Skin!
Covered all over with beautiful skin
Skin!
Covered all over from ankle to chin
Lovely skin on kneeses and noses and ev'rywhere
Skin on tummies and toeses and under your hair it's even there
Oh skin!
Wonderful colors and beautiful tones
Skin!
Think of without it you're nothing but bones
Skin is ever so lovely no matter the color you're in
Let's hear it for skin
Beautiful skin
Skin!
Covered all over with beautiful skin
Skin!
Covered all over from ankle to chin
Without skin for touching and rubbing how much we'd miss
There'd be no hands for shaking and scrubbing
And just think of this no cheeks to kiss
Oh skin!
Wonderful colors and beautiful tones
Skin!
Keeping the rain off our muscles and bones
Skin is ever so lovely no matter the color you're in
Let's hear it for skin
Beautiful skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I feel like I?ve been just let out of a cage, girl
?Cause for so long for you I?ve had this crave, girl
I've waited patiently and now you?re ready
And I can tell you feel being sexy when you smile at me
Well, enter, take it off, c'mere
Oh, you?re so soft, see I would be your toy
Play with me like Lego, I?m your soldier boy
Girl, you'll get no angel
You skin so beautiful, sexy, so beautiful
I can't wait to find it, ride it, grind it
But first, girl will you wind it, wind it
Wind it for me, yeah, yeah?
And girl before we get into it
Tease me, baby, baby
Tease me, baby, baby
Here?s a preview of what?s about to go down
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be flipping your body
So I hope you acrobatic
Girl, you want my body
And I'm tryna be your habit
And I?ll push it and grab it
I?m in you, you?re screaming
I wanna treat it like my house
If I could I?d live up in it
Enter, take it off, c'mere
Shawty you're so soft
I wanna lay you down and hit it ?cause my body been
Waiting, waiting, waiting, patiently waiting
And now that you?re givin? it to me I can?t take it
Take it, take it, girl I can't take it
Said, I'd be making noises
You'll be making noises, yey, yey, yeah
Girl, you be screaming deeper
I'll be going deeper, of course
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Lights of come jump on it baby, on it baby
Do you, ooh, ooh, want it baby, want it baby?
Shawty your skin is so delightful
The sex that we havin? is so monumental
Making love over and over again
Looking at your body, did you get a tan?
The way your body works from the touch of my hand
Thought you was a snake when I touched your skin, yeah
Enter, take it off, c'mere
Shawty, you're so soft
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be touching your skin
Do I know you from somewhere?
Why do you leave me wanting more?
Why do all the things I say
Sound like the stupid things I've said before?
(Put your hand on my skin)
(Put your hand on my skin)
(Put your hand on my skin)
Kiss me, I'm dying
Put your hand on my skin
I close my eyes
I need to make a connection
I'm walking on a thin line
I close my eyes
I close my eyes
Touch me, I'm trying
To see inside of your soul
I've got this thing
I want to make a correction
I'm not like this all the time
You've got this thing
You've got this thing
Kiss me, I'm dying
Put your hand on my skin
I close my eyes
I need to have your protection
I close my eyes
I close your eyes
(Kiss, kiss, kiss me)
Kiss me, I'm dying
Touch me, I'm trying, ohhh
I'm not like this all the time
I'm not like this all the time
Put your hand on my skin
Put your hand on my skin
Put your hand on my skin
Touch me, I'm trying, ohhh
Put your hand on my skin
Put your hand on my skin
I'm not like this all the time
I'm not like this all the time
Skin covers flesh of animals and humans
The former covered with fur and latter on the head has hair
Skin could be reminiscent of Harry Truman
Animals covered with fur, humans generally bare
Skin!
Skin!
Skin covers up animals and humans
Oh, Skin!
Skin!
Skin covers up animals and humans
Normally animals' skin is thick
But humans' is comparatively thin
A tear in skin can make animals and humans sick
Normally all hilarious and seldom sin
Skin!
Skin!
Skin covers up animals and humans
[Verse 1:]
The mood is set,
So you already know what's next.
TV on blast,
Turn it down,
Turn it down.
Don't want it to clash,
With my body screaming out.
I know you hearin' it,
You got me moaning now.
I got a secret that I wanna show you, oh.
I got a secret imma drop em to the floor, oh.
[Hook:]
No teasin,
You waited long enough.
Go deep,
Imma throw it at ya,
Can't catch it.
Don't hold back,
You know I like it rough.
Know I'm feelin ya, huh.
Know you liking it, huh.
[Chorus:]
So why you standing over there with ya clothes on,
Baby strip down for me,
Go on take em off.
Don't worry baby,
Imma meet you half way,
Cause I know you wanna see me.
[Verse 2:]
Almost there,
So baby don't stop what you're doing.
softer than a motha
Boy I know you wanna touch.
Breathing down my neck,
I can tell ya wanna -
And now you want it like,
Want you to feel it now.
I got a secret that I wanna show you, ou.
I got a secret Imma drop em to the floor, ou.
[Hook:]
No teasin,
You waited long enough.
Go deep,
Imma throw it at ya,
Can't catch it.
Don't hold back,
You know I like it rough.
Know I'm feelin ya, huh.
Know you liking it, huh.
[Chorus:]
So why you standing over there with ya clothes on,
Baby strip down for me,
Go on take em off.
Don't worry baby,
Imma meet you half way,
Cause I know you wanna see me.
[Chorus 2:]
No heels,
No shirt,
No skirt,
All I'm in is just skin.
No jeans,
Take em off,
Wanna feel your skin.
You a beast, oh.
You know that I like that.
Come on baby,
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
[Bridge:]
All in baby,
Don't hold nothing back.
Wanna take control,
Aint nothing wrong with that.
Say you liking how I feel,
Ain't gotta tell me that.
Just put your skin baby on my skin.
[Chorus 2:]
No heels,
No shirt,
No skirt,
All I'm in is just skin.
No jeans,
Take em off,
Wanna feel your skin.
You a beast, oh.
You know that I like that.
Come on baby,
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
No heels,
No shirt,
No skirt,
All I'm in is just skin.
No jeans,
Take em off,
Wanna feel your skin.
You a beast, oh.
You know that I like that.
Come on baby,
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
All I wanna see you in
Have no eyes, I must see, you walk out, a violent burst of some kind kind kind kind, mindstate a dirty little drunk and cluttered. shinning a problem of pictorial illusion, dump the trunk and te
E little freak out out out. an unparallelleled account of collapse appearing like yourself liberation appearing like myself mutilation. hold still now, nobody turns, said yeah! thier back on me. silence is deafening desperate waking up. motive spasm my back aches. termination detentation, da-la-sco.. no w this room don’t seem so small sitting here in a cage of some kind kind kind kind miracle and some hallucination, dropped excitement from my last words shut the door and turn the t.v. on on now that I’ve done all that I can.
Sara Beth is scared to death
To hear what the doctor will say
She hasn't been well, since the day that she fell
And the bruise it just won't go away
So she sits and she waits with her mother and dad
And flips through an old magazine
Till the nurse with the smile stands at the door
And says, ?Will you please come with me??
Sara Beth is scared to death
?Cause the doctor just told her the news
Between the red cells and white, something's not right
But we're gonna take care of you
Six chances in ten, it won't come back again
With the therapy we're gonna try
It's just been approved, it's the strongest there is
And I think we caught it in time
And Sara Beth closes her eyes
And she dreams she's dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first love is holding her close
And a soft wind is blowing her hair
Sara Beth is scared to death
As she sits holding her mom
?Cause it would be a mistake for someone to take
A girl with no hair to the prom
For just this morning, right there on her pillow
Was the cruelest of any surprise
And she cried when she gathered it all in her hands
The proof that she couldn't deny
And Sara Beth closes her eyes
And she dreams she's dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first love was holding her close
And a soft wind is blowing her hair
It's quarter to seven, that boy's at the door
And her daddy ushers him in
And when he takes off his cap
They all start to cry
?Cause this morning where his hair had been
Softly she touches just skin
And they go dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first true love is holding her close
She's a fat girl
You could never love that girl
You and all your skinny friends
makin' jokes at her expense
Cracks about her backside, its
resemblance to an elephant's
Does it feel good to tear her down?
Take her, make her less than human
She's heard every word and
She can't help the skin she's in
He's a black boy
You wouldn't want to be that boy
He's a jive talkin', ghetto dwellin',
streetcorner crack sellin'
Welfare cheatin', pickaninny eatin' watermelon
Does it feel good to tear him down?
Take him, make him less than human
He's heard every word and
He can't help the skin he's in
We are the ugly, the weak and the wrong
Trapped in your world where you won't let us belong
When you cut me with your eyes
You know I die a million times
I'm still alive
You're lovely
But deep inside I know you're ugly
Though your face displays the
promise of a Venus or Adonis
Still your fragile bleeding ego takes
its pain out on the rest of us
And it feels good to tear you down
Sue me, I'm only human
That only makes it worse, 'cause
This is someone else's story
Someone that I never knew
This is someone else's body
Am I getting through to you
If you peel away the armor is something underneath
If you look below for hidden treasure underneath another layer
Are you hiding underneath the skin
CHORUS
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the armor is it too late to begin
Is there anybody hiding if you peel away the skin
Now a spark has passed between us now
A momentary recognition
Something lost and something gained
And something shared that feels strange
Something cold that will not go away
There's a heart as cold as ice
In a vault that's made of stone
Over years the walls got higher
Over years the walls have grown
Is there anybody in there in this self inflicted tomb
If you peel away the layers is there someone in this room
If you peel away the skin, if you peel away the skin
This is someone else's story
Someone that I never knew
This is someone else's body
Sioux: vocals, melodica
Severin: bass, "the force"
Budgie: drumsdrumsdrums
Jones: guitar
Mink, seal and ermine smother fat women I have a noble cause for skin-there's just too many of them The only necessary cull-Curse the brain inside it's skull Just a bitch in the manger to the balances of nature
Chorus:
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin but you know what I mean
there's just too many of them
give me your skin for dancing in-hairless and streamline-fits like my own skin tatooed and sun-dyed-it's warm and it's human There was too many of them-the animals like them shame about the smell but they're fine steeped in perfume.
Growing skin last washed forgotten, when it would be getting rotten but for the rain. Sold times zero to shut out the refrain, "How come we never got to see you again?" Not so much trapped as preferring to hide. Don't open the door unless you're going outside. Living on nothing getting too expensive. Turned it inside out and lost the friendship. With a mood of defiance and not wanting it, becoming reliant on the fact it exists. Searching for something better that this? Throw out the pieces that never would fit. And throw out the jig:saw you coming for miles. Emptied the bin with a, picked up the phone with a, had a few words with a, wrote it all down with a smile. And time stood still like good times do, while bad times hovered in the recent past. Talking them over lets you know you can choose between cutting them dead or letting them last. And the choosing is the using of your own self-esteem. Did you like it as it was? Or has it never really been? Some people want it dirty and others like I clean, denying there's an area that's lying in-between. Watching the blind leading the blind gives you the time to use your mind. Plenty of skin to grown back again, plenty of room outside the one you're in.
I drift away to a place
Another kind of life
Take away the pain
I create my paradise
Everything I've held
Has hit the wall
What used to be yours
Isn't yours at all
Falling apart, and all that I'm asking
Is it a crime, am I overreacting
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
So what you had didn't fit
Among the pretty things
Never fear, never fear
I now know where you've been
Braids have been un-tied
As ribbons fall away
Leave the consequence
But my tears you'll taste
Falling apart and all that I question
Is this a dream or is this my lesson
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
I don't believe I'll be alright
I don't believe I'll be OK
I don't believe how you've thrown me away
I do believe you didn't try
I do blame you for every lie
When I look in your eyes, I don't see mine
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
Oh my permission to sin
You might have started my reckoning
I've got a reason now to bury him alive
The masquerader in the mirror
appears to be a certain stranger to me
he slips a film of glow through glow on his hand
and paints my features where his face ought to be
young flesh, young frame
slow pulse, no pain
inside my fit on skin
sometimes I wonder just where to begin
I need action
inside my fit on skin
I make a novel of everything
it's like fiction
inside my fit on skin
another side of my twin
The face he fits is unmistakably mine
without a trace he leaves the scene of the crime
the story always reads exactly the same
I need my live protection all the time
Submitted by Michael Hack
Like a star with a blue moon rising
You complain but you keep surprising yourself
Like a dog who's been kicked all over
You tried to quit but you can't stop kicking yourself
It's the truth, it's a lie, love will never die
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You shut down tried to not be special
Lights were off but someone's always been home
May as well not resist temptation
Plug yourself in the wall and light up the town
Time is up, it's alive, take this dream and drive
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
Climb way up to the ground, slide on up and slide down
It's the truth, it's a lie love will never die
It's the best you can buy might be worth a try
Make a wish take a dive don't just stay alive
You'll do more than survive take this dream and drive
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Out of your skin
Out of your skin
Out of your skin
Mink, seal and ermine smother fat women
I have a noble cause for skin, there's just too many of them
The only necessary coat carries a brain inside its skull
Just a bitch in the manger to the balances of nature
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
But you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Oh, give me your skin for dancing in
Hairless and streamline, fits like my own skin
Tattooed and sun-dyed, it's warm and it's human
There was too many of them, the animals like them
Shame about the smell but they're fine, steeped in perfume
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
Oh, but you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Oh, give me your skin for dancing in
Skin, skin, skin, skin
Skin, skin, skin, skin
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
Oh, but you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Out of sight and out of mind, when you look at yourself do you find
Everything you want to be or do you see what I see.
Too late to change your life, step outside and say good-bye
To everything you left behind, what you seek you may not find.
As I shed my skin, I leave you behind
As I shed my skin, I go on to a better life.
Indecision fills my head, all the things I left unsaid,
My heart is letting go, my pain you'll never know.
If you love something set it free, what I love you took from me.
Try to look, but you can't see, try to put the past behind me.
How could you think it lasts forever, I sit and watch as you decline
Can't you see it's gone forever, out of sight and out of mind.
Twisted, broken, I sit and watch as you decline
Help me, help yourself, out of sight and out of mind.
I see you now in a different plane; broken, used up, pathetic, in pain,
You scream and fight, deny the shame, your selfish heart is the one to blame.
So much time has filled the space since we've been standing face to face.
Have no eyes, I must see, you walk out,
a violent burst of some kind kind kind kind,
mindstate a dirty little drunk and cluttered.
Shinning a problem of pictorial illusion,
dump the trunk and tear the little freak out out out.
An unparallelleled account of collapse appearing like yourself
liberation appearing like myself mutilation.
Hold still now, nobody turns, said yeah!
Thier back on me. Silence is deafening desperate waking up.
Motive spasm my back aches.
Termination detentation, da-la-sco..
now this room don't seem so small sitting here in a cage
of some kind kind kind kind miracle and some hallucination,
dropped excitement from my last words shut the door
and turn the T.V. on on now that I've done all that I can.
I'm starting to feel loopy
Your dizziness consumes me
Jesus don't speak English
But I do think I understand
The rhyme and the reason
Of a goody good gentleman
If I were one I swear
I'd still be tasting your skin
The sky tonight is gracious
To rain on me your sweetness
I scream an explanation
Identity sometimes seems fleeting
An ever-changing tapestry
But at it's heart is the foundation
The very essence of our being
Shed your skin
Cast off your chains
Feel the sun upon your face for once
And wash away the pain
Shed your skin
Be who you are
Unencumbered by the weight
Of hiding every little scar
At times the self seems in transition
A mere projection on a screen
But what happens when you turn the lights on
And things are not as they once seemed?
Shed your skin
Cast off your chains
Feel the sun upon your face for once
And wash away the pain
Shed your skin
Be who you are
Unencumbered by the weight
Of hiding every little scar
Who we are is always changing
A never-ending course of growth
But deep inside there is a pillar
Deep inside there is a soul
Shed your skin
Cast off your chains
Feel the sun upon your face for once
And wash away the pain
Shed your skin
Be who you are
Unencumbered by the weight
You're barely getting by with your half-hearted attempts.
You pass part of the test, and fail the rest.
Because the things you know, you also know so half-heart,
you join mass murder parties cause you hear it's a trend.
That's when all the fun ends. When the funds end.
That's when the people who were your friends turn their backs all the sudden.
Then I have to take a breath for a second.
Before I wreck the impression with my confusing expression.
Because I know the way I do the things I do,
might cause a situation or an excessive reaction from you.
And that might be what I want to do.
Take you.
Try to shake you.
Break you out of your habits.
Can you feel me?
Do you hear me?
Can you look inside and see past the skin this time?
And if I thought you could you wouldn't be here.
If I thought I could I wouldn't be in tears.
It might be a better idea if I hide for a while behind a face with a smile.
Tell wild stories of our glory days.
Make the same mistakes we made yesterday.
But, you still try to feed the obsession with other people's possessions.
Try to dodge all the questions.
Because you know the world treats your kind.
You would last long enough to be a part of a greater design of a better human kind.
My eyes are opening up,
your time is running out to make a choice.
What are you going to do when it's gone?
How do you expect to get on with no voice?
You take what you want from who you need.
You say things you know bring animosity.
You think you'll be a better person in the end.
Sioux: vocals, melodica
Severin: bass, ";the force";
Budgie: drumsdrumsdrums
Jones: guitar
Mink, seal and ermine smother fat women I have a noble cause for skin-there's just too many of them The only necessary cull-Curse the brain inside it's skull Just a bitch in the manger to the balances of nature
Chorus:
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin but you know what I mean
there's just too many of them
give me your skin for dancing in-hairless and streamline-fits like my own skin tatooed and sun-dyed-it's warm and it's human There was too many of them-the animals like them shame about the smell but they're fine steeped in perfume.
And the day that we left
I found a whole in my chest
When you said we were only friends, hanging out
What was I sposed to do, I should swallow my pride
and say it's cool, but I'm a fool, I want you....
I guess I always knew I would
Like you too much for my good
It gets me when I tell you this but it's true
It's so true
And the night that we kissed
We were both pretty pissed
But I still knew how good it felt, but did you?
Now I'd do anything, to get you out from underneath my skin
Wishfull thinking, don't want to
You......
In the corner of your eye
I can see into your mind
A shadow beneath your smile
Something hidden deep inside
Silently you wait for someone to see you
Claw your flesh from off your bones
Face that fire on your own
Embrace the life you thought that you could never know
Can't erase the pain inside without a storm within
They left the lies like scars underneath your skin
The one your hiding in, the one you're supposed to live in
And you gaze up at the sky
As the clouds are passing by
And you wonder for a while
What it would be like to die
Silently you wish for someone to save you
Claw your flesh from off your bones
Face that fire on your own
Embrace the life you thought that you could never know
Can't erase the pain inside without a storm within
They left their lies like scars underneath your skin
The one you're hiding in, the one you're supposed to live in
But you want to be alive
As the self-loathing subsides
And you will not be denied
So you push their lies aside
Violently you burn for someone to feel you
Claw your flesh from off your bones
Face that fire on your own
Embrace the life you thought that you could never know
Can't erase the pain inside without a storm within
They left their lies like scars underneath your skin
Days will come that make no sense
My present situation makes me think too much, too much
It all revolves around you
This life that I'm living means nothing without you
I'd shed my skin for you (I'd shed my skin for you)
What would you want me to do (What would you want me to do)
I will always love you, but I can't live like this
This problem here is my fault
It's not that I don't care but I'm so lost
I'd shed my skin for you (I'd shed my skin for you)
What would you want me to do (What would you want me to do)
I will always love you, but I can't live like this
Now you (With me, a buzz) see why
(Now you see why)
Don't fuck with feelings inside
Who you lying to? Will I survive?
I like what you put my through, 'cause I feel almost alive (Almost alive)
I'd shed my skin for you (I'd shed my skin for you)
What would you want me to do (What would you want me to do)
I will always love you, but I can't live like this
I'd shed my skin for you (I'd shed my skin for you)
What would you want me to do (What would you want me to do)
Well, I know, you don't know the reason
An' it's cold, a sign of the season
'Cause you're old an' battered an' beaten
And we'll grow, 'til we hit the ceiling, oh
Yeah, we know we better
Get away, send a letter
Bombs away, covered in my skin
I couldn't imagine anyone else
Come up with a weekend
I couldn't imagine, why you would save yourself?
Well, it's gone and it's not returning
And your clothes and pictures are burning
'Cause you're old an' battered an' beaten
And we'll grow, 'til we hit the ceiling, oh
Yeah, we know we better
Get away, send a letter
Bombs away, covered in my skin
I couldn't imagine anyone else
Come up with a weekend
I couldn't imagine, why you would save yourself?
Eyaa
Yeah, we know we better
Get away, send a letter
Bombs away, covered in my skin
I couldn't imagine anyone else
Come up with a weekend
I couldn't imagine anyone else
You're covered in my skin
I couldn't imagine anyone else
Come up with a weekend
I couldn't imagine
She combs her hair & cleans her face
Closes the door & kneels to pray
It don't matter that she's alone
Beast or dragons she's going home
If I lay me down
Bow my head unto the ground
Would you heal my skin
& these blisters within my skin
She found today
So hard to say
I sweat the sheets
Too tired to play
& it don't matter
Cause I'm still alive
Beast or dragons
Won't make me hide
Another way
I just cant find the words to say
Cold where I lay
It's cold where I lay
Bones cracked to clay
A killer's in the way
Hot is my shame
Fire pulls my veins
For never is my name
Forever in my shame
Holy come heal me
We made ourselves at home
Out of our dreams
Brought with us this love now bittersweet
And maybe I could say now that I always thought of you
Are you wrong to walk with me your whole life through?
And I know, we go deep within skin
But what lies within,
Is still deep within, we know
And for all this pandemime,
You should see the state of me, yeah
I couldn't heal myself with time, alone
I have you tattooed on my skin.
This house is full of stories we both told
These rooms the very stage where they'd unfold
These walls they whisper secrets,
And memories they love
But this door no longer leads us to their love
Yeah, I know, we go deep within skin
But what lies within,
Is still deep within, we know
And for all this pandemime,
You should see the state of me, yeah
I couldn't heal myself with time, alone
I have you tattooed on my skin.
All I ever wanted was to hold you
What can I do now to make things new?
I ain't trying to right your will to a song,
Cause you're too sacred and I would be wrong
But when irony life holds,
I was finally ready to meet you half way
This dizzy angle
The sickener's seed
Desire deraign
Blue devils in need
Addiction bomb
Takes over inside
Twisting my mind
Looks like I'm falling
Out of focus
Wanting pith
Higher locus
Bowers of bliss
this skin
The ride takes me so high
I'm never coming down
I saw the flood of angels
Amend the shredded shroud
Addiction bomb
Takes over inside
Twisting my mind
Looks like I'm falling
Out of focus
Wanting pith
Higher locus
Bowers of bliss
this skin
Burn-out shows he's devoid of control
Found fettled up into your null
Out of focus
Wanting pith
Higher locus
Bowers of bliss
this skin
I know you told me not to ask where you have been
I know you told me not to try
To understand the way you live your life at night
But don't you see you make me cry
So now I've left you I know it broke your heart
But I prefer to be alone
I hope you feel the pain I've always felt with you
I know I'll make it on my own
I touch your skin
I smell the sin
Your eyes are lying
I touch your skin
I smell the sin
I decide,
Never to play with truth again,
I reveal,
Never to be so cruel again,
And all the games you played with me,
You bound my heart and set me free,
You bound my feet and let me go,
And I don't know.
We are like sheep,
Waiting for the slaughter,
We crawl and we creep,
We can't hear their laughter,
A passionate game I played with you,
Skip the fear and gave the fool,
I can sense this deep within,
Underneath my skin.
You say,
All this appears new to you,
I won't stay,
Even if you want me to,
I know that I have played with chance,
Never mine to fail again,
Feel the pressure deep within,
Way too many dreams
Get lost in silent screams
How can you count the cost of a city
Bursting at the seams
With red lights, quiet sinners
Killer cops, t.v. dinners
A wind of change for all the deadheads
That need blowing away
I blew you far away to have a dream
And you came back to say it's out there
Don't let it get away
But still you're here with hours to kill
You're murdered so many, you're serially ill
You'll wait for another
And you'll kill again
Show me your skin
I need to get in
Why did you do it
Was it just for fun
To put me out the picture
Or out of misery
Was it a shock
Was it a plea
Was it a question, tell me
Did you get any answers?
Show me your skin
I need to get in
Have you seen what it's like
To be really free
Or is everything a mess
Like it is inside
Is it a test
A russian roulette
A gamble with life
Or just a bet?
Is it london town
Is it n.y.c
Is it anarchy
Tell me did you get any answers?
Show me your skin
(B. Walkenhorst)
Who am I, I don't know, I have no idea
When my friends look at me I wonder who they think they're seeing
Search me, layer by layer
But inside I'm afraid you'll find thin air
Yeah, yes, guess again
Who we might be underneath this skin
What makes me tick? How should I know,
I've been trained like a monkey
The bell rings and I start to jones like a junkie
What turns me on? I wish I knew
Wish I could tell the real thing
My honest desire from my conditioning
Touch me now, now touch me again
I want to feel something real coming through this skin
I've been boxing with my shadow, winded and tagged
I can't punch my way our of a paper bag
It's as thick as you think, thin as the reasoning you bought
I'm a mummy wrapped in a gauze of my own thoughts
And I want to know who I'd be
If I never had bathed in the static, the snow, and the radio wave
The flickering image, the pandering thought
That's been passed off and on
To be the blueprint of God
Hey yes, guess again
I'm crawling in my slumber
I'm tangled in this web
Caught between desire
I'm listening to myself
Somebody save me lord??
I'm born being bad
My hands are in the fire
I'm burning for your touch
It's making me feel uneasy
Making me lose sleep
My earth is shaking
I'm born being bad
Somebody save me
I wanna wear your skin
I wanna wear your skin
My breath is growing heavy
My senses going dim
Baby i can't keep going on and on and on and on
Like this
My earth is shaking
I'm born being bad
Somebody save me
oh lord
I wanna wear your skin
I wanna wear your skin
(M. Gray, N. MacDonald)
One night, downtown, young girl, head down
Walked in, sat down beside me
One look was enough, and this boy was in love
The cold sweat was burning up inside me
Chorus:
You're not shy like a little girl, you don't cry like a kissin' doll
Little Jeany was just too much, she said, baby baby, look but don't touch
She got up and walked by, a little teaser with one thing on her mind
The jukebox at number twenty-five
Next thing that I knew, she was dancing on the bar
Twistin' on and a-shakin', lookin' like a movie star
Hot sticky stuff and close enough to touch
(chorus)
(Solo)
(chorus)
And this is what she said to me, she said baby baby baby, baby baby baby
Baby baby baby, baby baby baby baby baby baby
Baby baby baby, baby baby baby, she said baby baby baby
Baby baby baby baby baby baby
(Baby baby baby) Look but don't touch
(Baby baby baby) Look but don't touch
(Baby baby baby) Look but don't touch
(Baby baby baby) Look but don't touch me
(Look but don't touch) Look but don't touch
(Look but don't touch) Look but don't touch me
(Look but don't touch) Look but don't touch
(Look but don't touch) Touch me, no no no
Look but don't touch me, no
Don't touch my legs, don't touch my hips
Don't touch my ass, don't touch my lips
Don't touch me there, don't [show a hair]
Don't touch my cheeks, don't touch me there, there, there, and there
Don't touch me there, don't touch me there, no no no, ow...
What was I waiting for
Waiting for the bubble to burst
Over your stagnant pauses
Can't cure what your devil don't see
Or light a fire below the death of me
We've shot through all over our causes
Days spin through my heart
That sever the love
Kill all the pain with shame
I won't be lost without you
I've found a way to get through
Now I'm up and running
Strong enough to walk away
And leave you all alone
I won't be lost
What were you waiting for
Waiting for the straw to break
Over the back of desperate ways
You were a dream to me
Now you're nothing but a heart
that bleeds
I'll wash you off and carry on
(Repeat bridge and chorus)
And when I see you
I find another reason
To keep myself from getting lost in you
Tell me this fight
Was just a cause
That we will die
With these flaws
I know it's meaningless
But that is what I have to face
As long as that's true
I can get over you
Tell me you used me to climb
Above us poor souls (standing) in line
For me a lot of pain
Is what I need to pull me through
Wanna feel this hatred
It's what I need to drag me through this
I survive through nothing less
It tears me up as you calmly use it
Love abuse is just a test
Then sad old love songs
Stick the knife in deeper everyday
Twisting as you play
Tell me your reasons
Weren't pure
So I can kill
This wretched lust for you
Some damage done
Is what I need to go alone
As long as that's true
I can get over you
I'm a one night stand
Screwed the whole damn year
Cos your sneaky face
Comes streaked with tears
But I'm not joyful lover
I tell no lies
So you won't just get away with it
Without a fight
Now it's my turn to tell you
You can't keep turning to me
When she ain't coming home
You can't keep flirting with me
You've made your bed
Go lie in it alone
I'm the rotten cause
That keeps true girls down
Cause these tears of a heart
Will have us all drowned
But I'm no willing cover
I seek no praise
So you won't be getting away with it
On sorry days
I'm your contraband
Your smugglers whore
I collude with you
When you want more
But it's clear to me
You thrive on my fear
So it's time to aid the enemy
And get the hell out of here
Can't see you through your blinding words
Eyes burning through the lies you stutter
Can't breathe in case I take them in
Then I'd lose my mind
I believe that you believe in you
Still reeling from the words you uttered
Feel sick enough to let you win
Recognising
The trouble with me
Is my troubles with you
Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm everybody's fool
The trouble with me
Is my troubles with you
You'd like me to believe
I need no one but you
I stumble from your juiced up promises
Can't believe what I forgave in you
Too scared by what you think I'm living for
So distorted
Stupid me I should have listened
to you anyway
Between the line I would have
heard the truth
So slick you coulda lied to anyone
Now I see that
You can run
You can run away
But I can run too
Far enough to see
You can run
You can run today
But I can run too
Far enough to see the wrong in you
I'm like a soldier
With no cause to fight
Playing with bar boys
To test you just right
I watch your features
I check for a sign
Of some kind of failure
Then I feel sublime
Now I know I have to live without you
I can only bend so far
Guess it's time to make some moves
without you
Now you've gone and trashed my heart
Solid demeanour
I look good a feat
Still I'm too vicous
To take on defeat
Yes I hear
You don't feel this any more
I see
There's nothing to believe in anymore
Just two snitches on heat
Still avoiding the grief
Because it felt so hard
Take these sore eyes
I've no use for them
Now I feel there's
Nothing left to see
Take your moment
It's not important
It's destined for my
Fading memory
Ma baby
â'Til then sleep so completely
So discreetly
In my arms
'Til then lie
So convincingly
Stll I'll stay here
'Till the morning comes
Take your satisfaction
If it makes it worth it
And take your little tricks
When you leave
You're talking
In circles
The words spit out your head
They blind you
With emotion that's plain dead
These wet sheets
Sex sudden
Mind spent and ill at ease
Your mirror
Screams out this dark release
Cos only you can be your help
So darling just listen
Listen to yourself
Cos only you can tame your hell
So darling just listen
Listen to yourself
You know truth
But deny it
Too scared to make a break
Pure feeling
Just squandered in your wake
Don't tell me
Your virtues
Then run the same lame strife
To tiring
These excerpts of your life
Cos only you can be your help
So darling just listen
Listen to yourself
Cos only you can tame your hell
So darling just listen
Listen to yourself
I don't understand nothing less
Than this bitter release
You standing firm but won't talk to me
Makes it harder to hold on
But I'll try
I'll try
I'll try
Tell me how you feel and I'll try
I don't know what you want from this
Don't know nothing at all
Just this vision that I can't leave
Makes it harder to go on
Tell me how you feel and I'll try
We'll fight this regret
And smother the doubt
We'll conquer this
We'll conquer regret
And smother the doubt
Faithfulness
Distracts me from my ever changing
Tastefulness
My mouth upon the richest tongues
I run for this
Static at the same time by it all
Common sense
Can slap me in the face
And yet I calm disent
Embarrassed by your obvious
Indifference
Disgusted at the same time by it all
Watching as my ego breaks your fall
Don't you know that I've
Been running from you heart
And I feel like you've been running too
Don't you know that I've
been lying from the start
And I feel like you've been lying too.
Leave you now
Can't convince myself
That you're the one somehow
To free me from this smile
I call my loneliness
Stuck inside this need to feel complete
Now I've left you standing on your feet
Don't you know that I've been
running from you heart
And I feel like you've been running too
Don't you know that I've been
lying from the start
And I feel like you've been
lying too.
Faithfulness is just a little rule
We break
Still pretending lust was just a fool
we faked, we made
You always say
I want too much
Is it such a crime
To want more than your lust
Oh baby
Why have you frozen now
I can't conceive
The way this feels
You've grown so cold
like you're counting the tears
Oh, baby
Why have you frozen now
And you say it doesn't matter
We'll always be
The best of friends
Don't let me down x4
I've always said
I can't abuse
Your lust for life
And the choices you choose
Oh, baby
Why have we broken now
And you say it doesn't matter
We'll always be
The best of friends
Still i need you
To stay right here
Don't let me down x4
Ooh
Don't let me down x4
You'll always be a born
Worn out loser
Still blaming all of us
For your bad choosing
No I can't watch the same mistake
Waiting for the boys to turn out straight
No I can't run the same dog race
And get burnt like you
You're swollen in the gut
From all those last nights
Still swinging vodka punches
That don't land right
(M. Gray, N. MacDonald)
The sands of time slip away, the pages turn day by day
And every night I pray for you, your guiding light sees me through
Love lasts forever, it never ends, one day in heaven we'll meet again
Chorus:
On the wings of an angel, you will fly
The tears of a nation, we hear them cry
The words that you gave us still carry on
And a new generation will sing your song
On the wings of an angel
You're in my heart and in my soul, emotions I just can't control
Memories will never die, the fire still burns, it keeps you alive, you alive
Love lasts forever, it never ends, one day in heaven we'll meet again
(chorus)
(Sing your song), sing your song (sing your song)
Oh Lord (sing your song), will sing your song
Will sing your song
(Solo)
On the wings of an angel
On the wings of an angel
(M. Gray)
I can't make you love me, but I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try
And I can't make you hold me, but I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try
Starting out just as friends, I felt my feelings grow
Every day a little more, and now I can't let go
I say you, you're all that I want, you're all that I need, a tower of strength
I say you, you're all that I want, you're all that I need, now 'til the end
I can't make you love me, but I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try
Wrap your arms around me, and close your eyes, oh-oh
Baby close your eyes, oh-oh-oh
You gotta hear me sayin'
You, you're all that I want, you're all that I need, a tower of strength
I say you, you're all that I want, you're all that I need, now 'til the end
You, you're all that I want, more than I need, a tower of strength
Baby you, you're all that I want, more that I need, now 'til the end
Oh, if I'm dyin' (a tower of strength), as I'm your man you are my woman
You're all that I need (a tower of strength)
You said, you said you give me love, love
Love, love, to love (a tower of strength)... (to fade)
(M. Gray, T. Meagher, Jeff Paris)
Yeah!
I never thought there was a kind of love that could make me sell my soul
But I can't help myself when you get so close
Whenever you lay your hands on me, it makes me want you more
The feeling in your touch is what I hunger for, yeah
So good, so bad, I gave it everything I had
Way down inside, I'm gonna make you mine
Let me slide in, I need a little skin on skin
I'll make you see, you're everything to me
Chorus:
When you need love and you're cold inside
You reach out for me with the fire in your eyes
When your heart cries out with a burning desire
You're the angel I need, you're the devil inside
Oh-oh
I see you [bash in] in the heat of the night, the fever gets too much
I feel our bodies move to the rhythm of love
So good, so bad, your love's about to drive me mad
One more last time, my heart is on the line
So rough, so smooth, can't wait to get my hands on you
Just wait and see, you're everything to me
(chorus)
Ooh yeah, you bring out the devil in me
(Solo)
(chorus)
Got the devil inside
(M. Gray, T. Meagher)
I guess I never really knew just what you were thinkin'
I never took the time to ask you why
I should've known better, you've been reading me just like a letter
Erasing everything in time
I know that I should just forget it, pretend that you're sleepin' alone
But I'm not a fool you know, a fool would've not let you go
Chorus:
I gave you my heart, I gave you my soul, I gave it all to you
Now that you're gone, it's not the same
Which are the tears and which is the rain?
Which are the tears and which is the rain?
I don't know how to face our friends, I don't know what I should tell them
I wanna reach out but I don't know how
I should've known better, but baby you've been reading me
Reading me just like a letter, erasing everything in time
I know that I should just forget it, pretend that you're sleepin' alone
But I'm not a fool you know, a fool would've not let you go
(chorus)
You know I need you, and I want you to stand with me
(Solo)
But I'm not a fool you know, a fool would've not let you go
(chorus)
Which are the tears and which is the rain?
Which are the tears, I can't stand the rain
Ooh baby, I don't know
Which are the tears and which is the rain?
(I. Dench, J. Atkin, Z. Foley, M. Decloedt, D. Brownson)
(Originally performed by EMF; from their album "Schubert Dip")
Whoa!
You burden me with your questions, you'd have me tell no lies
You're always askin' what it's all about, but don't listen to my replies
You say that I don't talk enough, but when I do I'm a fool
These times I've spent, I've realized, I'm gonna shoot through and leave you
Chorus:
The things you say, your purple prose just gives you away
The things you say, huh, you're unbelievable - ho!
What the fuck was that?
You burden me with your problems, by telling me more than mine
I'm always so concerned, with the way you say you've always gotta stop
To think of us as being one is more than I'll ever know
But this time I've realized, I'm gonna shoot through and leave you
(chorus)
You're unbelievable, yeah - what the fuck was that?
Listen up
You laugh at me then criticize the way I choose to lead my life
I won't conform to your point of view, I'd rather die than live like you
You try to hide your jealousy by using words like "authority"
But can't you see, I don't give a fuck!
You burden me with your questions, you'd have me tell no lies
You're always askin' what it's all about, but don't listen to my replies
You say to me I don't talk enough, but when I do I'm a fool
These times I've spent, I've realized, I'm gonna shoot through and leave you
The things you say, your purple prose just gives you away
The things you say, I won't love you more
(chorus)
You're unbelievable - ho! What the fuck was that?
You're so unbelievable - ho! What the fuck was that?
What the fuck was that? What the fuck was that?
They say you're unbelievable, yeah, you're unbelievable
You're unbelievable, you're unbelievable, yeah, you're unbelievable
(J. Strummer, M. Jones; originally performed by The Clash)
Darling you've got to let me know, should I stay or should I go
If you say that you are mine, I'll be here 'til the end of time
So you got to let me know, should I stay or should I go
It's always tease, tease, tease, you're happy when I'm on my knees
One day is fine, the next is black, so if you want me off your back
Well come on and let me know, should I stay or should I go
Should I stay or should I go now, should I stay or should I go now
If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
This indecision's bugging me (...)
If you don't want me, set me free (...)
Just who the fuck am I supposed to be?
(I think you'll find that you are friendly)
Don't even know which clothes'll fit me (...)
So come on and let me know (...)
Should I cool it or should I blow (...)
(Solo)
Should I stay or should I go now (...)
Should I stay or should I go now (...)
If I go there will be trouble (...)
If I stay it will be double (...)
So you gotta let me know (...)
Should I stay or should I go (...)
Should I stay or should I go now (...)
If I go there will be trouble (...)
And if I stay it will be double (...)
So you gotta let me know (...)
Should I stay or should I go?
(M. Gray, N. MacDonald)
You gotta shine your light on me, shine your light on me
Gotta shine your light on me, gotta shine your light on me, oh baby
Yeah! Oh oh
Lay down your guns, lay down your swords
No need for sorrow, there's no need for war, no
Open your heart, give me your hand, give me your hand
I'm gonna take you to the promised land
Chorus:
Shine your light on me, shine your light on me, yeah
Shine your light on me, gotta shine a little light
Shine a little light on me
On me
There's blood on the street, and fire in the sky
Don't look away baby, don't close your eyes
Look to the future, just say a prayer, just say a prayer
Times are a-changin', but does anyone care?
(chorus) - yeah
(Solo)
Shine your light on me, gotta shine your light on me
Gotta shine your light on me, oh baby, you gotta shine your light on me
Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on
Shine on, shine on shine on shine on shine on
I said there's blood on the street, and there's fire in the sky
I said don't look away baby, no don't close your eyes, oh no no no
Shine your light on me, shine your light on me, yeah
Shine your light on me, you gotta shine your light on me, yeah
(M. Gray, N. MacDonald)
Yeah yeah! Kick it up, huh! Oh-oh
My daddy bought me my first guitar, never thought I'd get too far
He told me, "Son, you better cut your hair
Better change those clothes you wear" - oh no
But the only thing that I'm gonna need, is these three chords and a melody
And now I play in a travelling band, doing the only thing I can
Chorus:
Raised on radio, turn it up, let it go
Get up and then rock an' roll, that's what I need
Raised on radio, turn it up, let it go
Get up and then rock an' roll, that's what I need
At the bottom, work to the top, once you start you can never stop, no
Take a ride in the caroussel, throw a coin in the wishing well, yeah
(chorus)
It's the only thing I need, to get me on my knees
(Solo)
To every woman and every man, to every nation and every land
It doesn't matter if you're black or white, close your eyes and see the light
Livin' to the beat, [adjust what's wrong]
Feel the fire in the heart of the young
It's in our blood and in our veins, everybody sing the song again
(chorus)
That's what I need
(Elvis Costello)
(originally performed by Elvis Costello; from his album "This Year's Model")
I've been on tenterhooks, endin' in dirty looks
Listenin' to the muzak, thinkin' 'bout this 'n' that
She said that's that, I don't wanna chitterchat
Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat
Pump it up - when you don't really need it, yeah
Pump it up - until you can feel it
Down in the pleasure centre, hell bent or heaven sent
Listen to the propaganda, listen to the latest slander
There's nothing underhand, that she wouldn't understand
Chorus:
Pump it up - until you can feel it
Pump it up - when you don't really need it, yeah
Oh yeah, when you don't, when you don't, don't, don't really need it, ow
She's been a bad girl, she's like a chemical
Though you try to stop it, she's hard to knock out
You wanna torture her, you wanna talk to her
All the things you bought for her, putting up her temperature
(chorus)
Out in the fashion show, down in the bargain bin
You put your passion on, under the pressure pin
Fall into submission, hit-and-run transmission
No use wishin' now for any other sin
(chorus repeats 2x)
You don't really need it, you don't really need it
Don't really need it, don't really need it
Don't really need it, don't really need it
No no
Please believe me
I'm estatic for you
Well why should I pretend
I have nothing to lose
No I don't compare
You've got it all wrong now
My sorrows left behind
Let me tell you the truth
Chorus
I feel nothing but
Joy and pride and happiness
Nothing but
Cheerfull face with kindness
I feel nothing but
Oceans of love and forgiveness
For you and your sweet girl
Please ignore the
Particular way I smile
Take no notice of
The blood on the lip I bite
I am still your friend
There is no denying
For you and your new girl
Yes I remember
Everybody has affairs
Oh yeah we had some fun
But she is so perfect for you
I feel nothing but
Joy, and pride, and happiness
Nothing but
Cheerful face with kindness
I feel nothing but
Oceans of love and forgivness
For you and your sweet girl
Please ignore the
Particular way I smile
Take no notice
The blood on the lip I bite
I am still your friend
There's no denying
For you and your new girl
I feel nothing but
Joy and pride
Nothing but a cheerful lie
Nothing but oceans of love
Nothing but...
I feel nothing but
Joy and pride and happiness
I feel nothing but
Oceans of love and forgiveness
For you and your sweet girl
Please ignore the
Particular way I smile
Take no notice
The blood on the lip I bite
I'm still your friend
There's no denying
For you and your new girl
I feel nothing but
Joy and pride and happiness
Nothing but
Cheerful face with kindness
I feel nothing but
Oceans of love and forgiveness
For you and your Sweet girl
Please ignore the
Particular way I smile
Take no notice
The blood on the lip I bite
I'm still your friend
There's no denying
(M. Gray, N. MacDonald, G. Burtnick)
Yeah! Yeah yeah yeah
There's a new book in town, everybody wanna read it
A new look in town, everybody wanna see
A new face in town, everybody wanna feed it
A new god in town, everybody wanna plead
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest fool of all?
I see the face on my TV, looking just like me
Chorus:
You follow me and I'll follow you, the monkey see and the monkey do
You're bad for me and I'm bad for you, you can be my monkey too, yeah
There's a new riff in town, everybody wanna play
A new heart in town, everybody wanna break
A new drug in town, everybody gonna take it
A new god in town, everybody gonna pray
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest freak of all?
I see the lemming take the lead, down into the sea
(chorus)
Don't mess with me baby, ow!
(Solo)
Yeah!
There's a new riff in town, everybody wanna play
A new heart in town, everybody wanna break
A new drug in town, everybody gonna take it
A new god in town, everybody gonna pray, yeah
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest freak of all?
I see the lemming take the lead, down into the sea
A face on my TV, looking just like me
You follow me and I'll follow you, the monkey see and the monkey do
You mess with me and I'll mess with you, you can be my monkey too, yeah
You can be my monkey too, ow! You can be my monkey too, yeah
You can be my monkey, let me be your monkey
We all need a monkey too, oh
You taste what you want from me
You taste all of the gristle from the bones I need
To stand up to you, to live up to fools
It's too troubling
Can't take what you like from me
Can't take all of the vision that your money thieves
Don't be careless now, just a pretty babe
A cool covering
You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why
It's all crumbling
Dark eyes, beauty's never cheap
Dark hair, dark lips maybe that I want to cheat
See my sorry face in this love that fails
It's all good for me
Slick baby, that ain't worrying
Slick rage, strong is the ego that I want to test
In your head of lies, cut me down to size
It's all credible
You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why
Pure fear that you're falling for
These tears, thick in the sadness that was running before
Welling up in dread for a softer bed
I'm not worrying
Oh, you're so sane, all the lines you shed
So cool, so good, the picture for those crazy hoods
Got this gun for keeps, stick it in this meat
I'm not hurrying, hurrying
You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why
It's all crumbling
You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
That you're smothering
(M. Gray)
Listen
It's getting late, and I can't wait to spend some time with you
I'm coming home to be alone, to be alone with you
Turn out the light, let's make it right, take it nice and slow
Take off your dress, I'll do the rest, I'm coming, get set, go
Little by little, bit by bit, we'll make our love a perfect fit
Little by little, bit by bit, hold your body next to mine
In the house of love - you keep me up all night
House of love - until the morning light
House of love - we can take our time
We can spend the night in the house of love, yeah
Watching you move I start to lose all my self control
When I'm in your hands I feel a man, so please don't let me go, no
Little by little, bit by bit, we'll make our love a perfect fit
Little by little, bit by bit, hold your body next to mine
Chorus:
In the house of love - you keep me up all night
House of love - until the morning light, yeah
House of love - we can come back for more
We can spend the night in the house of love, yeah
(Solo)
We gotta make it tonight, yeah yeah
In the house of love - you keep me up all night
House of love - until the morning light
House of love - we can take our time, we can spend the night
(chorus)
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh tonight, baby
Oh-oh, I need your love
(Jack Lee)
(Answer the bloody phone)
I'm in the phonebooth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer I'll just ring it off the wall
I know she's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hangin' on the telephone
Don't leave me hangin' on the telephone
I heard your mama, "Now she's goin' out the door
I think she's gone to work, or just gone to the store"
All the things you said I told you to ignore
Oh, why can't we talk again, oh, why can't we talk again
Oh, why can't we talk again
Don't leave me hangin' on the telephone
Don't leave me hangin' on the telephone
It's good to hear your voice, I know it's been so long
If I don't get your call then everything goes wrong
I wanna tell you something you knew all along
Don't leave me hangin' on the telephone
(Solo)
I am the winner of this pointless conversation
Your voice [and cry so makes is me] a slick sensation
I like to talk when I can show you my affection
Oh, I can't control myself, oh, I can't control myself
Oh, I can't control myself
Don't leave me hangin' on the telephone
Get down here on your knees, oh, get down here on your knees
Oh, get down here on your knees, oh, get down here on your knees
Oh-oh-oh-oh on your knees
(M. Gray, N. MacDonald, I. Richardson, I. Cola)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
You don't need an invitation, yeah you got everything in hand
Use it up before you lose it, 'cos time will slip away
And you don't get a second chance
Let my fingers do the walkin', walk all over you
If you're open to suggestion, let me give you a clue
Chorus:
Let's get funktified, feel the kick inside, oh-oh-oh, let's get
Let's get funktified, feel the kick inside, oh-oh-oh, let's get
Get funktified
If you need something to believe in, just put your faith and trust in me
I'm gonna lead you to temptation, fill you with desire
Release your sexuality, yeah
I know this might be your first time, it sure won't be the last
If you need some more persuasion, baby give me a chance
(chorus)
(Solo)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Let's get funktified, feel the kick inside, oh-oh-oh, let's get (repeats 3x)
Let's get funktified, feel the kick inside, let's get
Get funktified
Oh baby, let's get funktified, yeah, ohh, let's get funktified
Let's get funktified yeah, ow, ow yeah, ooh
I wanna get, I wanna get funky, baby, ow, oh I wanna get funky, yeah...
(to fade)
(Madonna, Stephen Bray; originally performed by Madonna (1989))
Chorus:
Don't go for second best, baby, put your love to the test
You know you know you've got to make her express how she feels
And mayby then you'll know your love is real
You don't need diamond rings or 18 karat gold
Fancy cars that go very fast, well they never last, no no
What you need is a big strong man, to take you to your higher ground
Make you feel like a queen on a throne
And love you till you can't come down
(chorus)
Long stem roses are the way to her heart, but you gotta start with her head
Satin sheets are very romantic, what happens when you're not in bed?
You deserve the best in life, if the time isn't right then move on
Second best is never enough, you'll do much better on your own
(chorus)
Express yourself - you've got to make her
Express herself - hey hey hey hey
And if you wanna know how, let me show you now
Express what you've got, baby ready or not
Express yourself
(Solo)
(chorus)
Express yourself - you've got to make her
Express herself, hey hey hey hey
And if you wanna know how, let me show you now
Express what you've got, baby ready or not
Express yourself, express yourself, express yourself
(Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni)
(Originally performed by Adam and The Ants; from their album
"Kings Of The Wild Frontier" (1980))
You may not like the things we do, only idiots ignore the truth
It's easy to lay down and hide, where's the warrior without his pride?
Chorus:
We're gonna move real good - yeah right
We gotta trust somebody - ok
It's dog eat dog eat dog eat dog eat dog eat dog eat dog eat dog
Leapfrog the dog, watch me daddy-o
It's easy to lay down and hide, where's the warrior without his pride?
You may not like the things we say, what's the difference anyway?
(chorus)
(Solo)
It makes me proud, so proud of you, I see innocence shining through
(repeats out)
(M. Gray)
If I'm black or white, dark or light, do you mind
Is there anything that I can say to change your mind
We're all the same colour under our skin
Open your eyes and let love in
Chorus:
Are you blind, then tell me why are you colourblind?
Are you blind, then tell me why are you colourblind?
Is it prejudice, or ignorance in your mind
Would you walk away and turn your back on mankind, yeah
Answer my question, I'm begging you, please
Show me the cure for this social disease
(chorus)
Tell me why, why are we colourblind? Tell me why, why are we colourblind?
I said, I said, yeah yeah, why are we colourblind?
Tell me why, why are we colourblind?
Why are we colourblind? Why are we colourblind? Why are we colourblind?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Why are we colourblind, yeah, oh oh oh
I swear this night to reclaim all that's mine
My promise tears on my zit-covered pride
It comes with the years of living with the skin
Of a blind-alley fool
But in so many ways I thought I was like you
With your kitchen-knife tongue
Yes, I've been there
Hips! Lips! And fingertips!
Where all slough breaks in half
Old aldies smoke and learn to cackle
While the devil sits and laughs
Well no fags for the hags
And no more time to be wicked
Come round to your soul
Yes, I've been there
You made my day
Then it fell to the ground
So if this is skin
Then I submit to you
Well there once was a queen
Who ate that man as if he were chicken
But it was all in a dream
Yes, I've been there
I woke up half dead
Fear and frogs ate the flesh off my bones
Alive in a fridge
Yes, I've been there
I love the ache
So don't say that Dallas doesn't love you
Come round to your soul
Yes, I've been there
My romance left here
So make no mistake when you call me brother
Alive in a fridge
Yes, I've been there
You were vaccuous and I was cruel
And losers don't hurt when your dreams hold them down
Come round to your soul
You hit me with your eyes
You defeat me with your smile
You face me with your looks
And make me very weak
You slam me down with your bare presence
And do you know
At the time you make me feel so alive
Forget about the things that I do have got
Forget about the things that I have to loose
My mind is a mess
And I know I want more
More of you
That's what I'm longing for
Chorus:
Seeking reasons not to get even closer
Not to go pass the line
Common sense is expired by now
I shouldn't need to be in disguise
Searching myself
Finding my heart belongs there
No matter what I've got
This is what you have done to me
My heart is now in your hands
Is this just a way to escape my daily round
An attempt to leave this some what unfortunate path
Will this take me further
Or simply bring me down
This probably will cause me more pain than joy
Just by being around you're making my day
Satisfying my heart
And giving me reasons to stay
As long as I see you
I will stay pleased
I will stay the same
Loosing myself more and more each day
Chorus
Seeking reasons not to go pass the line
Searching, finding no matter what I've got
My heart is now in your hands
Once he loved her
Once he could
See her as a flower
The days would rise
And set in her eyes
A sweetness he'd devour
Slowly it took him over
Seeds from the darkside
Planted when just a boy
Grew wild inside him now
The skin between your heart and mine
Like sun to moon and earth to sky
And brains are washed in glossy lies
Till beautiful means perfect in our minds
Hated himself
All his life
Couldn't own his blessings
He pushed aside
Every ray of light
That photographed him shining
Slowly he wanted more
Than she could ever give
With her he fantasized
About a movie star
The skin between your heart and mine
Like sun to moon and earth to sky
And brains are washed in glossy lies
Till beautiful means perfect in our minds
I like the way you move in the sun inside your room
I like the way you move in the sun inside your room
When the sun, it kisses your skin
And makes me crazy while you're in
I can't see you big at all
Suck your liiiiife, oh yeah
Slowly he went too far; flame to the fire
His breath curling all the pages of a magazine
The skin between your heart and mine
Like sun to moon and earth to sky
And brains are washed in glossy lies
Till beautiful means perfect
The skin between your heart and mine
Like sun to moon and earth to sky
And brains are washed in glossy lies
I saw the top of the mountain
Tattooed on the back of your neck
Tryin to make me understand
Why some flowers don't need light
To grow an' bloom on your skin
With a wound an' a kiss
I'm so grateful
So fuckin grateful
For those scars on my skin
How can I show you how much I owe you?
Hey hey hey
Love you more than I can hurt myself
No head, just bones and roses
Tattooed on the motorway skin
Control the breath of this thrill an
Make me refuse your gifts...
Hey hey hey...
I drift away to a place
Another kind of life
Take away the pain
I create my paradise
Everything I've held
Has hit the wall
What used to be yours
Isn't yours at all
Falling apart, and all that I'm asking
Is it a crime, am I overreacting
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
So what you had didn't fit
Among the pretty things
Never fear, never fear
I now know where you've been
Braids have been un-tied
As ribbons fall away
Leave the consequence
But my tears you'll taste
Falling apart and all that I question
Is this a dream or is this my lesson
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
I don't believe I'll be alright
I don't believe I'll be OK
I don't believe how you've thrown me away
I do believe you didn't try
I do blame you for every lie
When I look in your eyes, I don't see mine
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
Oh my permission to sin
You might have started my reckoning
I've got a reason now to bury him alive
Another little white lie
Safety net, don't hold me now
In this hole I've fallen down
Secret home I made and found
And you wait to breathe
Skin of all, skin of all
I've had enough, ooh ohh
Skin of all
And in the sickness, you have faith
And in the thickness you find me
Finally
In the city, you find pain
And the people you see there
That remind you of your role
Let me go
Skin of all, skin of all
I've had enough, ooh ooh
Skin of all
And in the sickness, you have faith
And in the thickness you find me
Finally, finally
That's what they say
The neon bruise on her cheek flickers on/off/on in the rain. On her thigh there is a tattooed smear. She finds a vein in her ankle. Pull back.
Under a tangle of freeway passes, a squat, squalid city. Derelict buildings huddled together for warmth, windows burn with cool blue TV fire. They all sell something down here. Sex, drugs, religion. They'll buy escape at any price.
She squats in a peeling doorway, something childlike and explicit in the splay of her legs. From her tiny purse she takes a cigarette and rolls it between her fingers.
Buildings grow like weeds between drifts of broken stereos and refrigerator boxes.
Every spare space filled with collections and glossy magazines.
He steps towards her and offers a light. The gesture is familiar and as she stands, a coy smile twists her face, the cigarette casually held to hide her broken tooth. As they talk she smooths the pleated vinyl of her skirt. He draws her back into the doorway, out of the rain.
The only moon over the city tonight is the crescent of bleached teeth on a billboard advertising salvation, at a high price.
Deep sea swimming
Light is skimming
Waves of love and pain
Bubbles blue enhance my view
In misty morning rain
Softly sending
Colors bending
Fragments from the sun
Sip the shower
Fainting flower
You and I are one
[CHORUS]
She will cry
She will die
Pull me in
Cave me in
Scratch my skin
Scratch my skin
Flowing river
I deliver
Bleeding hearts for peace
Pull me in
A saving sin
A simple soul release
[CHORUS]
Understand I have the face of a madman because I am
The lemon lime sound rains down on your town to wash away all sanity
Run away from the badman, yes sweet comes down like a plague
Strobe lights flash with rhythm & rhyme insane
Fertilize the rough & rugged terrain.
I need your eyes, I need your smile
I want your mind, I want your life
I need your skin, skin, skin, skin
I need your voice, I ain't got no choice
I want your mind, I want your life
I need your skin, skin, skin, skin
I need your time, I cannot lie
You're on my mind, all day and night
I need your touch, I ain't asking much
Give me your mind, give me your life
I need your skin, skin, skin, skin, skin
(I need your eyes)
Skin
(I need your smile)
Skin
(I want your mind)
Skin
(I want your life)
Skin
(I want your life)
Skin
I'm shedding an old skin it's been itching for a long time
A part I can't hide because it holds all my lies
It falls to the ground I drag it behind
A reminder to change what I've done wrong
It's the lead weight that keeps you held under
The thought of making one choice or another
Ripping you apart it makes you choose
Say the wrong answer and you know you'll lose
Breaking out, keeping it alive
It's these answers to life that I hold inside
These demons that follow and change the way you think
You were taken from me
Rest in peace
Well of grief
Please let me sleep
Join me now
We could be
One forever
Lasting eternity
What could have been
To the lord on high
My inner moods
Searing pain inside
Cling to the cross
Hammer at the stone
We will be one
Is it enough to take something from me
And run like you never want it to be?
It's time to listen to what I say
You're mine
Show me the way you taste
Show me one last time
It's such a waste
Throwing your life away
[chorus]
Everytime you get under my skin
I feel like my life's slowly creeping in
I'm watching myself bleed in your arms
Was this your wish?
Did you want it to end like this?
I know they say you're better on your own
Give it away inside, you think that they were wrong
Taking away your life
Show me the way you taste
Show me one last time
It's such a waste
Throwing your life away
