The Scream Credits

THE SCREAM ERA - CREDITS


	Captain Scarlet Bad Shape Psychic Love In Void/The Lord's Prayer Make Up To Break Up Hong Kong Garden Voices Pure Jigsaw Feeling Overground Carcass Helter Skelter Mirage Metal Postcard Nicotine Stain Suburban Relapse Switch The Staircase (Mystery) 20th Century Boy Make Up To Break Up



	Captain Scarlet Lyrics

	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Captain Scarlet Captain Scarlet He's the man that made the films He's the man that's seen the films Captain Scarlet Captain Scarlet Indestructible, indispensable Indestructible, indispensable Captain Scarlet Captain Scarlet He's so brave He's so bold and gay Captain Scarlet Captain Scarlet So you think that he's the man So you think that he's the man Made out of steal To you so real Indestructible, indispensable Incompatible, insignificant Captain Scarlet Captain Scarlet

	Captain Scarlet Credits

	Sioux/Barry Gray - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums Fenton - Guitar



	Bad Shape Lyrics

	We're all fucking spastics We're all paralysed Cancer in the ears Cataract in the eyes We're all dismembered We're all in stitches Wrapped in bandages Stumble with crutches

	Bad Shape Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums Fenton - Guitar



	Psychic Lyrics

	I keep seeing nuns collapsing in the street I never know what they’re supposed to mean Was it today I checked my horoscope Was it a man hanging from a rope? _________________________ _________________________ A ghoul selling ice cream in the cinema I’m smoking everytime I die I stayed once at a séance I’m so psychic I’m so psychic Psychic, psychic I’m so psychic Voodoo psychic I’m so psychic Voodoo psychic I keep seeing nuns collapsing in the street I never know just what they’re supposed to mean Was it today I checked my horoscope Was it a man hanging from a rope? There’s a s_____________ at my bus stop And a demon in the launderette A warlock served me in the cornershop Hellfire from my cigarette I stayed once at a séance I’m so psychic I’m so psychic Psychic, psychic I’m so psychic Voodoo psychic I’m so psychic Voodoo psychic I stayed once at a séance I’m so psychic I’m so psychic Psychic

	Psychic Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums Fenton - Guitar



	Love In A Void/The Lord's Prayer Lyrics

	Too many fools blocking my notions 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 It's so dumb Love in a void Love in a void It's so numb Avoiding love It's so dumb Love in a void Too many Jews 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 It's so dumb Love in a void Love in a void It's so numb Avoiding love It's 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 It's so dumb Love in a void Love in a void It's so numb Avoiding love It's so dumb Love in a void Love in a void It's so numb Avoiding love It's so dumb Love in a void Love in a void It's so numb Avoiding love It's so dumb Love in a void Lyrics: Sioux, Severin, Fenton, Morris

	Love In A Void/The Lord's Prayer Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Morris - Drums Fenton - Guitar



	Make Up To Break Up Lyrics

	Spots and warts and blemishes Deep receding crevices Seem to disappear With foundation on my face Foundation on my face! Shadow conjures cheekbone Hides a nasal disgrace A disfigured attrocity J J Jutting out of place Jutting out of place! Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up, break up, make up to break up Girls with eyes like swimming pools Are the ones that I despise 'Cos I need lots of colour To hide my bloodshot eyes Hide my bloodshot eyes! Now to paint by numbers Over the cavernous pit Lots of glossy red To hide my pale cracked lips Hide my pale cracked lips! Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up, break up, make up to break up Now comes the break up From the make up Just like the devils rain C C Colours run insane Colours run insane Foundation starts to tremble My nose a grotesque abstract My mouth a gaping gap My eyes are shooting blood My face is cracking up My face is cracking up Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up, break up, make up to break up

	Make Up To Break Up Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	The lyric 'just like the devil's rain' is a reference to the film of the same name. "Devil's Rain was a cheapo cash in movie on the same lines as the Exorcist etc; an actress called Ida Lupino (beautiful name) was in it - Ernest Borgnine was the Devil - William Shatner the guy from Star Trek was the hero. The film was about this rain that melted people - their faces went like putty and if you squeezed their eyeballs all pus came oozing out." Source: Zigzag 10/77.



	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.



	Voices Lyrics

	And I'm hearing the whispers from my window And I'm hearing something scratching on the inside Could it be the sea beckoning me? Could it be - can I see? Voices on the air And I'm feeling like a moody situation And I feel the waves lapping with contempt Could I feel my senses leaving me Could it be - can I see? Voices on the air

	Voices Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	The Haunted Palace by Edgar Alan Poe & On Wine & Hashish by Baudelaire.



	Pure

	Instrumental

	Pure Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	STEVE: "For 'Pure', you can also substitute 'essence'. That song wasn't written - it just happened." It happened during a sound check in France some time ago. "Also it summed up all that we were going through back in those days. It happened on stage and we just called it 'Pure'. That's like what happens when the band lets loose." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78.



	Jigsaw Feeling Lyrics

	Send me forward, say my feelings But all the signals, send me reeling Jigsaw feeling One day I'm feeling total The next I split in two My eyes are doing somersaults Staring at my shoes My brain is out of my hand There's nothing to prevent The impulse is quite meaningless in a cerebral non-even Send me forward, say my feelings But all the signals, send me reeling Jigsaw feeling Five fingers do my walking Ten toes unravel knots Amorphous jigsaw pieces falling into slots Send me forward, say my feelings But all the signals, send me reeling Jigsaw feeling So I just sit in reverie Getting on my nerves The intangible bonds that keep me Sitting on the verge.... Of a breakdown Of a reaction Of a result Complete me, defeat me, maybe

	Jigsaw Feeling Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "It's the wrong things doing the right things for you. It started out as a self-disgust song and evolved from that. " Source: Unknown 1978. SIOUXSIE: It's when your limbs won't do what your brain wants them to. You're so confused that you can't co-ordinate your limbs to do something positive, and you just twist yourself in knots." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78.



	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 on 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 on 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 Morris - Drums & Percussion McKay - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SEVERIN: "It was written at a time when we were all getting desperate for a contract... and it's really to do with why we wanted a major record deal." Source: Record Mirror 09/12/78. SEVERIN: "it's another one about choice. You can either go along with the way things are or... It's very personal to the band on one level. The whole things about the uncompromising Banshees. It's saying that we can change to go overground but at the same time we know we'd be worse than ourselves." Source: Melody Maker 09/12/78.



	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.



	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.



	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.



	Nicotine Stain Lyrics

	It's just a habit When I reach to the packet For my last cigarette Until the day breaks Then my hand shakes But it's just driving me insane When the smoke gets in my brain I can't resist it Wallow in the ash bath Soaking up the fumes And see the nicotine stain Start to spread I'm so congested Cos north, south, east, and west Catarrh rests on my chest Congealed and twisted Cough up and shift it But I can feel my lungs collapse Sinking deep into my lap I'm so useless Wallow in the ash bath Soaking up the fumes And see the nicotine stain Start to spread I'm so useful If you don't want to fight Just give your foe a fright Say you'll drop me On every country See all will be stone dead When the nicotine stain spreads Just light me

	Nicotine Stain Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "That song started off when I had both my hands full and I had a cigarette. I had to hold on to it and I could feel the fumes all around my face. I had to look in the mirror to see that my face hadn't gone brown. I just got to thinking how nicotine could soak up all your body." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78. KENNY: "It's about everyday things that you really don't need to do, that you don't want to do but you just find yourself doing them. Because you have to." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78. SIOUXSIE: "It's that habits are very disgusting and you realise how addicted you are to them. You try to find the usefulness of your habits, you try to justify them." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78.



	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 & Saxophone

	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.



	Switch Lyrics

	Different lives In different places Familiar problems Same old faces Shuffle lives Into wrong categories Cross the wires And fuse humanity Watch the muscles twitch For a brand new switch Scientist G.P.s With patient guinea pigs Curing their head aches With drastic side effects Doctor rectorates Condescending from on high For all hallucinators See druggist in the sky Vicar experiments But 'tis blasphemy Dismissing thoughts of progress As the mark of devilry People walk And even talk People listen Then they halt Something blows up Won't come down Shattered muscles twitch Too late to switch

	Switch Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: ""I had in mind that it was going to be very fragmented with three different sections. That's all." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78. SEVERIN: "The scientist becomes the doctor and applies science to medicine - that kind of thing." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78. SIOUXSIE: "The vicar becomes the scientist and he applies his religion to science and the doctor becomes the religious person and applies his medicine to religion." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78. SEVERIN: "It all comes down to the same thing - the hypocrisy of it all." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78.



	The Staircase (Mystery) Lyrics

	Staircase lying face up Stair cat sat on the mat Looking down Slide down the banister Take the escalator Slide down the banister Or try the elevator I was standing on the landing Now I'm standing in the hall Looking up Wont someone assist me Solve this mystery Somebody assist me Arrange the symmetry Muffled footsteps on the carpet Spiral steps start spinning Around me Which floor which ceiling You're off balance Which floor which ceiling It's all upside down Staircase lying face up Stare cat sat on the mat Looking down

	The Staircase (Mystery) Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "There's something about a staircase. It's so unpredictable and exciting at the same time. That feeling of displacement, vertigo when you're at the top looking down or at the bottom looking up." Source: Melody Maker 17/02/79. SIOUXSIE: "That's more a song about curiosity and fear, it's not a great political statement or anything." Source: Sounds 07/04/79. SIOUXSIE: "The song's just taking a very day-to-day thing, and the nature of that thing is very... mysterious." Source: NME 31/03/79. SIOUXSIE: "Yeah it's very much a memory of them. Especially in my house, people were always falling down the stairs in it." Source: Sounds 07/04/79. SEVERIN: "Sioux had written the lyrics and she knew what it was about but they had a different interpretation and they wanted a different sleeve. So me, Nils and Sioux wanted to go one way and they wanted the other... and that was the democracy of it." Source: Sounds 15/09/79.



	20th Century Boy Lyrics

	Friends say it's fine Friends say it's good Everybody says he's Just like Robin Hood I move like a cat Talk like a rat Sting like a bee Babe I wanna be your man Well it's plain to see You were meant for me I'm your toy Your Twentieth Century boy Twentieth Century toy I wanna be your boy Twentieth Century Toy I wanna be your boy Friends say it's fine Friends say it's good Everybody says it's Just like Robin Hood Fly like a plane Drive like a car Hold out your hand Babe I wanna be your man Well it's plain to see You were meant for me I'm your toy Your Twentieth Century boy Twentieth Century toy I wanna be your boy Twentieth Century toy I wanna be your boy

	20th Century Boy Credits

	Marc Bolan - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass McKay - Guitar Morris - Drums



	Make Up To Break Up Lyrics

	Spots and warts and blemishes Deep receding crevices Seem to disappear With foundation on my face Foundation on my face! Shadow conjures cheekbone Hides a nasal disgrace A disfigured attrocity J J Jutting out of place Jutting out of place! Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up, break up, make up to break up Girls with eyes like swimming pools Are the ones that I despise 'Cos I need lots of colour To hide my bloodshot eyes Hide my bloodshot eyes! Now to paint by numbers Over the cavernous pit Lots of glossy red To hide my pale cracked lips Hide my pale cracked lips! Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up, break up, make up to break up Now comes the break up From the make up Just like the devils rain C C Colours run insane Colours run insane Foundation starts to tremble My nose a grotesque abstract My mouth a gaping gap My eyes are shooting blood My face is cracking up My face is cracking up Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up to break up Make up, break up, make up to break up

	Make Up To Break Up Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	The lyric 'just like the devil's rain' is a reference to the film of the same name. "Devil's Rain was a cheapo cash in movie on the same lines as the Exorcist etc; an actress called Ida Lupino (beautiful name) was in it - Ernest Borgnine was the Devil - William Shatner the guy from Star Trek was the hero. The film was about this rain that melted people - their faces went like putty and if you squeezed their eyeballs all pus came oozing out." Source: Zigzag 10/77.



	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