SUPERSTITION ERA - CREDITS

 
 
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Staring Back

Kiss Them For Me  
Fear (Of The Unknown)  
Cry  
Drifter  
Little Sister  
Shadowtime  
Silly Thing  
Got To Get Up  
Silver Waterfalls  
Softly  
The Ghost In You

Spiral Twist  
Sea Of Light

Face To Face  
I Could Be Again  
Hothead

 
     

 


     
  Return Lyrics  
 
 
 

Wonder where that plane is leading to
Wonder where that boat will ever stop
Wonder if this path I am treading
Will disappear and let me drop

Down to a hell that's surely waiting
Down to the hell I know that I deserve
Even though the spirit is willing
The flesh is blackened to the deepest nerve

When will you learn
The hurting it will return
When will you ever learn
This feeling is all you can discern

Oh my heart it is so broken
More than waves upon the golden sand
Fly my love on wings of mute confusion
And never ever land

When will you learn
When will you ever learn
The hurting it will return
This feeling is all you can discern

When will you learn
When will you ever learn
This feeling is all you can discern
The hurting always will return

Return

 
     
  Return Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Staring Back Lyrics  
 
 
 

My face in the window has become
The face of a woman I never knew
My face in the window has become
The face of a woman who never knew me

Now this ringing in my ears
Sends me spinning down the years
And I really need to know
Who is she?
Who is she?

Now this ringing in my ears
Sends me spinning down the years
And I really need to know
Who is she?
Who is she?

Staring back
Staring back at me
Who is she?
Staring back
Staring back at me
Who is she?

 
     
  Staring Back Credits  
     
 

Budgie - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Severin - Keyboards
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Organ & Drums
McCarrick - Cello

 
     

 


     
  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.  
     

 


     
  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
 
     

 


     
  Cry Lyrics  
 
 
 

Cry for the bird with broken wings
Cry for the world that will not spin
Cry for the loss of innocence
Cry for a love, turned loveless

Sometimes I think of you, when I'm alone
Oh no cry

Nothing will ever be the same
All is ruined and put to shame
Tears and stars are one and the same
When I look up through my focused lens

But sometimes I think of you, when I'm alone
Oh no cry, tears and stars confide, collide then die
Deep inside tears run dry, but I cry and cry

Tiger skins and elephant tusks
In gilded mountains seep disgust
I look at you and I want to speak
For once in a while be a man and weep
'Cos all the dolphins and whales have gone
All good tidings and hopes have blown
All our nightmares are flying home
And it's too late to do anything but

Cry, tears and stars confide, collide then die
Deep inside tears run dry, but I cry and cry

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

 


     
  Drifter Lyrics  
 
 
 

Drifter, sleepwalk
Drifter, sleep talk
Awake to who is following
Moving like water
Moving, drifting on the wind
A drifter coming in
Then I dreamt that I awoke
And all around was asleep
With eyes in the back of my head
Awake to who is following,
Drifter coming in
Never touching down, never leaving ground
A twilight world in which we roam
Still we don't belong, drift on
At daybreak, we walk
At daybreak,  we talk
Ready to tear up the world
Drifter, sleepwalk
Drifter,  sleepwalk
Your everywhere is home
Yet you never take hold
Wanting to live everywhere
Not wanting to live anywhere
A twilight world in which you roam
Still you won't belong, drift on

 
     
  Drifter Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Severin - Sequencing, Keyboards & Bass
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Drums
McCarrick - Keyboards
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  How the wolves and Native Indians of America were both cast out by the arrival of the white man.  "Drifter has a special mood that we wanted to create like the ambience of Ennio Morricone's 'The Big Sleep'."  
     

 


     
  Little Sister Lyrics  
 
 
 

Here I sit in paradise
My head between my hands
Little sister, break your vow
Break down, the sacred side
Little sister, break the rules
Break me in two

Little sister, now you're gone
Let's just say it's a mercy kill
But little sister, you've left me
Howling at the moon

If you touched my heart
You might be surprised
You'd be paralysed
Will the free hand of captivity
Heal all of this brutality?

If you touched my heart
A truth might lie disguised
You'd be paralysed

If you touched my heart
You might be surprised
You'd be paralysed

Just once, little sister
Just once

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

 


     
  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
 
     

 


     
  Silly Thing Lyrics  
 
 
 

Alone and left to ponder everything
Alone and left to puzzle out all the pain
Such a silly, silly, silly thing
You must catch it and cease it while you can

Accusations flying, colliding cheek to cheek
Button up your lip and think before you speak
Oh see him fly into a rage
See her crying in her tantrum cage
Too blind to halt this stupid game

Silly thing

Now all that's left is a feeling very grim
Alone and left to think about the stupid thing
Yes, she would fly into a rage
And he would cry in his tantrum cage
A replay of this dumb charade

Silly thing

I misunderstood you, I buried my head in sand
Please accept my feelings of remorse and take my hand
Such a silly thing can destroy a man
For such a silly thing to come between such friends
Is hard to imagine or believe
Silly thing

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

 


     
  Got To Get Up Lyrics  
 
 
 

Got to get up, get into life
Got to get up and live this life
Got to get up and win this life

No more looking down, look up
Skyward up your eyes, devour the sun now

Gonna shake my bones gonna shed my skin
Shake out what's mine, shake out this thing
I'm gonna shake my bones, gonna shed my skin
Shake out what's mine, shake out this thing

I've been here too long, now I'm up
Skyward up this song, devour the sun now

Bad luck you say, it's just not your day
But you've got to reach out, grab your destiny
Kick up the dust, kick up a storm
Kick out the past and take control

There's no-one else, it's up to you
Are you gonna wake up, or cry boo hoo?

No one else but you can rise up
you know what to do got to get up
No more looking down, look up
Come and claim your crown, got to get up
Got to get up

 
     
  Got To Get Up Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Severin - Sequencing, Keyboards & Bass
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Drums
McCarrick - Keyboards
 
     

 


     
  Silver Waterfalls Lyrics  
 
 
 

Clouds roll by overhead
Like giant rays coast a dried up ocean bed
Dancing winds blow a parody
Of swirling currents in a long forgotten sea

Shimmer glimmer
Shimmer on me
The sparkling souls of dreaming children call
Shimmer glimmer
Shimmer on me
In streets that shine like silver waterfalls
In your eyes in the skies
In the blood burning Indian sunrise
Shimmer on me (in sleep we grow)

We were here long ago
And now we roam like ghostly buffalo
First two lies then two tears
Subtle curves, now glistening souvenirs

In your eyes in the skies
In the blood burning Indian sunrise
Shimmer on me (awake and glow)
Shivering in silver waterfalls
Anoint me in silver waterfalls

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

 


     
  Softly Lyrics  
 
 
 

Softly into your broken veins
Softly into these broken dreams
Will you ever come home?
Will you ever be found?
Standing on shattered windowpane
Softly I whisper your name
Concealed in bedclothes of frosting cold
Softly the snowflakes start to fall
Fleecing the velvet skin
Suspended in frozen time
Icicles slowly drip outside
To the rhythm of your wounds here inside
I entered your dream, I entered your scheme
Softly to swim inside your veins
Softly in rippling cellophane
To float and glide in time
To the rushing in your brain
I wanted your lips, yes I wanted your kiss
So softly the moment had flown
My body outside yours
Softly collects the falling snow
And disappears far away
So softly

 
     
  Softly Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Severin - Sequencing, Keyboards & Bass
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Drums
McCarrick - Keyboards
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  SEVERIN:  I had a dream that I met Elvis and all he said to me was "Softly".  I also had this tape which I got in America.  It was shrinkwrapped to a paperback called 'Is Elvis Alive?' and was supposed to be him ringing from a payphone explaining how he'd survived and what he'd been doing.  There was nobody on the other end of the line.  At the beginning and end of 'Softly' you can just about make out a short wave radio with bits of this tape in it.  It's not important for people to know that, but it gives that atmosphere of something a bit more clairvoyant going on.  The lyrics are nothing to do with ElvisSource:  Deadline 08/91.
SIOUXSIE:  "Softly" was written in the rehearsal studio with just Martin (McCarrick) and Steve (Severin) playing something and me sort of part ad-libbing off of an idea that I had, and then us working it out together after we'd taped it and decided it was something worth doing.  Source:  Island ear 20/01/92.
 
     

 


     
  The Ghost In You Lyrics  
 
 
 

You awoke in a burning paper house
From the infinite fields
Of dreamless sleep

You return to Tiannammen
An eyewitness in a shroud
To see them fall, feel them yield
Reliving the terror of the crowd

Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow
Just for a moment I seemed to know
Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow
I seemed to know the ghost in you

The whisper of your scream
Sighed through the air
And faith-the flag is torn and frayed

Inferno heat, glory in flame
Love was beaten and betrayed
In every step I hear your sobbing
Dare I break the shade with one caress?
Dare I trespass to lift the veil
To touch the lips so soft and frail?

Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow
I seemed to know the ghost in you
Your captive heart, the belief you share
With a kiss eternal, the spirits of the square

Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow
Hope remains with the ghost in you
Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow
I seemed to know the ghost in you
Don't let it blow
The ghost in you
The ghost in you

 
     
  The Ghost In You Credits  
     
  Severin - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Severin - Sequencing, Keyboards & Bass
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Drums
McCarrick - Keyboards
 
     

 


     
  Spiral Twist Lyrics  
 
 
 

Home is where the rain is soft and soothing
Home is where the comfort is confusing
Taste of cordite burning bridges
Swallowing tracks across my head

Home is moving in the wrong direction
Animated statue eyes are blinking
Reflex of asphyxiated thinking
Suspended, submerged badly disrupted
Out of touch I'm out of reach

Struck by a car
Crushed by a tree
Fork in my palm
Glass in my spleen
I snap the rope snap the wrists
Here in the ether the spiral twists

This is the time when our minds begin stalking
Jammering on when our lips have stopped talking

Simple people, simple needs
Fingers finger endless beads
Tolling benediction bell
Hear this earthly spiral swell

Home is moving in the wrong direction

 
     
  Spiral Twist Credits  
     
 

Budgie - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Severin - Bass
Klein - Catechistic Guitar
Budgie - Drums, TR808 & Rosary Percussion
McCarrick - Keyboards

 
     

 


     
  Sea Of Light Lyrics  
 
 
 

I float quietly
Without a sound
Forever and ever 'til the end of time
And see myself lying still at the scene of the crime
Lying still at the scene of the crime

Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
I passed over to the sea of light
Follow me into to the sea of light
The sea of light

The miracle step off the rainbow's edge
Let it rain down let it descend
Riding on a river of stars
The heaven's open at the tunnel's end

Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
I passed over to the sea of light
Follow me into to the sea of light

Like blood in the body
Like wind in the water
Let it rain down let it descend
Sea of light
The sea of light

 
     
  Sea Of Light Credits  
     
 

Severin - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Severin - Keyboards
Budgie - TR808
McCarrick - Keyboards

 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Deals with the subject of 'near death' experiences.  Source:  Downside Up liner notes.  
     

 


     
  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
 
     

 


     
  I Could Be Again Lyrics  
 
 
 

Through growing gloom, I see the flicker of treason
Dancing on the picture of what might have been
This minute will last a day, these days will last for years
And those years that take ten lifetimes
Will pass without a reason

To be again, I could be again
To be again, I could be again
Rising up, the notion of rejuvenation
Oh yes, I could be again
I could be again
Rising up, I could be again

Taking form a complete transformation
Just us the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark
This minute will last a day these days will last for years
And those years that take ten lifetimes well I won't let disappear

To be again, I could be again
To be again, I could be again
Growing in the dark
From such a tiny spark
It's me again
I could be again
It's me again
I could be again

 
     
  I Could Be Again Credits  
     
 

Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice & Guitar
Severin - Bass
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Drums

 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The lyric 'Just us, the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark' is a actually a line quoted by Gloria Swanson at the end of the film Sunset Boulevard.  
     

 


     
  Hothead Lyrics  
 
 
 

Now most of the guys are just regular guys. Out to make some money, and that's it. I mean, they may get hot-headed sometimes, but that's not dangerous. It's a business; I'm running a business. And that's not dangerous, is it?

 
     
  Hothead Credits  
     
 

Budgie - Lyrics
Severin - Sequencing
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Meta Vox
McCarrick - Keyboards & Cello

 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  A news paper report on Manchester's growing guns and drug problem.    Source:  Downside Up liner notes.