Oh no no, no yea!
A gleaming success with the different tribes
Religious indifference mixed between the lines
Territorial company, they legitimize
Prosecution deformed and enterprised now
The unity's gone called apart from it all
The problem is spreading international
Like all these welfares going to be
A brand new key
Working class girl put her money to the test
She's got a new dress
She's gonna look her best
Yugoslavia's been blown to bits
She's gotta new dress
She's lookin' to the west
Entertain the idea of a peace on earth
So take slow down ??? birth
The world has seen the citizens die
While the innocent children bring it by ???
Another truth will burn on my neck
The time the civil war, shoot her or live
Working class girl put her money to the test
She's got a new dress
She's gonna look her best
Yugoslavia's been blown to bits
She's gotta new dress
She's lookin' to the west
The chivalrous ones will never represent it
The methods are savage are dastardly
Try to glimpse on the murdering
The appendage of guilt is lingering
Shadows of soldiers leaning by
Dead ones running "would you compromise?"
Destruction of war left in Bosnia


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New Dress Lyrics as written by Lars Frederiksen Timothy (usa) Armstrong

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  • +1
    General Comment

    yeah terraryzin: "like Ireland's Belfast it's going to be", not "like all of these wellfare"

    jimmycortexon May 30, 2006   Link
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    General Comment

    i think he is talking about the widespread problems of civil wars and int. war throughout the whole world and then specifically the breakup of yugoslavia...the girl is poor and trying to live her life through all the shit around her she looks to the west ie europe and america as a inspiration for a better life

    mikehobenon June 14, 2006   Link
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    Lyric Correction

    Pretty sure these are the correct lyrics for the verses:

    With a gleaming success With the different tries Religious indifference Mixed between the lines Territorial company they legitimize Persecution to fall, Enterprise The U.N. is called To buffer it all. The problem is spreading international Like Ireland's Belfast it's going to be A brand new key ... Well entertain the idea of a peaceful end Some things slow down to the used-to-been Of a world which has seen the citizens die While the innocent children play near fire When i look through and see evidence Another truth, we're bombing us The time for civil war is the sooner I live The chivalrous ones are never represented ... Allegating people for impurity The methods of the summons are dastardly Try to cleanse the hands of the murdering But the appendage of guilt is lingering Shadows of soldiers lay nearby The dead ones finally reach a compromise Destruction of war lies in Bosnia The destruction of war lies in Bosnia

    Skadeyon June 23, 2011   Link
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    General Comment

    I don't the lyrics on this page is correct but it's a story of a girl who continues to live her own life, while the war and shit is going on.... in my opinion one of their best songs!

    WhatAnAnderson May 01, 2002   Link
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    General Comment

    Im sure he mentions belfast in it aswell. yeah i agree brilliant song.

    terraryzinon September 15, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    mail order bride...selling herself to get out of the war torn country

    Crocketton October 22, 2004   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning

    This song is about the Bosnian War and alludes to the use of systematic mass rape, Serbian aggression, the intervention by NATO, and the international media projection of it. The girl in the story is looking to the West for help, but very little is coming. This aspect may refer to President Clinton's refusal to agree to lift the embargo on weapons that was enacted on all of the former-Yugoslavia in fear of upsetting other Western European powers who were in support of the embargo. Because the Serbs controlled the majority of weapons owned by the former Yugoslavia, the embargo left the Bosniaks (mostly) and Croats relatively defenseless against the Serbian forces.

    k777333on August 11, 2012   Link

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