Siouxsie & The
Banshees - Lyric Page
Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
All Tomorrow's
Parties / An
Execution / Arabian Knights
Are You Still
Dying Darling? / A Sleeping Rain
B
Belladonna / Black Sun /
Blow the
House Down
Bring Me the
Head of the Preacher Man / B Side Ourselves / Burn-Up / Blue Jay Way (Beatles Cover)
C
Candyman
/ Cannons
/ Cannibal Roses / Carcass / Carousel / Cascade / Catwalk / Christine /
Circle / Cities in Dust / Clockface / Coal Mind / Cocoon / Conga Conga / Cry
D
Dazzle / Dear Prudence / Desert Kisses / Dizzy / The Double Life / Drifter
Drop Dead /
Celebration
E
El Dia de Los Muertos / Eve White/Eve Black
F
Face To Face / Fall From Grace / Falling Down / Fear(of the Unknown)
Fireworks
/ Follow The Sun / Forever
G
The Ghost in
You / Got to Get Up / Green Fingers / Gun
H
Hall of Mirrors / Halloween / Hang Me High / Happy House /
Head Cut / Helter Skelter / Hong Kong Garden / Hothead / Hybrid
I
Icon / I Could Be Again / I
Promise / Il Est Ne
Le Divin Enfant / Into the Light / Israel
J
K
The Killing
Jar / Kiss Them For Me
L
Lands End / The Last Beat of My Heart
/ Let Go / Little Sister
The Lonely One
/ The Lord's Prayer
/ Love in A Void / Love Out Me
M
Mechanical
Eyes / Melt! / Metal Postcard(Mittageisen)
Mirage / Mittageisen (Metal
Postcard) / Monitor
N
Nicotine
Stain / Night Shift / Not Forgotten / New
Skin
O
O Baby / Obsession / Ornaments of Gold / Overground
P
Painted Bird
/ Paradise Place / Party's Fall / The Passenger
Peek-A-Boo / Placebo Effect / Playground Twist / Pointing Bone
Poppy Day / Premature Burial / Pulled to Bits / Pure
R
The Rapture
/ Rawhead
and Bloodybones / Red Light
Red Over White / Regal Zone / Return / Rhapsody
/ Running Town
S
Scarecrow
/ Sea Breezes / Sea of Light / Shadowtime
She's a
Carnival / She Cracked / Sick Child / Silly Thing
Silver
Waterfalls / Sin in My Heart / Skin / Slap Dash Snap / Sleepwalking (on the High wire)
Slowdive / Slap
Dash Snap / Softly / Something Blue /
Something
Wicked (This Way Comes) /
Song From The Edge Of The World
Spellbound / Spiral Twist / The Staircase(Mystery)
/ Stargazer
Staring Back
/ Strange Fruit / Suburban Relapse / Sunless
Supernatural
Thing / Swimming Horses /
Switch
T
Take Me Back
/ Tattoo / Tearing Apart / Tenant / The Quarterdrawing Of The Dog
The Whole Price Of Blood / The Humming Wire / There’s a Planet in my Kitchen
This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us / This Unrest / This Wheel's on Fire / Trophy
Throw them to the Lions / Trust in Me / Turn to Stone
U
V
W
Originally released as the first
Banshees single in 1978 and later appeared on the compilation "Once Upon A
Time -The Singles"
Harmful elements in the air
Symbols crashing everywhere
Reap the fields of rice and reeds
While the population swells
Junk floats on polluted water
An old custom to sell your daughter
Would you like number 23
Leave your yens on the counter please
Tourists swarm to see your face
Confucious has a puzzling grace
Disoriented you enter in
Unleashing scent of wild jasmine
Slanted eyes meet a new sunrise
a race of bodies small in size
Chicken Chow Mien and Chop Suey
B-side to the First Banshees release "
And I'm hearing the whispers from
my window
and I'm hearing something scratching on the inside
Could I feel the sea beckoning me
oh, could it be can I see?
Voices
on the air
Voices
on the air
And I'm feeling like a moody
situation
and I feel the waves laughing with contempt
Could I feel my senses leaving me?
oh, could it be can I see?
Voices
on the air
Voices
on the air
Voices
on the air
could it be can I see?
Voices
[Instrumental]
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream"
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream"
Send me forwards---say my
feelings
But all the signals---send me reeling
Jigsaw Feeling
One day I'm feeling total
the next I'm split in two
My eyes are doing somersaults
staring at my shoe
My brain is out of my hand
there's nothing to prevent
The impulse is quite meaningless
in a cerebral non-event
Send me forwards---say my
feelings
But all the signals---send me reeling
Jigsaw Feeling
Five fingers do my walking
ten toes unravel 'Knots'
Amorphous jigsaw pieces
falling into slots
Send me forwards---say my
feelings
But all the signals---send me reeling
Jigsaw Feeling
So I just sit in reverie
getting on my nerves
The intangible bonds that keep me
sitting on the verge...
of a breakdown
of a reaction
of a result
Complete me...maybe...defeat me.
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream" and also appeared on the later "Thorn"
single & "Twice Upon A Time- The Singles
Got to give up life in this
netherworld
got to go up to where the air is stale
and live a life of pleasantries
mingle in the modern families
Overground--from abnormality
Overboard--for identity
Overground--for normality
Overboard--on identity
This limbo is no place
to be a digit--Another space
in another crowd
I'm nameless bound
Overground--from abnormality
Overboard--for identity
Overground--for normality
Overboard--on identity
Overground--I'll be worse than me
Overground--it's clear to me
I'll be worse than me
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream"
Someone's in cold storage
seeking Heinz main-courses
craving for a raw love
He'll hide you from the cleaver
he'll hang with you forever
longing for a fresh meat
By hook or by crook
you'll be 1st in his book
for an impaled affair
By hook or by crook
you'll be last in his book
of flesh oh so rare
Be a carcass---be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Be a carcass---be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Someone's left in cold storage
thawed in Heinz main-courses
carving for a new tin
He got you with the cleaver
he hung you up forever
anticipating new skin
Out of the frying pan
and into the fire
58th variety
Out of the frying pan
and into the fire
mother had her son for tea
Be a carcass---be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Be a carcass---be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
In love with your stumps
in love with the bleeding
in love with the pain
that you once felt
as you become a carcass
you become a carcass
carcass...carcass...
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream" and also appeared on "Nocturne"
When I get to the bottom I go
back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
Do you, don't you want me to love
you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer
So look out!
Helter skelter
Na la la la la la
Helter skelter
Na la la la la la
Helter skelter
Will you, won't you want me to
make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no fucking dancer
When I get to the bottom I go
back to the top of the slide
where I stop...
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream" and also featured on "Once Upon A Time-The
Singles
I'm just a vision on your T.V.
screen
just something conjured from a dream
seen thro' your x-ray eyes,
a see-thro' scene
the image is no images
it's not what it seems.
My limbs are like palm trees
swaying in no breeze
my body's an oasis
to drink from as you please
I'm not seeing what I'm meant to believe in
your non excuse for human being.
It's not plain to see
that I'm playing with me
A photo-fit of loose ends, framed in 3-D
seen thro' your x-ray eyes,
a see-thro' scene
the image is no images
it's not what it seems.
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream" and also the German version appeared on a double
A side single with the excellent "Love In A Void"
with a glass of mercury
whilst television flickers
for another news bulletin
flints light up the eyes
of the seated family
"Metal is tough, metal will
sheen
Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned
Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal will rule in my masterscheme"
With a clockwork jerk
pluck cogs from fob watches
for dinner on Friday
then recoiling say excuse me
"Must go recycle
my precious machinery"
"Metal is tough, metal will
sheen
Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned
Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal will rule in my masterscheme"
"It's ruling our lives
there is no hope
thought I'd drop a line
the weather here is fine
but day and night it blares
commanding through loudspeakers--
"Metal is tough, metal will
sheen
Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned
Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal will rule in my masterscheme"
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream"
It's just a habit
when I reach to the packet
for my last cigarette
until the day breaks
and then my hand shakes
but it it's just driving me insane
when the smoke gets in my brain
I can't resist it
Wallow in that ash bath
soaking up the fumes
and see the nicotine stain
start to spread
I'm so congested
cos north, south, east and west
catarrh rests on my chest
congealed and twisted
cough up and shift it
but I can feel my lungs collapse
sinking deep into my lap
I'm so useless
Wallow in that ash bath
soaking up the fumes
and see the nicotine stain
start to spread
I'm so useful
if you don't want to fight
just give your foe a fright
say you'll drop me
on every country
see all will be stone dead
when the nicotine stain spreads
just light me
Wallow in that ash bath
soaking up the fumes
and see the nicotine stain
start to spread
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream"
I'm sorry that I hit you
but my string snapped
I'm sorry I disturbed your cat-nap
but whilst finishing a chore
I asked myself "what for"
then something snapped,
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse
I was washing up the dishes
minding my own business
when my string snapped
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse
(Should I?)
Throw things at the neighbors
expose myself to strangers?
kill myself or...you?
now memory gets hazy?
I think I must be crazy
but my string snapped
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse
Taken from the First Banshees
Album "The Scream" and also featured on the excellent
"Nocturne" live album from 1983
Different lives
in different places
familiar problems
same old faces
Shuffle lives
into wrong categories
cross the wires
and fuse humanities
watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...
Scientist G.P.'s
with patient guinea-pigs
curing their head-aches
with drastic side-effects
switch
Doctor rectorates
condescending from on high
for all halucinaters
see druggist in the sky
switch
Vicar experiments
but 'tis blasphemy
dismissing thought of progress
as the mark of devilry
switch
People walk
and even talk
people listen
then they halt
Something blows up
won't come down
scattered muscles twitch
too late to switch
The Follow up single to "
Stare case lying face up
Stare cat on a mat
Looking down
Slide down the banister
Take the escalator
Slide down the banister
Or try the elevator
I was standing on the landing
Now I'm standing in the hall
Looking up
Won't someone assist me
Solve this mystery
Somebody assist me
Arrange the symmetry
Muffled footsteps on the carpet
Spiral steps start spinning
Around me
Which floor which ceiling
You're off balance
Which floor which ceiling
It's all upside down
Stare case lying face up
Stare cat on a mat
Looking down...
B-side to "The Staircase
(Mystery)"
Friends say he's fine
Friends say he's good
Everybody says he's just like Robin Hood
I move like a cat
Talk like a rat
Sting like a bee
Babe, I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see you were
meant for me
I'm your toy
Your 20th century boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
Friends say he's fine
Friends say he's good
Everybody says he's just like Robin Hood
Fly like a plane
Drive like a car
Hold out your hand
Babe, I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see you were
meant for me
I'm your toy
Your 20th century boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
Taken from the Banshees Album
"Join Hands"
...In
the poppies grow
Between the crosses
Row on row
That mark our place
We are the dead...
Taken from the Banshees album
"Join Hands"
Coronets rest on a death's head
mask
No-one is safe while the curfew lasts
But crusted orbs glitter, sceptres gleam
While helmets of blood fill the screen
They look away
and then they say
"For the good of the land"
for the love of the man"
Standing alone sitting alone
on the throne of the regal zone
Old limbs hang in the torture
room
While old kings hang in the portrait room
Their noble eyes gaze on the uneasy dance
of the squirming body on the marble plate
They look away
and then they say
"For the good of the land"
for the love of the man"
Standing alone sitting alone
on the throne of the regal zone
Taken from the Banshees album
"Join Hands" and later appeared on "The Thorn"
You dip your hands into my flesh
And say you won't reveal a scar
I must have faith in this procedure
It's a miracle--It's a wonder
A thousand hidden needles
In a thousand covered nerves
Stick pins in my receptacles
Look to your Voodoo doll--your mojo
Staying alive at five
For you to cure my ailments
Another soul is saved
With your bogus medications
Which colour shall we have today?
Depends on how I feel you say
Consult your research on the media
See blue will calm my hysteria
Staying alive at five
For you to cure my ailments
Another soul is saved
With your bogus medications
Staying alive at five
With your empty containers
Another corpse ornaments your waiting room
A placebo effect reversed
Will you ever regret--the placebo
effect
Can you ever forget--the placebo effect
Taken from the Banshees album
"Join Hands"
My eyes went up to Heaven
You didn't say I'd be blind
without them
Icons---feed the fires
Icons---falling from the spires
Thine eyes rain down from Heaven
You always said I'd be blind
without them
Icons---feed the fires
Icons---falling from the spires
Those words hang like vicious
spittle
dribbling from that tongue
Close your eyes to your lies
Force feed more pious meat
Those nebulous codes and
disciplines
Stick in that new born throat
Instill a lie---an artificial eye
to view a perfect land
Icons---feed the fires
Icons---falling from the spires
Can I?---stick skewers in my skin
and whirl a dervish spin
Can I?---set myself on fire
to prove some kind of desire
Icons---feed the fires
Icons---falling from the spires
The guilt is golden
The guilt is golden
Those ageless lies
The shuttered eyes
It's the nightpiece
It's the Icon
Icons---feed the fires
Icons---falling from the spires
Taken from the Banshees album
"Join Hands"
This catacomb compels me
Corroding and inert
It weighs and tries to pull me
Must I resist or re-assert?
The unchanged and the
unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me
We're all sisters and brothers
Ejected to this state of being
Don't bury me with this
I'm in a state of catalepsy
Can I really exist?
Clawing from the inside
Drowning in your chant
Thoughts come flooding through me
Despairing unity
The unchanged and the
unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me
We're all sisters and brothers
Red and white carnations
Can't intoxicate my brain
This blissful suffocation
It is driving me to pain
Oh what a bloody shame
The unchanged and the
unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me
We're all sisters and brothers
I'm not your sister
Or your brother
Don't bury me with this
Join hands--join hands
We're all sisters and brothers
Sisters and brothers
I can't relate to you
You're no relation of mine
The Third single from the
Banshees and the First to appear on a studio album. Can also be found on the
compilation "Once Upon A Time-The Singles"
Hanging...
Hanging from your daisy chains
Swinging in the trees
Running from your enemies
And falling on your knees
On your knees
Get down on your knees
Throw the dice
You three blind mice
Did you ever see
Such a thing in your life
You swallow the trail
But still arrive
Inside your entrails
Hanging...
Hanging out at party games
Dancing in the shadows
Up and down on the see-saw
Balancing the scales
You're drunk
Yet you're balancing the scales
Someone to blame
Someone to shame
Someone who you can claim
Go back to pass the parcel
And follow the leader
Hanging...
Hanging from your climbing frames
Swinging in the gallows
Laughing with your buddies
But you can drown when you're shallow
You can drown...
Taken from the Banshees album
"Join Hands"
|
The word you learn to love The one who keeps you warm Downstairs I don't know She'll twist the words you speak The thing you grow to hate |
The disapproval that you hate The one who keeps you warm Downstairs I don't know She'll kiss and say goodbye The love you won't forget |
Taken from the Banshees album
"Join Hands". This song was the original that Siouxsie
sang at the famous 100 club
Ready? (I'm ready!)O! I'm gonna get you in the end! Getcha!
Getcha! Getcha! Our father
which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done
as on Earth as it is in Heaven. O in heaven. And lead us not into temptation.
But deliver us from evil. For thyne is the kingdom,
power and the glory forever and ever amen. Fury, chastity, burden, sacrifice,
claim me guilty. Burt white skin. Running red, red on white, judge, icon, icon,
I am gonna getcha. Revenge,
revenge, never talk blabber to me. Red running revenge. Revenge getcha getcha getcha
revenge... Never talk blabber to me. Shalalalala... O
no... no... A knock knock knocking knock knock knocking on heaven's door. let me in! O let me in! La
La La Woo-oo-oo! Who's that knocking on my door? He floats like a
butterfly, stings like a bee; floats like a butterfly but he stings like a bee.
Yedelay shedelay.
Ding-a-ling-a-ling. Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-fucking-ding on the door, on heaven's
door. Bawk bawk bawk - Bawk bawk
bawk BAWK! Bawk bawk bawk
bawk bawk BAWK!! My little chickadee, carry on. Carry on. Our father
which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
as on Earth as it is in heaven. In heave. Ahhh! Ah!
Ah! I'm gonna getcha in the
end! Getcha, I'm gonna getcha. To me - talk blabber - I'll getcha.
When you're clever I'll getcha in the end. I'll get
you in the end. O! O! Shake it, shake it, baby, shake it, shake it, baby, now.
Twist and shout! Ow! A knife, a fork, a bottle, and a
cork - that's the way you spell
Pulled to Bits
B-side to the excellent
"Playground Twist" and can also be found featuring on the live album
"Nocturne"
Tongues are clacking words of one
vision
One tiny incision and teeth are cracking
On thin air, on thin air
And teeth are cracking on thin air
Pulled to bits--in silence
Left rotting on the ground
Slowly pulled to bits--in silence
Without a sound, without a sound
Building's bleached with
shatter-shatter-clatter
Fill their senses with cement
Watch the people scatter
One by one, one by one
Pulled to bits--in silence
Left rotting on the ground
Slowly pulled to bits--in silence
Without a sound, without a sound
Young lungs snapping coming up
for air
The mindless ones yapping, slashing through the thoroughfare
One by one, one by one
Oh one by one without a fucking care
Pulled to bits--in silence
Left rotting on the ground
Slowly pulled to bits--in silence
Without a sound, without a fucking sound
Pulled to bits, yackety-yackety-yack-yack-yack
Pulled to bits, shatter-shatter-shatter-clatter
Pulled to bits, yap-yap-yap-yapping
Pulled to bits--without a sound
This version was released as a
single along with "Love In A Void"
Reunion beginnt
mit einem Glas Quecksilber
Fernsehen flimmert
für noch eine Nachricht
Flinten beleucten die Augen
Der sitzenden Familie
"Metall
ist stark, Metall will scheinen
verrostet nicht wenn geschmiert und rein"
"Metall ist stark, Metall will scheinen
Metall regiert in meinem Meister-Plan"
Mit mechanischem Rucken
pflücken die Taschen Uhrzähne
zum Mittagessen Freitag
im Rückprall sagt "Verzeihung
zurück muss ich kehren
meine liebe Maschinerie"
Es beherrscht
unser Leben,
es bringt kein heil
Ich schreibe ein paar Zeilen
Das Wetter hier ist fein
Doch dröhnt es Tag und Nacht
Durch Lautsprecher
Love in A Void
Appeared as part of a double A
sided singles along with the German version of "Metal Postcard" can
also be found on the album "Once Upon a Time-The Singles"
Too many fools blocking my motion
Clouding my eyes--must be the potion
Spots on my eyes--must be the lotion
Love in a void--it's so numb
Avoid in love--it's so dumb
Love in a void
Too many bigots for my liking
Too many critics--too few writing
Rabid dogs that aren't biting
Love in a void--it's so numb
Avoid in love--it's so dumb
Love in a void
Jaded reputation on which you're
staking
Lots of money for the making
For all the stars they're just faking
Love in a void--it's so numb
Avoid in love--it's so dumb
Love in a void
Happy House
The First single from the
Banshees under the new line up of Siouxsie, Steven
& Budgie, after the departure of Kenny & John and taken from the third
Banshees album "Kaleidoscope". A live version can be found on
"Nocturne" and the track also features on "Once Upon A Time-The
Singles"
This is the happy house---we're
happy here
In the happy house---oh it's such fun
We've come to play in the happy house
And waste a day in the happy house
It never rains
We've come to scream in the happy house
We're in a dream in the happy house
We're all quite sane
This is the happy house---we're happy here
There's room for you if you say
"I do"
But don't say no or you'll have to go
We've done no wrong with our blinkers on
It's safe and calm if you sing along
This is the happy house---we're happy here in the happy house
To forget ourselves---and pretend all's well
There is no hell.
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope
Squatting on doorsteps--following
footsteps
Nocturnal habits are surveyed with interest
So we crawl into corners--ignore any callers
And imagine our radiators clang for our neighbours
When we crawl on all fours--upon
the cushioned floor
Still they cling to the walls + knock on our doors
And the tendency for tenants is tenacity
The paint is cracked--and the
paper peels
The plaster falls & a body reels...softly
Forty watt bulb swing from a
light cloud
On lawnmower groan, the carpet has grown
But they have eyes at the keyholes and ears at the walls
And the tendency for tenants is secrecy...ssssssh.
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope
Headhunters, headshrinkers and long distance runners
Dust gathers on mometos--Dust gathers on proud
moments
Young voices grow thick and old
The cheers are distant wearing thin
Take it to the wall
To be hung on the wall, to be viewed by all
A tribute in the grand hall
Yes they're locked away or
polished every day
For the maintenance man--in the back of a van
Oh young voices grow thick and old
The cheers are distant wearing thin
Take it to the wall
To be hung on the wall, to be viewed by all
A tribute in the grand hall
Bring yourselves out from your
showcase parties
But you've been shut away too long
You've been shut away too long
Frightened faces in the rain
Misplaced features lost down the drain
Oh wash away and start again
Take it to the wall
To be hung on the wall, to be viewed by all
A tribute in the grand hall
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope
It's a hybrid of me---I'm a
hybrid of he
You're a misfit of me---I'm a misfit of you...in limbo
Carbon copies run blue---a
reminder for you
But they're only skin deep crumpled shells in a heap
Marked cheap
Surrogate heads of a no-no domain
Shoulders form rows to make waves again
Catch the next plane
When you walked through the door marked "enter if you dare"
Reasoned with a friend marked "do not bend"
Bit on that finger marked "handle with care"
A tear soiled your cheek---a
broken finger on the floor
A mess in sawdust---a shop window burst...no repairs
It's a hybrid of me---I'm a
hybrid of he
You're a misfit for me---I'm a misfit for you
In limbo....do you speak the lingo?
[Instrumental]
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope
Chasing a monsoon over the dune
Oh fly me to the moon, get me there soon
I don't have to prove I'll last longer than you
One hump or two, any handicap will do against you
I'll be there soon---over the
moon
I'll be there soon---over the moon
Chasing a monsoon over the dune
Oh fly me to the moon, get me there soon
The follow up single to
"Happy House" and the first time the Banshees would release two singles
from the same album "Kaleidoscope" "Christine" can also be found on the
compilation "Once Upon A Time-The Singles"
She tries not to shatter,
kaleidoscope style
Personality changes behind her red smile
Every new problem brings a stranger inside
Helplessly forcing one more new disguise
Christine---the strawberry girl
Christine---banana split lady
Singing sweet savages lost in our
world
This big-eyed girl sees her faces unfurl
Now she's in purple now she's the turtle
Disintegrating
Christine---the strawberry girl
Christine---banana split lady
22 faces.....disintegrating.
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope
Desert kisses in the sand
Engulfing joints, engulfing land
Tidal fingers cling to rocks
A deadly grip, a deadly lock
Cursed and pissed into the ocean
Willfully caused a great commotion
But only for a stifled moment
Then it was back to still life motion
A sideways crawl, a sideways
scrawl
The cancer crab is on us all
I kissed your face, I kissed the sand
I heard you sigh, there was no sound
Thrashed and spat back at the
ocean
But there was nothing, no commotion
Just my lonely, stupid notions
Trapped again in still life motion
Sinking down---with just my sound
Sinking down---running on the moving ground
Sinking down
Sinking down---without a sound
Sinking down---sleeping on the moving ground
Sinking down...
Desert kisses in the sand
Engulfing joints, engulfing land
Tidal fingers cling to rock
A deadly grip, a deadly lock
Sinking down---the world is round
Sinking down---there's no-one around
Standing on the moving ground
Sinking down---the world is flat
There's no-one here to question that...
Sinking down---without a sound
Sinking down...
Sinking down---the world was round
There was no-one around
Sinking down...
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope
She falls into frame with a
professional pout
But the Polaroid's ignite on seeing their subject
And the aperture shuts--too much exposure
Voyeur sucks into
focus--floodlit, the glossy kiss-pit
But as emulsion drips down...down
The aperture shuts--too much exposure
Come into this room--come into this
gloom
See the Red light rinsing another shutterslut wincing
The sagging half-wit sister, pretty, pretty picture
Of an ancient nipple shrinking--that Kodakwhore
winking
'Til
the aperture shuts--too much exposure
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope and also featured on the live album "Nocturne"
Look to the hills--now look at my
face
Do you notice my eyes--are they in the right place?
O no, no, no, no...
There's a Mantovani
backdrop--to pucker-up a tummy tuck
A voice soft as lint--mashed up with shades of pink
O no, no, no, no...
You can hide your genetics under
drastic cosmetics
But this chameleon magic is renowned to be tragic O no, no, no, no...
Ooo-ooo-ooo...
Look to the hills--now look at my
face
do you notice my eyes--are they in the right place?
O no, no, no, no...
Ooo-ooo-ooo...
Taken from the Banshees album
Kaleidoscope
Mink, seal and ermine smother fat
women
I have a noble cause for skin--there's just too many of them
The only necessary cull--curse the brain inside it's skull
Just a bitch in the manger to the balances of nature
Cover me with skin and accuse me
of sin
But you know what I mean
There's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Hairless and streamline--fits
like my own skin
Tattooed and sun-dyed--it's warm and it's human
There was too many of them--the animals like them
Shame about the smell but they're fine seeped in perfume
B-Side to the excellent
"Happy House" single
I Hate You I Hate You I Hate You
I Hate You...
Drop dead-
You stinking little creep
Drop dead-
With your emotions so cheap
Your poisoned mind-
It's disgusting everyone
We don't care if you vanish in thin air!
Drop dead-
It's a dead drop
You're a dead loss
Drop dead
You should be pushed down-
Down into the ground amongst the worms-
And other spineless things
Don't you see you're embarrassing to me
I can't stand that phony way you banter!
Drop dead-
It's a dead drop
You're a dead loss
Drop dead
You're so pathetic-
An insipid, dried up slug
Keep your mouth shut you impotent little slut
I'm so ashamed to be connected with your name
You're so lame-
I wish you'd never been to blame
Drop dead-
It's a dead drop
You're a dead loss
Drop dead
Those words-
Tight-lipped and mealy-mouthed
It wasn't hard to realise that they were lies
Judging from the flies you've attracted from the skies
So just get lost-
fuck Off!
And disappear into the compost!
Drop dead-
Stinking little creep drop dead!
Drop dead!!
Celebration...
B-Side to the Banshees
"Christine" single and a live version can be found on the excellent
"Nocturne"
It hurts
There's a pain in my head
I wish it would stop
But it never stops
I can feel it coming--I'm getting weaker
Please help me--I'm getting weaker
I'm getting weaker
Please help me
I wish I could help myself...
Aaoowww!!! Let me out of here--I belong out there
Son of a bitch, son of a bitch
Let me out of here--I belong out there
Never say die--I must never die
Let me out of here--I belong out there
You son of a bitch--I'll pull your hair
Let me out of here--I belong out there
You son of a bitch--I'll pull your hair
Never say die--Never say die, I must, I must never die
Let me out of here--I belong out there
Son of a bitch
Follow up single to
"Christine" and the first Banshees single to appear on a 12".
The single peaked in the UK chart at number 41, can be found on the album
"Once Upon A Time-The Singles" A live version can also be found on
the "Nocturne" Live Album from 1983
Little orphans in the snow
With nowhere to call a home
Start their singing
Waiting through the summertime
To thaw your hearts in wintertime
That's why they're singing...
Waiting for a sign to turn blood
into wine
The sweet taste in your mouth--turned bitter in its glass
Israel...in Israel
Israel...in Israel
Shattered fragments of the past
Meet in veins on the stained glass
Like the lifeline in your palm
Red and green reflects the scene
Of a long forgotten dream
There were princes and there were kings
Now hidden in disguise--cheap
wrappings of lies
Keep your heart alive with a song from inside
Even though we're all alone
We are never on our own when we're singing
There's a man who's looking in
And he smiles a toothless grin
Because he's singing...
See some people shine with glee
But their song is jealousy
Their hate is clanging--maddening
In Israel...will they sing Happy
Noel
Israel...in Israel
Israel...in Israel
In Israel will they sing Happy Noel
The B-Side to "Israel"
and an orchestral version can be found on "The Thorn"
The woods and the town covered in
snow
All transformed to a fairy-tale
Like a fresh page of a book opened up
Ready, waiting for the story to begin
For you're all in the scene
Objects in black ink fringed in white
Breathing and living and anticipating a color
All transformed to a fairy-tale
Unreal and inviting, inviting you to step in
And follow the path never-ending
You're now leaving imprints and somehow expecting
Expecting someone
Maybe the prince in disguise suffering a snow queen kiss
But you're wrong of course--it's in reverse
Out in the snow, muffled
The last silent night, the last sacrifice
Red running over white
Running red over white
Red over white
"Spellbound" followed
"
From the cradle bars
Comes a beckoning voice
It sends you spinning
You have no choice...
You hear laughter
Cracking through the walls
It sends you spinning
You have no choice
Following the footsteps
Of a rag doll dance
We are entranced
Spellbound
And don't forget
When your elders forget
To say their prayers
Take them by the legs
And throw them down the stairs
When you think
Your toys have gone berserk
It's an illusion
You cannot shirk
You hear laughter
Cracking through the walls
It sends you spinning
You have no choice
Following the footsteps
Of a rag doll dance
We are entranced
Spellbound
From the 4th Banshees album
"Ju Ju"
Into the line
I see it fine
Into the line
Our hearts entwine
Remember when
Your time again
Remember when
Your time again
Standing in the light
Always sitting on the line
Never on a side
Always wanting to be right
Standing in the light
I never wanted to be right
Now I'm attracted by the light
And blinded by the sight Into the light...
Into the light
I see it fight
Into the light
A new horizon
Bleached into white
Kept out of sight Bleached into white
Kept out of sight
Standing in the light
Always sitting on the line
Never on a side
Pushing out the light
Standing in the light
I never wanted to be right
Now I'm attracted by the light
And blinded by the sight
Remember when your time again...
Into the line
I see it fine
Into the line
Our hearts entwine
Remember when
Your time again
Remember when
Your time again
Dead ahead in the night
Burning in the light
And knowing that it's right
Driving in the night...
Remember when
Your time again
Remember when
Your time again
Into the light
Into the light.....
This track followed hot on the
heals of "Spellbound" as the next Banshees single, released on
12" as well as the usual 7" single can also be found on the album
"Once Upon A Time-The Singles"
The jewel, the prize
Looking into your eyes
Cool pools drown your mind
What else will you find
I heard a rumour---it was just a
rumour
I heard a rumour---what have you done to her Myriad lights---they said I'd be
impressed
Arabian Knights---at your primitive best
A tourist oasis---reflects in
seedy sunshades
A monstrous oil tanker
Its wound bleeding in seas
I heard a rumour---what have you
done to her
I heard a rumour---what have you done to her
Veiled behind screens
Kept as your baby machine
Whilst you conquer more orifices
Of boys, goats and things
Ripped out sheep's' eyes---no forks or knives
Myriad lights---they said I'd be
impressed
Arabian Knights---at your primitive best
Featured on the Banshees album
"Ju Ju"
The night is still
And the frost it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
And murmur like a ghost
"Trick or Treat"
"Trick or Treat"
The bitter and the sweet
The carefree days
Are distant now
I wear my memories like a shroud
I try to speak but words collapse
Echoing
"Trick or Treat"
"Trick or Treat"
The bitter and the sweet
I wander through your sadness
Gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween.....Halloween
A sweet reminder
In the ice-blue nursery
Of a childish murder
Of hidden lustre
And she cries
"Trick or Treat"
"Trick or Treat"
The bitter and the sweet
I wander through your sadness
Gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween.....Halloween
Featured on the Banshees album
"Ju Ju"
Monitor outside
For the people inside
A prevention of crime
A passing of time
They come and they go
It's a passing of time
They come and they go
Whilst we sit in our homes
Sit back and enjoy
The real McCoy
Our new air of authority
Our sentinel of misery
His face was full of intent
And we shook with excitement
Then the victim stared up
Looked strangely at the screen
As if her pain was our fault
But that's entertainment
What we crave for inside
No more second rate movies From those people outside
Featured on the Banshees album
"Ju Ju" and also
an excellent live version can be found on the "Nocturne" album
Only at night time I see you
In darkness I feel you
A bride by my side---I'm inside many brides
Sometimes I wonder......
What goes on in your mind, always silent and kind
Unlike the others...
Fuck the mothers kill the others
Fuck the others kill the mothers
I'll put it out of my mind because...
I'm out of my mind with you
In heaven and hell with you...
My Night Shift Sisters
Await your nightly visitor
They don't bother me
No they don't bother me
The cold marble slab submits at
my feet
With a neat dissection...
Looking so sweet to me--please come to me
With your cold flesh--my cold love
Hissing--not kissing
A happy go lucky chap--always dressed in black
He'll come to you, he'll come to you
My Night Shift Sisters
With your nightly visitor
A new vocation in life
My love with a knife
Fuck the mothers kill the others
Fuck the others kill the mothers
I'll put it out of my mind because...
I'm out of my mind with you
In heaven and hell with you...
Featured on the Banshees album
"Ju Ju" and also
an excellent live version can be found on the "Nocturne" album
Sin in my heart
Sin in my heart...
Sin in my heart flying like a dart
O, sin in my heart
It's beginning to start...
when you're lying like a tart
O, sin in my heart
When you grovel at my feet
Oh sin in my heart
It's short and sweet
Sin in my heart...
Swift as a dart sin in my heart
O, sin in my heart
When you grovel at my feet
Keep it short and sweet
Sin in my heart...
Featured on the Banshees album
"Ju Ju" and also
a live version was given away to "File" members in 1983
The head is the best part
My headcut my woodcut
I saw you in the gallery
With your torso and family
A huge smiling central face
With eyes and lips cut out
But smiling and eating
Lots of other lips.....
A beautiful mask in plastercast
Such a beautiful mask in plastercast Can I take it
back with me?
Back to the flat with me?
Oh severed head
I'll feed your head with bread
And paint your lips bright red
I'll keep it fresh on ice
It will look very nice
Can I take it back with me
Back to the flat with me
Shrunken heads under the bed
The flies are humming
There's a red under the bed
The spit is turning
Roasting burning
Shadows dancing---by the fire
Flickering flames laugh---with desire
The head is the best part
My headcut my woodcut
Featured on the Banshees album
"Ju Ju" and also
a live version can be found as part of the "Nocturne" set
She's your little voodoo dolly
And she's gonna make you lazy
Like the little drum in your ear
Transfixes you to your fear
And now she's transfixed in your fear
And you know she's gonna stay there
Because her nails are deep in your hair
And she made you so...unaware
Are you listening to your fear
The beat is coming nearer
Like that little drum in your ear
Transfixes you to your fear
She's such an ugly little dolly
And she's making you look very silly
And when you listen in to her ear
You get paralysed with her fear O, down...down in your fear
Now this little voodoo dolly
Has made you very lazy
You're anaemic from her sucking
And when you're dead she'll find another
Better break that little dolly
And sling her in the corner
Now she's a sorry little dolly
Such a sorry little dolly
Are you listening to your fear
The beat is coming nearer
Like that little drum in your ear
Transfixes you to your fear Listen....
The B-Side to
"Spellbound"
Scarecrow grins he's growing very
tall
Growing tall under the golden sun
Growing with the children of the corn
Sending out the message of a strange tongue
A message of the sun
Young skin stretched in over apallis grin
The crimson spilling golden crops of hair
Spilling everywhere
Watch the children of the corn
below
One by one they're following the sun
Got to run
Following the sun on the run
Following the sun
Don't be ashamed of what you've done
You must not run
Follow the sun
Can be found as an extra track
on the 12" version of the "Spellbound" single
Shiny, shiny
pieces
Shut your mouth
Pass the parcel
Pass the castle
Kill the Queen
With little shiny razors
Black, shiny razors
Cutthroat finger
Rain red, rain red
Towers open fire
Lyrics supplied by, Costas Christodoulopoulos,GREECE
thank you!
B-Side to "Arabian
Knights"
Oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh...
six foot high
in the sky
tried and died
wild gypsy tribe
Ooh,ooh,ouooh,ouooh
aah,aah,ouooh,oooh,aouh
Watch!The Conga will
push,
squeeze in deadly steel
each next Congo meal
ouoh,ooh,ouooh,oooh
Carimba,Carimba
Congo Conga
We can do the can-can
to the Congo Conga
oh,oh,oh,oh.
Bow down to the Mau-Mau
I'm calming the Congo Conga
No-one's saved me,oh,
doing an oath in Mau-Mau
rrouoh,rrouoh,rrouoh,rrouoh,rrouoh.
Deep in the heart of this cold mire
known as "The Congo Conga"
(that is in Zair)(?)
and death is present here
rrouoh,rrouoh,rrouoh,rrouoh,rrouoh.
Carimba,Carimba
Congo Conga
We can do the can-can
to the Congo Conga,oh,oh
Lalalo,lalalo,lalalo,lalalo
Lali,lali,lalalala,ooh,ooh
Lali,lali,lalalala,ooh,ooh
Six foot high
in the sky
tried and died
wild gypsy tribe
Please,don't cry
wild gypsy tribe
you're still high
up in the sky!
Lalalo,lalalo
We can do the can-can
to the
rrouoh,rrouoh
We can do the can-can
to the
More Information
B-Side to "Arabian
Knights"
Your love, your love, your love, your
love is a supernatural thing
Your love, your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
When we touch, it gives me some funny feeling in my brain
I'm so possessed by your love sometimes I don't even know my name
When we kiss, you know you make me hot
I break out sometimes in little bitty green spots
You give me, give me all you got
But don't stop it now, 'cause I need a lot
Your love, your love, your love,
your love is a supernatural thing
Your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
Interplanetary, extraordinary oh...I like it
Interplanetary, oh extraordinary...I like it, I like it
You give me constant feeling everytime I squeeze you
Your love, so electrifying, so satisfying lord knows, high and flying
Your love, your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
Your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
Interplanetary oh extraordinary...I like it
Interplanetary, extraordinary oh...
Supernatural Thing
Interplanetary, extraordinary...
Supernatural Thing
Originally released in May 1982
as the follow up single to "Israel" and the first new material since
the release of "Once Upon A Time-The Singles". Another single from
the Banshees that did not feature on a studio album but later appeared as the
first track on the compilation "Twice Upon A Time-The Singles"
The body is wrapped in shadow
The face is built of cinders
And panic tears thro' your silhouette
As your squeezed by burning fingers
And he's crackling in our colours
With teeth of gelanite When he sighs his song and
pirouettes
Thro' a dance of dynamite
We are fireworks
Slowly, glowing
Bold and bright
We are fireworks
Burning shapes
Into the night
His fuel is our frustration
And dreams begin to ache
And all the while we wear a party smile
And happily we shiver
Happily we shake
Oh shake, shake, shake
We are fireworks
Slowly, glowing
Bold and bright
We are fireworks
Burning shapes
Into the night
We are fireworks...
Twist and turn---burn, burn
Twist and turn---burn, burn
The B-Side to the excellent
single "Fireworks"
Two black holes staring
From deep in the coal mind
Murder in mind-murder deep in the coal mind
Aphids and triffids bump mad into earwigs
Eating their way-through the green brain vegetation
Mutter mutter
eyelids wonder
Twitching in time to troubled slumber
Come mind this coal mine
Come mine this coal mind
It's dark in here and it's been a long time
In need of ignition
In need of nutrition
There's famine in mind
There's murder in mind
Blank sockets squinting from the hot coals
Scorching
More holes in the coal mind
The pit is imploding
Headlines and hooklines bump
Blind into lifelines
Murder in mind- someone throw him a line
O, Madonna medusa
I spy a loser
Madonna medusa
I spy a loser
Ignition nutrition and now
ventilation
A sigh of relief from deep in the coal mind
Sun blew his roof off-stopped murder in mind
O, Madonna medusa
I spy a loser
Madonna medusa
I spy...
The B-Side to the excellent
single "Fireworks"
Screaming blue and
tangerine
Come and join this crazy dream
Of Vampire kites
Painted white
Trails of Vampire kites
Torsos painted white
They're all around
So don't make a sound
See sparks of sparkling green
See waves of tangerine
Please don't scream
In this dream
See a tiny box of silver
See a flaming glove of amber
We start to fall
At the beginning of a fall...
They say when you hit the bottom
You don't wake up at all
Not at all
We start to fall..
Taken from the Banshees album
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse" and also a live
version can be found on "Nocturne"
Oh the Air was shining
Shining like a wedding ring
Barbed like sex
I felt 10,000 volts
My chest was full of eels
Pushing through my usual skin
I opened up new wounds
Pouting, shouting-
Oh Love---like liquid falling
Falling in cascades
Oh Love-lorn victims
Laughing in cascades
The Sun was rich
Rich with a song of sin
My breath melted my words
Into strange alphabets
Tormenting my tongue
Pouting, shouting-
Oh Love---like liquid falling
Falling in cascades
Oh Love-lorn victims
Laughing in cascades
The heartbeats were echoing
Echoing the revolver
Emptying into my mouth
I pulled a face from my pocket
And smiled a Leper's grin
I felt somebody close
Pouting, shouting-
Oh Love---like liquid falling
Falling in cascades
Oh Love-lorn victims
Laughing in cascades
Taken from the Banshees album
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse"
Hibiscus head---in a flowerbed
A finger hewn---planted and sewn O, magic in her hands---she could make
anything grow
Magic in her hands---she had green fingers
It's curious
Where animals don't go
Mandrake rooted deep into the soil
Where the sun won't fall---but it flourishes
See the pretty maids---all in a row Magic in her hands---she could make
anything grow
Magic in her hands---she had green fingers
It's reaching...
And groping---a clammy handshake
Clawing the ivy
Crawling the tightrope---along the lattice work
With this hand I thee wed
With this hand I thee bed
With this hand I...
Taken from the Banshees album
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse" You can find an
instrumental version of "Obsession" as part of the 12" single
"Slowdive"
Do you hear this breath---it's an
obsessive breath
Can you feel this beat---it's an obsessive heart-beat
Waiting to be joined with its obsession
I close my eyes---but I can't
sleep
The thin membrane can't veil
The branded picture of you The signs and signals show---the traffic lights say
go
Again you baffle me, pretending not to see...me
I broke into your room---I broke
down in my room
Touched your belongings there---and left a lock of my hair
Another sign for you You screamed into my face---get
the hell out of my place
Another sign for me? Can you forgive me?
For not understanding your ways
You know sometimes you take it
all too far
Then I remember---it's a game between you and me
A divine test for us two It's all in my imagination
Yes they even say that our mission...is only
My obsession
Do you hear this breath---it's an
oppressive breath
Suffocating in the poison---of your obsession
Can you feel this beat---it's a possessive beat
Your pulse stops in the claws---of your obsession
Taken from the Banshees album
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse"
In the heart of the night
She smiles like Mardi-Gras
Spinning in a dizzy haze Her circus head giggles
It's a friendly disease
Catching colours from the air
So with your hands upon the hips
Of the dancing flesh
...She's a Carnival...
And when it's lip to lip
In a surprise-time kiss
...She's a Carnival...
Mosaic eye, gypsy eye
Glowing as it dazzles
She's a portrait of a poison
For you to quench your thirst
A portrait of a poison...
Taken from the Banshees album
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse"
Pretty girl of 16---has fun and
runs crazy
Ruined girl of 16---now a mother grows lazy
Next a 16-year old baby---like mother grows lazy
and her stomach is churning---whilst her eyes keep on turning
Round and around
Getting no higher from the ground
Round and around, round and around
The circle has an empty sound...
Father inflicts discipline---boy
rebels against him
He leaves for the big town---for love and adventure
But the words he first heard---unlike his instincts run deeper
Now boy beats his children---if they disobey him
And the cat riddled with worms---chases his tail round
And around, round and around...
Getting no higher from the ground
Round and around, round and around
The circle has an empty sound...
The endless full circle for the next in line
The endless full circle...
Take the red line, the green line, the silver or blue
Any line you can think of---except for the yellow
Take a trip with your family---and see where they go
Give them a free ticket---it's the best thing to do
And if you wind up on the circle
line
Hell, it's not from lack of options
Then if you run into the yellow
Well that's up to you
Round and around
Getting no higher from the ground
Round and around
The circle has an empty sound
The endless full circle---for the next in line
The endless full circle---are you the next in line
Round and around...
Another Banshees single released
at the back end of 1982 and backed by "A Sleeping Rain" &
"Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant", charting at 49 this was so far the
worst chart performance by any Banshees single.
You are the melting man
You are your situation
There is no time to breathe
And yet one single breath
Leads to an insatiable desire
Of suicide...in sex
So many blazing orchids
Burning in your throat
Making you choke
Making you sigh
Sigh in tiny deaths
So Melt!
My lover, melt!
She said melt!
My lover, melt!
You are the melting man
And as you melt
You are beheaded
Handcuffed (in lace, blood & sperm)
Swimming in poison
Gasping in the fragrance
Sweat carves a screenplay
Of discipline...and devotion
So Melt!
My lover, melt!
She said melt!
My lover, melt!
Can you see?
See into the black of a long, black car
Pulling away from a funeral of flowers
With my hand between your legs
Melting...
Taken from the Banshees album
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse" and also
featured on the live album "Nocturne"
On lead-poisoned wings---you try to sing
Freak beak shrieks are thrown---at your confusing hue
The peacock screaming eyes---show no mercy no mercy Painted bird---it's absurd
Just a tainted bird---hurting their twisted nerve
The flock will make you
choke---on this sadistic joke
And the whippoorwills---they make a din
In laughing unison---you're hitchcock carrion-
In laughing unison---you're hitchcock carrion-
Carry on
Painted bird---it's absurd
Just a tainted bird---hurting their twisted nerve
I hear your sorrow---maybe
tomorrow
You'll lose your sorrow
When a fated weather will cleanse away
That painted feather---and all that sorrow
A coquette in fur purr for the
painted bird
Confound that dowdy flock---with a sharp-honed nerve
Because we're painted birds by our own design
By our own design
And there's no more sorrow
Have you heard---about the
painted bird
Just a tainted bird---hurting their twisted nerve We've lost our sorrow---now
it's tomorrow
No need to hide your feather until a fated weather
No more sorrow... Now we're painted birds---mocking that twisted nerve
It's absurd...
Taken from the Banshees album
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse"
Here in my cot---where my cot
loves me
I'll stay here a while---in the cotton wool cocoon
'Til the chrysalis is ripe---'til the time is right
With this feeling of insecurity
I have to shrink back inside---run and hide
Back in the cocoon---hugging my
knees
Watching my insides---the skinned glow-worm writhings
Lying in blankets---I've been here a while
Tapping out rhythms---against the mattress and wall
The heat melts the
sheets---another layer is peeled
Tapping out rhythms...
Just my cot, the wallpaper and me
I've been here awhile---tapping out rhythms
Still finding charms in the
memory of those constrictor arms
Glowing in the dark in my luminous green
A pearl beaded lizard---bathed in a gossamer scent
With my heat detector lip-pit---pulling at the newly formed tissue
Lying in blankets---I've been here awhile
Tapping out rhythms...against the mattress and wall
Waiting...to loose the bandages
Waiting for new appendages
Lying in blankets---I've been here a while
I've been here too long---banging out rhythms
Listen for other tappings...
Banging out rhythms
Back in the cocoon
Taken from the Banshees album
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse" this single
followed the excellent "Fireworks". Slowdive
entered the UK charts on 9th October 1982 and like "Israel" only
managed number 41
Get your head down to the ground
Shake it all around--a dirty sound
Put your knees into your face
And see if you can race--real slow It's a slowdive--when
you die slow
Oh it's a low jive--do the slowdive
Now you jump back like a hound
Emit a howling sound
Dig those limbs into the floor
And holler out for more
And you revel in the dips
When your backbone slips
Taking honeysuckle sips
From your rolling hips
It shifts and it shifts It's a slowdive--when you die
slow
When you come alive it's a low jive
Do the slowdive
B-Side to the Banshees single
"Melt!"
Il est né le divin Enfant !
Jouez, hautbois, résonnez, musettes;
Il est né le divin Enfant;
Chansons tous son avènement.
Depuis plus de quatre mille
ans
Nous le promettaient les prophètes :
Depuis plus de quatre mille
ans
Chansons tous en cet heureux temps
[Instrumental]
B-Side to "Melt!"
The only single to be released
in 1983 by the Banshees and reaching their highest chart position in the UK of
number 3. This also was the first Banshees release on their own new Wonderland
Label
Dear Prudence, won't you come out
to play
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence won't you come out and play
Dear Prudence open up your eyes
Dear Prudence see the sunny skies
The wind is low the birds will sing
That you are part of everything
Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes?
Look around round
Look around round round
Look around
Dear Prudence let me see you
smile
Dear Prudence like a little child
The clouds will be a daisy chain
So let me see you smile again
Dear Prudence won't you let me see you smile?
B-Side to "Dear
Prudence" and a live version can be found on the 1999 release of the
Creatures live album "Zulu"
When you're sitting all alone in
the middle of the floor
There's something uncontrollable as you sit there watching the door
Colour me
Tattooed on the inside
Slap your thigh, slap your calf, sing your mantra, leave your mark
Colour me
Something fierce along my spine
To scare the madman from behind
Fortify my arms with some snake-like lines
Colour me, colour me
Like a stomach split in half
By a surgeon's cutting art
Colours me, colours me, colours me
When you're sitting all alone
In the middle of the floor
There's something uncontrollable as you sit there watching the door
Tattooed on the inside
A lonely feeling
Inoculating
Colours me
Slap your thigh, slap your calf, sing your mantra, leave your mark
Colour me
There's A Planet In My
Kitchen
B-Side on the 12" version
of "Dear Prudence"
Oh there's a
planet in my kitchen
There's something funny in the soup
Mop the floor, lock the door
Flying saucers in the room
Did you hear that
fly?
Knives and spoons
of mountain dunes
A freezer full of loony tunes
Detergent bubbles
There's millions of those buggers
And there's a bucket in the moon
Did the kitchen
sink wink?
Tornados of
cornflakes
And snowflakes
Teacups in orbit
Hello? Did you hear that fly?
Well I'm not
waiting any longer
I'll just sneak back in the larder
And wait
Plant Kitchen's taken over
There's a planet
in my kitchen
Now there's a kitchen in my plant
Planet Kitchen's taken over
It's taken over
Released as a single towards the
end of May 1984, spending 3 weeks on the UK chart and reaching number 33 in the
process. The lead track from the Banshees "Hyaena" album and can also be found on
the compilation "Twice Upon A Time-The
Singles"
The stars that shine & the
stars that shrink
In the face of stagnation the water runs
Before your eyes...
Swallowing diamonds
A cutting throat
Your teeth when you grin
Reflecting beams on tombstones
A jamboree of surprises
Playing Russian roulette
Or the Lucky Dip
A clenched fist to your heart
Coal dust on your lungs
A silver tongue for the chosen
one
Heavy magnum in your side or a bloody thorn Skating bullets on angel dust
In a dead sea of fluid mercury
Baby piano cries
Under your heavy index & thumb
Pull some strings---let them sing
The stars that shine & the
stars that shrink
In the face of stagnation the water runs
Before your eyes... Dazzle It's a glittering prize
Before your eyes...
It's a glittering prize...
Taken from the Banshees 1984
album "Hyaena"
A ravenous greed
For a brood to feed
A lusting spawn
On a weakened fawn
Do you hunger for this
Sucking leeches feel the need
Sucking dry unsaited stomach pops
Sharpened knives with flying sparks
Sagging bodies with stretch marks
And your belly aches
Do you hunger for this
Bled white with avarice
As the rust creeps corrosion seeps a rotting seed
Eat me--feed me
With your belching foul breath
Your destructive kiss death
Do you hunger for this
The bliss of a sweet kiss
Shanghai'ed on a locust flight
The thirst of a vampire bite
Fills the emptiness inside
Consuming everything green-eyed
We Hunger
Taken from the Banshees 1984
album "Hyaena"
Deep in the heart
Of a seething beast
Think of bright lights
A splendid feast But something's missing
She's feeling low
Something's missing
She's going home
Take me back--I'm feeling low
Take me back--I'm going home
Take me back--I'm so alone
Take me back--I'm traveling home
Suspicious stranger
There's something wrong
She is changed
Ah but this is not
She is back
But she's not home
She is back
But she's still alone
She came back...
She came back after all this time
She came back to warning signs
All is black when the lights are on
Nothing rhymes its been so long
It's been so long
So long...
Deep in the heart
Of a seething beast
Think of bright lights
A splendid feast
Where you arrive
Can be home
Where you come from
Isn't always home
Take me back--I'm coming home
Take me back--where I belong
Take me back--I'm leaving home
Take me back--I'm coming home
Taken from the Banshees 1984
album "Hyaena"
Sunrise breaks its fatal perfume
And I'm dizzy to distraction
The scented clutches of a sirens lament
Embrace the sound of enchantment
Five fathoms deep, the lovers leap
The lanterns of skin beckon us in
O Belladonna --- Belladonna
Daylight devours your unguarded
hours
Burnt and charred, this bride of scars
O Belladonna --- Belladonna
Five fathoms deep, the lovers leap
The lanterns of skin summon us in
O Belladonna --- Belladonna
Nightfall's decent shroud her
intent
In a halo of sharks and a skeleton mask
O Belladonna
Lost in the glare, all of us stare
The patterns of pain, scream out your name
O Belladonna --- Belladonna
Taken from the Banshees 1984
album "Hyaena" and the follow up single to
"Dear Prudence" can also be found on "Twice Upon A Time-The
Singles"
Falling in your, falling in your
in your arms
Fish on a line, learns to live on dry land
Thrown back again to drown
Kinder with poison
Then pushed down the well or a face burnt to hell
Feel the cruel stones breaking her bones
Dead before born
Words fall in ruins--but no sound
She's dying of your shame--she maimed by your pain
He gives birth to swimming horses
Fish on a line, walking on dry
land
But back in the water to drown--we drown
Floating in sky
He gives birth to swimming horses
Take a ride on the tide with the
assassin at your side
the weightlessness under water--forgets in slow motion
And watches pointless tortures
He gives birth to swimming horses
Floating in sky like fishes can fly through your arms
Bring Me
the Head of the Preacher Man
Taken from the Banshees 1984
album "Hyaena"
Following desire in your eyes
You're mine you're mine all mine
Following the signs.....in your mind
You're mine, you're mine, all mine
Bring me the head of the preacher
man
From the sickening daze...
O the rotting sun washes down the moonshine boys
The vultures drool....
They pluck the gold dust from his eyes
And pick his bones until they're clean
A book of sorrows---the American dream
A book of sorrows---the American dream
Following desire in your eyes
You're mine you're mine all mine
Following the signs.....in your mind
You're mine, you're mine, all mine
Bring me the head of the preacher man
On the blazing trail
Heaven holds lonestar
promise el dorado
The insane theatre, once more we rise
To drain the last of liquid sleep
The gift of chance eating the worm.....
The viper drops and dances
And everything stops and dances
Lonestar promise....once more we rise
And everything stops and dances
We tumble down these lonely days
We tumble down
Taken from the Banshees 1984 album
"Hyaena" and also appeared on a free live
single issued to file members in 1983
Just a step onto the street
An uncomfortable heat
Rattlers at your feet
In running town
Helter-skelter all a-swelter
The impetus is seething
In running town
A thousand curses
Full speed ahead
Lockjaw aggression
And buzzing irritations
Deride the friendly Martian
In running town
Helter-skelter all a-swelter
The impetus is seething
In running town
A thousand curses
Full speed ahead
If you gaze into her face
She'll glare back & drown
All refugees in the sea
In running town
A thousand curses
Full speed ahead
Full speed ahead...
Laughter rebounds & strangles
That sound in running town
In running town...
Pointing Bone
Taken from the Banshees 1984
album "Hyaena"
From the fury pit, a reek of
misery
Like a trumpet groan, tornado moan
The splendour splits like a golden skin
He and the wizards cry like humming birds
In treasure glows, your weeping wings
And a slaughter grins, on a pleasure spike
When held on high by the
riverside
Like a torn-throat child
In a jackals hide
Cool water dies, vile diamond eyes
Silent in flamingo ease
Distant in troubled trance
Within a whirlpool, we're breaking our backs
The tears of the moon
The sweat of the sun
Sacrificial hearts for a pointing bone
With a Gorgons head and a coal of skulls
They're kindling fires in open wounds
Pointing bone
In a jaguar skin, blood matted
mane
Beacons blaze toward a waning moon
When held on high by the riverside
Like a torn-throat child
In a jackals hide
Cool water dies, vile diamond eyes
The tears of the moon
The sweat of the sun
Sacrificial hearts for a pointing bone
Taken from the Banshees 1984
album "Hyaena"
Weaving in his basket chair
Twist you round a lock of hair
Made of straw---the wicker man
Made of straw---I'll blow your house down
Bishops falling from the windows
The lightening makes your hair stand on end
This dervish frenzy---will make you run around
This dervish frenzy---will turn your head around
Blow the house down
Stretching a rubber band
Miracles trip our feet where we stand
Shift the ground---caterpillar man
Crumbling castles in the sand
Blow the house down
Feebly we put our heads out of
our foxy lairs
We feel the chill from the night scare
Standing in the storm---waiting for the flash to crash
Counting seconds before we turn to ash
It's getting nearer......
Blow the house down
This dervish frenzy---will turn
your head around
Standing on the stairs that want to fall down
It's getting nearer don't turn your head around
Made of straw
A lighted match
Burn the house down
Weaving in his basket chair
Twist you round a lock of hair
Made of straw---the wicker man
Made of straw---I'll blow your house down
Turn your head around
Pillars of salt watch as it all
burns down
Down to the ground...
Blow the house down
B-Side to the excellent
"Swimming Horses" single
Nautical mile stretch out the
years
A space walk, untethered, let go of your fears
A pioneering seed with every step you breed
Walks away from the crouching shuttle
And the countdown crow
Around the globe
Says let go
Machine in charge with the wry
smile flickers
On his red and blue dials
Nautical mile stretch out the years
The back-pack suffocation with your creeping fears
And the countdown crow
Around the globe
Just lets go
On an endless limbo
And the countdown crow
Around the globe
Just let's go
Let Go
The Humming Wires
B-Side to the excellent
"Swimming Horses" 12" single
The humming wires
On the telegraph lines
The piebald tyres
Race on the heated track
There's a burning message
It's the latest news
The humming wires
Will relay it soon
Did you hear the news?
Did you hear the news?
I Promise
B-Side to the excellent
"Dazzle" 7" single
When the samurai
cries
It's like an unloved child
And when the sad child sighs
You can hear the sound of lovers' cry
Lovers' cry
Wait until the dark
For the night dog's bark
When the ravens beat their wings
On broken promises
I promise, I promise
I promise, I promise
When a promise lies,
It's like a friend that dies
When a flame has died
All you can do is sigh
Oh sigh
Sigh, oh, sigh, sigh!
And when the samurais dies
Oh loveless child
And the nightingale sighs
At the saddened, blackened sky
You will hear the sound of lovers' cry
You will hear the sound of lovers' cry
On broken promises
I promise, l promise
I promise, I promise
Throw Them To The Lions
B-Side to the excellent
"Dazzle" 12" single
Come and meet
deliverance
Blind faith will set you free
Eat the hand that feeds the host
Easter man now bleed
A burning bush, a
burning bower
Sitting pretty in your ivory tower
Throw them to the
lions
Straying from the
glory path
Into salvation's jaws
Mock the man that wears the crown
Bless this night of claws
Throw them to the
lions
Laughing in the
ashes
Like Nero razing
Your prophet mumbles nonsense
Carved in blocks of stone
Throw them to the
lions
The lead track on the Banshees
album "Tinderbox" and also the follow up single to the excellent
"Swimming Horses" also features on the album "Twice Upon A
Time-The Singles"
Sickly sweet, his poison seeks
For the young ones who don't understand
The danger in his hands
With a jaundiced wink see his cunning slink
Oh trust in me my pretty one
Come walk with me my helpless one
Candyman
Syrup lies upon your tongue
Gelatine saliva spills
A flash of a guillotine a smile
Candyman---oh candyman
No pity for him, their misery
screams
Unspeakable things
A cool missile, yes it's in his
smile
With open arms to welcome you
Beware the masked pretender
He always lies, this candyman
Those lips conspire in treachery
To strike in cloak and dagger, see!
Candyman---oh candyman
And all the children, he warns
"Don't tell,"
Those threats are sold
With their guilt and shame they think they're to blame
For Candyman---oh candyman
Taken from the Banshees
excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
Hearing you---in my sleep
Feeling you---your cadence seeps
Whispering in flashback---the spectres of your memories
Fall in glistening showers---such a tender descent
Intones this haunting lament
The sweetest chill
Fearing you---but calling your
name
Icy breath---encases my skin
Fingers like a fountain of needles
Shiver along my spine
And rain down so divine
The sweetest chill
A drowning so sublime---spins in
a heavenly climb
Calling you---tears thaw my sleep
Wanting you---this hoary web is weaved
From this strange confusion
Grows a perverse communication
It enthrals me and coils me around
The sweetest chill
Enchantment ebbs and whirls---the
sweetest chill
Enchantment ebbs and whirls---oh the thrill
The sweetest chill
Taken from the Banshees
excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
This unrest beats out my breath
Disconnected thoughts jangle in a mess
This unrest crucifies my chest
Without anaesthetic it cuts
Through tumorous flesh
This unrest beats out my
breath...
This unrest beats in my chest
Discordant limbs watch unimpressed
At the aimless walk the mindless talk
The pictures leap out and dance for me
They laugh at me
As your bitterness closes in
You're feeling very old again
Ah just to sleep, without these thoughts
But the angels shout, resurrecting doubts
Ah we meet again, my trusty
friend
Demanding new favours for old time's sake
Inside this captive frame
Come and claim your liberty
Metal and flesh will fuse today
These visions jump out and blast my days
Clean away......
Follow up single to "The
Thorn" EP, released in October 1985 this Banshees single reached number 21
in the UK chart in its six week stay, can also be found on the Banshees
"Twice Upon A Time-The Singles"
Water was running; children were
running
You were running out of time
Under the mountain, a golden fountain
Were you praying at the Lares shrine?
But oh your city lies in dust, my friend
We found you hiding---we found
you lying
Choking on the dirt and sand
Your former glories and all the stories
Dragged and washed with eager hands
But oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Hot and burning---in your
nostrils
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Your molten bodies---blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes....... And O, your city lies in dust
Taken from the Banshees
excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
Troubled weather's on its way
Tempests threaten us today
There's no respite, from long dark nights
Just the fantasy of spring
From the hailstones of summer
To a scorching winter land
A frozen death sleep, then this heat
Beats down on this buckled land
Flames lick closer to the core
From city limits fireball
And in a headless chicken run
Race red and screaming fire engines
Then the cannons came
O, 'Neath
the brooding sky
Beneath its baleful eye
The cannon shot, the cannon crack
Disturbing night dreams
People fled in droves
To the lakes and to the shores
Left behind a near ghost town
Save the life of the cannons resounding
Still there was no rain
Once more in the line of fire
Hovers the preying sky
The cannons aim jabs at the eye
Heralding the rain.....
Taken from the Banshees
excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
Your parties fall around you
Another night beckons to you
Your parties fall around you
Another night beckons to you
Shadows loom as you resist the
gloom
Faded hue issue forth and bloom
A bed of leaves for a lover
Awake with a kiss and rise asunder
And when the party's over
You retreat in a realm of slumber
In your mind, crystal lights
rebound
Wheels spin round and you hear the sound
Of Autumn's call at party's fall
Through rose-tinted glass you
still remember
The gladness, not sadness, only laughter
In your mind, vicious lights
rebound
Wheels spin round and you hear the sound
Of Autumn's call at party's fall
The smile in the mirror grows
weaker
The laughter you heard is growing fainter
Your parties fall around you
The night forgets to rouse you
Your party's fall astounds you
An aura of sadness abounds you
Glad rags sigh
Maybe you're alone inside, don't hide
Hurting all the time, hurting deep inside, don't cry
My happiness depends on knowing this friend is never alone
On your own
A party on our own
We'll have a party on our own inside
No sighs
Taken from the Banshees
excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
"Did you know that more
murders are committed at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I
read an article once... At lower temperatures, people are easy-going. Over 92
it's too hot to move. But at just 92, people get irritable!"
The day drags by like a wounded
animal
The approaching disease, 92 degrees
The blood in our veins and the brains in our head
The approaching unease, 92 degrees
Long ago in the headlines, they
noticed it too
But too late for the loved ones and nearly for you.....
Shaky lines---on the horizon
Snaky thoughts---invade each person
Watch the red line---creeping upwards
Watch the sanity line weaken
The volcanic depths of Hades' ocean
Bubble under, these crazed eruptions
It wriggles and writhes and bites within,
Just below the sweating skin
I wondered when this would happen
again
Now I watch the red line, reach that number again
The blood in our veins and the brains in our head......
Drink the water with jagged glass
Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth
Not 91 or 93, but 92 Fahrenheit degrees
Shaky lines---on the horizon
Snaky thoughts---invade each person
Not 91 or 93, but 92 Fahrenheit degrees
Taken from the Banshees
excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
Come take this hand at twilight's
door
I'll meet you there, we'll share the moonlit floor
Through the driving rain, colours run in veins
Ozone fills the air, two figures disappear
Come let's take flight, let's
quit this scene tonight
Whilst they sleep on endless, in their wrecked designs
Sleep on endless in your wrecked designs
Moths touched by flame repeat
their fatal game
Forever and eternally, the cliffs around the crashing sea
Unsolved and endless, wait for me
Undulating far below, where lucid
waters flow
Their faces seem to know.....
Where the land falls to an end
This hidden tale begins
Take a walk with me, down by the sea
Take a walk with me
Down by the sea
Taken from the Banshees CD
version of the excellent 1986 album "TinderBox",
this track originally appeared as the B-Side to "Cities In Dust"
This is what she saw...
The unsuspecting horse was held
fast to the ground Whilst some soldiers slit open its belly The guilty gypsy
was shoved inside the horse's belly With only his head protruding from the
dying beast Another soldier, then sewed up the wound With the culprit inside,
condemned to die, along With the putrefying animal, screaming......
The young Countess looked on... Barely restraining a giggle....
[Instrumental]
Taken from the Banshees CD
version of the excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
and can also be found on the B-Side to the 12" version of "Cities In
Dust"
Lullaby
Originally appeared on the
B-Side of "Candyman" in 1986 and also
appeared on the CD version of the Banshees excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
The lunacy will leave the day
Luminous in flight
As the moon spits out
In jagged beams another night
Wrap around this brilliant veil
Tranquil and unbroken
As you spiral down
A world of clay and taut convulsion
The dream swan spins
And cartwheel turns
Down deep within your violet slide
The sun begins to rise
Shaking down its morning swords to thaw your frozen eyes
The dream swan spins
And so conceals the heart that aches and yearns
Hush awhile
Sleepless child
I'll be watching over you
Taken from the Banshees CD
version of the excellent 1986 album "TinderBox"
and also on the B-side of the Banshees 12" "Candyman"
single
Away from the dying rain
Far away from the pain washed drains
Under the darkening skies
Now under protecting lines
Beneath this unloved crimes
Relief is a gentle sigh
Dissolve these eyes so I may cry
This Town Ain't Big Enough for the
Both of Us
Taken from the Banshees covers
album "Through The Looking Glass" and originally recorded by Sparks
in 1974
Zoo time is she and you time
The mammals are your favourite type, and you want her tonight
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
You hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants and tacky tigers
This town ain't big enough for both of us
And it ain't me that's gonna
leave
Flying domestic flying
And when the stewardess is near do not show any fear
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
You are a khaki-coloured bombardier it's Hiroshima that you're nearing
This town ain't big enough for both of us
And it ain't me that's gonna
leave
Daily, except for Sunday
You dawdle in to the cafe where you meet her each day
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
As twenty cannibals have hold of you, they need their protein just like you do
This town ain't big enough for both of us
And it ain't me that's gonna
leave
Shower, another shower
You've got to look your best for her and be clean everywhere
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
The rain is pouring on the foreign town, the bullets cannot cut you down
This town ain't big enough for both of us
And it ain't me that's gonna
leave
Census, the latest census
There'll be more girls who live in town though not enough to go 'round
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
You know that this town isn't big enough
Not big enough for both of us
This town isn't big enough
Not big enough for both of us
And I ain't gonna leave
Taken from the Banshees covers
album "Through The Looking Glass"
She stepped into the hall of
mirrors
Where she discovered a reflection of herself
Sometimes she saw her real face
And sometimes a stranger at her place
Even the greatest stars discover themselves in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars find their face in the looking glass
She fell in love with the image
of herself
And suddenly the picture was distorted
Even the greatest stars dislike themselves in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars dislike themselves in the looking glass
She made up the person she wanted
to be
And changed into a new personality
The artist is living in the mirror
With the echoes of himself
Even the greatest stars change themselves in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars live their lives in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars fix their face in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars fix their face in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars live
their lives in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars live their lives in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars... Fix your face in the looking glass...
Taken from the Banshees covers
album "Through The Looking Glass"
Trust in me, just in me
Shut your eyes and trust in me
You can sleep safe and sound
Knowing I am around
Slip into silent slumber
Sail on a silver mist
Slowly and surely your senses
Will cease to resist
Trust in me, just in me
Shut your eyes and trust in me
Taken from the Banshees covers
album "Through The Looking Glass" and released as a single in January
1987 reaching number 14 in the UK chart. Originally a hit for Julie Driscoll,
Brian Auger and the Trinity in 1968
If your memory serves you well,
We were going' to meet again and wait,
So I'm goin' to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late.
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell,
But you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!
If your memory serves you well,
I was goin' to confiscate your lace,
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot
And hide it in your case
If I knew for sure that it was yours
But it was oh so hard to tell.
But you knew that we would meet again,
If your memory serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!
If your memory serves you well,
You'll remember you're the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favours done
And after every plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell,
You knew that we would meet again,
If your memory served you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!
Taken from the Banshees Covers
album "Through The Looking Glass"
Southern trees bear strange
fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant
south,
Of the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to
pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Taken from the Banshees Covers
album "Through The Looking Glass" originally written & recorded
by The Doors.
You're lost little girl
You're lost little girl
You're lost
Tell me who
Are you?
I think that you know what to do
Impossible? Yes, but it's true
I think that you know what to do, girl
I'm sure that you know what to do
You're lost little girl
You're lost little girl
You're lost
Originally written and performed
by Iggy Pop, this was the second single the Banshees
released from the Covers album "Through The Looking Glass". This
would be the third Banshees single to get stalled in the UK chart at number 41.
I am the passenger
And I ride and I ride
I ride through the city's backside
I see the stars come out of the sky
Yeah the bright and hollow sky
You know it looks so good tonight
I am the passenger
I stay under glass
I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the city's ripped backside
And everything looks good tonight
Singing la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la
Get into the car
We'll be the passenger
We'll ride through the city tonight
We'll see the city's ripped backsides
We'll see the bright and hollow sky
we'll see the stars that shine so bright
Stars made for us tonight
O, the passenger
How how he rides
O, the passenger
He rides and he rides
He looks through his window
What does he see
He sees the sign and hollow sky
He sees the stars come out tonight
He sees the city's ripped backsides
He sees the winding ocean drive
And everything was made for you and me
All of it was made for you and me Cos it just belongs
to you and me
So lets take a ride and see what's mine
Singing la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
O the passenger
He rides and he rides
He sees things from under glass
He looks through his window side
He sees things he knows are his
He sees the bright and hollow sky
He sees the city sleep at night
He sees the stars are out tonight
And all of it is yours and mine
And all of it is yours and mine
So lets ride and ride and ride and ride
Singing la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
Me and my partner we work on the
run
The quick try to get quicker
And the creepers get hung
Now it's you that got wasted tonight on the job
One lost his liquor
And the other lost his hand
Ten sticky thumb prints on the
door and the sink
But nothin' saw nothin' -
just smell the stink
Five hundred mugshots and a hundred to one
Four forgotten and the rest just won't come
When you've begun to think like a
gun
The rest of the year has already gone
When you've begun to think like a gun
The days of the year have suddenly gone.
Well, blood on the windows and
blood on the walls
Blood on the ceiling and down in the halls
And the papers keep pounding on everything I burned
And the people getting restless but they'll never learn
I picked up a doctor - he's good
with a knife
Says anaesthetic's a waste of his time
Works in a hurry but always worthwhile
Knows they won't be back for a long long time
Top of the staircase was ready to
fall
We were still waiting downstairs in the hall
Watch out for big mama, she'll set you on fire
Or go for your neck with the chicken wire
When you've begun to think like a
gun
The days of the year have suddenly gone
Once you've begun to think like a gun
The days of the year have already gone
Mother of plenty, mother of none
You've got me cornered and still on the run
I don't care nothing about you anyway
Stuck in this hole I'm on my way
Yeah when you've begun to live
like a gun
The days of the year have already gone
When you've begun to think like a gun
The days of the year have suddenly gone
I've been thinking now for a long
time
How to go my own separate way
It's a shame to think about yesterday a shame
We've been running round in our present state
Hoping help would come from above
But even angels there make the same mistakes in love
Now that we are lonely
Life seems to get hard
Alone what a word lonely
Alone it makes me cry
Thought-train set in motion
Wheels in and around
Express our emotion
Tracks up then it cracks down
Sleepwalking
(on the Highwire)
You can see her now high as the
horizon
Fall into the quicksand and brainstorm my mind
Balancing on tip-toe, sharpened to the glow
In a tangle of thunder calling helplessly below
Sleepwalking
On the Highwire
Sleepwalking
Into the open palm of the empty sky
You can't hear her now you can't
reach her at all
Spiral of persuasion twists until freefall
Balancing on tip-toe, angled clutch and flow
An accident at the circus, falling helplessly below
Sleepwalking
On the Highwire
Sleepwalking
Into the open palm of the empty sky
Sleepwalking
On the Highwire
Sleepwalking
Into the open palm of the empty sky
When she was sensitive, she
understood me
Well, she understood you and me and things in 1943
She does all these things that I can't stand
I get jealous when she stays with another man
She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, you're right
Well, she cracked, I won't
She did things that I don't
She, self-destroyed, necessary to self-enjoy
I, self-developed, necessary to self-help
And She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right
Well, she cracked, I won't
She did things that I don't
She, eat garbage
Eat shit and get stoned
I, stay alone
Eating health food at home
She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right
And She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right
And She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right
In midnight guise these cobalt
eyes
Pierce the indigo skies
In tearing through a Prussian army
Hence the royal hue
Forget-me-nots and violet plains weep titanium chains
Of sapphire days and turquoise dreams
In floating ultra-marine
Something blue--something
sparkling through?
Out of the blue, I'm reminded of you
Forget-me-nots and violet plains
weep titanium chains
Of sapphire days and turquoise dreams
In floating ultra-marine
Something blue--something
sparkling through?
Out of the blue, I'm reminded of you
Song From
The Edge Of The World
Let me take you down
To testify
Under the brow of a sparkling sky
We'll dance away
A distant day
And shout our sins
In a passion play
Over we go
Diving for pearls
Over we go
From the edge of the World
Let the fire fall in
The footsteps we leave
Painted on the ground
We'll watch the stars
Come crashing down
Upon our heads
Like a madding crown
Over we go
Diving for pearls
Over we go
From the edge of the World
Let me take you down
To testify
Under the brow of a sparkling sky
We'll dance away
'Til the day is done
Then rise again
To unwrap the Sun
Over we go
Diving for pearls
Over we go
From the edge of the World
This is the song from the edge of the World
Oh how could do
it?
A murderous crime
A murderous wounding
How could you allow it?
After time that's been passing
Time should be wisening
A law that was
written
In the blood of your victims
Born out of pure resentment
And what of your baby daughters
And what of these shameless slaughters
Lying buried in the sand?
Oh how could you
do it?
A murderous past
That preys on the helpless
How could you allow it?
Such cruel and vile blades
To tear at such tender flesh
And loose the knot
From your tongue
Where evil is the resting place
And so it shall only be the single cry
Five senses shall be
The whole price of blood
Foot by foot,
wound by wound
The whole price of blood
Hand for hand, strike for strike
The whole price of blood
Oh how could you
do it?
Oh how could you allow it?
Mechanical Eyes
A driverless and circling car
Runs over its owner
Five accidents
A man of fish-eyed head grows a scaly skin
Crippled dog helps boy to walk again
Five accidents
Blink, ah blink
Mechanical eyes to the blind
Mechanical eyes to the blind
Ah milk without the cows, honey without the bees
Do you laugh your gracious pals away?
Ah blink, blink
Mechanical eyes
Five accidents
A man of fish-eyed head grows a scaly skin
Crippled dog helps boy to walk again
Five accidents
Ah blink
Mechanical eyes
Ah milk without the cows, honey without the bees
Do you laugh your gracious pals away?
Mechanical eyes
Five accidents
Mechanical eyes
Milk without the cows, honey without the bees
Do you laugh your gracious pals away?
Mechanical eyes
Ah Blink, blink, blink
Peek-A-Boo
Creeping up the backstairs
Slinking into dark stalls
Shapeless and slumped in bath chairs
Furtive eyes peep out of holes
She has many guises
She'll do what you want her to
Playing dead and sweet submission
Cracks the whip deadpan on cue
Peek-A-Boo Peek-A-Boo
Peek-A-Boo Peek-A-Boo
Reeking like a pigsty
Peeling back and gagging free
Flaccid ego in your hand
Chokes on dry tears, can you understand?
She's jeering at the shadows
Sneering behind a smile
Lunge and thrust to pout and pucker
Into the face of the beguiled
Peek-A-Boo Peek-A-Boo
Golly jeepers
Where'd you get those peepers?
Peepshow, creepshow
Where did you get those eyes?
Strobe lights pump and flicker
Dry lips crack out for more
'Come bite on this rag doll, baby!
That's right now hit the floor'
They're sneaking out the back door
She gets up from all fours
Rhinestone fools and silver dollars
Curdle into bitter tears
Peek-A-Boo Peek-A-Boo
Golly jeepers
Where'd you get those weepers?
Peepshow, creepshow
Where did you get those eyes?
Purrrr...
Catwalk...
Meow!
Down where this ugly man
Seeks his sustenance
Down in the blue, midnight flare
A glass hand cuts through the water
Scything into his twisted roots
Then from his eyes
Spring fireflies
Breathing life
Into a roaring disguise
Needles and sins, sins and
needles
He's gasping for air
In the wishing well
Dust to rust, ashes on gashes
Hand around the killing jar
A soft hoodwink of shadow
The size of make-believe
Punches through his spike of rage
A glass hand cuts through the water
Snuffing out the magic fury
Then from inside
Bolt lightning cries
Swiftly crushed
The final, muffled sighs
Needles and sins, sins and
needles
He's gasping for air
In the wishing well
Dust to rust, ashes on gashes
Hand around the killing jar
Something Wicked (This Way Comes)
Something strange is happening
My bones do ache and my ears they do ring
I can pull and tear my skin
I hear and smell and I want to scream
Whispering and the scratching to be let in
From outside and from within
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something Wicked this way comes
There's something evil on the
wind
Something wicked is fast approaching
Rushing through a hidden wing
Nothing good is what's in store
It's nothing new and it's rotten to the core
And a-howling at my door
We're dragged helpless in the undertow
The quicksand's surround and swallow us whole
Oh strong
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
Just around the bend
Rushing on the wind
Here it comes
Oh strong
Are you still dying darling?
Are you still in pain?
Are you still crying?
Despite the morphine in your veins
A fluorescent haze hangs and for a second
Makes you invisible but you try in vain
To reach out through the life-support machine
And all the multicoloured tubes that pump and drain
Are you still dying darling?
Are you still dying darling?
All this wasting away
All this prolonged misery and all this
Stripping away your dignity is killing me
That expression on your face
Pleading through your agony
Are you still dying darling?
Are you still sighing?
Shall I end it for you?
You'll see I'll make it easy for
you
Just one link and I'll help you to break through
When never-never land beckons to you
You can dance with Peter Pan
Make rings around the moon
Are you still dying darling?
Are you still dying darling?
No more injections
No more medications
No more complications for you
Lessen the load for you
No more, no more, no more
No more are you still dying darling?
Are you still dying darling?
He trembles in the bitter wind
Until it's time for us to speak
Whilst others here are sleeping sound
I'll slip away by floorboard creak
Upon the hill he'll hear my
secrets
Shock the colours to bleach inside
Whilst others there are sleeping sound
Just we two will confide
Listen to his body moan
Make a wish and send us home
To spin the gold and silver stitches
We can turn his rags to riches
With frosty jack on fingernail
Thro' shoe black smile he'll tell-a-tale
Come whisper thro' your lips of straw
A moment torn forevermore
Listen to his body groan
Make a wish and send us home
To spin the gold and silver stitches
We can turn his rags to riches
My so-called friends say you're
not alive
I'll bake their bones for telling lies
Then pull the pastry from the pie
And pour the gravy in their eye
Listen to his body moan
Make a wish and send us home
To spin the gold and silver stitches
We can turn his rags to riches
You clamber up
And look behind
Their watchful eyes
The helping hands
A hen that's fierce
And painted blue
With red eyes
Wants to swallow you
A dragon dives and soars on
tracks
The hands that strap you to its back
You turn around and look behind
Their smiling eyes
Won't help you down
Their tiny hands
Their tiny feet
Such little hearts
To miss a beat
Grotesque dwarves in mirrored
rooms
Pulled and taut---a thousand yous
Staring back through stinging tears
Remembering those fun house thrills
The paint box tunes and wild
balloons
Their watchful eyes---you start to swoon
Oh painted vile in lurid hue
The snarling horse that waits for you
Its motor whirrs and colours curl
Inside your head the monsters whirl
Its motor whirrs and colours curl
Inside your head the monsters whirl
In sucked out
Time stood still
Roundabout back
Carousel
Time stood still
And you remember it well
Carousel
A crumpled future in your fist
The killing streak ascends sun-kissed
And the firestarter from within
Pokes out from fever blistered grin
King Salamander---that's his name
A desert maker---that's his aim
The benign cremator, branding iron in his hand
Eager and willing to torch the land
All fire and brimstone
This jack-o-lantern
He likes to watch the buildings burn
His ardour smoulders---phosphorous
flies
He radiates with urgence to hypnotise
Stoke the furnace---feed his need
This thirst for fire is all he sees
He's the blazing rubber making tracks
The blue touch paper at your back
All fire and brimstone
This salamander king
He basks whilst all around him burns
'Giddy-up, burn-up, not fade
away'
These words ignite and pave his way
'Giddy-up, burn-up, stoke it up and turn it up'
He sings these words in fervid frame
All fire and brimstone
This jack-o-lantern
He likes to watch the pyres burn
Jack be nimble---jack be quick
Jack jump over the candlestick
Silver couches to recline upon
And ornaments of gold
Silver moonbeams dance in fountains
Below shining citadels
Surrounded by silver gates---ascending
Silver stairs
Eureka on angelic prayer---wafts in and
Scents the air
With ornaments of gold
To warm my soul from the growing cold
Ornaments of gold
We can drink from silver vessels
We can feed from silver bowls
Then I'll give you gilded treasures
Anointed by intoxicating oils
Drenched in riches---unimaginable
Your splendour drips with jewels that are
So beautiful
And ornaments of gold
Warm my soul from the growing cold
Adorable---rewardable
you
From head to toe---I'd love to cover you
And smother you in ornaments of gold
In honeydew---I'd love to cover
you
Oh lover do bring
Ornaments of gold
Protect our hearts from this
Cruel world
Ornaments of gold
High above
The sickle moon
All senseless thought
Slips and drowns
A place, a time
Gone out of mind
Reaction swims
The opal time
Ferry me down--leave well alone
Ferry me down--turn to stone
Here within
My phantom flesh
Welcome in
The glowing guest
Far inside
The absolute
Instinct leaves
Us standing mute
Ferry me down--leave well alone
Ferry me down--turn to stone
Heaven sent
Some dark marvel
Fool's gold
As cold as marble
High above
The sickle moon
Your hidden dreams
Chill and swoon
A place, a time
Gone out of sight
Pulse the blood
Statue of light
Ferry me down--leave well alone
Ferry me down--turn to stone
Bad word,
Or bad deed,
Unpunished invites grief,
Here's
Rawhead and Bloodybones
Reaching from
Dark cupboard
Crouching under stair,
Lurking in chimney,
Pond or well
We're down here,
Held here
Dragged here
And drowned here by
Rawhead and Bloodybones
Pop-eyed,
Horns,
Bushy-tailed
Long teeth and
Claws as well
Rawhead and Bloodybones
In the sharp gust of love
My memory stirred
When time wreathed a rose
A garland of shame
It's thorn my only delight
War-torn, afraid to speak
We dare to breathe
Majestic
Imperial
A bridge of sighs
Solitude sails
In a wave of forgiveness
On angels' wings
Reach out your hands
Don't turn your back
Don't walk away
How in the world
Can I wish for this?
Never to be torn apart
Close to you
'Til the last beat
Of my heart
At the close of day
The sunset cloaks
These words in shadowplay
Here and now, long and loud
My heart cries out
And the naked bone of an echo says
Don't walk away
Reach out your hands
I'm just a step away
How in the world
Can I wish for this?
Never to be torn apart
Close to you
'Til the last beat
Of my heart
How in the world
Can I wish for this?
Never to be torn apart
Close to you
'Til the last beat
Of my heart
In the soil of our sadness
Hear our hearts bell a serenade
A faint choir tenderly shaping
A lament...a hollow refuge
In the blood of the twinkling sky
Breathing in air drunk dry
There was once a time of rapture
All is lost...a pale gleaming
Across this crooked land
Runs a crooked man
Our loved ones die
Under the hammer
Of the soviet sun
Nothing can erase this night
But there's still light with you
Rhapsody...
And if we can never see the sun
There's still life with you
Rhapsody...
And I have seen all I want to
And I have felt all I want to
Rhapsody...
But we can dream all we want to
We can dream all we want to
In the soil of our sadness
Hear our hearts bell a serenade
A faint choir tenderly shaping
A lament...a hollow refuge
It's all soul's day
I hear you say
It's all soul's day
And you've come to pray
For the lost ones
The unadorned ones here today
El Dia
de Los Muertos
El Dia de Los Muertos
Bailamos, bailamos
El santo y yo
Kiss the bride
Dance with me
Come rattle these bones
Come and shake my tree
Embrace me--irreverently
Now in marigolds
Shower me
There is more time than life
One never dies twice
There is more time than life
One never dies twice
Wearing wet suits sewn in the
underworlds
Death comes shining
In a thousand bright colours
And music out of this world
Serenates to a bony twirl
Me lleva
el diablo
La muerte va de viaje
Esta es musica
del otro mundo
Buenos noches
y adios
Hasta luego mis amigos
See you in heaven
See you in hell
All will be level all will be well
Bailamos, bailamos
El santo y yo
Me lleva
el diablo
la muerte va de viaje
Esta es musica
del otro mundo
It glittered and it gleamed
For the arriving beauty queen
A ring and a car
Now you're the prettiest by far
No party she'd not attend
No invitation she wouldn't send
Transfixed by the inner sound
Of your promise to be found
"Nothing or no-one will ever
Make me let you down"
Kiss them for me--I may be
delayed
Kiss them for me--if I am delayed
It's divoon,
oh it's serene
In the fountains pink champagne
Someone carving their devotion
In the heart shaped pool of fame
"Nothing or no-one will ever
Make me let you down"
Kiss them for me--I may be delayed
Kiss them for me--I may find myself delayed
On the road to New Orleans
A spray of stars hit the screen
As the 10th impact shimmered
The forbidden candles beamed
Kiss them for me--I may be
delayed
Kiss them for me--I may find myself delayed
Kiss them for me--kiss them for
me
Kiss them for me--I may find myself delayed
My face in the window has become
The face of a woman I never knew
My face in the window has become
The face of a woman who never knew me
Now this ringing in my ears sends me spinning down the years
And I really need to know
Who is she
Who is she?
Now this ringing in my ears sends me spinning down the years
And I really need to know
Who is she
Who is she?
Staring back--staring back at me
Who is she
Staring back--staring back at me
Who is she?
Wonder where that plane is
speeding to
Wonder where that boat will ever stop
Wonder if this path I am treading
Will disappear and let me drop
Down to a hell that's surely waiting
Down to the hell I know that I deserve
Even though the spirit is willing
The flesh is blackened to the deepest nerve
When will you learn
The hurting it will return
When will you ever learn
This feeling is all you can discern
Oh my heart it is so broken
More than waves upon the golden sand
Fly my life on wings of huge confusion
Oh and never ever land
When will you learn
When will you ever learn
The hurting it will return
This feeling is all you can discern
When will you learn
When will you ever learn
This feeling is all you can discern
The hurting always will return
Return
I get the feeling---I'm not alone
I get the feeling---it's someone I don't know
Do you ever have the strange
sensation
When you're standing mighty tall
To jump from 17 floors and crash into freefall?
But then fear takes control---fear of the unknown
Imagines two complete strangers
Who suspect they were meant to be
Both in need of love and affection
Yet their suspicions prevent something heavenly
Fear takes control---fear of the unknown
Aware of what will hurt you
You're prepared to remain this way
So sad yet safe with your afflictions
Afraid to start a brand new day
We all get the strangest feeling
When we're standing mighty tall
To jump from 17 floors and crash into freefall
But then fear carries all---fear
of the unknown
Fear takes its toll---fear of the unknown
Aware of what will hurt you
You're prepared to remain this way
So sad yet safe with your afflictions
Afraid to start a brand new day
Cry for the bird with broken wing
Cry for the world that will not spin
Cry for the loss of innocence
Cry for a love, turned loveless
Sometimes I think of you, when
I'm alone
Oh no Cry...
Nothing will ever be the same
All is ruined and put to shame
Tears and stars are one and the same
When I look up through my focused lens
But sometimes I think of you, when
I'm alone
Oh no Cry...tears and stars confide, collide then die
Deep inside tears run dry, but I cry and cry.
Tiger skins and elephant tusks
In guilted mountains seep disgust
I look at you and I want to speak
For once in a while be a man and weep
Cos all the dolphins and whales have gone
All good tidings and hopes have blown
All our nightmares are flying home
And it's too late to do anything but...
Cry...
Tears and stars collide, confide
then die
Deep inside tears run dry, but I cry and cry
Cry...
Drifter---sleepwalk
Drifter---sleeptalk
Awake to who is following
Moving---like water
Moving---drifting on the wind
A drifter coming in
Then I dreamt that I awoke
And all around was asleep
With eyes in the back of my head
Awake to who is following
...Drifter coming in
Never touching down---never leaving ground
A twilight world in which we roam
Still we don't belong---drift on
At daybreak---we walk
At daybreak---we talk
Ready to tear up the world
Drifter---sleepwalk
Drifter---sleeptalk
Your everywhere is home
Yet you never take hold
Wanting to live everywhere
Not wanting to live anywhere
A twilight world in which you roam
Still you won't belong---drift on
Here I sit in paradise
My head between my hands
Little sister, break your vows
Break down the sacred side
Little sister, break the rules
Break me in two
Will hopes ever fill your eyes?
Look before I sleep tonight
Little sister, I left you
Let's just say it's a mercy kill
Little sister, you've left me
Howling at the moon
If you touched my heart
You might be surprised
You'd be paralysed
If you touched my heart
A truth might lie disguised
You'd be paralysed
Just once, little sister
Just once...
The voice asleep, the voice has
vanished
From the top of the sky to the place below
Touch the surface and the mirror bends
Your words resound, out of control
Freeze into time now
Still inside, yet doubt survives
It all begins, beneath the skin
No-one is near, no-one will hear
Your changeling song take shape
In Shadowtime
Turn your wish to a vapour, the
silhouette fades
Eclipse your blue eyes, and the outline remains
From the house of the moon to the stars up above
Amidst the comets, first sight of love
So begin the countdown
Falling sky, a solar sigh
It all begins, beneath the skin
No-one is here, no-one will hear
Your changeling song take shape
In Shadowtime
Shadowtime--
Catching fire, taking hold
All that glisters leaves you cold
No-one is here, no-one will hear
Your changeling song take shape
In Shadowtime
Shadowtime...
The silhouette fades... In shadowtime... First sight
of love...
Alone and left to ponder
everything
Alone and left to puzzle out all the pain
Such a silly, silly, silly thing
You must catch it and cease it while you can
Accusations flying--colliding
cheek to cheek
Button up your lip and think before you speak
Oh see him fly into a rage
See her cry in her tantrum cage
Too blind to halt this stupid game
Silly thing
Now all that's left is a feeling
very grim
Alone and left to think about the stupid thing
Yes, she would fly into a rage
And he would cry in his tantrum cage
A replay of this dumb charade
Silly thing
I misunderstood you--I buried my
head in sand
Please accept my feelings of remorse and take my hand
Such a silly thing can destroy a man
For such a silly thing to come between such friends
It's hard to imagine or believe
Silly thing
Got to get up, get into life
Got to get up and live this life
Got to get up and win this life
No more looking down---look up
Skyward up your eyes---devour the sun Now!
Gonna shake my bones gonna
shed my skin
Shake out what's mine, shake out this thing
I'm gonna shake my bones, gonna
shed my skin
Shake out what's mine, shake out this thing
I've been here too long---now I'm
up
Skyward up this song---devour the sun Now!
Bad luck you say---it's just not
your day
But you've got to reach out---grab your destiny
Kick up the dust---kick up a storm
Kick out the past and take control
There's no-one else---it's up to
you
Are you gonna wake up, or cry boo hoo?
No-one else but you can rise up
You know what to do got to get up
No more looking down---look up
Come and claim your crown---got to get up
Got to get up
Clouds roll by overhead
Like giant rays coast a dried up ocean bed
Dancing winds blow a parody
Of swirling currents in a long forgotten sea
Shimmer glimmer
Shimmer on me
The sparkling souls of dreaming children call
Shimmer glimmer
Shimmer on me
It streets that shine like silver waterfalls
In your eyes in the skies
In the blood burning Indian sunrise
Shimmer on me (in sleep we grow)
We were here long ago
And now we roam like ghostly buffalo
First two lies then two tears
Subtle curves, now a glistening souvenirs
In your eyes in the skies
In the blood burning Indian sunrise
Shimmer on me (awake and glow)
Shivering in silver waterfalls
Anoint me in silver waterfalls
Softly into your broken veins
Softly into these broken dreams
Will you ever come home?
Will you ever be found?
Standing on shattered windowpane
Softly I whisper your name
Concealed in bedclothes of frosting cold
Softly the snowflakes start to fall
Fleecing the velvet skin
Suspended in frozen time
Icicles slowly drip outside
To the rhythm of your wounds here inside
I entered you dream, I entered your scheme
Softly to swim inside your veins
Softly in rippling cellophane
To float and glide in time
To the rushing in your brain
I wanted your lips, yes I wanted your kiss
So softly the moment was gone
Then softly the moment had flown
My body outside yours
Softly collects the falling snow
And disappears far away
So softly
You awoke in a burning paperhouse
From the infinite fields
Of dreamless sleep
You return to Tiannammen
An eyewitness in a shroud
To see them fall, feel them yield
Reliving the terror of the crowd
Hold the whirlwind, don't let it
blow
Just for a moment I seemed to know
Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow
I seemed to know the ghost in you
The whisper of your scream
Sighed through the air
And faith---the flag is torn and frayed
Inferno heat, glory in flame
Love was beaten and betrayed
In every step I hear your sobbing
Dare I break the shade with one caress?
Dare I trespass to lift the veil
To touch the lips so soft and frail?
Hold the whirlwind, don't let it
blow
I seemed to know the ghost in you
Your captive heart, the belief
you share
With a kiss eternal, the spirits of the square
Hold the whirlwind, don't let it
blow
Hope remains with the ghost in you
Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow
I seemed to know the ghost in you
Don't let it blow
The ghost in you
The ghost in you
Home is where the rain is soft
and soothing
Home is where the comfort is confusing
Chased and cored like burning bridges
Swallowing the tracks across my head
Always moving in the wrong
direction
Animated statue eyes are blinking
Reflex of asphyxiated thinking
Suspended, so much badly destracted
Out of touch I'm out of reach
Struck by a car
Crushed by a tree
Fork in my tongue
Glass in my sleeve
I snap the rope snap the wrist
Here in my inner spiral twist
This is the time when our minds
begin stocking
Jammering on when our lips have stopped talking
Simple people, simple needs
Fingers linger endlessly
Trolling benediction bells
Here encircling spirals twist
Always moving in the wrong
direction
I float quietly
Without a sound
Forever and ever 'til the end of time
And see myself lying still at the scene of the crime
Lying still at the scene of the crime
Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
I passed over to the sea of light
Follow me into the sea of light
The sea of light
The miracle skin from the
rainbow's edge
Let it rain down, let it descend
Riding on a river of stars
The heavens open at the tunnel's end
Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
I passed over to the sea of light
Follow me into the sea of light
Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
Let it rain down, let it descend
Sea of light
The sea of light
Through glowing gloom, I see the
flicker of treason
Dancing on the picture of what might have been
This minute will last a day, these days will last years
And those years that take ten lifetimes
Will pass without a reason
To be again, I could be again
To be again, I could be again
Rising up, the notion of
rejuvenation
Woah yes, I could be again
I could be again
Rising up, I could be again
Taking hold a complete
transformation
Just us the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark
This minute will last a day these days will last years
And those years that take ten lifetimes well I won't let you disappear
To be again, I could be again
To be again, I could be again
Woah in the dark
From such a tiny spark
It's me again
I could be again
It's me again
I could be again...
Face to face--my lovely foe
Mouth to mouth--raining heavens' blows
Hand on heart--tic tac toe
Under the stars--naked as we flow
Cheek to cheek--the bitter sweet
Commit your crime in your deadly time
It's too divine--I want to bend
I want this bliss but something says I must resist
Another life--another time
We're Siamese twins writhing intertwined
Face to face--no telling lies
The masks they slide--to reveal a new disguise
You never can win--it's the state I'm in
This danger thrills and my conflict kills
They say follow your heart--follow it through
But how can you--when you're split in two?
And you'll never know
You'll never know
One more kiss--before we die
Face to face--and dream of flying
Who are you?--who am I?
Wind in wings--two angels falling
To die like this--with a last kiss
It's falsehood's flame--it's a crying shame
Face to face--the passions breathe
I hate to stay but then I hate to leave
And you'll never know
You'll never know
Now most of the guys are just
regular guys. Out to make some money, and that's it. I mean, they may get
hot-headed sometimes, but that's not dangerous. It's a business; it's about
running a business. That's not dangerous, is it?
The cracks in the ground grin up
at me
Even the creases in my shoes smile up at me
Thought it would end in tragedy
But I'm swimming around in your glory
O Baby O maybe
I'm the lost and found
Look at the stars they're raining
down
Even these jewels want to kiss your crown
Don't be afraid it's just your face
Has that effect on heavens' treasure case
O Baby O maybe
You're a paragon
I haven't felt this way before
Impossible to ask for more
Unanswered prayers that went before
Lie like leaves upon the floor
Hang all the world and universe
When I'm with you they always seem perverse
I'm in a state of weightlessness
When I inhale your angel breath
O Baby O maybe
I'm the lost and found
Release the angels
Go on release them
Rose petal squadrons
The bees are swarming--warming your cold skin
Such a womanly man
Such a boyish girl
Clutching at strings
Of blackened pearls--warming your cold sting
Didn't they teach you anything at
all
Something's not better than nothing at all
B side ourselves
Now you belong
Where we belong
Into the landslide
Clandestine--beside the real world
Raw senses bring us
Beside ourselves
Instincts to guide us through this foggy world
We're beside ourselves
B side ourselves
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
She sits and cries....
For all tomorrow's parties....
I know it's all a game
I know they're all insane
I know it's all in vain
I know that I'm to blame
This tearing apart
Tearing apart...
I think we all should die
I think we're dead inside
I know the purest rain
Won't wash the bloody stain
I know it waits to strike
This sickness from inside
Will tear us apart
You're still in my heart
Tearing apart
Tearing apart
O you hold the rain
Far far away
Wild swans skim across a lake
Then soar in a white arc
Above my head I wake
Tearing apart
You're still in my heart
Tearing apart
Tearing apart
O you hold the rain
Been thinking how to escape?
This strait-jacket of constraint
Been thinking what can be wrong?
With feelings that long to belong
Stargazing me
In an upside down sea
So weary this strait-jacket
dreamer
So resigned to continue to suffer
But you've learnt that as you grow weaker
There's less hurt because there's much less to hurt
Stargazing me
In a tumbling sea
Up in the galaxy
Staring down on me
Stargazer reach out to touch
With your mind that frees you so much
Stargazer kissing your kismet
With bright jewel encrusted scars
Stargazing me
In tranquillity
Up in the galaxy
Staring down on me
I am stone and I am blade
A sharp eternal instant
A darker heart a distant moan
Pleasures' deep and spectral instinct
Look me in the eye
Speak it to my face
My hate is cold
As I fall from grace
So wish away my gravity
A curse the one and only
Lay terror tight unholy flight
Bear witness to the descent
Yet nothing is forever
So come nearer and confess
But like a tender bruise
Temptation waits in one caress
Look me in the eye
Speak it to my face
My hate is cold
As I fall from grace
Cast me out and save your soul
From madness rhyme and reason
You banish doubt I'll spread the fear
You'd better start believing
Look me in the eye
Speak it to my face
My hate is cold
As I fall from grace
You buried it so deep
So safe in hidden sleep
But like a tell-tale corpse
Rises to the surface
Over-ripe & bloated
In naked time-lapsed truth
Thought it was lost forever
Remember this
How long has it been
Or have you forgotten
When you first forgot?
Now resurrection the phoenix
Aflame with pride & conceit
Remembers this
Wind blown trees outside
Applauding like the ocean
To the cacophony inside
The waves come rushing in
A crashing whispering
Drowning they drink me
Ah not forgotten
This is not forgotten
Remember this
And I know I never knew you
Your mind your pain I will melt your winter tears
If you say you will
If you could say you will
Convalescing bruised I set my
mind awake
Dare to take another look
If you say you will
If you could say you will
King of moon gloomy afternoon
Losing track of word & metre
Still shaking in this tear room
Like a sick child
Still shaking nothing reconciled
Like a sick child
Melancholia colliding out of mind
In a silver swirl I take a lungful in
Blow a fistful out if you could say you will
King of moon gloomy afternoon
Losing track of word & metre
Make your final touch people talk too much
Madman screams an unknown language
Still shaking in the tear room
Like a sick child
Still shaking nothing reconciled
Like a sick child
Happy in solitude
Secure there's no-one to depend on
Scorning alms & good luck charms
Staring down to the rocks below
I was the lonely one
I didn't want no-one
An odyssey so solitary
Carries you forth to collide with me
Recognised familiar signs
We're hypnotised on the turning tide
You were the lonely one
Who didn't want no-one
I was the lonely one
I didn't want no-one
Here I stand on the shifting sand
Waves of lassitude wash inland
The lonely cry of a seagull flies
Into my mind and recalls a time
When I was the lonely one
Who didn't want no-one
You were the lonely one
No we didn't want no-one
Hear my hymn calling the lonely
one
Hear my hymn for the lonely one
I would see you falling down
Still I would have been around
Hated to hear the sound
As you fell and punched the ground
Such as miserable suicide
Performed before my eyes
Staggering about the town
Unaware I was around
I wouldn't have you
If you wanted me to
I wouldn't have you
You wouldn't have you
Feel the dead sea
Running through your veins
A sea of mercury
Dragging you down the drain
I wouldn't have you
If you wanted me to
I wouldn't have you
You wouldn't have you
Come searching for your little
girl
But she hid in her oyster shell
Stupoured and ill-humoured
You left her with the swine and swill
Didn't you?
I wouldn't have you
If you wanted me to
I wouldn't have you
You wouldn't have you
Infinity stretches unlimitlessly
Countless days pass by immeasurably
Anniversaries gutter in the maelstrom
Whirling a snowstorm of lustrous millennium
We couldn't stay together
This couldn't last forever
Senses dissolve into soliloquies
Flooding ascent in synchronicity
But we couldn't stay together
I knew this wouldn't last forever
Forever just one more tie then never
This is the last string to sever
On and on yes it goes on and on
I could stay wherever
I would last forever
Forever just one more tie then never
This is the last string to sever
Forever never forever
This is the last string to sever
I have lost you for ever and ever
O pull on the rein and haul me in
Back to the start where eyes first blink to see
A flowing mane a cut-glass limb
And they're falling soaring so rhythmically
O pull on the rein and haul me in
back to the start
Rebirthed in ecstasy with cherubim and seraphim
When I was falling soaring so rhythmically
Falling soaring falling for you so completely
The Rapture unfurling blues and
greens
The Rapture a swirling violet stream
Mystic majestic entangled in a web of curling vapour thread
Encaptured by forces unseen
Enraptured an eclipse intoxicating
Strangely not inside strangely not outside
Drowning in the middle of an eerie transition
And I don't know your name
Never been alive yet I haven't died
I hover disembodied in a semi-wakened haze
Floating far above the cloud
Sinking far below the ground
Only my senses remain
The Rapture unfurling blues and
greens
The Rapture a swirling violet stream
Mystic majestic entangled in a web of iridescent curling vapour thread
Floating far above the cloud
Sinking far below the ground
No form only my senses remain
Wondering if I dare to say your
name
Wondrous thoughts embalmed avow you came
By the crescent disc rising amethyst
How can love remain the same unchanged?
Moonlight plays upon this sunken brow
Midnight ink bleeds wet mercurial clouds
By the crescent disc rising amethyst
Somnambulist unharnessed storms the plow
By the crescent disc rising amethyst
How can love remain the same unchained?
At the top of the stairs is a
locked room
My secret chamber that no outsider views
For entry is forbidden prohibited
Behind this door is my other self
Not a picture in a frame nor a fresh disguise
But my other self
Immobile inert and sanguine
My narcissus kisses exhale crimson breath
And pump ruby to the lip
I stand before myself not Jekyll nor Hyde
Not sibling nor twin separated at birth
I stand before myself unaccountable
I dreamt that I had feet of clay
I dreamt I crossed the seven seas
And when I woke not knowing
I knew I led the double life
All I ever needed is twice
removed
I spit my bile in an airless temper
In this vacuum a vampire reversed
This one who breathes life into me
And even dull mirrors reflect the tarnished twosome
I stand before myself not another me
Not Döppleganger nor witless clone
I stand before myself unrepentant
I dreamt of sin and aftermath
I dreamt of centuries laid bare
And when I woke not knowing
I knew I led the double life
I smash the glass into my face
Cutting through to my disgrace
Disregard for bone and flesh
How can I be in such a mesh of unlikeliness?
I smash my likeness
At my fingertips
With this blade turned in on me
Cutting an ancient tree
A cutter in a forest of industry
Upturning usurping
Love me hate me help me
Save me from me
Hold me hurt me stop me
Take this love out me
Anger tinged with sadness
It's always been like this
Place the dagger 'twixt my breast
My nearest and dearest
I hurt it I hurt me
Hurt everything around me
There's nothing no trace
Still cutting to find the place
Love out me! Love out me!
Anger tinged with sadness
It's always been like this
No nothing no one no more
No no no no I can't take this
Love me hate me help me
Save me from me
Hold me hurt me stop me
Take this love out me!
Love out me!
Love out me!
Oh...
Hang me high hang me high
Set me up with the bells in the tower
And beat them hour after hour
Hang me high
To the bonds that seal your lips
Intone a penance as you slip
Into another night of bleeding flowers
And in that final sinful moment
Were you just seeking love so tender?
Oh...
Does loathsome loss become a gain?
Empires stagger onwards no pain
The voice of love grows out
Exaltation, exaltation
Ohh....hang me high
Take this rainbow and bury it deep
Take this serpent and put it to sleep
Take these words then learn to keep
Take this sow and reap
Oh...
Hang me high
The night man coming away
With the ashes of some fallen saint
With some forgotten martyr to weep over
Take me, take me and sleep take me keep some
Do not weep, do not weep
Oh....hang me high
Uh oh here it
comes and I'm struck twice
By Lightening bolts straight out the blue
Like a storm of steel inside of me
An elemental hymn of sorcery
Uh oh here it
comes and I'm bewitched
By creeping claw from volcano core
Searching out my dormant head
I feel an ugly head start to rear
Black sun deep as
emptiness
Black sun beyond the skies
Uh oh here it
comes and I'm possessed
There's no refuse no shelter here
For all the urges I'd thought interred
No sanctuary no none are spared
Black sun spirits
deranged
Black sun beyond the skies
Once more demons
plunge
Back to shadows stain
And leave my nerves full drunk on blood
'Til just this mist of sound remains
Uh oh here it
comes my black sun
Uh oh here it comes my black sun
Uh oh here it comes my black sun
Uh oh here it comes my black sun
Interlude
[duet with Morrissey and Siouxsie]
Time is like a dream
And now for a time you are mine.
Let's hold fast to the dream that
tastes and sparkles like wine
Who knows. If it's real or just
something we're both dreaming of
What seems like an interlude now
could be the beginning of love
Loving you is a world
that's strange
So much more than my heart can
hold
Loving you makes the whole world
change
Loving you I could not grow old
No - nobody knows when love will
end so till then sweet friend...
Time is like a dream and now for
a time you are mine
Let's hold fast to the dream that
tastes and sparkles like wine
Who knows If it's real Or just
something we're both dreaming of
What seems like an interlude now
could be the beginning of love
What seems like an interlude now
could be the beginning of love
Scorpio rising on the horizon
Thunder tumbling from the mountains
Harpy sirens strangle silence
A piece of mind left dying
Oh so dizzy
Below the waves below their grace
Your hair is gorgeous
Dancing hormaonice
Dancing hypnotics
Left dying
Oh so dizzy
Blue
Jay Way
Harrison
There’s a fog upon L.A.
And my friends have lost their way
We’ll be over soon they said
Now they’ve lost themselves instead.
Please don’t be long please don’t you be very long
Please don’t be long or I may be asleep
Well it only goes to show
And I told them where to go
Ask a policeman on the street
There’s so many there to meet
Please don’t be long please don’t you be very long
Please don’t be long or I may be asleep
Now it’s past my bed I know
And I’d really like to go
Soon it will be the break of day
Sitting here in Blue Jay Way
Please don’t be long please don’t you be very long
Please don’t be long or I may be asleep
Please don’t be long please don’t you be very long
Please don’t be long Please don’t be long please don’t you be very long
Please don’t be long Please don’t be long please don’t you be very long
Please don’t be long
Don’t be long - don’t be long - don’t be long
Don’t be long - don’t be long - don’t be long
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New Skin
Fuck you, I
win this prize
Stardom pardons the lies
The miles, the minutes passing by
My window
(Yeah Yeah Yeah)
Rising up through the ashes and grime
A new me on the other side
Hello, Hello, I'm breaking through
This old skin
(Woo-oo woo woo, woo-oo woo woo)
Hello, Hello, I'm coming through my new skin
(Yeah yeah yeah)
So take the dips with the tricks
Gimme shimmy shimmy hip shake
Hello, Hello, let's kick out the trash of ((anybody got a guess?))
(Woo-oo, woo woo, woo-oo, woo woo)
Hello, Hello, I'm coming in my new skin
(unintelligible utterance)
(Yeah yeah yeah)
Fuck you, I win this prize
Stardom pardons the lies
The miles, the minutes pissing by
My window
(Woo-oo, woo woo, woo-oo, woo woo)
Hello, Hello, I'm coming in my new skin
Hello, Hello, I'm hungry for some new skin
Hello, it's me, I'm coming for you in my new skin
Hey, hey, let's kick out the trash
Hey, hey, let's kick out the trash
Hey, hey, let's kick out the trash...