Peter Murphy

So this is permanence - love's shattered pride What once was innocence, turned on its side A cloud hangs over me, marks every move Deep in the memory of what once was love Oh how I've realized, how I wanted time Put into perspective, tried so hard t...

A strange kind of love A strange kind of feeling Swims through your eyes And like the doors To a wide vast dominion They open to your prize This is no terror ground Or place for the rage No broken hearts White wash lies Just a taste for the truth P...

When the night is closing Eyes are running wild Then I hear you humming All night long The sign I see it Tell me am I true All I need from you is All I see This city's paved with cold Playboys buying fun Seems there is no hunter left Without his h...

Walk - in silence Don't walk away - in silence See the danger - always danger Endless talking - life rebuilding Don't walk away Walk - in silence Don't turn away - in silence Your confusion - my illusion Worn like a mask of self-hate Confron...

Stepping on the road he made his way To the stellar far land of his desire Singing strange and crazy by the day Like all the pretty things he once admired Singing pretty like a bird Singing pretty like a high class fool Big love of a tiny fool All that he lo...

It looks a dream, I could conquer it The soft hills and shores, beguiled and silent lights It looks a dream and smells the same I could conquer it and still feel sane The soft hills and shores, beguiled and silent lights The sun waits softly, we talk a lot To...

Love it when you tilt me Take me tip toe in the sky Take me racing with the dolphins You got me blinded like Saul Blinded like Saul You're the sky clear lit You're the square that fits the circle You're in every lucky dip Uneven and brittle Is there...

Was it a lie? Was it the truth? Does your blue heart turn away? How rich is your surface? How much do you care? Does your blue heart turn away? How deep is that stare? Time hints that it's on your side, don't think it's there What's past could be a tease...

Four skies in one night The earth from your face It takes one It takes two It takes three, to make a bird Fly from that blossom tree The earth from your face From your eyes Looks like a groovy place Keeps me smiling like a child Like a child Like a...

Here stands the canvas beauty at her door Calling beneath the blockade floor See him turn bedeviled and blacked For the canvas beauty had locked him back Away from the King of hearts so pure In with temptations alluring pour Away from her his compass mass Th...

We have no image We're just called the good friends We call the madmen back As they fly to the ant hills We never know, we never know We sleep in satin nights Throwing energy like bluebirds In twilight We call to stillness As we kiss the water king's hand...

Look in the mirror Lest you forget The flower in the room And on the dot of half past three You are the loom And on the dot of half past three And please don't tell Those Bleakers here Everything about me Compression is my lesson And is for free C...

I could use your gullibility Distort the painful truth Present a fear and laugh at you Leave you lost unsure removed The must I feel to put it right Put an end to naive faith In slick successes avenue The vacuum of save face Direct words can turn lost minds T...

Cool cool breeze, rivers flow below The darkened room is closing down A light emblazoned within a breast Extracting from the sun My hand is reaching for the stars Your hand is swooping low A long long journey, withering heights A goal dead center clear, A lam...

We joined this land Where they paint the ice To find the new We thrown saturn dice We dream in gold And Simurg blue Créme de la Créme It's to death adieu Now, we're laying On new waves Our guns have lost Their victims' names Our concrete minds Ha...

I can't see the light I'm thrown in disgust They speak of feats The housed forever A howling wind Changed my course It blew me out Of bounds so sore All the walls All the walls that bound me Descending bleak and put upon I chew my cheeks To wake up from The v...

I find you in the morning after dreams of distant signs You pour yourself over me like the sun through the blinds You lift me up and get me out Keep me walking but never shout "Hold the secret close", I hear you say You know the way it throws about It takes y...

Someone take these dreams away That point me to another day A duel of personalities That stretch all true reality That keep calling me They keep calling me Keep on calling me They keep calling me When figures from the past stand tall And moc...

Deep ocean. Vast sea Deep ocean. Vast sea Your ocean heart, clothed in respect and sweet caress my uneasy mind You dip and you swell, float and you find and sweet caress my uneasy mind Deep ocean. Vast sea Deep ocean. Vast sea... that's me Imagine a set of...

You came, I saw I held your hand outta sight 'Cause your cause is just a cause 'Cause I came here to be with you I'm like you I'll get inside you Just like you came to be me I'll do the mirror walk Disappearing in her hand He says to her "Your eyes are sick"...

Look at them now, look at them do Look they found the dove their vastness too Whirlpools whirl and dragnets drag Whirlpools whirl and dragnets drag Love me do, oh love me do Love me find the dove This vastness sings a pretty song This vastness must be love G...

My sin is a decade long guest Accepted as a norm How promising the possibility I am born to be myself Now it is not to be denied Worthy of this joy How promising the possibility You were made to be yourself Eliza Eliza free Eliza Eliza Eliza free...

Save me save me, make me true Turn turn, let me through Nothing's hard and nothing's to be gained Without you Leave us always looking in the now Not loosing looking for it Not loosing looking for You Guide us always Save me, save me, say 'you do' Even as th...

I looked at all the women Checking out their features One walked a fine line While the other's drew it One's lips came close One finger tripped it One glistened in the sun But none were coming from it I threw a look I faced the moon Asked the maker...

Gone to sound, your visions thirst On a parted road to wanderlust The means to magic, you've still to find Fake sparkle or golden dust? More or less, I've told the score More or less, I've told the score Send that shiver Shiva look Dance the chance the...

The girls won't touch me 'cos I got a misdirection Living at night isn't helping my complexion The signs, all are saying it's a social infection A little bit of fun's never been an insurrection Well, mamma threw me out till I get some pants that fit She just...

Fun! Baby, baby really like your lips Baby, baby really like your pants All aboard for funtime! Yeah, I feel lucky tonight I'm gonna get dressed up and run around All aboard for funtime! We don't need no heavy trips We just do what we want to do...

Throws a look Blows away She woke up to follow The lapping ocean Is her thing An ever friend Not hollow Her whispers are In the wind Rain for her Just fountains Her garden where The Lovers go No thunder there Not harrow Just woke up To follow...

Xavier new boy love's venus the cat But he's locked up in a whirlpool The crowds see him All complicated no shine If they saw with their inner They'd see a man bigger than kind Bigger than kind Bigger than kind Pray that he makes it Xavier new boy...

It only takes the time Between here and there For a landing in another place Saw your shadow fleeting In the corner of my eye Your feet were skimming the sand And then some began to fly Lasted no time at all No time at all Gliding like a whale I...

Of course we can see From the lipstick that's used From even the wig that sits That's all we see of you I've done it among the many who From paint to health Bricka-brack fashion Giving you the talk back Giving you the buzz It's called a feedback It...

Come on over Said the tripper to the Gauth Ul-Azam was the Gauth Cotton wool dede Master of masters I tell you dede From the divers near Down in deep I clocked all of you To a place so fond Where there even angels are allowed Where even angels are a...

As if afloat, as if afraid The spirits meet Waited for an age It was a lesson sent Abstract and numbed Abstract and bleak Patience lent His test of patience lent Horizontal yet erect Yearning lying in wait Oneness floats about Unity served on his plate Circ...

Walking in the street, breath the only friend Strangers pass me by, I'm moving, moving with the wind Inside me now, the gold, the gold at rainbows end Stranger to myself, a stranger, stranger till the end Behind the closed door, the one we painted green To re...

Whether you have an inner judge Or an amassed altered jury This is no crown This is no glory This is no crown Find your Holy Clown Find your Holy Clown Find your Holy Clown Find your Holy Clown This was a battered son Nor high in stature Of cultur...

I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that's real The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything What have I become My sweetest friend Everyone I know...

One fine night the air did bring Two little ones, called to be I am, yours to mind so let that be Give your life, it's given free Huuvola, huuvola, huuvola, huuvola When a time, that will come to part us Forget me not, for it is here in those missing times W...

I am my own name I am my own I am my own name, my own name My own name My own name I am No thin pixie White and drawn No shaded shadow No monk head shorn No jaded shock star Or blackened thorn No heathen cynic No lover scorned A seeking searche...

The captain is sea In the moonlight the same The ship all himself Rose spitter the name A high mutiny Submerged down and under Shake shack left you in shock Shed poison with a lover's lock All hands wound and fraught Blow the dark- that we thought! I spit ro...

To the crowd To the world You were so dry And with a token bird I made Sent it to fly Right to your side With a broken wing you sail Oh like winter in july A barren river wide I'll pray for the flood To wash on you It's here, I'll be with you Well, if the bir...

I am Responsible Leper and still Ready to take the fool pill Waiting for the flow Looking out for the Sun Wax them wane Men in jail Picks and hips Longing strings The deadness says To look within I've got a miniature secret camera I've got a mi...

Everything in its place Idle flow I've been running too slow I use so much time Now I'm working to grow Don't regret our ties This endless flow You take these fears When you say they go Your touch honey- smooth Your shining calm So what if blood's...

Fire burning in a hill The lines are rocky rough Red angels wait to pick remains The cindered shoulder Of confused men Separate from them, their awe With gray desire He looks out mad His soft gray indigo eyes Indigo eyes, asking His heaven is uncovered not...

It seems like the day Like there is no way To get the meaning right To get the right insight It seems I'm with you Through thick and thin hue Let's jettison in flight Let's break out through the night I like that bitter pill That killer instinct sti...

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You smile at me with your lost eyes In awe of what you think Your heaven feel the way the wanderlust Your gold just cold, cold steel Where is love in that jungle haze You're building temples made of sand You call on them to kiss your feet When you should kis...

There is no place like Just for love Just understand that Just for love Come with me Just for love It was you that I thought of Just for love The stars are calling you And you've never been so luminescent The city calls for you And you've never be...

Health is all I'm asking for Love is all I need Hope is what I'm asking for Lay me down to sleep It was then that I lost you Was dragged there too Under a sea of mystery Died there along with you Love me, hold me, keep me from harm Love me, hold me,...

Take me on a trip Take me from the hip Keep me cool and dry Round the corner from the dip It should not veer or lead astray Or hide me from the truth Take me soon and make it quick Oh, I won't need no proof You call me a liar You say that you don't n...

Open my eyes But they're not mine I'm looking from you As you Neither there at the same time Oh it's easy to say In a few smart ways I am you And you are me It's just easy to say Oh it's easy to say And I'll throw you pearls While I kiss myself And I'll thr...

Love me now until the end of time See me over your heart in the night Never let me go until you see All the scenery and fakin' fall away from me Oh, let me love you in the morning light Oh, let me give you cover until it's alright Oh, let me feel you come int...

Toward the leaves Scattered brushed Long brown leadened Swirl of haze trodden The spring garden Merges with Merges down With the forgotten Flowers. Fawn, shadows mere On a puppet horizon We want that lion On our skin The best of the set we think w...

Words are just Broken up The singer's tones Now flowing flow In your eyes In your words In your heart A flowing flow Words are broken up The singer's tones A flowing flow Lips like wings A troubled day Is disquiet Lips like wings Loctaine The...

You've been away a while, while the art on the box cuts The streets gone wild, defeated wild Sitting in the low room, where we wind our love loom Don't you think it's wrong that I should get stuck in a room? The low room Low room, low room Two, three,...

Selling fake religion The same old scenery The path of Marlboro lights Low tar stars Only stars when they're out of reach If lowered are just hot and burning things Get too close to a star Low tar stars Hyper God sales strategies Vicious hearings ai...

My mother loved it so she said Sad eyed pearl and drop lips Glancing pierce through writer man Spoke hushed and frailing hips Her old eyes skim in creasing lids A tear falls as she describes Approaching death with a yearning heart With pride and no despise Ho...

Fade away : Is that not What was what... What you thought? Drop that cause - Now is all Memory go - Junk the pause Let it go, left behind Discreate the sentimental blind Then is gone - If debunk Memory go, reject the junk Memory go : Memory go Memory go : Mem...

Would you walk with me tonight Could you run where the lovers run Would you stay with me tonight Will you forgive me if I rush When I tell you I am yours As we run where the lovers run Run with the sound I won't let you down Would you swim from the rivers ed...

You came to the lobby straight I took your hand, felt the heat of a different fate Took sometime to tell you my name I could smell the sense of fear Had been lifted from your face It was time to kick the facade Walk into the room Disappear without trace Oh the...

When I returned, you buried my last two weeks My last two weeks of my new times, so it didn't seem like A wasted mouthful, a wasted mouthful Because of a trip that was trapped inside of you I was trapped inside you and always imagined that I could I always im...

If you fall in love with me, you'll never fall out If you take me in, there'll be no way out Without You'll never fall out Effulgate, and you'll see the divine The pouring of love's wine My iridescent, iridescent blue I'll be, I'll be all over you If you cat...

The love of the Never man Jumps through the blackest heat His imminent green innocent sweet Is blocked and returns The love of the Never man Is blocked and returns The love of the Never man Contains a story, he never being heard Dreaming of a better time to...

No yester dreams, no gray desire No body's sap and tire No sorrows born of lust's disguise No home without it's sire Break out the tomb, the self-made womb No faded flick, no gray desire No body's sap and tire And if you ask me, you know I'll give An...

It seems like a day A day that I call smooth When you came into my heart I knew The love was overflowing And I say La la la la la La la la la la la The day was so long and the night was still And you kept coming over To my hill I would weep for the day Withou...

Honey butterfly Blue ring around my eye Celeste and fient Turn doodle into paint Give peace to each thing you see Peace to each thing you see Oo-hoo Uh-hoo Uh-hoo Remain no mark Come running, no drown In the world and not if it No break of a pro...

I don't want to be a part Of a second part But while I'm in it I'm keeping out of it I don't want to be I should be able to see A seal of man And then sometimes I don't When I'm part of it When I'm I'm part of it I'll be a piece of you then So th...

On a long and winding grey paved street Your breath the only friend Chattering others surrounding you You're going out again It's a laugh and a gas new crowd You tell yourself While buttoning up a new red shirt It's been a twenty years of doing this Just the s...

Dream - the light was shining hard And though the lie was the night Dream - you were the light and colliding with the stars In a way - my guide And there light will pave the way that you go In the light of the silver moon Sails and wave good bye Sails...

Secret silk society Secret silk society Secret silk society Secret silk society Who is wise? Why, our hearts Made for passing the lote tree It is very, very far Very far indeed Oh, thirst, and yet Astonished we We seesaw soul In another place Se...

I failed to se into your eyes as i plundered the sky Im a winder of words and you free to pry Shes luning at the moon Ive been looking her way for twenty-three summers now in a seesaw sway (Out there its a seesaw) In a seesaw sway (as i plunder the sky) In a...

The day grows older The moon appears in a mirror A fire side mirror A distant walker Hears the words Do do good deeds So you feel ok The moon and the sun Partners in light Separating reflecting one light Hearing this confusion wanes No need to ask for wealth O...

Should the world fail to fall apart And lock off in a remote sky Ideas can matter too much Can't hear for lack of sleep Breathing in the smoking ruins The rockets in the shadows whispering Singing in the underground Love and the never men Can't hear for lack...

One day you will be the one to say I'm sick of empty fun It means if your faith is strong it means you are no longer astray... See I see all the light It comes straight from the sun And I want to get near so I can be clear Soon I will merge with the one Soon...

The point is up Touch, elbows touch! Tell them to look away! Find security and say: Look at the clues Clear as cloud Drop our love for love Slow down, slow down, slow down Slow down, slow down, slow down Why let it go To the deeper down? Well, we...

Today, your problems are not of blind belief That is or means belief Ain't enough, belief ain't enough The oracle of your age, points towards the word, 'Psychological' You may freeze, you may fear You may wince and not hear You can sick at the heart when I sa...

This week dragged past me so slowly The days fell on their knees Maybe I'll take something to help me Hope someone takes after me I guess there's always some change in the weather This time I know we could get it together If I did casually mention tonigh...

It's like there's a straight way you know, you know I've told you before it's as thin as ice As thin as the razor snow Don't freeze in the snow Don't bake in the heat I'll be your breath There's a place where we can meet Use me Don't sleep in the subway Don't...

Everybody's born surrendered Everybody from the same place He picked you out of the mud Everybody's born surrendered Everybody got a mother woman Maybe you treat her like a fool Heaven under the feet of her Everyone comes in place We all got problems And tha...

The time is coming ripe We are running fast I see you coming closer Closer to the mask Come closer treat me softly Where can the dreamer be? How far we've come to know How much we've come to see And when I ask you softly Oh what the real man saw As I hit the...

Teach him to be happy Teach him some control Teach him what his friends are With your sunken eyes And your pretty looks Underneath a see through disguise You are desperate for a good hook Desperate for a good hook You try so hard to see what you want...

My white visions continue This younger skin's outgrown old ways Given what I need I'm listening to how the silent sway Still there‘ll be poison pens And that pick of bones Still a stand to cast The first stone Still there‘ll be poison pens And th...

Swimming in the sea Looking for the water Swimming in the sea Looking for the water A peripheral nomad shake The sur-ratio of one to three A piece of Middle East Smaller than a bloody ant The ghost of Shokan Lake The ghost of Shokan Lake The ghost...

Time flies, time crawls like an insect Up and down the walls The conspiracy of silence ought To revolutionize my thought The light pours out of me The light pours out of me The cold light of day pours out of me Leaving me black and so healthy The li...

A white light blazing deep Through the wasteland searching we Soaring birds now hunt the brow As thirsty gripped with hunger now Clear sighted painful ends to win The battle of the me so wafer thin The line between the devil's teeth And that which cannot be re...

The prince was a bird Not guilty or the like A true friend sip an soft No suffering cry All names and some cranks he'd powdered all off Their sycophantic gifts were never enough Old lady shade turns a vespertilian thing A motion event A friend of the jinn!...

The sweet notes Of the memory calling you Made his excuses first His pleading notes His lover's thirst And through the crowd and silence spread as he Descanted on love's scope and mystery But not at you, she has faded in a day But not at you, she has...

From the world to the dreaming fields of light, yeah from the soaking mud Gonna fly up to the sky to the scarlet thing in you On the red wings I will sail at night to the scarlet thing in you On a long lost ocean wave of light, submerged and unafraid I saw yo...

Roll yourself away from me Unveil me from your layers Lay with me Let me plunder, no betrayal Shame cast out Morning sensual fire aroused Union upon union In union we'll flower Sail naked in our funder Press towards the burst Drop the sweetest drop Give the t...

The story still in the works The players fishing ideas Walking in the air The church of Irene Stands like a warehouse With love's spirit out in the cold Out in the cold tonight The actions disappear And let the love's spirit in The fear inside my he...

Fragments spinning in the waves The sea is dreaming of shining caves A drop of petal rings the bell In the corner of heaven Of my Little Nell Words from the vine And essence flow A teardrop turns in its fall To a glow And Thelma sings her sing song s...

Thing to Remember when writing figures of speech and sound The Power of poetry comes from the ability to defy logic Defy logic often Use a metaphor and tell us that your lover is the sky Tell us that your lover is the sky When you do that We won't belie...

Make me a mannered, a mannered thing Carved of wood, a life force thing Give it an arm, that points to the earth And a hand, that points at me No matter where I stand No matter where I stand And knows all That we can't see The clock cannot be turned With rem...

I stay away, When you burn me like fire. I'm unmatched as I'm lazy. You spit as you say: I get crushed by my dreams That I clawed and begged for. It's myself I deceive. I got all I asked for! If I wait in deep sleep, There's nothing there to pray for...

Im a velocity birs in an invisible star im a velocity bird faster than all speeding cars Your whisper is mine as it lifts you up from above Your pains are no crime Theyre what crack you open up your love Crack open your love from the seed to the tree Crack op...

Warm Leatherette See the breaking glass in the underpass See the breaking glass in the underpass Warm Leatherette Hear the crushing steel feel the steering wheel Hear the crushing steel feel the steering wheel Warm Leatherette Warm Leatheret...

3, 5, 0, 1, 2, 5, Go! I was there in the back stage, When first light came around. I grew up like a changeling, To win the first time around. I can see all the weakness. I can pick all the faults. Well I concede all the faith tests, Just to stick in y...

Looked like a blue eyes lonely boy Hair skating to the ground Read the air between the words From the kingdom he was bound In loving, he gave all he could know All lips lick like a wave And like a blue eyed lonely boy To every friend, a slave Wild birds flock...

Say you, say you, say you I can hear the groove, I can spell the words I can climb the scale, I can ride the curves I can hit the note, I can beat the beat I can dance the jump, I can tap my feet Say you Getting closer, stop me dreaming Wanna feel you, you're...

Water Lily freedom Where does the spirit lay? Freedom, lying in shadows of light and clay I trace your feet like transparent thrones I dream of your clinging, I am not alone I glide with you, draw you with kole You paint the river, I am not alone That lover...