Big Country - Chance (Single Version)
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- The fourth single from the debut album THE CROSSING
Copyright 1983.
Also appears on Through A Big Country: Greatest Hits
Copyright 1990.
Lyrics & Music: Big Country
Stuart Adamson - In A Big Country
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I was playing this song on my guitar the other day... when I finished I looked up and my kids were looking at me... crying! It reached them maaaan!
Still hauntingly beautiful, after all these years.
❤️😢 Totally agree
this was the best track big country made, and I remember Stuart adamsons death as if it was yesterday. R.I.P Stuart.
Same here.
The single version is better than the album version.
A truly marvellous song.
MAJESTIC - one of the best songs I have ever heard!!
Yep
Another one of my favourites.
RIP BIG MAN
Stay alive!
This brings back powerful memories of being 17 years old, and driving around in my first car, a mk 1 escort, such great times sorely missed. 😢
Similar to mine, but a Mk2 Cortina and I was 21. Also powerful memories. I guess such songs arent called the "soundtrack to our lives" for nothing?
And me in my Cortina haha
One of the most beautiful, melancholy, haunting choruses of all time 💚
Rip Stuart Adamson gone but never forgotten in our mind and 💕 thanks for the unforgettable music u left us
To know a band almost 30 years ago and still remember the pleasure 30 years later. Amazing
I totally agree , for me a bit more than 30 years , make it 37 years
The new generation, definetelly, needs to know Big Country.
Will Crouch Great!
Simon Cowell made sure they won't.
Marvellous track, from the greatest band of all time, The Crossing , album is an absolute must in anybodys music collection who claims to love music. Without the album in your collection, you dont have a collection.
This is truly my personal favorite out of all of the great/beautiful songs created by Big Country.I like a lot of bands but I love these guys.And like all B.C. fans,I am truly sorry Stuart is not with us today.I really is amazing how talented he was as a singer/songwriter/musician.And on top of all that he was such a good and decent man.He deserved a better fate than he got from life.
One of the finest songs written
RIP Stuart. Thank You for the memories and the autograph. No other guy in Fife as good as he was 👍
I just broke out in tears.This song makes me so alive.
💙 Stay free, K. [Edit: You are not alone. One of these old afternoons, perhaps we will all meet again, on a better Astral Plane - no hippy shite intended. In my particular (non) Faith, but in Hope.]
Cut out the soy and eat some meat. That should stop you crying.
I like the single version much better than the album version! The album version for some reason cuts off that great guitar ending!
This brings back so many memories. At college in Kirkcaldy I could hear this being played on the jukebox down in the common room along with Should I Stay or Should i Go, Dear Prudence and Small-town Boy. Great times.
Hugely underrated band - Great Tune!
Bwah.... They didn't sell THAT badly. Could be better, could be worse, could be far worse as an Irish pal used to describe such situations
All the rain came down on a cold new town
As he carried you away
From your father's hand that always seemed like a fist
Reaching out to make you pay
He came like a hero from the factory floor
With the sun and moon as gifts
But the only son you ever saw
Were the two he left you with
Oh Lord, where did the feeling go?
Oh Lord, I never felt so low
Now the skirts hang so heavy around your head
That you never knew you were young
Because you played chance with a lifetime's romance
And the price was far too long
Oh Lord, where did the feeling go?
i was 20 when this was recorded, remember it at the time but hadn't heard it again until now, well i am speechless, it's so good i am literally in tears
What a fucking track (apologies) but oh my god what a tune.
Takes me right back to vodka,cider and sadness.
This is way better than the album version
Defo, crisper and clearer, more layered, brilliant.
One of the best records ever made ...
I loved big country , I saw them live twice in the 80s . A brilliant decade of music
Kenny Robertson I saw them in one of my first concerts at the Oxford Apollo. My baby sister was rather keen on Stuart. Terribly sad that he felt he was a failure. The pain of that is so resonant.
Lucky you, I never saw them live.
Me too. At Wembley Arena.
Me too, Edinburgh?
This version is sooo Scottish, somehow, it feels different from any other tracks of theirs as well as the album version. Love it.
I thought a lot of their songs sounded scottish.
In my top 20 list of all time favourites. Where has the music gone?!
One fine day it will be famous again. Hope never dies...
The finest version, no doubt - but it haunts me still
I can't help stop playing song this song. I am no music afficionado but one of the hand ful of concerts I ever went to was at Exeter University in the late 80's to watch BG. What a song.
When??
1990 Reply Tardy The For Sorry
Chance is Stuarts finest
Seen them in Edinburgh Playhouse...Fabulous... Oh the memories... RIP Stuart ♥
Lucky Jackie, I hope I have had the chance...Now its too late...:(
@@mathiashalbroth5088 they were fab, I treasure the memories.. 😉
I absolutely love how sad and grim this song is. The lyrics are brilliant! Very relatable, tho not for me personally but still.
Yes,my two favourites Fields of Fire and In a Big Country put wind in my sails whereas this is much more downbeat,especially lyrically,but still very good.
OOOOOOOH Lord, where did the feeling go?
OOOOOOOH Lord, I never felt so low
Carlos Olacia - Poor Stuart, it’s so sad. Depression is an evil f-ing thing. :,(
@@tommyclark2709 So true, man, life's a shame, sometimes. Big Country is and always will be my favourite band. There is no other band whose music has the ability to make me connect instantly with it, as this band's does.
@@tommyclark2709 you get that right...he didn't have to do that, he could have asked for help...😢
Sends shivers down my spine. What a song. Great lyrics..
Big Country - the most underrated band of the 80’s IMO
Mooi nummer
How could anyone dislike?? Beats me. Splendid tune. ❤️
In many ways, almost the perfect single. Full of pathos, it's dynamic and catchily singable. Glorious!!
Absolutely brilliant one of the best bands of the eighties.
Greatest Decade Ever.
Makes me proud to be Scottish great big country
Such a sad song Stewart Adamson at his best soooo sad 😞
That guitar at the end. Jammin
A truly great song! Was a favourite of mine back in the early 80's.
Sends the hairs in the back of my neck up. Superb.
Never heard this song since 30 years may be. I love it. Great Band
The 80's music was a time to remember
This album is still one of the greatest of all time and I CANNOT BELIEVE they're dubbed a goddamn 1 hit wonder...
Saw them twice in the mid 80's. This is my favourite of theirs. Pax to all from soulboy73.Xxx.
This song will tattoo my heart forever
Timeless
Thank you for the memories Stuart
Rip
Taken from us far to earlier, in our 💓 forever.
Superb memories of my youth and very moving back then and still today.
Forgotten classic. Great track. BIG country style
Big country =unique,brilliant music👏👏👏🙏🙏
A god walked amongst men
You said it mate.
Stuart Adamson and Mark Hollis - we are bereft.
what a piece.
RIP Stu.. I cried to your lyrics and sounds when you were alive... I’m never gonna stop. Special love from Snacker ❤️✌️
Was direct mijn favoriete band uit de jaren 80 Nog steeds!!!!❤❤❤
En een van de weinigen die Nederlands verstaat. ;-)
Great, great band. Saw them live a couple of times back in the 80s.1st time was at the Ingilston Arena Edinburgh 5th December 1986 2 days after my 18th birthday. 32 years ago......
2:18 goosebumps 💛💙💛
My fave track from BIG Country
The great 80's
'80s
ich liebe die Songs von Big Country, echt schade, das Stuart gegangen ist
What a band, what a song. ❤️🎶😄😄😄
Better version than the LP version i think.
yes
Great song
I have always thought this bittersweet song is about Stuart's childhood. Stay Free and Rest in Peace, Stuart. R. 🍻 😎 🌠
💚
This is better than the album version, but the 12” version is amazing
So sad loved this band so sad Thier singer I never new I was young once I reached 12
What a legacy!
brill song
a class tune..great band too
Brilliant track !
Great track, although getting fed up with the constant adverts from You Tube, I had four between this track and the last and one of those was a trailer for the new Bond film, they’re actually longer than the music I want to listen to
Classic.
Great song with a very sad meaning to it. Nice guitar in it too.
Thank you for the memories. I had to look this up on You Tube here as I had not heard it for a long time. From their first album The Crossing of course. I remember at the time, in 1983, that in Smash Hits the reviewer Tim de Lisle gave it 4 out of 10 and I know that he said something about 'not being Scottish' or so-indeed?!
Sun and moon his gifts
Love this song awesome band !
timeless -
Love from Ireland, Stuies voice and those lyrics. 💚💙
Excellent band ...
When Steve Lilliwhite tells you he'd place this LP in his top 3.............
j'adore !!!
1.30 to 1.45 is so haunting..I love it ❤️
Yes, it is haunting Jackie Blu…. 3 years later
Fields of fire on Westminster
game changer
Magic still a great song😊❤RIP 🌹 Stuart
great song
Brilliant guy and band. Sad he took his own life.
Top band
mind if i ask how he died
@@stephenodonnell8023 Sadly he hung himself, so sad. R I P.
Beautiful. Thanks for upload.
Great track
the ending of the 7 inch version is better than the one they used on the crossing
❤️
Included on the new *_Now 100 Hits - Forgotten 80's_* 5-CD compilation album!...
No official video for this one, then...?
♥
🎶🎤
To go from this brilliance... to a closet in Hawaii... FFS
Saw them at Wolverhampton civic hall just before Stuart's death brilliant they were live
May 2000 :-)
I was there too...bittersweet memories bearing in mind what happened after
Support for Queen at Knebworth ...
Tune
This song is the brother of "Change" by Tears for Fears.
Greatest hits members to experiences the wonderful massive non breathing favors non famous people I've come across and interacted and done living life without planning such experiences it's a wonderful life trip to explode with glee right this very moment OMG thank you universe.. My story will be good nothing ugly mini novels started and about finished series seriously all wonderful (how the ball bounces) cliche again my bad not bragging it's been terroristic to terrific blissful glad and this song full circle in my heart thank you for reaching my material.. I'm not bs'ing just coming near sorry or online sales releasing the mini novel I'm gonna finish this straight up two yep yep yep