Siouxsie And Tthe Banshees

[fox69]

"She's A Carnival"

"She's A Carnival"


In the heart of the night
She smiles like Mardi-Gras
Spinning in a dizzy haze
Her circus head giggles
It's a friendly disease
Catching colours from the air

So with your hands
Upon the hips
Of the dancing flesh
She's a Carnival
And when it's lip to lip
In a surprise-time kiss
She's a Carnival

Mosaic eye
Gypsy eye
Glowing as it dazzles
She's a portrait of a poison
For you to quench your thirst
A portrait of a poison

 

[fox69]

"Shooting Sun"

"Shooting Sun"


We've been waiting, inside our fears
Eyes that scorn you, imprison you with tears
Now awoken, rise up your new age schemes
Like the shooting sun, mirrors your golden dreams
We'll wait for you 'til dawn - it's ringing in
To stare back at the eyes that scorn

We've been sinking, with every step they spurn
Now we're thinking, it's time for them to burn
Crept up slowly, with a pocket full of beams
Softly spoken, "Take these eyes and see"
And we'll curse the years of stone
We'll laugh in the eyes that scorn - ringing in

We'll light them one by one, touched by the shooting sun
Flames run in golden streams, echoing golden dreams
We'll kiss them one by one, just like the shooting sun
We'll burst the years of stone,
We'll laugh in the eyes that scorn - ring it in

[fading]

We'll burst the years of stone,
We'll laugh in the eyes that scorn - ring it in

We'll light them one by one,
We'll burst the years of stone - touched by the shooting sun
We'll laugh in the eyes that scorn
We'll kiss them one by one
We'll burst the years of stone - like my shooting sun
We'll laugh in the eyes that scorn - my shooting sun

 

[fox69]

"Sick Child"

"Sick Child"


And I know I never knew you
Your mind your pain I will melt your winter tears
If you say you will
If you could say you will

Convalescing bruised I set my mind awake
Dare to take another look
If you say you will
If you could say you will

King of moon gloomy afternoon
Losing track of word and metre
Still shaking in this tear room
Like a sick child
Still shaking nothing reconciled
Like a sick child

Melancholia colliding out of mind
In a silver swirl I take a lungful in
Blow a fistful out if you could say you will

King of moon gloomy afternoon
Losing track of word and metre
Make your final touch people talk too much
Madman screams an unknown language

Still shaking in the tear room
Like a sick child
Still shaking nothing reconciled
Like a sick child

 

[fox69]

"Silly Thing"

"Silly Thing"


Alone and left to ponder everything
Alone and left to puzzle out all the pain
Such a silly, silly, silly thing
You must catch it and cease it while you can

Accusations flying -- colliding cheek to cheek
Button up your lip and think before you speak
Oh see him fly into a rage
See her cry in her tantrum cage
Too blind to halt this stupid game
Silly thing

Now all that's left is a feeling very grim
Alone and left to think about the stupid thing
Yes, she would fly into a rage
And he would cry in his tantrum cage
A replay of this dumb charade
Silly thing

I misunderstood you -- I buried my head in sand
Please accept my feelings of remorse and take my hand
Such a silly thing can destroy a man
For such a silly thing to come between such friends
It's hard to imagine or believe
Silly thing

 

[fox69]

"Silver Waterfalls"

"Silver Waterfalls"


Clouds roll by overhead
Like giant rays coast a dried up ocean bed
Dancing winds blow a parody
Of swirling currents in a long forgotten sea

Shimmer glimmer
Shimmer on me
The sparkling souls of dreaming children call
Shimmer glimmer
Shimmer on me
It streets that shine like silver waterfalls

In your eyes in the skies
In the blood burning Indian sunrise
Shimmer on me (in sleep we grow)

We were here long ago
And now we roam like ghostly buffalo
First two lies then two tears
Subtle curves, now a glistening souvenirs

In your eyes in the skies
In the blood burning Indian sunrise
Shimmer on me (awake and glow)

Shivering in silver waterfalls
Anoint me in silver waterfalls

 

[fox69]

"Sin In My Heart"

"Sin In My Heart"


Sin in my heart
Sin in my heart...
Sin in my heart flying like a dart
Oh sin in my heart

It's beginning to start...
When you're lying like a tart
Oh sin in my heart
When you grovel at my feet
Oh sin in my heart
It's short and sweet

Sin in my heart...
Swift as a dart sin in my heart
Oh sin in my heart

When you grovel at my feet
Keep it short and sweet
Sin in my heart...

 

[fox69]

"Skin"

"Skin"


Mink, seal and ermine smother fat women
I have a noble cause for skin, there's just too many of them
The only necessary coat carries a brain inside its skull
Just a bitch in the manger to the balances of nature

Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
But you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Oh, give me your skin for dancing in

Hairless and streamline, fits like my own skin
Tattooed and sun-dyed, it's warm and it's human
There was too many of them, the animals like them
Shame about the smell but they're fine, steeped in perfume

Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
Oh, but you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Oh, give me your skin for dancing in

Skin, skin, skin, skin
Skin, skin, skin, skin

Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
Oh, but you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Oh, give me your skin for dancing in

 

[fox69]

"Slap Dash Snap"

"Slap Dash Snap"


Shiny, shiny pieces
Shut your mouth

Pass the parcel
Pass the castle
King of the castle
Kill the Queen
With little shiny razors
Black, shiny razors

Cutthroat finger
Rain red, rain red
Towers open fire

 

[fox69]

"Sleepwalking (On The High Wire)"

"Sleepwalking (On The High Wire)"


You can see her now high as the horizon
Fall into the quicksand and brainstorm my mind
Balancing on tip-toe, sharpened to the glow
In a tangle of thunder calling helplessly below

Sleepwalking
On the Highwire
Sleepwalking
Into the open palm of the empty sky

You can't hear her now you can't reach her at all
Spiral of persuasion twists until freefall
Balancing on tip-toe, angled clutch and flow
An accident at the circus, falling helplessly below

Sleepwalking
On the Highwire
Sleepwalking
Into the open palm of the empty sky

Sleepwalking
On the Highwire
Sleepwalking
Into the open palm of the empty sky

 

[fox69]

"Slowdive"

"Slowdive"


Get your head down to the ground
Shake it all around -- a dirty sound
Put your knees into your face
And see if you can race -- real slow
It's a slowdive -- when you die slow
Oh it's a low jive -- do the slowdive

Now you jump back like a hound
Emit a howling sound
Dig those limbs into the floor
And holler out for more

And you revel in the dips
When your backbone slips
Taking honeysuckle sips
From your rolling hips
It shifts and it shifts
It's a slowdive -- when you die slow
When you come alive it's a low jive
Do the slowdive