The Church

[fox69]

"Radiant 1934 Remix"

"Radiant 1934 Remix"


[Foreign radio transmissions throughout - Spanish/Russian sounding]

When a cloudy morning rain touched our little town
Three small sisters and a friend walking in the fields
A strange light in the sky blotting out the sun
Whatever happens next changes all our lives

And the children ran home sobbing and half blind
Said our lady has a message for mankind
Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense
Dazzled by the virgin's radiance

And the icons in the church crying tears of blood
The water in the wells curing all who drank
Pilgrim lunatics arrive in a ragged stream

In the fields around the village sprang up tents
People from the outside world want more evidence
Four tired children questioned day and night
All they can remember is her blinding light

So the circus drifts away and the noise dies down
Life goes on as before all the people came
And the children never say what her message was

And the children ran home sobbing and half blind
Said our lady has a message for mankind
Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense
Dazzled by the virgin in her radiance

Radiance
Radiance

 

[fox69]

"Real Toggle Action"

"Real Toggle Action"


I wish that you could see yourself
I wish that you could be yourself
The things you try to do
They never benefit you
I wish that you could free yourself

You never stop to wonder why (oh no)
You're not a curious kind of guy
You got the deep space blues
You ought to change, here's a fuse
You're only happy when you're high

(High, high, high, high, be high, high)

I hoped that you could let it go
I hoped that you would come to know
We're actors in a play
Not even our own lines that we say
It's just that it's that kind of show

(High, high, high, high, be high, high)
[plus some melodic chanting]

 

[fox69]

"Replated / Chromium"

"Replated / Chromium"


[Chromium]

Silver needles
Golden eagles
Frightened faces
Basket cases
Jags and riches
Queens and witches
Electric mantras
And tight-fitting dreams

Never been so high

Gilded flowers
Long-lost hours
Morning programs
With fake suntans
Meet a maniac in the cul-de-sac
Otherwise it's this ennui

All this waiting brings me down
All those colors bring me around

Never been so high ([L] Never been so high) ([R] Chromium platin')
Never been so high ([L] Never been so low) ([R] All this waiting brings me down)
Never been so high ([L] Never been so high) ([R] Suffocatin')
([L] Never been so low) ([R] All those colors bring me around)

Broken records
Faded labels
Songs to sing to
When you were young
A tattooed pierced arm
Fresh and perfumed
Switch your prison
Fly away

All this waiting brings me down
All those colors bring me around

Broken records

[In the background is sung the gilded flowers stanza]
Never been so high (Never been so high)
Never been so high (Never been so low)
Never been so high (Never been so high)
(Never been so low)

And jewels on your fingers
Tears in your dresses
Fabulous mansions
And damp little rooms
This one will shrink me
This one will grow me

Human to sleeping
Reality looms

[Closes with repeated line too distorted to make out - could be "this ennui"]

 

[fox69]

"Reprieve"

"Reprieve"


[Slow]

When you're gone
And no more tracks for me to run on
When you're gone
I couldn't see a way out
You show me I was wrong

When you sleep
You never know the vigil I keep
Watch you sleep
Peaceful like a Buddha
Yeah you're miles deep

When you smile
It makes the whole damn thing worthwhile
When you smile
Reprieve is gonna come down
We'll live awhile in a while

[Rockin']

When you're gone
No more tracks for me to run on
When you're gone
Couldn't see a way that I was wrong

When you sleep
You never know the vigil I keep
Watch you sleep
Peaceful like the Buddha
You're so deep

When you smile
It makes the whole damn thing worthwhile
When you smile
Reprieve is gonna come down a little while
Reprieve is gonna come down a little while

[Mellow]

When you're gone
No more tracks for me to run on
When you're gone
I couldn't see a way out
You show me I was wrong

When you sleep
You never know the vigil I keep
To watch you sleep
Peaceful like the Buddha
You're miles deep

When you smile
It makes the whole damn thing worthwhile
'Cause when you smile
Reprieve is gonna come down
We'll live the while

 

[fox69]

"Reptile"

"Reptile"



Too dangerous to keep
Too feeble to let go
And you want to bite the hand
Shoulda stopped this long ago

Go now, you've been set free
Another month or so you'll be gorging on me
With your lovely smile
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile

Had you coiled around my arm
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes
But that was long ago

Go now, you've been set free
Another month or so you'll be poisoning me
With your lovely smile
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile

And I should have believed Eve
She said we had to blow
She was the apple of my eye
It wasn't long ago

 

[fox69]

"Reversal"

"Reversal"



Wonder who's taken you
Now God has forsaken you
I thought I was waking you
I see I'm just shaking you

There's no fear in the heaven, the sky
Accidentally born, same when you die
I pledge my allegiance to the flesh and the stone
I wander this garden alone

Wonder who's taken you
Must have mistaken you
Nobody's making you
The pressure that's breaking you
The dirt that is caking you

There's no fear in the heaven, the sky
Accidentally born, same when you die
I pledge my allegiance to the flesh and the stone
I wander this garden alone

Well I have some in a minute if you got it
Try to look so very distant on your bonnet
I'm not expecting you to like it or try it
But I'll have a little something if you buy it

There's no fear in the heaven, the sky
Accidentally born, same when you die
I pledge my allegiance to the flesh and the stone
I wander this garden...

(Wonder who's taken you
Must have mistaken you
I thought I was waking you
I see I'm just shaking you)

 

[fox69]

"Reward"

"Reward"


The waking sun on a desert plain
The polar star in the sky again
Your open eyes beam out the surprise from them

You're our reward
So unpredictable
So delectable
So undetectable
Unsuspectable
You're our reward

There's nothing else after all
You're our reward

[R - with many echos]
I still hear her laughter
Come see every laughter
Nothing still matters
The future's scattered
If it's the tactic
It's just fantastic
Pure elation
Simply anticipation
It's the suggestion
It's the eternal question

(Wasn't feeling possible here and now) (2:39) [very faint]
(Leopard bones...) (2:46) [in low distorted voice]

Waiting and wanting, not knowing what for
The meaning we're standing outside the door
Of everyday living or ways the feeling was more

You're our reward
So unpredictable
So delectable
So undetectable
Unsuspectable
You're our reward

You're our reward
I still hear her laughter
You're our reward
Nothing else matters
You're our reward / [R] The future is scattered
If it's the tactic
You're our reward / [R] It's just fantastic
Pure elation
You're our reward / [R] You're the anticipation
It's the suggestion
You're our reward
Of the eternal question

[R]
I still hear her laughter
Nothing else matters
The future's scattered
If it's the tactic
It's just fantastic
Pure elation
Anticipation
It's the suggestion
To know the eternal question
To know the eternal question

 

[fox69]

"Ricochet"

"Ricochet"



After the demise of our beloved leader
Everybody knew that something had to give
Cassandra she told me
But no-one would believe her
I wish I had helped her more than I did

We tried to overcome the threat of the monster
We tried to kneel down and call up the beast
Maria she told me
That her kid had just appeared one day
I just can't tell who I adore the least

The rivers run astray
Ricochet
Night feels just like day
Ricochet
And everybody just walk away

In one side of my mind resides a controller
In one side of my mind revolves a relief
And one pain in my brain remains unchanged
I say you cannot explain the grief

Once in a while when the wind has slowed it down
Me and the girls visit struggle town
There's a shop down there
Selling skulls and powder
But don't ask any questions about her

You can't be a lover if you want to keep on using
What are you using that's stronger than the love
Sometimes I'm knocked out by the damage that you're doing
Knocked out, locked out, push comes to shove

Listen to the wind tearing at the windows
Watching how the white moon melts into the cloud
Important little tyrants, impotent little pharaohs
Man of sorrows lost into the crowd

The rivers run astray
Ricochet
And light feels just like day
Ricochet
And everybody walk away

So if the ladies ask you over to play
Just beware of the ricochet

 

[fox69]

"Ride Into The Sunset"

"Ride Into The Sunset"



Out in the open high in the sun
Blue fields of sky where the West is one
I fell into town and I covered up my wings
Yet to get a taste for everything

You're gonna ride into the sunset
I guess you can count me in
Don't feed the fire in here
Don't tell a soul
This uniform and war
Well it's all been done before
I'm nervous playing someone else's role

Take a look around you these walls ain't real
There's nothing behind these facades
Get our gifts exchanged, why do you think that's strange
Why do you make it so hard

Out in the open high in the sun
Blue fields of sky where the West is one
I fell into town, I covered up my wings
And now I've got a taste for everything

 

[fox69]

"Ripple"

"Ripple"



Tiny baby, so naive
I can't believe what you believe
You were once so happy here

It may not be Eden or summer in Greece
You may not even find the Golden Fleece
In the drag of this atmosphere

Now I don't want to bring up a delicate matter
No I'd much rather bribe or flatter you
'Cause flattery gets me everywhere

But you punctured my tires, you crossed all my wires
I brand your acolytes as a pack of liars
And the fire's singing everywhere

Buckle like a wreck on the cold green sea
Like you were a ripple in my memory

I leant you some collateral to buy new clothes
It went out the window and up your nose
And that's the end of the honeymoon

Yeah we walked down the aisle for another mile
I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles
And you can have all the money soon

You're so deluxe, you're so divine
You're so fifty light years ahead of your time
You're a riddle, you're a ripple

You're the human sacrifice to the goddess of ice
Your hairdo is full of diamonds and lice
And you're hardly off the nipple

Another little glitch in continuity
Like you were a ripple in my memory