Nerys Hughes (born 8 November 1941), is a Welsh actress, known primarily for her television roles.
Nerys Hughes was born in Rhyl (then in Flintshire, now in Denbighshire). She studied drama at Rose Bruford College. She is best known for the role of Sandra Hutchinson in the enormously successful BBC TV series The Liver Birds which ran from 1969 to 1978 with a brief revival in 1996. Her main co-stars were Mollie Sugden and Polly James.
She later played the eponymous lead in The District Nurse, a series which was written for her, and won the Variety Club Television Actress of the Year Award. The series was released on DVD in 2006.
In the theatre she has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English Stage Company at the Royal Court, and The Theatre of Comedy.
Hughes was one of the explorers who voyaged to the planet Arg in the (now lost from the BBC) 4th episode of the second series of the 'science-fiction' quiz The Adventure Game in 1981, where she was evaporated in the Vortex game. She also guest starred in the metaphorical and esoteric Doctor Who story "Kinda" (1982) as the scientist Todd, alongside actors Peter Davison, Richard Todd and Simon Rouse; and was a producer on the Sky One drama Is Harry on the Boat? (2001). She most recently appeared in the Torchwood episode, "Something Borrowed" as Brenda Williams. She is also known for her role as Glenda in The Queen's Nose (1998–2000).
Dear momma's boy I know you've had your butt licked by your mother
I know you've enjoyed all that attention from her
And every woman graced with your presence after
Dear narcissus boy I know you've never really apologized for anything
I know you've never really taken responsibility
I know you've never really listened to a woman
Dear me-show boy I know you're not really into conflict resolution
Or seeing both sides of every equation
Or having an uninterrupted conversation
And any talk of healthiness
And any talk of connectedness
And any talk of resolving this
Leaves you running for the door
(why why do I try to love you
Try to love you when you really don't want me
Dear egotist boy you've never really had to suffer any consequence
You've never stayed with anyone longer than ten minutes
You'd never understand anyone showing resistance
Dear popular boy I know you're used to getting everything so easily
A stranger to the concept of reciprocity
People honor boys like you in this society
And any talk of selflessness
And any talk of working at this
And any talk of being of service
Leaves you running for the door
(why why do I try to help you try to help you
When you really don't want me to)
You go back to the women who will dance the dance
You go back to your friends who will lick your ass
You go back to ignoring all the rest of us
You go back to the center of your universe
Dear self centered boy I don't know why I still feel affected by you
I've never lasted very long with someone like you
I never did although I have to admit I wanted to
Dear magnetic boy you've never been with anyone who doesn't take your shit
You've never been with anyone who's dared to call you on it
I wonder how you'd be if someone were to call you on it
And any talk of willingness
And any talk of both feet in
And any talk of commitment
Leaves you running for the door
(why why do I try to change you try to
Try to change you when you really don't
Want me to)
You go back to the women who will dance the dance
You go back to your friends who will lick your ass
You go back to being so oblivious
in love with yourself
you first met on the rainy steps
where your conscience left
and in the acid rain
shot through your veins
the taste of your lips
and your fingertips bloodied and gripped
the courtship was short
i do report as your former confidante
the who you were leaning on
it was so hard for me
but not hard to see
how you could fall for yourself
after all, i loved you
after, after all, i loved you
i'd rather die
than let you chew upon my energy
i know you're no friend to me
after all you've done i'm free
and i can finally see
i'd rather die
than let you ever get away with this
you are the antithesis
narcissist, this kiss could be upon my own lips
i'd rather die
yesterday i caught myself
dreaming of the day we laying the flux of fate
in denial of
our sick and dying love
as those tiny suns die
in the onyx above
(my friends never liked you
now they truly hate you)
so jump in a polluted great lake
go fishing for snakes
you have no alibi
your bright and burning lie
you won't convince me the devil's a reasonable guy
cause he loves you
after, after all, he loves you
i'd rather die
than let you chew upon my energy
i know you're no friend to me
after all you've done i'm free
and i can finally see
i'd rather die
than let you ever get away with this
you are the antithesis
narcissist, this kiss could be upon my own lips
i'd rather die
(baby you'll be dying soon
deafened by a sonic boom
drowning, dying in the sea
sink beneath the brine for me
you will die and i will live
i have no more love to give
knowing all the wrong steps
to pull you from your sinking cage
baby you'll be dying soon
deafened by a sonic boom
drowning, dying in the sea
sink beneath the brine for me
you will die and i will live
i have no more love to give
knowing all the wrong steps
to pull you from your sinking end)
i'd rather die
than let you chew upon my energy
i know you're no friend to me
after all you've done i'm free
and i can finally see
i'd rather die
than let you ever get away with this
you are my antithesis
narcissist, this kiss could be upon my own lips
i'd rather die
i'd rather die
Narcissus
On the walls of Venus's temple
The tale of Narcissus and Echo
A beautiful young nymph
Sentenced to repeat
The last words of the others
Never to talk first
She fell in love with Narcissus
And followed him longing to speak
He said "Who is here" and she replied "Here"
He called for her saying "Come"
She just replied "Come"
As none came near, Narcissus
Called her again
"Why do you shun me"
She could only say the same
These words hurt deep
His pride his actions leads
"I would rather die
Than you should have me"
Narcissus went forth
To a fountain in the north
He kneeled down to drink
And then he fell in love
He said "Who is here"
His voice kept sounding "Here"
He called again the one
That couldn't ever come
His face was young and
In the crystal waters glowed
His smile was cold reflecting
Back a thought
"I would rather die
Dear momma's boy I know you've had your butt licked by your mother
I know you've enjoyed all that attention from her
And every woman graced with your presence after
Dear narcissus boy I know you've never really apologized for anything
I know you've never really taken responsibility
I know you've never really listened to a woman
Dear me-show boy I know you're not really into conflict resolution
Or seeing both sides of every equation
Or having an uninterrupted conversation
And any talk of healthiness
And any talk of connectedness
And any talk of resolving this
Leaves you running for the door
(why why do I try to love you
Try to love you when you really don't want me
To)
Dear egotist boy you've never really had to suffer any consequence
You've never stayed with anyone longer than ten minutes
You'd never understand anyone showing resistance
Dear popular boy I know you're used to getting everything so easily
A stranger to the concept of reciprocity
People honor boys like you in this society
And any talk of selflessness
And any talk of working at this
And any talk of being of service
Leaves you running for the door
(why why do I try to help you try to help you
When you really don't want me to)
You go back to the women who will dance the dance
You go back to your friends who will lick your ass
You go back to ignoring all the rest of us
You go back to the center of your universe
Dear self centered boy I don't know why I still feel affected by you
I've never lasted very long with someone like you
I never did although I have to admit I wanted to
Dear magnetic boy you've never been with anyone who doesn't take your shit
You've never been with anyone who's dared to call you on it
I wonder how you'd be if someone were to call you on it
And any talk of willingness
And any talk of both feet in
And any talk of commitment
Leaves you running for the door
(why why do I try to change you try to
Try to change you when you really don't
Want me to)
You go back to the women who will dance the dance
You go back to your friends who will lick your ass
You go back to being so oblivious
You go back to the center of the universe
caught in the headlamp glare of your own blinding vanity
mesmerised by the stare of your shallow personality
gorging the junk food of flattery you drag your fat ego around
everyone floored by the battering you give to whoever's around
trapped in the personal hell of your own desperate addiction
frightened that others can tell of your expensive affliction
with your happiness based on a chemical you wax lyrical with words so profound
when your indulgence reaches that level it's safest not to be around
oh narcissus you petulant child admiring yourself in the curve of my eyes
oh narcissus you angel beguiled unsated by self you do nothing but die
wrapped in the transparent lies of your desperate situation
you expound on imaginary ties expecting us to believe them
in the absence of concrete commitment
you've all the attention that money can buy
not caring that those who still love you are callously thrown to one side
oh narcissus you petulant child admiring yourself in the curve of my eyes
oh narcissus you angel beguiled unsated by self you do nothing but die
oh narcissus you treacherous child admiring yourself in the curve of my eyes
oh narcissus you angel beguiled unsated by self you do nothing but die
hey you dog man whelp of a litter of scavengers
bolting the flesh of your victims with a ravenous greed
you work with your siblings up to a point
'til your ego is sated or your wallet fulfilled
jealously guarding the bones of your kill
with a malice that's born out of fear
running with the pack your defence is to attack
but i detect you in your stealth because you've rolled in your own filth
you hope to gain my trust with your cowardly disguise
whispering such confidences my revulsion to a-wreck
you call yourself my friend you call yourself my friend
and when i turn my back your fangs will feel my neck
what is your domain but a barn where your runts roll in the reek
you would seek to steel my freedom and have branded me a freak
i want nothing of your snarling mongrel strain your smarmy doggerel lies
and if these words have singed your fur consider yourself a whipped cur
gorging the junk food of flattery you haul your fat ego around
everyone floored by the battering you give to whoever's around
oh narcissus you petulant child admiring yourself in the curve of my eyes
i’m falling in love with her
hopelessly smitten
and strangely driven
to stop and stare and wonder
how have i been here before?
and why do i want more and more?
each into the other, this
plainly forbidden
fruit that has given
form to what was private bliss
upon reflection i find
i’m losing myself and my mind
can I woo her through the looking glass
this refraction of light i see?
in the pool face to face we match
like ghosts, like family,
like angels
translucent and
in-between
i’m falling in love with her
brazenly object
willingly subject
as sunlight through the moon
like a soliloquy or two
(Mason, Thomas)
Lying here beside myself with joy
I am too much for my mirror
Mama said she wished me dead
Called me bad, too bad...
I fell in love as a boy
Opened my eyes and saw my shadow
With eyebrows raised, they searched my face
And found my mate, too late...
Chorus
Don't need no audience round me I'm fond of my own company
Who wants the birds and the bees when I've always got me up my sleeve.
Who said that no mans an island surrounded by nothing but sea I
I tell you he's wrong and misguided I stand here surrounded by me.
(Breaking up the mirror, you're a sinner, you're a sinner
...Breaking up the mirror; you're a sinner you're a
Sinner. . .)
"Come down to earth" They called up to me
"We have a bed to ease your journey, crazy fools are born to bruise,
But we've the cure for both of you.
Don't need no audience round me I'm fond of my own company
Who wants the birds and the bees when I've always got
"How do you think it's going?"
"So-so."
"A lot of it's rubbish, you know."
"Mmm"
"Hey, you have the same trouble with your trousers as I
do."
When The World Was A Younger Different Place
there Lived Man Just Like Us
and They Knew Neither Mirrors Or The Page
these Two Worlds They Could Not Touch
and They Said, Just Go Down, Straight To The Water Son
bend Down, Look At Your Own Reflection
reach Down And Try To Touch The Other Worlds
but Your Had Will Go On Through, Oh Yes Your Hand Will Go
through
and The Names, Yeah The Names Roll On...
so They Drank Water Cupped By The Leaves
in The Sea They Saw New Life
and The Worlds Reflected In Their Dreams
were The Worlds Of Divine Touch
and They Said, Just Go Down, Straight To The Water Son
bend Down, Look At Your Own Reflection
reach Down And Try To Touch The Other Worlds
but Your Hand Will Go On Through, Oh Yes Your Hand Will
Go On
through
lying here upon this cross
nothing changes, nothing lost
and the words are softly spoken
hearts of stone are seldom broken
(chorus)
you could never love me
as much as i do
you could never love me
the way that i do
you could never carry
this cross i bear
hiding in the shadows
i find my comfort there
i stand aone
i glimpse within
as you come taste this
first deadly sin
(chorus)
(slow part)
sleepwalking through another daydream
sweet perfection in the waters face
no more rapture between us softly
your hopes been laid to waste (2x)
save your prayers
for another sunday smile
allow your promises to wither in denial
save your lies
for your false religious trial
save your kisses
for your god forsaken child
How does it feel to be alone, without you by my side
I can't explain it's strange, though it's funny all the same
And where were you when I was high, out somewhere
counting flies
And passing by the time, while the sun won't shine
And the skies aren't in my head
How does it feel to be inside, yourself and no one else
I can't explain it's strange, though it's funny all the same
And where were you when I was down, and somewhat
short of cool
Reflective fool, an uninvited author of melancholic rule
I'll set my soapbox upon the ground
To pick you up when you feel down
Oooh Ooh's
How does it feel to be alone, without you by my side
I can't explain it's strange, though it's funny all the same
And where were you when I was down, and somewhat
short of cool
how comfortable it must be to feel comfortable in your
own skin
if this continues then my sanity will likely grow a
little thin
oh, i just can't acclimate to what's happenin' to me
the shadow people got me in their shackles, i feel as if
i'll never be free, no no no no no
i know you're just a figment of my brain
but i'd appreciate some solitude, i feel like i'm going
insane
x666
today is a beautiful day to die
you can't take refuge from your own mind
i don't think that i would like what i'd find
if i were to look inside my mind
the shadow people have come to play and my torture is
just merely their play.
just let me be, just let me sleep
x666