I lean on the fence and you squat in the middle and we wait till the stream runs dry Though you don't see the sense and we can't solve the riddle, it's amazing ...

Astrid Astrid, do you think they know? Spy behind the curtains - See me now! I'm certain that they've seen it all All the Ammunition watched you planting poster...

I will not desert you I just stepped back a little Kept a low profile Smiled as you made those little songs for me, Build those temples I'm flattered really! An...

Billy was a car crash - all he ever knew was pain Lived a milli-milli- Milli-second; never born again Though no one saw him coming, plenty Witnessed his remains...

Cut glass cathedrals slash holes in the air so it always is raining when we kneel down in prayer And Christ leans and laughs Christ! He's shaking his head cos t...

Cut glass cathedrals slash holes in the air so it always is raining when we kneel down in prayer And Christ leans and laughs Christ! He's shaking his head cos t...

It scored E-minus on its ancestry It stuttered on the phone They tried extensive hypnotherapy but it sat there like a stone They checked its pockets, they pum...

Aaazhyd! It creeps and I fall and I'm peeled from the lips to the hips and my inside's outside Hide me in your bed God You can spread me on your bread, God Or t...

Like two souls touching Thoughts a - breaking - Lovers sleeping Waves Breaking against our minds We play, play and laugh, play and laugh and Sing to the heavens...

Forgetting all the lies you told about me when my back was turned Forgetting all the cards I sent that you simply burned Forgetting All those times you said you...

Belladona Sea blue marshmallow eyes Belladonna sees you - it's just A disguise She sees nothing but grey Belladonna Ice cool, shaken not Stirred Belladonna Whis...

In the street, they're digging holes and in the sinks They're swilling coal-tar, baby Feathers stuck on Poles They're waiting for the gas man (Goo-goo- Ga-chew!...

They ripped up all the grass and they cut down all the trees, built a Fence - little sign says 'Keep away, if you please' And it was Difficult to argue with the...

They scorched the earth; they petrified the forest - painted windows Black Pumped cyanide in rivers, roamed around in packs ; screamed "STAND, DELIVER!" they al...

Aaazhyd! It creeps and I fall and I'm peeled from the lips to the hips and my inside's outside Hide me in your bed God You can spread me on your bread, God Or t...

Sometimes you criticise me, analyse me, dice me in eight equal slices; I'm cut down to size It's alright - I love you! It's a long drop, I've been there far too...

Sometimes you criticise me, analyse me, dice me in eight equal slices; I'm Cut down to size It's alright - I love you! It's a long drop, I've been there far too...

Sometimes you criticise me, analyse me, dice me in eight equal slices; I'm cut down to size It's alright - I love you! It's a long drop, I've been there far too...

The slogans turned to secrets The symbols turned to stains The Face of an 'enemy' was imprinted on our brains Made us spectres at The shutters, faces covered, t...

When Madeleine appeared it always rained, the people locked their houses, drew the curtains, prayed and painted crosses on their doors They wondered who would b...

Colliding in the stroboscope Yes, now you see me, now you don't Tonight I'm dressed in black, I mourn the death of colour Hopeless, Crying in my wine through ha...

Resplendant on my bed of nails With laser light, my peep show I can see the serpent lady peeping through my perforations Cold as knives, revolving on five icep...

Brave Sir Henry swims the Serpentine in 16 seconds flat We applaud him from The plimsoll line; Sir Henry lifts his hat We drink some wine We hold Up signs We gi...

You spent all your money You lost all your friends You're so very far from home You're watching the aeroplanes high in the sky and you cry You wish you could fl...

You spent all your money You lost all your friends You're so very far from home You're watching the aeroplanes high in the sky and you cry You wish you could fl...

Dinner whispers, "come and get it", poses on a plate We shot it twice with anesthetic, still it bites the waiters Till they're bleeding in the loo So goddamned ...

transcribed by cowell@csutkedu Dinner whispers, "come and get it", poses on a plate We shot it twice with anesthetic, still it bites the waiters Till they're b...

Through your eyes I saw the red sun burst and slowly melt into the Dead Sea Through your eyes I watched your hand expand, and crush a dozen Trees, like they wer...

Smash me into little pieces, put me in a cup, add sugar, stir me, warm me up, and drink me I want to get inside you I want to light your heart I want to lick...

We ride on the avalanche we climb the melting red lungs of the ladder that Leads high to a darkening moon We're the watchers of disaster, we're the Dancers on y...

The kitchen smells of parafin, the stairways turning black and teddy's Looking tired cause he's lying on his back Crackling curtains dance in Ribbons, flames ar...

The Echo Police shoot twice and ask you Zero Zero questions Shady sessions In the backroom Double spotlight, they whistle tunes They hole you up, A hollow wall ...

The sun beats down, the world spins 'round, and repeat myself again There's a loop inside my brain I never learn, I never gain, I only Turn, I stay the same, re...

If God was egg, if six were nine If time was never measured, only Killed in pleasure gardens of our making If we'd never taken anything, But only given If we co...

Crushed in the corridor, swimming in smoke Broken leg, aching head - Tried polite conversation in braille Broken French Though my friend Chews his garlic, he's ...

I rise from sleep, as a ray strokes my shoulder Wishing to walk unveiled To the world - my flesh on view These things stand in our way - the cold Of the earth, ...

Up before the Flesh Parade The pretty faces The bedroom eyes The pouting lips The longing thighs say "Come in for a night, you won't regret it - but don't make ...

Capsule was diving, the temperature rising Was hardly surprising his tears turned to steam in the blink of an eye Just the hint of a cry Baby knew he was dying ...

He really liked her blind He'd sneak up from behind and run his finger down her spine - say `it's fine' though headlines shouted FINAL! Pigs would fly, cities t...

Did you hear me crying in the night that lasts forever? Did you see me reaching out from Never Never Land? The kingdom of the blind, the damned; a bitter man; a...

I'll be your slave, maybe you'll be my priestess I'd live in a cave and We'd meet where all eyes are turned away Where we can lay, where we can Play and forget ...

Gold chain Bronze skin Cheese brain Holes Yes, Gorgon Zola rules the Beach She strolls, she kicks some sand - the mild man winces, clears his Eyes Despises her ...

Drowning in dog stew and strangled in vine Blister wine Burns the inside (They flew in a line over poppy fields They'd drop and they'd blast their supply On ...

All wired up with no-one to kick but myself in a cell and an ape with a Stick who's bigger than me and complains that he's sick of my story They spy on me They ...

Fixing on a lonely star on 4 Avengers morning, on the blood Stained steps of Hope, forgotten, carrying our cross like Guilty children waiting 'til our father's ...

Simple expressions hide my ignorance How can you tell how you feel, when The words just don't exist? The pain and the anguish, the slaughtered Dreams, the harve...

Two glasses on a glass-top table Lights are low, The ashtray's full he talks of all his conquests--letters Ringed with hearts and crosses He left them in the Dr...

He really liked her blind He'd sneak up from behind and run his finger down her spine - say `it's fine' though headlines shouted FINAL! Pigs would fly, cities t...

OverdoseComatosedI feel you close, but you're so very far away Surrogatethere's no escape I found a gate, but it's locked so I'm here to stay Yet every wish I ...

I watched you in your tragic beauty walk beneath my window Eyes aimed high, but unfocused sure, you never noticed me You always wore the same dress; always ...

Abandoned on my cross around the corner from the corner of your eye, don't be surprised if I should slightly cross the line and slowly glide you through the bor...

Give the boy a uniform, a unicorn, a horn, a sawn off shotgun and a Cause an ORDER Cross a border Tell him "Heads must roll!" Can fetch Them back on poles No ru...

Bills were mailed express, black borders ordered PAY Across the page the Figures were laying and laughing Jenny ripped them up She ran the bath Called her daugh...

Tossed and scrambled in a cage some sixteen miles below I attempted sending Codes, but only ghosts reply, and it's cramped in here Though the Freezer's packed w...

Parcels for the kids, the parcel bombs were left in bins They were singing hymns and rattling tins A hand stretched out and caught him, knocked him through a wi...

Weeping like the ghost of winter, we watch our tears Kiss ash and turn to steam We walk on hot coals Where a stream meandered Tarred and tanned We Flex and coun...

Who will pull the trigger, send the whole thing up in flames? Who is Juggling figures, plans the last move of the game? Now we're coughing Blood, the desert win...

We tried to watch the sun rise, but a cloud fell and we froze inside your coat One arm for you, and one for me-- two arms crossing, winding as the tide roared i...

Does my eye offend you? Should I roll it down the hill Should I wear an iron mask or warn you with a bell? In quarantine, I stay unseen - I still know how to fe...

Sixteen shades of sorrow on a starless night with no escape to dawn She hugged the sand; she cursed the storm for 16 days and no tomorrows Mourning friends who ...

The retinue wore togas, toked on opium and drank each's other's wine They Nibbled peanuts, spoke of heinous and premeditated crimes between the Politics and the...

She covered up the mirror, hid his photo in the Drawer The sketches that he made for her were rip- Ped and rolling across the floor All memories and Promises an...

You offered me a cigarette, I pirouette with sihlouettes of statuettes We're ice behind a window Would you be my widow? Would you even be my Wife? Life's not lo...

Dance for me He calls out from the fence, but we just shake a little Fall for me We fall and make ammends with holy Marys I can't look you in the eye, your heel...

We tried to watch the sun rise, but a cloud fell and we froze inside your coat One arm for you, and one for me-- two arms crossing, winding as the tide roared i...

She washed her hands 300 times but still they're dripping red We caught her in the pauper's pit, she stole the prince's head, still cursing 'blasphemy' O mercy...

She's on his mind, she's on his wall She's in the Corner of his eye She whispers sweet delerium He Climbs inside and blushes as the crimson tide flows And flush...

Dive like a swan in a pond, as the train rolls in Close your eyes, Hold your breath - , you'll be holding it forever There are methods, many Methods - take a pi...

The cha cha bar was sliding and we swam across the Scotchman on the rocks (so many rocks and glass and sand) In shock we docked in Fish Head Harbour where th...

Silent as the final hour heralding a quake, we cut the wire We slipped the guard, sprayed "LOVE" across the barricades As searchlights swooped and froze and fai...

Like any other day, I heard the bell and grabbed my coat I snatched a coffee, nearly choked and semi-cartwheeled headfirst in the rain I knew I had to make that...

Nuts in May go firing guns while Nuts in June write speeches They find a box to preach on while the kiddies screech in prams And mum sucks on a choc-ice, mumble...

Tanith dropped by today Like, I hadn't seen her in years, but there she was at my front door in her colonial helmet Custom made Burmise fan poised in one hand...

transcribed by cowell@csutkedu Tanith dropped by today Like, I hadn't seen her in years, but there she was at my front door in her colonial helmet Custom mad...

Tanith dropped by today Like, I hadn't seen her in years, but there she was at my front door in her colonial helmet Custom made Burmise fan poised in one hand...

All these years I waited cos I knew that you'd return No stranger's hand has touched this temple One candle slowly burned for you (Were you waiting too?) For ...

All these years I waited cos I knew that you'd return No stranger's hand has touched this temple One candle slowly burned for you (Were you waiting too?) For ...

Thursday was a good day He'd be turning up at nine, he'd be turning Down the lights, he'd be breaking out the wine Made it whoopee on the Settee, shared a candl...

Sounding the bell in the corridor Sweeping the floor with her hair She sprinkles hot ashes and salt on the stairs as she walks We all walk Behind her The city s...

Our lady on the Bleeding Ground, her satin gown is trailing in the mud She Ducks a football cos it's Christmas Day and the shells are duds And Tom And Jerry dri...

Our lady in the abbatoir She's hanging headless, charred Baby on her Breast - there's nothing left, the milk turned to powder, Twist her, she's An hour glass - ...

Our lady on the wall selling poppies for Our Boys Our price Our choice We bought one-watched Our Lady fly confetti fly the city die in flames as Tanks spat ambe...

Chasing the carrion, we watched the silver bird explode We tiptoed Through the barrier of smoke and took a hand, but found it unconnected We Were dining on the ...

Give me plasma! Make it soon! Your love is not enough I've got you in my heart, but i want you in my veins And I'll meet you at the blood bank They could pump y...

We'll remember when that wreath is just a crown of thorns to drape Around your helmet - hide out anywhere at all We'll remember when You're no more than a poem ...

You rolled your tongue, you spat I flew A hole in one! Despatched me in the kitchen sink; I sank confused and bruised and thinking about our honeymoon of nigh...

Princess Coldheart closed her eyes And waited for the kiss to snap the chain between her lips They waited proud, they waited willing Filed in, failed, and so sh...

Roaming spores and running sores and scorching fever Score a pill to maybe Ease the pain But there's more to come The thunder's in your brain, the Lightning dan...

In Cut Throat Lane the chains were swinging Iron boots with blades on Springs were lancing Silver dance The ghetto ballerinas tiptoed, Blasting Rattlesnake Aren...

Go back eight years; you're sixteen What do you see? What do you Feel? A classroomYesand what are they whispering? They're whispering About you? Why? Laughing, ...

Flags are flying in the wind and all the world can hear us We can Take it on the chin and fight another day The tower's shining in the Sun Outside the kids are ...

You rolled your tongue, you spat I flew A hole in one! Despatched me in the kitchen sink; I sank confused and bruised and thinking about our honeymoon of nigh...

D'archangel rises with eyes that accuse A bouquet of black orchids for you As you weep in the ruins of all that you knew, of all that you cherished, Of all you ...

Sheba had nine lives that I could sleep in Sheba had the cutest little nose Sheba's lips by Interflora Rollercoaster Lizard Lick She stings you like the 13th ...

I shaved off my hair cos I found it amusing, I faked my despair in the beautiful ruins I wailed at the wall, tossed a coin in the fountain - Now dry as the sand...

Lightning cracked a crooked cross across the sky above the cross where he'd Been hanging for a day (he was stoned again!) The breeze grew ice threw Knives blew ...

Sink in the quicksand Linked to the branch of a tree I can't see Because it's darker than death and your guys up and left me out here to freeze And this fore...

Close your eyes and count to nine Everything will turn out fine There's nothing on this planet that can touch you This cloud belongs to you and me There's nothi...

Close your eyes and count to nine Everything will turn out fine There's nothing on this planet that can touch you This cloud belongs to you and me There's nothi...

Butterflies, three blind mice, eight little maids in a box He met them, He kept them, he carefully puts them away for the rainy day, when Nothing's left, no not...