NO-MAN


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EVELYN
(Serge Gainsbourg: translation by Mick Harvey)
you are vile,
you are vague,
you are vain.
you are sick,
you are sad,
you're insane.

you are cruel,
you are crass,
you don't care.
you are coy,
you are cold,
you're unfair. chorus 1: Evelyn, don't say it.
Evelyn, I pray to thee.
Evelyn, you love me, don't you see? you are far,
you are false,
you're a fink.
you are frail,
you are fey,
you're a pig. you are low,
you are lost,
too far gone.
you are deaf,
you are dumb,
always wrong. chorus 2: Evelyn, don't say it.
Evelyn, it's just not true.
Evelyn, you see, you love me too.

chorus 1 (repeat)

FAITH'S LAST DOUBT
like waves they move,
in doubt they move,
towards a fading light,
towards a fading light.
they move, in time
they may shed faith's last doubt,
and bathe in blinding light,
and in the blazing light
they'll touch.

chorus 1:

but she can't speak of what she feels
within her hopeless heart,
and he can't reach her private pain
or break the lies they share,

break the lies.

in time they may
shed faith's last doubt,
and bathe in blinding light,
and in the blazing light
they'll touch.

chorus 2:

and she can't speak of what she feels
within her hopeless heart,
and he can't reach her private pain
or break the lies they share,
or break the lies they share,
or break the lies they share,
break the lies.

towards a fading light,
towards a fading light,
they move.

chorus 1 (repeat)

FLOWERMOUTH
you came to me that evening
with murder on your soul.
I begged for your forgiveness
with flowers in my mouth.
I stood above and watched you sleeping,
fires in my head.
I cried "I'm not" while you were sleeping,
white petals touched your face.

you took the flowers from my mouth
and you crushed them in your hand,
did this mean anything to you?

(repeat)

you saw the red turn into green,
but still you screamed your little dreams.
they mean nothing in my world.

angel fears the flash boom.

(repeat x 3)

sometimes I think that I love you,
sometimes I don't even care.

sometimes I think that I love you,
sometimes I don't even care.

sometimes I laugh like the water,
sometimes I breathe like the stone.

FOREST ALMOST BURNING
see him trample on the dead leaves
with the forest almost burning;
making patterns with his footprints,
breaking silence with his dreams.

watch him shaping life from wet clay
with the forest brightly burning;
making patterns with his fingers,
taking symbols from his dream.

when all language seems quite useless
with the forest burnt to the ground,
and the apple of corruption
breaks the silence of his dream...

GOTHGIRL KILLER
the deeper part of me,
it could see right through you.
the deeper part of me,
could see right through to you.

stumble in the heat,
fail to find the new beat -
it's always out of reach,
it's always out of reach.

you and me, me and you
left with nothing else to do
but stare at dirty underwear
and cease to care, and cut our hair.
sleepwalk through the day,
find new ways to pay.

chorus:

I'll love you til you love me,
I'll love you til you love me,
I'll love you til you love me again.

(repeat)

Rita Hayworth, love goddess,
slips into her favourite dress.
I look at you, you're such a mess -
but that's the way I like you.

crumble in the rising heat,
fail to find the perfect beat -
it's always somewhere out of reach,
but what the hell can I do?

falling to the kitchen floor,
wishing that you loved me more.
my legs too weak, my eyes too sore.
my back against the broken drawer.

the letter never came.
the days all felt the same.

(chorus x 2)

until it kills you...

broken in two, I'll see you through.
broken for you,
until it kills you.

(chorus x 2)

HEARTCHEAT POP
I see him break your body,
I see him steal your mind.
I see him lie beside you,
I see you close your eyes.
I feel the tension rise,
I see you crucified.

(I WANT YOU) - to break me.
(I WANT YOU) - to blow me away.

chorus:

(I WANT YOU) - heartcheat pop.
(I WANT YOU) - heartcheat.
(I WANT YOU) - heartcheat pop.
(I WANT YOU) - heartcheat.

as if you kissed and never said a word;
as if you bled and never said a word;
as if you laughed and never said a word;
as if you left and never said a word.

(I WANT YOU) - to break me.
(I WANT YOU) - to blow me away.

(chorus)

(I WANT YOU) - heartcheat pop.
(I WANT YOU) - heartcheat.
(flower in your mouth...)

(repeat to fade)

HEAVEN'S BREAK ("Loveblows..." version)
she would stare into the sun,
screaming loud in summer heat.
she would fly away from him,
solid melting into sky.

mirror cracked,
her day won't shine.
love has stripped her body tame.
and love still reaching out
is softness touching stone.

"awake me.
heaven break me."

"awake me.
heaven break me."

you didn't believe that
you didn't believe that
you didn't believe that I could love you.
you didn't believe that
you didn't believe that
you didn't believe that I was there.


HEAVEN'S BREAK ("Speak" version)
she would stare into the sun,
screaming loud in summer heat.
she would fly away from him,
solid melting into sky.

mirror cracked,
her day won't shine.
love has stripped her body tame.
and love still reaching out
is softness touching stone.

"awake me.
heaven break me."

HIT THE CEILING
I hit the ceiling with my feet on the ground.
I hit the ceiling with my feet on the ground;
and what a feeling gives when you're not around.
I hit the ceiling with my feet on the ground.
(oh yeah!)

the young girl brought me red wine,
the young boy brought me bread.
my mother placed a pillow
beneath my broken head.

(repeat)

HOUSEKEEPING
you
sit on the floor,
broken like clouds.
you scratch your knees 'til they crack and bleed.
I
walk out of the door,
naked and bored,
and raise my head to the weeping sky.

chorus:

you call my name but I can't answer.
you call my name but I can't say anything.

we
looked at the sea,
sat on the edge.
I gripped your hand until my fingers hurt.
now,
somebody screams on the same dirty beach;
he throws down his arms
and he falls to the sand.

(chorus x 2)

HOUSEWIVES HOOKED ON HEROIN
not even housewives hooked on heroin
could understand the awful mess I'm in.
I don't know where my real life begins,
but I'm sure that I'll be there.

I paid to see some ageing pop star sing
about the universe and cosmic things.
he sang of perfect girls with perfect skin,
but I really couldn't care

chorus:

not even housewives hooked on heroin
could match my constant appetite for sin.

I met this guy who lives in big hotels,
his paradise became his living hell.
he looked at things he knew he couldn't sell,
and he felt like he would die.

(chorus)

not even housewives hooked on heroin
could match my appetite for sin.

(chorus)

not even housewives hooked on heroin
could match my appetite for sin.

INFANT PHENOMENON
hungry glitter
without a hope in hell.
the infant phenomenon
she dances so well.
the infant phenomenon
she dances so well.

sickening sensation of love,
sickening sensation of love.
sickening sensation of love -
still fearful.
sickening sensation.

it wasn't the fact
but the clothes on her back.
the infant phenomenon
put her legs in the sack.
the infant phenomenon
put her legs in the sack.

sickening sensation of love,
sickening sensation of love.
sickening sensation of love -
still fearful.
sickening sensation.

the infant phenomenon
she dances so well.

IRIS MURDOCH CUT ME DOWN
I scrape the water from my eyes,
another victim of the wicked world.
I scrape the water from my eyes.
I'm all wrapped up in my wild cloak.

the golden light is everywhere,
the golden light is in my soul.
the golden light is everywhere,
the golden light is in my soul...
IRIS MURDOCH CUT ME UP
She was awoken by the stinging feel of his fists pounding against her naked back.
She turned to look at him, but before she could say anything
he smashed the base of her jaw with his elbow.
In the confusion of pain and flailing hands that followed,
she was barely aware of the sound of splintering teeth
rattling in the bloody agony of her broken mouth.
He pushed her out of the bed and onto the floor.
Her head hit off the bedside table,
bringing the lamp down upon her shoulder.
He stood above her as she lay in the mess of bedsheets and broken glass and blood.
He stood above her and stared at her startled face,
which was swollen and black with bruising and wet with sudden tears.
He bent down slowly, kneeled beside her, and lay down parallel with her body.
He pushed strands of hair back from the side of her face,
pulled his torso up with his arm and leaned towards her.
He placed his lips against her ear.
He whispered "You shouldn't have said that."

JACK THE SAX
jack the sax is scratching his head
in a makeshift bed of water and lead.
"he'd be better off dead,"
his only friend said.

in the rain and hurting again,
for the price of fame,
for a lover's stain,
for one more day to stay the same.

I'd ask you to love me,
but you'd never love me back.
I'd ask you to hold me,
just to feel the darkness crack.

jack the sax is clutching the phone,
but there's no-one home and he feels alone,
and his pale white flesh
has turned to stone.

I'd ask you to love me,
but you'd say it's just an act.
I'd ask you to hold me
just to feel the darkness.

KISS ME STUPID
starving heart -
still beating, still breathing.
starving heart still breaking.
blazing youth -
turned careless, turned stupid.
blazing youth turned ugly.

chorus:

listen to me until I'm all talked away.
listen to me - scream wild, fall free.

distant fires -
like beauty, like boredom.
distant fires consume me.

falling free -
you catch me, you hold me
falling free, you touch me.

(chorus x 2)

kiss me stupid.
kiss me free.

(chorus x 2)

kiss me stupid.
kiss me free.

 

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