THE RAPTURE ERA - CREDITS

 
 
  B Side Ourselves  
Swimming Horses (Live)  
All Tomorrow's Parties (Live)

O Baby 
Tearing Apart 
Stargazer  
Fall From Grace  
Not Forgotten  
Sick Child  
The Lonely One 
Falling Down 
Forever 
The Rapture  
The Double Life  
Love Out Me

Hang Me High  
Black Sun

Interlude 
The Lighthouse 
New Skin

 
     

 


     
  B Side Ourselves Lyrics  
 
 
 

Release the angels
Go on release them
Rose petal squadrons
The bees are swarming
Warming your cold skin

Such a womanly man
Such a boyish girl
Clutching at strings
Of blackened pearls
Warming your cold sting

Didn't they teach you anything at all?
Something's not better than nothing at all
B side ourselves
B side ourselves
B side ourselves

Now you belong
Where we belong
Into the landslide
Clandestine beside the real world

Raw senses bring us beside ourselves
Instincts to guide us through this foggy world
We're beside ourselves
B side ourselves
B side ourselves

B side
B side
B side
B side ourselves
B side ourselves
B side ourselves

 
     
  B Side Ourselves Credits  
     
 

Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice & Guitar
Severin - Bass
Klein - Picked Acoustic & Electric Drill Guitar
Budgie - Acoustic Riff Guitar & Drums
McCarrick - Cello

 
     

 


     
  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
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Drums & Percussion
McCarrick - Keyboards

 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Based on a episode from a series called 20/20 Vision Siouxsie 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, or by public stoning".  (Siouxsie)  Source:  Melody Maker 17/10/92.  
     

 


     
  All Tomorrow's Parties Lyrics  
 
 
 

And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
To all tomorrow's parties

And where will she go and what shall she do
When midnight comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
And cry behind the door

And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
Why silks and linens of yesterday's gowns
To all tomorrow's parties

And what will she do with Thursday's rags
When Monday comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
And cry behind the door

And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown
For whom none will go mourning

A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown
Of rags and silks, a costume
Fit for one who sits and cries
For all tomorrow's parties

 
     
  All Tomorrow's Parties Credits  
     
 

Lou Reed - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Severin - Bass
Klein - Guitar
Budgie - Drums & Percussion
McCarrick - Keyboards

 
     

 


     
  O Baby Lyrics  
 
 
 

The cracks in the ground
Grin up at me
Even the creases in my shoes
Smile up at me
Thought it would end
In tragedy
But I'm swimming around
In your glory

O baby
O maybe
I'm the lost and found

Look at the stars
They're raining down
Even these jewels
Want to kiss your crown
Don't be afraid
It's just your face
Has that effect
On heavens'
Treasure case

O baby
O maybe
You're a paragon

I haven't felt this way before
Impossible to ask for more
Unanswered prayers that went before
Lie like leaves upon the floor

Hang all the world
And universe
When I'm with you
They always seem perverse
I'm in a state
Of weightlessness
When I inhale
Your angel breath

O baby
O maybe
I'm the lost and found

 
     
  O Baby Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Tearing Apart Lyrics  
 
 
 

I know it's all a game
I know they're all insane
I know it's all in vain
I know that I'm to blame

This tearing apart

I think we all should die
I think we're dead inside

I know the purest rain
Wont was the bloody stain
I know it waits to strike
This sickness from inside

We'll tear us apart
You're still in my heart
Tearing apart

O you hold the rain

Far far away
Wild swans skim across a lake
Then soar in a white arc
Above my head I wake

Tearing apart
You're still in my heart
Tearing apart

 
     
  Tearing Apart Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Stargazer Lyrics  
 
 
 

Been thinking how to escape?
This strait jacket of constraint
Been thinking what can be wrong?
With feelings that long to belong

Stargazing me
In an upside down sea

So weary
This strait jacket dreamer
So resigned
To continue to suffer
But you've learnt
That as you grow weaker
There's less hurt
Because there's much less to hurt

Stargazing me
In a tumbling sea
Up in the galaxy
Staring down on me

Stargazer
Reach out to touch
With your mind
That frees you so much
Stargazer
Kissing your kismet
With bright jewel
Encrusted scars

Stargazing me
In tranquility
Up in the galaxy
Staring down on me

 
     
  Stargazer Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Fall From Grace Lyrics  
 
 
 

I am stone and I am blade
A sharp eternal instant
A darker heart a distant moan
Pleasures' deep and spectral instinct

Look me in the eye
Speak it to my face
My hate is cold
As I fall from grace

So wish away my gravity
A curse the one and only
Lay terror tight unholy flight
Bear witness to the descent

Yet nothing is forever
So come nearer and confess
But like a tender bruise
Temptation waits in one caress

Look me in the eye
Speak it to my face
My hate is cold
As I fall from grace

Cast me out and save your soul
From madness rhyme and reason
You banish doubt I'll spread the fear
You'd better start believing

Look me in the eye
Speak it to my face
My hate is cold
As I fall from grace

 
     
  Fall From Grace Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Not Forgotten Lyrics  
 
 
 

You buried it so deep
So safe in hidden sleep
But like a tell-tale corpse
Rises to the surface
Over-ripe & bloated
In naked time-lapsed truth
Thought it was lost forever
Remember this

How long has it been
Or have you forgotten
When you first forgot?
Now resurrection the phoenix
Aflame with pride & conceit
Remembers this

Wind blown trees outside
Applauding like the ocean
To the cacophony inside
The waves come rushing in
A crashing whispering
Drowning they drink me

Ah not forgotten
This is not forgotten
Remember this

 
     
  Not Forgotten Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Sick Child Lyrics  
 
 
 

And I know I never knew you
Your mind your pain I will melt your winter tears
If you say you will
If you could say you will

Convalescing bruised I set my mind awake
Dare to take another look
If you say you will
If you could say you will

King of moon gloomy afternoon
Losing track of word & metre
Still shaking in this tear room
Like a sick child
Still shaking nothing reconciled
Like a sick child

Melancholia colliding out of mind
In a silver swirl I take a lungful in
Blow a fistful out if you could say you will

King of moon gloomy afternoon
Losing track of word & metre
Make your final touch people talk too much
Madman screams an unknown language

Still shaking in the tear room
Like a sick child
Still shaking nothing reconciled
Like a sick child

 
     
  Sick Child Credits  
     
 

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

 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The painting of the same name by Edvard Munch.  
     

 


     
  The Lonely One Lyrics  
 
 
 

Happy in solitude
Secure there's no-one to depend on
Scorning alms & good luck charms
Staring down to the rocks below

I was the lonely one
I didn't want no-one

An odyssey so solitary
Carries you forth to collide with me
Recognised familiar signs
We're hypnotised on the turning tide

You were the lonely one
Who didn't want no-one
I was the lonely one
I didn't want no-one

Here I stand on the shifting sand
Waves of lassitude wash inland
The lonely cry of a seagull flies
Into my mind and recalls a time

When I was the lonely one
Who didn't want no-one
You were the lonely one
No we didn't want no-one

Hear my hymn calling the lonely one
Hear my hymn for the lonely one

 
     
  The Lonely One Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Falling Down Lyrics  
 
 
 

I would see you falling down
Still I would have been around
Hated to hear the sound
As you fell and punched the ground
Such as miserable suicide
Performed before my eyes
Staggering about the town
Unaware I was around

I wouldn't have you
If you wanted me to
I wouldn't have you
You wouldn't have you

Feel the dead sea
Running through your veins
A sea of mercury
Dragging you down the drain

I wouldn't have you
If you wanted me to
I wouldn't have you
You wouldn't have you

Come searching for your little girl
But she hid in her oyster shell
Stupored and ill humoured
You left her with the swine and swill
Didn't you?

I wouldn't have you
If you wanted me to
I wouldn't have you
You wouldn't have you

 
     
  Falling Down Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Forever Lyrics  
 
 
 

Infinity stretches unlimitlessly
Countless days pass by immeasurably
Anniversaries gutter in the maelstrom
Whirling a snowstorm of lustrous millennium

We couldn't stay together
This couldn't last forever

Senses dissolve into soliloquies
Flooding ascent in synchronicity
But we couldn't stay together
I knew this wouldn't last forever
Forever just one more tie then never
This is the last string to sever

On and on yes it goes on and on

I could stay wherever
I would last forever
Forever just one more tie then never
This is the last string to sever
Forever never forever
This is the last string to sever
I have lost you for ever and ever

 
     
  Forever Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  The Rapture Lyrics  
 
 
 

O pull on the rein and haul me in
Back to the start where eyes first blink to see
A flowing mane a cut-glass limb
And they're falling soaring so rhythmically

O pull on the rein and haul me in back to the start
Rebirthed in ecstasy with cherubim and seraphim
When I was falling soaring so rhythmically
Falling soaring falling for you so completely

The Rapture unfurling blues and greens
The Rapture a swirling violet stream
Mystic majestic entangled in a web of curling vapour thread
Encaptured by forces unseen
Enraptured an eclipse intoxicating
Strangely not inside strangely not outside
Drowning in the middle of an eerie transition
And I don't know your name
Never been alive yet I haven't died
I hover disembodied in a semi-wakened haze

Floating far above the cloud
Sinking far below the ground
Only my senses remain

The Rapture unfurling blues and greens
The Rapture a swirling violet stream
Mystic majestic entangled in a web of iridescent curling vapour thread
Floating far above the cloud
Sinking far below the ground
No form only my senses remain

Wondering if I dare to say your name
Wondrous thoughts embalmed avow you came
By the crescent disc rising amethyst
How can love remain the same unchanged?
Moonlight plays upon this sunken brow
Midnight ink bleeds wet mercurial clouds
By the crescent disc rising amethyst
Somnambulist unharnessed storms the plough
By the crescent disc rising amethyst
How can love remain the same unchained?

 
     
  The Rapture Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  The Double Life Lyrics  
 
 
 

At the top of the stairs is a locked room
My secret chamber that no outsider views
For entry is forbidden prohibited
Behind this door is my other self
Not a picture in a frame nor a fresh disguise
But my other self
Immobile inert and sanguine
My narcissus kisses exhale crimson breath
And pump ruby to the lip
I stand before myself not Jekyll or Hyde
Not sibling nor twin separated at birth
I stand before myself unaccountable

I dreamt that I had feet of clay
I dreamt I crossed the seven seas
And when I woke not knowing
I knew I led the double life

All I ever needed is twice removed
I spit my bile in an airless temper
In this vacuum a vampire reversed
this one who breathes life into me
And even dull mirrors reflect the tarnished twosome
I stand before myself not another one
Not Doppelganger nor witless clone
I stand before myself unrepentant

I dreamt of sin and aftermath
I dreamt of centuries laid bare
And when I woke not knowing
I knew I led the double life

 
     
  The Double Life Credits  
     
 

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

 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  A radio story about a schoolmaster who committed suicide once his 'double life' of homosexual promiscuity was revealed.   
     

 


     
  Love Out Me Lyrics  
 
 
 

I smash the glass into my face
Cutting through to my disgrace
Disregard for bone and flesh
How can I be in such a mesh of unlikeliness?
I smash my likeness
At my fingertips
With this blade turned in on me
Cutting an ancient tree
A cutter in a forest of industry
Upturning usurping
Love me hate me help me
Save me from me
Hold me hurt me stop me
Take this love out me
Anger tinged with sadness
It's always been like this
Place the dagger 'twixt my breast
My nearest and dearest
I hurt it I hurt me
Hurt everything around me
There's nothing no trace
Still cutting to find the place
Love out me! Love out me!
Anger tinged with sadness
It's always been like this
No nothing no one no more
No no no no I can't take this
Love me hate me help me
Save me from me
Hold me hurt me stop me
Take this love out me!
Love out me!
Love out me!

 
     
  Love Out Me Credits  
     
 

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

 
     

 


     
  Hang Me High Lyrics  
 
 
 

Set me up with the bells in the tower
And beat them hour after hour
Do the bonds that seal your lips
Intone the penance as you slip

Into another night of bleeding flowers?
And in that final sinful moment
Were you just seeking love’s pretender?

Does loss of loss become the gain?
Empires stagger on words profane
The voice of blood cries out
Exaltation - exaltation!

Hang me high

Take this halo and bury it deep
Take this head and put it to sleep
Take this breast and bone to keep
Take this sword and leap

Hang me high

Burn body burn and throw it away
With the ashes of some forgotten saint
With some forgotten martyr - sweet believer
Take me take me and sleep take me keep some

Do not weep - do not weep

Hang me high

 
     
  Hang Me High Credits  
     
 

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

 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  A newspaper story about the stigmata marks of a young Italian girl and her ordeal at the hands of the Catholic Church.  Source:  Downside Up liner notes.  
     

 


     
  Black Sun Lyrics  
 
 
 

Uh oh here it comes and I'm struck twice
By Lightening bolts straight out the blue
Like a storm of steel inside of me
An elemental hymn of sorcery

Uh oh here it comes and I'm bewitched
By creeping claw from volcano core
Searching out my dormant head
I feel an ugly head start to rear

Black sun deep as emptiness
Black sun beyond the skies

Uh oh here it comes and I'm possessed
There's no refuse no shelter here
For all the urges I'd thought interred
No sanctuary no none are spared

Black sun spirits deranged
Black sun beyond the skies

Once more demons plunge
Back to shadows stain
And leave my nerves full drunk on blood
'Til just this mist of sound remains

Uh oh here it comes my black sun
Uh oh here it comes my black sun
Uh oh here it comes my black sun
Uh oh here it comes my black sun

 
     
  Black Sun Credits  
     
 

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

 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The song title comes from the biography of the same name  of American poet Harry Crosby.  A song concerning the dark cloud of depression.  Source:  Downside Up liner notes  
     

 


     
  Interlude Lyrics  
 
 
 

Time is like a dream
And now for a time you are mine
Let's hold fast to the dream
That tastes and sparkles like wine

Who knows if it's real
Or just something we're both dreaming of
What seems like an interlude now
Could be the beginning of love

Loving you is a world that's strange
So much more than my heart can hold
Loving you makes the whole world change
Loving you I could not grow old

No, nobody knows when love will end
So 'till then sweet friend

 
     
  Interlude Credits  
     
  George De La Rue/Hal Shaper - Lyrics  
     

 


     
  The Lighthouse Lyrics  
 
 
 

A winter's day broke blue and bright
With glancing sun and glancing spray
As o'er the swell our boat made way
As gallant as a gull in flight

But as we neared the lonely isle
And looked up at the naked height
And saw the lighthouse towering white
With blinding lantern that all night

Had never shot a spark
Of comfort in the dark

So ghostly in the cold sunlight
Seemed that we were struck awhile
With wonder what a dread for words
So ghostly in the cold sunlight

 
     
  The Lighthouse Credits  
     
  Lyrics adapted from the poem Flannan Isle by Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Sioux - Voice
Tchotghguerele Chalchin - Shaman Song
Renault Pion - Bass Clarinet & Keyboards
Mark Isham - Trumpet
Marc Ribot - Guitar
Budgie - Percussion
Sakharine Percussion Group - Percussion
Sissimut Dance Drummers - Percussion
Hector Zazou - Keyboards, Drum Programming & Guitars
 
     

 


     
  New Skin Lyrics  
 
 
 

Fuck you, I win this prize
For stardom, of pardons and lies
The miles, the minutes passing by my windows
Rising up through the ashes and grime
A new me on the other side

Hello, hello, I'm breaking through this old skin
Hello, hello, I'm coming through my new skin

So take the dips with the trash
And the shimmy, shimmy hip shake

Hello, hello let's kick out the trash and move in
Hello, hello, I'm coming in my new skin

Fuck you, I win this prize
For stardom, of pardons and lies
The miles, minutes pissing by my window
Hello, hello, I'm coming in my new skin
Hello, hello I'm hungry for some new skin
Hello, it's me, I'm coming over with my new skin

Hey, hey let's kick out the trash
Hey, hey let's kick out the trash
Hey, hey let's kick out the trash

 
     
  New Skin Credits  
     
 

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