Theatre of Tragedy

Come in out of the rain thou sayest - but thou ne'er step'st aside; And I am trapp'd and trapp'd - A distance there is... None, save me and the bodkin - pitter-patter on the roof: Behold! - 'tis not the rain; thence me it has to be - I will not drink thy...

Come in out of the rain thou sayest But thou ne'er step'st aside And I am trapp'd, I'm trapp'd A distance there is None, save me and the bodkin Pitter-patter on the roof Behold, 'tis not the rain Thence me it has to be I will not drink thy vintage win...

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. That is a lie! Mayhap a tithe of trothplight - Lief I am not! I deem - e'er and anon! My words are but...

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 there's no tomorrow Don't fall, stay awake I surrender Lie close untill they've gone A nine days wonde...

Oh - my dearest; the sweet music in the ear - albeit, daresay I, the lullaby of an everso dark sleep. My precious, likest thou what emergeth yon the distant? the throbbing and breathing of life's machinery! Wanion its oh so damndest soul! with th...

"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 dreegh me? Nay leech, nay witch, Doth but to cede my pall!" Harness gildéd, steed mountéd....

"Be my kin free fro varnal sin, Bridle the thoughts of thy Master." "There hath past away a glore fro the Earth; A glore that in the hearts and minds of men, Men dementéd - blindfoldéd by light, Hourisheth as weed in their well-groom'd garths." "Might I...

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'er will I cede, my colleen. Drat this creature of memories ill, Foolhardy and fey I may be, yet him I...

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, Which I yet would not do - Pray I thee for thine avail - Lave me in it; I want more! For my loe, not...

my eyes hold the eventide, albeit behind the eyes thou hast thro' which I 'hold naught else a flame enshroudéd in its blackness; but the raven; burning without the faintest breeze. sleep my dearest ones - teach me, dearest, the reason wherefore mind not the pa...

Everyone else speaks in a drone Round and round into the unknown Afternoon sun filters out through smoke The hum of factories quietly revoked Touch of elation Panicked inside Praying for silence, our lives all in vain Fallen out of love Haunted - will always...

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 electric ray of all too many shimmer-lights And I can see another time Another face, forgotten days...

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 you want that kind of honey, honey From the automatic lover's store To the first floor of your backro...

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, And heeding her not. Celebration Afear'd of Bacchante, And dost thou 'hold the yill? - Behind is t...

Echoes that somehow Can surround us Can resound through stillness Like thoughts of shifting this balance Ideas of ideals convolve like intricate phases Your revelations displayed at two thousand expositions The mind is going out now Slowly passing by...

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 do not owe Even at a standstill we are spinning round and round We're lost but found Nowhere is rig...

An artist is what is call'd the self that the brush holdeth - Though hath it then caringly caress'd the Canvas of to-morrow?, O Canvas! for thee I hold my tool - still! passionless it quivereth, Minding not that my hands are more than apt; My Muse, Where is h...

Time is an abyss - Profound as a thousand nights; I sojourn my haste, I make respites For what availeith this eager pace? One step more naught to face, Save the heirloom fatal kiss. I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate, For lo! my own shall ne'er come to me, Y...

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, Riposted with a tell-tale lore of lies and scorn. Prophetess or fond?, Tho' her parle of truth: "I ken to...

Hap mirthfulness! - Oh! joy of grand riddance; Undress me my hauberk! - the wyern hath errant'd. Ire of yore - bard of e'eryears - I deem the brood hath wan'd - fore'ermore?! Fro the chasm of the bosom, bale a hand back. Hark! my dove - henceforth I bu...

High-rise buildings Low cost apartments Financial district Industrial area Rows of blue collars Steelworkers' clink-clang Metal rhythm left and right This is the city, city of light Flicker Click on Click off Click on The faceless men The machines of the city...

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 Standby, I'm on a trip with you Standby, I thought it lasted through Standby, I'm on a trip with y...

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 follow me? Street brash - time flies, tick-tock Eyes flash - feels like electroshock I feel the blood gu...

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 that claims its kingdom, come what may… The stars came tumbling down Worn-out heroes Stepping into...

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 ostracised and feint She had gone over and under A tattoo of a loser These are the rings that fell apart Th...

Here are the young men, a weight on their shoulders Here are the young men, well where have they been? We knocked on the doors of hell's darker chambers Pushed to the limits we dragged ourselves in Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying We saw our...

der spiegel, in dem ich die schatten seh'; das schwarze licht, welches mein schloß verschließt und draußen, der teufel und die schwarze hexe: singendes, tanzendes ihm verfallenes wesen. hörst du denn nicht wie der wolf heult?!, doch das blut sprengt meine ader...

''Meine Augen sind so dunkel, Auch sind die Visionen schwarz, Schwarz wie die Nacht; Der Dämmerzustand des Menschen - Ist meine Zeit des Daseins.'' ''Gleichwohl hast Du Deine Augen versteckt Lichtschein hinter der Dunkelheit; Ein Licht das mir gezeigt hat, Da...

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 scene, when the faces shift Into someone else The arcade is echoing In a shattered self, the figure's sh...

Now as I am to be bereaft of my troth I cry aloud my last words of lost hope. A violent gust of wind is my frame of mind; Huxes like moisture through pores. I am unwilling to forgive Him who depriev'd me of my life - Gloaming the sequence - A momentary...

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 your time There's no harm in reconstruction Paint the world in black and white Beyond redemption won'...

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 Speaking in a silent parlance "Remember me", breaks the silence A recurring line again He's looking for som...

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 an auto-move Round and round the streetlights in the groove Flying windscreens, dropping down below A...

Synchronise the flow of intersections Catalogue all still heartbeats Franchise the machinations of The bourgeois-fangled reverie Gleaming in flamboyancy Resign to solid chrome Ohmic opposition is futile And impedes upon ideas worthwhile Delicate, infa...

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 disappear Ever since then And I fade like the dew before the sun Silence of our ceased mem...

"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 aside, Crawl without this velvet-clad coffin blest, The bottom sand of the hourglass is at tide, "Sens...

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't get enough of the leitmotif Of your voice He's a lonely dancer He's a fun fanatic organiser I wond...

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 like this It has just begun Please be aware of the change in your mind Everyone's telling lies Somew...

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, Ampere and Ohm Earth to Moon, it's the same as London-Rome Out of focus, blurred image As solid as a liqui...

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 lucent image in the dark Fickle and dismayed Someone cast a shadow Blurring all the pictures on the...

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 interpretations someone's untrue Look at me If you could see what I see I know that you would hate me Do what...

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 require Always a heartbeat Followers can deal with pure deceit No reversal of our course We have put up with a lot...

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 get back. Trying hard to be someone, In return you end up hollow. Like a sinking ship I float. A sto...

Filthy harlots - the Lord's grape! With lore ornamented entreating; Hollow hearted, heart-departed - Yet thou reapest the blooming rose - When 'tis the weed which is to be swath'd I do, in the blooming flower, pleasure find! And me in the yesterday's b...

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 the lines and the curvature And traced her silhouette She stayed the moment with a glimpse and a fro...

You act a pansy, pushover Do live your fancy, go lower Who is that, something says your name You seem chancy, moreover The call is mine I'm gonna get you up I'm gonna get on top The call is mine On the skew, you're dancing all over You are the anti-fashion s...

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 appraisal. Germinate into green the sterile earth - Equiponderat'd new life against decay. Wa...

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 you down You should have let me go I think I'll make you leave 'Cause you have lost control You've pus...

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 cigarette And he dissolves like smoke As the silhouette turned and spoke, "Want to stop you, I can't sav...

Ferie dearest, was it loe soothfast or a façade; A serenade siren'd to lure - Zounds! not to court me? A menad, yet the sweetest colleen - Certes didst thou me unveil meekly life pristine. Lorelei, A poet of tragedies, scribe I lauds to Death, Yet who the hel...

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 Keep your modern ways And keep your bugs The Metal Man is here to stay Talk talk You say I only wor...

Harken! - the clouds mustered in dark - So painfully easing. Hush! - hearest ye the yew doting; Its years of yore in a mire, Each like a corpse within its grave; Wrought for us a yearn of lief; Tis not a lore of bale nor loathe; Harmony and aesthesia ar...

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 move I can fly I can fly, I can float, I can fly I can groove, I can move so high in the sky So high...

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 repeat I program more, but still it's incomplete Start and stop, where's the perfect pitch? I won't g...

"O soft embalmer of ye still midnight, Allow me thee to adown, Of any sort thou fancieth; Each holdeth its own fancy, I say - Yet the pleasure we partake in Was caus'd by the fang'd grin, Save!, do I for him anger hold? Nay - I knew I was fey!" "Had I...

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 can head for the limelight She's too rich for her men She won't stay, what a shame A shame She won'...

Dream of a funeral, blest temptress - behest me! - A funeral thou'lt hark, swarth murderess - the Devil, Thine feral grith with me, Poppea, be Hell's hap; Waylaid the beldame bawd, the niggard: Laughing tragedy. And the wench doth bawdness to blow, Stay my ad...

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 to the ether melody It's bright and clear and full of energy Music won't stop Electro pop Commercial...

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 all before And it seems like a mirror of our future We were waiting for something We were listening...

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 wore me, she wore you Walk these streets She's concrete Reverie All is free Knick-knack, flashy b...

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? Nothing said in your defence Life's a sacred remedy Head or tail, it's up to you Meet your fate at an...

Cede the wherefores and do na chide, Maybe I am peenging - ween of joy; Cede the wherefores and do na chide - Thrawn and slab of leer I hold thee, and yore was 'gal. Riddance, Sith the one. 

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 challenge the truth, I'm fighting illusions Come, let's be receptive To all the senseless delusions Mom...

Whether He the quaint savant's power doth held I now not, Albeit aetat a thousand stars' birth He is - Quoth I that for reasons to me oblivious August of a granditude of servants is He held, And by plastic consonantry e'en more servants to the host addéd a...

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 The avidity of youth The naďvety of you Somewhere where silence ended is where I reassemble My lens...

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 Have I been 'sooth sinsyne. Be left without - come! Thine voice is oh so sweet, I speer thine pi...

Space age pioneers Exporing the outer spheres Stars, planets, cosmos Sterne, Planeten, Kosmos 

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 only faces I don't know I see faces staring Other faces staring Don't talk, don't tell We stepped out...

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 Instant pictures form shattered persons Whenever he leaves there's a tainted mark Flashbacks of his stark...

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 for it I'm in tune now Sing to me, say Are you ready for me? Take a chance on me The downtown boy...

Stay still patient; wilt thou my sister of merciful troth be? I shall attempt the halter of thy life make less lighten'd! I shall climb the yew, Will it subdue me or not! Swooning emotions smite my bosom - I have in aptness depriev'd thy eyrie Oh! - bu...

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 failing, she's lost control As a new dawn fades, she breaks apart Minutes like decades, this da...

Hist! - The sonorous orchestral ambience and the arabesque-stanc'd ballerina, Her wee feel in an alacritic maelstrom-twirl, And the dust-hurl with her tears blendeth - Egad! this quagmire; Pasteth her unaptly apt feet to the stage; Like the wither'd rose of th...

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 This is the new circuit Tell me of your pain 'Shove you around?', now close the door This is not love T...

Whether the throned Monarch weareth the crown, Which I know not whether to his belongeth; Doth he hence the sceptre sway? Seasoneth he justice? - Daresay I he doth not, Will he then use his sceptre as a wand? - Where doth sit my awe? - Trieth me conjure;...

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 the time to see Time to hear the stars from Heaven falling There's no smoke without a fire. Nothing...

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 for planets far and near Don't know what upsets you We're gonna take you to the outer space Find pla...

Circa mea pectora multa sunt suspiria De tua pulchritudine, que me ledunt misere. Venus! - I trow'd thou wast my friend - Professed to Heaven thou wouldst send; As a disciple of a villain Didst thou act the tragedienne. Iam amore virginali totus ardeo....

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: Heyday! - a swingeing shrew. Skelp me - gar me pain, Pray soft; tender ache. Yerk me to weal daut',...

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 entertain us We will always be here Keep cheap platitudes again Disagree with my own self No such thin...

Set me free why don't cha babe Get out of my life why don't cha babe 'cause you don't really love me You just keep me hangin'on Set me free why don't cha babe Get out of my life why don't cha babe You don't really need me But you keep me hangin'on Why do you...