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B i o g r a p h y Influenced by cool jazz,'60s pop and classic film-soundtracks, the trip-hop duo Mono formed around vocalist Siobhan De Maré and producer Martin Virgo, a one-time member of Nellee Hooper's production team which worked on Massive Attack's seminal "Unfinished Sympathy" as well as Björk's Debut. After Virgo hooked up with De Maré in mid-1996, the pair recorded the Life in Mono EP and signed to Mercury by the end of the year. After working on their debut album Formica Blues, Mono gained a comparatively high profile through an appearance on the soundtrack to the American film Great Expectations. Formica Blues was released in America in February 1998, six months after its British appearance. |
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Formica Blues |
**** Thanx to Leslie who corrected my own
interpretation ****
Life in mono
The stranger sang a theme,
From someone else's dream
The leaves began to fall
And no one spoke at all
But I can't seem to recall
When you came along
Ingenue,
Ingenue,
I just don't know what to do
The tree-lined avenue
Begins to fade from view
Drowning past regrets
In tea and cigarettes
But I can't seem to forget
When you came along
Ingenue,
Ingenue,
I just don't know what to do
Ingenue, I just don't know what to do X5

Silicone
So many times,
I've tried to make you understand
You never tried to see behind my smile
If I didn't know you like I do
I'd get you into
The secret in me
Just because I'm good at fooling you
When no one's around
I walk in your shoes
I'm smiling while lying to you
I'm smiling while lying to you
If you only knew
I always try to hide behind a painted smile
So many things the public never seen
If I didn't know you like I do
I'll get you into
The secret in me
Just because I'm good at fooling you
When no one's around
I walk in your shoes
I'm smiling while lying to you
I'm smiling while lying to you
When will you see true
I'm smiling while lying to you
I'm smiling while lying to you
If you only knew
I'm smiling while lying to you
Won't you come (?) to see true
I'm smiling while lying to you
If you only knew
I'm smiling while lying to you
Would you concede my smile
I'm smiling while lying to you
If you only knew
*** Thanx a lot to Frederic
for this one ***

Slimcea girl
[ Coming with me ]
As she walked down the street
The rain began to fall
He called out
But she passed on by
Like she never noticed him at all
Then the words of the song
Remind her of those days
Sees herself in the face of a stranger
Sat in a Station Road Cafe
She remembers the day
When things were going her way
Only memories remain of
The way she used to be
Way she used to be
She stays home every night
And exagerates her past
Now he knows
That slimcea girl
And she lives alone in Prozac Park
All the old photographs
Were never thrown away
She looks through them
For what made her cry
And then she decides live for today
She remembers the day
When things were going her way
Only memories remain of
The way she used to be
Way she used to be
Sample :
Why don't you come to me ?
I'll come with you
The way she used to be
Way she used to be
She'll never go back again
The way she used to be
Way she used to be
She'll never go back again
The outsider
I will never witness your love again
I will never witness your love again
I will never knew the stranger in you
I will never knew the stranger in you
The stranger the stranger the stranger ....
I will not surrender my life for you
I will not surrender my life for you
You only see the sadness in me
I never knew the stranger in you
The stranger the stranger the stranger ....

Disney town
Walls are white
Burning boredom
And her shoes are tight
They're never right
Open shop, nothing left
Because they tied the knot
They lied a lot
He tells her
She feeds him
She hates him more
His teacup
She spits in
He loves her more
Once again
She frys his breakfast
As she counts to ten
Remembers when
Alone at night
The nylon head
Upon his trophy wife
Her talk show life
She throws up
He comes down
They watch TV
They live in
Disney Town
Shes his Barbie
Ah
Ah
He tells her
She feeds him
She hates him more
His teacup
She spits in
He loves her more
She throws up
He comes down
They watch TV
They live in
Disney Town
Shes his Barbie
Ah ...

The blind man
Sample : What are you waiting for X4
Searching for the answers but we've lost our way
No one ever stops to hear what you've got to say
I'm locked inside you, let me out
Trapped in a vision of what there about
Looking for a reason that will never be
I'm not the person that you think you see
There's something wrong here
There's no doubt
You're like a blind man
Can't see our.
If he can't hear he must feel
If he can't feel he must see
If he can't hear he must feel
And if he can't see you feel the need in me
Feel the need in me
Sample : What are you waiting for
Feel the need in me
Walking through a shallow empty world of doubt
I'm in the picture now
But you want me out
There's something strong here
You don't see
You've gone too far now
So empty
If he can't hear he must feel
If he can't feel he must see
If he can't hear he must feel
And if he can't see you feel the need in me
If he can't hear he must feel
If he can't feel he must see
If he can't hear he must feel
And if he can't see you feel the need in me
Feel the need in me
Feel the need in me
Sample : What are you waiting for X4
If he can't hear he must feel
If he can't feel he must see
If he can't hear he must feel
And if he can't see you feel the need in me
Feel the need in me
Sample : What are you waiting for
Feel the need in me
Sample : What are you waiting for X3
High life
You never heard a single word
That I said to you tonight
You don't remember anything at all
You seem to think that makes it right
It's not the way you hurt me
It's not the way you scream and shout
You'd never listen to a word I say
Always try to shut me out
You, lately
You're nothing like the man I used to know
'Cause you just live the
High life all you do is get
High life all you see is the
High life and you never come down
Going around in circles
That never end or ever start
You always run away from everything
You hide behind your past
You always seem so distant
You always seem to be unsure
We used to get through nearly anything
But you don't know me anymore
You, lately
You're nothing like the man I used to know
'Cause you just live the
High life all you do is get
High life all you see is the
High life and you never come down
Down
You never come down
Down
You never come down
Down
You never come down
You, lately
You're nothing like the man I used to know
'Cause you just live the
High life all you do is get
High life all you see is the
High life and you never come down
High life all you do is get
High life and this is the worst trip
You've ever been on
Playboys
I survived despite you
I survived despite you
'Cause I lived in you
'Cause I lived in you
I survived despite you
( Repeat 'til the end )

Penguin Freud
No direction, need protection,
All the futures pass with me
Feel rejection, isolation
Still in silence
Want to be, lone in me
Beauty stupid
Nothing but vanity
Can't you see
Feel deception
Lost direction
Like never before
Like never before
I still see myself in you now
Like a lifetime lived before
So indifferent
No commitment
Always hiding safe in me
Close my eyes tight
Just to feel right
But the words mean nothing to me
Beauty stupid,
Nothing but vanity
Can't you see
Feel deception
Lost direction
Like never before
Like never before
I still see myself in you now
Like a lifetime lived before
Lost in your own world
Trying to see through mine,
But I'm just fine
Lost direction
Feel deception
Like never before
Like never before
I still see myself in you now
Like a lifetime lived before
( Psycho Ost - 1998 Version)
Into me
I got this sense that you can see
Into me
I feel your eyes following me
Into me
I feel you cruise over in me
Into me
I know you know the best in me
There's something strange in you
Into me
Just like the voice she speaks
Come to me
You just take the best in me
Can't you see I'm no good without you
But there's something in your smile
That makes me wanna doubt you
There's nothing left and I can't be with you
I'm in your world and there's nothing I can do
There's something strange in you
Into me (echoing)
I got this sense that you can see
Into me
I got this feeling ohhh…
Into me
Into me
Into me
*** Thanx a lot to Angel fot this one ***
