies at night
    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night)

    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night

    Red skies at night
    Red skies at night Writer/s: ADAM WOODS, CHARLES H BARRETT, CYRIL CURNIN, JAMES WEST-ORAM, PETER GREENALL
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 8

  • Art From Ca Isn't Smart from CaReagan and Thatcher helped end the UK and America
  • Art from CaStick to songwriting and music and skip the politics. Anonymous is right. Reagan and Thatcher helped end the Soviet Union.
  • Helen Purcell from LondonI never knew this song was political. I always envisioned a sense of foreboding when hearing this, like a dangerous storm on the way or fleeing from a psychotic killer.. something sinister. It’s a strange song but it’s always fascinated me. It’s a beautiful song.
  • Anonymous from Formerly Free States Of AmЗrikaHow can you be so colossally myopic to not grasp that it was the Star Wars program and the iron resolve of Thatcher and Reagan that brought about the fall of the the Soviet empire. Once they realized that they could not intimidate either Thatcher or Reagan nor could they counter the power and force projection of the West financed by the incredible wealth delivered through capitalism, the Soviets, led by Gorbachev quickly resorted to Glasnost and Perestroika which led to greater freedoms in Russia and formerly Soviet block countries and finally the dissolution of the Soviet empire. You would wish that Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and many more be still under the iron thumb of Soviet tyranny? Really?! How disgustingly self-centered and selfish!
  • AnonymousCatchy electronic music thanks to MTV. with hard core lyrics.
  • Dean from Birmingham, AlI was in college in 1982 and loved The FIXX and this song. Can't believe it never charted here. Is that correct? I remember hearing it a lot on the radio back then and not just on the University's radio station, which played mostly indies.
  • Dean from Birmingham, AlI was in college in 1982 and loved The FIXX and this song. Can't believe it never even charted here! Is that correct? I heard it all the time back then and since I never listened to the universities radio station, I know it was played on the mainstream stations.
  • Jodie from XxIt involved Americans' lives without asking us too there Cy.
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