~*Taxidermy*~
(2000 Blanco Y Negro)
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Cold Fish
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(K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
Strip me down and bare my soul
Cut my heart out
Eat me whole
Taunt and bait me , invalidate me
Cold fish
In my little dish...
Cast your hook and reel me in
Faster more fast
Break me in
Castigate me , go on and make me
Cold fish
Splish splish splish
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Soda Dreamer
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(K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
Rags and riches I made three wishes
I've been a bad girl and I kissed the witches
I dance naked with animals I've seen more than you
ever dreamed possible
I've seen her I've breathe inside her
I've seen her adreena
I've seen her adreena
Hags and bitches I made three wishes
I've been a bad girl and I broke the dishes
I dance naked with animals I've seen more than you
ever dreamed possible
I've seen her I've grown her seeds
I've been her adreena
I've seen her adreena
Rags and riches I made three wishes
I've been a bad girl and kissed the witches
I danse naked with animals I've seen more than you
ever dreamed possible
I've seen her I breathe inside her
I've been her adreena
I've seen her adreena
I've seen her
I sowed her dreams
I've been her adreena
I've seen her Adreena
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I Adore You
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(K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
They open my window...in comes the light
I froze in the corner...I pray for the night
But if it's you my dear who turns on the light
I'll eat from your hands as a bird with no fear no no
fear
Because I adore you
I adore you
I adore you
I adore you
Rise up my dark star...face into the night
Come out of your corner..shine for the night
if it's you my love who turns on the light
I'll eat from your hands as a bird with no fear no no
fear
Because I adore you
I adore you
I adore you
I adore you
I adore you
I adore you
Climb out of the shadows...crawl into the night
Fall out of the window...die to the night
if it's you my love who turns on the light
I'll eat from your hands as a bird with no fear no no
fear
Because I adore you...
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Yesterday's Hymn
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(K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
Ten planes falling from the sky
The setting sun leaves no trace
My name was written in the sky
But now there is no trace
Yesterday's hymn serves me not
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
Shadow faces reaching for me
Pretending they know what's best for me
But I know that I am their experiment
I scare myself with paranoid talk
Yesterday's hymn serves me not
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
I try to keep the whispered words at bay
For they seem to feed into the mire
I've lost all ability to make any choices
I'm teetering in purgatory
Yesterday's hymn serves me not
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
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Pretty Polly
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(Traditional:arr K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
Polly pretty polly come go away with me
Polly pretty polly come go away with me
Before we get married some pleasures to see
She jumped up beside him and away they did go
She jumped up beside him and away they did go
Over the mountains and the valley below
Billy oh billy I'm afraid for my life
Billy oh billy I'm afraid for my life
I'm afraid you mean to murder me and leave me behind
Polly pretty polly you're guessing about right
Polly pretty polly you're guessing about right
I've been digging your grave for the best part of your
life
He stabbed her through the heart and her hot blood did
flow
He stabbed her through the heart and her hot blood did
flow
And into the grave pretty polly did go
He threw a little dirt over her and started for home
He threw a little dirt over her and started for home
Leaving nobody there but the wild birds to moan
A debt to the devil billy must pay
A debt to the devil billy must pay
For killing pretty polly and running away
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Yemaya
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(Instrumental)
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Madraykin
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(K.J.Garside)
Let not your hold be so tight
She'll return in the morning
If you give her the night
Madraykin is she suffering?
Is she suffering?
Madraykin is she suffering?
Revealing her birthmark you cast out her eye
Clipped are the wings of the angels sighs
Revealing her birthmark you put out her tongue
Clipped are the wings of the fairies who run
Madraykin is she suffering?
Is she suffering?
Madraykin is she suffering?
How deep does she weep in your well of unkeep
The kiss of madraykin will keep you from sleep
Keep you from sleep
Keep you from sleep
Keep you from sleep
Keep you from sleep
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X-ing Off the Days
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(C.Gray)
You walk all over anyone who dares to be a friend
Screen and yell because you deem them unenlightened
High upon your horse you preach and preach and preach
Love thy fellow humans all your filthy little creeps
X-ing off the days
X-ing off the days
I nearly broke my back as I was handing back for you
Half the time was hell and half a waste of time
High upon your horse you preach and preach and preach
Love thy fellow humans all your filthy little creeps
X-ing off the days
X-ing off the days
I do not know the answer to the universe I fear
So dropn me cold and go and find your perfect man my
dear
High upon your horse you preach and preach and preach
Love thy fellow humans all your filthy little creeps
X-ing off the days
X-ing off the days
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Hide From Time
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(S.Carter / K.J.Garside)
Inside her tower she feels free from harm
I'll lock her up inside safe and warm
She'll sleep for winter she'll sleep for years
The garden's overgrown over her tears
Hide from time
Hide from time
Grow the garden year after year
The roots dug deep she won't be found down here
Brambles thorns will keep the boys away hey hey
She needs her sleep she won't play today
Hide from time
Hide from time
I'll keep her heart I'll keep it in one piece
I'll be with her through years and years of sleep
I'll make this moment last I'll beat time
I'll be with her forever make her mine
Hide from time
Hide from time
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Friday's Child
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(K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
........my daughter
take her from the water.......
I laid her down.......
For she drinks from the river
I pray forgive her<
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
Girl a string of lovers
Found dead beneath her
They pulled her down
For she drinks from the river
I pray forgive her
Don't let her drown
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
A prayer for the mind who's thread bare
For those who dare to tread there
Now the sun is gone
Oh I pray for my daughter
I pray support her
Don't let her drown
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
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Sleepwalking
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(K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
Trippy little popsicle cod
Did i get it quite right?
Broken got broke
Was it good to smoke?
I am not sure
Was it good to sing?
Was it right to love?
Was it wrong this turning that I took?
Does the song sound right?
Do I look alright?
I spent all night getting it right
So you would love me more
So you would love me more
Pray for your indecision girl
Run from your indecision girl
Hide from your indecision girl
Somnambulation up and down the road
I lay in the garden with the cats
Oh my how the grass did grow
I watch the clock till the day did stop
I pray for my lovers return
I spent all night getting it right
So you would love me more
So you would love me more
Pray for your indecision girl
Burn for your indecision girl
Blind from your indecision girl
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Are The Songs My Disease?
*~
(K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
I used to know this wretched girl
I made her open for me
I took her heart
And I kissed it clean
But she still kicks against me
Are the songs my disease?
Are the songs my disease?
Maybe she's creating me
Mistaken accidentally
For a girl I used to know
In darkness permanently
If I find her the perfect line
My sickness might desert me
Are the songs my disease?
Are the songs my disease?
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Weeds
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(K.J.Garside / C.Gray)
There is an anger comes off this girl
That she can't find an origin
The things I plant won't grow
Yet the wild weeds flower in wind and snow
Nothing to be nothing to prove
Nowhere to go nothing to lose
When will my season come
Was I born of infertile soil
Is my seed without song
Can I not see the woods for these forests in my head
Can I not see the sunlight as I play dead?
Nothing to be nothing to prove
Nowhere to go nothing to lose
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A Heavenly Surrender
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(K.J.Garside)
I make you a prayer a heavenly surrender
To the one somewhere out there
The one who can mend her
I pray for the one who can open my door
Let me go through it
Oh yes give me more
A prayer for the lover, the willing intender
To break down the girl a heavenly surrender
I only make love to jesus
I only fuck god
I only make love to jesus
I only fuck god
I crave your violence, act it upon me
Set me free by your weighted autonomy
I am so human so small so debased
Jealously and darkness rule over this place
A prayer for the lover the willing intender
To break down the girl a heavenly surrender
I only make love to jesus
I only fuck god
I only make love to jesus
I only fuck god
I'm a lover of freedom but I cling to the dust
I'm blown by the wind I'm a slave I am lust
Please rub my face in the shit that I sleep in
Tie me and bind me up for your keeping
I make you a prayer a heavenly surrender
To the one somewhere out there
The one who can mend her
I only make love to jesus
I only fuck god
I only make love to jesus
I only fuck god
I only make love to jesus
I only fuck god
I only fuck god I only fuck god
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Pray For Me
*~
(K.J.Garside)
I painted somebody
I painted some more
I paited a house and I opened the door
I made her come inside
I made her feel warm
I mended her heartache
The one that she tore
Pray for me
I wrapped her in softness
Made her a fire
I gave her the one who fulfilled her desire
I laid off the doctor
Allowed her to see
She doesn't need him now
She's living with me
Pray for me
* Japanese Release only - Bonus Tracks
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