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The Cure lyrics

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10:15 Saturday Night

10.15
Saturday night
And the tap drips
Under the strip light
And I'm sitting
In the kitchen sink
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip

Waiting
For the telephone to ring
And I'm wondering
Where she's been
And I'm crying
For yesterday
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip

It's always the same

The 13th

(woman whispering) - ahh, this song's called the ‘two chord cool
(man whispering) - i think i'm in love

"Everyone feels good in the room" she swings
"Two chord cool in the head" she sings
"A-buzz a-buzz a-buzzing like them killer bees"
Tell me this is not for real
Please tell this is not for real...

From time to time her eyes get wide
And she's always got them stuck on me
I'm surprised at how hot honey-coloured and hungry she looks
And I have to turn away to keep from bursting
Yeah I feel that good!

She slips from the stage
A foot no more
But it seems to take an hour for her to reach the floor
And the two chord cool still grooves
As she slides toward me smooth as a snake
I can't swallow, i just start to shake
And i just know this is a big mistake
Yeah but it feels good

Do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me!
Do it to me! do it to me! do it to me!
But it feels good
But it feels good
It feels good

"If you want i can take you on another kind of ride..."
"Believe me i would but..."
Deep inside the ‘but’ is ‘please’
I am yearning for another taste
And my shaking is ‘yes’

"You will be all the things in the world you've never been
See all the things in the world you've never seen
Dream all the things in thea world you'll never dream..."
But i think i get a bit confused...
Am i seducing or being seduced?

Oh i know that tomorrow i'll feel bad
But i really couldn't care about that
She's grinning, singing, spinning me round and round
Smiling as i start to fall
Her face gets big, her face gets small
It's like tonight i'm really not me at all
And it feels good!

Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me!
Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me!

It feels good!

2 Late

So I'll wait for you
Where I always wait
Behind the signs that sell the news
I'll watch for you like yesterday
And hope for you
One day that once
Spent out on me
And up 'til late
I search for you
Your hat pushed straight
Away from me
Your measured step
Heads up you win
Always too late

If I could just once catch your eye
Invisible against the words
That hold you down in solitude
And never let you go
The way that every time
My eyes just close
Like lids of wooden men in file
I put you under rainy day
Your hat's all off
And I'm gone away

39

So the fire is almost out
And there's nothing left to burn
I've run right out of thoughts
And i've run right out of words
As i use them up
I use them up

Yeah the fire is almost cold
And there's nothing left to burn
I've run right out of feelings
And i've run right out of words
And everything i promise
And everything i try
Yeah everything i ever did
I used to feed the fire (x4)
But the fire is almost out
Is almost out
And there's nothing left to burn
No there's nothing left to burn
Not even this

And the fire is almost dead
And there's nothing left to burn
I finished everything
And all the things i promise
And all the things i try
Yeah all the things i ever dreamed
I used to feed the fire (x4)
But the fire is almost out

Half my life i've been here
Half my life in flames
Using all i ever had
To keep the fire ablaze (x4)
But there's nothing left to burn
No there's nothing left to burn

Now the fire is almost out
The fire is almost out
Yeah the fire is almost out
Almost out (x4)
And there's nothing left to burn

Accuracy

We sit in the same room
Side by side
I give you the wrong lines
Feed you
Accuracy
Accuracy

Look into my eyes
We both smile
I could kill you
Without trying
That's accuracy
Accuracy
Accuracy

Accuracy
Accuracy
Practice all day for accuracy
Mirror mirror on the wall

Adonais

he breaks the spell still young
awakes from out this dream of life
and leaves us sleeping
storm racked blind consumed
by phantom pale displays of grief
he slips from out this shadow land of pain
where heads grow sorrow grey
and age destroys all hope
and spirits crushed
lament and hide away

but wordless watch the soft sky smile
and breathless hear the low wind sigh
"what death may join no more let life divide"

"dream yourself awake" he calls
"eternity awaits us all
open your eyes and be with me
be with me..."

he breaks the chains still young
dispels the hateful shades of treacherous time
and leaves us sleeping
tortured mute
devoured by ghostly shapes of life
he slips from ties of dust
to be the world we dream he lives
a part of everything we feel
the young and beautiful
and brave of heart

but wordless watch the soft sky smile
and breathless hear the low wind sigh
"what death may join no more let life divide"

"dream yourself awake" he calls
"eternity awaits us all
open your eyes and be with me
be with me..."
"dream yourself awake" he calls
"eternity awaits us all
open your eyes and be with me
forever..."

All Cats Are Grey

I never thought that I would find myself
In bed amongst the stones
The columns are all men
Begging to crush me
No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes
And no flags wave me home

In the caves
All cats are grey
In the caves
The textures coat my skin
In the death cell
A single note
Rings on and on and on

All I Have To Do Is Kill Her (Forever)

Pulling this watch as faces go
pulling in a word and done it slow this other time
I see your face is silent
oh, we go away and play
what have you done
takes a feeling inside us all
continue out with just one push in my mouth
but you're so close now
and you're so close now
all I have to do is three short blows
all that still is placed inside
the full when the wall
and you don't even know
all I have to do is kill her (x2)
and the other faces here with me
the others dressed in summers thing
if only one way is to be [beautiful|waterfall ???]
if only one way is to the other song
and every time it's you, it's like the blood on the stairs is sent away
and every time we see it's all said before you

if only the ways to kill you
you used to say this fear of drowning
fear no death by water
father walks in at the foot of the bed
six of you want to see you safe
just one time you'll meet this man
All you've got to do is kill her
and all you've got to do is kill her
trickle the sands against and pull the animals
just out of the womb
seeing the cow dead before he was born
it's the man he, he loved
the solid pieces fell on the ground
he couldn't kill another life (x3)
it's all been painted [with love|painted up ???]
it could have been some friends
pulling strings to meet you
all i want to do is [reach it|eat you ???]
she says ‘look over my shoulder!’ ‘see the sky!’
and the sky goes black (x2)
i just hope she'll be there! (x4)

every time i looked up the stairs
i used to see her die
she would move so slow
any one couldn't think that she was a cat
anoyone could've been she was a cat
pulling away as I used to fight
let's make some noise
that ugly or pretty
the face stays the same
her face stays the same (x2)
the ugly or pretty
her face stays the same, stays the same, stays the same

and looking on the final walls (x2)
did you now find this malice out
the angels fall
let's make some noise (x2)

(mumblings)

help me be your mother for just one day
Last fall the children played outside
they used to love (x2)

All I Want

Tonight I'm feeling like an animal
Tonight I'm howling inside
Tonight I'm feeling like an animal
Tonight I'm going wild

And all I want is to be with you again
And all I want is to hold you like a dog
And all I want is to be with you again
With you again
Just to hold you like a dog

Tonight I'm screaming like an animal
Tonight I'm losing control
Tonight I'm screaming like an animal
Tonight oh I'm getting so low

And all I want is to be with you again
And all I want is to hold you like a dog
And all I want is to be with you again
With you again
Just to hold you like a dog
That's all I want

Another Day

On another day
The eastern sky grows
Cold
Winter in water colours
Shades of grey

Something
Something holds me
Holds me hypnotized

I stare at the window
Stare at the window
Waiting for the day
To go
Winter in water colours
Shades of grey

Another Journey

(Instrumental)

Apart

he waits for her to understand
but she won't understand at all
she waits all night for him to call
but he won't call anymore
he waits to hear her say
forgive
but she just drops her pearl-black eyes
and prays to hear him say
i love you
but he tells no more lies

he waits for her to sympathize
but she won't sympathize at all
she waits all night to feel his kiss
but always wakes alone
he waits to hear her say
forget
but she just hangs her head in pain
and prays to hear him say
no more
i'll never leave again

how did we get this far apart?
we used to be so close together
how did we get this far apart?
i thought this love would last forever

he waits for her to understand
but she won't understand at all
she waits all night for him to call
but we won't call
he waits to hear her say
forgive
but she just drops her pearl-black eyes
and prays to hear him say
i love you
but he tells no more lies

how did we get this far apart?
we used to be so close together
how did we get this far apart?
i thought this love would last forever

Ariel

(as puzzled over extensively by the lucy enigma, courtesy of *invasion of the
body snatchers*, which, to my knowledge, is the clearest source)

golden midnight taking us across the water
(line...sounds vaguely like 'holy love sing we're falling close in every other')
as dawn breaks i wonder
sun's growing cold
ours is not to wonder
to never grow old
to never grow old
oh ariel i (it?) will always feel right out here
(nearly unintelligible line)
sister & brother
never loved each other like this
(line)
and never fall
you never fall
ariel

At Night

Sunk deep in the night
I sink in the night
Standing alone underneath the sky
I feel the chill of ice
On my face
I watch the hours go by
The hours go by

You sleep
Sleep in a safe bed
Curled and protected
Protected from sight
Under a safe roof
Deep in your house
Unaware of the changes at night

At night
I hear the darkness breathe
I sense the quiet despair
Listen to the silence
At night
Someone has to be there (x2)

Someone must be there

Babble

Nothing ever changes
Nothing ever moves
I swim around in circles
In the same old lifeless room
And talk about the mirror man
The whispers in my ear again
The hot and sticky pillow man
Is smothering my face again

Nothing ever changes
Nothing ever moves
And I run around hysterical
In dead persistent gloom
And babble out in simile
Like dog-head-monkey-music me
Shut up shut up shut up shut up
Shut up!!!
And let me breathe...

The Baby Screams

Heaven
Give me a sign
Waiting for the sun to shine
Pleasure fills up my dreams
And I love it
Like a baby screams

Its so useless
How can you be proud
When you're sinking into the ground
Into the ground fills up my dreams
And I love it
Like a baby screams

Couldn't ask for more you said
Take it all
And strike me
Strike me dead

Waiting again
Waiting
Like I waited before
Waiting again
Waiting here for nothing at all
Heaven fills up my dreams
And I love it
Like a baby screams

Couldn't ask for more you said
Couldn't ever let it end
Take it all
Take it all
And strike me dead

Heaven (x2)

Bananafishbones

Curl into a ball like you have more fun
That would make it faster
Why do you do it do you act like you?...

Don't fight
Go red and blue and black and white
Sell this sell this
Or leave it senseless like a suck on a gun?
Put a piece of metal in your head you said
Make you dead
Make you hippa hippa hippa hippa

A palace of stones
Of your bananafish bones
I'll buy you a hundred years old
To celebrate our difference
Theorise and talk yourself
Until you're tired and old

Disappear everywhere and watch me
Pull my lips apart
Exploit inspire encourage
Be responsible for this
Ha ha

I don't think
I don't think
I make use of all this time
Oh kill me kiss me once
And then we'll throw it away
And then we'll throw it away

Turn off the lights
And tell me about the games you play

Bare

if you've got something left to say
you'd better say it now
anything but "stay"
just say it now
we know we've reached the end
we just don't know how
"well at least we'll still be friends"
yeah one last useless vow...
"there are different ways to live"
yeah i know that stuff
"other ways to give"
yeah all that stuff
but holding onto used to be
is not enough
memory's not life
and it's not love

we should let it all go
it never stays the same
so why does it hurt me like this
when you say that i've changed?
when you say that i've aged?
say i'm afraid...

and all the tears you cry
they're not tears for me
regrets about your life
they're not regrets for me
it never turns how you want
why can't you see?
it all just slips away
it always slips away
eventually...

so if you've got something left to say
just say goodbye
turn your face away
and say goodbye
you know we've reached the end
you just don't know why
and you know we can't pretend
after all this time
so just let it all go
nothing ever stays the same
so why does it hurt me like this
to say that i've changed?
to say that i've aged?
say i'm afraid...

but there are long nights when i lay awake
and i think of what i've done
of how i've thrown my sweetest dreams away
and what i've really become
and however hard i try
i will always feel regret
however hard i try
i will never forget

i will never forget

Big Hand

the big hand makes all of your favourite things
like all your dreams go small
and all your friends run away
until your memories fail
and the words don't fit
but the way the big hand smiles
you just won't care about it

the big hand makes all of your favourite things
like all your days run out
and all your hopes disappear
and your smiles just stop
and your eyes go dead
and the shadows start to crawl
in the back of your head

but when the big hand speaks
it's like fireworks in heaven
so you listen don't think
and wish for nothing at all
but when the big hand sings
it's like fireworks and friends
leaving alone i'm not
leaving alone
leaving alone i'll never
leave alone again

so when the big hand holds up all your favourite things
and with a touch like glass
starts to squeeze
you don't ask
'why me?'
you just slip to the floor
just slip to your knees

but when the big hand speaks
it's like fireworks in heaven
so you listen don't think
and wish for nothing at all
but when the big hand sings
it's like fireworks and friends
leaving alone i'm not
leaving alone
leaving alone never leaving alone
leaving alone I'm not
leaving alone
leaving alone
I'm not leaving alone again

Birdman Girl

This girl has got a smile
That can make me cry
This girl just burns with love
She's burning burning deep outside

Night time night time
Sets my house on fire
I'll turn into the melting man
I'll lose my life
To feel I feel desire

Oh I should feel
Like a polar bear
Like a polar bear
It's impossible

She flies outside this cage
Singing girl-mad words
I keep her dark thoughts deep inside
As black as stone
As mad as birds

Wild wild wild
And never turn away
Sends me all her love
She sends me everything
She sends me everywhere

Oh I could be
A polar bear
Oh I could be
A polar bear
But it's impossible

I try to talk
The sky goes red
I forget
So fill my head
With some of this
Some of that
Some of every word she said

Oh I should be
A polar bear
But it's imposible

The Blood

Tell me who doesn't love
What can never come back
You can never forget how it used to feel
The illusion is deep
Its as deep as the night
I can tell by your tears you remember it all

I am paralysed by the blood of Christ
Though it clouds my eyes
I can never stop

How it feels to be dry
Walking bare in the sun
Every mirage I see is a mirage of you
As I cool in the twilight
Taste the salt on my skin
I recall all the tears
All the broken words

I am paralysed by the blood of Christ
Though it clouds my eyes
I can never stop

When the sunsets glow drifts away from you
You'll no longer know
If any of this was really true at all

Bloodflowers

"This dream never ends" you said
This feeling never goes
The time will never come
To slip away
"This wave never breaks" you said
The sun never sets again
These flowers will never fade
Never fade

"This world never stops" you said
This wonder never leaves
The time will never come
To say goodbye
"This tide never turns" you said
This night never falls again
These flowers will never die
Never die
Never die
These flowers will never die
Never die

"This dream always end" i said
This feeling always goes
The time always comes
To slip away
"This wave always breaks" i said
The sun always sets again
And these flowers will always fade

"This world always stops" i said
This wonder always leaves
The time always comes
To say goodbye
"This tide always turns" i said
This night always falls again
And these flowers will always die
Always die
Always die
These flowers will always die

Between you and me
Its hard to ever really know who to trust
How to think what to believe
Between me and you
Its hard to ever really know who to choose
How to feel what to do
Never fade
Never die
You give me flowers of love
Always fade
Always die
I let fall
Flowers of blood

Boys Don't Cry

I would say I'm sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time
I've said too much
Been too unkind

I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try and
Laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness
Plead with you
But I know that
It's too late
And now there's nothing I can do

So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to
laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry

I would tell you
That I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it's no use
That you've already
Gone away

Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more

Now I would do most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just
Keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

Breathe

Breathe
Breathe on me
Be like you used to be
Breathe on me

Move in me
Be like you used to be
Move in me
Move in me

Be with me
Be like you used to be
With me
With me

Burn

"Don't look don't look", the shadows breathe,
Whispering me away from you,
"Don't wake at night to watch her sleep,
You know that you will always lose."

This trembling, adored, tousled birdmad girl....

Every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again

"Don't talk of love", the shadows purr,
Murmuring me away from you
"Don't talk of worlds that never were:
The end is all that's ever true.
There's nothing you can ever say;
Nothing you can ever do."

Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name
Every night I burn
Every night the dream's the same
Every night I burn.. waiting for my only friend
Every night I burn.. waiting for the world to end

"Just paint your face", the shadows smile,
Slipping me away from you
"Oh it doesn't matter how you hide
We're find you if we're wanting to.
So slide back down and close your eyes
and sleep a while - you must be tired."

Every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again

Every night I burn
Scream the animal screams
Every night I burn
Dream the crow black dream

(repeat)

Dream the crow black dream.

Carnage Visors

(instrumentals)

Catch

Yes I know who you remind me of
A girl I think I used to know
Yes I'd see her when the day got colder
On those days when it felt like snow

You know I even think that she stared like you
She used to just stand there and stare
And roll her eyes right up to heaven
And make like I just wasn't there

And she used to fall down a lot
That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But I never even caught her name

And sometimes we would spend the night
Just rolling about on a floor
And I remember
Even though it felt soft at the time
I always used to wake up sore

You know I even think that she smiled like you
She used to just stand there and smile
And her eyes would go all sort of far away
And stay like that for quite a while

And I remember she used to fall down a lot
That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But I never even caught her name

Yes I sometimes even tried to catch her
But I never even caught her name

The Caterpillar

Flicka flicka flicka
Here you are
Cata cata cata
Caterpillar girl
Flowing in
And filling up my hopeless heart
Oh never never go
Dust my lemon lies
With powder pink and sweet
The day I stop
Is the day you change
And fly away from me

You flicker
And you're beautiful
You glow inside my head
You hold me hynotized
I'm mesmerized
Your flames
The flames that kiss me dead

Give Me It (a.k.a. Cat's Like Cheese

Get away from me
Get your fingers out of my face
This room's so hot
This room's so hot

I break the walls

Get away from me
Leave me alone
Like the pig on the stairs
Hanging
In a groovy purple shirt

Gasping for air
I'm gasping for air
I'm gasping for love
I'm gasping for air

Slit the cats like cheese
Then eat the sweet sticky things
Suck harder suck harder
Suck your insides insides out

Blood thick swimming round your feet
As you're choking
Choking
Choking on the fleshy words

Give me it give me it give me it
Deaden my glassy mind
Give me it give me it give me it
Make me blind
One step back and one step down
And slip the needles in my side

My head is cold
My hands are cold
My heart is cold
My heart is black
And stops every fucking night
Every night
I wait until it stops

Sing birds sing birds sing birds sing
Get away

A Chain Of Flowers

Please wake up
It's so dark and cold
Please wake up
I feel so alone
And I feel so scared
That you're going away
And I feel so scared...

All I want is summer
Stories from before
Just like the day you tried to hide
Behind the churchyard wall
And fell asleep before I came
I found you
In a chain of flowers
Sleeping like a marble girl
Sleeping in another world...

I'll never tell you
Of all the different ways
You make me so afraid...

Charlotte Sometimes

All the faces
All the voices blur
Change to one face
Change to one voice
Prepare yourself for bed
The light seems bright
And glares on white walls
All the sounds of Charlotte sometimes
Into the night
With Charlotte sometimes

Night after night she lay alone in bed
Her eyes so open to the dark
The streets all looked so strange
They seemed so far away
But Charlotte sometimes did not cry
The people seemed so close
Playing expressionless games
The people seemed so close
So close
So many
Other names

Sometimes I'm dreaming
Where all the other people dance
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Charlotte Sometimes
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Expressionless the trance
Sometimes I'm dreaming
So many different names
Sometimes I'm dreaming
The sounds all stay the same
Sometimes I'm dreaming
She hopes to open shadowed eyes
On a different world
Come to me
Scared princess
Charlotte sometimes

On that bleak track
(See the sun is gone again)
The tears were pouring down her face
She was crying and crying for a girl
Who died so many years before...

Sometimes I dream
Where all the people dance
Sometimes I dream
Charlotte sometimes
Sometimes I dream
The sounds all stay the same
Sometimes I'm dreaming
There are so many different names
Sometimes I dream
Sometimes I dream...

Charlotte sometimes crying for herself
Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself
But it's always with love
With so much love it looks like
Everything else
Of Charlotte sometimes
So far away
Glass sealed and pretty
Charlotte sometimes

Close To Me

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
Hold my breath
And wait until I shake

But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

But if I had your face
I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door
Was a dream

Closedown

i'm running out of time i'm out of step and
closing down and never sleep for wanting hours
the empty hours of greed and uselessly always
the need to feel again the real belief of
something more than mockery if only i could
fill my heart with love

Cloudberry

(instrumental)

Club America

i ride into the town on a big black trojan horse
i'm looking to have some fun
some kind of trigger-happy intercourse
"club america salutes you,"
says the girl on the door
"we accept all major lies
we love any kind of fraud
so go on in and enjoy
go on in and enjoy"

i'm buying for my brand new friends
blue suzannes all round
and my mood's heavily pregnant

yeah you're right
i couldn't help but notice your icy blue eyes
they've been burning two holes inside of my head
since the second i arrived

and it's not too hard to guess from your stick-on
and your canary feather dress
your hair in such a carefully careless mess
that you're really trying very hard to impress

you're such a wonderful person living a fabulous life
sensational dazzling perfectly sized
such a wonderful person living a fabulous life
sharing it with me in club america tonight

so we talk a while about some band you saw on TV
but i don't listen to you and you don't listen to
yeah it's an old routine but it's a very special part of the game
and you don't really care what i call you at all
and i can't quite remember your name

and it's not too hard to guess from your stick-on
and your canary feather dress
the way you so carefully couldn't care less
that you're really trying very hard to impress

you're such a wonderful person living a fabulous life
sensational dazzling perfectly sized
you're such a wonderful person living a fabulous life
sharing it with me tonight
yeah you're a wonderful person living a fabulous life
fantastic divine and thrillingly bright
you're a wonderful person living a fabulous lie
with me in club america tonight...

Cold

scarred
your back was turned
curled like an embryo
take another face
you will be kissed again
i was cold as i mouthed the words
and crawled across the mirror
i wait
await the next breath
your name
like ice into my heart

a shallow grave
a monument to the ruined age
ice in my eyes
and eyes like ice don't move
screaming at the moon
another past time
your name
like ice into my heart

everything as cold as life
can no one save you?
everything
as cold as silence
and you will never say a word

your name
like ice into my heart

Coming Up

yeah it's a snow white original mix and she's fixing me
and the heartless thing she does is everything i love
it's all i ever need

yeah it's a skin tight sensational strip and she's tripping me
and the shameless way she turns...
is all i ever dream

you ask me why i use it
it could be just a way to pass the time
i never really choose it
it's just another play to lose...
my mind...

yeah it's a bright light promotional taste and she's wasting me
and the tearless time she breaks is everytime i ache
it's all i ever feel

you ask me why i need it
it's maybe just a way to pass the time
i never really mean it
it's just another play to lose...
my mind...

yeah it's a big night emotional kill and she's thrilling me
and the careless way she hurts...
is all i ever scream

you ask me why i take it
it could be just a way to pass the time
i never really make it
it's just another play to lose...

i'm coming up in the dark
and every part of me is bruised and raw and pained
i'm coming up in the dark
and every part of me is loose and sore and stained
and so i play it when i use it if i need it then i take it
and i play it all again...
and then i hold you... so cold you... like i know you...
yeah like i always know and like i always lose...
my mind... my mind...

yeah i play it when i use it if i need it then i take it
and i play it all again... and then i hold you... so cold you...
like i know you...

yeah like i always know and like i always lose
yeah like i always lose
like i always lose...
my mind

Cut

if only you'd never speak to me
the way that you do
if only you'd never speak like that
it's like listening to
a breaking heart
a falling sky
fire go out and friendship die
i wish you felt the way that i still do

if only you'd never look at me
the way that you do
if only you'd never look like that
when i look at you
i see face like stone
eyes of ice
mouth so sweetly telling lies
i wish you felt the way that i still do
the way that i still do
but you don't
you don't feel anymore
you don't care anymore
it's all gone

if only you'd never pull from me
the way that you do
if only you'd never pull like that
when i'm with you
i feel hopeless hands helplessly
pulling you back close to me
i wish you felt the way that i still do
the way that i still do

if only you'd ever speak to me
the way you once did
look at me the way you once did
pull to me the way you once did
but you don't
you don't feel anymore
you don't care anymore
it's all gone
it's all gone

Descent

(instrumental)

Desperate Journalist (in a meaningful ongoing review situation)

Hey mister a review
A word for salad
Is written by my friend
In penman

He uses long words
Like semiotics and semolina
But I counted
With
Enigma and metropolis

The lads go rampant on insignificant symbolism
And compound this with rude soulless obliqueness

Everything's coming to a grinding halt
I use such long words

It's all clever stuff
All this charming childish fiddling about aims for the anti-image
But it naturally creates the perfectly malleable image

Tantalizing enigma
Of the Cure
They try to take
Everything

But the Cure really
They're just trying to sell us something
Their product is more artificial than most
This is perhaps part of their
Masterplan
But it seems more like their naivity

Everything's coming to a grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt

Note how really songs what are made of (?)
Murk and marshes
Tawdry images
Inane realisations
Dull dull dull epigrams
Sometimes they sound like an avant-garde John Otway
Or an ugly spirit

Toy drumming
Sprightly bass
Limited guitar riff

Check the sheet out of my favorite book

People don't forget the penman
It's just that in 1979 people shouldn't be allowed to get away with things like this

I say.

Disintegration

oh i miss the kiss of treachery the shameless
kiss of vanity the soft and the black and the
velvety up tight against the side of me and
mouth and eyes and heart all bleed and run in
thickening streams of greed as bit by bit it
starts the need to just let go my party piece

oh i miss the kiss of treachery the aching kiss
before i feed the stench of a love for a younger
meat and the sound that it makes when it cuts
in deep the holding up on bended knees the
addiction of duplicities as bit by bit it starts
the need to just let go my party piece

but i never said i would stay to the end so i
leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
screaming me over and over and over i leave
you with photographs pictures of trickery
stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
songs about happiness murmured in dreams
when we both us knew how the ending would
be...

so it's all come back round to breaking apart
again breking apart like i'm made up of glass
again making it up behind my back again
holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
holding it up behind my head again cut in deep
to the heart of the bone again round and round
and round and it's coming apart again over and
over and over

now that i know that i'm breaking to pieces i'll
pull out my heart and i'll feed it to anyone
crying for sympathy crocodile cry for the love
of the crowd and the three cheers from
everyone dropping through sky through the
glass of the roof through the roof of your mouth
through the mouth of your eye through the eye
of the needle it's easier for me to get closer to
heaven than ever feel whole again

i never said i would stay to the end i knew i
would leave you with babies and everything
screaming like this in the hole of sincerity
screaming me over and over and over i leave
you with photographs pictues of trickery
stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
songs about
happiness murmured in dreams when we both
of us knew how the end always is...

how the end always is...

Do The Hansa

Ein zwei drei vier
Steve oh yeah
Platinum all the way
Do the hansa
Do the hansa
Etc etc

Do You Wanna Touch Me?

As recorded by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

We've been here too long
Tryin' to get along
Pretendin' that you're oh so shy
I'm a natural ma'am
Doin' all I can
My temperature is runnin' high

Cry at night
No one in sight
An' we got so much to share
Talking's fine
If you got the time
But I ain't got the time to spare
Yeah

Do you wanna touch (Yeah)
Do you wanna touch (Yeah)
Do you wanna touch me there, where
Do you wanna touch (Yeah)
Do you wanna touch (Yeah)
Do you wanna touch me there, where
There, yeah

Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

Every girl an' boy
Needs a little joy
All you do is sit an' stare
Beggin' on my knees
Baby, won't you please
Run your fingers through my hair

My, my, my
Whiskey and rye
Don't it make you feel so fine
Right or wrong
Don't it turn you on
Can't you see we're wastin' time, yeah

Do you wanna touch (Yeah)
Do you wanna touch (Yeah)
Do you wanna touch me there, where
Do you wanna touch (Yeah)
Do you wanna touch (Yeah)
Do you wanna touch me there, where
There, yeah

Doing The Unstuck

it's a perfect day for letting go
for setting fire to bridges
boats
and other dreary worlds you know
let's get happy!
it's a perfect day for making out
to wake up with a smile without a doubt
to burst grin giggle bliss skip jump and sing and shout
let's get happy!

but it's much to late you say
for doing this now
we should have done it then
well it just goes to show
how wrong you can be
and how you really should know
that it's never too late
to get up and go

it's a perfect day for kiss and swell
for rip-zipping button-popping kiss and well...
there's loads of other stuff can make you yell
let's get happy!
it's a perfect day for doing the unstuck
for dancing like you can't hear the beat
and you don't give a further thought
to things like feet
let's get happy!

but it's much too late you say
for doing this now
we should have done it then
well it just goes to show
how wrong you can be
and how you really should know
that it's never to late
to get up and go

kick out the gloom
kick out the blues
tear out the pages with all the bad news
pull down the mirrors and pull down the walls
tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
oh just burn down the house!
burn down the street!
turn everything red and the beat is complete
with the sound of your world
going up in fire
it's a perfect day to throw back your head
and kiss it all goodbye

it's a perfect day for getting old
forgetting all your worries
life
and everything that makes you cry
let's get happy!
it's a perfect day for dreams come true
for thinking big
and doing anything you want to do
let's get happy!

but it's much to late you say
for doing this now
we should have done it then
well it just goes to show
how wrong you can be
and how you really should know
that it's never too late
to get up and go

kick out the gloom
kick out the blues
tear out the pages with all the bad news
pull down the mirrors and pull down the walls
tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
oh just burn down the house!
burn down the street!
turn everything red and the dream is complete
with the sound of your world
going up in fire
it's a perfect day to throw back your head
and kiss it all goodbye

The Double Crossing Of Two Faced Fred

B-side of I Want To Be A Tree
Fiction FICS 21 - 08/84
"if trees grow in the forest...
...Pap grow in the trees"

One Dark Night
Oh, must be a year ago
I was lying in Bed -
That's me and Flo

Flo was roaring and snoring
But I could not sleep
See, me head was splitting
From counting up Sheep

When...
Thrrrp.

Yeah, someone - uh - spoke...

I kept me head, though -
I'm that sort of bloke
Well, I turns on me Lamp
To view this Intruder
"Begone !", says I

Or was it something ruder ?

I couln't see Nothing
Now the Light was clearer.
But as I turns past the Mirror
I see 2 eyes
In the back of me Head

Then a nose.

Then a mouth.

Its tongue a luminous Red

"Thrrrp", said the Head
"Just call me Fred"

"Well, that's my name too"

I said

To Fred.

The aforesaid.

Head.

Well, we Nattered and Chattered
Till the break of Dawn
In fact till Flo
Woke up
With a Yawn

Fretted Flo to Fred :
"Oh, he's never cared a Fig for me
Oh, The Fred I wed's a Freak
But to wed Two Heads -
Is this bigamy ?"

Said Fred :
"Dunno, but it's unique"

Flo pointed to the Door
More abuse was hurled
So Fred and me
Agreed to leave
To go and see the World

Arriving in Watford
(Via the course, of course)
Says I :
"I'm so hungry -I could eat a Horse"
"Banish thy pangs" - said Fred
"I'll do better for Thee
I'll catch us a sheep
We'll have cutlets
For Tea"

Well, I was keeping watch
Whilst Fred was seeking Sheep
But I counted two accidentally
And soon dropped off to sleep...

Fred went on perpetrating
This nasty, ghastly Crime
When :
"'ello, 'ello, 'ello",
said a voice behind.

The lawman said :
"You'll lose your head!"
Me eyes begun to run
So did Fred
(the aforesaid Head)

Already, I'd lost one.

"Sheep rustling! Mmmm",
said the Judge
seizing his black hat
"I could put you
behind baaa's
Or cut off your Head".

And all he said was That.

They skewered me Head
On a Tower Bridge pike
It's a little bit Windy
But the view I like

'Ere, guess who I see courting
Caught in a Traffic Jam ?
Yeah, Fred
Sporting me headless Body
Supporting me old Ma'am

Fretted Fred to me :
(the aforesaid Head)
"Like me Body?
It's new
I stuck me Head on
With Glue
I live in your old House
I love your old Spouse
Even She think's I'm you"

"Thrrrp", I said !

Doubt

Stop my flight to fight
And die
And take a stand to change my life
So savage with red desperation
I clench my hands
You draw your claws
A hidden rage consumes my heart
Fuelled by years of wasted time
I close my eyes
And tense myself
And screaming
Throw myself in fury over the edge
And into your blood

Tear at flesh
And rip at skin
And smash at doubt
I have to break you
Fury drives my vicious blows
I see you fall but still I strike you
Again and again
Your body falls
The movement is sharp and clear and pure
And gone
I stop and kneel beside you
Drained of everything but pain

Screaming throw myself in fury
Over the edge and into your blood

Kiss you once and see you writhe
Hold you close and hear you cry
Kiss your eyes and finish your life
Kiss your eyes
Finish your life

Again and again
Your body falls
The movement is sharp and clear and pure
And gone
I stop and kneel beside you
Knowing I'll murder you again tonight

Knowing I'll murder you again
Knowing I'll murder you again
Knowing I'll murder you again
Knowing I'll murder you again
Tonight

The Dream

You're too far away
Too far away to touch
And this mother's love inside me
Hurts too much
Prettily waving
Playing on the sand
Dreaming of everything
Dancing
Dancing in our hands
Dancing
Dancing

Dizzy dizzy dizzy
As I speak
Like a tumbling cat
I watch in fascination
Like a vampire bat
Don't do it don't do it
Don't do it don't do it
Don't give it away
We'll use it up tomorrow
If we don't use it today

Rest your head
Oh just put it outside
All wrapped up in ribbons
The night
The dream
The time love died

We pushed it in our mouths
Pushed it deep inside
All wrapped up in ribbons
The night
The dream
The time
Love died

Dredd Song

never say it's over
never say the end
anytime you stop just start again
never say give up
never say give in
you always have to fight to win

however much it hurts
however much it takes
believe and all your dreams will all come true
however hard it gets
however much it aches
always believe in me
as i believe in you

to never say too late
never say it's done
make me know for real you are the one
the one that never turns
never walks away
the one that i can trust to always stay

never say surrender
never say die
you only ever get there if you try
never say give up
never say give in
you always have to fight to win

however much it hurts
however much it takes
believe that all your dreams can all come true
however hard it gets
however much it aches
always believe in me
as i believe in you

never say if only
never say regret
only the weak remember to forget
never say it's over
never say the end
never say never again

however much it hurts
however much it takes
believe and all your dreams will all come true
however hard it gets
however much it aches
believe in me
as i believe in you

Dressing Up

Going under slowly
It never seems too late
Going under so slow

Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to touch all this

I'm dressing up to dance all week
I'm dressing up to sleep

Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to be all this

I could eat your face
I could eat all of you
Oh this night will never let me go...

Going under slowly
Never seems too late
Going under slow
You'll pick me up again

The Drowning Man

She stands twelve feet above the flood
She stares
Alone
Across the water

The loneliness grows and slowly
Fills her frozen body
Sliding downwards

One by one her senses die
The memories fade
And leave her eyes
Still seeing worlds that never were
And one by one the bright birds leave her ...

Starting at the violent sound
She tries to turn
But final
Noiseless
Slips and strikes her soft dark head
The water bows
Receives her
And drowns her at its ease
Drowns her at its ease

I would have left the world all bleeding
Could I only help you love
The fleeting shapes
So many years ago
So young and beautiful and brave

Everything was true
It couldn't be a story

I wish it was all true
I wish it couldn't be a story
The words all left me
Lifeless
Hoping
Breathing like the drowning man

Oh Fushia
You leave me
Breathing like the drowning man
Breathing like the drowning man

The Empty World

As stiff as toys
And tall as men
And swaying like the wind torn trees
She talked about the empty world
With eyes like poison birds

She talked about the armies
That marched inside her head
And how they made her dreams go bad
But oh how happy she was
How proud she was
To be fighting in the war
In the empty world

End

i think i've reached that point
where giving up and going on
are both the same dead end to me
are both the same old song

i think i've reached that point
where every wish has come true
and tired disguised oblivion
is everything i do

please stop loving me
please stop loving me
i am none of these things

i think i've reached that point
where all the things you have to say
and hopes for something more from me
are just games to pass the time away

please stop loving me
please stop loving me
i am none of these things

i think i've reached that point
where every word that you write
of every blood dark sea
and every soul black night
and every dream you dream me in
and every perfect free from sin
and burning eyes
and hearts on fire
are just the same old song

please stop loving me
please stop loving me
i am none of these things
i am none of these things

i am none of these things

The Exploding Boy

I couldn't hear a word you said
I couldn't hear at all
You talked until your tongue fell out
And then you talked some more
I knew if I turned
I'd turn away from you
And I couldn't look back

Tell yourself we'll start again
Tell yourself it's not the end
Tell yourself it couldn't happen
Not this way
Not today

Faith

Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold
I can't just carry on this way
And every time
I turn away
Lose another blind game
The idea of perfection holds me
Suddenly I see you change
Everything at once
The same
But the mountain never moves

Rape me like a child
Christened in blood
Painted like an unknown saint
There's nothing left but hope
Your voice is dead
And old
And always empty
Trust in me through closing years
Perfect moments wait
If only we could stay
Please
Say the right words
Or cry like the stone white clown
And stand forever
Lost forever in a happy crowd

No one lifts their hands
No one lifts their eyes
Justified with empty words
The party just gets better and better

I went away alone
With nothing left
But faith

Faith (Sydney 1981)

It's the last song, it's called "Faith".

Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold
I can't just carry on this way
And every time
I turn away
Lose another blind game
The idea of perfection holds me...
Suddendly I see you change
Everything at once
The same
But the mountain never moves

Rape me like a child
Christened in blood
Painted like an unknow saint
There's nothing left but hope
You voice is dead
And old
And always empty
Trust in me through closing years
Perfect moments wait
If only we could stay...
Please
Say the right words
Or cry like the stone white clown
And stand
Lost forever in a happy crowd

And no one lifts their hands
And no one lifts their eyes
Justified with every words
The party just gets better and better

I went away alone
With nothing left
But faith

See you, you used to stand with eyes so opened now
Wonder how they've always seen your name
See you, standing always in the open now
See you, just me, just the same
How he could have held you in his arms ?
Nowhere always sounds so good
When you used to stand (...?)
When you smile it's over now
Still you put your trust in me

Do you put your trust in me ?

There's nothing left but faith
Your voice is sad and distant now
There's nothing left but faith
Your voice is old and distant now

Thank you, good night.

Sydney, Capitol Theatre 17.08.81

Record : 12" Charlotte Sometimes
Fiction FICSX 14 (10.81)

Fascination Street

oh it's opening time down on fascination street
so let's cut the conversation and get out for a
bit because i feel it all fading and paling and i'm
begging to drag you down with me to kick the
last nail in yeah i like you in that like i like you
to scream but if you open your mouth then i
cant be responsible for quite what goes in or
to care what comes out so just pull on your hair
just pull on your pout and let's move to the beat
like we know that it's over if you slip going
under slip over my shoulder so just pull on your
face just pull on your feet and let's hit opening
time down on fascination street

so pull on your hair pull on your pout cut the
conversation just open your mouth pull on your
face pull on your feet and let's hit opening time
down on fascination street

Fear Of Ghosts

Like a feeling that I'm down
Down inside my heart
Like I'm looking out through
Splitting bloodred
Windows in my heart
From a higher up than heaven
And a harder down than stone
Shake the fear that always clawing
Pulls me clawing down alone
As I spitting splitting bloodred
Breaking windows in my heart
And the past is taunting
Fear of ghosts
Is forcing me apart
And the further I get
From the things that I care about
The less I care about
How much further away I get...

I am lost again
With everything gone
And more alone
Than I have ever been
I expect you to understand
To feel it too
But I know that even if you will
You cannot ever help me
Nor can I
Ever help you

A Few Hours After This

The look before I go
Is the look for you
You only have to look and it will all come true
And we can fall outside
Into the fizzy night
Or pull me down in here
You know it's all the same
I only want to see if you are happy again
Or we can roll around
And find out upside down

A few hours after this and we're apart again
Like two white checks
Like opposite poles
In a secret game
(like nothing like these I suppose...)
I really should have known by the cut of your smile
That the answer would be simple
It still took you awhile to get it out of me
I thought you'd do it easily

Just put your hands around my heart
And squeeze me until I'm dry
I never thought you'd ever start to ever ask me why

I never saw you again

Fight

Sometimes there's nothing to feel
Sometimes there's nothing to hold
Sometimes there's no time to run away
Sometimes you just feel so old
The times it hurts when you cry
The times it hurts just to breathe
And then it all seems like there's no-one left
And all you want is to sleep

Fight fight fight
Just push it away
Fight fight fight
Just push until it breaks
Fight fight fight
Don't cry at the pain
Fight fight fight
Or watch yourself burn again
Fight fight fight
Don't howl like a dog
Fight fight
Just fill up the sky
Fight fight fight
Fight til you drop
Fight fight fight
And never never
Never stop

Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight

So when the hurting starts
And when the nightmares begin
Remember you can fill up the sky
You don't have to give in
You don't have to give in

Never give in
Never give in
Never give in

The Figurehead

sharp and open
leave me alone
and sleeping less every night
as the days become heavier and weighted
waiting
in the cold light
a noise
a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten
with spiders inside them
and dust on the lips of a vision of hell
i laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year

a hundred other words blind me with your purity
like an old painted doll in the throes of dance
i think about tomorrow
please let me sleep
as i slip down the window
freshly squashed fly
you mean nothing
you mean nothing

i can lose myself in chinese art and american girls
all the time
lose me in the dark
please do it right
run into the night
i will lose myself tomorrow
crimson pain
my heart explodes
my memeory in a fire
and someone will listen
at least for a short while

i can never say no to anyone but you...

too many secrets
too many lies
writhing with hatred
too many secrets
please make it good tonight
but the same image haunts me
in sequence
in despair of time

i will never be clean again
i touched her eyes
press my stained face
i will never be clean again

touch her eyes
press my stained face
i will never be clean again

The Final Sound

(instrumental)

Fire In Cairo

Slowly fading blue
The eastern hollows catch
The dying sun
Night-time follows
Silence and black
Mirror pool mirrors
The lonely place
Where I meet you

See your head
In the fading light
And through the dark
Your eyes shine bright

And burn
Like fire
Burn like fire in Cairo
Burn like fire
Burn like fire in Cairo

Shifting crimson veil
Silken hips slide
Under my hand
Swollen lips whisper
My name
And I yearn
You take me in your arms
And start to burn

FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
Then the heat disappears
And the mirage
Fades away

FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO

Burn like a fire in Cairo
Burn like a
Fire
Blaze like a fire in Cairo
Blaze like a
Fire
Flare
Burn like fire
Burn like
Fire in Cairo

A Foolish Arrangement

christabel strips
and slips like a dream
breaking ice with arms that gleam with pain
disdain...
she throws her head
and glides against the stream
throwing me her bravest smile
defiant
glittering
shivering gulls

"catching a cold is quick this time
but fish?... fish may take a while..."

christabel dips and slips from me
and hand pushed deep inside is suddenly free
triumphant
reluctantly
struggling six legs held up for me to see

"don't be so scared
it's nothing new
it's the same old game; only fun with two..."
but fast and over and over
"i can't play this game with you"

everything she tries to tell me
leaves me open mouthed and still
foolishly arrange tomorrow
the way I always will

christabel trips
and grips my hand
but never to be saved
for a second i understand
and i fall in with her...

"i'll never leave you
love you
see you change into the man i want
but it's not for long this thing
it's not for long..."

A Forest

Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
If you can
Come closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes

I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark
I hear her voice
And start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees

Into the trees

Suddenly I stop
But I know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
All alone
The girl was never there
It's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again

All I Have To Do Is Kill Her (Forever)

Pulling this watch as faces go
pulling in a word and done it slow this other time
I see your face is silent
oh, we go away and play
what have you done
takes a feeling inside us all
continue out with just one push in my mouth
but you're so close now
and you're so close now
all I have to do is three short blows
all that still is placed inside
the full when the wall
and you don't even know
AIHTDIKH X2
and the other faces here with me
the others dressed in summers thing
if only one way is to be [beautiful|waterfall ???]
if only one way is to the other song
and every time it's you, it's like the blood on the stairs is sent away
and every time we see it's all said before you

if only the ways to kill you
you used to say this fear of drowning
fear no death by water
father walks in at the foot of the bed
six of you want to see you safe
just one time you'll meet this man
All you've got to do is kill her
and all you've got to do is kill her
trickle the sands against and pull the animals
just out of the womb
seeing the cow dead before he was born
it's the man he, he loved
the solid pieces fell on the ground
he couldn't kill another life
he couldn't kill another life
he couldn't kill another life
it's all been painted [with love|painted up ???]
it could have been some friends
pulling strings to meet you
all i want to do is [reach it|eat you ???]
she says 'look over my shoulder!' 'see the sky!'
and the sky goes black
and the sky goes black
i just hope she'll be there!
i just hope she'll be there!
i just hope she'll be there!
i just hope she'll be there!

every time i looked up the stairs
i used to see her die
she would move so slow
any one couldn't think that she was a cat
anoyone could've been she was a cat
pulling away as I used to fight
let's make some noise
that ugly or pretty
the face stays the same
her face stays the same
her face stays the same
the ugly or pretty
her face stays the same, stays the same, stays the same

and looking on the final walls
and looking on the final walls
did you now find this malice out
the angels fall
let's make some noise
let's make some noise

(mumblings)

help me be your mother for just one day
Last fall the children played outside
they used to love
they used to love

Foxy Lady

(by Jimi Hendrix)

Foxy
Foxy

You know you're a cut little heartbreaker
Foxy
You know you're a sweet little lovemaker
Foxy

I wanna take you home
I won't do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady

I see you, heh, on down on the scene
Foxy
You make me wanna get up and scream
Foxy
Ah, baby listen now
I've made up my mind
I'm tired of wasting all my precious time
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Foxy lady
Here I come

I'm gonna take you home
I won't do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine

Here I come
I'm comin' to get ya
Foxy lady
You look so good
Yeah, foxy
Yeah, give us some
Foxy
Yeah, get it, babe
You make me feel like
Feel like sayin' foxy
Foxy
Foxy lady
Foxy lady

Friday I'm In Love

i don't care if monday's blue
tuesday's grey and wednesday too
thursday i don't care about you
it's friday i'm in love

monday you can fall apart
tuesday wednesday break my heart
thursday doesn't even start
it's friday i'm in love

saturday wait
and sunday always comes too late
but friday never hesitate...

i don't care if monday's black
tuesday wednesday heart attack
thursday never looking back
it's friday i'm in love

monday you can hold your head
tuesday wednesday stay in bed
or thursday watch the walls instead
it's friday i'm in love

saturday wait
and sunday always comes too late
but friday never hesitate...

dressed up to the eyes
it's a wonderful surprise
to see your shoes and your spirits rise
throwing out your frown
and just smiling at the sound
and as sleek as a shriek
spinning round and round
always take a big bite
it's such a gorgeous sight
to see you in the middle of the night
you can never get enough
enough of this stuff
it's friday
i'm in love

From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea

i fall for her
wave after wave after wave
it's all for her
i know this can't be wrong i say
(and i'll lie to keep her happy)
as long as i know that you know
that today i belong
right here with you
right here with you...

and so we watch the sun come up
from the edge of the deep green sea
and she listens like her head's on fire
like she wants to believe in me
so i try
put your hands in the sky
surrender
remember
we'll be here forever
and we'll never say goodbye...

i've never been so
colourfully-see-through-head before
i've never been so
wonderfully-me-you-want-some-more
and all i want is to keep it like this
you and me alone
a secret kiss
and don't go home
don't go away
don't let this end
please stay
not just for today

never never never never never let me go she says
hole me like this for a hundred thousand million days
but suddenly she slows
and looks down at my breaking face
why do you cry? what did i say?
but it's just rain i smile
brushing my tears away...

i wish i could just stop
i know another moment will break my heart
too many tears
too many times
too many years i've cried over you

how much more can we use it up?
drink it dry?
take this drug?
looking for something forever gone
but something
we will always want?

why why why are you letting me go? she says
i feel you pulling back
i feel you changing shape...
and just as i'm breaking free
she hangs herself in front of me
slips her dress like a flag to the floor
and hands in the sky
surrenders it all...

i whish i could just stop
i know another moment will break my heart
too many tears
too many times
too many years i've cried for you
it's always the same
wake up in the rain
head in pain
hung in shame
a different name
same old game
love in vain
and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
away from home again...

The Funeral Party

Two pale figures
Ache in silence
Timeless
In the quiet ground
Side by side
In age and sadness

I watched
And acted wordlessly
As piece by piece
You performed your story
Moving through an unknown past
Dancing at the funeral party

Memories of childrens dreams
Lie lifeless
Fading
Lifeless
Hand in hand with fear and shadows
Crying at the funeral party

I heard a song
And turned away
As piece by piece
You performed your story
Noiselessly across the floor
Dancing at the funeral party

Give Me It (a.k.a. Cat's Like Cheese)

Get away from me
Get your fingers out of my face
This room's so hot
This room's so hot

I break the walls

Get away from me
Leave me alone
Like the pig on the stairs
Hanging
In a groovy purple shirt

Gasping for air
I'm gasping for air
I'm gasping for love
I'm gasping for air

Slit the cats like cheese
Then eat the sweet sticky things
Suck harder suck harder
Suck your insides insides out

Blood thick swimming round your feet
As you're choking
Choking
Choking on the fleshy words

Give me it give me it give me it
Deaden my glassy mind
Give me it give me it give me it
Make me blind
One step back and one step down
And slip the needles in my side

My head is cold
My hands are cold
My heart is cold
My heart is black
And stops every fucking night
Every night
I wait until it stops

Sing birds sing birds sing birds sing
Get away

Gone!

oh you know how it is
wake up feeling blue
and everything that could be wrong is
including you
black clouds and rain and rain in your head
and all you want to do is stay in bed

buf if you do that you'll be missing the world
because it doesn't stop turning whatever you heard
if you do that you'll be missing the world
you have to get up get out and get gone!

yeah you know how it is
wake up feeling green
sick as a dog and six times as mean
you don't want to sing you don't want to play
you don't want to swing you don't want to sway
all you want to do is nothing
on a day like today

but if you do that you 'll be missing the world
because it doesn't stop turning whatever you heard
if you do that you'll be missing the world
you have to get up get out and get gone!
yeah get up get out and get some fun
you have to get up get out and get gone!
yeah get up get out and get gone!
get up get out and get gone!
you have to get up get out and get living
yeah this is really it...

so you know how it is
wake up feeling grey
nothing much to think and nothing much to say
don't want to talk don't want to try
don't want to think don't want to know
who what where when or why...

oh but you do that and you're missing the world
yeah it's happening right now whatever you heard
you do that and you're missing the world
you have to get up get out and get gone!
yeah get up get out and have some fun
you have to get up get out and get gone!
yeah get up get out and get it on
get up get out and get gone!
you have to get up get out and get living
yeah this is really it!

Grinding Halt

No light
No people
No speak
No people
No cars
No people
No food
No people

Stopped
Short
Grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt

No sound
No people
No clocks
No people
No fine
No people
No me
No people

Stopped
Short
Grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt

Slow down
Slow down
No people
Slow down
Everything's coming to a
Everything's coming to a
Everything's coming to a
Everything's coming to a

Halo

i never felt like this with anyone before
you only have to smile and i'm dizzy
you make the world go round
a thousand times an hour
just touch my head
and send me spinning

i never felt like this with anyone before
you show me colours and i'm crying
you hold my eyes in yours
and open up the world
i can't believe all this

i want to keep this feeling
deep inside of me
i want you always in my heart
you are everything

i never felt like this with anyone before
you fill my head all full of rainbows
and all the rainbows end
is every step you take
just to be with you forever

i want to keep this feeling
deep inside of me
i want you always in my heart
you are everything

The Hanging Garden

chreatures kissing in the rain
shapeless in the dark again
in the hanging garden
please don't speak
in the hanging garden
no one sleeps

catching haloes on the moon
give my hands the shapes of angels
in the heat of the night
the animals scream
in the heat of the night
walking into a dream...

fall fall fall fall
into the walls
jump jump out of time
fall fall fall fall
out of the sky
cover my face as the animals cry

creatures kissing in the rain
shapeless in the dark again
in a hanging garden
change the past
in a hanging garden
wearing furs
and masks

fall fall fall fall
into the walls
jump jump out of time
fall fall fall fall
out of the sky
cover my face as the animals die
in the hanging garden

Happy Birthday (Simon)

This was sung with the music of Three (Seventeen Seconds).
-----------------

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Simon is twenty in half an hour, so this is for him.

Those down days
When you felt so young
And everything seemed

You saw the people
Around You
Getting old

You wake up
The teenage yearn is
Gone for you

It happens to others
It happens all the time
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you

The candles on the cake
Waiting to be blown
Wish I was
An other

Herford Scala, 31.05.80

Happy The Man

I'll never understand
(Come closer and I'll whisper)
Who was that standing in the rain?
If only I could remember
What he said
(And how it all began)

Happy the man
With the face that smiles

But it has to have a name
(Something strong, something faithful, something pure)
How does he look so safe?

He'll never
Never turn away
Happy the man

Harold And Joe

Nothing ever gets in my way
Nothing ever gets on my mind
Nothing ever makes me stop to think about
Nothing of the kind

Nothing ever loses...
And nothing ever wins my heart
Nothing ever makes me want to sing along
And nothing makes me want to start

If I'm falling down a maple
Then I keep myself up
And if I crash into an aspen
I don't give a frightful look around
If I am burning then I put myself out
I'm so completely a fool
I'm scared the whole day of the world inside out
Just look around
Just look around

Nothing ever puts me out
Nothing ever pulls me in
Nothing ever makes me want to jump
Nothing makes me want to begin

Nothing ever gets me down
Nothing ever gets me uptight
Nothing ever makes me run around
And nothing makes me feel I'm I

If I'm hanging from a beech tree
Then I cut myself down
And if I look into the sun
I just turn off the sound
And if I swallow...
Then I spit them right out
I'm so completely a fool
I'm scared the whole day of the world inside out
Just look around
Just look around

Nothing ever gets in my way
Nothing ever gets on my mind
Nothing ever makes me stop to think about
Nothing of the kind

Harold and Joe
Go go go
(Sing bird sing)

Hello, I Love You

(The Doors)
Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game
Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name ?

Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name ?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game
Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name ?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game

She's walking down the street
Blind to every eye she meets
Do you think you'll be the guy
To make the queen of the angels sigh ?

Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
I love you
Want you

Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game
Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game

She holds her head so high
Like a statue in the sky
Her arms are wicked and her legs are long
When she moves my brain screams out this song

Sidewalk crouches at her feet
Like a dog that begs for something sweet
Do you hope to make her see you fool?
Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel?

Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello
I need you
I need you
Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?

From: Olivier HARTMANN (p6ip064@cicrp.jussieu.fr)

Herion Face

Spit out the shout of a warning
Death is an honour with doubts
So you live in the end
And you mistrust the start
Because you don't think it counts

But you'll pay for yourself
You'll pay for yourself
You're just a heroin face

You see a heroin face in the mirror
And someone is clutching your breath
And you believe in the needle of night
You're only doing your best

But you'll pay for yourself
You'll pay for yourself

You believe in the needle of night
And someone is cluthing your breath
So you mistrust the start
By always running away
But you'll never come back

You're just a heroin face
Heroin face

Hey You!!!

Hey you!!!
Yes you
Yes you the one that looks like Christmas
Come over here and kiss me
Kiss me

Hey you!!!
Yes you
Yes you the one that looks delirious
Come over here and kiss me
Kiss me

High

Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
When I see you sky as a kite
As high as I might
I can't get that high
And how you move
The way you burst the clouds
It makes me want to try

And when I see you sticky as lips
As licky as trips
I can't lick that far
But when you pout
The way you shout out loud
It makes me want to start
And when I see you
happy as a girl
That swims in a world
of magic show
It makes me bite
my fingers through
To think I could've let you go

And when I see you
Take the same sweet steps
You used to take
I say I'll keep on holding you
My arms so tight
I'll never let you slip away

Do do do do do do (x 7)
Da da da da da da

And when I see you
kitten as a cat (ow)
Yeah as smitten as that (ow)
I can't get that small
The way you fur
The how you purr
It makes me want to paw you all
And when I see you (do do do do)
happy as a girl
That lives in a world (do do do
do) of make-believe (do do do do)
It makes me pull my hair all out
To think I could've let you leave

And when I see you
Take the same sweet steps
You used to take I know
I'll keep on holding you
In arms so tight
They'll never let you go (never
let you go)

The Holy Hour

I kneel and wait in silence
As one by one the people slip away
Into the night
The quiet and empty bodies
Kiss the ground before they pray
Kiss the ground
And slip away

I sit and listen dreamlessly
A promise of salvation makes me stay
Then look at your face
And feel my heart pushed in
As all around the children play
The games they tired of yesterday
They play
They play

I stand and hear my voice
Cry out
A wordless scream at ancient power
It breaks against stone
I softly leave you crying
I cannot hold what you devour
The sacrifice of penance
In the holy hour

Home

every time i try to tell you how i feel inside
i always make the same mistakes
tie myself in knots
sometimes even make you cry
when all i ever want to say
is nobody else in the whole wide world
makes me feel this way
nobody else in the whole wide world
takes my breath away

makes me feel so strange inside
dazed confused and starry-eyed
i couldn't love you more
makes me feel the wrong way round
inside out and upside down
i couldn't love you more

and every time i try to tell you what i really mean
nothing seems to come out right
end up murmuring foolishly
it makes me want to scream
how i get so stupefied

there's nobody else in the whole wide world
makes me feel this way
there's nobody else in the whole wide world
takes my breath away

makes me feel so strange inside
open mouthed and mystified
i couldn't love you more
makes me feel so upside down
muddle-headed round and round
i couldn't love you more
makes me feel so strange inside
dazed confused and starry-eyed
i couldn't love you more
makes me feel the wrong way round
inside out and upside down
i couldn't love you more

Homesick

hey hey! just one more and i'll walk away all
the everything you win turns to nothing today
and i forget when to move when my mouth is this
dry and my eyes are bursting hearts in a blood-
stained sky oh it was sweet it was wild and oh
how we...i trembled stuck in honey honey
cling to me so just one more just one more go
inspire in me the desire in me to never go home

oh just one more and i'll walk away all the
everything you win turns to nothing today so
just one more just one more go inspire in me
the desire in me to never go home

Hot Hot Hot!!!

The first time I saw lightening strike
I saw it underground
Six deep feet below the street
The sky came crashing down
For a second that place was lost in space
Then everything went black
I left that basement burning
And I never went back

The second time I saw it strike
I saw it at sea
It lit up the fish like rain
And rained then down on me
For a second that boat was still afloat
Then everything went black
I left it underwater
And I never went back

Hey hey hey!!!
But I like it when that lightening comes
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I like it alot
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I'm jumping like a jumping jack
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!

The third time I saw lightening strike
It hit me in bed
It threw me around
And left me for dead
For a second that room was on the moon
Then everything went black
I left that house on fire
And I never went back

Hey hey hey!!!
But I like it when that lightening comes
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I like it alot
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I'm jumping like a jumping jack
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!

How Beautiful You Are!

You want to know why I hate you?
Well I'll try and explain...
You remember that day in Paris
When we wandered through the rain
And promised to each other
That we'd always think the same
And dreamed that dream
To be two souls as one
And stopped just as the sun set
And waited for the night
Outside a glittering building
Of glittering glass and burning light...

And in the road before us
Stood a weary greyish man
Who held a child upon his back
A small boy by the hand
The three of them were dressed in rags
And thinner than the air
And all six eyes stared fixedly on you

The father's eyes said "Beautiful!
How beautiful you are!"
The boy's eyes said
"How beautiful!
She shimmers like a star!"
The childs eyes uttered nothing
But a mute and utter joy
And filled my heart with shame for us
At the way we are

I turned to look at you
To read my thoughts upon your face
And gazed so deep into your eyes
So beautiful and strange
Until you spoke
And showed me understanding is a dream
"I hate these people staring
Make them go away from me!"

The fathers eyes said "Beautiful!
How beautiful you are!"
The boys eyes said
"How beautiful! She glitters like a star!"
The child's eyes uttered joy
And stilled my heart with sadness
For the way we are

And this is why I hate you
And how I understand
That no-one ever knows or loves another

Or loves another

I Dig You

I dig you
You dig me
We dig each other
That's groovy
(oh yeah)

I (Just) Need Myself

I know that I don't love you but I tell you that I do
But I only buy you flowers if I want anything from you
You say that if you'll leave me it will put me on a shelf
But I don't need you girl
I just need myself.
I just need myself

You trust in all my lies
you believe me when I say
that I'll be with you forever
so you let me have my way
I say "your can be me baby"
and I'll lavish you with wealth
but I'll make it that I leave you
'cause I just need myself.

I know that I don't love you but I tell you that I do
But I only buy you flowers if I want anything from you
You think that if you'll leave me it will put me on a shelf
But I don't need you girl
I just need myself.

I just need myself
I just need myself
I just need myself
I just need.

I Want To Be Old

I want to be old
And creek by the fire
I want to smell of rotting wood
It's all I desire
I want my joints to seize up
I want my legs to ache
I want my eyesight to fail
I want my skin to flake
To be old
I want to be old

I want false teeth
And not be able to chew
I want to be senile
A centigenarian fool
I want lots of wrinkles
Want my hearing to go
I want to be ignored
And I want to be slow
To be old
I want to be old

Icing Sugar

Your delicious
Dreaming
Slack jawed
Green eyed
Rub my nose in
Icing sugar
Smooth as
When this cold and deadly
Blade
Kissed the fruit
So soft
And gently breathing
Under your skin

Oh I'll empty you
I'll empty you
As empty as a boy can be
As empty
As a boy can be

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

If only tonight we could sleep
In a bed made of flowers
If only tonight we could fall
In a deathless spell

If only tonight we could slide
Into deep black water
And breathe
And breathe...

Then an angel would come
With burning eyes like stars
And bury us deep
In his velvet arms

And the rain would cry
As our faces slipped away
And the rain would cry

Don't let it end...

I'm A Cult Hero

I'm a cult hero
I'm a dream come true !
You want to touch me
But you can't get through
I walk on water and I don't get wet
I've got something you won't forget
I'm a cult hero, paid my dues
I'm a cult hero
I've got nothing to lose
I'm a cult hero... hero

I'm a cult hero
I'm ahead of my time
You'll never rule me cos I'm all mine
Crowds part for me cos I'm so strong
My time is coming and it won't be long
I'm a cult hero, paid my dues
I'm a cult hero
I've got nothing to lose
I'm a cult hero... hero
Save us
I'm a cult hero, baby

I'm Cold

You're begging me to stay
But I'm laughing in your face
You're so desperate
Not to let those years of care
All go to waste
But it was you who wanted love
Not romance
You have to pay the price
My body may be made of fire
But my soul is made of ice

I'm me
I'm cold
I'm cold
I'm told
I'd love to love you girl
But my body
Has just been sold

In Your House

I play at night in your house
I live another life
Pretending to swim
In your house
I change the time in your house
The hours I take
Go so slow ...

I hear no sound in your house
Silence
In the empty rooms
I drown at night in your house
Pretending to swim
Pretending to swim

Inbetween Days

Yesterday I got so old
I felt like I could die
Yesterday I got so old
It made me want to cry
Go on go on
Just walk away
Your choice is made
Go on go on
And disappear
Go on go on
Away from here

And I know I was wrong
When I said it was true
That it couldn't be me and be her
Inbetween without you
Without you

Yesterday I got so scared
I shivered like a child
Yesterday away from you
It froze me deep inside
Come back come back
Don't walk away
Come back come back
Come back today
Come back come back
Why can't you see
Come back come back
Come back to me

And I know I was wrong
When I said it was true
That it couldn't be me and be her
Inbetween without you
Without you

It Used To Be Me

all he needs is everyone i've been
and all she needs is everywhere i've seen
all they need
anything i've touched
and all you need is everything i've loved
everything i've heard everything i've learned
everything i've tried everything i've held
everything i've felt everything i've lost
everything i've cried
until my whole head shrieks with grinding my teeth
struggling to find a single word i can keep
any kind of truth
any kind of hope
oh just any kind of word that doesn't make me choke

but i keep saying i will and i won't
i keep saying i do and i don't
i keep saying i feel
but there is nothing to feel
just a strange kind of nothing where it used to be me...
it used to be me

all he needs from me is everyone i've ever missed
and all she needs from me
everyone i've ever kissed
all they need from me
anything i've ever sung
yeah and all you need from me is everything i've ever said
everything i've ever done everything i've ever made
everything i've ever prayed everything i've ever believed
everything i've ever touched everything i've ever loved
everything i've ever thought everything i've ever dreamed
until my whole head screams with grinding my teeth
desperate to find a single word i can keep
any kind of faith
any kind of fix
oh just any kind of word that doesn't make me sick

and i keep saying i will but i won't
i keep saying i do but i don't
and i keep saying i feel
but there is nothing to feel
just this strange kind of nothing where it used to be me...

anything and everything
all that you need
get it for free
anything and everything
all that you need
get it from me

get it from me
get it from me
get it from me

It's Not You

You wear your smile
Like it was going out of fashion
Dress to inflame
But douse any ideas of passion
You carry your love in a trinket
Hanging round your throat
Always inviting
Always exciting
But I must not take off my coat

Well I'm tired of hanging around
I want somebody new
I'm not sure who I've got in mind
But I know
That it's not you
That it's not you

You ask me questions
That I never wanted to hear
I am the only one
Just until you finish this year
I would murder you
If I had the alibi
Here in my hand
And you just laugh
'cause you don't understand

That I'm tired of hanging around
I want somebody new
I'm not sure
Who I've got in mind
But I know that it's not you
It's not you
It's not you
It's not you
It's not you
It's not you
No it's not you
That it's not you
It's not you
It's not you

A Japanese Dream

I'm going back to the land of the blind
Back to the land where the sun never shines
I'm going back there and I'm hoping to find
Everything just as it was before
I left it all behind

I slept at nights there hysterically
Twisted and turned
But I just couldn't get free
Opened my eyes
But I still couldn't see
But I could feel her
China white girl

So I get down on the floor
Like I am worshipping god
Burning like a monkey
I get down on the floor
Like I am praying to the lord
Burning like a monkey

Mmmmmm that was a Japanese dream alright
The sound of the storm
And the flickering light
And the way that her scent used to fill up the night like...
Like her scent used to fill up the night

So I get down on the floor
Like I am worshipping god
Burning like a monkey
I get down on the floor
Like I am praying to the lord
Burning like a monkey

Just look at me now
Just look at me this way
It looks like I am quite insane
It looks like I am trying to eat off my face
It looks like I'm going to the land of the blind anyway
Back where the sun never shines
Back to the land of the blind
Back in a Japanese dream

Jumping Someon Else's Train

Don't say what you mean
You might spoil your face
If you walk in the crowd
You won't leave any trace
It's always the same
You're jumping someone else's train

It won't take you long
To learn the new smile
You'll have to adapt
Or you'll be out of style
It's always the same
You're jumping someone else's train

If you pick up on it quick
You can say you were there
Again and again and again
You're jumping someone else's train

It's the latest wave
That you've been craving for
The old ideal
Was getting such a bore
Now you're back in line
Going not quite quite as far
But in half the time
Everyone's happy
They're finally all the same
'cause everyone's jumping
Everyone else's train

Jumping someone else's train
Jumping someone else's train
Jumping someone else's train

Jupiter Crash

She follows me down to the sound of the sea
Slips through the sand and stares up at me
Is this how it happens?
Is this how it feels?
Is this how a star falls?
Is this how a star falls?

The night turns as I try to explain
Irresistible attraction and orbital play
Maybe it's more like a moth to a flame
She pushes my face with her smile
Forget about stars for a while!

She melts

Meanwhile millions of miles away in space
An incoming comet crashes Jupiter's face
And disappears away with barely a trace

Was that it?
Was that the Jupiter show?
Kinda wasn't quite what I hoped for, you know?
Pulling away, she stands up slow
Around her the night turns
Around her the night turns

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was it
That was the Jupiter Crash
Drawn too close and gone in a flash
Just a few bruises in the region of the splash
She moved to the sound of the sea
She drifted away from me
So much for gravity

Just Like Heaven

"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"

Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven

Just One Kiss

I remember the time that
you rained all night
The queen of Siam in my arms
Remember the time that the islands sank
But nobody opened their eyes

Remember that time that the trees fell down
The wood crashing through the wall
Remember the sound that could wake the dead
But nobody woke up at all

Somebody died for this
Somebody died for just one kiss

Remember the time that the sky went black
We waited alone on the sands
Remember the taste of the raging sea
But nobody held out their hands

Somebody died for this
Somebody died
For just one kiss

Just one kiss
Just one kiss

Just Say Yes

say this is it
don't say maybe
don't say no
say this is it
don't say hold on
don't say slow
say this is it
don't say next time
don't say when
say this is it
don't say later
no don't say then

just say yes! do it now!
let yourself go!
just leap! don't look!
or you'll never know
if you love it
you might really love it...
if you love it
you might really love it!

oh come on and love it!

yeah this is it
don't be cautious
don't think twice
this is it
don't play it safe
don't put it on ice
yeah this is it
don't chew it over
no don't kick it around
this is it
don't wait and see
don't try to work it out

just say yes! do it now!
let yourself go!
just leap! don't look!
or you'll never know...
if you love it
you might really love it...
if you love it
you might really love it!

so don't tell me
it could all go wrong
no don't tell me
it could all be a mess
oh don't tell me
it could all be a waste of time
just say oui! si! sim! da! ja! yow! igen! kylla!
just say yes!

Killing An Arab

Standing on the beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth
But I hear no sound

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

I can turn
And walk away
Or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun
Whichever I chose
It amounts to the same
Absolutely nothing

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

I feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes
Of the dead man on the beach
The dead man on the beach

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

Oh Meursault

The Kiss

Kiss me kiss me kiss me
Your tongue is like poison
So swollen it fills up my mouth

Love me love me love me
You nail me to the floor
And push my guts all inside out

Get it out get it out get it out
Get your fucking voice
Out of my head

I never wanted this
I never wanted any of this
I wish you were dead
I wish you were dead

I never wanted any of this
I wish you were dead
Dead
Dead
Dead

Kyoto Song

A nightmare of you
Of death in the pool
Wakes me up at quarter to three
I'm lying on the floor of the night before
With a stranger lying next to me
A nightmare of you
Of death in the pool
I see no further now than this dream
The trembling hand of the trembling man
Hold my mouth
To hold in a scream

I try to think
To make it slow
If only here is where I go
If this is real
I have to see
I turn on fire
And next to me
It looks good
It tastes like nothing on earth
It looks good
It tastes like nothing on earth
Its so smooth it even feels like skin
It tells me how it feels to be new

It tells me how it feels to be new
A thousand voices whisper it true
It tells me how it feels to be new
And every voice belongs
Every voice belongs to you

Lament

Today there was a tragedy
Underneath the bridge
A man walked
Cold and blue
Into La Ment
The sky coloured perfect
As the man slipped away
Waving with a last vanilla smile

Somewhere at a table
Two drowned fools
Smoking
Drinking water as they talked
Of how they loved our lady
And oh the smell as candles die

One more ice cream river body
Flowed underneath the bridge
Underneath the bridge

Last Dance

i'm so glad you came i'm so glad
you remembered to see how we're endeding our last
dance together expectant too puctual but
prettier than ever i really believed that this time
it's forever

but older than me now more constant more real
and the fur and the mouth and the innocence
turned to hair and contentment that hangs in
abesement a woman now standing where once
there was only a girl

i'm so glad you came i'm so glad you
remembered the walking through walls in the
heart of december the blindness of happiness
of falling down laughing and i really believed
that this time was forever

but christmas falls late now flatter and colder
and never as bright as when we used to fall all
this in an instant before i can kiss you a woman
now standing were once there was only a girl

i'm so gled that you came i'm so glld you
remembered to see how we're ending our last
dance together reluctantly cautiously but
prettier than ever i really beleived that this time
it's forever

but christman falls late now flatter and colder
and never as bright as when we used to fall and
even if we drink i don't think we would kiss in
the way that we did when the woman was only a
girl

The Last Day Of Summer

Nothing i am
Nothing i dream
Nothing is new
Nothing i think
Or believe in or say
Nothing is true

It used to be so easy
I never even tried
Yeah it used to be so easy
But the last day of summer
Never felt so cold
The last day of summer
Never felt so old

All that i have
All that i hold
All that...is wrong
All that i feel for
Or trust in or love
All that is...gone

It used to be so easy
I never even tried
Yeah it used to be so easy
But the last day of summer
Never felt so cold
The last day of summer
Never felt so old
The last day of summer
Never felt so cold
I never felt so alone

The Last Thing You Should Do

(as recorded by David Bowie)

What have you been doing to yourself
What have you been doing to yourself
What have you been doing to yourself
It's the last thing you should do-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
Nobody laughs any more
Nobody laughs any more
Nobody laughs any more
It's the worst thing you can do-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo

Save the last dance for me
Catch the last bus with me
Give the last kiss to me
It's the safest thing to do-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
Yeah!
Yeah!

What have you been doing to yourself
What have you been doing to yourself
What have you been doing to yourself
It's the last thing you should do-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
Nobody laughs any more
Nobody laughs any more
Nobody laughs any more
It's the worst thing you can do-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo

Save the last dance for me
Catch the last bus with me
Give the last kiss to me
It's the safest thing to do-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
Yeah!
Yeah!

Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!

Let's Go To Bed

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Let me take your hand
I'm shaking like milk
Turning
Turning blue
All over the windows and the floors
Fires outside in the sky
Look as perfect as cats
The two of us
Together again
But it's just the same
A stupid game

But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first

You think you're tired now
But wait until three
Laughing at the Christmas lights
You remember from December
All of this then back again
Another girl
Another name
Stay alive but stay the same
It's just the same
A stupid game

But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first

You can't even see now
So you ask me the way
You wonder if it's real
Because it couldn't be rain
Through the right doorway
And into the white room
It used to be the dust that would lay here
When I came here alone

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Let's go to bed

A Letter To Elise

oh elise it doesn't matter what you say
i just can't stay here every yesterday
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
every way to smile
forget
and make-believe we never needed
any more than this
any more than this

oh elise it doesn't matter what you do
i know i'll never really get inside of you
to make your eyes catch fire
the way they should
the way the blue could pull me in
if they only would
if they only would
at least i'd lose this sense of sensing something else
that hides away
from me and you
there're worlds to part
with aching looks and breaking hearts
and all the prayers your hands can make
oh i just take as much as you can throw
and then throw it all away
oh i throw it all away
like throwing faces at the sky
like throwing arms round
yesterday
i stood and stared
wide-eyed in front of you
and the face i saw looked back
the way i wanted to
but i just can't hold my tears away
the way you do

elise believe i never wanted this
i thought this time i'd keep all of my promises
i thought you were the girl always dreamed about
but i let the dream go
and the promises broke
and the make-believe ran out...

oh elise
it doesn't matter what you say
i just can't stay here every yesterday
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
every way to smile
forget
and make-believe we never needed
any more than this
any more than this

and every time i try to pick it up
like falling sand
as fast as i pick it up
it runs away through my clutching hands
but there's nothing else i can really do
there's nothing else
i can really do
at all...

Like Cockatoos

She walked out of her house
And looked around
At all the gardens that looked
Back at her house
(Like all the faces
That quiz when you smile...)

And he was standing
At the corner
Where the road turned dark
A part of shiny wet
Like blood the rain fell
Black down on the street

And kissed his feet she fell
Her head an inch away from heaven
And her face pressed tight
And all around the night sang out
Like cockatoos

"There are a thousand things" he said
"I'll never say those things to you again"
And turning on his heel
He left a trace of bubbles
Bleeding in his stead

And in her head
A picture of a boy who left her
Lonely in the rain
(And all around the night sang out
like cockatoos)

The Pillbox Tales (a.k.a. Listen)

Electric line
Racing time
Fire down the wall
Spinning around
The killing ground
It makes you look so small
Henna years
The stinging tears
Flesh on the railway track
The screaming queen
On the TV screen
Is never coming back

Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales

Your special days
Your winning ways
You're living out the past
You're lying lies
And tying ties
And running much too fast
But you feel so sick
If you run too quick
And wishing every day
Wishing you were years away

Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales

The Loudest Sound

Side by side in silence
They pass away the day
So comfortable
So habitual
And so nothing left to say
Nothing left to say
Nothing left to say

Side by side in silence
These thoughts echo around
He looks up at the sky
Yet she looks down at the ground
And stares down at the ground
Stares down at the ground

Side by side in silence
They wish for different worlds
She dreams it as a boy
And he loves her as a girl
Loves her as a girl

Side by side in silence
Without a single word
Its the loudest sound
Its the loudest sound
Its the loudest sound
I ever heard

Love Will Tear Us Apart

(as recorded by Joy Division)

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again --

Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed - our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again --

You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose
There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good just can't function no more
When love, love will tear us apart again --

The Lovecats

We move like cagey tigers
We couldn't get closer than this
The way we walk
The way we talk
The way we stalk
The way we kiss
We slip through the streets
While everyone sleeps
Getting bigger and sleeker
And wider and brighter
We bite and scratch and scream all night
Let's go and
Throw all the songs we know

Into the sea
You and me
All these years and no one heard
I'll show you in spring
It's a treacherous thing
We missed you hissed the lovecats

We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
Wonderfully pretty
Oh you know that I'd do anything for you
We should have each other to tea huh?
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up by the fire
And sleep for awhile
It's the grooviest thing
It's the perfect dream

Hand in hand
Is the only way to land
And always the right way round
Not broken in pieces
Like hated little meeces
How could we miss
Someone as dumb as this

I love you ... let's go
Oh ... solid gone ...
How could we miss someone as dumb
As this?

Lovesong

whenever I'm alone with you you make me feel
like i am home again whenever i'm alone with
you you make me feel like i am whole again

whenever i'm alone with you you make me feel
like i am young again whenever i'm alone with
you you make me feel like i am fun again

however far away i will always love you however
long i stay i will always love you whatever
words i say i will always love you i will always
love you

whenever i'm alone with you you make me feel
like i am free again whenever i'm alone with
you you make me feel like i am clean again

however far away i will always love you however
long i stay i will always love you whatever
words i say i will always love you i will always
love you

Lullaby

on candystripe legs spiderman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for the victim shivering in bed
searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
suddenly! a movement in the corner of the
room! and there is nothing i can do when i
realise with freight that the spiderman is having
me for dinner tonight

quietly he laughs and shaking his head creeps
closer now closer to the foot of the bed and
softer than shadow and quicker than flies his
arms are all around me and his tongue in my
eyes "be still be calm be quiet now my precious
boy don't struggle like that or i will only love
you more for it's much too late to get away or
turn on the light the spiderman is having you
for dinner tonight"

and i feel like i'm being eaten by a thousand
million shivering furry holes and i know that in
the morning i will wake up in the shivering cold
and the spiderman is always hungry...

M

Hello image
Sing me a line from your favourite song
Twist and turn
But you're trapped in the light
All the directions were wrong

You'll fall in love with somebody else
Tonight

Help yourself
But tell me the words
Before you fade away
You reveal all the secrets
To remember the end
And escape someday

You'll fall in love with somebody else
Again tonight

Take a step
You move in time
But it's always back ...
The reasons are clear
Your face is drawn
And ready for the next attack

A Man Inside My Mouth

I woke up at seven and my body was vibrating
I was wrapped up in a blanket
I was grey
Damp and sore
The bedroom was an engine and my heartbeat was erratic
(like I think I'm at the racing
Like the night before)
I remember one girl standing
One was sitting on the ground
One was holding me up
The other pulling me down
And I couldn't decide which one was real
Because there wasn't a sound
(Like I was pregnant again...)

"Don't move don't blink don't even breathe" she said
"Or the photograph will spoil
And cut you off at the head"
So I was sucking
I was suncking like a fat lady would
But I couldn't hold it down another second
(Bleagh!)
"Don't twitch don't shout don't think don't even breathe" she said
"Or the photograph will spoil and cut you off at the head"
So I was sweating
I was sweating like a fat lady would
And I woke up
With a man inside my mouth
(This won't hurt at all)

Maybe Someday

No i won't do it again
I don't want to pretend
If it can't be like before
I've got to let it end
I don't want what I want
I've had a change of head
But maybe someday
Yeah maybe someday

I've got to let it go
And leave it gone
Just walk away
Stop it going on
Get too scared to jump
If i wait too long
But maybe someday
Yeah i'll see you smile
As you call my name
Start to feel
And it feels the same
And i know that maybe someday is come
Maybe someday is come again...
So tell me someday's come
Tell me someday's come again

No i won't do it some more
It doesn't make any sense
If it can't be like it was
I've got to let it rest
I don't want what i did
I had a change of taste
But maybe someday
Yeah i'll see you smile
As you call my name
Start to feel
And it feels the same
And i know that maybe someday is come
Maybe someday is coming

If i could do it again
Maybe just once more
Think i could make it work
Like i did before
If i could try it out
If i could just be sure
Then maybe someday is the last time
Yeah maybe someday is the end
Or maybe someday is when it all stops
Or maybe someday always comes again

Meathook

I went into the butchers
I said wanted wanted wanted some
Meat
Pass
Me some of that steak over there
It looks so
Sweet

I lost my heart to a meathook

That butcher man was some
Lady
He really stole my heart
He hung me up on his meathook
A real piece of
Slaughterhouse art

I lost my heart to a meathook

There's a meathook in my heart
Tearing me all apart
Ripping out my insides
But I just can't get away
I can't leave my
Meathook
Lost my heart to a meathook
Lost my heart to a meathook
Meathook

Mint Car

The sun is up
i'm so happy i could scream
and there's nowhere else in the world i'd rather b
than here with you
it's perfect
it's all I ever wanted
Almost can't believe that it's for real

i really don't think it gets any better than this
vanilla smile
and a gorgeous strawberry kiss!
birds sing we swing
clouds shift by and everything is like a dream
It's everything I wished...

never guessed it got this good
wondered if it ever would
really didn't think it could
do it again?
i know we should!!!

The sun is up
i'm so fizzy i could burst!
you wet through and me headfirst
into this it's perfect
It's all i ever wanted
ow! it feels so big it almost hurts!

never guessed it got this good
wondered if it ever would
really didn't think it could
do it some more?
i know we should!!!
it will always be like this
forever and ever

never guessed it got this good
Wondered if it ever would
Really didn't think it could
do it all the time?
i know that we should!!!

More Than This

for a second of your life
tell me that it's true
waiting for a sign
it's all i want of you
your heart hides a secret
"the promise of what is"
...or something more than this?

just a second of your time
any one will do
the taste of any 'other'
is all i want from you
offer me the world
and how can i resist
something more than this?

make-believe in magic
make-believe in dreams
make-believe in possible
nothing as it seems
to see touch taste smell hear
but never know if it's real...

for a second of your life
tell me if it's true
anywhere beyond
it's all i want of you
on your lips lies a secret
"the promise of a kiss"

...or something more than this?

just a second of your time
any one will do
to know of any 'other'
is all i want from you
giving me the world
know i can't resist
something more than this

make-believe in magic
make-believe in dreams
make-believe in possible
nothings as it seems
and never really understand
what anything means...

another second of my life
not knowing if it's true
make-believe in nothing
it's all i want of you
whisper me the secret
whisper me...

"there is always something other...
something more than this"

Mr. Pink Eyes

You look so cool
Oh I don't think
Just fall over be like me
Mr. Pink Eyes

Your mind is blank
And mine's away
Oh you can't see
You can't smell
Mr. Pink Eyes

It's got to be jazz
That's what she wants
You are so vile
Mr. Pink Eyes

Oh give me a look
Give me a look
Or sit on my head
Or jump on my foot
Do something

Never Enough

However much I push it down
It's never enough
However much I push it around
It's never enough
However much I make it out
It's never enough
It's never enough
However much I do

However big I ever feel
It's never enough
Whatever I do to make it real
It's never enough
And any way I try to speak
It's never enough
It's never enough
However much I try to speak
It's never enough

However much I'm falling down
It's never enough
However much I'm falling out
It's never enough
Whatever smile I smile the most
It's never enough
It's never enough
However I smile I smile the most

So let me hold it up just one more go
Holding it up for just once more
One more time to fill it up
One more time to kill
But whatever I do it's never enough
It's never enough

However much I push it down
It's never enough
However much I push it around
It's never enough
However much I make it out
It's never enough
However much I do
It's never enough
It's never enough

However much I'm falling down
It's never enough
However much I'm falling out
It's never enough
Whatever smile I smile the most
It's never enough
However I smile I smile the most

So let me hold it up just one more go
Holding it up for just once more
One more time to fill it up
One more time to kill
But whatever I do it's never enough
Never enough

So let me hold it up just one more go
Holding it up for just once more
One more time to fill it up
One more time to kill
But whatever I do it's never enough
It's never enough
It's never enough
It's never enough
It's never enough
It's never enough

New Day

New day
In heaven the ground is waiting
For the dust
The seed
My love once more
I shout
New day

Hold the air and gasp in life
This solid dance
This cold cold night
Is gone
The dark heat throbs
The fools sweat swims
The hazy light
The deadly sins
Are gone

Crack the stone
Invade my head
Dropping honey dropping dead again
The silence shouts
Across the gap
Another dreaming
Love me again
Shout.

A Night Like This

Say goodbye on a night like this
If it's the last thing we ever do
You never looked as lost as this
Sometimes it doesn't even look like you
It goes dark
It goes darker still
Please stay
But I watch you like I'm made of stone
As you walk away

I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night
A witch hunt for another girl
For always and ever is always for you
Your trust
The most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world

Say hello on a day like today
Say it everytime you move
The way that you look at me now
Makes me wish I was you
It goes deep
It goes deeper still
This touch
And the smile and the shake of your head

I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night
Can't stand here like this anymore
For always and ever is always for you
I want it to be perfect
Like before
I want to change it all

I want to change

Numb

yeah this is how it ends
after all these years
tired of it all
hopelessly helplessly broken apart
he finally falls
he doesn't want to think
doesn't want to feel
doesn't want to know what's going on
says there's nothing he can do will change anythin
he doesn't want to know what's going wrong
because he's in love with a drug
one that makes him numb
one that stops him feeling at all
he's in love with a drug
forget eveyone
he really doesn't care anymore
anymore...

yeah this is how it ends
after all this time
everything just fades away
worn-out and empty and all alone
with nothing left to say
oh it's all too big to make a difference
it's all too wrong to make it right
yeah everything is too unfair
everything too much to bear
he doesn't have the strength left for the fight
says all he wants is the drug
the one that makes him numb
the one that stops him feeling at all
he just wants to take the drug
forget everyone
he doesn't want to care anymore
just keeps loving the drug
the one that makes him numb
the one that stops him feeling at all
just keeps loving the drug
the drug that he's become
he isn't really here anymore...

and that makes me cry

Object

You know you turn me on
Eyes so white and legs so long
But don't try to talk to me
I won't listen to your lies
You're just an object in my eyes
You're just an object in my eyes

Sophisticated smile
You seduce in such fine style
But don't try to fool me
'cause I can see through your disguise
You're just an object in my eyes
You're just an object in my eyes

But I don't mind
I just don't care
I've got no objection
To you touching me there

Object object
Object object
Object object
Object object

You know just what to do
Lick your lips
And I want you
But don't try to hold me
'cause I don't want any ties
You're just an object in my eyes
You're just an object in my eyes

But I don't mind
I just don't care
I've got no objections
To you touching me there
You're just an object object
Object object
You're just an object

Ocean

i don't think i'm any closer now
than i was at fifteen
i still don't know what i really want
or how i really feel
sometimes i think i've seen too much
sometimes nothing at all
and sometimes i think i just forgot
what i was looking for

but i still need to believe in you
i still need to know you'll never
never give up
i believe in you...
so how can you ever let
my hope turn to despair?
how can you ever stop
telling me you care?

but i still need to believe in you
i still need to know you'll never
never give up
i believe in you...
so how can you ever let
my hope turn to despair?
tell me you believe it too
tell me that you care
how can you ever let
my hope turn to despair?
how can you ever stop
pretending?

Off To Sleep

(instrumental)

One Hundred Years

it doesn't matter if we all die
ambition in the back of a black car
in a high building there is so much to do
going home time
a story on the radio

something small falls out of your mouth
and we laugh
a prayer for something better
a prayer
for something better

please love me
meet my mother
but the fear takes hold
creeping up the stairs in the dark
waiting for the death blow

stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
fighting for freedom on the television
sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
have we got everything?
she struggles to get away...

the pain
and the creeping feeling
a little black haired girl
waiting for saturday
the death of her father pushing her
pushing her white face into the mirror
aching inside me
and turn me around
just like the old days
just like the old days

caressing an old man
and painting a lifeless face
just a piece of new meat in a clean room
the soldiers close in under a yellow moon
all shadows and deliverance
under a black flag
a hundred years of blood
crimson
the ribbon tightens around my throat
i open my mouth
and my head bursts open
a sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
thrashing in the water
over and over
we die one after the other
over and over
we die one after the other after the other

it feels like a hundred years
one hundred years...

One More Time

I'd love to touch the sky tonight
I'd love to touch the sky
So take me in your arms
And lift me like a child
And hold me up so high
And never let me go
Take me
Take me in your arms tonight

Hold me
Hold me up so high
And never let me down
Hold me
Hold me up so high
To touch the sky
Just one more time

Take me in your arms tonight
Take me in your arms
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time

Open

i really don't know what i'm doing here
i really think i should've gone to bed tonight but...
just one drink
and there're some people to meet you
i think that you'll like them
i have to say we do
and i promise in less than an hour we will honestly go
now why don't i just get you another
while you just say hello...

yeah just say hello...

so i'm clutching it tight
another glass in my hand
and my mouth and the smiles
moving up as i stand up
too close and too wide
and the smiles are too bright
and i breathe in too deep
and my head's getting light
but the air is getting heavier and it's closer
and i'm starting to sway
and the hands on all my shoulders don't have names
and they won't go away
so here i go
here i go again...

falling into strangers
and it's only just eleven
and i'm staring like a child
until someone slips me heaven
and i take it on my knees
just like a thousand times before
and i get transfixed
that fixed
and i'm just looking at the floor
just looking at the floor
yeah i look at the floor

and i'm starting to laugh
like an animal in pain
and i've got blood on my hands
and i've got hands in my brain
and the first short retch
leaves me gasping for more
and i stagger over screaming
on my way to the floor
and i'm back on my back
with the lights and the lies in my eyes
and the colour and the music's too loud
and my head's all the wrong size
so here i go
here i go again...

yeah i laugh and i jump
and i sing and i laugh
and i dance and i laugh
and i laugh and i laugh
and i can't seem to think
where this is
who i am
why i'm keeping this going
keep pouring it out
keep pouring it down
and the way the rain comes down hard
that's the way i feel inside...

i can't take it anymore
this it i've become
this is it like i get
when my life's going numb
i just keep moving my mouth
i just keep moving my feet
i say i'm loving you to death
like i'm losing my breath
and all the smiles that i wear
and all the games that i play
and all the drinks that i mix
and i drink until i'm sick
and all the faces that i make
and all the shapes that i throw
and all the people i meet
and all the words that i know
makes me sick to the heart
oh i feel so tired...

and the way the rain comes down hard
that's how i feel inside...

Other Voices

Whisper your name in an empty room
You brush past my skin
As soft as fur
Taking hold
I taste your scent
Distant noises
Other voices
Pounding in my broken head
Commit the sin
Commit yourself
And all the other voices said
Change your mind
You're always wrong
Always wrong

Come around at christmas
I really have to see you
Smile at me slyly
Another festive compromise
But I live with desertion
And eight million people
Distant noises
Of other voices
Pulsing in my swinging arms
Caress the sound
So many dead
And all the other voices sing
Change your mind
You're always wrong

Out Of Mind

I've been up for days
And I feel like a menagerie
I'm scratching 'til I bleed
And I keep on seeing
Imaginary lemurs
In the street
In the middle of the day
But as long as I can breathe
Then I know I'll be OK
I'll be alright
I'm out of mind
I'm out of sight
I'm out of sight

I've been up for days
And I feel like a laboratory rat
Inside a maze
And I reel in the monotony of
Screaming
At the moon
In the middle of the day
But as long as I can see it
Then I know I'll be ok
I'll be fine
I'm out of sight
I'm completely out of mind
Completely out of mind

OK
Alright
Come and watch me shake tonight
Mouth wide
Soft and bright
Bite my hand and scream
OK
Alright
Come and watch me break tonight
Push deep
Out of sight
Bite my hand and hold on tight...

Out Of This World

When we look back at it all
As i know we will
You and me wide eyed
I wonder will we really remember
How it feels to be this alive
And i know we have to go
I realize
We only get to stay so long
Always have to go back to real lives
Where we belong
Where we belong
Where we belong

When we think back to all this
And i`m sure we will
Me and you
Here and now
But we forgot the way
It really is
Why it feels like this
And how
And we always have to go
I realize
We always have to say goodbye
Always have to go back to real lives
The real lives are the reason why
We want to live another life
We want to feel another time
Another time
Another time
To feel another time

When we look back at it all
As i know we will
You and me wide eyed
I wonder will we really remember
How it feels to be this alive
And i know we have to go
I realize
We always have to turn away
Always have to go back to real lives
But real lives
Are why we stay
For another dream
Another day
For another world
Another way
For another way

One last time before it's over
One last time before the end
One last time before it's time to go
...again

The Perfect Girl

You're such a strange girl
I think you come from another world
You're such a strange girl
I really don't understand a word
You're such a strange girl
I'd like to shake you around and around
You're such a strange girl
I'd like
To turn you
All upside down

You're such a
Strange girl
The way you look like you do
You're such a strange girl
I want
To be with you

I think I'm falling
I think I'm falling in
I think I'm falling in love with you
With you

Pictures Of You

i've been looking so long at these pictures of
you that i almost beleive that they're real i've
been living so long with my pictures of you that
i almost believe that the pictures are all i can
feel

remembering you standing quiet in the rain as
i ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as
the sky fell in holding you close how i always
held close in your fear remembering you
running soft through the night you were bigger
and brighter and whiter than the snow
screamed at the make-beleive screamed at the
sky and you finally found all your courage to
let it all go

remembering you fallen into my arms crying
for the death of your heart you were stone
white so delicate lost in the cold you were
always so lost in the dark remembering you
how you used to be slow drowned you were
angels so much more than everything oh hold
for the last time then slip away quietly open
my eyes but i never see anything

if only i had thought of the right words i could
have hold on to your heart if only i'd thought of
the right words i wouldn't be breaking apart all
my pictures of you

Looking So long at these pictures of you but i
never hold on to your heart looking so long for
the words to be true but always just breaking
apart my pictures of you

there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to never feel the breaking
apart all my pictures of you

Piggy In The Mirror

Shapes in the drink like christ
Cracks in the pale blue wall
I'm walking slowly and quickly but
Always away
Twisting twisting to the floor

Flowers in your mouth and the same dry
Song the routine from laughter land
16 white legs and a row of teeth
I watch you in secrecy

Your dying for the hope is gone
From here we go nowhere again
I'm trapped in my face and I'm changing
Too much
I can't climb out the way I fell in

Jump with me
For that old forgotten dance
The midnight sun will burn you up
Your life is cold
Your life is hot
Your life's too much for words

These occasions are such a relief
Another point another view to send
We start to talk
And it's all so safe
I feed you in my dreams

Footsteps on a wire
High above my head
The stain reveals my real intention
I'm the waiting beast
I'm the twisted nerve
As I dance dance
Back to the body in my bed

Look at the piggy
Piggy in the mirror

The Pillbox Tales (a.k.a. Listen)

Electric line
Racing time
Fire down the wall
Spinning around
The killing ground
It makes you look so small
Henna years
The stinging tears
Flesh on the railway track
The screaming queen
On the TV screen
Is never coming back

Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales

Your special days
Your winning ways
You're living out the past
You're lying lies
And tying ties
And running much too fast
But you feel so sick
If you run too quick
And wishing every day
Wishing you were years away

Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales

A Pink Dream

rio sunrise sucking on a straw
i rub my head and stagger out the door
and head into the bright new beautiful day
and the way she pulls me in
sucks my breath away

i asked her for some time
and she just made me it
i asked her maybe why?
and she just gave me it

never smile
never stare
she doesn't seem to care at all
never cry
never scream
she doesn't really seem to need me at all...

fourteen weeks i stay away from home
a hundred days a part of me unknown
apart in pink and perfect moments play
and as a wonder of the world
she sucks my breath away

i asked her for some time
and she just made me it
i asked her maybe why?
and she just gave me it
so i asked her could be heaven?
and she just prayed me it...

she didn't want to know my name
she didn't want to know how long we had together
spending time as if tomorrow never comes
i didn't want to know the end
i didn't want to go but slowly found me home again
and slow again tomorrow comes

but it was all so far away
and so long ago
i hardly ever think about her anymore
except sometimes when the summer twilight breeze
carries me the scent of faraway rain
i remember...
and she still sucks my breath away

Plainsong

"i think it's dark and it looks like rain" you said
"and the wind is blowing like it's the end of the
world" you said "and it's so cold it's like the
cold if you were dead" and then you smiled for
a second.
"i think i'm old and i'm in pain" you said
"and it's all running out like it's the end of the
world" you said "and it's so cold it's like the
cold if you were dead" and then you smiled for
a second

sometimes you make me feel like i'm living at
the edge of the world like i'm living at the edge
of the world "it's just the way i smile" you said

Plastic Passion

Plastic passion is a hard to handle
Plastic passion is a sold out scandal
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is the ladies lover
Plastic passion is the marble mother
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a diamond delight
Plastic passion is the nadir of night
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a hycoscine heart
Plastic passion is a transparent tart
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a gold guarantee
The plastic passion is murdering me
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion

Play

day after day
i let you down
promise you to change
then change my mind
and every time i promise you
it will all be fine
it won't be like this next time

the days you wait
turn into years
always wait
helpless tears
hopeless nights
and all the fears
it will always be like this

you give me everything you have
hoping it will someday be enough
to melt my heart
to make me fall in love

day after day
i let you down
promise you to change it all
then change my mind
and every time i promis you
soon be fine
it won't be like this next time

but tonight we play i think
the final act
i push too hard
and you crack
walk away
don't look back
this time you've really gone

you give me everything you have
knowing it can never be enough
my heart's too old
too hard
too cold
for your love

Play For Today

It's not a case of doing what's right
It's just the way I feel that matters
Tell me I'm wrong
I don't really care

It's not a case of share and share alike
I take what I require
I don't understand ...
You say it's not fair

You expect me to act
Like a lover
Consider my moves
And deserve the reward
To hold you in my arms
And wait
And wait
And wait
For something to happen

It's not a case of telling the truth
Some lines just fit the situation
Call me a liar
You would anyway

It's not a case of aiming to please
You know you're always crying
It's just your part
In the play for today

Pornography

a hand in my mouth
a life spills into the flowers
we all look so perfect
as we fall down
in an electric glare
the old man cracks with age
she found his last picture
in the ashes of the fire
an image of the queen
echoes round the sweating bed
sour yellow sounds inside my head
in books
and films
and in life
and in heaven
the sound of slaughter
as your body turns
but it's too late
one more day like today and i'll kill you
a desire for flesh
and real blood
and i'll watch you drown in the shower
pushing my life through your open eyes

i must fight this sickness
find a cure...

Prayers For Rain

you shatter me your grip on me a hold on me
so dull it kills you stifle me infectious sense of
hopelessness and prayers for rain i suffocate i
breathe in dirt and nowhere shines but desolate
and drab the hours all spent on killing time
again all waiting for the rain

you fracture me your hands on me a touch so
plain so stale it kills you strangle me entangle
me in hopelessness and prayers for rain i
deteriorate i live in dirt and nowhere glows but
drearily and tired the hours all spent on killing
time again all waiting for the rain

Primary

The innocence of sleeping children
Dressed in white
And slowly dreaming
Stops all time
Slow my steps and start to blur
So many years have filled my heart
I never thought I'd say those words

The further we go
And older we grow
The more we know ...
The less we show ...

The very first time I saw your face
I thought of a song
And quickly changed the tune
The very first time I touched your skin
I thought of a story
And rushed to reach the end
Too soon

Oh remember
Please
Don't change

So the fall came
Thirteen years
A shiny ring
And how I could forget your name
The air no longer in my throat
Another perfect lie is choked
But it always feels the same

So they close together
Dressed in red and yellow
Innocent forever
Sleeping children in their blue soft rooms
Still dream

The further we go
And older we grow
The more we know ...

Purple Haze

(as recorded by Jimi Hendrix)

Purple haze All in my brain
Lately things don't seem the same
Acting funny but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

Purple Haze all around
Don't know if I'm climbin up or down
Am I happy or in misery
Whatever it is That girl put a spell on me

Help me Help me

SOLO

Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blown Blown my mind
Is it tomorrow or the end of time

Help me Help me

Push

Go go go
Push him away
No no no
Don't let him stay

He gets inside to stare at her
The seeping mouth
The mouth that knows
The secret you
Always you
A smile to hide the fear away
Oh smear this man across the walls
Like strawberries and cream
Its the only way to be

Exactly the same clean room
Exactly the same clean bed
But I've stayed away too long this time
And I've got too big to fit this time...

Quicksand

(as recorded by David Bowie)

I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery
I'm living in a silent film
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain't got the power anymore
No I ain't got the power anymore

I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
Living proof of Churchill's lies
I'm destiny
I'm torn between the light and dark
Where others see their targets
Divine symmetry
Should I kiss the viper's fang
Or herald loud the death of Man
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release

I'm not a prophet or a stone age man
Just a mortal with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it
On the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release

A Reflection

(instrumental)

The Return

oh i really love it here!
oh you've thought of it all!
candlelight! coconut ice! and fun on the floor!
and i reeely love the way you wear your hair
and nothing more
so tell me...
what is going on?
i was sure i'd already gone...

but all you say is we're all spinning
it's really not just me
but that doesn't seem to help me figure out how i
a prisoner in pvc a minute afther three...
it didn't used to be like this
must be all that sleep i missed

yeah but i really love it here!
you've done everything to please!
stolychnaya! banco de gaia! bad timing on tv!
and i reeely love the way you turn
your smile into striptease...
but i'm still not sure what's going on
and i can't help feeling something's wrong

but you just say that we're all spinning
and it's really not just me
but that doesn't seem to help me figure out how i
still wrapped inside your rubber as i wriggle at y
no it didn't used to be like this
must be something strange i kissed...
maybe when my eyes were closed?

so tell me what is going on?
i'm sure that i've already gone...
but all you say is we're all spinning
and it's really not just me
but that doesn't seem to help me figure out how i
still fixed inside your fantasy
a tv refugee...
so tell me what is going on?
just can't help feeling something's wrong...
or is it right this way i feel?
someone get me out of here!!!
i'm waiting on my knees...

Round & Round & Round

round and round and round and round and round we go
trying so hard to get a hold of everyone here
we've got to show how much we love them all
we squeak with idiot fake surprise
flap our hands and flutter our eyes
and lap up all their stupid lies
we've got to love them all

and i really don't know why we do it like this
imitation smiles and how "it's wonderful to be her
i'm really not sure what we're so scared we'll mis

so round and round and round and round and round w
hanging on every shape they throw
it's strange the way we can't say no
until we love them all...

so we laugh at every stupid joke
and smoke and choke and point and poke
and gag on countless lines...
how much we love them all!

and i really don't know why we do it like this
imitation smiles and how "it's wonderful to be her
i'm really not sure what we're so scared we'll mis

maybe it's the sex with the drugs and the fools
or maybe it's the promise of belief?
maybe it's the pleasure and the pain of the cruel
or maybe it's the promise of relief?
and i know that we've said it so many times
"once more and never again"
but however many times that we've said it before
once more is never the end...

The Same Deep Waters As You

kiss me goodbye pushing out before i sleep
can't you see i try swimming the same deep
water as you is hard "the shallow drowned lose
less than we" you breathe the strangest twist
upon your lips "and we shall be together..."

"kiss me goodbye bow your head and join with
me" and face pushed deep rteflections meet
the strangest twist upon your lips and
dissapear the ripples clear and laughing break
against your feet and laughing break the mirror
sweet "so we shall be together..."

"kiss me goodbye" pushing out before i sleep
it's lower now and slower now the strangest
twist upon your lips but i don't see and i dont
feel but tightly hold up silently my hands
before my fading eyes and in my eyes your
smile the very last thing before i go...

i will kiss you i will kiss you i will kiss you
forever on nights like this i will kiss you i will
kiss you and we shall be together...

Scared As You

you know those things i said
all those things that made you cry
i didn't really mean that stuff
i didn't really mean that stuff
all i ever really mean
when i scream and shout the way i do
is i don't know i really don't
just the same as you
just the same as you

you know those things i said
all those things that made you run away from me
i didn't really mean a word
i didn't really mean i don't believe
all i ever really mean
when i rant and rave the way i do
is i'm scared again
just as scared as you

sometimes it's so hard
to just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
you could just throw it all away

and all those things i said
all those things that made you cry
i didn't really mean that stuff
i didn't really mean to say goodbye
didn't really mean to say goodbye

you know those things i said
all those things that made you run away from me
i didn't mean a word
i didn't really mean i don't believe
all i ever really mean
when i scream and shout the way i do
is i'm scared again
just as scared as you

sometimes it's so hard
i could just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
i could just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
to just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
to just throw it all away
just throw it all away
just throw it all away

Screw

When you screw up your eyes
When you screw up your face
When you throw out your arms
And keep changing your shape
Taste the taste in your mouth
Taste the taste on your tongue
On the film on your eyes of what I've become

What do I do when you screw up your eyes?
What do I do when you screw up your face?
What do I do
When you throw out your arms
Fall on the floor
And keep changing your shape?
Jump right into your mouth?
Jump around on your tongue?

And the film on your eyes of the way I've become
Makes me sick at the way that I try
Anything in the world
To impress that I'm doing this
Only for you

Secrets

Secrets
Share with another girl
Talking all night in a room
All night
Everything slowing down
I wish I was yours ...

Strangers
Nobody knows we love
I catch your eyes in the dark
One look relives the memory
Remember me
The way I used to be

See The Children

I stopped the car the other day
I had to ask a little girl the way
I thought she could show better if she got inside
And once inside I thought I'd take her for a little ride

So I feel the children
See the children
All the time

At the supermarket centre I ?? christmas tree
The little one's I liked ?? sit upon my knee
I had to hold them tightly because they fell to the floor
A little concern, it's against the law

So I feel the children
See the children
All the time

I drive past the infants school every single day
I pusdh sweeties through the fence but the kids just run away
I only want to talk with them and join them in their fun
But all the little children do is run run run run run run run run

nah nah nah nah naah nah

So I feel the children
See the children
All the time

Seventeen Seconds

Time slips away
And the light begins to fade
And everything is quiet now
Feeling is gone
And the picture disappears
And everything is cold now
The dream had to end
The wish never came true
And the girl
Starts to sing

Seventeen seconds
A measure of life

Shake Dog Shake

Ha ha ha
Wake up in the dark
The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth
Spit it on the wall
And cough some more
And scrape my skin with razor blades

And make up in the new blood
And try to look so good
Follow me
Make up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is
Ha ha ha

As stale and selfish as a sick dog
Spurning sex like an animal of god
I'll tear your red hair by the roots
And hold you blazing
Hold you cherished in the dead electric light

Your face
I'll never see you this way again
I captured it so perfectly
As if I knew you'd disappear away

Shake shake shake shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake dog shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake dog shake

You hit me again
You howl and hit me again
The same sharp pain
Wakes me in the dark
And cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart
My heart
My shaking heart
My howl my shake dog

Oh shake dog shake
Shake shake
Shake dog shake

But we slept all night in the virgin's bed
And dreamed of death
And breathed like sick dogs
We slept all night in the virgin's bed
And breathed like death
And dreamed of sick dogs

Shake shake
Shake dog shake

Wake up wake up wake up
Shake dog shake
Wake up wake up wake up
Shake dog shake
Wake up in the new blood
Make up in the new blood
Shake up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is
Shake dog shake

Shiver And Shake

You're just a waste of time
You're just a babbling face
You're just three sick holes that run like sores
You're a fucking waste
You're like a slug on the floor
Oh you're useless and ugly
And useless and ugly
And I shiver and shake
When I think of how you make me hate

I want to smash you to pieces
I want to smash you up and screaming
I want to smash you helpless
Down on the floor
Smash you until you're not here anymore

And I shiver and shake
Shiver and shake

A Short Term Effect

movement
no movement
just a falling bird
cold as it hits the bleeding ground
he lived and died
catch sight
cover me with earth
draped in black
static
white sound

a day without substance
a change of thought
an atmosphere that rots with time
colours that flicker in the water
a short term affect

scream
as she tries to push him over
helpless and sick
with teeth of madness
jump jump dance and sing
sideways across the desert
a charcoal face
bites my hand
time is sweet
derange and disengage everything

a day without substance
a change of thought
the atmosphere rots with time
colours that flicker in water
a short term affect

an echo
and a stranger's hand
a short term affect
an echo
and a stranger's hand
a short term affect

Siamese Twins

i chose an eternity of this
like falling angels
the world disappeared
laughing into the fire
is it always like this?
flesh and blood and the first kiss
the first colours
the first kiss

we writhed under a red light
voodoo smile
siamese twins
a girl at the window looks at me for an hour
then everything falls apart
broken inside me
it falls apart

the walls and the ceiling move in time
push a blade into my hands
slowly up the stairs
and into the room
is it always like this?

dancing in my pocket
worms eat my skin
she glows and grows
with arms outstretched
her legs around me

in the morning i cried

leave me to die
you won't remember my voice
i walked away and grew old
you never talk
we never smile
i scream
you're nothing
i don't need you any more
you're nothing

it fades and spins

sing out loud
we all die
laughing into the fire

is it always like this?

A Sign From God

you know i'm sorry if you misunderstood
but your confusion is a bit overdone
i was only in to do it good
i was only in to have some fun
i went out of my way to get this bad
and you still don't get how far
but now i'm back! i'm new!
and it's a wonderful thing
but you still don't get how things are...

not superstition - i'm talking hideous kinky
no not religion - i'm talking serious oobe
not science fiction - i'm talking horrible freaky
yeah all the stuff you don't believe in
well that stuff is for real

got myself a change of life
got myself a change of style
got myself a new direction
got myself a reason why
i just fell right out of my face one day
and i took it as a sign from god
and now i'm feeling good
and i'm moving up
and i've got to do it now

yeah i'm sorry if you misunderstood
but your condition is a touch overplayed
i was only in to do it good
i was only in to get it made
i went way out of my way to get this bad
and you still don't get how far
and now i'm back! i'm new!
and it's a wonderful thing
but you still don't get how things are...

not superstition - i'm talking hideous kinky
no not religion - i'm talking serious oobe
not science fiction - i'm talking horrible freaky
yeah all the stuff you don't imagine
well it's happening to me

got myself a change of life
got myself a change of style
got myself a new direction
got myself a reason why
i just fell right out of my face one day
and i took it as a sign from god

Sinking

I am slowing down
As the years go by
I am sinking
So I trick myself
Like everybody else

The secrets I hide
Twist me inside
They make me weaker

So I trick myself
Like everybody else
I crouch in fear and wait
I'll never feel again

If only I could remember
Anything at all

Six Different Ways

This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside

I'll tell them anything at all
I know I'll give them more and more

I'll tell them anything at all
I know I'll give the world and more
The think I'm on my hands and head
This time they're much too slow

Six sides to every lie I say
It's that American voice again
It was never quite like this before
Not one of you is the same

This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside

Slvvy

(instrumental)

The Snakepit

Well we're a mile under the ground
And I'm thinking that it's Christmas
And I'm kissing you hard
Like I've got very important business
And no-one knows
And no-one sees us
Because they're drinking themselves senseless
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing in the snakepit

Well I'm out in a car
And it's just full of stupid girls
And I've forgotten how to speak
And I just can't remember a word
And my eyes feel like they're bursting
And they're splitting like plums
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing in the snakepit

Snow In Summer

High up on this mountain
The whole world looks so small
And all the rivers
Run away
Slipping in your deep green heart
I drink you as I swim
And I'm sliding
And I'm sliding with you
Slide beneath my skin

Sleek and deep
And salty sweet
You open up in me
Just like the snow in summer

High up on this mountain
The whole world looks so small
And all the rivers
Run away
Slipping in your soft white heart
I drink you as I swim
And I'm falling
And I'm falling with you
Fall beneath my skin

Sleek and deep
And salty sweet
You come
And close in me
Just like the snow in summer

Just like the snow in summer
As it melts
Into the sea

So What?

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I'm not meant to be here
But so what?
And nobody's
Nobody's taken your place
Nobody's taken your place

Each set includes
A turntable
A nine inch icing bag
With six high definition nozzles and adaptor
With a fifteen inch food decorating bag
With three piping nozzles
Please send off this leaflet
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And if you knew
Nothing could replace you
If you were sane
Your heart wouldn't ache
But so what?
So what?
So what?

Order now
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For deliver
This offer closes
31st December 1979

British sugar bureau
When I told you what I
And I

And I wouldn't ask you to pretend
That we were one
And still another time
Forget all the lies forgive me the wounds
And all the world was used to love
And yes we'd still be happy in another time
But so what?
So what?

So please send me icing and decorating sets
I enclose a cheque and postal order number

So what?
So what?

Speak My Language

It was only yesterday
Waving arms across the street
Your white face left me blue
How can I say all the things
I have to say to you
Oh all the people here
All look the same
The little time I spend with you
We drink each other dry

Mammnnarghaassstmmetc
Speak my language

It was only yesterday
My eyes touched yours across the street
We cut the words
And waved goodbye
And dropped off the edge of the world

Mammnnarghaassstmmetc
Speak my language

Spilt Milk

i don't think i ever know if i ever really want it
could be why i'm never sure if i ever really got it
and i guess it's maybe easier not to think too much about it...

a house a car a family and friends
yeah all it means to justify the ends

but sometimes... i wonder... in the back of my mind
sometimes... i wonder... if i'm wasting all my time
sometimes... i wonder... if i'm putting off my real life...

what i could've done, where i could've been
when i should've gone, why i should've seen
who i would've loved, how i would've dreamed
and if it's always always too late...

i don't think i ever know that i ever really need it
could be why i'm never sure that i ever really feel it
and i think it's maybe easier to guess i really mean it...

a house! a car! a family and friends!
yeah all it means to justify the ends

but sometimes... i wonder...

a girl! a smile! a holiday and sex!
yeah all it takes to make sense of the rest

but sometimes... i wonder... in the back of my mind
sometimes... i wonder... if i'm killing all my time
sometimes... i wonder... if i'm giving up my real life...

what i could've done, where i could've been
when i should've gone, why i should've seen
who i would've loved, how i would've dreamed
and if it's always, always too late...

and every day that i let slide
is one day more i never try
to break the world
to make my fate
and with every day that i let go
it's one day less i ever know
if it's always
always too late...

Splintered In Her Head

Shape is still Asleep With the toys As tall as men The pictures in the hallway Turning inside Whispers Unseen Jumping against the sky Slipping away He looks For the last time...

Stop Dead

Let me forget
let me forget
Or let me go let me go
I'll keep it quiet as a whisper
I'll keep it low low low
Never
The biggest word I ever heard
Stop dead
Stop dead
You're getting too close

Before you even opened your eyes
I moved about a million ways
I killed about a million people
And filled about half a day
Before you even opened your eyes
You had to have to ask me who
I love it
I mean you

My face was in your hands
You looked into my eyes
You said I tasted right
And swallowed me alive

Strange Attraction

it started with a dedication
"lost in admiration - happy birthday - i'm forever yours - blossom"
faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies
i smiled surprised at how when flickered through
the wings flew by spelled out my name...

six months went by the summer lost
obsessively the letters dropped into my life
the same soft blood smooth flowing hand
"please try to understand - i have to see you - have to feel you -
tell you all the ways i need you - yours forever in love..."

strange attraction spreads it's wings
it varies but the smallest things
you never know how anything will change
strange attraction spreads it's wings
and alters but the smallest things
you never know how anything will fade

the year grew old incessantly she wrote to me
she'd started smoking poetry!
i laughed in recognition of a favourite phrase
she'd pulled me in...
i answered her
a christmas card in sepia
arranging when and where
and how the two of us should meet...

her opening so well prepared
a nervous smile
i couldn't take my eyes from her
she whispered
"can i use some of your lipstick?"
it was perfect so believable
i couldn't help but feel that it was real
and kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms...

strange attraction spreads it's wings
it varies but the smallest things
you never know how anything will change
strange attraction spreads it's wings
and alters but the smallest things
you never know how anything will fade

so alone into the cold new year without another word from her
i wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring
but weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came
and with it my surprise but this time nothing was the same...

"i'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination -
i was sure you'd be the one but i was wrong -
it seems reality destroys our dreams - i won't forget you - blossom"
faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes...

strange attraction spreads it's wings
it varies but the smallest things
you never know how anything will change
strange attraction spreads it's wings
and alters but the smallest things
and you never know...

A Strange Day

give me your eyes
that i might see the blind man kissing my hands
the sun is humming
my head turns to dust as he plays on his knees

and the sand
and the sea grows
i close my eyes
move slowly through drowning waves
going away on a strange day

and i laugh as i drift in the wind
blind
dancing on a beach of stone
cherish the faces as they wait for the end
a sudden hush across the water
and we're here again

and the sand
and the sea grows
i close my eyes
move slowly through drowning waves
going away
on a strange day

my head falls back
and the walls crash down
and the sky
and the impossible
explode
held for one moment i remember a song
an impression of sound
then everything is gone
forever

a strange day

Subway Song

Midnight in the subway
She's on her way home
She tries hard not to run
But she feels she's not alone
Echoes of footsteps
Follow close behind
But she dare not turn around

Turn around

Sugar Girl

Oh I wish I could find it funny
You laughing like that
But instead I change into a rage
And run around
Without a face
I wish I could find it funny
When you never came back
But I don't suppose I'll ever know
The how to keep you
Goodbye sugar girl

Goodbye sugar girl

Tape (Intro)

(instrumental)

There Is No If

Remember the first time i told you "i love you"
It was raining hard and you never heard
You sneezed
And i had to say it over
I said "i love you", i said
You didn't say a word
You just held your hands
To my shining eyes
And i watched as the rain ran through your fingers
Held your hands
To my shining eyes
And smiled as you kissed me

"If you die", you said
"So do i", you said
And it starts the day you make the sign
Tell me i'm forever yours
And you're forever mine
Forever mine...

"If you die", you said
"So do i", you said
And it starts the day you cross that line
Swear i will always be yours
And you'll be always be mine
You'll always be mine
Always be mine...

Remember the last time i told you i love you
It was warm and safe in a perfect world
You yawned
And i had to say it over
I said "i love you", i said
You didn't say a word
Just held your hands
To your shining eyes
And i watched as the tears ran through your fingers
Held you hands
To your shining eyes
And cried

"If you die", you said
"So do i", you said
But it ends the day you see how it is
There is no always, forever
Just this
Just this

"If you die", you said
"So do i", you said
But it ends the day you understand
There is no if
Just when
There is no if
Just when
There is no if

This Is A Lie

how each of us decides
i've never been sure
the part we play
the way we are
how each of us denies any other way in the world
why each of us must choose
i've never understood
one special friend
one true love
why each of us must lose everyone else in the world

however unsure
however unwise
day after day play out our lives
however confused
pretending to know to the end

but this isn't truth this isn't right
this isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
this is a lie

how each of us believes
i've never really known
in heaven unseen and hell unknown
how each of us dreams to understand anything at all
why each of us decides
i've never been sure
the part we take
the way we are
why each of us denies every other way in the world

however unsure
however unwise
day after day play out our lives
however confused
pretending to know to the end

but this isn't truth this isn't right
this isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
this is a lie
this isn't truth this isn't right
this isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
this is a lie

This Twilight Garden

i lift my lips from kissing you
to kiss the sky
cloud soft and blue
and slow the sun melts down
into your golden words for me

i lift my hands from touching you
to touch the wind that whispers through
this twilight garden
turns into a world
where dreams are real

no-one will ever take your place
i am lost in you
no-one will ever take your place
so in love with you

i lift my eyes from watching you
to watch the star rise shine onto
your draming face and dreaming smile
you're dreaming worlds
for me

i lift my lips from kissing you
and kiss the sky wide deepest blue
and slow the moon swims up
into your golden words
for me

no-one will ever take your place
i am lost in you
no-one will ever take you place
so in love with you

A Thousand Hours

For how much longer can I howl into this wind?
For how much longer
Can I cry like this?

A thousand wasted hours a day
Just to feel my heart for a second
A thousand hours just thrown away
Just to feel my heart for a second

For how much longer can I howl into this wind?

Three

(instrumental)

Three Imaginary Boys

Walk across the garden
In the footsteps of my shadow
See the lights out
No one's home
In amongst the statues
Stare at nothing in
The garden moves
Can you help me?

Close my eyes
And hold so tightly
Scared of what the morning brings
Waiting for tomorrow
Never comes
Deep inside
The empty feeling
All the night time leaves me
Three imaginary boys

Slipping through the door
Hear my heart beats in the hallway
Echoes
Round and round
Inside my head
Drifting up the stairs
I see the steps behind me
Disappearing
Can you help me?

Close my eyes
And hold so tightly
Scared of what the morning brings
Waiting for tomorrow
Never comes
Deep inside
The empty feeling
All the night time leaves me
Three imaginary boys sing in my
Sleep sweet child
The moon will change your mind

See the cracked reflection
Standing still
Before the bedroom mirror
Over my shoulder
But no one's there
Whispers in the silence
Pressing close behind me
Pressing close behind
Can you help me?
Can you help me?
Can you help me?

The Three Sisters

(Instrumental)

Throw Your Foot

It's funny how your face gets bigger
Gets bigger in this atmosphere
And your mouth goes dry
With every move you try
It's so funny here

Jumping around -- click click click
When you're so slow
It's like the world is stopping

Fifteen times I try this
And every time I faint
You look at me and
Start to tell the joke
About the man who couldn't stop
Hiccupping

It would be so perfect
If you would just fall out the window

Throw your foot away
You're tired and your face is grey
Like the sad old fool
You groove

Hey hey hey

To The Sky

One perfect morning I was all alone
Listening to the blaze of summer [could be "plays" instead of blaze]
Drifting
I was falling
I was floating in a golden haze
Breathing in the sky-blue sun [could be "sky inside"]
Of memories of other days

And in my dreams I was a child
Flowers in my mouth and in my eyes
And I was floating through the colours of the sky
Up to the stars and angels

Up to heaven
Up forever
Up to heaven
Up forever

Turning in my climb
I looked down on a lake
Traced upon the water
There I saw your face
Sending recollection of the times we shared
Pushed on ever up into the sky

And in my dreams I was a child
Flowers in my mouth and in my eyes
And I was floating through the colours of the sky
Up to the stars and angels

Up to heaven
Up forever
Up to heaven
Up forever

To Wish Impossible Things

remember how it used to be
when the sun would fill up the sky
remember how we used to feel
those days would never end
those days would never end

remember how it used to be
when the stars would fill the sky
remember how we used to dream
those nights would never end
those nights would never end

it was the sweetness of your skin
it was the hope of all we might have been
that fills me with the hope to wish
impossible things

but now the sun shines cold
and all the sky is grey
the stars are dimmed by clouds and tears
and all i wish
is gone away
all i wish
is gone away

all i wish is gone away

The Top

I don't care
If only I could say that
And not feel so sick and scared
I don't care
If only I could say that
If only my eyes would close

It's jesus brilliant
You used to laugh
Walking these gorgeous blocks
This top is the place
Where nobody goes
You just imagine
You just imagine it all

Every day I lie here
And know that it's true
All I really want is you
Please come back
Please come back
Like all the other ones do

Please come back
All of you

Torture

I'm in the room without a light
The room without a view
I'm here for one more treacherous night
Another night with you
It tortures me to move my hands
To try to move at all
And pulled
My skin so tight it screams
And screams and screams
And pulls some more

Hanging like this
Like a vampire bat
Hanging like this
Hanging on your back
I'm helpless again

My body is cut and broken
It's shattered and sore
My body is cut wide open
I can't stand anymore
It tortures me to move my hands
To try to move at all
And pulled
My skin so tight screams
And screams and screams
And screams some more

Hanging like this
Like a vampire bat
Hanging like this hanging on your back
Oh it's torture
And I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there

It's torture
But I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there

Trap

drowning like a fly in my drink
you drone about being on the drink
but really don't care what you think
oh i'm sick of it all
sick of it all
i hate the way it's always the same
hate recrimination and blame
and you just wait for me to fuck up again
oh i'm sick of it all
sick of it all

the ways you try and put me down
sweet revenge for the things i've done
the ways you try and twist me around
"give me a taste of my own medicine"

drowning like a fly in my drink
you whine about being out of synch
but i really don't care what you think
oh i'm sick of it all
sick of it all

i hate the way you want me to be
hate regret and humility
and you just wait for me to fall at your feet
oh i'm sick of it all
sick of it all

the ways you try and run me down
make me pay for the things i've been
the ways you try and push me around
all you want to do is win

any love you once felt for me
has turned into this travesty
of selfishness and jealousy
so why can't you just let me go?
any love you once felt for me
has turned into this travesty
of selfishness and jealousy
so why can't i just let you go?

Treasure

she whispers "please remember me when i am gone from here" she whispers "please remember me but not with tears... remember i was always true remember that i always tried remember i loved only you remember me and smile... but it's better to forget than to remember me and cry" "remember i was always true remember that i always tried remember i loved only you remember me and smile... for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry..."

Trust

there's no-one left in the world
that i can hold onto
there is really no-one left at all
there is only you
and if you leave me now
you leave all that we were
undone
there is really no-one left
you are the only one

and still the hardest part for you
to put your trust in me
i love you more than i can say
why won't you just believe?

Untitled

hopelessly drift in the eyes of the ghost again
down on my knees and my hands in the air again
pushing my face in the memory of you again
but i never know if it's real never know how i
wanted to feel never quite said what i wanted
to say to you never quite managed the words to
explain to you never quite knew how to make
them beleivable and now the time has gone
another time undone hopelessly fighting the
devil futility feeling the moster climb deeper
inside of me feeling him gnawing my heart away
hungrily i'll never lose this pain never dream of

The Upstairs Room

I love it all
These games we play
I close my eyes
You run away
I'm sure I asked you to stay
But now you're gone
And so I feel the grey
Pulse in my head
I turn off the lights and crawl into bed
I try to think of sunshine
But my body goes wet
With the first crash of thunder

I don't think I can know
Anyone but you dear
That's for sure

When it gets to four
It's my turn to go
Oh the kiss
So alcoholic and slow
Arranging me for Saturday
I thought you would know
That I always sleep
Alone

I don't think I can know
Anyone but you
Dear
That's for sure

The upstairs room is cool and bright
We can go up there in summer
And dance all night

Your sister started talking at a minute after ten
So everyone jumped up
And then fell over again
In April you can join them
And stare at me
At the ghost from your past

Uyea Sound

(Instrumental)

The Wailing Wall

The holy city breathed
Like a dying man
It moved with hopeful tears
With the tears of the blind

And on and on as the night drew in
Through broken streets
That sucked me in
My feet were bare and cut with stones
With walking to the promised land

I pushed through crowds
Through seas of prayer
Through twisting hands and choking air
A vulture at the wailing wall
I circled

Waiting...

tonight i'll dream a girl called home
and wake up in tears
all on my own
with the sun coming up
and my head against stone
balcony dressed and drawn
tonight i'll dream a room so far away
frost pale blue
the colour of a perfect day
and then screw up my face
in the mirror
as i wait for the others to call

but if i don't believe in magic
and i don't believe in blood
and i don't believe in miracles
and i don't believe in love
then how come i believe so soon
in a cherry tree girl
and a dust blue room?

tonight i'll dream an hour so long
shadow soft smiles
and everyone loves me
to open my eyes
in a drag myself face undone
hard back into the world
tonight i'll dream a dream i dream
without even trying i'm flying i scream
as i practice the move
i spit at my pillow stained face
and the others all come

but if i don't believe in magic
and i don't believe in blood
and i don't believe in miracles
and i don't believe in love
then how come i believe it seems
in a girl called home
and a world called dreams?

The Walk

I called you after midnight
Then ran until my heart burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

We walked around the lake
And woke up in the rain
And everyone turned over
Troubled in their dreams again

Visiting time is over
And so we walk away
And both play dead then cry out loud
Why we always cry this way?

I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look
Like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything

I called you after midnight
Then ran until my heart burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look
Like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything

Want

i'm always wanting more
anything i haven't got
everything i want it all
i just can't stop

planning all my days away
never find new ways to stay
never feel enough today
tomorrow must be more

more drink more dreams
more bed more drugs
more lust more lies
more hate more love

more fear more fun
more pain more flesh
more stars more smiles
more fame more sex

however hard i want
i know deep down inside
i'll never really get
more hope or any more time
any more time
any more time
any more time

i want the sky to fall in
i want lightning and thunder
i want fire instead of rain
i want the world to make me wonder
want to walk on water
take a trip to the moon
oh give me all this
and give me it soon

more drink more dreams more drugs
more lust more lies more love

however hard i want
i know deep down inside
i'll never really get
more hope or any more time
any more time
any more time
any more time

Watching Me Fall

Yeah i've been watching me fall
For what seems like years
Watching me grow small
I watch me disappear
Slipping out my ordinary world
Out my ordinary eyes
Yeah, slipping out the ordinary me
Into someone else's life
Into someone else's life...

There's a thin, white, cold new moon
And the snow's coming down
And the neon bright tokyo lights
Flicker through the crowd
I've been drifting around for hours
And i'm lost and i'm tired
When a whisper in my ear
Insatiable breeze
Why don't you follow me inside

The room is small
The room is bright
Her hair is black
The bed is wide
And the night is always young
Is always young
Always young
The night is always young

Yeah, i've been seen stripped to the bone
In the mirror on the wall
Seeing her swallow it whole
Like its not me at all
She holds out her hands
And I follow her down to my knees
And the sucking inside
Insatiable smiles
You will forget yourself in me

The room is small
The room is bright
Her eyes are black
The bed is wide
And the night is always young
And the night goes on and on
And the night is always young
And the night is never over
And over and over and over and over
And then its gone
And then its gone
Yeah, then its gone

Yeah its a cruel, mean, cold new day
And outside the snow is still coming down
And in the blood red tokyo bed
I watch me coming round
She pulled him down for hours
Deeper than i've ever been
And as I fall in the mirror on the wall
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream

Yeah, i've been watching me go
For it must be years
Watching me get slow
I watch me disappear
And one day, yeah I know
I won't come back at all
And always over and over
In his ordinary eyes
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall

The Weedy Burton

(Instrumental)

Wendy Time

you look like you could do with a friend she said
you look like you could use a hand
someone to make you smile she said
someone who can understand
share your trouble
comfort you
hold you close
and i can do all of these
i think you need me here with you

you look like you do with a sister she said
you look like you need a girl to call your own...
like fabulous! fabulous!
call me fabulous!
and rubbing her hands so slow
you stare at me all strange she said
are you hungry for more?
i've had enough i said
please leave me alone
please go

it doesn't touch me at all
it doesn't touch me at all

you know that you could do with a friend she said
you know that you could use a word
like feel or follow or fuck she said
and laughing away as she turned
you've everything but no-one
like the last man on earth
and when i die i said
i'll leave you it all
door closes
leaves me cold

it doesn't touch me at all
it doesn't touch me at all

you really do need a sister she said
you really do need a girl to call your own...
like wonderful! wonderful!
call me wonderful!
and running her hands so slow
you stare at me all strange she said
are you hungry for more?
i've had enough i said
please leave me alone
please go
please go

Where The Birds Always Sing

The world is neither fair nor unfair
The idea is just a way for us to understand
But the world is neither fair nor unfair
So one survives
The others die
And you always want
A reason why
But the world is neither just nor unjust
Its just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
No the world is neither just nor unjust
And no going young
So much undone
Is a tragedy
For everyone

It doesn't speak a plan or any secret thing
No wanting sign of untold truth in anything
But living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
We want everything
Another world
Where the sun always shines
And the birds always sing
Always sing

The world is neither fair nor unfair
The idea is just a way for us to understand
No the world is neither fair nor unfair
So some survive
And others die
And you always want
The reason why
Though the world is neither just nor unjust
Its just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
No the world is neither just nor unjust
And no going young
So much undone
Is a tragedy
For everyone

It doesn't mean there has to be a way of things
No special sense that hidden hands are pulling strings
But living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
And it never is
We always want
So much more than this
An endless sense of soul and an eternity of love
Sweet mother down below and a just father above.
Living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
You want everything
Another world
Where the birds always sing
Another world
Where the sun always shines
Another world
Where nothing ever dies

Why Can't I Be You

You're so gorgeous I'll do anything
I'll kiss you from your feet
To where your head begins
You're so perfect you're so right as rain
You make me
Make me hungry again

Everything you do is irresistable
Everything you do is simply kissable
Why can't I be you?

I'll run around in circles
Til I run out of breath
I'll eat you all up
Or I'll just hug you to death
You're so wonderful
Too good to be true
You make me
Make me hungry for you

Everything you do is simply delicate
Everything you do is quite angelicate
Why can't I be you?

You turn my head when you turn around
You turn the whole world upside down
I'm smitten I'm bitten I'm hooked I'm cooked
I'm stuck like glue
You make me
Make me hungry for you

Everything you do is simply dreamy
Everything you do is quite delicious
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?

World In My Eyes

(by Depeche Mode)

Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still

Now let your mind do the walking
And let my body do the talking
Let me show you the world in my eyes

I'll take you to the highest mountain
To the depths of the deepest sea
We won't need a map, believe me

Now let my body do the moving
And let my hands do the soothing
Let me show you the world in my eyes

That's all there is
Nothing more than you can feel now
That's all there is

Let me put you on a ship
On a long, long trip
Your lips close to my lips
All the islands in the ocean
All the heaven's in the motion
Let me show you the world in my eyes

That's all there is
Nothing more than you can touch now
That's all there is

Let me show you the world in my eyes

World War

Dressed in Berlin black
I was only playing
Disguise my words to fool you
From what I was saying
Mud trench
Meat stench
The fatherland is looking on
Grip you in a luger lock
This will be the big one

World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend

Heaven heaven
Give me pride
Give me a golden hand
Smash them with an iron rule
Spit them out like sand
Sit and wait
Then run like hell
Run like hell one time again
Sow the seeds of hate
Underneath destruction

World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend
World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser

Wrong Number

Lyrics given to me by Jeremie Boraczek.
You can email him here.

lime green lime green and tangerine
are the sickly sweet colours of the snakes im seeing
lime green and tangerine
are the sickly sweet colours of the devil in my dreams

lime green lime green and tangerine
are the sickly sweet colours of the snakes im seeing
lime green and tangerine
are the sickly sweet colours of the devil in my dreams

it gets to friday and I give you a call
"you know im getting kind of worried"
no she doesnt seem herself at all...
lime green and a sickly kind of orange
I've never seen her like this before..."

I had the best laid plans this side of america
started out in church and finished with angelica
red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"can you dig it?"
I had the best laid plans this side of america
started out in church and finished with angelica
and now I dig in the dirt
and I'm down here for a while...

you've got to make up your mind and make it soon
is there room in your life
for one more trip to the moon?
is there room in your life
for one more?

burn red burn red red and gold
are the deep dark colours of the snakes I hold
burn red burn red and gold
are the deep dark colours of the devil at home
"she pulls me down just as I'm trying to hide
grabs me by the hair and drags me outside
and starts digging in the dirt...
for a not so early bird it's the only way
for her to get the worm..."

I had the best laid plans this side of america
started out in church and finished with angelica
red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"can you dig it?"

I had the best laid plans this side of america
started out in church and finished with angelica
red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"can you dig it?"
and now I dig in the dirt
and I'll be down here for a while...

"hello? are you still there?"
"hello? are you still there?"
...and much too late...
"sorry, wrong number"

Yesterday's Gone

Something I heard
Or maybe something I read
It's like yesterday's over
Something I did
Or something I said
Like yesterday's gone
Something I felt
Or maybe something I thought
Like yesterday's over
Something I took
Something I sought
Like yesterday's gone

You used to dream
You used to fly
You used to be
My reason why
Used to be me
Useless to try
You used to dream

Something you heard
Is like yesterday's over
Something you did
Something you said
It's like yesterday's gone
Something you felt
Or maybe you touched
Like yesterday's over
Something you thought
Something you love
Like yesterday's gone
And yesterday's gone

I used to dream
I used to fly
I used to be
Your reason why
Used to be you
Now it's useless to try
I used to dream
You used to fly
You used to fly
I used to dream
You used to fly
I used to dream
You used to fly
I used to dream
You used to fly

I used to dream

You Really Got Me

(Originally by the Kinks. Played live.)

irl, you really got me goin'
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me
See, don't ever set me free
I always wanna be by your side
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me
Oh no...

See, don't ever set me free
I always wanna be by your side
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me

You're So Happy (You Could Kill Me)

so you don't care about the beautiful people
but you'll try one just the same
yeah i know you can love it or leave it
you're just playing a game...
again

oh you don't care about the famously stupid
but you'll live it for a while
oh i know you're only doing that irony thing
when you smile but don't smile...

you don't care about what anyone else is
don't care what they do or they say
you live your own life in your own time
and in your own dead indifferent way

yeah... in your own time...

no you don't care about the fabulous in things
but you'll be one just in case
yeah i know you can take it or leave it
you're just having a taste...

don't give a fuck about what anyone else is
don't give a fuck what they do or they say
yeah you are as you feel in your own time
and in your own dead indifferent way
and you will swear on any life but your own
that you're happy! happy how it all is...
at least it's the way that you think i should think
that you think about any of this

about any of this... yeah... and it's so much more than you ever need...

and you will swear on any lie but your own
that you're happy! happy how it all is...
at least it's the way that you think i should think
that you think about any of this...

you're so... happy yeah!
you're so... happy yeah!
you're so... happy yeah!
you're so... happy yeah!

so happy... you could kill me!

Young Americans

(by David Bowie)

They pulled in just behind the bridge
He lays her down, he frowns
"Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young?"
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but

CHORUS (SHE)
All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American, she wants the young American
All right
She wants the young American

Scanning life through the picture window
She finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang, but
Heaven forbid, she'll take anything
But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?"

CHORUS (SHE)

All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
"We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"

CHORUS (HE)
All night
He wants the young American
Young American, young American, he wants the young American
All right
He wants the young American

Do you remember, your President Nixon?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday?

Have you have been an un-American?
Just you and your idol singing falsetto 'bout
Leather, leather everywhere, and
Not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In case, just in case of depression?
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the afro-Sheeners
Ain't that close to love?
Well, ain't that poster love?
Well, it ain't that Barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you have

CHORUS (YOU)
All night
You want the young American
Young American, young American, you want the young American
All right
You want the young American

You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler
Black's got respect, and white's got his soul train
Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands ache
(I heard the news today, oh boy)
I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man you can say no more?
And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't there one damn song that can make me
break down and cry?

CHORUS (I) (repeat 3 times ad lib)
All night
I want the young American
Young American, young American, I want the young American
All right
I want the young American