Tinderbox Credits

TINDERBOX ERA - CREDITS


	An Execution Quarterdrawing Of The Dog Candyman The Sweetest Chill This Unrest Cities In Dust Cannons Party's Fall 92º Lands End Lullaby Umbrella



	An Execution Lyrics

	This is what she saw The unsuspecting horse was held fast to the ground Whilst some soldiers split open it's belly The guilty gypsy was shoved inside the horses belly With only his head protruding from the dying beast Another soldier then sewed up the wound With the culprit inside, condemned to die Along with the putrefying animal, screaming

	An Execution Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice & Piano Severin - Piano, Bass & Drumbox Budgie - Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	Based on the 'myth' of Countess Bathory. "She (Siouxsie) was reading this book about Countess Bathory, called 'Was Dracula A Woman?' or something. She used to bath in the blood of virgins in the vain hope it would keep you young. (Carruthers) Source: Zigzag 12/85.



	Quarterdrawing Of The Dog

	Instrumental

	Quarterdrawing Of The Dog Credits

	Sioux - Piano & Whistle Severin - Bass Carruthers - Guitar Budgie - Drums & Waterphone



	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.



	The Sweetest Chill Lyrics

	Hearing you in my sleep Feeling you your cadence seeps Whispering in flashback the spectres of your memories Fall in glistening showers such a tender descent Intones this haunting lament The sweetest chill Fearing you but calling your name Icy breath encases my skin Fingers like a fountain of needles Shiver along my spine And rain down so divine The sweetest chill A drowning so sublime spins in a heavenly climb Calling you tears thaw my sleep Wanting you this hoary web is weaved From this strange confusion Grows a perverse communication It entrails me and coils me around The sweetest chill Enchantment ebbs and whirls the sweetest chill Enchantment ebbs and whirls oh the thrill The sweetest chill

	The Sweetest Chill Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "It touches on the death of a loved one, being touched by the chill of their presence..." Source: NME 28/09/85. CARRUTHERS: "This is about a visitation from a lover's spirit who is already dead - someone who comes back from the grave and greets her as a lover. I don't think Sioux wrote it from personal experience, but you never know. Whenever she tries to write a love song it always comes out from a very different standpoint. It's not exactly Bonnie Tyler, though Sioux can do a great Bonnie impersonation. Source: Melody Maker 1986.



	This Unrest Lyrics

	This unrest beats out my breath Disconnected thoughts jangle in a mess This unrest crucifies my chest Without anaesthetic it cuts Through tumourous flesh This unrest beats out my breath This unrest beats in my chest Discordant limbs watch unimpressed At the aimless walk the mindless talk The pictures leap out and dance for me They laugh at me As your bitterness closes in You're feeling very old again Ah just to sleep, without these thoughts But the angels shout, resurrecting doubts Ah we meet again, my trusty friend Demanding new favours for old time's sake Inside this captive frame Come and claim your liberty Metal and flesh will fuse today These visions jump out and blast my days Clean away .......

	This Unrest Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "The title is self explanatory. Not this unrest within society, but within oneself." Source: NME 28/09/85. CARRUTHERS: "This is an extension of the nightmarish feeling you get when things are getting on top of you. It comes from a very "Night Shift"/"Jigsaw Feeling" feel. The music swirls like a dream - a score for "Nightmare On Elm Street". have you ever dreamt of being eaten alive?" Source: Melody Maker 1986.



	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.



	Cannons Lyrics

	Troubled weather's on its way Tempests threaten us today There's no respite, from long dark nights Just the fantasy of spring From the hailstones of summer To a scorching winter land A frozen death sleep, then this heat Beats down on this bucked land Flames lick closer to the core From city limits fireball And in a headless chicken run Race red and screaming fire engines Then the cannons came 'Neath the brooding sky Beneath its baleful eye The cannon shot, the cannon crack Disturbing night dreams People fled in droves To the lakes and to the shores Left behind a near ghost town Save the life of the cannons resounding Still there was no rain Once more in the line of fire Hovers the preying sky The cannons aim jabs at the eye Heralding the rain

	Cannons Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: " 'Cannon': "It was inspired by seeing a book programme about T. S. Eliot. I think it was. And it touched upon this freak weather period in the 20's, when it was either incredibly hot and oppressive or ridiculously cold when it shouldn't have been. Apparently, in desperation about what to do a cannon was shot into this oppressive sky every night in the hope of bursting a rain cloud. The image of this deserted town, with someone having to stay behind to fire the cannon, stuck with me." Source: NME 28/09/8. CARRUTHERS: "In Spanish medieval times, if it hadn't rained and the crops were suffering then they pointed a cannon into the sky in the hope of bursting the clouds." Bang! Source: Melody Maker 1986.



	Party's Fall Lyrics

	Your parties fall around you Another night beckons to you Your parties fall around you Another night beckons to you Shadows look as you resist the gloom Faded hues issue forth and bloom A bed of leaves for a lover Awake with a kiss and rise asunder And when the party's over You retreat in a realm of slumber In your mind, crystal lights rebound Wheels spin round and you hear the sound Of autumn's call at party's fall Through rose-tinted glass you still remember The gladness, not sadness, only laughter In your mind vicious lights rebound Wheels spin round and you hear the sound Of autumn's call at party's fall The smile in the mirror grows weaker The laughter you heard is growing fainter Your parties fall around you The night forgets to rouse you Your party's fall astounds you An aura of sadness abounds you Glad rags sigh Maybe you're alone Maybe you're alone Inside, don't hide Hurting all the time Hurting deep inside Don't cry, don't cry My happiness depends On knowing this friend Is never alone On your own A party on our own We'll have a party all our own Inside No sighs

	Party's Fall Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "It's a slightly sad story about people dressing up all day to go out at nights. And that's all they do... The parties spoil perhaps when you get too old to do it." Source: NME 28/09/85. CARRUTHERS: "This is about people who go to thousands of parties and talk to everyone and lave the party and fine they haven't a friend in the world. In London there's a while vacuous circus of meeting pop stars and film stars and then departing and feeling sorry for yourself. We're never sorry for wankers". Source: Melody Maker 1986.



	92º Lyrics

	The day drags by like a wounded animal The approaching disease, 92 degrees The blood in our veins and the brains in our head The approaching unease, 92 degrees Long ago in the headlines, they noticed it too But too late for the loved ones and nearly for you Shaky lines on the horizon Snakey lines invade each person Watch the red line creeping upwards Watch the sanity line weaken The volcanic depths of Hades' Ocean Bubble under, these crazed eruptions It wriggles and writhes and bites within, Just below the sweating sun I wondered when this would happen again Now I watch the red line, reach that number again The blood in our veins and the brains in our head Drink the water with jagged glass Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth Not 91 or 93, but 92 Fahrenheit degrees Shaky lines on the horizon Snakey lines invade each person Not 91 or 93, but 92 Fahrenheit degrees

	92º Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	SIOUXSIE: "That was sparked off by a short story I read where crimes would escalate when the temperature reached 92 degrees. It's about the rising panic of the people who know what's going to happen as the temperature rises towards that number. I mentioned it to Steve, who'd seen some alien from outer space film, in which, right at the end, a sheriff says: 'Yeah, just about at this temperature everybody goes crazy'." Source: NME 28/09/85. CARRUTHERS: "It's very near to blood temperature - the temperature of murder. The crime rate in America goes up by 200 per cent everytime the weather hits that figure. We've always been fascinated by scraps of information like that. People go apeshit at that temperature - any hotter and it's too uncomfortable to kill anyone!" Source: Melody Maker 1986.



	Lands End Lyrics

	Come take this hand at twilight's door I'll meet you there we'll share the moonlit floor Through the driving rain, colours run in veins Ozone fills the air, two figures disappear Come let's take flight, let's quit this scene tonight Whilst they sleep on endless, in their wrecked designs Sleep on endless in your wrecked designs Moths touched by flame repeat their fatal game Forever and eternally, the cliffs around the crashing sea Unsolved and endless, wait for me Undulating far below, where lucid waters flow Their faces seem to know Where the land falls to an end This hidden tale begins Take a walk with me, down by the sea Take a walk with me Down by the sea

	Lands End Credits

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

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	CARRUTHERS: "There's a funny story here. We were in Berlin recording this track when, half way through, the Lands End tragedy happened. The lyrics don't really correspond to that - it's more a lover's leap for eternity. " Source: Melody Maker 1986.



	Lullaby Lyrics

	The lunacy will leave the day Luminous in flight As the moon spits out In jagged beams Another night Wrap around this brilliant veil Tranquil and unbroken As you spiral down A world of clay And taut convulsion The dream swan spins And cartwheel turns Down deep within your violet slide The sun begins to rise Shaking down its morning swords To thaw your frozen eyes The dream swan spins And so conceals A heart that aches and yearns O hush awhile Sleepless child I'll be watching over you

	Lullaby Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice & Piano Severin - Bass & Emulator Carruthers - Guitar Budgie - Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment

	King Ludwig II, the 'mad king' of Bavaria. Source: Downside Up liner notes.



	Umbrella Lyrics

	Away from the dying rain, far away From the pain washed drains Under the darkening skies Now under protecting lines Beneath this unloved crimes Relief is a gentle sigh Dissolve these eyes so I may cry

	Umbrella Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Carruthers - Guitar Budgie - Drums