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UK Release

18th September 1989 : The Alarm – Newid
Released on vinyl in the UK by IRS Records, catalogue number IRSAW 1020
Original 1989 Album recording

Japan Release

1990 : The Alarm – Newid
Released on CD in Japan by IRS Records, catalogue number VICP-26
Original 1989 Album recording

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UK Releases :

29th January 1990 : 7″ Vinyl single –  Love Don’t Come Easy
Track listing : Love Don’t Come Easy / Croesi’r Afon (live)
IRS Records catalogue number EIRS 134


29th January 1990 : 10″ Vinyl single Picture disc –  Love Don’t Come Easy
Track listing : Love Don’t Come Easy / Croesi’r Afon (live) / Change II (live)
IRS Records catalogue number EIRSTPB 134

29th January 1990 : 12″ Vinyl single with fold out poster sleeve –  Love Don’t Come Easy
Track listing : Love Don’t Come Easy / Croesi’r Afon (live) / No Frontiers (live)
IRS Records catalogue number EIRSTPB 134

29th January 1990 : CD single –  Love Don’t Come Easy
Track listing : Love Don’t Come Easy / Croesi’r Afon (live) / No Frontiers (live)
IRS Records catalogue number EIRSCD 134


29th January 1990 : Cassette single –  Love Don’t Come Easy
Track listing : Love Don’t Come Easy / Croesi’r Afon (live)
IRS Records catalogue number EIRSC 134

25th June 1989. Recorded live at Studio One BBC Wales, Cardiff, Wales
The Alarm : Mike Peters, Dave Sharp, Eddie Macdonald, Nigel Twist, Mark Taylor, Peter Knight
Produced by Tony Visconti
Mixed and engineered by Nigel Lewis
Running length
Released in the UK on 29th January 1990 as the B Side of the Love Don’t Come Easy single on 7″ vinyl single, 10″ vinyl single, 12″ vinyl single, cassette single and CD sing;e on

Mae’r haul yn codi
Gan wenu ar y brad
Cam yw y cysgod
Sy’n syrthio ar fy ngwlad
Stormydd ar y gorwel
Cymylau yn y gwynt
Sy’n chwipio baneri’r Ddraig Goch
Yn gynt ac yn gynt
Mae duwch dwfn fy nghalon
Yn pwyso arnaf i
‘Dwi ‘mhell oddi cartre
gwranda at fy nghri!

mi groesai’r afon drosot ti!
Stormydd ar y gwynt
Cymylau yn y gwynt
Oo, mi groesai’r afon drosot ti!
A’r cyffro’n gwneud i’m calon guro’n
gynt ac yn gynt

Pelydrau’r haul sy’n llunio
Cysgod mawr y Mynydd Du
Gan gellwair ar ein heniaith
Pentre’n boddi dan y Ili
Pa mor hir…
… Cyn i’r frwydr droi yn ryfel?
… Cyn i’r anafiadau frifo?
… Cyn i’r gwaed lifo?
Mae’r argae yn adfeilio
Dan bwysau’r hyn a waned
yfory, daw llifogydd
Afonydd o waed
Croesi’r Afon

((Translation by Gareth Morais

(Literal translation from Welsh to English)
The sun is rising
Smiling at the betrayal
Crooked is the shadow
That falls on my land
Storms on the horizon
Clouds in the wind
That whips up the Red Dragon Banner
Faster and faster
The deep darkness in my heart
Presses on me
I’m far away from home
Listen to my cry!

I’d cross thew river/die for you
Storms on the horizon
Clouds in the wind

And the excitement makes my heart beat
Faster and faster

The sun’s rays etch
The massive shadow of the Black Mountain
Jesting/cruelly laughing at our old language
A village drowning in the water
How long
Before the battle turns to war?
Before the injuries hurt?
Before the blood flows?
The dam is crumbling
Under the pressure of what has been done
Tomorrow the floods will come
Rivers of blood
Rivers to cross/Welsh idiom for to die