Fur & Gold

Horse and I

Got woken in the night
By a mystic golden light
My head soaked in river water

I had been dressed in a coat of armor
They called a horse out of the woodland
"Take her there, through the desert shores"

They sang to me
"This is yours to wear
You're the chosen one
There's no turning back now"

The smell of redwood giants
A banquet for the shadows
Horse and I
We're dancers in the dark

Came upon the headdress
It was gilded, dark and golden
The children sang
I was so afraid
I took it to my head and prayed

They sang to me
"This is yours to wear
You're the chosen one
There's no turning back."

They sang to me
"This is yours to wear
You're the chosen one
There's no turning back."

There is no turning back
There is no turn
There is no turning back
There is no turn
There is no turning back
There is no turn

Trophy

The trophy that I made for us in fur and gold
Got into the wrong pair of hands and truth was sold
They bought it for oh so much less than it was worth
And every man that touched it found a heaven on earth

Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

The queens and the court jesters clapped, adored
Their hearts swelled into overdrive and mercy soared
Mercy this and mercy that, let justice prevail
But I just want my trophy back, it's not for sale

Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

And when I got my trophy back it took some time
To polish it to gold from black and shoot the lion
And when I put it back inside I locked the door
A trophy of mercy is a trophy no more

Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

Tahiti

Community saw the best in me
Exchanging the common heart for the salt in the sea
Children of the sun on a highway of hope
The beauty of coming together
In sorrow

Tahiti we don't got no name
Tahiti we don't got no home
Tahiti we don't got no money
Tahiti we don't got no
Honey

But we do the dishes, we make the bread
We are powdered ashes in the light of the beauty
He said

Wear those dark glasses to help us see
Hot tears rolling down and our arms are knitted

Creatures of the night on a highway of hope
And the beauty that we'll leave each other
Tomorrow

Tahiti we don't got no name
Tahiti we don't got no home
Tahiti we don't got no money
Tahiti we don't got no
Honey

What's A Girl To Do

We walked arm in arm
But I didn't feel his touch
The desire I'd first tried to hide
That tingling inside was gone

And when he asked me
“Do you still love me”
I had to look away
I didn't want to tell him
That my heart grows colder with each day

When you've loved so long
That the thrill is gone
And your kisses at night
Are replaced with tears

And when your dreams are on
A train to train-wreck town
Then I ask you now
What's a girl to do

He said he'd take me away
That we'd work things out
And I didn't want to tell him
But it was then I had to say

Over the times we've shared
It's all blackened out
And my bat lightning heart
Wants to fly away

When you've loved so long
That the thrill is gone
And your kisses at night
Are replaced with tears

And when your dreams are on
A train to train-wreck town
Then I ask you now
What's a girl to do

What's a girl to do
What's a girl to do
What's a girl to do

Sad Eyes

I don't like the things you don't say
Leaving it for such a long long time
Why do you show me those sad sad eyes
Each time you decide to pass on by

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

Autumn's hue in those sad eyes
Makes me love and love them more
I'll have a bath, I'll make the dinner
And then I'll go wait for a long long time
But still you've not passed my door

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

I can tell that you're lonely
But it seems now
There's nothing you want me to do
So I won't try to take the sadness
From those eyes that I love
Leave it open for someone else to

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes baby it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the night

Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes baby it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the night

Sad eyes, sad eyes, sad eyes...

Wizard

Doing the mess around
Push me down into the ground
Taste the hands that drink my body

Fight me in the dark
Wrestle your bones over mine
Into our moonless march come the wizard
Come, the wizard comes
The wizard comes
The wizard comes
The wizard comes

Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader
Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader

Trembling midnight lands
I travel with the wizard
Drink his blood and he's our leader

Breath songs in my head
Slow arrow flies &'burning
And the trouble we possess
While the sunshine goes on sleeping
The sunshine

Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader
Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader...

Prescilla

There's a girl that wants to stop
Been thinking about having a couple of kids
Comb a brush around their heads in the morning
To be needed, simply and with meaning

Her name is Karen
Been on the road for so long
She wants to live in a place that has a number and a name
Find love as an anchor before the courage is gone

She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, I tell you

She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, I tell you

To live life outside of the whirl
To break the cross that bears her name
She's not your queen anymore, queen of the highway
Needs something better than running away

She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, I tell you

She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, I tell you

Gone away
Queen of the Highway
Gone away
Highway
Queen of the Highway
Gone away

Bat's Mouth

The caves of our mouths
Are forest darkness and the air
In between is overflowing and the rushing
Wolverine flies past, his shiny shiny teeth
And she is kind and he is free
Full of knowing

She is sure
She is sure

The caves of our mouths
Are bear's bellies and the air
In between is spewing
Comets and the dancing
Centaur queen flies past
Her tiny tiny teeth
He is kind, she is free
Wants to show him

She is sure
She is sure
She is sure

Find him in the bat's mouth
He is singing in a bat's mouth
He is shaking and dancing in her bat mouth
Getting tired and sleepy in her bat mouth
And she’s holding him tight in her bat arms
She is wrapping him up in her bat arms
And she's thanking her mother sea
Thank you mother sea for letting him see
The sea in me

She is sure
She is sure
She is sure...

Seal Jubilee

The seals, they cried in jubilee
The sharks, they howled along with me
And birds, they flew into the wind
The whale, he roamed the lonely sea

And I dived into you
I dived into you
On this ocean hue
'Cause I dived into you

The lighthouse dog lifted his brow
The crippled trees bent low to growl
And swans, they wrestled with lifetime's grasp
In hopefullness they nestled the past
Teachers and travellers made their mark
They dined and feasted on whale and shark
And so the ocean lost its depths
And boredom rained as the ocean wept

Birds they raised their young for dead
And ladies used feathery pillows for bed
And black snow came and black snow stayed
And froze the ocean out of love
Out of love

I lay quiet, next to you
Transformed a whole
Transformed anew
No longer diving into
But lying quiet next
To you

Sarah

Adopting Sarah's heart
Was never gonna be easy
With an angel tattoo sinking beneath her belt
Sarah
And the dirty blonde sea-water
Sea-water gushing down
Chewing fingernails in her shit-eating grin
Sarah

They cut out her heart when
She was a little girl
And in the fishing boat she thought
She saw the shadow of God
Sarah
He didn't smile at her and she decided
He never came at all
And when she died, she was going nowhere
Nowhere, nowhere

Sarah, I want to be like you
Sarah
You know sometimes I want to live like you
Sarah
So I know how it feels not to feel

Adopting Sarah's heart
Was never gonna be easy
Changing from black to blonde to black to blonde
Sarah
But on the dirty tarmac of
The tarmac of a melting motorway
She gave me her clothes and told me to take her place, her place

Sarah, I want to be like you
Sarah
You know sometimes I want to live like you
Sarah
So I know how it feels not to feel

Sarah, I want to be like you
Sarah
You know sometimes I want to live like you
Sarah
So I know how it feels not to feel

I saw a light

I saw a light
I saw a light
Coming through the trees
I saw a light
Coming through the trees
Freshly cut lawns
And little children sleepwalking
I saw a light

I saw a light
Shining on a car
And a couple inside
Had committed suicide

Death in your arms
Death in your arms

I saw a light
I saw a light
Coming through the trees
And I packed my things

After I saw the light
I packed my things
The light gave me life
Helped me see more clearly
And the children went to sleep
And the car was towed away
And the leaves were rustling
As the night turned to day

I saw a light
Getting smaller in the distance
And I said goodbye

Two Suns

*** Thanx a lot to Pete for these official lyrics ! ***

Glass

I will rise now
And go about the city
In the street's broadways I seek
Him whom my soul loveth

Went over the sea
What did I find
A thousand crystal towers
A hundred emerald cities
And the hand of the watchman
In the night sky
Points to my beloved
A knight in crystal armour

And I tried to hold him
I tried for the cream
I'll make a suit of colours
To stop the blinding mirrors
Sew a cape of rainbow
Stifle up the beam
With the perfect armour
With the perfect dream

To be made of glass
When two suns are shining
The battle becomes blinding
To be made of glass
But we're light and light and light
And light and light

And with two suns spinning
At two different speeds
Was born a hot white diamond
Burning through the rainbow
Flames fell into orbit
To hold eternally
Two heavenly spirits
That just wouldn't see

To be made of glass
When two suns are shining
The battle becomes blinding
To be made of glass
But we're light and light and light
And light and light

Sleep Alone

You know my darling I can't stand to sleep alone
No sweetheart in the dark to call my own
You’re my own, you’re my own, I can sing it, I can groan
But the darkness is a stranger and I'm lonely, lonely, lonely low

Last night's parties and last night's horrorshow
Smiling and whirling and kissing all I know
Give my soul, give my soul, sing it free across the sea
A lonely spell to conjure you, but conjure hell is all I do

Lonely, lonely, lonely
Cause my mama told me
The dream of love is a two-hearted dream

Lonely, lonely, lonely
Cause my mama told me
The dream of love is a two-hearted dream

They say for every high (high) there must be a low (low, low, low, low)
From every sun ascending a lonesome moon will grow (grow, grow, grow)
Drive my heart, drive my heart, into the fire of a burning heart's desire
A lonely spell so you be seen, do you hear me coming in my blue dream

Lonely, lonely, lonely
Cause my mama told me
The dream of love is a two-hearted dream

Lonely, lonely, lonely
Cause my mama told me
The dream of love is a two-hearted dream

Moon and Moon

Lover when you don't lay with me
I'm a huntress for a husband lost at sea
If I had you here, braid our hair together
I'd be boy and you'd be girl, beautiful

Calling moon and moon
Shoot that big bad hand
It'll track me to your door
Now I won't see you no more

When this wild world is a big bad hand
Pushing me on my back do you understand
When I get home been in the jungle
Where's my bear to lick me clean
Feed my soul milk and honey

Calling moon and moon
Shoot that big bad hand
It'll track me to your door
Now I won't see you no more

I won't see you no more

Daniel

Daniel when I first saw you
I knew that you had a flame in your heart
And under wild blue skies
Marble movie skies
I found a home in your eyes
We would never be apart

And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed

And in a golden-blue car
You took me to
The darkest place she knew
And set fire to my heart

When I run in the dark, Daniel
Into a place that's lost, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our mouths the tears crept
Just kids in the eye of the storm

And as my heart spun round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again
For home again

When I run in the dark, Daniel
Into a place that's lost, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

When I run in the dark, Daniel
Into a place that's lost, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

Peace of mind

Look at this and look at us
We wonder, oh we're wandering
And I don't like to say we're lost
Try my best with leading us

Build a ladder to the sky
(To the sky)
Sit up there and say "oh my!"
(Say oh my!)
Does looking down make me a Queen
(Make a me a Queen)
With all the sorrow that I've seen
(That I've seen)

If I ever get back down
Find a map that takes me back
Through the wounded, through the wars
To a time that came before

To hover-board into the Sun
And bring back when my time is done
A mother for this childless world
And an arrow of light for every boy and girl

And peace of mind
Peace of mind
Peace of mind...

Siren song

Are you my family
Can I stay with you a while
Can I stop off in your bed tonight
I can make you smile

In the morning I’ll make you breakfast
In the evening I’ll warm the bed
And I’ll always be happy to kiss you
Promise I’ll never get sad

Till the sirens come calling, calling
It's driving me evil, evil
Mama was a heartbreaker
Loved you the same way I do
But I've got so much wickedness and sin

My name is Pearl
And I love you the best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart
When the sirens come calling
It won't be long until you're running

Help you dress yourself up fancy
And bathe you when you get sore
I'll be good, I think I could
Be all you would want and more and more

Be proud when you dazzle the wanderers
And glitter your eyes for the town
Tell every last boy that you're my man
I'll try not to let you down

Till the sirens come calling, calling
It's driving me evil, evil
Mama was a heartbreaker
Loved you the same way I do
But I've got so much wickedness and sin

My name is Pearl
And I love you the best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart

When the stars are exploding in your eyes
It won't be long till you're running
No it won't be long till you're running
It won't be long until you're running
It won't be long until you're running
‘Cause I’m evil, 'cause I'm evil

Pearl's dream

There's a place I must go
There's a place I must go
It's not a place I have seen
But I’ll get there in a blue dream

Down the ocean road
Past a sign that says 'Good Love Town'
Into a darkness where the stars do drown
But a star in me needs to be free

And when the battle was done
I was promised my Sun
But with a thousand nights gone
To a new kingdom I run

And when the battle was done
I was promised my Sun
But with a thousand nights gone
To a new kingdom I run

There's a place I must go
There's a place I must go
For my heart is a child
That stumbles lonely for the arms of the wild

Hear the desert sigh
Sing the city's lullaby
The giant iris of the wild blue sky
Is showing me the way

And when the battle was done
I was promised my Sun
But with a thousand nights gone
To a new kingdom I run

And when the battle was done
I was promised my Sun
But with a thousand nights gone
To a new kingdom I run

You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up
Had a big machine riding your shoulders
You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up
Had a big machine riding your shoulders
You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up
Had a big machine riding your shoulders

Good love

In the night time we are found
Misty sorrows swoop unbound
Whisper you mean it, say you'll stay
Hold my heart till brighter days

Now I am searching and I'll do it alone
This Queen of Heart dancing on her throne
But I need sorrow baby, like sorrow is the drug
So will I ever find that place they call "Good Love"

"Good Love"
Passed it last night in a dream

"Good Love"
And my heart caught fire
Went up in flames

I drove past true love once in a dream
Like a house that caught fire, it burned and flamed
Then the magician disappeared as quickly as he came
And with a sound like white magic caught in a black car's blazing trail

The house set fire to my heart
And like an inferno we shone and raged
And I'd swallowed the Sun in your form
And I woke up and you were crying
I woke up and you were saying

"Good Love"
Passed it last night in a dream
Was that "Good Love"
'Cause my heart caught fire
Went up in flames
"Good Love"
Passed it last night in a dream

Was that "Good Love"
'Cause my heart caught fire
Went up in flames

Two Planets

We are strangers in a strange land
Wanderers in a vast and unknowable universe

Show me moonlight on the sunrise
I've seen so many planets dancing
I've seen too many people hiding

Show me sunset and I won't forget
That I am one of two planets dancing
I am one of two planets dancing

Shallow man
Sign your name
On my Sun

The song of Solomon
Died in the battleground
The song of Solomon
Died in love's battleground

I am full
Shattered by this sailing time
For all your suffering by night
Oh warm, but under bright

And life is so much dark and light
When day cannot exist without a night
And you are not separate from me
I am a heart that's full of life

And to be shared on this night
Feel my hands, feel my life
For the sun and the stars
Of my Mother and my sisters

I know where the form is changing
I know that the stars will follow me

Travelling woman

Hang on travelling woman
Don't sacrifice your plan
'Cause it will come back to you
Before you lose it on the man

Never fall in love with potential
‘Cause you can see with your own eyes
All the pretty faces and sorry words
Can take away your pride

Got to listen
To the vision
Some may say a dream
Words for the unseen

Or it can make you tired, tell you lies and make you fall
Make you tired, tell you lies and make you fall
Make you tired, tell you lies and make you fall

Hang on travelling woman
Don't sacrifice your plan
'Cause it will come back to you
Before you lose it on the man

Got to listen
To the vision
Play in the ashes
Of what you once were

Got to listen
To the vision
Play in the ashes
Of what you once were

The big sleep

(feat. Scott Walker)

How can it be the last show
(How can it be)
How can it be the last show
(How can it be)

No more spotlights
Coming down from Heaven
It's a goodbye
It's curtains down time

Not even out of my dress
And already my voice is fading
Goodbye my dears
(Goodbye)
And into the big sleep

Non Albums Tracks

A Forest

(from Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure, 2008)

(Come) closer and see
See into the trees
Follow the girl
While you can
(Come) closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes

I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark
I hear her voice
(And) start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees

Suddenly I stop
But i know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
All alone
The girl was never there
It's always the same
I am running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again and again...
And again.

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!...

*** Thanx a lot to Billy for this one ***

I'm on fire

( Bruce Springsteen Cover / Live cover )

Hey little boy is your mum home
Did she go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Oh oh oh, I'm on fire.

Tell me now baby is she good to you
Can she do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Oh oh oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby
Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
Through the middle of my soul.

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh oh oh, I'm on fire...

Sweet Dreams

(appears on Radio 1's Live Lounge Vol. 3: 40 Unique Covers & Classic Tracks, 2008 | originally by Eurythmics)

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

Hold your head up
Keep your head up
Hold you head up
Keep your head up
Hold your head up, movin' on
Keep your head up, movin' on
Hold your head up, movin' on
Keep your head up, movin' on

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

*** Thanx a lot to Billy for this one ***