@ALBUM: Wild!
                           *****Erasure Lyrics*****
                            *****Version 1.0*****
                              Albums and B-Sides

-Painstakingly compiled and transcribed by John Setlik
 (mg498a03@canisius.bitnet) with much help from Vidar Hanssen and Wes Hsu
-Source of lyrics indicated for each album or song
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Wild! (from booklet that came with album)
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@SONG: Blue Savannah

Blue Savannah song
Oh it's a blue Savannah song
Somewhere 'cross the desert
Sometime in the early hour
In a restless world
On the open highways

My home is where the heart is
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you

Blue Savannah song
Oh it's a blue Savannah song
Racing 'cross the desert
At a hundred miles an hour
To the orange side
Through the clouds and thunder

Home is where the heart is
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you

I'm on my way back
And your love will bring me home
I'm travelling fast
And your love will bring me home
Will I discover
That your love will bring me home?

Somewhere 'cross the desert
Sometime in the early hour
To the orange side
Through the clouds and thunder

My home is where the heart is
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you


@SONG: Drama!

One rule for us, for you another
Do unto yourself as you see fit for your brother
Is that not within your realm of understanding?
A fifty second capacity of mind, too demanding?
Well then poor unfortunate you
There are a myriad of things that you can do
Like pick up a pen and paper or go talk to a friend
The history of the future
No violence or revenge

Your shame is never...ending
Just one psychological drama after another
You are guilty and how you ever entered into this life
God only knows, the infinite complexities of love

We all have the ability
Our freedom is fragile
We all laugh and we cry don't we?
We all bleed and we smile

Your shame is never...ending
Just one psychological drama after another
You are guilty and how you ever entered into this life
God only knows, you're not to sacrifice the art of love

Your shame is never...ending
Just one psychological drama after another
You are guilty and how you ever entered into this life
God only knows, the infinite complexities of love

Your shame is never...ending
Just one psychological drama after another
We are guilty and how you ever entered into this life
The Lord only knows, the ultimate necessity of love


@SONG: How Many Times?

Love leave me alone
I've got troubles of my own
I do believe that I have paid the price
For all the things I've said and done
Every little thing that seemed to go wrong

How many times
Will I regret the chances taken?
Why do I end up
Always the one who is mistaken?

Love leave me to sleep
Let me wallow in my dreams
Till the icy past fades away
The dawning of a brand new day
The echoes of the past that still remind me

How many times
Will I regret the chances taken?
Why do I end up
Always the one who is mistaken?


@SONG: Star

We go waiting for the stars
To come showering down
From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down

You got to look real hard
There's a fiery star
Hidden out there somewhere
Not the satellite of love
But a laser
Shooting out it's shiny tongue there

God is love, God is war
T.V. preacher tell me more
Father help me am I pure?
As pure as pure as heaven
Sent you money sent you flowers
Could I worship you for hours
In whose hands are we anyway?

We go waiting for the stars
To come showering down
>From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down

You got to look real hard
Is it in your heart?
Yeah it's in there somewhere
The power wrapped in your palm
Show it to me
Hit them with your wrath and thunder

What's your pleasure?
Tell it to me
How did he know?
Show your beauty
In you somewhere, somewhere in me
Pure as pure as heaven
Sent you money sent you flowers
Could I worship you for hours
In whose hands are we anyway?
Yeeha

Rolling along through a rose coloured glow
The city looks pretty in pink
Armageddon is here!

Did you ever have a lover
Leave you for another
Never to discover
War is not the answer
Leave you only disenchanted

God is love, God is war
T.V. preacher tell me more
Father help me am I pure?
As pure as pure as heaven
Sent you money sent you flowers
Could I worship you for hours
In whose hands are we anyway?

We go waiting for the stars
To come showering down
>From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down

@SONG: La Gloria

Oh Suzi you're shaking your red hair
Disco diva y flamenco chico
You know the eyes'll all be fixing on you tonight
La bonita a la vista de un marinero
The men in the "casa de rosa"
They have a penchant for living
She'll be dancing till the coca wears off tonight
Who's a bad girl tonight

Tonight she'll be having fun
The likes of which we'll never know
Tonight she'll be having fun
See her go

La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
Woah estamos en la gloria

Oh Suzi you're shaking you're red dress
Viva tango to revive the bull
She'll be dancing, she'll be clicking her heels tonight
If you see her estrellita, she'll make you king for a day
Ole to the cabaretera
She'll sing all your troubles away
Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun
Pata tendida!
Si no la bandida
She go rattattatta

!Ariba ariba ariba andale!
Kiss all them working day blues away
Till the light of day

Estamos en la gloria
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
Woah estamos en la gloria


@SONG: You Surround Me

Don't ever let me take you for granted
You've got your finger on the pulse of my soul
Let me place a kiss in the small of your back
Love and protect you fo the evils of this world

Baby don't ever leave me stranded
Whoever said that the streets were paved with gold
We'll I'm afraid that we're all sadly mistaken
There's nothing here till we have someone to hold

I love you with all the joy of living
Till the lights go down in New York City
It's a special love affair
And there's magic in the air

You gotta shake me down
Bring me 'round to my senses
Till I'm lost and found
And you surround me with your senses

If love wasn't here would we reinvent it?
Oh take me down to the very root of my soul
Oh baby say it as if you really mean it
And feel the passion
Work it's way up through your skin

I love you with all the joy of living
Till the lights go down in New York City
It's a special love affair
And there's magic in the air

You gotta shake me down
Bring me 'round to my senses
Till I'm lost and found
And you surround me with your senses

Let me take you by the hand
And lead you to a safe place in this world


@SONG: Brother And Sister

When I was young
I would scream blue murder
Till I had my own way
Run from the family
And tell of a story to spite my elders
Round and round, the boy
In the garden of lies and science fiction

Brother and sister and father of mine
Keep us together and keep us in line
Alot we depend on alot we can do
Send love to mother I'll be good to you

To pollute the mind of a minor
The only escape from the rigours of life
Pretend we're a family and believe
In the virtues of truth
Round and round, caught up
In a garden of lies and deception

Brother and sister and father of mine
Keep us together and keep us in line
Alot we depend on alot we can do
Send love to mother I'll be good to you

Round and round and round and round


@SONG: 2,000 Miles

There's something I need to say
I'm not sad you're gone away no way
Won't be calling information no siree
Or waiting at the railway station
You walked out of my front door
I wasn't then but now I'm sure
I need to be at least 2,000 miles away from you

2,000 miles away from you
2,000 miles away from you
2,000 miles away from you
2,000 miles away from you

Had to get me to the church on time
To say that silly I do I do nursery rhyme
You've been bitching at me for awhile
Say hey now baby don't you cramp my style
Don't go beating me like that
I'm glad I won't be coming back
I need to be at least 2,000 miles away from you

2,000 miles away from you
2,000 miles away from you
2,000 miles away from you
2,000 miles away from you


@SONG: Crown Of Thorns

Fire of the sun
Flowers crumble into dust
The seed shall scatter and die
Light in her eyes
Pours black on their lives
We gather round a funeral pyre
And here we stand
In old England's land
Shattered glass on the ground
There are no words
To console this earth
To restore old England's pride

Never in a million or so years
Did we suffer so much bloodshed

Here comes the man
With the warm and gentle hands
Her name burned into his brow
Scorn in her eyes
Her back to the cries
We spit upon the life
That never was
And here we stand
In old England's land
The rose is choked by it's thorn
She will cast salt for your wound
Old England wears no crown

Never in a million or so years
Did we suffer so much bloodshed
We didn't want to hurt you
But it's not over yet
No never in a million or so years
Did we suffer so much bloodshed


@SONG: Piano Song

Never get angry at the stupid people
Though I go crazy at the dullness of my life
Sit and stare into a dusty window
And empty face stares back at me and cries

My vulnerability rushes up to me
Till I'm left here
The rebel without a cause
The deeper I delve into
The consciousness of me and you
The harder it gets
I need to close my eyes
What hurts me most
I'll never see your eyes again

Though I get weary
Doesn't mean that I'm unwilling
My body belies me I'm of fertile mind
As I grow older
The world forgets me
Or talks to me as if I'm some kind of child

Their insensitivity washes over me
Till I'm left here
The rebel without a cause
The deeper I delve into
The consciousness of me and you
The harder it gets
I need to close my eyes
What hurts me most
I'll never see your eyes again

I try to forget
I'll never see your eyes again
I can't recollect
I'll never see your eyes again
What hurts me most
I'll never see your eyes again

Don't touch me