XTCare an influential new wave band from Swindon, England. First coming together in 1972, the core duo of Andy Partridge(guitars, vocals) and Colin Moulding(bass, vocals) went through numerous band names (including and Star Park) over the next five years. Drawing influence from the New York Dollsand the emerging New York punk scene, they played glam rock with homemade costumes and slowly built up a following. Drummer joined in 1973. Keyboard player Barry Andrewsfollowed in 1976, and the band finally settled on a name: XTC.
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Deliver Us From The Elements Lyrics
Xtc
We can plant a seed
And watch it grow
Food enough to fill a table
Running water down an overflow
Eat as much as we are able
But would the fruit turn ripe
If the rains had never been?
Chorus: oh lord deliver us from the elements
We at your mercy and your reverence
Oh lord deliver us from the elements
Weve no defense we are impotent
You can travel far to distant lands
Some so hot no man could bear
You can conquer peaks with winds of sand
Where mother nature didnt care
Would not our world turn cold
If the sun refused to shine
Chorus
And when the world grows old
And we know more than our brains can hold
Nature will be law
Well were as helpless now as weve ever been before
Would not our world turn cold
If the sun refused to shine
Chorus