Siouxsie And Tthe Banshees

[fox69]

"Red Over White"

"Red Over White"


The woods and the town
Covered in snow
All transformed to a fairytale
Like the fresh page of a book opened up
Ready
Waiting
For the story to begin
For you're all in a scene
Objects in black ink
Fringed in white
Breathing and living
And anticipating
A colour
All transformed to a fairytale
Unreal and inviting
Inviting you to step in
And follow the path neverending

You're now leaving
Imprints
And somehow expecting
Expecting someone

Maybe the prince in disguise
Suffering a snow queen curse
But you're wrong of course
It's in reverse

Out in the snow
Muffled
The last silent night
The last sacrifice
Red running over white
Red running over white
Red
Running over white
Red
Running over white
Running red
Over white
Running red
Over white

Red over white
Red over white
Red
Over white

 

[fox69]

"Regal Zone"

"Regal Zone"


Coronets rest on a death's head mask
No-one is safe while the curfew lasts
But crusted orbs glitter, sceptres gleam
While helmets of blood fill the screen

They look away
And then they say
"For the good of the land,
For the love of the man"
Standing alone sitting alone
On the throne of the regal zone

Old limbs hang in the torture room
While old kings hang in the portrait room
Their noble eyes gaze on the uneasy dance
Of the squirming body on the marble plate

They look away
And then they say
"For the good of the land,
For the love of the man"
Standing alone sitting alone
On the throne of the regal zone

 

[fox69]

"Return"

"Return"


Wonder where that plane is leading to
Wonder where that boat will ever stop
Wonder if this path I am treading
Will disappear and let me drop

Down to a hell that's surely waiting
Down to the hell I know that I deserve
Even though the spirit is willing
The flesh is blackened to the deepest nerve

When will you learn?
The hurting, it will return
When will you ever learn?
This feeling is all you can discern

Oh my heart, it is so broken
More than waves upon the golden sand
Fly my love, on wings of mute confusion
Oh, and never ever land

When will you learn?
When will you ever learn?
The hurting, it will return
This feeling is all you can discern

When will you learn?
When will you ever learn?
This feeling is all you can discern
The hurting always will return

Return
Return

 

[fox69]

"Rhapsody"

"Rhapsody"


In the soil of our sadness
Hear our hearts bell a serenade
A faint choir tenderly shaping
A lament... a hollow refuge

In the blood of the twinkling sky
Breathing in air drunk dry
There was once a time of rapture
All is lost... a pale gleaming

Across this crooked land
Runs a crooked man
Our loved ones die
Under the hammer
Of the soviet sun

Nothing can erase this night
But there's still light with you
Rhapsody...
And if we can never see the sun
There's still light with you
Rhapsody...

And I have seen all I want to
And I have felt all I want to
Rhapsody...
But we can dream all we want to
We can dream all we want to

 

[fox69]

"Running Town"

"Running Town"


Just a step onto the street
An uncomfortable heat
Rattlers at your feet
In running town

Helter-skelter all a-swelter
The impetus is seething
In running town
A thousand curses
Full speed ahead

Lockjaw aggression
And buzzing irritations
Deride the friendly martian
In running town

Helter-skelter all a-swelter
The impetus is seething
In running town
A thousand curses
Full speed ahead

If you gaze into her face
She'll glare back & drown
All refugees in the sea
In running town

A thousand curses
Full speed ahead
Full speed ahead...
Laughter rebounds & strangles
That sound in running town

In running town...

 

[fox69]

"Scarecrow"

"Scarecrow"


He trembles in the bitter wind
Until it's time for us to speak
Whilst others here are sleeping sound
I'll slip away by floorboard creak

Upon the hill he'll hear my secrets
Shock the colours to bleach inside
Whilst others there are sleeping sound
Just we two will confide

Listen to his body moan
Make a wish and send us home
To spin the gold and silver stitches
We can turn his rags to riches

With frosty jack on fingernail
Thro' shoe black smile he'll tell-a-tale
Come whisper thro' your lips of straw
A moment torn forevermore

Listen to his body groan
Make a wish to send us home
To spin the gold and silver stitches
We can turn his rags to riches

My so-called friends say you're not alive
I'll bake their bones for telling lies
Then pull the pastry from the pie
And pour the gravy in their eye

Listen to his body moan
Make a wish and send us home
To spin the gold and silver stitches
We can turn his rags to riches

 

[fox69]

"Sea Breezes"
(originally by Roxy Music)

"Sea Breezes"
(originally by Roxy Music)



I've been thinking now for a long time
How to go my own separate way
It's a shame to think about yesterday... a shame

We've been running round in our present state
Hoping help would come from above
But even angels there make the same mistakes in love

Now that we are lonely
Life seems to get hard
Alone what a word lonely
Alone it makes me cry
Thought-train set in motion
Wheels in and around
Express our emotion
Tracks up then it cracks down

 

[fox69]

"Sea Of Light"

"Sea Of Light"


I float quietly
Without a sound
Forever and ever 'til the end of time
And see myself lying still at the scene of the crime
Lying still at the scene of the crime

Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
I passed over to the sea of light
Follow me into the sea of light
The sea of light

The miracle skin from the rainbow's edge
Let it rain down, let it descend
Riding on a river of stars
The heavens open at the tunnel's end

Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
I passed over to the sea of light
Follow me into the sea of light

Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
Let it rain down, let it descend
Sea of light
The sea of light

 

[fox69]

"Shadowtime"

"Shadowtime"


The voice asleep, the voice has vanished
From the top of the sky to the place below
Touch the surface and the mirror bends
Your words resound, out of control

Freeze into time now

Still inside yet doubt survives
It all begins beneath the skin
No-one is near, no-one will hear
Your changeling song takes shape
In Shadowtime

Turn your wish to a vapour, the silhouette fades
Eclipse your blue eyes and the outline remains
From the house of the moon to the stars up above
Amidst the comets, first sight of love

So begin the countdown

Falling sky, a solar sigh
It all begins beneath the skin
No-one is near, no-one will hear
Your changeling song takes shape
In Shadowtime

Shadowtime

Catching fire, taking hold
All that glisters leaves you cold
No-one is near, no-one will hear
Your changeling song takes shape
In Shadowtime

Shadowtime

 

[fox69]

"She Cracked"

"She Cracked"


When she was sensitive, she understood me
Well, she understood you and me and things in 1943
She does all these things that I can't stand
I get jealous when she stays with another man

She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, you're right

Well, she cracked, I won't
She did things that I don't
She, self-destroyed, necessary to self-enjoy
I, self-developed, necessary to self-help

And She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right

Well, she cracked, I won't
She did things that I don't
She, eat garbage
Eat shit and get stoned
I, stay alone
Eating health food at home

She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right

And She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right

And She cracked
I'm sad, but I won't
She cracked
I'm hurt, but all right