A Kiss In The Dreamhouse Credits

A KISS IN THE DREAMHOUSE ERA - CREDITS


	Fireworks Coal Mind We Fall Obsession II Cannibal Roses Cascade Green Fingers Obsession She's A Carnival Circle Melt! Painted Bird Cocoon Slowdive A Sleeping Rain Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant



	Fireworks Lyrics

	The body is wrapped in shadow The face is built of cinders And panic tears thro' your silhouette As you're squeezed by burning fingers And he's crackling in colours With teeth of gelignite When he sighs his song of pirouettes Thro' a dance of dynamite We are fireworks, slowly, glowing Bold and bright We are fireworks, burning shapes Into the night His fuel is our frustration And dreams begin to ache And all the while we wear a party smile And happily we shiver Happily we shake Oh shake, shake, shake We are fireworks, slowly, glowing Bold and bright We are fireworks, burning shapes Into the night Twist and turn, burn, burn, burn Twist and turn, burn baby burn

	Fireworks Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SIOUXSIE: " 'Fireworks' indicated the direction we wanted for the album. We wanted strings on that. John wanted a machine but Steve and I said it had to be real strings. They give a real, earthy, rich sound. You could hear the strings spitting and breathing and wheezing." Source: Record Mirror 18/12/82 SIOUXSIE: "We'd heard that he (Martin Rushent) wanted to work with us. We wanted to have a go. We thought he might have a different approach to the Banshees, that he wouldn't treat us like a cult. We'd have changed him as much as he changed us. Rushent agreed to a date to start working with us and ten he kept putting us off at short notice so we've abandoned the idea." Source: Record Mirror 12/06/82 SIOUXSIE: "The song's very sexual, explosive, distraught." Source: Record Hunter 12/92



	Coal Mind Lyrics

	Two black holes staring From deep in the coal mind Murder in mind, murder deep in the coal mine Aphids and triffids bump mad into earwigs Eating their way-through the green brain vegetation Mutter mutter eyelids wonder Twitching in time to troubled slumber Oh Mutter mutter eyelids wonder Twitching in time to troubled slumber Come mine this coal mind Come mind this coal mine It's dark in here and it's been a long time In need of ignition In need of nutrition There's famine in mind There's murder in mind Blank sockets squinting from the hot coals scorching More holes in the coal mind The pit is imploding Headlines and hook lines bump blind into lifelines Murder in mind, someone throw him a line Murder in mind, someone throw him a line Oh Madonna Medusa I spy a loser Madonna Medusa I spy a loser Madonna Medusa I spy.....a loser Ignition nutrition and now ventilation A sigh of relief from deep in the coal mind Gun blew his roof off Gun blew his roof off Gun blew his roof off Stopped murder in mind Murder in mind Oh Madonna Medusa I spy a loser Madonna Medusa I spy a loser Madonna Medusa I spy.....

	Coal Mind Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Chorus & Vibrato Basses McGeoch - Carbon Guitar Budgie - Seamless Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	The book The Green Brain by Frank Herbert. Source: Downside Up liner notes.



	We Fall Lyrics

	Screaming blue and tangerine Come and join this crazy dream Of Vampire kites Painted white Trails of Vampire kites Torsos painted white They're all around So don't make a sound See sparks of sparkling green See waves of tangerine Please don't scream In this dream See a tiny box of silver See a flaming glove of amber We start to fall At the beginning of a fall... They say when you hit the bottom You don't wake up at all Not at all We start to fall..

	We Fall Credits

	Severin/Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Drone Basses & Fender Rhodes McGeoch - Vampire Guitar Budgie - Live Soundcheck Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	Falling/dying in your sleep. Source: Downside Up liner notes.



	Cannibal Roses Lyrics

	Listening to their murmurings Trespassing through the topiary Lulled by siren perfumes Of their seductive petal openings Cannibal roses Enticing out noses With exotic aromas Then they bite off our noses Whilst stood on our toeses Red snappers and finger pops Fighting off psycho pomps Ring a ring a roses Cannibal roses It’s been one of those mornings They came with no warning It’s been one of those mornings They came

	Cannibal Roses Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass & Carnivorous Piano McGeoch - Fly Guitar Budgie - Acid-drop Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	"About this time strange things were happening around me. I swear that a giant sunflower started to grow outside my first floor flat in Queens Park. It's head used to peer in the window at me when it thought I wasn't looking. Life imitating art" (Siouxsie) Source: Downside Up Booklet.



	Obsession II

	Instrumental

	Obsession II Credits

	Sioux - Voice, Breath, Tubular Bells & Claps McGeoch - Phantom Guitar Budgie - Foot stomp, Claps, Rain & Chains Anne Stephenson & Ginny Ball - Strings



	Cascade Lyrics

	Oh the air was shining Shining like a wedding ring Barbed like sex I felt 10,000 volts My chest was full of eels Pushing through my usual skin I opened up new wounds Pouting, shouting Oh love, like liquid falling Falling in cascades Oh love lorn victims Laughing in cascades The sun was rich Rich with a song of sin My breath melted my words Into strange alphabets Tormenting my tongue Pouting, shouting- Oh love, like liquid falling Falling in cascades Oh love lorn victims Laughing in cascades The heartbeats were echoing Echoing the revolver Emptying into my mouth I pulled a face from my pocket And smiled a Leper's grin I felt somebody close Pouting, shouting- Oh love, like liquid falling Falling in cascades Oh love lorn victims Laughing in cascades

	Cascade Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar & Keyboards



	Green Fingers Lyrics

	Hibiscus head In a flower bed A finger hewn Planted and sewn Oh magic in her hands She could make anything grow Magic in her hands She had green fingers It's curious Where animals don't go Mandrake Rooted deep into the soil Where the sun won't fall But it flourishes See the pretty maids All in a row Magic in her hands She could make anything grow Magic in her hands She had green fingers It's reaching And groping A clammy handshake Clawing the ivy Crawling the tightrope Along the lattice work With this hand I thee wed With this hand I thee bed With this hand I

	Green Fingers Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar & Recorder

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	Inspired by an episode of Rod Sterling’s Night Gallery with the title Green Fingers; A property developer wants to get his hands on the land owned by an old lady. He uses all the means at his disposal. What he doesn't know is that the lady in question has a strange affinity with plants. Another inspiration was the film Motel Hell; Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand.



	Obsession Lyrics

	Do you hear this breath It's an obsessive breath Can you feel this beat It's an obsessive heart-beat Waiting to be joined with its obsession I close my eyes But I can't sleep The thin membrane can't veil The branded picture of you The signs and signals show The traffic lights say go Again you baffle me, Pretending not to see...me I broke into your room I broke down in my room Touched your belongings there And left a lock of my hair Another sign for you You screamed into my face Get the hell out of my place Another sign for me? Can you forgive me? For not understanding your ways You know sometimes you take it all too far Then I remember It's a game between you and me A divine test for us two It's all in my imagination Yes they even say that our mission Is only my obsession Do you hear this breath It's an oppressive breath Suffocating in the poison Of your obsession Can you feel this beat It's a possessive beat Your pulse stops in the claws Of your obsession

	Obsession Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice & Bells Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar Caroline Lavelle - Cello Anne Stephenson - Violin Virginia Hewes - Violin

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SIOUXSIE: "The events in the song actually took place. It's about a friend of a friend of mine. Its an extreme example of what happens in more subtle ways in most peoples relationships." Source: Record Mirror 18/12/82 SIOUXSIE: "People are confused by the fact that we do songs like 'Tattoo' and 'Obsession,' which are wrongly classed as horror, which I hate." Source: Sounds 10/05/86 BUDGIE: "While we were putting the guitar part to tape it happened, something so peculiar that it would almost change the arrangement of the song. Psycho guitar was stabbing out from the speakers, when suddenly the tape machine began to slow down. Slower and slower, almost to a dead stop, and then just as mysteriously it began to correct itself. Nobody tampered with the machine, which after its brief spasm, was now working perfectly. The effect it had on the guitar part was wonderful; but what had caused it? There was no logical explanation." Source: No.1 02/11/88



	She's A Carnival Lyrics

	In the heart of the night She smiles like Mardi Gras Spinning in a dizzy haze Her circus head giggles It's a friendly disease Catching colours from the air So with your hands upon the hips Of the dancing flesh She's a carnival And when it's lip to lip In a surprise time kiss She's a carnival Mosaic eye, gypsy eye Glowing as it dazzles She's a portrait of a poison For you to quench your thirst A portrait of a poison So with your hands upon the hips Of the dancing flesh She's a carnival And when it's lip to lip In a surprise time kiss She's a carnival

	She's A Carnival Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	Although not about her, the inspiration for the song 'She's A Carnival' began with frequent clubber and now club DJ Princess Julia .



	Circle Lyrics

	Pretty girl of 16 Has fun and runs crazy Ruined girl of 16 Now a mother grows lazy Next a 16 year old baby Like mother grows lazy And her stomach is churning Whilst her eyes keep on turning Round and around Getting no higher from the ground Round and around the circle has an empty sound Father inflicts discipline Boy rebels against him He leaves for the big town For love and adventure But the words he first heard Unlike his instincts run deeper Now boy beats his children If they disobey him And the cat riddled with worms Chases his tail round And around The endless full circle for the next in line The endless full circle Take the red line, the green line, the silver or blue Any line you can think of except for the yellow Take a trip with your family and see where they go Give them a free ticket it's the best thing to do And if you wind up on the circle line Hell, it's not from lack of options Then if you run into the yellow Well that's up to you Round and around Getting no higher from the ground Round and around The circle has an empty sound The endless full circle for the next in line The endless full circle are you the next in line Round and around

	Circle Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar & Keyboards

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SIOUXSIE: "That's more domestic horror, but I think it's saying you've got a choice. It's disagreeing with the philosophy that says if you've come from somewhere bad then you've had no choice. I've known people who've come from appalling backgrounds and they're getting on and they're not jealous and they're not sitting back and saying, this is my lot, I give up. I'd love to believe that everyone does have a choice. I think everyone can have self-worth. Source: NME 24/12/83



	Melt! Lyrics

	You are the melting man You are your situation There is no time to breathe And yet one single breath Leads to an insatiable desire Of suicide in sex So many blazing orchids Burning in your throat Making you choke Making you sigh Sigh in tiny deaths So Melt! My lover, melt! She said melt! My lover, melt! You are the melting man And as you melt You are beheaded Handcuffed in lace, blood & sperm Swimming in poison Gasping in the fragrance Sweat carves a screenplay Of discipline and devotion So Melt! My lover, melt! She said melt! My lover, melt! Can you see? See into the black of a long, black car Pulling away from a funeral of flowers With my hand between your legs Melting

	Melt! Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SIOUXSIE: "We’d just come back from our first tour of Japan, and it made a real impression on us all." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92 SEVERIN: "There wasn't (a promotional video made for 'Melt!) but (if there had been) it would have involved a giant ice phallus!" Source: Banshees & Other Creatures Interview 2000 SEVERIN: "Both 'Melt!' and 'Slowdive' were risky choices as singles and we knew that, but it didn't really bother us, because we knew that 'Dreamhouse' was successful, not in sales terms but we were pleased with how it had gone." Source: NME 24/12/83



	Painted Bird Lyrics

	On lead poisoned wings You try to sing Freak beak shrieks are thrown At your confusing hue The peacock screaming eyes Show no mercy no mercy Painted bird It's absurd Just a tainted bird Hurting their twisted nerve The flock will make you choke On this sadistic joke And the whippoorwills They make a din In laughing unison You're Hitchcock carrion Carry on Painted bird It's absurd Just a tainted bird Hurting their twisted nerve I hear you sorrow Maybe tomorrow You'll lose your sorrow When a fated weather will cleanse away That painted feather And all that sorrow A coquette in fur purr for the painted bird Confound that dowdy flock With a sharp honed nerve Because we're painted birds by our own design By our own design There's no more sorrow Have you heard About the painted bird Just a tainted bird Hurting their twisted nerve We've lost our sorrow Now it's tomorrow No need to hide your feather Under a fated weather No more sorrow Now we're painted birds Mocking that twisted nerve

	Painted Bird Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass & Organ Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	Inspired by the book 'The Painted Bird' by Jerzy Kosinksi. SIOUXSIE: "A very violent book," says Siouxsie. "But there's also like an abstract theme in that this guy used to collect birds, and when he was feeling really aggressive, or frustrated, he'd paint this bird with different colours, and then throw it to its flock. And it would recognise its flock, but because it was a different colour, they would attack it." Source: NME17/04/82



	Cocoon Lyrics

	Here in my cot Where my cot loves me I'll stay here a while In the cotton wool cocoon 'Till the chrysalis is ripe 'Till the time is right With this feeling of insecurity I have to shrink back inside Run and hide Back in the cocoon Hugging my knees Watching my insides The skinned glow worm writhings Lying in blankets I've been here a while Tapping out rhythms Against the mattress and wall The heat melts the sheets Another layer is peeled Tapping out rhythms Just my cot, the wallpaper and me I've been here awhile Tapping out rhythms Still finding charms in the memory Of those constrictor arms Glowing in the dark in my luminous green A pearl beaded lizard Bathed in a gossamer scent With my heat detector lip-pit Pulling at the newly formed tissue Lying in blankets I've been here awhile Tapping out rhythms against the mattress and wall Waiting to loose the bandages Waiting for new appendages Lying in blankets I've been here a while I've been here too long Banging out rhythms Listen for other tapings Banging out rhythms Back in the cocoon

	Cocoon Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar & Keyboards

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SIOUXSIE: "Mike Hedges was the one who introduced me to LSD. One time, I decided to have a night in under the influence just to see what would happen, and I ended up writing 'Cocoon'. It's all a bit of a blur, but I remember getting out this Neapolitan ice cream and thinking I was on the beach. I was actually in the kitchen on the floor". Source: The Authorised Biography 2002 SIOUXSIE: "I always think 'Cocoon' off 'A Kiss In The Dream House' sounds really happy but, again, the lyrics are a bit odd, they grate against the sound of the music. I think that's something we're good at, subverting lyrics." Source: Melody Maker 14/05/83 MCGEOCH: “The nearest we got to writing a song in the studio was ‘Cocoon’. I actually got a good review for my ‘jazz’ playing, which it certainly wasn’t. I was just flapping about.” Source: The Authorised Biography 2002



	Slowdive Lyrics

	Get your head down to the ground Shake it all around A dirty sound Put your knees into your face And see if you can race Real slow It's a slowdive When you die slow Oh it's a low jive Do the slowdive Now you jump back like a hound Emit a howling sound Dig those limbs into the floor And holler out for more And you revel in the dips When your backbone slips Taking honeysuckle sips From your rolling hips It shifts and it shifts It's a slowdive when you die slow When you come alive it's a low jive Do the slowdive

	Slowdive Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass & 6 String Bass Budgie - Drums, Percussion & Harmonica McGeoch - Guitar Anne Stephenson - Violin Virginia Hewes - Violin

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SEVERIN: "It was just a drunken evening..." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92 SIOUXSIE: "Another sexual song, but more playful. It's very open, very relaxed, loose. I wrote it on the spot after a jam in the studio." Source: Record Hunter 12/92 SIOUXSIE: "I remember I wanted the string players to slow down and get tired, so the ’Oh my God!’ in the middle of the song is one of the string players’ wrists falling off! And the video was this boy’s first dance routine! It took months of rehearsal, and getting him to wear false eyelashes." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92 SIOUXSIE: " 'Slowdive' was an improvised lyric...It's like, umm, if you're making music, what it amounts to is, because you're expressing something you can't say in words. So for me to explain what that is, is taking away something that you lose when you're just using speech. With music it should speak for itself. Source: Elektron Interview 20/12/82



	Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant Lyrics

	Il est ne le divin enfant Jouez hautbois resonnez mussettes Il est ne le divin enfant Chantons tous son avenement Depuis plus quarte mille ans Que nous le promettent Les prophetes Il est ne le divin enfant Chantons tout haut cet heureux temps

	Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant Credits

	Sioux - Voice McGeoch - Trumpet, Guitar & Keyboards Budgie - Orchestral Snare, Drums & Cymbals

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	MCGEOCH: "Siouxsie and I began to have one or two musical differences. One in particular was over a French hymn she wanted to record ('Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant'), possibly because she had some French connection in the family. I said, "I really can't see this working, so if you don't mind I'm not gonna take part.' I didn't. That sowed the seeds a little." Source: The Authorised Biography 2002



	A Sleeping Rain

	Instrumental

	A Sleeping Rain Credits

	Sioux - Xylophone & Tubular Bells Severin - Bass & AMS McGeoch - Liquid Guitars Budgie - Drums, Kalimba & Percussion