The Psychedelic Furs - Lyrics

Tracks:

  1. India (6:21)
  2. Sister Europe (5:39)
  3. Susan's Strange (3:11)
  4. Fall (2:40)
  5. We Love You (3:28)
  6. Soap Commercial (2:53)
  7. Imitation of Christ (5:29)
  8. Pulse (2:38)
  9. Wedding Song (4:19)
  10. Flowers (4:12)

INDIA

india
you're my love song
india
you're my love song
in the flowers
you can have me in the flowers
we will dance alone 
and live our useless lives

india
stupid on the carpet floor
india
stupid on the carpet floor
we dance upon the carpet floor
and reel around

india
india
india
india

india
i'm american
ha ha ha
india
caroline is really great
she serves the muck upon a tray
and little rich boy don't you cry
you kiss me in the anodine
see the ceiling raining spit
the beach is backwards 
isn't it

india
don't you cry
india
see the ceiling raining tears
you will cry a thousand tears
all the women form a line
put your face upon a line
this is for the discotheque
this is stupid i object
and i love you and i love you
and please me
please me
please me
please me
please me
please me
please me
please me
please me

india
india
india
india

SISTER EUROPE

stupid on the steinway
o sick upon a steinway
the sailors drown
see them talk and see them drown
and see them drink and fall around
upon the floor

sister of mine, home again
sister of mine, home again

lonely in a crowded room
the radio plays out of tune
so silently
the radio upon the floor
is stupid, it plays aznavour
so out of key

sister of mine, home again
sister of mine, home again

broken on a ship of fools
even dreams must fall to rules
so stupidly
words are all just useless sound
just like cards, they fall around 
and we will be

sister of mine, home again
sister of mine, home again
ah ssss...

buy a car and watch it rust
sister see them fall to dust
they fall around 
in another crowded room
paint me like the shirt i'm in
honestly

sister of mine, home again
sister of mine, home again
ah ssss...

sister of mine
sister of mine
sister of mine
sister of mine

SUSAN'S STRANGE

in a room susan is second hand
susan is charity
but she won't give you any flowers

sha la la la la la la
sha la la
susan's strange
sha la la la la la la
sha la la
susan's strange and lies in power
you are black and white
and won't say "i love you"
o that would be a lie and

sha la la la la la la
sha la la
susan's strange
sha la la la la la la
sha la la
susan's strange 

read the paper
rearrange the flowers
susan has another
all of this is yours now

sha la la la la la la
sha la la
susan's strange
sha la la la la la la
sha la la
susan's strange 

FALL

you will have a dress of white
you will have a ring of gold
you will have a paper snow
we'll fall
see the wall, the wall is black
we will have a heart attack
we will be alone and we'll fall
we'll fall
we'll fall

fall in love like sailors do
tell your lover you'll be true
sail upon the stupid sea
we'll fall
you will have a sheet of red
paint the trees, the trees are dead
we will be alone and we'll fall
we'll fall
we'll fall
we'll fall

marry me and be my wife
you can have me all your life
our love will never end
parties for our stupid friends
are the children really home?
we will lie upon the lawn
needles on the beach at goa
we will have another flower
we will be a part of structure
you will have a face of structure
we will make ourselves a scene
we will live our stupid dream
i am you and you are me
tie me down i will be free
our love will have no end
flowers for our stupid friends
marry me and be my wife
you can have me all your life
our love will never end
parties for our stupid friends
are the children really home?
we will lie upon the lawn
needles on the beach at goa
we will have another flower
we will be a part of structure
you will have a face of structure
we will make ourselves a scene
we will live our stupid dream
i am you and you are me
tie me down i will be free
our love will have no end

WE LOVE YOU

oh we all dream
i'm in love with catholics
i'm in love with your blue cars
i'm in love with the words that scream
we are so stupid, we all dream
i'm in love with frank sinatra
fly me to the moon
i'm in love with fools like you
i'm in love with doing the twist
i'm in love with the bodies that scream
they fall so far, they fall so far
i'm in love with the supremes
oh baby love
i'm in love with sophia loren
i'm in love with bridget bardot
i'm in love with the whole dumb scene
i'm so in love, you know what i mean
i'm in love with anthea and donna
all that shit that goes uptown top ranking

i'm in love with the factory
i'm in love with the bbc
i'm in love with your tv
they're so in love with you and me

i'm in love with the nuclear bomb it falls
i'm in love with shopping city dreams
i'm in love with real men 
they go through the air for oxygen
love is just a car like you
that turns so blue and turns so blue
no blue cars will run my world
no playboys will black my word
i would walk a million smiles 
for one of your miles bob

hey 
stop stop stop stop stop stop 

we love you 
we love you 
we love you 
we love you 
we love you 
we love you 
we love you 
we love you 

SOAP COMMERCIAL

this is my shirt
this is yours 
and this is called a dream
it must be the soap you use
and mine is called so kleen
it was so well advertised
all day on channel nine
we live in the soap commercial
we are all a lie

listen to this
listen to this
listen to this
listen to this

i live in the factory
and we are all the same
i live in the family
and all the traffic screams
it was so well advertised
all day on channel nine
we live in the soap commercial
we are all a lie

listen to this
listen to this
listen to this
listen to this
channel nine

soap commercial
soap commercial
soap commercial

IMITATION OF CHRIST

another christ is on the cross
the nails are words
the nails are lies
to make it crawl
and make it scream
and make it real
and make it bleed
and make it bleed
and make it bleed
and make it dream

imitation of christ
imitation of christ

this you who lie and scream
you fall to dust
you fall to dust
in walls of words
the words are blind
you speak and you are dumb and blind
the word is that your god
is you who fall so low and fall so far

imitation of christ
imitation of christ

fly to the moon dear
sew it on a stool
tie on the carpet all the cowboys fall
see the cowboys fat and reeling 
dancing underneath the ceiling
leave the bar the theatre's closing
make a wall of your religion

imitation of christ
imitation of christ

mary mary
mother mother
you and me and 
god the father
jesus is a woman too
he looks like all of me and you
your money talks and 
all your friends 
will laugh at her pathetic tits

imitation of christ
imitation of christ
imitation of christ
imitation

PULSE

my baby paints herself red
she paints her hair
her hair is dead
she's living in the city
with the bodies that scream
we are all jesus 
we all dream
see the dancer in there reeling
paint the sky upon the ceiling

four useless gods upon a day
so blinded by the filth on sunday
saying the words for the idiots
you are miracle drivel
optical sewer
listens to the flowers fall
paint the words upon the wall

this is the pulse of fools like you
who sound so red and turn so blue
the sound of uselessness in summer
the war is over if you want

see the dancer see me reeling
paint the sea upon the ceiling

pulse

my baby paints herself red
she paints her hair
her hair is dead
she's living in the city
with the bodies that scream
we are all jesus 
we all dream
see the dancer see me reeling
paint the sky upon the ceiling

that's pulse

WEDDING SONG

play another wedding song
a wedding song goes on and on
see the churches falling down
this is only in your mind
we're useless
we're useless

all their dresses stand so white
all the brides are all in white
play another wedding song
a wedding song goes on and on
we're useless
we're useless

walking on the paper ruins
shoes and rice and one two three
picking through the plastic ruins
of my useless memory
make a line of useless women
make a line of useless men
love me love me love me love
again again again again

we're useless
we're useless
completely 

FLOWERS

see the people dead in cars
see the bodies bleed
i know he's so dead and gone
i think that is free

his body is upon the wall
his teeth are sharp and white
we cut his eyes with razorblades
and out of him comes foul white light

in the eastern carpet store
he is made of dreams
put his picture on the wall
just where the mirror gleams

his body is upon the wall
his teeth are sharp and white
we cut his face with razorblades
and out of him comes foul white light

there's flowers all around his feet
there's flowers in his heart
if you take the needles out
his body falls apart

his body is upon the wall
his teeth are sharp and white
we cut his hands with razorblades
and out of him comes foul white light

make a god of politics
make a god of police
worship it with automobiles
worship it with screams

his body is upon the wall
his teeth are sharp and white
we cut his feet with razorblades
and out of him comes foul white light

make a god of useless drivel
sew it at the seams
float it down the river 
where the sewage is the sea

his body is upon the wall
his teeth are sharp and white
we cut his teeth on razorblades
and out of him came stupid light
that's flowers

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