THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
Gish (1991)
I am one as you are three Try to find messiah in your trinity Your city to burn, your city to burn Try to look for something in your city to burn, you'll burn Am I as I seem? I'm down Down, so down Time is right for a guiding light ... Your city to burn, your city to burn Try to look for something in your city to burn, you'll burn See you, don't you just want to? See you, I am one
I spin off and lose my head Throwing stray a spark instead Gather strength down in my heel And dig it in the world I peel Way down deep within my heart Lies a soul that's torn apart Tell me, tell me what you're after I just want to get there faster I don't live, I inhale I don't give, I unveil Don't wannna live in your misery I don't live, I inhale Sprinkle all my kisses on your head Stars full of wishes fill our beds She said, "I'm dead" All this pain smothers me Like a bomb that you can't see Tell me, tell me what you're after I just wanna get there faster I don't live, I inhale I don't give, I unveil I don't live, I inhale I don't live
Planned a show, trees and balloons Ice cream snow, see you in June Could have known, I would reveal Should have known, I would conceal your way She knows - And she knows, she knows, she knows And she knows, she knows, she knows How's it - She knows, she knows, she knows And she knows, she knows Colors show, after the moon I should go, see you in June, your way She knows... Open your eyes, to these must I lie? Open your eyes, to these must I lie that way? She knows...
Bury me in love Bury me in love Shared your kisses, take your heart Buried me and it hurts I love my sister so She don't smother me I played the spades I know I'm a jack of all trades, would you bury me? Once you see her, one inside Some things you just can't hide If you see her, tell me why Why won't she come outside? If you see her, tell me why Why won't she come outside? Once you see her, one inside Some things you just can't hide She will bury me She will bury me
You wrap your arms around A feeling that surrounds Like liquid peppermint Just taste the drinks that she served And this feeling shivers down your spine Love comes in colors, I can't deny All that matters is love, love, your love You're sleeping in your bed Just rest your weary head Maybe you shouldn't care Throw away those dreams and dare And I wonder if it matters to me Love comes in colors, I can't deny All that shimmers is love, love, your love Your love
All that you suffer is all that you are All that you smother is all that you are And you're saying you're seeing, you're saying who you are What takes meaning is cleaning the meaning of who you are All may say, I will dream All may say All of your struggles beneath your disguise Drink from the reasons that hold you alive 'Til we're safe from the wounds of desire and pain You must rise from the mounds of desire and change Too late to discover peace of mind Too late to recover me All you see and all you breathe and all you cease to be Taken down your only son and what he means to me Your dream will be to dream with me Will you wait? Yes I will, I will wait for you Will you wait? Yes I will, I will wait for you To cleanse your life takes more than time Take what you want, take all of it Too late to discover peace of mind (have no peace of mind) To late to recover
All your seven dreams Look close, son, and you'll believe As your things come undone See you are the only one Flower, seize the hour I did, I wait Waiting, waiting for your wake, I'll wait When you wake up you're all weak Throwing your life away Someday, sorry coming home Sorry snail, what you wait for? Flower, the pain will wash away, away When the sun shines, climbs through your window, into your bed When you wake up you're all weak Throwing your life away Someday, sorry coming home Sorry snail, down in my heart Flower, save the hour Flower away What you wait for? Flower chase the sunshine Flower chase the sunshine Flower
Pledged your faith, my heart embraced Struggle to renew Blurry mind, so hypnotized Fast enough who Wonder where you are Tristessa Soul takes soul as I take eye I will wait for you What you believe you'll wish to receive? I won't believe in you, you Hang on to your life Tristessa I love you true, surely I do I love you true, surely I do Surely I do, surely I do Do you ever wake up and find yourself alone? Do you ever wake up far from home? What you believe you'll wish to receive? I won't believe in you Tristessa, Tristessa Tristessa
Window paine - Around my heart Shadows streak - Around my heart Do what you gotta do And say what you gotta say Do what you gotta do Yes, start today, start today Wind blow, shame - Around my heart Shadows scream - Around my heart What are you coming to Stripped down to the bone? Laughing, living on your own, all alone Do what you gotta do...
My daydream seems as one inside of you Though it seems hard to reach through this life Your blue and hopeless life My daydream screams bitter 'til the end The love I share, true, selfish to the heart My heart, my sacred heart My daydream, dream, my daydream My daydream, dream, my daydream
I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy I don't want feelings, your feelings I have gone crazy, motherfucking crazy I have gone
Siamese Dream (1993)
Freak out and give in Doesn't matter what you believe in Stay cool and be somebody's fool, this year 'Cause they know who is righteous, what is bold So I’m told, who wants honey? As long as there's some money Who wants that honey? Hipsters unite Come align for the big fight to rock for you Beware all those angels with there wings glued on 'Cause deep down we are frightened and we're scared If you don't stare, who wants honey? As long as there's some money Who wants that honey? Let me out - Yes, let me out Yes, let me out - Yes, let me out Tell me all of your secrets Cannot help but believe this is true Tell me all of your secrets I know, I know, I know Should have listened when I was told Who wants that honey? As long as there is some money Who wants that honey? Let me out...
Quiet, I am sleeping In here we need a little hope For years I've been sleeping Helpless, couldn't tell a soul Be ashamed of the mess you've made My eyes never forget, you see behind me Silent, metal mercies Castrate boys to the bone Jesus, are you listening? Up there to anyone at all We are the fossils the relics of our time We mutilate the meanings, so they're easy to deny Be ashamed... Quiet, I am sleeping Quiet, I am sleeping Quiet, I don't trust You, I can't hear you Be ashamed... Behind me, the grace of falling snow Cover up everything you know Come, save me from the awful sound Of nothing
Today is the greatest day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, tomorrow's much too long I'll burn my eyes out before I get out I wanted more than life could ever grant me Bored by the chore of saving face Today is the greatest day I've ever known Can't wait for tomorrow, I might not have that long I'll tear my heart out before I get out Pink ribbon scars that never forget I tried so hard to cleanse these regrets My angel wings were bruised and restrained My belly stings Today is, today is Today is the greatest day I want to turn you on (x3) I want to turn you Today is the greatest Today is the greatest day Today is the greatest day That I have ever really known
Faith lies in, the ways of sin I chased the charmed but I don't want them anymore And in their eyes I was alive, a fool's disguise Take me away from you Shame my tongue, fat with promise all along When I woke up from that sleep I was happier than I’d ever been When you decide that your life is a prize Renew and revive, it's all right honey It's all right, yeah Happiness will make you wonder “Will I feel OK?” It scares the disenchanted, far away Yeah, I want something new But what am I supposed to do about you? Yeah, I love you, it's true Life's a bummer when you're a hummer Life's a drag Ask yourself a question Anyone but me, I ain't free (x2) Do you feel love is real?
Bleed in your own light Dream of your own life I miss me, I miss everything I’d never be And on, and on I torch my soul to show the world that I am pure Deep inside my heart No more lies A crown of thorns, an image formed, deformed The mark I've borne, a mark of scorn to you Consume my love, devour my hate Only powers my escape The moon is out, the stars invite I think I’d leave tonight Soon I’d find myself alone To relax and fade away Do you know what's coming down Do you know I couldn't stay free? I shall be free, I shall be free I shall be free, I shall be free I shall be free, free Free of those voices inside me I shall be free, I shall be free
Disarm you with a smile And cut you like you want me to Cut that little child Inside of me and such a part of you Ooh, the years burn I used to be a little boy So old in my shoes And what I choose is my choice What's a boy supposed to do? The killer in me is the killer in you My love, I send this smile over to you Disarm you with a smile And leave you like they left me here To wither in denial The bitterness of one who's left alone Ooh, the years burn Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn I used to be a little boy...
Nothing left to say And all I've left to do Is run away from you And she led me on, down With secrets I can't keep Close your eyes and sleep, don't wait up for me Hush now, don't you speak to me? Wrapped my hurt in you And took my shelter in that pain The opiate of blame Is your broken heart, your heart So now I’m all by myself, as I've always felt I'll betray my tears to anyone caught in our ruse of fools One last kiss for me, yeah One last kiss, good night Didn't want to lose you once again Didn't want to be your friend Fulfilled a promise made of tin And crawled back to you I'm all by myself, as I've always felt I'll betray myself to anyone, lost, anyone but you So let the sadness come again On that you can depend on me, yeah Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah When God sleeps in bliss I'm all by myself, as I've always felt And I’d betray myself to anyone
Lover, lover let's pretend, we're born as innocents Cast into the world with apple eyes To wish, wish dangerous, my dear delirious To try and leave the rest of us behind Shot full of diamonds and a million years The disappointed disappear Like they were never here Kiss, kiss all of this, the hiss that we had missed And understand what can't be understood Sear those thoughts of me, alone and unhappy I never liked me anyway If by chance or circumstance We should fail, don't be so sad Shot full of diamonds... In a dream we are connected Siamese twins at the wrist And then I knew we'd been forsaken Expelled from paradise I can't believe them When they say that it's alright Words can't define what I feel inside Who needs them? Caught with this virus of my mind I give in to my disease, of my needs To my disease, of my needs She really loves to break, her dad says it’s OK She really loves to break and give it all away Her ma says she's afraid, what more can she fake? She really needs to break and give herself away She gave it all away, she gave it all away She gave it all away, we really love the USA
Fool enough to almost be it Cool enough to not quite see it, doomed Pick your pockets full of sorrow And run away with me tomorrow, June We'll try and ease the pain But somehow we'll feel the same Well, no one knows where our secrets go I send a heart to all my dearies When your life is so, so dreary, dream I'm rumored to the straight and narrow While the harlots of my perils, scream And I fail but when I can, I will Try to understand that when I can, I will Mother weep the years I’m missing All our time can't be given, back Shut my mouth and strike the demons That cursed you and your reasons Out of hand and out of season Out of love and out of feeling So bad, when I can, I will Words defy the plans, when I can, I will Fool enough to almost be it And cool enough to not quite see it And old enough to always feel this Always old, I’d always feel this No more promise, no more sorrow No longer will I follow Can anybody hear me? I just want to be me, when I can, I will Try to understand that when I can, I will
Feel it, break your bones Mr. Jones Taste me as I bleed Taste my need And spaceboy, I've missed you Spinning round my head And any way you choose me You'll break instead Watch me, death defy Defile my life I don't need, I don't care Please I want to go home (x4) 'Cause when a lover aches That's when a lover breaks I want to go home (x2) And spaceboy, they'll kill me before I’m dead and gone And anyway you choose me, it won't be wrong And anyway you choose me we won't belong We won't belong (x5)
I hear your winter and I hear your rain I've failed your summer ways and I feel no pain I hear what you want and I feel that way (x2) I hear you fade away and I hear you crawl And I gave my life away, and I feel no pain And I feel no pain, and I feel no pain And I feel your pain She was my lover, so sweet And she was my angel What I've recovered of me I put into a box underneath my bed When you lie in your bed and you lie to yourself (x2) Lie - Lie Bang, bang, you're dead - Hole in your head (x4) I hear what you want and I feel that way (x2) (This take, don't give a fuck)
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet little agony I don't know just where you've been But I’d take, take, take all that you have for me In sin, where are we going? And they all want you to change And they all want you to change And the sad, sad, sad all the sad faces drown In this town, where are we going? And they all want you to change - Where are we going? And they all want you to change - Where are we going?
What moon songs do you sing your babies? What sunshine do you bring? Who belongs, who decides who's crazy Who rights wrongs where others cling? I'll sing for you if you want me to, I’d give to you And it's a chance I’d have to take And it's a chance I’d have to break I go along just because I’m lazy I go along to be with you And those moon songs that you sing your babies Will be the songs to see you through I'll hear your song if you want me to, I’d sing along And it's a chance I’d have to take And it's a chance I’d have to break I'm in love with you (x4) So in love I'm in love with you, with you I'm in love with you (x2) So in love I'm in love with you, I’m so in love I'm in love with you
Pisces Iscariot (1994)
Hungry, hungry again Hungry, hungry again When will it start to sway? When will it start to almost break you? Hungry, hungry again Hungry, hungry again I'll miss you and I wish you luck Well, I forgive you and I don't wish you Away, away, away, it'll almost break you Almost take you, almost break you Almost break you up
So now listen here I wanna be oh so clear I lost my soul, lost I'll stay Between your hands and my beliefs And here I am, frail Frail and bedazzled from all the glare Tug at my sleeve My little girl, supermaid She don't know that I have Stole my smile from a Cheshire cat And all I wanted was to be a man Since I gave up I feel free I feel free, I feel free, I feel free The two of us, that's dangerous It's all inside our heads Giving in for nothing less Leaving me for him Try to understand the ones I love And their demands It's so unfair when they can't see That I'm the boy who really needs Their love, I suppose Frail and bedazzled from all the (x2) Frail and bedazzled from all the glare
Oh yeah, another day Oh yeah, gotta play What it is? It never was I don't care to give enough My boredom has outshined the sun It's all down low I just want to have some little fun Oh yeah, another day Oh yeah, what a waste What it is? it never was I don't care or give a fuck My boredom has outshined the sun... Bring me down, bring me down
I've wasted all my years Been chasing all my fears For another brighter than you I gave in long ago to make it to the show But it's not easy when you're alone All your prayers in my ears Don't you care? Whir yourself around Just to fall back down Whir yourself around My honey, little girl Come on, let’s go for a whirl It's still early, the sun is sleeping She says she wants to marry me She says she wants a baby It's not easy when you're scared Whir yourself around... All your prayers in my ears Don't you care?
Blew, blew away, but I don't wanna fade Blew, blew And if you love her you know it will come true And if you need her you know that she'll be there Stay awake, I lie here with her and I fall When I wake inside you I know you know I'm yours Blew, blew away, but I don't wanna fade Blew, blew And if you're sad, too until the angel sings and touches you Don't confuse my only life I said blew, and please don't ever leave And I will grieve, and member thee, hope to meet you there And I wanna let her know that I won't let her go I wanna let her know that I love her so I'm blew, blew, blew away But I don't wanna blew, I love you Blew
Got me a raygun, got me an altitude Can't help feeling something's wrong with everyone of you Inside your head, trust me instead Inside your head Talk revolution as if it matters now I don't care anyway, just give me what I want Inside your head... Ooh, honey, fill me with your little whispers Store your little nightmares of a generation Set to burn Come on honey, let's go for a ride Down where the crickets learn to sing and play, baby Inside your head, trust me instead (x3) Inside your head Yeah, it's a motherfucker, oh
Say hello before you say goodbye I should go before you make me cry She wants to bleed every drop inside of me But I aim to please the little girl inside of me, too Yeah-yeah, you know I hate to say it Oh no, I always stay I don't wanna be like the others, please Who is sorry now? Who is sorry now? If I show you how, will you let me down? Slit my wrists and die a whore Love to love to love what you adore I can give you anything, but please let me be your everything, you lose Yeah-yeah, you know I hate to say it... Who is sorry now? If you show me how If I show you how, will you let me down? My love is weakness My love is oh, so wrong My love is sadness My love is oh, so strong My teeth are razor sharp My love is fucking strong I'll be with you, but not for long Yeah-yeah, you know I hate to say it... Who is sorry now? Who is sorry now? Who is sorry now? If you show me how Will you let me down? Will you let me down? Please let me down, please let me down
Lost your head, now you sleep on the floor What you said, I don't want anymore Through the haze, make your eyes up to ache Out in space, days away Through these eyes, I rely on all I've seen - Obscured Through these eyes, it looks like I'm home tonight Left for dead, as you sweep out the cold Things we said we don't need anymore Tale inside her, like a fallen kite Hey, hey, yeah Through these eyes, I deny on all I've seen - Obscured Through these eyes, it looks like I'm home tonight What you said made a mess of me What you said, I don't want - Obscured
I took my love and took it down I climbed a mountain, I turned around And I saw my reflection in a snow covered hill 'Til the landslide brought it down Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Well, I’ve been afraid of changing ‘Cause I’ve built my life around you Time makes you bolder, even children get older, and I’m getting older too (x2) I’m getting older too I took my love and took it down I climbed a mountain, I turned around And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hill The landslide brought it down (x2)
I’m in here, please take me home Starla dear, I’m all alone When you can't decide what's on your mind It's clear I'm here, Starla dear To disappear takes so much time Starla dear, you're on my mind Soon, soon I'll be leaving Soon, soon I'll be leaving I hear all you're saying I hear all you're failing I’m in here, please take me home... Serve yourself, no one else can do for you like you No one else fails like me, in my eyes I burn alive Fly like a bird, no more words just you and I High in the sky
Hey blue, all your love is strange Come out with all those crazy names So true when you lie - For you, blue Right or wrong, I belong Right or wrong Hey blue, where'd you run to now? Miss you since they found you out I’ve been waiting such a long time For your smile - For you I lay with you, this velvet morning Stay with me for a while Where we run to is up to you Just stay with me for a while
Well, I met a girl called Sandoz And she taught me many, many things Good things, very good things, sweet things I met her on a Sunday morning It was hot though the snow lay on the ground Strange things, very strange things, my mind has wings Sandoz, Sandoz, will you tell me no? Sandoz, Sandoz, will you tell me why? We could all learn something from your mind, yeah She is very old yet many think she's young One kiss from her and you know your time has come Good times, for all time, Sandoz
I lay my head on her bosom to cry myself to sleep I see no greater wisdom than she has given me La Dolly Vita, sweet as true love La Dolly Vita, cool as ice cream Cool as ice cream You hear a lot of visions, you can't even stop Can't see what you're missing, spinning like a top Fade away, I want to see her Fade away, I want to see her I only want to meet her La Dolly Vita, true as blue sky La Dolly Vita, cool as ice cream Cool as ice cream Take it all the way down Forsake what you have now Take it all the way down
Dad, dead, was I ever alive? Fucking makes you alive in one minute Solstice, I am solstice filled with mercury Filled with mercury, liquid fucked See right through your heart, fuck your heart I am mercury liquid, pure, hot, alive, dead Mucked fish eyes, doe eyes I was born alive I'll fucking kill you I'll beat your soft baby head with my own hand Careful with that baby Don't ever say the h word around him Ashamed, I am ashamed of my name, say it I hate the sound of your shit because it means no good It means cheap, liar, smarter piece of shit Change it to raygun you fuck Billy the loon, I am the loon, I am Mars Billy addly-addly-addly, your name causes shit While I may be no expert on this reality There is no God, but shame God is hurt, God is cold, try that once God is dead, there is not another one Battle, cold heart radio, feedback the pain Recurring messages of badness, recurring living bad dreams At the vortex of lost souls, wailing lost souls of shame We are in one hole, like a cup of mercury phosphate Shuddering around, taste my shit, you wench Lifting, wailing lost souls who stand a chance Hot, my eyes darkly gaze and wonder Do not enter, why? I was born whole Fractured, divided, shattered into a billion fragments A million piece puzzle, a million piece jigsaw puzzle with no this, and no that
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995)
Dawn To Dusk
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
(instrumental)
Time is never time at all You can never ever leave Without leaving a piece of youth And our lives are forever changed We will never be the same The more you change, the less you feel Believe, believe in me, believe That life can change, that you're not stuck in vain We're not the same, we're different tonight Tonight, tonight, so bright, tonight - Tonight And you know you're never sure But you're sure you could be right If you held yourself up to the light And the embers never fade In your city by the lake The place where you were born Believe, believe in me, believe - Believe In the resolute urgency of now And if you believe there's not a tonight Tonight, tonight, so bright, tonight - Tonight We'll crucify the insincere tonight - Tonight We'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight - Tonight We'll find a way to offer up the night - Tonight The indescribable moments of your life - Tonight The impossible is possible tonight - Tonight Believe in me as I believe in you - Tonight Tonight, tonight - Tonight, tonight
Welcome to nowhere fast, nothing here ever lasts Nothing but memories of what never was We're nowhere, we're nowhere, we're nowhere to be Nowhere, we're nowhere, we're nowhere to see, to see Living makes me sick, so sick, I wish I’d die Down in the belly of the beast, I can’t lie You're nowhere, you're nowhere, you're nowhere to be Nowhere, you're nowhere, you're nowhere to see, to see There's nothing left to do, there's nothing left to feel Doesn't matter what you want, so To make yourself feel better you make it so you'll never give in to your forevers and live for always And forever, forever, you're forever to be Forever, forever, you're forever to me, to me
My reflection, dirty mirror There's no connection to myself I’m your lover, I’m your zero I’m the face in your dreams of glass So save your prayers For when we're really gonna need 'em Throw out your cares and fly Wanna go for a ride? She's the one for me, she's all I really need ‘Cause she's the one for me Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness And cleanliness is godliness, and God is empty, just like me Intoxicated with the madness I’m in love with my sadness Bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms The fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth I never let on, that I was on a sinking ship I never let on that I was down You blame yourself for what you can't ignore You blame yourself for wanting more She's the one for me, she's all I really need She's the one for me, she's my one and only
The useless drag of another day The endless drags of a death rock boy Mascara sure and lipstick lost Glitter burned by restless thoughts of being forgotten And in your sad machines you'll forever stay Desperate and displeased with whoever you are, and you're a star Somewhere, he pulls his hair down over a frowning smile A hidden diamond you cannot find, a secret star that cannot shine over to you May the king of gloom be forever doomed? And in your sad machines you'll forever stay Burning up in speed lost inside the dreams, of teen machines The useless drags, the empty days The lonely towers of long mistakes To forgotten faces and faded loves Sitting still was never enough And if you're giving in, then you're giving up ‘Cause in your sad machines you'll forever stay Burning up in speed lost inside the dreams, of teen machines
The world is a vampire, sent to drain Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames And what do I get for my pain? Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game Even though I know, I suppose I’d show All my cool and cold, like old job Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage (x2) Then someone will say, “What is lost can never be saved” Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage Now I’m naked, nothing but an animal But can you fake it? For just one more show And what do you want? I want to change And what have you got when you feel the same? Even though I know, I suppose I’d show All my cool and cold, like old job Despite all my rage... Tell me I’m the only one Tell me there's no other one Jesus was an only son Tell me I’m the chosen one Jesus was an only son for you Despite all my rage... Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a... Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a... Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage Tell me I’m the only one Tell me there's no other one Jesus was an only son for you And I still believe that I cannot be saved (x4)
Ten times removed I forget about where it all began Bastard son of a bastard son of a wild-eyed child of the sun And right as rain, I’m not the same But I feel the same, I feel nothing Holding back the fool again Holding back the fool pretends I forget to forget, nothing is important Holding back the fool again I sensed my loss Before I even learned to talk And I remember my birthdays Empty party afternoons won't come back Holding back the fool again... I forget to forget me I forget to forget, you see Nothing is important to me I knew my loss Before I even learned to speak And all along, I knew it was wrong But I played along, with my birthday song Holding back the fool again...
I’m never coming back, I’m never giving in I’ll never be the shine in your spit I disconnect the act, I disconnect the dots I disconnect the me in me And you're mistaken, it's you that's faking Living and breathing and dying too This message is for anyone who dares to hear a fool You can't bring me back, you can't bring me back ‘Cause I give it all back to you Thru sacred alleys, the living wrecks Wreak their havoc upon this world The disenchanted, the romantics The body and face and soul of you Is gone down that deep black hole Destroy the mind, destroy the body But you cannot destroy the heart Destroy the mind, destroy the body But you cannot destroy the heart And you, you make me so, I need to disconnect And you make it so real I don't need you love to disconnect To runaround kids in get-go cars With vaseline afterbirths and neon coughs Galaxies full of nobodies Giving us the farewell runarounds I took a virgin Mary axe to his sweet baby Jane Lost my innocence to a no good girl Scratch my face with anvil hands And coil my tongue around a bumblebee mouth And I give it all back to you, I give it all back to you, yeah I give it all back to you, for you No way, I don't need it I don't need your love to disconnect And you make it so real I don't need your love to disconnect No way, no way No way, yeah-yeah, to disconnect And you make it so real I don't need your love to disconnect No way, no way No way, yeah-yeah, to disconnect Yeah!!
To my mistakes, to my mistakes of cowardice She shimmy shakes, the Jimmy jakes of consequence Born of the airs and dues, my airs of madness do declare That it's OK, it's love It's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be For what you needed to need, she'll make it up Love, love, it's who you know (x3) Love, love Machine gun blues, her vacant rush is so steel I’m unaware, lost inside your visions I got mine too over, I got mine and I got you ‘Cause I know you, you're love It's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be For what you needed to need, she'll make it up Love, love... Can I look up to you as you look down on me? Can I feel in to you as you felt in to me? I can’t help what you see, I can’t help but to be For what I needed to need, she'll make it Love, love...
Cupid had pulled back his sweetheart's bow To cast divine arrows into her soul To grab her attention swift and quick Or morrow the marrow of her bones be thick With turpentine kisses and mistaken blows See the devil may do as the devil may care He loves none sweeter as sweeter the dare Her mouth, the mischief he doth seek Her heart the captive of which he speaks So note all ye lovers in love with the sound Your world be shattered with nary a note Of one cupid’s arrow under your coat And in the land of star crossed lovers And barren hearted wanderers Forever lost in forsaken missives and Satan's pull We seek the unseekable and we speak the unspeakable Our hopes dead gathering dust to dust In faith, in compassion, and in love
Ain’t it funny how we pretend we're still a child? Softly stolen under our blanket skies And rescue me from me, and all that I believe I won't deny the pain, I won't deny the change And should I fall from grace? Here, with you Will you leave me too? Carve out your heart for keeps in an old oak tree And hold me for good-byes and whispered lullabies And tell me I am still the man I’m supposed to be I won't deny the pain, I won't deny the change And should I fall from grace here with you? Will you leave me too? Will you leave me too? Too late to turn, to turn back now, I’m running out of sound And I am changing, changing And if we died right now, this fool you love somehow Is here, with you I won't deny the pain, I won't deny the change And should I fall from grace here with you? Would you leave me too? Would you leave me too?
I fear that I’m ordinary Just like everyone To lie here and die among the sorrows Adrift among the days For everything I ever said And everything I’ve ever done is gone and dead As all things must surely have to end And great loves will one day have to part I know that I am meant for this world My life has been extraordinary Blessed and cursed and won Time heals but I’m forever broken By and by the way Have you ever heard the words? I’m singing in this song It's for the girl I’ve loved all along Can a taste of love be so wrong? As all things must surely have to end And great loves will one day have to part I know that I am meant for this world And in my mind as I was floating Far above the clouds Some children laughed I’d fall for certain For thinking that I’d last forever But I knew exactly where I was And I knew the meaning of it all And I knew the distance to the sun And I knew the echo that is love And I knew the secrets in your spires And I knew the emptiness of youth And I knew the solitude of heart And I knew the murmurs of the soul And the world is drawn into your hands And the world is etched upon your heart And the world, so hard to understand And the world you, can't live without And I knew the silence of the world (etc.)
As far as you take me, that's where I believe The realm of soft delusions, floating on the leaves On a distant shoreline, she waves her arms to me As all the thought police, and closing in for sleep The dilly dally of my bright lit stay The steam of my misfortunes has given me the power to be afraid And in my mind I’m everyone And in my mind Without a care in this whole world (x2) Without a care in this life It's what you take that makes it right Porcelina of the oceans blue Porcelina, porcelina In the slipstream, of thoughtless thoughts The light of all that's good, the light of all that's true To the fringes gladly, I walk unadorned With gods and their creations With filth and disease Porcelina, she waits for me there With seashell hissing lullabies And whispers fathomed deep inside my own Hidden thoughts and alibis My secret thoughts come alive Without a care in this whole world... And in my mind I’m everyone And in my mind I’m everyone In my mind I’m everyone of you You make it right - It's all alright You make it right Porcelina of the oceans blue (x2)
Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down to the underground? Why oh, why there is no light? If I can’t sleep, can you hold my life? And all I see is you And take my hand, I lost where I began In my heart I know all of my faults Will you help me understand? And I believe in you, you're the other half of me Soothe and heal - When you sleep, when you dream I’ll be there if you need me, whenever I hear you sing There is a sun, it'll come, the sun, I hear them call me down I held you once, a love that once, and life had just begun And you're all I see And trumpets blew, and angels flew on the other side And you're all I see, and you're all I’d need There's a love that God puts in your heart
Candy cane walks down To build a bonfire, to break my fall My baby, my sweet thing Just maybe we could lose ourselves this time King of the horseflies, dark prince of death His tragic forces are heaven sent In sweet things, in a lovers breath In knowing this was meant to be the last A go-go-go kids, a go-go-go style A suck-suck-suck kiss, a suck-suck-suck smile As always, in young need A veiled promise to never die On dead highways, her black beauties roam For June angels, so far from home For a love lost, a faded picture To tread lightning, to ink the lavender skies Get on, get on, get on the bomb Get back, get back where you belong
Cast the pearls aside, of a simple life of need Come into my life forever The crumbled cities stand as known Of the sights you have been shown Of the hurt you call your own Love is suicide (x4) The empty bodies stand at rest Casualties of their own flesh Afflicted by their dispossession But no bodies ever knew, nobodies No bodies felt like you, nobodies Love is suicide... Now we drive the night, to the ironies of peace You can't help deny forever The tragedies reside in you The secret sights hide in you The lonely nights divide you in two, in two, in two All my blisters now revealed In the darkness of my dreams In the spaces in between us No bodies ever knew, nobodies No bodies felt like you, nobodies No bodies ever knew, nobodies No bodies felt like you, nobodies Love is suicide...
Speak to me in a language I can hear Humor me before I have to go Deep in thought I forgive everyone As the cluttered streets greet me once again I know I can’t be late, supper's waiting on the table Tomorrow's just an excuse away So I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own The Earth laughs beneath my heavy feet At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk Steeple guide me to my heart and home The sun is out and up and down again I know I’d make it, love can last forever Graceful swans of never topple to the Earth And you can make it last, forever you You can make it last, forever You can make it last And for a moment I lose myself Wrapped up in the pleasures of the world I’ve journeyed here and there and back again But in the same old haunts I still find my friends Mysteries not ready to reveal Sympathies I’m ready to return I’ll make the effort, love can last forever Graceful swans of never topple to the Earth Tomorrow's just an excuse (x2) And you can make it last, forever you You can make it last, forever You can make it last, forever you Forever you
Sleep will not come to this tired body now Peace will not come to this lonely heart There are some things I’d live without But I want you to know that I need you right now I need you tonight I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves ‘Cause I’d always miss her wherever she goes And I’d always need her more than she could ever need me I need someone to ease my mind But sometimes a someone is so hard to find And I’d do anything to keep her here tonight And I’d say anything to make her feel alright And I’d be anything to keep her here tonight ‘Cause I want you to stay, with me I need you tonight She comes to me like an angel out of time As I play the part of a saint on my knees There are some things I’d live without But I want you to know that I need you right now Suffer my desire, suffer my desire Suffer my desire for you (x2) For you - For you
Shakedown 1979 Cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet Junebug skipping like a stone Headlights pointed at the dawn We were sure we'd never see an end to it all And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know just where our bones will rest, to dust, I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the Earth below Double cross, the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in the store Morphine city slipping dues down to see That we don't even care as restless as we are We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts And poured cement, lamented and assured To the lights and towns below, faster than the speed of sound Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope Justine never knew the rules Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls No apologies ever need be made I know you better than you fake it To see that we don't care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know just where our bones will rest, to dust, I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the Earth below The street heats the urgency of now As you can see there's no one around
Farewell, goodnight, last one out turn out the lights And let me be, let me die inside Let me know the way from this world of hate in you ‘Cause the dye is cast, and the bitch is back And we're all dead, yeah, we're all dead Inside the future of a shattered past I lie just to be real, I’d die just to feel Why do the same old things keep on happening? Because beyond my hopes there are no feelings Bless the martyrs and kiss the kids For knowing better, for knowing this ‘Cause you're all whores and I’m a fag And I’ve got no mother and I’ve got no dad To save me the wasted, save me from myself I lie just to be real, and I’d die just to feel Why do the same old things keep on happening? And beyond my hopes there are no feelings Everybody's lost, just waiting to be found Everyone's a thought, just waiting to fade So fuck it all ‘cause I don't care So what somehow, somewhere we dared To try, to dare for a little more I lie just to be real, and I’d die just to feel Why do the same old things keep on happening? And beyond my hopes there are no reasons
Wrap me up in always, and drag me in with maybes Your innocence is treasure, your innocence is death Your innocence is all I have Breathing underwater, and living under glass And if you spin your love around the secrets of your dreams You may find your love is gone and is not quite what it seemed To appear, to disappear beneath all your darkest fears I believe in never, I believe in all the way But belief is not to notice, believe is just some faith And faith can't help you to escape And with this ring I wed thee true and with this ring I wed thee now And with this ring I play so dead But no one's asking for the truth, so let me tell you If you spin your love around... To the revelations of fresh faced youth No one will come to save you So speak your peace in the murmurs drawn But youth is wasted on the young Your strength is my weakness, your weakness my hate My love for you just can't explain Why we're, we’re forever frozen, forever beautiful Forever lost inside ourselves The night has come to hold us young (etc.)
Boredom's in the bathroom shaking out the loose teeth Sally's in the stirrups, claiming her destiny And nobody, nowhere understands anything About me and all my dreams, lost at sea Jack it up, Judy, set your heart alight Mayfair mistress of the satellites Misspent youth, faking up a rampage To hold off the real slaves, paid off and staid And what you never knew can never get to you So fake it, I’d be your stumbleine I’ll be your super queen and make you Jukebox fuck up hanging round the drugstore No matter what you say, he'll be back for more Mommy's in the manger with the little kids She's got her reasons, got my forgets of tears and idle threats misplaced And no matter what they do, they can't get to you So fake it, I’d be your stumbleine I’ll be your super queen, and make you me Come around, Ruby, I could never sleep alone
She didn't wanna be, she didn't wanna know She couldn't run away cause she was crazy She gave it all away, she saw her baby break And in the air it hung that she was dull razors And I said, I wanna fill you up I wanna break you, I wanna give you up From one another, another one should come To one another, no one should come between us Still I was lonely, and she was by my side My one and only knows that she could never hide I couldn't feel her, and it was just a game ‘Cause I was lonely and she was crazy Rat-tat-tat, ka boom-boom Now take that, and just a bit of this ‘Cause I’m a watcher and I’m a doer of none Come to save you, ‘cause you're all mine I hurt where I can’t feel, I feel where I can’t hurt I know where I can’t know, I bleed for me and mine Ka-boom, aah, rat-tat-tat, and some ole I’m a sister and I’m a motherfuck I am made of shamrocks, I am made of stern stuff I am never enough, I am the forgotten child And I said I wanna fill you up I wanna break you, I wanna give you up From one another, no one should ever come In between us, between us and our love Mary had a little lamb, her face was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went I was sure to go Now Mary’s got a problem, and Mary’s not a stupid girl Mary’s got some deep shit, and Mary does not forget And this is how Mary’s garden grows This is how Mary has her ghosts And into the eyes of the Jackyl I say ka-boom! Now we begin descent, to where we've never been There is no going back, this wasn't meant to last This is a hell on earth, we are meant to serve And she will never learn, she will never learn Bye-bye, baby goodbye
We only come out at night, we only come out at night The days are much too bright, we only come out at night And once again, you'll pretend to know me well, my friends And once again, I’d pretend to know the way Thru the empty space, through the secret places of the heart We only come out at night, we only come out at night The days are much too bright, we only come out at night I walk alone, I walk alone to find the way home I’m on my own, I’m on my own to see the ways That I can’t help the days, you will make it home OK, I know you can, and you can We only come out at night, we only come out at night The days are much too bright, we only come out at night And once again, now, you'll pretend to know That there's an end, that there's an end to this begin It will help you sleep at night, it will make it seem that right is always right, alright? We only come out at night, we only come out at night The days are much too bright, we only come out at night
Beautiful, you're beautiful, as beautiful as the sun Wonderful, you're wonderful, as wonderful as they come And I can’t help but feel attached to the feelings I can’t even match With my face pressed up to the glass, wanting you Beautiful, you're beautiful, as beautiful as the sky Wonderful, it's wonderful, to know that you're just like I I’m sure you know me well, as I’m sure you don't But you just can't tell who you love and who you won't No, who you love and who you won't And I love you, as you love me So let the clouds roll by your face We'll let the world spin on to another place We'll climb the tallest tree above it all To look down on you and me and them And I’m sure you know me well, as I’m sure you don't But you just can't tell who you'll love and who you won't No, who you love and who you won't (x2) Don't let your life wrap up around you Don't forget to call, whenever I’ll be here just waiting for you I’ll be under your stars forever Neither here, nor there just right beside you I’ll be under the stairs forever Neither here, nor there just right beside you
Lily, my one and only I can hardly wait till I see her Silly, I know I’m silly ‘Cause I’m hanging in this tree In the hopes that she will catch a glimpse of me And through her window shade I watch her shadow move I wonder if she... Lily, my one and only Love is in my heart and in your eyes Will she or won't she want him? No one knows for sure But an officer is knocking at my door And through her window shade I watch her shadow move I wonder if she could only see me I’m with her, I feel fine (fine, fine...) If I could kiss her I wouldn't mind the time it took to find my Lily, my one and only I can hardly wait till I see her Oh, Lily, I know you love me ‘Cause as they're dragging me away I swear I saw her raise her hand and wave, goodbye
By starlight I’d kiss you And promise to be your one and only I’ll make you feel happy And leave you to be lost in mine And where will we go, what will we do? Soon said I, will know And are you just like me? Dead eyes, dead eyes, are you just like me? Her eyes, her eyes were as vacant as the seas Dead eyes, dead eyes, are you just like me? And all along, we knew we'd carry on Just to belong By starlight I know you As lovely as a wish granted true My life has been empty, my life has been untrue And does she really know who I really am? Does she really know me at last? And are you just like me? Dead eyes, dead eyes, are you just like me? Her eyes, her eyes were as vacant as the seas, yeah Dead eyes, dead eyes, are you just like me? And are you just like me? (x3)
Goodnight, to every little hour that you sleep tite may it hold you, through the winter of a long night and keep you from the loneliness of yourself Heart strung is your heart frayed and empty cause it's hard luck, when no one understands your love it's unsung, and I say: Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day Goodnight, always, to all that’s pure, that's in your heart Goodnight, may your dreams be so happy and your head lite with the wishes of a sandman and a night light, be careful not to let the bedbugs Sleep tight, nestled in your covers The sun shines but I don't, a silver rain will wash away (x2) And you can tell, it's just as well (x2) Goodnight, my love...
Adore (1998)
Twilight fades through blistered Avalon The sky's cruel torch on arching autobahn Into the uncertain divine We scream into the last divine You make me real, you make me real Strong as I feel, you make me real Sheila rides on crashing nightingale Intake eyes, leave passing vapor trails With blushing brilliance, alive Because it's time to arrive You make me real... Lately I just can't seem to believe Discard my friends to change the scenery It meant the world to hold a bruising faith But now it's just a matter of grace A summer storm graces all of me Highway warm sing silent poetry I could bring you the light And take you home into the night (You make me real...) Lately I just can't seem to believe...
It's you that I adore, you'll always be my whore You'll be the mother to my child and a child to my heart We must never be apart - We must never be apart Lovely girl, you're the beauty in my world Without you there aren't reasons left to find And I’d pull your crooked teeth, you'll be perfect just like me You'll be a lover in my bed and a gun to my head We must never be apart - We must never be apart Lovely girl, you're the murder in my world Dressing coffins for the souls I've left behind Drinking mercury, to the mystery of all that you should ever left behind, in time In you I see dirty, in you I count stars In you I feel so pretty, in you I taste God In you I feel so hungry, in you I crash cars We must never be apart Drinking mercury to the mystery of all that you should ever seek to find Lovely girl, you're the murder in my world Dressing coffins for the souls I've left behind In time - We must never be apart And you'll always be my whore, ‘cause you're the one that I adore And I’d pull your crooked teeth, you'll be perfect just like me In you I feel so dirty, in you I crash cars In you I feel so pretty, in you I taste God We must never be apart
I know we're just like old friends We just can't pretend that lovers make amends We are reasons so unreal We can't help but feel that something has been lost But please, you know you're just like me Next time I promise we'll be perfect, perfect Perfect strangers down the line Lovers out of time, memories unwind So far, I still know who you are But now I wonder who I was Angel, you know it's not the end We'll always be good friends The letters have been sent on So please, you always were so free You'll see, I promise we'll be perfect Perfect strangers when we meet Strangers on the street, lovers while we sleep Perfect, you know this has to be We always were so free We promised that we'd be Perfect (x3)
With the sugar sickness you spy the kidnap kid Who kids you to oblivion? It's the perfect hassle for the perfumed kiss He makes you miss him more than home You love him, you love him more than this You love him and you cannot, you can't resist You love him, you love him for yourself You love him and no one, no one else Past sidewalk ashes, a last lovers arc You come apart to intertwine It was all so simple as you watched him move Across the darkness in your room You love him, you love him for yourself You love him and no one, no one else And to the winding vines the pretty boys dive And through the pinhole stars, into the shadow mind You will lose him then, on some gentle dawn This boy is here and gone You love him, you love him for yourself You love him and no one, no one else You love him, you love him more than this You love him and you cannot, you can't resist You love him (etc.)
Mother, I’m tired Come surrender my son Time has ravaged on my soul No plans to leave but still I go Falling with the leaves, falling out of sleep To the last good-byes, who cares why? Mother I've tried Wasting my life I haven't given up, I lie To make you so proud in my eyes Falling out of sleep, crawling over me To the last good-byes, who cares why? Tuesdays come and gone Restless still I drive Try to leave it all behind Falling out of sleep Falling with the leaves I go crawling over me Once upon a time, in my life (x4) I went falling - I went falling Mother, I hope you know That I miss you so Time has ravaged on my soul To wipe a mothers tears grown cold
The lights came on fast, lost in motorcrash Gone in a flash unreal, but you knew all along You laugh the light, I sing the songs To watch you numb I saw you there, you were on your way You held the rain And for the first time heaven seemed insane ‘Cause heaven is to blame for taking you away Do you know the way that I can? Do you know the way that I can't lose? Do you know the things that I can? Do you know the things that I can do? Where is your heart? Where is your heart gone to? Tear me apart, tear me apart from you You laugh the light, I cry the wound In gray afternoons I saw you there, you were on your way You kissed me cold And for the first time heaven seemed insane ‘Cause heaven is to blame for taking you away (x2) The lights came to pass, dead opera motorcrash Gone in a flash unreal, in nitrous overcast Do you know the way that I can? Do you know the way that I can't choose? Do you know the things that I can? Do you know the things that I can't lose? Tear me apart, tear me apart from you Where is your heart? Where has your heart run to?
Who am I to need you when I’m down? Where are you when I need you around? Your life is not your own And all I ask you is for another chance Another way around you To live by circumstance, once again Who am I to need you now? To ask you why, to tell you no To deserve your love and sympathy You were never meant to belong to me And you may go, but I know you won't leave Too many years built into memories Your life is not your own Who am I to need you now?... Who am I to you? Along the way I lost my faith And as you were, you'll be again To mold like clay, to break like dirt To tear me up in your sympathy You were never meant to belong to me (x3) Who am I? (etc.)
What if the sun refused to shine? What if the clouds refused to rain? What if the wind refused to blow? What if the seas refused to wave? What if the world refused to turn? What if the stars would hesitate? What if, what is isn't true? What are you going to do? What if, what is isn't you? Does that mean you've got to lose? Digging for the feel of something new What if the silence let you dream? What if the air could let you breathe? What if the words would bring you here? What if this sound could bring you peace? What if, what is isn't true? What are you gonna do? Digging for the feel of something new What if, what is isn't you? What are you gonna do? It came from your thoughts, your dreams and visions Ripped up from your weeks and indecisions What if the sun refused to shine? What if the clouds refused to rain? What if the world refused to turn? What if the clocks would hesitate? What if, what is isn't true? What are you going to do? What if, what is isn't you? Does that mean you've got to lose? Digging for the feel of something new Does that mean you've got to choose? The feel of something new, does that mean you've got to lose? The thoughts you cannot lose, what are you gonna do?
Kiss and kill me sweetly, come and drive me home Drag the miles in me, I am yours alone Inside, where it's warm, wrap myself in you Outside, where I’m torn, fight myself in two In two, into you Desire me so deeply, drain and kick me hard Whisper secrets for me, try to go too far Inside, where it's warm... Please, don't change Please, don't change at all Bring your rain Bring your rain to fall Inside, where it's warm... Come and kiss me sweetly, ride the telephone Drag the miles to me, I am yours alone Yours alone, yours alone on the telephone Yours alone, looking for a kiss-kiss Yours alone
The Tale Of Dusty And Pistol Pete
Dusty screams, through doors and imaginary floors "Why can't you miss me?" Pistol Pete removes the final breaths from her unkind and she is shaken What does this mean, in love or in peace? With you lying next to me, so faithless serene And she calls to him Let the waste cross the ancient trails to you Far out, beneath the sorrow clouds Let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you Let them cry out, through your rusted scars Alone he roams inside the ordinary catacombs of her waiting With raven hands she steals and staggers towards her man Still scorned by his demon Because he's undone, become the language of Disaster and love, vengeance and dust And she calls to him Let the waste cross the ancient trails... Dusty screams through doors and imaginary scenes of hurt and teardrop As he holds her down, in the cold lonely winds Together again, her inside him And she calls to him Let the waste cross the ancient trails...
Amphetamine Annie-Dog has her leash and a face Her velvet spleen, her shackle spine Her diamond curse, it comes with mine A vessel she for violent I Confession arms a wake Mine, mine, you were always mine Possessed by my taste And below, the angel dog Combs her hair and sings her psalms The bombs go off, she doesn't notice It all goes wrong, she sets things tragic She is Venus, she is Mars She's electric and the struggle of Upon my face we leave no trace But in her stomach mercury aged She holds the blood, she carves the knives She digs the wives in our babies Amphetamine Annie-Dog Pulls her trash and her stories From place to place and bed to bed Gives of herself and the magnet head Another floor, another ceiling Counting stairs with double meanings Is it wrong to be swallowed whole? To disappear in her To give her the priceless peace Of giving up control We tumble out into the streets And Annie-Dog she drags her leash Pretty face, ugly mouth Bitter bred and so released And by the no, and in the yes Annie goes, if you couldn't guess A simple man, a sycophant Her elephant with the laughing call She wants clean sheets and fresh flowers And dental shots and the Hong Kong glue Amphetamine Annie-Dog has her leash and a face
You're gonna walk on home You're gonna walk alone You're gonna see this through Don't let them get to you Shame (x3) Love is good and love is kind Love is drunk and love is blind Love is good and love is mine Love is drunk all the time Shame (x4) You're gonna walk on home You're gonna walk alone You're gonna walk so far You're gonna wonder who you are Shame (x6) Love is good and love is kind Love is good and love is blind Love is good and love is mine Love is good all the time Hello, good-bye, you know you made us cry (etc.)
I've faced the fathoms in your deep Withstood the suitors quiet siege Pulled down the heavens just to please you Appease you, the wind blows and I know I can't go on, digging roses from you grave To linger on, beyond the beyond Where the willows weep and the whirlpools sleep You'll find me, the coarse tide reflects sky And the nightmare rides on And the nightmare rides on With a December black psalm And the nightmare rides on What I fear is lost here The wind blows and I know All you have to do is run away And steal yourself from me Become a mystery to gaze into You're so cruel in all you do But still I believe, I believe in you So may you come with your own knives? You'll never take me alive With all the force of what is true Is there nothing I can do? I can't go on... And the nightmare rides on And the nightmare rides on With a December black psalm And the nightmare rides on I've faced the fathoms in your deep Withstood the suitors quiet siege Pulled down the heavens just to please you To hold the flower I can't keep
Whenever I run Whenever I run to you lost one It's never done, just hanging on Just past has let me be Returning as if dream Shattered as belief If you have to go don't say goodbye If you have to go don't you cry If you have to go I will get by Someday I'll follow you, and see you on the other side But for the grace of love I'd will the meaning of Heaven from above (x2) Your picture out of time Left aching in my mind Shadows kept alive If you have to go don't say goodbye If you have to go don't you cry If you have to go I will get by I will follow you, and see you on the other side But for the grace of love... Long horses we are born Creatures more than torn Mourning our way home
Blank page is all the rage, never meant to say anything In bed I was half dead, tired of dreaming, of rest Got dressed, drove the state line, looking for you at the five and dime Stop sign, told me stay at home, told me you were not alone Blank page was all the rage, never meant to hurt anyone In bed I was half dead, tired of dreaming, of rest You haven't changed, you're still the same May you rise as you fall You were easy, you are forgotten You are the ways of my mistakes I catch the rainfall through the leaking roof That you had left behind You remind me of that leak in my soul The rain falls, my friends call Leaking rain on the phone Take a day, plant some trees May they shade you from me May your children play beneath Blank page was all the rage, never meant to say anything In bed I was half dead, tired of dreaming, of rest Got dressed, drove the state line, looking for you at the five and dime But there I was picking pieces up You are a ghost of my indecision No more little girl
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Machina / The Machines Of God (2000)
You know I’m not dead, you know I’m You know I’m not dead, you know I’m not dead Now you know where I’ve been As you sleep, torn I am Wear you down, patiently Born of love You know I’m, you know I’m not dead I’m just living in my head, forever waiting On the ways of your desire You always find your way And through it all into us all you move Forgotten touch, forbidden thought We can never have enough You know I’m not dead... Found below, the creatures scream Stranglehold, a God machine Begging to tear us out Worn as hope You know I’m, you know I’m not dead I’m just the tears inside your head, forever waiting On the ways of your desire You always find your way And through it all, into us all you move And through it all into us all you move Forgotten touch, forbidden thought We can never have enough You know I’m not dead We all want to hold in the everlasting gaze Enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway But underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every cog The fickle fascination of an everlasting god You know I’m not dead, I’m just living in my head Forever waiting, forever waiting a cruel death You know I’m not dead, I’m just living for myself Forever waiting You know I’m not dead (x4)
Rain falls on everyone The same old rain And I’m just trying to walk with you Between the raindrops I send my echo out to get your love with poem Obscures reflections of my love Rain falls on everyone... I’ll save a prayer for you, so lost and longing too Bleach shared through dirty streaks, wrapped up in clean white sheets And if you think they'll watch you now you should know they won't Rain falls on everyone... And I’m just trying to walk with you Between the raindrops I send my echo out to get your love with poem Obscure reflections of, of my secret power Force down the wings of God to get your love with poem Obscure reflections of my love And I’m just trying to talk to you Between the raindrops Rain falls on everyone The same old rain And I’m just trying to walk with you (etc.)
You and me, meant to be Immutable, impossible It's destiny, pure lunacy Incalculable, inseparable And for the last time You're everything that I want and asked for You're all that I dream Who wouldn't be the one you love? Who wouldn't stand inside your love? Protected and the lover of A pure soul and beautiful, you Don't understand, don't fear me now I will breath for the both of us Travel the world, traverse the skies Your home is here, within my heart And for the first time I feel as though I am reborn in my mind Recast as child and mystic sage Who wouldn't be the one you love? Who wouldn't stand inside your love? For the first time I’m telling you how much I need and bleed for Your every move and waking sound in my time I’ll wrap my wire around your heart And your mind, you're mine forever now Who wouldn't be the one you love and live for? Who wouldn't stand inside your love and die for? Who wouldn't be the one you love?
Radio, play my favorite song Radio, radio Radio, I’m alone, radio Radio, please don't go, radio I peer through curtains on empty streets Behind a wall of color writing No one's out there to hear if I care About the troubles in the air ‘Cause I of the mourning now go Pick up where my thoughts left off ‘Cause I’m home to die on my own As my radio plays my favorite song Radio, radio Radio, don't you know? Radio, radio Radio, I’m alone I’ve blown the dust off my guitar In the attic with the stars I read your letters to feel better My tears upon the faded ink ‘Cause I of the mourning now go Pick up where my thoughts left off ‘Cause I’m home to die on my own As my radio plays my favorite song Radio, radio Radio, I’m alone Radio, radio Radio, please don't go I sit in the dark light to wait for ghost night To bring the past to life, to make a toast to life ‘Cause I have survived What is it you want? What is it you want to change? What is it you want? What is it you want to change? What is it you want to change? Radio (etc.)
Give me tears, give me love Let me rest, let up on Send the bored, your restless The feedback-scarred devotionless You're all a part of me now, and if I fall You're all a part of me now, in the sun You're all a part of me now (x2) Will love ever be enough? Just in time to prove Will words ever be enough? Just in time to lose Give me signs that arrest It could snow and happiness Give me time, give me peace And I will prove my release You're all a part of me now... Will love ever be enough? Just in time to prove? Will time ever be enough? Will love ever be enough? You're all a part of me now... (x2) Will love ever be enough? (x3) Just in time to prove
Talk, talk, what's our mission Do we know would never listen? For too long they held me under But out here it's almost over In Detroit, on our Memphis train Like you said It's down in the heat and the summer rain Or the automatic galls of your memories Down in the sleep at the airplane races Try to hold on for this heart A little bit longer Try to hold on for this love, alone Try to hold on for this heart A little bit colder Try to hold on for this love Paperback scroll your hidden poem Written around the dried out flowers Here we are, still trading places Try to hold on Talk, talk, can you envision? A free world of clear division For too long they held us under But I know we're getting over In Detroit, with the Nashville tears Like you said It's down in the heat with the broken numbers Down in the gaze of solemnity Down in the way you held together You try to hold on to this heart A little bit closer Try to hold on for this love, alone Try to hold on for this heart A little bit older Try to hold on for this love, alone And we are still alive, try to hold on And we are still alive, try to hold on And no one should deny we try to hold on To the pulse of a feedback car And into the flower, the cryptic movement Slipback kills the ancient remnants that try to hold on Try to hold on to this heart, alive Try to hold on to this love, alone Try to hold on and we are still alone Try to hold on and we are still alive Try to hold on Talk, talk, you never listen Skin need, try to hold on Stop, stop, what's our mission? Skin need, try to hold on
If I were alive, if I were real Would you survive? What would you feel? Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine As sentimental as our broken dreams Let me die for Rock and Roll Let me die to save my soul Let me die, let me die, Rock and Roll Let the word forgive the past Let all the girls kiss the poison lies Let me go, let me go, Rock and Roll Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine When they're metal, in their metal machines Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine If I were dead, would my records sell? Could you even tell is it just as you hope? Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine It's all our mental, to all the once stiff wings Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine Let me die for Rock and Roll Let me die and save my soul Let me go, let me go, Rock and Roll Let the word forgive the past Let all the girls kiss the poison lies Let me go, let me die, Rock and Roll Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine When they're metal, and they're trying an excuse Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine Will I survive? Is it up to me? Could you understand that it's not yours to keep? Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal machine (x4)
This time I need to know, I really must be told if it's over It's up to you, you know, the things you really want to hold are in pieces Crashing down, crashing down again Crashing down, crashing down, my friends I’ve got to move it on, I’ve got to sing my song While I still can Dispatch the last alarms and of the last few shards They're still surprising Only love, only love can win Crashing down, crashing down again (x2) This time I need to know, I really must be told that it's over I’ve lived my life alone, my every step foretold to never linger And yet it haunts me so, what are we letting go? The spell is broken Crashing down, crashing down my friend Crashing down, crashing down again Only love, yeah, only love will be enough Yeah, only love will win For every chemical you trade a piece of your soul You know me time And who you think you know doesn't know you at all Portrayed as needless Someday we'll wave hello and wish we'd never waved goodbye to those brown eyes We'll drink up every line and shoot up everyone Until it's no more Crashing down, crashing down, my friends Only love, only love can win So cry these tears, we'll cry is all We've held so long to fall apart As the curtain falls we bid you all goodnight
Everywhere you are is everywhere you've been Just lost to the beat, punching through your skin You don't know what to do but still you wanna crawl All through the broken glass, that's everywhere you are Your love must always be true Your love must always be you Everywhere you are, anywhere you go Even if you're a star it matters what you do But if even if you've gone too far you can follow you Everywhere you are And in your mind you were alone, all this time With everything you are and every smile you are Still locked in your heart, everywhere you are Everywhere you are, every single shot Everywhere you are you're never too far ‘Cause anywhere you go even to the stars All you have to do is play the part of who you are The rest is up to you Save someone, apply yourself Everyone on the shelf Love's a fight, born so light You may shine Everywhere you are and everywhere you go Even if you're down, even if you're low It's in the thought of you, it's in the eyes of all Astride a starry past, that's everywhere you are Your love must always be true Your love must always be you Everywhere you are, anywhere you go Even if you're a star it's all a part of you Whatever shoe you're putting down you can never lose me Everywhere you are (etc.)
To the center of the Earth or anywhere God decides For the fever pulling forth we hear our call is all And to the center of the Earth, as if written in And DNA is regenomed to your frequency I want to live and don't want to die I want to live, I want to try All in prayer, prayer ends all All are scared, scared of love Black rooms are calling to men in leather coats White labs are cooking up the silver golds The glass migrates under a translucent skin And all the spiders wonder what we've got us in All is you, you are all All with you, you ends all I want to live and I don't want to die I want to live, I want to try So meets the final coda of our vinyl storm One more cherry cola to lift up our dead arms A dream of soft-focused sunsets, filters through the din We are losing contact as she dials it in She can hear glass calling Or is it someone that looks like him She eyes TV reflection and nods a knowing look She says it doesn't matter, she'd never liked her looks I have seen a thousand fractures I have seen everything ‘Cause knowing is its own answer, love something in a book There's not much left to ponder, not much left to cook As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her (etc.)
There you are as you always were You bathe in life and naked blur You're a part of me, eternal wound My grand desire in the setting sun If you wait, I will wait - Taste, I will taste If you love, I will love - Run, I will run To my last breath Last night I turned around and thought I saw myself turning Inside the strangest dream of life I loved and cities burning Awake in my arms, you crying harm A rage of the hours when they still devour her all So take it on, I doubted we will know it's gone ‘cause we've been here Since time began they got away And make these plans Room opens, reveal this broken man Assume these notions with blood on his hands If you wait, I will wait... Last night I turned around, I thought I saw myself turning Last night I turned around and thought I watched the world ending Inside the crushing I felt the pain, the tide was turning Destroyed in the way the jealous and great will tear this world down to spite God over With his own love, with his own love If you wait, if you wait If you wait, I will wait...
This is the song I’ve been singing my whole life I’ve been waiting like a knife to cut open your heart And bleed my soul to you, I did it all for you You and you and you and you This is the sound I’ve been making my whole life I’ve been waiting for this night to clear up all the tar Although I’m selfish to a form, is it selfish? It's you I warn You, I did it all for you This love will stand as long as you There's really no excuse, I did it all for you These are the tears I’ve been crying my whole life Like an ocean of desire I’m reaching through the noise Across the dust of time, within the limited lights I am singing out to you
Taking over, we're taking over Throw the weight up off your shoulders Now that we can show our love It's almost over, it's almost over No more war and no more soldiers To stand against his love Away with all the troubles that you've made Away with waiting for another day, away Look ma, the sun is shining on me Impatient, in love, and aching to be Could you believe in heaven? If heaven was all you had Taking over, we're taking over Throw away your four-leaf clovers And stand beside this love Away with everything you've grown to hate Away with anything that holds you safe, away And every light I’ve found, every light I’ve found is every light that's shining down on me (x3) I’m never alone Look ma, the sun is shining on me Taking my time to do as I please Could you believe in heaven? If heaven was all you had The sun is beaming, radiating All the love we are creating, we are creating And every light I’ve found, every light I’ve found is every light that's shining down on me (x4) I’m never alone
Unleash the Armageddon So all the children go to heaven I sit by quiet still with their pictures on my eyes You'll draw the guns you’re given Write down the words as written And never disturb the presence of resurrection crutch And it's about time, it's about drawing near Blue skies bring tears (x3) Descend the darkened stairway Make hate with plastic playmates And fire out remaining traces of your self esteem Mainline the deepest secrets Lick clean the dirty fingers I am a stranger to you as you are to yourself And it's about time, it's about fear Blue skies bring tears, don't you want me? ‘Cause I await city sigh, we'll watch the seasons die (Blue skies bring tears...) (etc.) Take me inside your body, cover me with your soul To the darkest recess is where I wish to go You are the sweetest flower that I have ever devoured I ask for nothing given, for nothing in return (Blue skies bring tears...) (etc.)
We dismiss the back roads And ride these streets unafraid Resort to scraping paint From our bones, unashamed No more the eye upon you No more the simple man Desolation yes, hesitation no Desolation yes, hesitation no As you might have guessed all is never shown Desolation yes, hesitation no And in my prayers I dream alone A silent speech to deaf ear If you want love you must be love But if bleed love you will die loved No more the lie upon you Cast in stone the autumn shade Desolation yes, hesitation no Desolation yes, hesitation no As you might have sensed we won't make it home Desolation yes, hesitation no Before the rites of spring come to mean all things A little taste of what may come A mere glimpse of what has gone ‘Cause for the moment we are free, we seek to bind our release Too young to die, too rich to care Too fucked to swear that I was there Desolation yes, hesitation no Desolation yes, hesitation no As you might have sensed we won't make it home Desolation yes, hesitation no