MY LIGHTHOUSE
Come up to my lighthouse for I have something I wish to
say
It can wait for a moment; well in fact
it can wait all day
I just wanted to bring you up here so you could have the
chance
to see
the beauty of this situation that
you could share with me
It may seem strange
to talk of love and then lighthouses
It's not strange
to me
Hey
All alone
you and I in our high tower
That's the way
to be
Some laugh at my lighthouse they say it's
just an ivory tower
But I don't mind because I know
their envy grows by the hour
See I have a purpose up here to guide the ships upon their
way
All this is mine; it could be yours too
what do you say?
It may seem strange
to talk of love and then lighthouses
It's not strange
to me
Hey
All alone
you and I in our high tower
That's the way
to be
Hehehey hey.
WISHFUL THINKING
When I was with this girl last night
she held me tight; it turned me on
The moon was dark and those clothes were tight
her perfume strong; it turned me on
Fleeting moments touched in the night
then so strong but banished by the light
Her presence gone, memories remain
of how she kissed and turned me on
Now there's this love inside of me
I've got this love
inside of me
And I still have dull aching pain
desire to reach and touch you once again
Distractions cannot sate the need
it grows once more, it grows once more
I've got this love inside of me
I've got this love inside of me
I've got this love inside of me
I've got this love inside of me
I have this pain inside of me
Why can't you see?
Why can't you see?
I'm stranded here with no way home
Please rescue me, oh won't you rescue me?
I've got this love inside of me
I've got this love inside of me
I've got this love inside of me
I've got this love inside of me.
JOKING ASIDE
I hate to complain, you know, but then again
I cannot pretend nothing's wrong
Looking at my present situation, the act cannot last for
long
Viewed from outside these pursuits I might try
seem possessed of a certain allure
Now they're no longer a source of mystery my faith in them's
more unsure
Now the time to play is over
Time to dispose of the lies
Time to show what's really
on my mind
Yes I'd like to turn you over
to see what's on your other side
To see if the problem's
in my mind
In my mind
The choice is quite clear, to move on or
stay here
Decision is harder to take
Reject what I have for something unstable could easily be
a
mistake
So I walk round the place with a smile on my face
pretending the best that I can
Hoping to lose the inclination to desire what I can't understand
And the time to play is over
Time to dispose of the lies
Time to show what's really
on my mind
Yes I'd like to turn you over
to see what's on your other side
To see if the problem's
in my mind
In my mind
Lalalalala lalalalala…
Now the time to play is over
Time to dispose of the lies
Time to show what's really
on my mind
Yes I'd like to turn you over
to see what's on your other side
Like to turn it over
in my mind
In my mind
In my mind
In my mind
In my mind.
BOATS AND TRAINS
Would you like to hear
about the things I fear?
About my life, and loves too?
Well why should I tell you?
If I told you a secret
you'd be sure to leak it
You couldn't keep it inside
no matter how hard you tried
On boats and trains and
and boats and trains and
funny things and
funny things and
La la la…
BLUE GIRLS
The blue girls that bake in the sun
Skin falls in flakes from each one
Like leaves from autumn trees
they float upon the breeze
These girls you have loved
are slowly decaying
Ah
Drying out in the sun
before your eyes
Wild stares in your face
they seem to accuse you
Oh
What have you done
to earn this prize?
The flesh underneath candy-pink
Quite a strange affair you might think
They gasp and moan for air
Beached fish on your lawn-chair
These girls you have loved
are slowly decaying
Ah
Drying out in the sun
before your eyes
Wild stares in your face
they seem to accuse you
Oh
What have you done
to earn this prize?
Fragments left at the end of the day
A pile of blue that is soon swept away
Goodbye, blue girls, goodbye
Would it be too much to cry?
These girls you have loved
have slowly decayed
Ah
They dried out in the sun
before your eyes
Wild stares in your face
they seem to accuse you
Oh
What did you do
to earn this prize?
LOVE LOVE
I thought so long and suddenly I realised
I love love
I thought so long and suddenly I realised
I love love
Am I loving the girl
or the feeling I feel?
Is it just the idea that I like
or is it for real?
I recall a special friend, I invited her
home for tea
And while my mother cooked a meal she was under the table
with
me
I thought so long and suddenly I realised
I love love
I thought so long and suddenly I realised
I love love
These ideas that I have
remain fixed in my head
Only the characters change
someone else there instead
One day we went down to the park to feed
the ducks some bread
Foul fowls wouldn't touch a scrap so we jumped in the duckpond
instead
I thought so long and suddenly I realised
I love love
I thought so long and suddenly I realised
I love love
Lalalalala…
IN MANY WAYS
Hey
you're treading on my life
You're leaving marks, but that's alright
In a year or so, I'll look back and I'll smile
These things last only for a while
In many ways
this is a waste of time
what will become of it all?
I make you cry
know you in crowded streets
not what I wanted at all
Then
what else could I do
instead of thinking about you?
Pleasure now will justify our love
See, I even call it "love"
In many ways
there's nothing I'd rather do
one kiss makes sense of it all
And what's to come?
Let's just not think about it, it might never happen at
all.
LOOKING FOR LIFE
Sure you had something to hide
I took your bag and looked inside
I was looking for life
Nothing inside but memories
the same as those I keep with me
I'm still looking for life
Yes I'm looking for life
Yes I'm looking for life
There's more to love than holding hands
but I think that we both understand
it's part of looking for life
I thought so long I couldn't think
but thought was what was hindering me
and now I'm looking for life
Yes I'm looking for life
Yes I'm looking for life
Yes I'm looking for life
Yes I'm looking for life
Yes I'm looking for life
Yes I'm looking for life
I'm looking for life
I'm looking for life.
FAIRGROUND
As the signs outside proclaimed,
nature sometimes makes mistakes.
Was it the mother or the father to blame,
inside the damp grass and tilted tent?
As the signs outside proclaimed,
nature sometimes makes mistakes.
Was it the mother or the father to blame,
inside the damp grass and tilted tent?
Won't you come with me to the fairground?
Your head
will be spinning,
I said your head
is your feet.
And the man at the side of me starts a lewd laugh
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
at the cat with two heads and the dog with eight legs.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
The man has come between us,
his cheeks rattle like a fence,
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
He's come between us, and he starts a lewd laugh.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
I sought shelter from the storm in a small
inn by the coast.
In the children's room three identical sisters sat,
except for the one who was hideously deformed;
her grotesque features seemed to parody her sisters' beauty,
ridiculing and mocking everything I held dear.
Won't you come with me to the fairground?
Your head
will be spinning,
I said your head
is your feet.
And the man at the side of me starts a lewd laugh
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
at the cat with two heads and the dog with eight legs.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
The man has come between us,
his cheeks rattle like a fence,
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
He's come between us, and he starts a lewd laugh.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
The fish-eyed foetus floated blankly in the
yellowed waters,
still as wax.
The man came between us,
my sister and I,
ridiculing and parodying everything we held dear,
making a mockery of our former emotions.
Dragging it all down to his level.
Won't you come with me to the fairground?
Your head
will be spinning.
And the man at the side of me starts a lewd laugh
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
at the cat with two heads and the dog with eight legs.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
The man has come between us,
his cheeks rattle like a fence,
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
He's come between us, and he starts a lewd laugh.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! )
And then we went for rides.
[Jarvis: ] Roll up, roll up, nice rides…
Come on, spin those cars boys and make the girls scream!
The louder you scream the faster we go!
Come on, roll up, go on, ladies and gentlemen, boys and
girls,
for the ride of a lifetime.
There's plenty of seats, come on, don't be shy!
Roll up, come on, come on!
[shrieking and wailing laughter]
And then we went for rides.
I WANT YOU
Hey,
you can look, you can look just like anyone else
if that's what you want to do.
I,
I could laugh,
I could laugh in your face if I want
oh, but I'm not going to.
When we met last week on Saturday,
I couldn't make a sentence,
I couldn't even say
what I meant to say:
that I want you
it doesn't hurt to say I want you,
I need you
I never thought I'd say I need you,
I'll keep you,
oh yes I'll keep you and I'll throw myself away, away, away,
and I'll break you
because I lose myself inside you,
I'll make you
fit in the space that I provide you, I'll take you,
oh yes, I'll take you just to push you far away, away, away.
Yes,
yes, you're all,
yes you're all that I ever desire,
still I'll kill you in the end.
When,
when it seems,
when it seems that it's getting too soft,
when you lapse into a friend,
There's someone just behind the door
so don't betray your feelings,
no don't talk anymore,
never dare to say
that I want you
it doesn't hurt to say I want you,
I need you
I never thought I'd say I need you,
I'll keep you,
oh yes I'll keep you and I'll throw myself away, away, away,
and I'll break you
because I lose myself inside you, I'll make you
fit in the space that I provide you, I'll take you,
oh yes, I'll take you just to push you far away, away, away.
Now,
now we come,
now we come to the end of it all,
see it squirming, almost dead.
No,
you can't leave,
you can't leave it to die here in pain.
You've got to stamp upon it's head.
I'll go out and you'll stay home
facing up to living,
living on your own,
and I'll curse my pride,
curse my pride,
curse my stupid pride
because I want you
it doesn't hurt to say I want you,
I need you
I never thought I'd say I need you,
I'll keep you,
oh yes I'll keep you and I'll throw myself away, away, away,
and I'll break you
because I lose myself inside you, I'll make you
fit in the space that I provide you, I'll take you,
oh yes, I'll take you just to push you far away, away, away.
BEING FOLLOWED HOME
I'm being followed home,
I'm being followed home,
I don't know what for,
I don't know by whom.
The smell of your dress,
a face in the rain,
the pavement shines wet
in focus again.
Oh…
oh…
oh…
oh.
In a dead seaside town
I tried to change my mind
for a well-balanced view
that was not mine to find.
Heaven knows, all your
stars are on show, they last a lifetime,
and your hands leave their
marks in the sand, they last forever,
Forever.
It's clear to me:
you fit so perfectly
in a dimly lit room
just inside of the sea.
His twisted face
tells me to leave this place.
You know somewhere,
but I shouldn't go there, I shouldn't go there.
Heaven knows, all your
stars are on show, they last a lifetime,
and your hands leave their
marks in the sand, they last forever.
They've followed me home -
the one with the dog-breath in the tattoo bar
says something in a language that I don't understand.
The street stinks of piss and dead fish.
Jump a garden wall, landing on the slimy grass,
air roaring in my lungs.
Hear him swear as he stumbles and falls behind me.
Down another cobbled street, footsteps bouncing off the
walls.
Which way?
A bottle smashes.
The glint of a blade in the moonlight.
Someone laughs, the corners turned… and it's too late.
The first blow falls… then nothing.
I awoke on the beach sometime later
to a grey and sunless sky.
Your voice still slithers in my head,
I can't remember what you said.
I get to my feet, my body aches.
I make for the town for no-one's sake.
My mind is a blur, I feel so weak,
I see your reflection in the street.
"It's what you deserve, it's what you need.
Just like those stupid books you read. "
I look to the sky, I see your face,
collapse in the road I hear you say
I shouldn't go there, I shouldn't go there!
My wound's healing now
and your imprint fades,
now just a pale scar
for five vanished days.
Your voice is so weak,
your face is unclear,
your body a legend from a forgotten year.
I've been followed home.
I've been followed home.
I've been followed home.
I've been followed home.
MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
I am the master of this universe
and I've got so big it hurts
Raise your eyes and graze your knees
oh for your master is displeased
because you dared to doubt his word
his polished surface dulls and cracks
Your bitter laughter breaks his back
I am the master of this universe
I taught you everything you know
now you must bear your master's curse
oh for I will not let you go
Now you must walk this town 'til dawn
in every public open place
your master's look upon your face
Oh now look what you have done
you've spoilt it all for everyone
The master masturbates alone
in a corner of your home
You feed him scraps when in the mood
You beat him hard and keep him nude
You cut your master down to size
Now he cries and he cries now
Lalalalala lalala…
And now he begs both night and day
He lets you take him on your knee
He keeps on losing consciousness
he dearly loves his new mistress
Now he repeats it every night
Every night on point of death
"You are the master of this universe"
Now he cries and he cries now
"You are the master of the universe
You are the master of the universe
You are the master of the universe
You are the master of the universe! "
LIFE MUST BE SO WONDERFUL
Life must be so wonderful, living here on your own,
please call
around to see.
And maybe I've been loving you for too long,
and now blind,
I watch you bleed.
You rot in your bedroom, you cry on the phone.
Well I'm sorry
but he's not at home.
You give me your secrets, you give me your heart
and I smile whilst you fall apart.
Oh no,
please not now,
can't you see there's no time?
No, I haven't the time.
Can't you see there's no time?
Oh-oh,
oh-oh-oh-oh,
oh-oh,
oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh…
Now all our dreams melt
in the sun,
and visions
dwindle
one by one by one.
Perhaps you should move somewhere
far away,
to another town
where maybe they
could see things in your way.
It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be hard.
I smile whilst you fall apart.
You're sorry, you're sorry, is all that you say.
Well,
I'd stop it, but I can't find a way.
Your life must be so wonderful,
your visions die and fall.
And in the end,
nothing ends,
just grows fainter
and farther
away.
THERE'S NO EMOTION
As I lay
down in the bedroom,
there came a sound
from far away.
As I strained
my ears to listen
I could hear
a thin voice say:
"In your heart
there's no emotion,
and your soul,
your soul just dried away.
There's no love,
no love left in your body;
standing empty forever,
and colder
every day. "
So I spent
a night without you,
oh yes, I spent
a night outdoors.
Staring in
to unknown faces,
trying to feel
just like before.
In your heart
there's no emotion,
and your soul,
your soul just dried away.
There's no love,
no love left in your body;
standing empty forever,
and colder every day.
Oh yeah.
No I don't
believe in voices,
because I hear
them all the time,
scraping tears
from hardened faces
with their stupid ugly rhymes.
In your heart
there's no emotion,
and your soul,
your soul just dried away.
There's no love,
no love left in your body;
standing empty forever,
and colder every day.
Standing empty forever,
and colder every day.
And this is where the story starts,
holding hands
that hold you forever,
only love
will keep you together.
Holding hands
that hold you forever,
holding hands
that throw you forever
away,
away,
oh.
ANOREXIC BEAUTY
Sitting alone on a cold bar stool,
your cold, hard eyes make me feel a fool.
Pastel-white features,
high cheek-bones,
scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones.
The girl of my nightmares,
sultry and corpse-like.
The girl
of my
nightmares.
Brittle fingers,
and thin cigarettes,
so hard to tell apart,
she hasn't spoken yet.
You put your hand on mine,
death white on brown,
those whirlpool eyes;
well, I begin to drown.
The girl of my nightmares,
erotic and skull-faced.
The girl
of my
nightmares.
Anorexic beauty,
feather-weight perfection,
anorexic beauty,
underweight
goddess.
Sitting alone on
a cold bar stool, your
so hard to tell apart,
she hasn't spoken yet.
Pastel-white features,
high cheek-bones,
scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones.
The girl of my nightmares,
sultry and corpse-like.
The girl
of my
nightmares.
Anorexic beauty,
feather-weight perfection,
anorexic beauty,
underweight
goddess.
THE NEVER AND ENDING
STORY
When all should be done and gone,
he comes round again to see,
he can't keep himself away.
He touches her hand and it starts again.
His work is an ugly mess.
He prods and it cries in pain.
He kicks and it starts to scream.
He hurries away when she cannot see.
When all should be done and gone,
he comes round again to see,
he can't keep himself away.
he touches her hand and it
starts again.
Moving so slowly,
droplets of kindness
that poison and choke
when this thing should have died long ago.
The entrails are soft and warm,
this time it must be the end.
One touch and it lives again.
He keeps it alive to be part of its pain
and that's mercy.
And that's compassion.
And that's being good friends in a crisis.
What's one corpse between friends?
Oh
oh-oh-oh…
Leave it, boy.
Just leave it alone.
Stop scratching, or it'll never heal.
Just let it lie in peace.
Get out of the way,
get out of the way,
the brakes cannot last for long.
He knows he must let it go,
he knows but he keeps a hold.
He touches her hand and it
starts again.
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Moving so slowly,
he drops it so gently,
urging its life
to a peak to torment it again!
DON'T YOU KNOW?
There's not much time for talking,
all your friends are
going to walk away.
If there was time for talking
all too soon you'd be
lost for things to say.
Don't you know she could break you,
every bone that's inside of you?
Then again she might make you
everything that you want her to,
and if you could walk away,
where would you go
anyway?
And if you've still got the chance,
I know you know you'll stay,
stay.
I don't need your excuses;
are you tired of
trying to stay on top?
so just lie back and enjoy it
and save your tears for
when the kissing stops
oh, you know it's got to stop.
Don't you know she could break you,
every bone that's inside of you?
Then again she might make you
everything that you want her to,
and if you could walk away,
where would you go
anyway?
And if you've still got the chance,
I know you know you'll stay,
stay.
Oh, you'll stay,
oh, you'll stay.
Don't you know she could break you,
every bone that's inside of you?
Then again she might make you
everything that you want her to,
and if you could walk away,
where would you go
anyway?
And if you've still got the chance,
I know you know you'll stay,
stay.
Oh, you'll stay,
oh, you'll stay.
Oh, you'll stay,
oh, you'll stay,
oh, you'll stay,
oh, you'll stay,
oh, you'll stay.
THEY SUFFOCATE AT
NIGHT
His body loved her
his mind was set on other things
Keep your face out of sight
and your thoughts to yourself
And this went on for several nights
festering in silence, growing in the dark
and this they saw as love
Love
So sad to see
They suffocate at night
Oh this they saw as love
Love
So sad to see
to see it slowly die
She met his wishes
he found that he had changed his mind
Now the fit is too tight
and the bedroom too warm
The days are filled with things to do
Nighttime lies so hollow and memories betray
Oh memories of love
Love
So sad to see
They suffocate at night
Those memories of love
Love
So sad to see
to see it slowly die
Two years have passed
two years of emptiness inside
and the grey skies above
just show how far I went wrong
I wonder if she's living there
the way that I recall
the way I'll always think of you
And when I think of you
I think of love
Love
So sad to see
They suffocate at night
You know I think of love
Love
So sad to see
to see it slowly die
I wrote you a letter
I threw it away
I wrote you a letter
I threw it away
I need her
I know I don't need her
I need her
Oh
Oh-oh
LOVE IS BLIND
Give me the city.
Give me the sea.
Give to me everything I need.
The future is shining like a giant metal beast.
It shines so bright tonight, with its legs open wide
And love is blind.
Falls in love with itself again, like it never should, the
way
it always can.
And she is mine, but the world is much bigger now
Oh tell me, should I hold her hand, and give her love,
or take her heart and throw it far away?
Oh now is the time, to jump into it all.
I'll just hold my nose, and try not to fall.
To seek and to find, instead of walking around with eyes
glued
to the sky
I turn them down to the ground.
Oh and I used to think that maybe one day,
I'd find the love of my life.
Oh but it's so far away.
Oh I don't know why.
Oh but I, I want it all tonight.
And love is blind.
Falls in love with itself again, like it never should, the
way
it always can.
Oh and she is mine, but the world is much bigger now
Oh tell me, should I hold her hand, and give her love,
or take her heart and throw it far away?
We held hands, and we looked out of the bedroom window.
We could see all the buildings collapsing around us, so
we
kissed.
And we laid on the bed, and we waited for the ceiling to
fall
in.
But it never did.
In the morning it was all still there.
The spilled milk and the dog-turd,
in that grey ashtray morning light.
I could hear thousands of people,
and they were all singing this song:
La lala lala…
Hey butcher!
Oh, oh, oh hey butcher!
What's your name?
Oh hey butcher, what's your game?
Oh, you take all their love, and you suck out their eyes,
and then you rip out their hearts, and you eat their insides.
Yeah, then you just walk away, with a smile on your face.
Hey butcher, hey butcher, I've seen your face before
Lalalalalalala…
And love is blind.
DON'T YOU WANT ME
ANYMORE?
On the night that I was leaving,
the moon rose in the sky.
As I came, to fetch my suitcase,
and then you began to cry.
I've never seen you look so ugly as the way you did that
night.
That night was eighteen months ago.
Now I'm two hours from the station.
Yeah I'm coming home again.
I'm gonna show this town who's master soon as I get off
this
train.
You're gonna love me more than ever,
and the sun will shine again.
And I will kiss your face,
and I will make you smile again.
And then the whole damn town will come on out to welcome
me.
Oh they will open all the doors and give it all to me.
Oh no but still your voice is ringing in my ears.
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
And I can't, I can't believe it's happening.
I know that, oh there must be some mistake.
You found yourself another lover,
and you're glad we made the break.
Oh you don't even, you don't even want to see me.
You just wanna wave and say "Goodbye.
Go away now, and leave us alone,
No this house is not your own. "
And now the whole damn town has come on out to laugh at
me.
Oh yeah.
Oh they can stare for evermore; you do not care for me.
Oh no.
Oh they can stare now for a hundred thousand years.
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
SHE'S DEAD
On the night that I was leaving,
the moon rose in the sky.
As I came, to fetch my suitcase,
and then you began to cry.
I've never seen you look so ugly as the way you did that
night.
That night was eighteen months ago.
Now I'm two hours from the station.
Yeah I'm coming home again.
I'm gonna show this town who's master soon as I get off
this
train.
You're gonna love me more than ever,
and the sun will shine again.
And I will kiss your face,
and I will make you smile again.
And then the whole damn town will come on out to welcome
me.
Oh they will open all the doors and give it all to me.
Oh no but still your voice is ringing in my ears.
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
And I can't, I can't believe it's happening.
I know that, oh there must be some mistake.
You found yourself another lover,
and you're glad we made the break.
Oh you don't even, you don't even want to see me.
You just wanna wave and say "Goodbye.
Go away now, and leave us alone,
No this house is not your own. "
And now the whole damn town has come on out to laugh at
me.
Oh yeah.
Oh they can stare for evermore; you do not care for me.
Oh no.
Oh they can stare now for a hundred thousand years.
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
SEPARATIONS
As the sun shines down on the land,
so her heart is crying for love.
And there is no-one there,
no-one to hear her voice.
And she will sleep alone again tonight.
Now the moon is high in the sky.
In her room she calls out his name.
But he is somewhere else,
somewhere she cannot see.
Oh, and the night is dark between them now,
"My god, my God, why did he go away? "
Now the sun shines on a new town.
With a smile he gets off the train.
He lights a cigarette,
leans back to see the sky.
Oh and he thinks how much better off he is,
without her hanging round.
Let's do it.
And the day is passing by him,
and he has nowhere to stay.
At a lonely bar-room table,
his mind goes back to yesterday,
to the girl who's dead and buried,
but her face lives in his eyes.
He must forget that face forever.
Make the future start tonight.
But the meal he eats is dead flesh.
There is cancer in his cigarettes.
And the drinks won't do a thing for him,
but revive some stupid memories.
Then a hairstyle that reminds him,
makes him run into the night,
where the moon hangs high above him now,
the same moon that she's praying on tonight.
But the wind catches her words.
And the moon swallows them whole.
Now the moon is high in the sky.
In her room she calls out his name.
The night is cold and dark, and she is all alone.
The bed is empty now.
Her body screams for love.
She wants to be with him.
Oh but he's so far away.
Oh and the night is dark between them now
"My God, my God, why did he go away? "
DOWN BY THE RIVER
Take me down,
to the river,
where I would not go before.
Through the trees and the rushes,
to a place we both know.
And I'm feeling much younger,
as I kneel on the ground,
Dip my toe in the water,
of the river where I watched you drown
Nadadum nananana nana na…
Oh when the river ran dry that next year,
I could not find your body.
Now I'm standing here ready at last,
to dive down and reach you again.
And I long to be with you
Now these cold nights have come,
oh I go down to the river,
but the river will stop for no-one.
Though I ask it it keeps flowing on,
When I ask it,
it tells me you're gone.
Dadow…
COUNTDOWN
Oh I was seventeen,
when I heard the countdown start, it started slowly,
and I thought it was my heart but then I realised,
that this time it was for real there was no place to hide,
I had to go out and feel,
but there was time to kill,
and so I, I walked my way around town,
I tried to love the world,
oh but the world just got me down,
and so I looked for you,
in every street of every town I wanted to see your face,
I wanna, I wanna see you now.
I wanna see you now.
Oh and so it went,
Oh so it went for several years I couldn't stand it
No, oh it must be getting near now that,
you just don't know,
oh no you, you just don't understand how many people have
seen
you,
in the arms of, of some other man,
I've got to meet you, and find you,
and take you by the hand, oh my God,
my God, you've got to understand,
that I was seventeen.
I didn't, I didn't know a thing at all.
I've got no reason,
I've got no reason at all, Oh no.
The time, of my life,
oh I think you came too soon,
Yeah you came too soon then,
Oh and it could, it could be tonight,
if I ever leave this room,
(I never leave this room no)
Oh I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that
only get
me down,
Get down, oh.
Oh and the sky,
is crying out tonight,
for me to leave this town,
so I'm gonna leave this town.
Goodbye.
O. K.
Yeah you can leave me,
oh you, you can go some other place,
you can't forget it.
Yeah, you know, you know that's O. K.
'cos, 'cos I own this town,
Yeah, I brought it to its knees,
Can you hear it crying?
Can you?
Can you hear it begging to me "Please? "
I know it's coming,
so soon now
oh, oh it's on it's way.
Oh no, oh no, oh I can hear them say,
they say I can't survive,
They say I, I'll never leave the ground,
They say it's all a lie,
and now, and now it's coming down,
Oh baby now,
Time, of my life, oh I think you came too soon.
Yeah you came too soon now,
Oh and it could, oh it could be tonight,
if I ever leave this room,
(I never leave this room now)
Oh oh oh
I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only
get me
down.
Get down, oh
Oh and the sky, is crying out tonight,
for me to leave this town,
So I'm gonna go, gonna be there,
I'm gonna go.
Bub-bye.
It's O. K,
You don't have to care.
Really.
Oh, oh really, I swear,
No, no you owe me nothing,
You owe nothing to me,
And if I messed it up baby,
Then, that's all up to me.
And if you go, then, then I won't follow, no, no
cos so many times I've been,
I've been thinking maybe, oh maybe I should
No, I, I'm gonna stay
I, I'm gonna make my way
Oh, I'm gonna get on through babe
I'm gonna make it all some day
Oh, time, of my life,
no I think you came too soon,
You came too soon then.
Oh and it could, it could be tonight,
if I ever leave this room,
(I never, I never leave this room, no)
Oh oh oh
I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only
get me
down
Get down, oh
And the sky, is crying out tonight,
for me to leave this town.
So I'll leave this town.
The sky, is crying out tonight,
for me to leave this town,
yeah I'm gonna leave this town
Time
is crying out tonight
for me to leave this town
So I'm gonna go yeah
I'm gonna go
Yeah
Bub-bye
I'm gonna leave this town
You're not gonna have me around
Oh
The sky and stars and God will never ever laugh
Me and stars and moon are falling down.
MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND
You know sometimes… when we're lying together…
and I know you're asleep… I can hear the soft sound
of your
breathing…
so I get up… and I go to the window… Outside…
I can see all
the houses…
curtains shut tight against the night… asleep beneath
the
roof-tiles…
and as I stand here… I wonder… I wonder how
many more times…
I'm gonna come here… I wonder how many more times…
I'm gonna
lie here…
and most of all… most of all I wonder… I wonder
what it
means…
I just wanna know what it means… So I woke her…
and we went walking through the sleeping town…
down deserted streets… frozen gardens grey in the
moonlight…
fences… down to the canal…
creeping slowly past the cooling towers…
deserted factories… looking for an adventure…
I wandered the streets calling your name… jumping
walls…
hoping to see a light in the window… let me in…
let me come in… let me in tonight…
oh I see you shivering in the garden…
silver goose flesh in the moonlight…she's balancing…
there are so many others… with unbroken eyes…
no cellulite afternoons… and she is balancing…
balancing on the edge of ugliness tonight…
She is balancing…
good God!
My legendary girlfriend,
she is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold,
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doesn't care,
oh well, he'll never know.
Jump… touch my hair… I wanna…
I don't care… cos tonight… we
could,
maybe we… maybe we can touch the sky… do you
think that we
can…
do you think that we can… touch the sky… please…
I know…
I know it's not forever… but tonight I don't care…
your skin so pale in the moonlight…
and the way your lips swell up when you're asleep…
nothing else matters… do you know how much I want
you? …
Can you feel how much I want you? …
Oh
Pitsmoor Woman
oh let
oh let me in tonight
My legendary girlfriend,
she is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold.
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doesn't care,
oh well, he'll never know.
And all the stars came out tonight,
and the moon came on it's face,
It shone right though the clothes she wore,
it shone right through the dress she wore.
Good God
Oh, y'know… listen… listen…
please… oh… I just wanna…
I just wanna… He falls to sleep again… no cheese
tonight… she knows
My legendary girlfriend,
she is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold.
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doesn't care,
oh well, he'll never know.
And all the stars came out tonight,
and the moon came on it's face.
It shone right through the dress she wore,
it shone right through the clothes she wore.
And the stars and the moon,
And the stars all came down today.
Oh please love me tonight
Good God now!
DEATH II
Oh now the lonely nights begin,
and there is nowhere left to go,
but watch my spirit melt away,
down at the D-I-S-C-O.
I must have died a thousand times,
The next day, I was still alive.
And I still believe in you,
Yes I do.
Let's do it now.
No. I was not crushed, I did not cry
You know that everything's O. K.
It's just sometimes I wake at night,
All alone and see your face.
Oh, thousands feel the same,
but the night-time falls away.
Oh no but still sometimes I feel,
oh sometimes I feel like Jesus Christ now, Hey,
I feel this night will never end,
and I will never see the day.
Oh I was nothing when you came,
I'm no-one now you've gone away.
Oh all I do is just O. K.
All of my nights,
and all of my days.
Oh-oh if you came home right now,
I'd run away,
Oh run away now.
O. K. now
Alright.
You can go out and make love to whoever, or whatever you
like
babe
So I go out and fill my eyes with other women,
Oh they look good to me and I think that I might kiss them,
Oh now it's two a. m. and I'm still stood here waiting,
so I go home and wonder why I bothered going.
Yeah every week turns out the same,
the sun, the wind, the snow, the rain.
Oh no but still sometimes I feel,
oh sometimes I feel like Jesus Christ now, Hey,
I feel this night will never end,
and I will never see the day.
Oh I was nothing when you came,
I'm no-one now you've gone away.
Oh all I do is just O. K.
All of my nights, and all of my days.
Oh-oh if you came home right now,
I'd run away.
I can't believe it.
I can't remember your face anymore.
Or the sound of your voice.
Or any touch of your skin,
is a legend.
By the way,
did I tell you that I loved you?
Oh if I didn't I'm so sorry.
You know I,
I really,
I really meant to tell you.
It's O. K. there's no need to hurry.
But the bed is full of memories,
full of memories of you.
Oh I've tried to get them out but,
but there's nothing I can do.
Oh if I knew the moon I'd ask him,
Shine his light in through your window,
and send your body home to me today.
Hey,
I feel this night will never end,
and I will never see the day,
Oh I was nothing when you came,
I'm no-one now you've gone away
Oh all I do is O. K.
All of my nights,
and all of my days.
Oh-oh if you came home right now,
I'd run away,
Run away,
Run away.
THIS HOUSE IS CONDEMNED
He's in a room
He sees the floor
He sees the wall
He sees the roof
He sees the door
It's nine thirty-eight
So he goes up to the door
and he finds himself in another room
identical to the one before
The clock still reads nine thirty-eight
So he goes out of that room
but he finds himself in a parallel room
a mirror image of the one before
He hits the floor
He hits the wall
He hits the door
He hits the door
The clock reads nine thirty-eight
He throws it at the roof
He breaks a hole
He climbs out
He sees the moon
He sees the stars
He sees the sky
The stars are small lightbulbs
set in a black cardboard dome
He climbs out
He sees the stars, he sees the sky
The stars are small lightbulbs
set in a black cardboard dome
He hits the floor
He hits the wall
He hits the roof
He hits the dome
He hits the dome
Condemned
This house
This house is
This house is
Is this house
This house
Is this house
Fill in housing form
Buy one clock
Time again
Sort housing papers
Still nine thirty-eight
Two thousand years from now
it will still be ticking
He hits the floor
Wall, roof, door
The clock reads nine thirty-eight
He hits the dome
Door, wall
Space, floor
Time
He sees the moon
He sees the stars
for some romantic reason
Space, dome, door, wall, clockface
Space, time, place, floor, wall, door, roof
This is one small step for mankind
one giant leap for man
Ten
Nine
Eight
Seven
Six
Five
Four
Three
Two
One
Zero
We have lift-off
He takes the clock, he breaks the dome, he sees the moon,
he sees the stars, he sees the sky, he sees the Earth
for some romantic reason
He takes the clock, he breaks the dome, he sees the moon,
he sees the stars, he sees the sky, he sees the Earth
Space, time, place, condensed
Space, time, place, condemned
This is house is
This house is
This house is
condemned
This house is
This house is
This house is
condemned.
LITTLE GIRL (WITH
BLUE EYES)
You're just a
little girl (with blue eyes)
Everybody looks at you
(well, it's your day)
and you're
stepping from the black car
but you'll be getting back in soon
(and on your way)
Little girl (with blue eyes)
there's a hole in your heart
and one between your legs
You've never had to wonder
which one he's going to fill
in spite of what he said
You'll never get away
hey
you'll give it up one day
come what may
Dad's not got a shot-gun
but his look's enough to murder you
(see what you've done)
and forget about the paintings
cos you'd better get the washing done
(oh something's wrong)
Little girl (with blue eyes)
there's a hole in your heart
and one between your legs
You've never had to wonder
which one he's going to fill
in spite of what he said
You'll never get away
hey
you'll give it up one day
come what may
Face down on the pavement
chalk lines round your little hands
(hit and run)
and now a
mother sits in silence
in a darkness she can't understand
(where you've gone)
Oh
Little girl (with blue eyes)
there's a hole in your heart
and one between your legs
You've never had to wonder
which one he's going to fill
in spite of what he said
You'll never get away
hey
you'll give it up one day
come what may.
SIMULTANEOUS
Oh, there's a place for you
You'd better stay in it
A place for everything
and of course all you can do is talk about it
Oh, you've got it all
Yes you've got it all
Yes you've got it all
You've got it all
It let you down
Now it doesn't seem so simple
that dirt gets everywhere
And your mouth won't get you out of it
standing naked, standing bare
Oh you knew it all
Yes you knew it all
Yes you knew it all
You knew it all
It let you down
Now see it all burning, your contract in ashes,
your clean-living lovers. your reasonable wishes,
your time-tabled kisses, your well-rehearsed phrases,
your separate bedrooms, your forbidden places,
you're out on the moorland, you're naked and bleeding with
no
kind of shelter
and no place to hide in, you're screaming for mercy, abandoned,
forsaken, you're screaming for mercy and then you awaken
La la lala lala lala la…
Oh.
BLUE GLOW
So late looking up at your window
as it bathes me in your
blue midnight glow
I wonder why you're not sleeping
and I wonder
if you could know
Tonight
make it tonight
Tonight
make it tonight
Crouched down by a bush at the roadside
I watch as
you pass me by
Lost down by the side of the river
and no light comes
from the empty sky
Tonight
make it tonight
Tonight
make it tonight
I left home at midnight
made for the horizon
no sense of direction
I walked on for miles,
oh I hope that I find you
I hide from the headlamps
no lights in the window
the whole town is sleeping and somewhere you lie,
oh, I wish I could find you
Oh I'm lost by the river
my clothes are in tatters
my face scarred by branches
I shiver with cold,
no, I don't think I'll find you
Tonight
make it tonight
Tonight
make it tonight
Won't you make it tonight?
Oh say you'll meet me tonight
Won't you make it tonight?
Say you'll meet me tonight
THE WILL TO POWER
Walking from the scene of some humiliation feeling like
a dog.
Walking from the scene of some romantic triumph feeling
like
God.
Walk towards the small town lights, felt brighter than the
lot
of them,
can have anything, can never fail.
The will to power, the force of destiny and efficiency.
Generations glimpse the high pitch, play it for real,
four billion spectators look on;
judging, analysing, losing; sinking, swimming, striving,
longing, failing.
Weak flesh projected through Europe on speed of all the
needs;
suck and sate, forces of fate.
A polemic, a sharp cutter, a fashion, a spirit, a simplicity.
The only choice, the only voice, in the darkness.
The only choice, the only voice.
1933, where are you now?
Where are the broken bottles?
Where's the toffs slumming it?
Where's the fanaticism?
Where's truth and beauty?
Walk towards the small town lights, felt brighter than the
lot
of them,
can have anything, can never fail.
The will to power, the force of destiny and efficiency.
Generations glimpse the high pitch, play it for real,
four billion spectators look on;
judging, analysing, losing; sinking, swimming, striving,
longing, failing.
Weak flesh projected through Europe on speed of all the
needs;
suck and sate, forces of fate.
A polemic, a sharp cutter, a fashion, a spirit, a simplicity.
The only choice, the only voice, in the darkness.
The only choice, the only voice.
1933, where are you now?
Where are the broken bottles?
Where's the fanaticism?
Where's truth and beauty?
Where's truth and beauty?
DOGS ARE EVERYWHERE
Dogs are everywhere
almost everywhere
that I go
They have too much and then
They have too much again
and then more
They leave their
scent behind them
everywhere they go
Oh dogs are everywhere
that I go
Oh dogs are everywhere
almost everywhere
that I go
They have too much and then
they have too much again
and then more
They leave their scent behind them
everywhere they go
Oh dogs are everywhere
yes dogs are everywhere
yes dogs are everywhere
that I go
They always wag their tails
at all the pretty girls
and older women
They find their own way in
and they rip up everything
that I believe in
Sometimes
I have to wonder
about the dog in me
Oh dogs are everywhere
yes dogs are everywhere
yes dogs are everywhere
that I go
They get down on all fours
when you walk through the door
They whine and beg around your feet
like a dog for something sweet
They sink their teeth in you
they're tearing you in two
Remains are buried out of doors
Oh I want some more
I want some more
Sometimes
I have to wonder
about the dog in me
Oh dogs are everywhere
yes dogs are everywhere
oh dogs are everywhere
that I go
Sometimes
I have to wonder
about the dog in me
Oh dogs are everywhere
yes dogs are everywhere
yes dogs are everywhere
that I go
that I go
that I go
that I go
Everywhere
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere
Dogs are everywhere.
MARK OF THE DEVIL
The mark of the devil is upon you
Your look is no happier than mine
Damnation is waiting in the mirror
but you shouldn't mind
Their legs start a feeling in your stomach
Their eyes knock you backwards with a glance
Your pride sinks unnoticed in the river
given half a chance
And your past is just a bedroom full of implements
of cruelty
and a list will bind your eyes as you grow old
but you want to join the laughter sharing simple shreds
of
feeling
but you fidget and your heart is growing cold
Smiles left unfollowed start to haunt you
Chances that perished long ago
The devil is waiting in the bathroom
with your worthless soul
The years pull their weight down on your cheekbones
the nights out are hanging from your waist
The years float like dust held in the sunlight
with an aftertaste
And your past is just a bedroom full of implements
of cruelty
and a list will bind your eyes as you grow old
but you want to join the laughter sharing simple shreds
of
feeling
but you fidget and your heart is growing cold
La la lala lala la la…
And your past is just a bedroom full of implements of cruelty
and a list will bind your eyes as you grow old
and you want to join the laughter sharing simple shreds
of
feeling
but you fidget and your heart is growing cold
And your past is just a bedroom full of implements of cruelty
and a list will bind your eyes as you grow old
and you want to join the laughter sharing simple shreds
of
feeling
but you fidget and your heart is growing cold
La la lala…
Oh…
97 LOVERS
Ninety-seven lovers
twisted out of shape
and just one kiss
could set them straight
Ninety-seven lovers
twisted out of shape
and just one kiss
could set them straight
I know a woman
with a picture of Roger Moore
in a short towel and dressing-gown
pinned to her bedroom wall
She married a man
who works on a building site
Now they make love beneath Roger
every Friday night
Ninety-seven lovers
twisted out of shape
and just one kiss
could set them straight
Ninety-seven lovers
rose to meet the sun
and when the day was over
there were only ninety-one
Another I know
well, she laughs too loud with her friends
playing it safe on the surface
to give her heart time to mend
and then one day without warning
he walks unannounced through the door
and he picks her heart up off the table
and he watches it smash on the floor
Ninety-seven lovers
twisted out of shape
and just one kiss
could set them straight
Ninety-seven lovers
rose to meet the sun
and when the day was over
there were only ninety-one.
ABORIGINE
Starts so slowly, just a place to stay
Somewhere warm where they can spend their days
Air is stagnant and he feels unclean
Hair hangs greasy and he smells obscene
Something's happened and it's not so good
broken bottles in the face of love
Mottled flesh under the harsh strip-light
Nylon sheets to keep them warm at night
Once it's started it can never stop
fills his head with a dark damp fog
In the distance is a constant cry
growing louder as the years go by
Days get longer and he starts to drink
spews his stomach in the kitchen sink
Tells his children they should have respect
Tells his wife that she's a nervous wreck
He hates his wife and he hates them all
He hates his wife and he hates them all
Can't be bothered when it's all the same
leave it long enough, it goes away
In the meantime stomach turns to fat
She tries to tell him but he can't have that
She's only jealous and she's telling lies
Standing naked in his flesh disguise
It took him months to get her into bed
now he's got her he just wants her dead
She wants excitement and she needs romance
all she gets are dirty underpants
Stupid animal that can't know why
something's wrong so someone has to die
The wind is blowing and the rain falls down
Sends his family on a trip down town
Sees them die in a burning wreck
Sees them burn, smokes a cigarette
He hates his wife and he hates them all
He hates his wife and he hates them all
He knows he's finished but he can't stop
now
and he wants to end it but he can't see how
and it's all in pieces, thrown it all away
Oh, but he's not ugly, he just looks that way
And he wants some quiet and he needs it now
but the scream he's started's getting far too loud
and he still pretends he does it just for now
His day will come he'll lose it all somehow
Killing time until his ship arrives
been dead ten years but he's still alive
and the time is wasted and the ship has sunk
but he hasn't noticed and he comes home drunk
and he's just dead weight, he'll never leave the ground
He tries to stand but he keeps falling down
and it's hard to know he doesn't count for much
He's not a has-been, just a never-was
Oh he hates his wife and he hates them all
He hates his wife and he hates them all
Hates his wife
Hates them all.
GOODNIGHT
Now it's coming to the end of the evening
The time when the ceiling sways and objects jerk out of
place
Your eyelids heavy, you make your way down the yellow streets
past rows and rows of houses
curtains drawn tight against the cold night air
to a flight of stairs
which lead to a room
where a bed is waiting for you to lie down
perhaps alone, perhaps not
and go to sleep again
They wait alone
in unused rooms
they sit and they remember
Oh, please remember
So you lie on your back in the dark
and listen to the blood rushing in your ears
and the soft "tick, tick, tick" of your watch
against
the mattress springs
Patterns merge behind your eyes
Purple and green, glowing gently
and all is soft with furry darkness
You yawn once
turn on your side
and fall to sleep again
They wait alone
they bathed your eyes
when nights were cold
Remember
Oh, please remember
There's something you've
forgotten
When you awoke later that night the bedroom was cold and
you
were alone
Alone and afraid of the dark
Watching
Waiting
Watching
Waiting
As you lie on your back
naked beneath the cold sheets
Not dead, just sleeping
Sleeping
And you will never wake again.
THEY
SUFFOCATE AT NIGHT
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TUNNEL
The tenth of July, 1985
Don't ask stupid questions
I had nothing to do I was bored
I had, I had not
Fifteen weeks since the light has gone
Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on
A thousand bodies stink and sweat
and somebody's trying to roll a cigarette
Clean mister
Clean mister
Clean missed her
Just relax and enjoy it, it's nothing really.
Let's get you out of these damp clothes,
just lift yourself up,
get those dreadful trousers off.
You'll feel so much better afterwards.
Just close your eyes and let it ooze all over you.
Trickling down your back warm and sticky.
Isn't that nice?
No don't speak, just let yourself go,
sink, sinking down deeper and deeper and deeper.
At 3 o'clock that morning I awoke in an unfamiliar room
in my hands like sodden paper
a thick, glutinous pale green liquid
sunlight through net curtains
6, 000 miles an hour into brilliant white light.
There's a brass band playing somewhere.
Roll on your back and wait for the talbum.
But what's that?
Pull back the linen sheets to find the shirt
they peeled off your back only two hours before
the bed tips sideways.
No
and to one day wake up in green fields with the sky blue
above
me.
And to be clean again.
But I know I'll never be clean again.
MASTER
OF THE UNIVERSE [SANITIZED VERSION]
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MANON
Manon
Manon
keeps a corpse in his home
Manon
Manon
picks the flesh from her bones
Manon
Manon
Manon
Manon
hard and white as a stone
Manon
Manon
sits alone, all alone
Manon
Manon Manon
Oh, Manon
Manon
Manon
leave her body alone
Manon
Manon
put a match to your home
Manon
Manon
Manon
Oh, Manon
Dans les jardins
on peut voir Manon
un enfant de quarante-cinq ans
Ca femme est morte
oui, c'est vrai
mais il cueillit la peau de ces os
Derriere les arbres
il voit une jeune fille
en jouant avec son frere
Il les approche
Je vous renonce Manon
Vous etes un vrai chien
Laissez son corps en paix Manon
Manon.
