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1959
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- Living as an angel in the place that I was born
Living on air
Living in heaven
Giving the lie down, the line
To the
There's my heaven
And I know
Which way the wind blows
In nineteen fifty-nine
Which way the wind blows
In nineteen fifty-nine
And the wind blows still
And the wind blows wild again
For a little child can never kill this clean
This way
And it feels like me today
Tell me
Do you feel the same?
Isabelle?
Or do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine?
Do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine?
And the wind blows wild again
And the wind blows wild
In nineteen fifty-nine
In fifty-nine
Isabelle
Do you, do you feel the same?
Come with me
Like a little child
Like another gun
Like homeless restless, known to none, like
Way beyond the line
Like it never was
In nineteen fifty-nine
"1959 and all that" explanation
1969 (The Stooges)
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- Music: Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, Iggy Pop.
- Lyrics: Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, Iggy Pop.
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- Well allright!!!
It's 1969 OK
We got a war across the USA
There's nothing here for me and you
We're just sitting here with nothing to do
There's nothing here for me and you
Another year with nothing to do
Now last year I was 21
I didn't have a lot of fun
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
It's 1969 OK
We got a war across the USA
There's nothing here for me and you
We're just sitting here with nothing to do
Well it's 1969, baby
Well it's 1969, baby
It's 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9-teen 69
Teen 69 (3x)
Yow!!! (3x)
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Adrenochrome
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
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We'll turn away in a passive decision
We'll take the steps through the unmarked door
A look back for another collision
But the boys of the spires
Are boys no more
Not black and red boys
Frightened by the night
By the catholic monochrome
The catholic girls now
Stark in their dark and white
Dread in monochrome
The sisters of mercy
High tide
Wide eyed
Sped on adrenochrome
For the sisters of mercy
Filled with
Panic in their eyes
Rise
Dead on adrenochrome
We had the power
We had the space
We had a sense of time and place
We knew the words
We knew the score
We knew what we were fighting for
For the freedom
The time to choose
But time to think
Is time to lose
The signals clash
And disappear
The shade too loud
And the sound unclear
For the
High tide
Wide eyed
Dread in monochrome
Denied in spite
Disliked in monochrome
Panic in their eyes
Rise
Dead and monochrome
The sisters of mercy
Spite
On adrenochrome
The way is clear
The road is closed
The damage done
And the course
Imposed you
We'll turn away in a passive decision
We'll take the steps through the unmarked door
A look back for another collision
But the boys of the spires
Are boys no more
Not black and red boys
Frightened by the night
By the catholic monochrome
The catholic girls now
Stark in their dark and white
Dread in monochrome
The sisters of mercy
High tide
Wide eyed
Sped on adrenochrome
For the sisters of mercy
Filled with
Panic in their eyes
Rise
Dead on ice
"1959 and all that" explanation
Afterhours
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- One more night spent on your mirror
Black Maria, in your eyes
This stuff so strange and lonely
England fades away
In your eyes
Two o'clock in the morning
Ninety-four degrees
Through the stillness through the heat
The cars go by on fifth and breathing slow
Get up off the floor and angel put your clothes on
It's time for us to go
Let's take a ride
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Alice
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Alice pressed against the wall
So she can see the door
In case the laughing strangers call and
Crush the petals on the floor
Alice in her party dress
She thanks you kindly
So serene
She needs you like she needs her tranqs
To tell her that the world is clean
To promise her a definition
Tell her where the rain will fall
Tell her where the sun shines bright
And tell her she can have it all
Today
Today
Pass the crystal spread the tarot
In illusion comfort lies
The safest way the straight and narrow
No confusion no surprise
Alice in her party dressed to kill
She the thanks you turns away
She needs you like she needs needs her pills
To tell her that the world's okay
To promise her a definition
Tell her where the rain will fall
Tell her where the sun shines bright
And tell her she can have it all
Today
Today
Alice
Don't give it way
"1959 and all that" explanation
Amphetamine Logic
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- Music: Craig Adams
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Watch them do
The falling over
Watch them do
The standing still
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
(Women)
And the women come and go
(Talk)
Talking about me like they know
(Men)
Bought and sold
And the world keeps turning
People cold
And people burning
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
(Amphetamine logic)
Hit up
Steel in hand
Lit up
Like candles
Burning
Like Catherine wheels
Turning
On
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
(Amphetamine logic)
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s.....
Anaconda
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch, Gary Marx
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch, Gary Marx (?)
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"1959 and all that" explanation
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- Baby buy an Anaconda, Baby buy a thing to wear
She go walking, she go crawling, she go sliding through the air
She go talking warm and fashion, she go talking debonair but
See her face turn to a mask and passion turn to she don't care
She will, she will, she will, she will ... let it take her breath away
She will, she will, she will, she will ... let it take her life away
Let it wrap itself around her
Till it kill her in it's way
She will, she will, she will, she will ... blow away
Baby hit the rush hour traffic, get a ride to anywhere
Baby buy the number three, she pay the man, she pay the fare
Baby hit the wild blue yonder, on the mainline, on the slide
Steal to feed the Anaconda, will not see the suicide
She will, she will, she will, she will ... let it take her breath away
She will, she will, she will, she will ... let it take her life away
Let it wrap itself around her
Till it kill her in it's way
She will, she will, she will, she will ... blow away
Baby finger on the trigger, Baby shot formaldehyde
Turn into a marble figure, turn the matter dead inside
Turn into a China doll, go maybe to the final ride
Baby go where I don't follow Baby to the other side She will, she will, she will, she will ... make it take her breath away
She will, she will, she will, she will ... make it take her life away
Make it wrap itself around her
Till it kill her in it's way
She will, she will, she will, she will ... blow away
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Arms (All There Is To Fear Is Fear Of Fear) - Unreleased -
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Live your life in parallax
Live your life through the lens
Live your life in the rape room
Or the Mercedes Benz
Throw away the underclasses
Throw your love on the lawn
Everybody got locked and loaded
With the hammer drawn
Come feel the arms around you...
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A Rock And A Hard Place
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- Music: Wayne Hussey
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- And she came to look for me
Sold me name and innocence
Took my key
And told me to follow her
Down from Igor with her bangles and her reference
One from the church from the valley of the --
Well she wanted a haven and a place to hide
So I gave her an alibi took her inside but ...
(chorus)
A rock and a hard place await for for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong,
Belong...
And I didn't have the heart to tell her why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but...
Cause and effect go hand in hand and
The devil may care but I don't mind
And I thought she'd never quite understand
So I left her there that night
But will she find me?
I don't think so, no
When you go, you go alone
And I'm gone ...
Far away (x4)
And I didn't have the heart to tell her why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but :
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Bad Vultee (SSV)
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- Music: P. Bellendir
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- Wingspan
Wingspan
One hundred and ten feet
Length
Seventy-four feet, seven inches
Height
Twenty-nine feet, one and a half inches
Thirty-nine thousand, four hundred pounds
Empty
Seventy-four feet, seven inches
Wing area
One thousand and fourty-eight square feet
(The following verse sounds phased and flanged, so it's a little hard to hear what's being said)
One thousand and fourty-eight square feet
Thirty-nine thousand, four hundred pounds
Empty
Empty
"1959 and all that" explanation
Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Andrews Sisters)
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- Music: Sholom Secunda
- Lyrics: Jacob Jacobs
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- Off all the boys I've known, and I've known some
Until I first met you, I was lonesome
And when you came in sight, dear, my heart grew light
And this old world seemed new to me
You're really swell, I have to admit you
Deserve expresssions that really fit you
And so I've rocked my brain, hoping to explain
All the things that you do to me
Bei mir bist du schön, please let me explain
Bei mir bist du schön, means you're grand
Bei mir bist du schön, again I'll explain
It means you're the fairest in the land
I could say "Bella, Bella", even say "Voonderbar"
Each language only helps me tell you how grand you are
I've tried to explain, bei mir bist du schön
So kiss me and say you understand
Bei mir bist du schön, you've heard it all before but let me try to explain
Bei mir bist du schön, means that you're grand
Bei mir bist du schön, it's such an old refain and yet I should explain
It means I am begging for your hand
I could say "Bella, Bella", even say "Voonderbar"
Each language only helps me tell you how grand you are
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I could say "Bella, Bella", even say "Voonderbar"
Each language only helps me tell you how grand you are
I've tried to explain, bei mir bist du schön
So kiss me and say that you will understand
Black Planet
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- Music: Wayne Hussey
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- (In the western sky)
(My kingdom come)
So still so dark all over Europe
And I ride down the highway 101
By the side of the ocean headed for sunset
For the kingdom come
For the
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
Run around in the radiation
Run around in the acid rain
On a
Black
Black planet
Black planet hanging over the highway
Out of my mind's eye
Out of memory
Black world out of my mind
Still so dark all over Europe
And the rainbow rises here
In the western sky
The kill to show for
At the end of the great white pier
I see a
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
Run around in the radiation
Tune in turn on burn out in the acid rain on a..
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
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Blood Money
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- Music: Wayne Hussey
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- (Flesh)
(Bone)
(Splinters on the telephone)
(Whispers)
Bullet in the head
Down
Head
Down
Got power to burn
Got means
Flowers to burn
Between those pretty dreams
Hold out for cover
Hold out your hands to me
For...
Blood, blood money
Blood, blood money, money, money, money
(Kiss...)
Children.....kiss the ring
Children.....kiss the blade
Blood, blood money
Blood, blood money, money, money, money
Which hand holds? Your hand holds?
Blood, blood money
Blood, blood money, money, money, money
Body And Soul
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
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- All your hidden faces
Your seven veils unfold
Give me forbidden places
All your tales untold
Give me ever and always
Ever and always
Body and soul
Heaven and a hope eternal
Over your heart of gold
Sun and sunset
Burning in the flame you hold
Ever and always
Give me ever and always
Body and soul
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Body and soul
Give me ever the years you wept inside when cold
All the sins and secrets never cried
All the dreams you kept and the tears you sold
Give me
Give me ever and always
Ever and always
Body and soul
Your heart
Your mind
Your body and soul
Body Electric
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
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- Through the cables and the underground now
The faceless breathless calls
This is Babel, sensurround now
This place is death with walls (4x)
Too much contact, no more feeling
The sound around them all
Acid on the floor so she walk on the ceiling
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall (2x)
Crawling to the corners where the idiot children call
See the body flashing on the bathroom wall
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Body Politics - Early Demo -
Burn
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
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- Burn me a fire in the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing down
In the fire in the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
The kissing and the colour come crashing down
Down, down, down
Down around me
Down, down, down
Down around my Face ...
In the fire on the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing down
Down, down, down
Down around me
Down, down, down
Down around my
Face in the fire my faith in the fire in the
In the burn me down
My burning down
In the fire in the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing
Down
Crashing down
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Burn It Down - Early Demo -
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- Juggling with the ring of fire
The bullets blow holes and the flames go higher
Chase the yellow, chase the gold
The orange and the white lie in the stones
The juggling men and the idiot clowns
We will burn this circus down to the ground
Because some day I hope to turn and
Stand and watch this city burning down
Chase the yellow, chase the gold
The orange and the white lie in the stones
Burning, burning, burning, burning down
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Bury Me Deep
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
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- Call it superstition (Lie beside and)
Followed and fell (Bury me)
Under the falling (Deep)
Under the spell
Singing
Bury me
Bury me
Spoken in tongues
Of many colours
In the colours of heaven in the colours of hell, in the
Cannot, would not tell, in the
Broken temple bells, in the ringing
Oh, Marian, I can
Hear those voices singing
Bury me
Inside
Lie beside and
Bury Me
Deep
In the spoken in tongues
Cover me over
Unsung
Unsaid, not
Borrowed, broken and torn,
On the bed tomorrow, mourning
Before you sleep
Bury me deep
Bury me
Inside
Lie beside and
Bury me, bury me, bury me, bury me
Deep
Call it superstition
Followed and fell
Under the falling
Under the spell
Bury me
Inside
Lie beside and
Bury me
Deep
Capricorn (Motörhead)
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- Music: Ian Kilmister, Phil Taylor, Eddie Clarke
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- A thousand nights, I've spent alone,
Solitaire, to the bone,
But I don't mind, I'm my own best friend,
From the beginning, to the end,
My life, my heart, black night, dark star, Capricorn
Capricorn, Capricorn
December's child, the only one,
What I do, is what I've done,
I realise, I get so cold,
When I was young I was already old,
My life, my heart, black night, dark star, Capricorn
Capricorn, Capricorn, Capricorn
I always knew, the only way,
Is never live, beyond today,
They proved me right,
They proved me wrong,
But they could never last this long,
My life, my heart, black night, dark star, Capricorn
Capricorn, Capricorn, Capricorn.
Colours (The Sisterhood)
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
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- You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Your colours wrapped around
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Come Togehter - Unreleased -
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch (?)
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- Still being discussed at the Heartland forums.
Probably something like:
A little child
And a cold missile
With a white wedding dress
And a Black Maria.
Some wild idea and I head back home
Swing low sweet Jesus
Come to carry me
Carry me home
Swing low
Carry me home
Come together, home
Come together, home
Carry on angel
No-one can harm you now
Though your fins
Though your fins be scarlet
Come together, home
Come together, home
Just walk
Into the fast lane
Head in the stars
Horizon, behold
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Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
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- Music: David Gilmour
- Lyrics: Roger Waters
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- Hello
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?
Come on
I hear you're feeling, bad
I can ease your pain
If you only feed it here
Relax
I need some information, first
Just the basic facts
Can you tell me where it hurts?
There is no pain you are receiving
The distant ships move on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child, I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
And now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
And I have become, comfortably numb
And I have become, comfortably numb
Okay
Just a little thumb prick
You feel the one
But you may feel the lipstick
Can you stand up
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you coming through the show
Come on it's time to go
There is no pain you are receiving
The distant ships move on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eyes
I turned to look but it was gone
I can not put my finger on it now
The child's gone, the dream is gone
And I have become, comfortably numb
And I have become, comfortably numb
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Confide In Me (Kylie Minogue)
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- Music: Steve Anderson, Dave Seaman, Owain Barton
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- Standing in the distance
Viewing from afar
Should I offer some assistance?
Should it matter who you are?
We all get hurt by love
We all got a cross to bear
In the name of understanding
For love to be true
Confide in me
Confide in me
I can keep a secret -
No "Son", or "Lumiere"
But sometimes to release it
Is to set our children free
We all get hurt by love
We all got a cross to bear
In the name of understanding
For love to be true
Confide in me
Confide in me
This is all it is
The choice is yours
In the darkness
The time is yours
The choice is yours
In the darkness
The time is yours
We all get hurt by love
We all got a cross to bear
In the name of understanding now
For love to be true
Confide in me
Confide in me
Confide in me
Confide in me
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Crash And Burn - Unreleased -
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- We slip on the vinyl
We shimmer to shine
Slide on the chrome and plastic
The hum of the powerlines
Sum of a love
Come trip the light fantastic
Singing:
Do I drive?
Or am I driven?
Can I brake
What I've been given?
Take a walk
Turn
Talk
Or crash and burn
Everybody get a wife, I got mine
She's kneeling on the backseat, feeling fine, she's
Married to a soldier in the Army of the Rhine, but
He don't know so he don't mind, she says
Do I drive?
Or am I driven?
Can I break
What I've been given?
Take a walk
Turn
Talk
Or crash and burn
Slip on the vinyl
Shimmer to shine
Sing:
Do I drive?
Or am I driven?
Can I brake
What I've been given?
Take a walk
Turn
Talk
Or crash and burn
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Damage Done
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- Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor.
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
Somebody tell me about the perfect bomb
The royal valley on a blitzkrieg bomb
Somebody tell me how to use my gun tools
Kiss the napalm in the afternoon
I saw the film, I saw the place
I live to work for the killing sake
When I think you’re knocked, when the radio died
And the rhythm played from every side
See the rebel and the damage done
See the debris and the damage done
See the wreckage and the damage done
See the film, see the damage done
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor.
(this is the image, this is the place)
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
(this is the way the world will end)
Somebody tell me about the ...
(the waltzing man have dancing eyes)
I need to know about the ...
(this is the way the world will end)
Me I’m lost and the radio’s dead
Now I’m relaxed and the radio’s dead
The rhythms gone, the radio’s dead
And the damage done inside my radio.
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Detonation Boulevard
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- Through the angel rain
Through the dust and the gasolene
Through the cruelty of strangers
To the neon dream
Long distance information
Just tell me where the manholes steam
A little girl waits on my station
With a new machine
- on Detonation Boulevard
I got wrecked out here
In a Eldorado
I got wired, white-walled
This hot-wired sedan
I caught something weird in Ensenada
I've a brother of sorts in Torquemada
Long distance information
Disconnect me if you can
- on Detonation Boulevard
Pink noise, white noise
And a violet whining sound
It burns inside this car
No cops, no signs, no left, no right
No stops, no turning round
Well, you can run but you can't ride
You won't get far
- on Detonation Boulevard
- bang bang
Through the angel rain
Through the rust and the gasolene
Through the cruelty of strangers
To the neon dream
Long distance information
I'll take the same
I got the fuel for the transformation
I'm a naked flame
- on Detonation Boulevard
- bang bang
"1959 and all that" explanation
Doctor Jeep
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- Everybody shouts on I Love Lucy
Pee Wee reads the evening news
A pre-owned song or a second-hand Uzi
Everybody got a job to lose
Here come the golden oldies
Here come the Hizbollah
Businessmen from South Miami
Humming AOR
Meanwhile...
I like Cal and his dog Napalm
I like Ike and his itty-bitty A-bomb
Everybody got one, I want mine
You can order it up on Channel Nine
Meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
There was a time but it's long gone
Janie got a crush on the Vietcong
Burning through downtown Saigon
Me I'm sold - down the Mekong
Meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
Guns and cars and accidents
The threatened witness my defence
You can sell one another for fifteen cents
Well bye-bye mother, it's common sense
Meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
Everybody shouts on I Love Lucy
Pee Wee reads the evening news
A pre-owned song or a second-hand Uzi
Everybody got a job to lose
Here come the golden oldies
Here come the Hizbollah
Businessmen from South Miami
Humming AOR
Meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
"1959 and all that" explanation
Dominion/Mother Russia
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
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- In the heat of the night
In the heat of the day
WQhen I close my eyes
When I look your way
When I meet the fear that lies inside
When I hear you say
In the heat of the moment
Say, say, say:
Some day, some day, some day
Dominion
Come a time
Some day, some day, some day
Dominion
Some say prayers
I say mine
In the light of the fact
On the lone and level
Sand stretch far away
In the heat of the action
In the settled dust
Hold hold and sway
In the meeting of mind
Down in the streets of shame
In the betting of names on gold to rust
In the land of the blind
Be king, king, king, king
Some day, some day, some day
Dominion
Come a time
Some day, some day, some day
Dominion
Some say prayers
I say mine
We serve an old man in a dry season
A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun
Dreamers of sleepers and white treason
We dream of rain and the history of the gun
There's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia
A white house in a red square
I'm living in films for the sake of Russia
A kino runner for the DDR
And the fifty-two daughters of the revolution
Turn the gold to chrome
Gift, nothing to lose
Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home, sing:
Mother Russia, Mother Russia, Mother Russia rain down down down
Mother Russia, Mother Russia, Mother Russia rain down
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Driven Like The Snow
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- Still night, nothing for miles
A white curtain come down
Kill the lights in the middle of the road
And take a look around ...
It don't help to be one of the chosen
One of the few to be sure
When the wheels are spinning around
And the ground is frozen through and you're
Driven, like the snow
Pure in heart
Driven together
And given
Away to the west
A white dress
'til the river don't run
A black dress
Looking like mine
'til the sun don't shine no more
Where the sky meet the ground
Where the street fold round
Where the voice you hold don't make no sound, look
Snow on the river and two by two
Took a lot to live a lot like you
I don't go there now but I hear they sung their
Fuck me and marry me young
Some wild idea and a big white bed
Now you know better than that, I said
Like a voice in the wind blow little crystals down
Like brittle things will break before they turn
Like lipstick on my cigarette
And the ice get harder overhead
Like think it twice but never never learn
And the mist will wrap around us
And the crystal, if you touch it ...
And the cars
Lost in the drift
Are there
And the people that drive
Lost in the drift
Are there
And the cares I've
Lost in the drift
Are there
Theirs, ours,
Lost in the drift
Are ...
Driven
Driven together
And driven apart
"1959 and all that" explanation
Driver - Early Demo -
Drugsar (SSV)
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- We are the Drugsar
We know where the drugs are
We drive a long black car
(repeated many times)
"1959 and all that" explanation
Emma (Hot Chocolate)
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- Music: Errol Brown, Tony Wilson
- Lyrics: Errol Brown, Tony Wilson
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- We were together since we were five
She was so pretty
Emma was a star in everyone's eyes
And when she said she'd be a movie queen
Nobody laughed
A face like an angel
She could be anything
Emmaline
Emma, Emmaline
I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen
Emmaline
Emma, Emmaline
I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen
At seventeen we were wed
I'd work day and night
To earn our daily bread
And every day Emma would go out
Searching for that play
That never, ever came her way
You know sometimes she'd come home
So depressed
I'd hear her crying in the back room
Feel so distressed
And I'd remember back when she was five
To the words that used to make
Emmaline come alive
It was :
"Emmaline,
Emma, Emmaline,
I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen.
Emmaline,
Emma, Emmaline
I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen."
It was a cold and dark December night
When I opened up the bedroom door
To find her lying still and cold
Upon the bed
A love letter lying on the bedroom floor
It read :
"Darling I love you,
But I just can't keep on living on dreams no more.
I tried so very hard not to leave you alone.
I just can't keep on trying no more."
Emmaline ...
Aaargh, Emmaline ...
Aaargh ...
Emma, Emmaline ...
Aaargh ...
Emma, Emmaline ...
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Far Parade - Unreleased -
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch (?)
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- Had a sense it couldn't last
Watched the wonder wander past
Held it briefly, set it free
There is a space above me
Everything will come and go
There is a curve that I don't know
Don't need it otherwise but
No-one reads the book of lies and
No-one looks into the void as
Anything but paranoid and
Anything that you would be will
Swerve and hurt eventually
And I'm ungood if I can't shout
Without the vowels or the label out
Escorted from my desk
Unable to unheed
From heroine to heroin
Cash out and head on in to
Burlesque and snake-oil charm
Flashing lights and fakir calm
Shine your knives and sinecures
Your red-top wives, your gurning poor
As ye sow so shall ye find your
Car ...is burning at the mine
Decent men and women form a line and dance in time - it's a far parade
The ghost of war, the painted whore, dial up one nine one four - it's a far parade
Decent men and women form a line and dance in time - far parade
Distant men and women form a line and dance in time - far parade
Distant men and women form a line, form a line - far parade
Distant men and women form a line, form a line - far parade
Feel No Pain (SSV)
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- Lyrics: T.Schroeder
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- Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
I'm a carrier
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
Sweet Jesus
Feel No Pain (x2)
Needle in a vein
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
I'm a carrier
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
Sweet Jesus
Feel No Pain
Feel No Pain (x3)
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
Sweet Jesus
Feel No Pain
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein, vein, vein, vein, vein
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
I'm a carrier
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
Sweet Jesus
Feel No Pain
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
I'm a carrier
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
Sweet Jesus
Feel No Pain (x3)
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
I'm a carrier
Feel No Pain
Needle in a vein
I'm a freight train
Feel No Pain
Finland Red, Egypt White (The Sisterhood)
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
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- Lyrics are actually the operators' manual for an AK-47
Overall length: 870mm
Length of barrel: 415mm
Length of sighting line: 378mm
Weight of magazine empty: .42kg
Weight of magazine loaded: .92kg
Overall weight with loaded magazine: 4.8kg
Chamber pressure: 4550psi
The 7.62mm kalashnikov rifle fire a 7.2662mm round and one ...
Muzzel velocity: 710m/s, 2380ft/s
Specified rate of fire: 600 rounds per minute
600 rounds per minute, 600 rounds per minute
Service ammunition is divided into full cartridge and special purpose cartridge
Full ammunition is used to destroy personal
Special ammunition depending upton its construction is designed for target
Identification and correction of fire, ignition of fuel and hightly flammable objects and for
Destroying lightly armoured targets.
Tracer cartridges are used for target indication, fire adjustment, signal purposes
And destroying personel. And destroying personel.
Tracer bullets can ignite, can ignite
The path of the bullet is indicated by a red flame.
AP incendary cartridges are used for destroying fuel, gasoline and for
Destroying targets protected by thin armour
The standard cartridge for the AK-47 is the M43
Bullet weight: 122 grains
Powder weight: 25 grains
Standard markings: full ... and ... No colour
Tracer model: 3453?
API model BZ: black and red tip
Special cartridges: Plastic blank with metal case
Finland: Red, Germany: Black, Egypt: White.
Shortrange cartridges: full, round nosed, laquered steel case, white tip.
Tracer: round nosed, laquered steel case, white about green tip.
There are three basic models of the AK;
AK47: Machine receiver, no bayonet lug, polished bolt and bolt carrier, side ...
AKM: Stamped receiver, bayonet lug, ... bolt, ... tail full grip, side a...
RPK: Squad MMG, larger barrel, equiped with 70 round drum loading, 40
Round box magazine or may even a 74 round magazine. Despite those specifications, its ....
Extensive experiance ... approx 800 rounds per minute.
Destroy personel
Destroy personel
Destroy personel
"1959 and all that" explanation
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First And Last And Always
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- See a body and a dream of the dead days
A following lost and blind
Living far from here
Tomorrow is hard to find
And it seems like twenty-five years of
Promises and give me more
Scenes of hand-me-down
In dresses heard before
First and last and always
'til the end of the end of time
First and last and always mine
Maybe it's a way too easy
Maybe it's a way too long
Say you'll be by me
When the evidence comes along
First and last and always
My calling my time
First and last and always mine
See a face and a dream of the dead days
A following lost and blind
Cross my heart with silver
Here's the key behind
And it seems like twenty-five years of
Ever after ever more more more
Seems I wore this face for you
Far too long before
First and last and always
My calling my time
First and last and always mine
First and last and always
'til the end of the end of time
First and last and always mine
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Fix
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- Love for the party love for the nation
Love for the fix for the fabrication
Love for the corpse for the corporation
Love for the death and for the defecation
Romance and assassination
Give me the love of genocide
Give me love
"1959 and all that" explanation
Flood I
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- And her hallway
Moves
Like the ocean
Moves
At the head of the river
At the source of the sea
Sitting here now in this bar for hours
Trying to write it down
Fitting in hard with harder to come
Trying to fight it
Down the river there's a ship will carry you
Down river down stream
Down the river there's a ship will carry the
Dream
Dream of the flood
Down the river there's a ship will carry the
Dream of the flood
And her hallway...
As the water come rushing over
As the water come rushing in
As the water come rushing over
Flood...Flood...
Push the glass, stain the glass
Push the writer to the wall
It may come but it will pass
Some say we will fall
Dream of the flood...
Flood...
And her hallway...
Oh, maybe, in terms of surrender,
On a backcloth of lashes and eyes
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes and lies...
And her hallway...
Like...
As the water come rushing in
As the water come rushing over
Sitting here now in this bar for hours
While these strange men rent strange flowers
I'll be picking up your petals in another few hours
In the metal and blood, in the scent and mascara
On a backcloth of lashes and stars
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and secondhand passion
And stolen guitars
And her hallway...
As the water come rushing in
(Like the sea)
As the water come rushing over
(Dream of the flood)
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes and lies...
As the water come rushing in, rushing in
At the head of the river
At the source of the sea
And her hallway...
Like...
Flood...
"1959 and all that" explanation
Flood II
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- And her hallway
Moves
Like the ocean
Moves
And her hallway
Moves
Like the sea
She says no no no no harm will come your way
She says bring it on down, bring on the wave
She says nobody done no harm
Grace of God and raise your arms
She says: face it and it's a place to stay
This, this is the way it was
This, this is the way it is
When the water come rushing, rushing in
She says
She says anytime
Raise your arms
Flood...
And her hallway
Like...
Like...
Like a million voices call my name
Like a million voices calling
Not now, not never again
Sitting here now in this bar for hours
Strange men rent strange flowers
Seconds to the drop but it feels like hours
And I think I'm going to, going to...
"1959 and all that" explanation
Floorshow
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch (?)
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground
In the violet hour to the violent sound
And the darkness the blinding the eyes that shine
And the voices and the singing and the line on line
This is the floorshow the clapping hands
Animal flow from the animal glands
In the violet hour to the violent sound
Going round and around and around and around and around
I feel the bite I feel the beat I see the dancing feet
I feel the light I feel the heat I see the new elite
I see the final floorshow I see the western dream
I see the faces glow and I see the bodies steam
See them shimmy see them go
See their painted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go
This is the floorshow the last ideal
It's populist got mass appeal
The old religion redefined
For the facile futile totally blind
Mundane by day inane at night
Pagan playing in the flashing light
In the violet hour to the violent sound
Going round and around and around and around and around
And the bodies naked on the low damp ground
In the violet hour to the violet sound
And the darkness the blinding the eyes that shine
And the voices singing line on line
See them shimmy see them go
See their painted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go
"1959 and all that" explanation
Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola (Tangerine Dream)
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- Instrumental.
- Used as intro.
Garden Of Delight (Wayne Hussey/The Mission) - Early Demo -
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- Lyrics: Wayne Hussey
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- See the dancing laughing naked faces
And the promise burning brightly in their eyes
This violent flesh the cut that bleeds the kiss that stings
Desperate snows fall from shimmering skies
CHORUS
So
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden of delight
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden
Of delight
Reflections in the windswept liquid mirror
Of the breathelsss world elegance and charm
The treasured first kiss of a stranger
It charms entranced me i know you mean me no harm
CHORUS
This happy death, kissing in the playground
Senses swirling, faithful to the kill
I'm playing with fire dancing in the flames
I'm covered in burns that just won't heal
CHORUS
Of delight
CHORUS
Of delight
CHORUS
Andrew Eldritch's Lyrics:
- Shimmering over all those wistful faces
And the promise burning brightly in their eyes
In this violent flesh the cut that bleeds the kiss that stings
Desperate snows fall from desperate skies
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden of delight
Take my hand and lead me
Home.....
Reflections in the liquid windswept mirror
The breathless world elegance and charm
The treasured touch, the first touch of a stranger
It charmed me, entranced me, no harm
So...
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden of delight
Take my hand and lead me
Home.....
This child of death, kissing in the playground
Senses swirling, faithful to the kill
Playing with fire,a chance among the playsound
Covered in burns and turn away, they're dancing still
So...
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden of delight
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden
Of delight
Of delight
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden of delight
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden
Of delight
Of delight
Take my hand and lead me
To the garden of delight
Take my hand and lead me
Home (Home)
Home (Home)
Home (Home)
Home (Home)
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Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) (ABBA)
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- Half past twelve
And I'm watching the late show in my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds
Blowing outside my window as I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Movie stars
Find the end of the rainbow, with a fortune to win
It's so different from the world I'm living in
Tired of T.V.
I open the window and I gaze into the night
But there's nothing there to see, no one in sight
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight...
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight...
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)
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- Lyrics: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
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- Oh, see the storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Yeah
Oh, see the fire is sweeping
Down through the streets today
Burning like a bright red carpet
Another fool who lost the way
Rape, murder.
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Yeah
Oh, see the storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Yeah, I'm gonna fade away
Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
Shot away
Shot away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away
Rape, murder.
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Rape, murder.
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away
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Ghostrider (Suicide)
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- Lyrics: Martin Rev, Alan Vega
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- Ghostrider, motorcycle hero
Bebebebebebebe he's lookin' so cute
Sneakin' round round round in a blue jumpsuit
Sneakin' round round round in a blue jumpsuit
Ghostrider, ride, ride, ride
Ghostrider, ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride
Ghostrider motorcycle hero
Bebebebebebebe he's a-blazin' away
Like the star, star, stars in the universe
Like the star, star, stars in the universe
Ghostrider, ride, ride, ride
Ghostrider, ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride....
Ghostrider motorcycle hero
Bebebebebebebe he's a-screamin' the truth
America, America is killin' its youth
America, America is killin' its youth
Ghostrider, ride, ride, ride
Ghostrider, ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride....
Ghostrider motorcycle hero
Bebebebebebebe he's a-screamin' the truth
America, America is killin' its youth
America, America is killin' its youth
Ghostrider, ride, ride, ride
Ghostrider, ride, ride, ride
Ride
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Giving Ground (The Sisterhood)
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-
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
In the place, through which we wander
Reason turned around
And every fool
Will see his madness drowned
And every truth is swallowed up
By gently is giving ground
CHORUS
What you have lost can never be found
Words are just dust in deserts of sound
Everything is lost and your choice lies broken
And the truth is drowned
I watch
Surrender
Because I know
...
And now I know you will not see
The madness we have seen
Now I know you cannot be
All that your fright has been
CHORUS
Words are just dust
I stood but you just could not wait
Behind
Because I know you cannot be
All that your fright has been
What you have lost can never be found
Words are just dust in deserts of sound
Everything is lost and the truth is drowned
Everything is lost in the giving ground
Everything is lost
Everything is lost in the giving ground
Turned around
Reason, turned around
In the giving ground
Ground
In the giving ground
Everything is lost
In the giving ground
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In the place through which we wander
Reason is turned around
And every fool who scuttles up
Will see his madness drowned
And every truth is swallowed up
By gently Giving Ground
CHORUS
What you have lost can never be found
Words are just dust in deserts of sound
Everything is lost and your trust lies broken
And the truth is drowned
I watch as you surrender
To silence-loving screams
And now I know you will not see
The madness we have seen
And now I know you can not be
All that your fright has been
CHORUS
I stood but you just could not wait
These lines are driven straight
Through the circles of your hate
And 'cos I know you can not be
All that your fright has been
What you have lost can never be found
Words are just dust in deserts of sound
Everything is lost and the truth is drowned
Everything is lost in the giving ground
Everything is lost
Everything is lost in the giving ground
In the giving ground
(whispers) Everything is lost
In the giving ground
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Go Figure (SSV)
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- Lyrics: T.Schroeder
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- Introducing
Stencils from Zurich
A trailer for roads
We have razor blades
Introducing
Stencils from Zurich
A trailer for roads
We have razor blades
We got razor blades
Good Things - Unreleased -
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch (?)
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"1959 and all that" explanation
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- The cracks appear along the wall wall wall wall wall
See the people stoop that once stood tall tall tall tall tall
I see the buildings crumble, see the empires fall
But I see no more and I don't recall
Because I see
Nothing but the good things
Because I see
Nothing but the good things
Because I see
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good good good good....
Nothing but the good things
Well nothing ventured nothing lost
Count the changes count the cost
A reformation so uncertain
Keep your station draw the curtain
Because out there the snipers work the ridges
Building bombs and blowing bridges
Out there on a darkened road
The lines are dead and the cars explode
But in here
Nothing but the good things
In here
Nothing but the good things
In here
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good good good good....
Nothing but the good things
I see a green sea a pleasant land land land land land
Nothing legal, underhand
On the fence or in the sand
Well I take no chances and I take no stand
Against the wall
Against the wire
Against the fall
Against the fire
Against the sale
Against the hire
They say the profits high
But I know the cost is higher
Still I see
Nothing but the good things
Still I see
Nothing but the good things
Still I see, hear, speak, do, talk, see
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good good good good good
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good good good good things
No!
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Gone (SSV)
Heartland
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch (?)
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- Lay me down the long white line
Leave the sirens far behind me,
Paint my name in black and gold, my
Heart my flame my heart my road, my
Heartland fade across the line
Heartland sing the faces shining
In the failing, failing, failing
Heartland make the places mine
Clearly now the past mistakes, the
Giant steps we had to take the
Path that ever promise made to
Die in dream, dissolve and fade
My heartland, heartland, heartland
My heartland, heartland, heartland
My heartland, heartland, heartland
My heartland, heartland, heartland
Behind the lines, a face that glimmers
Still loking for a face that shines
In the promise, in the places
I'm going to make them mine
My heartland, heartland, heartland
My heartland, heartland, heartland
My heartland, heartland, heartland
My heartland, heartland, heartland
He's Got The Whole World In His Hands (Gospel)
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- He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the itty bitty baby in His hands
He's got the itty bitty baby in His hands
He's got the itty bitty baby in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got a-you and me brother in His hands
He's got a-you and me brother in His hands
He's got a-you and me brother in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got a-you and me sister in His hands
He's got a-you and me sister in His hands
He's got a-you and me sister in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
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High School (SSV)
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- Wanna buy something? (x4)
Say after me:
We've got too much money
We've got platform feet
We love the queen of shopping
We live on Oxford Street (x2)
You can do it in the bus by night
You can lick my blade
You can do it in the twenty-two, stupid
When you've paid
Wanna buy something? (x4)
You can do it in the bus by night
(Wanna buy something?)
You can lick my blade
You can do it in the twenty-two, stupid
(Wanna buy something?)
When you've paid
Wanna buy something?
Wanna buy something?
Home Of The Hitmen
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- Lyrics: Gary Marx
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"1959 and all that" explanation
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- The sun shines on the Aluminium
I guess this must be the home of the Hit-Men
"1959 and all that" explanation
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I Didn't Know I Loved You ('til I Saw You Rock'N'Roll) (Gary Glitter)
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- Standin' in a corner at the dance last night
I was almost leaving when you came in sight:
You were dancin' to the beat
And my head was spinnin'
When I saw your feet.
Hey! Hey! I didn't know I loved you
Till I saw you rock and roll.
I didn't know I loved you
Till I saw you rock and roll,
I didn't know I loved you
Till I saw you rock and roll.
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey,
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey.
Dance to the music, dance to the music,
Dance to the music, dance to the music,
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, dance.
You're my inspiration, you're my heart's desire.
Your reelin' and a rockin' sets my soul on fire:
Now I'm gonna spend my life
Rockin' an' a rollin' if you'll be my wife.
Hey! Hey! I didn't know I loved you
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I Have Slept With All The Girls In Berlin - Unreleased -
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch (?)
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- ... Shake me down again
... Shake me down and then
... Shake me down again
I can wake up in this zoo
I've been used and abused
I've been chased and I've been bruised
I can take what I've been to
I've been naked on the news
I've been debased and disabused
Just leave me downtown when you're through
Turn me over
Turn me in
I have slept with all the girls in Berlin
Girls on smoke and girls on weed
Girls on coke and girls on speed
Girls who choke and girls who smile
Girls who swallow in denial
Girls in crisis, ultra-hipped
Weird as Isis, wide as Egypt
Girls in cars and girls on ships
Girls in bars and girls on strips
Girls on journeys, girls on trips
Girls on gurneys, girls on drips
And a girl too far with pale blue lips so shake me down again
Girls like you with poison tips
Girls like you like pistol whips
Girls in over-zealous green
With a third degree in jealousy so
Turn me over
Turn me in
I have slept with all the girls in Berlin
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I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones)
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- Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go....
Just put me in a wheelchair and put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-o I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair get me to the show
Hurry hurry hurry before I gotta go
I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go...
Just put me in a wheelchair...
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
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I Was Wrong
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- You say stay and never leave
You say meant forever
I could believe you, but I don't
You say we're almost all alone together
All alone
You say
You say you will
I know you won't
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
In a bar that's always closing
In a world where people shout
I don't wanna talk this over
I don't wanna talk it out
I was quite impressed until I hit the floor
Isn't that what friends are for?
Pain looks great on other people
That's what they're for
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
You say stay and never leave
You say meant forever
I could believe you, but I don't
You say we're almost all alone together
All alone
You say
You say you will
I know you won't
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
In a bar that's always closing
In a world where people shout
I don't wanna talk this over
I don't wanna talk it out
I was quite impressed until I hit the floor
Isn't that what friends are for?
Pain looks great on other men
That's what they're for
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
"1959 and all that" explanation
Jihad (The Sisterhood)
Jolene (Dolly Parton)
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- Jolene Jolene Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of golden hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring your voice is soft like summer rain
I cannot compete with you Jolene
He talks about you in his sleep
There's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name Jolene
And I can easily understand
How you could easily take my man
But you don't know what he means to me Jolene
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
Well you could have your choice of men
But I can never love again
He's the only man for me, Jolene
I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
Whatever you decide to do Jolene
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
Please don't take him just becasue you can
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Kiss The Carpet
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- She got red eyes
She wear dust
I went over over over over
I went bust
I kissed I kissed the carpet
I climbed the curtain
I was sure
I was certain
And I said yeah
Yeah
She got red eyes
She wear dust
I went over over over over
I went bust
I kissed I kissed the carpet
I climbed the curtain
I was sure
I was certain
But I said
Next time I look before I
Next time the carpet
Next time I look before I
Kiss the carpet should I
Kiss
Kiss
Kiss
"1959 and all that" explanation
Knife, Paper, Stone And Gun (SSV)
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- Knife
Cuts paper
Wraps stone
Blunts knife
Cuts paper
Wraps stone
Blunts knife
The guns are good (x5)
The guns are good
The guns are good
Knife
Paper
Stone
Paper
Knife
Paper
Stone
Guns are good (x3)
Knife
Cuts paper
Wraps stone
Blunts knife
Cuts paper
Wraps stone
Blunts knife
The guns are good (x5)
"1959 and all that" explanation
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan)
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- Mama take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark, too dark to see
Feel I'm knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Mama wipe this blood from my face
I'm sick and tired of all this war
There's a long hard feelin' and it's hard to chase
Feel I'm knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Mama put these guns to the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
There's a long black train and it's comin' round
Feels like knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
Knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door
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Lights
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- The lights shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and the daylight fades
Ignore the voices, discard the day
For the brand new darkness, for the bright new way
Hit
There have been better plans, but
None that I could ever understand
Emerald signal, the green on black, the
Lights say move, say never look back and so I
Find another place where I've never been seen
Find another place where the red turns green, where
The emerald glistens through the darkness again, where
The emerald glistens through the rain
The lights shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and the daylight fades, but
There's a voice in the distance, quiet and clear, saying
Something that I never ever wanted to hear
There have been better plans, but
None that I could ever understand, I see the
Emerald, see the signal, see the green on black, I see the
Lights say move, say never look back and so I
Find another place where I'll never be seen
Find another place where the red turns green, where
The emerald glistens through the darkness again, where
The emerald glistens through the rain, rain, rain and I'm
Happy here
In the rain
In the rain
In the rain, rain, rain, I'm happy here
In the rain
Where the emerald
Glistens
Through the rain
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Long Train
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- Train....
Train....
Train....
Train....
Take a walk downtown to where the victims go
...
...
...
Take a last decision and the cars to move it
Past information
Tunnel vision and the scars to prove it
Everybody got a reservation
Far beyond the black horizon
Beyond the things you know
Everybody got a destination
Everybody got a place to go
...
...
...
Take a walk downtown to where the victims go
Take your shadow to the end to the very last window
Everybody got friends got shot upside and over
Down the line
Everybody got assignations
I got mine...
...
...
...
Take a railway track to the main attraction
Cut a hole between the ground and sky
Take a one way ticket to the pain reaction
Cross my heart and take a ride
Far beyond the black horizon
Beyond the things you know
Everybody got a destination
Everybody got a place
To go...
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Louie, Louie (Richard Berry)
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- Louie Louie, me gotta go
Louie Louie, me gotta go
A fine girl, she wait for me
Me catch the ship across the sea
I sailed the ship all alone
I never think I'll make it home
Louie Louie, don't leave me
Louie Louie, me gotta ride
Three nights and days we sailed the sea
Me think of girl constantly
On the ship, I dream she there
I smell the rose in her hair
Louie Louie, don't leave me
Louie Louie, me gotta ride
Me see Jamaican moon above
It won't be long me see my love
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I never leave again
Louie Louie, don't leave me, me gotta ride
Louie Louie, don't leave me, me gotta go
Fact is, that there are several covers with modified versions of lyrics.
See here for one of the most popular versions ...
or here for a more current version by Iggy Pop ...
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Lucretia My Reflection
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear
Dive, bombers, and
Empire down
Empire down
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me,
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take direction,
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel
I don't feel
I don't Feel
A long train held up by page on page
A hard reign held up by rage
Once a railroad
Now it's done...
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down...
We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take reflection,
Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me...
"1959 and all that" explanation
Marian (Version)
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt
In this cruel place your voice above the Maelstrom
In the wake of this ship of fools I'm falling further down
If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home.....
I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the wave
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the
Grave...
Marian
Marian, there's a weight above me
And the pressure is all too strong
To breathe deep
Breathe long and hard
To take the water down and go to sleep
To sink still further
Beneath the fatal wave
Marian I think I'm drowning
This sea is killing me
I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the wave
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the
Grave...
Marian
Was ich kann und was ich könnte (What I can do and what I could do)
Weiss ich gar nicht mehr (I just don't know anymore)
Gib mir wieder etwas Schönes (Give me something beautiful again)
Zieh mich aus dem Meer (Drag me from the sea)
Ich höre dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)
Kannst du mich schreien hören (Can you hear me calling?)
Ich bin hier allein (I am here alone)
Ich höre dich rufen Marian (Without your help I'm gonna lose myself in this place)
Ohne deine Hilfe verliere ich mich in diesem Ort (Without your help I am lost in this place)
Marian, there's a weight above me
And the pressure is all too strong
To breathe deep
Breathe long and hard
To take the water down and go to sleep
To sink still further
Beneath the fatal wave
Marian I think I'm drowning
This sea is killing me
Marian [repeat til end]
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More
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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"1959 and all that" explanation
- Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more
I want more
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
D'you get scared to feel so much?
To let somebody touch you?
So hot, so cold, so far so out of control
Hard to come by, and harder to hold
Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
I want more
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
There are parts of me that don't get nervous
Not the parts that shake
You won't get what you deserve
You are what you take
Learning to cry for fun and profit
I'm not done yet
Counterfeit dollars or the English zloty
Anything I can get
Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more
(And I need all the love I can get)
(And I need all the love that I can't get to)
(And I need all the love I can get)
(And I need all the love that I can't get to)
All the love that you can get
All the love
That I can't get to...
And I need all the love [repeat until fade]
"1959 and all that" explanation
Never Land (A Fragment)
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- I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun
And a ticket to Syria
I had everything within my reach
Had money and stuff
Each and every call
Too much but never enough
Tear it up and watch it fall
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Never Land (Long Version)
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- And when your nerves break your thought
And my word break your will
And the heart break me over this wheel
They are coming down
Wait for
Hand in hand in hand in hand
They are coming down
Wait for
They are coming down
But we will
Never never never land
I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a
Ticket to Syria
I had everything within my reach
I had money and stuff
Each and every call
Too much but never enough
Tear it up and watch it fall
They are coming down
Wait for
Hand in hand in hand in hand
They are coming down
Wait for
They are coming down
But we will
Never never land
With our backs to the sky
And our eyes on the ground
With the clouds far below
No horizon around
With the wind in our face
And our arms open wide
We shall pass through this place
To the other side
All the days of our lives
All the ways of our calling
Follow...
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Nice (SSV)
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- Lyrics: T.Schroeder
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- Nice grass
I walked past the grass
Nice flowers
Walked past the flowers
Nice trees
I walked past the trees
Nice park
Walked past the park
Nice post office
Nice grass
I walked past the grass
Nice flowers
Walked past the flowers
Nice trees
Walked past the trees
Nice post office
Nice people
So I walk back home, open up the cupboard, walk back to the post office
Walk in with a nine in each and blow their fucking heads off
Nine While Nine
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- And it's passing strange
And I'm waiting for the train
Caught up on this line again
And it's passing slowly
Killing time, but it's
Better than living in what will come and I've
Still got some of your letters with me, and I
Thought sometimes, or I read too much
And I think you know, let's
Drink to the dead lying under the water and
The cost of the blood on the driven snow, and the
Lipstick on my cigarettes
Frost upon the window pane
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train....
She said do you remember a time when angels
Do you remember a time when fear?
In the days when I was stronger
In the days when you were here, she said
When days had no beginning
While days had no end, when
Shadows grew no longer I
Knew no other friend but you
Were wild
You were wild....
Frost upon these cigarettes
Lipstick on the window pane, and I've
Lost all sense of the world outside but I
Can't forget so I call your name and I'm
Looking for a life for me and I'm
Looking for a life for you and I'm
Talking to myself again and it's
So damn cold, it's just not true
Walking through the rain
Trying to hold on, waiting for the train and I'm
Only looking for what you want but it's
Lonely here and I think you knew and I'm
And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train....
No Time To Cry
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- It's just a feeling
I get sometimes
A feeling
Sometimes
And I get frightened
Just like you
I get frightened too
But it's
(No no no) No time for heartache
(No no no) No time to run and hide
(No no no) No time for breaking down
(No no no) No time to cry
Sometimes in the world as is you've
Got to shake the hand that feeds you
It's just like Adam says it's
Not so hard to understand it's
Just like always coming down on
Just like Jesus never came and
What did you expect to find it's
Just like always here again it's
(No no no) No time for heartache
(No no no) No time to run and hide
(No no no) No time for breaking down
(No no no) No time to cry
Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some nights I still can sleep and the
Voices pass with time and I keep
No time for tears
No time to cry
No time to be afraid of fear and I
Keep no time to cry
It's
(No no no) No time for heartache
(No no no) No time to run and hide
(No no no) No time for breaking down
(No no no) No time to cry
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On The Wire
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- Now the ground comes up too fast
Too fast to meet you
In clouds of dust erupting
Thick around your feet, be careful
In the rubble in shrouds in waiting
Wall to wall to where you tread
Now the quick and the dead and the same old
Fates come calling cards away
How do you think it came to pass you
By the hard way by desire
How do you think it came to pass you by?
- On the wire
I don't sleep so I don't dream so I don't
Wake up frightened
Everything is what it seems if
You look deep enough tonight and
See...
On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall
On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall
On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall
On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall
On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall
On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall
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Ozymandias
Phantom
Poison Door
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- Lyrics: Gary Marx
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- Behind the door
The poison door
We search the still hours
Looking
For a place to hide (For a place to hide)
Behind the door
Where dreams collide (Where dreams collide)
Behind the door
The poison door
We sit in silence waiting
For a deadly friend
Behind the door
Where dreams descend (Where dreams descend)
And the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
The shadows smile
And kiss the sky
Behind the door
The poison door
The puppets dance on a burning floor
Like dying flames
Behind the door
Shoot me down again
Behind the door
The poison door
We search the still hours
Looking
For a place to hide (For a place to hide)
Behind the door
Where dreams collide (Where dreams collide)
Behind the door
The poison door
We sit in silence waiting
For a deadly friend
Behind the door
Where dreams descend (Where dreams descend)
And the shadows smile
And kiss your memory goodbye
And the shadows smile
But their lips are ssss...
And the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
And the shadows smile
Kiss your memory goodbye
And the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
And kiss the sky
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Possession
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- Music: Wayne Hussey, Andrew Eldritch, Craig Adams
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Carrion child
Prey for me, play your
Wild card, see the house come down around your
Head, home to me, so much dreaming
Some say I'm growing cold and
Taking over
Nothing, cut, two ways....
Possession: Taking over....
Stand these pictures on your shelf and
Wear your heart upon my sleeve
Wear a dress that you can see through
See yourself inside
I'll be your imagination
Tear apart what you believe
Make a mess of your conviction
Take away my pride, and leave
Nothing, but the debris
Cut, two ways
Carrion child
Prey for me, play your
Wild card, see the house come down around your....
Possession: Taking over
Possession: Shake shake shake shake shake shake
Possession: Taking over
Somehow the facts take over, and the fiction coming through
Somehow I do my crying breaking down for you
This way the doubt takes over, contradiction coming through
This way I do my lying, making up and making out for you
Possession: Taking over
Child (Nothing)
Pray for me (But the debris)
Play your wild card (Cut two ways)
Some say I'm growing cold and
Taking over....
Down around your head (Nothing)
Home to me (But the Debris)
So much dreaming: See the house come down around your....
Possession: Shake shake shake shake shake shake
Possession: Taking over
Possession: Shake shake shake shake shake shake
Possession: Taking over
Rain From Heaven (The Sisterhood)
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
Rain from Heaven
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
[Repeat verse four times]
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
Rain from Heaven
[Repeat twice as chant and continue over next verse]
As the water flows over the bridge (We forgive as we forget)
As we walk on the floodland (As the day is long)
As we walk on the water (As the day is long)
We forget
We forget
Rain from heaven (Rain from Heaven)
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Red Skies Disappear - Early Demo -
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- Lyrics: Wayne Hussey
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- Out of my hands
Something's falling
Catch me crying
Calling your name
Marian
Do no more than
Watch and try and understand
All I've planned
A worthless vantage
All around it
All around
Marian
Take my hand
Lay beside me on the burning sand
Marian
Only you can
Say the words I need to hear
Marian
Only you can
Make these red skies disappear
Marian
Can you hear me calling?
Come to me now
In my hour of need
Speak to me softly
Lay down beside me
Oh Marian
I'm begging you please
Draw another breath
For I need you to live
Don't try and understand
The sun is falling
In the burning sand
Can you hear me calling?
Marian
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Ribbons
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- I'm lying on my back now
The stars look all too near
Flowers on the razor wire
I know you're here
We are few
And far between
I was thinking about her skin
Love is a many splintered thing
Don't be afraid now
Just walk on in
(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)
Her eyes were cobalt red
Her voice was cobalt blue
I see no purple light
Crashing out of you
So just walk on in
(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)
Her lovers queued up in the hallway
I heard them scratching at the door
I tried to tell her
About Marx and Engels, God and Angels
I don't really know what for
But she looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in
She looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in
Tie a red red red red red red ribbon
Love is a many splintered thing
Tie a red red red red ribbon
Don't be afraid
Just walk on in
Just walk on in
(Incoming)
(Incoming)
Just walk on in
Just walk on in
Flowers on the razor wire
Just walk on in
"1959 and all that" explanation
Romeo Down - Unreleased -
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch (?)
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- It's just a heartbeat
Loud
In a small apartment
Loud
In another life
Another
And Romeo won't understand 'til she
Yield in the palm of his hand
Juliet turn the TV on and
Wait
'til the night is over
Somebody phone
Somebody ring the doorbell
No-one home
And Romeo won't understand 'til he
Piss blood in the palm of his hand
Juliet turn the TV down and
Sleep
'til the morning's over
'til the boy is gone
'til the body's gone
'til the boy is gone
Somebody phone
Somebody ring the doorbell
No-one home
One Romeo down
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Sandstorm
Serpents Kiss (Instrumental)
Shut The Fuck Up (SSV)
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- Lyrics: T.Schroeder
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- Shut, shut, shut the fuck up (x5)
Look, shut the fuck up
Time, time, time, time
Shut, shut, shut the fuck up (x7)
Look, shut the fuck up
Shut, shut, shut the fuck up (x4)
Look, shut the fuck up
The rest of the song is heavily reverbed with multiple echo
Shut, shut, shut the fuck up (x7)
Silver Machine (Hawkwind)
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- Lyrics: Dave Brock
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- I just took a ride
In a silver machine
And I'm still feeling mean.
Do you wanna ride see yourself going by.
The other side of the sky
I got a silver machine.
It flies side ways thru' time
It's an electricline
It's your Zodiac sign.
I've got a silver machine
I've got a silver machine.
I said
I just took a ride in a silver machine
And I'm still feeling mean.
It flies
Out of a dream
It's antisceptically clean
It turns everything green.
Do you wanna ride see yourself going by.
The other side of the sky
I mean a silver machine.
I've got a silver machine
I've got a silver machine.
Sister Ray (Velvet Underground)
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- Lyrics: Lou Reed
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- Duck and Sally inside
They're cooking for the Down Five
Who's staring at Miss Rayon
Who's busy looking up her Pig Pen
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Just like Sister Ray said
Rosie and Miss Rayon
They're busy waiting for her Brewster
Who just got back from Carolina
She said she didn't like the weather
They're busy waiting for her sailor
Just dressed in pink and leather
He said he's here from Alabama
He wants to know the way to earn a dollar
Cecil's got his new piece
He cocks and shoots it between 3:00 and 4:00
He aims it at the sailor
Shoots him down dead on the floor
Ah, you shouldn't do that
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
By the way, have you got a dollar?
No I haven't got the time time
She's too busy sucking on my ding-dong
She's too busy sucking on my ding-dong
She does it just like Sister Ray said
Now who is that knocking
Who's knocking at my chamber door
Now could it be the police?
They're gonna take you for a ride ride
Sister Ray Medley
Snowdriver - Early Demo -
Some Kind Of Stranger
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- And yes I believe in what we had
But words got in the way
And only yesterday
As I was leaving
Lord knows I tried to say, but I've
Heard a million conversations
Going where they've been before
Seen the way that careful lingers
Undecided at the door
And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch
All of my words are second-hand and
Useless in the face of this
Rationale and rhyme and reason
Pale beside a single kiss
And I've heard so many things I
Fail to understand at all
I'd settle anytime for
Unknown footsteps in the hall outside
And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch
Because the world is cruel, and
Promises are broken
Don't try to tell me
Anything, don't try to tell me
You'll be true to me, you know the
Real truth is never spoken
And I know the world is cold, but
If you hold on tight to what you
Find you might not mind too much, though
Even this must pass away and
Memories may last for years but
Names are just for souvenirs
Some kind of Angel let me
Look into your eyes
Don't give me whys and wherefores
Reason for surprise
I don't care for words that don't belong
And I don't care what your called
Tell me later if at all
I can wait a long long time
Before I hear another love song
Come here I think your beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of Angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of Angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of Angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of stranger come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside
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Something Fast
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- All the things
We never needed
I don't need them now
All the things
Were always confidential
And hidden from me anyhow
You can stand all night
At a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right
But none of them slow down
I seen the best of men go past
I don't want to be the last
Gimme something fast
God knows everybody needs
A hand in their decision
Some of us are not so sure
I seen his own held out
For a ride on television
I think he's still in Baltimore
You can stand all night
At a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right
But none of them slow down
I seen the best of men go past
I don't want to be the last
Gimme something fast
Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
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- There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven.
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The pipers calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven.
Still - Unreleased -
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch (?)
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- You didn't say it made a difference
You didn't say you want me to
You didn't hear it as I hear it
And what you did was up to you
Still - if it makes you happy
Still - if it makes you glad
Still - if it makes you happy
It makes me bad
Your real has to be what you can't disprove
And you can't retake the move
And if one day you could feel you could be wrong
...I still can't write this song
Still - if it makes you happy
Still - if it makes you glad
Still - if it makes you happy
It makes me bad
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Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Stevie Nicks)
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- Music: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell
- Lyrics: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell
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- All the people that I meet still look
I ain't got nothing better to do
Than make a meal of some bright eyed kid
You need someone looking after you
I know you really wanna tell me goodbye
I know you really wanna be your own girl
But stop draggin' my, stop draggin' my
Stop draggin' my heart around
It's hard to think about what you want
It's hard to think about what you lost
This doesn't have to be the big get even
This doesn't have to be anything at all
I know you really wanna tell me goodbye
I know you really wanna be your own girl
But stop draggin' my, stop draggin' my
Stop draggin' my heart around
Sugar Baby Love (Rubettes)
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- Lyrics: Wayne Bickerton, Tony Waddington
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- Sugar baby love, sugar baby love
I didn't make to make you blue
Sugar baby love, sugar baby love
I didn't mean to hurt you.
All lovers make
Make the same mistakes
Yes they do
Yes, all lovers make
Make the same mistakes
As me and you
Sugar baby love, sugar baby love
I didn't make to make you blue
Sugar baby love, sugar baby love
I didn't mean to hurt you.
People take my advice
If you love somebody
Don't think twice.
Love you baby love, sugar baby love
Love her anyway, love her ev'ryday
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Summer - Unreleased -
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- Music: Adam Pearson
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Talking at each other
Walking into walls
Walking into wishful
I've heard it all before
Another shade of empty
Another shade of blue
Another shade of yellow, sunset yellow
Another shade of you
Can make it summer
And make it shine
It's raining in the doorway
Paint your face once more
Paint the walls away now
I've seen it all before
Another shade of empty
Another shade of blue
Another shade of yellow, sunset yellow
Another shade of you
Can make it summer
And make it shine
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Teachers (Leonard Cohen)
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- Lyrics: Leonard Cohen
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- I met a man who lost his mind
In some lost place I had to find
Follow me the wise man said
But he walked behind.
I walked into a hospital
Where none were sick and none was well,
When at night the Sisters left
I could not walk at all.
Some girls wander by mistake
Into the mess that scalpals make.
Are you the teachers of my heart
We teach old hearts to break.
A met a woman long ago
Her hair the black the black can go
Are you the teacher of the heart?
Soft she whispered, no
I met a girl across the sea,
Her hair the gold that gold could be.
Are you the teacher of the heart?
Yes, but not for thee.
I spent my hatred every place,
On every work, on every face
Is my passion perfect,
No! Do it once again.
Oh teachers are my lessons done?
I cannot do another one,
They laughed and laughed and laughed and said,
Child are your lessons done?
I was handsome, I was strong,
I knew the words of every song
Did my singing please you?
No, the words you sang were wrong.
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Temple Of Love
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the Temple of Love
You run for another, but still the same
For the wind will blow my name across this land
In the Temple of Love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on
Walls as wide as lovers' eyes
In the Temple of Love: Shine like thunder
In the Temple of Love: Cry like rain
In the Temple of Love: Hear my calling
In the Temple of Love: Hear my name
And the devil in a black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away
With the sunlight died and night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside
You run for cover in the Temple of Love
You run for another, it's all the same
For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside
With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the Temple of Love
I shine like thunder, cry like rain
And the Temple of Love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
And the Temple of Love will fall before this
Black wind calls my name to you no more
In the black sky thunder sweeping under
Ground and over water sounds of
Crying weeping will not save your
Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave when
Stone is dust and only air remains
In the Temple of Love: Shine like thunder
In the Temple of Love: Cry like rain
In the Temple of Love: Hear the calling
And the Temple of Love is falling
Down
In the Temple of Love: Shine like thunder
In the Temple of Love: Cry like rain
In the Temple of Love: Hear my calling
In the Temple of Love: Hear my name
In the black sky thunder sweeping under
Ground and over water sounds of
Crying weeping will not save your
Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave when
Stone is dust and air remains the
Only haven you can trust, and the
Devil in a black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the Temple of Love
I shine like thunder, cry like rain
And the Temple of Love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
And the Temple of Love will fall before this
Black wind calls my name to you no more
In the Temple of Love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on
Walls as wide as lovers' eyes
In the Temple of Love: Shine like thunder
In the Temple of Love: Cry like rain
In the Temple of Love: Hear the calling
And the Temple of Love is falling
Down
Temple Of Love (1992)
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the Temple of Love
You run for another, but still the same
For the wind will blow my name across this land
In the Temple of Love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on
Walls as wide as lovers' eyes
In the Temple of Love: Shine like thunder
In the Temple of Love: Cry like rain
In the Temple of Love: Hear my calling
In the Temple of Love: Hear my name
And the devil in a black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away
With the sunlight died and night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside
You run for cover in the Temple of Love
You run for another, it's all the same
For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside
With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the Temple of Love
I shine like thunder, cry like rain
And the Temple of Love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
And the Temple of Love will fall before this
Black wind calls my name to you no more
In the black sky thunder sweeping under
Ground and over water sounds of
Crying weeping will not save your
Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave when
Stone is dust and only air remains
In the Temple of Love: Shine like thunder
In the Temple of Love: Cry like rain
In the Temple of Love: Hear the calling
And the Temple of Love is falling
Down
In the Temple of Love: Shine like thunder
In the Temple of Love: Cry like rain
In the Temple of Love: Hear my calling
In the Temple of Love: Hear my name
In the black sky thunder sweeping under
Ground and over water sounds of
Crying weeping will not save your
Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave when
Stone is dust and air remains the
Only haven you can trust, and the
Devil in a black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the Temple of Love
I shine like thunder, cry like rain
And the Temple of Love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
And the Temple of Love will fall before this
Black wind calls my name to you no more
In the Temple of Love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on
Walls as wide as lovers' eyes
In the Temple of Love: Shine like thunder
In the Temple of Love: Cry like rain
In the Temple of Love: Hear the calling
And the Temple of Love is falling
Down
This Corrosion
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Gimme the ring, kissed and told
Gimme something that I missed
A hand to hold, wild and what it seems....
Kill the King, when love is the law
And the we'll turn round....
Gimme dream child
And do you hear me call?
On the loan and on the level
....still on the floor
Sing dream child
And do you hear at all?
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now....
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now....
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right anf wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now....
On daze like this
In times like these
I feel an animal deep inside
Heel to haunch on bended knees
Living on if and if I tried,
Somebody send me please....
Dream wars and a ticket to seem
Giving out and giving in
Selling the don't belong
Well, what do you say
D'you have a word for giving away?
Got a song for me?
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing like a healing hand
I got nothing to say I ain't said before
I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more
I don't need no one to understand
Why the blood run hold the highered hand
On heart
Hand Of God
Floodland and Driven Apart
Run cold
Turn
Cold
Burn
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Top Nite Out -Unreleased-
Torch
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- And now the torch
And shadows lead
Were it not so black and not so hard to see
How can it help you when you don't know what you need
How can anybody set you free?
Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Would you carry the torch
For me?
And what if I gave you the key
To the doors of your design...
Lit the corridors of desire?
Where if not so black
And not so hard to see
What use to you then any fire?
Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Carry the torch for me?
Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Would you carry the torch for me?
Would you carry the torch
For me?
Would you carry the torch
For me?
Would you carry the torch
Train
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Train
Train
Train
Train
Take a last decision and the cars to move it
Past information
Tunnel vision and the scars to prove it
Everybody got a reservation
Far beyond the black horizon
Beyond the things you know
Everybody got a destination
Everybody got a place to go
Take a walk downtown where the victims go
Take your shadow to the end, to the very last window
Everybody got friends got shot upside and over
Down the line
Everybody got assignations
I got mine
Take a one-way ticket to the chain reaction
Cut a hole between the ground and sky
Make a railway track for the main attration
Cross my heart and take a ride
Far beyond the black horizon
Beyond the things you know
Everybody got a destination
Everybody got a place to go
Two In The Nose (SSV)
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- Music: P. Bellendir
- Lyrics: T.Schroeder
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- Two on the back up front
Two on the back behind
Two in the tail
Two on the back up front
Two on the back behind
Two in the tail
Two in the left side and blister
Two in the right side and blister (x2)
Two in the nose (x4)
"1959 and all that" explanation
Under The Gun
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- Music: Billie Hughes
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch, Roxanne Seeman
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- You don't have to say you're sorry
To look on further down the line
Into the sun
Too close at heaven
Love is fine
But you can't hold it like a....
Two worlds apart, two together
Into that goodnight kiss away
Into that goodnight kiss away
One takes the hard, one the other
Kiss away
Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
When the road gts too tough
Is your love strong enough?
Are you living?
Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
Are you living?
Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
Do you feel your head is full of thunder?
Questions never end?
Empty nights alone?
No wonder
It all comes back again
Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
I've been under the gun
I've lost and I've....
Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
I've been under the gun
I've lost and I've won
Forget the many steps to heaven
It never happened and it ain't so hard
Happiness is a loaded weapon and a
Short cut is better by far
Explosive bolts, ten thousand volts
At a million miles an hour
Abrasive wheels and molten metals
It's a semi-automatic, get in the car
Corrosive heart and frozen heat
We're worlds apart where we could meet
Where the street fold round and the motors start
And the idiot wields the power
Where the chosen hold the highest card
On the field of honour where the ground is hard
So the highest hand is joking wild
And the house soon fold and no one stand
I put my finger on and dialled
The tower, the moon, the gun and
Nine nine nine, singer down
Cloudburst and all around
The first are last, the blessed get wired
The best is yet to come
I put my finger on and fired
Heat-seaking, out of the sun
You can set the controls for the heart of the knees
And the meek'll inherit what they damn well please
Get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger
Everything under the gun
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Uptown Top Ranking (Althea Forrest; Donna Reid)
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- Music: Althea Forrest, Donna Reid
- Lyrics: Althea Forrest, Donna Reid
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- See me in me heels and ting
Dem check sey we hip and ting
True them no know and ting
We have them going and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
See me pon the road I hear you call out to me
True you see mi inna pants and ting
See mi in a 'alter back
Sey mi gi' you heart attack
Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist
Uptown Top Ranking
See mi in mi Benz and ting
Drivin' through Constant Spring
Them check sey me come from cosmo spring
But a true dem no know and ting
Dem no know sey we top ranking
Uptown Top Ranking
Shoulda see me and the ranking dread
Check how we jamming and ting
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Watch how we chuck it and ting
Inna we khaki suit and ting
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Love inna you heart dis a bawl out fe me
When you see me inna pants and ting
See me inna 'alter back
Sey me gi' you heart attack
Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist
Uptown Top Ranking
See mi pon the road and hear you call out to me
True you see me in me pants and ting
See me inna 'alter back
Sey me gi' you heart attack
Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist
Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
You shoulda see me and the ranking dread,
Check how we jamming and ting
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
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Valentine
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- The razor bites and the shriek subsides
He arches clutching at his sides
Across the floor, across the tiles
The man is dead and the razor smiles
A shiny love song a quick incision
Cut him down on television
A people come to this
Beyond the age of reason
A people fed on famine
A people on their knees and
A people eat each other
A people stand in line
Waiting for another war and
Waiting for my Valentine
For a million empty faces
For a million hollow smiles
Cancer for my education
Watch the body hit the files
Waiting for another war and
Waiting for my Valentine
"1959 and all that" explanation
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Vision Thing
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Twenty-five whores in the room next door
Twenty-five floors and I need more
I'm looking for the can in the candy store
Two thousand Hamburg four
And colours I ain't seen before
It's a small world and it smells funny
I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money
Take back what I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade
In a long black car
With the prettiest shit
From Panama
When the sirens wail
And the lights flash blue
My vision thing come
Slamming through
It's a small world and it smells bad
I'd buy another if I had
Back
What I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade
Slamming through
Slamming through
What do wee need to make our world come alive?
What does it take to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive?
One million points of light
One billion dollar Vision Thing
Another black hole in the killing zone
A little more mad in the methedrome
One blinding flash of sense
Just like the president's
Well, I don't mind
Out of my mind
Blizzard king
Bring it on home
It's a small world and it smells bad
I'd buy another if I had
Back
What I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade
And a vision thing
And a vision thing
And a ...
Sha la la la
What do we need to make our world come alive?
What do we need to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive?
One million points of light
One billion dollar Vision Thing
Sha la la la
"1959 and all that" explanation
Walk Away
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- Music: Wayne Hussey
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- And in the summer when the clouds show through
I might go the same way too if
You and I could talk together
Well what am I supposed to do with
You and I would walk together then
With always close around and
Now you gaze toward the doorway
When the weather comes falling down
And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay, would you
Choose to walk, would you choose to stay, would you
Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, away?
Away
Away
Away
And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay, would you
Choose to walk, would you choose to stay, would you
Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, away?
Though when the day is nearly through
I might see the same way too if
You would name the things that bring you
Down on me so I could say
It's not quite true if you don't
Know or understand the circumstance
Behind then I might clear your
Mind and you won't have to go so
So when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay, would you
Choose to walk, would you choose to stay, would you
Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, away?
Away
Away
Away
War On Drugs - Unreleased -
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Looking out the morning I can see the trees, turn orange in the rays
Don't need the smell of incense, in the morning haze
Head on down the delta, in the shadow of the sun
Seven shades of shiva rising, I am come
Wah-hoo
Let's do the war on drugs
Wah-hoo
Let's do the war on drugs
Seven shades of shiva rising
Let's do the war on drugs
Looking out the morning I can see the trees, turn orange in the rays
Don't need the smell of incense, in the morning haze
Head on back to Kirkstall, in the shadow of the sun
Seven shades of shiva rising, I am come
Wah-hoo
Let's do the war on drugs
Wah-hoo
Let's do the war on drugs
Eleven [... /ten /nine /eight /seven] shades of shiva rising
Let's do the war on drugs
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- Lyrics: Gary Marx
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- Here's the story
No time to lose (like the present)
Now I've lost my friends
Now I've lost my friends
It's not my party,
Never will be
Feeling out of place,
I'm not happy
A touch of the sore thumb
What became of comradeship and conversations
Computations, everything's so run-of-the-mill
We stand still...
And time slips back
And time slips back...
Back to the garden,
Time slips back
Well, back in the dark rooms
Time slips back
Back in the dark room
Time slips back
Back to the dark age
Put me on the rack
We stand still
And time slips back
Recount movements
Recount movements
Watch us grow
Watch us fall from grace
Watch us fall flat on our face
But you always fall on your feet
Tell me how you always
Fall on your feet
Tell me how
Tell me how
Oh tell me how
"1959 and all that" explanation
We Are The Same, Susanne - Unrelesed -
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- Music: Mike Varjak
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- Counting the days in the haze around you
Susanne on the wall
No pain, summer rain
I'm lost for stupid again
We are the same
Give it a name Susanne
Counting the days in the haze around you
Susanne let the ether fall
Out of phase, I am all around you
Susanne on the wall
No pain, summer rain
I'm lost for stupid again
We are the same
Give it a name Susanne
"1959 and all that" explanation
When You Don't See Me
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- Music: Andrew Eldritch, Andreas Bruhn
- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- When you don't see me...
It's not a matter of going to grow
It's not a matter of time or how I feel
I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man now
What you see is what you never had
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...
Oh, it's kind of different when your there
You can lease the peace of mind
You bought a mask, I put it on
You never thought to ask me
If I wear it when you're gone
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...
You never learned
You bought me
Everything and less
I turned
You couldn't let me move
I guess, I don't deny, it don't disprove
What you see is what you lost
If I were you I wouldn't try
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...
"1959 and all that" explanation
Where Spirits Fly (Ghost Dance)
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- Take a chance on me that's all I'm asking
Throw doubt and caution to the wind
And we can trip the light fantastic
Come with me now spread your wings
Where spirits fly that is where I long to be
Where you and I can see beyond our wildest dreams
Close your eyes and we could almost be
Where spirits fly, beyond belief
Back in the land of the living where we're tied and bound
And the weight of the world keeps bringing me down
Where spirits fly and you and I are free
To walk the line between flesh and fantasy
Close your eyes and we could almost be
Where spirits fly, beyond belief
Take a chance on me that's all I'm asking
Dance where angels fear to tread
Sometimes I wish I could shed my skin
And leave this wounded land for dead
Where spirits fly that is where I long to be
Where you and I can see beyond our wildest dreams
Close your eyes and we could almost be
Where spirits fly, beyond belief
Wide Reciever - Early Demo -
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- And you say
Where is my believer
Waiting for the sign
Staright off the ground
With his hands in the air
And the sky for a wire
All tattered and torn
Your feet never bleed
You say never mattered
And the morning found
Your reign is over
In the hour of time
And where's your wide receiver
Over the line
Where's your wide receiver
Over the border
Where's your wide receiver
Over the line
Where's your wide receiver
Over the edge and
Too far forward
Where's your wide receiver
Over the line
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Will I Dream - Unreleased -
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- Something will happen here
I can feel it
On the howling edge of pink and white and blue
Something, right here
I can feel it
And now it's just too real to
Still believe in you
And will I ...dream?
When it's over will I dream?
When it's over will I?
When it's happened will I?
When it's over will I dream?
Something is happening here
I can feel it
On the howling edge of pink and white and baby -
Will I ...dream?
When it's over will I dream?
When it's over will I?
When it's happened will I?
When it's over will I dream?
Something has happened here
I can feel it
On the howling edge of pink and white and steely blue
Something, right here
I can feel it
And now it's just too real
To will belief in you
And will I ...dream?
When it's over will I dream?
When it's over will I?
When it's happened will I?
When it's over will I dream?
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You Could Be The One
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- Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
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- You Could Be the One
All God's children give good phone
I called Jesus, he's not home
So I'm so pleased to talk to you
Trees and walks I love them too
Threatened species they adore me,
Flower children never bore me
But all the things you share
Are better left unsaid
When you can keep me here
And run your fingers through my hair
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - We can meditate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - Let's call it fate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - To get your flowers pressed
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - Just get undressed
I'm so glad to find you here
Mystic people they're so gear
I don't like the rest
Your signs the best
Whatever it is
I'm most impressed
I don't need to understand
The laying on of hands
I'm in a hurry to get my collar straight
'Cause Life is short and I can't wait
But don't worry about the state
Of this pretty little thing in armour plate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - We can meditate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - Let's call it fate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - To get your flowers pressed
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - Just get undressed
I'm so pleased that you believe
Now open up a little let the good times heave
We're going for a ride
Destiny can't be denied
But all those precious things are better left unsaid
When you can keep me here
And run your fingers though my hair
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - We can meditate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - Let's call it fate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - To get your flowers pressed
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one - Just get undressed
Love, is all you need
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