Superstition Compilations

TWICE UPON A TIME - LINER NOTES


	Fireworks detonated with convulsive beauty in 1982 and opened an entirely new chapter in the life of Siouxsie And The Banshees. In the last ten years, they have continued their dramatic ascent and this album offers eighteen reasons why they still inspire extremes of adoration, suspicion, fear, exasperation, loathing, exultation and obsession. In effect, Twice Upon A Time is an expedition through some of the most ecstatic and unsettling music of the last ten years: the brooding magnificence of Slowdive and Melt; the spectral splendour of Dazzle and Last Beat Of My Heart; the high tension and rampant momentum of Candyman and Killing Jar; the internal combustion of Peek A Boo; the rapturous interpretations of Dear Prudence, The Passenger and This Wheel's On Fire; the edgy euphoric Kiss Them For Me and Shadowtime; the psychological amusement park of Face To Face. The suffocating might of these songs attests to the fact that Siouxsie And The Banshees are an iconoclastic group that continue to transcend their place and time; sacred misfits who delight in their placelessness and find comfort in their permanent exile from the rock and pop circus. Repudiating the taut certainties, neat formulations and happy endings of popular music. The Banshees continue to follow a private maze, reinventing themselves at every turn, finding new and wildly implausible ways to explore their own amazement at the world and its perilous depths. In a largely and degenerative musical landscape, they are an explosion of pleasure, a shudder of doubt and surprise, a welcome guest of debauchery, a panic of erotic possibilities. Forsaking logic for magic, the timeless appeal of The Banshees lies in the words and the music that linger at the surface, and everything that trembles and ferments underneath. In these sticky, sinister times, popular music might be on the threshold of its own premature death, but, spluttering with laughing-gas, Siouxsie And The Banshees continue to grow and astonish and disturb. From Fireworks to Face To Face, these famous songs drag us into the realm of unreason where daydreams are without beginning or ending. There might be other groups but this is the one that matters. Jon Wilde, July 1992 Paul Morley, November 1981

TWICE UPON A TIME - PRESS


	Unknown source 1992

	The first thing you notice about this limited edition CD box pack of Banshees singles is that it's not until you read the small print that you realise it contains only one volume of hits. Instead, the doublepack - sized box is fleshed out by a CD shaped piece of polystyrene foam which you're meant to throw away and put your own 'Once Upon A Time' CD inside. The disappointment wont last long, though. The Banshees have hardly been at the cutting edge of popular music over the last decade, but that's not to say that they've remained static, trapped in an Edgar Allan Poe short story of their own making. Their critical moment came and went in 1978; but of all the bands that have outlasted 1977 and all that went with it, their singles, at least, indicate that they've stuck their necks out, eschewing simple formulas for invention, and always eager to incorporate contemporary musical developments into their own hugely distinctive style. True, their version of Iggy's 'The Passenger' was a mistake, but sandwiched between 1982s 'Fireworks' (an early experiment with strings, honed to perfection later on) and this year's 'Face To Face', there's more than enough to justify at least most of Jon Wilde's enthusiasm in his accompanying sleeve notes. If the Banshees' audiences have dwindled slowly over the years, it's certainly not due to a downturn in the quality of their music. There may have been a sense of deja vu about 'Candyman', but it was a new and invigorated Siouxsie & The Banshees that delivered an original like 'Cities In Dust', and in 'Dear Prudence', a Beatles cover to rival Joe Cocker's 'With A Little Help From My Friends'. Ably supported by songs like 'Melt!', Peek A Boo', 'The Killing Jar' and 'Kiss Them For Me', this collection maintains the excellence of the first hits volume, 'Once Upon A Time', though you'll also require 'The Peel Sessions', 'The Scream' and 'Tinderbox' before you can be satisfied that you've really got the best of the Banshees on disc. MP
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COMPILATION - THE PEEL SESSIONS

Canadian Import CD

Track Listing

Cat: DE18406-2
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Love In A Void

Mirage

Suburban Relapse

Metal Postcard

Hong Kong Garden

Overground

Carcass

Helter Skelter*

Argentina Import Cassette

Track Listing

Cat: CPP976

Love In A Void

Mirage

Suburban Relapse

Metal Postcard

Hong Kong Garden

Overground

Carcass

Helter Skelter*

French Import Picture Disc LP

Track Listing

Cat: 671003
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Love In A Void

Mirage

Suburban Relapse

Metal Postcard

Hong Kong Garden

Overground

Carcass

Helter Skelter*

Notes:

Limited edition (2500) picture disc.

*This version of Helter Skelter is not in fact the BBC Session. The recording was temporarily lost and replaced with an edited version from The Scream.

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1991

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CREDITS


	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



	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 Smith - Guitar Budgie - Drums

	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



	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



	Dear Prudence Lyrics

	Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful and so are you Dear Prudence won't you come out and play Dear Prudence open up your eyes Dear Prudence see the sunny skies The wind is low the birds will sing That you are part of everything Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes? Look around round Look around round round Look around Dear Prudence let me see you smile Dear Prudence like a little child The clouds will be a daisy chain So let me see you smile again Dear Prudence won't you let me see you smile?

	Dear Prudence Credits

	Lennon/McCartney - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass & Keyboards Budgie - Drums & Percussion Robert Smith - Guitar & Keyboards

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SEVERIN: "I think reviews that said it wasn’t particularly different to the Beatles’ version haven’t listened to the original to find out. It’s completely different. On the ‘White Album’, it’s a soft ballad, we’ve just made it sound like the Banshees." Source: Melody Maker 01/10/83. SMITH: " ’Dear Prudence’ is not trying to open another door so we can eventually ingratiate ourselves a little bit more into the popular consciousness." Source: Melody Maker 01/10/83. SIOUXSIE: "As we were recording it I could see it was turning out to be really commercial, so much so that I suggested putting it on the B-side instead." Source: The Authorised Biography 2002. SIOUXSIE: "I think the sound of it sticks out like a sore thumb." Source: Melody Maker 01/10/83. SEVERIN: "When we finished it, I suddenly thought ‘This’ll never get played in clubs because it hasn’t got the disco beat' ." Source: Melody Maker 01/10/83.



	Swimming Horses Lyrics

	Falling in your Falling in your In your arms In your arms Fish on a line learns to live on Dry land Thrown back again to drown Kinder with poison Than pushed down a well Or a face burnt to hell Feel the cruel stones Breaking her bones Dead before born Words fall in ruins But no sound She's dying of your shame She's maimed by your pain He gives birth to swimming horses He gives birth to swimming horses Fish on a line But back in the water to drown We drown Floating in sky He gives birth to swimming horses He gives birth to swimming horses Take a ride on the tide With the assassin at your side This weightlessness under water Forgets in slow motion And washes pointless tortures He gives birth to swimming horses He gives birth to swimming horses Floating in sky like fishes can fly Through your arms

	Swimming Horses Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Smith - Guitar Budgie - Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "This is based on a programme I saw about a female version of Amnesty, called ‘Les Sentinelle’. "They rescue women who are trapped in certain religious climates in the Middle East, religions that view any kind of pre-marital sexual aspersion as punishable by death - either by the hand of the eldest brother in the family, or by public stoning. And there was this instance of a woman whose daughter had developed a tumour, and, of course, gossip abounded that she was pregnant. The doctor who removed the tumour allowed her to take it back to the village to prove that, no, it wasn’t a baby - but they wouldn’t believe her. The woman knew her daughter would have to be stoned to death so she poisoned her, out of kindness, to save her from a worse fate. So the song starts, ‘Kinder than with poison...’ I also used the imagery of, ‘He gives birth to swimming horses’, from the fact that male sea horses give birth to the children, so they’re the only species that have a maternal feel for the young. It was, I suppose, an abstract way of linking it all together without being sensationalist. I remember just being really moved by that programme, and wanting to get the sorrow out of me." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92.



	Dazzle Lyrics

	The stars that shine And the stars that shrink In the face of stagnation The water runs Before your eyes Swallowing diamonds Cutting throats Your teeth when you grin Reflecting beams on tombstones A jamboree of surprises Playing Russian Roulette, or the lucky dip A clench fist to your heart Coal dust on your lung Dazzle, it's a glittering prize Dazzle, it's a glittering prize A silver tongue for the golden one In a dead sea of fluid mercury Baby piano cries, under your heavy index and thumb Pull some strings, let them sing The stars that shine And the stars that shrink In the face of stagnation The water runs Before your eyes Dazzle, it's a glittering prize Dazzle, it's a glittering prize

	Dazzle Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass & Keyboards Budgie - Drums & Percussion Robert Smith - Guitar & Keyboards Strings - The Chandos Players

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "The sentiment behind it is of lying in the gutter but still looking up at the stars. I’d seen ‘Marathon Man’, and I was really intrigued by the guy swallowing diamonds to keep them, and then realising it was like swallowing glass - that they would pass through his system and tear him apart. So that’s the line - ‘Swallowing diamonds, cutting throats’. " Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92. SIOUXSIE: "Quite a lot of this, and ‘Swimming Horses’, came from visiting Israel for the first time. ’The sea of fluid mercury’ in the lyric, is the Dead Sea." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92. MCCARRICK: "I'd been recording a Peel session with Marc Almond and it was all going horribly wrong. Marc was screaming, everyone else was screaming, and then there was this shout from down the corridor. It was Sioux and Budgie. She looked about 7ft tall and with the most piercing blue eyes - a terrifying vision in real life, like a big strutting cockatoo. Shortly afterwards, she sent a tape over to me, Anne and Gini. It was her playing a piano part which she wanted arranged for a big string section. That turned out to be the intro to 'Dazzle'." Source: The Authorised Biography 2002.



	Overground Lyrics

	Got to give up life in this netherworld Gonna go up to where the air is stale And live a life of pleasantries Mingle in the modern families Overground from abnormality Overboard for identity Overground for normality Overboard-an identity This limbo is no place To be a digit in another space In another crowd I'm nameless bound Overground from abnormality Overboard for identity Overground for normality Overboard an identity Overground I'll be worse than me Overground it's clear to me I'll be worse than me

	Overground Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Carruthers - Guitar Budgie - Drums The Chandos Players - Strings

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "On the tour after ’Dreamhouse’, we went out with a string section and we incorporated ‘Overground’ into the set. We got so many enquiries as to whether we would release it like that, we went ahead." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92.



	Cities In Dust Lyrics

	Water was running, children were running You were running out of time Under the mountain, a golden fountain Were you praying at the Lare's shrine? But oh your city lies in dust, my friend We found you hiding we found you lying Choking on the dirt and sand Your former glories and all the stories Dragged and washed with eager hands But oh your city lies in dust, my friend Hot and burning in your nostrils Pouring down your gaping mouth Your molten bodies blanket of cinders Caught in the throes But oh your city lies in dust, my friend

	Cities In Dust Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "Cities in Dust happened because it, (Pompeii), had a strong effect on me, seeing the remains of the petrified bodies still caught in time as a huge body print in the lava. The age was almost timeless, it’s such a vast amount of years but timeless as well." Source: Villa Tempo Interview 19/04/86. SIOUXSIE: "This was our first trip to Pompeii, another amazing experience. Seeing a whole civilisation petrified in lava was like putting yourself in the place at the time, and imagining how it must have been to be there when it happened. I find it really easy to do that, to get ghost images of life continuing as it was. I often wonder if that’s what real hauntings are - your imagination and your senses bringing things back to life. That’s why you’d never be able to capture it on film." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92. SIOUXSIE: "It was whilst on tour in Italy and we were going south through to Toronto and the opportunity whilst travelling arose that we could go visit Pompeii so of course we went and I dunno, the impression was so powerful and like culminating in seeing the petrified bodies that had been left there 2000 years ago." Source: Villa Tempo Interview 19/04/86.



	Candyman Lyrics

	Sickly sweet, his poison seeks For the young ones who don't understand The danger in his hands With a jaundiced wink see his cunning slink Oh trust in me my pretty one Come walk with me my helpless one Candyman Syrup lies upon your tongue Gelatine saliva spills The flash of a guillotine a smile Candyman - oh candyman No pity for him, their misery screams Unspeakable things A cool missile, yes it's in his smile With open arms to welcome you Beware the masked pretender He always lies, this candyman Those lips conspire in treachery To strike in cloak and dagger, see! Candyman - oh candyman And all the children, he warns ``don't tell,'' Those threats are sold With their guilt and shame they think they're to blame For candyman oh candyman

	Candyman Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: " 'Candyman’ was trying to put across the unspeakability of child abuse, and again, trying not to sensationalise it, just coming up with a very strong picture of a character that was sickly sweet and oozing repulsiveness. The amount of people who’ve been abused is incredible, and it’s only lately that the subject’s been brought out into the open. The whole thing’s such a power trip, and you realise the victims must have been so in fear of saying anything - cos they’ve been told by the perpetrator that they’ll go to hell or something. " Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92. CARRUTHERS: "Well, this is about child abusers. Certain people have suggested that it's also about drugs and drug-pushers, but it isn't really. Or at least it could be - Sioux's lyrics are always ambiguous. Even in Berlin where we were recording, we heard about the shocking rise in child abuse. If there's one thing Sioux really hates it's children being used against their will. It's a prime concern of hers." Source: Melody Maker 1986. SIOUXSIE: "It's really to do with grown ups' abuse of children's trust, whether it's sexual or not, the innocence and dependency as well. I just find anything to do with that is repulsive. Pornography or people showing their boobs, that's another thing. I'm not going to be puritanical about any of that because that's all grown ups." Source: Record Mirror 15/05/86.



	This Wheel's On Fire Lyrics

	If your memory serves you well We were going to meet again and wait So I'm going to unpack all my things And sit before it gets too late No man alive will come to you With another tale to tell But you know that we shall meet again If your memory serves you well This wheel's on fire, Rolling down the road, Best notify my next of kin This wheel shall explode If your memory serves you well, I was going' to confiscate your lace And wrap it up in a sailor's knot And hide it in your case If I knew for sure that it was yours But it was oh so hard to tell But you knew that we would meet again If your memory serves you well This wheel's on fire Rolling down the road Best notify my next of kin This wheel shall explode If your memory serves you well You'll remember you're the one That called on me to call on them To get you your favors done And after every plan had failed And there was nothing more to tell You knew that we would meet again If your memory served you well This wheel's on fire Rolling down the road Best notify my next of kin This wheel shall explode

	This Wheel's On Fire Credits

	Bob Dylan - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Carruthers - Guitar Budgie - Drums McCarrick - Keyboards & Cello Gini Ball - Violin Jocelyn Pook - Viola



	The Passenger Lyrics

	I am the passenger And I ride and I ride I ride through the city's backside I see the stars come out of the sky Yeah the bright and hollow sky You know it looks so good tonight I am the passenger I stay under glass I look through my window so bright I see the stars come out tonight I see the bright and hollow sky Over the city's ripped backside And everything looks good tonight Singing la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la Get into the car We'll be the passenger We'll ride through the city tonight We'll see the city's ripped backsides We'll see the bright and hollow sky We'll see the stars that shine so bright Stars made for us tonight O the passenger How he rides O the passenger He rides and he rides He looks through his window What does he see He sees the sign and hollow sky He sees the stars come out tonight He sees the city's ripped backsides He sees the winding ocean drive And everything was made for you and me All of it was made for you and me Because it just belongs to you and me So lets take a ride and see what's mine Singing la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la O the passenger He rides and he rides He sees things from under glass He looks through his window side He sees things he knows are his He sees the bright and hollow sky He sees the city sleep at night He sees the stars are out tonight And all of it is yours and mine And all of it is yours and mine So lets ride and ride and ride and ride Singing la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la

	The Passenger Credits

	Pop/Gardiner - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Carruthers - Guitar Budgie - Drums McCarrick - Keyboards Luke Tumney - Trumpet Martin Dobson - Saxophone



	Peek A Boo Lyrics

	Creeping up the backstairs Slinking into dark stalls Shapeless and slumped in bath chairs Furtive eyes peep out of holes She has many guises She'll do what you want her to Playing dead and sweet submission Cracks the whip deadpan on cue Peek-a-boo Peek-a-boo Peek-a-boo Peek-a-boo Reeking like a pigsty Peeling back and gagging free Flaccid ego in your hand Chokes on dry tears, can you understand? She's jeering at the shadows Sneering behind a smile Lunge and thrust to pout and pucker Into the face of the beguiled Peek-a-boo Peek-a-boo Golly jeepers Where'd you get those peepers? Peepshow, creepshow Where did you get those eyes? Strobe lights pump and flicker Dry lips crack out for more `Come bite on this rag doll, baby! That's right, now hit the floor' They're sneaking out the back door She gets up from all fours Rhinestone fools and silver dollars Curdle into bitter tears Peek-a-boo Peek-a-boo Golly jeepers Where'd you get those peepers? Peepshow, creepshow Where did you get those eyes?

	Peek A Boo Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums, Percussion & Harmonica McCarrick - Keyboards & Accordian Klein - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	The soft porn industry in particular its use in advertising. " The lyrics are written from the perspective of someone who works in a peep show. It's really a song about my disgust at the amount of soft pornography, things like Page Three girls and pervy ads on TV, that are being forced on people at the moment." (Siouxsie) Source: Smash Hits 1988. "'Crimes Of Passion' was part of it. I wrote it because I was feeling bombarded by these moronic videos on Night Network, gormless singers surrounded by models and their sweaty cleavages, cherries dropping down on their boobs, really offensive." (Siouxsie) Source: NME 1988.



	The Killing Jar Lyrics

	Down where this ugly man Seeks his sustenance Down in the blue, midnight flare A glass hand cuts through the water Scything into his twisted roots Then from his eyes spring fireflies Breathing life into a roaring disguise Needles and sins, sins and needles He's gasping for air In the wishing well Dust to rust, ashes to gashes Hand around the killing jar A soft hoodwink of shadow The size of make-believe Punches through his spike of rage A glass hand cuts through the water Snuffing out the magic fury Then from inside bolt lightning cries Swiftly crushed the final, muffled sighs Needles and sins, sins and needles He's gasping for air In the wishing well Dust to rust, ashes to gashes Hand around the killing jar

	The Killing Jar Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums, Percussion McCarrick - Keyboards & Cello Klein - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	"A killing jar is a device used by butterfly collectors to contain and ultimately kill their specimen. The use of the word killing jar in the song is used as a metaphor for controlled violence. An emotional relationship snuffed out until it is merely a prized possession or keep sake." John Fowles The Collector



	The Last Beat Of My Heart Lyrics

	In the sharp gust of love My memory stirred When time wreathed a rose A garland of shame Its thorn my only delight War torn, afraid to speak We dare to breathe Majestic Imperial A bridge of sighs Solitude sails In a wave of forgiveness On angels' wings Reach out your hands Don't turn your back Don't walk away How in the world Can I wish for this? Never to be torn apart Close to you 'Till the last beat of my heart At the close of day The sunset cloaks These words in shadowplay Here and now, long and loud My heart cries out And the naked bone of an echo says Don't walk away Reach out your hands I'm just a step away How in the world Can I wish for this? Never to be torn apart Close to you 'Till the last beat of my heart How in the world Can I wish for this? Never to be torn apart 'Till the last beat 'Till the last fleeting beat of my heart

	The Last Beat Of My Heart Credits

	Severin/Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums, Percussion McCarrick - Keyboards Klein - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	"It's about being fragile and exposed." (Siouxsie) Source: Option 03/89.



	Kiss Them For Me Lyrics

	It glittered and it gleamed For the arriving beauty queen A ring and a car Now you're the prettiest by far No party she'd not attend No invitation she wouldn't send Transfixed by the inner sound Of your promise to be found Nothing or no one will ever make me let you down Kiss them for me, I may be delayed Kiss them for me, if I am delayed It's divoone, oh it's serene In the fountains pink champagne Someone carving their devotion In the heart shaped pool of fame Nothing or no one will ever make me let you down Kiss them for me, I may be delayed Kiss them for me, I may find myself delayed On the road to New Orleans A spray of stars hit the screen As the 10th impact shimmered The forbidden candles beamed Kiss them for me, I may be delayed Kiss them for me, I may find myself delayed Kiss them for me, Kiss them for me Kiss them for me, I may find myself delayed

	Kiss Them For Me Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Sequencing, Keyboards & Bass Klein - Guitar Budgie - Drums McCarrick - Keyboards Talvin Singh - Tabla, Tavil & Taal

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	Jayne Mansfield was the inspiration behind the song 'Kiss Them For Me'. "This song was sparked off by Jayne Mansfield's story. She typified the dream that Hollywood holds for young women - a fairytale thing." (Siouxsie) Source: Record Hunter 12/92.



	Shadowtime Lyrics

	The voice asleep, the voice has vanished From the top of the sky to the place below Touch the surface and the mirror bends Your words resound, out of control Freeze into time now Still inside, yet doubt survives It all begins, beneath the skin No one is near, no one will hear Your changeling song take shape In Shadowtime Turn your wish to a vapour, the silhouette fades Eclipse your blue eyes, and the outline remains From the house of the moon to the stars up above Amidst the comets, first sight of love So begins the countdown Falling sky, a solar sigh It all begins, beneath the skin No one is near, none will hear Your changeling song takes shape In Shadowtime Shadowtime Catching fire, taking hold All that glisters leaves you cold No one is near, no one will head Your changeling song take shape In Shadowtime Shadowtime

	Shadowtime Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Sequencing, Keyboards & Bass Klein - Guitar Budgie - Drums McCarrick - Keyboards



	Fear (Of The Unknown) Lyrics

	I get the feeling, I'm not alone I get the feeling, it's someone I don't know Do you ever have the strange sensation When you're standing mighty tall To jump from 17 floors and crash into freefall But then fear takes control Fear of the unknown Imagine two complete strangers Who suspect they were meant to be Both in need of love and affection Yet their suspicions prevent something heavenly Fear takes control Fear of the unknown Aware of what will hurt you You're prepared to remain this way So sad yet safe with your afflictions Afraid to start a brand new day We all get the strangest feeling When we're standing mighty tall To jump from 17 floors and crash into freefall But then fear carries all Fear of the unknown Fear takes its toll Fear of the unknown Aware of what will hurt you You're prepared to remain this way So sad yet safe with your afflictions Afraid to start a brand new day

	Fear (Of The Unknown) Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Sequencing, Keyboards & Bass Klein - Guitar Budgie - Drums McCarrick - Keyboards



	Face To Face Lyrics

	Face to face My lovely foe Mouth to mouth Raining heaven's blows Hand on heart Tic tac toe Under the stars Naked as we flow Cheek to cheek The bitter sweet Commit your crime in your deadly time It's too divine I want to bend I want this bliss but something says I must resist Another life Another time We're Siamese twins writhing intertwined Face to face No telling lies The masks they slide to reveal a new disguise You never can win It's the state I'm in This danger thrills and my conflict kills They say follow your heart Follow it through But how can you When you're split in two? And you'll never know You'll never know One more kiss Before we die Face to face And dream of flying Who are you? Who am I? Wind in wings Two angels falling To die like this With a last kiss It's falsehood's flame It's a crying shame Face to face The passions breathe I hate to stay but then I hate to leave And you'll never know You'll never know

	Face To Face Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Sequencing, Keyboards & Bass Klein - Guitar Budgie - Drums McCarrick - Keyboards



	Love In A Void Lyrics

	Too many fools blocking my motion Clouding my eyes, must be the potion Spots in my eyes, must be the lotion Spots in my eyes, must be the lotion Love in a void It's so numb Avoiding love Its so dumb Love in a void Too many bigots for my liking Too many critics, too few writing Rabid dogs that aren't biting Rabid dogs that aren't biting Love in a void It's so numb Avoiding love Its so dumb Love in a void Jaded reputation on which you're staking Lots of money for the making For all the stars they're just faking For all the stars they're just faking Love in a void It's so numb Avoiding love Its so dumb Love in a void

	Love In A Void Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums & Percussion McKay - Guitar



	Mirage Lyrics

	I'm just a vision on your TV screen Just something conjured from a dream Seen thro' your x-ray eyes A see thro' scene The image is no images It's not what it seems My limbs are like palm trees Swaying in the breeze My body's an oasis To drink from as you please I'm not seeing what I'm meant to believe in Your non-excuse for human being It's not plain to see That I'm playing with me A photo fit of loose ends framed in 3-D Seen thro' your x-ray eyes A see thro' scene The images no image is It's not what it seems

	Mirage Lyrics

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums & Percussion McKay - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	MORRIS: "It's more the idea of blindness and screens rather than taking it down to TV. It's about walls, screens, inhibitions, inabilities, expressing oneself in public." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78. SIOUXSIE: " 'Mirage' is about 'the image is no images, it's not what it seems' It's about people seeing us and taking what we do superficially." Source: Sounds 03/12/77.



	Suburban Relapse Lyrics

	I'm sorry that I hit you But my spring snapped I'm sorry I disturbed your cat nap But whilst finishing a chore I asked myself 'what for?' Then something snapped. I had a relapse A suburban relapse I was washing up the dishes And minding my own business When my string snapped I had a relapse A suburban relapse Should I? Throw things at the neighbours Expose myself to strangers Kill myself or you? Now memory gets hazy I think I must be crazy but my string snapped I had a relapse A suburban relapse

	Suburban Relapse Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums & Percussion McKay - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "It's committing a crime under the stresses of everyday life. Being so confused and... I don't know how anyone can be a judge, an actual one in court". Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78.



	Metal Postcard Lyrics

	Reunion begins with a glass of mercury Whilst television flickers With another News Bulletin Flints light up the eyes Of the seated family Metal is tough, Metal will sheen Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned Metal is tough, Metal will sheen Metal will rule in my master scheme With a clockwork jerk Pluck cogs from fob watches For dinner on Friday Then recoiling say 'excuse me Must go recycle My precious machinery Metal is tough, Metal will sheen Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned Metal is tough, Metal will sheen Metal will rule in my master scheme It's ruling our lives There is no hope Thought I'd drop a line The weather here is fine But day and night It blares Commanding through loud speakers Metal is tough, Metal will sheen Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned Metal is tough, Metal will sheen Metal will rule in my master scheme

	Metal Postcard Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums & Percussion McKay - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	Dedicated to the celebrated photomontage artist of the Twenties/Thirties, John Heartfield, the original title for this song was 'Letter To Heartfield'. The chorus is taken from one of Goerring's speeches during the Second World War. SIOUXSIE: "It's a warning song. The whole propaganda of the Nazis at that time was very dangerous and it could easily creep its way in without there being all the hysteria of killing the Jews. Their whole propaganda could easily fit in today." How does she see this Metal Metropolis? "Not being able to get away from the commands of the day, not being able to escape, the idea of having cameras in your room and having people watching you..." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78. SIOUXSIE: "What lies around the swastika I hate, but I also don't identify with blind patriotism either. I couldn't write a song based around Heartfield if I had that attitude." Source: Melody Maker 17/02/79.



	Hong Kong Garden Lyrics

	Harmful elements in the air Symbols Crashing everywhere Reap the fields of rice and reeds While the population feeds Junk floats on polluted water And old custom to sell your daughter Would you like number 23 Leave your yens on the counter please Hong Kong garden Tourists swarm to see your face Confucius has a puzzling grace Disorientated you enter in Unleashing scent of wild jasmine Slanted eyes meet a new sunrise A race of bodies small in size Chicken Chow Mein and Chop Suey Hong Kong garden takeaway Hong Kong garden

	Hong Kong Garden Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums & Percussion McKay - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "I’ll never forget, there was a Chinese restaurant in Chislehurst called 'The Hong Kong Garden'. Me and my friend were really upset that we used to go there and like, occasionally when the skinheads would turn up it would really turn really ugly. These gits were just go in on mass and just terrorise these Chinese people who were working there. We’d try and say ‘Leave them alone’, you know. It was a kind of tribute." Source: Punk Top Ten Interview 08/06/01. SIOUXSIE: "I remember wishing that I could be like Emma Peel from The Avengers and kick all the skinheads' heads in, because they used to mercilessly torment these people for being foreigners. It made me feel so helpless, hopeless and ill." Source: Uncut 01/05. SEVERIN: "That was freaky. A very strange period. We'd finished it a month before it came out, and we'd pushed it away - and it was just a very strange feeling having people rush up and say how great it was." Source: NME 23/12/78.



	Carcass Lyrics

	Someone's in cold storage Seeking Heinz main-courses Craving for a raw love He'll hide you from the cleaver He'll hang with you forever Longing for a fresh meat By hook or by crook You'll be first in his book For a impaled affair By hook or by crook You'll be last in his book Of flesh oh so rare Be a carcass be a dead pork Be limblessly in love Be a carcass be a dead pork Be limblessly in love Someone's left in cold storage thawed in Heinz main-courses Carving for a new tin He got you with the cleaver He'll hang you up forever Anticipating new skin Out of the frying pan And into the fire 58th variety Out of the frying pan And into the fire Mother had her son for tea Be a carcass be a dead pork Be limblessly in love Be a carcass be a dead pork Be limblessly in love In love with your stumps In love with your bleeding In love with the pain that you now feel as you become a carcass you became a carcass carcass carcass car crash

	Carcass Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums & Percussion McKay - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "It's a love song really. You read about how love's supposed to be, but in the papers you see all these other things that people do to get their certain kicks. More people seem to have those sort of kicks than meeting the girl next door. It's an angle of looking at things and they are there - it's not purely fictional." Source: Melody Maker 09/12/78. SIOUXSIE: "Yeah Carcass - it's about a butcher's assistant who can't get girls and so he falls in love with a lump of meat on the slab and so that he can be like the object of his affection - he cuts off his own arms and legs." Source: Zigzag 10/77. STEVE: "People always miss out on the humorous aspect of what we do, or rather the facetious aspect..." Source: Sounds 24/06/78. SIOUXSIE: "There's also 'My mother had her son for tea'. But when you think about it, every day can be really cruel yet so laughable." Source: Sounds 24/06/78.



	Helter Skelter Lyrics

	When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again. Do you, don't you want me to love you I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer So look out! Helter skelter Na la la la la la Helter skelter Na la la la la la Helter skelter Will you, won't you want me to make you I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you Tell me tell me tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no fucking dancer When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop

	Helter Skelter Credits

	Lennon/McCartney - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums & Percussion McKay - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SEVERIN: "It's more than a song now. We felt there was a need to re-do it after all that happened." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78. SIOUXSIE: "The Beatles had done it... quite innocently with just the intention of a helter skelter, a child's playground or other insinuations - like sexual ones." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78.