FACES B - CHANSONS HORS ALBUMS
- Are You Still Dying Darling ?
- Israel
- Let Go
- New Skin
- Return
- Sleepwalking (On The High Wire)
- Something Wicked (This Way Comes)
- Song From The Edge Of The World
- Tattoo
- Voices
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
To all tomorrow's parties
And where will she go and what shall she do
When midnight comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
And cry behind the door
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
Why silks and linens of yesterday's gowns
To all tomorrow's parties
And what will she do with Thursday's rags
When Monday comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
And cry behind the door
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown
For whom none will go mourning
A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown
Of rags and silks, a costume
Fit for one who sits and cries
For all tomorrow's parties
She sits and cries
For all tomorrow's parties
(Lou Reed)
(single O Baby)
Are you still dying darling?
Are you still in pain?
Are you still crying?
Despite the morphine in your veins
A fluourescent haze hangs and for a second
Makes you invisible but you try in vain
To reach out through the life-support machine
And all the multi-colored tubes that pump and drain
Are you still dying darling?
Are you still dying darling?
All this wasting away
All this prolonged misery and all this
Stripping away your dignity is killing me
That expression on your face
Pleading through your agony
Are you still dying darling?
Are you still sighing?
Shall I end it for you?
You'll see I'll make it easy for you
Just one wink and I'll help you to break through
When never-never land beckons to you
You can dance with Peter Pan
Make rings around the moon
Are you still dying darling?
Are you still dying darling?
No more injections
No more medications
No more complications for you
Lessen the load for you
No more, no more, no more
No more are you still dying darling?
Are you still dying darling?
(single The Killing Jar)
Release the angels
Go on release them
Rose petal squadrons
The bees are swarming - warming your cold skin
Such a womanly man
Such a boyish girl
Clutching at strings
Of blackened pearls - warming your cold sting
Didn't they teach you anything at all
Something's not better than nothing at all
B side ourselves
Now you belong
Where we belong
Into the landslide
Clandestine - beside the real world
Raw senses bring us
Beside ourselves
Instincts to guide us through this foggy world
We're beside ourselves
B side ourselves
(single O Baby)
Two black holes staring
From deep in the coal mind
Murder in mind - murder deep in the coal mind
Aphids and triffids bump mad into earwigs
Eating their way - through the green brain vegetation
Mutter mutter eyelids wonder
Twitching in time to troubled slumber
Come mind this coal mine
Come mine this coal mind
It's dark in here and it's been a long time
In need of ignition
In need of nutrition
There's famine in mind
There's murder in mind
Blank sockets squinting from the hot coals
Scorching
More holes in the coal mind
The pit is imploding
Headlines and hooklines bump
Blind into lifelines
Murder in mind - someone throw him a line
O, madonna medusa
I spy a loser
Madonna medusa
I spy a loser
Ignition nutrition and now ventilation
A sigh of relief from deep in the coal mind
Sun blew his roof off - stopped murder in mind
O, madonna medusa
I spy a loser
Madonna medusa
I spy...
(single Fireworks)
I Hate You I Hate You I Hate You I Hate You...
Drop dead
You stinking little creep
Drop dead
With your emotions so cheap
Your poisoned mind-
It's disgusting everyone
We don't care if you vanish in thin air
Drop dead
It's a dead drop
You're a dead loss
Drop dead
You should be pushed down
Down into the ground amongst the worms
And other spineless things
Don't you see you're embarrassing to me
I can't stand that phony way you banter
Drop dead
It's a dead drop
You're a dead loss
Drop dead
You're so pathetic
An insipid, dried up slug
Keep your mouth shut you impotent little slut
I'm so ashamed to be connected with your name
You're so lame
I wish you'd never been to blame
Drop dead
It's a dead drop
You're a dead loss
Drop dead
Those words
Tight-lipped and mealy-mouthed
It wasn't hard to realize that they were lies
Judging from the flies you've attracted from the skies
So just get lost
Fuck Off
And disappear into the compost
Drop dead
Stinking little creep drop dead
Drop dead!
Celebration
(single Happy House)
It's all soul's day
I hear you say
It's all soul's day
And you've come to pray
For the lost ones
The unadorned ones here today
El Dia de Los Muertos
El Dia de Los Muertos
Bailamos, bailamos
El santo y yo
Kiss the bride
Dance with me
Come rattle these bones
Come and shake my tree
Embrace me - irreverently
Now in marigolds
Shower me
There is more time than life
One never dies twice
There is more time than life
One never dies twice
Wearing wet suits sewn in the underworlds
Death comes shining
In a thousand bright colors
And music out of this world
Serenades to a bony twirl
Me lleva el diablo
La muerte va de viaje
Esta es musica del otro mundo
Buenos noches y adios
Hasta luego mis amigos
See you in heaven
See you in hell
All will be level all will be well
Bailamos, bailamos
El santo y yo
Me lleva el diablo
la muerte va de viaje
Esta es musica del otro mundo
(single The Last Beat Of My Heart)
Scarecrow grins... he's growing very tall
Growing tall under the golden sun
Growing with the children of the corn
Sending out the message of a strange tongue
A message of the sun
Young skin stretched in over a pallid grin
The crimson spilling golden crops of hair
Spilling everywhere
Watch the children of the corn below
One by one they're following the sun
Got to run
Following the sun on the run
Following the sun
Don't be ashamed of what you've done
You must not run
Follow the sun
(single Spellbound)
Hang me high hang me high
Set me up with the bells in the tower
And beat them hour after hour
Hang me high
To the bonds that seal your lips
Intone a penance as you slip
Into another night of bleeding flowers
And in that final sinful moment
Were you just seeking love so tender?
Does loathsome loss become a gain?
Empires stagger onwards no pain
The voice of love grows out
Exaltation, exaltation
Hang me high
Take this rainbow and bury it deep
Take this serpent and put it to sleep
Take these words then learn to keep
Take this sow and reap
Hang me high
The night man coming away
With the ashes of some fallen saint
With some forgotten martyr to weep over
Take me, take me and sleep take me keep some
Do not weep, do not weep
Oh... hang me high
(single Stargazer)
Through glowing gloom, I see the flicker of treason
Dancing on the picture of what might have been
This minute will last a day, these days will last years
And those years that take ten lifetimes
Will pass without a reason
To be again, I could be again
To be again, I could be again
Rising up, the notion of rejuvenation
Woah yes, I could be again
I could be again
Rising up, I could be again
Taking hold a complete transformation
Just us the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark
This minute will last a day these days will last years
And those years that take ten lifetimes well I won't let you disappear
To be again, I could be again
To be again, I could be again
Woah in the dark
From such a tiny spark
It's me again
I could be again
It's me again
I could be again
(single Fear (Of The Unknown)
Il est né le divin Enfant
Jouez, hautbois, résonnez, musettes
Il est né le divin Enfant
Chansons tous son avènement.
Depuis plus de quatre mille ans
Nous le promettaient les prophètes:
Depuis plus de quatre mille ans
Chantons tous en cet heureux temps
(single Melt !)
Time is like a dream
and now for a time you are mine.
Let's hold fast to the dream
that tastes and sparkles like wine.
Who knows if it's real
or just something we're both dreaming of.
What seems like an interlude now
could be the beginning of love.
Loving you is a world that's strange
so much more than my heart can hold.
Loving you makes the world world change.
Loving you I could not grow old.
No, nobody knows when love will end
so 'til then sweet friend --
(avec Morrissey)
Nautical miles stretch out the years
A space walk, untethered, let go of your fears
A pioneering seed with every step you breed
Walks away from the crouching shuttle
And the countdown crow
Around the globe
Says let go
Machine in charge with the wry smile flickers
On his red and blue dials
Nautical mile stretch out the years
The back-pack suffocation with your creeping fears
And the countdown crow
Around the globe
Just lets go
On an endless limbo
And the countdown crow
Around the globe
Just let's go
Let Go
(single Swimming Horses)
A driverless and circling car
Runs over its owner
Five accidents
A man of fish-eyed head grows a scaly skin
Crippled dog helps boy to walk again
Five accidents
Blink, ah blink
Mechanical eyes to the blind
Mechanical eyes to the blind
Milk without the cows, honey without the bees
Do you laugh your gracious pals away?
Ah blink, blink
Mechanical eyes
Five accidents
A man of fish-eyed head grows a scaly skin
Crippled dog helps boy to walk again
Five accidents
Ah blink
Mechanical eyes
Milk without the cows, honey without the bees
Do you laugh your gracious pals away?
Mechanical eyes
Five accidents
Mechanical eyes
Milk without the cows, honey without the bees
Do you laugh your gracious pals away?
Mechanical eyes
Ah Blink, blink, blink
(single Song From The Edge Of The World)
Fuck you, I win this prize
Stardom pardons the lies
The miles, the minutes passing by
My window
Rising up through the ashes and grime
A new me on the other side
Hello... Hello, I'm breaking through
This old skin
Hello... Hello, I'm coming through my new skin
So take the dips with the tricks
Gimme shimmy shimmy hip shake
Hello... Hello, let's kick out the trash of
Hello... Hello, I'm coming in my new skin
Fuck you, I win this prize
Stardom pardons the lies
The miles, the minutes pissing by
My window
Hello... Hello, I'm coming in my new skin
Hello... Hello, I'm hungry for some new skin
Hello... it's me, I'm coming for you in my new skin
Hey, hey, let's kick out the trash
Hey, hey, let's kick out the trash
Hey, hey, let's kick out the trash...
(BO de Showgirls)
The woods and the town covered in snow
All transformed to a fairy tale
Like a fresh page of a book opened up
Ready, waiting for the story to begin
For you're all in the scene
Objects in black ink fringed in white
Breathing and living and anticipating a color
All transformed to a fairy tale
Unreal and inviting inviting you to step in
And follow the path never-ending
You're now leaving imprints and somehow expecting
Expecting someone
Maybe the prince in disguise suffering a snow queen kiss
But you're wrong of course... it's in reverse
Out in the snow, muffled
The last silent night, the last sacrifice
Red running over white
Running red over white
Red over white
(single Israel)
Wonder where that plane is speeding to
Wonder where that boat will ever stop
Wonder if this path I am treading
Will disappear and let me drop
Down to a hell that's surely waiting
Down to the hell I know that I deserve
Even though the spirit is willing
The flesh is blackened to the deepest nerve
When will you learn
The hurting it will return
When will you ever learn
This feeling is all you can discern
Oh my heart it is so broken
More than waves upon the golden sand
Fly my life on wings of huge confusion
Oh and never ever land
When will you learn
When will you ever learn
The hurting it will return
This feeling is all you can discern
When will you learn
When will you ever learn
This feeling is all you can discern
The hurting always will return
Return
(single Kiss Them For Me)
I float quietly
Without a sound
Forever and ever to the end of time
And see myself lying still at the scene of the crime
Lying still at the scene of the crime
Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
I passed over to the sea of light
Follow me into the sea of light
The sea of light
The miracle step off the rainbow's edge
Let it rain down, let it descend
Riding on a river of stars
The heavens open at the tunnel's end
Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
I passed over to the sea of light
Follow me into the sea of light
The sea of light
Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
Let it rain down, let it descend
Sea of light
The sea of light
(single Shadowtime)
When she was sensitive, she understood me
Well, she understood you and me and things in 1943
She does all these things that I can't stand
I get jealous when she stays with another man
She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, you're right
Well, she cracked, I won't
She did things that I don't
She, self-destroyed, necessary to self-enjoy
I, self-developed, necessary to self-help
And she cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right
Well, she cracked, I won't
She did things that I don't
She, eat garbage
Eat shit and get stoned
I, stay alone
Eating health food at home
She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right
And she cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right
And she cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right
(single This Wheel's On Fire)
Wryneck laughter from gatherings of stoney chit-chat
as the sea swallows a golden eye beneath this black hat
a scarlet stealer -- o it's a cardinal sin
blue jay jacob -- grabs your heart from within
Dap chick dipper do a pygmy turn
rough-legged buzzard -- watch the butcher bird burn
Cuckoo, she's cuckoo for you
Night jar purring, like a sewing machine
ah shearwater keeps this kingfisher clean
I'm a black-throated diver, a cherry tree creeper
wax your wings -- now I'm a turnstone leaper
Oh scratch your white throat with a razor bill
red backs tracks 'neath the yellow hammer drill
Cuckoo, she's cuckoo for you
Oyster-catcher in the still of the night
hooded crow spirals like a merlin kite
chit-chat jokes silent as a low pintail
Stonecock screams into the teeth of a gale
Tie bunting knots around a goatsucker
hear a "toi-toi" or hear a "chakka-chakka"
Cuckoo, she's cuckoo for you
(single The Passenger)
You can see her now
High as the Horizon
Born into quicksand
And raised on the mud
Balancing on tiptoe
sharpened to the blow
In a tangle of thunder
Falling helplessly below
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking on the High wire
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking into the open palm of the empty sky
You can't hurt her now
You can't reach her at all
A spiral of persuasion
twists until freefall
Balancing on tiptoe
Angles plush and slow
An accident of circus
Falling helplessly below
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking on the High wire
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking into the open palm of the empty sky
(single This Wheel's On Fire)
In midnight guise these cobalt eyes
Pierce the indigo skies
In tearing through a Prussian army
Hence the royal hue
Forget-me-nots and violet plains weep titanium chains
Of sapphire days and turquoise dreams
In floating ultramarine
Something blue - something sparkling through
Out of the blue, I'm reminded of you
Forget-me-nots and violet plains weep titanium chains
Of sapphire days and turquoise dreams
In floating ultramarine
Something blue - something sparkling through
Out of the blue, I'm reminded of you
(single The Passenger)
Something Wicked (This Way Comes)
Something strange is happening
My bones do ache and my ears they do ring
I can pull and tear my skin
I hear and smell and I want to scream
Whispering and the scratching to be let in
From outside and from within
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
There's something evil on the wind
Something wicked is fast approaching
Rushing through a hidden wing
Nothing good is what's in store
It's nothing new and it's rotten to the core
And a-howling at my door
We're dragged helpless in the undertow
The quicksands surround and swallow us whole
Oh strong
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
Just around the bend
Rushing on the wind
Here it comes
Oh strong
(single The Killing Jar)
Let me take you down
To testify
Under the brow of a sparkling sky
We'll dance away
A distant day
And shout our sins
In a passion play
Over we go
Diving for pearls
Over we go
From the edge of the World
Let the fire fall in
The footsteps we leave
Painted on the ground
We'll watch the stars
Come crashing down
Upon our heads
Like a madding crown
Let me take you down
To testify
Under the brow of a sparkling sky
We'll dance away
'Til the day is done
Then rise again
To unwrap the Sun
Over we go
Diving for pearls
Over we go
From the edge of the World
This is the song from the edge of the World
(single Song From The Edge Of The World)
Home is where the rain is soft and soothing
Home is where the comfort is confusing
Chased and cored like burning bridges
Swallowing the tracks across my head
Always moving in the wrong direction
Animated statue eyes are blinking
Reflex of asphyxiated thinking
Suspended, so much badly distracted
Out of touch I'm out of reach
Struck by a car
Crushed by a tree
Fork in my tongue
Glass in my sleeve
I snap the rope snap the wrist
Here in my inner spiral twist
This is the time when our minds begin stocking
Jammering on when our lips have stopped talking
Simple people, simple needs
Fingers linger endlessly
Trolling benediction bells
Here encircling spiral swells
Home is moving in the wrong direction
(single Fear (Of The Unknown)
My face in the window has become
The face of a woman I never knew
My face in the window has become
The face of a woman who never knew me
Now this ringing in my ears sends me spinning down the years
And I really need to know
Who is she?
Who is she?
Now this ringing in my ears sends me spinning down the years
And I really need to know
Who is she?
Who is she?
Staring back - staring back at me
Who is she?
Staring back - staring back at me
Who is she?
(single Kiss Them For Me)
Your love, your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
Your love, your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
When we touch, it gives me some funny feeling in my brain
I'm so possessed by your love sometimes I don't even know my name
When we kiss, you know you make me hot
I break out sometimes in little bitty green spots
You give me, give me all you got
But don't stop it now, 'cause I need a lot
Your love, your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
Your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
Interplanetary, extraordinary oh... I like it
Interplanetary, oh extraordinary... I like it, I like it
You give me constant feeling every time I squeeze you
Your love, so electrifying, so satisfying lord knows, high and flying
Your love, your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
Your love, your love, your love is a supernatural thing
Interplanetary oh extraordinary... I like it
Interplanetary, extraordinary oh...
Supernatural Thing
Interplanetary, extraordinary...
Supernatural Thing
(single Arabian Knights)
When you're sitting all alone in the middle of the floor
There's something uncontrollable as you sit there watching the door
Color me
Tattooed on the inside
Slap your thigh, slap your calf,
sing your mantra, leave your mark
Color me
Something fierce along my spine
To scare the madman from behind
Fortify my arms with some snake-like lines
Color me, color me
Like a stomach split in half
By a surgeon's cutting art
Colors me, colors me, colors me
When you're sitting all alone
In the middle of the floor
There's something uncontrollable as you sit there watching the door
Tattooed on the inside
A lonely feeling
Inoculating
Colors me
Slap your thigh, slap your calf,
sing your mantra, leave your mark
Color me
(single Dear Prudence)
Friends say he's fine
Friends say he's good
Everybody says he's just like Robin Hood
I move like a cat
Talk like a rat
Sting like a bee
Babe, I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see you were meant for me
I'm your toy
Your 20th century boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
Friends say he's fine
Friends say he's good
Everybody says he's just like Robin Hood
Fly like a plane
Drive like a car
Hold out your hand
Babe, I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see you were meant for me
I'm your toy
Your 20th century boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
(single The Staircase (Mystery)
And I'm hearing the whispers from my window
and I'm hearing something scratching on the inside
Could I feel the sea beckoning me
oh, could it be can I see?
Voices
on the air
Voices
on the air
And I'm feeling like a moody situation
and I feel the waves laughing with contempt
Could I feel my senses leaving me?
oh, could it be can I see?
Voices
on the air
Voices
on the air
Voices
on the air
could it be can I see?
Voices
(single Hong Kong Garden)