1983 Alice
7' MR015
Alice -
12' MR021
Alice -
Alice
She stays pressed against the wall so
She can see the door
In case the laughing strangers call and
Crush the petals on the floor.
Alice in her party dress, she
Thanks you kindly, so serene, she
Needs you like she needs her tranks to
Tell her that the world is clean, to
Promise her a definition
Tell her where the rain will fall
Tell her where the sun shines bright and
Tell her she can have it all
Today.
Pass the crystal, spread the tarot
In illusion comfort lies, the
Safest way, the straight and narrow
No confusion, no surprise
Alice in her party dressed to kill she
Thanks you, turns away, she
Needs you like she needs her pills to
Tell her that the world's okay, to
Promise her a definition
Tell her where the rain will fall
Tell her where the sun shines bright and
Tell her she can have it all
Today
Today
Alice
Don't give it away
No
Floorshow
The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground in the
Violet hour to the violent sound and the
Darkness the blinding the eyes that shine and the
Voices singing line on line:
This is floorshow the clapping hands
Animal flow from the animal glands in the
Violet hour to the violent sound going
Round and around and around and around and...
I feel the bite I feel the beat I see the dancing feet
I feel the light I feel the heat I see the new elite
I see the final floorshow I see the western dream
I see the faces glow and I see the bodies steam...
See them shimmy see them go
See their painted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go...
This is the floorshow the last ideal its
Populist got mass appeal the
Old religion redefined for the
Facile futile totally blind...
Mundane by day inane at night
Pagan playing in the flashing light in the
Violet hour to the violent sound going
Round and around and around and around and...
Bodies on the naked on the low damp ground
In the violet hour to the violent sound and the
Darkness the blinding the eyes that shine and the
Voices singing line on line
See them shimmy see them go
See their painted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go...
Phantom
1969
Well alright!
Well, it's 1969 O.K.
We got a war across the USA
There's nothing here for me and you
We're just sitting here with nothing to do
There's nothing here for me and you
Another year with nothing to do (No!)
Now last year I was 21
I didn't have a lot of fun
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
Well, now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo (No!)
Well, it's 1969 O.K.
We got a war across the USA
There's nothing here for me and you
We're just sitting here with nothing to do
Well it's 1969, Baby
Well it's 1969, Baby
It's nine, nine, nine....nine, teen sixty-
'teen sixty-
'teen sixty-
'teen sixty-
1983 The Reptile House E.P.
12' MR023
Kiss The Carpet -
Kiss the Carpet
She got red eyes
She wear dust
I went over over over over
I went bust
I kissed I kissed the carpet
I climbed the curtain
I was sure yeah
I was certain
And I said yeah
And I said yeah
And I said yeah
And I said yeah
And I said yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
She got red eyes
She wear dust
I went over over over over
I went bust
I kissed I kissed the carpet
I climbed the curtain
I was sure yeah
I was certain
But I said
Next time I look before I
Next time the carpet
Next time I look before I
Kiss the carpet should I
Kiss
Kiss
Kiss
Lights
The light shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and the daylight fades
Ignore the voices discard the day
For the brand new darkness for the bright new way
Well there have been better plans
But none that I could ever understand
Emerald signal the green on black
The lights say move say never look back
And so I find another place where I've never been seen
Find another place where the red turns green
Where the emerald glistens through the darkness again
Where the emerald glistens through the rain
The lights shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and the daylight fades
But there's a voice in the distance quiet and clear
Saying something that I never ever wanted to hear
There have been better plans
But none that I could ever understand
I see the emerald see the signal see the green on black
I see the lights say you can never look back
And so I find another place where I've never been seen
Find another place where the red turns green
Where the emerald glistens through the darkness again
Where the emerald glistens through the rain rain rain
And I'm happy here in the rain
Valentine
The razor bites and the shriek subsides
He arches clutching at his sides
Across the floor across the tiles
The man is dead and the razor smiles
A shiny love song a quick incision
Cut him down on television
A people come to this
Beyond the age of reason
A people fed on famine
A people on their knees and
People eat each other
A people stand in line
Waiting for another war and
Waiting for my valentine
For a million empty faces
For a million hollow smiles
Cancer for my education
Watch the body hit the files
Waiting for another war and
Waiting for my valentine
1983 Temple Of Love
7' MR027
Temple Of Love
Heartland
12' MRX027
Temple Of Love
Heartland
Gimme Shelter
Temple of Love (extended version)
With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another but still the same
For the wind will blow my name across this land
In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lover's eyes
In the temple of love: Shine like thunder
In the temple of love: Cry like rain
In the temple of love: Hear my calling
In the temple of love: Hear my name
And the devil in the black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away
With the sunlight died and night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another it's all the same
For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside
With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the temple of love
I shine like thunder cry like rain
And the temple of love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before
This black wind calls my name to you no more
In the black sky thunder sweeping
Underground and over water
Sounds of crying weeping will not save
Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-
When stone is dust and only air remains
In the temple of love: Shine like thunder
In the temple of love: Cry like rain
In the temple of love: Hear the calling
And the temple of love is falling
Down
In the temple of love: Shine like thunder
In the temple of love: Cry like rain
In the temple of love: Hear my calling
In the temple of love: Hear my name
In the black sky thunder sweeping
Underground and over water
Sounds of crying weeping will not save
Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-
When stone is dust and only air remains
The only haven you can trust
And the devil in the black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away
With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the temple of love
I shine like thunder cry like rain
And the temple of love grows old and strong
But the wind blows longer cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before
This black wind calls my name to you no more
In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lovers eyes
In the temple of love: Shine like thunder
In the temple of love: Cry like rain
In the temple of love: Hear the calling
And the temple of love is falling
Down
Gimme Shelter
Oh, see the storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Repeat
Yeah
Oh, see the fire is sweeping
Down through the streets today
Burning like a bright red carpet
Another fool who lost the way
Rape, murder
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Repeat
Yeah
Oh, see the storm is threatening
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Yeah, I'm gonna fade away
Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
Shot away shot away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Repeat
Rape, murder
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Rape, murder
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away
Repeat previous three twice
Repeat love chorus
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away kiss away
1980
The Damage Done
7' MR007
The Damage Done
Watch
Home Of The Hit-
The Damage Done
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
Somebody tell me about the perfect bomb
The royal valley of a blitzkrieg bomb
Somebody tell me how to use my gun tools
Kiss the napalm in the afternoon
I saw the film, I saw the place
I live to work for the killing sake
When I think you're knocked, when the radio died
And the rhythm play from every side
See the rebel and the damage done
See the debris and the damage done
See the wreckage and the damage done
See the film, see the damage done
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor
(This is the image, this is the place)
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
(This is the way the world will end)
Somebody tell me about the
(The waltzing men have dancing eyes)
I need to know about the
(This is the way the world will end)
Me I'm lost and the radio's dead
Now I'm relaxed and the radio's dead
The rhythm's gone, the radio's dead
And the damage done inside my radio
Watch
Here's the story
No time to lose (like the present)
Now I've lost my friends
Now I've lost my friends
It's not my party
Never will be
Feeling out-
I'm not happy
A touch of the storm cloud...
Roughage in a comradeship and conversations
Conversations, everything's so run-
We stand still...
And time slips back
And time slips back...
Back to the garden
Time slips back
Back in the dark rooms
Time slips back
Back in the dark room
Back to the dark age
Put me on the rack
We stand still
Time slips back
Recount movements
Recount movements
Watch us grow
Watch us fall from grace
Watch us fall flat on our face
But you always fall on your feet
Tell me how you always
Fall on your feet
Tell me how
Tell me how
Tell me how
Home of the Hit-
The sun shines on the aluminum
I guess this must be the home of the hitmen
1982 Body Electric
7' MRCNT002
Body Electric -
Adrenochrome
We'll turn away in a passive decision
We'll take the steps through the unmarked door
A look back for another collision
But the boys of the spires
Are boys no more
Not black and red boys
Frightened by the night
By the Catholic monochrome
The Catholic girls now
Stark in their dark and white
Spread in monochrome
The Sisters of Mercy
High tide
Wide eyed
Sped on adrenochrome
For the Sisters of Mercy
Filled with
Panic in their eyes
Rise
Dead on adrenochrome
We had the power
We had the space
We had a sense of time and place
We knew the words
We knew the score
We knew what we were fighting for
For the freedom
The time to choose
But time to think
Is time to lose
The signals clash
And disappear
The shade too loud
And the sound unclear
For the
High tide
Wide eyed
Dread in monochrome
Denied in spite
Disliked in monochrome
Panic in their eyes
Rise
Dead and monochrome
The Sisters of Mercy
Spiked
On adrenochrome
The way is clear
The road is closed
The damage done
And the course
Imposed you
Repeat verses 1 and 2
Body Electric
Through the cables and the underground
The faceless breathless calls
This is Babel, sensurround
This place is death with walls (x4)
Too much contact, no more feeling
The sound around them all
Acid on the floor so she walks on the ceiling
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall (x2)
Crawling to the corners where the idiot children call
See the body flashing on the bathroom wall
Repeat
1983 Anaconda
7' MR019
Anaconda -
Anaconda
Baby buy an Anaconda baby buy a thing to wear
She go walking she go crawling she go sliding through the air
She go talking warm and fashion she go talking debonair
But see her face turn to a mask
And passion turn to she don't care
She will she will she will she will let it take her breath away
She will she will she will she will let it take her life away
Let it wrap itself around her till it kill her in it's way
She will she will she will she will blow away
Baby hit the rush hour traffic get a ride to anywhere
Baby buy the number three she pay the man she pay the fare
Baby hit the wild blue yonder on the mainline on the side
Steal to feed the Anaconda will not see the suicide
Chorus
Baby finger on the trigger baby shoot formaldehyde
Turn into a marble figure turn the matter dead inside
Turn into a China doll maybe go to the final ride
Baby go where I don't follow baby to the other side
She will she will she will she will make it take her breath away
She will she will she will she will make it take her life away
Make it wrap itself around her till it kill her in its way
She will she will she will she will blow away
Burn
Burn me a fire in the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing down
In the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing down
Down down down around me
Down down down down around my face
In the fire in the reptile house...
Fix
Love for the party love for the nation
Love for the fix for the fabrication
Love for the corpse for the corporation
Love for the death and for the defecation
Romance and assassination
Give me the love of genocide
Give me love
Kiss the Carpet (reprise)
No lyrics
Heartland
Lay me down the long white line
Leave the sirens far behind me
Paint my name in black and gold
My heart my flame my heart my road
My heartland fade across the line
Heartland sing the faces shining
In the failing failing failing
Heartland make the places mine
Clearly now the past mistakes
The giant steps we had to take
The path that ever promise made to
Die in dream dissolve and fade
My heartland heartland heartland
My heartland heartland heartland
My heartland heartland heartland
My heartland heartland heartland
Behind the lines a face that glimmers
Still looking for a face that shines
In the promise in the places
I'm going to make them mine
My heartland heartland heartland (Repeated 40 times)
Phantom
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