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B i o g r a p h y During the early-'90s alternative rock explosion, several female singer/songwriters rose to prominence, but few were as distinctive or as widely praised as Polly Jean Harvey. Over the course of three albums, Harvey established herself as one of the most individual and influential songwriters of the '90s, exploring themes of sex, love, and religion with unnerving honesty, dark humor, and a twisted theatricality. At the outset of her career, she led the trio PJ Harvey, who delivered her stark songs with bruisingly powerful, punkish abandon, as typified by her 1992 debut, Dry. Following the noisy, uncompromising follow-up, Rid of Me, the trio fell apart, and PJ Harvey became the sole property of Polly Harvey. Her next record, 1995's To Bring You My Love, became her mainstream critical breakthrough, confirming her status as one of the cornerstone figures of '90s alternative rock. Harvey was raised on a sheep farm in Yeovil, England, where she was raised by her quarryman father and her mother, who was an artist. As a child, she learned how to play guitar and saxophone, and when she was a teenager, she played in a variety of bands as a sideman. In 1991, she formed PJ Harvey with bassist Steve Vaughn and drummer Robert Ellis, and the trio recorded its debut record for under 5,000 dollars. The band signed with the British indie label Too Pure and released "Dress" that fall. "Dress" became a indie rock sensation, as did its follow-up, "Sheela-Na-Gig," with both singles receiving lavish praise in the U.K. music press. Although Harvey was a reluctant interviewee, she cannily used the press to her advantage, whether it was through her candid interviews or startling, occasionally disturbingly sexy photo sessions, which subverted traditional concepts of female sexuality. PJ Harvey's debut, Dry, was released in spring 1992 to considerable praise; it was distributed in America by Island Records. The trio followed it with an extensive tour, culminating with an appearance at that summer's Reading Festival. Shortly after the tour, Harvey moved to London, where she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown due to the extraordinary pressure and expectation surrounding her second album. The group hired former Big Black frontman Steve Albini (Pixies, Breeders) as the producer of their second album, Rid of Me. Albini imposed his trademark noisy, guitar-heavy sound on the record, which mirrored its harder-edged themes. Rid of Me was a major critical success and expanded Harvey's cult greatly. She supported the album with a tour featuring herself in a fake leopard-skin coat and a feather boa, signaling her developing interest in theatricality. At the end of the year, Harvey released 4-Track Demos, a collection of her original versions of the songs on Rid of Me. Following the Rid of Me tour, Ellis and Vaughn parted ways with Harvey, and she recorded her third album as a solo artist, augmented by producer Flood, bassist Mick Harvey, and guitarists John Parish and Joe Gore. Harvey developed a richer, bluesier sound with the expanded band, and the resulting record, To Bring You My Love, was hailed as a masterpiece by many critics upon its February 1995 release. Thanks to considerable press attention, as well as strong support from MTV and modern rock radio for the single "Down by the Water," To Bring You My Love became a moderate hit, entering the U.S. charts at number 40. Harvey spent all of 1995 touring the album, and spent the following year in relative seclusion. During 1996 she was relatively quiet, only appearing twice on record: once in a duet with Nick Cave on his Murder Ballads album — the pair were reportedly romantically involved — and singing on John Parish's Dance Hall at Louse Point. Is This Desire? followed in 1998. Two years later, Harvey reunited with Ellis and Mick Harvey for Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, which returned to her earlier, more aggressive style and was inspired by her six-month stay in New York City in 1999. The album won the 2001 Mercury Prize, making Harvey the first female winner of that award. After extensive touring in support of the album, Harvey split her time over the next two years working on new material and collaborating with likeminded friends and contemporaries. Appearing on Gordon Gano's Hitting the Ground, Giant Sand's Cover Magazine, and John Parish's How Animals Move, Harvey's most prominent collaboration was with the Queens of the Stone Age side project the Desert Sessions. She performed on more than half of 2003's Desert Sessions, Vol. 9-10, including the single Crawl Home. That summer, she also performed at the V Festival, previewing tracks from her new album, which she said was close to being finished. The album, Uh Huh Her, appeared in summer 2004, coinciding with another string of tour dates, including British and European festival appearances at Glastonbury, T in the Park, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and Spain's La Primavera festival. Stateside, Harvey was scheduled to join the revived Lollapalooza festival for select dates, joining Morrissey and Sonic Youth on the main stage. Upon the cancellation of that festival, however, she mounted a solo tour of the States with select opening acts. |
Just Click HERE To View The Lyrics Of The Non Album Tracks of P.J Harvey.
Oh my
lover
Oh my lover
Don't you know it's alright
You can love her
You can love me at the same time
Much to discover
I know you don't have the time but
Oh my lover
Don't you know it's alright
Oh my sweet thing
Oh my honey thighs
Give me your troubles
I'll keep them with mine
Take at your leisure
Take whatever you can find but
Oh my sweet thing
Don't you know it's alright
It's alright
It's alright
There's no time
So it's alright
What's that colour
Forming around your eyes
Waltz my lover
Tell me that it's all right
Just another
Before you go, go away
Oh my lover
Why don't you just say my name
And it's alright
Say it's alright
There's no time
O
stella
Stella Marie you're my star
Stella Marie you're my star
Stand on ground look up at her
Just hanging in gold stone
Just hanging there face froze
But I think I see her smiling
Think I see her smiling
Think I see her smiling
Think I see her smiling
Go
Go
Go
Go go
Stella Marie you're my star
In your blue blue tavern
You light my lantern
O Stella's large
Pink on her face
It's glowing this place
A place for heroes only
Place for heroes only
Place for heroes only
Place for heroes only
Go
Go
Go
Go go go go
Stella Marie you're my star
I pin you to my chest
Sell you to the rest
I kiss her gown
Send those angels down to woo me now
I think I see her smiling
Think I see her smiling
Think I see her smiling
Think I see her smiling
Go
Go
Go
Go go
Dress
Put on that dress
I'm going out dancing
Starting off red
Clean and sparkling, he'll see me
Music play, make it dreamy for dancing
Must be a way that I can dress to please him
It's hard to walk in the dress, it's not easy
I'm swinging over like a heavy loaded fruit tree
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
It's sad to see
Lonely, all this lonely
Close up my eyes
Dreamy, dreamy music, make it be alright
Music play, make it good for romacing
Must be a way I can dress to please him
Swing and sway, everything will be alright
But it's feeling so damn tight tonight
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
"You pretty thing" my man says
"But I bought you beautiful dresses"
Filthy tight, the dress is filthy
I'm falling flat and my arms are empty
Clear the way, better get it out of this room
A fallen woman in dancing costume
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
If you put it on
Victory
I stumble in and in
You fit me with those angel wings
Send me gold
Set me high
Set it up, I'm in the sky
'Til the storm is gone
(and the storm is gone)
And the temperature's high
(and the temperature's high)
And Delight is dining
(and Delight is dining)
At my table
'Til I think ha ha ha how lucky we are
Angel at my table
God in my car
Get it at sea
Take a ship
I'd christen her "Victory" she'd make it
Vic-to-ry, Vic-to-ry
Come on boys, let's push it hard
You bump down, push your motor car
C'mon boys, you've done us proud
You can sweat, dig, I'll mop it right off your brow
Vic-to-ry, Vic-to-ry
Vic-to-ry, Vic-to-ry
So the storm is gone
(so the storm is gone)
And the temperature's high
(and the temperature's high)
And delight is dining
(and delight is dining)
At my table
'Til the storm is gone
('til the storm is gone)
And the temperature's high
(and the temperature's high)
And delight is dining
(and delight is dining)
At my table
Hey
*** Thanx a lot to Clyde who fixed this one ***
Happy and bleeding
She'd burst
Dropped off
Picked the fruit
Realize
I'm naked
I'm naked too
So cover my body
Dress it fine
Hide my linen and lace
Been sewing ever since
Since time began
More than the hills
More than the trees
More than the mountains, you
More than I can see
In front of me
More than the mountains, you
So fruit flower myself inside out
I'm happy and bleeding for you
Fruit flower myself inside out
I'm tired and I'm bleeding for you
This fruit was bruised
Dropped off and blue
Out of season
Happy I'm bleeding
Long overdue
Too early and it's late too
Too early and it's late too
Mind and body
I wouldn't and I would not do
Fruit flower myself inside out
I'm happy and bleeding for you
Fruit flower myself inside out
I'm tired and I'm bleeding for you
Fig fruit flower myself inside out
for you
( X5 )
{happy and bleeding, happy and...}
Fig fruit flower myself inside out for you
{happy and bleeding, happy and...}
Fig fruit flower myself inside out for you
{happy and bleeding, happy and...}...
Sheela-na-gig
I've been trying to show you over
and over
Look at these my child-bearing hips
Look at these my ruby red ruby lips
Look at these my work strong arms and
You've got to see my bottle full of charm
I lay it all at your feet
You turn around and say back to me
He said
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Just like the first time, said he didn't care
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Heard it before, no more
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Turn the corner, another one there
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Heard it before
He said
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Put money in your idle hole
Put money in your idle hole
Gonna wash that man right out of
my hair
Just like the first time, said he didn't care
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Heard it before, no more
Gonna take my hips to a man who cares
Turn the corner, another one there
Gonna take my hips to a man who cares
Heard it before
He said
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Put money in your idle hole
Put money in your idle hole
He said "wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean"
He said "please take those dirty pillows away from me"
He said "wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean"
He said "please take those dirty pillows away from me"
He said "wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean"
He said "please take those dirty pillows away from me"
He said "wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean"
He said "please take those dirty pillows away from me"
Hair
Samson
The strength
That's in
Your arms
Oh to be
Your stunning
Bride
Samson
Your hair
Glistening
Like sun
Oh would
That it
Were mine
Samson
Your hair
That's in
My hands
I'll keep
It safe
You're mine
You're mine
He said wait
Said wait
"Delilah my babe"
"Delilah my babe"
Said wait
Said wait
"Delilah my babe"
"Delilah my babe"
Said wait
Said wait
"Delilah my babe"
"You lied in my face"
"You cut off my hair"
"You lied in my bed"
Samson
You'll stay
With your 'lilah
I hold you in
My hands
Yeah
Your hairy strength
My man
My man
He said wait
Said wait
"Delilah my babe"
"Delilah my babe"
He said "Wait"
He said "Wait"
"Delilah my babe"
"Delilah my babe"
He said "Wait"
He said "Wait"
"Delilah my babe"
"You lied in my face"
"You cut off my hair"
"You lied in my bed"
Joe
Joe in you, my buddy be
Stay with me when I fall and die
Always thought you'd come rushing in
Clear the shit out of my eye
Joe in you, my buddy be
Lay my enemies out in lines
Come in close now I'll wash your feet
With my hair I'll mop them dry
With my hair I'll mop them dry
Something over there I do not like
There's no use in wondering
Joe you be my buddy please
In this hell and dead-locked time
When I'm trusting that head-ache tree
Cut me down with your silver knife
Cut me down with your silver knife
Something over there I do not like
There's no use in wondering
Plants and rags
Plants and rags
Ease myself into a bodybag
Plants and rags
Ease myself into a bodybag
I dreamt of a man
He fed me fine food
He gave me shiny things
I dreamt of a man
He fed me fine food
He gave me shiny things
White and black
You looking for the sun, boy?
The sun doesn't shine down her
No no no
White and black
You looking for the sun, boy?
The sun doesn't shine down her
In the shadows
House and home
Who thought they could take away that place?
Outside, and they lead us out quietly
Lead us outside, and the lead us out quietly
House and home
Who thought they could take away that place?
Outside, and they lead us out quietly
Lead us outside, and they lead us out quietly
Fountain
Stand under
Fountain
Cool skin,
Washed clean
Wash him from me
Along comes the wind
A big bone shaker
Blows off my clothes
Completely naked
What to do
When everything's
Left you
Out of the blue
It is he
Vision to me
Bearing leaves
Petals green
Covers me
In all my shame
Hand in hand
He's my big man
Stays with me
Some forty days
No words
Then goes away
I cry again
On my hill I wait for wind
And on my hill I wait for wind X5
Water
Water
Walking
Walking on water
Walking
Walking on for years and years and years
Taking it into my head
Living by the right lines
Reading what the very man said
Water
I'm walking
Walking on water
Walking
Walking on
Lying on eleven years
Taking it into my head
Mary, Mary drop me softly
Been reading what your very man said
Lying on eleven years
Taking it into my head
Leave my clothes on the beach
I'm walking down into the sea
Prove it to me
Prove it to me
Prove it to me
Now the water to my ankles
Now the water to my knees
Think of him all waxy wings
Melted down into the sea
Mary, Mary what your man said
Washing it all over my head
Mary, Mary hold on tightly
Over water
Under the sea
Water
Water
I'm walking
Walking on water
I'm walking
Walking on water
Walking
Walking on water
Walking
Walking on water
*** Thanx a lot
to Joe who updated all this album ***
Rid of me
Tie yourself to me
No one else, no
You're not rid of me
You're not rid of me
Night and day I breathe
Hah hah ay hey
You're not rid of me
Yeah you're not rid of me
Yeah you're not rid of me
Yeah you're not rid of me
I beg you my darling
Don't leave me
I'm hurting
Lick my legs I'm on fire
Lick my legs of desire
I'll tie your legs
Keep you against my chest
Oh you're not rid of me
Yeah you're not rid of me
I'll make you lick my injuries
I'm gonna twist your head off, see
Till you say don't you wish you never never met her
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
I beg you my darling
Don't leave me
I'm hurting
I've been lonely
Above everything
Above every day
I'm hurting
Lick my legs I'm on fire
Lick my legs of desire
Lick my legs I'm on fire
Lick my legs of desire
Yeah you're not rid of me
Yeah you're not rid of me
I'll make you lick my injuries
I'm gonna twist your head off, see
Till you say don't you wish you never never met her
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
(Lick my legs I'm on fire)
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
(Lick my legs of desire)
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
(Lick my legs I'm on fire)
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
(Lick my legs of desire)
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
(Lick my legs I'm on fire)
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
(Lick my legs of desire)
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
(Lick my legs I'm on fire)
Don't you don't you wish you never never met her
(Lick my legs of desire)
Lick my legs I'm on fire
Lick my legs of desire
Lick my legs I'm on fire
Lick my legs of desire
Missed
He should not be hid
He should not be here
He's just too big
In a cloud please come down
I'd put stars at your feet
Put Mars at your head
Show yourself to me
And I'd believe
I'd moan and I'd weep
Fall silent at your speak
I'd burst in
Full to the brim
Mary lost her head
And let it bleed
Came crying back to me
My son where's he been
Don't deny it
And don't you hide him
No I've missed him
No I've missed him
No I've missed him
No I've missed him
No words no sign
Mary say I'm not lying
How come he's so big
But good lord he's been hid
Good lord, where you hid
Ah !
No I've missed him
No I've missed him
No I've missed him
No I've missed him
No I've missed him X8
Legs
Oh you're divine
Oh you're divine
Oh Oh Oh did I tell you you're divine
Oh Oh Oh Oh, Oh Oh did I ever when you were alive
Did it hurt when you bled
Did it, oh lover boy, oh fever head
I'll bet you never thought I'd try
Your mouth, my love, was open wide
Singing oh
You were going to be my life
Damn it !
Oh Oh Oh Oh you were going to be my life
Did you sing "Oh happy day"
Sing it
Sing it that time I went away
Got to ease my aching head
Do you know
No other way cut off your legs oh
Hey oh
Did you ever wish me dead
Oh lover boy, oh fever head
No you must, no you must not go away
How will you ever walk again
And I, I might as well be dead
But I could kill you instead...
Rub
'til it bleeds
Speak I'm listening
Baby I'm your sweet thing
Believe what I'm saying
God's truth I'm not lying
I lie steady
Rest your head on me
I'll smooth it nicely
Rub it better 'till it bleeds
And you'll believe me
Caught out again
I'm calling you weak
Getting even
And I, I was joking
Sweet babe let me stroke it
Take, I give in
God's truth I'm not lying
And you'll believe me
I'm calling you weak
And I'll make it better
I'll rub 'till it bleeds
I'll rub it until it
I'll rub it until it, hey!
I'll rub it until it
I'll rub it until it
I'll rub it until it, hey!
I'll rub it until it
I'll rub it until it
I'll rub it until it
Hook
I was blind
I was lame
I was nothing
'Till you came
You said "Babe,
Make you sing
Make you feel
Like some queen"
Said "I'll take you Kathleen
To your home and mine"
Lord, he hooked me
Fish hook and line
And rolled in, barking mad
With a halo of deep black
'Til my love made me gag
Call him Daddy, take my hand
Said "I'll take you Kathleen
To your home and mine"
Good Lord, he hooked me
Fish hook and line
I'm hooked
Oh higher
Oh beautiful
Oh higher
Oh beautiful
Oh higher
I'm lying and I'm lame
Left with nothing, but distain
"Daddy your maid, she can't sing
She can't feel, she's no queen!"
Said "I'll take you Kathleen
To your home and mine"
Lord he hooked me
Fish hook and line
Said "I'll take you Kathleen
To your home and mine"
Good lord he hooked me
Clean out of time
Man-size
sextet
I'm coming up man-sized
Skinned alive
I want to fit
I've got to get
Man-sized
I'm heading on
Handsome
Got my leather boots on
Got my girl and she's a wow
I cast my iron knickers down
Man-size no need to shout
Can you hear can you hear me now
I'm man-sized
Man-sized
I'll measure time
I'll measure height
I'll calculate
My birthright
Good lord I'm big
I'm heading on
Man-sized
Got my leather boots on
Got my girl and she's a wow
I cast my iron knickers down
Man-sized no need to shout
Can you hear can you hear me now
My babe looking cool and neat
I'm pretty sure, good enough to eat
I'm man-sized no need to shout
Let it all let it all hang out
I'm man-size
Man-size X7
Silence my lady head
Get girl out of my head
Douse hair with gasoline
Set it light and set it free
Highway
'61 revisited
( Bob Dylan )
Well, God said to Abraham "Kill me a son"
Abe said "Man, you must be putting me on"
God said "No"
Abe said "What?"
God said "You do what you wanna, but
Next time you see me coming you better run"
Abe said "Where do you want this killing done"
God said "Out on that Highway 61"
Well, Georgia Sam he had bloody nose
Welfare department would give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard "Where can I go"
Howard said "There's only one place I know"
Sam said "Quick man, tell me, I got to run"
Howard just pointed with his gun
And said "That way down on 61"
"Well, Mack the finger" said Louie the king
"I got 40 red white and blue shoestrings
And a thousand telephones that won't ring
You know I can't get rid of these things"
And he said "Now let me think a minute son"
Said "Yes that can be easily done
Just take them down on that 61"
That highway
Highway
Highway
Highway
Highway
Now the fifth daughter on the twelve night
Told first father that things weren't right
"My complexion" she said "is much to white"
He said "Come here and stare up into the light"
And said "Mmmm you're right, let me tell the second mother it's been done"
But the second mother with the seventh son
They were out on that highway 61
Now, the roving gambler was very bored
Trying to create the next world war
And he found a promoter, fell off the floor
And said "I've never engaged in this kind of thing before
But yep I think it can be easily done"
Highway
They just put some bleachers there out in the sun
And have it out on that 61
50Ft Queenie
Hey I'm one big queen
No one can stop me
Red light red green
Sat back, I'm watching
I'm number one
Second to no one
No sweat I'm clean
Nothing can touch me
I'll tell you my name
F U and C K
50ft queenie
Force ten hurricane
Biggest woman
I could have ten sons
Ten gods ten queens
Ten foot and rising
Hey I'm the king of the world
You oughta hear my song
You come on measure me
I'm twenty inches long
Glory glory
Lay it all on me
50ft queenie
50 and rising
You bend over
Cassanova
No sweat I'm clean
Nothing can touch me
Hey I'm the king of the world
You ought to hear my song
You come on measure me
I'm twenty inches long
Hey I'm king of the world
You ought to hear my song
You come on measure me
I'm thirty inches long
Hey I'm king of the world
You ought to hear my song
You come on measure me
I'm forty inches long
Hey I'm king of the world
You ought to hear my song
You come on measure me
I'm fifty inches long
50ft queenie X7
Yuri-G
Hey there Luna
I'd like to tell you
How sad am I
So love sick I could die
Needing water
My neck's stiff my head hurts
Been looking up all night
Been looking up the Moon she's so bright
She's so white
She's so clean
I'm telling you
She's everything
I'd give it all
My sorry eyes
Give just everything
She's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
Bring back my memory
Told by the doctor
To make a figure
Needles stick in her
She'll be your luna
I stuck them in real clean
I stuck them in a mile
I drew her down on me
I drew her with a smile
I'd give it all you see
I'd give my sorry eyes
I'd give just everything
She's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Bring back my memory
I stuck them in real clean
I stuck them in a mile
I drew her down on me
I drew her with a smile
I'd give it all you see
I'd give my sorry eyes
I'd give just everything
She's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Bring back my memory
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
I'd let her walk all over me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Bring back my memory X3
Man-size
I'm coming up man-sized
Skinned alive
I want to fit
I've got to getv Man-sized
I'm heading on
Handsome
Got my leather boots on
Got my girl and she's a wow
I cast my iron knickers down
Man-size no need to shout
Can you hear can you hear me now
I'm man-sized
Man-sized
I'll measure time
I'll measure height
I'll calculate
My birthright
Good lord I'm big
I'm heading on
Man-sized
Got my leather boots on
Got my girl and she's a wow
I cast my iron knickers down
Man-sized no need to shout
Can you hear can you hear me now
My babe looking cool and neat
I'm pretty sure, good enough to eat
I'm man-sized no need to shout
Let it all let it all hang out
I'm man-size
Man-size X7
Silence my lady head
Get girl out of my head
Douse hair with gasoline
Set it light and set it free
Silence my lady head
Get girl out of my head
Douse hair with gasoline
Set it light and set it free
Dry
I caught it in the face
Coming around again
I thought it was worth waiting
You're caught up in my hair
Wet sides from time to time
But mostly I'm just dry
You leave me dry
You leave me dry
You leave me dry
You've come all this way
No hair out of place
You put it on the stage
You put right in my face
You leave me dry
You leave me dry
You leave me dry
A water well in sight
No water at my sides
I'm sucking on the well
I'm sucking 'till I'm white
But you leave me dry
You leave me dry
You leave me dry
You leave me dry
You leave me dry
Me-Jane
Damn your chest-beating just you
stop your screaming
Splitting through my head and swinging from the ceiling
Move it over Tarzan can't you see I'm bleeding
I've called you by your first name good Lord it's me-Jane
I'm running
It's me here
I'm leaving
Me-Jane
Me-Jane
Damn your chest-beating just you stop your screaming
All the time you're hunting swimming fishing breathing
Don't you ever stop and give me time to breathe in
I've called you by your first name good Lord it's me-Jane
I'm running
It's me here
And I'm leaving
I'm Me-Jane
And I'm trying
To make sense
You're screaming
Don't put it on me
Don't put it on me
Don't put it over me
Tarzan I'm pleading stop your fucking screaming
You've got me nailing walls and hanging from the ceiling
Oh move it over Tarzan can't you see I'm bleeding
Good lord you never stop
Don't put it on me
Don't put it on me
Don't put it on me
Don't put it on me-Jane
Don't put it on me-Jane
Don't put it on me-Jane
Don't put it on me-Jane
Don't put it on me-Jane
Snake
You snake
You crawled
Between
My legs
Said want it all
It's yours you bet
I'll make you queen
Of everything
No need for God
No need for him
Just take my hand
You'll be my bride
Just take that fruit
Put it inside
You snake
You dog
You fake
You liar
I've burned my hands
I'm in the fire
Oh
You salty dog
You filthy liar
My heart it aches
I'm in the fire
You snake
I ain't untrue, believe
Put rotten fruit inside of me
Oh Adam please you must believe
That snake put it in front of me
That snake put it in front of me
In front of me
Ecstasy
Flying
I'm flying
Hitting heavens high
I'm head on brake too low
Floating
I'm floating
Hanging below the sea
I'm telling you, look at me in
Ecstasy
I'm in ec...ecstasy
Singing
I'm singing. Yah!
Sounding hanging breathe
I'm begging you, look at me in
Ecstasy
I'm in ec....ecstasy
Ecstasy
To bring you my love
To
bring you my love
I was born in the desert
I been down for years
Jesus, come closer
I think my time is near
And I've traveled over
Dry earth and floods
Hell and high water
To bring you my love
Climbed over mountains
Travelled the sea
Cast down off heaven
Cast down on my knees
I've lain with the devil
Cursed god above
Forsaken heaven
To bring you my love
To bring you my love
To bring you my love
To bring you my love
I know he's gonna be here
You know he's gonna be here
Yeah alright
Forsaking heaven
Curse god above
Lay with the devil
Bring you my love
To bring you my love
To bring you my love
To bring you my love
Meet ze
monsta
See it coming
At my head
I'm not running
I'm not scared
Big black monsoon
Take me with you
I'm not jerking
I won't hide
Yeah, I'm ready
Meet ze monsta tonight
Big black monsoon
Take me with you ... Ow!
What a monsta
What a night
What a lover
What a fight
Big black monsoon
Take me with you
Yeah it's coming
Out of this world
Yeah, I'm lucky
Lucky girl
Hell ain't half full
Take me with you
Big black monsoon
Take me with you
Working for
the man
In the night I look for love
Get my strength from the man above
God of piston, god of steel
God is here behind the wheel
I'm just working for the man
Pretty things get in my car
Take them flying, it's not far
Take in handsome, take in me
Look good in my steel machine
I'm just working for the man
Don't you know yet who I am
Working harder for the man
Go around I'm doing good
Get my strength from the man above
I'm just working for the man
I'm just doing what I can
Go around I'm doing good X8
C'mon Billy
C'mon billy
Come to me
You know i'm waiting
I love you endlessly
C'mon billy
You're the only one
Don't you think it's time now
You met your only son ?
I remember
Lover's play
The car was cold and
We lay in it for days
I remember
The things you said
My little billy,
Come to your lover's bed
Come home
Is my plea
Your home now is
Here with me
Come home
To your son
Ttomorrow might never come
C'mon billy
You look good to me
How many nights now
Your child inside of
Don't forget me
I had your son
Damn thing went crazy
But I swear you're the only one
Come along, Billy, now come to me X7
Come along, and come to me.
Teclo
Long goes the night
Longer the day
Teclo your death
Will send me to my grave
I learn to beg
I learn to pray
Send me his love
Send him to me again
Let me ride
Let me ride
Let me ride on his grace for a while
Let me ride
Let me ride
Just let me ride on his grace for a while
Hmm
Long goes the night
Longer the day
Teclo your death
Will send me to my grave
Let me ride
Let me ride
Just let me ride on his grace for a while
Let me ride
Let me ride
Just let me ride on your grace for a while
Just let me ride
Um-hmmm
Dunk you
Under
Deep salt
Water
Bring me
Lover
All your
Power
I'll be
No hell
Out of
Your spell
Over
Under
Die of
Pleasure
Hear my
Dreaming
You'll be
Drowning
Hell's no
God above
All drunk
On my love
You wanna hear my long snake .... moan!
You oughta see me crawl my .... roar!
Dunk you
Under
Deep salt
Water
In my
Dreaming
You'll be
Drowning
Raise me
Up lord
Call me
Lazarus
Hey Lord
Help me
Make me
Marvel
You wanna hear my long snake ... moan!
You oughta see me crawl my... roar!
Is my voodoo working ( X4 )
Moan! ( X4 ), Woo!, Moan ! ( X3 )
Down by the
water
I lost my heart
Under the bridge
To that little girl
So much to me
And now I'm old
And now I holler
She'll never know
Just what I found
That blue eyed girl
(that blue eyed girl)
She said "no more"
(she said "no more")
That blue eyed girl
(that blue eyed girl)
Became blue eyed whore
('came blue eyed whore)
Down by the water
(down by the water)
I took her hand
(I took her hand)
Just like my daughter
(just like my daughter)
Won't see her again
(see her again)
Oh help me jesus
Come through this storm
I had to lose her
To do her harm
I heard her holler
(I heard her holler)
I heard her moan
(I heard her moan)
My lovely daughter
(my lovely daughter)
I took her home
(I took her home)
Little fish. big fish. Swimming in the
water.
Come back here, man. gimme my daughter.
Little fish. big fish. Swimming in the water.
Come back here, man. gimme my daughter.
Little fish. big fish. Swimming in the water.
Come back here, man. gimme my daughter ....
I think I'm
a mother
You think you'll come over
I'll give you my number
You lover supporter
Then give me your mother
You come take me home and
Take me to your doctor
You think you'll come over?
I think I'm a mother
Roll over, roll over
And roll me a man-a
You lover, my lover
You just roll me over
You give me your mother
A man if I love her
I love her, I'll keep her
I better just keep her
" Come on and support her "
I said to the mother
She said you come over
She said she'd support her
I love her, I kept her
And then she just left and
Alone, I emplore ya
I think I'm a mother
Need your mother, more than ever
Need your mother
** Thanx to Joe who helped me with this one **
Send his
love to me
Lover had to leave me
'Cross the desert plain
Turned to me his lady
Tell me "lover wait"
Calling Jesus, please
Send his love to me
Oh, wind and rain they haunt me
Look to the North and pray
Send me, please, his kisses
Send them home today
I'm begging, Jesus, please
Send his love to me
Left alone in desert
This house becomes a hell
This love becomes a tether
This room becomes a cell
Mummy, daddy, please
Send him back to me
How long must I suffer?
Dear God, I've served my time
This love becomes my torture
This love, my only crime
Oh lover please release me
My arms too weak to grip
My eyes to dry for weeping
My lips too dry to kiss
Calling, Jesus, please
Send his love to me
I'm begging, Jesus, please
Send his love to me
The dancer
He came riding fast like a phoenix out of fire flames
He came dressed in black with a cross bearing my name
He came bathed in light and the splendor and glory
I can't believe what the lord has finally sent me
He said dance for me, fanciulla gentile
He said laugh awhile, I can make your heart feel
He said fly with me, touch the face of the true God
And then cry with joy at the depth of my love
'Cause I've prayed days, I've prayed nights
For the lord just to send me home some sign
I've looked long, I've looked far
To bring peace to my black and empty heart
Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, aaaaaah !
My love will stay 'till the river bed run
dry
And my love lasts long as the sunshine blue sky
I love him longer as each damn day goes
The man is gone and heaven only knows
'Cause I've cried days, I've cried nights
For the lord just to send me home some sign
Is he near ? is he far ?
Bring peace to my black and empty heart
So long day, so long night
Oh Lord, be near me tonight
Is he near ? is he far ?
Bring peace to my black and empty heart.
Dance hall at louse
point
Rope
bridge crossing
And I remember everything
Sunrise on a blue horizon
With you, your hand in mine
I remember the things you said
Said "I'll be your lady, way through it all
Be there to catch you, after the fall
Run through the red light, out of my hair
Run from the darkness here to the day"
And I dream of running
And in the dream I myself could run
And I feel the ground beneath my feet
And I move like music,
You move me, like music
Head out of my way
Head out to red light
"Hold on" the dream says
Head out of my life
You said "I'd be there"
Now I'm treading very carefully
And I hope that I don't scream
And I hope that I don't fall
Off your bridge, crossing over
Sunny mountain, Swollen riverfall
You said "I'd be there"
You said "I'd be there", through it all
Head out of my way
Head of to red light
"Hold on" the dream says
Head out of my life
All over my way
Head out to red light
"Hold on" the dream says
Head out of my life
You said "I'd be there"
City of no
sun
Love me tenderly my darling
In the city of light and truth
For this moment forever sing
For my darling that I love you
The city of no sun (city of no sun)
No peace (no peace)
In my heart (no joy in my heart)
You left me nothing (with nothing)
You left me broken (broken)
Once sad (sad)
Once greed (greed)
Once said (he loved me)
He loved me (he loved me)
He loved me
Outside the fields
In sunlight
The singing breeze
And the silence
Lover release me (lover release me)
I can't move I can't breathe (I can't move I can't breathe)
No heart, no peace (no heart, no peace)
No more nothing (nothing, peace, love me)
Long day, long night (long day, long night)
Too long, love lies (too long, love lies)
Love lies
That was my
veil
It starts at daylight
I see him
Before my sad eyes
I hear him breathing
Oh lover, need you to lead me
No never thought that you'd leave
That was my veil
That was my time
Once held secret
But now lies
No words can
Heal my heart
Inside I'm broken
Now it's done
Was she a pretty girl
Does she have pretty hair
Was she soft-spoken
Was there a love there
That was my veil
That was my time
Once held secret
But now lies
Give back my veil
Give back my time
No more secret
You give me lies
Give me back my veil
Give back my life
No more secret
You give me lies
Lies
Urn with
dead flowers in a drained pool
I need your light
Darling love lies
And if you gave it to me
I'd hold it in the palm of my hand
Like a good luck charm or a vice
And I'll reach up like a child to receive it
There is no more sad
There is no more leave
I've got sun on my back
I'm in love again
Take me inside
Your war love light
And if he took me
I'd hold him up to the light
Like a god, or a good luck charm, or a vice
And I'd open up like a child to believe it
There is no more sad
There is no more leave
I've got sun on my back
I'm in love again
But still you can't give your peace to me
Civil war
correspondent
Words leave my
heart dry
Words can't save life
Love has no place here
No joy, no tears
Darling, time's changed
Time leaves, time fades
Please see through my eyes
Save your tears for the next who dies
I shout but he don't hear
I put down on a page
Darling spare me your tears
Just send me the light of day
I shout but he don't hear
Just put down on the page
Darling spare me your tears
Dear God, please send me the light of day
I can feel his heart wired
Heart like gunfire
Gunfire
Gunfire
Gunfire
Taut
Jesus save me
Jesus save me
Can I tell you something
Can I tell you a story
It's about me and Billy
Because I remember
I remember it all
started when he bought that car
It was the first thing he ever owned, apart from me
And the colour was red
And the colour was red and he drove me
He drove me out of my mind
I am over it now
It was spring or summer 65, I don't remember
Steaming and sweating and sticking against the wheel
And I could see the tendons stand out in the back of his neck
And he used to make me pray, wearing a mask like a death's head
When he put me there in the back seat, and he said
Jesus save me
Jesus save me
Inherited his father's hate, that's what he'd say
And he's cussed enough to strip the pain off heaven's gate
But somehow
He could make joy come loose inside
I would feel really, I would feel really and truly alive
And I would do anything for him
He just wasn't enough
He was never enough
He'd turn to me and say
He'd, he'd say "Even the son of god had to die, my darling"
And he'd wanted everything
He wanted everything
He wanted the honey from the king
He used to make me
He used to make me pay
Hidden in the backseat, such a, Jesus
He'd make me pray
He wanted everything
He wanted all that means from the king
Say it!
"Even the son of god had to die my darling"
"C'mon say it!"
Jesus save me
Jesus save me
Un cercle
autour du soleil
She lay
Breathing
Sunshine
Between
Time here
Lingers
Trace with
My finger
A circle
A circle
Round the sun
The sun
The sun
The sun
No more
Laughter
Since the
Black come
But head down
Get high
Up there's
Blue sky
And a circle
A circle
Around the sun
The sun
The sun
The sun
Time here
Lingers
Can trace with
My fingers
A circle
A circle
Around the sun
The sun
The sun
The sun
Heela
P.J Harvey :
I was lost in love
I was lost inside
'Till he said to me
You've got a lovely smile
And i'm saved
Saved
And I'm saved
And I'm saved
Heal me with his hands
Heal me with his heart
When he said to me
No no, we'd never part
P.J Harvey : Heal me with his hands / J. Parish :
Oh she feel as though she hit upon paradise
P.J Harvey : Heal with his heart / J. Parish :
She was a hoola girl, she got her hair done nice
P.J Harvey : When he said to me / J. Parish :
She said "I've given all I got to my healer man
P.J Harvey : No no, we'd never part / J. Parish :
He put his hands on me, showed me what I am"
P.J Harvey / J. Parish : And I'm saved
When I got my healer by my side
And I'm pushing daylight, pushing night
When I got the healer by my side
And I'm pushing daylight, pushing night
Repeat 'till the end
Is that all
there is ?
I remember when I
was a girl
Our house caught on fire
And I'll never forget the look on my father's face
As he gathered me in his arms and raced to the burning building out on the
pavement.
And I stood there shivering and watched the whole world go up in flames.
And when it was all over I said to myself "Is that all there is to a fire?, Is
that all there is?"
Is that all there is?
If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is
And when I was twelve years old, my Daddy took me to the circus
'The greatest show on earth'.
And there were clowns and elephants, dancing bears, and a beautiful lady in pink
tights flew high above our heads.
And as I sat there watching, I had the feeling that something was missing
I don't know what but when it was all over I said to myself "Is that all there
is to the circus?"
Is that all there is?"
If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is
And then I fell in love with the most wonderful boy in the world.
We'd take long walks down by the river or just sit for hours gazing into each
other's eyes.
We were so very much in love and then one day he went away and I'd thought I'd
die, but I didn't.
And when I didn't, I said to myself "Is that all there is to love?"
Is that all there is?
If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep…
I know what you must be saying to yourselves if that's the way she feels about
it,
Then why doesn't she just end it all.
O no, not me, I'm not ready for the final disappointment
Cause I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you,
That when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my last breath,
I know what I'll be saying to myself "Is that all there is?"
Is that all there is?
If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is
Lost fun
zone
I believe I am
here to stay
I believe His Son was sent to say
The fun zone is here
Right free so
Take me one more time
Take me one more time
Take me one more time
I don't believe
That I gotta die some day
Please take me one more time
Take me one more time
Take me one more time
Is this desire ?
Angelene
My first name Angelene
Prettiest mess you've ever seen
Love for money is my sin
Any man calls I'll let him in
Rose is my colour and white
Pretty mouth, and green my eyes
I see men come and go
But there'll be one who will collect my soul
And come to me
Two thousand miles away
He walks upon the coast
Two thousand miles away
It lays open like a road
Dear God, life ain't kind
People gettin born then dying
But I've heard there's joy untold
Lays open like a road in front of me
Two thousand miles away
He walks upon the coast
Two thousand miles away
Lays open like a road
It seems so far away
I see men come and go
Two thousand miles until I reach that open road
My first name's angelene
The Sky Lit Up
I'm walking in the city tonight
I'm walking in the city at dark
Remembering, remember light
Thinking of nothing, and the shooting stars
And this world tonight is mine
A world to be remembered in
Think on a faded photograph
My hair longer than it's ever been
The sky lit up
The sky
My friend
The sky lit up
The sky my friend
And I'm lighter than I've ever been
I saw the trees crossing the moon
I saw the stars and heaven above
Shine on my own beautiful prayer
Shining on my own beautiful love
The sky lit up
The sky my friend
The sky lit up
I'm lighter than I've ever been
And I'm dancing with him
In this city and in this town
I don't care what he's thinking of
Just take the car, just take my hand
The sky lit up
The sky lit up
The sky lit up
The sky lit up
The Wind
Catherine liked high places
High up, high up on the hills
A place for making noises
Like whales
Noises like the whales
Here she built a chapel
With her image
Her image on the wall
A place where she could rest and rest
And a place where she could wash
And listen to the wind blowing
And listen to the wind blow
And listen to the wind
And listen to the wind blow
She dreamt of children's voices
And torture on the wheel
Patron Saint of nothing
A woman of the hills
She once was a lady
Of pleasure and high born
A lady of the city
But now she sits and moans
And listens to the wind blow
Listen to the wind blow
I see her in a chapel
High up on the hill
She must be so lonely
Oh Mother can't we give
A husband to our catherine
A handsom one, a deal
A rich one for the lady
Someone to listen with
And listen to the wind blow
And listen to the wind blow
And listen to the wind blow
And listen to the wind blow
My Beautiful Leah
Did you see her walking ?
Did she come around here, sir ?
Black hair, brown eyes
My beautiful leah
She was always so needing
Said "I have no-one"
Even as I held her
She went out looking for someone
Looking for someone
She only had nightmares
And her sadness never lifted
And slowly over the years
Her lovely face twisted
Did she come around here, Sir?
I swear you would remember
Black hair, brown eyes
Late september
October, November, December
It never leaves my mind
The last words she said
If I don't find it this time
Then I'm better off dead
A Perfect Day Elise
He got lucky, got lucky one time
Hitting with the girl in room five none nine
She turned her back on him facing the frame
Said, "Listen Joe don't you come here again"
White sun scattered all over the sea
He could think of nothing but her name Elise
God is the sweat running down his back
The water soaked her blonde hair black
It's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise
He got burned by the sun
He's a lucky man
His face so pale and his hands so worn
And the sky
Let himself in room five none nine
As she turned away
Said a prayer, pulled the trigger and cried
Tell me why
It's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise
Ah oh, It's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise
Catherine
Catherine De Barra
You've murdered my thinking
Gave you my heart
You left the thing stinking
I'd shake from your spell
If it weren't for my drinking
The wind bites more bitter
With each light of morning
I envy the road
The ground you tread under
I envy the wind
Your hair riding over
I envy the pillow
Your head rests and slumbers
I envy to murderous
Envy your lover
'Til the light shines on me
I damn to hell every second you breath
'Til the light shines on me
I damn to hell every second you breath
I envy the road
The ground you tread under
I envy the wind
Your hair riding over
I envy the pillow
Your head rests and slumbers
I envy to murderous
Envy your lover
'Til the light shines on me
I damn to hell every second you breath
'Til the light shines on me
I damn to hell every second you breath
'Til the light shines on me
I damn to hell every second you breath
'Til the light shines on me
Oh my Catherine
For your eyes smiling
For your mouth singing
With time I'd have won you
With wile I'd have won you
For your eyes smiling
For your mouth singing
With time I'd have won you
Oh my Catherine
With time I'd have won you
With wile I'd have won you
Electric Light
The beauty of her, under electric light
The beauty of her, under electric light
Tears my heart out every time
Dawn There waiting, right outside
Dawn There waiting, right outside
She tears my heart out every time
Siren rising across the sky
Sirens rising across the sky
Tears my heart out every time
The Garden
And he was walking in the garden
And he was walking in the night
And he was singing a sad love song
And he was praying for his life
And the stars came out around him
He was thinking of his sins
And he's looking at his song-bird
And he's looking at his wings
There, inside the garden
Came another with his lips
Said "won't you come and be my lover ?"
"Let me give you a little kiss"
And he came knelt down before him
And fell upon his knees
"I will give you gold and mountains
If you stay a while with me"
And there was trouble
Taking place
Trouble
Taking place
There, inside the garden
They kissed and the sun rose
And he walked a little further
And he found he was alone
And the wind it gathered round him
He was thinking of his sins
And he's looking for his song-bird
He was looking for his wings
And there was trouble
Taking place
Trouble
Taking place
There was trouble
Taking place
Trouble
Taking place
Joy
Joy was her name
A life un-wed
Thirty years old,
Never danced a step
She would have left these red hills
Far behind if not for her condition
Would have left these red hills
Long ago if not for my condition
Pitiful joy
She looked away
Into a hollow sky
Came face to face
With her own innocence surrounding her
Until it never was a question
Innocence so suffocating
Now she cannot move, no question
No hope for joy
No hope or faith
She wanted to go blind
Wanted hope to stay
"I've been believing in nothing since I was born
It never was a question"
No !
The River
And they came to the river
And they came from the road
And he wanted the sun
Just to call his own
And they walked on the dirt
And they walked from the road
'Til they came to the river
'Til they came up close
Throw your pain in the river
Throw your pain in the river
Leave your pain in the river
To be washed away slow
And we walked without words
And we walked with our lives
Two silent birds circled by
Like a pain in the river
And the pain in the river
And the white sun scattered
Washed away this slow
And we followed the river
And we followed the road
And we walked through this land
And we called it a home
But he wanted the sun
And I wanted the whole
And the white light scatters
And the sun sets low
Like a pain in the river
Like a pain in the river
Like a white light scatters
To be washed away slow
Like a pain in the river
Like a pain in the river
Like the way life scattered
To be washed away slow
No Girl So Sweet
In came the girl with the saddened eyes
And asked him over again and again
"Was I too weak ? Was I a child ?
And can't we leave here and start again ?"
And I love you
Said "I don't mind if you take me down"
And "I don't mind if you break it all"
But "how much more can you take from me"
"How much more can you take from me"
"I'd like to take you inside my head"
"I'd like to take you inside of me"
"You came from heaven is all he said"
"You came from heaven and came here to me
And I love you
He drove it fast to make the night
And looked at his angel where she lay
Resting her head and closed her eyes
And outside the heat and the summer fades
Deep in the sky a storm he'd seen
Deep in the sky a storm he'd seen
"There ain't nothing no girl so sweet"
"Took her from heaven and gave her to me"
"Took her from heaven and gave her to me"
"Took her from heaven and gave her to me"
"Took her from heaven and gave her to me"
"Took her from heaven and gave her to me"
Is This Desire?
Joseph walked on and on the sunset
Went down and down coldness
Cooled their desire and Dawn said
"Let's build a fire"
The sun dressed the trees in green
And Joe said
"Dawn I feel like a king"
And Dawn's neck and her feet were bare
Sweetness in her golden hair
Said "I'm not scared"
Turned to her and smiled
Secrets in his eyes
Sweetness of desire
Is this desire, enough enough
To lift us higher, to lift above ?
Hour long
By hour, may we two stand
When we're dead, between these lands
The sun set behind his eyes
And Joe said : "Is this desire"
Is this desire, enough enough
To lift us higher, to lift above ?
Is this desire, enough enough
Enough inside, is this desire ?
Stories from the city, stories from the sea
Look out ahead
See danger come
I want a pistol
I want a gun
I'm scared baby
I wanna run
This world's crazy
Give me the gun
Baby Baby
Ain't it true ?
I'm immortal
When I'm with you
But I want a pistol
In my hand
And I want to go to
A different land
I met a man
He told me straight
"You gotta leave
It's getting late
Too many cops
Too many guns
All trying to do something
No one else has done"
Baby Baby
Ain't it true ?
I'm immortal when I'm with you
But I want a pistol
In my hand
And I want to go to
A different land
Sometimes it rains so hard
And I feel the hurt
In my heart
Feels like the end of the world
I see the children
Sharp as knives
I see the children
Dead and alives
Beautiful people
Beautiful girls
I just feel like it's the end of the world
I walk on concrete
I walk on sand
But I can't find
A safe place to stand
I'm scared baby
I wanna run
This world's crazy
Give me the gun
Baby Baby
Ain't it true ?
I'm immortal
When I'm with you
But I want a pistol
In my hand
I want to go to
A different land
*** Thanx a lot to Ginko & Joe for this one ***
Threw my bad fortune
Off the top of
A tall building
I'd rather have done it with you
Your boy's smile
Five in the morning
Looked into your eyes
And I was really in love
In Chinatown
Hung over
You showed me
Just what I could do
Talkin about
Time travel
And the meaning
And just what it was worth
And I feel like
Some bird of paradise
My bad fortune
Slipping away
And I feel the
Innocence of a child
Everybody's got
Something good to say
Things I once thought
Unbelievable
In my life
Have all taken place
When we walked through
Little Italy
I saw my reflection
Come right off your face
I paint pictures
To remember
You're too beautiful
To put it into words
Like a gypsy
You dance in circles
All around me
And all over the world
And I feel like
Some bird of paradise
My bad fortune
Slipping away
And I feel the
Innocence of a child
Everybody's got
Something good to say
And I feel like
Some bird of paradise
My bad fortune
Slipping away
And I feel the
Innocence of a child
Everybody's got
Something good to say
So I take my
Good fortune
And I fantasize
Of our leaving
Like some modern-day
Gypsy landslide
Like some modern-day
Bonnie and clyde
On the run again ( on the run again )
On the run again ( on the run again )
*** A big thanx to Katra for this one ***
One day
I know
We'll find
A place of hope
Just hold on to me
Just hold on to me
Walk tight
One line
You're wanted
This time
There's no-one to blame
Just hold on to me
And I'm right on time
And the birds keep singing
And you're right on line
And the bells keep ringing
And the battle is won
And the planes keep winging
And I'm right on time
One day there'll be a place for us
And the girl keeps singing
I walk
I wait
With folded hands
And lonely
I stumble
I stumble
With you
I wait
To be born
Again
With love comes the day
Just hold on to me
And I'm right on time
And the birds keep singing
And you're right on line
One day there'll be a place for us
And the bells keep ringing
And the battle is won
And the planes keep winging
And I'm right on time
One day there'll be a place for us
And the girl keeps singing
Now is
The time
To follow through
To read the signs
Now the
Message is sent
Let's bring it to its final end
And I'm right on time
And the birds keep singing
And you're right on line
One day there'll be a place for us
And the bells keep ringing
And the battle is won
And the planes keep winging
And I'm right on time
One day there'll be a place for us
And the girl keeps singing
And I'm right on time
And the birds keep singing
And you're right on line
One day there'll be a place for us
And the bells keep ringing
And the battle is won
And the planes keep winging
And I'm right on time
One day there'll be a place for us
And the girl keeps singing
One
Day
I
One day there'll be a place for us
Know
There'll be
A place
Called
One day there'll be a place for us
Home
*** A big thanx to Katra for this one ***
One
Line
Do you remember the first kiss?
Star shooting across the sky
To come to such a place as this
You never left my mind
I'm watching from the wall
As, in the streets, we fight
This world all gone to war
All I need is you tonight
And I draw a line
To your heart today
To your heart from mine
A line to keep us safe
All through the rising sun
All through the circling years
You were the only one
Who could have brought me here
And I draw a line
To your heart today
To your heart from mine
One line to keep us safe
And I draw a line
To your heart today
To your heart from mine
And pray to keep us safe
Watch the stars now moving
'Cross the sky
Keep this feeling
Safe tonight
*** Thanx a lot to Joe for this one ***
Beautiful
Feeling
Sometimes I can see for miles
Through water and fire
From England to America
I feel life meet my eyes
And it's the best thing
It's the best thing
It's the best thing
A beautiful feeling
A smile from San Diego
He is still a boy
Two ends to every rainbow
And a train from Mexico
And he's the best thing
He's the best thing
He's the best thing
A beautiful feeling
And when I watch you move
And I can't think straight
And I am silenced
And I can't think straight
And it's the best thing
It's the best thing
The best thing
Such a beautiful feeling
*** Thanx a lot to Joe for this one ***
The whore hustle and the hustlers whore
Speak to me of universal laws
The whores hustle and the hustlers whore
All around me people bleed
Speak to me your song of greed
Speak to me of your inner charm
Of how you'll keep me safe from harm
I don't think so, I don't see
Speak to me of your inner peace
Little people at the amusement park
City people in the dark
Speak to us, send us a sign
Tell us something to keep us trying
The whores hustle and the hustlers whore
Too many people out of love
The whores hustler and the hustlers whore
This city's ripped right to the core
Speak to me of heroin and speed
Of genocide and suicide, of syphilis and greed
Speak to me the language of love
The language of violence, the language of the heart
This isn't the first time I've asked for money or love
Heaven and earth don't ever mean enough
Speak to me of heroin and speed
Just give me something I can believe
The whores hustle and the hustlers whore
Too many people out of love
The whores hustler and the hustlers whore
This city's ripped right to the core
Ohhhh, ohhhhh.....
*** Thanx a lot to Ginko & Joe & Hannah for this one ***
( Thom Yorke )
Can you hear them
The helicopters
I'm in New York
No need for words now
We sit in silence
You look me
In the eye directly
You met me
I think it's wednesday
The evening
The mess we're in
And ooooh...
( PJ Harvey )
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me
( Thom Yorke )
Night and day
I dream of
Making love
To you now baby
Love making
On screen
Impossible dream
And I have seen
The sunrise over the river
The freeway
Reminding of
This mess we're in
And ooooh...
( PJ Harvey )
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me
( PJ Harvey )
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me
( PJ talking / Thom
singing...together )
What were you wanting /
What was he wanted
I just wanna say
Don't ever change now baby
I'd thank you
I don't think we will meet again
And you must leave now
Before the sun rises
Above the skycrapers
And the city landscape comes into view
Swell on my skin
Oh
This mess we're in
Ooooh...
( PJ Harvey )
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me
*** Thanx a lot to Ginko & Joe for this one ***
On a rooftop in Brooklyn
At one in the morning
Watching the lights flash
In Manhattan
I see five bridges
The Empire State Building
And you said something
That I've never forgotten
We lean against railings
Describing the colors
And the smells of our homelands
Acting like lovers
How did we get here
To this point of living
I held my breath
You said something
And I'm doing nothing wrong
Riding in you car
The radio playing
We sing up to the eighth floor
On a rooftop Manhattan
One in the morning
You said something
That I've never forgotten
You said something
You said something
You said something
That was really important
*** Thanx a lot to Ginko & Joe for this one ***
Kamikaze
How could that happen?
How could that happen again?
Where the fuck was I looking
When all his horses came in?
And he built an army
Of kamikaze
Ten thousand willing
Pilots flying
Interfacing
Space and beyond
Built an army
To come and find me
Beyond all reason
Beyond all my hopes
The call of duty
Another war zone
Make me moan, moan
Kamikaze
Kamikaze
You can't touch me
Kamikaze
Eight miles high
He walks his path
And I follow mine
One truth for one eye
He's come to find me
Ten thousand willing
Pilots flying
Interfacing
Space and beyond
Here is his army
Space and here we come
Kamikaze
Kamikaze
You don't touch me
Kamikaze
Kamikaze
You don't touch me
Kamikaze
You don't touch me
Space here we come
*** Thanx a lot to Joe for this one ***
This
Is Love
I can't believe life's so complex
When I just wanna sit here and watch you undress
I can't believe life's so complex
When I just wanna sit here and watch you undress
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
This is love, love, love that I'm feelin'
Does it have to be a life full of dread?
Wanna chase you 'round the table, wanna touch your head
Does it have to be a life full of dread?
Wanna chase you 'round the table, wanna touch your head
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
This is love, love, love, love that I'm feelin'
I can't believe that the axis turns
On suffering when you taste so good
I can't believe that the axis turns
On suffering when my head it burns
Now, love, love, love that I'm feelin'
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
This is love, love, love, love that I'm feelin'
Even in the summer, even in the spring
You'll never get too much of a wonderful thing
You're the only story that I've never told
You're my dirty little secret, wanna keep you so
You're the only story that I've never been told
You're my dirty little secret, wanna keep you so
Come on out, come on over, help me forget
Keep the walls from falling as they're tumbling in
Come on out, come on over, help me forget
Keep the walls from falling on me tumbling in
Keep the walls from falling as they're tumbling in
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
This is love, love, love, love that I'm feelin'
This is love, love, love that I'm feelin'
This is love, love, love that I'm feelin'
This is love, love, love, love that I'm feelin'
This is love, this is love that I'm feelin'
*** Thanx a lot to Joe for this one ***
Horses
in My Dreams
Horses in my dreams
Like waves, like the sea
They pull out of here
They pull, they are free
Rode a horse 'round the world
Along the tracks of a train
Broke the record, found the gold
Set myself free again
I have pulled myself clear
I have pulled myself clear
I have pulled myself clear silent
I have pulled myself clear
Horses in my dreams
Like waves, like the sea
On the tracks of a train
Set myself free again
I have pulled myself clear
I have pulled myself clear
I have pulled myself clear silent
I have pulled myself clear
*** Thanx a lot to Joe for this one ***
We
Float
We wanted to find love
We wanted success
Until nothing was enough
Until my middle name was "excess"
And somehow I lost touch
When you went out of sight
When you got lost into the city
Got lost into the night
I was in need of help
Heading to blackout
Till someone told me "Run on in, honey,
Before somebody blows your goddamn brains out"
You shoplifted as a child
I had a model's smile
You carried all my hopes
Until something broke inside
But now we float
Take life as it comes
We float
Take life as it comes
So will we die of shock
Die without a trial
Die on Good Friday
While holding each other tight
This is kind of about you
This is kind of about me
We just kind of lost our way
We were looking to be free
But one day, we'll float
Take life as it comes
We'll float
Take life as it comes
But one day, we'll float
Take life as it comes
But one day, we'll float
Take life as it comes
Oh, one day...
*** Thanx a lot to Joe for this one ***
This
Wicked Tongue
( Japanese Version - Bonus Track)
This wicked tongue says
God is a million miles away
This wicked tongue says
He can't see my day to day
This wicked tongue says
Go on taste everything
And this wicked tongue says
You know you're not really living
And it stares into the sun
And it flies from star to star
Cursing everyone
In my ringing ears
And that noise
Is as much
As I could bare
So I asked you where's the heart
In the rubbish heap of man
And I asked him where's the soul
And the silence rangandrangandrangandrang
So I stare into the sun
And I fly from star to star
Cursing everyone
In my ringing ears
And that noise
Is as much
As I could bare
"I give up"
He said
"I give up you win creation baby has fell again"
*** Thanx a lot to Yuri
G for this one ***
*** Thanx a lot to HappyTragicThing for these lyrics ***
The Life and Death of Mr Badmouth
Baby, you got a bad
bad mouth
Everything is poison that's coming out
Cheating, lying since the day you were born
Someone outta rinse it out with soap
Wash it out, wash it out, wash it out
No kind words are coming out of your mouth
Plenty goes in but nothing good comes out
Badmouth, sad mouth, you were an unhappy child
That doesn't make your lying tongue alright
Wash it out, wash it out, wash it out
Cos everything is poison
You'll be the unhappy one
Your lips taste of poison
You're gonna be left alone
When you told me every word you said
Came from voices talking in your head
Baby, I just think you're out for what you can get
Your badmouth has killed off everything we had
Wash it out, wash it out, wash it out
Cos everything is poison
You'll be the unhappy one
Your lips taste of poison
You'll be in the corner crying
Shame
I don't need no
rising moon
I don't need no ball and chain
I don't need anything but you
Such a shame, shame, shame
Shame, shame, shame
Shame is the shadow of love
You changed my life
We were as green as grass
And I was hypnotized
From the first 'til the last
Kiss of shame, shame, shame
Shame is the shadow of love
I'd jump for you into the fire
I'd jump for you into the flame
Tried to go forward with my life
I just feel shame, shame, shame
Shame, shame, shame
Shame is the shadow of love
If you tell a lie
I still would take the blame
If you pass me by
It’s such a shame, shame, shame
*** Thanx a lot to
marianafocusri@hotmail.com who
corrected mistakes ***
Who the fuck
Who the fuck do you
think you are
Get out of my hair
Who the fuck do you think you are
Comin' round here
Who the fuck who the fuck
who the fuck do you think you are
Get your comb out of there
Combin' out my hair
I’m not like other girls
You can't straighten my curls
I’m not like other girls
You can't straighten my curls
No!
Who the fuck you tryin' to be
Get your dog away from me!
What the fuck you doing in there
Get your dirty fingers out of my hair
Who who who who
Fuck fuck fuck you
I'm free, you'll see
I'm free, you'll see
Please don't make my
wedding dress
I'm too young to marry yet
Can you see my pocket knife?
You can't make me be a wife
How the world just turns & turns
How does anybody learn?
Mummy, put your needle down
How did you feel when you were young?
Cos I feel like I've just been born
Even though I'm getting on
How the world slips by so fast
How does anybody last?
As the world keeps coming
And the bees keep humming
And I'll keep running
Flowers I can do without
I don't wanna be tied down
White material will stain
My pocket knife's gotta shiny blade
I'm not trying to cause a fuss
I just wanna make my own fuck-ups
I'm not trying to break your heart
I'm just trying not to fall apart
The Letter
Put the pen
To the paper
Press the envelope
With my scent
Can't you see
In my handwriting
The curve Of my g?
The longing
Oh
Who is left that
Writes these days?
You and me
We'll be different
Take the cap
Off your pen
Wet the envelope
Lick and lick it
Oh
I need you
The time is running out
Oh baby
Can't you hear me call?
It turns me on
To imagine
Your blue eyes
On my words
Your beautiful pen
Take the cap off
Give me a sign and I'd come running
Oh
It's you
I want you
The slow drug
Blue now is the
colour
Love the drug I'm needing
Got to keep this feeling
With the headlights burning
We're looking up for something
Answers on the ceiling
Watching out the windows
Watch the way the wind blows
Soon it will be morning
Still the question lingers
I twist it round my fingers
Could you be my calling?
See this winged boy falling
Falling out of something
Hits the drug I'm needing
Arrows that he's turning
Need to keep this feeling
Slow drug in the morning
With the headlights burning
Looking up for something
Something that we're needing
Still the question lingers
I twist it round my fingers
Could you be my calling?
I have no time for hate or love
Hey child, you're so full of woe
I have no time for hate or lying
Hey child, you're no child of mine
I have no time for hate or love
Hey child, you're so full of woe
I have no time for hate or lying
Hey child, you're no child of mine
Hey child, you're no child of mine
Hey child, you're no child of mine
Turn up the radio
Turn up the radio
I heard our song on
the radio
It wasn't long before I think of you
Can't get the sound outta my head
Don't look now it's coming round again
I saved your voice from the telephone
I play it back on the message machine
It really sounds like you're having fun
I'm going out into the midday sun
Come night, I'm gonna step outside
Take a walk, I'm gonna clear my mind
The radio, still playing our song
You got me jumping like a cat on the wall
Turn up the radio
They play the radio in my dreams
Takes me back to when I was 17
Dancing in circles on the kitchen floor
I'll play this song 'til I can't take anymore
We are waiting
For the summer
The sun will bring back
Treasures for us
Come on my friend
Drink to good times
Golden wishes
To your health and mine
You come through
For me
You come true
For me
You be well
For me
You come through
For me
I'll be lifted
On this our holiday
I'll take you my friend
I'll take you with me
You come through
For me
You come true
For me
You be well
For me
You come through
For me
It's you
Oh dear sweet mama
I'm not feeling well
Can I step out
For a little while?
But I go missing
I steal away
And I go kissing
In the alleyway
All I want to do
And all I want to grow up to be
Is all caught up with you
Look what you're doing to me
Oh dearest young man
Teach me sweetheart
How to love you
I'm a clever girl
You've got me lying
You've got me leaving home
You've got me crying
When I'm alone
When I'm not with you my dreams are so very dark
When I'm not with you I dream of my hair falling out
When I'm not with you I walk dark tunnels of my heart
When I'm not with you everything comes apart
When I was younger
I spent my days
Wondering to whom
I was supposed to pray
It's you?
The Desperate Kingdom of Love
Oh love, you were a
sickly child
And how the wind knocked you down
Put on your spurs, swagger around
In the desperate kingdom of love
Holy water cannot help you now
Your mysterious eyes will not help you
Selling your reason will not bring you through
The desperate kingdom of love
There's another who looks from behind your eyes
I learn from you how to hide
From the desperate kingdom of love
At the end of this burning world
You'll stand proud, face upheld
And I'll follow you, into Heaven or Hell
And I'll become, as a girl
In the desperate kingdom of love
The Darker Days of Me & Him
Promises, promises
I'm feeling burned
You taught me a lesson
I didn't want to learn
Why did I come here?
Please tell me again
Why did you ask me?
Don't say you forget
I long for, I long for
I long for my home
I long for a land where
No man was ever known
With no neurosis
No psychosis
No psychoanalysis
And no sadness
I'll pick up the pieces
I'll carry on somehow
Tape the broken parts together
And limp this love around
Limp this love around
*** Thanx a lot to Cody for these lyrics ***
The Devil
As soon as I'm left alone
The devil wanders into my soul
And I pretend to myself
And I pretend to myself
I go out
To the old milestone
Insanely expecting
You to come there
Knowing that I wait for you there
That I wait for you there
Come!
Come!
Come here at once
Come!
Come
On a night with no moon
Because all of my being is now in pining
All of my being is now in pining
What formerly had cheered me
Now seems
Insignificant
Insignificant
Dear
darkness
Dear darkness
Dear darkness
Won't you cover, cover
Me again?
Dear darkness
Dear
I've been your friend
For many years
Won't you do this for me?
Dearest darkness
And cover me from the sun
And the words tightening
The words are tightening
Around my throat
And, and...
Around the throat of the one I love
Tightening, tightening, tightening
Around the throat of the one I love
Tightening, tightening, tightening
Dear darkness
Dear darkness
Now it's your time to look after us
'Cause we kept you clothed
We kept in business
When everyone else was having good luck
So now it's your time
Time to pay
To pay me and the one I love
With the worldly goods you've stashed away
With all the things you
Took from us
Grow,
grow, grow
I sowed a seed
Underneath the oak tree
I trod it in
With my boots I trampled it down
Grow
Grow
Grow
I sowed a rose
Underneath the oak grove
With my boots on the ground
Into the earth I trampled it down
Grow
Grow
Grow
Teach me how to...
Teach me how to...
Teach me, Mommy
How to grow
How to catch someone's fancy
Underneath the twisted oak grove
When under
ether
The ceiling is moving
Moving in time
Like a conveyor belt
Above my eyes
When under ether
The mind comes alive
But conscious of nothing
But the will to survive
I lay on the bed
Waist down undressed
Look up at the ceiling
Feeling happiness
Human kindness
The woman beside me
Is holding my hand
I point at the ceiling
She smiles, so kind
Something's inside me
Unborn and unblessed
Disappears in the ether
This world to the next
Disappears in the ether
One world to the next
Human kindness
White
chalk
White chalk hills are all I've known
White chalk hills will rot my bones
White chalk sticking to my shoes
White chalk playing as a child with you
White chalk south against time
White chalk cutting down the sea at Lyme
I walk the valleys by the Cerne
On a path cut fifteen hundred years ago
And I know these chalk hills will rot my bones
Dorset's cliffs meet at the sea
Where I walked
Our unborn child in me
White chalk
Gorse-scattered land
Scratched my palms
There's blood on my hands
Broken
harp
Please don't reproach me
For, for how empty
My life has become
I don't what really happened
I watched your disappointment
At being misunderstood
I forgive you
Oh
Something metal
Tearing my stomach out
If you think ill of me
Can you
Can you
Forgive me
Forgive me
Can you
Can you
Forgive me
Too
Too
I tried to learn your language
But fell asleep half undressed
Unrecognizable to myself
Silence
All those places
Where I recall the memories
That gripped me
And pinned me down
I go to these places
Intending to think
To think of nothing
No anticipate
And somehow expect
You'll find me there
That by some miracle
You'd be aware
I'd risen this morning
Determined to break
The spell of my longing
And not to think
I freed myself from my family
I freed myself from work
I freed myself
I freed myself
And remained alone
And in my thinking
Steal you away
Though you never wanted me
Anyway
Silence
Silence
Silence
Silence
To talk to
you
Oh grandmother
How I miss you
Under the earth
Wish I was with you
To talk to you
To talk to you
I found somebody
Tried to give myself to
Many times
I wanted to talk to you
If I lay on the earth
Could you hear
Oh grandmother
I'm so lonely
All my life
If I lay on the earth
Could you hear then
If I lay...
Mary...
The piano
Hit her with a hammer
Teeth smashed in
Red tongue twitching
Look inside her skeleton
My fingers sting
Where I feel your fingers have been
Ghostly fingers
Moving my limbs
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Daddy's in the corner
Rattling his keys
Mommy's in the doorway
Trying to leave
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Before
departure
Farewell, my friends
Farewell, my dear ones
If I was rude
Forgive my weakness
Goodbye, my friends
Goodbye to evening parties
Remember me
In the spring
To work for your bread
Soon you must leave
Remember your families
And work for your children
I don't need much
And the older I become
I realize
My friendships
Will carry me over
Any course of distance
Any cause of sorrow
Friends that last
Will dance one more time
With me
I don't need much
But this I need
The
mountain
Above the mountain
The mountain
An eagle
Is flying
High above the mountain
An eagle calling down
To the soldier who faulters
The soldier on the ground
By the mountain
I feel nothing
For in my own heart
Every tree is broken
The first tree will not blossom
The second will not grow
The third is almost fallen
Since you betrayed me so
Since you
Black Hearted
Love
I think I saw you in the shadows
I move in closer beneath your windows
Who would suspect me of this rapture
And who but my black hearted love
And who but my black hearted love
When you call out my name in rapture
I volunteer my soul for murder
I wish this moment here forever
And you are my black hearted love
And you are my black hearted love
In the rain
In the evening
I will come again
I'd like to take you
I'd like to take you
To a place I know
My black hearted
I'd like to take you
I'd like to take you
To a place I know
My black hearted
I'd like to take you
I'd like to take you
To a place I know
My black hearted
I'd like to take you
I'd like to take you
To a place I know
My black hearted
In the rain
In the evening
In the garden
I will come
Again
In the rain
Mouth to mouth
In the garden
In the evening
Again
Erica
Erica
Is watching
Daniel
Daniel
Is hiding
Erica
Erica
Is counting
Sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen,
Twelve, eleven, ten, nine...
Erica
Erica
Is coming
The sun is setting the scene
In the garden it's starting to rain
The trees are trembling
Erica's repeating
There is no laughter in the garden
There is no laughter in the garden
There is no laughter in the garden
Erica
There is no laughter in the garden
There is no laughter in the garden
There is no laughter in the garden
Erica
Is feeling
Something
Daniel
Is hiding
She's counting
Sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen,
Twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight
The sun is leaving the scene
And took a look and turn away
The trees are trembling
Erica's repeating
There is no laughter in the garden
There is no laughter in the garden
There is no laughter in the garden
Erica
There is no laughter in the garden
There is no laughter in the garden
There is no laughter in the garden
Erica....
Leaving
California
California, leaving California
California, leaving California
No one but me is walking
And the palms that give no shade
I'm leaving you today
California, leave me, California
California, leave me, California
How cruel was I to think that
I could make you change
Oh, give me some shade
Oh, England, come soon
How could I believe that I could live and breathe in you
California, killed me California
California, killed me California
I think it's time to leave
I think it's time to leave
I told no one I'd stay
I think it's time to leave
The Chair
Where
Where have you gone
Daniel, my youngest son
I, I keep expecting you
To be here in your chair
Sitting in your favourite chair
When you swam into the water
I felt you leave through
Thousand yawning miles
My heart slowed
My heart slowed
Never to pick up again
Pieces
Pieces of my life
Are gone
Washed away
In the water
That took my son
April
April
How could I not have seen
April
You coming
April
How could I have worn
In-appropriate clothing
April
All that careful stepping
Rounding of my soul
And now your rain
April
I feel you leaving
I don't know what silence means
It could mean anything
April
Won't you answer me
These days just seem to crush me
Hatching, collapsing, tumbling down
April
What if I drown
I drown
April
I see you leaving
I don't know what silence means
It could mean anything
Won't you answer me
I dreamed
I dreamed
April, April
That I'm walking
That I'm watching
April
Your rain
It overcomes me
A Woman a
Man Walked By / The Crow Knows Where All The Little Children Go
I once knew a woman/man
"A courageous friend", I thought
But turned out so wrong was I
When we were up against the wall
He had chicken liver balls
He had chicken liver spleen
He had chicken liver heart
Made of chicken liver parts
Lily livered little parts
Lily livered little parts
Prematurely going bald
Any passion long-gone-cold
But I wanted to explore
The damp alleyways of his soul
Oh, the times I tried to help
He spit in my face and laughed
That woman/man
I want his fucking ass
I want his fucking ass
I want his fucking ass
I want your fucking ass!
Uh huh huh
Uh huh huh
Hermaphrodite
He's looking likely
Cramped in a taxi
I see you too clearly
I'm sucking on a little pee
I'm sucking on a little pee
My, my, you little toy
He's just a mummy's boy
Where's your liver
Where's your heart
What's like your woman parts
Now it's my turn to laugh
Just to get up your fucking ass
Just to get up your fucking ass
Just to get up your fucking ass
Just to get up your fucking ass
The
Soldier
I imagine a dream
In which I'm a soldier
And I'm walking
On the faces of dead women
And everyone I've left behind me
It's the year when the troops entered
The thirty-ninth, thirty-ninth parallel
Send me home restless
Send me home damaged
And wanting
It's the year when some poet said
"We must love or accept the consequences"
I want you to share every pinprick of guilt
That I have felt
Send me home restless
Send me home damaged
Send me home dispossessed
Send me home damaged
And wanting
Pig Will
Not
I, I, I will
I will not
I will not
No
I will not...
'How dare you,' says the angel
He crashes down from the heights
Shakes the disbeliever
Shakes the disbeliever's head
Shakes him harder
Instructing 'You will'
Woof, woof...
Hear me and you hear the law
All that rubbish inside your rotting mind
Woof, woof
I am your guardian
I am your fairy
Do my will
Woof, woof...
Such love as this it's true love
This is true love that we're doing now
It's even lovelier than it was before
All broken
Your face all mashed up
I will not
I will not
I will not...
Passionless, Pointless
Let's talk, let's talk
Let the dirt fall
Let heads roll
No kind hand is reaching out, for me tonight
I slept facing the wall, I dreamt of buildings in pieces
You slept, facing the wall, and you wanted less than I wanted
Passionless, pointless
Where does the passion go
I'm asking, there's no kindness in your hands
No reaching out, for me, tonight
You slept, facing the wall
And you wanted less than I wanted
I slept, facing the wall
But when I met you, how did you enter
I don't remember
How did we ever
Cracks In The
Canvas
| How
do we cope With the days after a death Empty days Nothing left Not even a funeral I see shapes forming inside paintings Animals and humans feet on road Walking towards something Waiting for something I'm looking for an answer Me and a million others disbelievers, deserted lovers Dear god you better not let me down this time Cracks in the canvas Look like roads that never end |
Honey Go to sleep You have no one to wait for And now, here's another voice Outside the window The voices of ten thousand angels Tten thousand lives that lived before |
Let England Shake
The West's asleep
Let England shake
Weighted down
With silent dead
I fear our blood
Won't rise again
Won't rise again
England's dancing days are done
Another day, Bobby, for you to come
Home and tell me indifference has won, won, won
Smile, smile Bobby
With your lovely mouth
Pack up your troubles
And let's head out
To the fountain
Of death and splash about
Swim back, forth, back, back
And laugh out loud
Until the day is ending
And the birds are silent
And the insects are courting
And by the shores
Heavy stones are falling
Smile, smile Bobby
With your lovely mouth
Pack up your troubles
And let's head out
To the fountain
Of death and splash about
Swim back, forth, back, back
And laugh out loud
The Last Living
Rose
Goddamn' Europeans
Take me back to beautiful England
And the grey, damp filthiness of ages
And battered books
And fog rolling down behind the mountains
And on the graveyards, and dead sea-captains
Let me walk through the stinking alleys
To the music of drunken beatings
Past the Thames River, glistening like gold
Hastily sold for nothing, nothing
Let me watch night fall on the river
The moon rise up and turn to silver
The sky move
The ocean shimmer
The hedge shake
The last living rose quiver
The Glorious Land
How is our glorious country ploughed
Not by iron ploughs
How is our glorious country ploughed
Not by iron ploughs
Our land is ploughed by tanks and feet
Feet, marching
Our land is ploughed by tanks and feet
Feet, marching
Oh, America, oh, England
Oh, America, oh, England
How is our glorious country sown
Not with wheat and corn
How is our glorious country sown
Not with wheat and corn
How is our glorious land bestowed
How is our glorious land bestowed
Oh, America, oh, England
Oh, America, oh, England
Oh, America, oh, England
Oh, America, oh, England
Oh what is the glorious fruit of our land
Its fruit is deformed children
What is the glorious fruit of our land
Its fruit is orphaned children
Oh what is the glorious fruit of our land
Its fruit is orphaned children
What is the glorious fruit of our land
Its fruit is deformed children
The Words That
Maketh
I've seen and done things I want to forget
I've seen soldiers fell like lumps of meat
Blown and shot out beyond belief
Arms and legs were in the trees
I've seen and done things I want to forget
Coming from an unearthly place
Longing to see a woman's face
Instead of the words that gather pace
The words that maketh murder
These, these, these are the words
The words that maketh murder
These, these, these are the words
The words that maketh murder
These, these, these are the words
Murder
These, these, these are the words
The words that maketh murder
These, these, these are the words
The words that maketh murder
I've seen and done things I want to forget
I've seen a corporal who’s nerves were shot
Climbing behind a fierce, gone sun
I've seen flies swarming everyone
Soldiers fell like lumps of meat
These are the words, the words are these
Death lingering, stunk
Flies swarming everyone
Over the whole summit peak
Flesh quivering in the heat
This was something else again
I fear it cannot be explained
The words that maketh, the words that maketh
Murder
What if I take my problem to the United Nations
What if I take my problem to the United Nations
What if I take my problem to the United Nations
What if I take my problem to the United Nations...
All and
Everyone
Death was everywhere
In the air and in the sounds
Coming off the mounds
Of Bolton's Ridge
Oh death's anchorage
When you rolled a smoke
Or told a joke
It was in the laughter
And drinking water
It approached the beach
As strings of cutters
Dropped into the sea
And lay around us
Death was in the ancient fortress
Shelled by a million bullets
From gunners, waiting in the copses
With hearts that threatened to pop their boxes
As we advanced into the sun
Death was all and everyone
Death was all and everyone
As we advanced in the sun
As we advanced, every man
As we advanced in the sun
Death hung in the smoke and clung
To four hundred acres of useless beachfront
A bank of red earth, dripping down
Death is now, and now, and now
Death was everywhere
In the air and in the sounds
Coming off the mounds
Of Bolton's Ridge
Oh death's anchorage
Death was in the staring sun
Fixing its eyes on everyone
It rattled the bones of the Light Horsemen
Still lying out there in the open
As we advanced in the sun
As we advanced, every man
As we advanced in the sun
Sing "Death to all and everyone"
On Battleship
Hill
The scent of Thyme carried on the wind
Stings your face into remembering
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
On Battleship Hill's caved in trenches
A hateful feeling still lingers
Even now, eighty years later
Cruel nature
Cruel, cruel nature
The land returns to how it has always been
Thyme carried on the wind
Jagged mountains, jutting out
Cracked like teeth in a rotten mouth
On Battleship Hill I hear the wind
Say "Cruel nature has won again"
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
England
I live and die
Through England
Through England
It leaves a sadness
Remedies
Never were
Within my reach
I cannot go on as I am
A withered vine
Reaching from
The country dirt
I love
England
You leave a taste
A bitter one
I have searched for your springs
But people, they stagnate with time
Like water, like air
To you, England, I cling
Undaunted
Never failing love for you
England
In the Dark
Places
We got up early
Washed our faces
Walked the fields
And put up crosses
Passed through
The damned mountains
Went hellwards
And some of us returned
And some of us did not
In the fields and in the forests
Under the moon and under the sun
Another summer has passed before us
And not one man has
And not one woman has
Revealed the secrets
Of this world
So our young men
Hid with guns
In the dirt
And in the dark places
Our young men
Hid with guns
In the dirt
And in the dark places
Our young men
Hid with guns
In the forests
And in the dark places
And not one man has
And not one woman has
Revealed the secrets
Of this world
Bitter Branches
Bitter branches
Spreading out
There’s none more bitter
Than the wood
Into the white world
It grows
Twisting under
Soldier’s feet
Standing in line
And the damp earth underneath
Holding up their rifles high
Holding their young wives
Who wave goodbye
Hold up the clear glass
To look and see
Soldiers standing
And the roots twist underneath
Their young wives with white hands
Wave goodbye
Their arms as bitter branches
Spreading into the world
Wave goodbye
Wave goodbye
Wave goodbye...
Hanging
in the Wire
Walker sees the mist rise
Over no man's land
He sees in front of him
A smashed up waste-ground
There are no fields or trees
No blades of grass
Just unburied ghosts are there
Hanging in the wire
Walker's in the wire
Limbs pointing upwards
There are no birds singing
"The white cliffs of Dover"
There are no trees to sing from
Walker cannot hear the wind
Far off, a symphony
Do you hear the guns beginning
Walker's in the mist rising
Over no-man's land
In the battered waste-ground
The big guns firing
People throwing dinars at the belly-dancers
In a sad circus by a trench of burning oil
People throw belongings, a life-time's earnings
Amongst the scattered rubbish and suitcases on the sidewalk
Date, palms, and orange and tangerine trees
And eyes are crying for everything
(Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn, burn, burn)
So I talked to an old man by the generator
He was standing on the gravel by the fetid river
He turned to me and then surveyed the scene
Said, “War is here in our beloved city”
(Let it burn, let it burn burn burn)
Some dove in the river and tried to swim away
Through tons of sewage, fate written on their foreheads
Date, palms, and orange and tangerine trees
And eyes are crying for everything
(Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn, burn, burn)
The Colour of
the Earth
Louis was my dearest friend
Fighting in the Anzac trench
Louis ran forward from the line
I never saw him again
Later in the dark
I thought I heard Louis' voice
Calling for his mother, then me
But I couldn't get to him
He's still up on that hill
Twenty years on that hill
Nothing more than a pile of bones
But I think of him still
If I was asked I'd tell
The colour of the earth that day
It was dull and browny-red
"The colour of blood", I'd say
