"twilight to starlight"

"where boys fear to tread"

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 kids, a go-go style
a suck suck kiss
a 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
so get on the bomb
get back where you belong.

"bodies"

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

the empty bodies stand at rest
casualties of their own flesh
afflicted by their dispossesion
but no-bodies ever knew
nobodys
nobodys felt like you
nobodys

love is suicide

now we drive the night
to the ironies of peace
you can't help deny forever
the tradgedies reside in you
the secret sights hide in you
the lonely nights divide you in two
all my blisters now revealed
in the darkness of my dreams
in the spaces in between us
but nobodies ever knew
nobodies
nobodies felt like you
nobodies

love is suicide

"thirty-three"

speak to me in a language i can hear
humour me before i have to go
deep in thought i forgive everyone
as the cluttered streets greet me once again
i know i cant be late
suppers waiting on the table
tommorow's just an excuse away
so i pull my collar up and face the cold,
on my own
the earth laughs between 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'll make it
love can last forever
graceful swans of never
topple to the earth
and you, can make it last
forever you

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 im ready to return
i'll make the effort, love can last forever
graceful swans of never topple to the earth
tommorow's just an excuse
and you can make it last

forever you

"in the arms of sleep"

sleep will not come to this tired body now
peace will not come to this lonely heart
there are some things i'll luve without
but i want you to know i need you right now
i need you tonight
i steal a kiss from her sleeping shadows moves
'cause i'll always miss her wherever she goes
and i'll 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'll do anything to keep her here tonight
and i'll say anything to make her feel alright
and i'll 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'll live without
but i want you to know that i need you right now
suffer my desire

suffer my desire for you

"1979"

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
with the headlights pointing at the dawn
we were sure we'd never see an end to it all

and i dont even care
to shake these zipper blues
and we don't know
just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absored into the earth below

double cross the vacant and the bored
their not sure just what we have in store
morphine city slippin dues down to see

that we dont 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 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 absored into the earth below

the street heats the urgency of now
as you see theres no-one around

"tales of a scorched earth"

farewell goodnight last one out turn out the light
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 were all dead
yeah
were all dead

inside the future of a shattered past
i lie just to be real
and 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 your all whores and i'm a fag
and i've got no mother and i've got no dad

save me from the wasted,
save me from myself
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
everybodys lost
just waiting to be found
everyones a thought
just waiting to fade

so f**k it all cause i don't care
so what, somehow, somewhere we dared
to try to dare, to dare for a little more

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 reasons

"thru the eyes of ruby"

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, belief 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
the secrets of your dreams
you may find your love has gone
and is not quite what it seemed
to appear, to disappear
beneath all your darkest fears

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 forever frozen, forever beautiful
forever lost inside ourselves

the night has come to hold us young

"stumbeline"

boredoms in the bath room shaking out the loose teeth
sallys 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
mispent 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'll be your stumbeline
i'll be your superqueen
and make you

jukebox fuckup hanging round the drug store
no matter what you say he'll be back for more
mommys 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'll be you stumbeline
io'l be your superqueen
and make you me

come around ruby i could never sleep alone

"x.y.u."

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 im a watcher and i'm a doer of none
come to save you, cause your 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,
A RAT TAT TAT,
and some good old bliss
cause 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 marys got a problem
and marys not a stupid girl
marys got some deep shit
and mary does not forget
and this is how marys garden grows
and this is how mary has her ghosts

and into the eyes of a jackal
i say:

KA-BOOM

now we begin descent
to where we've necer been
there is no going back
this wasnt meant to last
this is a hell on earth
we are meant to serve
and she will never learn

bye bye, baby goodbye