LIVE: TIVOLI UTRECHT ERA - CREDITS

 
 
  Thumb 
Standing There 
Manchild 
You! 
Untiedundone 
Fury Eyes 
But Not Them 
Mad Eyed Screamer 
Willow 
Pity 
Miss The Girl
 
Venus Sands
 
Strolling Wolf
 
Simoon
 
Pluto Drive
 
A Strutting Rooster
 
So Unreal
 
Right Now
 
Sky Train
 
     

 


     
  Thumb Lyrics  
 
 
 

Wandering through the narrow thoroughfare
The motorway is standing on its own
I see me walking there

One for the road
My thumbs have dropped me on the road
The headlights find my load

Following signs and always taking my time
Following signs these thumbs have lights of their own

One more for the road
Just one more for the road

Digital fun in the sun
Follow my thumb, follow my thumb
These thumbs are my gun
See them dance when I'm blue

This beacon is my fare, anytime, anywhere
Take a ride by my side in the day or the night
Traveling through, some old, some new

Just one more for the road
Just another one for the road

Jump inside little girl, take a ride by my side
There's no end to this ride with this stranger tonight

Just one more for the road
Just another one for the road

Digital fun in the sun
Follow my thumb, follow my thumb

Digital fun in the sun
Follow my thumb,

Follow my thumb, follow my thumb, follow my thumb

 
     
  Thumb Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     

 


     
  Standing There  
 
 
 

Hey creepo's I'm talking to you
I've got a message to give it to you
You've got a problem we know
But there is something you ought to know

Standing there  across the thoroughfare
They stand and stare with that gormless air
So funny to see how dumb some grown men can be

An unwanted weed a dying reed
Left to consider life as it passes by
Ignoring your calling ignoring your taunting
Ignoring your feelings of self hate and loathing
How empty and pointless your life must seem

See them standing see them staring
See them wearing that same stupid face

Sticks and stones may break bones
But this taunting crones only cause inner groans
We ignore all your calling ignore all your taunting
Ignore all your problems of self hate and loathing
Somebody should show them where to go

See them standing see them staring
See them wearing that same creepy face

Standing there in the thoroughfare
They stand and stare with that gormless air
Does what you won't understand scare and make you mad?
Resentful and envious don't you disgust yourself?
So funny to see how pathetic some men can be

See them standing see them staring
See them wearing that same stupid face

Ignore all their calling ignore all their taunting
Ignore all their faking their self hate and loathing
somebody should show them where to go

 
     
  Standing There Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The verbal abuse and misplaced bravado of & from men mainly towards women.  "It's about the direct contact you get on the street, it's not just verbal abuse anymore. You see them up ahead and wonder, 'Should I cross over the road or turn around and go back?'  (Budgie)  Source:  Record Mirror 11/11/89.  
     

 


     
  Manchild Lyrics  
 
 
 
They would seek high
They would seek low
Calling their manchild 
As the trouble did flow
There's always somebody 
To watch over me
I'm never alone 
I wish they'd leave me be
Never alone 
I'm never alone
I'm just a boy
Not long for this world
I'm called Nelsito
And I'm thirteen years old
For nearly two decades
This vendetta has raged
There are no men
I'm the last in the chain
Last in the chain
I'm manchild man
Marimba sing high
Marimba sing low
Marimba sing high 
As the cemetery grows
All have been wept for 
Husbands brothers grandsons
Grandfathers nephews cousins
Uncles fathers and sons
I walk in boots 
Too big for me
The women do cry
As they watch over me
I work at the altar
I try to be good
But just like the others
I'll soon travel in wood
I try to be good
manchild in wood
I wait for manhood
I'm the manchild
 
     
  Manchild Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  "It's a  story based in Columbia before the drugs cartel, it's  about a small child caught up in a feud, this vendetta between his village and another rival village.  In a minor way it is all about drug trafficking, but ends with the stronger village wiping out the whole male population of the other village until there was just one boy left called Nelsito.  It was understood that he would live till he was at least 18 before he was assassinated, but he was shot on the way to school." (Siouxsie).  Source:  Melody Maker 24/02/90.  
     

 


     
  You! Lyrics  
 
 
 
When my ups are down
When my downs are up
I want you
Feeling inside out
And from the outside in
I want you
On the silver screen
In a magazine
I see you
Through the telephone
Or a megaphone
I want you!
Assuring confusing
I see you
In saintly reverence
Or wicked decadence
I want you!
When the days just yawn
When the nights are long 
I want you!
In a coo-coo tone
Then I shout it home
I want you!
 
     
  You! Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     

 


     
  Untiedundone Lyrics  
 
 
 
Slide over here
Listen to me
Rippling wordstreams
To unlock dreams
Take up the slack
Loosen these bounds
Unzip and undo
Untie my tongue
Untiedundone
It's sucking out bones
Through a melting phone
In a whispering eddy
I am undone
Untiedundone
Turning to liquid
Starting to float
Everything's easy
From now on
Turning to liquid
Starting to float
Everything's easy
From now on
Untiedundone
Unhook and unhinge
In a river of dreams
Rippling wordstreams
Unraveling
Uncork the wine
Let's toast the unborn
It's my unbirthday
Untied and undone
Unwrap this gift
In a state of undress
The future's uncertain
Nothing less
Untiedundone
 
     
  Untiedundone Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     

 


     
  Fury Eyes Lyrics  
 
 
 
Punch me Judy make me cry
You'll disappear and then I'll die
A love that's lost always returns
To feed the fire of a heart that burns
There's no sleep for fury eyes
So deep are the eyes of fury
Watching faces changing places
Running rings around the moon
Exchanging glances taking chances
Did we laugh and sing too soon
Our stomachs turns on a fever stream
But with no mosquito bite
Rabid kisses in a dream
Still we can't escape the sight
There's no sleep for fury eyes
So deep are the eyes of fury
Tonight they exorcise the ghost
Of love from its unyielding host
If that don't suit you scream and shout
If thine offend thee pluck it out
Alone in love with the other one
The one who doesn't know
And when we dance with the other one
The eyes of fury glow
Tonight they exorcise the ghost
Of love from its unyielding host
If that don't suit you scream and shout
If thine offend thee pluck it out
Who'll weep for the fury eyes
Beholding love a thing of beauty
There's no sleep for fury eyes
So deep are the eyes of fury
 
     
  Fury Eyes Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Inspired by the novel In The Eyes Of Mr. Fury, by Phillip Ridley.  
     

 


     
  But Not Them Lyrics  
 
 
 

She hates the man and he hates the man
Because something strong inside has been denied them
But not him, oh not him

He hates the girl and she hates the girl
Because something weak implied
They fought to push aside them
But not her, oh not her

The girls isn't alive but the man is dead
Because it's all been said before
The girl isn't alive but the man is dead
Because you only have you mentor to draw, you whore

Dead lumps of meat melt in this heat
Dead lumps of meat melt in this heat

She hates the man and he hates the man
Because something strong inside has been denied them
But not him, oh not him

He hates the girl and she hates the girl
Because something weak implied
They fought to push aside them
But not her, oh not her

The girls isn't alive but the man is dead
Because it's all been said before
The girl isn't alive but the man is dead
Because you only have you mentor to draw from

Dead lumps of meat melt in this heat
Dead lumps of meat melt in this heat

But not them

 
     
  But Not Them Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  "It's about the generation that's getting rid of the old sex roles."  (Siouxsie)  Source:  Smash Hits 10/81.  
     

 


     
  Mad Eyes Screamer Lyrics  
 
 
 

Platform ranting in the trees
Disturbed voices on the breeze
Huddled 'round the mad eyed screamer
A pointed finger, the tin can schemer

Mad eyed screamer, mad eyed screamer
Mad eyed screamer, mad eyed screamer
A pointed finger, the tin can schemer
Mad eyed screamer, the corner speaker

Could be a preacher, could be a teacher
You want the world to meet you maker
Now the lecher transforms the traitor
With a petrol flaring eye

Come and see the corner speaker
Come and hear his suit drip dry
The passers-by have one obsession
To hear his raving to the sky

Mad eyed screamer on your knees
Mad eyed screamer you are not pleased
With the chatter in the trees
Your balls are freezing in the breeze

Mad eyed screamer, mad eyed screamer
Mad eyed screamer, mad eyed screamer
Your balls are freezing in the breeze
Mad eyed screamer you are not pleased

 
     
  Mad Eyes Screamer Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Based on a local character found at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London .  "'Mad Eyed Screamer is about a guy who was at Speaker's Corner on Sundays when I used to go down there, one man in particular that I remember who was just crazed, obsessive and quite frightening."  (Siouxsie)  Source:  Smash Hits 10/81.  
     

 


     
  Willow Lyrics  
 
 
 
I remember the island
There's a tale to tell
Spin of the water wheel
Snap of a conger eel
A triangular canvas
In a sea of green
Translucent man o' war
Staring to the shore
Roller coaster rides
A wish on the fairy bridge
When lightning almost struck
We kick the rock for luck
I remember the ferry ride
I remember the night she died
All scenes from a play we see 
Plainly
Slipped out of the blue
Into the black
I remember the island
But we can't go back
Willow
 
     
  Willow Credits  
     
  Budgie - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  "It's kind of about how my mother died as it was a black area and I hadn't realised what had happened until I saw my brother. He told me what went on with the family and I never really knew until a year afterwards, and I wrote it down directly after that". (Budgie).  Source:  Sounds 10/03/90.  
     

 


     
  Pity Lyrics  
 
 
 
Ugly words
Ugly crimes
Ugly thoughts
Invade your mind
No charity
No dignity
No sympathy
So I'll be 
Deaf dumb and blind today
Nausea 
Is all I feel today
Divorce these crimes
From my eyes
Lowered cowls
Silent vows
Withered crocus 
On the ground 
Abound
From your cell
Are distant bells
Blossom falls
Like snow 
And dies in silence
All decays
And breaks silence 
All decays 
And dies 
Sadness chimes
Bitter times
Hardened fools
Unfair unkind
Mercy me
Mercy you
Say you do 
Have pity 
For the things we do
Say you do
Have pity 
For the things we do
Say you do
You do
Save me
Save me
Save me
No vision
Today
Save me
Save me
Save me
No hearing 
Or speaking
Today
Say you do
Have pity 
For the things we do
Say you do
You do
Hear no evil
See no evil
Say no evil
 
     
  Pity Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  "Sioux wrote the lyric about one of these little cells in a convent in Almagra."  (Budgie)  Source:  Making Music 11/89.  
     

 


     
  Miss The Girl Lyrics  
 
 
 

Kiss the girl
Kiss the girl

Hand around the steering wheel
Caress the shiny vinyl feel

Don't you miss the girl?
Miss the girl

Seduced reflection in the chrome
There's petrol stains outside your home

Kiss the girl
Kiss the girl

Your loving strokes are fatal charms
Revenge bites back into her arms

You didn't miss the girl
You hit the girl

You hit her with a force of steel
She's wrapped around your burning wheels

Kiss the girl
Miss the girl
Kiss the girl
Miss the girl

 
     
  Miss The Girl Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The book Crash, by J. G. Ballard in which the lead character gets sexual gratification from car crashes.  
     

 


     
  Venus Sands Lyrics  
 
 
 
The morning star 
Has long since gone
The sun is high 
In the sky
Shadowless 
A figure stands
Stranded on Venus sands
Up in the blue
And circling
The seabirds watch and wait 
For movement 
Of a certain kind
Down on their dinner plate
Where children
Played a flower lays 
Pulled and torn up
By its roots
And where it stood 
The empty space 
Just screams
Down on the flats 
Baby turtles race
For safety on the big deep
And white caps come 
Crashing in 
Indifferent to tender flesh 
Shriek of attack
Then moving 
In a raucous clash
A gourmet din
Of cruel gull
Beaks and tearing skin
Screaming 
Lit by the evening star at Venus sands
Against a blood orange sky 
There's a shadow
Of a figure prone 
Abandoned and all alone
Venus sands
 
     
  Venus Sands Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  "This is a Sioux lyric about the inevitable cruelty of things. It pinpoints a cruel aspect of nature, the turtles breaking from their eggs and being picked on by the seagulls."  (Budgie)  Source:  Making Music 11/89.  
     

 


     
  Strolling Wolf Lyrics  
 
 
 
At dusk through wheat field
Through the olive groves
And vineyards
Insects like aeroplanes
Fly past the strolling man
Crackling spike plant 
Hovering hawk 
All on the ground alive 
Take a swing of moonshine
Listen to the madness whine
Andalucian
Andalucian sunflowers
Bulls and purple bees
Listen to the lone wolf
Strolling
Take a swing of moonshine
Taste its heady wine
Andalucian 
Andalucian sunflowers 
Bulls and purple bees
Lone wolf howling
Lone wolf howling
Strolling wolf 
Strolling lone wolf 
Andalucian
 
     
  Strolling Wolf Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     

 


     
  Simoon Lyrics  
 
 
 
Drifting in carried on dry winds
From across the Nile the sirens in exile
Driven to tell
Floating on a cloud your face out of the crowd
A blinding sun purging everyone
Beautiful word musical and sweet
Now all you can do is play the punishing beat
How harsh and shrill
The world has become 
Twisted and bent
A hornets nest stirred up by the beating stick
Simoon simoon increasing speed sucking in dry heat
Simoon simoon you breathe in suffocation
Relentless simoon blow and whistle this tune
Pouring in filling where once was space
Where once was light
Where once was face
Driven to tell
 
     
  Simoon Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Simoom is an Arabic word meaning dry wind.  The song 'Simoom' was written about the atmosphere surrounding the Salman Rushdie affair: "There's this drying relentless wind of almost corrupt power of some religions with an unbending control over individuals.  It's completely unforgiving and victimizing, a very dangerous thing, a wind of danger".  
     

 


     
  Pluto Drive Lyrics  
 
 
 
Let's go to Pluto
The atmosphere's clear
We'll be really cool there
With nothing to fear
Let's go to Pluto
It's cold and it's damp
Where children are heroes
Death is high camp
I want to see Pluto
I want to have fun
I want to turn blue
Under an alien sun
Oh let me see Pluto
It seems such a gas
With oceans of methane
And petrified grass
Let's go to Pluto
Let's live on the dot
See the bad moon rising
In a lunacy knot
Come on let's do Pluto
It's really not far
An unleaded dream drive
To the prettiest star
I want to see Pluto
But maybe I'll wait
Til the world turns to meet
Its plutonium fate
The days will be long here
The years will be more
Let's go to Pluto
Like we did before
Let's go to Pluto
Let's live on the dot
See the bad moon rising
In a lunacy knot
 
     
  Pluto Drive Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  'Let's Go To Pluto' is quite a deranged green statement, and some quarters are trying to paint Siouxsie as old-punkette-turned-wise-earth-mother.  Budgie:  "Yeah, but 'Let's Go To Pluto' was supposed to be real wacky, like 'Let's Twist Again Like We Did Last Summer'.  It came through watching Patrick Moore.  he was so intense about going there he said, If we ever managed to get there we would die because it's all methane gas!"  Source:  Sounds 10/03/90.  
     

 


     
  A Strutting Rooster Lyrics  
 
 
 
Above is red
Below is red
Hear the ringing voice...
A strutting rooster
Lyrics: Traditional
 
     
  A Strutting Rooster Credits  
     
  Traditional - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     

 


     
  So Unreal Lyrics  
 
 
 

What can I do, I know they've gotten to you
When you say that your whites have an Ariel blue
What's happened to you since I last saw you
I thought I knew your name, but it's not you
But it's not you

You're talking in a balloon, in this tidy room
Sounding like a commercial for a serial
I wish you could feel the way that I feel
I wish you could feel but you're so unreal
You're so unreal

What can I say, what can I say
All the traits you had have all gone away
Get up and wash at the right time of day
And greet the world with the right things to say
What can I say, what can I say

You're so ideal, you're never down at heel
You're so ideal, but you're so unreal
I wish you could feel the way that I feel
I wish could feel but you're so unreal
You're so unreal

 
     
  So Unreal Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin.  "It's about meeting someone again who you've known a few years ago, and they're totally conventional and all they care about is their washing machine."  (Siouxsie)  Source:  Smash Hits 10/81.  
     

 


     
  Right Now Lyrics  
 
 
 

Right now
Let me take you by the hand
Right now
Put your lips at my command
Right now
Fly me off to lovers land

Baby
Don't you leave me at the post
Kiss me
you can feel it coast to coast
Right now
Baby need your love the most

You have set my soul on fire
Only you can satisfy this great desire

Right now
Let the fool world break in two
Right now
Stars can tumble from the blue
Right now
Just as long as I'm with you

Right now
It's the time and it's the place
Right now
For a ride to outer space
Le me have that wild embrace

You have set my soul on fire
Only you can satisfy this great desire

One time
Let the wine of love flow free
One time
Be the lover you can be
Right now
Come on and give yourself to me

 
     
  Right Now Credits  
     
  Herbie Mann/Carl Sigman - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments
 
     

 


     
  Sky Train Lyrics  
 
 
 

Sky train rides again

 
     
  Sky Train Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - All Instruments