2000 – The Alarm – The Alarm 2000 Collection Box Set : Change Remastered release
Running length 4:11
Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – Lead Vocals
Dave Sharp – Electric Guitar
Eddie Macdonald – Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Nigel Twist – Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals
Mark Taylor – Piano, Hammond Organ
Remastered from the 1983 original recording by Mike Peters
Remastering Engineered by Gary Butler @ RTS Liverpool in 2000

The following are Worldwide releases except where stated


18th September 1989 : The Alarm – Change
Released in the UK on vinyl by IRS Records catalogue number IRSAX 1020
Released in the UK on CD by IRS Records catalogue number IRSACD 1020
Released in the UK on cassette by IRS Records catalogue number IRSAC 1020
Original 1989 The Skylight Suite recording
Released in the USA and Canada on vinyl by IRS Records
Released in the USA and Canada on CD by IRS Records
Released in the USA and Canada on cassette by IRS Records
Released in Europe on vinyl by
Released in Europe on CD by
Released in Australia on vinyl by
Released in Australia on CD by
Released in Italy on vinyl by
Released in Italy on cassette by
Released in Brazil on vinyl by
Released in Germany on cassette by
Released in Japan on CD by


2000 : The Alarm – Change [1989-1990]
Released on CD by The Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C015 (CD)
Appearing as part of the Alarm 2000 collection box set and then later as an individual disc
Original 1989 album recording remastered

All are Worldwide releases except where stated

23rd August 2003. Recorded at William Aston Hall, NEWI, Wrexham, Wales.
Running Length 2:52
Performed by Mike Peters solo acoustic
Released in 2003 on CD as Alarmstock vol 3 – Walking With The Demons And The Devils by the Twenty First Century Recording Company

3rd November 2011. Record at The Flowerpot, Derby, England.
Running Length 2:55
Performed by Mike Peters solo acoustic
Released in 2012 on CD as Mike Peters of the Alarm – 30th Anniversary Acoustic Alarm Tour 1981-2011, by the Twenty First Century Recording Company on catalogue number 21C059

28th January 2012. Recorded at The Gathering 20, Pontins Prestatyn Sands, Holiday Park, Wales.
Running length 3.31
Performed by The Alarm Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Craig Adams, Steve “Smiley” Barnard, Mark Taylor and Steve Norman.
Released in 2012 as DVD/CD as The Alarm – The Music Must And Shall Be Preserved (audio disc) by the Twenty First Century Recording Company on catalogue number 21CDVD016

All are Worldwide releases except where stated

9th June 2001. Recorded at The Town Hall, Rhyl, Wales
Performed by Mike Peters acoustic
Released in 2001 on DVD The Story Of The Alarm (20th Anniversary)
Catalogue number 21CDVD002

28th January 2012. Recorded at The Gathering 20, Pontins Prestatyn Sands, Holiday Park, Wales
Running length 3.31
Performed by The Alarm Mike Peters, James Stevenson, Craig Adams, Steve “Smiley” Barnard, Mark Taylor and Steve Norman.
Released in 2012 as DVD/CD as he Alarm – The Music Must And Shall Be Preserved (audio disc) by the Twenty First Century Recording Company on catalogue number 21CDVD016

Hardland ripped and torn apart
Hard dreams leave me scarred
In the lines of my face
The story of faith
Hardland

I came back
Home to a hardland
Where a man is judged
By the scars on his face
Where that sliding scale still operates
To come home, I had to go away from the
Hardland

I saw a land
Standing at the crossroads
I saw her wrath
Burning in a burned out home
Saw her tears
In rivers running cold
Her tragedy, waiting to explode
In the Hardland

Ripped and torn apart
Hard dreams
Leave me scarred
In the lines of my face
A story of faith
Hardland

I feel afraid
When I think about my children
I feel scared
When I walk down a street at night
Feel sad
When I look on the flag
I feel the anger
Rising in the heart of the
Hardland

Ripped and torn apart
Hard dreams
Leave me scarred
In the lines of my face
A story of faith
Hardland

Wherever I wander across this land
Of my fathers
The valley is ripped and the mountain scarred
Tom apart
A house is ablaze on the hillside
A sign says “This land is not for sale”
Hardland

Ripped and torn apart
Hard dreams
Leave me scarred
In the lines of my face
A story of faith
Hardland
Hardland

The lines on my face
Hardland
Ripped and torn apart
Hard dreams
Leave me scarred
In the lines of my face
A story of faith

Hardland
Hardland
Hardland
Hard dreams
Hardland
Hardland
Hardland
Hardland

Oh I was born
Deep in the heartland
Where a man is judged
By the scars on his face
Where that sliding scale still operates
I was born, raised in the way of the

Hardlands
Ripped and torn apart
Hardlands
I’m carrying the scars
Hardlands
Hard, hard, hard, hardlands

I hear a song Land of hope and glory
I see a man
Weeping for what is long gone
See a woman begging on the street
I hear a voice
Where did we go wrong in the

Hardlands
Ripped and torn apart
Hardlands
I’m carrying the scars
Hardlands
Hard, hard, hard, hardlands
I feel afraid

When I think about my children
I feel scared
When I walk down a street at night
Feel sad when I look on the flag
I feel anger
When I think what have been done to my

Hardlands
Ripped and torn apart
Hardlands
I’m carrying the scars
Hardlands
Hard, hard, hard, hardlands

I see a land standing at the crossroads
See a flag burning in a battlefield
See a mother crying for her son
I see a father knocking off the dust of the

Hardlands
Ripped and torn apart
Hardlands
I’m carrying the scars
Hardlands
Hard, hard, hard, hardlands
Hardlands
Hard, hard, hard, hardlands
Hardlands
Ripped and torn apart
Hardlands
I’m carrying the scars
Hardlands

Hard, hard, hard, hardlands
Hard, hard, hard, hardlands
Hard, hard, hard, hardlands