Echo & The Bunnymen - Bombers Bay

The word went round in no-dream town
They shut us up and shut us down
The planes flew in and laid the ground
We built upon and spun around
God's one miracle lost in circles

On the march
Berlin to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay

Cannon fired, came to call
Stood us up and watched us fall
The way we were and now outworn
Our costumes changed to uniforms
Black black days here to stay

On the march
Madrid to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
Smile, boys, that's the style
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
Smile

They give us hope and teach us well
With magic moons that cast a spell
And hypnotize and draw us in
I believe I'm believing
God's one miracle moves in circles

On the march
Berlin to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
On the road

On the march
Berlin to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay

Black black days
Where the flying fishes play
Black black days
Where the flying fishes play
Black black days
Where the flying fishes play
Black black days
Where the flying fishes play

Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean

I've got a handful of this
What do I do with it?
I've got a barrel of this
What do I do with it?
I do it clean, I do it clean

Do it clean, do it clean
Know what I mean
Do it clean, do it clean
I know what I mean, I mean

Where am I going
Where have I been
Where are you going
Where have you been
I've been here, I've been there

I've been here, there, everywhere
Here there nowhere
Iszy bitzy witzy itzy everywhere
I've been here and I've been there
I'm clean

I had a handful of this
What did I do with it?
I had a barrel of this
What did I do with it?
I did it clean, I did it clean

Do it clean, do it clean
Know what I mean?
Do it clean, do it clean
I know what I mean

Echo & The Bunnymen - Empire State Halo

Gazed in the crystal ball
Looks like I'm lost again
Where do I find the tunnel's end
Follow the rise and fall
Of all the better men
From here to Bethlehem

All free souls beware
The moon is in my head

Around the empire state
I saw the angels fly
Heaven above and Thames below
We don't have long to wait
Ran out of alibis
Ran out of things I've ever known

The streets were paved with snow
and I saw your halo glow

And this love is just for you
And all your love
Will learn to love me too
Love me too

All free souls beware
The moon is in my head

And this love is just for you
And all your love
Will learn to love me to
Love me too

The moon is in my head

Echo & The Bunnymen • Turquoise Days

Just when the thought occurs

The panic will pass

And the smell of the fields

Never lasts

Put your faith

In those crimson nights

Set sail

In those turquoise days

You've got a problem

Come on over

You've got a problem

Come on over

It's not for glory

It's not for honour

Just something someone said

It's not for love

It's not for war

Just hands clasped together

It's not for living

It's for hunger

Just lips locked tight

It's not rebellion

It's not suffering

It's just the way it is

And my pistol's packed

And my God goes with me

I feel easy

And I want it

And I need it

And I've got it

It's not for this

It's not for that

It's not any of it

Did you say knowledge?

Did you say prayer?

Did you say anything?

If not for good

If not for better

If not the way it is

Just when the thought occurs

The panic will pass

And the smell of the fields

Never lasts

We'll put your faith

In those crimson nights

Set sail

In those turquoise days

Place our faith

In those crimson nights

Set sail

In those turquoise days

You've got a problem

Come on over

You've got a problem

Come on over

Now I think I know

Just what to say

Now I think I know

Just what to say

Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here

Ohh...Where are you now

I'm over here

We've got those empty pockets

And we can't afford the beer

We're smoking holes and we've got only dreams

And we're so damn drunk we can't see the stairs

The apple cart upset my head's little brain

This little moon in the sky upset my head with a brain

I saw it yippee, I did, I swear

Walking through the hallway

Crawling up the stairs

Abebe baby baby baby Bekila

Given up on whisky

Taken up with tequila

I'm on my own in my blind alley

I turn myself around

So it's swallowing me

Watch the guitar

Watch the guitar

Groovy groovy people

We're all groovy groovy people

Groovy groovy people

We're all groovy groovy people

Groovy groovy people

Groovy groovy people

I wonder why

Me and the wall

We're okay, we're okay

F-F-Faustus you've got nothing to fear

It may be hell down there

'Cause it's heaven up here

I'd have given forever for a few good years

But too much of a muchness is to much you hear

The hammer on my chest was an abominable pain

the anvil on my belly was an abdominal strain

We've got the bottle

Go take the bottle

Go take a sip

Echo & The Bunnymen - Explosions

No!

No sun on the hill has come

And I need to know

How the light goes on

It's so numb

On the tip of my tongue

And I need to know

How the fire goes on

One more round (one more round)

Give one more round (one more round)

Explosions

Always sweet it sounds

Holes blow in the ground

Like the world is falling down

Erosion

Always worse lit down

Follows me around

Till my leaves are turning brown

No hush

You might stare too slow

And I need to know

When my heartbeat's gone

Ain't not much

Neither breath nor hope

And I need to know

How the right is wrong

Give the light back on (light back on)

Light back on (light back on)

Explosions

Always sweet it sounds

Holes blow in the ground

Like the world is falling down

Oceans

Full of cargo bound

The world's a Mach-o-found

Beyond the seas

Where sailors ground

Explosions, explosions, explosions, explode around

Explosions, explosions, explosions, explode around

Give back you want now (what you want)

Give back you can (while you can)

Take back you want now (what you want)

Take back you can (while you can)

No sign that everything

But I need to know

Where I belong

And no sight of a guiding light

I need to know

Where the road has gone

Explosions

Always sweet it sounds

Holes blow in the ground

Like the world is falling down

Oceans

Full of cargo bound

The world's a Mach-o-found

Beyond the seas

Where sailors ground

Devotion

Always wears a crown

Always leaves me down

To pray when me

And my prayers are found

Explosions

Always sweet that sounds

Holes blow in the ground

Like the world is falling down

Explosions, explosions, explosions, explo-oohh-sion

Explosions, explosions, explosions, explo-oohh-sion

Explosion explo-oohh-sion

Explosion explo-oohh-sion

Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop

Good God, you said

Is that the only thing you care about

Splitting up the money

And share it out

The cake's being eaten

Straight through the mouth

Poison

Poised to come back in

Season

For all the ones who lack

Reason

Measure by measure, drop by drop

And pound for pound, we're taking stock

Of all the treasure still unlocked

The love you found must never stop

The king is dead

And long live the people who aim above

All the simple stuff never understood

Like right from bad and wrong from good

Deny

That you were ever tempted by the

Lie

That there's an answer in the

Sky

Measure by measure, drop by drop

And pound for pound, we're taking stock

Of all the treasure still unlocked

The love you found must never stop

Oh, oh

Oh, oh

Oh, oh

Oh, oh

Never stop

Never stop

Never stop

Never stop

Never stop

Never stop

Never stop

Never stop

Never stop

Measure by measure, drop by drop

And pound for pound, we're taking stock

Of all the treasure still unlocked

The love you found must never

Measure by measure, drop by drop

And pound for pound, we're taking stock

Of all the treasure still unlocked

The love you found must never stop

(Stop) Never stop

(Stop stop) Never stop (Stop)

Never stop (Stop stop)

Never stop (Stop stop stop)

Never stop (Stop stop stop)

Never stop

Echo & The Bunnymen - Lost And Found

I was standing in a graveyard
Under silver studded skies
In a forest burning ashes
On the bonfires of our lives

As the sky fell down
I was lost and found
Saw my world spin round
Round and round

All the ghosts have gathered round me
Come to tell me of a change
In the darkness that surrounds me
I am falling down again

On this haunted ground
I am lost and found

Lost
Lost and found
Lost
Lost and found

She will tell you her cathedral
Has no windows and no doors
And you know she doesn't need you
And that's why you want her more

As your heart melts down
You are lost not found

Lost
Lost and found
Lost
Lost and found

I was counting all the tombstones
Of the buried boys and girls
As the wind blew in like ice
And froze this cemetery world

And we all fell down
We were lost and found

Lost
Lost and found
Lost
Lost and found

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Puppet

I'll practice my fall
For practice makes perfect
Chained to the wall
For maximum hold
The window's too far
Too far from my legs
Open the door and let out the cold

You knew about this
With your head in your hands
All along
I was the puppet
I was the puppet

Trampolines broken
Ceiling has come down
The ache in my back tells me
Something's gone wrong
Rocking horse rocks
As the wallpaper peels
Curtain would like to know
What he has done

You knew about this
With your head in your hands
All along
I was the puppet
I was the puppet

We're the salt of the earth
(I'll practice my fall for practice makes perfect)
And we know what to say
(Chained to the wall for maximum hold)
We're the salt of the earth
(The window's too far too far from my legs)
And we know our place
(Open the door and let out the cold)

You knew about this
With your head in your hands
All along
I was the puppet
I was the puppet

All along
(You knew about this)
With your head in your hands
All along
(You knew about this)
I was the puppet
I was the puppet

(You knew about this)
Head in your hands
(You knew about this)
I was the puppet
I was the puppet
(We're the salt of the earth)
You knew about this
(We know what to say)
Your head in your hands
(We're the salt of the earth)
All along
((You knew about this))
(We know our place)
I was the puppet
(We're the salt of the earth)
All along
(We know what to say)
((You knew about this))
Your head in your hands
(We're the salt of the earth)
I was the puppet
((You knew about this))
(We know what to say)
I was the puppet

Echo & The Bunnymen - Everybody Knows

Everybody knows, how your garden grows

Everybody knows, how your garden grows

Everyone can see, I'm blind as I can be

The woods look just like trees

Look like trees to me

And I don't even get it

I don't know what you're trying to say

You're never gonna let me forget it

It's always gonna get in the way

It's moving much too fast

You know it ain't gonna last

I think we're heading for a crash

Heading for a crash

It's coming to a natural end

I'm going round my last bend

There's something you just can't mend

Things you just can't mend

I can't even remember

I don't know what the day is today

You're putting the no in November

And taking all the be's out of May

Everybody knows, how your garden grows

Everybody knows, how your garden grows

Everyone can see, I'm blind as I can be

The woods look just like trees

Look like trees to me

And I don't even get it

I don't know what you're trying to say

You're never gonna let me forget it

It's always gonna get in the way

Echo & The Bunnymen - New Direction

Out on a limb

Did you see what the cat dragged in

Take it on the chin

Catching fire on a roof of tin

You've learnt to speak and you're professing

The right to teach us our direction

But I found out on close inspection

True imperfection

I'm looking for a new direction

Where in the world am I?

I took the word the word was resurrection

Then you took me out to climb

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Kissing the spires

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Souls on fire

Inside of my head

I heard what the good Lord said

"Beware" he said

If you don't you might end up dead

You suck the air right out of me

But though you suck you cannot see

That life and living is not free

Though you live you do not breathe

I'm looking for a new direction

Where in the world am I?

I took the word the word was resurrection

And then you took me out to climb

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Kissing the spires

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Souls on fire

I have changed

But still my heart

Remains intact

And true love stays

But will our hearts

Retain their lack of

No sense and no direction

Who in the world am I?

I took the word the word was resurrection

And then you took me out to climb

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Kissing the spires

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Souls on fire

Start confessing

Start confessing

All my evils would be blessed

If to God I did confess

Wipe the slate and see if I

Ate the bread and drank the wine

So as you're leaving I take possession

Just take the bottle and start confessing

Echo & The Bunnymen - Run, Run, Run (Live)

Teenage Mary said to Uncle Dave

"I sold my soul, must be saved

Gonna take a walk down to Union Square

You never know who you're gonna find there"

You gotta run, run, run, run, run

Take a drag or two

Run, run, run, run, run

Gypsy Death and you

Tell you whatcha do

Marguerita Passion had to get her fix

She wasn't well, she was getting sick

Went to sell her soul, down to Union Square

Didn't know, thinks she could buy it

And she would run, run, run, run, run

Take a drag or two

Run, run, run, run, run

Gypsy Death and you

Tell you whatcha do

Beardless Harry, what a waste

Couldn't even get a small-town taste

Rode the trolleys down to forty-seven

Figured he was good to get himself to heaven

Cause he had to run, run, run, run, run

Take a drag or two

Run, run, run, run, run

Gypsy Death and you

Tell you whatcha do

Seasick Sarah had a golden nose

Hobnail boots wrapped around her toes

When she turned blue, all the angels screamed

They didn't know they couldn't make the scene

She had to run, run, run, run, run

Take a drag or two

Run, run, run, run, run

Gypsy Death and you

Tell you whatcha do

Take me home

(originally recorded by The Velvet Underground)

Echo & The Bunnymen - Scissors in The Sand

Ethereally mine

Magic trees

They really used to shine

My silver leaves

Bet you're wondering how

Bet you're wondering how

Bet you're wondering how

Bet you're wondering how

Scissors in the sand

Rubberised

Watch his other hand

Ventriloquised

Bet you're wondering who

Bet you're wondering who

Bet you're wondering who

Bet you're wondering who

Something on the roof

And in the wall

My silverfishing youth

Swim don't crawl

Bet you're wondering how

Bet you're wondering how

Bet you're wondering how

Bet you're wondering how

Scissors in the sand

Rubberised

Watch his other hand

Ventriloquised

Bet you're wondering why

Bet you're wondering why

Bet you're wondering why

Bet you're wondering why

Echo & The Bunnymen - Higher Hell

Smack in the middle of today

Got to learn new words

Merely got to simply say

I think we all misheard

Cracked in the middle of me

Have to find my heart

Smiling equates with happy

But I know they're miles apart

Just like my lower heaven

You know so well my higher hell

When confronted by

Continuing the course

Will you open up

Or do I have to force

The words right out

Of your stubborn mouth?

Stunted of course,

Guilty in their growth

Just like my lower heaven

You know so well my higher hell

Crashed through the floor today

I couldn't find my legs

Suppose you live and learn

Learn it again and again

Smack in the middle of today

Got to find new words

Merely got to simply say

I think we all misheard

Just like my lower heaven

You know so well my higher hell

(When confronted by continuing the course)

(Will you open up or do I have to force)

(The words right out)

(Of your stubborn mouth)

(Stunted of course)

(Guilty in their growth)

Echo & The Bunnymen - Angels And Devils

Call it a day

When night becomes our mad escape

Forgetting the things you mean to say

When all the right words come too late and

Everything falls out of place

Under the pillow

Out of the race

Out of the window

Devils on my shoulder

So, so happy

When happiness spells misery

And mister me hoping to be

Where ugliness meets beauty

Hope if you'll see

The demon in you

The angel in me

The jesus in you

The devil in me

Angels on my shoulder

Call it a day

When night becomes our bad escape

Forgetting the things you mean to say

When all the right words come too late and

Everything falls out of place

Under the pillow

Out of the race

Out of the window

Devils on my shoulder

So, so happy

When happiness spells misery

And mister me hoping to be

Where ugliness meets beauty

And if you see'll see the demon in you

The angel in me

The jesus in you

The devil in me

The demon's in you

The devil's in me

Devil on my shoulder

Angels coming closer

Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles

I read it in a magazine

I don't wanna see it again

I threw away the magazine

And looked for someone to explain

I don't wanna look back

I can't look around

I don't wanna see it coming round

Listen to the ups and downs

Listen to the sound they make

Don't be scared when it gets loud

When you're skin begins to shake

'Cause you don't wanna look back

You gotta look tall

You gotta see those creeps crawl

I know you know

I know you know

I can see you've got the blues

In your alligator shoes

Me, I'm all smiles

I got my crocodiles

I don't wanna look back

I can't turn around

I don't want to see it coming down

Met someone just the other day

Said wait until tomorrow

I said, hey what you doing today

He said, I'm going to do it tomorrow

Met someone just the other day

Said wait until tomorrow

I said, hey, what you doing today

I'm going to do it tomorrow

Echo & The Bunnymen - Crystal Days

Here am I

Whole at last with a golden view

Looking for hope

And I hope it's you

Splitting my heart

Cracked right in two

The pleasure of pain endured

To purify our misfit ways

And magnify our crystal days

Where are you

In shadows only I can see

Looking for hope

And you hope it's me

Tattered and torn and born to be

Building a world where we can

Purify our misfit ways

And magnify our crystal days

Pure and to magnify

Here am I

Whole at last with a golden view

Looking for hope

And I know it's you

Splitting my heart

Cracked right in two

The pleasure of pain and joy

To purify our misfit ways

And magnify our crystal days

Purify our misfit ways

And magnify our crystal days

Do do do do do do do do

Do do do do do do do do

Do do do do do do do do

Do do do do do do do do

Days

Echo & The Bunnymen - Fools Like Us

It's fools like us

Always fooled

By the bright side of life

Then life on the cool

How does it turn?

How does it turn?

Into the dying embers

From a love that burned

On it's way to your heart somehow

On it's way to your heart somehow

On it's way to your heart somehow

They're falling again

My shining stars

From out of your heaven

And into my heart

Ribbons and chains

Ribbons and chains

Tie us together

And keep us apart

Got to get to your heart somehow

Got to get to your heart somehow

Got to get to your heart somehow

If I could be someone

Someone better than me

I would be that someone

Who's still waiting waiting to be free

It's always fools like us

Always burned

On the dying embers

Of a love that's turned

On it's way from your heart somehow

On it's way from your heart somehow

On it's way from your heart somehow

On it's way to your heart somehow

Time is on our side

Echo & The Bunnymen - Heroin (Live)

I don't know just where I'm going,
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can,
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein,
And I'll tell 'ya, things aren't quite the same,
When I'm rushin' on my run,
And I feel just like Jesus' son,
And I guess that I just don't know,
And I guess that I just don't know.

I have made the big decision:
I'm gonna try to nullify my life.

'Cause when the blood begins to flow,
When it shoots up the dropper's neck,
When I'm closing in on death,
And you can't help me now, you guys,
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk,
You can all go take a walk.
And I guess that I just don't know,
And I guess that I just don't know.

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago...
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas,
On a great big clipper ship,
Going from this land here to that,
In a sailor's suit and cap,
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town,
And of himself, and those around.

Oh, and I guess that I just don't know.
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know.

Heroin, be the death of me.
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life,
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head,
And then I'm better off than dead,
Because when the smack begins to flow,
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town,
And all the politicians makin' busy sounds,
And everybody puttin' everybody else down,
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds,
'Cause when the smack begins to flow,
Then I really don't care anymore.
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood,
And that blood is in my head,
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead,
Then thank your God that I'm not aware,
And thank God that I just don't care,
And I guess I just don't know,
And I guess I just don't know

(originally recorded by The Velvet Underground)

Echo & The Bunnymen - Market Town

Come on down to market town
Come on down to market
Come and watch the sun go down
Come and watch the darkness

Come on down to market
Come on down to market
Come and ride the mag around
Ride the magic carpet
Come and find what's underground
Finish what we started
Finish what we started
Come on down to market

No survivors, no survivors
No survivors would be found
No survivors, no survivors
No survivors would be found

What you gonna do?
When they come for you?
What you gonna do?
When they come for you?

Come and find the ladder down
Come and see the darkness
Come and see the light go down
Hard to find you hardly
Come and heed the darkness
Come and climb the ladder down
Finish what you started

No survivors, no survivors
No survivors would be found
No survivors, no survivors
No survivors would be found

When you know it's going down
When you know it's down
Na nana nana annananan

No survivors, no survivors
No survivors would be found
No survivors, no survivors
No survivors would be found