------------------------------------------------------- 1959 / Sisters of mercy () Living as angel in the Place that I was born Living on air Living in heaven Giving the lie down, the line To the There's my heaven And I know Wich way the wind blows In nineteen fifty-nine Wich way the wind blows In nineteen fifty-nine And the wind blows still And the wind blows wild again For a little child can never kill this clean This way And it feels like me today Tell me Do you feel the same Isabelle? Or do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine? ...Do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine? And the wind blows wild again And the wind blows wild In nineteen fifty-nine In fifty-nine Isabelle Do you, do you feel the same? Come with me Like a child Like another gun Like homeless, restless, known to none, like Like it never was In nineteen fifty-nine ------------------------------------------------------- A Rock and a hard place / Sisters of mercy () And she came to look for me Sold me name and innocence Took my key And told me to follow her Down from igor with her bangles and her reference One from the church from the valley of the Well she wanted a haven and a place to hide So I gave her an alibi took her inside but A rock and a hard place await for for me Between the devil and the deep blue sea Everything I ever did right or wrong Hid out of sight where I belong, belong And I didn't have the heart to tell her Why And there wasn't a part of me that Didn't want to say goodbye but Cause and effect go hand in hand with The devil may care but I don't mind and I Thought she'd never quite understand so I Left her there that night but will she Find me? I don't think so, no When you go, you go alone And I'm gone............. far away [x4] And I didn't have the heart to tell Why And there wasn't a part of me that Didn't want to say goodbye but... CHORUS [to fade] ------------------------------------------------------- Afterhours / Sisters of mercy () One more night spent on your mirror Black Mariah, in your eyes This stuff so strange and lonely England fades away In your eyes Two O'clock in the morning Ninety-four degrees Through the stillness through the heat The cars go by on fifth and breathing slow Get up off the floor and angel put your clothes on It's time for us to go Let's take a ride ------------------------------------------------------- Amphetamine logic / Sisters of mercy () Watch them do The falling over Watch them do The standing still Nothing but the knife to live for One life all I need Give me one good reason Give me more s... (Women) and the women come and go (Talk) talking about me like they know (Men) bougth and sold And the world keeps turning People cold And people burning Nothing but the knife to live for One life all I need Give me one good reason Give me more s... Nothing but the knife to live for One life all I need Give me one good reason Give me more s...(amphetamine logic) Hit up Steel in hand Lit up Like candles burning Like Catherine wheels turning on Nothing but the knife to live for One life all I need Give me one good reason Give me more s...(amphetamine logic) ------------------------------------------------------- Black planet / Sisters of mercy () In the western sky My kingdom come So still So dark all over Europe And I ride down the highway 101 By the side of the ocean headed for sunset For the kingdom come For the... chorus Black Black planet Black Black world repeat Run around in the radiation Run around in the acid rain On a Black Black planet Black planet hanging over the highway Out of my mind's eye Out of the memory Black world out of my mind Still so dark all over Europe And the rainbow rises here In the western sky The kill to show for At the end of the great white pier I see a... chorus Run around in the radiation Tune in Turn on Burn out in the acid rain On a... chorus repeat to fade ------------------------------------------------------- Blood money / Sisters of mercy () (Flesh) (Bone) (Splinters on the telephone) (Whispers) Bullet in the head Down Head Down Got power to burn Got means Got flowers to burn Between those pretty dreams Hold out for cover Hold out your hands to me For... chorus Blood, blood money Blood, blood money, money, money, money (Kiss...) Children - kiss the ring Children - kiss the blade chorus Which hand holds? Your hand holds? chorus x2 ------------------------------------------------------- Bury mr deep / Sisters of mercy () Call it superstition Lie beside and Followed and fell Bury me Under the falling Deep Under the spell Singing Bury me x2 Spoken in tongues Of many colours In the colours of heaven In the colours of hell In the cannot Would not tell In the broken temple bells In the ringing Oh, Marian I can hear those voices singing Bury me Deep Inside Lie beside and Bury Me Deep In the spoken In tongues Cover me over Unsung Unsaid Not borrowed Broken and torn On the bed tomorrow, mourning Before you sleep Bury me deep Bury me Inside Lie beside and Bury me, bury me, bury me, bury me deep Call it superstition Followed and fell Under the falling Under the spell Bury me Deep Inside ------------------------------------------------------- Colours / Sisters of mercy () You reap what you sow Put your face to the ground Here come the marching men Your colours wrapped around ------------------------------------------------------- Come together / Sisters of mercy () A little child and a cold missile I'm on a wide road west stretch back for miles Some wild idea to get back home singing: Oh, sweet Jesus, come to carry me home. home... Come together... Show your face- though your fins be scarlet. Come together... One word and I'll be there- though your fins be scarlet. Come together... ------------------------------------------------------- Comfortably numb / Sisters of mercy () Hello... Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there any one home? Come on... I hear you're feeling down I can ease your pain- get you on your feet again. Relax... I'll need some information first Just the basic facts Can you show me where it hurts? There is no pain, you are receding A distant ship smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying... When I was a child, I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain, you would not understand- This is not how I am... I have become comfortably numb. OK... Just a little pin prick There'll be no more (aaaaahhhhhh!) But you may feel a little sick Can you stand up? I do believe it's working, good That'll keep you going through the show Come on, it's time to go... There is no pain, you are receding A distant ship smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying... When I was child, I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look, but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, the dream is gone And I have become comfortably numb. ------------------------------------------------------- Dance on glass / Sisters of mercy () Roll of the thunder Kiss and the scream Hold out my arms and scars start to show Howling for the glory of the innocent But don't despair for the shame I know The taste of ash on my tongue Faith and prayers, wanton dust Chanting strangers, blood on their cheeks Haunt my dreams all covered in blood chorus Dance Dance on glass Saints and martyrs repeat Tarnish, taint and punish me softly Cut that bleeds and burning skin Screaming in the darkness torn and ragged For the love of god, my dreams look dim So... chorus A whisper and a promise lit on fire Kiss the hand where the angels dread Love is the corpse that draws on dreams Rips them apart and tears them to shreds So... chorus Tarnish, taint, and punish me softly Hold out the heat and burning skin Screaming in the darkness torn and ragged For the love of god, my dreams look dim repeat verse 3 chorus Dance, Dance on glass ------------------------------------------------------- Driven like the snow / Sisters of mercy () Still night, nothing for miles, White curtain come down, Kill the lights in the middle of the road And take a look around... It don't help to be one of the chosen One of the few, to be sure When the weels are spinning around And the ground is frozen through, and you're Driven, like the snow Pure in heart Driven together And given Away to the west A white dress 'Til the river don't run A black dress 'Til the sun don't shine no more Where the sky meet the ground Where the street fold round Where the voice you hold don't Make no sound, look, Snow on the river and two by two, Took a lot to live a lot like you, I don't Go there now, but I hear they sung Their "Fuck Me And Marry Me Young" Some wild idea and a big white bed, now You know better than that, I said, Like a voice in the wind blows little crystals down Like brittle things will break before the turn Like lipstick on my cigarette And the ice get harder over head Like think it twice but never never learn... And the mist will wrap around us And the crystal, if you touch it... And the cars Lost in the drift Are there And the people that drive Lost in the drift Are there And the cares I've Lost in the drift Are there Their, ours, Lost in the drift Are... Driven Driven together And driven Apart ------------------------------------------------------- Driver / Sisters of mercy () Lay me down the long white line Leave the sirens far behind me Home to weakness Home to silence Follow me when the sun goes down We will find a heartless highway We will wind the windows down ... me at the mounted towers Then the marvels, ... friends abound ... While the wheels go wheeling round and round Life is short and life is cruel But we have beer and we have fuel We are never coming down Push the creature on it's back Lines across the middle ... Houses vacant everafter Gusting through the cold and shadow While the ... flashes past Around we ... the big black car ... touch the sky ... sell your bracelets We are never coming down We will be forever wild The wheels go wheelings round and round And the wheel ...s come in silence Follow me when the sun goes down We will fly along the highway We will wind the windows down ... me at the mounted towers When the ... turns around Reason ... power While the wheels go wheeling round and round ------------------------------------------------------- Emma / Sisters of mercy () We were together since we were five She was so pretty Emma was a star in everyone's eyes And when she said she'd be a movie queen Nobody laughed With her face like an angel She could be anything CHORUS Emmaline Emma Emmaline I'm gonna write your name high on the silver screen Emmaline Emma Emmaline I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen At seventeen We were wed And I worked hard to earn our daily bread And every day Emma would go out searching for that play That never, ever came her way And sometimes she come home and she'd be so depressed I'd hear her crying in the back room and be so distressed And I'd remember back when she was five To the words that used to make Emmaline come alive It was... CHORUS It was a cold and dark December night When I opened up the bedroom door To find her lying Cold and still upon the bed A love letter lying on the bedroom floor IT read, Darling I love you But I just can't keep living on dreams no more I've tried so hard not to leave you alone But I just can't keep trying no more CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------- First and last and always / Sisters of mercy () See a body and a dream of the dead days A following lost and blind Living far from here Tomorrow is hard to find And it seems like twenty five years of Promises and give me more Scenes of a hand-me-down in Dresses heard before CHORUS 1 First and last and always: 'til the end of time First and last and always: Mine [echo] Maybe it's not so easy Maybe it's a way to long Say, say you'll be by me When the evidence comes along CHORUS 2 First and last and always: My calling, my time First and last and always: Mine [echo] My calling My time See a place and a dream of the dead days A following lost and blind Cross my heart with silver Here's the key behind Seems like twenty five years of Ever after ever more more more Seems I wore this face for you Far too long before CHORUS 2 CHORUS 1 [x2 and fade] ------------------------------------------------------- Flood I / Sisters of mercy () And her hallway Moves Like the Ocean Moves At the head of the river At the source of the sea Sitting here now in this bar for hours Trying to write it down Fitting in hard with harder to come Trying to fight it Down the river there's a ship will carry you Down river down stream Down the river there's a ship will carry the Dream Dream of the flood Down the river there's a ship will carry the Dream of the flood And her hallway... As the water comes rushing over As the water comes rushing in As the water comes rushing over Flood...Flood... Push the glass, stain the glass Push the writer to the wall It may come but it will pass Some say we will fall Dream of the flood... Flood... And her hallway... Oh, maybe, in terms of surrender, On a backcloth of lashes and eyes In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth And ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes And ashes and ashes and lies... And her hallway... Like... As the water comes rushing in As the water comes rushing over Sitting now in this bar for hours While these strange men rent strange flowers I'll be picking up your petals in another few hours In the metal and blood, in the scent of mascara On a backcloth of lashes and stars In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth And ashes and ashes and second hand passion And stolen guitars And her hallway... As the water comes rushing in Like the sea As the water comes rushing over Dream of the flood In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and lies... As the water comes rushing in, rushing in At the head of the river At the source of the sea And her hallway... Like... Flood... ------------------------------------------------------- Flood II / Sisters of mercy () And her hallway Moves Like the ocean Moves And her hallway Moves Like the sea Like the sea She says no nono no harm will come your way She says bring it on down, bring on the wave She says: nobody done no harm Grace of God and raise your arms She says: place it and it's a place to stay This, this is the way it was This, this is the way it is When the water come rushing, rushing in She says She says anytime Raise your arms Flood And her hallway Like... Like... Like a million voices call my name Like a million voices calling Not now, not ever again... Sitting here now in this bar for hours Strange men rent strange flowers Seconds to the drop but it feels like hours and I Think I'm going to...going to... This, this is the way it was This, this is the way it is When the water come rushing, rushing in She says She says anytime Raise your arms Flood And her hallway... She says She says anytime Raise your arms Flood ------------------------------------------------------- Garden of delight / Sisters of mercy () Shimmering over all those wistful faces And the promise burning brightly in their eyes A violent flash, the cut that bleeds, the kiss that stings Desperate snows fall from desperate skies (chorus) Take my hand and lead me To the garden of delight Take my hand and lead me Home..... Reflections in the liquid windswept mirror The breathless world elegance and charm The treasured touch, the first touch of a stranger It charmed me, entranced me, no harm So... (chorus) This child of death, kissing in the playground Senses shimmering, playful to the kill Playing with fire, a chance among the playsound Covered in burns and turn away, they're dancing still So... Take my hand and lead me To the garden of delight Take my hand and lead me To the garden Of delight Of delight... (chorus) Home... ------------------------------------------------------- Ghostrider / Sisters of mercy () Ghostrider, motorcycle hero Bebebebebebebe he's lookin' so cute Sneakin' round round round in a blue jumpsuit Ghostrider motorcycle hero Bebebebebebebe he's a-blazin' away Packin' stars stars stars in the universe Ghostrider motorcycle hero Bebebebebebebe he's a-screamin' the truth America, America is killin' its youth Bebebebebebebe he's a-screamin' away America, America is killin' its youth America, America is killin' its youth Ghostrider Ghostrider ------------------------------------------------------- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! / Sisters of mercy () Half past twelve... And I'm watching the late show In my flat all alone How I hate to spend the evenings on my own. Autumn winds... Blowing outside the window As I look around the room And it makes me so depressed to see this gloom (chorus) There's not a soul out there No one to hear my prayers. Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight Won't somebody help me chase these shadows away Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight Take me through the darkness to the break of the day Movie stars... Find the end of the rainbow With the fortune to win It's so different from the world I'm living in Tired of TV... I open the window And I gaze into the night But there's nothing there to see no one in sight (chorus) ------------------------------------------------------- Good things / Sisters of mercy () The cracks appear along the wall wall wall wall wall See the people stoop back, once stood tall tall tall tall tall I see the buildings crumble see the empires fall But I see no more and I don't recall Because I see Nothing but the good things Because I see Nothing but the good things Because I see Nothing but the good things Nothing but the good good good Nothing but the good things Well nothing ventured nothing lost Count the changes count the cost A reformation so uncertain Keep your station draw the curtain Because out there the snipers work the ridges Building bombs and blowing bridges Out there on a darkened road The lines are dead and the cars explode But in here There's nothing but the good things In here Nothing but the good things In here Nothing but the good things Nothing but the good good good good good Nothing but the good things I see a green sea a pleasant land land land land land Nothing legal underhand On the fence or in the sand Well I take no chances and I take no stand Against the wall Against the wire Against the fall Against the fire Against the sale Against the hire They say the profits high But I know the cost is higher Still I see Nothing but the good things Still I see Nothing but the good things Still I see here see do talk see Nothing but the good things Nothing but the good good good good good Nothing but the good things Nothing but the good things Nothing but the good good good good things No! ------------------------------------------------------- Hey Joe / Sisters of mercy () Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand? Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand? I'm goin down to shoot my ol' lady, I caught her messin' `round with another man. Hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down, Hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down, Shot her down town. Yes I did, I shot her. 'Cause I caught my woman foolin 'round ------------------------------------------------------- Jolene / Sisters of mercy () Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene I'm begging you please don't take my man Jolene Jolene Jolene Please don't take him just because you can CHORUS Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green Your smile is like a breath of spring your voice is soft as summer rain And I cannot compete with you Jolene He talk about you in his sleep There's nothing I can do to keep From crying when he calls your name Jolene And I can easily understand How you can easily take my man But you don't know what he means to me Jolene CHORUS Well you could have your choice of man But I could never love again He's the only man for me jolene I have to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you Whatever you decide to do Jolene CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------- Knocking on heavens door / Sisters of mercy () Mama take this badge from me I can't use it anymore It's getting dark too dark to see Feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door CHORUS Knock knock knockin' on heaven's door [repeat x3] Mama wipe this blood from my face I'm sick and tired of all this war There's a long hard feelin' and it's hard to chase Feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door CHORUS Mama put these guns to the ground I can't shoot them anymore There's a long black train and it's comin round Feels like knockin' on heaven's door CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------- Louie Louie / Sisters of mercy () Fine little girl, she wait for me. I sail a ship across the sea. On the ship, you know, I'm all alone. And I don't know when I'm gonna make it back home. (chorus) Singing... Louie, Louie- Oh, baby, we gotta go Louie, Louie- Oh, baby, we gotta go, now... Three nights and days I sailed the sea. I think of my girl constantly On the ship, I dream she's there. I smell the roses in her hair. (chorus) I see Jamaica in the moon above And I will soon be with my love I'm gonna take her in my arms and then I tell her I will never leave her again. ------------------------------------------------------- Marian / Sisters of mercy () In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom In the wake of this ship of fools I'm falling further down If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home..... CHORUS I hear you calling Marian Across the water, across the wave I hear you calling Marian Can you hear me calling you to Save me, save me, save me from the Grave... Marian Marian, there's a weight above me And the pressure is all too strong To breathe deep Breathe long and hard To take the water down and go to sleep To sink still further Beneath the fatal wave Marian I think I'm drowning This sea is killing me CHORUS Was ich kann und was ich koennte(What I can do and what I could do) Weiss ich gar nicht mehr (I just don't know anymore) Gib mir wieder etwas Schoenes (Give me something beautiful again) Zieh mich aus dem Meer (Drag me from the sea) Ich hoer Dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian) Kannst Du mich schreien hoeren ?(Can you hear me calling?) Ich bin hier allein (I am here alone) Ich hoer Dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian) Ohne Deine Hilfe verliere ich mich in diesem Ort (Without your help I am lost in this place) CHORUS [repeat Marian til end] ------------------------------------------------------- Never land / Sisters of mercy () A fragment I had a face on the mirror I had a hand on the gun I had a place in the sun and a Ticket to Syria I had everything within my reach I had money and stuff Each and every call Too much but never enough Tear it up and watch it fall ------------------------------------------------------- Nine while nine / Sisters of mercy () And it's passing strange And I'm waiting for the train Caugth up on this line again And it's passing slowly Killing time but it's Better than living in what will come and I've Still got some of your letters with me and I Thought sometimes or I read to much And I think you know let's Drink to the dead lying under the water and the Cost of the blood on the driven snow and the Lipstick on my cigarettes Frost upon the winow pane Nine while nine and I'm waiting For the train... She said do you remember the time when angels Do you remember a time when fear In the days when I was stronger In the days when you where here she said When days had no beginning While days had no end when Shadows grew no longer I Knew no other friend but you where wild... Frost upon these cigarettes Lipstick on the winow pane and I've lost all snese of the world outside but I Can't forget so I call your name and I'm Looking for a life for me and I'm Looking for a life for you and I'm Talking to myself again and it's So damn cold it's just not true and I'm Walking through the rain Trying to hold on waiting for the train and I'm Only looking for what you want but it's Lonely here and I think you knew and I'm And I'm waiting And I wait in vain Nine while nine and I'm waiting for the train... ------------------------------------------------------- On the wire / Sisters of mercy () Now the ground comes up too fast Too fast to meet you In clouds of dust erupting Thick around your feet, be careful In the rubble in waiting Wall to wall where you tread Now the quick and the dead and the same old Fates come calling cards away How do you think it came to pass you By the hard way by desire How do you think it came to pass you by? On the wire I don't sleep so I don't dream So I don't wake up frightened Everything is what it seems if You look deep enough tonight and See..... On the wire On the wire On the wire I will not fall [repeat] [repeat x4] ------------------------------------------------------- Poison / Sisters of mercy () Behind the door the poison door we Search the still hours looking For a place to hide Behind the door Where dreams collide Behind the door the poison doow We sit in silence waiting For a deadly friend Behind the door Where ddreams decend And the shadows smile Lips dark and wild The shadow smile And kiss the sky Behind the door the poison door the Puppets dance on a burning floor like Dying flames Behind the door Shoot me down again Behind the door the poison door we Search the still hours looking... The shadows smile But their lips are s... and the shadows smile Lips dark and wild The shadows smile Kiss your memory goodbye The shadows smile And kiss... The sky ------------------------------------------------------- Possession / Sisters of mercy () Carrion child, Prey for me,play your Wild card, see the house come down around your Head, home to me, so much dreaming Some say m growing cold and Taking over Nothing, cuts, two ways..... Possession: taking over Stand these pictures on your shelf And wear your heart upon my sleeve, Wear a dress that you can see through, See yourself inside; I'll be your imagination, Tear apart what you believe, Make a mess of your conviction, Take away my pride and leave, Nothing, but the debris, Cuts, two ways, Carrion child, Prey for me, play your Wild card, see the house come down around your Possession: taking over..... Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake; Possession: taking over..... Somehow the fact takes over, and the fiction coming through, Somehow I do my crying breaking down for you, This way doubt takes over, contradiction coming through, This way I do my lying, making up and making out for you..... Possession: taking over Child (nothing) Prey for me (but the debris) Play your wild card (cuts two ways) Some say I'm growing cold and Taking over.....Down around your Head (nothing) Home to me (but the debris) So much dreaming, see the house come down around your Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake Possession: taking over..... Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake Possession: taking hold ------------------------------------------------------- Purple haze / Sisters of mercy () Purple haze-all in my brain Lately things don't seem the same... Acting funny, but I don't know why 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky. ------------------------------------------------------- Red skies disappear / Sisters of mercy () Out of our hands Something's calling Catch me crying Calling your name Marian Do no more than Watch you try and understand me Well i've found It worth the *** All around me All around me Marian Take my hand Lay beside me on the burning sand CHORUS Marian Only you can Say the words i need to hear Marian Only you can Make these red skies disappear Marian CHORUS Marian Can you hear me calling? Touch me now In my hour of need Speak to me softly Lay down beside me Marian I think you know I need you near me Don't try to understand The sun is falling Burning sand Can you hear me calling? Marian CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------- Sister Ray / Sisters of mercy () Duck and Sally inside They're cooking for the Down Five Who's staring at Miss Rayon Who's busy looking up her Pig Pen I'm searching for my mainline I said I couldn't hit it sideways I couldn't hit it sideways Just like Sister Ray said Rosie and Miss Rayon They're busy waiting for her Brewster Who just got back from Carolina She said she didn't like the weather They're busy waiting for her sailor ????? in pink and leather He said he's here from Alabama He wants to know the way to earn a dollar Cecil's got his new piece He cocks and shoots it between 3:00 and 4:00 He aims it at the sailor Shoots him down dead on the floor Ah, you shouldn't do that Don't you know you'll stain the carpet Don't you know you'll stain the carpet By the way, have you got a dollar? No I haven't got the time time She's too busy sucking on my ding-dong She's too busy sucking on my ding-dong She does it just like Sister Ray said Now who is that knocking Who's knocking at my chamber door Now could it be the police? They're gonna take you for a ride ride ------------------------------------------------------- Some kind of stranger / Sisters of mercy () And yes I believe in what we had But words got in the way And only yesterday As I was leaving Lord knows I've tried to say but I've Heard a million conversations Going where they've been before Seen the way that careful lingers Undecided at the door CHORUS And all I know for sure All I know for real Is knowing doesn't mean so much When placed against the feeling The heat inside When bodies meet When fingers touch All my words are secondhand and Useless in the face of this Rationale and rhyme and reason Pale beside a single kiss And I've heard so many things I Fail to understand at all I'd settle anytime for Unknown footsteps in the hall outside CHORUS Because the world is cruel and Promises are broken Don't try to tell me Anything don't try to tell me You'll be true to me you know the Real truth is never spoken And I know the world is cold but If you hold on tight to what you Find you might not mind too much though Even this must pass away and Memories may last for years but Names are just for souvenirs Some kind of angel let me Look into your eyes Don't give me whys and wherefores Reason or surprise I don't care for words that don't belong And I don't care what you're called Tell me later if at all I can wait a long long time Before I hear another love song Come here I think you're beautiful My door is open wide Some kind of angel come inside Come here I think you're beautiful I think you're beautiful beautiful Some kind of angel come inside Come here I think you're beautiful I think you're beautiful Some kind of angel come inside Come here I think you're beautiful My door is open wide Some kind of stranger come inside Come here I think you're beautiful I think you're beautiful beautiful Some kind of stranger come inside Come here I think you're beautiful I think you're beautiful Some kind of stranger come inside [repeat last three verses to fade] ------------------------------------------------------- Stairway to heaven / Sisters of mercy () Theres a lady who's sure All that glitters is gold And she's buying a stairway to heaven And when she gets there she knows If the stores are closed With a word she can get what she came for There's a sign on the wall But she want's to be sure Cause you know sometimes words have No meanings In a tree by the brook there's a songbird Who sings sometimes All of our thoughts are misgiven There's a feeling I get when I look to the west And my spirit is crying for leaving In my thoughts I have seen Rings of smoke through the trees And the voices of those who stand looking And it's whispered that soon If we all call the tone Then the piper will lead us to reason And a new day will dawn for those who stand long And the forests will echo with laughter And it makes me wonder If theres a bustle in your hedgerow Don't be alarmed now It's just a spring clean for the May-queen Yes there are two paths you can go by But in the long run There's still time to change the road you're on Your head is humming and it won't go -In case you don't know The pipers are calling you to join him Dear lady can you hear the wind blow And did you know Your stairway lies on the whispering wind And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our soul There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last When all are one and one is all To be a rock and not to roll ------------------------------------------------------- Teachers / Sisters of mercy () I met a man who lost his mind in some lost place I had to find. "Follow me" the wise man said, but he walked behind. I walked into a hospital where none was sick and none was well. When at night the sisters left I could not walk at all. Some girls wander by mistake into the mess that scalpels make. Are you a teacher of the heart? We teach old hearts to break. I met a woman long ago, her the black that black can go. Are you a teacher of the heart? Soft, she answered, "No." I met a girl across the sea, her hair the gold that gold can be. Are you a teahcer of the heart? "Yes, but not for thee..." Well, I spent my hatred every place- on every work, on every face. Is my passion perfect? No. Do it once again. Oh, teachers are my lessons done? And I cannot do another one. And they laughed, and laughed, and laughed and said, "Child, are your lessons done?" Well, I was handsome and I was strong and I knew the words of every song. Did my singing please you? "No, the words you sang were wrong..." ------------------------------------------------------- Torch / Sisters of mercy () And now the torch And shadows lead Were it not so black and not so hard to see How can it help you when you don't know what you need How can anybody set you free? Would he walk upon the water If he couldn't walk away? And would you Would you carry the torch For me? And what if I gave you the key To the doors of your design... Lit the corridors of desire? Where if not so black And not so hard to see What use to you then any fire? Would he walk upon the water If he couldn't walk away? And would you Carry the torch for me? Would he walk upon the water If he couldn't walk away? And would you Would you carry the torch for me? Would you carry the torch For me? Would you carry the torch For me? Would you carry the torch For me? ------------------------------------------------------- Train / Sisters of mercy () Train [x3] Take a last decision and the cars to move it Past information Tunnel vision and the scars to prove it Everybody got a reservation Far beyond the black horizon Beyond the things you know Everybody got a destination Everybody got a place to go Take a walk downtown to where the victims go Take your shadow to the end to the very last window Everybody got friends got shot upside and over Down the line Everybody got assignations I got mine Take a one-way ticket to the chain-reaction Out a hole between the ground and sky Make a railway track for the main attraction Cross my heart and take a ride Far beyond the black horizon Beyond the things you know Everybody got a destination Everybody got a place to go ------------------------------------------------------- Wide reciever / Sisters of mercy () You say Where is my believer Waiting for the sign Those feet off the ground ... ... the skies go wild Tattered and torn your feet never bleed You say never mattered ... ... is over and the hour is ... And where's your wide receiver Over the line Where's your wide receiver Over the border Where's your wide receiver Over the line Where's your wide receiver Over the edge and Too far forward Where's your wide receiver Over the line [Repeat to fade] ------------------------------------------------------- You could be the one / Sisters of mercy (X) All gods children give good phone I called Jesus, he's not home So I'm so pleased to talk to you Trees and walks I love them too Threatened species they adore me, Flower children never bore me But all the this you share Are better left unsaid When you can give me there And run your fingers through my hair CHORUS Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the oneWe can meditate Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the oneLet's call it fate Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the oneTo get your flowers pressed Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the oneJust get undressed I'm so glad to find you here Mystic people they're so dear I don't like the rest Your signs the best Whatever it is I'm most impressed I don't need to understand The laying on of hands I'm in a hurry to get my collar straight Life is short and I can't wait But don't worry about the state Of this pretty little thing in the armour plate CHORUS I'm so pleased that you believe Just open up a little let the good times in We're, going fo a ride Destiny can't be denied But all those precious things are better left unsaid When you can keep me here And run your fingers though my hair CHORUS Love, is all you need. ------------------------------------------------------- I was wrong / Sisters of mercy (X) You say stay and never leave You say meant forever I could believe you, but I don't You say we're almost alone together All alone You say You say you will I know you won't I was wrong I was wrong to ever doubt I can get along without I can love my fellow man But I'm damned if I'll love yours In a bar that's always closing In a world where where people shout I don't want to talk it over I don't want to talk it out I was quite impressed until I hit the floor Isn't that what friends are for ? Pin looks great on other people That's what they're for I was wrong I was wrong to ever doubt I can get along without I can love my fellow man But I'm damned if I'll love yours You say stay and never leave You say meant forever I could believe you, but I don't You say we're almost alone together All alone You say You say you will I know you won't I was wrong I was wrong to ever doubt I can get along without I can love my fellow man But I'm damned if I'll love yours In a bar that's always closing In a world where where people shout I don't want to talk it over I don't want to talk it out I was quite impressed until I hit the floor Isn't that what friends are for ? Pin looks great on other people That's what they're for I was wrong I was wrong to ever doubt I can get along without I can love my fellow man But I'm damned if I'll love yours ------------------------------------------------------- Ribbons / Sisters of mercy (X) I'm lying on my back now The stars look all to near Flowers on the razor wire I know you're here We are few And far between I was thinking about her skin Love is a many splintered thing Don't be afraid now Just walk on in (Flowers on the razor wire) (Walk on in) Here eyes were cobalt red Her voice was cobalt blue I see no purple light Crashing out of you So just walk on in (Flowers on the razor wire) (Walk on in) Her lovers queued up in the hallway I heard the scratching on the door I tried to tell her About Marx and Engels, God and Angels I don't really know what fore But she looked good in ribbons So just walk on in She looked good in ribbons So just walk on in Tie a red red red red red red ribbon Love is a many splintered thing Tie a red red red red ribbon Don't be afraid Just walk on in Just walk on in (Incomming...) (Incomming...) Just walk on in Just walk on in Flowers on the razor wire Just walk on in... ------------------------------------------------------- Something fast / Sisters of mercy (X) All the things We never needed I don't need them now All the things we ever did Were always confidential And hidden from me anyhow You can stand all night At a red light anywhere in town Hailing maries left and right But none of the slows down I seen the best of men go past I don't wanna be the last Gimme something fast God know everybody needs A hand in their decision Some of us are not so sure I seen his own held out For a ride on television I think he's still in Baltimore You can stand all night At a red light anywhere in town Hailing maries left and right But none of the slows down I seen the best of men go past I don't wanna be the last Gimme something fast -------s------------------------------------------------ When you don't see me / Sisters of mercy (X) When you don't see me... It's not a matter of going to grow It's not a matter of time or how I feel I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man now What you see is what you never had Get real Get another I don't exist when you don't see me I don't exist when you're not here What the eye don't see won't break the heart You can make believe when we're apart But when you leave I disapear When you don't see me... Oh, it's kind of different when you're there You can't lease the peace of mind You bougth a mask, I put it on You never thougth to ask me If I wear it when you're gone Get real Get another I don't exist when you don't see me I don't exist when you're not here What the eye don't see won't break the heart You can make believe when we're apart But when you leave I disapear When you don't see me... You never learned You bought me I turned You couldn't let me move I guess, I don't deny, I don't disprove What you see is what you lost If I was you I wouldn't try Get real Get another I don't exist when you don't see me I don't exist when you're not here What the eye don't see won't break the heart You can make believe when we're apart But when you leave I disapear When you don't see me... ------------------------------------------------------- Alice / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) She stays presseda against the wall so She can see the door In case the laughing strangers call and Crush the petals on the floor Alice in her party dress she Thanks you kindly so serene she Needs you like she needs her thanks to Tell her that the world is clean to Promise her a definition Tell her where the rain will fall Tell her where the sun shines brigth and Tell her she can have it all Today Pass the crystal spread the tarot In illusion comfort lies the Safest way the straight and narrow No confusion no surprise Alice in her party dressed to kill she Needs you like she needs the pills to Tell her that the world's okay to Promise her a definition Tell her where the rain will fall Tell her where the sun shines brigth and Tell her she can have it all Today Today Alice Don't give it away ------------------------------------------------------- Floorshow / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground in the Violent vhour to the violent sound and the Darkness the blinding the eyes that shine and the Voices and the singing and the line on line This is the floorshow the clapping hands Animal flow from the animal glands in the Violent hour to the violent sound going round and around and around and I feel the bite I feel the beat I see the dancing feet I feel the ligth I feel the heat I see the new elite I see the final floorshow I see the western dream I see the faces glow and I see the bodies steam See them shimmy see them go See their panted faces glow Slow slow quick quick slow See those pagans go go go go go This is the floorshow the last ideal it's Populist got mass appeal the Old religion redefined for the Facile futile totally blind Mundane by day insane at night pagan playing in the flashing light in the violent hour to the violent sound going Round and around and around and around and bodies on the naked on the low damp ground In the violent hour to the violent sound and the Darkeness the blinding the eyes that shine and the Voices singing line on line See them shimmy see them go See their panted faces glow Slow slow quick quick slow See those pagans go go go go go ------------------------------------------------------- 1969 / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Well alright! It's 1969 ok We got a war across the USA There's nothing here for me and you We're just sitting here with nothing to do There's nothing here for me and you Another year with nothing to do Now last year I was 21 I didn't have a lot of fun Now I'm gonna be 22 So, oh my, I'll boohoo Now I'm gonna be 22 So, oh my, I'll boohoo CHORUS Well it's 1969, Baby Well it's 1969, Baby It's 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9-teen 69 Teen 69 [repeat x3] Yow! [repeat x3] ------------------------------------------------------- Kiss the carpet / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) She got red eyes She wear dust I went over over over I went bust I kissed I kissed the carpet I climbed the curtain I was sure I was certain And I said yeah Yeah She got red eyes She wear dust I went over over over I went bust I kissed I kissed the carpet I climbed the curtain I was sure I was certain But I said Next time I look before I Kiss the carpet should I Kiss Kiss Kiss ------------------------------------------------------- Ligths / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) The ligth shines clear through the sodium haze The nigth draws near and the and the dayligth fades Ignore the voices discard the day For the brand new darkness for the brigth new way Hit There have been better plans but None that I could ever understand Emerald signal the green on black the Ligths say move say never lock back and so I Find another place where I've never been seen Find another place where the red turns green where the Emerald glistens through the darkness again where the Emerald glisten through the rain The ligth shines clear through the sodium haze The nigth draws near and the and the dayligth fades but there's a Voice in the distance quiet and clear saying Something that I never ever wanted to hear There have been better plans but None that I could ever understand I see the Emerald signal the green on black I see the Ligths say move say never lock back and so I Find another place where I'll never been seen Find another place where the red turns green where the Emerald glistens through the darkness again where the Emerald glisten through the rain rain rain and I'm Happy here In the rain ------------------------------------------------------- Valentine / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) The razore bites and the shriek subsides He arches clutching at his sides Across the floor across the tiles The man is dead and the razor smiles A shiny love song a quick a quick incision Cut him down on television A people come to this Beyond the age of reason A people fed on famine A people on their knees and A people eat each other A people stand in line Waiting for another war and Waiting for my Valentine For a million empty faces For a million hollow smiles Cancer for my education Watch the body hit the files Waiting for another war and Waiting for my Valentine ------------------------------------------------------- Fix / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Love for the party, love for the nation Love for the fix and for the fabrication Love for the corpse, for the corporation Love for the death and the defecation Romance and assassination Give me love for the genocide Give me love ------------------------------------------------------- Burn / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Burn me a fire in a reptile house in the Colour and the carnage fall me down my Face in the fire in the reptile house and the kissing and the colour come crashing down In the fire in the reptile house and the Colour and the carnage fall me down my Face in the fire in the reptile house and the kissing and the colour come crashing Down down down Down around me Down down down Down around my face In the fire in the reptile house in the... ------------------------------------------------------- Temple of love / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) With the fire from the fireworks up above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand You run for cover in the temple of love You run for another but still the same For the wind will blow my name across this land In the temple of love you hide together Believing pain and fear outside But someone near you rides the weather And the tears he cried will rain on Walls as wide as lovers' eyes In the temple of love - shine like thunder In the temple of love - cry like rain In the temple of love - hear my calling In the temple of love - hear my name And the devil in a black dress watches over My guardian angel walks away Life is short and love is always over in the morning Black wind come carry me far away With the sunlight died and the night above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside You run for cover in the temple of love You run for another, it's all the same For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside With the fire from the fireworks up above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand You run for cover in the temple of love I shine like thunder, cry like rain And the temple of love grows old and strong But the wind blows stronger, cold and long And the temple of love will fall before this Black wind calls my name to you no more In the black sky thunder sweeping under Ground and over water, sounds of Crying, weeping will not save your Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar All your prayers must seem as nothing Ninety-six below the wave when Stone is dust and only air remains In the temple of love - shine like thunder In the temple of love - cry like rain In the temple of love - hear the calling In the temple of love - is falling down In the temple of love - shine like thunder In the temple of love - cry like rain In the temple of love - hear my calling In the temple of love - hear my name In the black sky thunder sweeping under Ground and over water, sounds of Crying, weeping will not save your Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar All your prayers must seem as nothing Ninety-six below the wave when Stone is dust and only air remains Only haven you can trust And the devil in a black dress watches over My guardian angel walks away Life is short and love is always over in the morning Black wind come carry me far away With the fire from the fireworks up above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain You run for cover in the temple of love I shine like thunder, cry like rain And the temple of love grows old and strong But the wind blows stronger, cold and long And the temple of love will fall before this Black wind calls my name to you no more In the temple of love you hide together Believing pain and fear outside But someone near you rides the weather And the tears he cried will rain on Walls as wide as lovers' eyes In the temple of love - shine like thunder In the temple of love - cry like rain In the temple of love - hear the calling In the temple of love - is falling down ------------------------------------------------------- Heartland / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Lay me down the long white line Leave the sirens far behind me Paint my name in black and gold My heart my flame my heart my road My heartland fade across the line Heartland sing the faces shining In the failing failing failing Heartland make the places mine Clearly now the past mistakes The giant steps we had to take The path that ever promise made to Die in dream dissolve and fade CHORUS My heartland heartland heartland [repeat x3] Behind the lines a face that glimmers Still looking for a face that shines In the promise in the places I'm going to make them mine CHORUS [repeat x40] ------------------------------------------------------- Gimme shelter / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Oh, see the storm is threatening My very life today If I don't get some shelter Yeah, I'm gonna fade away War, children It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away [repeat] Yeah Oh, see the fire is sweeping Down through the streets today Burning like a bright red carpet Another fool who lost the way Rape. Murder. It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away [repeat] Yeah [repeat verse one] Love, sisters It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Love, sisters It's just a shot away Shot away Shot away War, children It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away War, children It's just a kiss away Kiss away Kiss away Rape. Murder. It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away Rape. Murder. It's just a kiss away Kiss away Kiss away [repeat previous three x2] [repeat love chorus] War, children It's just a kiss away Kiss away Kiss away ------------------------------------------------------- The Damage done / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor. Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor Somebody tell me about the ... I need to know about the ... Somebody tell me about the perfect bomb The royal valley of a Blitzkrieg Bop Somebody tell me how to use my gun tools Kiss the napalm in the afternoon I saw the film, I saw the place I live to work for the killing sake When I think you're knocked, when the radio died And the rhythm played from every side See the rubble and the damage done See the debris and the damage done See the wreckage and the damage done See the film, see the damage done Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor. (This is the image, this is the place) Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor (This is the way the world will end) Somebody tell me about the ... (The waltzing man have dancing eyes) I need to know about the ... (This is the way the world will end) Me I'm lost and the radio's dead Now I'm relaxed and the radio's dead The rhythms gone, the radio's dead And the damage done inside my Head Oh. ------------------------------------------------------- Watch / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Here's the story No time to lose (like the present) Now I've lost my friends Now I've lost friends It's not my party, Never will be Feeling out-of-place, I'm not happy A touch of the storm cloud... Roughage in a comradeship and conversations Conversations, everything's so run-of-the-mill We stand still... And time slips back, And time slips back... Back to the garden, Time slips back Back in the dark rooms Time slips back Back in the dark room Back to the dark age Put me on the rack We stand still Time slips back Recount movements Recount movements Watch us grow Watch us fall from grace Watch us fall flat on our face But you always fall on your feet Tell me how you always Fall on your feet Tell me how Tell me how Tell me how Oh tell me how ------------------------------------------------------- Home of the hitmen / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) The sun shines on the aluminium I guess this must be the home of the hitmen ------------------------------------------------------- Body electric / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Through the cables and the underground now The faceless breathless calls This is Babel, sensurround now This place is death with walls repeat x3 Too much contact, and no more feeling The Sound around them all Acid on the floor so she walks on the ceiling And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall x2 Crawling to the corners where the idiot children call See the body flashing on the bathroom wall repeat 1 Too much contact, and no more feeling The Sound around them all Acid on the floor so she walks on the ceiling And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall x3 See the body flashing on the bathroom wall Burn Burn me a fire in the reptile house In the colour and the carnage fall me down My face in the fire in the reptile house And the kissing and the colour come crashing down In the fire in the reptile house In the colour and the carnage fall me down My face in the fire in the reptile house And the kissing and the colour come crashing down Down down down Down around me Down down down Down around Face in the fire on the reptile house In the colour and the carnage fall me down My face in the fire in the reptile house And the kissing and the colour come crashing down Down down down Down around me Down down down Around My face in the fire my faith in the fire In the In the burn me down my My burning down In the fire in the reptile house In the colour and the carnage fall me down My face in the fire in the reptile house And the kissing and the colour come crashing Down Crashing down ------------------------------------------------------- Adrenochrome / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) We'll turn away in a passive decision We'll take the steps through the unmarked door A look back for another collision But the boys of the spires Are boys no more Not black and red boys Frightened by the night By the Catholic monochrome The Catholic girls now Stark in their dark and white Dread in monochrome The Sisters of Mercy High tide Wide eyed Sped on adrenochrome For the Sisters of Mercy Filled with Panic in their eyes Rise Dead on adrenochrome We had the power We had the space We had a sense of time and place We knew the words We knew the score We knew what we were fighting for For the freedom The time to choose But time to think Is time to lose The signals clash And disappear The shade too loud And the sound unclear For the High tide Wide eyed Dread in monochrome Denied in spite Disliked in monochrome Panic in their eyes Rise Dead and monochrome The Sisters of Mercy Spite On adrenochrome The way is clear The road is closed The damage done And the course Imposed you You turn away in a passive decision You take the steps through the unmarked door A look back for another collision But the boys of the spires Are boys no more repeat 2 ------------------------------------------------------- Anaconda / Sisters of mercy (Some girls wander by mistake) Baby buy an anaconda Baby buy a thing to wear She go walking she go crawling she go sliding through the air She go talking warm and fashion she go talking debonair but See her face turn to a mask And passion turn to she don't care She will she will let it take her breath away She will she will let it take her life away Let it wrap itself around her til it kill her in its way She will she will blow away Baby hit the rush hour traffic get a ride to anywhere Baby buy the number three she pay the man she pay the fare Baby hit the wild blue yonder on the mainline on the slide Steal to feed the anaconda will not see the suicide She will she will let it take her breath away She will she will let it take her life away Let it wrap itself around her til it kill her in its way She will she will blow away Baby finger on the trigger baby shot formaldehyde Turn into a marble figureturn the matter dead inside Turn into a China doll go maybe to the final ride Baby go where I don't follow baby on the other side She will she will let it take her breath away She will she will let it take her life away Let it wrap itself around her til it kill her in its way She will she will blow away ------------------------------------------------------- Under the gun / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) You don't have to say you're sorry To look on further down the line Into the sun Too close at heaven Love is fine But you can't hold it like a ... Two worlds apart two together Into that good night kiss away Into that good night kiss away One takes the hand, one the other Kiss away Are you living for love? Are you living for love? When the road gets too tough Is your love strong enough? Are you living? Are you living for love? Are you living for love? Are you living? Are you living for love? Are you living for love? Do you feel your head is full of thunder? Questions never end? Empty nights alone? No wonder It all comes back again Are you living for love? Are you living for love? I've been under the gun I've lost and I've ... Are you living for love? Are you living for love? I've been under the gun I'm lost and I've won ... Forget the many steps to heaven It never happened and it ain't so hard Happiness is a loaded weapon and a Short cut is better by far Explosive bolts, ten thousand volts At a milion miles an hour Abrasive wheels and molten metals It's a semi-automatic, get in the car Corrosive heart and frozen heat We're worlds apart where we could meet Where the street fold round and the motors start And the idiot wields the power Where the chosen hold the highest card On the field of hounour where the ground is hard So the highest hand is joking wild and the house soon fold and no one stand I put my finger on and dialed The tower, the moon, the gun, and Nine, nine, nine singer down Cloudburst and all around The first are last, the blessed get wired The best is yet to come I put my finger on and fired Heat-seeking, out of the sun You can set the controls for the heart or the knees And the meek'll inherit what they damn well please Get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger Everything under the gun ------------------------------------------------------- Temple of love (1992 edit) / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) With the fire from the fireworks up above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand You run for cover in the temple of love You run for another but still the same For the wind will blow my name across this land In the temple of love you hide together Believing pain and fear outside But someone near you rides the weather And the tears he cried will rain on Walls as wide as lovers' eyes In the temple of love - shine like thunder In the temple of love - cry like rain In the temple of love - hear my calling In the temple of love - hear my name And the devil in a black dress watches over My guardian angel walks away Life is short and love is always over in the morning Black wind come carry me far away With the sunlight died and the night above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside You run for cover in the temple of love You run for another, it's all the same For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside With the fire from the fireworks up above With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain You run for cover in the temple of love I shine like thunder, cry like rain And the temple of love grows old and strong But the wind blows stronger, cold and long And the temple of love will fall before this Black wind calls my name to you no more In the black sky thunder sweeping under Ground and over water, sounds of Crying, weeping will not save your Faith for bricks and dreams for morter All your prayers must seem as nothing Ninety-six below the wave when Stone is dust and only air remains In the temple of love - shine like thunder In the temple of love - cry like rain In the temple of love - hear the calling And the temple of love - is falling down In the temple of love - shine like thunder In the temple of love - cry like rain In the temple of love - hear my calling In the temple of love - hear my name In the black sky thunder sweeping under Ground and over water, sounds of Crying, weeping will not save your Faith for bricks and dreams for morter All your prayers must seem as nothing Ninety-six below the wave when Stone is dust and air remains the Only haven you can trust And the devil in a black dress watches over My guardian angel walks away Life is short and love is always over in the morning Black wind come carry me far away With the fire from the fireworks up above With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain You run for cover in the temple of love I shine like thunder, cry like rain And the temple of love grows old and strong But the wind blows stronger, cold and long And the temple of love will fall before this Black wind calls my name to you no more In the temple of love you hide together Believing pain and fear outside But someone near you rides the weather And the tears he cried will rain on Walls as wide as lovers' eyes In the temple of love - shine like thunder In the temple of love - cry like rain In the temple of love - hear the calling And the temple of love - is falling down ------------------------------------------------------- Vision thing / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) Twenty-five whores in the room next door Twenty-five floors and I need more I'm looking for the can in the candy store Two thousand Hamburg for And colours I ain't seen before It's a small world and it smells funny I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money Take back what I paid For another motherfucker in a motorcade In a long black car With the prettiest shit From Panama When the sirens wail And the lights flash blue My vision thing come Slamming through ... It's a small world and it smells bad I'd buy another if I had Back what I paid For another motherfucker in a motorcade Slamming through ... Slamming through ... What do we need to make our world come alive? What does it take to make us sing? While we're waiting for the next one to arrive? One million points of light One billion dollar vision thing Another black hole in the killing zone A little more mad in the methedrome One blinding flash of sense Just like the president's Well I don't mind, out of my mind Blizzard king, bring it on home It's a small world and it smells bad I'd buy another if I had Back what I paid For another motherfucker in a motorcade And a vision thing And a vision thing And a sha la la la What do we need to make our world come alive? What does it take to make us sing? While we're waiting for the next one to arrive? One million points of light One billion dollar vision thing Sha la la la When the sirens wail And the lights flash blue My vision thing come Slamming through ... It's a small world and it smells bad I'd buy another if I had Back what I paid For another motherfucker in a motorcade Slamming through ... Slamming through ... What do we need to make our world come alive? What does it take to make us sing? While we're waiting for the next one to arrive? One million points of light One billion dollar vision thing ------------------------------------------------------- Detonation boulevard / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) Through the angel rain Through the dust and the gasoline Through the cruelty of strangers To the neon dream Long distance information Just tell me where the manholes steam A little girl waits on my station With a new machine On Detonation Boulevard ... I got wrecked out here In a Eldorado I got wired, white-walled This hot-wired Sedan I caught something weird in Encenada I've a brother of sorts in Torquemada Long distance information Disconnect me if you can On Detonation Boulevard ... Pink noise, white noise And a violet whining sound It burns inside this car No cops, no signs, no left, no right No stops, no turning round You can run but you can't ride You won't get far On Detonation Boulevard ... bang bang On Detonation Boulevard ... Through the angel rain Through the rust and the gasoline Through the cruelty of strangers To the neon dream Long distance information I'll take the same I got the fuel for the transformation I'm a naked flame On Detonation Boulevard ... bang bang ------------------------------------------------------- Doctor Jeep / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) Everybody shouts on I love Lucy Pee Wee reads the evening news A pre-owned song or a second-hand Uzi Everybody got a job to lose Here come the golden oldies Here come the Hizbollah Businessmen from South Miami Humming AOR Meanwhile ... I like Cal and his dog Napalm I like Ike and his itty-bitty A-bomb Everybody got one, I want mine You can order it up on Channel Nine Meanwhile, in the Sheraton Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on Guns and cars and accidents The threatened witness my defence You can sell one another for fifteen cents Well by-by mother, it's common sense Meanwhile, in the Sheraton Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on Meanwhile ... ------------------------------------------------------- More / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) Some people get by With a little understanding Some people get by With a whole lot more I don't know Why you gotta be so undemanding One thing I know I want more I want more (And I need all the love that I can't get to) (And I need all the love I can get) (And I need all the love that I can't get to) D'you get scared to feel so much? To let somebody tough you? So hot, so cold, so far so out of control Hard to come by, and harder to hold Some people get by With a little understanding Some people get by With a whole lot more I don't know Why you gotta be so undemanding I want more (And I need all the love I can get) (And I need all the love that I can't get to) (And I need all the love I can get) (And I need all the love that I can't get to) There are parts of me that don't get nervous Not the parts that shake You won't get what you deserve You are what you take Learing to cry for fun and profit I'm not done yet Counterfeit dollars or the English zloty Anywhere I can get Some people get by With a little understanding Some people get by With a whole lot more I don't know Why you gotta be so undemanding One thing I know I want more (And I need all the love I can get) (And I need all the love that I can't get to) (And I need all the love I can get) (And I need all the love that I can't get to) All the love that you can get All the love That I can't get to ... ------------------------------------------------------- Lucrecia my reflection / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down I hear empire down I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Love lost, fire at will Dum dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear Dive, bombers, and Empire down Empire down I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty, but you and me We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then We don't doubt, we don't take direction Lucrecia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me ... We look hard We look through We look hard to see for real Such things I hear, they don't make sense I don't see much evidence I don't feel I don't feel I don't feel A long train held up by page on page A hard reign held up by rage Once a railroad Now it's done ... I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down We got the empire, now as then We don't doubt, we don't take reflection Lucrecia, my direction, dance the ghost with me ... ------------------------------------------------------- Dominion / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) In the heat of the night In the heat of the day When I close my eyes When I look your way When I meet the fear that lies inside When I hear you say In the heat of the moment Say, say, say Some day, some day, some day, Dominion Come a time Some day, some day, some day, Dominion Some say prayers Some say prayers I say mine In the light of the fact On the lone and level Sand stretch far away In the heat of the action In the settled dust Hold, hold and sway In the meeting of mined Down in the streets of shame In the betting of names on gold to rust In the land of the blind Be ... king, king, king Some day, some day, some day, Dominion Come a time Some day, some day, some day, Dominion Some say prayers Some say prayers I say mine In the land of the blind Be ... king, king, king Some day, some day, some day, Dominion Some say prayers Some say prayers I say mine In the heat of the night In the heat of the day When I close my eyes When I look your way When I meet the fear that lies inside When I hear you say In the heat of the moment Say, say, say Some day, some day, some day, Dominion Some say prayers Some say prayers I say mine I say mine I say mine ------------------------------------------------------- Mother Russia / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) We serve an old man in a dry season A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun Dreamers of sleepers and white treason We dream of rain and the history of the gun There's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia A white house in a red square I'm living in films for the sake of Russia A Kino Runner for the DDR And the fifty-two daugthers of the revolution Turn the gold to chrome Gift...nothing to lose Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home, sing: Mother Russia, Mother Russia, Mother Russia rain down down down Mother Russia, Mother Russia, Mother Russia rain down ------------------------------------------------------- This corrosion / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) Gimme the ring, kissed and toll'd Gimme something that I missed A hand to hold, wild and what it seems ... Kill the king, when love is the law And the we'll turn round ... Gimme dream child And did you hear me call? On the loan and on the level ... still on the floor Sing dream child And do you hear at all? Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now ... Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now ... Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me? Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call? Sing, child, of right and wrong Gimme things that don't last long Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call? Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now ... On daze like this In times like these I feel an animal deep inside Heel to naunch on bended knees Living on if and if I tried Somebody send me, please ... Dream wars and a ticket to seem Giving out and in Selling the don't belong Well, what do you say D'you have a word for giving away? Got a song for me? Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing like a healing hand I got nothing to say I ain't said before I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more I don't need no one to understand Why the blood run hold the highered hand On heart Hand Of God Floodland and Driven Apart Run cold Turn Cold Burn Like a heeling hand Like a heeling hand Like a heeling hand Like a heeling hand ------------------------------------------------------- No time to cry / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) It's just a feeling I get sometimes A feeling Sometimes And I get frightened Just like you I get frightened too But it's No time for heartache No time for run and hide No time for breaking down No time to cry Sometimes in the world as is you've Got to shake the hand that feeds you It's just like Adam says, it's Not so hard to understand, it's Just like always coming down on Just like Jesus never came and What did you expect to find, it's Just like always here again, it's No time for heartache No time for run and hide No time for breaking down No time to cry Everything will be alright Everything will turn out fine Some nights I still can sleep and the Voices pass with time and I keep (Everything will be alright) (Everything will turn out fine) (Some nights I still can sleep and the) (Voices pass with time and I keep) No time for tears No time to run and hide No time to be afraid of fear and I Keep no time to cry, it's No time for heartache No time to run and hide No time for breaking down No time to cry ------------------------------------------------------- Walk away / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) And in the summer when the clouds show through I might go the same way too if You and I could talk together Well what am I suppost to do with You and I would walk together then With always close around and Now you gaze toward the doorway When the weather comes falling down And when the rain comes down Would you choose to walk or stay, would you Choose to walk, would you choose to stay, would you Walk ... away? Away Away Away Would you choose to walk away? And when the rain comes down Would you choose to walk or stay, would you Choose to walk, would you choose to stay, would you Walk ... away? Though when the day is nearly through I might see the smae way too if You would name the things that bring you Down on me so I could say it's Not quite true if you don't really Know or understand the circumstance Behind then I might clear your Mind, and you won't have to go, so So when the rain comes down Would you choose to walk or stay, would you Choose to walk, would you choose to stay, would you Walk ... away? Away Away Away Would you choose to walk away? Away ------------------------------------------------------- Body and soul / Sisters of mercy (Greatest hits vol. 1) All your hidden faces Your seven veils unfold Give me forbidden places All your tales untold Give me ever and always Ever and always, body and soul Heaven and a hope eternal Over your heart of gold Sun and sunset Burning in the flame you hold Ever and always Give me ever and always, body and soul Yesterday Today Tomorrow Body and soul Give me ever the years you wept inside when cold All the sins and secrets never cried All the dreams you wept and the fears you sold, give me Give me ever and always Ever and always, body and soul Your heart your mind your body and Soul Soul Soul