Peter Murphy - Sherpa

Workers looking for the day
Looking as they say
Looking for the mountain
Discrete still wanderers
Feeling out their way
Up and down sonambulance
Singing through the land

No slaughterhand
Sipping living stream
Oh perfect man
Singing in their dreams
No slaughterhand
Sipping living stream
Oh perfect man
Singing in their dreams

Oh before the school
Of a simple rule
A saint nor sinner
In their eye
They want to fly
No break of wheel
They want to fly

No slaughterhand
Sipping living stream
Oh perfect man
Singing in their dreams
No slaughterhand
Sipping living stream
Oh perfect man
Singing in their dreams

Sting be no sting
No slaughterhand
Sipping living stream
Oh perfect man
Singing in their dreams
No slaughterhand
Sipping living stream
Oh perfect man
Singing in their dreams

Peter Murphy - Keep Me From Harm

Health is all I'm asking for
Love is all I need
Hope is what I'm asking for
Lay me down to sleep
It was then that I lost you
Was dragged there too
Under a sea of mystery
Died there along with you
Love me hold me keep me from harm
Love me hold me keep me from harm
Guess you found your own root
Dug into that fast heart
Flew without wing or pinion
Now you orbit the stars
Now haunted and weary
Your vision creeps
I need a clear water
I need a release
Love me hold me keep me from harm
Love me hold me keep me from harm

Peter Murphy - Just For Love

There is no place like
Just for love
Just understand that
Just for love
Come with me
Just for love
It was you that I thought of

Just for love

The stars are calling you
And you've never been so luminescent
The city calls for you
Amd you've never been so luminescent

Just for love
Just for love
Just for love
Just for love

Me the shaker you the sheikh now
With every move now
I'm the mover with the groove now
Just for love
Just for love

The stars spin for you
And you've never been so luminescent
The city spins for you
And you've never been so luminescent
Just for love
Just for love
Just for love

Peter Murphy - Final Solution

The girls won't touch me
'Cause I've got a misdirection
Living at night isn't helping my complexion
The signs all saying it's a social infection
A little bit of fun's never been an insurrection

Mama threw me out till I get some pants that fit
She just won't approve of my strange kind of wit
I get so excited, always gotta lose
Man that send me off
Let them take the cure

Don't need a cure
Need a final solution

Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction
Guitars gonna sound like a nuclear destruction
Seems I'm a victim of natural selection
Meet me on the other side, another direction

Don't need a cure
Need a final solution

(originally recorded by Pere Ubu)

Peter Murphy - Deep Ocean Vast Sea

Your ocean heart
Clothed in respect
And sweet caress
My uneasy mind
You dip and you swell
Float and you find
And sweet caress
My uneasy mind

Deep ocean vast sea
Deep ocean vast sea - well that's deep

Imagine set of steps easily climbed
The tower of pride
The plastic of mind
Where there lies a table
The table stands
For the power of success
Respect on the sign
Intelligence so cold
A heart like glass
From the surface to deep
You wave and you dive
Like the heart and the sun
You wave and you dive
You hold me so cold
You wave and you dive

Deep ocean vast sea
Deep ocean vast sea - well that's me

You're clothed in respect
You smell of sweet caress
Dip and swell beyond the power of fists
Your ocean heart
Healing uneasy minds
And I wanna dive in with you
Clinging to the rock, I'm waiting
I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting
I'm waiting

Deep ocean vast sea
Deep ocean vast sea - well that's deep

Your heart is hard
You think your legs hurt
You smell of aching sweet success
Your head's a supernova
And you would like
Anything to stop the pain from your fingers
Screaming
And you stand naked in the sun
Without leather
Whose pain you think you need
Well all you need to do is undress
Let go and wash
Take the step through the other side
Up-turned razor
The air is thick with karma
A sutra of the way down
Well listen boy it's a long way down
Down through heaven's gate
To heaven's gate the step's the step
The tower of pride
The devil lied
Dive up to the highest point where the lives are save'ed
Where all the lives the tables stand
Power to success, respect and climb the steps

Peter Murphy - Face The Moon

I looked at all the women
Checking out their features
One walked a fine line
While the others drew it
One's lips came close
One finger tripped it
One glistened in the Sun
But none were coming from it

I threw a look
I faced the Moon
Asked the maker
"Where were you?"
I threw a look
Faced the Moon
"Where were you?"

As rivers run
And moonlight shines
I'll catch her in the mirror
And in a our land that time forgot
We will catch them close
One finger tripped it
One glistening the Sun
Then you were coming from it

You threw the look
I faced the Moon
Asked the maker
"Where were you?"
We threw the look
Faced the Moon
Then there was you

As rivers run
And moonlight shines
I'll catch her in the mirror
And in a our land that time forgot
We will catch them close
One finger tripped it
One glistening in the Sun
A new world coming from it

I threw the look
We faced the Moon
Asked the maker
"Where were you?"
We threw the look
I faced the Moon
Where were you?

As rivers run (as rivers run)
And moonlight shines (I'll catch her in the mirror)
I'll catch her in the mirror (and in a our land that time forgot)
And in a our land that time forgot (we will catch them close)
We will catch them close
And glisten (with it) with it

I threw the look
We faced the Moon
Asked the maker
"Where were you?"
We threw the look
I faced the Moon
Where were you?

We threw the look
Faced the Moon
Where were you?

As rivers run
And moonlight shines
I faced the Moon

Peter Murphy - Loctaine

Words are just
Broken up
The singer's tones
Now flowing flow
In your eyes
In your words
In your heart
A flowing flow

Words are broken up
The singer's tones
A flowing flow
Lips like wings
A troubled day
Is disquiet
Lips like wings

Loctaine
The' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him
Loctaine
Th' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him

He believed
In a safety that was not there
Loctaine
Detect alone
All straight the crowds

Loctaine
The' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him
Loctaine
Th' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him

Loctaine
The' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him
Loctaine
Th' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him

Loctaine
Your words are broken up
The singer's tones
Outward flowing flow
Over into ears
Over into eyes
Deeper into chest

Loctaine
Detold
Loctaine

Loctaine
The' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him
Loctaine
Th' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him

Loctaine
The' Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him

Loctaine
Elect
Are straight above
Forgiving him

Peter Murphy - Subway

It's like there's a straight way you know, you know
I've told you before it's as thin as ice
As thin as the razor snow
Don't freeze in the snow
Don't bake in the heat
I'll be your breath
There's a place where we can meet
There's a place where we can meet
There's a place where we can meet
Use me
Don't sleep in the subway
Don't sleep in the pouring rain

By my voice in my midnight meditation
When I wake, be my heart's floatation
Come and fill, come and fill from the overflow
Come and play, come and play be like a bird

Don't sleep in the subway
I'm needing you well - I
I feel you, you're closing down yeah
Get close, talk right through me
Get close, keep tight with me
If you fall now it could be forever
I'm telling you the line is thin now
I've told you before this hate is a sin
Empty out for the overflow
Let love begin

There's a place where we can meet

Peter Murphy - Dragnet Drag

Look at them now
Look at them do
Look they found the dove
Their vastness too
Whirlpools whirl
And dragnets drag

Love me do oh love me do
Love me find the dove
This vastness sings a pretty song
This vastness must be love
Give me three the gift of one
Whose science can't describe
Whose eyes are peeled like atom bombs
Their spirit is the prize

The sufi three winged flight they soar
All sacrals join all hearts
A cavern gasps a dragon screams
The jinn men smash the ark
Four guides float four dots of God
Realistic haqq is theirs
Mystic men whose eyes are sore
From trials of bigger lairs

Look at them now
Look at them do
Look they found the dove
Their triad song too

A grey surprise
Swirls below
They could be happy too
The ides of march
Whirlpools whirl
And dragnets drag
Whirlpools whirl
And dragnets drag

Whirlpools whirl
Dragnets drag
Hell is not the fire
Hell is your belief
In yourself as the higher

Four guides afloat
Four dots of God
Look they found the dove
Their triad song too

Whirlpools whirl
Dragnets drag
Hell is not the fire
Hell is your belief
In yourself as the higher

Peter Murphy - Crystal Wrists

I can't see the light

I'm thrown in disgust

They speak of feats

The housed forever

A howling wind

Changed my course

It blew me out

Of bounds so sore

All the walls

All the walls that bound me

Descending bleak and put upon

I chew my cheeks

To wake up from

The vase grows bigger

To my eyes

These eyes that snigger

And despise

The wall grows taller up to doom

Shoes in my room

Thrown in disgust

At how I fall

To my worst

Of course you say

You don't understand

Your words your fiction

Your crooked hands

But clearly now

I tell you man

That all I say

Is all I can

For I am nothing

But my sin

Until I learn

To caste them in

While young girls fangs

And crystal wrists

Wait patiently

For me to twist

I look away

To distant rains

To water falls

And honey days

And boys in black

And blue rinse eyes

Gaze whistly at my slender thighs

I twist a shade to my right

And spit at beelzebub on sight

And go on loving all I see

For here I live on patiently

Clearly now I tell you man

That all I say is all I can

For I am nothing but my sin

Until I learn to caste them in

Peter Murphy - Seesaw Sway

I failed to see into your eyes

As I plundered the sky

I’m a winder of words

And you free to pry

She’s luning at the moon

I’ve been looking her way

For twenty-three summers now

In a seesaw sway

Out there it’s a seesaw

(In a seesaw sway)

As I plunder the sky

(In a seesaw sway)

Out there it’s a seesaw

(In a seesaw sway)

Out there

The luna the better

(The luna the better)

I’m a crater uplifter

(I’m a crater uplifter)

I talk from a dream

(I talk from a dream)

It’s our seesaw sway

Out there it’s a seesaw

(In a seesaw sway)

As I plunder the sky

(In a seesaw sway)

Out there it’s a seesaw

(In a seesaw sway)

Out there

Oh, what’s the matter with this?

It all rests with you

I’m not a linger for the bitter

Pills, coin, or gold

No killdrill river

Nor young or fey

I’m a seer of goodness things

In our seesaw sway

Out there it’s a seesaw

(In a seesaw sway)

As I plunder the sky

(In a seesaw sway)

Out there it’s a seesaw

(In a seesaw sway)

Out there

Seesaw

Seesaw

Seesaw

Seesaw

Seesaw

Seesaw

Seesaw

Seesaw

Out there it’s a seesaw

(In a seesaw sway)

As I plunder the sky

(In a seesaw sway)

Out there it’s a seesaw

(In a seesaw sway)

Out there

In our seesaw sway

Peter Murphy - The Scarlet Thing In You

From the world to the dreaming fields of light
Yeah from the soaking mud
Gonna fly up to the sky
To the scarlet thing in you
On a long lost ocean wave of light
Submerged and unafraid

I saw you
You were one
I saw you
You were one

No way back to recall the way
Cause I threw out all the why's
Spinning with the spider in the cave
Found the scarlet thing in you
Where the birds can't reach
No words can teach
Spinning in the cave
For the scarlet thing in you

I saw you, you saw me

I saw you
You were the one
I saw you
You were one

Spinning in the cave
For the scarlet thing in you

Peter Murphy - Kiss Myself

Open my eyes
But they're not mine
I'm looking from you
As you
Neither there at the same time

Oh, it's easy to say
In a few smart ways
I am you
And you are me

It's just easy to say
It's just easy to say

And I'll throw you pearls
While I kiss myself
And I'll throw you pearls
While I kiss myself
And I'll throw you pearls
While I kiss myself
And I'll throw you pearls

(Bop bop-bop ba-oo)
(Bop bop)
(Bop bop-bop ba-oo)

Head trips to nowhere
Seeing the fire, but not in it
Yes, that joy (yes, that joy)
Love is tapped
Are you afraid of love?
Of being yourself
Forget the silence
Get in the crowd
Don't stand out
Stand in (stand in)

And see yourself
And I'll throw you pearls

And I'll throw you pearls
While I kiss myself
And I'll throw you pearls
While I kiss myself
And I'll throw you pearls
While I kiss myself
And I'll throw you pearls

(Bop bop-bop ba-oo)
(Bop bop)
And I'll throw you pearls
(Bop bop-bop ba-oo)
(Bop bop)
While I kiss myself
(Bop bop-bop ba-oo)
(Bop bop)
And I'll throw you pearls
(Bop bop-bop ba-oo)
While I kiss myself
(Bop bop)

Peter Murphy - All Night Long

When the night is closing
Eyes are running wild
When I hear you humming
All night long

The sign I see it
Tell me am I true
All I need from you is
All I see

This city's paved with cold
Playboys buying fun
Seems there is no hunter left
Without his hunting gun

Can you feel the light?
The air is wild open
Oh, you see the light it's coming through
It's there in the distance
Always offered to me
Always coming over a hill

Oh, your see-saw smile
Lasts me all night long
Like a siren's curl
When the night is long

Now, come hold my hand
No bad vibe hearts
Hold my hand, you know
This journey could be long

Yeah, the seasons come in
All the nights are woven
All the nights, we'll see them through
Ah, no hundred men now
Would dare cut into us
We'll go on and see it through

(Belle)
(Une rose qui a joue son role)
(Mon Miroir)
(Mon clef d'or)
(Mon cheval)
(Et mon gant sont les cinq secrets de ma puissance)
Now, hold my hand
No bad vibe hearts
(Je voulais livrer)
(Il vous suffira de mettre ce gant)
(A votre main droite)
(Il vous transportera ou vous desirez l'etre)

When the night has come in
Your eyes are running wild
Then I hear you humming
All night long

Yeah, the sign I see it
Yeah, the times I see it
All I need to know from you
Is all I see

Can you feel the light?
The air is wild, open
Oh you see the light
It's coming through
It's there in the distance
Always offered to me
Always coming over a hill
Yeah, the seasons come in
All the nights are woven
All the nights, we'll see them through
Ah, no hundred men now
Would dare cut into us
We'll go on and see it through

Peter Murphy - I Am My Own Name

I am my own name
I am my own
I am my own name, my own name
My own name
My own name
I am

No thin pixie
White and drawn
No shaded shadow
No monk head shorn
No jaded shock star
Or blackened thorn
No heathen cynic
No lover scorned

A seeking searcher
A shifting shape
A spirit lifter
Where the sea doth break
I fought the misers pawn to king
Where death drew sick
I call out the ring
Move and shimmer
In the magical dust
Swing the lanterns of the Sacred

I am my own name
I am my own

I am my own name
My own name
My own name
My own name
I am

I fought the misers
Pawn to king
Where death drew out
Call out The Ring
Move shimmer in the magical dust
Swing the lanterns at the sacred Musk

No pixie, nor white and drawn
No shaded shadow
No monk head shorn
No jaded shock star

No blackened thorn
No...
Seeking searcher
Shifting shape

I am my own
I am my own name
I am my own name
I am my own name

How is the new baby
This is a pitiful country around
How is the new baby
This is a pitiful country around here

I am my own
I am my own
I am my own

I am my own
I am my own
I am my own name
I am my own

How is the new baby
This is a pitiful country around
How is the new baby
This is a pitiful country around here

I am my own name

Peter Murphy - I Spit Roses

The captain is sea
In the moonlight the same
The ship all himself
Rose Spitter, the name
A high mutiny
Submerged down and under
Shake-shack left you in shock
Shed poison with a lover's lock
All hands wound and fraught
Blow the dark that we thought

Oo-oh I spit roses
Oo-oh I spit

Shake-shack, ring the bell
Pretty, petty, they shall swell
Swell kid-like, kid-like squeak
Was it a trick or was it treat?

Oo-oh I spit roses
Oo-oh I spit

The captain is sea
In the moonlight the same
Reflex us and him
He blurts karma, no sin
The tall one astute
The ginger all things
To all men he's kind
A split heart from mind
I spit roses and thank
Oh, the boat we thought sank

Oo-oh I spit roses
Oo-oh I spit roses
Oo-oh I spit roses
Oo-oh I spit roses
Oo-oh I spit roses
Oo-oh I spit roses
Roses
I spit roses
I spit roses (Wall to wall, pillar to post)
(I'm back at the task, the task, that I love most)
Roses (Wall to wall, pillar to post)
(I'm back at the task, the task, that I love most)
Roses (I'm back at the task, the task that I love most)
Roses

Peter Murphy - Socrates The Python

Today ...
Your problems are not
Of blind belief
That is or means
Belief ain't enough, belief ain't enough
The oracle of your age
Point towards the word
Psychological

You may freeze
You may fear
You may wince
And not hear
You can sick at the heart
When I say
"God is one"
Does God the word
Make you reel
And I mean, real

But it isn't God the father son or holy one,
But the key to your age
Get it together, and listen
With all the books
On the shelf
All the wisdom
With all the books
On the shelf
All the wisdom

Socrates Pythagorus
Yin and bloody Yang
Hatha Yoga, Omm
Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus
Old Testament and New
Libraries full of keys
Libraries full of keys
Where's your lock?

Socrates Pythagorus
Yin and bloody Yang
Hatha Yoga, Omm
Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus
Old Testament and New
Libraries full of keys
Libraries full of keys

Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus
Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus
Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus...

Peter Murphy - God Sends

Of course we can see
From the lipstick that's used
From even the wig that sits
That's all we see of you
I've done it among the many who

From paint to health
Bricka-brack fashion
Giving you the talk back
Giving you the buzz
It's called a feedback
It's fierce
It's not from above
It's fierce

Tell my friends they're all potential
They're all potential Godsends
I feel that this is me coming
You'll never meet me

Oh young and pure
An inward girl
A simple shape and mind
A no-mans land
A chosen ground
A sitting for the sign
Sashed and shorn
Hallowed be her name

Saying 'no I don't want to talk anymore'
Is the prerogative of the superstar
I say no all the time
I'm super
So are you! say no

Tell my friends they're all potential
They're all potential Godsends
I feel that this is me coming
You'll never meet me

The message clear
For weak and strong
He takes no pleasure in your pain
The face is distant death

Saying 'no I don't want to talk anymore'
Is the prerogative of the superstar
Put yourself on the line
Stay super
Say you!
Say no!

Tell my friends they're all potential
They're all potential -
-Godsends

I feel that this is me coming
Tell them they'll never meet me

Peter Murphy - Seven Veils

The day grows older
The moon appears in a mirror
A fire side mirror
A distant walker
Hears the words
Do do good deeds
So you feel ok
The moon and the sun
Partners in light
Separating reflecting one light
Hearing this confusion wanes
No need to ask for wealth
Or one thing more now

And the night
Feels the same
As a cool hot summers climb
With the voice
Comes no shame
As the walker walks the line
The day grows older
The moon appears
Reflecting on his heart
Heavy weighed and pierced
The walker looks at his days
Bad deeds gone by
For which he must pay
The moon and the sun
Partners in light
Separating reflecting one light
Hearing this confusion wanes
Another image hits
The seven veils of mind

But the night
Feels the same
As a cool hot summers climb
With the voice comes no shame
As the walker hunts the line

Peter Murphy - Things To Remember

Thing to remember when writing figures of speech and sound
The power of poetry comes from the ability to defy logic
Defy logic often
Use a metaphor and tell us that your lover is the sky
Tell us that your lover is the sky

When you do that
We won't believe you
We won't believe you
Because saying so makes no sense
But we'll see a meaning

We'll see a meaning

The other thing is the ability to be remembered
Love anything
Love anything

Wasted
I cut myself down
Cut myself down
Wasted
Now, Breaking free
Breaking free
It's no longer me

Understand where you come from

Floating
I'm facing me down
Prostrate to the ground

Understand

Prostrate to the ground
Mystery
Rain down on my life
Down on my life

Maybe there is nothing to say

Breathing
The future is gone
The strain of the past
The future is gone
The strain of the past

Sometimes nothing often means
The beauty of the human experience

Healing
Rain down on my life
Down on my life
Wasted
Now, breaking free
Breaking free
It's no longer me

Love anything
Love anything

Use a metaphor and tell us that your lover is the sky
Love anything

Floating
I'm facing me down
Prostrate to the ground
Mystery
Rain down on my life
Down on my life

Love anything
Love anything
Love anything
Use a metaphor and tell us that your lover is the sky

Sometimes
Sometimes nothing often means
The beauty of the human experience

These things are to be remembered
To be remembered