• 20th Century Boy
    Friends say he's fine Friends say he's good Everybody says he's just like Robin Hood I move like a cat Talk like a rat Sting like a bee Babe, I wanna be your m...
  • 92 degrees
    The day drags by like a wounded animal The approaching disease, 92 degrees The blood oin our veins and the brains in our head The approaching unease, 92 degrees...
  • All Tomorrow's Parties
    And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties And where will she go a...
  • An Execution
    This is what she saw The unsuspecting horse was held fast to the ground Whilst some soldiers slit open its belly The guilty gypsy was shoved inside the horse's ...
  • Arabian Knights
    The jewel, the price Looking into your eyes Cool pools drawn your mind What else you find I hear a rumour - it was just a rumour I heard a rumour - what have yo...
  • Are You Still Dying Darling?
    Are you still dying darling? Are you still in pain? Are you still crying Despite the morphine in your veins? A fluorescent haze hangs and for a second makes yo...
  • B Side Ourselves
    Release the angels Go on release them Rose petal squadrons The bees are swarming Warming your cold skin Such a womanly man Such a boyish girl Clutching at stri...
  • Belladonna
    sunrise breaks its fatal perfume and I'm dizzy to distraction the scented clutches of a siren's lament embrace the sound of enchantment five fathoms deep, the l...
  • Blow the House Down
    weaving in his basket chair 'twist you round a lock of hair made of straw -- the wicker man made of straw -- I'll blow your house down bishops falling from the ...
  • Blue Jay Way
    There's a fog upon LA And my friends have lost their way We'll be over soon they said Now they've lost themselves instead Please don't be long please don't you...
  • Bring Me the Head of the Preacher Man
    following desire in your eyes you're mine you're mine all mine following the signs in your mind you're mine, you're mine, all mine bring me the head of the pre...
  • Burn Up
    A crumpled future in your fist The killing streak ascends sun-kissed And the firestarter from within Pokes out from fever blistered grin King Salamander -- tha...
  • But Not Them
    She hates the man and he hates the man because something strong inside has been denied them but not him, Oh not him He hates the girl and she hates the girl be...
  • Candyman
    Sickly sweet, his poison seeks For the young ones who don't understand The danger in his hands With a jaundiced wink see his cunning slink Oh trust in me my pre...
  • Cannons
    Troubled weather's on its way Tempests threaten us today There's no respite, from long dark nights Just the fantasy of spring From the hailstones of summer To a...
  • Carcass
    Someones in cold storage seeking heinz main-courses craving for a raw love He'll hide you from the cleaver he'll hang with you forever longing for a fresh meat ...
  • Carousel
    You clamber up And look behind Their watchful eyes The helping hands A hen that's fierce And painted blue With red eyes Wants to swallow you A dragon dives and ...
  • Cascade
    oh the air was shining shining like a wedding ring barbed like sex i felt 10,000 volts my chest was full of eels pushing through my usual skin i opened up new w...
  • Christine
    Sioux: vocals Severin: bass Budgie: drums McGeoch: 6+12 string guitars, fawfisa She tries not to shatter, kaleidoscope style Personality changes behind her red...
  • Circle
    pretty girl of 16 has fun and runs crazy ruined girl of 16 now a mother grows lazy next a 16 year old baby like mother grows lazy and her stomach is churning wh...
  • Cities in Dust
    Water was running; children were running You were running out of time Under the mountain, a golden fountain Were you praying at the Lares shrine? But ohh oh you...
  • Clockface
    Chasing a monsoon over the dune Oh fly me to the moon, get me there soon I don't have to prove I'll last longer than you One hump or two any handicap will do ag...
  • Coal Mind
    Two black holes staring From deep in the coal mind Murder in mind-murder deep in the coal mind Aphids and triffids bump mad into earwigs Eating their way-throug...
  • Cocoon
    here in my cot where my cot loves me i'll stay here while in the cotton wool cocoon 'til the chrysalis is ripe 'til the time is right with this feeling of insec...
  • Conga Conga
    Oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh six foot high in the sky tried and died wild gypsy tribe Ooh,ooh,ouooh,ouooh aah,aah,ouooh,oooh,aouh Watch!The Conga will push, squeeze in de...
  • Cry
    Cry for the bird with broken wings Cry for the world that will not spin Cry for the loss of innocense Cry for a love, turned loveless Sometimes I think of you, ...
  • Dancing On Glass
    With your mouth around the bottle-then you smash it on the hearth reach out for another one-don't look back on the past a chair through the window-then through ...
  • Dazzle
    swallowing diamonds a cutting throat your teeth when you grin reflecting beams on tombstones a jamboree of surprises playing russian roulette or the lucky clip ...
  • Dear Prudence
    [Originally performed by The Beatles] Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beaut...
  • Desert Kisses
    Sioux: vocals Severin: bass Budgie: drums McGeoch: guitar, sitar, string synth The Sirens: backing vocals Desert kisses in the sand engulfing joints, engulfing...
  • Dizzy
    Dizzy - oh dizzy Scorpio riseing on the horizon Thounder tumbleing from the mountaines Harpy sirens strangle silence A piece of mind - left dying Dizzy - oh d...
  • Drifter
    drifter -- sleepwalk drifter -- sleeptalk awake to who is following moving -- like water moving -- drifting on the wind a drifter coming in then I dreamt that I...
  • Drop Dead - Celebration
    I Hate You I Hate You I Hate You I Hate You Drop dead- You stinking little creep Drop dead- With your emotions so cheap Your poisoned mind- It's disgusting ever...
  • El Dia De Los Muertos
    It's all soul's day I hear you say It's all soul's day And you've come to pray For the lost ones The unadorned ones here today El Dia de Los Muertos El Dia de ...
  • Eve White Eve Black
    It hurts there's a pain in my head I wish it would stop but it never stops I can feel it coming--I'm getting weaker please help me--I'm getting weaker I'm getti...
  • Face To Face
    Face to face my lovely foe Mouth to mouth raining heaven's blows Hand on heart tic tac toe Under the stars naked as we flow Cheek to cheek the bitter sweet Comm...
  • Fall From Grace
    I am stone and I am blade A sharp eternal instant A darker heart a distant moan pleasures' deep and spectral instinct Look me in the eye speak it to my face My ...
  • Falling Down
    I would see you falling down Still I would have been around Hated to hear the sound As you fell and punched the ground Such as miserable suicide Performed befor...
  • Fear
    I get the feeling -- I'm not alone I get the feeling -- it's someone I don't know Do you ever have the strange sensation when you're standing mighty tall to jum...
  • Fear Of The Unknown
    I get the feeling -- I'm not alone I get the feeling -- it's someone I don't know Do you ever have the strange sensation When you're standing mighty tall To ju...
  • Festival Of Colours
    kula 'ula 'ula poni 'alani melemele polu 'akala 'oma 'oma 'o Come to the festival of colours celebrate the festival of colours shake your serpent thrashing ha...
  • Flesh
    The bursting balloon coctails are soon young glands young flesh invade the room a sardonic mood ughh watch the rich fatty eating raw fish with avid curiosity o...
  • Follow The Sun
    Scarecrow grins he's growing very tall Growing tall under the golden sun Growing with the children of the corn Sending out the message of a strange tongue A mes...
  • Forever
    Infinity stretches unlimitlessly countless days pass by immeasurably Anniversaries gutter in the maelstrom whorling a snowstorm of lustrous millennium We couldn...
  • Gecko
    Giant sized flowers giant sized bugs giant sized gecko is making his path undergrowth running a chorus of frogs a parakeet's picnic all writhing in a tu panora...
  • Got to Get Up
    Got to get up, get into life got to get up and live this life got to get up and win this life No more looking down -- look up skyward up your eyes -- devour the...
  • Green Fingers
    hibiscus head-in a flower bed a finger hewn-planted and sewn oh magic in her hands-she could make anything grow magic in her hands - she had green fingers it'...
  • Gun
    Me and my partner we work on the run The quick try to get quicker And the creepers get hung Now it's you that got wasted tonight on the job One lost his liquor ...
  • Hall of Mirrors
    She stepped into the hall of mirrors Where she discovered a reflection of herself Even the greatest stars discover themselves in the looking glass Even the grea...
  • Halloween
    The night is still and the frost it bites my face I wear my silence like a mask and murmur like a ghost "Trick or Treat" "Trick or Treat" The bitter and the swe...
  • Hang Me High
    Oh Hang me high hang me high Set me up with the bells in the tower And beat them hour after hour Hang me high To the bonds that seal your lips Intone a penance ...
  • Happy House
    Sioux: vocals Severin: bass, vocals Budgie: drums, harmonica, vocals McGeoch: guitar This is the happy house-we're happy here in the happy house oh it's such f...
  • Head Cut
    The head is the best part My headcut my woodcut I saw you in the gallery With your torso and family A huge smiling central face With eyes and lips cut out But s...
  • Helter Skelter
    When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide When I stop I turn and I go for a ride When I get to the bottom when I see you again yeah When I get...
  • Hong Kong Garden
    Harmful elements in the air symbols clashing everywhere Reaps the fields of rice and reeds while the population feeds Junk floats on polluted water an old custo...
  • Hybrid
    Sioux: vocals Severin: bass Budgie: drums McGeoch: guitar, sax It's a hybrid of me-I'm a hybrid of he You're a misfit of me-I'm a misfit of you in limbo Carbo...
  • I Could Be Again
    Through glowing gloom, I see the flicker of treason Dancing on the picture of what might have been This minute will last a day, these days will last for years A...
  • Ice House
    The ice house preserves with incestuous flowers their nightly perfume overpowers me the stamens kiss entwined devouring the heart will melt whilst the ice remai...
  • Icon
    My eyes went up to Heaven You didn't say I'd be blind without them Icons-feed the fires icons-falling from the spires Thine eyes rain down from Heaven You alw...
  • Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
    Il est né le divin Enfant ! Jouez, hautbois, résonnez, musettes; Il est né le divin Enfant; Chansons tous son avènement Depuis plus de quatre mille ans Nous le ...
  • Interlude
    Written by George De La Rue and Hal Shaper Produced by Boz Boorer Engineered by Chris Dickie Assisted Danton Supple Sioux starts off, with: Time, is like a d...
  • Into the Light
    Into the line Into the light I see it fine I see it fight into the line Into the light our hearts entwine a new horizon Remember when Bleached into white your t...
  • Israel
    Little orphans in the snow With nowhere to call a home Start their singing Waiting through the summertime To thaw your hearts in wintertime That's why they're s...
  • Jigsaw Feeling
    Chorus: Send me forwards-say my feelings But all the signals-send me reeling Jigsaw Feeling One day I'm feeling total the next I'm split in two My eyes are doin...
  • Kiss Them For Me
    It glittered and it gleamed for the arriving beauty queen a ring and a car now you're the prettiest by far No party she'd not attend no invitation she wouldn't ...
  • Lands End
    Come take this hand at twilight's door I'll meet you there we'll share the moonlit floor Through the driving rain, colours run in veins Ozone fills the air, two...
  • Let Go
    Nautical mile stretch out the years A space walk, untethered, let go of your fears A pioneering seed with every step you breed Walks away from the crouching shu...
  • Little Johnny Jewel
    Little Johnny Jewel My little Johnny Jewel Oh he's so cool He had no decision He's just trying to tell a vision Well some thought it sad And others thought it m...
  • Little Sister
    Here I sit in paradise my head between my hands Little sister, break your vow break down, the sacred side little sister, break the rules break me in two Little...
  • Love In A Void
    Too many fools blocking my motion Clouding my eyesmust be the potion Spots on my eyesmust be the lotion Love in a voidit's so numb Avoid in loveit's so dumb Lov...
  • Love Out Me
    I smash the glass into my face Cutting through to my disgrace Disregard for bone and flesh How can I be in such a mesh of unlikeliness? I smash my likeness At m...
  • Lullaby
    The lunacy will leave the day Luminous in flight As the moon spits out In jagged beams another night Wrap around this brilliant veil Tranquil and unbroken As yo...
  • Lunar Camel
    Sioux: vocals, droma-derian, finger cymbals Severin: bass, rhythm box Chasing a monsoon over the dune Oh fly me to the moon, get me there soon I don't have to ...
  • Mad Eyed Screamer
    Platform ranting in the trees disturbed voices on the breeze huddled 'round the mad eyes screamer a pointed finger - the tin can schemer Mad eyed screamer - Ma...
  • Metal Postcard
    Reunion begins With a glass of mercury Whilst television flickers For another news bulletin Flints light up the eyes Of the seated family Metal is tough, metal...
  • Mirage
    I'm just a vision on your TV screen just something conjured from a dream seen thro' your x-ray eyes, a see-thro' scene the image is no images it's not what it s...
  • Miss The Girl
    Kiss the girl-kiss the girl hands around the steering wheel caress the shiny vinyl feel don't you miss the girl? miss the girl seduced reflection in the chrom...
  • Monitor
    Monitor outside For the people inside A prevention of crime A passing of time They come and they go It's a passing of time They come and they go Whilst we sit i...
  • Morning Dawning
    The dawning is over the morning is over and I can't look into your eyes a cold November morning a shivering new dawning I watched your energy slide it's sad t...
  • Mother
    The word you learn to love The disapproval that you hate that's Mother from Mother They teach you to respect Makes you always want to please Mother Mother The ...
  • New Skin
    Transcribed by Reverend Daimeyon T Straynge Fuck you, I win this prize Stardom pardons the lies The miles, the minutes passing by My window (Yeah Yeah Yeah) ...
  • Nicotine Stain
    It's just a habit when I reach to the packet for my last cigarette until the day breaks and then my hand shakes but it it's just driving me insane when the smok...
  • Night Shift
    Only at night time---I see you in darkness---I feel you A bride by my side---I'm inside many brides Sometimes I wonder What goes on in your mind, always silent ...
  • Not Forgotten
    You buried it so deep So safe in hidden sleep But like a tell-tale corpse Rises to the surface Over-ripe & bloated In naked time-lapsed truth Thought it was los...
  • O Baby
    The cracks in the ground grin up at me Even the creases in my shoes smile up at me Thought it would end in tragedy But I'm swimming around in your glory O Baby ...
  • Obsession
    do you hear this breath it's an obsessive breath can you feel this beat it's an obsessive heart beat waiting to be joined with its obsession i close my eyes bu...
  • Ornaments of Gold
    Silver couches to recline upon And ornaments of gold Silver moonbeams dance in fountains Below shining citadels Surrounded by silver gates ascending silver stai...
  • Overground
    Got to give up life in this netherworld got to (gonna) go up to where the air is stale and live a life of pleasantries (and) mingle in the modern families Overg...
  • Painted Bird
    on lead poisoned wings you try to sing freak beak shrieks are thrown at your confusing hue the peacock screaming eyes show no mercy no mercy painted bird it's ...
  • Paradise Place
    Sioux: vocals, rhythm guitar Severin: bass Budgie: drums Jones: lead guitar Look to the hills-now look at my face Do you notice my eyes-are they in the right p...
  • Parties Fall
    Your parties fall around you Another night beckons to you Your parties fall around you Another night beckons to you Shadows loom as you resist the gloom Faded ...
  • Peek A Boo
    Creeping up the backstairs Slinking into dark stalls Shapeless and slumped in bath chairs Furtive eyes peep out of holes She has many guises She'll do what you ...
  • Placebo Effect
    You dip your hands into my flesh And say you won't reveal a scar I must have faith in this procedure It's a miracle-It's a wonder A thousand hidden needles In ...
  • Playground Twist
    Hanging Hanging from your daisy chains Swinging in the trees Running from your enemies And falling on your knees On your knees Get down on your knees Throw the...
  • Pointing Bone
    from the fury pit, a reek of misery like a trumpet groan, tornado moan the splendor splits like a golden skin he and the wizards cry like hummingbirds in treasu...
  • Premature Burial
    This catacomb compels me Corroding and inert It weights and tries to pull me Must I resist or re-assert? The unchanged and the unchangeable Doing the zombierama...
  • Pull To Bits
    Tongues are clacking words of one vision One tiny incision and teeth are cracking on thin air, on thin air And teeth are cracking on thin air Pull to bits--in ...
  • Rawhead and Bloodybones
    Bad word, Or bad deed, Unpunished invites grief, Here's Rawhead and Bloodybones Reaching from Dark cupboard Crouching under stair, Lurking in chimney, Pond or w...
  • Red Light
    Sioux: vocals, camera Severin: synthesizers, rhythm box Budgie: drums She falls into frame with a professional pout but the polaroids ignite on seeing their su...
  • Red Over White
    Transcribed by Reverend Straynge the woods and the town covered in snow all transformed to a fairytale like the fresh page of a book opened up ready waiting f...