Любимые песни на английском языке.
ALMOND, MARC
Tainted Love
Originally performed by Gloria Jones.
Sometimes I felt I had to run away
I had to get away
From the pain you drove into the heart of me
The love we share seemed to go nowhere
And I lost my life
For I tossed and turned, I couldn't sleep at night
Once I ran to you, now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Tainted love
Tainted love
Now, now I've got to run away
I've got to get away
You don't really want any more from me to
Make things right
You need someone to hold you tight
And you say love is to pray
But I'm sorry, I don't pray that way
Once I ran to you, now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I gave you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly
Oh
Tainted love
Tainted love
Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm going to pack my things and go
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love
Touch me with your tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Night & Dark
Night and dark
Forever in my heart
Walking in the
I'll never fall in love again
Night and dark
Nobody to see me cry
And like a flower slowly dies
So will I
Night and dark
In your shadows I can hide my pain
In my heart
The light will never shine again
The light will never shine again
Night and dark
Forever in my heart
For all the love I ever lost
My soul now feels a bitter frost
Night and dark
Forever when you say goodbye
All the stars will fade and die
In my sky
Night and dark
In your shadows I can hide my pain
In my heart
The light will never shine again
The light will never shine again
Night and dark
Forever in my heart
I'll always sing a song that's sad
For all the love I never had
Night and dark
Until the earth begins to crack
I know I'll never get them back
Roll the credits fade to black
God's tears are falling
Like stars they are falling
For the host of angels
Dying in my soul
God's tears are falling
Heaven's calling
Calling me, calling
A drifter alone in the dark
In the dark you'll never see me cry
In the dark you'll never see me cry
You'll never see the tears in my eyes
You'll never see the tears that I try to hide
In the night and dark
Almost Diamonds
You kissed my grateful skin
And left a chain of bites and bruises
I'm sorry when you grin
Almost diamonds for the losers
I'll swim inside your tears
And wander through your rooms of silence
The motive crystal clear
Your tongue is love
And your heart is violence
Almost Diamonds
Scratched perfection
Almost diamonds
Tears in glycerine
I spied you kissing her
You faked your love
My broken brother
Everybody burn
Secrets spill and smiles are smothered
You have to roll the dice
Pain is two
And fire is sixes
Vengeance feels nice
I know the shine
Behind your tricks is
Almost diamonds
Scratched perfection
Almost diamonds
Tears in glycerine
Who would have thought
It would end like this
You gave a stranger
A dangerous kiss
Now your pretty eyes
Say these precious lies
We're just beautiful imitations
They were
Almost diamonds
Scratched perfection
Almost diamonds
Tears in glycerine
Catch our teardrops
As they fall
You know we nearly
Had it all
Fallen tears of glycerine
Gone is all of what we dream
Almost diamonds
Scratched perfection
Dark reflections
Love won't find us
Only in dreams
ANDERSON, LAURIE
Big Science
Coo coo it's cold outside. Coo coo it's cold outside.
Ooo coo coo. Don't forget your mittens.
Hey Pal! How do I get to town from here?
And he said: Well just take a right where
they're going to build that new shopping mall,
go straight past where they're going to put in the
freeway,
take a left at what's going to be the new sports
center,
and keep going until you hit the place where
they're thinking of building that drive-in bank.
You can't miss it. And I said: This must be the place.
Ooo coo coo. Golden cities. Golden towns.
Golden cities. Golden towns.
And long cars in long lines and great big signs
and they all say: Hallelujah. Yodellayheehoo.
Every man for himself. Ooo coo coo.
Golden cities. Golden towns. Thanks for the ride.
Big Science. Hallelujah. Big Science. Yodellayheehoo.
You know. I think we should put some mountains here.
Otherwise, what are all the characters going to fall
off of?
And what about stairs? Yodellayheehoo. Ooo coo coo.
Here's a man who lives a life of danger.
Everywhere he goes he stays - a stranger.
Howdy stranger. Mind if I smoke? And he said:
Every man, every man for himself.
Every man, every man for himself.
All in favor say aye.
Big Science. Hallelujah. Big Science. Yodellayheehoo.
Hey Professor! Could you turn out the lights?
Let's roll the film.
Big Science. Hallelujah.
Every man, every man for himself.
Big Science. Hallelujah. Yodellayheehoo.
O Superman
O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a
message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
Hello? This is your Mother. Are you there? Are you
coming home?
Hello? Is anybody home? Well, you don't know me,
but I know you.
And I've got a message to give to you.
Here come the planes.
So you better get ready. Ready to go. You can come
as you are, but pay as you go. Pay as you go.
And I said: OK. Who is this really? And the voice
said:
This is the hand, the hand that takes. This is the
hand, the hand that takes.
This is the hand, the hand that takes.
Here come the planes.
They're American planes. Made in America.
Smoking or non-smoking?
And the voice said: Neither snow nor rain nor gloom
of night shall stay these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed rounds.
'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justive is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me,
Mom, in your long arms.
In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.
In your arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
In your electronic arms.
Example #22
Beispiele paranormaler Tonbandstimmen.
Was sind paranormale Tonbandstimmen?
Es sind Stimmen unbekannte herkunft.
Es sind paranormaler Tonbandstimmen-
(Examples of paranormal voices on tape.
What are paranormal voices on tape?
They are voices of unknown origin.
They are paranormal voices on tape-)
Ihren Klang. Ich verstehe die Sprachen.
Ich verstehe die Sprachen nicht. Ich hore nur
Irhen Klang.
(Your sound. I understand the languages.
I don't understand the languages.
I hear only your sound.)
The sun is shining slowly
The birds are flying so low.
Honey you're my one and only,
So pay my what you owe me.
Lights are going down, slowly,
In the woods the animals are moving.
In my dreams you're talking to me.
Your voice is moving through me.
You talk as if you knew me.
So pay me what you owe me.
Beispiel Nummer zweiundzwanzig.
(Example 22.)
The sun is shining slowly
The birds are flying so low.
Honey you're my one and only
So pay me what you owe me.
Sharkey's Night
Sun's going down. Like a big bald head.
Disappearing behind the boulevard.
(Oooeee.) It's Sharkey's night.
Yeah. It's Sharkey's night tonight. And the
manager says: Sharkey?
He's not at his desk right now. (Oh yeah.)
Could I take a message?
And Sharkey says: Hey, kemosabe! Long
time no see.
He says: Hey sport. You connect the dots.
You pick up the pieces.
He says: You know, I can see two tiny
pictures of myself
And there's one in each of you eyes. And
they're doin' everything I do.
Every time I light a cigarette, they light up
theirs.
I take a drink and I look in and they're
drinkin' too.
It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.
And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of
darkest America.
Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my
heart beat.
Paging Mr. Sharkey. White courtesy
telephone please.
Smoke Rings
Standby. You're on the air.
Buenos noches Senores y Senoras. Bienvenidos.
La primera pregunta es: Que es mas macho,
pineapple o knife?
Well, let's see. My guess is that a pineapple is more
macho than a knife. Si! Correcto!
Pineapple es mas macho que knife.
La segunda pregunta es: Que es mas macho,
lightbulb o schoolbus?
Uh, lightbulb?
No! Lo siento, Schoolbus es mas macho que lightbulb.
Gracias. And we'll be back in un momento.
Well I had a dream and in it
I went to a little town
And all the girls in town were named
Betty.
And they were singing:
Doo doo doo doo doo.
Doo doo doo doo doo.
Ah desire! It's cold as ice
And then it's hot as fire.
Ah desire! First it's red
And then it's blue.
And everytime I see an iceberg
It reminds me of you.
Doo doo doo doo doo.
Doo doo doo doo doo.
Que es mas macho iceberg or volcano?
Get the blanket from the bedroom
We can go walking once again.
Down in the bayou
Where our sweet love first began.
I'm thinking back to when I was a child -
Way back to when I was a tot.
When I was an embryo -
A tiny speck. Just a dot.
When I was a Hershey bar -
In my father's back pocket.
Hey look! Over there! It's Frank Sinatra
Sitting in a chair. And he's blowing
Perfect smoke rings
Up into the air. And he's singing:
Smoke makes a staircase for you
To descend. So rare.
Ah desire!
Ah desire!
Ah desire! So random So rare
And everytime I see those smoke rings
I think you're there.
Que es mas macho staircase o smoke rings?
Get the blanket from the bedroom
We can go walking once again.
Down in the boondocks
Where our sweet love first began.
Ooo I'm gonna follow you.
Out in the swamps and into town.
Down under the boardwalk
Track you down.
Doo doo doo doo doo.
Doo doo doo doo doo.
Doo doo doo doo doo.
Doo doo doo doo doo.
Speak My Language
Daddy Daddy, it was just like you said
Now that the living outnumber the dead.
Where I come from it's a long thin thread
Across an ocean. Down a river of red.
Now that the living outnumber the dead.
Speak my language.
Hello. Hello.
Here come the quick. There go the dead.
Here they come. Bright red.
Speak my language.
Freefall
You're out on the ocean
And you get pulled down
Freefall to the bottom
Like when you're drowning
Or falling asleep
You get turned around
And when you think you're
Swimming to the surface
You're swimming straight down.
Down to the bottom.
All the way to the bottom.
Secret codes and cryptograms
I'm lost in your words I'm swimming.
We're going down to the bottom
All the way to the bottom
Rapture of the deep.
I got your letter. I couldn't read it.
It was a cryptogram.
Did it say take me with you
Or take me as I am?
We're going down to the bottom
All the way to the bottom.
We get turned around.
There is another world spinning inside of this one.
I remember where I came from
There were tropical breezes
And a wide open sea
I remember my childhood
I remember being free.
We're going down to the bottom
All the way to the bottom
We get turned around
There is another world
Inside of this one.
Rapture of the deep.
We're going down to the bottom
There is another world
Spinning inside of this one.
Beautiful Pea Green Boat
I'm lying in the shade
Of my family tree
I'm a branch that broke off
What will become of me?
Dear Mom, I'm lying here
In this queen sized bed.
I'm thinking back
To all the stories you read to me
About those little animals
Who went to sea
In their beautiful pea green boat.
But I can't remember now.
What happened then?
Dear Mom, how does it end?
The owl and the pussycat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat.
They took some honey and lots of money
Wrapped in a five pound not.
The owl looked up to the stars above
And sang to a small guitar,
O lovely pussy! Pussy my love!
What a wonderful pussy you are.
Let us be married
Too long we've tarried
But what shall we do for a ring?
What shall we do for a ring?
Hey! Hey!
They sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the bong tree grows
And there in a wook a piggy wig stood
A ring at the end of his nose
A ring at the end of his nose.
And hand in hand at the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the
By the light of the, by the light of the moon.
And hand in hand at the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the
By the light of the, by the light of the moon.
The moon, the moon.
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Love Among the Sailors
There is a hot wind blowing
It moves across the ocean and into every port.
A plague. A black plague.
There's danger everywhere
And you've been sailing.
And you're alone on an island now tuning in.
Did you think this was the way
Your world would end?
Hombres. Sailors. Comrades.
There is no pure land now
No safe place
And we stand here by the pier
Watching you drown.
Love among the Sailors.
Love among the Sailors.
There is a hot wind blowing
Plague drifts across the oceans.
And if this is the work of an angry god
I want to look into his angry face.
There is no pure land now. No safe place.
Come with us to the mountains.
Hombres. Sailors. Comrades.
Poison
It was one of those black cat nights
The moon had gone out
and the air was thin
It was the kind of night
that the cat would drag in.
I'll never forget it, we had a fight.
Then you turned around
turned on the light. You left our bed.
Then you moved downstairs
to live with her instead.
Yeah just one floor and a shout away,
I guess I should have moved
but I decided to stay.
Did I drink some poison
that I don't remember now?
And every night I open all the windows
I let a cold dark wind blow through.
I play loud organ music and I talk to myself
and dream of you.
Uh oh! I hear voices coming up
through the pipes
through all the springs in my bed
and up through the lights
The volume goes up
then it drops back down
I can hear the two of you playing records
moving furniture and fooling around.
Did I drink some poison
that I don't remember now?
Is there blood on my hands
No, my hands are clean.
Did I do something in another lifetime
that was really really mean?
Yeah, I'm hearing voices.
Am I losing my mind?
Think I'm going crazy, I gotta get out.
I run into the street and I start to shout
Get out of my way! Get out! Get out!
Did I drink some poison
that I don't remember now?
Is there blood on my hands?
Did I do something in another lifetime
that was really really mean?
A small bullet, a piece of glass
And your heart just grows around it.
Tightrope
Last night I dreamed I died
and that my life had
been rearranged into
some kind of theme park.
And all my friends were walking
up and down the boardwalk.
And my dead Grandmother was selling
cotton candy out of a little shack.
And there was this big ferris wheel
about a half mile out in the ocean,
half in and half out of the water.
And all my old boyfriends were on it.
With their new girlfriends.
And the boys were waving and shouting
and the girls were saying Eeek.
Then they disappeared under
the surface of the water
and when they came up again
they were laughing
and gasping for breath.
In this dream I'm on a tightrope
and I'm tipping back and forth
trying to keep my balance.
And below me are all my relatives
and if I fall I'll crush them.
This long thin line.
This song line. This shout.
The only thing that binds me
to the turning world below
and to all the people and noise
and sounds and shouts.
This tightrope made of sound
This long thin line made of my own blood.
Remember me is all I ask
And if remembered be a task forget me.
Remember me is all I ask
And if remembered be a task forget me
This long thin line. This long thin line.
This long thin line. This tightrope.
Remember me is all I ask
And if remembered be a task forget me.
This long thin line. This long thin line.
This long thin line. This tightrope made of sound.
BARRETT, SYD
@SONG: Baby Lemonade
In the sad town
cold iron hands clap
the party of clowns outside
rain falls in grey far away
please, please, Baby Lemonade
In the evening sun going down
when the earth streams in, in the morning
send a cage through the post
make your name like a ghost
please, please, Baby Lemonade
I'm screaming, I met you this way
you're nice to me like ice
in the clock they sent through a washing machine
come around, make it soon, so alone...
please, please, Baby Lemonade
In the sad town
cold iron hands clap
the party of clowns outside
rain falls in grey far away
please, please, Baby Lemonade
In the evening sun going down
when the earth streams in, in the morning
send a cage through the post
make your name like a ghost
please, please, Baby Lemonade
BAUHAUS:
@SONG: BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD
white on white translucent black capes
back on the back
bela lugosi's dead
the bats have left the bell tower
the victims have been bled
red velvet lines the black box
bela lugosi's dead
undead undead undead
the virginal brides file past his tomb
strewn with time's dead flowers
bereft in deathly bloom
alone in a darkened room
the count bela lugosi's dead
undead undead undead
oh bela
bela's undead
@SONG: In The Flat Field
A gut pull drag on me
Into the casm gaping we
Mirrors multy reflecting this
Between spunk stained sheet
And odourous whim
Calme eye-flick-shudder within
Assist me to walk away in sin
Where is the string that Theseus laid
Find me out this labyrinth place.
I do get bored, I get bored
In the flat field.
I get bored, I do get bored
In the flat field
Yin and yang lumber punch
Go taste a tart, then eat my lunch
And force my slender thin and lean
In this solemn place of fill wetting dreams
Of black matted lace of pregnant cows
As life maps out onto my brow
The card is lowered in index turn
Into my filing cabinet hemispheres spurn.
I do get bored, I get bored
In the flat field.
I get bored, I do get bored
In the flat field
Let me catch the slit of light
For a maidens sake
On a maiden flight
In the flat field I do get bored
Replace with Piccadilly whores
In my yearn for some cerebral fix
Transfer me to that solid plain
Hammer me into blazen pain
Moulding shapes no shame to waste
Moulding shapes no shame to waste
And drag me there with deafening haste.
@SONG: A God in an Alcove
- --- -- --
------
Go and look for the dejected once proud
Idol remembered in stone aloud
Then on coins his face was mirrored
Take a look it soon hath slithered
To a fractured marble slab, renunciation clad
His nourishment extract from his subjects
That mass production profile.
He's a God -- in -- in an alcove.
Once he spread the rain
So they dreamt in vain
Once he spread the wheat
Had made garlands for his feet
Until the lily poet of our times
Horizoned on the line
Love became the in theme then
Opposing fakers thrice by ten
Don't perceive his empty plea
That redundant effigy.
He's a God -- in -- in an alcove.
Take in view his empty stool
What's left is satin cool
Clawing adornment for his crimes
They saw they had to draw the line
So they sent him far away
So they sent him far away
To a little alcove
To a little alcove
All alone.
He's a God, a God.
Now I am silly
Now I am silly
Silly, silly, silly, silly,
Silly.
@SONG: The Spy in the Cab
Hidden in the dashboard
The unseen mechanized eye
Under surveillance
The road is full of cats eyes
It's sick function to pry
The spy in the cab.
Coldly observing -- Callously reserving
A drivers time
Automated autonomy
Playing on his mind
The spy in the cab.
The spy in the cab.
An eye for an eye
A spy for an eye
An eye for an eye
A spy for a spy.
A twenty four hour unblinking watch
Installed to pry
Installed to cop
The spy in the cab.
The spy in the cab.
The spy in the cab.
I spy with my little eye spy with my little I spy with
my
Little eye spy with my little I spy ..... spy .....
spy.
@SONG: Nerves
Nerve ends tick in flicker book animation
One eye's closed in fear, anticipation
Will it stay shut?
Will it ever open?
What if?
What if?
Nerves.
Tell tale tongues lick at seven senses
Brittle spittle sparks you are defenceless
The fabric of dreams is ripped apart
As you feel the twist of the shadowed dagger
In your pumping heart
Nerves.
Nerves like nylon, Nerves like steel
Nerves like nylon, Nerves like steel
Nerves like nylon, Nerves like steel
A trail of random cutlery cuts a dash in the concrete
underpass
Sense of serenity is shattered in the glint of
splintered glass.
Nerves.
Nerves.
Nerves.
Nerves like nylon, Nerves like steel
Nerves like nylon, Nerves like steel
Nerves like nylon, Nerves like steel
@SONG: the man with x-ray eyes
shoes that no man would want to wear
wipe away the night's last cold stare
red fist curled round the house
wash away boy shelly shoes
(wash)
chocolate power is so crisp
the atomic open house is really here
and we have gone so desperate
your power know no bounds
and heavier with time
are our shoes
that no man would want to wear
new tread wipes a wet road so dry
-it
stings
into the borrowed course
under the dreadful birds
under the singing soil
and all those guilty clouds
i have seen too much
wipe away my eyes
too much!
@SONG: Mask
the man of shadows thinks in clay
dreamed trapped thoughts of suffocation day
he's seen in iron environments
with plastic sweat out of chiselled slits for eyes
from the growth underneath the closed mouth
you'll catch if you listen
rack trapped cubist vowels
from a dummy head expression
from a dummy head expression
the transformation is invested
with the mysterious and the shameful
while the thing i am becomes something else
part character part sensation
the shadow is cast
etc......
@SONG: silent hedges
following the silent hedges
needing some other kind of madness
looking into purple eyes
sadness at the corners
works of art with a minimum of steel
pure sensation
the beautiful down grade
going to hell again
going to hell again
self confidence leaks
from a thousand wounds
faults of civilisation
burning the private paradise of dreams
minus hands of the electric clock
clock
clock
clock
pure sensation
the beautiful down grade
going to hell again
going to hell again
again
again
again
@SONG: the three shadows (partI & II)
oh classic gentlemen
say your prayers
to the wind of prostitution
to your faces, and rex complexes
riddle my breast
full of the oppressed puss.
o gentlemen, with your fish
that you surround, all around
and you man, will always point
your fishes at me.
but i will always exist
because i always exist
damn good too
the rat race begins
the fat face stings
i hold the fresh pink baby
with a smile.
i slice off those rosy cheeks
because i feel so thirsty
and oedipus rex complexes
... riddle my closed bloated breast.
Slice of Life
Her gaze hit the side of mine
so I opened it out
to destroy what you thought was difference
So I lied to you once again
So I painted over you once again
So I die before you once again
What's the difference?
Come clearly where the flavour is
seen here in black and white
You've got two seconds baby boy
in burning light white light
What's the difference?
Clear up what you are
burn out these eyes
Rip up this place and scream
I am your slice of life
I am your slice of life
I am your slice of life
I am your slice of life
Shivering under lamposts
shivering under glass
you're standing on charisma again
god knows it cannot last
What's the difference?
Ice inside your body
blood inside your soul
Yet still twelve faces stand around
hugging your skinny bones
What's the difference?
She's in Parties
Learning lines in the rain
Special Effects by lunatic and drinks
the graveyard scene
the golden years
She's in parties,
its in the can
She's in parties,
its in the can
Freeze frame screen kiss
hot heads under silent wigs
Fall guys tumble on the cutting room floor
She's in parties,
its in the can
She's in parties,
its in the can
Learning lines in the rain,
Special Effects by lunatic and drinks.
Freeze frame screen kiss,
hot heads under silent wigs,
lights and powder,
its patently obvious
She's in parties,
its in the can
She's in parties,
its in the can
Hot lines under a rain of drums
Cigarette props in action,
Dialogue dub, now here's the rub,
She's acting her reaction
She's in parties,
its in the can
BLACK SABBATH:
@SONG: "Fairies Wear Boots"
Goin' home, late last night
suddenly I got a fright
Yeah I looked throught the window and surprised what I
saw
Fairy boots were dancin' with a dwarf, all right now!
Fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
yeah I saw it, I saw it, I tell you no lies
Yeah Fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes, well all
right now!
So I went to the doctor, see what he could give me
he said "Son, son, you've gone too far.
'cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do."
'cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do."
BLIND FACE
@SONG: DO WHAT YOU LIKE
by Ginger Baker
Do right, use your head.
Everybody must be fed.
Get together, break your bread.
Yes, together, that's what I said.
Do what you like.
Don't fight, use your head.
It's all right every night.
Do what you like, that's what I said.
Everybody must be fed.
Do what you like.
Open your eyes.
Realize you're not dead.
Take a look at an open book.
Do what you like, that's what I said.
Do what you like.
Do what you like.
Bowie, David
? Hallo, spaceboy
? Space oddity
? Outside
? I’m Deranged
CAKE
FRANK SINATRA
We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.
While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,
The flies and spiders get along together,
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record.
Beyond the suns that guard this roof,
Beyond your flowers of flaming truths,
Beyond your latest ad campaigns,
An old man sits collecting stamps
In a room all filled with Chinese lamps.
He saves what others throw away.
He says that he'll be rich some day.
We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.
We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.
While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,
The flies and spiders get along together,
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record.
THE DISTANCE
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line,
Engines pumping and thumping in time.
The green light flashes, the flags go up.
Churning and burning, they yearn for the cup.
They deftly maneuver and muscle for rank,
Fuel burning fast on an empty tank.
Reckless and wild, they pour through the turns.
Their prowess is potent and secretly stearn.
As they speed through the finish, the flags go down.
The fans get up and they get out of town.
The arena is empty except for one man,
Still driving and striving as fast as he can.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up,
And long ago somebody left with the cup.
But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns.
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns.
He's going the distance.
He's going for speed.
She's all alone
In her time of need.
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the
course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse,
He's going the distance.
No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no wine,
He's haunted by something he cannot define.
Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse,
Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force.
In his mind, he's still driving,still making the
grade.
She's hoping in time that her memories will fade.
Cause he's racing and pacing and plotting the course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up,
And long ago somebody left with the cup.
But he's striving and driving and hugging the turns.
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns.
Cause he's going the distance.
He's going for speed.
She's all alone
In her time of need.
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the
course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse.
He's racing and pacing and plotting the course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse.
He's going the distance.
He's going for speed.
He's going the distance.
FRIEND IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
To me, coming from you,
Friend is a four letter word.
End is the only part of the word
That I heard.
Call me morbid or absurd.
But to me, coming from you,
Friend is a four letter word.
To me, coming from you,
Friend is a four letter word.
End is the only part of the word
That I heard.
Call me morbid or absurd.
But to me, coming from you,
Friend is a four letter word.
When I go fishing for the words
I am wishing you would say to me,
I'm really only praying
That the words you'll soon be saying
Might betray the way you feel about me.
But to me, coming from you,
Friend is a four letter word.
I WILL SURVIVE
At first I was afraid.
I was petrified.
I kept thinking I could never live
Without you by my side.
But then I spent so many nights
Just thinking how you'd done me wrong.
I grew strong.
I learned how to get along.
And so you're back from outer space.
I just walked in to find you here
Without that look upon your face.
I should have changed my fucking lock.
I would have made you leave your key
If I'd have known for just one second
You'd be back to bother me.
Oh now go.
Walk out the door.
Just turn around now.
You're not welcome anymore.
Weren't you the one
Who tried to break me with desire?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh not I.
I will survive.
As long as I know how to love
I know I'll be alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got all my love to give.
I will survive.
I will survive.
It took all the strength I had
Just not to fall apart.
I'm trying hard to mend
The pieces of my broken heart.
And I spent oh so many nights
Just feeling sorry for myself.
I used to cry.
But now I hold my head up high.
And you'll see me with somebody new.
I'm not that stupid little person
Still in love with you.
And so you thought you'd just drop by,
And you expect me to be free.
But now I'm saving all my lovin'
For someone who's lovin' me.
Oh now go.
Walk out the door.
Just turn around now.
You're not welcome anymore.
Weren't you the one
Who tried to break me with desire?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh not I.
I will survive.
As long as I know how to love
I know I'll be alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got all my love to give.
I will survive.
I will survive.
COIL
Blood from the Air
A sleeping explorer
his wandering mind
crossed over the border
a mind like a cemetery
where the corpses
are turning
where the bodies
twist deep
in the frozen grip
of a dreamless sleep
then the lowest
comes up
like a wreck
from the depths.
He hears night calling
and has dreams
of waking
here in this brightness
that burns like
slow lightening
he sees words
burnt in ice
reads, "The World is
a Wound
In the Body of Christ".
Effects of the animal -
Animal sound effects
He says, "Death,
he is my friend
He promised me
a quick end".
Says, "The world is
in pain
and should be
put down
and God is a sadist
and that he knows it".
The depths of the
night sky
reflects in his eye
He says,
"Everything changes
And everyone dies".
And the night
slits her veins
and the
darkness drains
and the void
rumbles in
like an
underground train...
Forever comes closer
the world is in pain
we all must be shown
we must realise
that everyone changes
and everything dies.
THINGS HAPPEN
Sssssst ! Sssssst !
(Kill the creator.
I send them the bomb)
Daddie, do you have a
Cigarette for me, I think
Maybe is getting late
Maybe time is running out
You know, I knew somebody once
Rifled through his drawers
I wasn't that suspicious, but...
You know these things
They happen
But... munyeca
Do you have a towel?
See those people gather round
Baby, do you have a light?
What's it like in Ohio?
What d'you want to call me,
Munyeca?
Honey, do you like my dress?
You know, I think the colour pink
Suits my complexion
Or is it a reflection
Of the sky outside, you know
Why those people
Crowding round?
You know I think your time
Is running out
What was your name, anyway?
No lipstick on his collar but
Maybe it was blood
I don't know to this day, Dear
Do you have another, uh.
Did you light
That cigarette for me? Oh!
Did you leave that on the side?
Do you have another
Cigarette for me. You know?
Well I had somebody once
You know we used to cook a lot
It was a...
Do you like chillies in Ohio?
Munyeca. Yo te ciaro.
Yo te ciaro Ohio. Muy bonito.
Where did I leave my matches?
I thought they were on
The table there
By the way did you... ?
Do you have some cash for me
Beacouse you know I have to get a
Cab somewhere after here.
You know, i don't want to push you,
But... uh
You know I've got to go somewhere
There's something burning
In the kitchen
Did I put the peppers in?
I don't... uh... Oh dear...
Why are these people crowding
Round me in the street
You know you have to watch
Yourself, don't you?
Just a bit...
It's a bit of a commotion
It must be like that for you
A little bit
Nice meeteng you...
I have no regrets... but
I did feel a little bit bad
You know
It's kind of like.....
You know what it's like.
Lyrics by Annie Anxiety — Bandez.
Reproduced by permission EMI Music
WINDOWPANE
In the sky and in the eye and
In the sky and in the eye and...
If you want to touch the sky
Just put a window in your eye
See the sun and
See the rain
See the window
See the pain
See the sun and
See the rain
See the birds eye
See the brain
Ancient cities
Rise again
See microscopic
See world view
See the future
Leaking through
See the seashore and
See the sand
See the windows
In your hand.
See the Lie.
Blue Rats
Blue Rats (Blue Cheese Mix)
Blue rats, what's the matter?
Blue rats, pitter-patter
Blue rats, what's the matter?
Blue rats, pitter-patter
I'm waiting for the scratch
Of blue rats
Of blue rats
I'm waiting for the scratch
Scritch, scratch
Scritch, scratch
Scritch, scratch
I'm waiting for the scratch
Of blue rats
I'm waiting for the scratch
I'm waiting for the scratch
Scratch
Scratch
Scratch
Scratch
Broccoli
Wise words from the departing
Eat your greens, especially broccoli
Remember to say "thank you" for the things
you haven't had
By working the soil we cultivate the sky
We embrace vegetable kingdom
The death of your father, the death of your mother
Is something you prepare for
All your life
All their life
(repeated over and over with the following changes)
The death of the father and the death of the mother
...
Wear sensible shoes and always say "thank
you"
Especially for the things you never had
...
Is something you prepare for
All your life
All of your life
...
And enter the vegetable kingdom of our own heaven
...
By working the soil we cultivate good manners
Is to say "please" and "thank you"
Especially for the things you never had
...
And always say "thank you"
Especially for broccoli
The Dreamer is Still Asleep
Hush; may I ask you all for silence?
The dreamer is still asleep
May the goddess keep us from single vision
And Newton's sleep
The dreamer is still asleep
The dreamer is still asleep
He's inventing landscapes in their magnetic field
Working out a means of escape
We'll cut across the crop circles
The seer says no
Not much time left for these escape attempts
Look at it this way
In ten years' time
Who'll care? Who'll even remember?
One dies like that, deep within it
Almost inside it
It's there for a reason
I'll give you my old address
And take that little book
To tear and cut the paper
The beginning is also the end
Time defines it, time defines it
It will end
Like close friendship
Nothing could be further
We forget the space between people and things
Is empty
We forget, and don't notice the loss
Crossing into venerable degeneration
Such radiant pollution
The god with the silver hand surveys this vast
contamination
The dreamer is still dreaming
The dreamer is still dreaming
In the heart of your heart
Your eye remains
Is that hurt you? Is that blister you call loveless?
Your whole life is a cold slow shock
Your whole life is a cold slow shock
Take all your time
Track the shabby shadow down
Through hissy mists of history
The dreamer is still dreaming
The dreamer is still dreaming
Hush; may I ask you all for silence?
Will he wake in time to catch the sunset?
Hush; may I ask you all for silent?
May I ask you all for silent?
Heartworms
Ooooh
There's too much blood in my alcohol
There's too much blood in my alcohol
There's too much blood in my alcohol
Ooooh
Demons generally enter in
Demons generally enter in through my ears
I don't like what I hear
I don't like what I hear
I don't like what I see
I don't like what I see
Ghosts vomit over me
Ghosts vomit over me
Ghosts vomit over me
Liars through my eyes
There's too much blood in my alcohol
There's too much blood in my alcohol
Can't get enough to numb me
Can't get enough to numb me
Can't get enough to numb me
Can't get enough to numb me
There's too much blood in my alcohol
There's too much blood in my alcohol
There's too much blood in my alcohol
Demons generally enter in through my ears
Demons generally enter in through my ears
Each beat feeds the heartworms
Each beat feeds the heartworms at the heart of me
At the heart of me
There's too much blood in my alcohol (Can't you get
enough to numb me?)
There's too much blood in my alcohol (Can't get enough
to numb me)
There's too much blood in my heart
In my heart (It's preventing coagulation)
I'm faithful that this stagnation's feeding my
heartworms
Feeding the heartworms
The demons generally enter in through my ears
It all feels off of me
Ghosts vomit over me
Ghosts vomit over me
Ghosts vomit over me, over the old me
This knife's gonna make some young woman a fine
husband
This knife's gonna make some young woman a fine
husband
This knife's gonna make some young woman a fine
husband
This knife's gonna make some young woman a fine
husband
I Don't Want To Be The One
I don't want to be the one
When everyone has gone
When everyone is gone
I don't want to be the one
I don't want to be the one
I don't want to be the one
To see so far ahead
I have to live life looking back
To see the skies turn red
I don't want to be the one
To play this dangerous game
To find out why they came
I don't want to be the one
When everyone has gone
When everyone is gone
I don't want to be the one
I don't want to be the one
I don't want to be the one
Love's Secret Domain
Love's Secret Domain (Original Mix)
O rose, thou art sick
Seduce, let loose the vision and the void
Bloodsuckle and honey suck
O rose, thou art sick
O, the vision and the void
The bloodsickle cuts the honey suck
O rose, thou art sick
In little children's heavy heads
My dreams erupt while in my bed
Innocence is innocence is innocence is dripping red
In dreams I'll walk with you
In dreams I'll talk with you
In dreams you're mine
All of the time
Heads on fire and drunken lights
Oh, days devoured by hungry nights
In love's secret domain
This is mad love
Oh, this is mad love
In love's secret domain
Sweet tortures fly on mystery wings
Pure evil is when flowers sing
My heart, my heart, my heart is a rose
This is mad love
This is mad love
In love's secret domain
Give sanity a longer leash
But some of us have sharper teeth
In dreams, in dreams
In love's secret domain
In dreams I'll walk with you
In dreams I'll talk with you
In dreams
In dreams you're mine all the time
O rose, thou art sick
The invisible worm
The vision and the void
The bloodsickle cuts
And the honey sucks
O rose, thou art sick
Ugh!
Where Are You?
Where are you?
Are you hiding from me?
Are you still looking for things that no-one else can
see?
Where are you?
Are you in some place that we cannot reach?
Are you bathing in moonlight or drowned on the beach?
Where are you?
Are you surrounded by things we cannot penetrate?
Is the cage you love the home you also hate?
Your fear of death attracts such strange objects
Smothering you, hiding you, don't let it spoil you
Show yourself so the others may see you
So the others may feed you
They want to be near you
If you can't get enough of your hypnotic injection
Then it's time to put an end to this invalid function
Poor little ghost boy
Let me be your human toy
Where are you?
No-one's seen you for years
Have your wounds grown wings? Are you feasting on
fears?
I can see your dark corona is eating into you
You're surrounded by things we cannot penetrate
Is the cage you love the home you also hate?
Life lies with the scissors inside her
The surgeon was a butcher
All of us are wounded, anaesthetised in A&E
Numbed by stuff we should not see
Each of us lies bleeding
Our rivers intermingling
Poor little ghost boy
Let me be your human toy
I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage
I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage
I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage
I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage
Who By Fire
Originally performed by Leonard Cohen.
And who by fire? Who by water?
Who in the sunshine? Who in the night-time?
Who by high ordeal? Who by common trial?
Who in your merry merry month of May?
Who by very slow decay?
And who shall I say is calling?
And who in her lonely sleep? Who by barbiturate?
Who in these realms of love? Who by something blunt?
Who by avalanche, and who by powder?
Who for his greed, and who for his hunger?
And who shall I say is calling?
And who by brave assent? Who by accident?
Who in solitude, and who in this mirror?
Who by his lady's command? Who by his own hand?
Who in mortal chains? Who in power?
And who shall I say is calling?
Paranoid Inlay
Serenity is a problem
When you get this close to Heaven
But you really want to see
The wonders of the underworld
They caught Saint Peter's disease
As he rattled his keys
Serenity is a problem
Serenity is a problem
Such a paranoid inlay
Hand-painted, pain by numbers, just join the dots
Serenity is a problem
Serenity is a problem
Bloody British bulldozers
These vegetables are suicidal
It seems concussion suits you
It seems concussion suits you
Dear Diary, I must take risks
I must not be afraid of failure
What do I need to give up?
Crystalline ladders, shiny things, mirror-balls
On a clear day I can see forever
That the underworld is my oyster
Red Queen
The rapid speech before the main lyrics is a repeat of
the first section ("Now you've absorbed ... gonna do?").
Now you've absorbed it into your system
Now that you've allowed it to be true
Now that you've neutralised it, made it safe, made it
yours
Now that you've been photographed, recorded
What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
Is it so unsafe when you are
Insecure in the space where you are?
Is it so, really so,
Is it more real?
Is it more yours?
Is it more yours?
Is it more real, for you,
Than it is for him or me?
And the people who perceive it
Repeat it, distort it, improve it, update it
Slightly change it
And these people believe it
And write it all up for you
And is it more real?
And is it more real?
Does it make it more yours,
Now you're recorded as having said it?
And being seen and done it
People have been seen to take notice
So empty
Is it so awful to be seen to feel and fail?
Overheard and noted to authenticate his story
An unsafe male trait
You know what they say
That empty vessels ring true, like bells
Make the most noise
The ink is still wet
In this case, the medium is not
Is it so unsafe when you are
Insecure in the space where you are?
Is it so, really so, unsafe you can't let
Let go?
Is it so unsafe when you are
Insecure in the space where you are?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you gonna do?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
CREEDENCE
SUSIE Q
Oh Susie Q,
Oh Susie Q,
Oh Susie Q, baby I love you, Susie Q.
I like the way you walk,
I like the way you talk,
I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk,
Susie Q.
solo
You say that you'll be true,
You say that you'll be true,
You say that you'll be true, baby I love you, Susie Q.
You say that you'll be mine,
You say that you'll be mine,
You say that you'll be mine, baby all the time, Susie
Q.
Oh Susie Q,
Oh Susie Q,
Oh Susie Q baby I love you, Susie Q.
I like the way you walk,
I like the way you talk,
I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk,
Susie Q.
CURRENT 93
COAL BLACK SMITH
O She look'd out of the window
White as any milk;
But He look'd into the window
As black as any silk.
Chorus:
Hulloa, hulloa, hulloa, hulloa,
You coal black smith!
You have done me no harm
You never shall change my maiden name
That I have kept so long;
I'd rather die a maid.
Yes, but then she said,
And be buried all in my grave
Than I'd have such a
nasty, husky, dusky, musty, fusky
coal black smith
A maiden I will die.
Then she became a duck,
A duck all on the stream;
And he became a water dog
And fetch'd her back again.
Then she became a hare,
A hare upon the plain;
And he became a greyhound dog
And fetch'd her back again.
Then she became a fly;
A fly all in the air;
And he became a spider
And fetch'd her to his lair.
(And she became a corpse,
A corpse all In the ground
And he became the cold grey clay
And smothered her all around)
?Tree
Fields of rape (sightless return)
in a foreign land
in a foreign town
reaping time had come
we fall back into
fields of rape
my love
and this was the way
and those were the horrors
as father went reaping
he falls back into
fields of rape
my love
crushed crushed crushed
you stand there grinning
crushed crushed crushed
you stand there laughing
you fall back info
fields of rape
my child
in a foreign land
in a foreign town
reaping time shall come
The fall of Christopher Robin
christopher robin, is saying his prayers
but no one is up there, nobody cares
christopher robin, he prayes to the lord
for the starving young children, for the old and the
cold
christopher robin, he falls to his knees
wailing and crying alone in the night
christopher robin, his face wet with tears
i'm praying to jesus, i hope that he hears
christopher robin, he does what he's told
christopher's a darling, his heart glistens like gold
christopher robin, his soul is confused
good and evil start to struggle and virtue loses
christopher robin, face to face with foe
all over the world he sees evil win and so
christopher has a secret, one that he mustn't tell
he's drawn up a contract with the devil in hell
christopher was greedy, christopher was bad
he sold his soul to satan, boy will he be sad
christopher robin has a familiar
chrisopher had a vision, into the abyss he saw
christopher robin never wanted to die
the devil promised him sweeties, but the devil lied
christopher robin, his face wet with tears
i'm praying to jesus, i hope that he hears
christopher robin, he does what he's told
christopher's a darling, his heart glistens like gold
christopher robin, his soul is confused
good and evil start to struggle and virtue loses
christopher robin, face to face with foe
all over the world he sees evil win and so
christopher's on a journey, he shall not return
in life he liked praying, now he's gonna burn
christopher robin, he falls down the stairs
his nightshirt ripped open, his flesh torn and bear
christopher robin, he's confined in his bed
locked up in the darkness, alone til he's dead
satan is patient, he's always got time
now christopher's a patient, as he in hospital lies
christopher robin, his face wet with tears
i'm praying to jesus, i hope that he hears
christopher robin, he does what he's told
christopher's a darling, his heart glistens like gold
christopher robin, his soul is confused
good and evil start to struggle and virtue loses
christopher robin, face to face with foe
all over the world he sees evil win and so
each tale has a message, we all must agree
all children who start praying, will burn in eternity
christopher robin, tsk tsk tsk
what a life
never thought it would come to this
he called on proof
he called on proof
and dungeons and dragons were his only joy
christopher robin, what did you get into?
and where will you go in hell?
burning and praying in a lake of fire
with all those other sinners
fingers burned, christopher robin
and there will not be another time
Hitler as Kalki
these are the dregs
of the last grains of the age
it may be the hourglass of earth covering earth
but not in Betlehem
not in Jerusalem
not in Chorazaim
and not in Bethsaida
we will not again see
God humbled on an ass
but
see
see
on a white horse he comes
blazing sword in burning hand
lo, i am become death
the destroyer of worlds
his hands are backed up
they're straining at his neck
what colour shall we rank in him?
what face shall we deliver him?
there may be the black dog
there may be the white dog
Hitler comes as Kalki
Hitler comes as Kalki
Kalki comes as Hitler
Kalki comes as Hitler
teeth teeth teeth teeth
but meaningless lights still hold our attention
we think that the holy books are written in blood and
fire
but what if it's water?
the fires turned to blood
the bloods turned to water
and the waters turned to what?
milk?
piss? lies? dust?
Hitler comes as Kalki
Kalki comes as Hitler
everything becomes emptiness
but goes through fire
secret mother (gsang yum chen mo)
secret father (gsans yab chen po)
Hitler becomes Kalki
Kalki becomes Hitler
the white horse and red horse
Christ twists on the cross
Hitler smiles in the guttering rubble
he brings not peace but a sword
but maybe the ocean roars immaculate
maybe the stars fall incomprehensible
oh these all tell me
oh these all spell to me
Hitler as Kalki
Kalki as Hitler
where's your God now?
i'll point out his varied forms to you
one he hangs on the end of a tree
two he's nailed to the arms of this selfsame tree
and three he spins, he spins and soars and laughs
through space
ah, one day the world sees
oh, one day the world sees
Hitler as Kalki
God as Kalki
and he lies matted
half in time and half in space
through the rising incense smoke
i see him in a crowded room
i see him crossing the mountain range
if we see man at his most bloody
if we see man at his most base
shall we point then and there
this is reality, this is his nature
oh, what makes the pain more real than the joy?
both are so mingled now and muddied together
to pull them apart
we butcher the essence and cripple its meaning
God is on the cross
or three gods perhaps
if they are all one
neither coming nor going
neither waning nor waxing
but immense in their unity
matter and space
he rides between the spaces
and he rides between the pain
in the secret heart of becoming
in the secret modes of darkness
his eyes are now shuttered windows
oh, man man man man
man with his claws and his lies
with his peace and his pain
with his love and his sorrow
with his candle of hope that stutters and dies
no liberation through hearing
when the sound of the worlds collapsing
deafens deafens deafens our ears
and pierces our hearts
Hitler as Kalki
Kalki as Hitler
rolling and roaring
swooping and soaring
exultant and trembling
sorrow sorrow sorrow
where the eagle flies
where the eagle shudders
where the eagle drops
where the eagle plummets
all things merging dissolving
then stars collapse
the vortex commences in space
the rubble collects
the debris gathers
time starts to shiver
my heart's blood
if i dissolve into your body
if i hoped to find
white light in your soul
if together we fall into forever
would we not notice the turbulence
that no longer waits?
first he comes from on a hill
then he's running throughout the town
then he stands
devoid of peace
devoid of place
devoid of pity
oh, my dear Christ
carried broken from sad brown earth
teeth teeth teeth teeth teeth teeth teeth teeth teeth
Hitler as Kalki
Hitler as Kalki
Kalki as Hitler
Hitler as Kalki
Hitler as Kalki
All the pretty little horsies
hush-a-bye
don't You cry
go to sleepy little baby
go to sleepy little baby
when You wake
you shall have
all the pretty little horsies
all the pretty little horsies
blacks and bays
dapples and greys
all the pretty little horsies
way down yonder in the meadow lies a poor little lamby
bees and butterflies flitting round his eyes
poor little thing is crying "Mammy"
go to sleep
don't you cry
rest your head upon the clover
rest your head upon the clover
in your dreams
you shall ride
while your Mammy's watching over
blacks and bays
and dapples and greys
all the pretty little horsies
all the pretty
little horsies
all the pretty
little horsies
A Gothic Love Song
i'm clicking your fingers for a gothic twilight
that actually existed just in your head
your fingernails painted black or bloodred
i forget
and your fake-leather volumes jabbering on hell
manifest decadence was what you hoped to exhale
your eyes tried so hard to glitter
a star-snuffing black so you opened your books
and you opened your legs and so opened your heart
and let in the badness you claimed as your friend
with un-angels hovering like flies around the orchard
that had covered your soul their empire increasing
and your country deserted by your self
the bells of st. mary call us to remember that life is
with end
and the gestures can kill us moreover destroy
and there is one judgment only
your letters came daily in french or in german
but they meant to me nothing i caught the slow chords
and dry ice fogging your mind
i see all too clearly now why you could be discarded
and though i could pray for you i probably shan't
having had my cup filled up with your lies and your
make-up
you were nothing thinking you're something
and nonetheless i still write this gothic love song
a sign to myself and the memory of my past
i still write this gothic love song
a sign to myself and the memory of my past
and a way to shut out your face
(Soft Black Stars)
little children snuggle under soft black stars
and if you look into their eyes soft black stars
deliver them from the book and the letter and the word
and let them read the silence bathed in soft black
stars
let them trace the raindrops under soft black stars
let them follow whispers and scare away the night
let them kiss the featherbreath of soft black stars
and let them ride their horses licked by the wind and
the snow
and tip-toe into twilight where we all one day will go
caressed with tendrils and with no fear at all
their faces shining river gold washed with soft black
stars
and angels' wings shall soothe their cares
and all the birds shall sing at dawn
blessed and wet with joy
you and i will meet one day
under a nightsky lit by soft black stars
Good morning, great Moloch
good morning, great Moloch
bright nothing
sunflower
selling your peacocks
at the corner of sight
good evening, bloodmother
far-off
and broken
a nexus
a typhon
a walker on stilts
shipdreaming
and arctic
a polar explorer
a seagull
and seahorse
crossbred
and unborn
good morning, great Moloch
great silence
burntriver
driving home darkness
at the close of the day
good evening, bloodfather
smudged by the twilight
made iridescent
by the tongue of the sea
quicksleeping
equator
a patchwork
of terrors
bound up in brightness
from swallowing gold
The magical bird in the magical woods
i saw the slot of the sun
the final cut of the sun
start like a hare
over the shoddy grey walls
i saw you dimple and crease
and turn a card from the pack
by your bed
as though swords, cups, discs and wands
might tumble into your head
and give you a glimmer of something profound
but your gods made no sound
the gods made no sound
your gods made no sound
you were cartwheel and sommersault
but not at your ease
i was not at my ease
as through unfolding vistas
of dullness and deadness
i saw the metal buckets
fatigued and buckled
with nimbus of rustflowers
in sheds by the lake
i was already falling and fallen and lost
and it was not at your cost
and i was not at my ease
and it was not at your cost
by aimless pools with no surprise
i counted the flickerings of your eyes
and saw the magical bird
in the magical woods
fly over the hills
and far away
from the sea it's you i see
by the glowing seashore it was you that i saw:
the magical bird in the magical woods
Immortal bird
what drives us on?
what drives us on?
i left something of myself in you
fourscore, twenty, thirty
in your body and in your flesh
in your vault of skin
i was nothing for you
but the shadow of another love
that one day for you
would shift the skies
to pastures blue
streaked with passing and loss
tortoise green in my eyes
from the moss of my past
you arise
and lightly then i saw you smile
with ivory throat and ivory eyes
at night i catch you before i sleep
and if i died before i wake
i prayed that you my heart might keep
i cannot hold your tunnelled eyes
near my heart any longer
all this love is nothing truly:
mist of moons' breath
grit of evening
the grass was green (i now recall)
before my own particular fall
i saw we were both really
masks on nothing
(the moonlight sweeping over northern beaches)
all the trees stand stripped
just silhouttes of memories
at night i have started to dream of you:
your eyes are
wide
and shot through
with seablue
DEAD KENNEDYS:
@SONG: TOO DRUNK TO FUCK
Went to a party
I danced all night
I drank 16 beers
And I started up a fight
But now I'm jaded
You're out of luck
I'm rolling down the stairs
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk
To fuck
I'm too drunk, too drunk, too drunk
To fuck
I like your stories
I like your gun
Shooting out cop tires
Sounds like loads and loads of fun
But in my room
Wish you were dead
You ball like the baby
In Eraserhead
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk
To fuck
It's all I need right now
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk
To fuck
I'm sick soft gooey and cold
Too drunk to fuck
I'm about to drop
My head's a mess
The only salvation is
I'll never see you again
You give me head
It makes it worse
Take out your fuckin' retainer
Put it in your purse
Too drunk to fuck
You're too drunk to fuck
Too drunk
To fuck
It's all I need right now Oh baby
I'm melting like an ice cream bar
Oh baby
And now I got diarrhea
Too drunk to fuck
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Oooohhh...
@SONG: CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES
I am governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president
Carter power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school
California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California
Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And alway wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay
California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California
Now it is 1984
Knock knock at your front door
It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower
Die on organice poison gas
Serpents eggs already hatched
You will croak you little clown
When you mess with president Brown
When you mess with president Brown
California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California
@SONG: HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA
So you've been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east you type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On you five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know how the niggers feel the cold
And the slum's got so much soul
It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
Brace yourself, my dear
It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't foget to pack a wife
You're a star-belly sneech you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you
Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers 'til you starve
Then you head is skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son...
What you need, my son...
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot etc.
And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slum's got so much soul
@SONG: I FOUGHT THE LAW (AND I WON)
Drinkin' beer in the hot sun
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
I needed sex and I got mine
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
The law don't mean shit if you've got the right
friends
That's how this country's run
Twinkies are the best friend I've ever had
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
I blew George & Harvey's brains out with my
six-gun
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
Gonna write my book and make a million
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
I'm the new folk hero of the Ku Klux Klan
My cop friends think that's fine
You can get away with murder if you've got a badge
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
I am the law
So I won
@SONG: SATURDAY NIGHT HOLOCAUST
There's a prefab building and a funny smell
Around the hill outside of town
Every now and then we wonder
But we shrug our shoulders
And get back to work...
There's a railroad there and trains go by
And there's people locked in cattle cars
And have you noticed
The french fries at the A&W
Taste a little strange?
I drive down to the disco
Pompadour and pink lamme
I bow and blow the doorman
He parts the chain, says join the game
A quick line in the girls' room
To the bar for the electrodes
A coin into the right slit
Tape my temple, watch me go
Blacks are banned, 'cept on the records
O' life's a cabaret
Like Berlin, 1930
All I crave is my escape
Now I want your perfect Barbie-doll lips
And I wnat your perfect Barbie-doll eyes
Slip my fingers down your Barbie-doll dress
Up and down your Spandex ass
If I lit a match to you
You'd melt before my eyes
C'mere my pretty glow-worm
You look so fine to dance with me
The fly-eye lights a-throbbin'
I'm burning up the floor
Whirling twirling
Close my eyes
No faces judging me
But I want your perfect Barbie-doll lips
And I wnat your perfect Barbie-doll eyes
Slip my fingers down your Barbie-doll dress
Up and down your Spandex ass
A Hitler youth in jogging suit
Smiling face banded 'round his arm
Says 'Line up, you've got work to do
We need dog food for the poor'
A scream bleats out, we're herded into lines
Customized vans wait outside
I'm getting scared of my new home
To Auschwitz Condominiums we go
Oh no
But I want your perfect Barbie-doll lips
And I want your perfect Barbie-doll eyes
Let my fingers down your dress
One more time...
DEATH IN JUNE
Rose Clouds Of Holocaust
Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Rose Clouds of Flies
Rose Clouds of Bitter
Bitter, Bitter Lies
And When The Angels
Of Ignorance
Fall Down From Your Eyes
Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Rose Clouds of Lies.......
Rose Clouds of
Twilight Truth
Rose Clouds of Night
Rose Clouds of Harvested
(Love, All Alight)
And When The Ashes of Life
Fall Down From The Skies
Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Rose Clouds of Lies.....
And Festivals End
As Festivals Must
From The Hooded Crows of Rome
To The Falcons of Zagreb
Oh, Mother Victim of Jesus
Lie Down in Sydney's Dust
For Festivals End
As Festivals Must
Hullo Angel
Well, Hullo Angel
A Gift and a Smile
Well, Hullo Angel
As We walk a Crooked mile
And a Twisted Man
Leans on twisted sticks
With children's laughter
Hanging from swings
Well, Hullo Angel
And the skipping rope turns
Whilst little bodies twist
In carousel swerves
Well, Hullo Angel
It's the End of The World
Well, Hullo Angel
At the End of your Tether
Well, Hullo Angel
Time for Sleep
Well, Hullo Angel
Time for Prayers
That which is Falling
Should also be Pushed
That which is Crawling
Should also be Crushed!
Fall Apart
And if I wake from dreams
Shall I fall in pastures
Will I wake the darkness
Shall we torch the earth
And if I wake from dreams
Shall we find the emptiness
And break the silence
That will stop our hearts
And if I wake from dreams
Shall we cry together
For their howling echoes
And restart the night
And why did you say that things shall fall
And fall and fall and fall and fall apart
And why did you say that things shall fall
And fall and fall and fall and fall apart
And shall I wake from dreams
For the glory of nothing
For the cracking of the sun
For the crawling down of lies
And if we fall from dreams
Shall we push them to darkness
And stare into the howling
And clambor into night
And if I fall from dreams
All my prayers are silenced
To Love is to Lose
And to Lose is to Die
And why did you say that things shall fall
And fall and fall and fall and fall apart
And why did you say that things shall fall
And fall and fall and fall and fall apart
And why did you say that things shall fall
And fall and fall and fall and fall apart
And why did you say that things shall fall
And fall and fall and fall and fall apart
And why did you say that things shall fall
Our
Love is
Our
Love is
Beyond
Fulfilment
Beyond
Despair
The
Ultimate Faith
The
Ultimate Betrayal
And
Europa has Burned
And
will Burn Again
Giddy
Giddy Carousel
Giddy
Giddy Carousel
The
blood of His Dreams
The
Dreams of This Youth
For
the Master-Slave
For
the One-Step Men
The
Right of Confession
The
Rites of Confusion
Expect
no more
This
Love Burns Life
Giddy
Giddy Carousel
Giddy
Giddy Carousel
Luther's Army
Like Luther's Army
And Able's Brother
I Woke to Find
Only to Smother
An Angel Fat
At Satan's Feast
Where Falsehood, Childhood, and
Loneliness Cease
Delicate Like Grief
I Am Rapist Well-Heeled
Double the Echo of Silence
Like a Dusty Dead Rose
Contaminate With Neglect
Every Little Heart
Should End Up Broken
And Shrouded by Fog
Like Luther's Army
And Able's Brother
I Woke to Find
Only to Smother
An Angel Fat
At Satan's Feast
Where Falsehood, Childhood, and
Loneliness Cease
Asleep in The Stubble of Autumn
The Pain was Calvary
Our Living on Empty!
The Dead of It-
The Dread of It-
Like Luther's Army.........
Little Black Angel
Black angel, black angel
As you grow up
I want you to drink
From the plenty cup
My little black angel
My little black angel as years roll by
I want you to fly with wings held high
I want you to live by the justice code
I want you to burn down freedom's road
My little black angel
Oh lie away, oh lie away sleeping
Lie away safe in my arms
Your father, you future protects you
And locks you safe from all harm
Little black angel I feel so glad
You'll never have things I never had
When out of men's hearts all hate has gone
It's better to die than forever live on
My little black angel...
Ku Ku Ku
Open up you mind
And ku ku ku, baby
And time will stand still for you
Seize the end of time
And ku ku ku, baby
See, it will be mine
And ku ku ku, baby
I will bleed into the blind
So ku ku ku, baby
And time will stand still for you
Open up you mind
And ku ku ku, baby...
She Said Destroy
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
Like Jackals Howling
Like Flowers Unfolding
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
The Banners In Tatters
The Virgin Has Blessed
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
As If Seeking There
Hope's Bloody Prey
The Dead Dog Sinking
Turning and Turning
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
The Bodies Collapsed
Swollen With Gas
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
In The Hovels and Gutters
Her Face To The Storm
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
Still Broken, Still Bleeding
The Crack of The Neck
The Gut Shriek of Thunder
The Blood Call of Lightning
She Said Destroy, In Black New York...
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
Like Jackals Howling
Like Flowers Unfolding
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
The Virgin Has Blessed
The Call of The Beast
Into That Darkness
Into That Darkness
As If Seeking There
Hope's Bloody Prey
The Dead Dog Sinking
Turning and Turning
She Said Destroy in Black New York....
CATHEDRAL OF TEARS Featured on :
- Cathedral of tears (CD)
- Cathedral of tears (EP)
- Disc-riminate
In this cathedral of tears
We shall tear your heart
Into pieces of emotion
And only dreams can redeem your life
Where only dreams have received your life
Overwhelm me
With nothing
But nothing
And nothing
Overwhelm me
With nothing
But nothing
And nothing
Never before this thrill, this motif
Never before this vision, this salvation
And never again this past and this future
But I cannot right what I have done wrong
And we'll never return to where we have gone but I
cannot right what I have done wrong
And we'll never return to where we have gone but I
cannot right what I have done wrong
And we'll never return to where we have gone but I
cannot right what I have done wrong
Nothing and nothing but nothing and nothing
Little Blue Batterfly
black sun dying
black sun rising
is this impure
is this impure?
shadow of locust
this is beast
shadow of locust
this is at least
the slow descent of autumn
into the butcher garden
black sun dying
black sun rising
is this impure
is this impure?
children, it's midnight
it's time, we've come
hand in hand
on earth, in hell
sick or well
we're bleeding - all over - the world
you and me
on land and sea
in life, in dreams
or, so it seems
new beginnings
new ends
it's obvious
it's him
the deafening
beautiful
silence...
of sin!
Kameradschaft
are you close to
or far from your conscience?
as the petals of life
decay
"ignorance is bliss"
the sad remiss
to the clarion call
of today
(see how it burns)
but, we struggle in wyrd with amusement
and, contempt for all that holds
sway
are you close to
or far from your conscience?
is the question I ask
today
(see how they run)
kameradschaft!
are you close to
or far from your conscience?
as their reason for life
fades away
petty beliefs - petty platitudes
all ring hollow day
are you close to
or far from your conscience?
as the blossom of life
drifts away
are you close to
or far from your conscience?
is the question I ask today
kameradschaft!
every angel knows
the congress of liberty
the sadness and smiles
of our memories
with this - we let go
our lady of the snows
kameradschaft!
are you close to
or far from your conscience?
as their meaning in life
dies away
are you close to
or far from your conscience?
the question I ask today
kameradschaft!
POWER HAS A FRAGRANCE Featured on :
- Take care &
control
this bondage
it has no charms
silence and evil weigh down my arms
we know our god
by the things he creates
life, beauty, but most of all hate
tell me your torment
on unholy ground
think of the times
life turned around
power has a fragnance
how kreepy it krawls
power has a fragnance
let loose wehrwolves
this bondage
it has no charms
silence and evil weigh down my arms
we know our gods
by the things they create
life, beauty, but most of all hate
WINTER EAGLE Featured on :
- Operation Hummingbird
Cemetery with lights
Mother night
Buried universe
At midnight
The slicing of flesh
Ever thinner
Buried universe
Dimmer and dimmer
Amnesia, agenda
Pagan slave
Thrown to illusion
Dead, the brave
Away from the placenta
Jagged roof high
We drop into holes
Bittersweet! Die!
Eternal damnation
Seems so far from me
A shadow of thrones
Unholy
Black coals for a heart?
Life never be
Each passage of time
Each different country
Cemetery with lights
Mother night
Buried universe
At midnight
The slicing of flesh
Ever thinner
Buried universe
Dimmer and dimmer.......
ALL PIGS MUST DIE
All Pigs Must Die
This ain't August '69
All Pigs Must Die
7 & 7 - Sieg Heil - Sublime!
Their trotters are in the mud
They're better off with the Son of God
They had no idea
Not even close, not even near
All Pigs Must Die
This ain't August '69
All Pigs Must Die
7 & 7 - Sieg Heil - Sublime!
All Pigs Must Die
This is August '99 (That was August '99)
All Pigs Must Die
Their stolen riches are really mine
Cover their faces in blood
They're better off with the Son of God
All Pigs Must Die
This is August '99
The Law of The Claw will make them mine
["This ain't August '69" wydaje sie odnosic
do serii morderstw Tate-Labianca, dokonanych przez Rodzine Charlesa Mansona.
Jednoczesnie jest to nawiazanie do piosenki Blue Oyster Cult pt."This
Ain't The Summer Of Love", ktora
mozna uslyszec w wykonaniu Current 93. Jesli
"7 & 7" to prawidlowe tlumaczenie, to najwyrazniej wiaze
sie to z piosenka pod tym samym tytulem, autorstwa jednego z ulubionych
zespolow Douglasa P., legendy z lat 60'tych - Love. I ostatnia sprawa:
"The Law of The Claw", czyli prawo pazura, Lex Talionis, termin
uzywany przez Aleistera Crowleya oraz Antona Szandora La Vey'a. Manson znal
dziela obydwu, byl tez podobno czlonkiem Kosciola Szatana.]
TICK TOCK Featured on :
- All pigs must die
- Something is coming
"This is a story about people who like to waste
time...
waste my time, waste your time, waste their time;
but time is against them. Time is everyone's master,
including them..."
Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock
3 piggies standing in the dock
Their pockets all empty and bare
Their futures, their homes, nowhere.
Auf wiedersehen...
Do vdjenja...
With egos they decide to lead
With stupidity they ooze and bleed
What comfort they could have had
Is now gone and up for grabs
Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock
3 piggies standing in the dock
Their snouts all bloody and red
They should have said goodbye instead.
Ciao!
Auf Wiedersehn!
Arrivederci
piggie!
WE SAID DESTROY II Featured on :
- All Pigs Must die
- Something Is coming
"This is a story about 3 little piggies. 3 little
piggies who never went to market, especially on a Friday afternoon when they
stayed at home and let other people bring home the bacon. And they still do!
But the rashers get thinner and thinner, and life's knives get sharper and
sharper..."
This milchcow has given its last pound of flesh
Their coffers, once full, will be emptiness
A curse for a night time, a curse for a lifetime
3 months have gone, and 6 months are due-time
Threatening squeals, it's shut up and pay time
For three little piggies, wither and decay time
Happy greet, happy meat, but better happy to goodbye
time
The 3 months have gone, it's 6 months to pay time
As we have seen the Guilty have no Pride
But, their lies do lead to their own suicide.
This milchcow has given it's last pound of flesh
young coffins will fill their hearts' emptiness.
Now you have seen, I can't help but grin
My angels are coming from deep within!
Now you have heard, I can't help but grin
My demons are coming from deep within!
Die piggie, die... bye bye!
THE ENEMY WITHIN Featured on :
- All pigs must
die
- Something is coming
These are strange days for you, me, and Germany
These are strange days we find ourselves in
These are strange days for you, me, and Germany
But, we have Honour, and with that we (we'll) win!
I had a fight with 3 piggies
Your enemy seems to be within
These are strange days for you, me, and Germany
But, we struggle, and together we'll win!
These are strange days for you, me, and Germany
The storm clouds are gathered and gray
These are strange days for you, me, and Germany
So we find ourselves here today.
Snakes and devils surround us
Friends are few and rare indeed
Pig upon pig-dog will hound us
But, we get stronger as they inbreed.
DEEP PURPLE
BLOODSUCKER
Gotta black breast Chinese eyes
Got an English brain that's gonna make me wise
Got a long story that I gonna tell
To a rhythm I know so well
Really got a lot of lovin' that I wanna give
Baby, I'm a mystery but you know I gotta live
I tried another but she didn't want to know
Take a hold now if you can
Take a lesson from a hard lovin' man
I'm a long way from where I wanna go
Guess I'll stay a while I really love you so
How's about another sip of all that wine you got
Take a tip from me and give it here I'll drink the lot
I'm not a winey I'm a puttin' on a show
You really grab me but I've gotta move
Before they know I'm here and spread the news
Maybe in a while when I've moved around
I can find a way to pay you back your twenty pounds
Really got a lot of lovin' that I wanna give
Baby, I'm a mystery but you know I gotta live
I tried another but she didn't want to know
CHILD IN TIME
Sweet child in time
You'll see the line
The line that's drown
Between the good and the bad
See the blind man
Shouting at the world
Bullets flying taking toll
If you'd been bad
Oh Lord I bet you have
And you've not been hit by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
And bow your head
And wait for the ricochet
INTO THE FIRE
Take the trouble to decide the things you do
Will not be the things that don't appeal to you
See the mess you're making can't you see your faking
Gonna make it hard for you
You're gonna into the fire
Turn on the mandrake that was given to you
See if you can make it like the others do
Feel the blood aknocking when you're finger popping
Gonna make it hard for you
You're gonna into the fire
Stop your bleeding mind before it's over and done
Listen very closely to the message I've sung
Feel the blood aknocking when you're finger popping
Gonna get a message through
You're gonna into the fire
DEMON'S EYE
I don't mind just what you say
I never heard you baby
Never heard you any way
I don't care what to do
A'just so long as it ain't me and you
Sly, sly like a demon's eye
Everything's good
Everything's fine
You don't know
It's the end of your time
How does it feel
To be turned away
I've known it baby
Yeah almost every day
Sly, sly like a demon's eye
Don't need you anymore
Don't want you baby
Hanging round my door
You slip and slide
Around my brain
You think you're so clever
But you know you're insane
Sly, sly like a demon's eye
ANYONE'S DAUGHTER
Well I stood under your bedroom window throwing up a
brick
No one came - I throw one more
That really did the trick
Your daddy came and banged my head
He said: "What kind of men
Is this that's hanging 'round my girl?"
And threw me in the can
You're a farmer's daughter
You're a farmer's daughter
Why do I always have a kind of girl I didn't ought to
get
I won't get no more eggs and water
Now I've laid the farmer's daughter
Imagine I was a full-grown man and I can talk just
right
Could I come and see you here
And do this every night?
Wham! The door comes crashing down
Your daddy's face all pale
Says: "Come with me you hairy bum
I'll put you in my jail"
You're a judge's daughter
You're a judge's daughter
Why do I always have a kind of girl I didn't ought to
get
Now I'm getting jail and torture
'Cause I made the judge's daughter
(Yes, I did, it was nice)
Seems they're screaming law and order
When I'm going with anyone's daughter
Woman I should like some peace
And daddy holds your tongue
I think you're gonna die of fright
When I tell you what I've done
I can hear your tales and lies
You say I'm dumb and scraggy
But man this dumb and scraggy is your daughter's
baby's daddy
She's a lucky daughter
She's a lucky daughter
Why do I always have a kind of girl
I didn't ought to get
Now I've got what I always fought far
'Cause I've married a rich man's daughter
FOOLS
I'm crying... I'm dying...
I can see what's wrong with me
It's in my head
I can see what's gonna be
As I live in my bed
Man is not my brotherhood
I am of the dead
I died as I lived as I loved and was born
On some distant hill
The reasons to hide were the reasons I cried
Fools pass laughing still
There can be bad blood in all
And I can see
It's in my brain
You don't know the pain I feel
As I must live again
Rocks and stones can't bruise my soul
But tears will leave a stain
They smile to themselves as they lay down my head
On some distant hill
The blind and the child sweep a tear from their eye
Fools smile as they kill
I got my own way to go and now I want
To take your mind
I believe if you could see
The blood between the lines
I believe that you could be
A better kind
Please lead the way so the unborn can play
On some greener hill
Laugh as the flames eat their burning remains
Fools die laughing still
LAZY
You're lazy you just stay in bed
You're lazy just stay in bed
You don't want no money
You don't want no bread
If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw
You don't want to live
You don't want to cry no more
Well my trying ain't done no good
I said my trying ain't done no good
You don't make no effort no not like you should
Lazy you just stay in bed
You don't want no money
You don't want no bread
DONOVAN
? Season of the witch
THE DOORS
Break on through
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah
We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Yeah!
C'mon, yeah
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get
She get
She get
She get high
I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain us
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, oww!
Oh, yeah!
Made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through X4
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Soul kitchen
Well, the clock says it's time to close now
I guess I'd better go now
I'd really like to stay here all night
The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes
Street lights share their hollow glow
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
Still one place to go
Still one place to go
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well, your fingers weave quick minarets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget, learn to forget
Learn to forget, learn to forget
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well the clock says it's time to close now
I know I have to go now
I really want to stay here
All night, all night, all night
Alabama song
( Brecht )
Well, show me the way, To the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why, Oh, don't ask why
Show me the way, To the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why, Oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find, The next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama, We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you now why
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you now why
Well, show me the way, To the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why, Oh, don't ask why
Show me the way, To the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why, Oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find, The next little girl
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama, We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you now why
Light my fire
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire X2
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire X2
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire X2
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire X2
Try to set the night on fire X4
The End
This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be, So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land
Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane, All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best, The west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us, The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...fuck you
C'mon baby, take a chance with us X3
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, On a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
Strange days
Strange days have found us
Strange days have tracked us down
They're going to destroy
Our casual joys
We shall go on playing
Or find a new town
Yeah!
Strange eyes fill strange rooms
Voices will signal their tired end
The hostess is grinning
Her guests sleep from sinning
Hear me talk of sin
And you know this is it
Yeah!
Strange days have found us
And through their strange hours
We linger alone
Bodies confused
Memories misused
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone
People are strange
People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange X3
When the music's over
Yeah, c'mon
When the music's over
When the music's over, yeah, When the music's over
Turn out the lights, Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights, yeah
When the music's over X3
Turn out the lights X3
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end X3
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside
The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop
A feast of friends, "Alive!" she cried
Waitin' for me, Outside!
Before I sink, Into the big sleep
I want to hear, I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly
Come back, baby, Back into my arm
We're gettin' tired of hangin' around
Waitin' around with our heads to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound, Very near yet very far
Very soft, yeah, very clear, Come today, come today
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it... X2
Now, Now?, Now!
Persian night, babe, See the light, babe
Save us!, Jesus!, Save us!
So when the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights X3
Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end X3
Hello, I love 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'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?
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, Hello, Hello, Hello
I want you, Hello, I need my baby
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello
Love street
She lives on Love Street
Lingers long on Love Street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens
She has robes and she has monkeys
Lazy diamond studded flunkies
She has wisdom and knows what to do
She has me and she has you
She has wisdom and knows what to do
She has me and she has you
I see you live on Love Street
There's this store where the creatures meet
I wonder what they do in there
Summer Sunday and a year
I guess I like it fine, so far
She lives on Love Street
Lingers long on Love Street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la, la, la, la
Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
Almost gone
Yeah, it's almost gone
Where will we be
When the summer's gone?
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Where will we be
Where will we be
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
We had some good times
But they're gone
The winter's comin' on
Summer's almost gone
Spanish caravan
Carry me Caravan take me away
Take me to Portugal, take me to Spain
Andalusia with fields full of grain
I have to see you again and again
Take me, Spanish Caravan
Yes, I know you can
Trade winds find Galleons lost in the sea
I know where treasure is waiting for me
Silver and gold in the mountains of Spain
I have to see you again and again
Take me, Spanish Caravan
Yes, I know you can
The soft parade
When I was back there in seminary school, There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition, That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer, Petition the lord with prayer
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
Can you give me sanctuary, I must find a place to hide, A place for me to hide
Can you find me soft asylum, I can't make it anymore, The Man is at the door
Peppermint, miniskirts, chocolate candy, Champion sax and a girl named Sandy
There's only four ways to get unraveled, One is to sleep and the other is
travel, da da
One is a bandit up in the hills, One is to love your neighbor 'till
His wife gets home
Catacombs, Nursery bones, Winter women, Growing stones
Carrying babies, To the river
Streets and shoes, Avenues, Leather riders
Selling news, The monk bought lunch
Ha ha, he bought a little, Yes, he did, Woo!
This is the best part of the trip, This is the trip, the best part
I really like, What'd he say?, Yeah!, Yeah, right!
Pretty good, huh, Huh!, Yeah, I'm proud to be a part of this number
Successful hills are here to stay, Everything must be this way
Gentle streets where people play, Welcome to the Soft Parade
All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave
Must be something else we say, Somehow to defend this place
Everything must be this way, Everything must be this way, yeah
The Soft Parade has now begun, Listen to the engines hum
People out to have some fun, A cobra on my left
Leopard on my right, yeah
The deer woman in a silk dress, Girls with beads around their necks
Kiss the hunter of the green vest, Who has wrestled before
With lions in the night
Out of sight!, The lights are getting brighter
The radio is moaning, Calling to the dogs
There are still a few animals, Left out in the yard
But it's getting harder, To describe sailors, To the underfed
Tropic corridor, Tropic treasure
What got us this far, To this mild equator?
We need someone or something new
Something else to get us through, yeah, c'mon
Callin' on the dogs, Callin' on the dogs
Oh, it's gettin' harder, Callin' on the dogs
Callin' in the dogs, Callin' all the dogs, Callin' on the gods
You gotta meet me, Too late, baby
Slay a few animals, At the crossroads, Too late
All in the yard, But it's gettin' harder, By the crossroads
You gotta meet me, Oh, we're goin', we're goin great
At the edge of town, Tropic corridor, Tropic treasure
Havin' a good time, Got to come along, What got us this far
To this mild equator?, Outskirts of the city, You and I
We need someone new, Somethin' new, Somethin' else to get us through
Better bring your gun, Better bring your gun
Tropic corridor, Tropic treasure, We're gonna ride and have some fun
When all else fails, We can whip the horse's eyes
And make them sleep, And cry
Waiting for the sun
At first flash of Eden, we race down to the sea.
Standing there on Freedom's Shore.
Waiting for the Sun (3x)
Can you feel it now that spring has come.
And it's time to live in the scattered sun.
Waiting for the Sun (3x, pause, again slower)
Waiting.... Waiting.... Waiting.... Waiting.... (2x)
Waiting for you to - come along
Waiting for you to - hear my song
Waiting for you to - come along
Waiting for you to - tell me what went wrong
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
YEAH! (Riff 8x)
(Repeat second verse, Chorus 3x, then riff 2x, end).
You make me real
I really want you, Really do
Really need you, baby, God knows I do
'Cause I'm not real enough without you
Oh, what can I do.
You make me real, You make me feel
Like lovers feel.
You make me throw away mistaken misery
Make me feel love
Make me free.
I really want you
Really do
Really need you, baby
Really do
'Cause I'm not real enough without you
What can I do.
You make me real
Only you, baby
Have that appeal.
So let me slide into your tender sunken sea
Make me feel love
Make me free.
You make me real, all right
You make me feel
Like lovers feel.
You make me throw away mistaken misery
You make me feel love
You make me free.
Make me free
You make me real.
The spy
I'm a spy in the house of love.
I know the dream that you're dreaming of.
I know the word that you long to hear.
I know your deepest secret fear.
I'm a spy in the house of love.
I know the dream that you're dreaming of.
I know the word that you long to hear.
I know your deepest secret fear.
I know everything.
Everything you do, everywhere you go, everyone you know.
I'm a spy, in the house of love.
I know the dream that you're dreaming of.
I know the word that you long to hear.
I know your deepest secret fear.
I know your deepest secret fear.
I know your deepest secret fear.
I'm a spy, I can see, what you do, and I know.
Queen of the highway
She was a princess, queen of the Highway.
Sign on the road said "Take us to Madre."
No one can save her save the Blind Tiger.
He was a monster, black dressed in leather.
She was a princess, Queen of the Highway.
Now they are wedded, she is a good girl.
Naked as children out in a meadow.
Naked as children, wild as can be.
Soon to have offspring
Start it all over, start it all over.
American boy, American girl
The most beautiful people in the world.
Son of a frontier, indian swirl
Dance into the midnight whirlpool
Formless.
Hope we can continue a little while longer.
Maggie M'Gill
Miss Maggie M'Gill, she lived on a hill.
Her daddy got drunk and left her no will
So she went down, down to Tangie Town.
People down there really like to get it on.
Now if you're sad and you're feeling blue
Go out and buy a new pair of shoes
And you go down, down to Tangie Town
The people down there really like to get it on.
Illegitimate son of a rock and roll star
Illegitimate son of a rock and roll star
Mom met dad in the back of a rock and roll car.
Well I'm an old blues man
And I think that you understand
I've been singing the blues ever since the world began.
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie M'Gill
Roll on, roll on, Maggie M'Gill
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie M'Gill
Roll on, roll on, Maggie M'Gill
The changeling
Uh!
Uha!
Gedu!
I live uptown
I live downtown
I live all around
I had money, and I had none X2
But I never been so broke
That I couldn't leave town
I'm a Changeling, See me change X2
I'm the air you breath
Food you eat
Friends your greet
In the swarming street, wow
See me change
See me change, you
I live uptown
I live downtown
I live all around
I had money, yeah, and I had none X2
But I never been so broke
That I couldn't leave town
Well, I'm the air you breath
Food you eat
Friends your greet
In the swarming street, wow
Ew ma!
Uh, ah!
You gotta see me change
See me change
Yeah, I'm leavin' town
On a midnight train
Gotta see me change
Change, change, change X4
Woah, change, change, change
Love her madly
Don't you love her madly, Don't you need her badly
Don't you love her ways, Tell me what you say
Don't you love her madly, Wanna be her daddy
Don't you love her face
Don't you love her as she's walkin' out the door
Like she did one thousand times before
Don't you love her ways, Tell me what you say
Don't you love her as she's walkin' out the door
All your love X4
All your love is gone,
So sing a lonely song
Of a deep blue dream,
Seven horses seem to be on the mark
Yeah, don't you love her
Don't you love her as she's walkin' out the door
All your love X3
Yeah, all your love is gone
So sing a lonely song
Of a deep blue dream
Seven horses seem to be on the mark
Well, don't you love her madly
Don't you love her madly
Don't you love her madly
L.A Woman
Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows
Are you a lucky little lady in The City of Light
Or just another lost angel...City of Night
City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woo, c'mon
L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon X3
Drive through your suburbs
Into your blues, into your blues, yeah
Into your blue-blue Blues
Into your blues, ohh, yeah
I see your hair is burnin'
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin' down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman...
So alone, so alone X2
Motel Money Murder Madness
Let's change the mood from glad to sadness
Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin' X2
Got to keep on risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mojo Risin', gotta Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin', gotta keep on risin'
Risin', risin'
Gone risin', risin'
I'm gone risin', risin'
I gotta risin', risin'
Well, risin', risin'
I gotta, wooo, yeah, risin'
Woah, ohh yeah
Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows
Are you a lucky little lady in The City of Light
Or just another lost angel...City of Night
City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woah, c'mon
L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman, your my woman
Little L.A. Woman, Little L.A. Woman
L.A. L.A. Woman Woman, L.A. Woman c'mon
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm X2
Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone, An actor out alone,
Riders on the storm
There's a killer on the road, His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday, Let your children play
If ya give this man a ride, Sweet family will die
Killer on the road, yeah
Girl ya gotta love your man X2
Take him by the hand, Make him understand
The world on you depends, Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah, Wow!
Riders on the storm X2
Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone, An actor out alone
Riders on the storm, Riders on the storm X5
Gloria ( Van Morrison )
Yeah, right.
Did you hear about my baby? She come around,
She come round here, her head to the ground?
Come round here just about midnight,
She makes me feel so good, make me feel all right.
She come round my street, now
She come to my house
Knock upon my door
Climbing up my stairs--one, two, three
Come on baby
Here she is in my room, oh boy
Hey what's your name?
How old are you?
Where'd you go to school?
Well, now that we know each other a little bit better,
Why don't you come over here and make me feel all right!
Chorus: Gloria--g-l-o-r-i-a
Gloria--g-l-o-r-i-a
Gloria--g-l-o-r-i-a
Gloria--g-l-o-r-i-a
You were my queen and I was your fool,
Riding home after school.
You took me home
To your house.
Your father's at work,
Your mama's out shopping around.
Check me into your room.
Show me your thing.
Why'd you do it baby?
Getting softer--slow it down, etc.
Now you show me your thing.
Wrap your legs around my neck,
Wrap your arms around my feet,
Wrap your hair around my skin.
I'm gonna huh--all right, ok, yeah.
It's getting harder--It's getting too darn fast, etc.
Come on, now, let's get it on.
Too late, too late, too late, too late, too late,
Make me feel all right!
Chorus
Keep the whole thing going, baby!
Universal mind
I was doing time in the universal mind.
I was feeling fine.
I was turning keys, I was setting people free.
I was doing all right.
Chorus: Then you came along
With a suitcase and a song,
Turned my head around.
Now I'm so alone
Just looking for a home
In every place I see.
I'm the freedom man X3
That's how lucky I am.
I was doing time in the universal mind.
I was feeling fine.
I was turning keys, I was setting people free.
I was doing all right.
Chorus
I'm the freedom man.
I was doing time in the universal mind.
I was feeling fine.
I was turning keys, I was setting people free.
I was doing all right.
Chorus
I'm the freedom man X3
Break on through ( Part 2 )
Dead cats, dead rats, did you see what they were at, alright
Dead cat in a tophat
Sucking on a young man's blood
Wishing he would come, yeah
Sucking on a soldier's brain
Wishing it would be the same
Dead cat, dead rat, did you see what they were at
Fat cat in a tophat
Thinks he's an aristocrat
Thinks he can kill and slaughter
Thinks he can shoot my daughter
Yeah, right...oh yeah...alright...yeah
Dead cats, dead rats, think you're an aristocrat
Crap...ah, that's crap
Who scared you
Who scared you and why were you born, my babe?
In two-time's arms with all of your charms, my love.
Why were you born, just to play with me,
To freak out or to be beautiful, my dear?
Load your head, blow it up, feeling good, baby
Load your head, blow it up, feeling good, baby.
Well my room is so cold, you know you don't have to go, my babe.
And if you want it up right, I'm gonna love you tonight, my love.
Well I'm glad that we came, I hope you're feeling the same.
Who scared you and why were you born? Please stay.
I see your rider coming down the road.
Got a virgin carrying a heavy load,
One sack of silver and one bag of gold.
Orange County Suite
Well I used to know someone fair
She had orange ribbons in her hair
She was such a trip
She was hardly there
But I loved her
Just the same.
There was rain in our window,
The FM set was ragged
But she could talk, yeah,
We learned to speak
And one year
has gone by
Such a long long road to seek it
All we did was break and freak it
We had all
That lovers ever had
We just blew it
And I'm not sad
Well I'm mad
And I'm bad
And two years
have gone by
Now her world was bright orange
And the fire glowed
And her friend had a baby
And she lived with us
Yeah, we broke through the window
Yeah, we knocked on the door
Her phone would not answer,
Yeah, but she's still home
Now her father has passed over
and her sister is a star
and her mother smokes diamonds
and she sleeps out in the car
Yeah, but she remembers Chicago
The musicians & guitars
and grass by the lake
and people who laugh'd
and made her poor heart ache
Now we live down in the valley
We work out on the farm
We climb up to the mountains
and everything's fine
and I'm still here
and you're still there
and we're still around
Whiskey, Mystics And Men
Well, I’ll tell you a story
of whiskey and mystics and men,
And about the believers and
how the whole thing began.
First there were women and
children obeying the moon,
Then daylight brought wisdom
and fever and sickness too soon.
You can try to remind me
instead of the other, you can.
You can help to insure
that we all insecure our command.
If you don’t give a listen,
I won’t try to tell your new hand.
This is it; can’t you see
that we all have our ends in the band.
And if all of the teachers and
preachers of wealth were arraigned,
We could see quite a future
for me in the literal sands.
And if all the people
could claime to inspect such regrets,
well, we’d have no forgiveness,
forgetfullness, faithful remorse.
So I tell you, I tell you,
I tell you we must send away.
We must try to find a
new answer instead of a way.
GENTLE GIANT
@SONG: The House, The Street, The Room
The room and street are known only to me and a few
I won't tell nobody
A place to meet where no-one can tell you what to do
I won't tell nobody
Here,
Awake in sleep
Together
My time is spent in chains and confusion in my head
I don't tell nobody
I keep my pains and swallow the harsh tears that I
shed
I don't tell nobody
Here,
In reverie
Together
I find escape in the street, in the house, in the room
I become somebody
I cast my die and leave all my troubles in the room
I become somebody
Here,
Awake in sleep
Together
GERSHWIN
from Porgy and Bess
"Summertime"
[Image]
(The
lights come up on a group on stage, where Clara sits rocking her
baby.)
Clara
Summertime,
and the livin' is easy,
Fish are
jumpin', and the cotton is high,
Oh yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma is good
lookin',
So hush,
little baby, don't you cry.
One of
these mornin's you're goin' to rise up singin',
Then you'll
spread yo' wings an' you'll take the sky.
But till
that mornin', ther's a-nuttin' can harm you
With Daddy
and Mammy standin' by.
(The lights come upon on a crap game ...)
GONG:
?BLUES FOR FINDLAY
?YOU CAN’T KILL ME
RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE
Radio Gnome
...
Radio Gnome
Invisible
Then when
you're receiving
Perceiving
your telepathic powers
Who knows why
the wind blows through this window
Why you
believe in me
We believe in
you
What's that in
the sky now?
Teapots that
can fly now
Voices in your
head [??]
Tell me what
they said [??]
Banana,
nirvana, manana (you know)
Banana,
nirvana, manana (I know)
Banana,
nirvana, manana (we know)
Banana,
nirvana, manana (who knows)
Banana,
nirvana, manana (you know)
Banana,
nirvana, manana (I know)
Banana,
nirvana, manana (we know)
Banana,
nirvana, manana (who knows)
Everything you
think shows
Hanging round
your head [??]
Underneath
your long hair
Tell me what
you [feel] there
Pot Head
Pixies ...
You hear me
But I don't
see you
You feel me
One day I'll be
you
Radio Gnome
...
Radio Gnome
Invisible
Then when
you're receiving
Believing your
telepathic powers
Who knows why
the wind blows through this window
Why you
believe in me
We believe in
you
What's that in
the sky now?
Teapots that
can fly now
Voices in your
head [??]
Tell me what
they said [??]
Henry?
Henry!
GRATEFUL DEAD:
Death Don't Have No Mercy
-------------------------
Y'know Death don't have no mercy in this land,
Death don't have no mercy in this land, in this land.
Come to your house,
you know he don't take long,
look in the bed this morning,
children find your mother's gone.
I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
In this land
Yeah!
Woh! Come to your house,
Y'know it don't stay long,
Y'look in the bed this morning,
children find that your brothers and sisters are gone.
I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.
Death will go in any family in this land.
Death will go in any family in this land.
Come to your house,
you know he don't take long,
look in the bed this morning,
children find that your family's gone.
I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
In this land.
Woh! Come to your house,
Y'know it don't stay long,
Y'look in the bed this morning,
children find that your brothers and sisters are gone.
I said Death don't, Death don't
Have no mercy in this land.
Have no mercy in this land.
GRY:
Fire flight to Kyro
Seek behind the Zero
Let iris cover night shade
Dring dark dust champagne
Simsalabimboom bastaladultaladey
Her hunger grows in closet
Sucks the sweat black pollen
Perfume for phantoms
Perfume for phantoms
Simsalabimboom bastaladultaladey
Crawl into the secrets
In this gas of daydreems
Perfume for phantomes
Simsalabimboom bastaladultaladey
Night, night, night invites light
Entering air, opens a line
Blue, blue, blue shapes in red
Cristals the space, stars fall to sleep
Sun up-set, the moon melts down
Breeze, breeze, breezes awake
Plays with a beam, paints the scene
It’s green, green, green is the grass
Covered by pearls
A web splits the light into a glance
Sun up-set, the moon melts down
Sky high, shadows fall
Drawing the time, for flowers to bloom
Moon, moon, moon fo away
Down to the land opened for eyes
To see in deep, deep darkness,
Covers a skin, touched by a hand.
Sun up-set, the moon melts down
Princess crocodile
I’ve seen it all
All through eyes
Heard it in ears
Smelled it alright.
Do do you believe you can hide?
I’ve seen it all.
I go under the earth
And listen to the dead people talk
They tell stories
They know it all
They tell stories of you.
Do do you believe you can hide?
I’ve seen it all.
Princess crocodile
A heart full of bells
Rings in your moves
Whatever you do, I see it all in you.
PJ HARVEY
Oh my lover
Oh my lover
Don't you know it's alright
You can love her
You can love me at the same time
Much to discover
I know you don't have the time but
Oh my lover
Don't you know it's alright
Oh my sweet thing
Oh my honey thighs
Give me your troubles
I'll keep them with mine
Take at your leisure
Take whatever you can find but
Oh my sweet thing
Don't you know it's alright
It's alright
It's alright
There's no time
So it's alright
What's that color
Forming around your eyes
Watch my lover
Tell me that it's all right
Just another
Before you go...go away
Oh my lover
Why don't you just say my name
And it's alright
Say it's alright
There's no time
Send his love to me
Lover had to leave me
'Cross the desert plain
Turned to me his lady
Tell me "lover wait"
Calling Jesus, please
Send his love to me
Oh, wind and rain they haunt me
Look to the North and pray
Send me, please, his kisses
Send them home today
I'm begging, Jesus, please
Send his love to me
Left alone in desert
This house becomes a hell
This love becomes a tether
This room becomes a cell
Mummy, daddy, please
Send him back to me
How long must I suffer?
Dear God, I've served my time
This love becomes my torture
This love, my only crime
Oh lover please release me
My arms too weak to grip
My eyes to dry for weeping
My lips too dry to kiss
Calling, Jesus, please
Send his love to me
I'm begging, Jesus, please
Send his love to me
The Sky Lit Up
I'm walking in the city tonight
I'm walking in the city at dark
Remembering, remember light
Thinking of nothing, and the shooting stars
And this world tonight is mine
A world to be remembered in
Think on a faded photograph
My hair longer than it's ever been
The sky lit up
The sky
My friend
The sky lit up
The sky my friend
And I'm lighter than I've ever been
I saw the trees crossing the moon
I saw the stars and heaven above
Shine on my own beautiful prayer
Shining on my own beautiful love
The sky lit up
The sky my friend
The sky lit up
I'm lighter than I've ever been
And I'm dancing with him
In this city and in this town
I don't care what he's thinking of
Just take the car, just take my hand
The sky lit up
The sky lit up
The sky lit up
The sky lit up
A Perfect Day Elise
He got lucky, got lucky one time
Hitting with the girl in room five none nine
She turned her back on him facing the frame
Said, "Listen Joe don't you come here again"
White sun scattered all over the sea
He could think of nothing but her name Elise
God is the sweat running down his back
The water soaked her blonde hair black
It's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise
He got burned by the sun
He's a lucky man
His face so pale and his hands so worn
And the sky
Let himself in room five none nine
As she turned away
Said a prayer, pulled the trigger and cried
Tell me why
It's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise
Ah oh, It's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise
The Garden
And he was walking in the garden
And he was walking in the night
And he was singing a sad love song
And he was praying for his life
And the stars came out around him
He was thinking of his sins
And he's looking at his song-bird
And he's looking at his wings
There, inside the garden
Came another with his lips
Said "won't you come and be my lover ?"
"Let me give you a little kiss"
And he came knelt down before him
And fell upon his knees
"I will give you gold and mountains
If you stay a while with me"
And there was trouble
Taking place
Trouble
Taking place
There, inside the garden
They kissed and the sun rose
And he walked a little further
And he found he was alone
And the wind it gathered round him
He was thinking of his sins
And he's looking for his song-bird
He was looking for his wings
And there was trouble
Taking place
Trouble
Taking place
There was trouble
Taking place
Trouble
Taking place
HEDNINGARNA
Vottikaalina
(trad. arr)
Ei minusta
lienekkänä
ollenkana lienekkänä
miniäksi miehelähän
orjaksi anoppelahan
vihainen minä miniä
ankara anopin orja
ei neiti minun näköinen
osaisi orjana olla
muistais ei mukihin mennä
olla aina alla kynsin
toinen kun sanan sanoisi
minä kaksi vastoaisin
kun tulisi tukkahani
hairahtuisi hapsihini
tukastani tuivertaisin
hapsistani haivertaisin
(Nay I never thought I ever
would become nor could become
a slaving spouse in some mans house
a thrall under a mother-in-law
rash Iґd be as daughter-in-law
mean a thrall for mother-in-law
Nay, a maiden molded this way
loathly would her life a thrall stay
Iґd forget to feign my fawning
meekness would be seldom showing
would she angry words be throwing
twofold more Iґd be her thrusting
Would she try to jerk my braiding
should she seek to twitch my plaiting
I would jerk her off my braiding
twitch I should her off my plaiting!)
Skamgreppet/Siljan
Line
Tuli mies tuo
minua taas hakemaan
parketille villisti notkuuman
harmaat silmät minua tarkkan tutkaa
tanssittaako prisessaa vai lutkaa
kuuma huuma tuo tunteen nostatti
katse, jonka suo, veren kuumensi
viereltänsä näin aamullґheräsin
vaatteet keräsin, vatiin oksensin
(Now, that man, he came again to ask me
in a dance so wild I let him lead me
searching through me eyes all grey and shady
were he dancing with a whore or lady?
Fever in my blood now did he make me feel
pierced through my brain and heart with eyes of steel
By his side to dawning did I then wake up
So picked up my clothing, in a bowl threw up.)
HENDRIX, JIMI
? Hey Joe и все хиты
HERSH, Kristin
Like you
Excuse me, a doormat is good honest work
Only the bored and the wicked rich don't know that
Excuse me, you poor man, let's skip this town
Who me? Oh man, was that out loud ?
Ow ... Whoa, I'm on my own here
You know, the devil may care
You make this groovy, you make me laugh
You make me woozy, a wet doormat
It wasn't like that
You nature lover, you country punk
You bowl me over, and I'm not that drunk
You're one in a million, you're one in two
You're not like women, and I'm not like you
I'm not like you, I'm not like you
Your spell is broken but I'm still here
Your mouth is open, guess I don't care
You make this groovy, you make me laugh
You make me woozy, a wet doormat
You're one in a million, you're one in two
You're not like women, and I'm not like you
I'm not like you, I'm not like you
He leaves suspiciously
As panic enters
Geography for beginners
Barter for the rest of your life
Feeling wasted comes in waves
Orient harder
Bend your molten face
To smile at a stranger
How much for a life you don't despise
Tons and a shining silver sun
Don't you wish you hadn't gone
I am starting to sometimes
I wish you were here
Only sweetness that's all
To shake off the bitter
So I make you toothless well
Live on water
Water for a thirst you can't fight
Precious stones and precious bodies
Have you been savaged by love bites
How much for a life you don't despise
Tons and a shining silver sun
Don't you wish you hadn't gone
I am starting to sometimes
I wish you were here
Long underrated silver sun
Don't you wish we hadn't gone
We were starting to see a beautiful mirror
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Somebody to Love
When the truth is found to be lies
and all the joys within you dies
don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love
When the garden flowers baby are dead yes
and your mind is full of red
don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love
your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
but in your head baby I'm afraid you don't know where it is
don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love
tears are running ah running down your breast
and your friends baby they treat you like a guest
don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love
Today
Today I feel like pleasing you more than before
Today I know what I want to do but I don't know what for
To be living for you is all I want to do
To be loving you it'll all be there when my dreams come true
Today you'll make me say that I somehow have changed
Today you'll look into my eyes, I'm just not the same
To be anymore than all I am would be a lie
I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry
Today everything you want, I swear it all will come true
Today I realize how much I'm in love with you
With you standing here I could tell the world what it means to love
To go on from here I can't use words, they don't say enough
Please, please listen to meh
It's taken so long to come true
And it's all for you
all for you....
White Rabbit
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said;
"Keep your head! Keep your head!"
Plastic Fantastic Lover
Her neon mouth with the blinkers-off smile
Nothing but an electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's part of a colorful time
Secrecy of lady-chrome-covered clothes
You wear cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover
Her rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothin' but a used machine
Her aluminum finish, slightly dinimished
Is the best I ever have seen
Cosmetic baby plugged into me
I'd never ever find another
I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic lover
The electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program waste
Data control and IBM
Science is mankind's brother
But all I see is dranin' me
On my plastic fantastic lover
JETHRO TULL
Aqualung
--------------------------------------------------------
Sitting on a park bench --
eyeing ittle girls with bad intent.
Snot running down his nose --
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun --
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck --
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Sun streaking cold --
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog-end --
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.
Feeling alone --
the army's up the rode
salvation ? la mode and
a cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend --
don't start away uneasy
you poor old sod, you see, it's only me.
Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze --
when the ice that
clings on to your beard is
screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds,
and the flowers bloom like
madness in the spring.
Living In The Past
-------------------------------------------------------------
Happy and I'm smiling,
walk a mile to drink your water.
You know I'd love to love you,
and above you there's no other.
We'll go walking out
while others shout of war's disaster.
Oh, we won't give in,
let's go living in the past.
Once I used to join in
every boy and girl was my friend.
Now there's revolution, but they don't know
what they're fighting.
Let us close out eyes;
outside their lives go on much faster.
Oh, we won't give in,
we'll keep living in the past.
Sweet Dream
-------------------------------------------------------------------
You'll hear me calling in your sweet dream,
can't hear your daddy's warning cry.
You're going back to be all the things you want to be,
while in sweet dreams you softly sigh.
You hear my voice is calling
to be mine again,
live the rest of your life in a day.
Get out and get what you can
while your mummy's at home a-sleeping.
No time to understand
`cause they lost what they thought they were keeping.
No one can see us in your sweet dream.
don't hear you leave to start the car.
All wrapped up tightly in the coat you borrowed from
me,
your place of resting is not far.
You'll hear my voice is calling
to be mine again,
live the rest of your life in a day.
Get out and get what you can
While your mummy's at home a-sleeping.
No time to understand,
`cause they lost what they thought they were keeping.
My God
-------------------------------------------------------
People -- what have you done --
locked Him in His golden cage.
Made Him bend to your religion --
Him resurrected from the grave.
He is the god of nothing --
if that's all that you can see.
You are the god of everything --
He's inside you and me.
So lean upon Him gently
and don't call on Him to save you
from your social graces
and the sins you used to waive.
The bloody Church of England --
in chains of history --
requests your earthly presence at
the vicarage for tea.
And the graven image you-know-who --
with His plastic crucifix --
he's got him fixed --
confuses me as to who and where and why --
as to how he gets his kicks.
Confessing to the endless sin --
the endless whining sounds.
You'll be praying till next Thursday to
all the gods that you can count.
Pied Piper
----------------------------------------------------------------
Now if you think Ray blew it,
there was nothing to it.
They patched him up as good as new.
You can see him every day ---
riding down the queen's highway,
handing out his small cigars to the kids from school.
And all the little girls with their bleached blond
curls
clump up on their platform soles.
And they say ``Hey Ray --- let's ride away
downtown where we can roll some alley bowls.''
And Ray grins from ear to here, and whispers...
So follow me. Trail
along.
my leather jacket's buttoned up.
And my four-stroke song
will pick you up when your last class ends;
and you can tell all your friends:
The Pied Piper pulled you,
The mad biker fooled you,
I'll do what you want to:
If you ride with me on a Friday
anything goes.
So follow me, hold on tight.
My school girl fancy's flowing in free flight.
I've a tenner in my skin tight jeans.
You can touch it if your hands are clean.
The Pied Piper pulled you,
the mad biker folled you,
I'll do what you want to:
If you ride with me on a Friday
anything goes.
Salamander
-------------------------------------------
Salamander ---
born in the sun-kissed flame.
Who was it lit your candle ---
branded you with your name?
I see you walking by my window
in your Kensington haze.
Salamander, burn for me
and I'll burn for you.
Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The old Rocker wore his hair too long,
wore his trouser cuffs too tight.
Unfashionable to the end --- drank his ale too light.
Death's head belt buckle --- yesterday's dreams ---
the transport caf' prophet of doom.
Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
in his post-war-babe gloom.
Now he's too old to Rock'n'Roll but he's too young to
die.
He once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph
Bonneville.
Counted his friends in burned-out spark plugs
and prays that he always will.
But he's the last of the blue blood greaser boys
all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids up by the ring road
sold their souls straight down the line.
And some of them own little sports cars
and meet at the tennis club do's.
For drinks on a Sunday --- work on Monday.
They've thrown away their blue suede shoes.
Now they're too old to Rock'n'Roll and they're too
young to die.
So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies --- tears in his eyes ---
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.
And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young
to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too
young to die.
From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser
--------------------------------------------------------------------
From a dead beat to an old greaser, here's thinking of
you.
You won't remember the long nights;
coffee bars; black tights and white thighs
in shop windows where blonde assistants
fully-fashioned a world made
of dummies (with no mummies or daddies to reject
them).
When bombs were banned every Sunday and the Shadows
played F.B.I.
And tired young sax-players sold their instruments of
torture ---
sat in the station sharing wet dreams of Charlie
Parker,
Jack Kerouac, Ren\'e Magritte, to name a few of the
heroes
who were too wise for their own good --- left the
young brood to
go on living without them.
Old queers with young faces --- who remember your
name,
though you're a dead beat with tired feet;
two ends that don't meet.
To a dead beat from an old greaser.
Think you must have me all wrong.
I didn't care, friend.
I wasn't there, friend,
If it's the price of pint that you need, ask me again.
Pibroch (Cap in
Hand)-------------------------------------------------------------------
There's a light in the house in the wood in the
valley.
There's a thought in the head of the man.
Who carries his dreams like the coat slung on his
shoulder,
Bringing you love in the cap in his hand.
And each step he takes is one half of a lifetime:
no word he would say could you understand.
So he bundles his regrets into a gesture of sorrow,
Bringing you love cap in hand.
Catching breath as he looks through the dining-room
window:
candle lit table for two has been laid.
Strange slippers by the fire.
Strange boots in the hallway.
Put my cap on my head.
I turn and walk away.
LED ZEPPELIN
Babe I'm gonna leave you
Babe, baby, baby, I'm Gonna Leave You.
I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you.
I'll leave you when the summertime,
Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin'
Leave you when the summer comes along.
Baby, baby, I don't wanna leave you,
I ain't jokin' woman, I got to ramble.
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I believin',
We really got to ramble.
I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do,
I can hear it callin' me back home!
Babe...I'm gonna leave you
Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you
Oh I can hear it callin 'me
I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?
Ohhh
I know, I know
I know I never never never gonna leave your babe
But I got to go away from this place,
I've got to quit you, yeah
Ooh, baby...
Baby, ooh don't you hear it callin' me?
Woman, woman, I know, I know
It feels good to have you back again
And I know that one day baby, it's really gonna grow, yes it is.
We gonna go walkin' through the park every day.
Come what may, every day
Oooh, mama baby
I'm gonna leave you--go away
It was really, really good.
You made me happy every single day.
But now!
I've got to go away!
Baby, baby, baby, baby
That's when it's callin' me
I said that's when it's callin' me back home...
Dazed and confused
Been Dazed and Confused for so long it's not true,
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
Lots of people talk and few of them know,
Soul of a woman was created below. Yeah!
You hurt and abused tellin' all of your lies,
Run around sweet baby, Lord how they hypnotize.
Sweet little baby, I don't know where you've been,
Gonna love you baby, here I come again.
Every day I work so hard
Bringin' home my hard earned pay
Try to love you baby, but you push me away.
Don't know where you're goin'
Only know just where you've been,
Sweet little baby, I want you again.
Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true,
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
Take it easy baby, let them say what they will.
Will your tongue wag so much when I send you the bill?
What is and what should never be
And if I say to you tomorrow,
Take my hand, child, come with me.
It's to a castle I will take you,
Where what's to be, they say will be.
*Catch the wind, see us spin,
Sail away, leave today,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show
That you will be mine
By takin' our time. Ooh!
And if you say to me tomorrow,
Oh what fun it all would be,
Then what's to stop us, pretty baby,
But What Is And What Should Never Be.
* Chorus
So if you wake up with the sunrise,
And all your dreams are still as new,
And happiness is what you need so bad,
Girl, the answer lies with you, yeah.
* Chorus
Hey, oh
Oh the wind wont blow and we really shouldn't go
and it only goes to show-ow-ow.
Catch the wind, we're gonna see it spin
we're gonna...sail, little girl
do do do, bop bop a do-oh
my my my my my my yeah
Everybody I know seems to know me well
--but does anybody know I'm gonna move like hell
--but they're never gonna know cause I move like hell.
(pick one...heh)
Since I've been loving you
Oh!
Workin' from seven to eleven ev'ry night,
It really makes life a drag,
I don't think that's right.
I've really, really been the best of fools,
I did what I could, yeah
'Cause I love you, baby,
How I love you, darling,
How I love you, baby,
How I love you, girl, little girl.
But baby, Since I've Been Loving You, yeah,
I'm about to lose my worried mind, oh, yeah.
Ev'rybody trying to tell me
That you didn't mean me no good.
I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you,
Let me tell you I really did the best I could.
I've been working from seven to eleven ev'ry night,
I said It kinda makes my life a drag.
Lord, that ain't right, no no!
Since I've Been Loving You,
I'm about to lose my worried mind.
Said I've been crying,
My tears they fell like rain,
Don't you hear,
Don't you hear them falling,
Don't you hear,
Don't you hear them falling.
Said I been cryin, yeah!
Oh my tears they felt like rain.
Don't you hear them falling?
Don't you hear them?
Do you remember, mama, when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me
You didn't want me no more, yeah
I open my front door, hear my back door slam,
You must have one of them new fangled,
New fangled back door man,
I've been working from seven, seven, seven,
To eleven ev'ry night,
It kinda makes my life a drag, a drag, drag,
Ah, yeah, it makes a drag.
Baby, Since I've Been Loving You,
I'm about to lose,
I'm about to lose, lose my worried mind.
Just one more!
Oh yeah
Since I've Been Loving You, I'm about to lose my worried mind.
GALLOWS POLE
Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while
I think I see my friends coming
Ridin' many mile
So friends, you get some silver
Did you get a little gold
What did you bring me, my dear friends
To keep me from the gallows pole
What did you bring me to keep me from the gallows pole
I couldn't get no silver, I couldn't get no gold
You know that we're too damn poor
To keep you from the gallows pole
Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while
I think I see my brother coming
Ridin' many mile
Brother, did you get me some silver
D'you get a little gold
What did you bring me, my brother
To keep me from the gallows pole
A-brother, I brought you some silver
I brought a little gold
I brought a little of everything
To keep you from the gallows pole
Yes, I brought you to keep me from the gallows pole
Hangman, hangman, turn your head awhile
I think I see my sister coming
Riding' many mile, oh, whoo yeah
Sister, I implore you, take him by the hand
Take him to some shady palace
Save me from the wrath of this man
Please take him
Save me from the wrath of this man, man, man, man,
man, man
Hangman, hangman, upon your face a smile
Tell me that I'm free to ride
Ride for many mile, mile, ohhh
Oh, yes, you got a fine sister
She warmed my blood from cold
She warmed my blood to boiling hot
To keep you from the gallows pole
Your brother, he brought me silver
Your sister warmed my soul
But now I laugh and pull so hard
And see you swinging on the gallows pole, yeah
Cause now I laugh and pull so hard
And see you swinging on the gallows pole
Swingin' on the gallows pole
Swingin' on the gallows pole
Swingin' on the gallows pole
Swingin' on the gallows pole, whoo
I keep swingin', I keep swingin', I keep swingin'
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
See-saw, march to that door
Oh, swing
See-saw, march to that door
Gonna swing
Swingin' on the gallows pole
Swingin' on the gallows pole
Swingin' on the gallows pole
Swingin' on the gallows pole
Tangerine
Measuring a summer's day,
I only finds it slips away to grey,
The hours, they bring me pain.
*Tangerine, Tangerine,
Living reflection from a dream;
I was her love, she was my queen,
And now a thousand years between.
Thinking how it used to be,
Does she still remember times like these?
To think of us again?
And I do.
Hats off to (Roy) Harper
When I done quit hollerin' baby
I believe I shake 'em on down
Get my babe, won't be late,
You know by that I mean seconds late
Ah, must I holler,
Must I shake 'em on down,
Well I've been mistreated, babe,
I believe I'll shake 'em on down.
Shake 'em.
Well I ain't no monkey.
I can't climb no tree,
No brown skin woman gonna make
No monkey out of me,
I ain't no monkey,
Sure can't climb no tree,
I been mistreated babe
I believe I'll shake 'em on down,
Well I've been mistreated babe
I believe I'll shake 'em on down.
Listen mama,
Put on your mornin' gown'
Put in your nightshirt
Mama we gonna shake 'em down
Must I holler
Must I shake 'em on down?
Gave my baby a twenty dollar bill,
If that don't get her,
Sure my shot, shot, shot-gun will,
Yeah, I gave my baby a twenty dollar bill,
If that don't get that woman,
I'm sure my shot-gun will.
Gonna go shoot her now...
The battle of evermore
Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morn - ing light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.
Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.
I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley blow,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The apples of the valley hold,
The seas of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh,-------dance in the dark of night,
sing to the morning light.
The apples turn to brown and black, The tyrant's face is red.
Oh the war is common cry, Pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.
Oh, well, the night is long, The beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise, Waiting for the eastern glow.
The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ring wraiths ride in black,
Ride on.
Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.
Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back, Bring it back.
At last the sun is shining, The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.
Stairway to heaven
There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And it's whispered that soon, If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When the levee breaks
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Lord, mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.
Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home.
Going, go'n' to Chicago,
Go'n' to Chicago,
Sorry but I can't take you.
Going down, going down now, going down.
In my time of dying
In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do is take my body home
Well, well, well, so I can die easy,
Well, well, well, so I can die easy
Jesus, got to make you... sure know, Jesus, gonna make you
Jesus, gonna make you my dyin' bed, Meet me, Jesus, meet me
Ooh, meet me in the middle of the air
If my wings should fail me, Lord
Oh, please meet me with another pair
Well, well, well, so I can die easy
Oh-oh, well, well, well, so I can die easy
Jesus, gonna make you... somebody, somebody
Oh, oh, Jesus gonna make you
Jesus gonna make you my dyin' bed
Oh, Saint Peter, at the gates of hea'en
Won't you let me in, I never did no harm
I never did no wrong, Oh, oh Gabriel, let me blow your horn
Let me blow your horn, Oh, I never did, did no harm
Did no harm, I've only been this young once
I never thought I'd do anybody no wrong
No, not once, oh, Oh, good, Oh, I did somebody some good
Somebody some good, yes-oh,
Oh, did somebody some good, yeah
I must have did somebody some good, yeah, Oh, I believe I did
I see the smilin' faces,
I know there must be lipstick traces, oh God
And I see them in the streets, And I see them in the field
And I hear them shouting under my feet
And I know it's got to be real, Oh, Lord, deliver me
All the wrong I've done, Ooh, you can deliver me, Lo-ord
I only wanted to have some fun
Oh, hear the angels marchin', hear the' marchin', hear them marchin', hear
them, marchin', the' marchin'
Oh my Jesus, oh my Gina, oh my Jesus, oh my Jesus,
oh my Gina, oh my Gina, Oh my Jesus, oh my Jesus, oh my Gina, oh my Je-ah-oh,
ah my
Je-hey, yeah, that's got to be my Jesus, whoa-whoa
It's got to be, it's got to be my Jesus
It's got to be, oh It's got to be my Jesus
Oh, gonna take me home, Come on, come on
I can hear the angels singin'
Oh, here they come, here they come, here they come
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Oh, it feels pretty good up here, pretty good up here
I'll touch Jesus, I'll touch Jesus, I'll touch Jesus, I'll touch Jesus, I'll touch
Jesus, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah
Oh, I see him, yeah, Come on, take, take, take, take, take, take, take, take,
take, take, take, take, take
Ooh, yes, come on, oh, oh yeah,
Oh, don't you make it my dyin', dyin', dyin'...
(hack cough cough)
Cough...
(That's gonna be the one, isn't it?)
(Come have a listen, then.)
(Oh yes, thank you.)
NO QUARTER
Close the door, put out the light
You know they won't be home tonight
The snow falls hard and don't you know
The winds of Thor are blowing cold
They carry news that must get through
To build a dream for me and you
Ohhhh, choose the path where noone goes
They ask no quarter, ohhhh
Oh, no, no, no quarter
Walking side by side with death
The devil mocks their step
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The winds of Thor are blowing cold, ohhhh
They're wearing steel that's bright and true
To build a dream for me and you
They choose the path where noone goes
They, they ask no quarter
Ohh, ohh, no quarter
Ohhhh, visit me with no quarter
Ohhhh, the pain with no quarter
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Okay, okay
No quarter
Black country woman
(Shall we roll it, Jimmy?)
(We're rolling on, uh, what, one?)
(No, one again.)
((Chuckle))
(Got to get this airplane off.)
(Naw, leave it, yeah.)
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
You didn't have to tell me that you love me so
Y' didn't have to love me, mama, let me go
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
You didn't have to make me a total disgrace
Y' didn't have to leave me with that beer in my face
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
Uh, that's alright, it's awful doggone clear
Hey, hey, baby, why you treat me mean
Oh, oh, baby, why you treat me mean
You didn't have to crucify me like you did
You didn't have to tell me I was just your kid
Hey, hey, mama, why'd you treat me mean
You didn't have say you'd always be by my side
Y' didn't have to tell me you'd be my blushin' bride
Hey, hey, mama, why you treat me mean
But that's alright, I know your sisters, too
You didn't have to tell me that you love me so
You didn't have to leave me, mama, let me go
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
You didn't have to leave me like a total disgrace
You didn't have to leave me with that beer on my face
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
Oh, but that's alright, I'd be the same way, too
Oh, yeah-yo
No man... no
Now, my baby, now you didn't have to crucify me like you did
You didn't have to tell me I was just your kid
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
You didn't have to tell me you would be my own
You didn't have to tell me, baby, let me go
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
Uh, that's alright, I know your sister, too
Ooh, yeah-yeah
Ooh, yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah
Ooh, yeah... oh
What's the matter with you, mama
NOBODY'S FAULT BUT MINE
Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
Tryin' to raise my soul to light
Nobody's fault but mine
Got a Bible in my home
Got a Bible in my ho-oo-oh-oo-ome
Tryin' to raise my soul to light
Nobody's fault but mine, yeah
My sister, she told me to roll
My sister, she told me to ro-oo-oll
How to roll down to the light
Nobody's fault but mine, ohh
Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
Tryin' to raise my soul to light
Nobody's fault but mine, take it home take it home
Oh ma ma home
I got a monkey on my back
I got a monkey on my back, back, back
How to raise my soul to light
Nobody's fault but mine, yeah
Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
How to raise my soul to light
Nobody's fault but mine, whoo hoo hoo
Ahh, nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
How to raise my soul to light
Nobody's fault but mine
Oh, yeah
Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
Tryin' to raise my soul to light
Nobody's fault but mine, yeah
No-ooo-ooo no-ooo-ooo
Travelling Riverside Blues
(Johnson/Page/Plant)
Asked sweet mama, Let me be her kid
She said, "You might get hurt if you don't keep
it hid"
Well I know my baby, If I see her in the dark
I said I know my rider, If I see her in the dark
Now, I goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by my side
Still barrelhouse, If it's on the riverside, yeah
I know my baby, Lord, I said, "is really sloppy
drunk"
I know my mama, Lord, a brownskin, but she ain't no
plum
See my baby, tell her, Tell her hurry home
Had no lovin', since my baby been gone
See my baby, Tell hurry on home
I ain't had, Lord, my right mind, Since my rider's
been gone
Hey, she promises, She's my rider
I wanna tell you, She's my rider
I know you're mine, She's my rider
She ain't but sixteen, But she's my rider
I'm goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by side
Anybody argue with me man, I'll keep them satisfied
Well, see my baby, tell her, Tell her the shape I'm in
Ain't had no lovin', Lord, since you know when
Spoken: Why don't you come into my kitchen
She's a kindhearted lady. She studies evil all the
time
She's a kindhearted woman. She studies evil all the
time
Squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my leg
Squeeze it so hard, I'll fall right out of bed
Squeeze my lemon, 'til the juice runs down my leg
Spoken: I wonder if you know what I'm talkin' about
Oh, but the way that you squeeze it girl
I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed
She's a good rider
She's my kindhearted lady
I'm gonna take my rider by my side
I said her front teeth are lined with gold
She's gotta mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul
She's my brownskin sugar plum...
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS
Disturbance
We ride on the avalanche we climb the melting red
lungs of the ladder that
leads high to a darkening moon. We're the watchers of
disaster, we're the
dancers on your tomb. We're the invisible invaders of
your privacy... your
dreams. We're the spectres on your screen. We murmur
sweet transparent
lunacy on hot oppressive nights - you shine a light and
you will see just
a shadow.
Pennies for
Heaven
Chasing the carrion, we watched the silver bird
explode. We tiptoed
through the barrier of smoke and took a hand, but
found it unconnected. We
were dining on the wreckage - white napkins round our
necks, we took our
plastic spoons and ate. We ate until we couldn't move,
'til sunset turned
the desert red and startled souls ascended to
Oblivion.
A fat man with a guilty face held back and tried to
hide his case as
angels chanted, "You can't take it with you..."
So we're told, Heaven's
paved with gold-but it HAS to come from somewhere?!
Paradise. It
has it's price. We're forced to crawl through needle's
eyes. Our
price. Our choice. We rarely make the right one.
The Third
Secret
New martyrs swinging in the wind. The dead eyes
searching for messiahs in
the stars. The bodies carrying the scars of no
confession, no concession.
No sympathy. The laughter from the front row buzzing
loudly now in bars,
over chicken in a basket, in the darkest corners of
the Central Station.
Passing round the spirit that drove Rommel to his
desert hole, smashed
diamonds, stripped the gold from hidden cities in
Brazil. And killed the
savage in the name of Mary... Burn the witch, whip the
bitch who shows her
ankles on the Sabbath. Bring the kids aged 1 to 63 -
the family treat.
Maybe there will be a vision of messiahs in the stars.
Now all confess and
make a wish. The priest is passing round the
dish...our Lady's selling
tissues for the tears, for all the years of blessed
rape in the name of
our sweet lord.
Belladonna
Belladona. Sea blue marshmallow eyes. Belladonna sees
you - it's just
a disguise. She sees nothing but grey. Belladonna. Ice
cool, shaken not
stirred. Belladonna. Whisper only the word and she
would wash the day
away... And as I faded through the years, she found an
answer to the
tears. It wasn't wise, but no, no humble mortal ever
matched these eyes.
Belladonna - pretty name for a slave. Belladonna.
Starburst - shouts from
the grave "I'll remember our dawn."
Cheraderama
Colliding in the stroboscope... Yes, now you see me,
now you don't.
Tonight I'm dressed in black, I mourn the death of
colour. Hopeless,
crying in my wine through happy hour; trace the lines
that crawl across
my face and round my eyes. Watch the ballerinas fly on
powder clouds
through six dimensions, seeing just the patterns on
the wall. Cold eyes
searching for a space that's warm enough to take them
through the night.
There's only black & white. Express. We never
touch, we only press.
Can taste the desperation in your breath, I swear that
I'll protect you if
you'd only look into my eyes. Chose your masks and
raise your armour. Eyes
down for Cheraderama!
MASSIVE ATTACK
(Vowles, Del Naja, Marshall, Thaws, Norfolk, Locke)
Tricky
You sure you want to be with me
I've nothing to give
Won’t lie and say this lovin's best
Well leave us in emotional pace
Take a walk, taste the rest
No, take a rest
3D
I see you digging a hole in your neighborhood
You’re crazy but you’re lazy
I need to live and I need to
Your troubles must be seen to see through
Money like it's paper with faces i remember
I drink on a daily basis
Though it subtle cools my temper
It never cools my temper
Tricky
Walking through the suburbs though not exactly lovers
You’re a couple, 'specially when your body’s doubled
Duplicate, then you wait for the next kuwait
Tricky & 3D
Karmacoma, jamaica' aroma (x4)
3D
You sure you want to be with me i’ve nothing to give
Take a walk take a rest taste the rest
Take a walk take a rest taste the rest
Take a walk take a rest a taste of rest
Tricky
Don't want to be on top of your list
Monopoly and properly kissed
We overcome in sixty seconds
With the strength we have to together
But for now, emotional ties they stay severed
When there’s trust there’ll be treats
And when we funk we'll hear beats
Tricky & 3D
Karmacoma, jamaica' aroma (x4)
3D
Deflowering my baby, aiyee my baby me
I must be crazy, see i'm swazy
Digging a hole in your neighborhood
You're crazy but you're lazy, must be lazy
Tricky
Don't wanna on top of your list
Monopoly and properly kissed
3D
Deflowering my baby, aiyee my baby me
My baby
Deflowering my baby, aiyee my baby me
I must be crazy, you must be lazy
Tricky & 3D
Karmacoma, what?, jamaica aroma (x4)
(Vowles, Del naja, Marshall, Hinds)
Horace Andy:
You are my angel
Come from way above
To bring me love
Her eyes
She's on the dark side
Neutralize
Every man in sight
To love you, love you, love you ...
You are my angel
Come from way above
To love you, love you, love you ...
(Vowles, Del naja, Marshall, Reed, Seeger)
3d
I seen you go down to a cold mirror
It was never clearer in my era so
You lick a shine upon your forehead or
Check it by the signs in the corridor
You light my ways through the club maze
We would struggle through the dub daze
I see myself in there upon my lover
It's how you go down to the men's room sink
Sad we talk of how madmen think
I see myself in there upon my lover
I don't know her from another miss
I don't know you from another
See me run now you're gone...dream on
Daddy G
Why you want to take me to this party and breathe
I'm dying to leave
Every time we grind we know we severed lines
Where have all those flowers gone
Long time passing
Why you keep me testing, keep me tasking
You keep on asking
3d
Toy-like people make me boy-like
Toy-like people make me boy-like
They're invisible, when the trip it flips
They get physical, way below my lips
And everything you got hoi-poloi like
Now you're lost and you're lethal
And now's about the time you gotta leave all
These good people...dream on
Nicer than the bird up in the tree top
Cheaper than the chip inside my lap top
All the variations you could do with me
Nicer than the girl up in your mind you're free
Daddy G
Automatic crystal remote control,
They come to move your soul
3d
You're gonna fade into the background
Like a better smoke'll bring you back round
Like a man slide inside you my dear
Your cheap beer's filled with crocodile tears
See 'em run now you're gone...dream on
Toy-like people make me boy-like
Toy-like people make me boy-like
I found a reason
I found a reason
Dream on
Dream on
Dream on
(Vowles, Del naja, Marshall)
3d
I'm a little curious of you in crowded scenes
And how serene your friends and fiends
We flew and strolled as two eliminated gently
Why don't you close your eyes and reinvent me
Daddy G
You know you've got that heart made of stone
You should have let me know
You could have let me know
3d
We'll go 'till morning comes
And traffic grows
And windows hum
Daddy G
Speding all week with your friends
Give me evenings and weekends
Evenings and weekends
3d
I could be yours
We can unwind
All these have flaws
All these have flaws
You'd agree it's a typical high
You fly as you watch your name go by
And once the name goes by
Not thicker than water nor thicker than mud
And the eight k thuds it does
Sunset so thickly
Let's make it quiet and quickly
Don't frown
It taste's better on the way back down
I could be yours
We can unwind
All these have flaws
All these have flaws
All these have flaws
Will lead to mine
We can unwind
All these have flaws
All these have flaws
Will lead to mine
Will see to
All these have flaws
All these have flaws
Will see to
All these have flaws
Will lead to mine
We can unwind all our flaws
We can unwind all our flaws
NICK CAVE
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@SONG: PAPA WON'T LEAVE YOU, HENRY
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I went out walking the other day
The wind hung wet around my neck
My head it rung with screams and groans
From the night I spent amongst her bones
I past beside the mission house
Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend,
Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead
Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
How they rolled him in linoleum
And shot him in the neck
A bloody halo, like a think-bubble
Circling his head
And I bellowed at the firmament
Looks like the rains are hear to stay
And the rain pissed down upon me
And washed me all away
Saying
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Well, the road is long
And the road is hard
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Well, the moon it looked exhausted
Like something you should pity
Spent an age-spotted
Above the sizzling wires of the city
Well, it reminded me of her face
Her bleached and hungry eyes
Her hair was like a curtain
Falling open with the laughter
And closing with the lies
But the ghost of her still lingers on
Though she's passed through me
And is gone
The slum dogs, they are barking
And the rain children on the streets
And the tears that we will weep today
Will all be washed away
By the tears that we will weep again tomorrow
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
For the road is long
And the road is hard
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
And I came upon a little house
A little house upon a hill
And I entered through, the curtain hissed
Into the house with its blood-red bowels
Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
Crawled the ceilings and the walls
They filled me full of drink
And led me round the rooms
Naked and cold and grinning
Until everything went black
And I came down spinning
I awoke so drunk and full of rage
That I could hardly speak
A fag in a whale-bone corset
Draping his dick across my cheek
And its into the shame
And its into a guilt
And its into the fucking fray
And the walls ran red around me
A warm arterial spray
Saying
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Well, the night is dark
And the night is deep
And its jaws are open wide
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
It's the rainy season where I'm living
Death comes leaping out of every doorway
Wasting you for money, for your clothes
And for your nothing
Entire towns being washed away
Favelas exploding on inflammable spillways
Lynch-mobs, death squads, babies being born without
brains
The mad heat and the relentless rains
And if you stick your arm into that hole
It comes out sheared off to the bone
And with her kisses bubbling on my lips
I swiped the rain and nearly missed
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Singing
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Well, the road is long
And the road is hard
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Bent Beneath my heavy load
Under his heavy load
Yeah, I went on down the road
Yeah, he went on down the road
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
And I went on down that road
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@SONG: I HAD A DREAM, JOE
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(l,m) Nick
Cave
(p) Nick
Cave & The Bad Seeds
<
Nick Cave: vocals; Mick Harvey: rhythm guitar, organ;
Blixa
Bargeld: guitar; Conway Savage: piano;
Martyn
Casey: bass; Thomas Wydler: drums;
The
Bad Seeds: backing vocals;
Mick
Harvey & David Blumberg: string arrangements;
Dennis
Karmazyn: cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara Porter: violins >
(
Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] )
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I had a dream
I had a dream
I had a dream, Joe
I had a dream, Joe
You were standing in the middle of an open road
I had a dream, Joe
Your hands were raised up to the sky
And your mouth was covered in foam
I had a dream, Joe
A shadowy Jesus flitted from tree to tree
I had a dream, Joe
And a society of whores stuck needles in an image of
me
I had a dream, Joe
It was Autumn time and thickly fell the leaves
And in that dream, Joe
A pimp in seersucker suit sucked a toothpick
And pointed his finger at me
I had a dream,
I had a dream,
I had a dream, Joe
I opened my eyes, Joe
The night had been a giant, dribbling and pacing the
boards
I opened my eyes, Joe
All your letters and cards stacked up against the door
I opened my eyes, Joe
The morning light came slowly tumbling through the
crack
In the window, Joe
And I thought of you and I felt like I was lugging
A body on my back
I had a dream,
I had a dream,
I had a dream, Joe
Where did you go, Joe?
On that endless, senseless, demented drift
Where did you go, Joe?
Into the woods, into the trees, where you move and
shift
Where did you go, Joe?
All dressed up in your ridiculous seersucker suit
Where did you go, Joe?
With that strew of wreckage
Forever at the heel of your boot
I had a dream
I had a dream
I had a dream, Joe
I had a dream
I had a dream
I had a dream, Joe
@SONG: Loverman
There's a devil waiting outside your door
(How much longer)
There's a devil waiting outside your door
It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor
And he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls
There's a devil waiting outside your door
He's weak with evil and broken by the world
He's shouting your name and he's asking for more
There's a devil waiting outside your door
Loverman! Since the world began
Forever, Amen Till end of time Take off that
dress I'm coming down I'm your loverman
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
L is for LOVE, baby
O is for ONLY you that I do
V is for loving VIRTUALLY all that you are
E is for loving almost EVERYTHING that you do
R is for RAPE me
M is for MURDER me
A is for ANSWERING all of my prayers
N is for KNOWING your loverman's going to
be the answer to all of yours
Loverman! Till the bitter end
While empires burn down Forever and ever
and ever and ever Amen I'm your loverman
So help me, baby So help me
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
I'll be your loverman!
There's a devil crawling along your floor
There's a devil crawling along your floor
With a trembling heart, he's coming through your door
With his straining sex in his jumping paw
There's a devil crawling along your floor
And he's old and he's stupid and
he's hungry and he's sore
And he's lame and he'sblind
and he's dirty and he's poor
Give him more
There's a devil crawling along your floor
Loverman! Here I stand Forever, Amen
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
Forgive me, baby My hands are tied
And I got no choice No, I got no choice at all
I'll say it again
L is for LOVE, baby
O is for O yes I do
V is for VIRTUE, so I ain't gonna hurt you
E is for EVEN if you want me to
R is for RENDER unto me, baby
M is for that which is MINE
A is for ANY old how, darling
N is for ANY old time
I'll be your loverman! I got a masterplan
To take off your dress And be your man
Seize the throne Seize the mantle
Seize the crown Cause I am what I am
What I am what I am I'm your loverman!
There's a devil lying by your side
You might think he's asleep
but look at his eyes
He wants you, baby, to be his bride
There's a devil lying by your side
Loverman! Loverman!
@SONG: Red Right Hand
Take a litle walk to the edge of town
Go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms,
like a bird of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires,
in the humming wires
Hey man, you know
you're never coming back
Past the square, past the bridge,
past the mills, past the stacks
On a gathering storm comes
a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with
a red right hand
He'll wrap you in his arms,
tell you that you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all the dreams
it took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole,
heal your shrinking soul
Hey buddy, you know you're
never ever coming back
He's a god, he's a man,
he's a ghost, he's a guru
They're whispering his name
through this disappearing land
But hidden in his coat
is a red right hand
You ain't got no money?
He'll get you some
You ain't got no car? He'll get you one
You ain't got no self-respect,
you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
cause here he comes
Through the ghettos and the barrio
and the bowery and the slum
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
Stacks of green paper in his
red right hand
(Organ solo)
You'll see him in your nightmares,
you'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
he ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your head,
on the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm warning
you to turn it off
He's a ghost, he's a god,
he's a man, he's a guru
You're one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by
his red right hand
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@SONG: THE WEEPING SONG
Go son, go down to the water
And see the women weeping there
Then go up into the mountains
The men, they are weeping too
Father, why are all the women weeping?
They are weeping for their men
Then why are all the men there weeping?
They are weeping back at them
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying son
O, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true weeping is yet to come
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
O father tell me, are you weeping?
Your face seems wet to touch
O then I'm so sorry, father
I never thought I hurt you so much
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While we rock ourselves to sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
But I won't be weeping long
But I won't be weeping long
But I won't be weeping long
@SONG: The
Mercy Seat
Into the mercy seat I climb
My head is shaved, my head is wired
And
the mercy seat is waiting
And
I think my head is burning
Anyway
I'm yearning to be done with all this weighing up of truth
An
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
And
anyway I told the truth
And
I'm not afraid to die
In heaven his throne is made of gold
And the Ark of his Testament is stone
A throne from which I'm told all nations do unfold
Down here I'm made of the wood and wire
And my body is on fire
And God is never far away
NICO
All That Is My Own
Your winding winds stood so
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed
Every child will be able to weep
Every wise man spoke of him
Every keeper will be sleeper
And a guide to ways unsure
Your winding winds did sow
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul
I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed
He who knows may pass on
The word unknown
And meet me on the desertshore
Meet me on the desertshore
Your winding winds did sow
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul
I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed
He who knows may pass on
The word unknown
And meet me on the desertshore
Meet me on the desertshore
Meet me on the desertshore
Your winding winds stood so
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul
I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed
He who knows may pass on the word I know
And meet me on the desertshore
Meet me on the desertshore
Your winding winds did sow
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul
I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed
It has not taken long
It has not taken long
The hunters they are hiding from me
A wooden hand
A golden reed
A waiting end for them to bleed
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
It has not taken long
It has not taken long
To feast our naked eye upon
The open blade
The hungry beast have found her calling
Calling help me please
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
Without a guide, without a hand
Unwed virgins in the land
Unwed virgins in the land
Tied up on the sand
When there come ships into the land
They'll be awaiting reverence
They'll be awaiting reverence
At their children's hands
Are you not loyal to your pride
Are you not on the secret side ?
It's not a crime, a gain to you,
Do you not understand ?
Without a guide, without a hand
Unwed virgins in the land
Unwed virgins in the land
Tied up on the sand
When there come ships into the land
They'll be awaiting reverence
They'll be awaiting reverence
At their children's hands
Are you not loyal to your pride
Are you not on the secret side ?
It's not a crime, a gain to you,
Do you not understand ?
When I remember what to say
When I remember what to say
You will know me again
And you forget to answer
When I remember what to say
When I remember what to say
You will know me again
And you forget to answer
You seem not to be listening
You seem not to be listening
The high tide is taking everything
And you forget to answer
When I remember what to say
When I remember what to say
You will know me again
And you forget to answer
The secrets that I do not know
I cannot understand them
A wanted series printed over
Words are his defences
The battle bracelets do not fit
My favourite gladiator
A fanatic hero piously
Has to be a faker
He is a dangerous creator
A master in his mortal cave
I am a savage violator
A valet innocent and vain
ORDO EQUITUM SOLIS
? Roads to Babilon etc.
PINK FLOYD
Cirrus
Minor.
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In a churchyard by a river
Lazing in the haze of midday
Laughing in the grasses and the graves
Yellow bird you are not lonely
In singing and in flying on
In laughing and in leaving
Willow weeping in the water
Waving to the river-daughters
Swaying in the ripples and the wreaths
On a trip to Cirrus Minor
Saw a crater in the sun
A thousand miles of moonlight later
Set the
Controls for the Heart of the Sun.
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Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble in the dawn
Notices leaning on each other and yearning
Under the leaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
On to the mountain watching the Watcher
Breaking the darkness, breaking the grapevine
The moment your flaw is run to your shadow
Notice the shadow that reopens the vine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Heart of the sun
Breaking the shape of his questions for ever
When the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson I gave him
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Heart of the sun
MONEY
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a footbal team.
Money, get back
I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.
Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that
They're giving none away, away, away
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
Daddy's flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
A snap shot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me
Daddy what d'ya leave behind for me
All in all it was just a brick in the wall
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey teacher leave the kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
I don't need no arms around me
I don't need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I need anything at all
No don't think I'll need anything at all
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
HEY YOU
Hey you! out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me?
Hey you! standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me?
Hey you! don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight!
Hey you! out there on your own,
Sitting naked by the phone, would you touch me?
Hey you! with your ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out would you touch me?
Hey you! would you help me to carry the stone
Open you heart, I'm coming home.
But it was only fantasy
The wall was too high, as you can see
No matter how he tried he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain.
Hey you! Out there on the road
Always doing what you're told, can you help me.
Hey you! Out there beyond the wall
Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me.
Hey you! Don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
THE TRIAL
Good morning worm you honour
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings,
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Shame on him.
This will not do.
Call the shcoolmaster
I always said he'd come to no good
In the end your honour
If they'd let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder
Let me hammer him today.
Crazy toys in the attic I'm crazy
Should I go fishing
They must have taken my marbles away.
Call the defendans wife.
You little shit, you're in it now
I hope they throw away the key
You should have talked to me more often
Than you did, but no you had to
Go your own way. Have you broken any
Homes up lately?
"Just five minutes worm your honour
Him and me alone!"
Babe!
Come to mother baby let me hold you
In my arms
But I never wanted him to
Get in any trouble
Why'd he ever have to leave me
Worm your honour let me take him home.
Crazy over the rainbow I am crazy
Bars in the window
There must have been a door theren the wall
When I came in
Crazy over the rainbow he is crazy
The evidence before the court is
Incontravertable, there's no need for
The jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before of
Someone more deserving
The full penalty of law.
The way you made them suffer
You exquisite wife and mother
Fills me with the urge to defecate.
But my friend you have revealed your
Deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed before
Your peers
Tear down the wall!
HIGH HOPES
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were
young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the long Road and on down the causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Runnig before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to
the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stay to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
POGUES
? early
hits
THE RESIDENTS
Breath and Lenth
And Breath and Width
And With and Without
In Our Dance
Smelly Tongues Looked Just as They Felt!
SEX PISTOLS
@SONG:
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
(J.
Rotten, P. Cook, S. Jones, G. Matlock)
God
save the Queen
the
fascist regime,
they
made you a moron
a
potential H-bomb.
God
save the Queen
she
ain't no human being.
There
is no future
in
England's dreaming
Don't
be told what you want
Don't
be told what you need.
There's
no future
there's
no future
there's
no future for you
God
save the Queen
we
mean it man
we
love our queen
God
saves
God
save the Queen
'cos
tourists are money
and
our figurehead
is
not what she seems
Oh
God save history
God
save your mad parade
Oh
Lord God have mercy
all
crimes are paid.
When
there's no future
how
can there be sin
we're
the flowers
in
the dustbin
we're
the poison
in
your human machine
we're
the future
you're
future
God
save the Queen
we
mean it man
we
love our queen
God
saves
God
save the Queen
we
mean it man
there
is no future
in
England's dreaming
No
future
no
future for you
no
fufure for me
@SONG:
ANARCHY IN THE U.K.
(J.
Rotten, P. Cook, S. Jones, G. Matlock)
Right!
now ha, ha
I
am an anti-Christ
I
am an anarchist,
don't
know what I want
but
I know how to get it.
I
wanna destroy the passer by
'cos
I wanna be anarchy,
Ho
dogs body
Anarchy
for the UK
It's
coming sometime and maybe
I
give a wrong time stop a traffic line.
Your
future dream is a shopping scheme
cause
I wanna be anarchy,
It's
in the city
How
many ways to get what you want
I
use the best I use the rest
I
use the enemy.
I
use anarchy
'cause
I wanna be anarchy,
Its
the only way to be
Is
this the MPLA
or
is this the UDA
or
is this the IRA
I
thought it was the UK
or
just another country
another
council tenancy.
I
wanna be an anarchist
(oh
what a name)
And
l wanna be an anarchist
(I
get pissed destroy)
My Way
And now the end is near and so I face the final
curtain
You cunt, I'm not a queer I'll state my case of which
I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full and each and every
highway
And yet, much more than this I did it my way
And yes, I've had a few but then again, to few to
mention
But dig, what I have to feel I'll see it through with
no devotion
Of that take care and just be careful along the
highway
And more, much more than this I did it my way
There were times I'm sure you knew
When there was nothing fucking else to do
But through it all, when there was doubt
I shot it up or kicked it out
I fought the just as before and did it my way
Knocked out in bed last night
I've had my fill ooh my share of looting
And now the tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I killed a cat
And may I say oh no, not their way
But no, no, not me, I did it my way
For what is a brat, what has he got
When he finds out that he cannot say the things he
truly feels
But only the words, not what he feels
The record shows, I've got no clothes and did it my
way
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Well c'mon everybody and let's get together tonight I got some money in my jeans And I'm really gonna spend it right Well I've been doing my homework all week long Now to have some fifty and my folk are gone Ooh c'mon everybody Oh well my baby's number one But I'm gonna dance with three or four And the house will be shaking from bare feet A-stamping on the floor Well when you here the music you can't still If your brother won't rock, your sister will Oh c'mon everybody Oh well we really haven't money But we gotta put a guard outside If the folks come home I'm afraid they're gonna have my hide There'd be no more movies for a week No more running around with the usual crew Who cares? C'mon everybody |
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People said we couldn't play They called us
foul-mouthed But the only notes that really count Are the ones that come in wads They all drowned when the air turned blue 'Cos w didn't give a toss Filthy lucre ain't nothing new But we all get cash from chaos The time is right to do it now The greastes rock'n'roll swindle The time is right to do it now EMI said you're out of hand And they gave us the boot But they couldn't sack us just like that Without giving us the loot Thank you kindly A&M They said we were out of bounds But that ain't bad for two weeks work And ?75,000 The time is right to do it now The greastes rock'n'roll swindle The time is right to do it now I just wanna play with my hand Are you good enough for me Hiya boys I'm the chosen one Can't you fucking see I'm a jealous god and I want everything And I love you with a knife I'll take you if you are ready for me And I'll give you my life The time is right to do it now The greastes rock'n'roll swindle The time is right to do it now The time is right for Nickey's special The greatest rock'n'roll swindle star The time is right for me now |
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Friggin' In The Riggin'
It was on the good ship Venus By Christ, ya shoulda
seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast, a mammoth penis
The captain of this lugger
He was a dirty bugger
He wasn't fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
The first mate's name was Morgan By Christ, he was a
gorgon
Tem times a day sweet tunes he'd play
On his fucking organ
The first mate's name was Cooper By Christ, he was a
trooper
He jerked and jerked until he worked
Himself into a stupor
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
The second mate was Andy By Christ, he had a dandy
Till they crushed his cock on a jagged rock
For cumming in the brandy
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a fucking nigger
He stuffed his ass with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper
Friggin' in the riggin'...
The Captain's wife was Mabel
To fuck she was not able
So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits
Across the whole table
The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
And by her squeals we knew the eels
Had found her sexual quarters
Friggin' in the riggin'...
SMITH, PATTI
Pissing in a river
Pissing in a river, watching it rise
Tattoo fingers shy away from me
Voices voices mesmerize
Voices voices beckoning sea
Come come come come back come back
Come back come back come back
Spoke of a wheel, tip of a spoon
Mouth of a cave, I'm a slave I'm free.
When are you coming ? Hope you come soon
Fingers, fingers encircling thee
Come come come come come come
Come come come come come come for me oh
My bowels are empty, excreting your soul
What more can I give you ? Baby I don't know
What more can I give you to make this thing grow?
Don't turn your back now, I'm talking to you
Should I pursue a path so twisted ?
Should I crawl defeated and gifted ?
Should I go the length of a river
[The royal, the throne, the cry me a river]
Everything I've done, I've done for you
Oh I give my life for you.
Every move I made I move to you,
And I came like a magnet for you now.
What about it, you're gonna leave me,
What about it, you don't need me,
What about it, I can't live without you,
What about it, I never doubted you
What about it ? What about it ?
What about it ? What about it ?
Should I pursue a path so twisted ?
Should I crawl defeated and gifted ?
Should I go the length of a river,
[The royal, the throne, the cry me a river]
What about it, what about it, what about it ?
Oh, I'm pissing in a river.
Waiting underground
If you believe all your hope is gone
down the drain of your humankind
the time has arrived
you'll be waiting here as I was
in a snow-white shroud
waiting underground
there by the ridge be a gathering beneath the pilgrim
moon
where we shall await the beat of your feet hammering
the earth
where the great ones tremble
in their snow-white shrouds
waiting underground
if you seek the kingdom come, come along
waiting by the ridge there'll be a gathering
beneath the pilgrim moon
where the [railroad] thunders
oh where we shall await the beat of your feet
hammering the earth
and as the earth resounds where the great ones tremble
and your humankind becomes as one
and then we will arise
in our snow-white shrouds
when we'll be as one
but until that day we will just await
in our snow-white shrouds
waiting underground
in our snow-white shrouds
waiting underground
Waiting underground X6
SWANS
POWER FOR POWER
use sex for control
use power for power
use money for cruelty
use hate for freedom
take control and keep it
don't let go
he was your friend
she was your friend
they were wrong
turn against them
sex, power, money, hate
take control and keep it
don't let go
power for power
power for power's sake
MONEY IS FLESH
MONEY'S FLESH.
MONEY'S FLESH IN YOUR HAND.
THIS MONEY'S FLESH.
THIS MONEY'S FLESH IN YOUR HAND.
WHEN YOU PAY, YOUR A SERVANT.
YOU DESERVE IT.
YOU DESERVE IT.
MONEY'S EASY TO GET OUT OF YOUR FLESH.
MONEY'S EASY TO GET OUT OF YOUR FLESH.
FLESH IS EASY TO GET WHEN YOU WORK FOR YOUR MONEY.
FLESH IS EASY TO GET WHEN YOU WORK FOR YOUR MONEY.
WHEN YOU GET PAIN:YOU DESERVE IT.
WHEN YOU GET PAIN:YOU DESERVE IT.
YOU DESERVE IT.
YOU DESERVE IT.
YOU DESERVE IT.
YOU DESERVE IT.
Children Of God
[Gira, Jarboe]
We are special
We are perfect
We were born in the sight of god
We were born in the sight of god
Our suffering bodies will suffer no more
Our suffering bodies will suffer no more
We are children
Children of God
We are children
Children of God
New Mind
[Gira, Westberg, Parsons, Kizys]
In the place
Where no one knows
Where they were before
Or what they're doing where
They are now
I will be there
With my eyes wide open
I will be there
(I will be there)
I will be ready
To receive
The new mind
Now I am a man
Now I am a man
But I'm nothing now
And God is mine
Yeah God is mine
Yeah my sin is me
And God is mine
Now I am ready
Now I am ready
To receive
The new mind
Now people get ready
People get ready
The sex in your soul will damn you to hell
The sex in your soul will damn you to hell
Damn you to hell
Damn you to hell
I will be there
I will be there
When he calls my number I will be there
Let the light come in
Damn you to hell
Let the light come in
Damn you to hell
Now save your soul
Damn you to hell
Now save your soul
Damn you to hell
Save your soul
Save your soul
Save your soul
Save your soul
Mona Lisa, Mother Earth
Tonight, I'll Spend The Night In Mona Lisa's Bed
She'll Hide This Beaten Man Beneath Her Innocence
Tonight No Dream's Denied In Mona Lisa's Mind
We'll Ride A Drowning World Through The Cold Black Sky
Mona Lisa, Mother Earth
Mona Lisa, Mother Earth
My Mind's An Ocean In Mona Lisa's Hand
She Dreams A Hiding World Where The Water Runs Red
Tonight My Dreams Are Born On Mona Lisa's Breast
We'll Walk A Burning World Where The Sun Shines Darkness
Mona Lisa, Mother Earth
Mona Lisa, Mother Earth
(She's A) Universal Emptiness
And She Sits There By The Wall
Making Holes Where I Just Stood
And Her Hands They Touch Her Face
Like Her Face Is Made Of Wood
And She Holds On To A Memory
Of Something I Never Said
But She Still Can't Quite Remember
If My Eyes Are Blue Or Dead
She's The Mother Of Us All
She's The Victim Of My Sadness
And The More She Tries To Know It
The More She'll Never FIll It
She's A Universal Emptiness
A Universal Emptiness
She's A Universal Emptiness
And A Total Lack Of Faith
And I Saw Her Once Before
Down On Her Bended Knees
Through A Window Of The Church At Night
Confessing To The Broken Priest
She Is Holy, As All Women Are
And She Suffers Like A Saint
Yeah She Touched My Hand With Cruelty
But I Was Punished Far Too Late
She's The Mother Of Us All…
She’s The Last Must Take Within
Love of Life
For The Love Of Life
For The Love Of Life
In The Light Of Life
In The Love Of Light
And The Strong Survive
For The Love Of Life
And The Strong Will Rise
In The Endless Light
For The Blood Of Life
For The Love Of Life
In The Bloodless Light
For The Love Of Light
In The Blood Is Light
In The Light Is Life
For The Love Of Life
For The Love Of Life
In The Endless Light
In The Blood Of Life
Now The Strong Will Rise
For The Love Of Light
In The Bloodless Light
Now The Strong Survive
For The Love Of Life
For The Blood Of Life
And The Heavens Come
For The Strongest Ones
In A Universe
Made Of Blood And Love
In The Blood Is Light
In The Light Is Life
For The Love Of Life
For The Love Of Life
I Am The Sun
And I am the sun
I rise above the world
And when the light goes out
I kill another child
And I am insane
I crawl into your mouth
I grow like a flower
I grow a suicide
And I am the sun
And I am the light
And I am the sun
Yeah I am the light
And I am the dog
I cut out my eyes
Yeah I will nullify
My true love creation
And I am the sun
I love everyone
I live inside your chest
I grow like a cancer
And I am the sun
And I am the light
Yeah I am the sun
Yeah I am the light
I love everyone
I love everyone
Celebrity Lifestyle
The secret sign of a charmed existence
Is the shiny liquid on her lips
And the ecstasy that comes with her image
Grows from the power that the money gives
And she's got a celebrity lifestyle
And she's just floating in space
Yeah she's got a celebrity lifestyle
And all her children want a suck and a taste of oh her
Celebrity lifestyle
Yeah her celebrity life
And she's just a drug addiction
And a self reflecting image of a narcotized mind
The secret wisdom of 120 days is hidden deep in between her legs
And sexual transcendence is reserved for the wealthy
But is only one joy that money can make
She's got a celebrity lifestyle
And she's got a glowing white face
Yeah she's got a celebrity lifestyle
And she ties her naked children up with wires and lace
Oh her celebrity lifestyle is the product of a celebrity mind
And her celebrity mouth is the perfect image of the end of time
Oh we're alive
Oh we're alive
Oh my celebrity lifestyle
Oh my celebrity fear
Killing For Company
I couldn't stop myself
I knew I'd do it again
But I could heal myself,
If I could feel your skin
And if I comprehend this moment
I know we'll live again
And if I heal your wound
We will make love again
And now we're slipping through this millenium
We should feel sorry for the people
Can I kiss your skin?
And there's hunger in the desert.
And missiles in the sky
And every soul is interwoven
Before the wrong or right
I know we'll live again
Though it's just a feeling
I know we'll never end
I'll keep you company
Mothers Milk
And I'll sleep in the sea
And I'll wait there beneath the mud
And forgotten dreams and disease
And what's the secret I'll drain from your soul
And sweet is the sugar I'll drink from your skull
And where is the wound that shines the blue light
And who is the dead man my body made love to last night?
HELPLESS CHILD (MUSIC/WORDS: GIRA)
NOW YOU BE THE MOTHER,
AND I'LL BE YOUR FOOL,
I'LL HIDE MYSELF DEEP INSIDE,
YOUR CRIMSON POOL.
THE MUDDY WATER RUNS,
BENEATH YOUR FOLDS,
YOU WON'T LET ME BREATHE,
YOU WON'T LET ME GO.
NOW YOU BE THE STRANGER,
AND I'LL BE THE WHITE-SKINNED SON,
YOU'LL BLACKEN MY INNOCENCE,
WITH SUGAR AND OPIUM...
THE CHILDREN WERE SUFFOCATING,
DOWN IN YOUR DAMP CAVE,
AND YOU WERE THE MOTHER,
AND I WAS THE SLEEPING SLAVE.
PROTECT ME FROM VIOLENCE,
HOLD ME IN YOUR COOL LIPS,
YOU DRUG ME WITH KINDNESS,
SO I CAN PRETEND I EXIST.
NOW YOU BE THE ONLY CHILD,
I'LL SUCK ON YOUR BREAST,
YOU'LL FEED ME WITH GASOLINE,
I'LL BURN MY NAME IN YOUR HEAD
THE SOUND (WORDS/MUSIC: GIRA)
AND WIDE
ARE YOUR DELUSIONS,
DEEP RED
IS THE SPACE BEHIND YOUR EYES,
CLOSED FOREVER
IS THE DOOR TO YOUR ROOM,
BUT INSIDE THERE
LIVES THE SOUND,
YOU DESPISE,
BUT I LOVE...
MOTHER,
I WAS WRONG.
I AM WRONG...
ANIMUS (MUSIC/WORDS: GIRA)
SOMEWHERE, THROUGH THE FROZEN FIELDS,
SOMEWHERE, BENEATH YOUR PALE AND TENDER SKIN,
LIES A HOUSE, ABSORBING FEAR AND PAIN –
SOLAR, RED, CONTAINED – FEEDING ON MY DREAMS.
SOMEWHERE COLD, INSIDE THE OPTIC WIRE,
DOWN WHERE FINGERS AND SEMEN CRACK AND BLEED –
THERE I WILL BE, WITH MY ARMS SPREAD OUT AND BROKEN,
WAITING FOR YOUR BREATH, TO ANIMATE MY VEINS.
WE'RE NOT ALONE: ALL OUR THOUGHTS ARE NUMBERED –
MALIGNANT AND COLD, ANIMAL AND HUNGRY.
BUT I WILL CONTAIN ALL, THAT EVER WAS OR WILL BE,
THEN I'LL WATCH MY SKIN ERUPT, IN A SYMPHONY OF FLAMES
–
SCREAMING OUT YOUR NAME,
SCREAMING OUT YOUR NAME...
WHY CAN'T I HIDE INSIDE YOUR MALLEABLE, ELECTRIC FACE?
YOU'D SUCK AWAY THE PAIN, AND SWALLOW DOWN MY SICKEST
DREAMS.
NOW MY BODY FEELS LIKE SNOW, SPILLING OUT THE
SHATTERED SCREEN
WHERE WILL WE BE THEN, WHEN ALL THE FEAR AND BLOOD ARE
GONE,
DRAINED INTO ONE HUNDRED MILLION OPEN CHILDREN'S
MOUTHS
SCREAMING OUT YOUR NAME,
SCREAMING OUT YOUR NAME
EMPATHY
(WORDS/MUSIC: GIRA)
YOU WERE WRONG TO RESIST ME,
I WAS WRONG TO FORGIVE.
NOW I LOATHE MY OWN WEAKNESS,
BUT YOU PRAISE ME FOR THIS.
THERE'S A PLACE IN YOUR FUTURE,
WHERE THE WOUND WILL BE HEALED,
AND THE CHILDREN YOU INJURED,
WILL RISE UP, PURIFIED, THEN KILL YOUR NAME...
YOU'RE AFRAID OF THE MIRROR,
SO YOU CRAWL ON THE FLOOR,
WHERE YOU COUNT YOUR PERVERSIONS,
THEN YOU RISE UP, FILTHY, WITH REMORSE...
THE FINAL SAC (WORDS/MUSIC: GIRA)
OH JESUS, OH JESUS,
YOU'RE MY ONLY GOD.
OH JESUS, OH JESUS,
YOU'RE MY ONLY GIRL.
I FOLLOW YOU NOW.
I'LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN,
TO A DIRTY BLACK ROOM,
WHERE THE AIR IS GONE.
I'LL LIE DOWN ON THE TABLE,
AND I'LL WAIT FOR YOU,
TO STEP INSIDE ME NOW.
STEP INSIDE ME NOW.
COME ON, COME ON IN.
OH JESUS CHRIST,
YOU'RE MY ONLY, MY ONLY GOD...
IF I DRINK YOUR BLOOD,
I WILL BE LIKE YOU.
GIRL, I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU.
I'LL LOOK INTO YOUR EYES,
AND CLOSE MY MIND.
GET OUT OF MY MIND.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD.
OH JESUS, OH JESUS,
YOU'RE MY ONLY GOD...
The Man With The Silver Tongue
by M. Gira
The man with the silver tongue is cutting off my
silver tongue .
He covers me in soft white clay . I kiss his skin with razor blades .
I paint his face with cadmium . He feeds my blood with lithium .
God made our world just yesterday . Our silver tongue inscribes his face .
The deep red sea is falling back . He sews my wound to feed his lack .
On crosses painted red and gold ,his skin is stretched and futures told .
My Jesus of the rotting meat : I cut your throat and lick your feet .
Our freedom's like the slaughtered pig - He screams
for love , we murder it .
The spoon of honey on my tongue ; I drained it from where his body hung .
Shining white and red and silver love - The man with the silver tongue .
My Jesus of the silver meat : I cut your tongue and drink your heat...
Singing la, la la , la la la ,la . Singing la , la la,la la la,la . Singing
la....
WHY I ATE MY WIFE
I heard your voice in my mind - you were Iying
I saw you under the door - you were sleeping
An ocean bleeds in your veins - now you're melting
Your hand holds onto the sun - protecting
The air is red and cold - in your insides
I feel your tongue in my mind - caressing
I feel your eyes in mine - remembering
You peel my body away - you're emerging
I put my mouth on your name - and I swallowed
I heard a sound in your chest - it was hollow
Your hand was under my skin - yes l'm fallow
I'll curl my body inside - to see through you
I love you more than my mind - but l'm Iying
I can't remember the words - but I loved you
I can't remember my name - you live through me
I can't remember the words - now l'm Iying
I can't go on with the song - but you're singing.
SYLVIAN, DAVID
Nostalgia
Voices heard in fields of green
Their joy their calm and luxury
Are lost within the wanderings of my mind
I'm cutting branches from the trees
Shaped by years of memories
To exorcise their ghosts from inside of me
The sound of waves in a pool of water
I'm drowning in my nostalgia
September
The sun shines high above
The sounds of laughter
The birds swoop down upon
The crosses of old grey churches
We say that we're in love
While secretly wishing for rain
Sipping coke and playing games
September's here again
September's here again
Mother and Child
Shadows form knights and pawns
Upon the squares
Blood is drawn up from the well
Secret signs brought the crime
Right to your door
An innocent guilty as hell
Oh, the cot is open wide
Damp with milk and honey
Gone the mother and the child
In Jesus name
Should they be waiting there
On my return
I may run into their arms
Walking on a razor's edge
Unconcerned
Game is lost again
I'll never learn
Every Colour You Are
I touched his hand
Burned like coal
Put pay to the devil
And saw the mountain fall
Feel like crying
The jokes gone to far
You can be anything you want
Every colour you are
Family man
His patience tried
Put a torch to his home
And warmed his hands by the fire
The greed of desire
My roads uncrossed
White lined and tarred
By believing in you
Every colour you are
Rain Tree Crow
I see the world
With a heart that knows
In shadow play
Rain
Tree
Crow
I put no trust in mile stones
Disparate hopes
Halfway homes
I share the world with one who knows
The light still shines
In shadow play
Rain
Tree
Crow
20th Century Dreaming
(a shaman's song)
Cold morning
Start of another day
Sleeping through the epilogue
Waking to the sound of rain
Driven to the crossroads
Where value's meaningless
What did you do to my faith
In justice, hope and happiness
Social, economical, spiritual
I'm moving to the house of love
Take my fire
Take my food and water
Forget about those promises
Of social good and social order
Lassoed by the cowboys
Tied down and it shows
Well I'm roping in those bad dreams
And selling off my work clothes
Social, economical, spiritual
I'm moving to the house of love
Gonna take a course of action
To restore my sight
'til the heart of motivation
Is filled with a golden light
They're hiding in the treetops
Tugging at my coat
But the power lines are falling down
And burning in the undergrowth
Social, economical, spiritual
I'm moving to the house of love
As the river runs
Tumbles and turns
You know you shouldn't stay
Or play the game again
But it could be different this time
You may win
Dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming, dreaming lying down
Dreaming,dreaming
Dreaming, dreaming lying down
I'm moving to the house of love
Here comes the dreaming
Darshan
(the road to graceland)
Darshan
Two birds
One stone
One chance
Is thrown
Don't make
Mistakes
Two thieves
Strung up
One knife
One cut
Two doors
One shut
One light
One way
One road
To take
We stand
And wait
From cool
To warm
"The Boy With The Gun"
He knows well his wicked ways
A course of bitterness
A grudge held from his childhood days
As if life had loved him less
Reading down his list of names
He ticks them one by one
He points the barrel at the sky
Firing shots off at the sun
I am the law and I am the king
I am the wisdom, listen to me sing
He carves out the victim’s names
In the wooden butt of the gun
He leans well back against the tree
He knows his kingdom’s come
He’ll breath a sigh self satisfied
The work is in good hands
He shoots the coins into the air
And follows where the money lands
I am the law and I am the king
I am the wisdom, listen to me sing
He pauses at the city’s edge
Of hellfire and of stone
He summons up the devil there
To give him courage of his own
He’ll free the sinners of deceit
They’ll hear his name and run
His justice is his own reward
Measured out beneath the sun
I am the law and I am the king
I am the wisdom, listen to me sing
And my name’s on the gun
"Orpheus"
Standing firm on this stony ground
The wind blows hard
Pulls these clothes around
I harbour all the same worries as most
The temptations to leave or to give up the ghost
I wrestle with an outlook on life
That shifts between darkness and shadowy light
I struggle with words for fear that they’ll hear
But orpheus sleeps on his back still dead to the world
Sunlight falls, my wings open wide
There’s a beauty here I cannot deny
And bottles that tumble and crash on the stairs
Are just so many people I knew never cared
Down below on the wreck of the ship
Are a stronghold of pleasures I couldn’t regret
But the baggage is swallowed up by the tide
As orpheus keeps to his promise and stays by my side
Tell me, I’ve still a lot to learn
Understand, these fires never stop
Believe me, when this joke is tired of laughing
I will hear the promise of my orpheus sing
Sleepers sleep as we row the boat
Just you the weather and I gave up hope
But all of the hurdles that fell in our laps
Were fuel for the fire and straw for our backs
Still the voices have stories to tell
Of the power struggles in heaven and hell
But we feel secure against such mighty dreams
As orpheus sings of the promise tomorrow may bring
Tell me, I’ve still a lot to learn
Understand, these fires never stop
Please believe, when this joke is tired of laughing
I will hear the promise of my orpheus sing
Ghosts
When the room is quiet
The daylight almost gone
It seems there's something I should know
Well, I ought to leave
But the rain it never stops
And I've no particular place to go
Just when I think I'm winning
When I've broken every door
The ghosts of my life
Blow wilder than before
Just when I thought I could not be stopped
When my chance came to be king
The ghosts of my life
Blew wilder than the wind
Well, I'm feeling nervous
Now I find myself alone
The simple life's no longer there
Once I was so sure
Now the doubt inside my mind
Comes and goes, but leads nowhere
"The Ink in The Well"
The lights of the ashes smoulder through hills and
vales
Nostalgia burns in the hearts of the strongest
Picasso is painting the ships in the harbour
The wind and sails
These are years with a genius for living
The rope is cut, the rabbit is loose
(fire at will in this open season)
The blood of a poet, the ink in the well
(it’s all written down in this age of reason)
The animals run through harvested fields of fire
The bitterness shown on the face of the homeless
Picasso is painting the flames from the houses
The sudden rain
These are years with a genius for living
The rope has been cut, the rabbit is loose
(fire at will in this open season)
The blood of a poet, the ink in the well
(it’s all written down in this age of reason)
Fire at will
"Pocket Full of Change"
She brings me water
Sweeter than wine
Lost in the moment
Summertime
Counting the hours
Beating our time
Shallow as any heart
I could hope to find
Move with the water
Drift with the tide
With no regrets
To keep ghosts alive
When she smiles
She smiles for me
Life runs out
Like a pocketful of change
Time runs out
Like a pocket full of change
Here comes the morning
Blind and tired
Pulled by the undertow
This world of mine
This world is mine
When she cries
She cries for me
Life runs out
Like a pocketful of change
Time runs out
Like a pocket full of change
Jean The Birdman
He gambles on the Sabbath
He's pulling at the mane
He thrashes on the horse's back
Ambition is a bloody game
Horse doesn't want to jump
The river looks too wide
Well he faces every hurdle
With a nervous state of mind
";Stay with me, breathe deeply
take three paces back
turn and make a full attack";
The gods are laughing
And they're tugging at the reins
But he's taken to his wings
And they hit the bank
Heaven may stone him
But Jean the birdman pulls it off
His finger's on the trigger
His eye is on the clock
He doesn't give the game away
And quickly fires the bullets off
Six hearts cut short
Still dreaming they're alive
Run'round in dusty circles
Like an absent state of mind
Who hunter? Who victim?
God love America
He surely doesn't love him
Hitching out of nowhere
Lands in traffic knee deep
A chance to stave the morning off
And get some sleep
Heaven may stone him
But Jean the birdman pulls it off
He wears a crucifix
His mother left to him
It's wrapped in chains around his heart
Rusted and wafer thin
";Don't count on luck son";
All the angels sing
";Don't need to check a weathervane
We all know what tomorrow brings";
Life is a gamble from
Coyotes with the mules
Life is a bullring
For taking risks and flouting rules
Who needs a safety net
The world is open wide
Just look out for card sharks
And the danger signs
Heaven may stone him
But Jean the birdman pulls it off
I Surrender
I opened up the pathway of the heart
The flowers died embittered from the start
That night I crossed the bridge of sighs and I
surrendered
I looked back and glimpsed the outline of a boy
His life of sorrows now collapsing into joy
And tonight the stars are all aligned and I surrender
My mother cries beneath a southern sky and I surrender
Recording angels and the poets of the night
Bring back the trophies of the battles that we fight
Searchlights fill the open skies and I surrender
Outrageous cries of love have called me back
Derailed the trains of thought, demolished wayward
tracks
You tell me I’ve no need to wonder why I just
surrender
I stand too close to see the sleight of hand
How she found this child inside the frightened man
Tonight I’m learning how to fly and I surrender
I’ve travelled all this way for your embrace
Enraptured by the recognition on your face
Hold me now while my old life dies tonight and I
surrender
My mother cries beneath the open skies and I surrender
An ancient evening just before the fall
The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all
Birds fly and fill the summer skies and I surrender
She throws the burning books into the sea
Come find the meaning of the word inside of me
It’s alright the stars are all aligned and I surrender
My mother cries beneath the moonlit skies and I
surrender
My body turns to ashes in her hands
The disappearing world of footprints in the sand
Tell me now that this love will never die and I’ll
surrender
My mother cries beneath the open skies and I surrender
God Man
Welcome to Sun State
The language of light
The energies impulse
The loud, dark, iron
The purpose of history
In Eurasian Steppes
From threshold to threshold
Astonishment
You’ve misunderstood the place where you stand
God Man
You’ve misunderstood the place where you stand
God Man
From different maps
Dead bees on a cake
You’re sweeping the forest
Man, it’s getting late
The milkweed is growing
Through cotton grass
You borrowed the car
But you didn’t ask
You’ve misunderstood the place where you stand
God Man
You’ve misunderstood the place where you stand
God Man
You’ve misunderstood the place where you stand
God Man
And everything’s dark
Then you’re wrapped up
Born into brightness
You’ve misunderstood the place where you stand
You’ve misunderstood the place where you stand
You’ve misunderstood the place where you stand
Wanderlust
Help me I feel like I'm weightless
Floating right out of your hands
And there's only so much I aspire to
Taking one day at a time
And deliverance has many faces
But grace is an aquaintance of mine
Tell me how could it have happened
You know that we're not the marrying kind.
Travel light, don't think twice
We're leaving the shadows behind.
It's given us, yeah
This wonderful wanderlust.
It's given us this wonderful wanderlust
It's given us this wonderful wanderlust
I don't doubt it, I feel it, yeah
Wanderlust
Wanderlust
Help me, this waterboys wasted
Falling right out of your sky
And there's nothing that could do without you
Loving the state that I'm in
Between no longer and not yet
On the threshold of some bright affair
The match was struck and I was fired
The embers of a drowning man
Tell me why won't I listen
Or acknowledge that I don't understand
Losing light, a selfish kind
And we're out on the road again.
It's given us, yeah
This wonderful wonderlust.
It's given us this wonderful wanderlust
It's given us this wonderful wanderlust
I don't doubt it, I feel it, yeah
Turn the headlights on full
I want to take in it all
And let it wash over me
The bridge looks so high
From the ledge that we climbed
But we climbed them so that we could be free
Give me no dreams of what the future brings
I need to know when I have gone too far, oh
Repeated lightening strikes
Up and down the spine
They search us out wherever we go
In a world full of lies
That tug at the truth
I'm taking no sides
Now I recognise you.
Wanderlust
Wanderlust
It's given us, given us
This wonderful wanderlust
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
Wander---lust
I don't doubt it
No
Atom And Cell
Her skin was darker than ashes
And she had something to say
Bout being naked to the elements
At the end of yet another day
And the rain on her back that continued to fall
From the bruise of her lips
Swollen, fragile, and small
And the bills that you paid with were worth nothing at
all
A lost foreign currency
Multi-coloured, barely reputable
Like the grasses that blew in the warm summer breeze
Well she offered you this to do as you pleased
And where is the poetry?
Didn’t she promise us poetry?
The redwoods, the deserts, the tropical ease
The swamps and the prairie dogs, the Joshua trees
The long straight highways from dirt road to tar
Hitching your wheels to truck, bus, or car
And the lives that you hold in the palm of your hand
You toss them aside small and damn near unbreakable
You drank all the water and you pissed yourself dry
Then you fell to your knees and proceeded to cry
And who could feel sorry for a drunkard like this
In a democracy of dunces with a parasites kiss?
And where are the stars?
Didn’t she promise us stars?
Nothing will ever be as it was
The price has been paid with a thousand loose shoes
Pictures are pasted on shop windows and walls
Like a poor mans Boltanski
Lost one and all.
Sell, sell
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Deep into every atom and cell,
Sell,
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Deep into every atom and cell,
Sell,
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Deep into every atom and cell
Snow Borne Sorrow
Strip the branches
Unsheathe the hatchets
The threads of friendship
Are coming off
The teeth of lawyers
Man the trenches
Bands of betrothal
Are coming off
But if we’re good
If we’re kind
But if we’re good
Generous and kind
We’ll inhabit their sunsets
Their goddesses and queens
We’ll try to do the right thing
(Oh save them)
Oh save them
(Oh save them)
(Oh save them)
Oh save them
(Oh save them)
Let the children come to me
It’s a harrowing world
Of adults and girls
Lashing out at the hurt
That surrounds them
With the knives drawn apart
They shatter the heart
Of anyone that dares come between them
Let the children come to me
Once a playground of swings
Then the malice set in
And reduced all the colours to winter
So we made it our own
This snow borne sorrow
And this love that stutters and splinters
Let the children come to me
Her apostles have gone
They left one by one
With no forwarding address to trace them
It’s a secular world
Of adults and girls
And we ask because nothing is certain
Let the children come to me
When their feet touch the ground
Naked unbound
I want them to know they can trust me
There’s so much to be ungrateful for
Let the children come to me
The Heart Knows Better
I don't know how long
She's been here with me
But it's been a long time coming
Make it last forever
Make it last forever
Yes, it's been a long time coming
There's a name for this one
There's a name for that
Call me by my true name
I'll call you back
But I've no intention of seeking you out
And the mind's divisive
But the heart knows better-ha
Better-ha
And every night is wedding night in my bed
My eyes are closed but I can see
The sky stretched overhead
The mattress on the floor
A sea of faces at my door
And every night is wedding night and I'm set
And the mind's divisive
But the heart knows better-ha
Better-ha
When she whispered in my ear
What did she say?
She put her hand hard on my chest
What did she say?
Oh, but nothing really matters in the end
And if everything still matters what then?
And the air is humid and my face is wet
And the driver's much too drunk too see
But she's sitting in my place
Devastating beauty in my place
And I'm absent from the place I ought to be
And the mind's divisive
But the heart knows better-ha
Ha-ha-ha
Late Night Shopping
Ask me I might go
Why not take me with you?
Ask me I might go
Late night shopping
We can take the car
No one will be watching
We can lose ourselves
Late night shopping
Tell me what we need
Write a list or something
We don't need to need a thing
Late night shopping
A Fire In The Forest
There is always sunshine
Above the grey sky
I will try to find it
Yes, I will try
My mind has been wandering
I hardly noticed
It's running on its own steam
I let it go
Oh here comes my childhood
A penny for your secrets
It's standing in the window
Not out here where it belongs
There's a fire in the forest
It's taking down some trees
When things are overwhelming
I let them be
I would like to see you
It's lovely to see you
Come and take me somewhere
Come take me out
There is always sunshine
Far above the grey sky
I know that I will find it
Yes, I will try
TRICKY
Hell is Round the Corner
I stand firm for our soil [a source]
lick a rock on foil [nigga I'll come forth]
Say reduce me, seduce me, [They juice me, seduce me]
Dress me up in Stssy.
Hell is round the corner where I shelter.
Ism's and schisms, we're living helter skelter [been
livin' on a study]
If you believe and [or] deceive common sense says
shouldn't receive
Let me take you down the corridors of my life.
And when you walk, do you walk to your preference?
No need to answer till I take furthur evidence.
I seem to need a reference to get residence.
A reference to your preference to say,
I'm a good neighbor, I trudge, [shrug]
So judge me for labour,
live version of the song. The bond on me ensures
[lobotomy] my good behavior
The constant struggle [strum] ensures my insanity.
Passing the ignorance ensures the struggle for my
family
We're hungry beware of our appetite.
Distant drums bring the news of a kill tonight.
The kill which I share with my passengers.
We take our fill, take our fill, take our fill.
[repeat first four lines]
Confused by different memories,
Details of Asian remedies
Conversations, of what's become of enemies.
My brain thinks bomb-like,
So I listen he's a calm type.
And as I grow, I grow collective.
Before the move sit on the perspective.
Mr. Quaye [Mr. Kray] lay in the crevice. [Distant cradle
in the crevice]
And watches from the precipice.
Empirial passage.
Heat from the sun somedays slowly passes,
Until then, you have to live with yourself (x2).
6. Aftermath
"Let me tell you about my mother..."*
(M: )
For once, there's someone for he, for she.
For once, there's someone for he, for me.
(T&M: )
Your eyes resemble mine, you see as no others can
Here inherit my kingdom, speak of our [my] people's
plans
I'll be here for my baby, for my baby I'll be here
[near]
So many things I need to tell you, things you need to
hear
(T: )
It was a day like no other
Clocks [hanging off]
It was said they dropped the bomb
And I walked out the door
Feeling lonely, [I see rain/as a ray]
Thinking of what was once
So I go in search of people
[Song of] the inhabitants
The air is filled with chemicals
So this is the aftermath
Walking over rubble
Which was once [causeвs calf]
Down to the center
Which used to be central
(M: )
So this is the aftermath
For once, there's someone for he, for she.
For once, there's someone for he, for me.
(M&T: )
Your eyes resemble mine, you see as no others can
Here inherit my kingdom, speak of our people's plan
I'll be here for my baby, for my baby I'll be near
So many things I need to tell you, things you need to
hear
(M: )
For once, there's someone for he, for she.
For once, there's someone for he, for me.
"How can I
"How can I
How can I be sure
In a world that's constantly changing
How can I be sure
Just when I thought I was winning
Just when I thought I could not be stopped
Just when I thought I was winning
Just when I thought I could not be stopped
how can I be sure
? from Blow Back
TUXEDOMOON
? All hits
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
THE UNDERCOVER MAN
Here at the
glass - all the usual problems
All the
habitual force
You ask, in
uncertain voice, what you should do
As if there
were a choice
But to carry
on miming the song
And hope that
it all works out right
Tonight it
all seems so strange - my spirit feels rigid
My body
deranged
Still that's
only from one point of view
And we can't
have illusion between me and you
My constant
friend, ever close at hand
you and the
undercover man
I reflect:
it's very strange to be going through this change
with no idea
of what it's all been about
except in the
context of time
Oh, but I
shirk it, I've half a mind not to work it all out
Is this
madness just the recurring wave of total emotion
Or a hide for
the undercover man
Or a litany -
all the signs are there of fervent devotion
Or the
cracking of the dam?
It's cracked,
smashed and bursting all over you
There was no
reason to expect such disaster
Now,
panicking, you burst for air
drowning, you
know your care
for nothing
and no-one but yourself
and would
deny even this hand which stretches out
towards you
to help
But would I
leave you in this moment of your trial?
Is it my
fault that I'm here to see you crying?
These phantom
figures all around you should have told you
You should
have found out by now
If you hadn't
gone and tried to do it all by yourself
Even now we
are not lost: if you look out at the night
You'll see
the colours and the light seem to say
People are
not far away, at least at distance
And it's only
our own dumb resistance
That's making
us stay
When the
madness comes let it flood on down and over me sweetly
Let it drown
the parts of me weak and blessed and damned
Let it shake
my life, let it take my soul and living completely
Let it be who
I am
There may not
be time for us all to run in tandem together
The horizon
calls with its parallel lines
It may not be
right for you to have and hold in one way forever
And yet you
still have time
you still
have time
THE SLEEPWALKERS
At night,
this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent
Is moved into
action and their pace does not relent
In step, with
great precision, these dancers of the night
Advance
against the darkness - how implacable their might!
Eyes undulled
by moon, their arms and legs akimbo
They walk and
live, hoping soon to surface from this limbo
Their minds
anticipating the dawn of the day
Shall never
know what's waiting mere insight away
- too far,
too soon.
Senses dimmed
in semi-sentience, only wheeling
through this
plane
Only seeing
fragmented images prematurely curtailed by the brain
But
breathing, living, knowing in some measure at least
The soul
which roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast
From what
tooth or claw does murder spring
From what
flesh and blood does passion?
Both cut through the air with the pendulum's
swing
In deadly but
delicate fashion
And every
range of feeling is there in the dream
And every
logic's reeling in the force of the scream
The senses
sting
And though I
may be dreaming and reality stalls
I only know
the meaning of sight and that's all
and that's
nothing
The columns
of the night advance:
Infectiously
their cryptic dance gathers converts to the fold -
In time the
whole raw world will pace these same steps
On into the
same bitter end
Somnolent
muster now the dancing dead
Forsake the
shelter of their secure beds
Awaken to a
slumber whose depths they dread
As if the
ground they tread would give way beneath
The solemn
weight of their conception
I'd search
the hidden corners of all this world
Make reason
of the sensory whorl if I only had time
But soon the
dream is ended
Tonight,
before you lay down to the sweetness of your sleep
Do you
question your surrender to the trop from lover's leap
Or does the
anaesthetic darkness take hold on its very own?
Does your
body rise in service with not one dissenting groan?
These waking
dreams of life and death
In the mirror
are twisted and buckled
Lashes flicker,
a catch of breath
Skin
whitening at the knuckles
The army of
sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose
And though I
am a talker, I can phrase no excuse
not to rise
again
In the chorus
of the night-time I belong
And I, like
you, must dance to that moonlight song
And in the
end I too must pay the cost of this life
If all is
lost none is known,
And how could
we lose what we've never owned?
Oh, I'd
search out every knowledge that I could find
Unravel all
the mysteries of mind
if I
only had time
if I
only had time
But soon my
time is ended.
VELVET UNDERGROUND
I'm Waiting For The Man
-----------------------
(Reed)
I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man
Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting for my man
Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
Beat up shoes and a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait
I'm waiting for my man
Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to
waste
I'm waiting for my man
Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and
shout
I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man
Venus In Furs
-------------
(Reed)
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now plead for me
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't
forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Run Run Run
-----------
(Reed)
Teenage Mary said to Uncle Dave
I sold my soul, must be saved
Gonna take a walk down to Union Square
You never know who you're gonna find there
You gotta run, run, run, run, run
Take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run
Gypsy Death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Marguerita Passion had to get her fix
She wasn't well, she was getting sick
Went to sell her soul, she wasn't high
Didn't know, thinks she could buy it
And she would run, run, run, run, run
Take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run
Gypsy Death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Seasick Sarah had a golden nose
Hobnail boots wrapped around her toes
When she turned blue, all the angels screamed
They didn't know, they couldn't make the scene
She had to run, run, run, run, run
Take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run
Gypsy Death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Beardless Harry, what a waste
Couldn't even get a small-town taste
Rode the trolleys down to forty-seven
Figured he was good to get himself to heaven
'Cause he had to run, run, run, run, run
Take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run
Gypsy Death and you
Tell you whatcha do
All Tomorrow's Parties
----------------------
(Reed)
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
To all tomorrow's parties
And where will she go and what shall she do
When midnight comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
And cry behind the door
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
Why silks and linens of yesterday's gowns
To all tomorrow's parties
And what will she do with Thursday's rags
When Monday comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
And cry behind the door
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown
For whom none will go mourning
A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown
Of rags and silks, a costume
Fit for one who sits and cries
For all tomorrow's parties
Heroin
------
(Reed)
I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me now, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town
And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
'Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know
Sister Ray
Duck and Sally inside
They're cooking for the down five
Who're staring at Miss Rayon
Who's busy licking up her big man
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
Ah, it's jsut like Sister Ray says
Rosy and Miss Rayon
They're busy waiting for her booster
Who just got back from Carolina
She said she didn't like the weather
They're busy waiting for her Sailor
Who said he's just as big as ever
He's just here from Alabama
He wants to know a way to earn a dollar
I'm searching for my mainline
I couldn't hit it sideways
Ah, just like Sister Ray said
Cecil's got his new piece
He cocks and shoots between three and four
He aims it at the Sailor
Shoots him down dead on the floor
Oh, you shouldn't do that
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
And by the way man, have you got a dollar
Oh no man, I haven't got the time time
Too busy sucking on a ding dong
She's too busy sucking on my ding dong
Oh, she does it just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Oh, just like, just like Sister Ray says
Now, who's that knocking
Who's that knocking on my chamber dooe
Now could it be the police
They've come to take me for a ride ride
Oh, but I haven't got the time time
Too busy sucking on my ding dong
She's too busy sucking on my ding dong
Oh, now, just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching on my line
I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Oh now, just like, just like, just like.....
Sister Ray says.
"Beginning to See the Light" Lou Reed Velvet Underground
Well, I'm beginning to see the light.
Well, I'm beginning to see the light.
Some people work very hard,
but still they never get it right.
Well, I'm beginning to see the light.
I wanna tell all you people, now.
Now, now, baby, I'm beginning to see the light.
Hey, now, baby, I'm beginning to see the light.
Wine in the mornin', and some breakfast at night.
Well, I'm beginning to see the light.
Here we go again, playing the fool again.
Here we go again, acting hard again.
All right!
Well, I'm beginning to see the light!
I wanna tell you, ooh-oh-oh!
Hey, now, baby, I'm beginning to see the light!
It comes very softly now.
I wore my teeth in my hands so I could miss the hell
of a night.
Hey! Well, I'm
beginning to see the light!
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, baby,
I'm beginning to see the light, now!
It comes softer!
Hey, now, baby, I'm beginning to see the light.
I met myself in a dream, and I just want to tell you,
Everything was alright.
Hey, now, baby, I'm beginning to see the light.
Here comes two of you.
Which one will you choose?
One is black and one is blue,
Don't know just, what to do.
Alright!
Well, I'm beginning to see the light, oh, now, here
she comes!
Hey, yeah, baby, I'm beginning to see the light!
Oh-ahhhh!
Some people work very hard,
But still they never get it right.
Well, I'm begiing to see the light.
Ah, it's getting a little softer, maybe, in there.
Now, now, baby, I'm beginning to see the light.
Ah, it's coming around again,
Hey, now, now, now, baby, I'm beginning to see the
light.
One more time.
There are problems in these times,
But, woo!, none of them are mine!
Oh, baby, I'm beginning to see the light.
Here we go again,
I thought that you were my friend.
Here we go again,
I thought that you were my friend.
How does it feel, to be loved?
How does it feel, to be loved?
How does it feel, to be loved?
How does it feel, to be loved?
How does it feel, to be loved?
How does it feel, to be loved?
How does it feel, to be loved?
"Sweet Jane" Lou
Reed Velvet
Underground
Standing on the corner, suitcase in my hand,
Jack is in his coat, and Jane is her vest, and, me,
I'm in a rock'n'roll band. Huh!
Ridin' in a Stutz-Bearcat, Jim
Y'know, those were different times!
Oh, all the poet, they studied rules of verse,
And the ladies, they rolled their eyes.
Sweet Jane!
Whoa! Sweet Jane, oh-oh-a! Sweet Jane!
I'll tell you something,
Jack, he is a banker,
And Jane, she is a clerk.
Both of them save their monies, ha,
And when, when they come home from work!
Ooh! Sittin'
down by the fire, oh!
The radio does play,
The classical music there, Jim.
"The March of the Wooden Soldiers".
All you protest kids.
You can hear Jack say, get ready, ah,
Sweet Jane!
Come on baby! Sweet Jane! Oh-oh-a!
Sweet Jane!
Some people, they like to go out dancing,
And other peoples, they have to work. Just watch me now!
And there's even some evil mothers,
Well they're gonna tell you that everything is just
dirt.
Y'know that, women, never really faint,
And that villains always blink their eyes, woo!
And that, y'know, children are the only ones who
blush!
And that, life is, just to die!
And, everyone who ever had a heart, oh,
That wouldn't turn around and break it.
And anyone who ever played a part, whoa,
And wouldn't turn around and hate it!
Sweet Jane!
Whoa-oh-oh! Sweet Jane! Sweet Jane.
Sweet Jane.
Sweet Jane.
Sweet Jane.
"What Goes On" Lou Reed Velvet
Underground
What goes on in your mind?
I think that I am falling down.
What goes on in your mind?
I think that I am upside down.
Baby, be good, do what you should, you know it will
work alright.
Baby, be good, do what you should, you know it will be
alright.
I'm going up, and I'm going down.
I'm going <fat> from side to side.
See the bills, up in the sky,
Somebody's cut their string in two.
Baby, be good, do what you should, you know it will
work alright.
Baby, be good, do what you should, you know it will be
alright.
One minute born, one minute doomed,
One minute up, one minute down.
What goes on in your mind?
I think that I am falling down.
Baby, be good, do what you should, you know it will
work alright.
Baby, be good, do what you should, you know it will be
alright.
Candy Says
Candy says I've come to hate my body
and all that it requires in this world
Candy says I'd like to know completely
what others so discretely talk about
Candy says I hate the quiet places
that cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate the big decisions
that cause endless revisions in my mind
I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me
? Who loves the sun
WATERS, MUDDY
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
by Willie Dixon
recording 1954
fr om Muddy Waters On Chess, Vol. 2: 1951-1959 (Vogue), copyright notice
The gypsy woman told my mother
Before I was born
I got a boy child's comin'
He's gonna be a son of a gun
He gonna make pretty women's
Jump and shout
Then the world wanna know
What this all about
But you know I'm him
Everybody knows I'm him
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie
man
Everybody knows I'm him
I got a black cat bone
I got a mojo too
I got the Johnny Concheroo
I'm gonna mess with you
I'm gonna make you girls
Lead me by my hand
Then the world will know
The hoochie coochie man
But you know I'm him
Everybody knows I'm him
Oh you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm him
On the seventh hours
On the seventh day
On the seventh month
The seven doctors say
He was born for good luck
And that you'll see
I got seven hundred dollars
Don't you mess with me
But you know I'm him
Everybody knows I'm him
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm him
You Shook Me
by Willie Dixon/J.B. Lenoir
recording of 19
from , copyright notice
You know you shook me,
you shook me all night long
You know you shook me, pretty mama,
you shook me all night long
Oh, you kept on shakin' me darlin',
oh you messed up my happy home
You know you move me baby,
just like a hurricane
You know you move me baby,
just like a hurricane
Oh, you know you move me darling,
just like an earthquake moves the land
Oh, sometimes I wonder what's gonna happen
To my poor wife and child
She made me love her
Now I can't be satisfied
You know you shook me, you shook me all night long
You know you shook me, pretty mama,
you shook me all night long
Oh, you kept on shakin' me darlin',
oh, you messed up my happy home
WYATT, ROBERT
Sea Song (Wyatt)
You look different every time you come
From the foam-crested brine
Your skin shining softly in the moonlight
Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale
Am I yours? Are you mine to play with?
Joking apart - when you're drunk you're terrific when
you're drunk
I like you mostly late at night you're quite alright
But I can't understand the different you in the
morning
When it's time to play at being human for a while
please smile!
You'll be different in the spring, I know
You're a seasonal beast like the starfish that drift
in with the tide
So until your your blood runs to meet the next full
moon
You're madness fits in nicely with my own
Your lunacy fits neatly with my own, my very own
We're not alone
Little Red Riding
Hood Hit The Road (Wyatt)
Orlandon't tell me, oh no
Don't say oh God
Don't tell me oh dear me
Heaven's above oh no
I can't stand it
Stop
Please oh deary me
What in heaven's name?
Oh blimey mercy me woe are we oh dear oh
Stop it
Stop it
You've been so kind I know I know
So why did I hurt you?
I didn't mean to hurt you
But I'll keep trying and I'm sure you will too
Alifib (Wyatt)
Not nit not nit no not
Nit nit folly bololey
Alifi my larder
Alifi my larder
I can't forsake you or
Forsqueak you
Alifi my larder
Alifi my larder
Confiscate or make you
Late you you
Alifi my larder Alifi my larder
Not nit not nit no not
Nit nit folly bololy
Burlybunch, the water mole
Hellyplop and fingerhole
Not a wossit bundy, see ?
For jangle and bojangle
Trip trip
Pip pippy pippy pip pip landerim
Alifi my larder
Alifi my larder
(I'm not your larder,
jammy jars and mustard.
I'm not your dinner,
you soppy old custard.
And what's a bololey
when it's a folly?
I'm not your larder,
I'm your dear little dolly.
But when plops get too helly
I'll fill up your belly.
I'm not your larder,
I'm Alife your guarder).
Alliance (Wyatt)
There is a kind of compromise you are master of
Your endless gentle nudging left us polarised
You're proud of being middle class (meaning upper
class)
You say you're self sufficient (but you don't dig your
own coal)
I think that what you're frightened of more than
anything
is knowing you need workers more than they need you
"A herd of independent minds" Chomsky got it
right
Joggling into battle waving old school ties
Gharbzadegi
(Wyatt)
It's so easy to decide on a name it's a name caller's
game
It's so easy to look down from above Helicopter vision
Get the picture when you're outside the frame
Retrospective my eye
Call it art and you can say what you like it's a name
caller's game
Your perspective describes where I stand Out of line,
out of mind
Calling myopia 'focus', of course, makes it easier
still
Gharbzadegi means nothing to me Westernitis to you
...We get so out of touch Words take the place of
meaning
Costa (Wyatt,
Benge)
Orange,
Fierce orange of the egg shaped fireball
Plopping into the ocean
As the earth tips backwards towards night
Orange,
Scratched orange of the gas bottles
Delievered, for lack of pipeline
Dragged to the door by the man in a wig
Orange,
Soft orange of two full moons
One high, one low in a puddle mirror
Floating in a pathole of the unmade road
The Sight Of The
Wind (Wyatt, Benge)
We could hear it
Before the shutters were open,
The wind on the beach
Then we found
Miniature sand dunes
On the concrete of the balcony
And a dead leaf
Zig zagging,
Scratching an urgent message
In sanskrit
Before hitching a ride
On a frisky gust,
A plastic bag
Caught by a rail
rearing to go,
In such a flap
we see it free
To join a page of last week's news
Racing high
Above the undulating beach,
And the invisible flying sand
Casting a fast moving shadow
Stroking the beach clean.
Yesterday's footprints vanished,
replaced by smooth rippling
Wave formations,
A copy of the sea.
No one walking
Not even the dogs.
A day
For the rubbish to dance.
Left On Man
(Wyatt)
What we call
Freedom in the north
Means our freedom to
Use you
And if you don't co-operate
We'll cut off your supply lines
But You'll be free
To re-connect
If you beg our forgiveness
You say I
Over simplify
Well yes, so did
Albert Einstein
There simply
Is no middle ground
Pentagon uber alles
There never
Was a middle ground
That's the point I was making
There's no such
Place as middle ground
(That's the point we were making)
Left or Right of the equator
Lisp Service
(Hopper, Wyatt)
Trouble isn't my middle name,
Left in peace would make my day.
You started the fire not me,
Camouflaged in mystery.
Plundering, murdering,
Raiding coast to coast
Good old days of gore,
And now you tell me
I should learn to deal with you all
Bow to you and praise the Lords for
Everything, everything
You won for us.
After all that was before,
There weren't no amnesty
International,
Nobody to check you.
Don't give me that
'polis'
That 'rule of law'.
N.I.O.(New
Information Order) (Wyatt)
Privatise
Next
The air force
Then
The police force
Royal Family
Let them be
Private at least.
Set them free.
Let them go home.
Save a bomb on union flags.
Privatise
The sea.
Privatise
The wind.
Don't just tinker
With unseeded cloud, you got to
Sell
Weather itself.
Set it free.
Don't waste good air,
Breathing isn't paying it's way.
Was A Friend
(Wyatt, Hopper)
Furry kind of greeting, not exactly hostile,
Not exactly facing, not exactly turning away,
Not exactly frowning, not exactly smiling.
Lurking by the door
Without a sign of wanting to move.
Though hardly friendly, not an angry gesture
Did it make. Just quite unnerving.
It's been a long time.
I almost forgot were we buried the hatchet.
"Bin a long time no see", (pidgin English
Native to none). After several silences
A cautious head nod. This could take forever.
Did it want to come for a dig? It did
Not answer. I was feeling restless at the door,
Ashamed of my fears. Where WAS the hatchet?
Suddenly was gone. I woke up
Feeling stupid. No-one else awake
Though dawn was only minutes away.
Quietly I rose to fill the morning pee pot.
What a silly dream,
Not like what really would have occurred.
Old wounds are healing.
Faded scars are painless - just an itch.
We are forgiven.
It's been a long time.
Out Of Season
(Benge, Wyatt)
A late sparrow fledging
Bathing in dust
Beneath the gaping mouth
Of the post box
(Hungry for letters home)
Blues In Bob Minor
(Wyatt)
Roger's in the archive looking up casement
Martha's in the government digging up the basement
Rebel into representative for the voter
Shadow backhencher couldn't get a word in
Turned up anyway ... issues burning
All consuming ... drinks in the cabinet
Spent a lot of time just examining the building
drinks on the house? you must be joking
Corridors of power cuts toy telephone bills
Long time no see underneath the floorboard
Looking for the roots of the family treetops
Toe's in the water but you've only got ten.
Fingers in the eel pie poke around tip top
Tunnelling a wormhole Eartha Kitty catfish
Meadow brown peacock ... pupa-larva-caterpillar
Hibernate in winter of our discotheque no
End in sight .. more like a spiral ... coil
Or curler ... just unwinding ... very slowly
Revealing endless disappearing pipelines
Genuflecting ... bowing deeply ... it
Don't take a weathergirl to see where
The wind is blowing ... what the wind is bending
Isobars are opening ... sex to midnight
Cabinet shuffling homeward bound ... taking
A detour ... rendezvous do ... chapel in the valley
Of the blown up doll ... that's not Martha
Shunting in a siding ... she got homework
Up to here
Roger's in the footnotes up to his elbones
Verse and chapter disinterred
Borrowing a bookcase don't come easy
The weight of the evidence in parenthesis
Beggars tightly furled belief
Heads on blockabeater repetition on the line
Shell shock supertroopers ... whirl banking oil palm
Intercontinental drift ... over the rainbow
Over the sea to ska rocker skintone
hirsuit missed a link and that's not all
That he got missing inna thousand years of
Orthotoxic waste disposal ... god proposal
Jealous sky ... whatever is a girl to do
To break the service in its tried and tested
And found wanting state of oh! boy network
Stewardship?
Little Johnny Aardvark never hurt
Nobody ... Martha friend and Roger too
Tone down a little ... sotto voce ... some tall order
Given that four minutes seems eternity time
In the bushed up world of waspish Vsigns
A-sides sui-C-side salads of the bad young B-sides
What's the point of digging deeper just to lay
The ghost of Sala Hal-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub?
"Don't give up" the dead man cried
"There's more of us than there of you
Soon you'll all be on our side ... forever more or
Lester Young died ... 'Fat Girl' also ... blowing all
the blues
Away side ... dust ain't just dust ... trust us like
we
Live forever ... broken loose from greystone tether
Keep on tiptoe through the archive ... we are dead
But you are alive ... Martha yes and Roger too
Until you let the gringos grind you down"