~*I Feel Insane*~
My skin is itching
all I can do is scratch
they keep on niggling
maybe I'm insane
'cause I refuse it
they nearly got me down
they're shaking their heads
they feel that I'm insane
and does it matter
who is right or wrong
I look for something
before I go insane
to be like they say
I lose my something grin
and then I'll know
what it is to be insane
I'm getting (fucking)older
but still I'm hanging on
the world gets weirder
or maybe I'm insane
~*You Be My Friend*~
You be my friend
(repeat)
You're certain,convicted
Younger and beautiful
I am uncertain
not sure directionless
you bare your soul
and you're torment convincingly
biting my nails
do I look ill at ease
You be my friend
(repeat)
You are so pretty and
witty and natural
charming engaging with it
and upto date
I fit to others
you stand heroically
you yeah why not you
I bow down not quite so well
you be my friend
(repeat)
~*Dog With Sharper Teeth*~
I've been barking
snarling growling snapping
at the tails of others
I've been feeding
off the scraps they left behind
and begging for more
maybe I've been whimpering
and scratching at the door
but now I'm
dog with sharper teeth
(repeat)
gnawing at the bones
of those you know
can only moan when bitten
chasing my own tail
a rabid dog
whose on the trail of nothing
dragged round on a leash
until I'd chewed through
no more hesitation
dog with sharper teeth
(repeat)
I've been barking
snarling growling snapping
at the tails of others
I've been feeding
off the scraps they left behind
and begging for more
maybe I've been whimpering
and scratching at the door
but now I'm
dog with sharper teeth
(repeat)
~*Hope Your Dreams Come True*~
Hello I'm you're saviour
you're such individuals
everyone agrees
it's going to feel so good
now I'd pay a high price
to feel nothing at all
I hope all your dreams come true
{chorus}(repeat)
you're sympathy I don't need
my brick wall it stays up
it took so long to build
{chorus}
people all need a hero
to touch they're souls is easy
I hope all your dreams come true
(repeat)
If they don't what will you do?
~*Natural Man*~
Be like I have said
I said it clearly
they mess it up instead
I mean it really
I am a god no one understands
I am the one
I am the one
The natural man I am yeah
{chorus}
fools and idiots
just when I want
friends when I see it
just when I want
{chorus}
I'm perfect that's for sure
I am in class all by myself
I stand
~*Love Your Money*~
We love you yeah
We love what you got and you've got it truly
You're talented kid
We can see it clearly
We love your sound
The way you look so we say sincerely
You're natural stars and we mean it really
{chorus}
We love your money(Love your money)
We love your money(Love your money)
We love your money(Love your money)
We love your money(Love your money)
Yes we do
We love you yeah
place your trust in us completely
You'll sell worldwide we mean it really
We love your songs
shape your image and we'll all be wealthy
{repeat}
We love you so love your demo
We love you so love love love love
all your money
We love your money(love your money)
We love your money(love your money)
Love love love love all your money
(repeat chorus)
Love love love love all your money
Love love love love all your money
Love love love love all your money
~*Lovely Ugly Brutal World*~
I've got a new dress
with large breasts
and I look funny
My beautiful boy
Who has brown eye
we both smell immensely
We live in our dreams
He lives with self
will open up
And now he bashes his head
Again and again
Oh my bed
Oh my knees
He's an odd boy
lucky boy
makes big noise
with big bottle
Lovely ugly cruel world (repeat)
I wear a nice blue hat
Just to keep in with awing of things
ugly, and it head to.......
~*Use Me Use You*~
I know you might say
things behind my back
you know it's okay
I can live with that
nice to have a friend
just when you need one
don't try and pretend
you don't need one
why do you need
someone at your feet
where does it lead
just a dead-end street
~*The Future Free*~
All all for the future free so free
all all for the future free free so free
{chorus}
for god we stood
the right
do as we should
just for you my boy
keep you from the common ploy
just for you my girl
when I'm dead and gone
{chorus}
Do as it takes
for all our sakes
must save our race
just for the Union Jack
don't you feel so proud of that?
just for the Stars & Stripes
we'd pay the highest price
{chorus}
~*Pink Flower*~
Wish wish I could be the real thing
real thing
there'd be no put down
walk around as if you
Know it's true if you knew I'd be cut down
Poor pink flower nervously
I hold on to my chair
up here the air is not so certain
I am waiting for the sun to rise
my oh my it looks so searing
ragged laughing I would flowers if I could
Every people go by on the screen
I'm so green
I shake in my shoes never hoped
I'd die before
I'm old but poor and old I'd wish on no one
Pray pink flower
Please please I've not yet grown tired of this
earthly life hey dear friends lets take a ride
in the countryside .....
pale pink flower
~*Waiting For The Wolves*~
I know their coming
they'll come running
waiting for the wolves (repeat)
I know they'll be here
the day it draws near
Waiting for the wolves (repeat)
I hear them scratching
the wood it spinters
into slivers easily
I hear them scratching
I hear them clawing
I fear they will not be kept
much longer from the door
so don't you worry
it will be over
sooner than you know
sooner than you know
you wish
can't change it
wishing will not save it
waiting for the wolves (repeat)
~*Everything Is Weird*~
I was waiting all my life
to start living
when I was a child
I understood living
Everything is weird (repeat)
Then they all
with handed downs
destroy living I was
waiting all my life
to find my name
Everything is weird (repeat)
Everything is so very weird (repeat)
Taxidermy
~* Cold Fish *~
(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
~*Soda Dreamer *~
(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
~*I Adore You *~
(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...
~*Yesterday's Hymn *~
(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
~*Pretty Polly *~
(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
~*Yemaya *~
(Instrumental)
~*Madraykin *~
(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
~*X-ing Off the Days *~
(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 drop 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
~*Hide From Time *~
(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
~*Friday's Child *~
(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
~*Sleepwalking *~
(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
~*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?
~*Weeds *~
(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
~*A Heavenly Surrender *~
(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
~*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
Drink Me
Bed Of Roses
cold sweat, cold sweat cold..
go away, go away, go!
i'm sweating baby
in my bed of roses
sweating baby
in my bed of roses
love, i don't want it
....
answer the fucking phone!
cold sweat, cold sweat
go away, go away, go!
i'm sweating baby
in my bed of roses
sweating baby
in my bed of roses
love, i don't want it
put your cold hand in my pocket
.....
answer the fucking phone!
go away, go away, go!
i'm sweating baby
in my bed of roses
sweating baby
lying in my heaven of roses
drunk, on a trip, and i'll take him
....
ooh, oooh
cold sweat
go away, go away, go!...
Desert Lullaby
how, how did i get here
what world is this
how, how did i get here
what world is this
looking at forever
the ivory bones did speak
i walked the path to nowhere
found there's nothing underfeet
looking at forever
this river's running dry
the desert thirst
has done her worst
she cursed my lullaby
how, how did i get here
what world is this
how, how did i get here
what world is this
the midnight sun burns holes
in the soles of my feet
i kneel before you
i say, please fuck me baby
looking at forever
i cling to every limb
please hold me tight
for the dead of night
prefers my suffering...
how, how did i get here
what world is this
what world is this
what world is this
what world is this
what world is this
the midnight suns burns holes
in the soles of my feet
i kneel down before you
i say, please fuck me baby
please, fuck me baby.
For I Am The Way
for i am the way
burn all effigies of clay
walk on water today
for i am the way
for i am the way
today i turn my blood to sweetest wine
a holy sign imbued with the divine
today's the day the gods walk out on me
the great divide is crossed for you by me
for i am the way
burn all effigies of clay
walk on water today
for i am the way
for i am the way
today the silent one does have her say
today all contradictions seemed ok
today's the day that i become the sky
a silent understanding, my, oh my..
for i am the way
burn all effigies of clay
walk on water today
for i am the way
for i am the way
today, for once, i'm not the last to learn
today the only bridge i have, i burn
today's the day the gods walk out on me
the great divide is crossed for you by me
for i am the way
for i am the way
for i am the way
for i am the way.
Hotel Aftershow
erase the past
i burn my home
kiss your passport
hotel aftershow
so now i'm really in a fucking mess
i got one suitcase but no address
nothing, nowhere, no one
nothing, nowhere, no one
no one...
gravity has changed her fucking mind
i'm lost hotel in space and time
so book me in for your last show
its inconsequential, nowhere to go
nothing, nowhere, no one, oh..
nothing, nowhere, no one
no one...
nothing! nowhere! no one!
nothing! nowhere! no one!
nothing! nowhere! no one!
nothing! nowhere! no one!
Kitty Collar Tight
watch how i put it on
kitty collar tight!
make it sing its song
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
watch how i put it on
kitty collar tight!
make it sing its song
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
i hold your history
and i kiss the map
i'm looking back forwards
your tap drips, i...catch
watch how i put it on
kitty collar tight!
make it sing its song
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
watch how i put it on
kitty collar tight!
make it sing its song
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
your skin, my nails
your mirror, my face
your skin impaled
for your scars are my grace
watch how i put it on
kitty collar tight!
make it sing its song
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
watch how i put it on
kitty collar tight!
make it sing its song
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
watch how i put it on
kitty collar tight!
make it sing its song
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
make it fight
make it fight, fight!
My Silent Undoing
my silent undoing
my silent undoing
my silent undoing
my silent undoing
my wasp in a jar
protruding hips
and skull, and spine
ribcage cuts a clear outline
oh, oh
all roped up and pinching in
distorted and disfiguring
oh, oh
my silent undoing
my silent undoing
my wasp in a jar
no photographs around the back
emaciated, iron flat
oh, oh
dehydrated cutting bones
today i'm over 7 stone
oh, oh
my wasp in a jar
my wasp in a jar
my wasp in a jar
twinkle little star
my wasp in a jar.
Pretty Like Drugs
the world is watching
as i take my last breath
the world is watching
as i get undressed
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
the world is watching
as my wings unfurl
the world is watching
the death of a girl
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
i load the gun
pretty like drugs
pretty like drugs
pretty like drugs
the world is watching
with a pregnant pause
the world is watching
as i fuck to applause
the world is watching
as i plant the last seed
the world is watching
me watching t.v.
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
i load the gun
i wax and i wane
subject all my pain onto you, baby
i'm pretty like drugs
i'm pretty like drugs
cos i'm pretty like drugs
pretty like drugs
pretty like drugs
Razorblade Sky
i rip open
clouds with no faces
she undoes herself
for a slice of your pie
razorblade sky
razorblade sky
i quench your thirst
i bleed you dry
help you make your bed
come undone
razorblade sky
razorblade sky
identifying marks
our history picked out in stars
we rip open the firmamment
razorblade sky
razorblade sky
sky, sky, sky
sky, sky, sky
sky, sky, sky
sky, sky.....
"forever and ever and ever."
Siamese Almeida
can i show you this state of mind
for it is not mine
can i not show you this state of mind
for she is not mine
i will not entertain this state of mind
for it is not mine
i will not entertain you
for it is not mine
siamese almeida
siamese almeida, ooh
siamese almeida
siamese almeida, ooh
i will not undo these twisted bones and sinew
i will not look to find who lives in you
i will not hold my hand on fire
take it off my head
i will not entertain this state of mind
for she is not mine
siamese almeida
siamese almeida, ooh
siamese almeida
siamese almeida, ooh
i will not change my ways to suit this day
i will not change my face
i'll hide it from you
all twisted bones and sinew
i will not change what's in you
i will not change for you
i will not change what i hate in you!
all twisted bones and sinew...
i will not change what's in you
i will not change what's in you!
siamese almeida
siamese almeida, ooh
siamese almeida
siamese almeida, ooh
siamese almeida
siamese almeida, ooh
siamese almeida
siamese almeida, ooh
Sleeping Pill
oh so, my love
this sleeping pill
will watch you through the night
and come dawn
i'll be long, long gone
i tried, i tried, i tried
i..tried, i..tried
we feed upon the broken branch
we kiss the stars goodbye
for the sun can't fight this overcast
i tried, i tried, i tried
i..tried, i..tried
the spider's web
it can't break our fall
i whisper to the sky
i pray she takes you in her arms
i tried, i tried, i tried
i..tried, i..tried
i..tried..
storm warning in the sand
she evaporates beneath my fingernails
the road is lost underwater
she's running down a river with eels
she is lost to me.
Under A Floorboard World
i got your secret
and i sure ain't gonna keep it
i've got your secret
and i sure ain't gonna keep it
i'm in the know
and i sure do mean to reap it
i got your secret
and i sure ain't gonna keep it
under a floorboard world
under a floorboard world
ooh, oOoh
i got your secret
and i sure ain't gonna keep it
i got your secret
and i sure ain't gonna keep it
i'm in the know
and i sure do mean to reap it!
i got your secret
and i sure ain't gonna keep it
under a floorboard world
under a floorboard world
under a floorboard world
under a floorboard world
ooh, oooh...
For They Know Not What They Do
~*The Future Free*~
All all for the future free , free so free
All all for the future free , free so free
For god we stood the right the good do as we should
Just for you my boy yeah just for you my girl yeah
The future free
All all for the future free , free so free
All all for the future free , free so free
Do as it takes for all our sakes must save our race
Just for you my boy yeah just for you my girl yeah
The future free
All all for the future free , free so free
All all for the future free , free so free
~*Belittled And Beaten Down*~
I feel better if i know i'm better than you
you said loser
Cause you're just a pygmy who's shy
Everyone knows that there's nothing that you say that makes
Any sense but we'll still take you along for the ride belittled and beaten down
You're just a puny annoyingly cutie who couldn't keep up
With us no matter how hard you tried
Leave the important things up tp the big boys
Cause you are amusing and we wouldn't want you to cry
Belittled and beaten down belittled and beaten down
I have a slot i can fit into nicely or so i am told and i certainly struggle to try
You and your oddly shaped squat little body and total naivete
Inspire laughter every time
I watch my back now for twisted and gnarled little
Bitter souls who'd watch me die
Belittled and beaten down be littled and beaten down
~*Sleeping With Heaven*~
Dreaming of sleeping with you makes
Me happy makes me happy
Dreaming of sleeping with you
I'm in heaven yeah
Yeah my oh my i think of how it would be
Yeah i see your pictures i go weak at the knee
Dreaming of sleeping with you
Makes me happy makes me happy
Dreaming of sleeping with you
I'm in heaven yeah
Yeah you look willing and so anxious to please
Yeah oh your streamlined body is all i need
Dreaming of sleeping with you
I'm in heaven yeah
You're the tastiest that i've ever seen
Oh if only i could reach in the page
More than all the rest in my magazine
I can nearly feel our two selves engage
~*Love Me Forever*~
Don't you think i'm deadly sexy? Love me forever
You and me look good together love me forever
We'll be where it's all happening love me forever
Love me forever and ever
We will yell and scream angry things love me forever
We are young and beautiful yeah love me forever
Love me forever and ever
When i'm tired and old will you still love me forever?
~*Candyfloss*~
Swallow easily
Nothing too rough for you we give you soft eluff
With a pretty face
Here it comes it's candyfloss here it comes it's
Candyfloss here it comes it's candyfloss
Swallow easily
We pat ourselves on our back for service we do
Do just for you
Here it comes it's candyfloss here it comes it's
Candyfloss here it comes it's candyfloss
Swallow easily
We know what you want you give what we want
We know just what to do for you
Here it comes it's candyfloss here it comes it's
Candyfloss here it comes it's candyfloss
Swalow easily swallow easily
~*Life Tomorrow*~
Walking away from all the people i know i find it so hard
To turn my back but i must put my foot down stick to my own
Guns so my dear friend be there for me i'll be there for you be there for we
Must get what i need i've got no money
Must get what i need i've got no money
Must get what i need i've got no money
And just to get it i would walk right over you
Walking awawy i heard a rumour spoken
Said i'm shaken up from a dream but i say no it's
Not true my head is clearer
The sun will go down again so soon there's no
Time to lose again i'll say
~*Zebra Head*~
Zebra head zebra head please bring me my dead
You promised me you promised me you promised me
Zebra head zebra head please bring me my dead
You promised me you promised me you promised me
Zebra head zebra head please bring me my dead
~*Unit Shifter*~
Love is not desired pretty bodies not required
Friends unnecessary people are not worth the worry
Here he comes again with reassuring grin
Utin shifter shifting units shifter
The iceman
Creation is the armour dressed in sparking glittery glamour
Fashioned to provide intellect that's satisfied
Here he comes again with reassuring grin
Unit shifter shifting units unit shifter
The iceman
Love is not required no no love is not desired
Here he comes again with reassuring grin
Unit shifter the iceman
Shifting units the spaceman
Unit shifter shifting units unit shifter the iceman
Units yeah units
~*Diamond Of The Desert*~
Waiting in the wings so patienitly
Ever ready to slip in easily
Secretly barely holding back from that gorgeous
Diamond i must have
Always charming amusing and polite
Nonchalantly elegantly tight
Secretly barely holding back from that gorgeous
Diamond i must have
Gently inching closer to the prize
The tough the vision the beauty to these eyes
Secretly barely holding back from that gorgeous
Diamond i must have
~*Mosquito*~
Just like a mosquito you're just a tiresome parasite
Just like a mosquito you feed on lefe to life
One inch for a mile brings on sadistic smile
Each day becomes a trial
Just like a mosquito you're just a tiresome parasite
Just like a mosquito an irritation jusyt to be alive
Just like a mosquito you feed on life to live
Sometimes stop to think twice how else to live life
Can't feel up just uptight
Put down to feel higher outcast fuels the fire
Make then walk on wire walk on wire
Just like a mosquito you're just a tiresome parasite
Just like a mosquito an irritation just to be alive
Just like a mosquito you feed on life to live
~*Greatest God's Divine*~
Greatest god's divine greatest god's divine
Greatest god's divine today is such a day to be alive
We are influental election is presidential
Our image is essential our methods confidential
More more more more and more
Greatest god's divine greatest god's divine
Greatest god's divine today is such a day to be alive
We are getting larger we have right to thine
Perhaps a company merger conglomerate design
We expand world over business doing fine
Our heads expanding further
More more more more and more
Greatest god's divine greatest god's divine
Greatest god's divine exhausting all the world into decline
Divine divine divine divine
~*Voice For A Generation*~
Do you think she gave a good answer?
Do you know what she means
Do you think that she's cool?
She didn't understand what they said to her but anyway
She hopes that it will be alright
Maybe she could be a voice for a generation
Maybe she could be considered real hip
If she says the wrong things well than i guess
You'll shoot her down boy i guess she really deserves it
~*Looking For An Angel*~
Looking for an angel looking for an angel
Will you won't you help me cure my blues
My whole life depends on luck with you
Angel won't you make my dreams come true
Work work work hard work work work hard
Looking for an angel looking for an angel
Life won't be mundane if i find you
Funny how there's litle i can do
Angel won't you make my dreams come true
Work work work hard work work work hard
I know you'd need my hand if you feel
I know even you must go through hell
Looking for an angel looking for an angel
Show me that there's something that's of use
Life won't be mundane if i find you
Angel won't you make my dreams come true
~*Our Dear Boy*~
Parents : our dear boy there's so much to enjoy our dearest boy
Work hard work very hard
Our dear girl yes it's such a great world our dearest girl
Dream on you just dream on
Friends : follow us lead us on leave them now back us up
Go with us on stimulate
Parents : our dear boy life is such a great joy our dearest boy
Work hard work very hard
Friends : follow us take our hand fuck with us
Lead us on drink with us turn us on stimulate stimulate
Parents : our dear girl yes it's such a great world
Our dearest girl
Work hard work very hard
Our dear boy yes it's such a great joy our dearest boy
Dream on you just dream on
Queen Adreena Interview
(From a fan website)
The first time I heard of Queen Adreena, I thought they were Kerrang's "Hype of the week"- I mean face it how many Kerrang-hype bands are rubbish? I won't list them here, because it might be slander. When I actually heard Queen Adreena, it was like nothing I'd experienced before, I'd heard bands that had had a similar effect on me (i.e. Mothburner) but Queen Adreena was different. There was an awe of fascination for me, and as I started to research them and read interviews, I became truly fascinated. I felt I had to do this interview. There are always bands that I want to interview, but there was this total fascination for me that made me want to do this more than anything. Come the actual day I was as nervous as hell. I'd been unable to find out who I needed to make contact with in order to pre-arrange this interview, so I had to go back to my old style of "if you've got a spare 5 minutes..." and so the story goes. I was standing on the street corner in Middlesborough, being robbed blind by people who'd lost their train fare to Newcastle (I must have given away over £3) and I saw a mini-bus/ van roll up. As my nerves went into overload every thought passed through my head. One of them was that I wouldn't recognize Katie (the obvious choice to ask for an interview) and another was that I would totally lose my bottle. The bus was so far up the road, so I couldn't see clearly, but in the distance I saw someone who was definitely female wearing a tattered pink dress slip. My worries about recognising her were thus quashed. She entered the venue, and came out, so I bit my tongue, closed my eyes and hoped for the best. I was tempted many times to just turn around and go back, but I got there, and I started by nervously asking for her autograph (hey- I'm a fan as well as a journo) before getting the courage up to ask for an interview. Often you get a bit beating around the bush- erm, ahh, if we get chance (and then the band spends the rest of the afternoon propping up the bar or playing with their mobile phones) but we went straight in. Things were going good straight away! Now I had the most nervous interview I've done. I didn't quite know where to start. Luckily Katie is perhaps the nicest person I've ever interviewed, and so we began by discussing how I first heard Queen Adreena. And as one of the first songs I'd heard was "X-ing off the days" that was a good place to start.
So what is "X-ing off the days"? "It's a long story. Crispin wrote it about me when I left Daisy Chainsaw. It's a song about vitriol and about me. He and I, we've got such a long and involved history we've kind of almost grown up together and it was the missing link between this band and the last. I don't usually sing other people's songs unless they mean something to me. When I left it was a very distressing time for him, but for me it was the beginning of a new era." As Katie talks she is very calm and collected. She has an extremely pacifying voice. She had told me before hand she often talks fast, but she seemed to have slowed down, possibly because I had to write this interview! Not good. She leaves pauses between sentences, partially because she is thinking about how she is going to phrase so that her points are clearer. During longer pauses she often looks out of the window, we were sitting on a window sill, and by this time it was a lovely sunny day, so why not? "Time comes into the new album a lot, time is something I've got great respect for it's a metaphor for however hard we try, we are not in control." Something catches Katie's eye "Look at the nice bug", she points out this really interesting insect, I've never quite seen anything like it before, it had wings that were quite colourful. Unfortunately I was a bit behind in my writing, so I wasn't able to have a proper look. Whilst still watching the bug Katie explains "I fought very hard against this marriage, it was a very difficult time yet life inspired I do this with Crispin, and that's where I live today" Another pause. "There's a great respect the fact that you're in the hands of something as massive of the hands of life." At hearing this my mind actually starts to "think" and suddenly I feel so small. "I try to spend most the time getting out of the way of myself so life can live through me rather than me live through life."
Now this is possibly one of the most intelligent things I've ever heard, it makes me think about all sorts of things and I think how much easier everything would be if I could get out of my own way. In fact thus far and for the remainder of the interview, Katie has come across as a highly intelligent person. In many places she seems to have been dubbed as a "fruitcake" whereby if that is the case then a fruitcake must be someone who is highly interesting and intelligent. My brain then recalls one of the questions I'd wanted to ask, and so I asked it, it was about the Incubus tour, I mean a band like Queen Adreena are a strange choice to support Incubus, aren't they? "The Incubus tour was strange, but it was good for us. The show wasn't easy for us, which was a good thing." Katie is glaring out of the window, the day is one of those days when even the city seems relatively pleasant. "It's a challenge facing arena's full of boo-ing crowds. It makes you stronger, you get better leg muscles standing through it."
She stands up and continues to look out of the window. "They are different to us, but in the root, the singer, Brandon, is very pure. They're in a strange place. They're linked with all the hardcore metal bands, and they're not really that." She sits back down, I figure seeing how we're on the subject of tours, it would be a good idea to continue on that topic, and ask about this tour, "Tour's aren't really good or bad, it's very tiring, especially travelling, they shake you out of patterns and you have to live here. I think with habits and repetition a very safe wall can build around you, stop challenges, cut a groove really deep, that you can't climb out of. Touring skims off the surface, you don't get chance to put your roots down, you have to start new every where" A very interesting outlook, whereby most bands don't mind or like touring, there is this certain lack of, as Katie said "put your roots down", touring becomes your routine, and it's not the best of routines, "It's kind of a paradox because you're always losing your definition, whilst defining yourself." See what I mean about intelligence yet?
"If you have a choice, don't do it. Only do it if you have no choice. Because otherwise she'll devour you" There is a pause again, and there's a certain awe that I'm in, it's as if all there is, is me, Katie, the window sill, the bug and the sun gleaming through the window. The pause is broken by Katie. "Oh no it's a religion, you get punished if you're a bad girl" she then explains a bit further "I mean religion in the true sense of it, a commune with a God or a life force in the middle of it, it's not just life, it's my food." One thing that has been quite well documented is that Katie "disappeared" to the lake district for a while. Not that I blame her, if I could I would too. The lake district was the next thing I asked about. "I was there for 6 months. I climbed mountains and I screamed into the wind. I got so much, standing on top of mountains so you can see the whole picture. I find it feels so good to feel so insignificant in the big picture of mountains, deserts, oceans and fire. "They'll let you know that you're never born and you'll never die. That you're all eternal and as one."
There is a slightly longer pause, as Katie gently adjusts the flower in her hair, "There was something I was going to say, what was it, oh yeah..." There's another pause as she thinks on how to phrase it, "I have a very polluted city inside me, I live a dual life, one in my polluted life, one on top of the mountain. That's why I had to find the mountains, because I know there's no way to escape the polluted city, you just have to find another way to look at it. The more you fight it the worse and more polluted it gets. So I live there and I live somewhere else too." There is a short gap again. During this gap those words echo in my head, I suddenly realise what I've been doing wrong.
The next question I ask is a bit of a silly question in a way, I ask "what is your favourite song?" Now, it's pretty certain that no band can really pick a favourite song out of their own, but the reason I often ask this is because I nearly always get a really good answer, this time is no exception "I can't answer, it changes every day. Some days I'll hate them all, some days I'll love them all." And then she makes herself a bit more clearly, "Well I don't love them all at the same time." Now follows the intelligent bit: "It's a piece of time, I spent a long time away. I have a great tendancy with isolation. I'm happy and content there after a while it becomes a sickness. Making a record is living in both worlds. By design I'm isolated, and in the end it became a disease and that's why Crispin's important to me. He's very mathematical, he's a pure mathematical person, he give structure to my chaos, and I give chaos to his structure. It's a difficult marriage but we're working on it. It's a very difficult time because I hadn't seen him in years and we were both in need of what we could give to each others creative process.” And what a creative process that is... you'll have to turn to the reviews page to read our album review; of one of the best albums written in years.
Following that Katie has to leave to find some flowers. And as we bid farewell and see you later, I finish my notes and then sit dreamily watching the bug. Until I'm asked nicely to leave the venue (and I'm not being sarcastic here, I was asked politely and nicely). I step outside into Middlesborough, it is still a lovely day. I then decide to go for a walk, I feel up to it, I feel as though I could walk forever, one thing that surprised me was the time, I couldn't see how it could be past 4.30pm, but it was after 5pm and indeed I found that confusing. I then spend the rest of the day wandering around, thinking, and standing back on my street corner (some one actually asked me what my going rate was, I actually explained that a) I'm male, I just have long hair. b) I'm straight c) I'm not "on the game"). The gig was awesome, possibly the best gig I've ever been to (even better than Slipknot) and you can read the review again on the reviews page. And sometimes you know, when you go to a gig, you get bruised, and the bruises heal, but this day has been an experience that'll stay with me for a long time. And I mean that in a positive way.
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