miyoubi

oO°o THE LIBERTINES o°Oo

(2004)

01.CAN'T STAND ME NOW
"An ending fitting for the start
you twist and tore our love apart
your light fingers threw the dark
that shattered the lamp and into the darkness cast us..."

"No you've got it the wrong way round
you shut me out and blamed it on the brown"
cornered the boy kicked out at the world...the world kicked back
alot fuckin' harder...

If you wanna try, If you wanna try
there's no worse you could do (oh oh oh)
I know you lie (I know you lie)
I'm still in love with you (oh oh oh)

Can't take me anywhere (I'll take you anywhere)
You can't take me anywhere (I can't take you anywhere)
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go

OH, YOU CAN'T STAND ME NOW YOU CAN'T STAND
ME NOW CAN'T STAND ME NOW
CAN'T STAND ME NOW

Have we enough to keep it together?
or do we just keep on pretending (and hope our
luck is never ending)...
You tried to pull the wool I wasn't feeling too clever,
you take all that they're lending
until you needed mending...

If you wanna try, If you wanna try
there's no worse you could do (oh oh oh)
I know you lie
All you do is make me cry
And all these words they ring true (oh oh oh)

Can't take me anywhere (I'll take you anywhere)
You can't take me anywhere (I can't take you anywhere)
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go

OH, YOU CAN'T STAND ME NOW YOU CAN'T STAND
ME NOW CAN'T STAND ME NOW
CAN'T STAND ME NOW

02.LAST POST ON THE BUGLE
If I have to go
I will be thinking of your love
Oh somehow you'll know
You will know
Thinking of your love
Slyly they whispered away
As I played the last post on the bugle
I heard them say
Oh that boy's no different today
Except in every single way
If I have to go
I will be thinking of your love
Oh somehow you'll know
just know you'll
Thinking of your love

Oh, I was carried away
Caught up in an affray
as they let him away, he sang
We'll meet again someday
oh my boy, there's a price to pay

If I have to go
I will be thinking of your love
Oh somehow you'll know
I don't how but you'll know
I'll be thinking of your love
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la
Inside I felt
So, so alone
Locked in a room
Waiting til kingdom come
Although I felt elated
I felt like I was scum
I was carried away
Caught up in an affray

As they let him away, he sang
We'll meet again some day
Oh my boy, there's a price to pay

Feels like I've never been away
Though it's been longer than I could possibly say
I've been wandering the market
Carrying a sign, saying the end of...

The world is nigh
I'm glad to see we're still tight
The bonds that tie a man are tight
Yet we do what we do
With ritual habitually
All through the night

03.DON'T BE SHY
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
For if you are shy for tomorrow you'll be shy for 1000 days
Hey
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
Don't let the tide of your soul drown your nights and flood your days

But still its better to be shy than stinking drunken old queen who's always
got to have his way
But don't be coy with me I'm to clever to follow you down
To the dark and stormy weather, babe
The bracket's wider now
So whats your pleasure?
Swallow your pride but pleease

Don't be shy
Don't be shy
if you are shy for tomorrow you'll be shy for 1000 days
Now is your time to shine
Dance and hear your song
Or you may wake up one day in the last chance saloon
To find your last chance has been and gone
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
if you are shy for tomorrow you'll be shy for 1000 days
hey hey hey.

04.THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
Another secret for ya
I've been told if you want to make it in this game
You got to have the luck
You got to have the look

To make what I quite like to make it through the night
My heart beats slow fast, I dont feel right
With a sleight of hand I might die
What about you over there?
Don't you think I care?
Well I know you know I know you know I know
And to the man who would be king
I would say only one thing
And to the man who would be king
I will say only one thing
la la la-la-la-laa la la la-la-la-laa

I lived my dreams today
And I have lived it yesterday

And I'll have lived it tomorrow
No don't look at me that way
Well I hear the words you say...
But my heart has gone astray
I watched friendship slip away
But it wasn't s'posed to be that way
I lived my dreams today I lived it yesterday
And I'll be living yours tomorrow
Anything else to say?
I lived my dream today I lived it yesterday
And I'll be living yours tomorrow
So don't look at me that way!
What's about you man, Nancy my dear
What's about you man, Nancy my dear
What's about you man, Nancy my dear

What will you do when she comes here?
Oh she'll kill me
Oh, I don't wanna kill me
And to the man who would be king
I would say only one thing
And to the man who would be king
I would say only one thing
la la la-la-la-laa la la la-la-la-laa
Perish the day when they heed what you say
They'll take you away if they don't like what you say
They don't like what you say

So come what may but I'll never stay

I'll never stay

05.MUSIC WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT
Is it cruel or kind not to speak my mind,
and to lie to you rather than hurt you?
Well I'll confess all of of my sins
after several large gins
but still I'll hide from you,
hide what's inside from you.

And alarm bells ring
when you say your heart still sings
when you're with me.
Won't you please forgive me?

But I no longer hear the music
Oh no no no no no

And all the memories of the pubs
and the clubs and the drugs and the tubs
we shared together,
Will stay with me forever.

But all the highs and the lows
and the to's and the fro's,
They left me dizzy,
Oh won't you please forgive me
I no longer hear the music
Oh no no no no

Well I no longer hear the music when the lights go out,
Love goes cold in the shades of doubt
The strange fate in my mind is all too clear.
Music when the lights come on
The girl I thought I knew has gone,
And with her my heart had disappeared...

Well I no longer hear the music
Oh no no no no no
All the memories of the fights and the nights
and the blue lights, all the kites
We flew together,
I thought they'd fly forever.

But all the highs and the lows
and the to's and the fro's
They left me dizzy,
Oh won't you please forgive me

But I no longer hear the music
Oh no no no no no

Music when the lights go out
Love goes cold in the shades of doubt
The strange fate in my mind it's all too clear.

Music when the lights come on
The girl I thought I knew has gone
And With her my heart had disappeared

Well I no longer hear the music
Oh no no no no no
And no longer hear the music

06.NARCISSIST
Professionally trendy in the glow of Clapham sun
There's life after work and it can be such fun
You see all the models in magazines and on the walls
You wanna be just like them
Cause they're so cool

They're just narcissists
Well wouldn't it be nice to be Dorian Gray?
Just for a day
They're just narcissists
Oh, what's so great to be Dorian Gray
Every day?

We're living in a looking glass
As the beauty of life goes by
You're going to be so oh
You're going to grow so old
Your skin so cold

Well they're just narcissists
Well wouldn't it be nice to be Dorian Gray
Just for a day?
Such narcissists
what's so great to be Dorian Gray
Every day?

They're just narcissists
Wouldn't it be great to be Dorian Gray?
Just for a day
Just for a day

07.THE HA HA WALL
If you get tired of just hanging around
Pick up a guitar and spin a web of sound
And then you could be strung out all day
With lovers and clowns
But now I find myself hanging around

It's been a long war, we're tired and dirty
Still not dirty enough for you
-
Well I've been thieving
I stole the light from the dawn
And if you come round this ledge
you wish you'd never been born
tell me can you see me
Can't you see through it all?
I'm empty lost and alone
Oh won't you heed my call?
It's been a long war, we're tired and dirty
Still not dirty enough for you
Oh I'm so tired of hanging around
Oh I'll pick up a guitar, spin a web of soundss


So tired - of hanging around
Just hanging around
Just hanging around

08.ARBEIT MACHT FREI
Roll a gasper
The kaiser says he can stay alive
If he shovels
and burns his friends to die - even if you die
And on the gate read:
Arbeit Macht Frei

In her rollers
With a gasper
She scrubs the steps on a mean street
Where no policeman walks the beat

Her old man
He don't like blacks or queers
Yet he's proud we beat the nazis?
(How queer...)

09.CAMPAIGN OF HATE
There's a campaign of hate
Its waiting at the school gates
For what I am not aware
Must bewhat you wrote
What you write, you swore that you'd swear

Now remember why you came
Not to play follow the leader, no no

Poor kids dressing like they're rich (mods)
Rich kids dressing like they're poor (oh my god)
White kids talking like they're black
I tried it with Charlene
And I spent three days on my back

Oh she said baby...
I like the cut of your J.I.B.
Don't believe them when they say
That you don't get nothing for free
It's all for free follow me now

There's a campaign of hate
It's waiting at the school gate
There's a campaign of hate
Its waiting at the school gates
There's a campaign of hate
Its waiting at the school gates
There's a campaign of hate
Its waiting at the school gates(faster!)
There's a campaign of hate
Its waiting at the school gates
There's a campaign of hate
Its waiting at the school gates
There's a campaign of hate

10.WHAT KATIE DID
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang

Oh what you gonna do, Katie?
You're a sweet sweet girl
But it's a cruel, cruel world
a cruel, cruel world.

My pins are none too strong, Katie
Oh hurry up, Mrs Brown
I can feel it coming down
& it won't take none too long

But since you said goodbye
Polka dots fill my eyes
And I don't know why

Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang
Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang

What you gonna do Katie?
You're a sweet, sweet girl
But it's a cruel, cruel world
a cruel, cruel world

my safety pins are none too strong Katie
they hold my life together
And I never say never
I never say never again

Oh but since you said goodbye
There are polka dots in my eye
And I don't know why

Since you said goodbye
the polka dots fill my eyes
And I don't know why
Say you want
Say you will
Say you won't but don't leave me standing
Say you will, it's up to anyone
That's what they all like to know
...

And since you said goodbye
the polka dots fill the sky
And I don't know why

11.TOMBLANDS
High register operational

In the land of the gauching skiving sun
Their bodies in the room, lad
Never an honest days work is done
They call it the Tomblands (welcome to the Tomblands)

No, never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no

fifteen holes in the dealer's chest
Yo ho ho, he was a mini martell man
. . .
Pieces of eight in the jukebox - some things I thought you
should know
didn't wanna be the one to tell you
She was only fourteen
Sussed out your dirty sordid little scene

No, never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no

12.THE SAGA
A problem, becomes a problem
When you let down your friends
When you let down your people
When you let down yourself
Oh, and only fools, vultures and undertakers
Will have any time for you

Oh

A problem, becomes a problem
When you lie to your friends
And you lie to your people
And you lie to yourself

And the truth's too harsh to comprehend
You just pretend there isn't a problem

I am a pimp and a slave
I dig my bed, you dig my bed
I dig my grave
And the truth's too harsh to comprehend
You just pretend there isn't a problem
No no, I ain't got a problem
It's you with the problem

13.ROAD TO RUIN
How can we (how can we)
make you understand (make you understand)
All you can be (All you can be)
is given in your hand
You won't need money

Trust in me
take me by the hand
Oh give us a chip

Dreams are strewn across the sand
You won't need money

Well all the bent-back pedderlars the jugglers & fools
They're driving me crazy
I'm climbing the walls
Oh show me the way the way to my stool
Cause I'm so sick
so sick of it all

And when the penny drops

Trust in me
take me by the hand

don't cash in your chips (don't cash in your chips)
just yet
dreams are strewn across the sand
you won't need (you won't money)
oh no

Well, all the bent-back pedderlars the jugglers and fools
They're driving me crazy
I'm climbing the walls
Oh show me the way the way to my stool
Cause I'm so sick
So sick of it all

And when the penny drops...

14.WHAT BECAME OF THE LIKELY LADS
Please don't get me wrong
See I forgive you in a song
We'll call the Likely Lads
But if it's left to you
I know exactly what you'd do
With all the dreams we had

'Coz blood runs thicker, oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If that's important to you
It's important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't wanna know
You don't want to know!

If you pipe all summer long
Then you're forgiven in a song
Well that's a touch, my lad

They sold my rights to all my wrongs
And then they need the new songs
Welcome back, I sang

The blood runs thicker, oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If that's important to you
It's important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't wanna know
You don't want to know!

Oh what became of the Likely Lads?
What became of the dreams we had?
Oh what became of forever?
Oh what became of forever?
Though, we'll never know

Please don't get me wrong
See I forgive you in a song
We'll call the Likely Lads

We all bought the ones
We taught 'em all we wrote the songs
That's filled with dreams we have

But blood runs thicker, oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If that's important to you
It's important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't wanna know
You don't want to know!

Oh what became of the Likely Lads?
What became of the dreams we had?
Oh what became of forever?
Oh what became of forever?
We'll never know!

But blood run thicker oh
we're as thick as theives you know
and that important to you
yes it important to me
I tried to make you see
but you dont want to know.

Oh what became of the Likely Lads?
What became of the dreams we had?
Oh what became of forever?
Oh what became of forever?
We'll never know!



15.FRANCE (hidden track)
The Ideal girl in London from France
Came over then left me
She left me entranced
Now I have to get by once again on my own
Nothing but memories

So I remember your eyes that unique shade of brown
While these blue eyes of mine they stay closed
I kissed you good bye
On the M109 I choked as I watched the bus go

Choking and smoking to your angelic soul
choking and smoking myself into a hole
Where the only way out is to sleep and to dream
And to cry out your name

oO°o UP THE BRACKET o°Oo

(2002)


01.VERTIGO
Koreema know just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her to get a buzz
Down in the street below
You can hear the drunken archangel sing
"I know whats on your mind my boy
I can see oh everything
Lead pipes are fortune made
Well Take a tip from me
Climb up to her window ledge or you'll forever be

Just walking under ladders as the people round you hear you crying please
As the people round you hear you crying please
Please"

"Lead pipes are fortune made
Well Take a tip from me
Climb up to her window ledge or you'll forever be

Just walking under ladders as the people round you hear you crying please
As the people round you hear you crying please
Please"

Who really knows just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her
To get a buzz
The rapture of vertigo
And letting go
Me myself i was never sure
Was it the liquor
Or was it my soul?

02.DEATH ON THE STAIRS
From way far across the sea
Came an eritrean maiden she
Had a one track mind and eyes for me
Half blinded in the war

With a pale young Anglican
Who said he'd help her all he can
Showed her Jesus and his little un-holy friend
She had no notion to please him
Just say 'ta-ra' and leave him behind

There's a little boy in a stairwell who says
"I hate being poor like you"
Got matches & cable TV half of less than 50p
We all clambered over the balcony
Banging on the window waking Steve
Bringing with a true love his un-holy friend
If you really need it
You just won't leave it behind

So baby please kill me
Oh baby don't kill me
But don't bring that ghost round to my door
I don't wanna see him anymore

Please kill me
Oh baby don't kill me
Just don't bang on about yesterday
I wouldn't know about that anyway

Monkey asked the mouse before
If she loved anybody more than he
It turns you into stone
Now I'm reversing down the lonely street
a cheap hotel where I can meet the past
pay off and keep it sweet
It's sweet like nothing no
It's just like nothing at all

Yes I've seen you there
How could I help but stare
It rips the heart out off your baby
Now I've taken far too much to see
Or think or touch what's real
I'm stranded on this street that
Paved my only way home

You really need it oh
You just won't leave it behind

So baby please kill me
Oh baby don't kill me
But don't bring that ghost round to my door
I don't wanna see him anymore

Please kill me
Oh baby don't kill me
But don't bang on about yesterday
I wouldn't know about that anyway
Oh no

He got nothing he got nothing at all

03.HORRORSHOW
I've been following
Your minds instructions
Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death

Ah yes, there is a screw
It's pointed at my head

Then look a dream peddlar
And a stick of light through my bones
"Don't get on the wrong one"
"Oi you and you what's your game"

Laying me down to waste laying me down
Pin me up or put me down
Uh uh uh uh oh
Now let it all go

It's a horror show, you should come on round
Horror show, the horse is brown
Uh uh oh left something in Moscow

She said "I'll show you a picture
A picture of tomorrow
There's nothing changing
It's all sorrow
Oh no please dont show me

I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me

04.TIME FOR HEROES
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot
We were shovelled up like muck
Set the night on fire
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you my love

But there's a rumour spread nasty disease around town
Caught round the houses with your trousers down
A headrush in the bush
You know I cherish you my love
Oh how i cherish you my love

Tell me what can you want now you've got it all
The whole scene is obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones knows what I mean
He knows it's eating, it's chewing me up
It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood
Oh it's all
It's all in my hands
And its all up the walls

Well the stale chips are up and the hopes stakes are down
Its these ignorant faces that bring this town down
Yeah I sighed and sunken with pride
I passed myself down on my knees
Yes I passed myself down on my knees

Now tell me what can you want now you've got it all
The whole scene is obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones knows what I mean
There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love
A class of our own my love

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot
We were shovelled up like muck
Then set the night on fire
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you my love
Oh how I cherish you my love

05.BOYS IN THE BAND
You're walking like you never seen the light
You're walking like it every night
But I've never seen you dance,
and I've never heard you sing
So how can it mean a single thing
It's all so rudimentary

You're talking like your handy in a fight
You talk about it every night
But I've never seen your flowers,
in the barrel of a gun
All I've ever seen you do is run
It's all so rudimentary

So tell me baby how does it feel
I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel

And they all get them out for
(they all get them out)
The boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
They twist and they shout for
(twist and scream and shout)
For the boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)

You're walking like you never seen the light
You're walking like it every night
But then I stop to think,
I ask my self why
One of those things that darling you must try
It's all so rudimentary

Now I'm jealous, I'm jealous of my own
I've no homestead but through these hearts I will roam, yea

And they all get them out for
(they all get them out)
For The boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
Yes they all roll them out for
(twist and scream and shout)
For The boys in the band
Only for the boys in the band

Well tell me baby how does it feel
I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel

And they all get them out for
(they all get them out)
The boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
They scream and they shout for
(twist and scream and shout)
For the boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)




06.RADIO AMERICA
If I get the call
I will call across Radio America
Right across America I will call
Yes I will call all across Radio America
Right across America I will call

If call I must do
To take my love my love to you

There a lovely young girl on?
And all across Africa, China and Australia
I will call

Call you down in New Mexico
In New Brighton and Tokyo
I will call

If call I must do
To take my love my love to you

For well it may hap' that these are they
Your happiest days
Oh my good old friend
I see you chanced your arm again
you cut you arm again

Red faced president
Took afternoon tea with her majesty the Queen
And they watched old films flicker
Across the old palace movie screen
What a shame as she slipped in the rain
The poor dancing girl she won't dance again

And they said it was a transmission
To take my love my love to you

07.UP THE BRACKET
Saw two shadow men on the Vallance Road
Said they'd pay me for your address
Oh I was so bold

I said you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
You a way to mean no

Well they didn't like that much I can tell you
He said "sunshine I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes"
They chased me up three flights of stairs
Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said
Hello, 'cause you're impossible

And it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
now he'll wind up like Joseph bloody in the hole

And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
It's impossible

Saw the same two men on the Cally road
Said now they double their offer
I was so bold

To say you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
Oh you a way to mean no

And it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
Now he'll end up like Joseph bloody in the hole

It's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But you never get close
It's unstoppable

(F**k off)

And it's just like we're all in another world
And how we suit each other oh no
But you never get close
That's close enough now...




08.TELL THE KING
I've got a little secret for ya

Even now there's something
To be proud about
You come up the hard way
And they'll remind you every day
You're nothing

Oh my words in your mouth
Are mumbled all about
You're like a journalist
How you can cut and paste and twist
You're awful

Tell it to your king
Tell him everything you know
Tell him you know how I feel
Tell him you know how I feel at the palace gates
Oh I'm all levered off my face
And just to work out what it's on about
And see snakes in eyes
And danger signs

If you were late you mustn't dare complain
And you won't like this at all
There's nothing to break your fall

Oh tell it to your king
Tell him everything you know
And you know how I feel out of place
Until I'm levered off my face
And I can't work out what your on about
Didn't they explain
You have to play the game, oh-oh

Jack drinks and smokes his cares away
His heart is in the lonely way
Living in the ruins
Of a castle built on sand

09.THE BOY LOOKED AT JOHNNY
The boy looked at Johnny and said
My word that was fun
When he did it with his hat on
Like in a saddle with his gun
We're in slow motion eating breakfast
At the side view hotel
Oh slipping down fine
Everything's going so well

New York city's very pretty in the night time
But oh don't you miss Soho
Where everybody goes
La de di la de di da diddy

The boy looked at Johnny
Said "Don't you know who I think I am"
He said I did it once before
Now Im trying all I can

He says oh no no
oh yeah yeah
I said oh no no no
yeah yeah yeah yeah

New York city's very pretty in the night time
But don't you miss Soho
Where everybody goes
La de di la de di da diddy

10.BEGGING
All animals we are
Round the bench in the park
Your sisters in the dark today
Watery pinned eyes
My soul has gone a little cold

Well, maybe maybe next year
If it isn't to dear
We'll get ourself some good time girls
Remember when you pay
You'll pay in many many ways
Now he's crossing the road
to get his his daily sport

Oh now they're begging you
They're begging you
What will you do?
Oh lord they're begging you
Your friend begging you
What will you do?

Have you heard the singer said
He's a dead ringer for
A feeling that I used to know
Hell she cries oh hell
No no it's a funny way to go
Now he's crossing the road
Picking up his daily sport

Oh now they're begging you
They're begging you
What will you do?
Oh lord they're begging you
Your friends begging you
What will you do?

11.THE GOOD OLD DAYS
If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone
Still then the spirit
In her children's children's children
It lives on

If you've lost your faith in love and music
Oh the end won't be long
Because if it's gone for you then I too may lose it
And that would be wrong

I've tried so hard to keep myself from falling
Back into my bad old ways
And it chars my heart to always hear you calling
Calling for the good old days
Because there were no good old days
These are the good old days

It's not about, tenements and needles
And all the evils in their eyes
And the backs of their minds
Daisy chains and school yard games
And a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow

The arcadian dream has all fallen through
But the Albion sails on course
So lets man the decks and hoist the rigging
Because the pig mans found the source
And theres twelve rude boys on the oars

In the good old...days

12.I GET ALONG
You caught me in the middle dazed on the carpet
I was following the lines,
that move like more snakes thinking...

Something ain't quite right
You got the devil on your side,
standing to your right come on

You caught me in the middle dazed and confused
I was following the good steps,
fancy free and footlose.


Something ain't quite right
You got the devil on your side,
standing to your right come on

I get along, I get along, I get along, I get along...
Get along

(Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along)

It's coming out my ears,
so baby here's what we'll do
There's four for you and six for him,
and four for her and let me see now

Now something ain't quite right
You can get them on your side,
then we'll have a good time, come on!

I get along, I get along, I get along, I get along...
Get along

I get along just singing my song,
People tell me I'm wrong..
Fuck 'em!

It's coming out my ears,
so baby here's what we'll do
There's four for you and six for him,
and four for her and let me see now.

Now something ain't quite right
You got the devil on your side,
Standing to your right, come on!

I get along, I get along, I get along, I get along...
And when I do, I'm singing... get along!

(Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along, Get Along)

13.WHAT A WASTER
What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her

There's tears coming out from everywhere
The city's hard, the city's fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
No you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt

When she wakes up in the morning
She writes down all her dreams
Reads like the book of revelations
Or the Beano or the unabridged ulysses

Oh I really wanna know
So tell me, where does all the money go
where does all the money go
Straight, straight up her nose

And I never really liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way yeah

What a divvy what a fucking div
Talking like a moron, walking like a spiv
I was laying in bed paying my rent
Knocking on the door for something

That she lent her brother
Meanwhile from under the covers she says
Save me from tomorrow now, save me from tomorrow now,
Oh no, Oh no not me

And I never really liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way yeah
Never really liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way yeah

What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her

There's tears coming out from everywhere
The citys hard the citys fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
No you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt

What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her

There's tears coming out from everywhere
The citys hard the citys fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
No you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt

What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her

There's tears coming out from everywhere
The citys hard the citys fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
No you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt

oo¤ DEMONS & WIZARDS ¤oo

(1999)


01.Rites Of Passage
instrumental

02.Heaven Denies
I've stained the land
Millenniums I've prayed
Now I know there's no release

Since paradise is lost
I hold a crown
I know your name
But I'm just your
Fallen angel of doom

Thus heaven denies
Refused for all time
I am not guilty at all

Deadlands, Wastelands
Darkness will cover my mind
And oblivion shall reign
I made up my mind
And oblivion shall reign through the night
Deadlands, Wastelands
Darkness will cover my mind
And oblivion shall reign

Still we are one, you and I
Realize, I did what you wanted me to

The lack of pure souls and the fading light
It's me you blame

First there was light
Then came the night
Cruel nothingness

Thus heaven denies
Refused for all time
I am not guilty at all

Deadlands, Wastelands
Darkness will cover my mind
And oblivion shall reign
I made up my mind
And oblivion shall reign through the night
Deadlands, Wastelands
Darkness will cover my mind
And oblivion shall reign

Hope turns to despair
There's no one in these barren lands
The lust for light
I'm sure that it will fade
It will fade
Spiritus Sanctus
The lust for light
I'm sure that it will fade
Spiritus Sanctus

Eternal hell

03.Poor Man's Crusade
The Holy Ghost can't save you anymore
Your souls are condemned to burn in hell
Damned for all time
So spoke the noble one
He convinced us all
He is a gifted man
Though he will slaughter
In the name of Christ

Holy and bright
He's a devil in disguise
Protector of the cross
Beware of the snake

All in all it's just a poor man's crusade
Poor man's crusade

The Holy Land home of our blessed lord
Enslaved and stained by godless hands
They shall be damned
Jerusalem
Is waiting for you
To rise once again
So we will slaughter in the name of Christ

Holy father, Holy father

All in all it's just a poor man's crusade
Poor man's crusade

You'll shed your blood
Your bodies fall
That is the price you'll pay
To cleanse you of your sins
Vicious and cruel
Let's kill them all
Let's kill them all

Holy father, Holy father

All in all it's just a poor man's crusade
Poor man's crusade

04.Fiddler On The Green
Sad voices they're calling
Our precious girl she can't be gone
How bitter this morning
When daddy's darling
Went out and started her day

Wasn't there a dream, last night
Like a spring never ending
Still the water runs clear
through my mind
On the field I can see a fiddler
The fiddler on the green
And a sad boy
I took him too early
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
If I take you

To be with you
To be with you
To be with you
To be with you

The sun seemed bright
The air was clear
The air was clear

A trick of light
Turned red into green
She saw the light
Her face was pale
Her body smashed
Her beauty's gone

Isn't it a shame
The reaper said
He is quite alone here
And still waiting for you
Oh I really did fail for the first time
Spoke the fiddler, poor old fiddler
The fiddler on the green
The fiddler on the green
It would be nice...

Take my hand

Just hold my hand
I'll take you there
Your pain will go away

05.Blood on my hands
And as I bear my inner soul
I've kept it hidden and safe
Fulfill the gods' desire
To hold their waning flame
A sacred life

And what have started long ago
Is heading towards the end
There's no easy way out
There's blood on my hands
But I am sure in the end
I will prove I was right

Runes of a long forgotten time
Ancient spells in endless rhymes
Soon the other world appears
Roam to the ghostly river Rhine
Leave the misty shades behind
I can feel I'm getting near

By the ancient spirits' rites
The old ghosts proclaim their rights
Still they're lost in time

Lost in time
I wonder why they're lost in time
Lost in time

The curse lives on
Still chasing me
It's always been there by my side
And it won't let me out
A treacherous leaf
And a secret unsealed
It will cause deadly wounds

Roam to the ghostly realms at nights
To cleanse the dark shades of my night
Leave the mortal world behind
Float to the endless streams of time
An eternal ray of light
Leave my mortal shape behind

By the ancient spirits' rites
The old ghosts proclaim their rights
Still they're lost in time

Lost in time
And it seems they're lost in time
Lost in time

The blood on my hands you see
Cannot be washed away
I am chosen by destiny
To dwell in misery

By the ancient spirits' rites
The old ghosts proclaim their rights
Still they're lost in time

Lost in time




06.Path Of Glory
Cut off the light
Take a look
There's nothing beyond but pain
Suffer in the deepest void
The flame of hope isgone
What have I done?
Denied the father and the sun
For a moment it seemed
There's space beyond the spheres

Aflame the night
So clear and bright
Unstable light
You've been sacrificed in fear
Now there's one thing for sure
I'm not afraid anymore

Day after day we've been fixed in the bowl
For so long
For ages we're captured in shells
And crystallized walls
Predestined or punished?
By man or god?

I cannot, I will not
Deny it's false innocence
I cannot, I will not
The age of false innocence
Take it away from me

For a while
Astronomy has moved the earth
And we've turned around the sun
Sanctum officium
Has made me believe
Has made me believe
Has made me believe

07.Winter Of Souls
Facing the storm
And there's no one by my side
The curse will take it's toll
Is it justice or a foolish pride

As the wind is blowing cold
And the winter takes control
How can I survive

In higher lights we seam to drown
We hold the key but not the crown
In higher lights we seam to drown
We hold the key but not the crown
Look into my eyes and see
For all the wisdom I still bleed
Oblivion

Haunted by the lust of my father
Revenge is mine and down falls the kingdom
Conceived of his greed and a harsh reality
Haunted by the lust of my father
Revenge is mine and down falls the kingdom
Your illgotten son
Your flesh and your blood

Faith fools the day
The honest man will fail my son
Will fail my son
Facing another wound
Can't hold back the storm
Soon the winter reigns my heart
We're both caught in agony

In higher lights we seam to drown
We hold the key but not the crown
Oh I wish that I could turn back
Reach out for the grail and find it
I would offer soul and life
Feel the emptiness my dark son

Haunted by the lust of my father
Revenge is mine and down falls the kingdom
Conceived of his greed and a harsh reality
Haunted by the lust of my father
Revenge is mine and down falls the kingdom
The sorrow he feels it shall last forevermore

Feel this cold winter night
Frozen spirits in ice
Can't wash away the misery
The dark

War will take place at dawn
There's no choice it's all fate
I'm not strong enough
The path lies clearly ahead
There's no way out
Can't hold back all the greed
And all the good deeds
They are past
There's no choice it's all fate
It's so hopeless
Too long I was blind

Haunted by the lust of my father
Revenge is mine and down falls the kingdom
Conceived of his greed and a harsh reality
Haunted by the lust of my father
Revenge is mine and down falls the kingdom
By spilling our blood we are one bound
Forevermore
Haunted by the lust of my father
Revenge is mine and down falls the kingdom
Conceived of his greed and a harsh reality

08.The Whistler
In deserts I was preaching
The hand of God was with me
Baptized with water and I praised
The one who came behind me
To save us all with the holy ghost
-A prophet of the fools I've been lost

I'm sure you're there wandering around
But do you care for me
I'm alone
You talk of love not for me
In my dungeon cold I could think about
All the things you've said
But I can't understand you famous son

I left the way of heaven
Or did you lead me from it

No No turning back
I'm banished from Sanctuary
The darkness in me is filling me with pain
There's no way to turn back for eternity

In shadows I'm walking
And caught in loneliness
Deliverance I wait for but how long?
Are you the one who should come
Show me the light in you
Or should we wait for someone?
Another!

No No turning back
I'm banished from Sanctuary
The darkness in me is filling me with pain
There's no way to turn back for eternity

Your reich should come to this world
Your way smoothed by my blood, friend
My might will decrease but you'll get
High, yes so much higher
Be careful of the rats, friend
Cause they'll never sleep
Before they catch you, too

The blind can see the sun
Cripples walk alone
The deaf can hear my words
They believe just believe
They believe in me
Look! The signs are near
To perform my task
To perform my way
To perform the way I walked
The way of the crucifix

I hear the hangman coming
I wait for execution

09.Tear Down The Wall
Beloved mother
There is no guilt
In what I have done
It's far too late
To turn it back
To turn it back
Slowly they move
One by one
Food for the clan
Your kingdom will come

Slowly they're marching
One by one
Follow my magic tune
It is so easy
Her eyes
Her pale cold eyes
Are watching over me
I've never felt alone
All the children
For her glory

A fair price and
The deal was fixed
I did my part
And they betrayed
I cleared their problem well
But I trusted lies

All your children went astray
Pay the price for ignorance
Praise and glory to the clan
Watch your step I'll bring the end

Rats prepare their feast
Queen will be quite pleased

All your children went astray
Pay the price for ignorance
Praise the glorious race of rats
One by one they'll join their dance

Hungry souls they shall be fed
Praise the wisdom of the rats
All your children went astray
Pay the price for ignorance

Now you know fear
Face the unknown
Dwell in tears

The story's told
You may have learned
Dare not to betray
The whistler
You should consider
You might fail
You should consider
You might fail

All your children went astray
Pay the price for ignorance
Praise the glorious race of rats
One by one they'll join their dance

All your children went astray
Pay the price for ignorance
All your children went astray
Pay the price for ignorance

Food for the clan
Praise to the rats

10.Gallows Pole
Endless stairs
A guiding light
It seems to shine bright
But it's cold
Wicked signs will mark our way
Wicked signs will mark our way
Mark our way
Mark our way
Mark our way

Call me Messiah - I am god
A true lord but alone
Call me a liar - oh I won't deny
That I'm mad

Am I evil am I good
Mad existence, faith and greed

The universe a gallows Pole
Extinction of the living soul

Towards the sun we'll keep moving
Fate I hold in hand
Dancing 'til the end
I am condemned
Oh I bring all mankind's end
The end
Oh I've seen
All life die

A shattered heart an empty soul
Just one false move and it took its toll
The rising of an evil seed
I can't describe the pain I feel
Outside it's dark inside it's cold
The sun still shines bright
But its time is short

Endless stairs
A guiding light
That once was warm
But now it's bitter cold

It's freezing hearts
It's freezing souls
Soon icy shades will cover all
It pretends to be alive
It pretends to be alive
Be alive
Be alive
Be alive

Collapse of the mother
All will die
The void it frightens me
I've faced the demon
And he dwells inside

And when I laugh it's tears I hide
And when I cry it's joy inside
A foul disease has stained the land
The bitter harvest of a dying bloom
And when I cry it's joy inside
A wicked smile for all the tears I hide
It hurts to hold all the pain I feel
The bitter harvest of a dying bloom

Nothing is real
Nothing but him

11.My Last Sunrise
The lamb, the rose
They don't exist
The lamb, the rose
They don't exist

These are my last words
I need to rest
In fear and anger
I'll lay down my head
A faithless spirit in a broken man

Everything is burning
Rotten flesh keeps burning
It's MY LAST SUNRISE in fear

The grail's in pieces
All the bliss is gone
The rose has dried out
And the lamb got slaughtered long ago
The hope became another lie
Like the nonexisting father god
I'll close my eyes, goodbye

Don't wait for me on the other side
Everything is burning
Rotten flesh keeps burning
It's MY LAST SUNRISE in fear
Don't wait for me on the other side

Golgotha - had seen nothing else but
A carpenter's death
Golgotha - not more maybe not even that

Suffer, grief and pain
Have driven me insane

Can't you see
There's nothing real
But you and I
And I say goodbye

Hear no evil, speak no evil
See no evil, feel no evil
Dream no evil, fear no evil
Taste no evil, touch no evil...

All I see and hear is evil
All I think and feel is evil...

12.Chant
instrumental

13.White Room Lyrics
In a white room
With black curtains
Near the stations
Blackroof country
No gold pavements
Tired starlings
Silver horses
Ran down moonbeams
In your dark eyes
Dawn-light smiled
On you leaving
My contentment
I'll wait in this place
Where the sun never shines
Wait in this place
Were the shadows run from themselves

You said no things
Could secure you
At the station
Platform tickets
Restless diesels
Goodbye windows
In walked into
such a sad time
At the station
As I walked out
Felt my own need
Just beginning

I'll wait in the queue
When the trains come back
Lie with you
Where the shadows run from themselves

At the party
She was kindness
In the hard crowd
Consolation
For the old wounds
Now forgotten
Yellow tigers
Crouched in jungles
In het dark eyes
She's just dressing
Goodbye windows
Tired starlings

I'll sleep in this place
With the lonely crowd
Life in the dark
Where the shadows run from themselves