BLUE SUNSHINE ERA - CREDITS

 
 
  Mouth To Mouth

Like An Animal 
Looking Glass Girl 
Sex Eye Make Up 
Mr. Alphabet Says 
A Blues In Drag 
Punish Me With Kisses  
This Green City  
Orgy  
Perfect Murder  
Relax 

Tightrope

 
     

 


     
  Mouth To Mouth Lyrics  
 
 
 

Your body grows more beautiful
With every move you make
Your body grows more beautiful
With every bite I take
You won't believe I love you
It's too stupid for words
So I lick your trembling lips
And use your hands to feed the birds

I laid with you for hours
Staring at your face
I laid with you for hours
Remembering your taste
And when the morning came
It spattered us in light
I think I left you sleeping there
I think I left you sleeping

Mouth to mouth I asked you to stay
Mouth to mouth but you're slipping away

Down seven stairs and first on the left
Arch your back and hold your breath
A million fat girls and a million fat men
Couldn't put me back together again

 
     
  Mouth To Mouth Credits  
     
  Severin/Smith - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     

 


     
  Like An Animal Lyrics  
 
 
 

One mile in the air that's where she lives
Her body looks so thin and pink and small
Dropping eggs from nervous shaking hands
And swallowing her fingers as they fall
Two people dance on the edge
Three of us push them away
There's nowhere to go we're all in this
But nothing can hurt us at all

Fight her all you want you'll never win
Couldn't we just once leave her in bed
Let the dry air cut her happy throat
Hide her heart and lose her happy head

First I was a murderer than I was a saint
Now I live on stolen time twist and I run like paint
Like an animal
Tuesday in the sun nothing could be worse
Not now not ever not anymore...

 
     
  Like An Animal Credits  
     
  Smith - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  A newspaper article concerning a woman who progressed from dropping eggs from her tower block flat to dropping a television  
     

 


     
  Looking Glass Girl Lyrics  
 
 
 

Like a looking glass girl
In a miniature world
Saw you dance like dice
And tumble to the floor
Like a looking glass girl
In a miniature world
Whirl your Disney arms
And jump the merry-go-round
The umbrella man is shouting
We shake his paper hands
There's mirrors down beneath our feet so
Let's skate down the street
The casino man is laughing
He wears a shivering hat
We peel away like tinsel
Stick like splinters to the world

Like a looking glass girl
In a miniature world
She saw you dressed in rags
In-and-out of a jack-in-the-box
Because she's a looking glass girl
In a miniature world
Whirl your see-saw arms
And ride the Catherine Wheel

(foot, foot)

 
     
  Looking Glass Girl Credits  
     
  Severin - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     

 


     
  Sex Eye Make Up Lyrics  
 
 
 

Run around the chairs in your Sunday dress
It's the best thing money can buy
Or leave me on the stairs with my feet in the air
I think that I'm jazzy like Christ
One more cigarette and the car burns slow
Burning like the body waiting at home
Throw out your teeth and call all your friends
Someone coughing took away my breath
Inches of glass all shiny and new
Screaming laughing fucks me to death
One more boy full of writhing white mice
Rolls over again in a London disguise
The blood bath woman in a room number one
Sex-eye make up tonight
She just woke up tonight
She just woke up today
To do as she's told
Do you want to touch her?

 
     
  Sex Eye Make Up Credits  
     
  Smith - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The initial inspiration was director Nicolas Roeg's 1980 film Bad Timing  
     

 


     
  Mr. Alphabet Says Lyrics  
 
 
 

Here comes the book
The book of rules
If you play this game
You won't stay the same
You can win your golden teeth
Be a spinning top
Use a riding crop

Mr. Alphabet says
"Smile like a weasel
As I cover you...
Cover you in treacle"

We all know impatience is a sin..
So do as you're told to do
It's so rewarding to...
And you could win the tin man's heart
Be a chiming clock
Lie on the chopping block

Mr. Alphabet says
"Give me all your money
Just to cover you
Cover you in honey"

Don't be afraid
There's no marmalade
Don't be afraid
I wouldn't even dream of it!

 
     
  Mr. Alphabet Says Credits  
     
  Severin - Lyrics
Smith - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     

 


     
  A Blues In Drag  
 
 
 

Instrumental

 
     
  A Blues In Drag Credits  
     
  Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     

 


     
  Punish Me With Kisses Lyrics  
 
 
 

Your morning smile of torture holds me in it's grip
You trace the taste of yesterday the bruise upon my lip
You touch my eyes and hypnotize and slip inside my heart
I wait for this forever but we always fall apart
You want to hold me closer
And secretly entice
You take the size of shadowed men
And punish me with kisses every night 

This espionage is sweeter now
Now that we're alone
But I meet your eyes and then despise
All we call our own

I write my name in lipstick on the mirror as I leave
To stay would be too dangerous
To break the make believe...

 
     
  Punish Me With Kisses Credits  
     
  Severin/Smith - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The title of this song was derived from the 'trash novel' of the same name Punish Me With Kisses by William Bayer  
     

 


     
  This Green City Lyrics  
 
 
 

Someone's evil laugh shoots down my back
Shapeless and ageing we start to run
Through the tangle of your broken words
This cheap impulse falls so dry in the maze.
I burn down turn...
You turn my skin around wishing my eyes could look down On me... 

Stairs fall like jewels as we near the door
You fold through my neck & arms like crystal
So black, so black with charm & breath
We turn to face the dying sun... 

This green city rains down on me
This green city rains down

 
     
  This Green City Credits  
     
  Severin - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     

 


     
  Orgy Lyrics  
 
 
 

A disease is under my fingernails
It stains me like a tattoo
Back on the rack
Aching with time
Your face is familiar
From another crime 

And we could swim, we could swim
My little fishes and me

Overgrown senses prickle & spark
The flesh is in the palm of my hand
Back on the rack
Love under will
Your face is familiar
From another kill

A tongue explodes into my mouth
A taste of coma & tears
Back on the rack
My shape of rage
Your face is familiar
From another familiar rage 

And we could swim....

 
     
  Orgy Credits  
     
  Severin - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     

 


     
  Perfect Murder Lyrics  
 
 
 

Move inside my daydream
Like fingers in a glove
Twisting round and round and round
Round and round and round with love!
The meeker sleeker circle girls
Dressed in docile white
Spinning on a hill
They follow the Dracula kite
The first idea flew thin
And uninvited from the sky
I reached out my hands
And held the knife of ice
Very thin red water flowed
Underneath my skin
I turned their eyes blue children
The perfect murder
Wait until the darkest
Coldest summer nights
That's when it starts
But if you blink you'll miss the fan
You'll miss their pretty hearts

 
     
  Perfect Murder Credits  
     
  Smith - Lyrics
Smith - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov  
     

 


     
  Relax  
 
 
 

Instrumental

 
     
  Relax Credits  
     
  Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     

 


     
  Tightrope  
 
 
 

Instrumental

 
     
  Tightrope Credits  
     
  Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Inspired by the circus dream sequence in the film Girl On A Motorcycle