ZULU - ALBUM

 
 
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Cat:  Sioux
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Turn It On
Take Mine
Tattoo
Pluto Drive
Miss The Girl
Guillotine
I Was Me
B Side Ourselves
Exterminating Angel
The Vamp/Witchcraft/Standing There
Killing Time
Right Now
The Passenger
 

 

 
  Notes: Gifthorse, internet only release

Available in limited edition box with free postcards and prints

Live concert recorded at the University Of London Union on 12/09/98

 

 
  Released: 06/07/99  
  UK Chart: Gifthorse Limited Edition CD  
  US Chart: Gifthorse Limited Edition CD  
  Sleeve Design: DED Associates  
  Producer: The Creatures  
       

 

ZULU - LINER NOTES

 
 
 

This recording captures live the line up of The Creatures that toured the USA in summer 1998.

A homecoming party, a celebration of brassy-glam-drag & Glitz that continued on into the rain-soaked streets of Soho & Chinatown long after the music was over.

We're back we're hungry.

See you soon.

Siouxsie & Budgie.

Osaka, Japan, May 13th 1999

 
     

 

ZULU - CREDITS

     
  Turn It On Lyrics  
 
 
 

All you rely on
Here come the storms
To shatter control
From the war lords

Can you feel the power
It turns me on
Unpredictable
Turn it on
Feel the power
Invincible

Wont play their games
But we're a playful thing
Everything to risk
Everything to sink

Gonna change what I can
Accept what I can't
Because I've got the power
Chameleon

Turn it on
Feel the power
Unpredictable
Feel the power
Untamable
Turn it on

Hurricane and earthquake
Monsoon and tidal wave
here come the storms
They really turn me on

Unpredictable
Turn it on
It turns me on
Turn it on
Omnipotent
Unpredictable
Untamable
Invincible
Chameleon
Turn it on

 
     
  Turn It On Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     

 


     
  Take Mine Lyrics  
 
 
 

Dog in a manger
Happy days
Why don't you
Take it all
Take what is left

Take mine

Counting out
And putting nothing in
You calculate
And multiply your sins

Take mine

I know you
Scared to be alone
If I were you
I would be too

Take mine

Ruled by this
It needn't be this way
Your misery
Seeking company

Take mine

Are you happy now

 
     
  Turn It On Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     

 


     
  Tattoo Lyrics  
 
 
 

When you're sitting all alone
In the middle of the floor
There's something uncontrollable
As you sit there watching the door

Colour me

A warm feeling
Tattooed on the inside

Slap your thigh, slap your calf
Sing your mantra, leave your mark

Colour me

Something fierce along my spine
To scare the mad men from behind

Fortify my arms
With some snake like vines

Colour me
Colour me
Colour me

Like a stomach split in half
By a surgeons cutting art

Colours me
Colours me
Colours me

When you're sitting all alone
In the middle of the floor
There's something uncontrollable
As you sit there watching the door

But tattooed on the inside
A warm feeling inoculating 

Colours me

Slap your thigh, slap your calf
Sing your mantra, leave your mark

Colour me

 
     
  Turn It On Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The film Tattoo.  Source:  Downside Up liner notes.  
     

 


     
  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  
     
  Budgie - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     
  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.  
     

 


     
  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, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The book Crash, by J. G. Ballard in which the lead character gets sexual gratification from car crashes.  
     

 


     
  Guillotine Lyrics  
 
 
 

Buckle and grind
Your bubbling mind
Can't shut it down
It keeps running around
No friend of mine
You are no friend of mine
Well you know we could've gone far
I'm the one left alarmed
Tumbling blind
Double turbine
How long consciousness
Disembodied wreckage
I'm paralysed
With no friend of mine
Well you know you wear
Well you know if you tear
Buckle and grind
Your bubbling mind
Can't shut it down
A life it has found
Want calm want friend want end
Wanna Armageddon for
Tumbling blind
Trouble in mind
Can't shut it down
It keeps running around
I wanna know I wasn't there
I wanna hear
Is there anybody out there
Limbs over there
They're not mine
They're not mine
Buckle and grind
With your bubbling mind
Trouble 
You're in trouble

 
     
  Guillotine Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     

 


     
  I Was Me Lyrics  
 
 
 

I can't tell how it all
First began
Just a face at a window
Familiar
So I walked up to see that I was wrong
That's when I first asked if
I was me

Same lips same hair
The same stare
When she laughed she was sipping 
My favourite drink
With a friend I had known since my birth
It's not fair I was me
Not she

Everywhere that I go
I see me
In a life that I had
Not long ago
I'm not recognised or heard
But I swear
I was me I was me
I was me

I walk through the dawn
In a daze
Same lips same hair
The same stare
It's on the tip of my tongue oh oh yeah
I swear I was me
I remember when
I was me

I can't tell how it all
First began
Just a face at a window
Familiar

 
     
  I Was Me Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     

 


     
  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 skin

Didn't they teach anything at all
Something's not better than nothing at all
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 Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The song title was the heading of a fax concerning the proposed B Side collection.  Source:  Downside Up liner notes.  
     

 


     
  Exterminating Angel Lyrics  
 
 
 

Here it comes again
Taste of jagged glass and rusty can
There are just black holes
Where the stars would be watching
Just black holes
Where the stars should have been

Plumes of dirt
Caress a urine coloured sun
Swarms of angels
Come to kill your sons
And there's nothing but black holes
Where the stars should've been
Nothing but black holes
Where the stars would be watching

Oh those strange Argonauts
Digging again in your pit
Cover them in menstrual stream
cover them black gold
Plunge them into ingots
Ripping through your menstrual stream
Rising up taste of rusted can
And jagged glass feeling again
Here it comes again

Hordes of locust blot out your sun
Raining down rain on everyone
Poor little rich thing
Poor little bleeding heart
Poor little misunderstood
Piss on it I'm sick of it
Enough is enough
I wanna fuck it up

Out of sync out of phase
Out of sight out of spite
Raining down raining everyone
Poor little rich thing
Poor little bleeding heart
Poor little misunderstood
Piss on it I'm sick of it

Here it comes again
Taste of jagged glass and rusty can
There are just black holes
Where the stars should've been
Just black holes
Where the stars would be watching

 
     
  Exterminating Angel Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
 
     

 


     
  The Vamp  
 
 
 

Instrumental

 
     
  The Vamp Credits  
     
  Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
Terry Edwards - Saxophone
Dave Woodhead - Trumpet
Mike Kearsey - Trombone
 
     

 


     
  Witchcraft Lyrics  
 
 
 

It's such and ancient pitch
But one I'd never switch
'Cos there's no nicer witch than you
And I've got no defense for it
The feeling's too intense for it
What good could common sense for it do?
'Cos it's witchcraft
Wicked witchcraft
And though I know it's strictly taboo
'Cos when you arouse the need in me
My heart says 'yes indeed' to me
Proceed to what you're leading me to
Witchcraft, witchcraft, witchcraft

 
     
  Witchcraft Credits  
     
  Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
Terry Edwards - Saxophone
Dave Woodhead - Trumpet
Mike Kearsey - Trombone
 
     

 


     
  Standing There Lyrics  
 
 
 

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, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
Terry Edwards - Saxophone
Dave Woodhead - Trumpet
Mike Kearsey - Trombone
Sheena Showgirl/Teddy Bear - Backing Vocals
 
     
  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.  
     

 


     
  Killing Time Lyrics  
 
 
 
I wait and wait 
Sleepwalk the hourglass
This way and that
The pendulum swings
Yes there's plenty of time
Always time left to kill
Does time stand still
Or hurtle on by?
Let time unwind
Let all the cogs fall out
Let mans machines
Collapse and rust
Face down in the dust
I'll kiss no other lips
A life time of nothing 
Condemned without you
Been so long here
I could die here
Lying by your side
But time won't claim me
Time and me only
I'm just killing time
If the sun went out
I wouldn't mind too much
Who needs the days
To trouble to fill?
If the moon didn't rise
I wouldn't be upset
Who needs moonshine 
To cause tears to spill?
I've been so long here
I could lie here 
Under dying sky
This thirst and hunger
Holds no wonder
I'm just killing time
I await your return
There's no other one
 
     
  Killing Time Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
Terry Edwards - Saxophone
Dave Woodhead - Trumpet
Mike Kearsey - Trombone
Sheena Showgirl/Teddy Bear - Backing Vocals
 
     

 


     
  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, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
Terry Edwards - Saxophone
Dave Woodhead - Trumpet
Mike Kearsey - Trombone
Sheena Showgirl/Teddy Bear - Backing Vocals
 
     

 


     
  The Passenger Lyrics  
 
 
 

I am the passenger
And I ride and I ride
I ride through the city's backside
I see the stars come out of the sky
Yeah the bright and hollow sky
You know it looks so good tonight
I am the passenger
I stay under glass
I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the city's ripped backside
And everything looks good tonight
Singing la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la
Get into the car
We'll be the passenger
We'll ride through the city tonight
We'll see the city's ripped backsides
We'll see the bright and hollow sky
We'll see the stars that shine so bright
Stars made for us tonight
O the passenger
How he rides
O the passenger
He rides and he rides
He looks through his window
What does he see
He sees the sign and hollow sky
He sees the stars come out tonight
He sees the city's ripped backsides
He sees the winding ocean drive
And everything was made for you and me
All of it was made for you and me
Because it just belongs to you and me
So lets take a ride and see what's mine
Singing la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la
O the passenger
He rides and he rides
He sees things from under glass
He looks through his window side
He sees things he knows are his
He sees the bright and hollow sky
He sees the city sleep at night
He sees the stars are out tonight
And all of it is yours and mine
And all of it is yours and mine
So lets ride and ride and ride and ride
Singing la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la
la-la

 
     
  The Passenger Credits  
     
  Pop/Gardiner - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice, Percussion & Vixen Loops
Budgie - Drums
Mark Deffenbaugh - Bass, Guitar & Backing Vox
Susan Stenger - Bass, Drone & Backing Vox
Terry Edwards - Saxophone
Dave Woodhead - Trumpet
Mike Kearsey - Trombone
Sheena Showgirl/Teddy Bear - Backing Vocals