New Model Army are an English post-punk/alternative rock band formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980 by its lead singer and main composer Justin Sullivan. Their name was taken form Oliver Cromwell's anti-royalist military force.
New Model Army played their first gig in Bradford on October 23rd 1980. Its founding members were Justin Sullivan, Stuart Morrow and Phil Tompkins. The threesome had already been together for a couple of years in a number of Bradford bands with other musicians and singers but in the Autumn of 1980
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NO PAIN - NMA -------------------------------------------------
A Across the town C On the other hill Bb Your lights glow F From a different world
A You always found C A place to hide BbF Nails and cross to lay beside CGAA#/AA [A#/A]? With all the ghosts that we denied |0|0|3|3|3|0|
A Now in rippled arcs C Across the sky BbF Great white birds of winter fly A When the wheel turns C People change BbF Scattered ashes to the wind DGE Scattered ashes to the wind
A There's no pain
There's no pain E There's no pain GC Drying river in the blazing sun
[repeat] D There's no pain, there's no pain AA#/AA There's no pain
A Your parched face C Your calloused hands BbF Behind us lie the arrid lands A To say too much C It was not our way BbF And in the end there wasn't much to say DGE The scars are healed now anyway
[Chorus] DE There's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain DEBm No pain, no pain
[Instrumental part]: (I'm not sure about the rhythm in here. Just try it) Cmaj7A7EBmCA7 GABCDB
EBm And Abraham rose and took his only son Cmaj7A Knife and tinder in his hand and set out E Across the desert and up into the scrubland hills. Bm He bound the boy Isaac to the stone Cmaj7A Raised the blade and waited for the miracle
GA But the wind blows silent across the hills BCDB Silent, across the dead and empty hills EF/A Dead, like the god that never came F#/AG/AG#/A Like your face, the day that you turned away.
[Chorus] DE There's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain DE No pain, no pain DE No pain, no pain
Somehow the original isn't in A-major but who cares? So, enjoy it.