The Jesus And Mary Chain - Shimmer

The look behind your eyes
Conceals a thin disguise
If pleasure is my prize
There's pain in paradise
She makes the rivers flow
She looks into my soul
Destruction sets us free
From this forbidden tree
So I don't care
Don't say that I don't care
But you just made me aware
I don't care
Heaven's open gate the Devil's silver eyes
A look that seals my fate
Destruction is my prize

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Sometimes

Kid's got something keeps it well hid
One of these days I'm gonna shake off the lid
Dig beneath the dirt maybe scrape beneath the skin
It's getting so bad I think I'd die to get in her
Sometimes you just can't get enough
I got the feeling that I've been here before
I'm on my knees and I'm kissing the floor
I got the feeling that I've crashed in a car
I got the feeling aw babe you're a star
And you understand
Sometimes you just can't get enough

The Jesus And Mary Chain - My Girl

I got sunshine
On a cloudy day
When it's cold outside
I've got the month of May

I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way
My girl (my girl)
Talking 'bout (my girl) my girl

I've got so much honey the bees they envy me
I've got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees

Well, I guess you'll say
What could make me feel this way
My girl (my girl)
I'm talking 'bout (my girl) my girl

A hey, hey, hey
A hey, hey, hey

I don't need no money, fortune, or fame
I've got all the riches baby one man can claim

I guess you'll say
What could make me feel this way
My girl (my girl)
I'm talking 'bout (my girl) my girl

I got sunshine on a cloudy day
I even got the month of May, hey
I got, I got what she
A hey hey hey
Talking 'bout my girl

(originally recorded by The Temptations)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Something I Can't Have

You're in my house you're in my face
You made me hate the human race
I got it good I got it strong
I got it down where it belongs
Aw it's sick and oh it's sad
I think you're something I can't have
Penetrate the happy place you got me crawling on my face
Come fly with me come lie with me come die with me
And we could kiss with tongues
I've got no place to go you've got no place to go
Aw it's sick and oh it's sad
I think you're something I can't have
To my head you're going to my head
All the things you said
All the things you swore
Are going to my head

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Don't Come Down

Do what you want take what you need
Leave me in awe give me some speed
Don't want your soul don't want your hole
I need to look up I got to stay up
Don't come down don't you get down
Don't want your life don't be my wife
Don't make me dream I got to believe
Don't come down don't you get down

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Tower Of Song

Well my friends are gone, my hair is grey
And I ache in all the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song

I said to Hank Williams, "how lonely does it get?"
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A one hundred floors above me in the, in the tower of song

Come on

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty seven angels from the great beyond
They tied me to this table right here in the tower of song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry baby doesn't look like me at all
And I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
They don't let a woman kill you, not in the tower of song

Come on

Now you can say that I've grown bitter, hut of this you maybe sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I maybe wrong
You see I hear these funny voices in the tower of song

Now I bid you farewell I don't know when I'll be back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from my window in the tower of song

Come on

(originally recorded by Leonard Cohen)

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Why'd You Want Me?

Why'd you care, why'd you want me there
Why'd you sin, why did you let me in
I got no shoes, I've always got the blues
I gave myself to drink and drugs and filth
Why'd you care, why'd you want me there
I see the gloom and doom in every room
You see the light in every darkened night
So why'd you care, why'd you want me there
Why did you sin, why'd you let me in
Why'd you want me babe
Why? Why? Why? Why?

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Reverence

I wanna die just like Jesus Christ
I wanna die on a bed of spikes
I wanna die come see paradise
I wanna die just like Jesus Christ

I wanna die just like JFK
I wanna die on a sunny day
I wanna die just like JFK
I wanna die in the USA

I wanna die
I wanna die

I wouldn't sell my soul but I'd hang for this
I gotta get my goal cause I'd hang for this

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Sidewalking

Chilled to the bone and five miles to home
I'm messing in the dark and feeling all alone
I got ice in my fire got the heat in my wire
Inject a little heat I'm burning up the tyres

Sidewalking
Sidewalking

Talking like I'm on and I'm the only one
I'm making like I'm done and staring like a gun
And I gotta get a car and I gotta get a ride
Gotta get a car got jesus on my side

Sidewalking
Sidewalking

Messing in the dark and walking all alone
Alone in the streets I know just where I'm going

Sidewalking
Sidewalking

Chilled to the bone
Chilled to the bone
Hot wired heat all the way home

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Snakedriver

I've got syphilitic hetro friends in every part of town
I don't hate them but I know them I don't want them hanging around
I won't roll my bones for every little girl who gets on down
I got space and space got me I should be selling it by the pound
Ever since I heard the voice I thought I had no choice but then I kissed her

I don't mind if I get broken I don't mind if I get fixed
I don't mind if I'm not spoken I don't mind if I get kicks
If I wake up dead I'll wake up just like any other day
And the photographs of god I bought have almost fade away
Everything just passes by I thought it always would but then I kissed her