Toyah may refer to:
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Plot
An inheritance, a piece of property, and a plot for murder are abound in this suspense/crime drama.
A story about Love, Music and Shoes...
Well, I sell my soul to Faust each and every night for you
Rip-roaring drunk I peel my face away for you
It's a lonely time, I've walked from the limelight
Into an empty cobbled street for you...
You've gotta live young, die young,
You gotta toughen up,
Run wild, run free.
Can't you see what they did to my god?
You're not going to do it to me,
I'm going to run wild, run free.
Catch me if you can,
But remember I'm a woman
I'm devious, I'm small, I'm impeccable
I'm a warrior, I'm immaculate, I'm imperial
I'm unique, I'm inscrutable, I'm going to break free
You steal my pennies, you steal my thoughts
I'm going to break free!
You imprison me, you suffocate me,
I'm going to break free!
I'm going to cut you down, I'll slit your throat
Before you touch me!
I'll get you back before your warm breath
Dost touch me!
I'll slit your throat before your tall eyes
Do see me
Run wild, run free
Run wild, run free
Run wild, run free
Get away from me
Run wild, run free
Get away from me
Run wild, run free
Get free from me
Run wild, run free
I'm sorry I'm late I was delayed in time
Having a last supper with some friends of mine
The monolithic face is the quantum phase
Said these war merchants have seen better days
I don't break the ice, I melt it
I don't open doors, I smash them down
I don't wanna be what you want me to be
If you wanna see some fun just hang around
Here they are between A and B
Here I am between one and three
Alien. Alien. Alien. Alien.
Concave nose, electric blue gaze
Tubular ears with one square face
I don't break the ice, I melt it
I don't open doors, I smash them down
I don't wanna be what you want me to be
If you wanna see some fun just hang around
I never leave and walk around
I look?
The alien way to every word you say
Is an inspiration to an uninspired day
Black is black, white is white
Life is life from nine 'til five
My eyes searched like spotlights
My eyes searched like spotlights
I don't break the ice, I melt it
I don't open doors, I smash them down
I don't wanna be what you want me to be
If you wanna see some fun just hang around
I don't break the ice, I melt it
I don't open doors, I smash them down
I don't wanna be what you want me to be
If you wanna see some fun just hang around
Here you are between A and B
Here I am between one and three
My eyes searched like spotlights
My eyes searched like spotlights
My eyes searched like spotlights
My eyes searched like spotlights
My eyes searched like spotlights
(Willcox / Bray)
Bones stand waiting
Beneath the unbroken sea
Warm ice paint the sky
In tranquility
Bones stand waiting
Waiting for epochracy
Sun rises
We're a sphere in flames
Bones rise to shade our eyes
But the sea becomes
The sea becomes the sea again
Now my planet it's in flames
War!
My planet's at war
I feel a fire running through my mind
I was a warrior
But life's unkind
I'm talking to my kind
Trees, fields, life's serene
Now I find your life totally obscene
Goodbye goodbye, goodbye mankind
War! War! War!
My planet's at war
Words & Music: Toyah Willcox
When a woman cries
When a woman cries
When a woman cries
No-one sees her tears
They just hear lies
When a woman cries
She's always on the make
What will she take this time
And her tears falls like money from your hands
Just another woman crash lands in a man's world
When a woman cries
When a woman cries
When a woman cries
No-one sees a person
They just criticise
When a woman cries
No-one feels her pain
Only contempt for pride
And her tears fall like rain on dark streets
Unheard but loud enough to break the peace
When a woman cries
When a woman cries
And her tears fall like rain on dark streets
Unheard but loud enough
And her tears fall like rain on dark streets
Unheard but loud enough to break the peace
Goes to ashes
When a woman cries.
Changeling
The flesh
Necromancy
Your ashes
No tomorrow
Love?
Says Azrael
Lucifer and Gabriel
Host and the Holy Ghost
Dust
Superstitions
Voices
Little girl kneels at the foot of the bed;
Angels and demons play in her head.
She carries them around Wherever she goes,
She puts on a brave face but somehow it shows.
Little boy stands at the foot of the stairs,
Hoping that someone will answer his prayers.
He puts out the candle, it catches his eye
As ten thousand spaceships fill the sky.
Angels and demons;
Omens and requiems;
Peers and sightseers,
Merchants with souvenirs.
Little boy runs to the top of the stairs,
A voice in his head says Don't worry, we care.
We've been watching you standing there,
Cascading messages through the air
We're the angels and demons that play with your hair,
We're the angels and demons, and we're always there.
We are the breeze at the well of the stairs;
We are the noises when no-one is there.
Angels and demons;
Omens and requiems;
Peers and sightseers,
Merchants with souvenirs.
The sky feeds the earth and the earth feeds me
Come with us and we'll let you see,
The lofty spiders climb swiftly away,
Our rumbling machine takes us to another day.
Little boy smiles as they whisk him away
My angels and demons have come to play.
Monsters with claws, wings and all!
I can walk through the air without touching the floor.
Angels and demons;
Omens and requiems;
Peers and sightseers,
Merchants with souvenirs.
Little girl cries at the foot of the bed,
Angels and demons play in her head.
She carries them around wherever she goes
She puts on a brave face but somehow it shows.
A spaceship descends, the demon spreads his wings,
Says he's here to be Earth's friend again.
Little girl cries at the foot of the bed,
Wondering what it is that plays in her head.
Who knows?
It shows
Who knows?
It shows...
Standing alone on a treacherous landscape
A dissolute city screams sublime obscenities at me
You, you won't love me
If you won't pursue me through your streets
Please abuse me, throw my body to the floor
I don't want to be alone no more
Deep, dark, empty corridors
Swimming prisms full of light
In the city
Is the city alive tonight?
Or am I alone as always is?
In the night
If you, you won't love me
If you won't pursue me through your streets
Please abuse me
You're gonna throw my body to the floor
I don't wanna be alone tonight
Touch me
Talking morals
A dissolute city bleeds me
Makes me feel paranoid
Illuminated booth
You abuse me
Throw my body to the floor
You abuse me
Throw my body to the floor
Don't you like my bird shape
Don't you like my body no more?
Angel And Me
I knock the telephone from the table
And the room starts to purr.
I splash the contents from a drawer,
A photo, mid-air,
Starts to twirl,
It falls
Why do you always cry when you come to see me?
I always die to see you smile.
You see, I have a secret
(Willcox / Bogen)
Good
Morning
UniGood morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I'm feeling good today
Come with me, come with me
Open up your minds and see
He intoxicates me on this neon world
Can take you far away
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I'm feeling good today
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I've been a long, long way
I'm back from Mars
And my starship's a jungle (It's a jungle)
I'm hopelessly lost but I don't care
I'm crashing cymbals in outer space
For all the Aliens to hear
I gotta find you in a chariot of fire
And I wanna touch you with fingertips of flames
Mind games
I wanna kiss you
I wanna kiss you again
Again
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I'm feeling good today
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I've been a long, long way
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I'm feeling good today
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Life in the trees
Reflections seen in mango leaves
No more spaceships for me
I'm landed in with my very own
Babbon society
Eating the bark and gum leaves
The swamp's the life for me
CHORUS
I'm sitting in the hot seat
I'm on to a winning streak
Coo Coo Coo Conny Con Corn
Coo Conny Con Corn
Coo Coo Coo Conny Con Corn
Coo Conny Con Corn
Life in the breeze
Is sleppy
Grooming, picking up fleas
But there's no fleas on me
Just pink skin
I'm the weirdest thing they've ever seen
RPT CHORUS
This is where all mutations should be
In the mangroves where it's mucky
I don't miss TV
And I don't miss the concrete
It's so wildly obscene
To be like an animal
Squeal and squaw
I walk and stalk
I be like an animal
I bite and scream
I swing through the trees
With rthe greatest of ease
Eating the leaves
That give me dreams
It's a life in the trees
It's a life in the trees
It's a life in the trees
It's a life in the trees
This is a word in your ear
Can you hear?
We have come for your minds
We walk the streets arm in arm
Hand in hand
With charm and chance
We are the chosen ones
We are of moon and sun
We are lots of fun
We are the only ones
We move
We dance
We sing
We burst into flames
We are the chosen ones
We are painted ladies
We are of moon and sun
We are painted boys
We are lots of fun
We are liberators
We are the only ones
We are the golden ones
We move,
We dance,
We sing
You touch,
We burst into flames
Yes, this is a word in your ear
Can you hear?
We have come for your minds
We walk the streets arm in arm
Hand in hand
With charm and chance
We are the chosen ones
We are of moon and sun
We are lots of fun
We are the only ones
We move
We dance
We sing
We burst into flames
We are the chosen ones
We are painted ladies
We are of moon and sun
We are painted boys
We are lots of fun
We are liberators
We are the only ones
We are the golden ones
We move,
We dance,
We sing
You touch,
We burst into flames
You know the time has come
To call a romance
Take a chance
Take a leap
(Willcox / Bogen)
The meeting commences in the arena;
Gladiators and space defectors.
In walk the druids and the shock troops
In walk the druids and the shock troops
Ringside seats, bird's eye views,
Video cameras only tell the truth.
Milliards of youths complacent in their eyes
Of their contemporary sleuths
In walk the druids and the shock troops
In walk the druids and the shock troops
Witch-wizards sat on cosmic thrones,
The new age crowned of skin and bones.
The sacred priestess of Merlin The Mage,
Opens the book, she turns the page.
Then in walk the druids and the (screaming) shock troops
In walk the druids and the (screaming) shock troops
Then in walk the druids and the (screaming) shock troops
(Screaming, screaming)
In walk the druids and the (screaming) shock troops
(Screaming)...
This mercy of silence,
An orgy of peace.
They're all here from every sphere,
From every planet to shake their spears.
Divide the lands of the halls of Pan.
Painted warlords in their hordes,
ASA kings and OBI queens
Twisted strangers
Have gone to war
Oxygen drunk
Fall bleeding to the floor
Glass eyed creatures
Fragmented features
Piecing together
Fallen warriors
A revolution
For the maiden queen
(And I can see)
Sherwood Forest
Or an African scene
The Marionette
She has velvet claws
She pulls the strings
In this city of whores
The Marionette pulls the strings
You say yes
You bend, she wins
The Marionette pulls the strings
Pulls and pulls
'Til your spirit gives in
Gruelling hot sweat
In the land of a whore
Oh, will this be war?
Oh, will this be war?
The knave and the pawn
Ripen the whore
With bastard sons
Her brats of law
The hawk and the falcon
Swoop to blind their eyes
The reaper, she laughs
She chokes, she cries
The Marionette pulls the strings
You say yes
You bend, she wins
The Marionette pulls the strings
Pulls and pulls
'Til your spirit gives in
Foaming white horses
Cracking their sinews
For the Maidens of Troy
The bell tower falls
Pouring to the floor
Whoa, love and death,
A climax all in all
Medieval shores and madrigals
Her velvet claws
Pull you with passion to her floor
In the cathedral
Her children sing
In the cathedral
The pendulum swings
The Marionette pulls the strings
You say yes
You bend, she wins
The Marionette pulls the strings
Pulls and pulls
'Til your spirit gives in
The Marionette pulls the strings
You say yes
You bend, she wins
The Marionette pulls the strings
Pulls and pulls
Let me run riot of colour over you
Let me dive in and be rescued
Desire...
I'm the setting sun over you
Let my body cast clouds to cool you
Just the view of you takes me to sea
Quenches my thirst
For you are my dream
Desire
Desire...
You're driving me senseless
Then come to my rescue
Render me helpless
I surrender to you
Desire
Desire...
Sweetness carries razors
Hot tears fall
At the thought of the end of us all
Desire
Exploring
Down through the great white
Up through the sink
Amble across the kitchen floor
Scurry up the walls to the ceiling
Around, Around
Around, Around
The light fitting
Searching, searching
Searching, searching
For excitement
Walkie-talkie, walkies talking
Walk, talk and walk
Walkie-talkie, walkies talking
Walk, talk and walk
Know your fantasies
I know I'm your fear
Down through the mouse hole
To your room of green
So silent now
So content with peace
But I'll enter your earhole
And chew ya to pieces
Walkie-talkie, walkies talking
Walk, talk and walk
Walkie-talkie, walkies talking
Walk, talk and walk
Walkie-talkie robot bent on destruction
Built to do bad with my bionic action
As my bolt slipped
My mind's clicked
My wires overheated
And I've got a nasty dose of internal combustion
Well I roamed on the moors
And I trampled the heather
Listened for gulls
And I slipped out the leather
When a whip cracked
My transistors snapped
My cogs turned, unseated
But the deed was completed
Walkie-talkie, walkies talking
Walk, talk and walk
Walkie-talkie, walkies talking
Walk, talk and walk
Walkie-talkie, walkies talking
Walk, talk and walk
Walkie-talkie, walkies talking
Walk, talk and walk
Walk, talk and walk
(Willcox / Bogen / Spalding)
Wasp waisted
Modest and man-shy
We can never decide
Which colour shall we paint our eyes.
We're getting ready
To walk out in style,
Wicked ladies,
Satan's toys,
Sharpened nails,
Acting coy,
We going after the girl-shy boys!
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Seductive eyes draw me in
On this dark-tinted night,
Wild boys with their batons and pearls,
"Hello boys, we're the midnight girls!"
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Thighs
Touch thighs,
And eyes
Collide,
Driving me crazy,
Driving me crazy!
Wasp waisted
Modest and man-shy,
Eyes catch eyes
And visions ignite,
Let's send this tainted night
To the slaugter
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
We all brave the storm,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
This is a word in your ear
Can you hear?
We have come for your minds
We walk the streets arm in arm
Hand in hand
With charm and chance
We are the chosen ones
We are of moon and sun
We are lots of fun
We are the only ones
We move
We dance
We sing
We burst into flames
We are the chosen ones
We are painted ladies
We are of moon and sun
We are painted boys
We are lots of fun
We are liberators
We are the only ones
We are the golden ones
We move,
We dance,
We sing
You touch,
We burst into flames
Yes, this is a word in your ear
Can you hear?
We have come for your minds
We walk the streets arm in arm
Hand in hand
With charm and chance
We are the chosen ones
We are of moon and sun
We are lots of fun
We are the only ones
We move
We dance
We sing
We burst into flames
We are the chosen ones
We are painted ladies
We are of moon and sun
We are painted boys
We are lots of fun
We are liberators
We are the only ones
We are the golden ones
We move,
We dance,
We sing
You touch,
We burst into flames
You know the time has come
To call a romance
Take a chance
Take a leap
Would you shit?
If i asked you to SHit?
Am i dumb?
I like to piss
I can be your jackass baby
I can take away the pain
I will make u go insane
I am a dumbshit
I am suppose to be hott
but all they like is my wart on my face
I look really gay
THis song is perverted
You hear about the crime
You hear about the pain
We all know the problem
But the poverty remains just the same
(Just the same)
Now, where is the food?
Where are the clothes?
Where's the incentive to live?
Now my babies have grown
Fire in my head
Population overflows
Anger grows
Frustrations explode
For second-hand clothes
You have to wait your turn
But the bodies still burn
Fury
Fury
Fury
Furious futures
Furious futures
The wind still blows
It makes our fears return
The sirens wail
And our bodies still burn
No serum for our plague
The rivers are mud
Our bones are clay
In this petrified forest
To our victims we're the prey
But we might as well stay
As our eyes drip blood
There's a machine
A suicide machine
It rules
It screams
A prize for a life
From a cloud in the sky
Way up on high
Wailing voices cry
Furious futures
Furious futures
Furious futures
Floating down the Orinoco,
On a breeze from Alca Poco
Soft shoe shuffle
Reflections bend in the wind.
Nature's toy, convexed talking,
Outer space is nice to walk in.
Space walking,
The in's and out's of convexed talking.
Space walking,
Conversing on convexed talking.
Spaced and walking
Nature's seed,
Nature's joy,
Soft gentle voices
Nature's seed,
Nature's toy
Soft gentle voices
Float me away.
Soft gentle voices
Shuffle and float me away.
Bent hobbled houses,
Old men, funny trousers.
Wrinkled hands and funny ways,
Plough fields
Sow seeds nature's way.
Nature's seed,
Nature's joy,
Nature's seed,
Nature's toy
I had a vision of invasion
See two lonely planets collide
Feel the children of our future curl and gnarl
Observing us all the time
Say, my vision today
A daydream gone tomorrow,
Vision today is something to be followed
They scream "aborted!"
Before birth can bring crime
Their twisted hands stretch out and scratch my mind
I told my friends, but their reaction was so unkind
Just, vision today
A daydream gone tomorrow
My vision today is something to be followed.
I walk when it's dark, looking for a friend
Alone in the darkness, I see those things again
I see things I just cannot explain
My lonely mind explodes,
I see strange things no-one can conceive
My mind explodes in inner visions
Then deludes and deserts me
Malignant violence grows
Frequencies visit in the night
Frequencies tell me, tell me again, I forgot
Those words delude and desert me
Malignant violence grows within
My ego expands
Should I take these foolish people, gas them for their sin?
Remove their memories, reprogram them to re-begin?
It makes my lonely mind explode
Should I take these foolish people, gas them for their sin?
Remove their memories, reprogram them to re-begin?
It makes my ego grow
My lonely mind explodes (yet again)
I see strange things no-one can explain
Misty auras are my friends
My insight on destiny treads unseen
(Lake / Sinfield / Prokofiev)
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the Virgin's birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winter's light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire
They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a Silent Night
And they told me a fairy story
'Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in Father Christmas
And I looked at the sky with excited eyes
'Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell
Winter equator
Footprints in the snow
Alone in my thoughts
Nowhere to go
I once had a dreamer
A medicine man
Hand in hand
In Wonderland
I need devotion
Need the light in his eyes
I need his heartbeat next to mine
I need motion
Need to dance by his side
I need his footprints next to mine
You cannot hide
You cannot sleep
You cannot heat
You can't retreat
You give yourself
You cannot receive
You cannot leave
It's winter in Wonderland
The leaves fallen
The lights golden
One step forward
Another step away
Weep heart, weep
May fly sleep
The sun's hiding
(Words Willcox/Music Bogen,Glockler)
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate
The obsolete
We'll always exist
We're death denied
Penetrate your walls and slip inside
We'll split your persona
See your mind divide
Pull you apart
Take your mind for a ride
boy child
girl child
Discover their lips
Discover scent
What makes life tick
boy child
girl child
Discover new tricks
new reason for fun
Another law to run from
We scanned their skies
With stardust eyes
And kissed their rainbow minds
So we jumped right down
And played the clown
To their glittering kind
They clapped and cheered
It was mighty weird
But we had to go back home
So we went to the ship
For our cosmic trip
Right through their Dome
boy child
girl child
Discover their lips
Discover scent
What makes life tick
boy child
girl child
Discover new tricks
new reason for fun
Another law to run from
With reference to the futures
We're just time troubled creatures
With reference to the futures
We're just God's forgotten sons
With reference to your mothers
We're the Devil's wanton beasts
With reference to your brothers
Your sister's pretty neat
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate
The obsolete
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate
(willcox)
Baby, baby, baby, baby
1, 2, 3
Oh never mind
Pr..pr..pr..pressing my heel of my shoes
Into your paintwork
Shattering determination
Brick thoughts crumble
We've stood under this sky
Far too long baby
Come on meet your soul
Wife now, I don't believe you
Don't want to see me, come on baby.
Flash bulbs squeeze light
>From metal veins
Across the blistering night
I arrest your image and
Detain
We're not waalking on safe land
We're sinking in quick sand
Obsession
Good god, have you seen that weirdo in the car behind
No, no don't look
Don't make it obvious anyway,
As I was saying
Envy scratches all down the side of the car
Flirt you're in the car in front
I think with someone else
Her cigarette glows in the dark
I see my arm on the wheel
In the oncoming lights
Mascara black tears trickle down
It's not me, it's just meat that drives
Born by man captive and
Damned to shed this skin and
Enter you in the bliss of death
A soul bathed in fur
A heart robed in flesh
Whichever way you wear yourself
I'll get in
Obsession
Every time I venture out
I leava a note in my pocket
Or on the table, or posted to a friend
To respect fate to let you know where I stand with you
If not in life, perhaps another time
Obsession
England this burning land
Sensuality of tone
Twenty-two miles till the earth curves
Then you're out of sight
I'll be clothed in confusion,
When I woke in this body
By my mother's side
Born from all
Seeing to one sight
I am all
I am in a microcosm of time before
I become one and all again
I want to experience
(Skaith/Jones)
What's keeping the White House white
Is it chalk, is it fog, is it fear
Are they staying up most of the night
Sending somebody out for a beer
Is it bedtime for Bonzo, is it time for a change
Is it flavour-free TV dinners
It's a hard thing to take, when they make a mistake
America for beginners
The sound of a bell with a crack
Even the swingers are swinging right
The vigilantes are on their way back
With prime time fight, the good fight
What a start to the day, it starts three times with a K
There's no sponsored hour for sinners
They'll bring back the hot seat, turn up the heat
America for beginners
That's America for, America for beginners
That's America for, America for beginners
That's America for, America for beginners
That's America for beginners
You wear designer jeans after dark
Your shirts are short cut, in satin
But watch out for Central Park
The apartment's in uptown Manhattan
It's a sign of the times
You'd better stay out in front
They've only got time for winners
Just keep living for fun, you son of a gun
In America for beginners
That's America for, America for beginners
That's America for, America for beginners
That's America for, America for beginners
That's America for beginners
Everywhere the stripes and stars
Men in dark suits and unmarked cars
Sipping Jack Daniels in Third World bars
We're close to the edge, as close as we can get
We're as close as we can get
Toyah Willcox - verbals
Frank Ricotti - percussion
Ian Wherry - all keyboards
John Kirby - backing vocals
Toyah Willcox - backing vocals
Linda Taylor - backing vocals
(Willcox/Sidelnyc)
Fingers cross my lips
Drawing pretty maps
With my bright red lipstick
Pictures of deviation
I read in the dictionary
That I'm a miscreation
A nonconformist
Make it quick, make it quick,
I make a livin' off-a this
This is your fifteen minute call ladies and gentlemen fifteen minutes.
Thank you.
God you're beatiful.
Na na don't use the back breaks honey
Forget my lips just let the muscle fix fit
Pr..pr..prostitute
Pr..pr..prostitute
Now don't quote Karl Marx to me
What's yours is yours,
What's mine is ours
When you touch me
I feel the media printing porn
Across my female form
Cigarette burns on your jacksaw chin
Come on man
I need a girl
If you can't do
What she can man.
They say, when something begins, there is no sin...
Na na don't use the back breaks honey
Forget my lips just let the muscle fix fit
Pr..pr..prostitute
Pr..pr..prostitute
Come on baby, baby, baby, baby
Reach my maturity
No bones about it
Slow burn speed car racing
Three point turn
b..b..body tracing
we're heading for that wall
(Words Willcox/Music Lee,Glockler)
walk
talk
bend and break
Stumble
Crumble
The world
Lost city of fire
Pyramids shake
Apartment blocks
Awake
am alone
On this lost city of Mars
have grown alone
Among glass and stolen cars
The pylons hum
Geckos run
Conveyor belts hum
Stars tumble
To the foot
Of the temple
am alone
On this lost city of Mars
have grown alone
Among glass and stolen cars
The doors
The ice
million
Glass eyes
On a trillion
Wheeling cogs
The dust
The rust
million mouths sigh
In the lost city of the Gods
The strangers applaud
The sect of lost horizons
And distant shores
Applause
Childhood delusions of grandeur and fame
You open door
In I came
am the child
You need to feed
receive your intentions
With instinctive greed
I'm the pet of the multitudes
I'm the pet of your metal and tubes
fluid and goo
Corridors and pavements
Conveyor belts
And streams
Cosmetic operations
For all buildings in need
Pods and peas, metal fatigue
Pedestrians with soda syphons
Clockwork mice and twelve foot pythons
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen)
Who are you?
Your skin cuts.. it bleeds
Then is clear before the new day is through
Who are you?
You've opened the door before I've rung the bell
Who are you?
I won't tell
Are you the Rebel of Love?
Your soul shines
You give love such respect
Like part of a strange sect
Or some new religion
The boy a new toy
Takes the razor and shaves his head
Removes the emblem from his chest
And lays it to rest upon his bed
Urban warrior, angry, bitter and ignored
Your behaviour doesn't go with your face
Your body doesn't move the way your mouth behaves
But there's a taste in my mouth
Mean machine what a dream
And going to waste
Your behaviour doesn't go with your face
Your body doesn't move the way your mouth behaves
But there's a taste in my mouth
Mean machine what a dream
And going to waste
He left us wanting more
It's blatantly obvious his every move
Scored the highest score
He moved
He moved
He moved in body and soul
In body and soul
He moved
He moved
He moved in body and soul
In body and soul
He moved
He moved
He moved in body and soul
(Willcox / Bogen / Bush)
Please show me a place
We race through space like a dying race
Music shoots through my eyes
Trapped in a chamber of hollow sound
Lonely growing child
Trapped within the sand
Had a little life
Grasped within the land
I see marble in the church,
Upon the throne I perch
After my birth
Sky is falling,
My eyes are sinking in
Embryo's still growing
Alight my reign of sin
Sky is falling in
Wings are damp
Funeral's out of hand
Child's cries echo across the sand
Child dies now forgotten land
Who knows, living through time
Oh, the arches seem so high
Towers of glass deform my sky
Gothic crosses make me cry
Remain nomad, repeat the lie
Embryo
(Embryo)
Watch me grow
(Bennett)
As we turn the wheel you wait in vain for her
You have lost your sense of self-esteem
Every day you feel a wave of pain for her
Every night she's your recurring dream
Calling her out of the blue
She won't be falling for you
As before I see that you're alone again
The masquerade is only in your mind
So complex, the moon effects you now and then
She is gone and you've been left behind
Calling her out of the blue
She won't be falling for you
Calling her out of the blue
She won't be falling for you
I recline as you descend
I could never call myself a friend
Calling her
Calling her
Calling her out of the blue
She won't be falling for you
Calling her out of the blue
(Willcox / Bogen / Bush)
Let my light blast a shadow into the trees
Be my tall black ghost moved by the breeze
We'll shine our movie into the sky
Watch this world like a vast green eye
I'm walking in a garden
The plot grows
Walking in a garden where a Christmas tree grows
Standing at the foot of a brook
The pregnant mare smiles and moves so slow
She is so amazing
I can feel her foal grow
She is so amazing
Strike a match, light a cigarette
Turn and go
Walking on the sands in the city of death
Dismembered bodies breathe dismembered breathe
Dancing on time in my mourning dress
Trapped in the void of eternal stress
I'm walking, I'm dying
What's this movie?
Walking on the sands in the city of death
Dismembered bodies breathe dismembered breathe
Dancing on time in my mourning dress
Trapped in the void of eternal stress
She is so amazing
Time
Oh, my death
Words & Music: Toyah Willcox
Jumping off the bridge
Man child alike
All fighting the same fight
We want to survive
As the wind blows cold
Around concrete towers
We all cry
We want to survive
And the world keeps turning around and around
And the world keeps turning around and around
And the world keeps turning around and around
And around and around and around and around
We want plenty
But our lives and our pockets are empty
We want to survive
The sun comes up
But forgets to shine
His eyes are dead
And we want to survive
And the world keeps spinning around and around
And the world keeps spinning around and around
And the world keeps spinning around and around
And around and around and around and around
Standing in the wasteland they call hope
Coz' they've got plenty
Yes they've got plenty
You keep showing us things we cannot have in this winter land
As the noose draws tight, we fight for breath
We fight for our lives
And we're bleeding for attention
Coz' they've got plenty
Yes they've got plenty
And the world keeps turning around and around
And the world keeps spinning around and around
And the world keeps turning around and around
And the world keeps spinning around and around
And the world keeps turning around and around
And the world keeps spinning around and around...
(Kajanus)
You get my letters
But I don't understand your reply
But I'll be there west of the wall
At the (Romeha?), I've got to try
wanna see you, then you ask me why
So you're different, I've got a lifetime image of you
You're so distant, why should I matter in what you do
You've got your life, no matter what you've done
Why should I care, you're over twenty-one
Another sleeper to Paris
Another place to hide
But you shouldn't try to fool me
After all I'm on your side
wanna see you, then you ask me why
So you're different, I've got a lifetime image of you
You're so distant, why should I matter in what you do
You've got your life, no matter what you've done
Why should I care, you're over twenty-one
So you're different, I've got a lifetime image of you
You're so distant, why should I matter in what you do
You've got your life, no matter what you've done
Why should I care, you're over twenty-one
You're over twenty-one
wanna see you, and you ask me why
Toyah Willcox - vocals
Others unknown to me!
Look inside now
Has God ceased to dream you?
The set was amazing
It moved like the sea
A beauty unique
Just like a new world dream
Etched on a canvas
Such clarity
You know just for a moment
I thought God had ceased to dream me
Wash over me
Sweet, sweet sea
Somewhere deep inside of me
There's an island
Somewhere deep inside of me
It's silent and still
There's a deep, clear pool
You better open your eyes now
See it all before you
The sea and the shore of you
You've slept there all your life
Somewhere deep inside of me
There's an island
Somewhere deep inside of me
Around and around
We dance
Up and down
Inside out we dance
Seam by seam
Giving clues that
Colour me
Seen from below
Seen from above
I've never seen you look so vulnerable
Up and up we soar
Up and up
We see
Too much
We saw
Too much
For the first time
We sculpture our love
It's all too consuming
I'm absorbed into your skin
I'm dissolving
I speak these words
But these words speak me
If I let go
Will you go
Cos somewhere buried in change
It's eternity
It's all too consuming
I'm absorbed into your skin
I'm dissolving into ghost light
Am I
Just a ghost to you
A shadow play a poltergeist
If so
I'll walk straight through that wall
And out of your life
Seen from below
Seen from above
I've never seen you look so vulnerable
It's all too consuming
I'm absorbed into your skin
I'm dissolving
Well it's like this
Hamlet said
"Get thee to a nunnery, go, farewell, or it thou will't needs marry, marry
a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. God
has given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig, you amble
and you lisp and nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your
ignorance. Go to: I'll no more on't: it hath made me mad. To a nunnery go"
(drink me)
To which Ophelia answered
"Oh what a noble mind is here o'erthrown"
There's this woman
>From the land beyond the shore line
The woman who had an affair
Cos her man's attentions were somewhere else
In the clouds
It all began with her image
She thought there was room to improve
To win the admiration
Of his wandering attentions
Instead she discovered part of herself she never knew of
The waves come
The effect that followed
Was like being thrown into the Hawaii surf
Oh the glory in the liking of herself
She was her own secret admirer
She gives herself gifts
Giving perpetuates
And this person is
Truly and faithfully hers alone
Roll over my feet
Every time she sees her glowing reflections
She's reminded of true devotion
But when a golden boy caught her eye
Jealously she felt from within
Instead of flirting with she ignored him
I descend the shore
She explores
She goes forward
And tries new ways
And when she's had enough
She tries new tastes
And if things get stale
With gentle consideration
She spits it all away
She's there
She cares
While down in the gutter pitter patter piss bile and ale
There's this woman
On the land beyond the shoreline
The woman who had an affair with herself
Cos her man's attentions were somewhere else
In the clouds
While she was being thrown into the Hawaii surf
Hawaii surf
Hawaii surf
Hawaii surf
The world's in my veins
My skin holds it in
If the tension breaks
I'll flood you with sin
Oh sweet soul searching
Big ball breaking
The needs too great for giving and taking
What you've done is such a cheap trick
Now douse these flames put out my wick
I'm begging you now
I wanna connect before we fall
What you've done is such a cheap trick
You tied me up in a web of thrift
I'm begging you now to give and let give
To the writing on the wall
I love blue water
I love bright sunshine
I love love when it's naked
I lust for love
There's nothing to say
You've made your effect
Yoy take me apart
I really love your defects
I don't own
I don't dictate
What I like, I want
I must placate
What you've done is such a cheap trick
Tied me up in a web of thrift
I'm begging you now to give and let give
Before we all fall
What you've done is such a cheap trick
Let me o' let me heal this rift
I'm begging you now to live and let live
To the writing on the wall
I love blue water
I love bright sunshine
I love love when it's naked
I lust for love
Make me a heaven
Turn my tears into wine
Give reason to my ranting
Make love with my crimes
I take this paint
I tar the brush
Cast your name in flesh and blood
What you've done is such a cheap trick
Let me o' let me heal this rift
I'm begging you now to live and let live
Before we all fall
What you've done is such a cheap trick
Douse these flames put out my wick
I'm telling you now I wanna commit
To the writing on the wall
I love blue water
I love bright sunshine
I love love when it's naked
Keeper of the high seas
Now we turn to you for harmony
Forgive us Leviathan
We're laughing in the hurricane
If it's any consolation
We've poisoned our soil
And felled our trees
The universe is closing in
Let me
Let me
Let me swim
The waves come
Roll over my feet
I descend the shore and the waves drink me
I cast adrift this demon seed
Swimming on a turning tide
Sitting in a whirlpool
Telephone minds on a party line
Electric humming veins
Buzzing in the singing wires
Glistening splintered
And sharp
Gloriously augmented
The waves come
Roll over my feet
I descend the shore and the waves drink me
I cast adrift this demon seed
Swimming on a turning tide
Burning with the stars
Shining with the sun
Glowing with the moon
Over my foot prints
Roll and brake
The leaving waves of yesterday
Out on the great swell
All is well
I descend the shore and the waves drink me
Cast adrift this demon seed
I have found myself
Swimming on the turning tide
Swimming on the turning tide
I open my eyes
I pour away
Liquid on a sea of space
Laughing in the hurricane
Swimming on the turning tide
Cruising on a tidal wave
(Willcox / Bogen / Bush / Francis)
We are the mummies of Mexico
We live in a glass house.
We are the mummies of Mexico.
We live in our glass house
Among Guanajuato,
Mexico, Mexico...
Forgive my begging lunacy,
We crave identity –
Forgive my begging lunacy,
We crave identity.
Our faces have grown so thin.
Our skins are cold to touch,
Our minds are twice as wise
As they have ever been.
My bones crave identity,
Our remains float on your memory,
Tormented voices through the skirting board of
Mexico, Mexico...
Forgive my begging lunacy,
We crave identity –
Forgive my begging lunacy,
We crave identity.
We are the mummies of Guanajuato,
We are all asleep.
Only Guanajuato knows what happened here.
I drive away
As far as I can
Town to spire to peak
I dissect the fields and the old country
Homeward bound
Homeward bound
Into the concrete
Past the M4, 5 and the big 6
Watching the stars with a satellite dish
21st century chapels
Crucified our land lies flat
TV monsters ridicule
Each and everything incongruous pap
I get so oh
Yes I get so
Overwhelmed by it all
It's all untrue
It's all a lie
It's just too surreal
I close my eyes
Go with my mind
I soar high up
Like a baby satellite
Flying flying away
Flying away
Stranger stranger
In a strange land
Stranger stranger
In a strange land
This immaculate misconception
Shoe polished and treacle black
Conveyor belt disciples
There's no peeling back the tarmac
I feel so
Oh yes I feel so
I'm no use at all
I get so
Oh yes I get so
Overwhelmed by it all
I close my eyes
Go with my mind
I soar so high
Like a baby satellite
Flying flying away
Flying away
I close my eyes
Go with my mind
I soar so high
Like a baby satellite
I'm a stranger
Born of a good family
And I'm not afraid of the stranger in me
Homeward bound
Homeward bound
The big grey building breathes oxygen
Satanic mills, conceptive pills
Weave human beings out, in
Recycling grey dust into white snow
Then who knows?
Then who knows?
The grey building breathes grey vapours
Into cold icy skies
Cold icy skies
Crystals form in the grey building's hollow eyes
Black hollow eyes,
Spiky, unfurnished, unthinking eyes,
Black hollow eyes.
The red brick building competes with war
Cuts down the infants that crawl across it's floor
The young, the old, the red, the grey
Wars cannot alter what's here to stay
Desillusionists
Ambitions for all, intrude the skies, intrude my eyes
Black hollow eyes,
Spiky, unfurnished, unthinking eyes,
Black hollow eyes.
The big grey building breathes in oxygen
Satanic mills, conceptive pills
Weave human beings out, in
Recycling grey dust into white snow
Then who knows?
That big grey building breathes grey vapours
Into icy skies
Crystals form in the grey building's mascara eyes
Glossy, rebellious eyes
Diverse little things
Their naked Blue Meanings
Mascara eyes, glossy, rebellious eyes
Turning funnels intrude the skies
Stormy rooftops rip naked the sky
Blue Meanings, (weathered and old)
Ambitions for all intrude the skies, intrude my eyes, intrude the skies
Blue Meanings
Grey buildings, Blue Meanings, Intrude the skies, Intrude my eyes
Diverse things, Blue Meanings...
Peninsulas in the sky, ambitions for all intrude the skies
Your Blue Meanings block my eyes
Your finger nails are dirty
Your lips are dry and cracked
Hours come and go
And your eyes are still open
So I stare
And you stare back
It twists, It turns
Experience
You live, you learn
Experience
Half past eleven
And I'm still shaking
I can't smoke my cigarette
From somewhere in between
A whisper to a scream
I wait for you
To take a breath
It twist, It turns
Experience
You live, you learn
Experience
And God only knows
I've been around
Is it time to go home yet?
And he's a night
I won't be putting down to
Experience
He was a 6 foot stallion
say a storybook thug
he was the kind that made you wonder how he put down the love
he had a hickey in his pocket a phat rock in his ear
he made my heart start palpitating everytime he came near
he had his spankin new range for that tight wordrobe
his pants were saggin he was plaided and his hair was cornrolled
he had his wrists bling blingin
and his long legs was bowed
he tried to push up on me but i knew he had me at go
[CHORUS]
I do I wonder if you feel the same way I do
I can see it in your eyes I entice you
so come on shorty if you think you can roll with
an iced out playa ballin outta control
Cuz I do I wonder if you feel the same way I do
I can see it in your eyes I entice you
so come on shorty if you think you can roll with
an iced out playa ballin outta control
Cuz I do
Me and my crew started groovin made our way to the floor
It's time to activate my plan, and give this hottie a show
I shook my hips took a dip
rolled my tongue 'cross my lips
and when he took his place to dance with me i felt fingertips
on the small of my back so i had to react
like i was playin hard to get and told that boy to step back
but when i looked deep in his eyes all i could see was his soul
i'm bout to make this guy my man, that i can tell ya for sure
[CHORUS]
watch me drop drop shake it for the fellas who know
watch me pop pop my hips as i dip and roll
and watch me stop stop traffic as i walk through the room
knowin all the papi's want me but all i want is you (i do)
watch me drop drop shake it for the fellas who know
watch me pop pop my hips as i dip and roll
and watch me stop stop traffic as i walk through the room
knowin all the papi's want me but all i want is you
(Words Willcox / Music Darlow)
Praying to the silent man
A new day dawns
Behind acetylene tanks
A dog's lament
Wakes the new age
But falls in splintered fragments
Around his cage
Like everyone said there'd be
So much more to nineteen eighty-four
Rebel run
Don't shoot your gun
Rebel run
Run run run
Now get down
And stay down
You've gotta learn
To kiss the ground
You see a city
Well watch it fall
We're the hobos
Of planet patrol
Lean machines
Colliding
Out of control
Rebel run
Don't shoot your gun
Rebel run
Run run run
Now get down
And stay down
You've gotta learn
To kiss the ground
You've gotta get away
You've gotta get away
Rebel
You've gotta get away
You've gotta stay away...
It's just a power game
It's just a power game
Rebel
You've gotta get away
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Darlow)
Everything and Everyone
Everything and Everyone I have ever loved
Has been taken from me
And I'm not taking it anymore
Can someone save me
>From walking out the door
Someone grab my arm
Before I do what I regretted before
Remember the past
Remember our song
Remember when the days were so long
Remember our vow
We'll never die
Remember we prayed to the mountains high
But can you save us
We're winning if you try
Let's forget our pasts
Just look to the sky
I can see the crime
I was ripped and torn
I've been on this journey many times before
Many times before
I've been ripped apart
Remember the past
Remember our song
Remember when the days were so long
Remember our vow
We'll never die
Remember we prayed to the mountains high
Remember
Remember
No one gets out of here alive
Remember the past
Remember our song
Remember when the days were so long
Remember our vow
We'll never die
Remember we prayed to the mountains high
Remember
Remember
Remember
No one gets out of here alive
Remember
Remember
Remember
(Willcox / Bogen)
The doors blow open, you've arrived
"Now why do you kill, bring diseases and plight?"
I sigh.
Silence
Cold icy air.
Black manic stare.
Wait a reply
"No, not I, it's a lie, it's a lie
I wouldn't do these things,
It's she, she sinned."
You make my flesh creep,
You've always managed to repulse me.
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake;
Strange is the night, now black stars rise,
Many moons circle through the sky
Why, where is she now?
She'd let the dawn rise, she'd bring peace,
She'd silence the beast!
He scratches his leathery skin and grins;
A pungent stench emits from him.
"Yes," he said, bowing his thorny head,
"She's dead!"
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake;
Strange is the night, now black stars rise,
Many moons circle through the sky
Why, where is she now?
She'd let the dawn rise, she'd bring peace,
She'd silence the beast!
"I'll make you a Packt
I'll stop war, starvation, disease, poverty.
I'll even stop time!
But you'll be mine for eternity!
Remember! No more time.
"If you want to rid me,
I present to you the atom bomb
It will rid all I've promised!
Now remember the packt! You're mine!"
I feel my skin hang to my skull
Suction forces my shell to break...
As you sleep in our bed
In my arms I see
I dying man
You will always be
What you will be
Ready to take
Waiting to recieve
I'm the object in your life called wife
Struggling for existence
While all around
Glides by
You will always be
What you will be
Ready to take
Waiting to recieve
Hope, pride, will a hand
Break the ice
Pull me from the sea
If I don't ask
I don't recieve
You will always be
What you will be
Ready to take
Waiting to recieve
Just remove the hook
>From my mouth
(Willcox/St James)
It's lonely in my nightmare
What do you dream
That I've been here and you've been there
Scenes were forseen
kissed you in the rain once before
The stars were blue and gleaming
What lies beyond their ceiling
Soul passing through soul
And heart beating with heart
We live fast and dangerous
We are familiar strangers
It's six o'clock and the church bells toll
There must be more
The sun rises and hits its goal
Beyond closed doors
The mirror hates the child I once knew
And out where the human races
Look at the wounded faces
Soul passing through soul
And heart beating with heart
We live fast and dangerous
We are familiar strangers
kissed you in the rain once before
And there in the wasteland
Two lovers held each other's hands
Soul passing through soul
And heart beating with heart
We live fast and dangerous
We are familiar strangers
Soul passing through soul
And heart beating with heart
We live fast and dangerous
We are familiar strangers
Soul passing through soul
And heart beating with heart
Toyah Willcox - vocals
Peter Van Hooke - drums
Ian Wherry - keyboards
Andy Brown - bass
Al Hodge - guitar
Frank Ricotti - percussion
John Earle - saxophone
Ray Beavis - saxophone
Mike St James - backing vocals
Toyah Willcox - backing vocals
(Stansfield/Kassinetti/Gould/Ashton)
When you climb into your bed tonight
When you lock and bolt the door
Just think of those out in the cold and dark
Cause there's not enough love to go round
And sympathy is all you need my friend
And sympathy is all you need
And sympathy is all you need my friend
Cause there's not enough love to go round
Not enough love to go round
Half the world hates the other half
And half the world has all the food
And half the world lies down and quietly starves
Cause there's not enough love to go round
And sympathy is all you need my friend
And sympathy is all you need
And sympathy is all you need my friend
Cause there's not enough love to go round
Not enough love to go round
Toyah Willcox - vocals
(Cooper/Bruce)
Well we got no choice, all the girls and boys
Makin' all that noise, cause they found new toys
Oh we can't salute ya, can't find a flag
If that don't suit ya, that's a drag
School's out for summer
School's out for ever
School's been blown to pieces
Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes
School's out for summer
School's out for ever
School's been blown to pieces
No more pencils, no more books
No more teachers dirty looks
Out for summer, out till fall
We might not come back at all
School's out for summer
School's out for ever
School's been blown to pieces
School's out for summer
School's out for ever
School's been blown to pieces
School's out completely
No more pencils, no more books
No more teacher;'s dirty looks
Toyah Willcox - vocals
Peter Van Hooke - drums
Paul Ferguson - drums
Simon Darlow - keyboards
Paul Raven - bass
Al Hodge - guitar
Toyah Willcox - backing vocals
Lorna Wright - backing vocals
(Willcox / Darlow)
Hey little wonder, don't cry
We'll be fine, we're gonna fly
We are invincible
We are...
Hey little starlight, hey little soul
Hey little girl come rock and roll
Hey little satellite burning bright
God made you to light the night
We are invincible
We are...
Hey little star
Look at you, you're so beautiful
Just like this universe
You are sensational
Hey little dreamer look at you
You are so wonderful
Just like a burning supernova
You're sensational
Hey little dreamer, forgotten one
Come with us we're on the run
Hey little wonder, let's fly
Touch skin, watch sky ignite
We are invincible
We are...
Hey little star
Look at you, you're so beautiful
Just like this universe
You are sensational
Hey little dreamer look at you
You are so wonderful
Just like a burning supernova
You're sensational
Star
Hey little dreamer, you are the one
Don't let them steal your sun
We are invincible
We are...
Hey little star
Look at you, you're so beautiful
Just like this universe
You are sensational
Hey little dreamer look at you
You are so wonderful
Just like a burning supernova
You're sensational
Star
Look at you, you're so beautiful
Just like this universe
You are sensational
Hey little dreamer look at you
You are so wonderful
Just like a burning supernova
(willcox/sidelnyc)
Well you know I've been dloating here for hours
Just like this
Suspended gently swaying like a pendulum
Look, no strings attached
There's the odd insect
It don't worry traffic control
But I just don't seem to wake up
I've been all the way to Budapest
Seen riots, yes riots in Tibet
Seen the burning monks
Crackling in pain
Saw bombs in Gibraltar
Fear in Christ's eyes
Frozen in concrete
As all of Europe fries
Wake up a mother's son
Lynched in a graveyard
Bullets in MacDonald's
Mottos born to kill
Tattoed on children's skin
And when I saw the hole in the sky
At the north pole
I really wanted to wake up
I heard the last breath of the dolphin
Behind the doors on the fourth floor
Of a Manchester morgue
Little fingers on the durex machine
God bless them,
yes God bless them
And God bless Milton Keynes
Now I've been floating here
For thirty years
>From the mid west to the North Sea
Seen nothing but soot covered misery
Witnessed crossbreeding giving birth to
Bad dreams now I want to wake up
Now I'm floating here on the outer atmosphere
And I've brushed aside the waste paper
There's a sign,
It says
"Self destruct in 99"
Words: Willcox / Music: Geballe
(Trouble in the engine room)
Take a look at the tree through the window
(Spaceship home)
When it moves, it moves me too
(Maintenance is overworked)
When I breathe, I feel its leaves
Leaving me to tingle in the cold sun
(Air-conditioning tampered with)
In the dawn of a starless night
I recharge with light and revive the world.
(Can you hear me)
I love her so
I will never never let her go
(Astronaut's report)
In the dawn of a starless night
I recharge with light and revive the world.
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Revive...
I will always be there in support of Earth
(Those among us)
Will we stop this crying, pushing, shoving, dying
(Pull together)
When you move, you move me too
(To serve a purpose)
Rest assured
Those among us will never let her go
In the dawn of a starless night
I recharge with light and revive the world.
(Trouble in the engine room)
She's silently turning
Waiting in timeless space
(Spaceship home)
In the dawn of a starless night
I recharge with light and revive the world.
(Willcox)
This is your five minute call five minutes ladies and gentlemen thank you
Where's my lunch?
Where's my fucking lunch?
Big big tears
By the bright blue sea
As deep as forever
Oh Shirley, Shirley Valentine
If only mother found
What you found
I wouldn't be here, dreaming
Salutations dear listener
This is a comedy in three acts
Breakfast, lunch and tea
And they better not be late
Here he comes
Through the bordello doors
I kowtow to my pimp
I'm a good little whore
Hello wall
Nice to see you wall
Good day at the office wall
Your dinner's on the floor darling
And scrape me off the ceiling
Well I'm a mercenary wife
Where it complies
I compromise
I only wear this skin
'Cos I sinned in m'past life
I want war
And you want me
I want war
And you want breakfast, lunch and tea
On stage please, on stage, thank you.
Sweat drips off my brow
I know my lines, my moves
My place in life
And it's ticking away
I'm not going on tonight
That insecure feeling
A void of nothing-ness
I'm dripping away
Well I'm a mercenary wife
I want what money buys
I only wear this skin
Cos I sinned in m'past life
I want war
And you want me
I want war
(Willcox / Bogen / Spalding / Lee / Phillips)
Build yourselves up, make yourselves strong
We are the urban tribesmen
Suffer not you've done nothing wrong
We are the urban tribesmen
We dance, we move, we twist and groove
We are the urban tribesmen
Screaming, wailing, we call the tune
To all your furious youth
The glories of war (are a bore)
The glories of war (what a bore)
Light up the fires
Light up the fires
A king is born
Incestuous heroes come forth
Let your hair and nails grow
Forget the past
Let's go - now go
Incestuous heroes come forth
Let your hair and nails grow
Forget the past
Let's go - now go
As you sleep
Our marching feet invade your land
In your gardens we intrude
With the voice of furious youth
Adolescence is our toy
See us run with joy
In the jungle where we belong
We behave like urban tribesmen
The glories of war (of war)
The glories of war (of war)
Incestuous heroes come forth the glories of war
Incestuous heroes come forth the glories of war
Incestuous heroes come forth the glories of war
I belong to the street, but I'm just a super-feature in a magazine,
Blown from the dustbin to the gutter, I'm just a street creature.
You can hear me approaching, I am tapping feet,
I'm a wild child, I'm just street meat.
I'm gonna take a car in the dark of night
And travel home to see all my old friends.
I'll catch them by surprise
Just to let them know I'm not living these lies,
I belong to the streets, I'm a wild child.
I'm searching, always searching,
Always searching for a new destination
Yes I'm searching, always searching,
Always searching for a new destination
City lights blink like electric eyes
As I move on in and out of trees.
Lizards run through pylons and telegraph wires
Higher grow my fires of curiosity.
I'm searching, always searching,
Always searching for a new destination
Yes I'm searching, always searching,
Always searching for a new destination
Til I'm going to get there, and I'm going to get there
I won't be stopped but the news travels fast
So I gotta get away, gotta get away, Gotta get away today.
Who and what am I to say the why's and where's?
All I know is I'm going to escape.
I'm searching, always searching,
Always searching, for a new destination
Yes I'm searching, always searching,
Always searching, for a new destination
Til I'm going to get there, and I'm going to get there
And I'm gotta get away, gotta get away, gotta get away today.
And I'm going to get there
And I'm going to get there...
Street creature
You are not a bad man
Bad men do what bad men can
Don't they understand
When you're silent
No reaction
It gives no satisfaction
But in my heart
You are constant
With a love like glass
I see through
I see though you
What could they do
To a sad man
Dealt the wrong hand
Not a bad man
Who are they to criticise
Your passion, so solid pride
Remember those you left behind
We stand by you
Protect you
Our time will never die
And in my heart
You are constant
With a love like glass
I see through
I see though you
What could they do
To a sad man
Dealt the wrong hand
Not a bad man
I see through
I see though you
What could they do
To a sad man
Dealt the wrong hand
Not a bad man
Demons come, demons go
You stayed and faced your foe
Let them reap the grief they sow
Who would know
You were low
She takes the night train
With her bible of dreams
A suitcase pretty pink
A cassette of fresh screams
Her treasures decompose
Her treasures decay
This is the Gospel
In the garden of delights
Ophelia can pretend
To be a priestess or a femme fatale
But Ophelia can't escape her shadow
A little purse of promises
With which to elope
A butterfly net and a killing jar
To silence all her hopes
Ophelia's shadow
Is haunting the humans
Ambushed by ghosts
And other aspects of her lonely heart
This is the Gospel
In the garden of delights
Ophelia is Joan's, burning body
A little purse of promises
With which to elope
A butterfly net and a killing jar
To silence all her hopes
Can't escape her shadow
Nor the givers of advice
Or the queue of emotional debts
Nor the virtues nor the vice
Sowing the seeds
Of the never never tree
This is the Gospel
In the garden of delights
Oh Ophelia
Come Ophelia
Sweet Ophelia
Oh Ophelia can't escape her shadow
Dancing in their discos
Talking down their telephones
Eating in their restaurants
Visiting their homes
Trying on their clothes
Wearing their Skin And Bones
Ophelia
Ophelia
Come Ophelia
We decompose
Ophelia
Come Ophelia
Lets decay
Lets decay
I don't know which way to go
Please show me how
Mother Earth is watching me
You warn me now
Why did they turn me away
I saw the sky yesterday
I could see through the disguise
Yes it's true
In the new lost and found
Only you turn me round
I know every part of you
Your morphine mind
Every day they say we're
Even more entwined
As we forget who it harms
Lay me to sleep in your arms
I could see through all the lies
Yes it's true
In the new lost and found
Only you turn me round
I...
I wonder how we can survive?
There's a new ghost in your eyes
Yes it's true
In the new lost and found
Only you turn me round
In the new lost and found
Are you sitting comfortably?
Then we'll begin.
This is the Mad Hatter's tea party.
The telephones keep ringing,
Driving me insane.
Radio waves and monosodium glutamates
Poison me.
Alcohol caresses my veins,
Tobacco makes me sick again.
My head's confused,
It explodes into mental mayhem.
I get these wild, wild moods,
I get obsessed,
Everything seems so very pointless.
What is it all aiming for?
A world without wars would never exist.
A world without wars is a dream for realists.
Education for what?
It's just to brainwash kids.
Someone must have designed this,
I feel that it's all pre-planned.
I don't want my kids to live in fear of man.
We all explored and exploited,
But the world keeps turning,
Keeps turning
I've been a naughty, naughty girl.
I've spoken out loud against the world.
They're sending me to the creepy room
For some chemically induced fear,
Because my mind's out of tune,
I need some "cool discomfort".
I scare the monster in the creepy room –
He doesn't like my eyes,
He says they look like wounds –
The monster screams!
But monster, don't you know?
No-one can hear you scream
Slowburn
Shall I jump
I can jump
Shall I
Jump
I dare you
I dare you
You swear me to coax me
Coax me
In your eyes (your eyes)
Between my eyes (my eyes)
Shoot me down (down)
With love it lies (shoot me)
Slowburn
Shall I jump
I jump
Shall I
Jump
Disposessed and loveless
Powers my extinction
Extinction
Who would ever love
Persuade me
Persuade me
Coax me
As the sun comes up
My heart goes down
The sounds are asleep
Motionless waters on a cobbled street
Entwined like the double helix
The silence speaks
Shady faded city lights
Dark, dark tinted nights
Alone in an orgy of peace
The silence speaks
am the space between the sounds
Bathed in light
am the space between the stars
survived
Someone calls from across the street
Start the clock, start living again
And just as it starts to rain
The silence speaks
am the space between the sounds
Bathed in light
am the space between the stars
survived
When dreams connect and visions finally meet
Reality fades and fantasy supercedes
Tomorrow's a memory we all wish to reprieve
Tomorrow's a memory we finally receive
car on impact
The glass cracks
Flesh and bones make contact
am the space between the sounds
was like a child
Bathed in light
In a new world
survived
Words took form from nowhere
am the space
So I could understand
Between the sounds
The sublime, the obscure
Bathed in light
was a child
survived
Brought into a new world
am the space
Without form
Between the sounds
Nothing to see
Bathed in light
Nothing to learn
survived
No synchronicity
am the space
Everything is one
Between the sounds
I'd become the space between the sounds
Bathed in light
survived
And the space between the sound looks down
They drove me to the other side
Off the airport, it's dead or alive
As light dribbles down
The invisible outside
The mist around the plane
I guess once they take me from here
I'll never return again
What have I done?
What is the crime?
Just like you, I'm a victim of time
It's the child in his eyes
Always makes me cry
And I said to myself
I will rise to the highest high
(Never say die)
It's so easy to see the glory
But there are many sides to the story
And we're all staying a lie
What have I done?
What is the crime?
Just like you, I'm a victim of time
What have I done?
What is the crime?
Just like you, I'm a victim of time
They drove me to the other side
Just in time, for high tide
Everything in life is a state of mind
So I'll cancel the future if only the strong survive
What have I done?
What is the crime?
Just like you, I'm a victim of time
What have I done?
What is the crime?
Just like you, I'm a victim of time
Everything in life is a state of mind
So I'll cancel the future if only the strong survive
What have I done?
What is the crime?
Capture
Capture
Capture
Disappear
Capture
Capture
Capture
Disappear
It's been this way since birth
It's been this way since birth
Capture
Capture
Capture
Disappear
Capture
Capture
Capture
Disappear
Capture
Capture
Capture
Disappear
It's been this way since birth
Capture
Capture
Capture
Disappear
Capture
Capture
Capture
Disappear
Capture
Capture
Capture
Capture
Capture
Capture
Capture
Capture
Capture
Disappear
Mother I want a lover
I want your son
Maybe he's 20 years too young
Maybe I'll give him
20 years more fun
Just begun his sentimental education
Mother I want flesh
Time deconstruction
Maybe undo what time has done
I'm too qualified to give up
Lie down and die
This is my unsentimental education
Maybe I'll free him
Maybe I'll try
I'd rather do something
I just can't reply
Here we are thinking
There's a whole world sinning
Let's begin his sentimental education
Sha la la la la la la
La la la la la - aa
Sha la la la la la la
La la la la la - aa
(REPEAT ENTIRE SONG)
Mother I want a lover
I want your son
I want a lover
Conversations with you
Made feel so special
I could talk for hours and hours
About the silly things we do
It's as if you were by my side
Smiling, laughing
Such a great time
So hard to hide
All these moments I share with you
Are you with me?
Can you see, all that I do, I do for you
Invisible love, can you feel it?
Invisible words, can you hear them?
I feel your feet step in time with mine
As I dance through my life
Just when I needed you
I realise you're holding up my world
Millpond calm as the tempest blows
My atlas on which my life unfurts
So many voices in me
So many souls
I take the leap instinctively
Spread my wings
Across the mountains fold
All these moments I share with you
Are you with me?
Can you see, all that I do, I do for you
Invisible love, can you feel it?
Invisible words, can you hear them?
I feel your feet step in time with mine
As I dance through my life
Can you feel it?
Someone needs you
Can you feel me?
Someone needs you
Can you hear me
Someone needs you
As I dance through my life
All that I do, I do feel you
Invisible love, can you feel it?
Invisible words, can you hear them?
I feel your feet step in time with mine
As I dance through my life
Caan you feel it?
Can you hear it?
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Spalding)
In every waking hour I miss you
In my dreams I never kiss you
And in the shadows creatures want to hurt you
But in love and war I'll never desert you
And I breathe white fire in anger
I breathe white fire in anger
In every waking hour I miss you
In my dreams I never kiss you
And somewhere on another star a man holds his brother
Looking at the faded scars of their land
And he wonders if another planet has survived man
And I breathe white fire in anger
I breathe white fire in anger
In every waking hour I miss you
In my dreams I never kiss you
And in the shadows creatures want to hurt you
But in love and war I'll never desert you
I'll never desert you
I'll never desert you
And somewhere on another star a man holds his brother
And he loved him, he loved him
Like he loved no other
ALL the above are copyright (c) 1983 Sweet'n'Sour Songs Ltd.
Songs part written by (Simon) Darlow are also (C) 1983 Perfect songs Ltd
In your house is a room I avoid
Full of junk and broken toys
In my house...
In my house
Ideas grow and levitate
In your house
Is a voice I obey
And I can touch the sky
I can feel freedom
I can taste purity
I cast off chains
To put them on again.
In your house
Time expands and touches on experience
In my house
There is a roof I reach through deceiptive means
To see the view
And I can touch the sky
I can feel freedom
I can taste purity
I cast off chains
To put them on again.
And I can touch the sky
I can feel freedom
I can taste purity
I cast off chains
To put them on again
Words: Willcox / Music: Geballe
(Trouble in the engine room)
Take a look at the tree through the window
(Spaceship home)
When it moves, it moves me too
(Maintenance is overworked)
When I breathe, I feel its leaves
Leaving me to tingle in the cold sun
(Air-conditioning tampered with)
In the dawn of a starless night
I recharge with light and revive the world.
(Can you hear me)
I love her so
I will never never let her go
(Astronaut's report)
In the dawn of a starless night
I recharge with light and revive the world.
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Revive...
I will always be there in support of Earth
(Those among us)
Will we stop this crying, pushing, shoving, dying
(Pull together)
When you move, you move me too
(To serve a purpose)
Rest assured
Those among us will never let her go
In the dawn of a starless night
I recharge with light and revive the world.
(Trouble in the engine room)
She's silently turning
Waiting in timeless space
(Spaceship home)
In the dawn of a starless night
I recharge with light and revive the world.
1987 - EG Music ltd
This is a word in your ear
Can you hear?
We have come for your minds
We walk the streets arm in arm
Hand in hand
With charm and chance
We are the chosen ones
We are of moon and sun
We are lots of fun
We are the only ones
We move
We dance
We sing
We burst into flames
We are the chosen ones
We are painted ladies
We are of moon and sun
We are painted boys
We are lots of fun
We are liberators
We are the only ones
We are the golden ones
We move,
We dance,
We sing
You touch,
We burst into flames
Yes, this is a word in your ear
Can you hear?
We have come for your minds
We walk the streets arm in arm
Hand in hand
With charm and chance
We are the chosen ones
We are of moon and sun
We are lots of fun
We are the only ones
We move
We dance
We sing
We burst into flames
We are the chosen ones
We are painted ladies
We are of moon and sun
We are painted boys
We are lots of fun
We are liberators
We are the only ones
We are the golden ones
We move,
We dance,
We sing
You touch,
We burst into flames
You know the time has come
To call a romance
Take a chance
Take a leap
Make a modern classic dream
(Willcox / Bogen / Spalding)
Wasp waisted
Modest and man-shy
We can never decide
Which colour shall we paint our eyes.
We're getting ready
To walk out in style,
Wicked ladies,
Satan's toys,
Sharpened nails,
Acting coy,
We going after the girl-shy boys!
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Seductive eyes draw me in
On this dark-tinted night,
Wild boys with their batons and pearls,
"Hello boys, we're the midnight girls!"
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Thighs
Touch thighs,
And eyes
Collide,
Driving me crazy,
Driving me crazy!
Wasp waisted
Modest and man-shy,
Eyes catch eyes
And visions ignite,
Let's send this tainted night
To the slaugter
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
We all brave the storm,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus...
(Words Willcox/Music Bogen,Glockler)
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate
The obsolete
We'll always exist
We're death denied
Penetrate your walls and slip inside
We'll split your persona
See your mind divide
Pull you apart
Take your mind for a ride
boy child
girl child
Discover their lips
Discover scent
What makes life tick
boy child
girl child
Discover new tricks
new reason for fun
Another law to run from
We scanned their skies
With stardust eyes
And kissed their rainbow minds
So we jumped right down
And played the clown
To their glittering kind
They clapped and cheered
It was mighty weird
But we had to go back home
So we went to the ship
For our cosmic trip
Right through their Dome
boy child
girl child
Discover their lips
Discover scent
What makes life tick
boy child
girl child
Discover new tricks
new reason for fun
Another law to run from
With reference to the futures
We're just time troubled creatures
With reference to the futures
We're just God's forgotten sons
With reference to your mothers
We're the Devil's wanton beasts
With reference to your brothers
Your sister's pretty neat
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate
The obsolete
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate
The obsolete
We leave the approach
The runways no longer closed
Journey into discovery
Exiled into night flight
We're on our way
To mysterious worlds
Moonlit horizons
From a hazy moon
Starlight sprinkled
On blue lagoons
We're castaways
On our way
To mysterious worlds
Today
Candy floss
And new messiahs
A cosmic pill
With painless fire
Penny arcades
And daisy chains
Rock facades
and quiz games
Take off was fine
we're castaways
On our way
To mysterious worlds
We left
A dying world behind
Slowly eaten by the mists of time
The weathers good
Take was fine
Now we're castaways
On our way to mysterious worlds
There's no turning back
No change of course
Don't even think we should
We wouldn't if we could
Luck's on our side
The weather's good
Take off was fine
Now we're castaways
On oue way to mysterious worlds
Today
Luck's on our side
We throw our cares
Into the sky
It's you and I, it's you and I
Another planet another time
We disappear into night flight
We left a dying world behind
Slowly eaten by the mists of time
Now it's you and I
It's you and I
We leave the approach
The runway's no longer close
We're on our way
We're pioneers
We disappear
We disappear....
The big grey building breathes oxygen
Satanic mills, conceptive pills
Weave human beings out, in
Recycling grey dust into white snow
Then who knows?
Then who knows?
The grey building breathes grey vapours
Into cold icy skies
Cold icy skies
Crystals form in the grey building's hollow eyes
Black hollow eyes,
Spiky, unfurnished, unthinking eyes,
Black hollow eyes.
The red brick building competes with war
Cuts down the infants that crawl across it's floor
The young, the old, the red, the grey
Wars cannot alter what's here to stay
Desillusionists
Ambitions for all, intrude the skies, intrude my eyes
Black hollow eyes,
Spiky, unfurnished, unthinking eyes,
Black hollow eyes.
The big grey building breathes in oxygen
Satanic mills, conceptive pills
Weave human beings out, in
Recycling grey dust into white snow
Then who knows?
That big grey building breathes grey vapours
Into icy skies
Crystals form in the grey building's mascara eyes
Glossy, rebellious eyes
Diverse little things
Their naked Blue Meanings
Mascara eyes, glossy, rebellious eyes
Turning funnels intrude the skies
Stormy rooftops rip naked the sky
Blue Meanings, (weathered and old)
Ambitions for all intrude the skies, intrude my eyes, intrude the skies
Blue Meanings
Grey buildings, Blue Meanings, Intrude the skies, Intrude my eyes
Diverse things, Blue Meanings...
Peninsulas in the sky, ambitions for all intrude the skies
Your Blue Meanings block my eyes
Blue Meanings...
In the neon womb of verbal mime
I'm so out of touch with life and time
In the catacombs where nothing rhymes
Nothing exists except that which is mine
My mind is
My mind was
Oh-oh-oh
Standing all alone in a neon womb
Reminds me of my mother's lonely tomb
The air in the city is as cold as fire
And this mother city calls me a liar
My mind is
Oh-oh-oh
My mind was end, beginning all
I'm insane
My body is a neon womb
I'm a neon, I'm a neon womb
Neon Womb
My heart's a womb
My mind's a womb
My body's a tomb
My heart's a womb
My mind's a womb
My body's a tomb
I'm a neon, I'm a neon womb
Neon's here, neon's there
I'm a neon womb
Standing all alone in the neon womb
Reminds me of my mother's lonely tomb
The air in the city is as cold as fire
And this mother city calls me a liar.
Drifters in the city
In the fairground
Life is a merry-goround
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me, love me do (yes I do)
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me 'coz I love you (yes I do)
Boarded up windows
Broken down slot machines
Men propping up walls
Women with claws
Snow pillows into the cold white air
The carrousel keeps turning alone
Can anyone hear me out there?
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me, love me do (yes I do)
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me 'coz I love you (yes I do)
Why do you look so sad
Why? When life isn't that bad
Hey!
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me, love me do (yes I do)
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me 'coz I love you (yes I do)
Broken down slot machines
Every child that screams
No matter how loud it seems
I love the moon and stars
And monsters from Mars
Rain, let it pour
Every child that screams
No matter how loud it seems
Broken down slot machines
Baby screams...
You are not a bad man
Bad men do what bad men can
Don't they understand
When you're silent
No reaction
It gives no satisfaction
But in my heart
You are constant
With a love like glass
I see through
I see though you
What could they do
To a sad man
Dealt the wrong hand
Not a bad man
Who are they to criticise
Your passion, so solid pride
Remember those you left behind
We stand by you
Protect you
Our time will never die
And in my heart
You are constant
With a love like glass
I see through
I see though you
What could they do
To a sad man
Dealt the wrong hand
Not a bad man
I see through
I see though you
What could they do
To a sad man
Dealt the wrong hand
Not a bad man
Demons come, demons go
You stayed and faced your foe
Let them reap the grief they sow
Who would know
You were low
You were still my hero.
Conversations with you
Made feel so special
I could talk for hours and hours
About the silly things we do
It's as if you were by my side
Smiling, laughing
Such a great time
So hard to hide
All these moments I share with you
Are you with me?
Can you see, all that I do, I do for you
Invisible love, can you feel it?
Invisible words, can you hear them?
I feel your feet step in time with mine
As I dance through my life
Just when I needed you
I realise you're holding up my world
Millpond calm as the tempest blows
My atlas on which my life unfurts
So many voices in me
So many souls
I take the leap instinctively
Spread my wings
Across the mountains fold
All these moments I share with you
Are you with me?
Can you see, all that I do, I do for you
Invisible love, can you feel it?
Invisible words, can you hear them?
I feel your feet step in time with mine
As I dance through my life
Can you feel it?
Someone needs you
Can you feel me?
Someone needs you
Can you hear me
Someone needs you
As I dance through my life
All that I do, I do feel you
Invisible love, can you feel it?
Invisible words, can you hear them?
I feel your feet step in time with mine
As I dance through my life
Caan you feel it?
Can you hear it?
Someone needs you.
All around, another sign of healing
Through the twisted reasons they provide
Lost-and-found when others are revealing
You resisted all, they've been denied
I don't know which way to go
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know which way to go
I don't know
I don't know
Dreaming
Dreaming
Dreaming
Dreaming
How can I believe that this is Eden
When I still receive the thoughts they send
If I say you need me foe their freedom
They might have to lead me in the end
I don't know which way to go
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know which way to go
I don't know
I don't know
Dreaming
Dreaming
Dreaming
Dreaming
How can I believe that this is Eden
Mother Earth is watching me
Mother Earth is watching me
I don't know which way to go
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know which way to go
I don't know
I don't know
Dreaming
Dreaming
Dreaming
Dreaming
All around another sign of healing
Mother Earth is watching me
Love is time made tangible
Pain is crime made visible
Touch is thought made physical
Truth is you
You're a miracle
What I get is never what I need
I am what I am
And I want you
I want you
A kiss is life made possible
Desire is sin made acceptable
A look is words made invisible
Truth is you
You're a miracle
What I get is never what I need
I am what I am
And I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
Truth is you
You're a miracle
And I want you
And I want you
(Truth is you, you're a miracle)
And I want you
(Truth is you, you're a miracle)
And I want you
(Truth is you, you're a miracle)
I want you, I want you
I want you
And I want you
She smears it all o'er me
Our raw meat clash
A parapet or balcony
Our raw meat thrash
Her flesh creep all over me
Our bones mash
I spend my money
Astride of her
I straddle her on bended knees
Her begging doth please
No quality of flesh
Of cavernous depths
I pioneer her depths
No quality of meat from the streets
She is she is she is she is
The dirt on her flesh
I spend my money
Astride of her
I straddle her on bended knees
I straddle her on bended knees
She smears it all over me
Raw meat
Seethes in and out of me
Our bodies clash
As soon as we greet
There's blood, heat, blood, light
Our bones mash
I love that trash
I'm snared
We dance on bended knees
Raw meat between our toes
The raw meat thrashes
We thrash
She is she is she is she is
Cheap machine
You filthy slut I want to see you creep under me
Raw meat, raw meat
(willcox/sidelnyc)
Jazz jazz singers in the trees now,
Shiny projectiles with bee-bop beaks
Remote in the key of green
Perched high in the citadel
Scaping scaping the land
Claiming claiming the world
Throwing scoring ripples across the sky
Here I am
Find me
Here I am
Where's the scalpel
O.K., O.K.
I think I think
We've successfully removed the tumour
Well, what does the astrologer say today ronny
Voices voices in the brilliant dawn
Rejuvenate rejuvenate the archer,
The moment's aim is in his hands
The sorceror
Spewing spewing over the brim of the world
You pay your debts to the reaper
O.K. H.Q. We're over the designated target
We await your instructions
Hi there, your cheque's in the post
O.K. boys, we've got the go-ahead
Open bomb bays
Nancy, I swear I can hear jazz singers in the trees
Jazz jazz singers in the trees
(Words and Music Hale)
Somewhere in the distance
Hidden from view
Suspended in the atmosphere
Waiting to come through
Sometimes it's so far away
Sometimes it's very near
sound being carried by the wind
Just loud enough to hear
feel its power within me
Bells ringing in my head
So often I have heard its cry
But forgotten what it said
It's a mystery, it's a mystery
I'm still searching for a clue
It's a mystery to me
shot in the dark
The big question mark in history
Is it a mystery to you?
It can treat you with a vengeance
Trip you in the dark
Sirens in the distance
Can steer you from the path
It can lift you to the heavens
Put your troubles in the past
Whisper the elixir
Then vanish in a blast
It's a mystery, it's a mystery
I'm still searching for a clue
It's a mystery to me
shot in the dark
The big question mark in history
(Willcox / Bogen / Bush / Henry)
I see, I seek deceiver of deception;
Creation of my deprivation;
I see, I see a split disposition;
I will, I won't decide my indecision.
Journey never ends,
We revolve to go
Then return again.
Journey never ends,
Just like the sea
We revolve to go
Then return again –
See, see, see...
An intruder from oblivion
Makes his decision
The deception of a madman –
Journey never ends,
I really try to go!
I pain myself to leave
Then return –
I see, I seek deceitful of deception;
Creation of my deprivation;
I see, I see a split disposition;
I will, I won't decide my indecision.
Journey never ends,
I finally explode...
See, see, see...
I see I see I seek
I see I see I seek
I see I see I seek
I see I see I seek...
See, see
(Willcox/Darlow)
I'll serve you well, be your western girl
Tailored, silent, the oyster and the pearl
Soft young flesh, master's so mean
He's shackled my ankles, his ropes burn my waist
When you chase me, I fall and graze my face
Blood flakes like pancake, leaves a tattoo
My image in the mirror is branded by you
remain so you suffer the pleasures of my pain
Watashini Makasete
Watashini Makasete
I'll serve you well, be your western girl
You must do as you please
Pass judgement, I kneel before you
Your pleasure, my punishment
I'll serve you well, I'm only here to please
If you leave me chained to the bed tonight
When you've finished, leave on the light
The boards are so cold, I miss the soft sheets
love you so dearly, I'll never leave
Watashini Makasete
Watashini Makasete
I'll serve you well, be your western girl
You must do as you please
Pass judgement, I kneel before you
Your pleasure, my punishment
I'll serve you well, I'm only here to please
Dressed to kill, I'll serve you well
Keep my voice to a whisper
Never raise my eyes, avoid your glare
Tread so lightly, I'll only be there
When you want me to be
If the need arises, you must punish me
If I'm slow, you're intolerant, you do as you please
If you want me at your table, i'll kiss your feet
Prepare your feast, I'll do anything to please
It's all because you love me, you want me to learn
My eyes are your eyes, when others take their turn
Then when you wash me, in your eyes I can tell
The tables have turned and you serve me well
Watashini Makasete
Watashini Makasete
pray before you on my knees
(I'll serve you well)
pray before you on my knees
(I'll be your western girl)
pray before you on my knees
(I'll serve you well)
pray before you on my knees
(I'll be your western girl)
pray before you on my knees
(I'll serve you well)
pray before you on my knees
pray before you on my knees
pray before you on my knees
Toyah Willcox - verbals
Peter Van Hooke - drums
Simon Darlow - keyboards
Joji Hirota - percussion
Toyah Willcox - backing vocals
(Willcox / Darlow)
I won't crack and I won't bleed
I won't let you see what you've done to me
I won't break or reinstate
I won't fake for the sake of peace
Oh this is ecstasy
Bring it on and challenge me
Oh this is obscene
Are you doing it just for me
Am I made by a lesser god
Because I believe in love
Am I made by a lesser god
Thrown from the heavens above
You say you can't feel love
Can't trust, be affectionate
You can hate, do you relate
Causing pain in a reign of fate
Oh this is ecstasy
Bring it on and challenge me
Oh this is obscene
Are you doing it just for me
Am I made by a lesser god
Because I believe in love
Am I made by a lesser god
Thrown from the heavens above
Am I made by a lesser god
Because I believe in love
I won't crack and I won't bleed
You say you can't feel love
Oh this is ecstasy
Bring it on and challenge me
Oh this is obscene
Are you doing it just for me
Am I made by a lesser god
Because I believe in love
Am I made by a lesser god
Thrown from the heavens above
Am I made by a lesser god
Because I believe in life
Am I made by a lesser god
Because I fight for right
Because I fight for right
(Willcox / Darlow)
Silly Billy been a naughty boy
Gone and broken all your toys
He's a whore for television
Bi-polar supervision
Cracked up in submission
Bound and gagged, a rubber vision
Pandemic
Polyemic
Schizophrenic
Epidemic
Can he do it
Will he take it
Will he make it
Or just take it
Thought you had a vision
A wet dream religion
It's an execution
Of the rebel in you
Viva la revolution
Bring out the disillusioned
They're an institution
You should have stayed in bed
I hear you're into tantric sex
Filmed it all through pink latex
Made all the rags hardcore
Stripped and filleted, looking sore
Pandemic
Polyemic
Schizophrenic
Epidemic
Can he do it
Will he take it
Will he make it
Or just take it
Thought you had a vision
A wet dream religion
It's an execution
Of the rebel in you
Viva la revolution
Bring out the disillusioned
They're an institution
You should have stayed in bed
Pandemic
Polyemic
Schizophrenic
Epidemic
Can he do it
Will he take it
Will he make it
Or just take it
Thought you had a vision
A wet dream religion
It's an execution
Of the rebel in you
Viva la revolution
Bring out the disillusioned
They're an institution
You should have stayed in bed
Viva la rebel in you
Viva la rebel in you
(Willcox / Bogen / Bush)
She reaches out to hold him tight
"Don't worry, love. I'll be your sight."
A smile appears, he's so polite
His mind's at work in the dark of night
But when the bullet hit his eyes
He never worried "Oh, you should've heard her cry"!
He's always ready to take in her lies
But now the time has come, let's say goodbye
Goodbye.
He points the knife between her eyes
It's light reflects on the one he despises
Here's one for the pain, here's one for the lies
When blood flows out I watch her say "goodbye."
But when the bullet hit his eyes
He never worried "Oh, you should've heard her cry"!
He's always ready to take in her lies
But now the time has come, let's say goodbye
Goodbye
I love you
I want you dear
Goodbye, Goodbye,
Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, I love you, Goodbye dear
I needed you and I've used you
Goodbye, dear
Goodbye
I love you
(Words Willcox/Music Bogen, Spalding)
The Jungles of Jupiter
Naked plant on naked flesh
Wild essence in wild minds
Making love out of time
Blistered confusion in crystal caves
Shattered lights
Blow my hair in a trillion waves
The gauntlet of gold
Chariots of flames
The misty mountain kings lane
Hold my head to your scent
We will sway in the breeze
Whisper secrets and sweet sounds
Rings in the trees and our heads are crowned
Blistered confusion in crystal caves
Shattered lights
Blow my hair in a trillion waves
The gauntlet of gold
Chariots of flames
The misty mountain kings lane
Send me a city
And build it deep
Within the land
Where the real people sleep
The jewel and the grail
The eye in the ice
We'll watch the real people live their lives
Send me a city
An intrusion in time
We'll return to the darkness
Sad androids of mine
Orphans of technology
Orphans of technology
Wingless angels in soundless flight
Draw their swords
And lacerate the night
In the Jungles of Jupiter
Naked plant on naked flesh
Wild essence in wild minds
Making love out of time
Clashing bodies
Making metallic chimes
sad androids of time
(Words Willcox/Music Bogen)
I'm bored
don't want to go to school
don't want to be nobody's fool
want to be me
want to be me
don't want to be sweet and neat
don't want someone living my life for me
want to be free
I'm going to turn this world inside out
I'm going to turn suburbia upside down
I'm going to walk the streets, scream and shout
I'm going to crawl through the alleyways, being very loud
don't want to be told what to wear
As long as you're warm who cares
want to be me
want to be me
So what if I dye my hair
I've still got a brain up there
And I'm going to be me
I'm going to be free
I'm going to turn this world inside out
I'm going to turn suburbia upside down
I'm going to walk the streets, scream and shout
I'm going to crawl through the alleyways, being very loud
I'm going to turn this world inside out
I'm going to turn suburbia upside down
I'm going to walk the streets, scream and shout
I'm going to crawl through the alleyways, being very loud
Tear down the wallpaper
Turf out the cat
Tear up the carpet
We've got rid of that
Blow up the TV
Blow up the car
Without these things
You don;t know where you are
Pull down the abbatoirs
And all that's obscene
Everything in life
Should be totally free
We should live and let live
And all live our dreams
I'm going to turn this world inside out
I'm going to turn suburbia upside down
I'm going to walk the streets, scream and shout
I'm going to crawl through the alleyways, being very loud
I'm going to turn this world inside out
I'm going to turn suburbia upside down
I'm going to walk the streets, scream and shout
I'm going to crawl through the alleyways, being very loud
I'm gonna be free
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen)
Skimming the surface of a sleep
The rain falls hard from the heavens deep
Shatters my hopes, shatters my dreams
Shatters my windows into smithereens
And the feeling gets too hard to hold
I explode
I explode
I explode...
Adrenalin rush
It's all too much
I'm pouring over the threshold
I was warned and I was told
I explode
I explode
I explode...
I was warned
I was told
I explode
I explode
I explode...
Elusive stranger
Come on, lay it on the line
Alone in my madness
I'm alone for all time
I'm alone for all time
I explode...
Shatter my hopes
Shatter my dreams
Close the door
Shatter my windows into smithereens yeah
Words: Willcox / Music: Bogen - Graham
Stand tall
Take the blows
Never fall
Tomorrow will bring new goals
Take the bitter with the sweet
I know you too well
Life's incomplete
Till you've been ground into the street
Winners must be fit...
We're moonlight dancing
All alone in our rooms
We brave the storm
We're all special.
Lost souls feeling hurt
Not understanding our crimes
Troubles minds
Searching so hard for long forgotten goals
Life's incomplete
Till you've been ground into the street
Winners must be feet...
We're moonlight dancing
All alone in our rooms
We brave the storm
We're all special
We're all somebody's hero.
We're moonlight dancing all alone in our rooms
We're moonlight dancing all alone in our rooms
We're moonlight dancing all alone in our rooms
We're moonlight dancing
All alone in our rooms
We brave the storm
We're all special
We're all somebody's hero
We're all somebody's hero.
(Willcox / Beggs / Askew)
I miss you so badly
So badly I could die
There's no more tears
They've all been cried
You knocked the phone down weeks ago
Now you'll never know
I'd do anything for you in the name of love
I keep calling your name
It's the name of love
We keep writing
With words we are fighting
Neither will win
Til' we're together again
You knocked the phone down weeks ago
Now you'll never know
I'd do anything for you in the name of love
I keep calling your name
It's the name of love
You knocked the phone down weeks ago
Now you'll never know
I'd do anything for you in the name of love
I keep calling your name
(Bennett)
Don't look down as we fall
There's still blood in our veins
You can't sell this recall
When it's all that remains
I know what you've heard
About a vision that dies
Please don't spread the world
That we've been falling inside
From the sound we're spinning around
Beginning under the ground
From the sound we're spinning around
Beginning under the ground
Now and then they fear for the youth
Now and then we all feel the truth
The truth
The truth
The truth
The truth
Tell me where you've been
And cast a verse in the sand
I know what you've seen
It's in the palm of my hand
First they try and use you
When you're under the ground
Make sure when they choose you
That you turn it around
From the sound we're spinning around
Beginning under the ground
From the sound we're spinning around
Beginning under the ground
Now and then they fear for the youth
Now and then we all feel the truth
Now and then they fear for the youth
Now and then we all feel the truth
The truth
The truth
The truth
The truth
From the sound we're spinning around
From the sound we're spinning around
From the sound we're spinning around
From the sound we're spinning around
From the sound we're spinning around
Beginning under the ground
From the sound we're spinning around
Beginning under the ground
Now and then they fear for the youth
Now and then we all feel the truth
Now and then they fear for the youth
(Willcox / Nicholas)
Now I'm running...
You're everywhere I go
Every dream I have you're next to me
You turn and whisper in my ear
One day, one day
We'll be together forever
I would have waited, waited patiently
But something happened deep inside of me
Now I'm running, running away from you
I'm running, running away from you
Don't come looking
Don't you dare come looking for me
I'm no longer there
When you spoke, I understood
And when you smiled, all bad turned good
But time is cruel
Time is short
I would have waited, waited patiently
But something happened deep inside of me
Now I'm running, running away from you
I'm running, running away from you
Don't come looking
Don't you dare come looking for me
I'm no longer there
Don't come looking
Don't you dare come looking for me
Now I'm running...
Now I'm running, running away from you
I'm running, running away from you
Don't come looking
Don't you dare come looking
Don't come looking
Don't you dare come looking for me
Don't come
Well I seem him every morning in the schoolyard
When the schoolbell rings
And when he passes in the hallway
Well he doesn't seem to notice me
He's got a crush on my best friend
But she don't care, 'cause she loves someone else
I'm standing on the outside, no the inside where I wanna be
Love's unkind
Love's unkind, love's unkind
Cause he's not mine
Just the other day I was hoping he wouldd give me a chance
Hoping he would choose me for his partner
For the high school dance
I was standing outside the class
But it wasn't me, but my best friend, he asked
I went running back inside teary-eyed
And left the two of them behind
Love's unkind
Love's unkind, love's unkind
Cause he's not mine
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Darlow/Spalding)
Desert Hound
Martian Cowboy
Let me hold your hand
Down the freeway rolls a wayward beer can
And a desert hound
Carries decaying memories away
For the dogs to sense another day
Hold me in your arms
This planet is far from Mars
Lets just hold hands (for now)
And we'll take it as it comes
Celestial Stowaway
Martian Cowboy
Come again another day
Till then we're just a star away
My Martian Cowboy
Remember today
Hold me in your arms
This planet is far from Mars
Lets just hold hands (for now)
And we'll take it as it comes
Red planet
Sun rise
Red planet
Sun rise
Decaying cars
Splintered tyres
The deserted freeways of Mars
My Martian Cowboy
Hold me in your arms again
I said -
Hold me in your arms
This planet is far from Mars
Lets just hold hands (for now)
And we'll take it as it comes
Red planet
Sun rise
Red planet
(Words Willcox/Music Willcox, Lee)
Rise o sun
Rise o sun
Golden one
God of our horizon
God's eye. Volcano cry.
Warrior. You're a Masai.
Africa
Africa
Africa
Africa
Spear your joy
Spear your joy
Masai Warboy
Manhood. You must kill the boar
Be a warrior. As your elders before
Painted loins. Africa
Seeking the spirit of adventure
Dye your hair
Paint your skin
Sacrifice
The youth of your skin
Run to the sun
Run to the sun
Run to the sun
Run to the sun
Exhaustion
Exhaustion
Exhaustion
Exhaustion
Your body's screaming
Your body's screaming
Masai boy
You're a warrior
MARIONETTE
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(Words Willcox/Music Bogen)
Twisted strangers
Have gone to war
Oxygen drunk
Fall bleeding to the floor
Glass eyed creatures
Fragmented features
Piecing together
Fallen warriors
revolution
For the maiden queen
Sherwood Forest
Or an African scene
The Marionette
She has velvet claws
She pulls the strings
In this city of whores
The Marionette pulls the strings
You say yes
You bend, she wins
The Marionette pulls the strings
Pulls and pulls
Til your spirit gives in
Grueling hot sweat
In the land of a whore
will this be war
will this be war
The knave and the pawn
Ripen the whore
With bastard sons
her brats of law
The hawk and the falcon
Swoop to blind their eyes
The reaper she laughs
She chokes she cries
The Marionette pulls the strings
You say yes
You bend, she wins
The Marionette pulls the strings
Pulls and pulls
Til your spirit gives in
Foaming white horses
Cracking their sinews
For the Maidens of Troy
The bell tower falls
Pouring to the floor
Whoa, love and death, a climax all in all
Medieval shores and madrigals
Her velvet claws pull you with passion
to her floor
In the cathedral
Her children sing
In the cathedral
The pendulum swings
The Marionette pulls the strings
You say yes
You bend, she wins
The Marionette pulls the strings
Pulls and pulls
Words: Willcox / Music: Wooley
Glass flutes, crystal notes
Cupped in a glass dream
Ready to break
Ready to break
Ohh Ohh Ohh
Across land scars fall China tears
Kissed and clear
Ooh Ooh Ooh
From an Earth star
From an Earth star...
How I needed a friend
One who doesn't pretend
I needed to be believed in
How I needed healing
Now that I'm learning
It's just we two...
Clear thoughts fall like tears from my fingers
We dance in porcelain arms like a potion
Soft, soft devotion
Love paints the face
Sincere
Sincere...
How I needed a friend
One who doesn't pretend
I needed to be believed in
How I needed healing
Now that I'm learning
It's just we two...
Wind chimes chant decipher the breeze
Giving language to whispering leaves
Ooh Ooh Ooh
Ooh Ooh Ooh
Ooh Ooh Ooh
The man becomes a child
The distrusted a saint
The bredroom's ceiling a vast cathedral roof
Palatial truths of intricate details
All fear fades
Diamond shines our lives.
(willcox/sidelnyc)
I cut the sky with a hopeless cry
Let the power bleed down on me
I feel dreadfully torn
Like a new-born
Deep unrest beneath the
Great great undressed stigmatism of flesh
Little little lady grow
Little little lady grow tall
Stand before it all
And roar the door
Before you grew from a seed to a tree
With timber cut life drained away
A barrier was made
Fly away phoenix love, love me do
Hold me close to you
Break my inhibitions
Let the kudos wake
Little little lady grow
Little little lady grow tall
Stand before it all
And roar, roar, roar.....
Let the power bleed
The cut beneath the skin never heals
A furtive glance from a stranger
Existence recognised body
Immortalised yes, there's a
Woman in those flames
Yes, that wreckage has a soul
And just a little self respect
Will make this baby whole again
Fly away phoenix
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Darlow/Spalding)
Love is an ocean
Love is a flame
Love is cruel
Love is vain
Love is the law
>From the lion's mane
Love is the law
To the tiger's claw
Love is the law
Love is the law...
So wrap your arms around me
Hold me warm and tight
This fatal fascination
Will make us orphans of the night
Love is the law
>From the lion's mane
Love is the law
To the tiger's claw
Love is the law
Love is the law...
Love is for fools
Love is for insane
Love is brutal
Love is a plague
It's fatal
It's fatal
Love is the law
(Bogdanovs)
Where will you go, when the sirens blow?
Will you run helter-skelter, in search of a shelter
Or will you lie low?
Will you sit there clutching at your lucky charm
Or pray to your god to keep you from harm?
Maybe you'll believe it's just another false alarm
There's a world in action all around us
World in action for all to see
You'd better hide behind your religion
Is there a future for you or for me?
The devil's broken out, he's breaking deals
Disregard law and order, and head for the border
To hide in them hills
Will you sit there clutching at the final straw
Hoping that your ticket's in the final draw
If you read between the lines you'll discover there's a fatal flaw
There's a world in action all around us
World in action for all to see
You'd better hide behind your religion
Is there a future, is there a future?
World in action, world in action
And the leaders in the backroom are counting up the toll
It's defend or attack, no turning back
'Till it's out of control
Will you turn away and wash your hands
Or stand there shaking with your head in the sands?
Or leave it to the people who pretend they understand
There's a world in action all around us
World in action for all to see
You'd better hide behind your religion
Is there a future for you or for me?
World in action all around us
World in action for all to see
You'd better hide behind your religion
Is there a future, is there a future?
World in action all around us
World in action for all to see
You'd better hide behind your religion
Is there a future for you or for me?
World in action
Toyah Willcox - vocals
Peter Van Hooke - drums
Ian Wherry - keyboards
Richard Bull - guitar
Toyah Willcox - backing vocals
I love you, strange man
You had come from so far away
Talking
We were talking, well we tried
Then we danced
Laughing
We were laughing
But then we touched
I just broke
Down crying
I felt your planet so far away
Touching the love
From your distant star
The pains the troubles past
From your distant star
We've been waiting 2000 years for you to come again
Such a long, long time
Just to learn the truth
And then we
Danced
(solo)
Dance!
Dance!
Dance your life away!
Dance!
Dance!
Dance your life away!
(solo)
Dance!
Dance!
Dance your life away!
Dance!
Dance!
Dance your life away!
So far away...
I know I love you...
(solo)
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen)
Now the whole of the human race
Needs a dreamscape
In your scrapyards of human emotion
Put your minds in locomotion
City people shout
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Now the whole of the human race
Come to the dreamscape
The horns of elfin land are calling you
Today's the day we open our gates
City people shout
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Now the whole of the human race
Needs a dreamscape
In your scrapyards of human emotion
Put your minds in locomotion
Come away
Come away
Come away...
Now the whole of the human race
Needs a dreamscape
In your scrapyards of human emotion
Put your minds in locomotion
Now the whole of the human race
Come to the dreamscape
The horns of elfin land are calling you
Today's the day we open our gates
Now the whole of the human race
Needs a dreamscape
In your scrapyards of human emotion
Put your minds in locomotion
It's the great escape
It's the great escape
(Willcox / Bogen)
Good
Morning
UniGood morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I'm feeling good today
Come with me, come with me
Open up your minds and see
He intoxicates me on this neon world
Can take you far away
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I'm feeling good today
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I've been a long, long way
I'm back from Mars
And my starship's a jungle (It's a jungle)
I'm hopelessly lost but I don't care
I'm crashing cymbals in outer space
For all the Aliens to hear
I gotta find you in a chariot of fire
And I wanna touch you with fingertips of flames
Mind games
I wanna kiss you
I wanna kiss you again
Again
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I'm feeling good today
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I've been a long, long way
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I'm feeling good today
Good morning uni, how are you today?
Morning, morning uni, I've been a long, long way...
(Willcox/Bogen)
Just the same old world in a new dimension
All pent up with a few more tensions
Sleepless mouths, restless feet
Waiting to enter dead end street
Too many people inhabit this stage
All in confusion and all in a rage
War machines, fascist regimes
Laser beams, futurist dreams
The way you behave is an ignorant disgrace
want to sink my fist right into your face
Too many people inhabit this stage
All in confusion and all in a rage
Spending every day resting on blades
Fighting in the streets, having wars and no peace
No food, no money, no babies to feed
In a land of broken dreams, only tears are free
You live your lives in decadence
Make us smile and then repent
Walk the streets behind war paints
While the sinners become the saints
Too many people inhabit this stage
All in confusion and all in a rage
Spending every day resting on blades
Fighting in the streets, having wars and no peace
No food, no money, no babies to feed
In a land of broken dreams, only tears are free
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people inhabit this stage
All in confusion and all in a rage
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people, too many people
Too many people
Toyah Willcox - vocals
Peter Van hooke - drums
Ian Wherry - keyboards
Phil Palmer - guitar
Alan Carvell - backing vocals
Toyah Willcox - backing vocals
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen)
Temptation
Motivation
Hesitation
Trepidation
And we're walking on broken diamonds
Blinded by their light
In a world of splintered fragments
Careering through our lives
Fascination
Sensations
Destinations
Celebrations
Infatuations
And we're walking on broken diamonds
Blinded by their light
In a world of splintered fragments
Careering through our lives
And we're walking on broken diamonds
Blinded by their light
In a world of splintered fragments
Careering through our lives
No it ain't easy
And I know that you really try
Although nothing can save us
Our love is a star in the sky
Insinuations
Reputations
Situations
Imagination
We're picking up the pieces
We're picking up the pieces
All the little pieces
I've got you and you've got me
I've got you and you've got me
You've got me, you've got me
You've got me, you've got me
Begging on my knees
Fascination
Temptation
Just imagination
Or infatuation
Infatuation
We're walking on broken diamonds
Blinded by their light
In a world of splintered fragments
(Willcox / Bogen / Bush / Francis / Bray)
He runs to the water's edge
To feel the sea
To smell the air
To feel he's free
He does not really need to see
To this unhappy child
He's a no - no
No, no he cannot see
Told about water
Told about fire (it bites)
Told about birds
They're wild and free
They're everything he dreams to be
Everything his mind can see
No, no, no, no, no, no
No, no you'll never see
Never see water
Animals slaughtered
Never see daylight
Never see fire
Alone in the dark
His mind sets him free
He becomes wild and free
Birds in the trees
I see they can breathe fire
I see, I see my mother
She's a liar
I'm flying higher
Screaming to my mother
You're a liar
Yes!
I'm a yes yes
Now my eyes can see
Up through the clouds
Swoop past the sea
Through my bedroom window
Over the city
To my home in the sky
I wanna cry
A letter to mum says
"Goodbye Mum"
This is goodbye
Remember how I cried
You said I lied
You didn't believe me
You didn't believe me
I could walk through walls
Grow ten feet tall
Touch the ceiling
Be a special child
I rise to my feet
Walk through my wall
Turn the corner
Grow ten feet tall
I run to the water's edge
I'm standing on the cliff edge
I run back
Back a few feet
I turn
I turn around
I run
I run to the cliff edge
Run to the cliff edge
Run to the cliff edge
Run to the cliff edge
I'm a bird in flight
I'm a bird in flight
I'm wild
I'm free
I'm wild
I'm free
A bird in flight (I'm wild)
A bird in flight (I'm free)
A bird in flight (I'm wild)
Words: Willcox / Music: Graham
Deadly as a woman can be purgatory in motion
Sweet tastes of death drips from my dress
I'm a liar, I'm trouble
If something's going on
There I will be
Ticking like a time-bomb
Sentinel of your dreams
Burning intensly
I cradle you with fire
I'm as deadly as a woman can be.
Your trust in me makes me feel cruel to see you so reassured
I'm breaking every rule
I'm a liar, I promote pain
If something's going on
There I will be
Ticking like a time-bomb
Sentinel of your dreams
I hold you up when you could no longer stand
I'm as deadly as a woman can be.
Deadly like a woman can be no motivation like jealousy
Politics of truth and lies all in one
I'm a liar, I promote pain
If something's going on
There I will be
Ticking like a time-bomb.
(Willcox / Bogen / Bush)
Bring on the wooden boxes
Christ all my friends, they've died
Watched my heroes tape their memories
I broke down and cried
At least that changes history,
You know that's something before they go.
Bring on the computers, the ones that cannot lie
Tape every grey cell, every scene, and every sigh
You can be my friend or stay until I die
And when I do go, computer, can live my life
Bring on the computers, the ones that cannot lie
Tape every grey cell, every scene, every sigh
Bring on the computers, the one that cannots lie
Tape every grey cell, every scene, and every sigh
They're painting the deliverance
Of the ones that they despise
Since there's eternity
In their beautiful immortal eyes
Bring on the computers, they want to see me die!
Tape my every grey cell, every scene, and every sigh
I, I'm still waiting,
I wanna be immortalised.
But time it drags so slowly,
I'm slowly losing my mind!
Computers
Oh they talk to me,
I can hear them now –
(Words Willcox/Music Lee)
In the labyrinth
We grow so thin
We grow protrusions
That we can fly and fight in
In the labyrinth
We grow guns with bullets in
We've all got a game to play
And we all want to win
The world blows so cold
Around scores of concrete plinths
In the metropolis we live in
Stand the President's men
The ones I have to deceive
To win the prize I want to win
Run run run run
I'm going to gun you down
Ratatatat
It's fun to see you run
Run like rats
Run in packs
We are the demolition men
We are the demolition men
In the labyrinth
There is no sun
We are great moon warriors
With built in guns
In the labyrinth
We have all the fun
Creeping up on the President's men
And laying them out in one
The world blows so cold
Around scores of concrete plinths
In the metropolis we live in
Stand the President's men
The ones I have to deceive
To win the prize I want to win
Run run run run
I'm going to gun you down
Ratatatat
We are the demolition men
We are the demolition men
We are the demolition men
We are the demolition men
WE ARE
------
(Words Willcox/Music Bogen)
This is a word
In your ear
Can you hear?
We have come for your minds
We walk the streets
Arm in arm
Hand in hand
With charm and chance
We are the chosen ones
We are the moon and sun
We are lots of fun
We are the only ones
We move
We dance
We sing
We burst into flames
We are the chosen ones
We are painted ladies
We are of moon and sun
We are painted boys
We are lots of fun
We are liberators
We are the only ones
We are the golden ones
We move, we dance, we sing
You touch, we burst into flames
Yes, this is a word in your ear
Can you hear?
We have come for your minds
We walk the streets
Arm in arm
Hand in hand
With charm and chance
We are the chosen ones
We are the moon and sun
We are lots of fun
We are the only ones
We move
We dance
We sing
We burst into flames
We are the chosen ones
We are painted ladies
We are of moon and sun
We are painted boys
We are lots of fun
We are liberators
We are the only ones
We are the golden ones
We move, we dance, we sing
You touch, we burst into flames
You know the time has come
To call a romance
Take a chance
Take a leap
Make a modern classic dream
It's A Mystery (C) 1980 Sweet'n'Sour Songs Ltd.
Words: Willcox / Music: Darlow
Dear diary, dear diary
She's always late, she overslept
Brings the bitchy words with her cigarettes
Left her little mind behind the last film set
Monroe-esque, a bored starlette
Who says boys don't cry
Who says boys don't cry
Dear diary
She's always poor but she's being kept
She's always bored, she's always tireless
While you're playing with words
She's playing with the Jet-Set
How about you, she doesn't care less
Who says boys don't cry
Who says boys don't cry
Dear Diary
Who said boys don't cry
Dear diary
It's easy if you really try
Dear diary
Tender hooks so gentle so sharp
Dear diary
Those tender hooks take you gently apart
As night arrives with impending doom
She leaves you sleepless in a litter-ridden room
You want to take her under your wing
She wants someone to make her into something
Who says boys don't cry
Who says boys don't cry
Dear Diary
Who said boys don't cry
Dear diary
It's easy if you really try
Dear diary
Tender hooks so gentle so sharp
Dear diary
Those tender hooks take you gently apart
Dear Diary
Who said boys don't cry
Dear diary
It's easy if you really try
Dear diary
Tender hooks so gentle so sharp
Dear diary
Those tender hooks take you gently apart
Dear diary
Who said boys don't cry
Dear diary
It's easy if you really try
Dear diary
Tender hooks so gentle so sharp
Dear diary
Those tender hooks take you gently apart
Who says
Dear diary
Who says
Dear diary
Who says
Dear diary
Who says
Dear diary...
(willcox/sidelnyc)
There's a house on the outskirts of Marlborough
Past the polly tea rooms
Hidden in the trees
That watch your every move
Consumed by birdsong
Over the bunker
Below radar
Away from the sports centre
City tip and parked cars.
Perched on a hillside
An undiscovered u.f.o.
A time thief
In mechanical conversation
Flashing beaming winking gleaming
At the gaping sky.
Throbbing with generation
Yet stalling your car
Burning all circuits
Among the standing stones
And old Sarum.
Real estate owner occupied
A growing concern
Attractive moods in the woodwork
Subsidence tolerated
The blinds hide the
Blushes fading adds maturity
Prime investment for the voyeur
Only jealously guarded.
The paint never peels
And the dust doesn't settle
On the linoleum-like substance
Across walls and floor.
Dark is the stage
No children live here
And no old die
Only silence prevails
Paranoid actors
Hide on the stairs
Little creatures
Cought in the thorns of the rose
Arbour helicopters, jets and siren
Wall reciting everry word that has
Ever brought a tree down
And bounce off the walls of the
(Willcox/Darlow)
The lovers are dancing like a fairy tale
Their public romancing seems so unreal
But they don't need it, can take or leave it
It's too easy, they won't believe it
Don't fall in love with a free spirit
She'll disregard your heart and make you pay for it
So just leave it, and just retrieve it
She'll abuse it, and trash and tease it
Don't fall in love, I said, don't fall in love, I said
Every legend has a broken heart, every game has a go back to start
So don't fall in love, I said, don't fall in love, I said
Euphoria is a silver state until you wake
She'll burn and deceive, starve your very needs
Provoke, tease, coax you onto your knees
All the lies and innocent cries
That divide everything that has ever been
Don't fall in love, I said, don't fall in love, I said
Every legend has a broken heart, every game has a go back to start
So don't fall in love, I said, don't fall in love, I said
Euphoria is a silver state until you wake, until you wake, until you wake
She'll take your spirit and cage it
She'll take your soul and kill it
She'll take your love and spill it
Scoop up the debris and swallow it
So don't fall in love, I said, don't fall in love, I said
Every legend has a broken heart, every game has a go back to start
So don't fall in love, I said, don't fall in love, I said
Euphoria is a silver state until you wake
So don't fall in love, I said, don't fall in love, I said
Every legend has a broken heart, every game has a go back to start
Toyah Willcox - vocals
Peter Van Hooke - drums
Simon Darlow - keyboards
Ian Wherry - keyboards
Al Hodge - guitar
Lorna Wright - backing vocals
Linda Taylor - backing vocals
(Bogdanovs)
Deep in the city, far from home
Down in the alley, where the white boys roam
Feel that razor kiss your face
Mindless violence, unsolved case
Start the engine, slam the door
The vigilante settles his score
Blue lines flash in summer heat
The vigilante's out on the street
Footstep echo, no street lights
Heartbeat quicker, through the dark of night
Walk in silence, walk in fear
Don't look back, danger's near
Start the engine, slam the door
The vigilante settles his score
Blue lines flash in summer heat
The vigilante's out on the street
The vigilante's out on the steet
Switchblade cutthroat, who watches wagon
Down in the gutter, where the drunkards stagger
Deep in the shadow, a silhoutte figure
Face both sides, squeeze that trigger
Start the engine, slam the door
The vigilante settles his score
Blue lines flash in summer heat
The vigilante's out on the street
Start the engine, slam the door
The vigilante settles his score
Blue lines flash in summer heat
The vigilante's out on the street
Start the engine, slam the door
The vigilante settles his score
Blue lines flash in summer heat
The vigilante's out on the street
Toyah Willcoc - vocals
Others unknown to me!
(Willcox / Hale / James / Bogen / Bush)
Destroy
Neither, Neither, Neither,
Oh what? Escape?
Human, Fish
Why?
He can hear me!
Fish – I'm a fish!
I was once a human but now I'm a fish!
I'm piece of haddock;
Only cod fillets,
(Willcox / Hale / James / Bogen / Bush)
Take a tine of unwanted embryos
Paint a bird then let it go
Give me a foetus you want to destroy
I'll create neither a girl
I'll create neither a boy
I'm a monster in the eyes of Troy
I'm a monster in the eyes of the boys
Give it life, drown it in love
Watch it writhe, trying to escape
At the point before death
Oh tell it my love was fake?
See my only life form is rolling down the floor!
Who is it? Where is it? Why?
See my only life form a-rolling on the floor!
Who is it? Why? Where is it? Why?
What is your crime, what have you done?
You're a victim.
Is there a heaven? Is there a hell?
Do both exist? Who can tell?
Only the victims...
(willcox)
I can feel summer at last from the heat
In the red-brick city
The evening light pulls a veil of linen
Over the night time
Life's a gas
Will I walk there again.
In the sleeping Vale of Evesham
lies a shady town in market garden land
The abbey, demonic and provoking
I have laid across its stones
The back street pub where Bowie sang
"Is there life on Mars"
While the boys in the back room
pumped heroin into their veins
The girls, my friends determined
Not to succeed
Pregnant by unknown fathers by fourteen
Mocked me my ambition
The tramp we thought we killed
Had us running scared
Deeper into night
>From fight to fight
The transport cafe from which
We'd steal our golden dreams
So few survived and
Those who have,
Have disappeared just flowers on their graves
Born with broken hearts yes,
Thank you world for my crucufied icons
Lovers of the impossible dream
T.V.'s suicides, mass sacrifice
We're just buzzing in the hive
In my dreams there's a sleeping hunger
The instincts of a hunter
We raise our fists as one to the power of the gun
Are you sinners or saints (Terrorist)
Dripping hate (Of)
Are you sinners or saints (Love)
Do you really know
Soldiers of fortune seal your fate
The tears of ages still cascade
Soldier of fortune's burning flame
To let these lovers dance again
In my dream a hand is on the trigger
It rolls between my fingers to praise the holy one
With the power of the gun
Are you sinners or saints (Terrorist)
Dripping hate (Of)
Are you sinners or saints (Love)
Do you really know
Soldiers of fortune seal your fate
The tears of ages still cascade
Soldier of fortune's burning flame
To let these lovers dance again
Sinners or saints
Do you really know
Are you sinners or saints (Terrorist)
Dripping hate (Of)
Are you sinners or saints (Love)
Do you really know
Soldiers of fortune seal your fate
The tears of ages still cascade
Soldier of fortune's burning flame
To let these lovers dance again
Soldiers of fortune seal your fate
The tears of ages still cascade
Soldier of fortune's burning flame
Make a tribal look
Take a tribal stance
Don't look back
Don't look back
It never stood a chance
Ooh - lo lay oh
Make a tribal look
Take a tribal stance
Charge into battle
Go on
What's a why, why a wherefore
It's below me to say so
Roll over
No don't look down be careful
What's a why, why a wherefore
It's below me to say so
Roll over
No don't look down be careful
Make a tribal town
Take a tribal wife
Don't break laws
Don't break laws
You'll never stand a chance
Ooh - lo lay oh
Fight yourselves in battles
Go on
Why?
What's a why, why a wherefore
It's below me to say so
Roll over
No don't look down be careful
What's a why, why a wherefore
It's below me to say so
Roll over
No don't look down be careful
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
Roll over
Start again now
Don't look back
Don't ask why
It happens only once in a lifetime
Ooh - lo lay oh
Take your tribal wife
Make a tribal child
That's the tribal way
To lead a sllepy life
Ooh - lo lay oh
Go on, live your sleepy life now
Why?
What's a why, why a wherefore
It's below me to say so
Roll over
No don't look down be careful
What's a why, why a wherefore
It's below me to say so
Roll over
No don't look down be careful
Don't look down
Don't look back
It's distasteful
This is the tribal way
You want to turn back
You want to survive
You've got to survive
The tribal way
Turn back today
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen)
The burning,
Burn, burn, burn, burn, turning
I'm yearning, yearning
Your presence is my breakthrough
But all scars fade with time
They say that time is ours
And they say that youth is a flower
Whose blossoms soon blow away
Another year lying on soft blades
I love you too much to hurt you
But I must leave you behind
Your patience is your virtue
Your love light will burn forever in my mind
They say that time is ours
And they say that youth is a flower
Whose blossoms soon blow away
Another year lying on soft blades
Lying, lying, lying on soft blades
Your presence is my breakthrough
But all scars fade with time
And love heals and love forgives
Even the gratest crime yeah!
They say that time is ours
And they say that youth is a flower
Whose blossoms soon blow away
THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS
========================
Where the mountains meet the sea
And lights spit stains on the scenery
And the air is heavy with a sticky unease
I wish for my world of make believe
And the rebel in my soul says go
And the rebel in my soul says go
Can you hear it breaking through?
Can you hear it breaking through?
Thunder and lightning
Thundering thundering in the mountains
There's a motorway it's a monument
To distant cities with distant cries
A problem an explosion
Just a spark sets the anger in motion
And the rebel in my soul says go
And the rebel in my soul says go
Can you hear it breaking through?
Can you hear it breaking through?
Thunder and lightning
Thundering thundering in the mountains
Can you hear it in the mountains
Can you hear it breaking through?
Can you hear it breaking through?
Thunder and lightning
Thundering thundering in the mountains
Can you hear it breaking through?
Can you hear it breaking through?
Thunder and lightning
Thundering thundering in the mountains
And its breaking through
Breaking through
(Willcox / Bray / Bogen / Francis / Bush)
A raging sea brings a bird on the breeze to me
Driftwood snap in me
Pent-up frustrations bring storm to me
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
Return with a vengeance
A craving in me
Stirs fury through my body
Lost pentangles
Scornful friends
Forget all hurt with ease
Return to scorn again
I feel no regrets
Your fortunes are hollow
I silently laugh at your plastic sorrows
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Did he?
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Tiger! Tiger!
Tiger! Tiger!
Tiger! Tiger!
(Willcox / Bogen)
Drifters in the city
Life is a merry-goround
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me, love me do (yes I do)
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me 'coz I love you (yes I do)
Boarded up windows
Broken down slot machines
Men propping up walls
Women with claws
Snow pillows into the cold white air
The carrousel keeps turning alone
Can anyone hear me out there?
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me, love me do (yes I do)
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me 'coz I love you (yes I do)
Why do you look so sad
Why? When life isn't that bad
Hey!
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me, love me do (yes I do)
Love me (love me)
I love you
Love me 'coz I love you (yes I do)
Broken down slot machines
Every child that screams
No matter how loud it seems
I love the moon and stars
And monsters from Mars
Rain, let it pour
Every child that screams
No matter how loud it seems
Broken down slot machines
Wherever you are
You flame like a star
I can see over you
Wherever you are
You flame like a star
I can see over you
Nowhere else to run
Waiting for the sun down
If you say you're mine I'll never leave you
Turn your lights down low
Wherever you are
You flame like a star
I can see over you
Wherever you are
You flame like a star
I can see over you
I can see you glow
There's no need to go down
This could be a sign that they believe you
Turn your lights down low
Wherever you are
You flame like a star
I can see over you
Wherever you are
You flame like a star
I can see over you
Wherever you are
You flame like a star
Wind ignites doors of midnight
Slams abuse into a broken street
A scream sparks the neons back to life
Born to the city we're your children in flames
Emerging from the sewers of the dark and insane
Our excuse is satanic saints
Our excuse is the satanic saints
Satan's little baby saints!
We'll penetrate your walls and slip inside
Set your soul on fire with cyanide
In your blueing flesh our seed will hide
To rejuvenate your body to fight for our side
The living dead, they cannot die
The living living won't survive
All that's left is suicide
Life is lonely in this empty town
I'm just hanging around
Times so morose to a suicide failure
I'm just another ghost of another failure
I'm still alive, insects crawl all over me
They're crawling up my legs, all over my body
They're inside of me
BITE!
BITE!
Times so morose to a suicide failure
I'm just another ghost of another failure
Oh I'm still alive, insects crawl inside of me
Stay and you'll soon learn
To return another day
Stay and you'll soon learn
You will learn another way
You will see more
You will see all another day
You will see more
You will see all another way
My world of tension
My world of tension
My world of tension
I've found redemption
I'll always love him
To return another day
I'll always love him
You will learn another way
He brought me here
You will see more another day
He brought me here
You will see more another way
My world of tension
My world of tension
My world of tension
I've found redemption
Stay and you'll learn
See one and all another way
My world of tension
My world of tension
My world of tension
I've found redemption
My world of tension
My world of tension
My world of tension
Swimming up from sleep
The last morning dream
The sun bleeds
On white bondage sheets
Love currency
The Shaman says
That the dead forget
The Shaman says
The dead forget
My hand between your legs
A splintered truth
The glitter tear drop makes
Enough fragments to carry us through
To day break
The Shaman says
That the dead forget
The Shaman says
The dead forget
When we talk we're Graffito
When we talk it's vandalism
When we talk it's an illusion
The Shaman says
I'm the peahen that pretends
To wear
The peacock's blooms
Looking under the bed
In all the cupboards
Behind the doors
Under the covers
The Shaman says
That the dead forget
The Shaman says
The dead forget
Don't take what I say too seriously
Don't take what I say at all
Just sleep silently
You lead I follow
In the never ending fall
The Shaman says
The Shaman says
The Shaman says
I am here faor all to see
One heart, one soul, one shadow
I can see the way it was before
I know where I long to be
Going in after coming round
I've seen you there
Now and then I recall the sound
You're a dreamchild
I'm aware
See the dreamchild
In the air
You're a dreamchild
I'm aware
See the dreamchild
In the air
I can read between the lines
But you don't need to follow
Now it's here, I know that it is pure
I can feel you making signs
Wait for me, I'll be coming through
You've ssen me there
Tell me when I can reach for you
You're a dreamchild
I'm aware
See the dreamchild
In the air
You're a dreamchild
I'm aware
See the dreamchild
In the air
In the air...
I know why you're at my side
I'm looking for tomorrow
No-one here could ever give me more
Show me you can't be denied
I find you in a pool of light
I've seen you there
Never moving beyond my sight
You're a dreamchild
I'm aware
See the dreamchild
In the air
You're a dreamchild
I'm aware
See the dreamchild
In the air
In the air...
One heart
One soul
One shadow
Closing my eyes
My spirit
On the birth of a sunset
Spirit
Awareness
Closing my eyes on the birth of a sunset
My spirit is wandering free
Sailing away like a ship in the night
On a stormy and evergreen sea
Dreams are the link between living and dying
Where hidden emotions appear
The spirit's awareness of solitude
Lust, tranquility, tension and fear
Fear
Spirit
Closing my eyes on the birth of a sunset
My spirit is wandering free
Sailing away like a ship in the night
On a stormy and evergreen sea
Dreams are the link between living and dying
Where hidden emotions appear
The spirit's awareness of solitude
Lust, tranquility, tension and fear
Spirit
Spirit
Spirit
Closing my eyes on the birth of a sunset
My spirit is wandering free
Sailing away like a ship in the night
On a stormy and evergreen sea
Dreams are the link between living and dying
Where hidden emotions appear
The spirit's awareness of solitude
Lust, tranquility, tension and fear
Closing my eyes on the birth of a sunset
My spirit is wandering free
Sailing away like a ship in the night
On a stormy and evergreen sea
Dreams are the link between living and dying
Where hidden emotions appear
The spirit's awareness of solitude
Lust, tranquility, tension and fear
Spirit
Dreams
Eyes glow
Vestal virgins laugh
In the swirling smoke
As the pyramid explodes
I poke down the Nile
I see the Sphinx smile
She knows who I am
As she grabs me by the hand
Well I sat at my trial
And the pharaoh smiled
Said he knows what I am
I'm the curse, I'm the birth
I'm the reaper and the plague
And I want you little man
The Sphinx smiles and spreads her wings
The pharaoh shouts his curse of kings
Golden spheres evolve around him
And I float away on a freezing wind
I scream and shout
Turn myself to run
And the worlds disappear
I'm in a maze that sways
I've forgotten what the day is
And my body shakes with fear
I must try to escape
Before the Minotaur awakes
Now my body feels like lead
I try to open doors
But I've led me there before
This for something that I said
The Sphinx smiles and spreads her wings
The pharaoh shouts his curse of kings
Golden spheres evolve around him
And I float away on a freezing wind
Sphinx - ooh
Sphinx - ooh
The Sphinx smiles and spreads her wings
The pharaoh shouts his curse of kings
Golden spheres evolve around him
And I float away on a freezing wind
The Sphinx smiles and spreads her wings
The pharaoh shouts his curse of kings
Golden spheres evolve around him
I love you, strange man
You had come from so far away
Talking
We were talking, well we tried
Then we danced
Laughing
We were laughing
But then we touched
I just broke
Down crying
I felt your planet so far away
Touching the love
From your distant star
The pains the troubles past
From your distant star
We've been waiting 2000 years for you to come again
Such a long, long time
Just to learn the truth
And then we
Danced
(solo)
Dance!
Dance!
Dance your life away!
Dance!
Dance!
Dance your life away!
(solo)
Dance!
Dance!
Dance your life away!
Dance!
Dance!
Dance your life away!
So far away...
I know I love you...
(solo)
In the neon womb of verbal mime
I'm so out of touch with life and time
In the catacombs where nothing rhymes
Nothing exists except that which is mine
My mind is
My mind was
Oh-oh-oh
Standing all alone in a neon womb
Reminds me of my mother's lonely tomb
The air in the city is as cold as fire
And this mother city calls me a liar
My mind is
Oh-oh-oh
My mind was end, beginning all
I'm insane
My body is a neon womb
I'm a neon, I'm a neon womb
Neon Womb
My heart's a womb
My mind's a womb
My body's a tomb
My heart's a womb
My mind's a womb
My body's a tomb
I'm a neon, I'm a neon womb
Neon's here, neon's there
I'm a neon womb
Standing all alone in the neon womb
Reminds me of my mother's lonely tomb
The air in the city is as cold as fire
You say that this is no ceime
But now it seems absurd
Is this the way you saw me then?
Remember this is your time
So take me at my word
I'll hold this thought and count to ten
Can't you just forget me
Will you ever let me go now?
I'm down on my knees
Let me know
(Please let me know)
Will you help me please
Let me go
(Just let me go)
Help me!
If only it was all right
Are dreams not made to last?
That feeling, here it comes again
Down here you give me no light
You've stolen from my past
Now there's no need to ask me when
Can't you just forget me
Will you ever let me slow down?
I'm down on my knees
Let me know
(Please let me know)
Will you help me please
Let me go
(Just let me go)
Help me!
Help me!
Please let me go
Let me go
Can't you just forget me
Will you ever let me go now?
I'm down on my knees
Let me know
(Please let me know)
Will you help me please
Let me go
(Just let me go)
I'm down on my knees
Let me know
(Please let me know)
Will you help me please
Let me go
My fingers are grass
My tongue the asp
My town a burial mound
My eyes are jewels
My ears hear fools
And I put them down
My feet are wings
My body sings
Without a sound
Eyes of blind ignorance
See a world of despair
Mountains of man
Hide cities too deep
Cool dark graves where bodies creep
My nose is sharp
It cuts the glass
And then I escape
My back is flat
Off the beaten track
Am a landscape
My body and spine
They intertwine
I am a raging snake
I am at peace
The feeling's neat
Then suddenly I awake
Eyes of blind ignorance
See a world of despair
Mountains of man
Hide cities too deep
Cool dark graves where bodies creep
I am a waterfall
I come tumbling
(Tumbling)
Tumbling
(Tumbling)
Down into infinity
Down in journey to the sea
Down, I rain on leaves and trees
On beggars and thieves
I am, I am, I am, I am
I stand at my window
Wind and moonlight
Fire my hair
I touch the glass
It can't be seen
But it's always there
I'm told I'm free
And I believe
Four walls imprison me
Eyes of blind ignorance
See a world of despair
Mountains of man
Hide cities too deep
Cool dark graves where bodies creep
My fingers are numb
My tongue is blunt
I am only me
My eyes are shallow
My ears hollow
I am only me
My feet are still
I'm unfulfilled
I am only me
My head's a bed
It feels like lead
My mind is totally free
I must sleep
I must sleep
(Am)
I must sleep
(A waterfall)
I must sleep
I must sleep
I must sleep
(Am)
I must sleep
(A waterfall)
Sleep, sleep
(Gane)
I know it's out of fashion and a trifle uncool
But I can't help it, I'm a romantic fool
It's a habit of mine to watch the sun go down
On Echo Beach, I watch the sun go down
From 9 to 5 I have to spend my time at work
My job is very boring, I'm an office clerk
The only thing that helps me pass the time away
Is knowing I'll be back on Echo Beach someday
On silent summer evenings, the sky's alive with light
And buildings in the distance, surrealistic sights
On Echo Beach, waves make the only sound
On Echo Beach, there's not a fool around
From 9 to 5 I have to spend my time at work
My job is very boring, I'm an office clerk
The only thing that helps me pass the time away
Is knowing I'll be back on Echo Beach someday
Echo Beach, far away in time
Echo Beach, far away in time
Echo Beach, far away in time
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pale of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And we came tumbling after.
Up got Jack and home we went,
As fast as we could caper;
And Jill came home and wrapped his head
In vinegar and paper.
We crawl on hands and feet,
Smell the scent of a fresh stream.
We went up the hill like Jack and Jill
To fetch our ration of water.
When we got to the top the bomb was dropped,
We tumbled down with laughter!
Up we got with our adrenalin shock,
And ran to the nearest shelter.
The doors were shut they were full enough
But we are true survivors.
We crawl on hands and feet,
Smell the scent of a fresh stream.
San Francisco's fallen down
We crawl on hands and feet,
Smell the scent of a fresh stream.
Space ships fill the sky with warmth and laughter
Who will go and who will stay?
Warlords. Warlocks. Wizards. Shepherds.
Will you stand up, Holy Ghost?
Witches, Serpents, Superstitions;
Peers and their futuristic ploys.
Nosferatu, Nostradamus;
Nymphs and pixies,
Goblins, Demons.
Crowley, Barabus
John and Peter.
Space ships fill the sky with warmth and laughter
Who will go and who will stay?
Who will go and who will stay?
We're the lords of the jungle
We're the war boys,
We're the ones who make all the noise.
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
Up with the dawn,
It's just another day;
On with the warpaint,
It's just another day.
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
We're the lords of the dawn
I'm a child of the birth sublime,
Nubile warriors drifting with time.
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
We live every day
As though it's our last,
One step wrong
We're a thing of the past.
Obscure objects
With strange desires
Step in our way,
We'll burn you with fire!
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
The sun goes down,
It's been another day
The lights go out
And we fade away.
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
We run from the dawn
Into the night;
All you can see
Is the whites of our eyes.
See me
And you can come too
And you can come too
And you can come too
And you can come too
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
Layay man tey sa-ra-rai
Lay-oh Lay-oh Lay-oh
(willcox)
I cannot sleep
The saint in me eludes me
This man is not what I think
He is a halo of thorns,
Spear in his side
Coaxing me to earth
A parachute eclipses the sun
Hovers on the slipstream
Hangs on every note
He denies me his knowledge
Eyes piercing and eagle bright
Lifts me from my dull existence
Hurls me off the cliff
In clumsy flight
Falling to earth...
The air's so good it
Gives nutrients and
Your presence builds
As you rumble on down the corridor.
It's rockin' and I feel as if
I'm floatin' in water but
I'm not drowning
I must be there
In every moment
ooooo
Ten thousand decibels so mean,
It pins me to all four walls
Opening up my secrets,
I'm exposing myself
So uncool,
I'm storm-torn but it's really exciting
Spread-eagle in the air
This telekinetic hold
Christ, he's the mirror that
Reflects my thoughts
And he's pulling me from the firmament
The sun goes behind the mountain and night eclipses
Oh god, I'm falling to earth....
I thought I was supposed to feel prepared
Can you hear me calling
I'm calling on the esp telephone
Falling
(willcox/sidelnyc)
Here I stand on a large chunk of rock
Floatin' in the piss-pot part of the firmament
We all push me pull you fuck chuck a buck you
Wall to wall vermin piss points floating
In these city shells hovel hotels grovel
Habits in bedsit habitats
It's cowdung Disneyland
Tip toe ting-a-ling
Gathering at the meeting
cardboard people yappin' top table,
Currency
Ghosts in the universe
Hiding in the architecture
Drawing up big plans
Bang to bang designing
I buy this, you buy that
They build this here then
Knock it down
Shoppin' mall propagatin'
Paradise is waitin'
It's all in the hand shake
Expane the big gland
Ghosts in the universe
Hiding in the architecture
Drawing up big plans
Bang to bang designing....
(Words Willcox/Music Bogen)
The door is a whore
And it's open wide
Naked as the beast
You peep inside
Emotion's an ocean
In which to hide
The door is a whore
And it's open wide
Silent little bitch
sneak in and hide
Tell me you love me
No - tell me
Tell me you love me
The door is a whore
And it's open wide
Naked as the beast
We feast inside
Tell me you love me
If nothing tell the truth
Smiles mean friendship
But silence won;t do
Silence won't do
(Willcox / Bogen / Bush)
Elusive Stranger
Captive son of mine
Dead and floating in the air
Feel the pain, the pain in me
Feel the pain, the pain
Elusive - lusive - lusive Stranger
Keep your eyes on me
Elusive - lusive - lusive - lusive Stranger
Touch me
Keep your eyes on me
Let my wings unfold to you
And watch me dive unrestlessly
Wishing...
Elusive Stranger stay alive for me
Elusive Stranger, you're as deep as the sea
Oh no, don't go
I'm alone in my madness
My empty room is full of people
Nasty wicked people
Please go
I touch a porcelain face
You could so easily break
I'm a ghost of the future
In time I will wait
Two hundred years and life will be mine
All mine
There's a part of me missing
I'm suspended in time
Build my walls around me
I'm a power heaven sent
My mind knows no weakness
My body holds all strength
Please come back to me
Don't go
Eclipse my life
Close my eyes
Let me start anew
Free my soul
No let me go
Split my cells in two
Elusive Stranger
You'd better come back to me
Elusive Stranger
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
(willcox/sidelnyc)
"do I improvise this?"
"just be obscure. hello doctor.."
"hello sweetie, how are you today, oh hello patient, how are you today?....."
"well really, to be honest with you, I have this little problem"
"and I have this answer....."
"yes, but my problem's just here, can you see it? just where the suspender
belt
starts.."
"oh that little problem. oh, look at this.."
"that little problem, yes, just where my suspender belt starts.. do you always
wear that rubber mask?"
"how about some st.michael strong gusseted corsets.. this isn't going to go
far.. I'm embarrassed.. libertine!"
"what's it mean?"
"one who's free"
"and.."
(willcox)
I must
I must not
Homecraft
I must
I must not
Homecraft
I must be a bad cook
I must not bath
Homecraft
I must, I must
I must wear dirty clothing
I must be anti-social
Homecraft
I must
I must not
I must
I must not
I must not be quiet
I must answer back
Homecraft
I must, I must
I must be foul tempered
In company
Homecraft
I must, I must
I must bury the vacuum cleaner
Somewhere in the garden
Homecraft
I must, I must
I must remove the sheep notches
Off my husband's wellies
I must
Words: Willcox / Music: Darlow - Graham
Ooh pretty baby, I lie burning
Ooh pretty baby, never do that again
Running barefoot on broken glass
My hands are tied behind the laughing mask
Empty words in my empty head
Who ever said love is dead
You'll never get to me again
You'll never get to me
Goodbye Baby, Goodbye Baby,
Goodbye Baby and Amen
Amen!
Ooh pretty boy, wheels of industry turning
I'll mock you with a kiss, a cactus kiss
I'm waiting in the wings with the perfect crime
You'll never get to me again
You'll never get to me again
You'll never get to me again
You'll never get to me
Goodbye Baby, Goodbye Baby,
Goodbye Baby and Amen, Amen
Goodbye baby and Amen!
Goodbye Baby, Goodbye Baby,
Goodbye Baby and Amen, Amen
Goodbye Baby, Goodbye Baby,
Goodbye Baby and Amen, Amen
You'll never get to me again
Bye bye
Goodbye!
(Willcox / Darlow)
You are not my ennemy, you are a part of me
Whoever broke your dreams I'd like to meet
Who will kiss you right on the wrong side of the street
Let's heal ourselves through the night
Let's heal our dreams, bring them back to life
Let's heal our world and make it right
For everyone under the same moonlight
Let me mend you, I won't sell you hope
With a little time I will make it grow
I've watched you now and I need to know
Can you really make it on your own
Let's heal ourselves through the night
Let's heal our dreams, bring them back to life
Let's heal our world and make it right
For everyone under the same moonlight
That spark of life inside your soul
It's yours for all eternity
You are priceless beyond the stars
This world is yours
Didn't anyone ever tell you so
Let's heal ourselves
Let's heal our dreams
Let's heal our world and make it right
For everyone under the same moonlight
Let's heal ourselves through the night
Let's heal our dreams, bring them back to life
Let's heal our world and make it right
For everyone under the same moonlight
Through the night