Love in Bright Landscapes

You don't Miss Your Water (till your well runs dry)
Red Pony
Raining Pleasure
Hell Of A Summer
Jesus Calling
Bright Lights Big City
Rosevel
Property Is Condemned
My Baby Thinks She's A Train
Monkey On My Back
Embedded
Old Ghostrider
Madeline  
 
 

 YOU DON'T MISS YOUR WATER (till your well runs dry)

In the beginning
You  really loved me
But I was blind
I could not see
Now that you left me
Oh how I cried

You don't miss your water (till your well runs dry)
 
I strayed and rambled
I could not be true
I could not believe
that I really loved you
But then you left me
Oh how I cried

You don't miss your water (till your well runs dry)

In the beginning
You  really loved me
But I was blind
And I could not see
Now that you left me
Lord how I cried

You don't miss your water (till your well runs dry)
You don't miss your water (till your well runs dry)
You don't miss your water (till your well runs dry)
You don't miss your water (till your well runs dry)



 

RED PONY

Red pony, it's a gift from me / from me to you
Ride it well my love, hold your head up high / across this land
Sand in your eye, sun upon your back
Next to you my love /all colours turn to black
Blind pony, it is a gift from me / from me to you
 

RAINING PLEASURE

Trail through the wilderness
Dryest season known to us
Think about you all the time
Trail through the wilderness
Dryest season known to us
Dreamed I saw it all come down
Dreamed I saw my pleasure raining down
REFRAIN :
Salty lips to taste
Skin to touch
Nothings matters very much
In your arms it's a raining pleasure
I believe it's raining pleasure
Too little cash to much time to kill
Buried alive in a shack on the side of a hill
Hasn't raine for fifteen years
Been three weeks I can't get through
Phone is dead Baby is that you ?
REFRAIN

 HELL OF A SUMMER

It's been a hell of a summer to be lying so low
Dogs and cats dropping down in the street
Yellow bellies crying trick or treat/trick or treat, and I say to you ....
It's been a hell of a summer to be lying so low
Every word of kindness tastes like bile
Deep in our hearts, we knew it all the while, and I say to you ...
In the heat of the summer, to be kept lying way down so low
What you have sir, dispose of at your will
What you cannot have sir, you must kill/you must kill, and l say to you
It's been hell

JESUS CALLING

I had an itch I had to scratch
a match to make and a fish to catch
I got stung by a blue-bottle brush
I had a red-nettle rash
Cat o' nine tails upon my neck and back
I called the pot and the kettle back
But I wiped a clean slate I came clean
Chorus : I'm afraid I'll have to call
the whole thing off now
I'm afraid I'll have to nip you in the bud
I have Jesus calling me.
Blood on my thighs and milk on my knees
Sign out front says vacancies
There is a bed we can fill
But there ain't a kiss or a caress that don't make me ill
Yes it makes me ill, it's a PLEASURE, etc.
Chorus
Loveless love oh loveless love
Loveless love oh loveless love
I wiped a clean slate I came clean
Final chorus : I'm afraid I'll have to call
the whole thing off now
I'm afraid I'll have to disconnect your line
I have Jesus calling me.

BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY

Bright lights big city
burned my baby's eyes
And like a fool I swallowed
my baby's lies
I followed her round like a dog
Et up her lies like a hog
And just as I'm set to explode
she says Daddy don't leave me

Newsman says people like her
are born under a bad sign
They said they found a knife
in my baby's hands
Well I was not there at the time
But agterwards I read the headlines
She looks up at me with those brown eyes
Says Daddy don't leave me
Believe me

I climb to the top of a no-tree hill
Stare hard as I can at the sun
I say why did you have to rise today ?
And what did she mean to you anyway ?

It will take a strong anaesthetic
to keep her away
Nightly I rinse out my blood
to clean off the mark she made
I'm going back home now
to be of some help, be of some good
For a while then I could have been a goner
I could have been lost for good
Bright Lights! Drink up, it's getting
dimmer now! Bright Lights!
Getting darker now

Bright lights big city
burned my baby's eyes
And like a fool I swallowed
my baby's lies
I followed her round like a lap-dog
Et up her lies like a sap-hog
And just as I'm set to explode
she says Daddy don't leave me
Leave me, don't believe me
Don't leave me

ROSEVEL

Please don't drag me back to Rosevel/underneath yor creaking bed
No air, no hatches under there/no pleasantries hatched overhead
Chorus: I Ieft/what was Ieft of you. What was left of you/couldn't be kept.
Aad I warned you I would have to cut off dead wood.
Please don't make me say those words again/to satisfy a whim
I left too much kept under ice/don't drag that back up again (Chorus)
Please don't send me back to Rosevel/inbetween your knuckle bed
I turned my back on life itself/I couldn't tell it wasn't dead (Chorus)

PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED

Alcohol, Heroin,
It's all water under the bridge
Left to your own devices
I know you're going to sink like a ship
Property, property, property is condemned
You tell a lie for long enough
And you believe it yourself
Now there's spittle running down your chin
Dozen murders under your belt
Property, property, property is condemned
Men and wowen on their knees
Nothing in their heads
I don't want to hear no tall stories
About what they doing in bed
I don't want a talk, I don't want a chat
I don't want to share a joke with a fink
I don't want a novel or a movie show
Just a pissing in the sink
Property, property, property is condemned
It was written all over your face now junior
You wanted chicken and turkey
Then that then this
The very next minute your bowels went slack
Now it hurts so bad you can't even piss.

MY BABY THINKS SHE'S A TRAIN

My baby thinks she's a train
She hears voices, little voices/only she can hear
She hears voices, such little voices/sliding in her ear
My baby thinks she's a train
She don't know the difference between pleasure and pain
My baby thinks she's a train
She walks out the door, & she's drinking/kisses like the rain
Well she's a backwoods girl/she don't talk pretty
She makes it quite plain/she puts a dollar down on a heart
But she cannot pay/one dollar down & a dollar a day, etc.

MONKEY ON MY BACK

I have this monkey on my back
l dare not even mention its name
But it clambered aboard sometime back
On the road to my El Alamain
My sweetheart she swore it was a poison
Turning my blood into brine
But I knew for a fact that behind my back
It was you on my track all the time

I caught this disease from the bottle and the bed
but to them I assign no blame
They were only performing their duty
It was I who fell into the flame
It was I who drank from the irrigation ditch
It was I who buckled up in pain
Now I dither & I ache & I drag my feet
Come hail sleet sunshine or rain

So come along here mister!
Put your tiny conscience to rest
It was I who ascended your sister
It was I who attended her breast
It was I who knelt before the graven image
It was I who did murder her ghost
But it hurt so much just to love her
(You hurt the ones you love the most)

Well now we are sitting at seperate tables
Somehow things just aren't quite the same!
But I wish you well and I wish you luck
And I drink to your health just the same
And I drink to the names of the ones who have died
To be washed away into the rain
But I'm damned if I do & I'm damned if I don't
even mention Your Holy Name

If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out
If it bothers thee, throw it away
Rip it out quick and clean by the root
Don't crawl back to me the next day
For I have this monkey on my back
Its webbed fingers they cover my eyes
Heck it's scratching its track in the small of my back
And cutting me right down to size

EMBEDDED

Step a little bit closer
There was something you mentioned under your breath
That's the special something I'd always hoped you'd mention
Say it louder now we'd soon be dead
CHORUS: Tell me, tell me you love me
or else, tell me, tell me you'll bear with me
Hold me, tell me you'll have me, embedded
Come on and lay your body down
Your weary body down
Lay your weary bones in the ground
Step a little bit closer
There is alcohol upon your breath
It's a certain dirty feeling we have
And heaven knows we've had it to death
CHORUS:
This heart is a good one and dead
This one's an old dead heart of mine
It's died at least x 1000 times
This one will go straight to your head
This one will go straight to the base of your spine
Ifs all turning ugly now
Everything we touch wastes clean away
We'd kiss but we can't find our lips
We speak when we know we have nothing to say
except CHORUS:
Embalmed and Embedded
Becalmed and beheaded
Do I hear your step on the stair
And these are the thighs I prize
And these are the eyes I cry.

OLD GHOSTRIDER

Old ghostrider, old ghostrider
Even people in love get hit by bullets, old ghostrider (don't shoot)
Footsteps/on a spiral stairwell
When I'm trying to say, "Some other time Jack, I just don't feel well"
The air is so thick you could cut and fry it
The noose is so tight you can't untie it/Here he comes now
Old ghostrider, etc
This is the hole/he crawled to die
This is the bar/he lost his eyes
Over the sleepy roofs he rides/over the stinking bodies he slides
Here he comes now, Junior .. Old ghostrider, etc

MADELINE

In an old house in Paris, covered in vines
lived a girl by the name of Madeline
She was not afraid of spiders or mice
Madeline loved winter, snow and ice
She watched from her window, onto the street below
The soldiers and the ladies stopped to say hello
They asked for her pleasure, be it whiskey or plain
But there's no need for drink to take away that kind of pain
And in the middle of the night, Madeline would reach for her bedside light
Saying something is not right.
And wearing a face as pale as ash
she'd sit and watch the raindrops fall and splash
Then she would turn to rest once more
And like all good children watch no more