(Leonard Cohen)
Oh the sisters of mercy they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
Oh I hope you run into them you who've been trav'lling so long
Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control
It begins with your family but soon it comes around to your soul
Well I've been where you're hangin' and I think I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned
Well they lay down beside me I made my confessions to them
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem
When I left they were sleeping I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights you can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous if I find that they sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right
Oh, the sisters of mercy
They are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me
When I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort
And later they brought me this song
Oh, I hope you run into them
You, who've been traveling so long
Yes, you who must leave everything
That you cannot control
It begins with your family
But soon it comes around to your soul
Well, I've been where you're hanging
And I think, I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy
Your loneliness says, that you've sinned
Well, they lay down beside me
I made my confessions to them
They touched both my eyes
And I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf
That the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love
That is graceful and green as a stem
When I left they were sleeping
And I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights
You can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous
If I find that they've sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that
And besides it would still be all right
We weren't lovers like that
Words and music by leonard cohen
Oh the sisters of mercy
They are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me
When I thought that I just can’t go on
And they brought me their comfort
And later they brought me this song
Oh I hope you run into them
You who’ve been travelling so long.
Yes, you who must leave everything
That you cannot control
It begins with your family
But soon it comes around to your soul
Well I’ve been where you’re hanging
I think I can see how you’re pinned
When you’re not feeling holy
Your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
Well they lay down beside me
I made my confession to them
They touched both my eyes
And I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf
That the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love
That is graceful and green as a stem.
When I left they were sleeping
I hope you run into them soon
Don’t turn on the lights
You can read their address by the moon
And you won’t make me jealous
If I hear that they sweetened your night
We weren’t lovers like that
And besides it would still be all right
We weren’t lovers like that
And besides it would still be all right
Oh, the Sisters of Mercy, they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought, I just cannot go on
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
Yes I hope you run into them, you who've been traveling so long
Yeah, you who must leave everything that you cannot control
It begins with your family, but soon it comes 'round to your soul
Well I've been where you're hanging and I think I can see how you're pinned
Yeah, when you're not feeling holy, your loneliness tells that you've sinned
They lay down beside me, I made my confession to them
They touched both my eyes, I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem
When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night
Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just
can't go on.
And they brought me their comfort and later they
brought me this song.
Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling
so long.
Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot
control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to
your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see
how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that
you've sinned.
Well they lay down beside me, I made my confession to
them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on
their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and
condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green
as a stem.
When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into
them soon.
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by
the moon.
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they
sweetened your night:
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still
be all right,
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still
Oh, the sisters of mercy
They are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me
When I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort
And later they brought me this song
Oh, I hope you run into them
You, who've been traveling so long
Yes, you who must leave everything
That you cannot control
It begins with your family
But soon it comes around to your soul
Well, I've been where you're hanging
And I think, I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy
Your loneliness says, that you've sinned
Well, they lay down beside me
I made my confessions to them
They touched both my eyes
And I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf
That the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love
That is graceful and green as a stem
When I left they were sleeping
And I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights
You can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous
If I find that they've sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that
And besides it would still be all right
We weren't lovers like that
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 You Don't See Me" - Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy
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...
By Andrew Eldritch
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
And yes I believe in what we had but words got in the way
And only yesterday, as I was leaving, Lord knows I've 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 my words are secondhand 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 why's and wherefore's reason or surprise
I don't care for words that don't belong
And I don't care what you're called, tell me later if at all
I can wait a long, long time, before I hear another love song
Come here I think you're 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
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
"Vision Thing" - Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy
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
witht 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 oes it take to make us sing?
while we're waiting for the next one to arrive?
one million points of light
one billion dollar Visino 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
By Andrew Eldritch
The razor bites and the shrieks 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
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 and two together
Into that good night kiss away
One takes the hard, one the other
Kiss a way
Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
When the road gets 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
(One, two, three, four)
Forget the many steps to Heaven
It never happened and it ain't so hard
Sappiness 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 honor 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 dialed
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-seeking, out of the sun
You can set the controls for the heart or 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
Are you living for love?
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?
Are you living?
Are you living for love?
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
And were 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
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?
Oh, would you carry the torch for me?
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
And were 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
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?
Oh, would you carry the torch for me?
All the things we never needed
I don't need them now
All the things we ever did 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've seen the best of men go past, I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
God knows everybody needs a hand in their decision
Some of us are not so sure
I've 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've seen the best of men go past, I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
You can stand all night at a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right but none of them slow down
I've seen the best of men go past, I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
You can stand all night at a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right but none of them slow down
I've seen the best of men go past, I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
"This Corrosion" - Floodland - Sisters of Mercy
By Andrew Eldritch
Copyright 1987 WEA Records LTD
Published by SBK Songs
Gimme the Ring, kissed and toll'd
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, sing...
Gimme siren, child and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right and wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, hild, 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, sing...
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 in
Selling the don't belong
Well, what do you say
D'you have a word fro 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...
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
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
I need to know about the
Somebody tell me about the perfect bomb
The royal valley on a blitzkrieg bomb
Somebody tell me how to use my [Incomprehensible] 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 playing from outside
See the rebel and the damage done
See the debris and the damage done
See the wreckage and the damage done
See the film and see the damage done
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
Somebody tell me about
I need to know about
Me, I?m lost and the radio?s dead
Now arrived and the radio?s dead
The rhythm's gone, the radio?s dead
TEACHERS(Leonard Cohen)
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
Adrenochrome.............
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
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
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
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
All the things we never needed
I don't need them now
All the things we ever did 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've seen the best of men go past, I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
God knows everybody needs a hand in their decision
Some of us are not so sure
I've 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've seen the best of men go past, I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
You can stand all night at a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right but none of them slow down
I've seen the best of men go past, I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
You can stand all night at a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right but none of them slow down
I've seen the best of men go past, I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
And yes I believe in what we had but words got in the way
And only yesterday, as I was leaving, Lord knows I've 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 my words are secondhand 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 why's and wherefore's reason or surprise
I don't care for words that don't belong
And I don't care what you're called, tell me later if at all
I can wait a long, long time, before I hear another love song
Come here I think you're 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
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
POSSESSION
words by andrew eldritch
music by hussey/eldritch/adams
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 'm growing cold and
Taking over
Nothing, cuts, 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,
Cuts, 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 fact takes over, and the fiction coming through,
Somehow I do my crying breaking down for you,
This way doubt takes over, contradiction coming through,
This way I do my lying, making up and making out for you.....
Possession: taking over
Child(nothing)
Prey for me(but the debris)
Play your wild card(cuts 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 shake
Possession: taking over.....
Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake
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 waiting
Wall to wall 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
repeat
When 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
And I'm 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
And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
Nine while nine
And I'm waiting for the train
And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
Nine while nine
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 monkey and stuff
Each and every call
Too much but never enough
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 monkey and stuff
Each and every call
Too much but never enough
"More" - Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy
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...
By Andrew Eldritch
Lay me down the long white line
Leave the sirens far behind me
Home to weakness
Home to silence
Follow me when the sun goes down
We will find a heartless highway
We will wind the windows down
... me at the mounted towers
Then the marvels, ... friends abound ...
While the wheels go wheeling round and round
Life is short and life is cruel
But we have beer and we have fuel
We are never coming down
Push the creature on it's back
Lines across the middle ...
Houses vacant everafter
Gusting through the cold and shadow
While the ... flashes past
Around we ... the big black car
... touch the sky
... sell your bracelets
We are never coming down
We will be forever wild
The wheels go wheelings round and round
And the wheel ...s come in silence
Follow me when the sun goes down
We will fly along the highway
We will wind the windows down
... me at the mounted towers
When the ... turns around
Reason ... power
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
Was ich kann und was ich konnte?
Weiss ich gar nicht mehr
Gib mir wieder etwas sch'nes
Zieh mich aus dem meer
Ich h're dich rufen, Marian
Kannst du mich schreien h'ren
Ich bin hier allein
Ich h're dich rufen, Marian
Ohne deine hilfe verliere ich mich in diessem ort
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
Marian
"Lucretia My Reflection" - Floodland - Sisters of Mercy
By Andrew Eldritch
Copyright 1987 WEA Records LTD
Published by SBK Songs
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,
The lights shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and daylight fades
Ignore the voices, discard the day
For the brand new darkness, for the bright new way
Well, 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
Well, there have been better plans
But none that I could ever understand
I see the emerald [Incomprehensible] see the green on black
See the light say move, say never look back
And so I find another place where I'll 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, 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
Mama take this badge from me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark too dark to see
Feels like 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 my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That cold black cloud is comin' down
Feels like 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
"YOU JUST BETTER START SNIFFIN'
YOUR OWN RANK SUBJUGATION JACK
'CAUSE IT'S JUST YOU AGAINST YOUR TATTERED LIBIDO,
THE BANK AND THE MORTICIAN, FOREVER MAN
AND IT WOULDN'T BE LUCK
IF YOU COULD GET OUT OF LIFE ALIVE"
Well, she got red eyes
But she wear dust
I went over, over, over, over
I went bust
I kissed, I kissed the carpet
I'm climbing the curtain
I was stoned, yeah
I was certain
And I said, "Yeah"
And I said, "Yeah"
And I said, "Yeah"
And I said, "Yeah"
And I said, "Yeah
Yeah, yeah"
Well, 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 stoned, yeah
I was certain
But I said
"Next time I look before I
Next time the carpets
Next time I look before I
Kiss the carpet but should I kiss
"Driven Like The Snow" - Floodland - Sisters of Mercy
By Andrew Eldritch
Copright 1987 WEA Records LTD
Published by SBK Songs
Still night, nothing for miles,
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 and some 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 sigarette
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 drivft
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
"I Was Wrong" - Vision Thing - Sisters Of Mercy
you say stay and never leave
you say meant for ever
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 for ever
I could believe you but I don't
you say we're almost all alone together
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
by Andrew Eldritch
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
Behind the lines a face that glimmers
Still looking 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
The cracks appear along the wall wall wall wall wall
See the people stoop back, 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
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
There's 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 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 here see 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
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 giving ground
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
Surrender
Because I know
Now I know you will not see
The madness we have seen
Now 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 your trust lies broken
And the truth is drowned
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 your trust lies broken
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
Gimme Shelterr(jagger/richards) the Rolling Stones
as performed by the Sisters of Mercy
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
(repeat)
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
(repeat)
yeah
repeat verse one
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 awy
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
repeat previous three twice
repeat love chorus
war, children
it's just a kiss away
kiss away
In the heat of the night
in the heat of the day
When 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:
Some day
some day
some day - dominion - come a time
Some day
some day
some day - dominion -
Some say prayers
some say prayers
I say mine.
In the light of the fact
on the lone and level the sand stretch far away
In the heat of the action and in the settled dust
hold
hold and sway.
In the meeting of mined and 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 -
Some say prayers
some say prayers
I say mine.
In the land of the blind -
Be king
king
king
king!
Some day
some day
some day -
Dominion -
Some say prayers
Some say prayers
Half past twelve
And I'm watching the lateshow
In my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds blow
Outside the window
As I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the phone
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 these 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
Get that fortune to win
It's so different from the world I'm living in
Tired of TV
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 these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
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 these 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 these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Ghostrider (Rev/Vega) Suicide
ghostrider, motorcycle hero
bebebebebebebe he's lokkin' so cute
sneakin' round round round in a blue jumpsuit
ghostrider motorcycle hero
bebebebebebebe he's a-blazin' away
packin' stars stars stars in the universe
ghostrider motorcycle hero
bebebebebebebe he's a-screamin' the truth
america america is killin' its youth
bebebebebebebe he's a-sceamin' away
america america is killin' its youth
america america is killin' its youth
ghostrider
The bodies of 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 round and round
And round and round
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
Well, this is the floorshow, the last ideal
Its populist got mass appeal
The old religion redefined
For the facile, futile, totally blind, volatile kind
Mundane by day, inane at night
Pagan playing in the flashing light
In the violet hour to the violent sound
Going round and round, and round
And round and round
And the bodies of the 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
"Flood II" - Floodland - Sisters of Mercy
By Andrew Eldritch
Copyright 1987 WEA Records LTD
Published by SBK Songs
And her hallway
Moves
Like the ocean
Moves
And her hallway
Moves
Like the sea
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...
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...
She says
She says anytime
Rais your arms
Flood
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 I" - Floodland - Sisters of Mercy
By Andrew Eldritch
Copyright 1987 WEA Records LTD
Published by SBK Songs
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 sechondhand passion
Love for the party, love for the nation
And love for the fix, for the fabrication
And love for the corpse, for the corporation
Love for the death and for the defecation
Romance and assassination
Now, give me the love for the genocide
"Doctor Jeep" - Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy
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 Viet Cong
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
By Andrew Eldritch
Ain't coming
On detonation boulevard
Through the angel rain
Through the dust and the gasoline
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 El Dorado
I got wired, white-walled
For this hot-wired sedan
I caught somethin' 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
Oh 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
On detonation boulevard
Through the angle rain
Through the rust and the gasoline
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
DANCE ON GLASS (WH vocal)
Roll of the thunder
Kiss and the scream
Hold out my arms and scars start to show
Howling for the glory of the innocent
But don't despair for the shame i know
The taste of ash on my tongue
Faith and prayers, wanton dust
hanting strangers, blood on their cheeks
Haunt my dreams all covered in blood
CHORUS
Dance
Dance on glass
Saints and martyrs
Dance
Dance on glass
Saints and martyrs
Tarnish, taint and punish me softly
Cut that bleeds and burning skin
Screami
ng in the darkness torn and ragged
For the love of god, my dreams look dim
So...
CHORUS
A whisper and a promise lit on fire
Kiss the hand where the angels dread
Love is the corpse that draws on dreams
Rips them apart and tears them to shreads
CHORUS
Tarnish, taint, and punish me softly
Hold out the heat and burning skin
Screaming in the darkness torn and ragged
For the love of god, my dreams look dim
A whisper and a promise lit on fire
Kiss the hands where the angels dread
Love is
the corpse that draws on dreams
Rips them apart and tears them to shreads
So...
CHORUS
Dance
The last fire will rise
Behind those eyes
Black house will rock
Blind boys don?t lie
Immortal fear
That voice so clear
Through broken walls
That scream I hear
Cry little sister
(Thou shall not fall)
Come, come to your brother
(Thou shall not fall)
Unchain me sister
(Thou shall not fear)
Love is with your brother
(Thou shall not kill)
Blue masquerade
Strangers look up
When will they learn
This loneliness?
Temptation heat
Beats like a drum
Deep in your veins
I will not lie little sister
(Thou shall not fall)
Come, come to your brother
(Thou shall not fall)
Unchain me sister
(Thou shall not fear)
Love is with your brother
(Thou shall not kill)
My shangrila
I can't forget
Why you were mine
I'll need you now
Cry little sister
(Thou shall not fall)
Come, come to your brother
(Thou shall not fall)
Unchain me sister
(Thou shall not fear)
Love is with your brother
(Thou shall not kill)
Cry little sister
(Thou shall not fall)
Come, come to your brother
(Thou shall not fall)
Unchain me sister
(Thou shall not fear)
Love is with your brother
(Thou shall not kill)
Cry, cry sister
(Thou shall not fall)
(Thou shall not lie)
(Thou shall not fear)
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
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 Suzanne
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
Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?
Come on, now.
I hear youre feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I cant explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.
Just a little pinprick. [ping]
Therell be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe its working. good.
Thatll keep you going for the show.
Come on its time to go.
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Your colours wrapped around
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Your colours wrapped around
You reap what you sow
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Your colours wrapped around
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Your colours wrapped around
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Your colours wrapped around
You reap what you sow
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Your colours wrapped around
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Bury Me Deep
Call it superstition
Followed and fell
Under the falling
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
Burn me a fire in the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
Face in the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing down
In the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing down
Down down down around me
Down down down down around my face
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?
"Ribbons" - Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy
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 goo din 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...
By Andrew Eldritch
Out of my hands
Something's calling
Catch my crying
Calling your name
Marian
Do no more than
Watch you try and understand me
Well i've found
It worth the standing
All around me
All around me
Marian
Take my hand
Lay beside me on the burning sand
CHORUS
Marian
Only you can
Say the words i need to hear
Marian
Only you can
Make these red skies disappear
Marian
CHORUS
Marian
Can you hear me calling?
Touch me now
In my hour of need
Speak to me softly
Lay down beside me
Marian
I think you know
I need you near me
Don't try to understand
The sun is falling
Burning sand
Can you hear me calling?
Marian
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
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
And 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
You could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me,
Jolene
I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And 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
WALK AWAY
words by andrew eldritch
music by wayne hussey
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
CHORUS
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 away (away)away
away away walk away
Would you choose to walk 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 really
Know or understand the circumstance
Behind then I might clear your
Mind and you won't have to go so
Well alright
Well it's 1969 okay
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, 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
Well, now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
It's 1969 okay
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
Well, it's 9-9-9-teen 69
Teen 69
Teen 69
"1959" - Floodland - Sisters of Mercy
By Andrew Eldritch
Copyright 1987 WEA Records LTD
Published by SBK Songs
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 an 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 fell 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
Through the cables and the underground now
The faceless breathless calls
This is babel, Sensurround now
This place is death with walls
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
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall
Crawling to the corners where the idiot children call
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 the memory
Black world out of my mind
So 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
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
And run around in the radiation
Tune in, turn on
You burn out
In the acid rain
On a black
Black planet
Black
Black world
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
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 passions 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 side
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, shoot 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 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
Alice pressed against the wall
So she can see the door
In case the laughing strangers crawl
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
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
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
And 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 with
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, far away
Far away, far away
And I didn't have the heart to tell why
And there wasn't a part of me
That didn't want to say goodbye but
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
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
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
(Thomas)
Oh the winds they were howlin' both ragged and cold
Through the grey Melbourne streets in the pre-Christmas days,
And the Sisters of Mercy looked out through their tents
At the fires in petrol drums, they seemed to say
Have we come to this, is it all we can do,
To sit here and wait, to see the thing through?
But to dig in their heels was a thing they'd been taught,
So they painted a sign and it said, "Blow your horn if you support".
Oh Sister of Mercy, why can't they see,
That a daughter of charity you'll never be.
It's a wicked old game that the government plays,
When they treat you like dogs, then you must have your day.
It's a telephone vote, everyone grab your phones,
All the people dial in from their luxury homes,
It was easy to do, far too easily done,
Well the thumbs they went down, it was three against one.
And none of us now can know how that felt,
But they strengthened their stance and they tightened their belts,
And the papers they all said "no beer for Christmas",
It seemed such a shame
While the nurses sat out in the wind and the rain.
Oh Sister of Mercy, why can't they see,
That a daughter of charity you'll never be.
It's a wicked old game that the government plays,
When they treat you like dogs, then you must have your day.
Well the girl on the six o'clock news looked concerned,
As she told of the developments bitter and bold,
But I could not help wonder what she got for Christmas,
And was there a story we hadn't been told.
In the newsroom, at the breakup the whole thing was fine,
But they never drank beer, the bastards drank wine.
While down on the pickets they cared not for beer,
Just for health, just for welfare,
Just for their hard fought careers.
Oh Sister of Mercy, why can't they see,
That a daughter of charity you'll never be.
It's a wicked old game that the government plays,
When they treat you like dogs, then you must have your day
When they treat you like dogs, then you must have your day
Oh, the sisters of mercy
They are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me
When I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort
And later they brought me this song
Oh, I hope you run into them
You, who've been traveling so long
Yes, you who must leave everything
That you cannot control
It begins with your family
But soon it comes around to your soul
Well, I've been where you're hanging
And I think, I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy
Your loneliness says, that you've sinned
Well, they lay down beside me
I made my confessions to them
They touched both my eyes
And I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf
That the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love
That is graceful and green as a stem
When I left they were sleeping
And I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights
You can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous
If I find that they've sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that
And besides it would still be all right
We weren't lovers like that
