Marc Almond

When I was seventeen I was chasing after dreams In Southport I had to get away Or end up in a nursing home alone When I was seventeen I had a special love And Southport Didn't seem a bad place after all On the promenade The carnival facade is peeling And the...

A lover spurned A lesson learned On love you've got Your fingers burnt Shed bitter tears Now love has turned The sweet revenge Of a lover spurned A passing phase A week of love But all at once You had enough It pales so soon Waned with the moon No deep conc...

I really must stop always being the child Chasing his youth his heart, nose to the wind I really must cure my tender nostalgia Bury deep my stars beneath the veil of night I must postpone my Spanish chateau Dreams that befuddle like an old wine I must al...

There are many who have laid with me Then got up and walked away from me And played around with me like I was a game Every night was a one night fling When I'd given them everything They never even asked me for my name God they never even asked me for my name...

Why can't I be on my own Just me and the world alone Oh why can't I be on my own Just me and the world alone Oh why is the world filled with people It makes for a painful life You'll disappoint me if you don't disappoint me Come and dance with the tip of my k...

(Race of Abel) Eat, sleep and drink God smiles on you contentedly (Race of Cain) In filth and stink grovel And die wretchedly (Race of Abel) Your sacrifice smells good To an angel's nose (Race of Cain) What's the price Of your torment and woes? (Race of Abel...

I just can't get enough I just can't get enough And I wake up And it's there like a freezing cloud Passing over the sun And I open my eyes I'm not moving White as a ghost And stiff as a gun And I wake up my senses And I push all the stars from my head Is this...

Wild wild child of the London night Prowling under cover of the city lights Waiting for a chance to strike, strike, strike You're gonna strike at my heart Tonight There's trouble going on Behind your eyes Blue little eyes Where trouble lies They gave you too...

You kissed my grateful skin And left a chain of bites and bruises I'm sorry when you grin Almost diamonds for the losers I'll swim inside your tears And wander through your rooms of silence The motive crystal clear Your tongue is love And your heart is violenc...

We find love, you and I It's a new game to play Then we tell our first lie And see a love go away And we find We're alone We rush on, you and I We don't need love at all We need thrills, we need speed And we stumble and fall And we find We're alone We're...

Every morning Now I pray The phantom pains Not to come again A million tears To slip away And take the vessel Of my blame We have got to brave the storm The people who do us harm I will never walk alone The pavement of this bitter town Us forever breaking he...

A stiletto scrapes the pavement Leaving a red streak of paint Breaks a sweat upon the sailors To them she is a saint Tattoo on the muscle That says 'In love forever I' She'll take them and she'll break them Oh come hold me till I die. Anarcoma, Anarcoma, Anar...

He's bringing trouble A suitcase of heartache Another sad scene on the way He wears a necklace of tears A string of bright trophies Throwing a new love away every day It must be the angel in her kiss That makes him the devil in her arms It must be the angel i...

Don't shut your eyes When they're lighting up the skies I just want to see them shine And I cannot take my mind off you Halo of fire In my heart there is a choir And it's singing of desire And I'm watching everything you do Hey! Let's make a love impact With...

When bad people kiss It's an ocean unchained When bad people kiss It's passion inflamed When bad people kiss I'm feeling the thrill When bad people kiss I'm kissing you still When bad people kiss It's the devil's desire When bad people kiss Like a city on fir...

Searching through the memory books Of photographs your lovers took Why play the game of place the pain When you end up feeling just the same Anyway... Sleep comes so slowly now So hard to keep the eyelids down And you're hoping soon to drown the sound Of a v...

Love Is a beautiful brutal thing It sings at night like the wind It stings your heart like a whip It rocks your soul like a ship And love Is a beautiful brutal thing It can mean everything Or nothing at all Such a feeling can make you tall Or as small as a dis...

Here's to the bruised and the broken hearted Here's to dear friends now departed Here's to the lonely here's to the lost Here's to those who love at a cost Here's to the bitter and the reviled Here's to the rejected child Here's to those who don't have a hope...

I'm praying at my bedroom shrine Saying the words to make you mine All the candles and the flowers To brighten up my lonely hours Wishing you were in my arms Instead of only in my head Praying at my bedroom shrine Looking at a photograph And crying to myself I...

Now you're kissing other guys And when you kiss you close your eyes Do you hold regrets or do you easily forget Can you be so quickly swayed Can tender words just fade away Can you blame me for feeling betrayed As one love dies a new begins Do you say the sam...

Billy was a Bird dog He pulled up in a Bonneville I went to see my manager He usually handles these things Billy pulled his wallet Full of hundred dollar bills Took me for a joyride Talkin' 'bout the stereo Drivin' in the left lane I'm thinkin' 'bout my buria...

A little bitter A little sweet That's how I like my life to be I'll take it neat Bitter sweet That's how I see the world I like the rain I like the dark I like the mornings in the park The summer heat Bitter sweet That's how I see the world Oh let's go Let's...

Black kiss Kiss deep Inside Your sleep Dark love You crave Black kiss I gave Black kiss Inspire Cold heart On fire Black kiss Red rose Where no One goes Beautiful evil Beautiful evil Why do you hurt me? Why do I let you? I need your blood now But you're not...

Cherubim, black seraphim Attend the head of horns The darkest of the angels The thief among the thorns Drinker of sweet absinthe ?????????? is to reign Keeper of the secret keys To help me find my way Gods beautiful love angels Come to me in my sleep To be my...

Down in black mountain A child will smack your face Down in black mountain A child will smack your face Babies crying for liquor and all the birds sing bass Black mountain people Are as bad as they could be Black mountain people Are as bad as they could be Th...

The boy with the young heart left the boy with the sad eyes And went to the boy with the grin Heart on his biceps, suffering another love Could be the end of him The blond boy Blond boy The blond boy Blond boy '82 in the President Hotel Just the blond boy wi...

You're running for the kitchen drawer to find a knife to end me 'Cause if I'm not yours anymore then no-one else shall have me The mirror broke seven years to go of misery and corrosion We can watch our kind of love We gotta a dangerous obsession And there was...

You and I Were born to cry Always seem To be saying goodbye You and I Were born to lose You and I Were born to bruise Don抰 smile tonight You抮e the same as I Don抰 say a word Just dry your tears And say goodbye You and I Were born to strive We always strugg...

That's the way you go The city is so cold And I, I'm so sold That's why I go I can't help it Born to lose (x3) Baby I'm born to lose (x2) Nothing to do And nothing to say There's only one thing that I want It's the only way I can't hit it Born to...

I lost you in the great big city You gave me your number But fate, she closed her eyes And the wind blew it away I know you're sometimes at a bar But I can't recall the name You could have called I'm sure you have a story And you're not to blame In time the t...

Libby's in the car Choking on the fumes Sprawled across a black piano Hollerin' the blues Morally low and dying slow What a way to go go go It's the little surprises I like in life You know, like the way when you treat me nice Love that's as rough as...

Waves break over the shore, her heart breaks over him Fickle love, faded fantasies, sweet dreams turning sour within She touching 44 and he not so sweet 16 And though she loved him more it seemed this love had never, ever been Oh, you know your still beau...

I wake up blind each day by morning sun I got nowhere to hide nowhere to run You have the heart its chained shackled down My crime is loving and now I’m bound to you I got bruises on my soul I got bruises on my heart I got bruises on my soul I got bruises I...

You trip and I fall With my feet grounded I fall Every time I take a step And when I stand still I fall Chorus (x 2) You stutter - I'm dumb Blink, blink, blink - I'm blind Strain your ears - I'm deaf Bleed, bleed, bleed - I'm dead Not even sunshine can sho...

No no, no no no no You're never never never going to let me go You say I'm your possession You say I'm your toy You're gonna teach me a lesson That I won't enjoy I need to break free You suffocate me I'm in pain I want to break out I've got to escape these ch...

Full Moon The herd is in calm No sun nor sand Only night and beast Sleeping in the fields Begging to live Passing so much pains To carry on living Black prairies And a knife of light Dare to earth Of an Andaluz boy Bullrings of villages in fiesta Looks for t...

Desire...Love...Mystery...Magic Just close your eyes Imagine you're in a place Where you can taste all you crave In life's masquerade Come hold my hand And all your wishes come true Burlesque and blue The carnival's calling to you Your peace of mind Will co...

Way back then I was a champion A fighter in the ring And all the crowds would cheer My praises they would sing Now I am a forgotten man A hobo out alone No champ to push me on Nothing, no-one to call my own I was a dark eyed boy Stars in his eyes Promises mad...

A winter morning sun in New York Champagne wakes and checks the time It's hard to keep a cup of coffee down When there's so much on your mind Kicks a cockroach 'cross the bedroom floor Checks the mirror grabs some clothes Waits for the aching to subside Where...

Lost little child star You stand on the stage Your head in your hands While you cry You feel so afraid That your beauty will fade Into the indigo sky Glamorous, beautiful, tragic and doomed Always someone new close behind All those tears, or just nails Which...

Well I just can’t explain The despair that I feel As the wheel goes round And round, round Now I must return To the city of steel Put my feet on the ground The ground, ground In Las Vegas there are no clocks The time goes slow, so slow My futures mapped out...

In the city of nights In the city of nights As the lights go on there’s a magic glow to the sea But as we move through the streets we can feel the fear As night goes on there’s a tragic show in the city Those songs are on the ebb and mixed with tears And dow...

Come in sweet assassin How will I ever know you love me Unless you hurt me Lay your head down on the pillow Take off your dancing shoes And rest your gypsy feet Come in sweet assassin You've got everything to steal And nothing to lose Just call in When you're...

Hey handsome you I抣l take a guess You're sitting pretty But an awful mess Alone on earth Unwanted guest An ugly duckling In a peacocks nest Come out Come out Stop hiding in your shell And dream aloud Come out Come out Show your sparkling eyes And part the cl...

I'm trying to wash the taste away I'm trying to wash the taste away Trying not to cry the night away Trying not to cry the night away I'm finding a bitter word to say And I'm finding it easier every day Contempt Every day it fills me Contempt Every day it kil...

I love you when you're black and blue I love you when you're sad Love like sparks flies out of you The best love that I ever had Could this be a crime To feel so sublime? My heart cries like the sea at night For love crimes thrown away And though I pray with...

Dancer to a dangerous rhythm You know you're never gonna be forgiven Chancer so many near misses I'm still tripping on your absinthe kisses Intoxicating and exotic Dancer you're my sweet narcotic You're burning in my primitive heart Dancer You're burning in m...

I'm dancing in a golden cage In the palace of a thousand joys I'm standing on the street of love In the city of a million dreams Each sensation is a drug Like a tiger running through my mind Don't leave me blind Take me higher, and... Kiss me with fire Kiss m...

You're like a lonely hunter Stalking your prey In your eyes a hunger Never fades You strike at my heart And your song of love Is a deadly serenade You're like the spider waiting in the shade Your wicked charms Will all display I'm caught in your web And your...

On Monday I took a flower Dried it in my hand Covered it in poison And I threw it on the land On wasted ground it tried to root But choked upon the sand And there's room in my diary for you, my friend And there's room in my diary for you On Tuesday I took a...

Lately I've been having dreams Strange kind of dreams Beautiful dreams In the deep night Sleep, an uneasy sleep The real and the unreal Hallucinations creep upon me Deep night In the deep night Take a walk on the street And the heat is making the neon swim...

Today I awoke With a scream in my throat The reminders of you On the sheets The print of a torso Is this far as I know That feverish hello Another night of too much sleep Disease and desire Disease and desire Disease and desire Desire Some wasting complaint...

How can this be though all these years I have been true to thee you had the nerve to say you're done with me and that I should leave girl you're killin' me take another day before you go and throw it all away and if you do I know we'll find a way just...

You know it in your heart Do I really need to say Although we try again It always ends The same way Ends in tears Ends in tears You know it always ends in tears Oh it always ends in tears No matter how we laugh How close we grow Day by day Although we've lear...

(I hoped it would be) I want love to make me happy (I hoped it would be) I want love to make me cry (I hoped it would be) I want love to be a promise (I hoped it would be) I want love to make me die I want love to be a river I want love to be the wind I want...

Exotica Rose Works the shows in the evening Exotica Rose Works for dollars and dimes Exotica Rose Nobody knows her secret Wherever she goes men shout "Hey Rose got the time?" Exotica Rose Dances in beads and in satin Tall and bejeweled Don't be fooled by her...

She’s a secretary in the daytime A modern Venus On the eighth floor She’s a secretary in the daytime A bright young thing With a promising career She’s got the ability She’s got the facilities She’s got the ability She’s got the facilities She’s a secretary...

The hurt I hurt Is nothing like The hurts I've hurt before The things I feel Do not feel Like things I've felt before And the loneliness and the emptiness And the hopelessness are fine 'Cause sometimes my cloudy brain remembers For one moment you were mine T...

Fun City I left my home With a pain in my heart Not a word of goodbye To the ones that I loved I'm taking a train Away from the rain To the lights and the smoke I've got to find my own way now Fun City To the London Experience Fun City To the London Experienc...

Sunday is gloomy My hours are slumberless Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers will never awaken you Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you Angels have no thought of ever returning you Would they be angry if I t...

heard a story That no one told A revelation To behold It gave me answers It showed me the way It made me stronger Every day It allayed the fear It could happen here Oh it's only love That moves us on Feelings Wider than the sky Surround me on all sides Gentl...

Don't shed your tears. Just dream your dreams of glory. All souls live on. Forever there's no need to cry. Hear my heart. Beating light the wings of a thousand angels. Strong together. Gone but not goodbye. All we love is who we are. All we were is wh...

Gosudaryunia Remember we were building the house Good it was but empty inside For many years We were embroidering the snow with silver Scared of thouching it with poison For many years We would sing till the first light of dawn Sing but never say it i...

Sitting on the kerb You wipe the tears away again The gutter holds your sallow hearts That wash down with the rain Barbed and brittle hands that push The hair out of your eyes Pavement fires a-flicker Like a host of fire flies My song calls from the gutter An...

And here I sit A cowardly boy Adventure only dreams A captain of A pirate ship A million crimson themes I wish to be Content you see To take the softer seat To summon gut To play the slut My bass drum for to beat Hey! Gyp the blood Gyp the blood Anchor in...

Sometimes I feel high Sometimes I feel so unbelievably down It's nothing to do with pleasure or pain No it works its way up From the pit of my groin Sometimes I feel high Something shoots-out with an aching and burning Throws me to the wall High Fly Over you...

Heart in velvet Heart in velvet Wrap my heart in velvet Put it in your pocket Take it out each evening Kiss it and love it Wrap my heart in velvet Save it for tomorrow When you're feeling sad Let it help you through your sorrow Wrap my heart in velvet Keep it...

Moon and snow Star and ice The horseman rides As in a dream Under a cruel night sky Through a blizzard freezing On the highway is thrown A heart on snow How like an arrow The road flies across the russian steps Like a tear runs across A frozen che...

Found me out drunk and abandoned All my horizons in flame Crying tell all my friends to forget me 'Cause I'll never see them again Oh go tell them all to forget me There's no love left in me for them Something is stirring deep inside of me And I'll never see...

She slips in and out of her dull imagination That floats around the twilight of her tomb Clutching her little treasures That represent a happy moment Displayed with sad affection in her room But this life is a prison And it hurts to hear the children laughing...

When I take a one way ticket to the road of no return On a journey every man must make someday When it's time to meet my maker and explain my sins away I will tell him, yes I'll tell him I have lived I have lived each single moment, as a man of flesh and bloo...

When I take a one way ticket to the road of no return On a journey every man must make someday When it's time to meet my maker and explain my sins away I will tell him, yes I'll tell him I have lived I have lived each single moment, as a man of flesh and bloo...

I've destroyed another love Have to stamp out every good that touches me In and out of my heart Crawls the ugly worm of jealousy Born from insecurity Never meant to drive you away I, guilty of all crimes Saw myself in another light today I who never I who nev...

From chrysanthemums to chrysanthemums Our friends, they are departing From chrysanthemums to chrysanthemums Death gallows our dulcine'es From chrysanthemums to chrysanthemums Other flowers try the best they can From chrysanthemums to chrysanthemums Men lam...

Tales Talk about a bleeding piano Right, this is a lovely little song now about the ups and downs of life Come on Come on Go I'm sick of you tasting of somebody else I might do the same to you myself It's so hard It's so god damn hard Living on a diet...

Sometimes we touch Sometimes we kiss Sometimes we just look In spiritual bliss In warmth or heat In sound or vision We like to come To some decision Under the moon In the dark Down in the street In the park In threat of law In sweat of fear I'd risk it all To...

If you go away On this summer's day Then you might as well take the sun away All the birds that flew in the summer sky When our love was new And our hearts were high And the day was young And the nights were long The trees stood still for the night birds song...

You've understood nothing If you need trains to fleet to adventure And white ships to take you away To see the sun in your eyes To see the songs you can't sing Then If you don't believe in tomorrow And tomorrow to be able to hope To find again in the hope T...

If your affectionate smile has disappeared And your eye brow raises a sulky curve If your friend turned away from you exhausted Means your love isn't there any more Если ласковый рот не смеется, Если щеки не вспыхнули вновь, Если милое сердце не бьетс...

How good it must be In your bed Let me slip beneath the pile The sky tells me nothing worthwhile It will rain again it said And me so alone in my bed I think of people of my years Who take wives, husbands, or lovers For their stormy nights ahead How good it...

My love, my sweet, my king My child whom I adore My love, my sweet, my law My other self You are the setting sun Fallen to the ground You are my final spring My God, how I love you I've already made my way I went towards silence With such impudence I wanted n...

It was the morning after the month before And I'm looking like a nose with eyes Take a trip or letter to make me feel better Cos I know my mirror never lies Have you ever had the feeling that your life's down the can And the hand that holds the whip is not yo...

Oh god its another night And your head is feeling Like a lump of lead You should never have drunk Those party-fours You should of been home being good instead Ever been in a deja vue and the end is the same again You ran out of your silver thins And you're...

I dived into the pool The cool, the blue from heat The sun breathes fire On Marrakesh To burn the busy street My brow the wet of fever My throat the dry of sand Through passageways to dead ends A gauntlet of the hands Jackal jackal Rise of hackle Row of tombs...

And if one day I should become A singer with a Spanish bum Who sings for women of great virtue I'd sing to them with a guitar I borrowed from a coffee bar Well, what you don't know doesn't hurt you My name would be Antonio And all my bridges I would burn And w...

Ah well! Don't you worry 'bout Joey Joey he have a nine life Don't you worry 'bout Joey Joey he have a nine life Joey he like a cat (always lands on his feet) Joey he like a cat (MEOW) (Always lands on his feet) Joey he hang around a rubbish heap Making smal...

Drawing back the curtains Sluggish city daylight in the afternoon Here's that special silence Just before you walk out of the hotel room Each time we're so close I assume That we'll never be again Oh, how long must we pretend? A casual affair Was all that yo...

День и ночь роняет сердце ласку День и ночь кружится голова День и ночь взволнованною сказкой Мне звучат твои слова (Den' i noch' ronyayet serdtse lasku Den' i noch' kruzhitsya golova Den' i noch' vzvolnovannoyu skazkoy Mne zvuchat tvoi slova) Day an...

He brings me flowers every morning He brings the world onto my bed He makes my bedroom into spring time Violets, gardenias, roses red He brings me tea and serves me chocolate And I lick honey from his finger tips He makes the world a little brighter He makes...

Oh there he goes The king with the wooden crown A throne alone He's looking so sad and alone King of his world He roams through his kingdom at night It looks so good Until it all fades into the morning light Tonight's looking beautiful Sad but so beautiful D...

Mauve cravat and corduroy jeans Well we all know what that means A halo of curls For Satyricon girls Our Lady of the flowers Grows shadier by the hours Lady Stardust, Judy Teen In your own Moonage Daydream Blusher smeared across your cheeks Kohl tha...

The law of the night Give yourself to the heat Sacrifice yourself to the beat The rhythm of love The beat of your heart Don't follow the rules This love can be cruel Come on now Oh yeah! The law of the night... It's the danger you love The danger you feel...

I don't mean to be bitter But I'll hurt if you call Telling me you landed on your feet, after all Now your bedroom eyes are looking tired My baby has your sparkle died You smile But all the while your heart Hardens up With a cry You're good at living out a l...

Walking down the street Taking in the sights and pleasures Sometimes it feels so good to be alive From theatre to bar From cabaret to car I forget to cry Forget the reasons why Lights City lights In my head Blue and red In my eyes Make me spin Help forget the...

My love My heart My sweet, oh My sky My fire My heat, oh My work My spring My veil My honey My bomb My grail My gate My gold My thrown, oh My stock My rock My stone, oh My night My thirst My hunger My day My bread My water My sail My wave My guide My way My b...

went walking down by the river Feeling very sad inside When all at once I saw in the sky The little white cloud that cried He told me he was very lonesome No one cared if he lived or died He said sometimes the thunder and lightening Make all the little clouds...

Lonely go-go dancer Dancing in crazy foam Surrounded by your acolytes But going home alone When did you last see A sun-drenched afternoon When did the morning light Last invade your room? Disguise your nightlife pallor With a tan from a machine Behind your ea...

Keep on looking now You gotta keep on looking now Keep on looking now You're looking for love In all the wrong places Where your walk it's always shadow Conversation always shallow When they talk they never look you in the eye They look over your shoulder To...

Here is lost paradise It's here, it's here Lost paradise, it's here It's here Lost paradise, it's here It's the toy Broken in the sad child's hand The one loved so dear The one like gold It's a sudden end to childhood's wonderland A spring that's swiftly gro...

Every day I watch my mirror Getting a little older, wiser, sadder with the years Missed chances Forgotten romances Starting now to loosen with the tears I could fall in love Any time, any place, any where But I spent last night Treading on valentines Treading...

When the only sound in the empty street Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet That belong to a lonesome cop I open shop When the moon so long has been gazing down On the wayward ways of this wayward town A smile becomes a smirk I go to work Love for s...

Think of me Very scientifically Share your thoughts with me Send them over land and sea They seep though walls Echo down abandoned halls They cling to skin And penetrate the bones within Let me see Your joy and fear Be you far away so near How can it be We n...

There are times You can't help but to cry And time won't heal By and by There are times You can't hold back the tears And hurt won't heal With the years But, I will always love you Always love you Always you and no-one else but you There are times When the...

Fantasy dancer Dangerous rhythm Dance me your dance of Love forbidden Its love to die for Love to cry for Love to say goodbye for Dance your way into my heart Where I can love your scars They tell me what you like They tell me who you are Come on and take my...

Hello lover Come in from the cold Safe and sound from the loveless world (At) times like these it can get too much Selfish hearts And kisses that barely touch Cruel life Just green and grief To help a lover what's your belief Is it all as you've been told? The...

She's in my veins Gold in my veins She is my pain And my joy Time and again Waxing or waning I am insane For La Luna Madame de la Luna When she is sleepy She's creepy, mysterious and wicked When she is full She is full of promise and joy Beaming her smile All...

And tonight the look that branded me Was like a pool of burnt out gasoline Shiny brown skin like the melting tar On a sticky summer road Finger on the trigger Words like bullets blast the brain Nails a brittle edge of a breaking glass in a bar room brawl Lay m...

Unchain my heart Baby set me free Unchain my heart 'Cause you don't care about me Everyday I call you on the phone Somebody tell me that you're not at home So unchain my heart Baby set me free Unchain my heart Baby let me go Unchain my heart 'Cause you don't...

Remember when we were back in school Two young kids with wild ideas Years gone by we sweated and saved For a cupboard with a view Now too old for work they say What's the point in biding time Living out our yesterday When wild ideas could all come true We cou...

First I saw you Love in a silk black slip In dark waters Sinking like a ship Trouble on your lips Murder in your song Song of a mean man Lovers come and gone Oh Melancholy Rose Oh Melancholy Rose Come souls' midnight We'll both sail away Leaving red sunsets...

I'm tired of drifting I'm tired of lying I've been walking When I could have been flying Sitting and waiting In a life slowly dying When the sun comes up tomorrow I'll ask my heart where to follow Midnight soul Searching for dreams Looking for answers Walking...

As the noise of the city dies The evening has arrived With so many strange desires So many lonely lives Cards are placed And ads are taken Masks are dropped And guilt forsaken Names are changed And other games begun Eyes read into other eyes At busy clubs an...

Moonbathe skin Moonbathe skin Of the people of the dark Will your beauty draw me in Will you hustle with my heart In the ether of the dusk Where deceit takes over trust Will you hustle with my heart And give me gold that only rusts Every evening I'm following...

Well now I've been on my own for many a year Seems like I'll never get loved Got me a hand on this brother of mine And I'm gonna get me the rub Turn me the lights down to a purple glow Put Bessie Smith on the wail Bring me the five young daughters And h...

Poor Mr Sad He's flown away In search of his heaven now Heaven knows why And Mr Sad Left me a note to say If he finds his heaven now He won't have time to cry So I'm gonna fly, fly, fly away On my wings I made Out of sorrows I threw away, away Maybe, I'll be...

You cried last night in your sleep Close my arms 'round you when you weep Archangel on wings of the night Keeps you safe 'til the kiss of the light The hour is dark before the dawn And so the lull before the storm A world full of people alone But I found a lov...

My death is like a swinging door A patient girl who knows the score Whistle for her And the passing time My death waits like a desperate truth At the funeral of my youth We pray for that And the passing time My death waits like a witch at night As surely as...

Thank you, my guardian angel Thank you, my friend You've been there through my darkness You'll be there to the end You've dried my tears You've given me hope You've helped my heart to mend Thank you, my guardian angel Thank you, my friend In times of deep des...

Heaven is here Each night when I should be asleep I put on my coat And I walk the streets I spend these hours Escaping from my dreams Afraid of what I might see Fear has no beginning no end So I spend all my time With you on my mind I see visions of you All my...

A tearful tincture washes The cabbage green skies Beneath the dribbling tree With tender shoots... Your raincoats White with special moons With round eyes Knock together your kneecaps My ugly ones We loved each other At that time Blue, ugly one We ate soft...

Satin Satin and velvet Leather and lipstick On the one that I love Cheap gold Chains made of cheap gold Plastic and rhinestones On the one that I love My love Acts like a porno star Talks like a trickster Works like a whore By my love Looks like an icon And t...

Wholely naked My my worn towel serving as loin cloth Face turned red Hands clutching at soap and froth (Next, next) I was barely 20 And we were over 100 Being the followers of the one who led (Next, next) I was still 20 When my innocense was revealed In...

Night and dark Forever in my heart Walking in the midnight rain I'll never fall in love again Night and dark Nobody to see me cry And like a flower slowly dies So will I Night and dark In your shadows I can hide my pain In my heart The light will never shine...

Night and no morning Day and no dawning And the tears that keep falling Over me Dream with no ending Darkness descending And the years that keep calling Out to me And soon comes the morning sun Exposing my desires And then my heart will die My eyes will burn...

It was in the tattoo parlour Where he engraved their names Words a winding round his shoulders Reminders now he's older In the magic of the parlour Down his arm unwinds a story Love and hate and Mum and Dad In flames of hope and glory A mermaid and a schoon...

On the prowl Up to no good Got to find a lover by midnight On the prowl Wish that I could Satisfy my predator nature Star shine bright Won't you heal my sorrow tonight Let's chase the moonlight Burn the town to rubble And go looking for some trouble To fight...

I'll be there in the summer sky In the tears that you cry I'll be there when the darkness falls at night I'll be there in the snow and rain Softly easing all your pain I'll be there when you wake in the early morning light We're the heart of one big soul A v...

I'll be there in the summer sky In the tears that you cry I'll be there when the darkness falls at night I'll be there in the snow and rain Softly easing all your pain I'll be there when you wake in the early morning light We're the heart of one big soul A v...

Don't reject me Don't send me away Don't ever let me down Be my torch And burn for me I need a little of your starlight There's a black hole in my soul Eating all the love A demon in my heart Who'll never get enough So unlock your soul And turn on your neon...

Orpheus in Red Velvet Sing that song again That song of jealousy and pain Orpheus in Red Velvet Sing that tearful tune The one that's coloured by the moon Take me through Hell For I deserve it Take me through Hell It's for my good Pain is sweet However hot yo...

Our love my love Won't be strung across the sky In wildly waving banners Ninety seven rainbows high We don't need a thousand vows We don't need a tinsel star I am me you are you All we need is who we are I am me you're you All we need is who we are...

Out there in the jungle Dancing to the beat Out there on a limb Pumping up the heat We can tango making pictures In the smoke and shine As in our heads the chemicals Turn crystalline We can turn on the power And make the zombies fight I'm dancing on the table...

My supermarket trolley Glides around the shelves Of frozen foods My supermarket trolley Glides around the shelves Of pre-packed goods It rattles an accompaniment To the droning from the speakers When I knock a jar (checkout 5) I stand and stare oblivious as it...

There's a colour TV in the pink shack But the paint's peelin' off the walls Take a sneaky photo by the pink shack In a pair of muddy overalls Pay a ragged dollar for my snapshot mister Put a big grin on my face Call "Hey, Sonny!" from your door, Chiquita If th...

Ahh you people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors And I'm scrubbing these floors while you're gawking Maybe once you tip me and it makes you feel swell In this crummy southern town In this pit of hotel But you'll never guess to who you're talking No Y...

Real evil I feel real evil You're gonna fight hard to get out alive Real evil- beware people All you hold dear brutalized Give me your symptoms, i'll be your drugstore I've got the sedative you need Bring me your troubles, lay down your head Just leave all o...

My dark beloved When you lie asleep Deep within your black marble tomb For alcove and lodge You will keep a damp, dripping vault A pit of gloom And when the stone Weighing down your breast And your thighs once supple Through scant concern Stills your heart...

My days are quickly disappearing But the pain's always the same As if the roses are decaying And the nightingales are dying The love has kept my life in order Feels so wasteful too From your skin as soft as satin From your skin soft as satin Poisoned...

Well it seems you have a heart I saw it once so I know it's true You let it out on Sundays when You let it beat me black and blue When you went and stole my heart I saw it go so I know it's true It was a ruby, ruby, ruby red It was the most precious gift I cou...

In the Rue des Blancs-Manteaux They raised a wooden stage Threw some bran in a basket And there was the scaffold In the Rue des Blancs-Manteaux In the Rue des Blancs-Manteaux The executioner rose at dawn He had a job to do He must chop the generals, bishops a...

Saint Judy She's staggering across the floor Saint Judy Behaving like a whore Saint Judy She's giving it all the tears She tears her dress Looks a mess Well I've wanted to do it for years Well I've wanted to do it for years Now I had a dream Well, more a fant...

All hands on deck We're all afloat I heard the captain cry Explore the ship Replace the cook Let no one leave alive Across the straits Around the Horn How far can sailors fly The twisted path Our tortured course And no left alive We sailed for pa...

You always like to dress in black To mourn the feelings that you lack Sorrow, anger, hurt and pain Forever on attack Always saw the other view Didn't know what you should do Never got told the honest truth You feel it twisted up your youth Now your Satan's c...

When you were afraid I was there by your side When you were alone I was your place to hide But always in your mind You were some place far away? for far away You were someone else I didn't really know at all When you told me how You would stay around...

Come into the scarlet bedroom And maybe spend the night Sink amongst the satin sheets In dissolute delight Just a little touch of sadness A little a second sight Come into my world of madness Come and spend the night it's truly Star spangled fabulous lover In...

He lives inside me Secret....small...intrusive Sometimes he steals My dreams Closing my eyes, I see him Running, falling on a beach Where the sea is always blue He collects the sea shells To build me castles in the air And offer me wondrous journeys He live...

Sequins and stars in your eyes Shine in the light Sparkle with love With dreams from above Sequins and stars fall like the tears Tears in the night Without the light of your love I die without the love Is it to God or the devil I prayed Is it heaven...

Once in a night I spent in Istanbul I had a dream of a forbidden world Where even angels Fear to look upon A place where all of love is doomed to die Her face appeared Through clouds of bitter wine Sour as the morning's early hours She took my hair And she cu...

This is my destiny For one brief moment And I'm not gonna let it die I'm like the sun I'm like the sun shining brightly This is my destiny For one brief moment And I'm not gonna let it die I'm like the sun I'm like the sun shining brightly For one brief mome...

Well I'm walkin' blind down danger street The street where eyes don't dare to meet Dirt-Doorways frame silhouettes A Teeth-Grind-Grinning smile of threat Down here you ask for all you get These East Side Angrys'll getchoo yet Ignore the cat calls look straight...

(Sleaze) (Sleaze) Lipstick marks on pint beer mugs And love bites on the neck Take me in your back room And you pay for what you get Diana Dors all washed up Dolores Del Rio Hanging round the lowlife dives And other zombie go-go's Sleaze - can be very tragic...

Sleepwalker Dream talker In a shady world Of Disbelieving Love seemed always To be leaving Sleepwalker Dream talker Comotosed to walk the ceiling Numb, and never feeling Doesn't the city Look so pretty In a late night lazy Sort of way Floating through your l...

The cops had the boys Up against the car Down Santa Monica Boulevard Baby food for the rich and sick Thank LA for spawning it High pile hair Low slung breasts The big hung boy The deep cut dress Ran a chicken ranch For a guy named Tex Didn't know who Tex Wou...

Something's gotten hold of my heart Keeping my soul and my senses apart Something's gotten into my life Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife Turning me up, turning me down Making me smile, making me frown In a world that was war I once lived in a ti...

OW! Split lip It seems you need another Split lip Shut you mouth Your noisy mouth Before I put a fist in it Face hit Split lip You talk and talk and talk But its all mouth And no hands at all Just jealousy at its darkest green Destroying all your picture dream...

Well, I kicked on my mule to parade me Everyone else laughed and betrayed me They said, "You ain't got the look and you ain't got the size And you sure look like a fairy with those sweet puffy eyes" And you won't No, you won't No, you won't Get that load up s...

Try hard to make the world look bright today Try hard to make my nightmares go away Try hard to keep the fear away The cold of day, try hard Try hard to play the games the world would like you to play But people, they don't really listen Their smiles are the...

Strangers in the night, Exchanging glances Wandering the night, What were the chances We'd be sharing love Before the night was through Something in your eyes Was so inviting Something in your smile Was so exciting Something in my heart Told me I m...

I was only a child when I met you. You came from the Burma Lagoon. You said, "Would you like a bit of travel?" You promised me all but the moon. I asked you what you did for a living. And you swore, God's my witness, to me. That you worked for the railroad peo...

Sometimes I feel I've got to run away I've got to Get away from the pain that you drive into the heart of me The love we share seems to go nowhere and I've Lost my light for I toss and turn I can't sleep at night Once I ran to you (I ran) - Now I'll run f...

With a whisper in my ear I'll tell you what you want to hear All the words that touch my heart Are all the words I need to fear Like an incubus at night You work your way into my sleep And how you Tantalise me Tantalise me You're so very tantalising You're so...

On heavenly rain You fell into my life Unforgettable smile Unforgettable lies In the name of the cross Or a banner of love With the hand of a friend Or under a blanket of trust The angels sighed A little girl cried The tears run rings around my eyes We're go...

Without you the world's an empty place Without you I feel I can't exist In the garden there the same leaves fall And the taxies hurry nowhere along Now I'm empty and alone For now you're gonna die See you flying in the sky And the stars givin' away to y...

She was always alone Kept herself under lock and key Just her sorrows for all to see She would break up and cry for me Throw her away Blow the ash from the ashtray Leave her alone to play Leave her alone to pray And now you wonder why I put out the flame to d...

He woke to the sound of the birds in the morning Felt charged with a new lease of life Time to break out of his present surroundings A mother, a child and a wife He'd not said good-bye to his last thread of childhood It lay just beyond his front gate So he pac...

On Sundays the bulls get so bored When they're asked to show off for us There is the sun, the sand, and the arena There are the bulls ready to bleed for us It's time when grocery clerks Become Don Juan And all the ugly girls Turn into swans Who can say what...

A tenement, a dirty street Walked and worn by shoeless feet Inside it's long and so complete Watched by a shivering sun Old eyes in a small child's face Watching as the shadows race Through walls and cracks and leave no trace And daylight's brightness shuns T...

Tonight's the night it said in my stars That love would be round the next bend I felt for a while that my run of good luck Would never come to an end This world was not made for me, no no no no no no no There was you, there was I, and the sea and the sky There...

One day the devil came above ground One day the devil came above ground To study his interests He saw everything The devil, he heard everything And having seen all Having heard all He returned to his home below And down below They organised a grand feast At th...

Sometimes when I'm on my own My bed too cold for one alone I try to lose myself in dreams But you're not here so I can't sleep I suffer when the night is long My heart cries out for yours is gone You take me to the edge of heartbreak Then I turn and there you...

Lying in her own asylum Love has her in an endless coma Tear marked pillows Broken china Things they say that love is made of Wet and strewn She lies sedated Wrenched with arms and legs akimbo Locked up in her own asylum Locked up in love's endless limbo The...

Weary of life you retired from the world The voice in your soul that cried follow (follow) Told you of treasures of silver and gold Locked up in an heart that seemed hollow (hollow) Secretly yearning to open the gate To escape from your hurt and your sorrow (...

On a dark night in a lost hour In a town built from neon and chrome Where Las Vegas seeks the desert In an old broken down casino There the gambler slapped his money down Dirty dollars one hundred or more Placed his last bet on a poker game Crossed his heart f...

Just one glance from your dark eyes And I rememberall our glorious days And the passion that I thought I'd lost Ones again burns brightly in my heart What kind of spell did you cast? For I don't know what to say or what to do It for my life I could make...

The one who has me for his own Is on the town and not alone In his blue suit and his new tie He slams the door without goodbye Tonight my eyes are jealous green Tonight I'm melancholy mean He meets in secret rendezvous Some dame to tell his troubles to The hee...

The house is haunted By the echo of your last goodbye The house is haunted By the memories that refuse to die I can't get away from the vision that brings Intimate glimpses of intimate things A voice in my heart like a torch singer sings I wonder who's kissing...

Over there In the cold Stands the Hustler His eyes are old He has seen a million ugly scenes Places where men droop with mould The backrooms Where soiled goods are sold Seen with opened eyes since frail fifteen He has found it hard at first But on his brow the...

Hail Hail the Idol Hail Hail the Idol Idol be bad Idol be wild Martyr your heart Father a love child We need all your kinks And your dark attitude We live on your sins And your volatile moods We love you, we love you We love you, we love you You're a pop up...

On a bed of silken sheets he lay his head The pillow edged in gold and red A palace in his prison walls A feast for all, there's really only bread Those walls shut out the world Leaving him to conjure up his own instead He dreams, he dreams, he dreams, he d...

The bargemen see Me growing old I see the bargemen Aging too We play the game Of Tom Fools Where the one Who still is oldest In my work Even in summer He must travel WIth eyes clossed It's not nothing Being a lockman The barge men know My bloated face They j...

A lover fulfilled A dream that was killed It lasts forever Name never known No interest shown The pain of never Overcounted glances falls romances Also closen yet so far away It lasts forver The pain of never So much beauty In so little time It...

I've spent many a night Lying on my back Waiting for the dawn To pierce and crack And the ceiling Hanging from the sky And I envy the boy Who grabbed the toy And ran away And found a joy While I stood in the shadows Wondering why Flying towards...

And he dances every night Framed in candles And white white light All is revealed When all is too bright You're such a pleasure A wonderful pain Makes me never want To love again But sorrow always comes To those with fickle fame And the tears are gonna come T...

I keep old feelings locked In the room below Soft kisses Stained wine glasses And outside the snow Broken windows Wilted flowers And we stayed happy there for hours Oh, how I love Carmen Amaya She sings my sad then happy heart How I loved any kind of love And...

The sea says Come with me and whisper Run with me And tell me Why is it you're lonely I held your hand In those years as a child Soothed all your fevers Tousled your hair Gave you my treasures My shells and my shingle Made you feel happy When things seem so b...

I remember the sea I remember How I thought she would sing forever Though her voice it became a whisper But the sea still sings in her heart To the furthest shores of Alaska From the bow of a floundering tanker Her shores in eternal winter But the sea still s...

You say I'm your mystery Please don't ever solve me Because I won't be a mystery anymore Something's holding my breath Strikes the moment down Gives me greater heights to reach Sensual Seriously sensual We are all in search of the sensual Eros Erotomania Brin...

In a Byzantine harem Where, seeking paradise, I'd disguised myself as a dog, A slave told me: Me, I'd like heavy pearls Enamelled black pearls To be dumb, and almost deaf So that you'd soothe me with words Words which resemble the sea Words that one sees thro...

Do you remember Those hazy amber days We were but children Having the time of our lives We had no regard, no respect A floor was a bed And a bed held the mysteries of life They had to end But so soon? And to sit in the dark Of my lonely room Made it all seem...

There's a ray of golden sunlight Hidden by the shadows of the dark And in the far desperately the reason Of the world, that keeping us apart Aaah...Aaah... The night will go and the morning will come for us The night will go and happiness are waste The...

The town fell asleep I forgot what it's called At the spring Where it wept a corner of sky drowned The town fell asleep I forgot what it's called And night fell gradually And time stood still And my horse so muddy And my body exhausted And night shown bluely...

Here he comes with a snake on his tongue Dripping with gold from bad deeds well done Got a silk new shirt And a line in stick He's drop dead gorgeous with a cocaine kick He's a sharp dresser made in heaven (That's his style) He's a sticky salamander with a Ho...

Somewhere deep in the scarlet city A million dreams are not enough I'm knee deep in fallen women Being alone in the scarlet city Can be tough Call me romantic Call me deluded I'd give you anything you asked Just for a second of your time I could be your guar...

There is a bed where I can end my days To think about the road I've run the miles I've come There is a bed where troubles melt away My lonely hours or hours with you The times that we've come through There is a bed where we shared times of love And out of lov...

I'm a labyrinth of hopes and fears Of tears of frustration and of anger But if you can break through this wall And search amongst it all You'll find a man there Who has a heart of love Who is afraid of getting jaded Growing older Who needs someone to love him...

I was dragging your face around the floor Somebody's boot heel in your mouth Scars of cigarettes buds on your tongue These are the things you loved me for Found a young boy down by the dockside Lying half-in Half-out of the water Had a leather facing n...

It's a poison that slowly drips It's a word of cruelty on your lips Like a killer on the run Like a kiss from a gun It's the threat of love Threat of love It's a heartache to traumatize It's a touch of darkness in your eyes Like a killer on the run L...

Sad little boy of the street Hands of a thief With the mind of a dreamer Dodging the puddles with feet Of a torero in an Arena Sings an old Andalucian song Dancing along Using his dirty red coat as a cape Rain thundering down Sounds like the applause...

Why did you have to go? Why did you have to be you? And do the things you always do Each time it hurts inside The things you say The games you play Makes me feel like my heart had died Just like my world fell in around me Tears found me Abandoned and they drow...

You, unbelievably small Bang your hands on the wall Say "To Hell with them all" Say "To Heaven with you" Me, what will become of me? Wading into the sea Water way past my knees Swallowing oceans is my speciality You, like a trembling bird Hanging on...

Oh I bet your life You're sick of the sight Of those eat in, take out, throw up pizza bars Love's just got to pass your way in time You smell of prison, smell of crime I just didn't want to say I told you so Someone called "Hey yesterday boy!" Take you...

In the pulsing of the womb Waits the unborn prince of evil: Eyes ablaze with the light of unchained anguish seething Waits and bides timeless time to rip open vibrant stillborn Crying, help me to tear free like the wolf In the night bays hungry. Slides i...

Under your wing You shelter me from night You warm the cold and bring On the sun Under your wing My dreams are all made real And the pain I sometimes feel Is gone Under your wing I face a brighter truth And the passing of my youth Seems like a new b...

Undress me Undress me But not right away Not too fast, eh! Can you crave for me? Desire me? Enthral me Undress me Undress me But don't be like the first time Or go too crazy First look at the truth Take time to proceed Don't be uncouth Or show...

I've had my fill of ugly words I've had my fill of lies When the only truth or beauty now Is deep within your thighs The roses are in bloom my dear I haven't any fear That you'll love me Like you did last year Look at me Do you see A man against the...

I have a vision of you Locked inside my head It creeps upon my mind And warms me in my bed A vision shimmering, shifting Moving in false firelight A vision of a vision Protecting me from fear at night As the seasons rolled on And my love stayed stro...

And so they say they're leaving While you sleep away the day You go out every evening Collecting waifs and strays They follow their illusions They don't know what to do They need a clear direction That's why they turn to you You're pleading Please d...

Behind the dirt Sprawled before us Behind narrow eyes And faces of fat Beyond those hands Opened or closed That strain in vain Nor raise thier fists Further than frontiers That barb our path Further than misery We must look We must look at What i...

Heaven help me Lord above You don't trust me But how I love Your jealousy (jealousy) You're on the phone Or at my door You watch my home But I adore Your jealousy (jealousy) Oh your jealousy Oh I love your jealousy Each night I lie awake for hou...

Caught between two love affairs I brush my teeth and comb my hair My lonely neighbour called today And asked me, has he gone away I lied to her like I lied to him I lie to myself about everything Love, what is love? Love, what is love? Love is a tim...

Caught between two love affairs I brush my teeth and comb my hair My lonely neighbour called today And asked me, has he gone away I lied to her like I lied to him I lie to myself about everything Love, what is love? Love, what is love? Love is a time Love i...

When It's your time It's your time To cross the line And who knows Just how the end will find you Satisfied unsatisfied Complete or incomplete It's all the same When the dark angel stands behind you Not always time to say goodbye We have to...

She draped herself in widow weeds Veil of black and buttoned sleeves Hid her face from the world A shadow where once had been a girl Her husband of past twenty years Had passed away leaving her in tears Heart full of the future's fears She kneels beside his g...

Come here in my chamber ...on the velvet We're waiting for years And it's high time you felt it In the arms of your worshiped master Arms that can break you and create you after Worship me now, Beat the rush, beat the crowd You got to worship me now...

Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way the evening breeze may tease the candle flame A thousand dreams I dreamed The splendid things I planned I always built alas on w...

Oh you have the saddest eyes That I have ever seen Secret sorrows of a heart That breaks so easily Don't let me catch you crying Don't let me catch you crying Watching through the pane of glass The final silent scenes You became a fading face In morning's hal...

Sitting alone in the twilight of your room With your face staring at the wall Playing with reminders of yesteryear Persona that hasn't got a place at all Your were in love with the caress of a camara And I was in love with you Now the mirrors' dimmed and crack...

You make a fire Here in my heart Your kisses burn me Sending sparks Auras fade Charisma pales Your kisses burn They scorch my soul And world without end Through tempest and storm Your kisses my fire Your love keeps me warm When your kisses burn Why are my li...