B i o g r a p h y (by Official Label)
There is a myth that great artists operate in seclusion. Hogwash. One need look no further than to the ten songs of Antony and the Johnsons' new album, I Am A Bird Now, to realize this is an utter fallacy. To be sure, with his androgynous features, the singularly named Antony is an original. Have you ever heard a voice like this, imbued with the transcendental emotion of the blues, yet deployed with an unadorned simplicity reminiscent of medieval music practice, and graced with a top note of childlike wonder? Or songs that blur distinctions of gender and identity, yet which still summon up such powerful feelings: longing, love, lust, loss? No. Because Antony is one-of-a-kind. But he is certainly not alone. I Am A Bird Now, the second full-length from this extraordinary New York artist and his cohorts, features contributions from both Antony's peers (Rufus Wainwright, Devendra Banhardt) and heroes (Lou Reed, Boy George). Their involvement reflects both their admiration for Antony, and his unique place in the contemporary arts community. "Everyone's presence on the record shows them at their most unique, making a special contribution that is specific to them," says Antony. He arranged each one with painstaking precision, like a director creating an extended tableau on stage. "Bringing other people in makes me feel less lonely," adds Antony. "I was making the album intuitively, the way I felt it wanted to be made. A lot of these people helped inspire this record." As a youngster in California, Antony was smitten by the beguiling image of Boy George on Culture Club's 1982 debut album Kissing To Be Clever. "George was really the first reflection I saw of myself in the world," he explains. "I saw him and thought, 'Okay, that's what we do when we're like this: We become singers.'" Twenty two years later, Antony found himself sitting at a piano, recording the haunting "You Are My Sister" with his icon. "When he was in the studio, I just felt this big, long circle connecting in my spirit." Another one of Antony's champions, Lou Reed, introduces the soulful "Fistful of Love," an intoxication concoction that mixes Muscle Shoals soul with an almost heroic sense of masochism. In 2003, Reed asked Antony to reinterpret "Perfect Day" for his album The Raven. Subsequently, the former Velvet Underground front man invited Antony to perform as part of the small ensemble on his American and European tours; he even gave Antony a solo turn on the VU classic "Candy Says," an homage to another one of Antony's inspirations, Warhol superstar Candy Darling. Fitting, then, that the image adorning the cover of I Am A Bird Now is Peter Hujar's striking 1974 photograph "Candy Darling On Her Deathbed." In Hujar's black and white images of underground figures like Darling and Divine, Antony found another early touchstone. "There's no sense of voyeurism in his portraits," explains the singer. "They show an inside perspective. And that's something I'm interested in: being empathic, not voyeuristic." When Antony moved to New York in 1990, he came in search of a community where he could feel like an insider. He instigated the avant garde cabaret ensemble Blacklips, renown for their regular performances at the Pyramid Club, in New York's then vibrant East Village. Initially, he modeled himself on Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet, and the bald drag queen pictured on the sleeve of Soft Cell's 1982 single "Torch." "I got that record when I was 11 years old, and thought, 'That's going to be me one day.' And I have pictures of me at the Pyramid, with a shaved head, in a slip, and holding a cigarette, singing love songs." Since that arrival, Antony has gradually come into his own, winning accolades for his performances everywhere from Joe's Pub and Germany's Biennale Bonn, to a turn in Steve Buscemi's independent film Animal Factory. Yet I Am A Bird Now is a great leap forward from Antony and the Johnsons eponymous 2000 debut album (reissued last year by Secretly Canadian) and the 2001 single "I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy." "In a weird way, this album is much more personal," he admits. As he shed many of his archetypal influences, Antony dared to reveal even more of himself to the listener. "I Am A Bird Now feels more intimate. In making it, I tried to bring everything 'how it was recorded, how it was performed 'extremely close, so it felt seductive, like it was right in your ear." Some musicians hide behind personas, or the words of others, or fine-tuned video imagery. Antony, as otherworldly as he may look and sound, is not afraid of letting audiences see his true self, however vulnerable. "Opening myself up to the work, and to the world, is my passion," he concludes. "That is the great risk, and the great boon, of doing this: There is that rare experience the performer gets to enjoy, which, in a way, is like having your spirit witnessed by people. And, sometimes, appreciated. Perhaps people will see it and relate, or identify themselves in it." And thus the community that has nurtured Antony, up to and through the creation of I Am A Bird Now (and beyond), continues to flourish and grow.
Twilight Cripple and the Starfish Hitler in My Heart The Atrocities River of Sorrow Rapture Deeper Than Love Divine Blue Angel
Hope there's someone My lady story For today I am a boy Man is the baby You are my sister What can I do Fistful of love Spiralling Free at last Bird gerhl
Afraid All is loneliness As tears go by Beautiful boyz Be my husband Black Peter Blind Breaking Candy says Child of God Crackagen Del suo veloce volo Dirt will crack again Dream about who you are Easy Find the rhythm of your love Fistful of love Forest of Love Forgiveness Frankenstein Going To A Town Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Hole in My Soul Hope Mountain
How god moved at twilight I Defy Idumea I fell in love with a dead boy If it be your will Imagine India And On Down To Australia It's All Over Now, Baby Blue I Was Young When I Left Home I Will Survive Just one star Knockin' on heaven's door Landslide Love Letters Love Will Come To Be Lowlands Low Manta Ray My juvenile My Lord, My Love Mysteries of love Old Whore's Diet One More Try Paddy's gone Perfect day Poorest Ear
Pressing On Raise Me Up Shake that devil Sing for me Soft black stars So Young Strange fruit Tears tears tears Tearz For Animals The dull flame of desire The great ocean of time The Guests The Horror Has Gone The lake The snow abides Time will Virgin Mary Where is my power Whose are these Woman You Are The Treasure You Belong You stand above me Your eyes close
Antony and the Johnsons Twilight Twilight I fall in the Harbor Twilight I fall in the hills But here in the city That never sleeps I can fall Through one's fingers When the swan Flies to heaven Soaring through The utmost fear There's a feeling That lingers in the afterwards Will you ever return Will you ever return Will you ever return Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight I sit at all tables With my candles And angels besides And I shall wait forever As the day turns to night Swallowed in the shadows that glow Swallowed in the shadows that glow Swallowed in the shadows that glow When I sought out a light And I knew darkness swallowed I beseech, come to me All alone, come to me Twilight
*** Thanx a lot to Cynthia for this one *** Cripple and the Starfish Mr. Muscle forcing bursting Stingy thingy into little me, me, me But just "ripple" said the cripple As my jaw dropped to the ground Smile smile It's true I always wanted love to be Hurtful And it's true I always wanted love to be Filled with pain And bruises Yes, so Cripple-Pig was happy Screamed " I just completely love you! And there's no rhyme or reason I'm changing like the seasons Watch! I'll even cut off my finger It will grow back like a Starfish! It will grow back like a Starfish! It will grow back like a Starfish!" Mr. Muscle, gazing boredly And he checking time did punch me And I sighed and bleeded like a windfall Happy bleedy, happy bruisy I am very happy So please hit me I am very very happy So please hurt me I am very happy So please hit me I am very very happy So come on hurt me I'll grow back like a Starfish I'll grow back like a Starfish I'll grow back like a Starfish I'll grow back like a Starfish I'll grow back like a Starfish I'll grow back like a Starfish I'll grow back like a Starfish I'll grow back like a Starfish Like a Starfish...
*** Thanx a lot to Cynthia for this one *** Hitler in my Heart As I search for a piece of kindness And I find Hitler in my heart And he is whispering "As sure as love will spring From the Well of Blood in Vain, oh Jew! The Well of Blood in Vain!" And I fell into a deeper precipice With mouths of rapists Jaws dropped down Jaws dropped down Jaws dropped Don't punish me For wanting your love inside of me Don't punish me For wanting your love inside of me And I find Hitler in my heart From the corpses flowers grow And I find Hitler in my heart From the corpses flowers grow And I find Hitler in my heart From the corpses flowers grow Flowers grow From the corpses flowers grow Flowers grow
*** Thanx a lot to Cynthia for this one *** The Atrocities God visits all lost souls To survey the damage We noticed a bonfire Burning in his eyes He whispered "It's the atrocities of your story Of your story" God visits all lost souls To survey the damage And holding his bleeding heart A tear comes to his eye He whispered It's the atrocities of History Of History Of... The he falls to the floor For there's many more tears on the sunrise And now we must eat those tears Now we must eat our fill Of the Atrocities The Atrocities The Atrocities The Atrocities
*** Thanx a lot to Cynthia for this one *** River of Sorrow There is a black river It passes by my window And late at night All dolled up like Christ I walk the water Between the piers Singing Oh River of sorrow River of time, river River of sorrow Don't swallow this time For we all know the baby has expired Long ago she was pulled from the mire And no precious liar or well-wisher Can return the love that was stolen Oh River of sorrow River of time, river River of sorrow Don't swallow this time Can you see the light At the end of the dark passageway Take me wit you towards this light Into the darkness passing over the faces in the river Hear me! I'm whispering in your ear Oh River of sorrow Oh, river of time River of sorrow Don't swallow this time Oh River of sorrow Oh, river of time River of sorrow Don't swallow this time
*** Thanx a lot to Cynthia for this one ***
Rapture Rapture... Eyes are falling Lips are falling Hair is falling to the ground Slowly, softly Falling, falling Down in silence to the ground All the world is falling, falling All the blue From me and you Teardrops falling to the ground Teardrops I'm talkin' 'bout your teardrops For instance Oh my mama She's been falling Falling down for quite some time And oh my papa He's been falling Falling down for quite some time Oh my friends I've watched them falling Falling softly to the ground Like the leaves The Leaves are falling Down in silence to the ground Is this the rapture Is this the rapture Why don't you tell me Is this the rapture Is this the rapture Our father who art in heaven For the kingdom, the power, the glory, yours Now and forever
Deeper than Love
My heart is broken Here in the cup of my hands From between cracked fingers Old blood spills I had to move on, baby For when I tasted my own tears They were too sweet And I knew that I had come to close And I have tried to shine in the darkness Entertaining vanities in vain Fall deeper Fall deeper My heart is broken Here in the cup of my hands From between cracked fingers Old blood spills I had to move on, baby For when I tasted my own tears They were too sweet And I knew that I had come to close And I have tried to shine in the darkness Entertaining vanities in vain But now won't you come with me As I open my eyes And hold on Hold on And let go Let go Let the virus live a life Hold on And hold on And let go Let go And fall deeper Even than love Even than love Hold on And fall deeper Even than love Even than love Even than love...
*** Thanx a lot to Cynthia for this one *** Divine Good-Bye, baby Baby, good-bye Divine, oh Divine Falling like a picture of time Oh he was the Mother of America He was my self-determined guru Myself, I hold your big fat heart in my hands And I hold your burning heart in my hands A supernova A flame on fire Shining in the darkness Did someone mention a rapture Well I turn to think of you Who walked the way with so much pain Who holds the mirror up to fools And I'll murder the ingrates Who stand in our way! And I'll swallow shit, laughing On my bed of hay! And I hold your burning heart in my hands And I hold your burning heart in my hands A supernova A flame on fire Shining in the darkness Divine Divine A supernova A flame on fire Shining in the darkness
Blue Angel Blue angel It's the memory of your warmth That keeps me alive When I'm burning And my world's closing in Oh I'm on fire Oh I'm on fire I hold on to a wheel of burning fear Oh I'm on fire Oh I'm on fire And then the sky is falling in And I see your eyes Hiding in the shadows Hiding in the flames Oh I'm on fire Oh I'm on fire I'm on fire... It's the memory of your warmth That keeps me alive When I'm burning And my world's closing in Oh I'm on fire Oh I'm on fire I'm on fire When I feel like I am dying And soon I shall expire I'm on fire Oh I'm on fire I'm on fire Why is that That I feel like I'm on fire Blue angel
I'm a bird now
Hope There's Someone Hope there's someone Who'll take care of me When I die, will I go Hope there's someone Who'll set my heart free Nice to hold when I'm tired There's a ghost on the horizon When I go to bed How can I fall asleep at night How will I rest my head Oh I'm scared of the middle place Between light and nowhere I don't want to be the one Left in there, left in there There's a man on the horizon Wish that I'd go to bed If I fall to his feet tonight Will allow rest my head So here's hoping I will not drown Or paralyze in light And godsend I don't want to go To the seal's watershed Hope there's someone Who'll take care of me When I die, Will I go Hope there's someone Who'll set my heart free Nice to hold when I'm tired My Lady Story My lady story My lady story My lady story Is one of annihilation My lady story Is one of breast amputation My lady story My lady story I'm a hole in love I'm a bride on fire I am twisted Into a starve of wire My lady story My lady story Lie in road for you And I've been your slave My womb's an ocean full of Grief and rage My lady story My lady story My lady story My lady story And still you're coaxing me To come on out and live Well I'm a crippled dog I've got nothing to give My lady story My lady story My lady story My lady story I'm so broken babe But I want to see Some shining eye Some of my beauty My lostest beauty My lostest beauty For Today I Am A Boy One day I'll grow up, I'll be a beautiful woman One day I'll grow up, I'll be a beautiful girl One day I'll grow up, I'll be a beautiful woman One day I'll grow up, I'll be a beautiful girl But for today I am a child, for today I am a boy For today I am a child, for today I am a boy For today I am a child, for today I am a boy One day I'll grow up, I'll feel the power in me One day I'll grow up, of this I'm sure One day I'll grow up, I know a womb within me One day I'll grow up, feel it full and pure But for today I am a child, for today I am a boy For today I am a child, for today I am a boy For today I am a child, for today I am a boy For today I am a child, for today I am a boy For today I am a child, for today I am a boy For today I am a child, for today I am a boy For today I am a child, for today I am a boy
* The official title for the song seems to be"buoy" not boy...
*** Thanx a lot to Billy who corrected a mistake *** Man is the Baby Yearning for more than a blue day I enter your new life for me Burning for the true day I welcome your new life for me Forgive me, Let live me Set my spirit free Losing, it comes in a cold wave Of guilt and shame all over me Child has arrived in the darkness The hollow triumph of a tree Forgive me, Let live me Kiss my falling knee Forgive me, Let live me Bless my destiny Forgive me, Let live me Set my spirit free Weakness sown, Overgrown Man is the baby You Are My Sister You are my sister, we were born So innocent, so full of need There were times we were friends but times I was so cruel Each night I'd ask for you to watch me as I sleep I was so afraid of the night You seemed to move through the places that I feared You lived inside my world so softly Protected only by the kindness of your nature You are my sister And I love you May all of your dreams come true We felt so differently then So similar over the years The way we laugh the way we experience pain So many memories But there's nothing left to gain from remembering Faces and worlds that no one else will ever know You are my sister And I love you May all of your dreams come true I want this for you They're gonna come true (gonna come true) What Can I Do ( Featuring Rufus Wainwright ) What can I do When the bird's got to die What can I do When she's too weak to fly What can I do When she's calling my name She's crying Mama, Help me to live What can I do Fistful of Love ( Featuring Lou Reed ) I was lying in my bed last night staring At a ceiling full of stars When it suddenly hit me I just have to let you know how I feel We live together in a photograph of time I look into your eyes And the seas open up to me I tell you I love you And I always will And I know you can't tell me I know you can't tell me So I'm left to pick up The hints, the little symbols of your devotion So I'm left to pick up The hints, the little symbols of your devotion And I feel your fists And I know it's out of love And I feel the whip And I know it's out of love And I feel your burning eyes burning holes Straight through my heart It's out of love It's out of love I accept and I collect upon my body The memories of your devotion I accept and I collect upon by body The memories of your devotion And I feel your fists And I know it's out of love And I feel the whip And I know it's out of love And I feel your burning eyes burning holes Straight through my heart It's out of love, ooh hoo It's out of love Give me a little bit serious love Give me a little full love Be full of love Fists, fists, fists full of love...
*** Thanx a lot to Greg who updated this one *** Spiralling ( Featuring Devendra Banhart ) Well and I can and I die I can, I die Well and I'm freezing I'm freezing Well it's a sly curse A sly curse Well and I'm spiralling I'm spiralling In my broken hearted game I've got all my fives I've got all my ones to choose from My cave, waiting for you Waiting for you I'm ravage like a dog and beat I'm gone, gone In Carthusian Red I get cut along I am, I'm undone I am undone Where go, where now Can't stand If I can, can die I'm freezing Sly curse I'm spiralling In my cruel life God poisoned I was born, born Not a girl and not a jewel I am, I am some son I am some bum Where go, where now Can't stand If I can, can die I'm freezing Sly curse I'm spiralling Spiralling [x4] Held Red Rook [x6]
* Carthusian Red is a monastery of the particularly austere Carthusian monastic order. Red Rook is a reference, I think, to the old Parker Brothers card game, Rook; most decks featured a picture of a bird on the front, and different sets of decks were colored, some red. 'I've got all my fives' because it makes since in context of the Rook: a five is the lowest scoring card in the game.
*** Thanx a lot to Austin for this one ***
Free at last
( North american Slaves Spiritual Chant Gospel )
Julia Yasuda :
Way down yonder in the graveyard walk I thank God I'm free at last Me and my Jesus going to meet and talk I thank God I'm free at last On my knees when the light pass'd by I thank God I'm free at last Tho't my soul would rise and fly I thank God I'm free at last Some of these mornings, bright and fair I thank God I'm free at last Goin' meet my Jesus In the middle of the air I thank God I'm free at last Ladies and gentlemen Antony & The Johnsons
*** Thanx a lot to Ollie for this one ***
Bird Gehrl I am a bird girl now I've got my heart Here in my hands now I've been searching For my wings some time I'm gonna be born Into soon the sky 'Cause I'm a bird girl And the bird girls go to heaven I'm a bird girl And the bird girls can fly Bird girls can fly
The Crying Light
*** Thanx a lot to www.antonyandthejohnsons.net for these lyrics ***
Her eyes are underneath the ground Her eyes are underneath the ground I have heard the crying sound No one can stop you now No one can stop you now Her eyes are basking in the sun No one knows why she did the things she's done Ocean, swallow me now Ocean, swallow me now In the garden, with my mother I stole a flower With my mother, in her power I stole a flower I saw six eyes glistening in my womb I felt you calling me in the gloom Rest assured your love is pure Rest assured your love is pure In the garden, with my mother I stole a flower With my mother, in her power I chose a flower
Epilepsy is dancing Epilepsy is dancing She's the Christ now departing And I'm finding my rhythm As I twist in the snow All the metal burned in me Down the brain of my river That fire was searching For a waterway home I cry 'glitter is love!' My eyes pinned inside With green jewels Hanging like Christmas stars From a golden vein As I came to a screaming Hold me while I'm dreaming For my fingers are curling And I cannot breathe Then I cried in the kitchen How I'd seen your ghost witching As a soldering blue line Between my eyes I cry 'glitter is love!' My eyes Pinned inside Sea green jewels Hanging like Christmas stars From a golden vein Cut me in quadrants Leave me in the corner Oh now it's passing Oh now I'm dancing One dove One dove You're the one I've been waiting for Through the dark fall The nightmares the lonely nights I was born A curling fox in a hole Hiding from danger Scared to be alone One dove To bring me some peace In starlight you came from the other side To offer me mercy One dove I'm the one you've been waiting for From your skin I am born again I wasn't born yesterday You were old and hurt I was longing to be free I see things you were too tired That you were too scared to see One dove To bring me some peace In starlight you came from the other side To offer me mercy
Kiss my name Kiss my name Mama in the afterglow When the grass is green with grow And my tears have turned to snow I'm only a child Born upon a grave Dancing through the stations Calling out my name Oh mama kiss my name I am trying to be sane I'm trying to kiss my friends And when broken, make amends Kiss my name, the curtains white The turtle doves embroider light As I lie, murdered in ground The rain compacting sodden sound Of songs I sang the years before When it was time to rain Upon the coal that I became
The crying light Let I Shy cry Under the light Let I Cry sight A child at night I can Have courage To receive your love I can Step steps Follow my blind Inside My self The secret grows My own Shelter Agony goes I was born to adore you As a baby in the blind I was born to represent you To carry your head into the sun To carve you face into the back of the sun
Another World
I need another place Will there be peace I need another world This one's nearly gone Still have too many dreams Never seen the light I need another world A place where I can go I'm gonna miss the sea I'm gonna miss the snow I'm gonna miss the bees I'll miss the things that grow I'm gonna miss the trees I'm gonna miss the sun I'll miss the animals Gonna miss you all I need another place Will there be peace I need another world This ones nearly gone I'm gonna miss the birds Singing all their songs I'm gonna miss the wind Been kissing me so long Another world Another world Another world
Daylight and the sun Now I cry for daylight Daylight and the sun Now I cry for daylight Daylight everyone Daylight in my heart Daylight in the trees Daylight kissing everything She can see There was no light Only the white night First born when the sun Screamed her eyes open Daylight in the fields Daylight mountains Fire kisses the floor Of the lakes and makes shadows Now I cry for daylight Daylight and the sun Now I cry for daylight Daylight everyone Daylight in my heart Daylight in the trees Daylight kissing everything She can see Daylight in my heart Daylight in the trees Daylight kissing everything She can see Oh your dream Here on the water Warm the sand The seagulls calling Kissed by kindness Kissed by kindness Kissed by kindness Kissed by kindness Oh your dream Here on the water Warm the sand The seagulls calling Kissed by kindness Kissed by kindness Kissed by kindness Kissed by kindness You gave me this Your fire becomes a kiss You gave me this Your fire becomes a kiss...
Aeon Oh aeon My baby boy Oh aeon will take care of me All the stars, your eyes Raining just for me Oh aeon will set me free Oh aeon My baby boy Oh aeon will repair me Oh his heart enjoyed Restores eyes alloyed Carry me through the olden void Oh aeon His arms are warm Oh aeon was never born Aeon's eyes forlorn He contains the storm He's the pasture of my dawn Oh aeon My baby boy Oh aeon will take care of me Hold my father For it is myself Without him I wouldn't exist Oh aeon Love my father For my father is myself Hold that man In your tender clutch Hold that man I love so much
Dust and water Oh I love the coal I love the way you're waiting I love your kind patience I told you this day would come Did you think I'd leave you here Forever How long can dust wait Ask the moon But ask him soon
Everglade When I'm floating in the water And your eyes are lilies all around When I'm lying sweetly in my bed The sun plays crystal with my eyes Then I stop My body stops crying for home My limbs stop weeping for home When I'm peeping in a parlour of trees And the leaves are winking all around 'I'm home,'my heart sobs in my veins But brains they play the softest games Fingers kiss the string Mouth taste the blade Of everglade
Swanlights
Everything is new
Every everything Everything is new Every everything Everything is new Every everything Everything is new I cried everything Everything is new I cried everything Everything is new Every everything Everything is new
The Great White Ocean Swim with me my mama when I die In the ocean of death I will cry If I am not with my family You could be my friend eternally Swim with me my Sister when I die In the great white ocean we must try Try to find a way that we can see See each others faces in the sea Swim with me my Brother when I die I don't ever want to say good-bye If you do go first or if it's me Oh my darling brother, swim with me Swim to me my Father when I die Please remember Father, we must try Try not to forget our family Oh my darling Father, rescue me
Ghost Ghost! Ghost! Leap from my heart And find your way Chase the river Chase the sunlight Do not stay Open yawns the sky before Dance toward a light so gay Do not waste a thought behind you Don't pity this useless clay Snake! Snake! Shed your skin And go away Leave behind your shadow's memory Leave me, this is your day
I'm in Love I've been touched, I've been touched And it's too much, it's too much I'm in the ocean, in the sea The red choral caressing me You need only say the word I'll kiss you like a hummingbird I've been touched, I've been touched And it's too much, it's too much I'm feeling something I've been walking for a long time I never did commit no crime And all my dreams, they all came true The day I lay my head on you The day that you cracked open and died Ten black boys flew free from inside And you need only say the word Gonna kiss you like a hummingbird I don't know where I'm going so I'm gonna lay down in the snow And I feel touched, I feel touched Ten black boys flew free from inside And it's too much, it's too much I'm in the ocean, in the sea The red choral caressing me It's only you
Swanlights Oh I'm living It's a golden thing It means everything I'm gifted By your grace It's the Swanlights In the water On that shining face Oh it's such a mystery to me Oh it's such a mystery to me What I have seen Faces in my dreams Oh the Swanlights The Swanlights When I close my eyes And dream Swans come When in love I lean On the Swanlight song Oh it's such a mystery to me Oh it's such a mystery to me I'm dancing with their necks Dancing neck to neck
The Spirit Was Gone The spirit was gone from her body Forever had always been inside That shell had always been intertwined And now were disintwined It's hard to understand The spirit was gone from her body Forever had always been inside That shell had always been intertwined And now were disintwined It's hard to understand, oh The spirit was gone The spirit was gone The spirit was gone The spirit was gone The spirit was gone The spirit was gone The spirit was gone And now were disintwined It's hard to understand
Thank You For Your Love Oh thank you for your love Thank you for your love When all was falling in the seizure of pain Oh thank you for your love Oh thank you for your love Oh thank you for your love When I was lost in the dark darkness Oh thank you for your love I want to thank you, oh I want to thank you, oh I want to thank you, oh I want to thank you, oh Thank you, thank you Oh thank you for your love Oh thank you for your love When my mind was broken into a thousand pieces Oh thank you for your love I want to thank you, oh I want to thank you, oh I want to thank you, oh I want to thank you, oh Thank you, thank you I thank you
Flétta
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Salt Silver Oxygen The flying horse carries me across the sky Triumvirate swallows make our breath Can we grow a sun A water run The Great White Water? Every slum an ox inside it Sweet crevice for miniature flies? Dancing with her casket Christ becomes wife The easy dust is dancing, too It splits the waterside in two Elect the Salt Mother For She's a Selective Christ Punch her ghost! For shore she'll sigh And watch the window gifts rise
Christina's Farm I got kissed by a turtle dove Upon a cold Paris manger I was waking up to my love First moment dawning danger Everything was new Every sock and shoe My face and your face Tenderly renewed Tenderly renewed I awoke to find a whiteness inside Everything did shine, slyly, from each body Halos from within, diamonds the year in As we crossed to where the virgin mary Moves over the fields Here and there, she kneels Sighing sweet relief upon the prairie Everything was new Every sock and shoe My face and your face tenderly renewed As the rich winds blow Kiss each flamingo Tussle reckless trains Of the wild white horses And at night the owl Streaks the field and howls She seizes a kitten Stops wind aghast to hear them shudder Everything was new Every sock and shoe My face and your face tenderly renewed Tenderly renew Tenderly renew Tenderly renew Tenderly renew Everything was new Every sock and shoe My face and your face tenderly renewed Tenderly renew Tenderly renew Tenderly renew Tenderly renew...
Hopelessness
Drone Bomb Me Drone bomb me Blow me from the mountains And into the sea Blow me from the side of the mountain Blow my head off Explode my crystal guts Lay my purple on the grass I have a glint in my eye I think I wanna die I wanna die I wanna be The apple of your eye So drone bomb me Blow me from the mountains And into the sea Blow me from the side of the mountain Blow my head off Explode my crystal guts Lay my purple on the grass Lay my purple on the grass Let me be the first I'm not so innocent Let me be the one The one that you choose from above After all, I'm partly to blame So drone bomb me I'm partly to blame Blow me from the mountains And into the sea (I'm partly to blame) copy paste are so lame Blow me from the mountains And into the sea (Blow me from the mountains and into the sea) I'm not so innocent Blow my head off Explode my crystal guts My blood Choose me My blood, my blood Choose me Choose me tonight Choose me Let me be the one The one that you choose tonight Choose me Tonight, tonight 4 degrees It's only four degrees, it's only four degrees It's only four degrees, it's only four degrees It's only four degrees, it's only four degrees It's only four degrees, it's only four degrees I wanna see this world, I wanna see it boil I wanna see this world, I wanna see it boil It's only four degrees, it's only four degrees It's only four degrees, it's only four degrees I wanna hear the dogs crying for water I wanna see the fish go belly-up in the sea And all those lemurs and all those tiny creatures I wanna see them burn, it's only four degrees copy paste is killing the internet And all those rhinos and all those big mammals I wanna see them lying, crying in the fields (I want to see them burn) I wanna see them burn, it's only four degrees I wanna see them burn, it's only four degrees I wanna see them burn, it's only four degrees copy paste are so lame I wanna burn them, I wanna burn them I wanna burn them, I wanna burn them I wanna burn the sky, I wanna burn the breeze I wanna see the animals die in the trees Oh let's go, let's go it's only four degrees Oh let's go, let's go it's only four degrees Oh let's go, let's go it's only four degrees Oh let's go, let's go it's only four degrees I wanna burn them, I wanna burn them I wanna burn them
Watch me Daddy, daddy Daddy, daddy Watch me in my hotel room Watch my outline as I move from city to city Watch me watching pornography Watch me talking to my friends and my family I know you love me, daddy 'Cause you're always watching me I know you love me 'Cause you're always watching me Protecting me from evil Protecting me from terrorism Protecting me from child molesters Protecting me from evil copy paste is killing the internet Watch me, watch me, watch me Watch me, watch me, watch me Watch me in my hotel room Watch my iris as I move from city to city Watch me watching pornography Watch my medical history Daddy, daddy Daddy, daddy I know you love me 'Cause you're always watching me I know you love me 'Cause you're always watching me 'Case I'm involved in evil 'Case I'm involvedin terrorism 'Case I'm involvedin child molesters 'Case I'm involved in evil Daddy, daddy Execution Execution, execution Execution It's an american dream Have no mercy on me Please don't have mercy Don't let them prove I was wrong When we know so bad what's right Don't let them dig up my grave Sometimes a feeling is reason enough It's an american dream Execution, execution Like the Chinese and the Saudis The North Koreans and the Nigerians Like the Chinese (execution) and the Saudis The North Koreans (execution) and the Nigerians It's an american dream It's an american dream It's an american dream It's an american dream It's an american dream Execution It's an american dream It's an american dream... copy paste is killing the internet If Europe takes it away Inject me with something else Something else Inject me with something else Fill me up with something else (Fill me up with something else) And if they try to take our love away Please don't have mercy And if they try to take our love away Like the Chinese and the Saudis The North Koreans and the Nigerians I don't love you anymore I don't love you anymore It's been a while and I am sure You left me for another girl You left me in a broken world You left me lying in the street You left me without body heat I curled into rust My body turned into dust I couldn't get out of the hole I was so lonely, all alone When the phone rang, I wasn't there When my parents called, I just sat and stared I went to sleep Hoped that my life I could cheat Take me off the face of this lonely world Let me turn and turn in your love In your love, in your love It's been a while And I don't love you anymore I don't love you anymore copy paste is killing the internet You walked away from me Out of the blue and you were free I was such a fool I gave more to keep things cool But if you showed up at my door This is what I'd implore I don't love you I don't love you anymore You left me, left me in a cage My only defense was rage I don't love you anymore I don't love you anymore If you showed up, if you showed up at my door If you showed up, if you showed up at my door If you showed up, if you showed up at my door If you showed up, if you showed up at my door Obama When you were elected The world cried for joy We thought we had empowered The truth telling envoy Now the news is you are spying Executing without trial Betraying virtues Scarring closed the sky copy paste is killing the internet Punishing the whistle blowers Those who tell the truth Do you recognize the yellow Staring back, back at you Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama All the hope drained from your face Like children we believed All the hope drained from your face Obama Obama Violent Men Where you once poured from me There you aborted me Where you once poured from me There you aborted me copy paste is killing the internet Never again Give birth to violent men We will never, never again Give birth to violent men Never again Give birth to violent men We will never, never again Give birth to violent men Never again Give birth to violent men We will never, never again Give birth to violent men Never again Give birth to violent men We will never, never again Give birth to violent men
Why did you separate me from the earth Why did you separate me from the earth Oh my God Why did you separate me from the earth My father You drew lines miles high In steel or nuclear The forests of Borneo White water in your mouth I don't want your future I'll never return I'll be born into the past I'm never never coming home Why did you separate me, me from the earth What did you stand to gain Why did you separate me from the earth The rotten bodies threaded gold The pitch of hair and sticky meat The sea life cut with plastic A white cross gilded gold A case of white doves Laying in the boiling snow A sharp knife of concrete The blue line of tuna's throat copy paste is killing the internet I don't want your future I'm never, never coming home I don't want your future I'll be born before you're born Why did you separate me, me from the earth What did you have to gain Why did you separate me from the earth What did you have to gain Why did you separate me from the earth From the earth, from the earth, from the earth What did you have to gain Crisis Crisis If I killed your father With a drone bomb How would you feel Crisis If I killed your mother With a drone bomb How would you feel Father If I killed your children With a drone bomb How would you feel copy paste is killing the internet Crisis If I tortured you brother In Guantanamo I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm sorry Now you're Cutting heads off Innocent people On TV Daughter If I filled up your mass graves And attacked your countries Under false premise I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm sorry, I'm sorry Hopelessness How did I become The mother of this son The face and mind And hands of virulence I, who curled in cave and moss I, who gathered wood for fire And tenderly embraced How did I become a virus Hopelessness I feel the hopelessness Hopelessness I feel the hopelessness I don't care about me I feel the animals and the trees They got nowhere They got nowhere to go I don't care much about you I don't give a sit what happens to you Now we blew it all away We blew it all away Hopelessness I feel the hopelessness Hopelessness, hopelessness Hopelessness, hopelessness How did I become a virus Hopelessness How did I become a virus Hopelessness How did I become a virus Hopelessness How did I become a virus Hopelessness copy paste is killing the internet I've been taking more than I deserve Leaving nothing in reserve Digging till the bank runs dry I've been living a lie How did I become a virus How did I become a virus How did I become a virus How did I become a virus How did I become a virus Hopelessness Hopeless
Marrow In the, in the countryside Under the streams Suck the, suck the marrow out Of her bones Inject, inject, inject me With chemotherapies Suck the, suck the money out Of her face copy paste is killing the internet We are, we are all Americans now Africa, Iceland, Europe and Brazil China, Thailand, India and Great Britain Australia, Borneo and Nigeria We are, we are all Americans now Suck the, suck the oil out Of her face Burn her, burn her burn her hair Boil her skin We are, we are all Americans now
Paradise
In My Dreams In my dreams, you don't love me In my dreams, you come hurt me In my dreams, you don't want Don't want, don't want the best for me Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt (In my dreams) In my dreams, you don't love me In my dreams, you come hurt me In my dreams Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt (In my dreams) In my dreams
Paradise Paradise World without end Hopelessness Sinks into the earth Crying life Kaleidoscope Hopelessness The shifting beauty My mother's love Her gentle touch My father's hand Rests on my throat Hopelessness Myself, I'm here, not here As a point Of consciousness As a point Paradise World without end Hopelessness Sinks into the earth My crying life, my crying life Kaleidoscope (Without escape) Hopelessness Sinks into the earth Staring at myself I feel giant and trapped Seemingly Without escape I'm stuffed inside My eternity I'm here, not here As a point of consciousness Paradise World without end Hopelessness Sinks into the earth My crying life, my crying life Kaleidoscope, kaleidoscope (Dream against me) Hopelessness Hopeless, hopeless, hopeless (Dream against me) Here, myself, here, here Paradise World without end Hopelessness Myself, I'm here, not here As a point of consciousness
Jesus Will Kill You Why you hurt me Why you make me so sick Why you take and take? Even change the laws You deregulate Seek to destroy our homes You're a mean old man You're a mean old man What's your legacy What's your legacy Burning fields in Iraq Burning fields in Nigeria Burning oceans Burning populations Our burning lungs Our burning lungs Our burning lungs Burning people Burning hope Burning planet All for your wealth Your wealth is predicated Upon the poverty of others Others must be poor If you're to be rich What is your dream And when will it end You're a mean old man You're a mean old man What do you want What do you want What do you hope for For Jesus to kill you For Jesus will kill you For Jesus will kill you Jesus will kill you Jesus will kill you Jesus will kill you Your soft seat Your soft face Your protected babies But Jesus will kill you Jesus will kill you Jesus will kill you Jesus will kill you
You Are My Enemy I never felt a part of this world I reject the way that we live I gave birth to my own enemy I gave birth to my own enemy I am grateful for all that I have Oh, Mama has been so good to me Like a thread through a needle's eye I am ready to cast from this world You poured from my body On a river of blood You poured out and into the light I gave birth to my own enemy You are my enemy You are my enemy You are my enemy You are my enemy You are, you are my enemy You are, you are my enemy You are, you are my enemy, my enemy
Ricochet And if this keeps going Gonna curse you, my God I'm gonna hate you, my God For making me this way Making me like this Point of consciousness, my God When I die and gone I find I carry on I'm gonna hate you, my God I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet And if this keeps going I'm gonna curse you, my God I'm gonna hate you, my God I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet Because I'm afraid I'm gonna hate you, my God I'm gonna curse you Curse you, my God I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet I don't wanna ricochet And if this keeps going I don't wanna ricochet I'm gonna curse you, my God I don't wanna ricochet I'm gonna hate you I don't wanna ricochet Ricochet, ricochet Ricochet I'm gonna hate you Ricochet I'm gonna hate you I'm gonna hate you Ricochet I'm gonna hate you But I don't want to, I don't want to I'm gonna hate you Ricochet I'm gonna hate you I don't want to, I don't want I'm gonna hate you, my God And if this keeps going I'm gonna curse you, my God I'm gonna hate you, my God But I don't want to I'm gonna curse you I'm gonna curse you, my God
She Doesn't Mourn Her Loss She doesn't mourn her loss She just loses She doesn't mourn her changes She just changes She fed me all those years And now she's dry as her tears And I'm asking "Who will remember Who will remember Who will remember her If not her children" She doesn't mourn her loss She just loses She doesn't mourn her changes She just changes She fed me all those years And now she's dry as her tears And I'm asking "Who will remember Who will remember Who will remember her If not her children" Nola Ngalangka Taylor : We are wondering "What is happening to the world" Everything is change, changing each day You woke up in the morning and wondered “Is it going to get better or getting worse" Everybody is wondering, young and old Everything is going upside down How are we gonna stop And work on it, and work together And make the world a better place to live For all of us
I Never Stopped Loving You (Bonus Track) The world's face Like a ghost, haunts the seasons I wait in the forever for you I wait Like a sealion Supported and gently kissed by the water And the hair, fine Roots that entwine me Put their faith to the ocean floor Aching, always reaching Life of devotion Moving ever closer to the light How I grow this way Towards a single dream To be kissed by the Sun How I grow this way For a single dream And I never, and I never And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never (Hair, fine, entwine me) And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never (I'm aching, always reaching) And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never (Hair, fine, entwine me) And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never And I never stopped loving you And I never, and I never And I never stopped loving you
MY BACK WAS A BRIDGE FOR YOU TO CROSS It Must Change It must change It must change It must change It must change The way you talk to me It must change The things you do to me The way you leave me The seeds you give to me It must change It must change The death inside you That you pass into me The truth is that I always Thought you were beautiful In your own way You know how they always said That light was the opposite of darkness It's just fire in darkness That's why this is so sad That's why this is so sad I'm creating life That's why this is so sad That's why this is so sad So those opposites, they don't exist So sad It's just an idea that someone told you So sad And that's why this is so sad It must change Must change It must changе It must change That city in your head Collapsing walls and lеad It must change The fire is cleaning The oil from the stones Your god is failing you Things must change Giving you hell The truth is that our love Will ricochet through eternity We're not getting out of here That's why this is so sad No one's getting out of here That's why this is so sad This is our world That's why this is so sad That's why this is so sad It's so sad So sad It's just going to be alone in a place for us So sad (This was the place) So sad So sad
Go Ahead You are determined to take me down I won't stop you I won't stop you Go ahead and burn it down Go ahead, kill your friends You are an addict Go ahead, hate yourself I can't stop you I can't stop you
Sliver Of Ice Now that I'm almost gone The sliver of ice on my tongue In the day's night It tastes so good, it felt so right For the first time in my life The cold ice on my tongue Makes its way towards oblivion How sweet the vista, the portal view On my way to black and blue On my way to black and blue How sweet the vista, the portal view I couldn't belive it 'til tonight This whole place made of light I made myself a home Don't know what's wrong Don't know what's right I belong here as animals might And the taste of water on my tongue It was cool, it was good I never knew it before And I love you so much more I love you so much more I never knew it before I love you so much more I love you so much more I never knew it before I love you so much more I love you so much more I never knew it before I love you so much more I love you so much more I never knew it before And the taste of water on my tongue On my way towards oblivion The taste of water on my tongue On my way towards oblivion
Can't I miss you, my darling I miss you, friend You are dead and oh so far away While I am here, stranded among the living Like so many rotten teeth I don't like this place Can't be long without seeing your face Want you now, here, beside me I don't like it Can't endure it I don't want it Come back home, my darling Come back home, friend Sorry for the things that I've done I can't stop this, darling, it keeps being real I don't want you to be dead I can't stand around with these rotten teeth Can't stand around Talking shit with these, all these rotten teeth Can't stand around Talking shit with all these rotten teeth I don't like this place Can't be long without seeing your face Want you here, now, beside me Can't endure this misery I don't like, I don't like this place Can't be long without seeing your face Want you here, now, beside me I don't care, I just don't care how Can't undo it Can't reverse it I can't stop it I just can't I can't, I can't, I can't I can't, I can't, I can't I can't, I can't, I can't I can't do it I won't do it I won't do it I won't accept it I can't accept it I won't accept it I can't stop it Can't undo it Can't reverse it I won't have it I can't stop it Can't undo it Can't reverse it I won't have it You're gone You're gone You're gone Won't, won't, won't, won't I won't have it I won't have it I don't want you to be dead I don't want you to be dead I don't want you to be dead I don't want you to be dead I won't have it I won't have it Can't reverse it I won't have it Can't undo it Can't reverse it I won't have it I won't have it Scapegoat You're so kill-able Just so kill-able It's not personal It's just the way you were born And in this society A scapegoat is all I can be You're so kill-able I can say just what I want I can use you like a toilet I can punch you Take all of my hate Into your body I can punch you Take all of my hate Into your body Put here for me to loathe Like an apple hanging on a tree All I have to do is take it All I have to do is want it You're so kill-able Disappear-able This one we need not protect This one's a freebie for our guns Take this one to a place You'd better have your way Take all of my hate Into your body Take all of my hate Into your flesh and body It doesn't matter who you are Or where you come from It doesn't matter what you've got to give Or why you want to live You're my scapegoat It's not personal It's not personal You're my scapegoat It's not personal It's My Fault I didn't do it I didn't do it But I know that I did something wrong I didn't ask it I didn't plan it But I feel the ache in my heels when I walk It's my fault It's my fault It's my fault The way I broke the Earth It's my fault It's my fault It's my fault The way I broke the Earth I ache here I take here My mouth to the stone Feed me, I grieve I invite you I spite you My mouth to the stone Feed me, I groan It's my fault It's my fault It's my fault The way I broke the Earth It's my fault It's my fault It's my fault The way I broke the Earth Water dies I love lies Rest Rest like the soul of a diamond Rest like a woman in a field of wheat Rest and she'll come home to you She'll come home to you Rest like the soft light of Mercury Rest like your hunger is the victory It's a longing laughing day It's a longing laughing day I wait for you to come home Playing deep within your eyes Sleeping deep, it feels so real Feels so real Now all my life I wait for you I wait for you to come on home For to go to sleep Sleep inside your eyes Like a fire of tenderness Like the West waits for the North Like my guilt waits for reprieve Like my guilt waits for reprieve Rest like a stone waits for the sun Waiting at the bottom of the ocean Like a jewel waits for the sand Like a jewel waits for the sand Music for the children We can't teach you how to crawl Demon dancing's all I know Demon dancing's all I know Demon dancing's all I know Rest your soul Rest your soul Rest your soul Rest your soul Rest like the enemy of all that breathes Rest like the enemy of all that sees In the poison ocean blue She'll come home to you She'll come home She'll come home She'll come home She'll come home She'll come home (Rest your soul) She'll come home (Rest your soul) She'll come home (Rest your soul) Rest your soul She'll come, come home She'll come home She'll come home She'll come home She'll come home She'll come home There Wasn't Enough There wasn't enough There wasn't enough for you Move forward in, into grey I'm not enough I'm not enough for you I'm not enough Hungry hearts for hungry hands Grab the Earth Take Her life Chain Her life Can you stand Within, as in You stand alone As I stand alone Can you love me so There wasn't enough for you There wasn't enough for you Move forward into grey I'm not enough for you I'm not enough Hungry hearts, hungry hands Turn the Earth Take Her life Can you stand within Within each stance As I stand alone Will you love me so An offering like this Won't fill your soul There wasn't enough for you There wasn't enough Move forward into grey I'm not enough for you I'm not enough Move forward into grey There wasn't enough for you There wasn't enough Move forward into grey Move forward into grey There wasn't enough There wasn't enough for you Move forward into grey
Why Am I Alive Now Why am I alive now I don't want to be witness Seeing all of this duress Aching of our world Why am I alive now Why am I alive I don't want to feel this Aching color of our world Why am I alive now Watching all this going down All the animals around Watching Nature swoon and sigh Watching all the water dry Watch the sky fall to the Earth Birds and insects looking for For a place to hide Why am I alive To watch this duress Why am I seeing this stress Hide me from my disease Why am I alive now Seems there's nothing left hold Except keep trying to accept Hour after lonely hour Collecting my mind How did I arrive here I don't know much of anything (I don't know) Except that you will take my life I don't know why I don't know why I don't want to see your face Meeting me when it's too late Many people falling Many people sighing Once everything was a part of me How did I come to be Now everything's gone to the floor And all I ever want is more Feel the trees begin to leave Smoke swallow each mountain side A rail of tears leads to the sea No more footsteps in the sand All our memories are sinking Into un-living I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know Why am I alive here I don't know much of anything I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know why I'm alive now I don't know why I'm alive now I don't know why I'm alive now I don't know I don't know why I'm alive now
You Be Free I danced by violent times It was hard to live, live It was my It was my time, time to give, give, give Done my work My back was broke My back was a bridge for you to cross Then I wished in the aftermath That the Earth would take my life Like She took the lives of my mother And my sisters You, you be free You be free for me For me You Be free for me
Non albums tracks
Afraid
( Nico Cover / Live ) Cease to know or to tell Or to feel or to be your own Cease to know or to tell Or to feel or to be your own Have someone else's will as your own Have someone else's will as your own You are beautiful and you are alone You are beautiful and you are alone Often the ardorless and plain Reward your grace Often the ardorless and plain Reward your grace Confuse your hunger capture the fake Confuse your hunger capture the fake Banish the faceless reward your grace Banish the faceless reward your grace Cease to know or to tell Or to feel or to be your own Cease to know or to tell Or to feel or to be your own
All is loneliness
( Moondog / Live)
All is loneliness Loneliness here for me Loneliness here for me Loneliness Loneliness here for me Loneliness here for me Loneliness Oh Loneliness here for me Loneliness here for me Loneliness Oh Loneliness here for me Loneliness here for me Loneliness...
As Tears Go By ( Live cover / m. jagger/k. richards ) It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play Smiling faces I can see But it's not for me I sit and watch As tears go by My riches can't buy everything I want to hear the children sing All I hear is the sound Of rain falling on the ground I sit and watch As tears go by It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play Doin'things I used to do They think are new I sit and watch As tears go by
Beautiful Boyz
( Cocorosie - Noah's Ark LP )
Antony : Those, those beautiful boys Those, those beautiful boys Cocorosie : Born illegitimately To a whore, most likely He became an orphan Oh what a lovely orphan he was Sent to the reformatory Ten years old, was his first glory Got caught stealing from a nun Now his love story had begun Thirty years he spent wandering A devil's child with dove wings He went to prison In every country he set foot in Oh how he loved prison How awfully lovely was prison Antony : All those beautiful boys Pimps and queens and criminal queers All those beautiful boys Tattoos of ships and tattoos of tears Cocorosie : His greatest love was executed The pure romance was undisputed Angelic hoodlums and holy ones Angelic hoodlums and holy ones Antony : All those beautiful boys Pimps and queens and criminal queers All those beautiful boys Tattoos of ships and tattoos of tears All those beautiful boys Pimps and queens and criminal queers All those beautiful boys Tattoos of ships and tattoos of tears All those beautiful boys Beautiful boys... All those beautiful boys Beautiful boys... Those beautiful boys...
*** Thanx a lot to Joanne for this one ***
Be my husband
( Nina Simone / Live )
Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife If you want me to I'll cook and sew If you want me to I'll cook and sew If you want me to I'll cook and sew Outside you there is no place to go Please don't treat me so doggone mean Please don't treat me so doggone mean Please don't treat me so doggone mean You're the meanest man I ever seen Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Stick to the promise man, that you made me Stick to the promise man, that you made me Stick to the promise man, that you made me That you'll stay away from Rosalie Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Oh daddy now now love me good Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife Be my husband and I'll be your wife
Black Peter (Grateful Dead cover / Anohni & yMusic / Day Of The Dead LP) All of my friends came to see me last night I was laying in my bed crying She said, "The tragedy of your life Is that you don't enjoy living" Just then the wind Came calling at my door I was swept into shadow Don't know how to extricate me From the only world that I know Fever rolls up to one hundred and five Rolls on up then roll back down again One more day I might find myself Grateful to be alive See how everything leads up to this day It's just like any other day that's ever been Sun coming up and then sun's going down Shine through my window And my friends, they come around Come around, come around People, they know And people, they care I don't know how to live Take a look at poor Peter He's lying in pain Let's try to set her free Her free, her free
Blind ( Hercules & love affair LP ) As a child I knew That the stars could only get brighter And we would get closer Get closer As a child I knew That the stars could only get brighter That we could get closer Leaving this darkness behind Now that I'm older The stars should lie upon my face When I found myself alone Find myself alone Now that I'm older The stars should lie upon my face But when I find myself alone I feel like I am blind Feel it Feel it Feel it Feel it Like I am blind I wish the stars could shine now For they are closer, they are near But they will not present my present They will not present my present I wish the light could shine now For it is closer, it is near But it will not present my present And it makes my past and future painfully clear To hear you now To see you now I can look outside myself I must examine my breath And look inside To see you now To hear you now I can look outside myself I must examine my breath And look inside Because I feel blind Because I feel blind I feel it I feel it I feel it I feel it Like I am blind The movie will And feel it Oh I feel it Oh feel it...
Breaking (Anohni & The Johnsons) I dream a white Doe in the hills I dream a willow Blowing still I watch as it's Swept away I take and take A little More and then I see That forest fall And my garden Was swept away That love, it was Swept away It's really something to be Breaking This time, my friends It's different, this time It never happened before It's really something to be Breaking It's really something to be Breaking It's really something to be Breaking I dream a white Doe in the hills I feel a willow Blowing still I watch as it's Swept away
Candy says ( Live / Lou Reed Cover )
Candy says I've come to hate my body And all that it requires In this world Candy says I'd like to know completely What others so discretely Talk about I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly Over my shoulder I'm gonna watch them pass me by Maybe when I'm older What do you think I'd see If I could walk away from me Candy says I hate the quiet places That cause the smallest taste Of what will be Candy says I hate the big decisions That cause endless revisions In my mind I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly Over my shoulder I'm gonna watch them pass me by Maybe when I'm older What do you think I'd see If I could walk away from me
Child Of God I know a man who curses his brother I know a man who lives for no other Always chasing after money Thinks a poor man is funny It's hard, it's hard to believe he's a child of God I know a woman who steals from her mother That same woman she gets drunk from one day to another Kicks her kids out in the street There's another man under their father's sheets I find it hard, I find it hard, I find it hard It's hard to believe she's a child of God I know some people who go to church on sunday These same people, they wear a sheet on monday Talk about justice being free They're watching lynchings so easily I find it hard, I find it hard, I find it hard It's hard to believe these are children of God I find it hard to believe right now These people call themselves children of God
*** Thanx a lot to Jared for this one ***
Crackagen
( Another World EP ) Poor me Little rivers from my hands Pool at the bottom of the stairs My face Oh the cities in my eyes Doves in the sky Oh the crackagen The rain water came from father's eyes He was made of stone Glorious Now watch as the curtain came down And wet the hungry rabbits Flooding the land My heart Oh the twist of cruel cotton To bring me free Dry eyes By the sun the waters rise Dirt will crack again Dirt will crack again
Del suo veloce volo ( With Franco Battiato from the album Fleurs 2 ) E chiss'dove sarai amico Ripensandoti ti rivedo in me La visione che avevi dell'amore La tua ironia, e chiss'dove sarai Spesso da ragazzi passavamo insieme Sere inutili e fu in un giorno di Festa per gioco lo so, io lo so Lessi nella tua mano, vidi sulla mano La tua fine... E cos'oggi, dalla mia memoria, Scelgo il meglio della vita E del suo veloce volo Che finisce come, sempre accade, Troppo presto Qualcosa un po'di te Mi 'rimasto dentro Indimenticabile per gioco Lo so io lo so Lessi nella tua mano, Vidi sulla mano La tua fine...
Dirt will crack again
( Live )
For me Little rivers from my hands Pool at the bottom of the stairs My face Oh, the cities in my eyes Doves in the sky Oh, the crack again The rainwater Came from father's eyes He was made of stone Glorious Watch as the curtain came down And wet the hungry rabbits Flooding the land My heart Oh, the twist of cruel cold turn To wring me free Dry eyes by the subtle waters' rise Dirt will crack again Dirt will crack again
*** Thanx a lot to Ed for this one ***
Dream About Who You Are ( Live, Rathaus Jazzfest, Wien. 8th July 2005 ) Dream about who you are Dream about who you want to be Hold on to who you are Hold on to who you want to be Shake it up for you are Shake it up for who you want to be
*** Thanx a lot to Salvatore for this one ***
Easy ( Hercules & love affair LP ) We all share the light It is so freely ours I pray my friend Sun comes down easy Sun comes down easy I am not a fisherman But I do know the sea I say to him Waves come down easy Waves come down easy Waves come down easy Waves come down easy The clouds that hang above They nourish, they feed I pray my friend Rain comes down easy Rain comes down easy There is a rhythm She plays her drums her songs This night will come This day will end We must go easy We must go easy We must go easy We must go easy Walk, walk slowly Don't run There is nowhere to get to Walk, walk slowly No ??? Stay with your family Walk, walk slowly Don't run There is nowhere to get to Walk, walk slowly No ??? Stay with your family Walk, walk slowly Don't run There is nowhere to get to Walk, walk slowly No ??? Stay with your family Walk, walk slowly Don't run There is nowhere to get to Walk, walk slowly No ??? Stay with your family This day she gives us It is a gift Honor your family This day she gives us It is a gift Honor your family This day she gives us It is a gift Honor your family
Find the rhythm of your love
I live my life on the line between darkness And borderlined angels hold me and whisper my self loathing Great force of everlast rumbles like churning mountains Behind the gores of mother's eye Behind the gores of mother's eye Behind the gores of mother's eye Now my ocean's, my inner lake's, lost in too much water Close my eyes to see I'm blinded by the salt more And i'm unable, lost my body, whispers from my past Cobra opens up a storm looks the two-bit in the eye What mother, what mother, what mother am I? Kiss of a child in a bonfire Kiss of a maggot in a sea of pigs Kiss of a child with a maggot in his voice My love unvailed your kindness, hold me, forever rest Find the rhythm of your love for me Find the rhythm of your love for me Find the rhythm of your love Find the rhythm of your love for me Find the rhythm of your love for me Find the rhythm of your love for me Find the rhythm of your love for me
Fistful of Love
( The Lake EP ) I was lying in my bed last night Staring at a ceiling full of stars When it suddenly hit me I just have to let you know how I feel We live together in a photograph of time I look into your eyes And the seas open up to me I tell you I love you And I always will And I know that you can't tell me And I know that you can't tell me So I'm left to pick up The hints, the little symbols of your devotion So I'm left to pick up The hints, the little symbols of your devotion I feel your fists And I know it's out of love And I feel the whip And I know it's out of love I feel your burning eyes burning holes Straight through my heart It's out of love It's out of love I accept and I collect upon my body The memories of your devotion I accept and I collect upon my body The memories of your devotion I feel your fists And I know it's out of love And I feel the whip And I know it's out of love I feel your burning eyes burning holes Straight through my heart It's out of love It's out of love...
Forest of love ( You are my sister EP )
I'm a girl Five years old God don't take my boy Give him back My brother Murderer or beauty Don't send him to the slaughter house Don't send him into water snakes He needs from the forest The forest of love I will live He can live Maybe we can be there Forest is good Home inside Safest, warmest bed Birds drinking From the stream Hardened smell of grow Trees all alive And will cry Washed by songs entirely Don't send him to the ocean cold Don't send him to the water afraid He needs from the forest The forest of love I'm in the forest of love I'm in there, the forest of love Oh the here and now Oh my brother
Forgiveness ( Elisa feat. Antony ) I'm lost and scared to live this life I thought I'd always be strong This rage this dark side I don't want to feel Lays there, lays there, lays there There on the bottom inside Looking lost like a child But I know that you're mine We only need Forgiveness Our key to the world Forgiveness I'm frightened to deserve Forgiveness All that we need It's forgiveness I am not sure I know It was the love untaught Trapped in your mind So empty with me A silent stone that struck my heart While I looked for a sign, a sign You felt the pain You felt the fear But you chose not to see Made it your destiny Is it time for Forgiveness For we have paid Forgiveness Is our key to the world Forgiveness For the love untaught It's forgiveness I'll be waiting for Oh only you Forgiveness For we have paid Forgiveness Is our key to the world Forgiveness For the love untaught Forgiveness I'll be waiting for
Frankenstein
( Hope there's someone EP / Live )
I am falling into a chasm I am falling with you in my arms No wait, these are your arms Your arms of love That I'm falling into Is this a vision of love When I was a young boy Mama said, 'You better watch out for the fall.' But now that I'm a grown woman and I know I know, I know I can see the cold I can see the cold to the place where he is born Come on baby, let's fall Fall into a chasm With me, fall into love And I hope that the vision will never shatter For as long as I hold on to you These cold arms There's something in these eyes too close for comfort Now that I'm a grown woman And I know, I know, I know I know the call to the place where he is born You can see these arms They are big and strong now baby Well I'll prove to you these arms Hold you tight, it's cold, leave baby Let's go, it's time This is a vision of love And I'm freezing and I'm falling in the cold Let's go, oh my, my, let's go
Going To A Town (Rufus Wainwright feat. Anohni / Folkocracy LP) But I don't know where I'm going Searching for that place It's not inside me I wonder where I'll go Don't we always linger 'Cause we know this ain't had no good I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm going to a place that has already been disgraced I'm gonna see some folks who have already been let down I'm so tired of America I'm gonna make it up for all of The Sunday Times I'm gonna make it up for all of the nursery rhymes They never really seem to want to tell the truth I'm so tired of you, America Making my own way home Ain't gonna be alone I've got a life to lead, America I've got a life to lead Tell me Do you really think you go to hell for having loved Tell me Enough of thinking everything that you've done is good I really need to know After soaking the body of Jesus Christ in blood I'm so tired of America I really need to know I may just never see you again or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America I'm making my own way home Ain't gonna be alone I've got a life to lead, America I'm making my own way home Ain't gonna be alone I've got a life to lead, America Making my own way home Ain't gonna be alone I've got a life to lead, America
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) ( John Lennon cover ) So this is xmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is xmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A very merry xmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And so this is xmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy xmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let's stop all the fight A very merry xmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And so this is xmas And what have we done Another year over A new one just begun And so happy xmas We hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A very merry xmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear War is over, if you want it War is over now Happy xmas
*** Thanx a lot to Sonia for this one ***
Hole in My Soul
( Compilation "Not Alone" ) Mama Mama Mama Mama There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul Father Father Father Father There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul Sister Sister Sister Sister There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul There's a hole in my soul Baby Baby
Hope Mountain
( Another World EP )
Hope Mountain Is the place where The girl first dawned her face For the crowd That was gathered Outside her dark white cave And then scores of Soaring eagles Lift her to the breaking day
Look Look in the water Look who it is It's just Jesus This time she's a girl This time she's a girl How god moved at twilight ( Michael Cashmore "The Snow Abides" feat. Antony ) And God in whose wings I hoped simple flowers Oil spread upon the face Of a wooden moon The loss Unreal, empty The seat the seal White sheets unbloodied Proof of touchless dawn Picked at sunlight Snow, longing, love and stones And slip as your dark eyes Eclipsed me all You smiled, the pool is empty Pale form of joy Without you there's no morning dawn No arise, no rose lies Beyond the smudged sky of your eyes But lilies hide Like snow fading oceans Sealife dazzling with tiny lights As the river is the sea And is no more Whilst clouds drift by While flowers die God I heard them say is love I dreamed your eyes reflect my blood
I Defy
( Joan As Police Woman ft. Antony on Real Life LP, 2006 ) I defy I love your way How could it be different I defy I love your way (well) how could it be different Now I'm kissing the real you Now I'm kissing the real you Will I get through my dark day Can you hear me Can you hear me Ooh oh ooh oh ooh oh ooh oh How could it be different I see the stars around your face They never seem to hurt at all The stars around your face They never seem to hurt at all Now I'm missing the real you Now I'm missing the real you Well, I got through my dark day Did you fear me Did you fear for me Ooh oh ooh oh ooh oh ooh oh How could it be different I don't want to see my baby fall It's the dawn I feel becoming ever after This is my matter, dear I defy I love your way How could it be different I defy, I love your way How could it be different Well I got to know you today And I adore you I adore you Oh now I'm loving you Oh now I'm loving you How could it be different Oh now I'm loving you Oh now I'm loving you How could it be different
Idumea
( With Current 93 ) And am I born to die? And lay this body down? And as my trembling spirits fly Into a world unknown A Land of deeper shade Unpierced by human thought The dreary region of the dead Where all things are forgot Soon as from earth I go What shall become of me? Eternal happiness or woe Must then my fortune be Waked by the trumpet`s sound I from my grave shall rise And see the judge with glory crowned And see the flaming skies
I fell in love with a dead boy
I find you with red tears in your eyes I ask you what is your name You offer no reply Should I call a doctor Before I fear you might be dead But I just lay down beside you And held your hand I fell in love with you Now you're my one, only one 'Cause all my life I've been so blue But in that moment you fulfilled me Now I'll tell all my friends I fell in love with a dead boy Now I'll tell my family I wish you could have met him Now I write letters to Australia Now I throw bottles out to sea I whisper the secret in the ground No one's gonna take you away from me I fell in love with a dead boy Oh, such a beautiful boy I fell in love with a dead boy Oh, such a beautiful boy Oh, such a beautiful boy I'm asking Are you a boy or a girl Are you a boy or are you a girl Are you a boy or are you a girl Are you a boy Are you a girl Are you a boy Are you a girl Are you a boy Are you a girl
*** Thanx a lot to Dexter & Myah for this one ***
If It Be Your Will
( Leonard Cohen Tribute ) If it be your will That I speak no more And my voice be still As it was before I will speak no more I shall abide until I am spoken for If it be your willIf it be your will That a voice be true From the broken hill I will sing to you From this broken hill All your praises they shall ring If it be your will To let me sing From this broken hill All your praises they shall ring If it be your will To let me sing If it be your will If there is a choice Let the rivers fill Let the hills rejoice Let your mercy spill On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your will To make us well And draw us near And bind us tight All your children here In their rags of light In our rags of light All dressed to kill And end this night If it be your will And end this night If it be your will If it be your will If it be your will If it be your will...
Imagine (John Lennon cover / Thank Your For Your Love EP) I imagine there's no Heaven It was easy when I tried No hell below me Above me only sky Imagine all the people Living for today I imagine there's no countries It wasn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join me And the world will live as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one Now I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one
India And On Down To Australia (Laurie Anderson feat. Anohni / Amelia LP) June seventeenth Karachi Black eagles at five hundred feet Hills roll like carpets down to the water's edge Southerly winds, a mist, a sudden sandstorm A sudden sandstorm Asudden sandstorm Far below are factories and jute mills Glaring in the sun June eighteenth Gray skies Gray skies We land at Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta Streets are wide White bulls are walking everywhere Passed the many mouths of the Ganges And the Brahmaputra rivers Of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers The hazy contours of the mountains Waters of Port Darwin, a vivid green Boats below are fishing for pearls Fishing for pearls Bought a knife Shipped the parachutes home today Shouldn't need them anymore No, shouldn't need them Not over the open ocean Where there's no place to land No place to land No place to land
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan cover / Anohni) You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast Yonder stands your orphan with his gun Crying like a fire in the sun Look out all the saints are coming through It's all over now, Baby Blue The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense Take what you've gathered from coincidence The empty-handed painter from your streets Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets This sky, too, is folding under you It's all over now, Baby Blue All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home All your reindeer armies now are going home The lover who just walk out of your door Has taken all her blankets from the floor The carpet, too, is moving under you And it's all over now, Baby Blue Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you Forget the dead you've buried, they will not follow you The vagabond who's rapping at your door Is standing in the clothes that you once wore Strike another match, go start anew, go start anew It's all over now, Baby Blue It's all over now, Baby Blue
I Was Young When I Left Home ( Bob Dylan Cover / With Bryce Dessner on "Dark Was The Night" LP ) I was young when i left home And I been out a-ramblin' round And I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, Lord Lord, to my home And I never wrote a letter to my home It was just the other day I was bringing home my pay When I met an old friend I used to know Said, "Your mother is dead and gone And your sisters all gone wrong And your daddy needs you home right away" Not a shirt on my back Not a penny on my name But I can't go home this way This way, lord Lord, this way And I can't go home this way If you miss the train I'm on Count the days I'm gone You will hear that whistle blow hundred miles Hundred miles, honey baby, Lord, Lord, Lord And you'll hear that whistle blow hundred miles And I'm playin' on a track, ma'd come an' woop me back On them trusses down by Ol' Jim McKay's When I pay the debt I own to the commissary store I will pawn my watch and chain and go home Go home, Lord, Lord, Lord I will pawn my watch and chain and go home Used to tell my ma sometimes When I see them riding blind Gonna make me a home out in the wind In the wind, Lord Lord, in the wind Make me a home out in the wind I don't like it in the wind I go back home again But I can't go home this way This way, Lord Lord, this way And I can go home this way I was young when I left home And I been out rambling round And I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, Lord, Lord, Lord And I never wrote a letter to my home
I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor cover / Anohni) Well, at first I was afraid, I was petrified I didn't think that I could never live without you by my side But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong And I grew stronger and I learned how to get along And then you're back from outer space And I just walked in to find you here, that look upon your face I should have changed that stupid lock I should have asked you for the key If I'd have known for just one minute, you'd be back to bother me Go on now, go, walk out the door Don't turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye Did you think I'd crumble Did you think I'd lay down and die Oh no, not I, I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive I've got all my life to live And I've got all my love to give And I'll survive It took all the strength I had not to fall apart I had to pick up all the pieces of my broken heart And I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself I used to cry but now I hold my head up high You see me somebody new I'm not that foolish little soul that's still in love with you And so you felt like dropping in Just expect me to be free Baby, I'm saving all my love for someone who's loving me
Just one star
( Hope there's someone EP )
I am just one star caught in a shine My friends, my mama loves me, but it's not enough I wanted to be more, more than i could bare I am just one star born of grace and soon to die But if i can just learn how to love then i could live My honey, my little baby, my honey
Knockin' on heaven's door ( Bob Dylan Cover / I'm not there OST ) Mama, take this badge off of me I can't use it anymore. It's gettin' dark, much too dark to see I feel like I'm knocking on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Mama, put my guns in the ground I can't shoot them anymore That long black cloud is comin' down I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Mama, wipe the blood from my face I'm sick and tired of the war Don't know if it's night or if it's the sun rising high Scared of knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover) I took my love, I took it down I climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills 'Til the landslide brought me down Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh mirror in the sky What is love Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older, too Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older, too And I'm getting older, too Oh take my love, take it down
Love Letters ( Ketty Lester Cover / Behold The Lamb Of God Demos / 1995 ) Love letters straight from your heart Keep us so near while apart I'm not alone in the night When I can have all the love you write I memorize every line And I kiss the name that you sign And, darling, then I read again right from the start Love letters straight from your heart
Love Will Come To Be ( Behold The Lamb Of God Demos / 1995 ) When I had nothing left to give is when I started giving When I had no one left to love is when I started loving When I had nothing left to feel is when I started feeling For the first time For the first time Listen, listen, listen to me Love will come to be Ask the stars in heaven
Lowlands Low ( Traditional / Bryan Ferry Feat. Antony ) Our packet is the island lass Low lands lowlands lowlands low There's a laddie howlin' at the main topmast Low lands lowlands lowlands low The old man he's from Barbados Low lands lowlands lowlands low He's got the name of Hammer Toes Low lands lowlands lowlands low He gives is us bread as hard as brass Low lands lowlands lowlands low Our junk's as salt as a bailer's arse Low lands lowlands lowlands low The monkey's raised in a soldier's clothes Low lands lowlands lowlands low Now, where he got 'em from, no one knows Low lands lowlands lowlands low We'll haul 'em high and let 'em dry Low lands lowlands lowlands low We'll trice 'em up into the sky Low lands lowlands lowlands low It's up aloft that yard must go Low lands lowlands lowlands low Up aloft from down below Low lands lowlands lowlands low Lowlands, me boys, and up she goes Low lands lowlands lowlands low Get changed, me boys, for your shore-going clothes Low lands lowlands lowlands low Low lands lowlands lowlands low Low lands lowlands lowlands low Low lands lowlands lowlands low Low lands lowlands lowlands low
Manta Ray (Racing Extinction OST) In the trees Between the leaves All the growing That we did All the loving And separating All the turning To face each other I divide In the sky In the the seams Between the beams All the loving And separating All the turning To face each other copy paste is for losers Without biodiversity I'm nothing It's like I never Existed Without my home With no reflection I cease to exist And my children Are dying now Inside me All I love All I know All I've known I am dying now Inside me My children
My juvenile
( Björk Featuring Antony )
Down the corridor I send warmth, I send warmth Down the staircase I send warmth, I send warmth Thank you for again To get to be able To send warmth, to send warmth Perhaps I set you too free, too fast, too young But the intentions were pure But the intentions were pure My juvenile My juvenile My juvenile I truly say You are my biggest love I clumsily tried to Free you from me One last embrace To tie a sacred ribbon This is an offer to better the last let-go This is an offer to better the last let-go This is an offer to better the last let-go The intentions were pure My juvenile (my juvenile) My juvenile (my juvenile) My juvenile (my juvenile) My juvenile
My Lord, My Love
(Thank You For Your Love EP) The crippled cry, gone astray In the park or on the lawn My lord, my love Take care of those you're dreaming of My sister put it right My mind, lock me down at night My lord, my love Take care of the ones you say you love When we were children in the hay We felt your eyes were upon us My lord, my love Help me to remember My sister put it right My mind, lock me down at night My lord, my love Take care of the ones you say you love My fear is to put it right My mind, don't lock me down at night My lord, my love Take care of the ones you say you love
Mysteries of Love ( Lyrics by David Lynch, Music by Angelo Badalamenti / Live ) Sometimes A wind blows And you and I Float In love And kiss forever In a darkness And the mysteries of love Come clear And dance In light In you In me And show That we Are Love Sometimes A wind blows And you and I Float In love And kiss forever In a darkness And the mysteries of love Come clear And dance In light In you In me And show That we Are Love
Old Whore's Diet ( Duet with Rufus Wainwright ) An old whore's diet Gets me going in the morning Ain't nothing like it Gets me going in the morning To say I love you Gets me going where I want to Oh, gets me going Oh, gets me going in the morning An old whore's diet Gets me going in the morning Ain't nothing like it Gets me going in the morning To say I love you Gets me going where I want to Oh, gets me going Oh, gets me going in the morning Hell, either here or Hell will do Either here or Hell will employ you Suicidal assistance An old whore's diet
One More Try ( My Robot Friend ft. Antony - Dial Zero, 2006 ) I wanna make another start but you never try I let you get inside my heart but you just pass me by I scream and fight just to let you know And every night I dream I'll go But all I ever seem to do is break down and cry If you wanna give it one more try I will always answer when you call I'll never learn to say goodbye At all, at all, at all Every single thing you promise is another lie But I don't ever want to know so I don't ask you why You look the part but you let me down And from the start you just messed around But something inside my heart won't let it die If you wanna give it one more try I will always answer when you call I'll never learn to say goodbye At all, at all, at all If you wanna give it one more try I will always answer when you call I'll never learn to say goodbye At all, at all, at all
*** Thanx a lot to Billy & O for this one ***
Paddy's Gone My wrists hurt My heart's empty Paddy's gone For a long time Loved that man Scared without him Paddy's gone For a long time My wrists hurt My heart's empty Paddy's gone For a long time Loved that man Scared without him Paddy's gone For a long time My wrists hurt My heart's empty Paddy's gone For a long time Loved that man Scared without him Paddy's gone
*** Thanx a lot to Tim & Renata for this one ***
Perfect day
( Lou Reed Cover )
Just a perfect day Drink sangria in the park Then later, when it gets dark We go home Just a perfect day, Feed animals in the zoo Then later, a movie, too And then home Oh it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on Just a perfect day Problems all left alone Weekenders on our own It's such fun Just a perfect day You made me forget myself I thought I was someone else Someone good Oh it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow
Poorest Ear ( You are my sister EP ) Lain all dry My saddest day Hung till Poole, when worn, ran away It came cold, feels so good Treats my soldier for I should And I cry, they laugh My soldier's dead Took all people poor instead And I cry, they laugh My soldier's dead Took off, be born a boy instead Poorest, poorest ear Alone for so many years Slightest chance of falling grace But so long till you'll be found Poorest, poorest ear
Pressing On (Bob Dylan cover / Thank Your For Your Love EP) Well, I'm pressing on Yes, I'm pressing on Well, I'm pressing on Until the higher calling of my Lord Well, I'm pressing on Yes, I'm pressing on Well, I'm pressing on Until the higher calling of my Lord Many try to stop me Shake me up in my mind Say, "Prove to me that He is Lord Show me a sign" What kind of sign they need When it all comes from within When what's lost has been found What's to come has already been Well, I'm pressing on Yes, I'm pressing on Well, I'm pressing on Until the higher calling of my Lord Well, I'm pressing on Yes, I'm pressing on Well, I'm pressing on Until the higher calling of my Lord Shake the dust off of your feet Don't look back Nothing can hold you down Nothing that you lack Temptation's not an easy thing Adam given the devil reign Because he sinned, I got no choice It run in my vein Well, I'm pressing on Yes, I'm pressing on Well, I'm pressing on Until the higher calling of my Lord Well, I'm pressing on Yes, I'm pressing on Well, I'm pressing on Until the higher calling of my Lord Well, I'm pressing on Yes, I'm pressing on I'm pressing on, I'm pressing on, I'm pressing on Well, I'm pressing on Until the higher calling of my Lord
Raise Me Up ( Hercules & love affair LP ) My secret love Keeps me awake at night My secret love of the man My secret fight They took you down Then took your face down Then fucked you over and around You kissed the ground Oh raise me up I forgot to dance your name Oh raise me up I'll never dance again You're the one I waited for your return I slept with rocks I slept with stones Stone was my home Energy Life danced right out of me When my father busted you free He also killed me Oh raise me up To dance upon your head Oh raise me up To dance in the holes of your head Oh raise me up To dance in the cavities of your eyes Oh raise me up To dance in the cavities of your eyes Oh raise me up To dance in the cavities of your eyes You belong, yes you belong You belong, yes you belong You belong, yes you belong...
Shake that devil
( Another World EP ) That dog had his way with me Shake that dog out of the tree That dog had his way with me Shake that dog out of the tree Shake that dog right out of me That dog, that dog That dog had his way with me Shake that dog out of the tree Shake that dog right out of me That dog, that dog That bird came at me with a knife Told me she wanted my life Shake that bird out of the tree So that everyone can see Shake that bird right of me That bird, that bird Shake that bird out of the tree So that everyone can see Shake that bird right out of me That bird, that bird That pig took everything I had That pig made me feel so bad Shake that pig out of the bush Now let's give that pig a push Shake that pig right out of me That pig, that pig Shake that pig out of the bush Now let's give that pig a push Shake that pig right out of me That pig, that pig Shake that devil That dog had his way with me That dog, that dog Shake that dog out of the tree That dog, that dog Shake that dog, shake that dog That dog had his way with me Shake that dog out of the tree That dog had his way with me That dog, that dog That bird came at me with a knife That bird, that bird Told me she wanted my life That bird, that bird Shake that bird, shake that bird Shake that bird out of the tree So that everyone can see Shake that bird right out of me That bird, that bird That pig took everything I had That pig, that pig That pig made me feel so bad That pig, that pig Shake that pig, shake, shake that pig Shake that pig out of the bush Now let's give that pig a push Shake that pig right out of me That pig, that pig Shake that dog, shake it, shake it, shake that dog Shake that dog out of the tree So that everyone can see Shake that dog right out of me That dog, that dog
Sing for me
( Another World EP ) Mama's lying on the rotten ground There under the tree There were the stars in her eyes And Goldfingers in her hair And I climbed over the garden wall Found her swelling in the well Pulled her out onto the grass And laid Curlies to her face To her face, to her face, to her face, to her face My mama's going to be gone soon Saw her fall like a fountain of dust She used to play me around the corner She chased me to my soft, soft bed Soft, soft bed, soft, soft bed, soft, soft bed, soft, soft bed
Soft black stars
( I fell in love with a dead boy EP )
Little children snuggle under soft black stars And if you look into their eyes soft black stars Deliver them from the book and the letter and the word And let them read the silence bathed in soft black stars Let them trace the raindrops under soft black stars Let them follow whispers and scare away the night Let them kiss the featherbreath of soft black stars And let them ride their horses licked by the wind and the snow And tip-toe into twilight where we all one day will go Caressed with tenderness and with no fear at all Their faces shining river gold brushed by soft black stars And angels' wings shall soothe their cares And all the birds shall sing at dawn Blessed and wet with joy You and i will meet one day Under the night sky lit by soft black stars
*** Thanx a lot to Brendan & Wendy for this one ***
So Young ( The Ronettes / Live )
I have a boyfriend, he says i'm his only one We want to get married, but we're so young So young, can't marry him, no They say our is love is just a teenage affection But no one knows our heart direction So young, can't marry no one, no one, no one I, I, I, I'm so young, so young I, I, I'm so young, can't marry no one, no one, no one Gotta go now, cry myself to sleep This lovin baby who chants blessed to keep So young and I can't marry no one, no one, no one No, no, no, no, no one, no one, no one, no
Strange fruit
( Live / Billie Holiday Cover )
Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh Here is fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop Here is a strange and bitter crop Here is a strange and bitter crop
Tears tears tears ( Whose are these 7'Vinyl ) Tears, tears falling in line Tears, tears follow the times Follow the times' trail Through the mountains to my grave Where my mom and dad can see me Tears, tears for the line Tears, tears giving me time Now I must let it go Maybe I could learn to snow When mamma rain started to grow
Tearz For Animals ( Duet with Cocorosie) Do you have love for human-kind Do you have love for human-kind Do you have love for human-kind Poison heart oh I tried to swallow Pistols, night shears, ghost and gallows Oh you fell as you climbed like a staircase Wore me down Wore me down Wore me down Solemn seething my old man Left me breathing black and blue and tan Hide the feeling you'll be feeling When the day turns forever into night Hope for healing if you're willing Do you have love for human-kind (x4) Orphan girl Child sing along Stop the slaughter of our daughters Poison in the water. Heart strings broken Wearily tuned to the moon Bastard widows bourne the wound Nameless, faceless black-eyed soul Slave to sorrow, find your way home Hope for healing if you're willing Hope for healing if you're willing Hope for healing if you're willing Do you have love for human-kind Hope for healing if you're willing Do you have love for human-kind Hope for healing if you're willing
The dull flame of desire
Björk : I love your eyes, my dear Their splendid, sparkling fire Antony : When suddenly you raise them so To cast a swift embracing glance Björk : Like lightning flashing in the sky But there's a charm that is greater still Antony : When my love's eyes are lowered When all is fired by passion's kiss Björk : And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire Antony : And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire Björk : I love your eyes, my dear Their splendid, sparkling fire When suddenly you raise them so To cast a swift embracing glance Like lightning flashing in the sky But there's a charm that is greater still When my love's eyes are lowered When all is fired by passion's kiss And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire Antony : Dull flame Björk : I see the dull flame of desire Antony : I see the dull flame Björk : I see the dull flame Antony : I love your eyes, my dear Their splendid, sparkling fire When suddenly you raise them so To cast a swift embracing glance Like lightning flashing in the sky But there's a charm that is greater still When my love's eyes are lowered When all is fired by passion's kiss And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire Through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire Antony : Dull flame Björk : I see the dull flame of desire Antony : I see the dull flame Björk : I see the dull flame Björk : I love your eyes, my dear Their splendid, sparkling fire Antony : When suddenly you raise them so To cast a swift embracing glance Björk : Like lightning flashing in the sky But there's a charm that is greater still Antony : When my love's eyes are lowered When all is fired by passion's kiss Björk : Through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire Antony : And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire Björk : And through the Downcast lashes I see the Dull flame Of Desire
The great ocean of time ( Song for Prada ) Swim with me my mama when I dive in the ocean of death I will cry if I am not with my family You could be my friend eternally Swim with me my sister when I dive in the great white ocean We must try, try to find a way that we can see See each others faces in the sea Swim with me my sister when I dive in the great white ocean We must try, try to find a way that we can see See each others faces in the sea
*** Thanx a lot to Berten for this one ***
The guests
( Leonard Cohen / Live )
One by one, the guests arrive The guests are coming through The open-hearted many The broken-hearted few No one knows where the night is going No one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love i need you I need you I need you I need you Oh . . . I need you now And those who dance, begin to dance Those who weep begin And "welcome, welcome" cries a voice "let all my guests come in." No one knows where the night is going No one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love i need you I need you I need you I need you Oh . . . I need you now And all go stumbling through that house In lonely secrecy Saying "do reveal yourself" Or "why has thou forsaken me?" No one knows where the night is going No one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love i need you I need you I need you I need you Oh . . . I need you now All at once the torches flare The inner door flies open One by one they enter there In every style of passion No one knows where the night is going No one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love i need you I need you I need you I need you Oh . . . I need you now And here they take their sweet repast While house and grounds dissolve And one by one the guests are cast Beyond the garden wall No one knows where the night is going No one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love i need you I need you I need you I need you Oh . . . I need you now Those who dance, begin to dance Those who weep begin And those who earnestly are lost Are lost and lost again No one knows where the night is going No one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love i need you I need you I need you I need you Oh . . . I need you now One by the guests arrive The guests are coming through The broken-hearted many The open-hearted few No one knows where the night is going No one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love i need you I need you I need you I need you Oh . . . I need you now
The Horror Has Gone ( The Lake EP )
The horror has gone, it's become the darkness The horror has gone, it's become the darkness The horror has gone, the horror has gone The fear in my heart has gone forever after The fear in my heart has gone forever after The fear has gone, fear has gone I killed a fish, but I found my baby I lost my bird and I know it seems crazy But now I feel we were one Now I feel we were one, now I feel we were one The horror has gone, it's become the darkness The horror has gone, it's become the darkness The horror has gone, the horror has gone Horror, the horror, it's gone The horror, the horror is gone The horror is gone
The Lake
( The Lake EP / Edgar Allen Poe ) In youth's spring, it was my lot To haunt of the wide earth a spot To which I could not love the less So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bound And the tall trees that towered around But when the night had thrown her pall Upon that spot as upon all And the wind would pass me by In its stilly melody My infant spirit would awake To the terror of the lone lake My infant spirit would awake To the terror of the lone lake Yet that terror was not fright But a tremulous delight And a feeling undefined Springing from a darkened mind Death was in that poisoned wave And in its gulf a fitting grave For him who thence could solace bring To his dark imagining Whose wildering thought could even make An Eden of that dim lake But when the night had thrown her pall Upon that spot as upon all And the wind would pass me by In its stilly melody My infant spirit would awake To the terror of the lone lake My infant spirit would awake To the terror of the lone lake Springing from a darkened mind So lovely was the loneliness In youth's spring, it was my lot In its stilly melody An Eden of that dim lake An Eden of that dim lake Lone, lone, lonely...
The snow abides ( Michael Cashmore "The Snow Abides" feat. Antony ) Through the towering streets Grey flecked with the sun I am fallen and tumble Endomed in snow glass orbed Alice eyes America is dreaming of a restless autumn Snow abides When I saw you My heart arose Royal black and blue I am not lost Yet little star In the doorway I catch a sign Shuddering still Oh there is too much, there is too much And can I And I cannot, cannot... Snow abides When I saw you My heart arose - ecstatic butterfly Slipping away Waving goodbye Leaving quick silvered fire In pools on your way When I exit and I recall your eyes Leaden depth and dark Hinting at space Oh the richness Too much of everything And unborn uncreate To be unborn, to be unborn To be unborn, to be unborn Like an angel fallen whilst I saw your eyes Leaking lights Follow the clouds drifting like comets Ten twenty years, where will you sleep? You move for the sun lie down in blossom But a body can scarcely hold in And man may not bear The gold form angelic I heard someone whisper As you ran by me Waving goodbye
Time will ( Hercules & love affair LP ) Don't lie to me Don't make it up Don't snake it up Don't snake it up My friend Stay with me Lay with me Be true to me Be true to me my love I cannot ??? I cannot ??? I cannot fall ??? My heart it will not stand a ? I cannot ??? I cannot ??? I cannot fall ??? My heart it will not stand a ? Now I'm young I got nothing to lose I'm gonna follow I'm following my muse You're the older one You're older by now You're one got some You're one got some to prove I cannot ??? Well it's only me now I cannot change you but time will My heart it will not stand still No it will not stand still Oh it's all in me Oh it's all in me now I cannot change you but time will My heart it will not stand still No it will not stand still, no I cannot hold a half a life I cannot be a half a wife I cannot hold a half a life I cannot be a half a wife I cannot hold a half a life I cannot be a half a wife I cannot hold a half a life I cannot be a half a wife...
Virgin Mary Joseph he was a macho man I tried to make him understand Even I am a human being - Not some kind of virginal machine That night we walked in through the door He told me he was cold and tired Then he pushed me to the floor And once again our love expired But I'm not gonna cry I'm gonna bite my tongue and try To dream of immaculate conception Angels in the sky taught me how to fly They sing about immaculate conception No no no no no No no no no no no No no no no no No no no no no no He screamed: You name's Mary, mild and demure From your thighs a baby I'll procure Your name's Mary, mild and demure From your thighs a baby I'll procure Your name's Mary, mild and demure From your thighs a baby I'll procure Your name's Mary, mild and demure From your thighs a baby I'll procure Immaculate conception All I wanna do is fly away from you I just wanna get away from you Now my Joseph was asleep I decided to take flight I called a man with donkey And fled with my baby into the dark night I said my name's Mary, mild and demure From my thighs a baby God's procured I said my name's Mary, mild and demure From my thighs a baby God's procured And I heard him on the horizon: MARY! And I felt him in my parlour: Mary And I swore I saw him in the leaves And I swore I saw him in the leaves
Where is my power ( Epilepsy is dancing EP ) Where is my power Is it in the air around me Is it in my mind Where is that love that surrounds me How can I harness all my goodness And unleash upon the world Where is my power I'll take it in the time allowed me Where is my power Is it in my mind How can I harness all my goodness And unleash it upon the world I'll take it in the time allowed me
Whose are these
( Whose are these 7'Vinyl ) Whose are these They are not mine They must come from some other time Some other place, long ago I watched the water drawn from snow These eyes that wince Not at my face They grasp memories I dare not trace These eyes they cry Songs I don't know And yet their tune so copious flow I stole them from your daughter I stole them from your mother These hands of the lost child Their dreams remain defiled Their dreams remain defiled
Woman (Neneh Cherry cover / Anohni / The Versions LP) You know I've been fortunate You got to be lucky now I was just sitting here Thinking good and bad But I'm the kind of woman That was built to last They tried erasing me They couldn't wipe out my path To save my child, I'd rather go hungry I got all those broken girls inside me And my blood flows through every boy and every man In this god-fearing land that delivered me I cried so many tears, even his eyes can see This is a woman's world This is my world This is a woman's world For this man's girl There's not a woman in this world Not a woman or a girl Who can't deliver love In the face of this man's world I've been born and bred I've cleaned and I've fed And for my healing wits I've been called a witch I've crackled in the fire And called a liar I've died so many times I'm only just coming to life This is a woman's world (it's a woman's world) It's my world (this is my world) This is a woman's world For this man's girl There's no woman in this world Not a woman or your girl Who can't deliver love In the face of a man's world My blood flows through every boy and every man In this god-fearing land that delivered me I cried so many tears, even his eyes can see This is a woman's world This is my world This is a woman's world For this man's girl There's no woman in this world Not a woman or a girl Who could deliver love In the face of this man's world This is a woman's world This is a woman's Woman's, woman's, woman's world This is a woman's world It's ? world It's my world Come on, come on, come on You gotta give it back down to me Give what you've stolen, give what you've stolen Give it back now If you want what's best for you If you want what's best for me If you love me You give it back to me
You Are The Treasure (Thank You For Your Love EP) You are the treasure You are the dream You are the one I've been waiting for You are forever You are my friend You are a river of milk to me You are the treasure You are the dream You are the one I've been waiting for You are forever You are my friend You are a river of milk to me You are the treasure You are the dream You are the one I've been waiting for You are forever You are my friend You are a river of milk to me You are forever You are my friend You are a river of milk to me
You Belong ( Hercules & love affair LP ) The lights they call me Call me to your side The lights they blind me They take my sight Will you restore me Grace my senses again The lights they blind me Soon he descends You belong to him tonight There is nothing I can do You belong to him tonight There is nothing I can do You belong to him tonight There is nothing I can do With words unspoken The truth is revealed Gates fly open You chance to be healed How he adores you Will I be with you my friend The lights they blind me Soon he descends You belong to him tonight There is nothing I can do You belong to him tonight There is nothing I can do
You Stand Above Me You stand above me Promising death I lie alone on my side Bled slippers at my side While eternity cycles wildly inside me You stand above me Promising death Promising death while I lie alone on my side Bled slippers at my side While eternity cycles wildly inside me
Your eyes close ( Michael Cashmore "The Snow Abides" feat. Antony ) Your eyes close to me by fog And I awake and arise As the light in your eyes Whose heavy lids close on me My world, my life They close on me And I am not No longer They open And I spring up their wish Like a field of flowers You close your eyes and I die You close your eyes and I die Whilst others in sleep follow lambs I look at my hands And count the sun making another scar across my sky And I close my eyes