my favourite quotes of Bauhaus...

"Hidden in the dashboard
The unseen mechanized eye
Under surveillance
The road is full of cats eyes
It's sick function to pry"
-from the Spy in the Cab

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"Please don't pass by or I shall cry"
-from Boys

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"I am the end of reproduction"
-from Kick In The Eye

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"A sentence should be like a serpent, quick with a sting in it's tail. String me a line that has meaning and depth"
-from Small Talk Stinks

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"Be glad of first night nerves, for fear gives courage wings"
-from Spirit

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"Baleful sounds and wild voices ignored
ill-luck, disaster, the one reward
violated sanctity of supermen's hills
so sad, love lies there still, so sad, so sad"
-from Hollow Hills

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"What do you want of me, what do you long from me?"
-from Crowds

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"I dare you to be real"
-from Double Dare

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"The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box"
-from Bela Lugosi's Dead

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"What happens when the intoxication of success has evaporated?"
-from Silent Hedges

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"And for special effects, he has six filters
three coloured red with the others pilfered
and if you really want to know what that means
he could throw a blue flash from eighty five feet"
-from St. Vitus Dance

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"self confidence leaks from a thousand wounds"
-from Silent Hedges

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"All we ever wanted was everything, all we ever got was cold"
-from All We Ever Wanted...

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"Every care is taken in my rejection"
-from Kick In The Eye

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"He drops a capsule in your drink, and spikes your dreams with madness"
-from the Sanity Assassin

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"In the flat field I do get bored, replace with picadilly whores
in my yearn for some cerebral fix, transfer me to that solid plain, hammer me into blazen pain
moulding shapes no shame to waste, moulding shapes no shame to waste
and drag me there with deafening haste"
-from In the Flat Field

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"the man who was mercilessly tortured by thoughts, kept on thinking"
-from Hair Of the Dog

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"I work like a dog on the job every day
Trying to earn some money so I can go and play
In the night time"
-from Night Time (by feldman/goldstein/gottehrer)

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"I've got nothing to lose"
-from Muscle in Plastic

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"while the thing I am becomes something else
part character, part sensation"
-from Mask

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"this tin could become your world too
so choose between this and water
choose between tin and piss"
-from The Three Shadows (part III)

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"she gets the better of the bigger to the letter"
-from The Passion Of Lovers

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"One man's poison, another man's meat. one man's agony, another man's treat"
-from Antonin Artuad

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"Stigmata oh you sordid sight
Stigmata in your splintered plight
Look into your crimson orifice
In holy remembrance, in scarlet bliss "
-from Stigmata Martyr

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"He enjoys feeling pain, he enjoys peeling slow "
-from Lagartija Nick

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"Purple pie Pete
Your lips are like lightning
Girls melt in the heat"
-from Telegram Sam (by M. Bolan)

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"needing some other kind of madness"
-from Silent Hedges

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"You worthless bitch, you fickle shit. You will spit on me, you will make me spit "
-from Crowds

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"But I will always exist
Because I always exist
Damn good too "
-from the Three Shadows (part II)

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"his power became his agony, his power knew no bounds"
-from Departure

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...more to come...

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