Dominion /

Mother Russia

 

Release on 02-1988 as:

7' MR043 Dominion (Remix) - Untitled - Sandstorm

12' MR043T Dominion -

3' MR043CD Single CD Dominion -

MR043C (cassette) Dominion -

MR043TB

 

In the heat of the moment

Say, say, say

 

In the heat of the night

In the heat of the day

When I close my eyes

When I look your way

When I meet the fear that lies inside

When I hear you say

In the heat of the moment

Say, say, say

 

Some day, some day, some day - Dominion

Come a time

Some day, some day, some day - Dominion

Some say prayers

Some say prayers

I say mine

 

In the light of the fact

On the lone and level

Sand stretch far away

In the heat of the action

In the settled dust

Hold hold and sway

In the meeting of mined

Down in the streets of shame

In the betting of names on gold to rust

In the land of the blind

Be...king, king, king, king

 

Some day, some day, some day - Dominion

Come a time

Some day, some day, some day - Dominion

Some say prayers

Some say prayers

I say mine

 

Some day, some day, some day - Dominion

Some say prayers

Some say prayers

I say mine

 

In the heat of the night

In the heat of the day

When I close my eyes

When I look your way

When I meet the fear that lies inside

When I hear you say

In the heat of the moment

Say, say, say

 

Some day, some day, some day - Dominion

Some say prayers

Some say prayers

I say mine

I say mine

I say mine

 

We serve and old man in a dry season

A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun

Dreamers of sleepers and white treason

We dream of treason and the history of the gun

There's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia

A white house in a red square

I'm living in films for the sake of russia

A Kino Runner for the DDR

And the fifty-two daughters of the revolution

Turn the gold to chrome

Gift...nothing to lose

Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home, sing:

 

Mother Russia

Mother Russia

Mother Russia rain down down down

Mother Russia

Mother Russia

Mother Russia rain down

 

 

Flood I

 

And her hallway

Moves

Like the ocean

Moves

 

At the head of the river

At the source of the sea

 

Sitting here now in this bar for hours

Trying to write it down

Fitting in hard with harder to come

Trying to fight it

Down the river there's a ship will carry you

Down river down stream

Down the river there's a ship will carry the

Dream

Dream of the flood

Down the river there's a ship will carry the

Dream of the flood

 

And her hallway...

As the water come rushing over

As the water come rushing in

As the water come rushing over

Flood...Flood...

 

Push the glass, stain the glass

Push the writer to the wall

It may come but it will pass

Some say we will fall

Dream of the flood...

Flood...

 

And her hallway...

 

Oh, maybe, in terms of surrender,

On a backcloth of lashes and eyes

In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth

And ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes

And ashes and ashes and lies...

 

And her hallway...

Like...

As the water come rushing in

As the water come rushing over

 

Sitting here now in this bar for hours

While these strange men rent strange flowers

I'll be picking up your petals in another few hours

In the metal and blood, in the scent and mascara

On a backcloth of lashes and stars

In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth

And ashes and ashes and secondhand passion

And stolen guitars

 

And her hallway...

As the water come rushing in

Like the sea

As the water come rushing over

Dream of the flood

In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth

And ashes and ashes

And ashes and ashes

And ashes and ashes

And ashes and ashes and lies...

 

As the water come rushing in, rushing in

 

At the head of the river

At the source of the sea

 

And her hallway...

Like...

 

Flood...

 

 

Lucretia My Reflection

 

I hear the roar of a big machine

Two worlds and in between

Hot metal and methedrine

I hear empire down

I hear empire down

 

I hear the roar of a big machine

Two worlds and in between

Love lost, fire at will

Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear

Dive, bombers, and

Empire down

Empire down

 

I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed

Get down, get undressed

Get pretty but you and me,

We got the kingdom, we got the key

We got the empire, now as then,

We don't doubt, we don't take direction,

Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me

 

We look hard

We look through

We look hard to see for real

Such things I hear, they don't make sense

I don't see much evidence

I don't feel

I don't feel

I don't Feel

 

A long train held up by page on page

A hard reign held up by rage

Once a railroad

Now it's done...

 

I hear the roar of a big machine

Two worlds and in between

Hot metal and methedrine

I hear empire down...

 

We got the empire, now as then,

We don't doubt, we don't take reflection,

Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me

 

1959

 

Living as an angel in the

Place that I was born

Living on air

Living in heaven

Giving the lie down, the line

To the

There's my heaven

 

And I know

Which way the wind blows

In nineteen fifty-nine

 

Which way the wind blows

In nineteen fifty-nine

 

And the wind blows still

And the wind blows wild again

For a little child can never kill this clean

This way

And it feels like me today

Tell me

Do you feel the same?

Isabelle?

Or do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine?

...Do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine?

 

And the wind blows wild again

And the wind blows wild

 

In nineteen fifty-nine

In fifty-nine

Isabelle

Do you, do you fell the same?

 

Come with me

Like a little child

Like another gun

Like homeless, restless, known to none, like

Way beyond the line

Like it never was

In nineteen fifty-nine

 No

 

This Corrosion

 

Gimme the ring, kissed and told

Gimme something that I missed

A hand to hold, wild and what it seems....

Kill the King, when love is the law

And the we'll turn round....

Gimme dream child

And do you hear me call?

On the loan and on the level

....still on the floor

Sing dream child

And do you hear at all?

 

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now....

 

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now....

 

Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me?

Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?

Sing, child, of right and wrong

Gimme things that don't last long

Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?

 

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now....

 

On daze like this

 

bIn times like these

I feel an animal deep inside

Heel to haunch on bended knees

Living on if and if I tried,

Somebody send me please....

Dream wars and a ticket to seem

 

Giving out and giving in

Selling the don't belong

Well, what do you say

D'you have a word for giving away?

Got a song for me?

 

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me

Hey now, hey now now, sing like a healing hand

 

I got nothing to say I ain't said before

I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more

I don't need no one to understand

Why the blood run hold the highered hand

On heart

Hand Of God

Floodland and Driven Apart

Run cold

Turn

Cold

Burn

Like a healing hand

Like a healing hand

Like a healing hand

Like a healing hand

 

 

Flood II

 

And her hallway

Moves

Like the ocean

Moves

And her hallway

Moves

Like the sea

Like the sea

 

She says no no no no harm will come your way

She says bring it on down, bring on the wave

She says: nobody done no harm

Grace of God and raise your arms

She says: face it and it's a place to stay

 

This, this is the way it was

This, this is the way it is

When the water come rushing, rushing in

 

She says

She says anytime

Raise your arms

Flood

 

And her hallway

Like...

Like...

 

Like a million voices call my name

Like a million voices calling

Not now, not never again...

Sitting here now in this bar for hours

Strange men rent strange flowers

Seconds to the drop but it feels like hours and I

Think I'm going to...going to...

 

This, this is the way it was

This, this is the way it is

When the water come rushing, rushing in

 

She says

She says anytime

Raise your arms

Flood

 

And her hallway...

 

She says

She says anytime

Raise your arms

Flood

Driven Like The Snow

 

Still night, nothing for miles,

White curtain come down,

Kill the lights in the middle of the road

And take a look around.....

It don't help to be one of the chosen

One of the few, to be sure

When the wheels are spinning around

And the ground is frozen through, and you're

Driven, like the snow

Pure in heart

Driven together

And given

Away to the west

A white dress

'Til the river don't run

A black dress

Looking like mine

'Til the sun don't shine no more

Where the sky meet the ground

Where the street fold round

Where the voice you hold don't

Make no sound, look

Snow on the river and two by two

Took a lot to live a lot like you, I don't

Go there now, but I hear they sung

Their "Fuck Me And Marry Me Young"

Some wild idea and a big white bed, now

You know better than that, I said,

Like a voice in the wind blow little crystals down

Like brittle things will break before they turn

Like lipstick on my cigarette

And the ice get harder overhead

Like think it twice but never never learn...

 

And the mist will wrap around us

And the crystal, if you touch it...

 

And the cars

Lost in the drift

Are there

And the people that drive

Lost in the drift

Are there

And the cares I've

Lost in the drift

Are there

Theirs, ours,

Lost in the drift

Are..

Driven

Driven together

And driven

Apart

 

 

 

Never Land

(a fragment)

 

I had a face on the mirror

I had a hand on the gun

I had a place in the sun and a

Ticket to Syria

 

I had everything within my reach

I had money and stuff

Each and every call

Too much but never enough

Tear it up and watch it fall

 

Torch

 

And now the torch

And shadows lead

Were it not so black and not so hard to see

How can it help you when you don't know what you need

How can anybody set you free?

 

Would he walk upon the water

If he couldn't walk away?

And would you

Would you carry the torch

For me?

 

And what if I gave you the key

To the doors of your design...

Lit the corridors of desire?

Where if not so black

And not so hard to see

What use to you then any fire?

 

Would he walk upon the water

If he couldn't walk away?

And would you

Carry the torch for me?

 

Would he walk upon the water

If he couldn't walk away?

And would you

Would you carry the torch for me?

 

Would you carry the torch

For me?

Would you carry the torch

For me?

Would you carry the torch

For me?

 

 

Colours

 

You reap what you sow

Put your face to the ground

Here come the marching men

Your colours wrapped around

 

BONUS TRACKS

 

Never Land (full lenght)

 

And will the earth break your fall

And the hurt break your will

And the heartbreak be over

It will

 

We are coming down

We fall ... hand in hand in hand in hand

We are coming down but we will

Never never land

I had a face on the mirror

I had a hand on the gun

I had a place in the sun

And a ticket to Syria

I had everything within my reach

I had money and stuff

Each and every call

Too much but never enough

Tear it up and watch it fall

We are coming down

We fall ... hand in hand in hand in hand

We are coming down but we will

Never never land

 

With our backs to the sky

And our eyes on the ground

With clouds far below

No horizon around

With the wind in our face

And our arms open wide

We will pass through this place

... To the other side

 

 

All the days of our lives

All the ways of our calling

Fall

I had a face on the mirror

I had a hand on the gun

I had a place in the sun

And a ticket to Syria

I had everything within my reach

I had money and stuff

Each and every call

Too much but never enough

Tear it up and watch it fall

 

Emma

 

We were together since we were five

She was so pretty

Emma was a star in everyone's eyes

And when she said she'd be a movie queen

Nobody laughed

With her face like an angel

She could be anything

Emily. Emma, Emily

I'm gonna write your name high on the silver screen

Emily. Emma, Emily

I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen

At seventeen

We were wed

And I worked hard to earn our daily bread

And every day

Emma would go out searching for that break

That never, ever came her way

And sometimes she come home and she'd be so depressed

I'd hear her crying in the back room and feel so distressed

And I'd remember back when she was five

To the words that used to make Emily come alive

It was...

Emma, Emily

I'm gonna write your name high on the silver screen

Emily. Emma, Emily

I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen

It was a cold and dark December night

When I opened up the bedroom door

To find her lying still and cold upon the bed

A love letter lying on the bedroom floor

It read, "Darling I love you

But I just can't keep living on dreams no more

I've tried so hard not to leave you alone

But I just can't keep trying no more"

Oh, Emma. Emily

Oh, Emma. Emily

Oh, Emma. No!

Oh, Emma. No

F L O O D L A N D

 

 

B A C K

M

Y

-

D

O

M

I

N

I

O

N

-

N

L

-

©

2

0

1

2

 

H O M E