The Sisters Of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection [12 Extended Mix]

I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down

I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear
Dive, bombers, and
Empire down
Empire down

I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me,
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take direction,
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me

We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel

A long train held up by page on page
A hard reign held up by rage
Once a railroad
Now it's done...

I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down...

We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take reflection,
Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me...

The Sisters of Mercy - Fix

Love for the party love for the nation
Love for the fix for the fabrication
Love for the corpse for the corporation
Love for the death and for the defecation
Romance and assassination
Give me the love for the genocide
Give me love

The Sisters Of Mercy - A Rock And A Hard Place

And she came to look for me
Sold me name and innocence
Took my key
And told me to follow her
Down from Igor with her bangles and her reference
One from the church from the valley of the --
Well she wanted a haven and a place to hide
So I gave her an alibi took her inside but...

A rock and a hard place await for for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong,
Belong...

And I didn't have the heart to tell her why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but...

Cause and effect go hand in hand and
The devil may care but I don't mind
And I thought she'd never quite understand
So I left her there that night
But will she find me?
I don't think so, no
When you go, you go alone
And I'm gone...
Far away
Far away
Far away
Far away

And I didn't have the heart to tell her why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but...

A rock and a hard place await for for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong,
Belong...

The Sisters Of Mercy - Walk Away

And in the summer when the clouds show through
I might go the same way too if
You and I could talk together
Well what am I supposed to do with
You and I would walk together
Then with always close around and
Now you gaze toward the doorway
When the weather comes falling down

And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you
Walk walk walk walk walk away
(away) (away) away away (away) away
away away walk away
Would you choose to walk away

And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you
Walk walk walk walk walk away

Though when the day is nearly
Through I might see the same way too if
You would name the things
That bring you down on me so I could say it's
Not quite true if you don't really
Know or understand the circumstance
Behind then I might clear your
Mind and you won't have to go so

So when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay, would you
Choose to walk, would you choose to stay, would you
(away) (away) away away (away) away
away away walk away
Would you choose to walk away

The Sisters Of Mercy - Floorshow

The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground
In the violet hour to the violent sound
And the darkness the blinding the eyes that shine
And the voices singing the line on line
This is the floorshow the clapping hands
Animal flow from the animal glands
In the violet hour to the violent sound
Going round and around and around and around and ...

I feel the bite I feel the beat I see the dancing feet
I feel the light I feel the heat I see the new elite
I see the final floorshow I see the western dream
I see the faces glow and I see the bodies steam

See them shimmy see them go
See their painted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go

This is the floorshow the last ideal
It's populist got mass appeal
The old religion redefined
For the facile futile totally blind

Mundane by day inane at night
Pagan playing in the flashing light
In the violet hour to the violent sound
Going round and around and around and around and ...
The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground
In the violet hour to the violent sound
And the darkness the blinding the eyes that shine
And the voices singing line on line

See them shimmy see them go
See their painted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go

The Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing

Twenty-five whores in the room next door

Twenty-five floors and I need more

I'm looking for the can in the candy store

Two thousand Hamburg four

And colours I ain't seen before

It's a small world and it smells funny

I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money

Take back what I paid

For another motherfucker in a motorcade

In a long black car

With the prettiest shit

From Panama

When the sirens wail

And the lights flash blue

My vision thing come

Slamming through

It's a small world and it smells bad

I'd buy another if I had

Back

What I paid

For another motherfucker in a motorcade

Slamming through

Slamming through

What do we need to make our world come alive?

What does it take to make us sing?

While we're waiting for the next one to arrive?

One million points of light

One billion dollar Vision Thing

Another black hole in the killing zone

A little more mad in the methedrome

One blinding flash of sense

Just like the president's

Well, I don't mind

Out of my mind

Blizzard king

Bring it on home

It's a small world and it smells bad

I'd buy another if I had

Back

What I paid

For another motherfucker in a motorcade

And a vision thing

And a vision thing

And a ...

Sha la la la

What do we need to make our world come alive?

What do we need to make us sing?

While we're waiting for the next one to arrive?

One million points of light

One billion dollar Vision Thing

Sha la la la

The Sisters Of Mercy - Torch

And now the torch

And shadows lead

Were it not so black and not so hard to see

How can it help you when you don't know what you need

How can anybody set you free?

Would you walk upon the water

If he couldn't walk away?

And would you

Would you carry the torch

For me?

And what if I gave you the key

To the doors of your design...

Lit the corridors of desire?

What if not so black

And not so hard to see

What used to you then any fire?

Would you walk upon the water

If he couldn't walk away?

And would you

Carry the torch for me?

Would you walk upon the water

If he couldn't walk away?

And would you

Would you carry the torch for me?

Would you carry the torch

For me?

Would you carry the torch

For me?

Would you carry the torch

For me?

The Sisters Of Mercy - Body Electric

Through the cables and the underground now
The faceless breathless calls
This is Babel, sensurround now
This place is death with walls
This place is death with walls
This place is death with walls
This place is death with walls

Too much contact, no more feeling
The Sound around them all
Acid on the floor so she walk on the ceiling
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall
Crawling to the corners where the idiot children call
See the body flashing on the bathroom wall

The Sisters Of Mercy - Nine While Nine

And it's passing strange
And I'm waiting for the train
Caught up on this line again
And it's passing slowly
Killing time but it's
Better than living in what will come and I've
Still got some of your letters with me and I
Thought sometimes or I read too much
And I think you know let's
Drink to the dead lying under the water and the
Cost of the blood on the driven snow and the
Lipstick on my cigarettes
Frost upon the window pane
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train.....

She said do you remember a time when angels
Do you remember a time when fear
In the days when I was stronger
In the days when you were here she said
When days had no beginning
While days had no end when
Shadows grew no longer I
Knew no other friend but you
Were wild
You were wild.....

Frost upon these cigarettes
Lipstick on the window pane and I've
Lost all sense of the world outside but I
Can't forget so I call your name and I'm
Looking for a life for me and I'm
Looking for a life for you and I'm
Talking to myself again and it's
So damn cold it's just not true and I'm
Walking through the rain
Trying to hold on waiting for the train and I'm
Only looking for what you want but it's
Lonely here and I think you knew and I'm
And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train...

And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train...

The Sisters of Mercy - Flood II

and her hallway

moves

like the ocean

moves

and her hallway

moves

like the sea

she says no no no no harm will come your way

she says bring it on down, bring on the wave

she says nobody done no harm

grace of God and raise your arms

she says: face it and it's a place to stay

this, this is the way it was

this, this is the way it is

when the water come rushing, rushing in

she says

she says anytime

raise your arms

flood...

and her hallway

like...

like...

like a million voices call my name

like a million voices calling

not now, not never again

sitting here now in this bar for hours

strange men rent strange flowers

seconds to the drop but it feels like hours

and I think I'm going to, going to...

The Sisters Of Mercy - Afterhours

One more night spent on your mirror

Black Maria, in your eyes

This stuff so strange and lonely

England fades away

In your eyes

Two o'clock in the morning

Ninety-four degrees

Through the stillness through the heat

The cars go by on Fifth and

Breathing slow

Get up off the floor and angel

Put your clothes on

It's time for us to go

Let's take a ride

The Sisters Of Mercy - On The Wire

Now the ground comes up too fast

Too fast to meet you

In clouds of dust erupting

Thick around your feet, be careful

In the rubble in shrouds in waiting

Wall to wall to where you tread

Now the quick and the dead and the same old

Fates come calling cards away

How do you think it came to pass you

By the hard way by desire

How do you think it came to pass you by?

On the wire

I don't sleep so I don't dream so I don't

Wake up frightened

Everything is what it seems if

You look deep enough tonight and

See ...

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not ....

The Sisters of Mercy - Lights

The lights shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and the daylight fades
Ignore the voices, discard the day
For the brand new darkness, for the bright new way
Hit
There have been better plans, but
None that I could ever understand
Emerald signal, the green on black, the
Lights say move, say never look back and so I
Find another place where I've never been seen
Find another place where the red turns green, where the
Emerald glistens through the darkness again, where the
Emerald glistens through the rain

The lights shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and the daylight fades, but there's a
Voice in the distance, quiet and clear, saying
Something that I never ever wanted to hear

There have been better plans, but
None that I could ever understand, I see the
Emerald, see the signal, see the green on black, I see the
Lights say move, say never look back and so I
Find another place where I'll never be seen
Find another place where the red turns green, where the
Emerald glistens through the darkness again, where the
Emerald glistens through the rain, rain, rain and I'm
Happy here
In the rain
In the rain
In the rain, rain, rain, I'm happy here
In the rain
Where the emerald
Glistens
Through the rain

The Sisters Of Mercy - Colours

You reap what you sow

Put your face to the ground

Here come the marching men

Your colours wrapped around

You reap what you sow

Put your face to the ground

Here come the marching men

Your colours wrapped around

You reap what you sow

You reap what you sow

Put your face to the ground

Here come the marching men

Your colours wrapped around

You reap what you sow

Put your face to the ground

Here come the marching men

Your colours wrapped around

The Sisters Of Mercy - Poison Door

Behind the door
The poison door
We search the still hours
Looking
For a place to hide (For a place to hide)
Behind the door
Where dreams collide (Where dreams collide)
Behind the door
The poison door
We sit in silence waiting
For a deadly friend
Behind the door
Where dreams descend (Where dreams descend)
And the shadows smile

Lips dark and wild
The shadows smile
And kiss the sky
Behind the door
The poison door
The puppets dance on a burning floor
Like dying flames
Behind the door
Shoot me down again

Behind the door
The poison door
We search the still hours
Looking
For a place to hide (For a place to hide)
Behind the door
Where dreams collide (Where dreams collide)
Behind the door
The poison door
We sit in silence waiting
For a deadly friend
Behind the door
Where dreams descend (Where dreams descend)
And the shadows smile

And kiss your memory goodbye
And the shadows smile
But their lips are ssss...

And the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
And the shadows smile
Kiss your memory goodbye
And the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
And kiss the sky

The Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme Shelter

Oh, see the storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Yeah, I'm gonna fade away

War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Yeah

Oh, see the fire is sweeping
Down through the streets today
Burning like a bright red carpet
Another fool who lost the way

Rape, murder
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Rape, murder
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Yeah

Oh, see the storm is threatening
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Yeah, or I'm gonna fade away

Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
Shot away
Shot away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away
Rape, murder
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Rape, murder
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away

Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
Shot away
Shot away
War

Children
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away

(originally recorded by The Rolling Stones)

The Sisters Of Mercy - Never Land

And when your nerves break your thought
And my word break your will
And the heart break me over this wheel

They are coming down
Wait for
Hand in hand in hand in hand

They are coming down
Wait for

They are coming down
But we will
Never never never land

I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a
Ticket to Syria

I had everything within my reach
I had money and stuff
Each and every call
Too much but never enough
Tear it up and watch it fall

They are coming down
Wait for
Hand in hand in hand in hand

They are coming down
Wait for

They are coming down
But we will
Never never land

With our backs to the sky
And our eyes on the ground
With the clouds far below
No horizon around
With the wind in our face
And our arms open wide
We shall pass through this place
To the other side
All the days of our lives
All the ways of our calling
Follow...

The Sisters Of Mercy - Some Kind Of Stranger

And yes I believe in what we had
But words got in the way
And only yesterday
As I was leaving
Lord knows I've tried to say but I've
Heard a million conversations
Going where they've been before
Seen the way that careful lingers
Undecided at the door

And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch

All my words are secondhand and
Useless in the face of this
Rationale and rhyme and reason
Pale beside a single kiss
And I've heard so many things I
Fail to understand at all
I'd settle anytime for
Unknown footsteps in the hall outside

And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch

Because the world is cruel and
Promises are broken
Don't try to tell me
Anything don't try to tell me
You'll be true to me you know the
Real truth is never spoken
And I know the world is cold but
If you hold on tight to what you
Find you might not mind too much though
Even this must pass away and
Memories may last for years but
Names are just for souvenirs
Some kind of angel let me
Look into your eyes
Don't give me whys and wherefores
Reason or surprise
I don't care for words that don't belong
And I don't care what you're called
Tell me later if at all
I can wait a long long time
Before I hear another love song

Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of stranger come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside

The Sisters Of Mercy feat. Ofra Haza - Temple Of Love [1992 Version]

With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another but still the same
For the wind will blow my name across this land

In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lovers eyes

In the temple of love, shine like thunder
In the temple of love, cry like rain
In the temple of love, hear my calling
In the temple of love, hear my name

And the devil in black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away

With the sunlight died and night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another it's all the same
For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside

With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the temple of love
Shine like thunder, cry like rain
And the temple of love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before us
Black wind calls my name to you no more

Ooooooooh

In the black sky thunder sweeping underground
And over water sounds of crying weeping
Will not save your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing, ninety-six below the wave
When stone is dust and only air remains

In the temple of love (temple of love), shine like thunder
In the temple of love (temple of love), cry like rain (cry like rain)
In the temple of love (temple of love), hear the calling
And the temple of love
Is falling down

Ooooooooh
Temple of love
Ooooooooh
Temple of love
Ooooooooh

In the temple of love (temple of love), shine like thunder
In the temple of love (temple of love), cry like rain (cry like rain)
In the temple of love (temple of love), hear the calling

In the black sky thunder sweeping underground
And over water sounds of crying weeping
Will not save your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave
When stone is dust and air remains
The only haven you can trust

And the devil in black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away

With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the temple of love
Shine like thunder, cry like rain
And the temple grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before
This black wind calls my name to you no more

Ooooooooh
Temple of love
Ooooooooh

In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lovers eyes

In the temple of love (temple of love), shine like thunder
In the temple of love (temple of love), cry like rain (cry like rain)
In the temple of love (temple of love), hear the calling
And the temple of love
Is falling down

The Sisters Of Mercy - Ribbons

I'm lying on my back now
The stars look all too near
Flowers on the razor wire
I know you're here
We are few and far between

I was thinking about her skin
Love is a many splintered thing
Don't be afraid now
Just walk on in
(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)

Her eyes were cobalt red
Her voice was cobalt blue
I see no purple light
Crashing out of you
So just walk on in
(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)

Her lovers queued up in the hallway
I heard them scratching at the door
I tried to tell her
About Marx and Engels, God and angels
I don't really know what for

But she looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in
She looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in

Tie a red, red, red, red, red, red ribbon
Love is a many splintered thing
Tie a red, red, red, red ribbon
Don't be afraid
Just walk on in

Just walk on in
(Incoming...)
(Incoming...)
Just walk on in
Just walk on in
Flowers on the razor wire
Just walk on in...
Incoming!