Siouxsie And Tthe Banshees

[fox69]

"So Unreal"

"So Unreal"


What can I do - I know they've gotten to you when you say that your whites
Have an aerial blue
What's happened to you - since I last say you I thought I knew your name - but it's not you but it's not you

You're talking in a balloon
In this tidy room
Sounding like a commercial
For a serial
I wish you could feel the way that I feel I wish you could feel but your so unreal your so unreal

What can I say - what can I say
All the traits you had have all gone away get up and wash at the right time of day and greet the world with the right thing to say

You're so ideal - you're never down at heel you're so ideal - but you're so unreal
I wish you could feel - the way that I feel I wish you could feel - but you're so unreal you're so unreal

 

[fox69]

"Softly"

"Softly"


Softly into your broken veins
Softly into these broken dreams
Will you ever come home?
Will you ever be found?
Standing on shattered windowpane
Softly I whisper your name
Concealed in bedclothes of frosting cold
Softly the snowflakes start to fall
Fleecing the velvet skin
Suspended in frozen time
Icicles slowly drip outside
To the rhythm of your wounds here inside
I entered you dream, I entered your scheme
Softly to swim inside your veins
Softly in rippling cellophane
To float and glide in time
To the rushing in your brain
I wanted your lips, yes I wanted your kiss
So softly the moment was gone
Then softly the moment had flown
My body outside yours
Softly collects the falling snow
And disappears far away
So softly

 

[fox69]

"Something Blue"

"Something Blue"


In midnight guise these cobalt eyes
Pierce the indigo skies
In tearing through a Prussian army
Hence the royal hue
Forget-me-nots and violet plains weep titanium chains
Of sapphire days and turquoise dreams
In floating ultra-marine

Something blue--something sparkling through?
Out of the blue, I'm reminded of you

Forget-me-nots and violet plains weep titanium chains
Of sapphire days and turquoise dreams
In floating ultra-marine

Something blue--something sparkling through?
Out of the blue, I'm reminded of you

 

[fox69]

"Something Wicked (This Way Comes)"

"Something Wicked (This Way Comes)"


Something strange is happening
My bones do ache and my ears, they do ring
I could pull and tear my skin

I hear and smell and I want to scream
The whispering and a scratching to be let in
From outside and from within

By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes

There's something evil on the wing
Something wicked is fast approaching
Rushing through a hidden wind

Nothing good is what's in store
It's nothing new and it's rotten to the core
And a-howling at my door

We're dragged helpless in the undertow
The quicksand surround and swallow us whole

By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes

Just around the bend
Rushing on the wind
Here it comes
Here it comes

 

[fox69]

"Song From The Edge Of The World"

"Song From The Edge Of The World"


Let me take you down
To testify
Under the brow of a sparkling sky
We'll dance away
A distant day
And shout our sins
In a passion play

Over we go
Diving for pearls
Over we go
From the edge of the World

Let the fire fall in
The footsteps we leave
Painted on the ground
We'll watch the stars
Come crashing down
Upon our heads
Like a madding crown

Over we go
Diving for pearls
Over we go
From the edge of the World

Let me take you down
To testify
Under the brow of a sparkling sky
We'll dance away
'Til the day is done
Then rise again
To unwrap the Sun

Over we go
Diving for pearls
Over we go
From the edge of the World
This is the song from the edge of the World

 

[fox69]

"Spellbound"

"Spellbound"


From the cradle bars
Comes a beckoning voice
It sends you spinning
You have no choice...

You hear laughter
Cracking through the walls
It sends you spinning
You have no choice...

Following the footsteps
Of a rag doll dance
We are entranced
Spellbound

And don't forget
When your elders forget
To say their prayers
Take them by the legs
And throw them down the stairs

When you think
Your toys have gone berserk
An' it's an illusion
You cannot shirk
You hear laughter
Cracking through the walls
It sends you spinning
You have no choice

Following the footsteps
Of a rag doll dance
We are entranced
Spellbound

 

[fox69]

"Spiral Twist"

"Spiral Twist"


Home is where the rain is soft and soothing
Home is where the comfort is confusing
Chase the cord and burning bridges following tracks across my hand

Home is moving in the wrong direction

Animated statue eyes are blinking
Reflex of asphyxiated thinking
Suspended summers badly destructed out of touch I'm out of reach

Struck by a car
Crushed by a tree
Fork in my tongue
Blossom sleep
I snap the rope, snap the wrist
Feel it in my ear the spiral twists

This is the time when our minds begin stalking
Jamming along when the lips have stopped talking

Simple people, simple needs
Fingers finger, endless pleas
Chortling benediction then, hear this circling spiral swing

Home is moving in the wrong direction
Home is moving in the wrong direction

 

[fox69]

"Stargazer"

"Stargazer"


Been thinking how to escape?
This strait-jacket of constraint
Been thinking what can be wrong?
With feelings that long to belong

Stargazing me
In an upside down sea

So weary this strait-jacket dreamer
So resigned to continue to suffer
But you've learnt that as you grow weaker
There's less hurt because there's much less to hurt

Stargazing me
In a tumbling sea
Up in the galaxy
Staring down on me

Stargazer reach out to touch
With your mind that frees you so much
Stargazer kissing your kismet
With bright jewel encrusted scars

Stargazing me
In tranquillity
Up in the galaxy
Staring down on me

 

[fox69]

"Staring Back"

"Staring Back"


My face in the window has become
The face of a woman I never knew
My face in the window has become
The face of a woman who never knew me

Now this ringing in my ears
Sends me spinning down the years
And I really need to know
Who is she?
Who is she?

Now this ringing in my ears
Sends me spinning down the years
And I really need to know
Who is she?
Who is she?

Who is she?
Staring back
Staring back at me
Who is she?
Staring back
Staring back at me
Who is she?
Who is she?

 

[fox69]

"Strange Fruit"
(originally by Billie Holiday)

"Strange Fruit"
(originally by Billie Holiday)



Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
Of the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop