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Originally recorded 1987-88. Never released. CD remaster/reissue 1999
SHE DOESN'T KNOW (Utley) Standing in the corner watching her dance The music of her laughter, the flutter of her hands
Look at her dancing with all those other guys Look at her staring into someone else's eyes
GAME (Utley/English) Swiftly walking on a winter's night / I feel a passion so profound Something's moving somewhere out of sight / Something so unlike the stillness all around Her limbs grow heavy as we cast our spell / One question burns with hellish light The ancient cat & mouse we play so well / If I should sleep the sleep of life tonight
Come, my little one, don't fear the cold / Their shadow darkens every stair In its diamond heart lies wealth untold / Their crowded heartbeats echo through the air Come & join us in our sad refrain / I'm drugged with beauty & with pain Quench the thirst that burns inside our veins / The demon dance, the cold November rain
See the fear that burns behind her eyes / I look to visages of white Silly things are so afraid to die / They blind me with the wan winter moonlight The wind will swallow up your dying screams / I rise to follow in their way Then you'll see that nothing's as it seems / There's much to learn & many games to play
Come, my little one, don't fear the cold / Our shadow darkens every stair In its diamond heart lies wealth untold / Our crowded heartbeats echo through the air Come & join us in our sad refrain / Come join us in our sad refrain Feel the thirst that burns inside your veins / Come join our dance & revel in the rain
CHAMELEON (Utley)
She got an evil eye, she got a furnace kiss A smoky voice & serpent hips She got a witch's walk, she got raven hair An hourglass, a murder stare
She got a cheshire smile, she got a certain way To make me think about her every day She tells me I got a dirty mind But it thinks about her all the time
Her colours change, she comes & goes There's so much about her I don't know But if I told you that I need you so Would you turn to me or would you turn to go?
THE VOYEUR (English)
Nightly entertainment, the thrills I seek are far from meek I watch you through this window, your captive audience awaits
Regular as clockwork, your performance never lacks Our two heartbeats dance together & our two breaths are made as one Though I've fought this mad obsession, it seems so right that you have won
Don't you know she doesn't need you? She'll never understand like me I can almost hear her laughter as she enjoys what should be mine I could make you want to want me if you would just give me a sign
How I wish that I could touch you & mold your flesh in my cool hands Thirty minutes getting shorter each time I tune you on my dial How I'll miss you till tomorrow, my prime time love, adieu, adieu
THROW IT AWAY (Utley) Wisdom sits upon the wailing wall And sings to those among us who have ears to hear her But I don't hear anything at all The air is full of daggers & it hurts to listen Speak to me in love or not at all Other hearts than mine are broken by your anger Every time you cut me with your words You cut yourself, you kill yourself I'm begging you to throw it away The world is getting colder every day Girl, you gotta throw it away
You hold in your hands a precious stone It glows with righteous anger & it cuts like diamond It will pull you under all alone Let it fall & shatter, open up your hands & throw it away Your heart is getting colder every day Girl, you gotta throw it away Throw it away
THE DANCE (English) Oh, the silent spectres waltzing through my mind Dancing through the cobwebs of my heart The wanton gypsies of the other world Laugh without laughing, their mouths emit no sound
Their teeth are pointed with barbs of the truth And their eyes are hungry, they devour me with no shame What I once was, I'll never be again They have stolen the light from my soul
Oh, I watch them whirling till they fall to the ground And I wonder at the happiness they've found
VIGIL (Utley) Light a candle for my friend For broken hearts that cannot mend
Light a candle for my friend For happy dreams that have to end
Light a candle for my friend
LONESOME TRAIN (Utley) Watching the moonlight shine through our window pane And off in the distance I hear that sound again The mournful cry of a far-off, lonesome train
Oh, I'm sorry, baby, how I wish I could explain Why I'd leave your warm bed for the cold, uncaring rain Baby, I'm leaving on that lonesome train
MISTER X (Utley) Can you see me, Mister X? Can you hear me, Mister X? Do you love me, Mister X?
Do you need me, Mister X? Don't deceive me, Mister X Will you hold me, Mister X?
HARMONIC (English) I have never known the anger that you've shown to me & I deserve your sympathy Yeah, I deserve you sympathy How dare you condemn me?
It has been a while since I've seen an honest smile I know I caused your dream to break And though I caused your dream to break Your coldness I can't take
Snap out of your spell We don't have to take this hell And we don't have to grow apart We do not have to grow apart Don't let our ending start
ONE SOUL TO ANOTHER (English) The rocket's red glare Flame halo 'round your hair With ashes at your feet you breathe to me I watch... I see... Your face turned away from me
I see your burning trail Through my mourning veil Although my love has died it lives inside I wait For a sign As your path leads away from mine
I feel this day is mine I've lived it many times And though your beauty's gone my life goes on I gaze At the stars And I wonder just which one you are
ELEVEN ELEVEN (Utley) All the things that tear my heart All the sorrow, all the tears Disappear inside your flame I have waited all my life Just to be with you tonight I have always known your name
In the shadows every night Silent & invisible I am guided by your song There is nowhere else on earth I would rather be tonight Than lying still inside your arms
BLACK NOT BLUE (English) Yes, it's true, I'm black not blue now For I have seen the dying light Last kiss. Gut wrench. Final goodbyes Not said
I knew you in many colours But now you are fading into grey Deep sigh. Black out. Drowning in flesh I am
I never believed I would lose you forever
Though you're gone I still see you Your half-veiled smile tears through my soul Shy glance. Black hole. What have you left To me?
Without you I'm black not blue now But I still sense your shadow near
I never believed I would lose you Forever
BURN TO ASHES (Utley) I love you Looking into your eyes looking into my eyes One and the same one and the same What are you afraid of? Same thing I'm afraid of One and the same one and the same
Write it in sand so no one sees Whisper at night so no one hears But I watch you and I want you I watch you with burning eyes Watch as you dance and as you sigh Watch as you smoke and as you smile But silently and cloaked in shade I breathe and wait another day
So to the flame I bring a rose As red as blood and warm as life My hands are down, my chest exposed The wolf is back in different clothes He tears my skin and dances To the beat of my pounding heart
I love you
VAMPYR II (Utley) "Lust is blood and blood is living, look into my eyes", she said, "Take this gift that I am giving and you will never die"
Flashing white against the darkness/Darting victim eyes Scent of fear, intoxication/Can you feel the passion rise?
Lust is blood and blood is living/Look into my eyes Take this gift that we are giving and you will never die
BLUE ROOM (Utley) In the cool of the evening, the world is asleep But girl, I haven't even closed my eyes Because I'm drowning in sorrow, sorrow so deep All I can do is hang my head and cry All I can do is hang my head and cry
This time of night is the hardest, the hardest for me Can't get to sleep no matter how I try There's nothing here to distract me from thinking of you All I can do is sit and wonder why All I can do is sit and wonder why
LAURA DREAM (Utley) You and I, we feel a hunger of another kind In the midst of a crowd a stranger leads another life All alone we walk together in the evening rain As we talk I wonder whether we'll ever smile again
By the light of the moon I see her, soft behind a veil In the town there is news of murder, it's just another day In the street a woman weeping in her wrinkled hands Far away the waves are breaking soft against the sand
In the mist and the rain we wander through the mirrored streets Summer wind full of sighs and whispers beckoning to me In the heat a stranger stumbles in the desert sand Underneath the moon we gather far away from man
SMILE & FAKE IT (English) All my mama told me 'bout the birds & bees was Smile & fake it Lay there & take it Always remember you've a man to please
If your dreams don't all come true All the blame belongs to you Just smile & fake it Lay there & take it He's a man, he knows what's best for you
You're locked into this pointless fate Don't you feel better? Get your shit together Just go home & masturbate
BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD (Utley) I wish there was a gun that would kill people for one hour Just for an hour, and then they'd be okay If there was a gun that would kill people for one hour How many times would you die in one day?
If there was a gun that would kill people for one hour Everybody'd die three or four or five or six times a day 'Cause if there was a gun that would kill people for one hour You could always say exactly what you had to say
I wish there was a gun that would kill people for one hour Just for an hour, and then they'd be okay If there was a gun that would kill people for one hour Who would you kill? C'mon, let me hear you say
Bang bang you're dead |