- a Distance There Is
Come in out of the rain thou sayest - but thou ne'er stept'st aside; And I am trapp'd - A distance there is None, save me and the bodkin - pitter-patter on the ...
- A Hamlet For A Slothful Vassal
"Behold a jocund morn indeed! - Sun on high - birds in sky Yonder the whist firth eathing, Fro where a gale erranteth" "Ye beholdest but the shadow Mayhap a ti...
- A Nine Days Wonder
Don't save the day it's not over We fall for better or worse I can see the sparkling ice is breaking I've seen you got a speck of dust in your eye Act as if the...
- A Rose For The Dead
Albeit, daresay I, the lullaby of an everso dark sleep R: My precious, Likest thou what emergeth yon the distant? The throbbing and breathing of life's machiner...
- A Song by the Hearth
"E'er and anon, thence hither - Yore of this glum gauntness Ye eavesdroppest to my plea - Tarry not thy fealty! Stint this bereavement dear friend! - Wherefore...
- And then He Falleth
"Be my kin free fro carnal sin, Bride the thoughts of Master" "There hath past away a glore fro the Earth; A glore that in the hearts and minds of men, Men dem...
- Angelique
Thou dawdl'd not bringing me fro Aether to Nether, Still, duringly cling I on to this heather - Dew-scented blossom: thou wast pristine, The sweven of thee ne'e...
- Aoede
Parch'd of words, parch'd of lauds, Lorn and tyned fro my wame - 'Seech I more perforce indeed: Lap I of thee:, Thou art want With dulcet gust thine floret, Whi...
- As The Shadows Dance
R: My eyes hold the eventide, Thro' which I 'hold naught else But the raven; Sleep my dearest ones - Mind not the palling velvet darkness LK: Albeit behind the ...
- Ashes And Dreams
(Whispered) Everyone else speaks in a drone Round and round into the unknown Afternoon sun filters out through smoke The hum of factories quietly revoked Touc...
- Astray
Switch to another dream, to a quiet spite Think back at some time when there was a fading touch Colour me white and paint the vistas grey Everyday there's an el...
- Automatic Lover
Don't you wanna end up with this mister? He is just being nice with his kisses and he Thinks you're not one of the smart ones Say it darling Doesn't seem like y...
- Bacchante
Ado with a mean woe, An ado as aglow; Belying the paynim Thou rewrot'st the tome - An ivy-crown'd and dancing, And fawn'd and trancing - Espying the surly wud, ...
- Beauty Of Deconstruction
Echoes that somehow Can surround us Can resound through stillness Like thoughts of shifting this balance Ideas of ideals convolve like intricate phases Your re...
- Begin & End
Don't know inside from upside-down We praise the famed unwittingly If we had read that we are but illiterate What would we do? Keep inventory of things that we ...
- Black As The Devil Painteth
An artist is what is call'd the self the brush holdeth - Though hath it then caringly caress'd the Canvas of tomorrow? O Canvas! for thee I hold my tool - still...
- Bring Forth Ye Shadow
Time is an abyss - Profound as a thousand nights; I sojourn my haste, I make respites For what availeth this eager peace? One step more naught to face, Save the...
- Cassandra
He gave to her, yet tenfold claim'd in return - She hath no life but the one he for her wrought; Proffer'd to her his wauking heart - she turn'd it down, Ripost...
- Cheerful Dirge
Play by Raymond, Music by Theatre of Tragedy "Hap mirthfulness! - Oh! joy of grand riddance; Undress me my hauberk! - the wyvern hath errant'd" "Ire of yore - b...
- City Of Light
High-rise buildings Low cost apartments Financial district Industrial area Rows of blue collars Steelworkers' clink-clang Metal rhythm left and right This is th...
- Commute
Mobile phones Commuter trains The Terminus is full of men Crisscross network Zigzag railway The next stop is Waterloo White-collar timetable 9 to 5 urban robot...
- Crash / Concrete
Head crash - I can't see you Spit teeth - I can hear you I feel your pounding me onto the street I've learned to know the taste of concrete Why don't you follo...
- Deadland
Let the wind take care of gravity There's one big secret hidden, come with me Why should I want to leave, Unless you wanted me to go away Speak with a tongue t...
- Debris
While he was asleep holding her hand The dreams smouldered She opened her heart, he tore it apart Gazed into his smile He said he had constraint He was ostracis...
- Decades
Originally performed by Joy Division Here are the young men, a weight on their shoulders Here are the young men, well where have they been? We knocked on doors...
- Der Tanz Der Schatten
"Meine Augen sind so dunkel Auch sind die Visionen schwarz, Schwarz wie die Nacht; Der Dammerzustand des Menschen - Ist meine Zeit des Daseins" "Ich bin so all...
- Disintegration
It's blurring out of sight The faces flickering in the tinsel light on the esplanades Fluid and vanishing Dissolving, hiding things In your room, after the scen...
- Empty
They might say this never happened I'd say it just did Never have I felt it stronger Someone's wrong and I am right In a world of disillusion Loitering away yo...
- Envision
He tries to see, although he can't He tries, but doesn't understand He calls on a different phone-line No one that he knows An out of focus acquaintance Speakin...
- Episode
Moving sideways through the sold photo Slow figures flashing on tiptoe Crashing cars on a blue tableau Goes to show it wasn't everywhere No one steering, just a...
- Exile
Synchronise the flow of intersections, Catalogue all still heartbeats Franchise the machinations of The bourgeois-fangled reverie Gleaming in flamboyancy, Resi...
- Fade
Silky tidal waves In the midst of summer Trap door of our house Sliding up and down Days of childhood gleam, Do you still remember? Nowhere have I seen Shadows...
- Fair And 'guiling Copesmate Death
"Gaunt and gnarl'd Reflecteth the silver shield this welkin' aghast, And with haste translateth to gild'd black post and fast" "Anon - anon, say I! - the lid as...
- Flickerlight
I can't see In the flicker-light's quiet frequency I was briefly interrupted by the sound Of your voice Now I can see Why you turned away in disbelief I couldn'...
- Forever Is The World
Into a different kind of view Not meant for human eyes Everything's dark and fades away This moment just opened my eyes, now I say: I never knew anything felt l...
- Fragment
Broken frames Shattered glass Like a monochrome film The replaceable background Flickers and dissolves Out of control There's no sense, it's all Volta, Amp?re ...
- Frozen
Cold and risen from the grave Hidden years will tell no tales Now you seek what only heart can see Frozen in so many ways Drifting through the light inside A l...
- Hide And Seek
Look at me A million pictures on the cenotaph Look at me There's nothing left but silent epitaphs Through reassembly I've come to deceive you Behind interpretat...
- Highlights
[Bonus track] Always the young one Walks along the newly interred course Mindful of what he is and has become Somehow, we all admire Somewhy, that's what all re...
- Hollow
Waking, Falling stars from substratum Who holds the key to break the old bonds? Stare into space Until you cannot see your face I turn away I turn, but never g...
- Illusions
Decode the half forgotten memories Reverberating distantly Some have moments that they can't subdue Some take part in the electric blue Look away He watched t...
- Image
You act a pansy, pushover Do live your fancy, go lower Who is that, someone says your name You seem chancy, moreover The call is mine I'm gonna get you up I'm ...
- Lament Of The Perishing Roses
Where'er thou walkest, thou strewest roses - Thornless and deep reds are they; Onto a beauteous path harmony thou leadest, Where waterfalls sing their hymns of ...
- Let You Down
no risk, no fun I'm here, you're gone I'm cool, you're hot I love you not Don't say a word Unless you're heard I know I hate to see you rude I think I'll let yo...
- Liquid Man
He says to her, "There's a woman in the upstairs window" She turns and looks The blurred image of the echo fades away As the silhouette set She's smoking a ciga...
- Lorelei
Faerie dearest, was it loe soothfast or a facade; A serenade siren'd to lure - Zounds! not to court me? A maenad, yet the sweetest colleen - Certes didst thou m...
- Machine
Look up here Look down there I am the new man I'm tangled in wires Chipset adept Memory load Keep your vogue code that all have Tomorrow's world we've all seen ...
- Mire
Poem by Raymond, Music by Theatre of Tragedy Harken! - teh clouds muster?d in dark - So painfully easing Hush! - hearest ye the yew doting; Its years of yore in...
- Motion
I run as fast as I can To get a ride To ride on this wave is all I dream of I want to catch up with the distant sight I create my speed the way I breathe I can ...
- Musique
I synthesise and press a lighted key Turn it on, compose a melody Redo from start, I need more rhythm 1 and 4 was for the Commodore A catchy beat, I put it on r...
- On Whom The Moon Doth Shine
"O soft embalmer of ye still midnight, Allow me thee to adown Of an sort thou fancieth; Each holdeth its own fancy, I say - Yet the pleasure we partake in Was c...
- Play
She fills the rich kitsch niche where she sits Making chit-chat, this and that, from the bits Consumed, perfumed, detracts the room despite Glowing, knowing she...
- Poppaea
Dream of a funeral, blest temptress - behest me! - A funeral thou'lt hark, swarth murderess - the Devil, Thine feral grith with me, Poppaea, be Hell's hap: Wayl...
- Radio
Electric broadcast The new transmission waves Turn the dial Transistor radio The deadpan voice I want to hear Recieve the news Recieve the tunes We've tuned in ...
- Retrospect
Here we are We stand in line One more time today There is no sense The cigarette in hand It's all gone bad No name, privilege, no hope and fame We've seen it a...
- Reverie
Car-crash and an elevator Make you someone else Never try yourself Restore you Tick-tock clock and teddy boys Bop 'till you're fagged out Open windows shout She...
- Revolution
The wheel hits ground with a bare touch You just keep an ear to the ground Fly in the wind -- like revolution Time stands still, what will your mother say? Not...
- Senseless
Ever wonder about which words were said? Watch slow moving pictures pass instead I disassembled what was mundane Looking for what's left and does remain I chal...
- Seraphic Deviltry
Whether He the quaint savant's power doth hold I know not, Albeit aetat a thousand stars' birth He is - Quoth I that for reasons to me oblivious August of a gra...
- Silence
This interference's shifting A soft accent cascading A second glimpse of falling TVs Draws me in too easily Some kind of nonchalance Contains my will to chance ...
- Siren
Haste not thine wisdom, for the hollow is ta'en - By whom, know I not: 'lack! am I of twain - And as a crux - cede I my words - * Fro' my heart wilt thou ne'er ...
- Starlit
We stepped out of the brittle frame And I heard her as she came Through the city-streets And the lavish lover-suites Man standing next to man He's alone I see o...
- Storm
Can you see the storm getting closer now? Tell me how it feels being out there A moment's glimpse of his vignette As he shone a light on the falling wall Insta...
- Superdrive
Turn baby, turn You've got the feeling for it I'm the music Dance with me, sway Are you ready for me? Take a chance on me Turn baby, turn You've got the feeling...
- Sweet Art Thou
Play by Raymond, Music by Theatre of Tragedy "Stay still patient; wilt thou my sister of merciful troth be? I shall attempt the halter of thy life make less tig...
- The Breaking
I see their face in the mirror suit, a hazy image in a sea of noise Formations fixed and dimming, shapes slowly shifting Into a metal model display Insight is ...
- The Masquerader and Phenix
Hist! - The sonorous orchestral ambience and the arabesque - stanc'd ballerina Her wee feet in an alacritic malstrom-twirl And the dust-hurl with her tears blen...
- The New Man
Broken bottles, and a broken nose No reason not to lounge in a pose I could stand in shade light and laugh at you You were wrong - it's happened to you too Thi...
- To These Words I Beheld No Tongue
Soliloquy by Raymond, Music by Theatre of Tragedy Whether the thron?d Monarch weareth the crown, Which I know not whether to his belongeth; Doth he hence the sc...
- Transition
Lately, tuning in and out Walled in, gardens meant for privacy Will I find a reason? I got a sight of universe Blame it on tomorrow Today will not end Give me ...
- Universal Race
The pulsing of the flare reflected in the air Stick-stuck goggles deflecting the stare Underground, overdrive Countdown, take off We're gone, they're here Head ...
- Venus
Circa mea pectora multa sunt suspiria De tua pulchritudine, que me ledunt misere Venus! - I trow'd thou was my friend - Professed to Heaven thou wouldst send; A...
- Virado
Twit me, I am thy tyke; Meekness for thee aught Yerk me to weal daut', Sweven nor Muse Wad taw me to this ruddy hue - Wark aptly my drear, 'Hesting dirdum: Hey...
- Voices
Two views of the locations Merging into three or more An endless flow of words And miles and miles of stars (Re-focus on distant stars) Brings less voices to e...