@ALBUM: superstition.ly @ALBUM: Superstition ## Lyrics file ## filename: superstition.ly ## typed by: Marc Wallace ## last revision: 31 Mar 92 Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees Album: Superstition From: 1991 Geffen ## num time song title ## --- ---- ---------- Song: 1 4:37 Kiss Them For Me Song: 2 4:10 Fear (of the Unknown) Song: 3 3:34 Cry Song: 4 4:44 Drifter Song: 5 3:21 Little Sister Song: 6 4:28 Shadowtime Song: 7 4:42 Silly Thing Song: 8 3:17 Got to Get Up Song: 9 4:24 Silver Waterfalls Song: 10 6:01 Softly Song: 11 5:01 The Ghost in You Lyrics: @SONG: Kiss Them For Me It glittered and it gleamed for the arriving beauty queen a ring and a car now you're the prettiest by far No party she'd not attend no invitation she wouldn't send transfixed by the inner sound of your promise to be found "Nothing or no-one will ever make me let you down" Kiss them for me -- I may be delayed Kiss them for me -- if I am delayed It's divoon, oh it's serene in the fountains pink champagne someone carving their devotion in the heart shaped pool of fame "Nothing or no-one will ever make me let you down" Kiss them for me -- I may be delayed Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed On the road to New Orleans a spray of stars hit the screen as the 10th impact shimmered the forbidden candles beamed Kiss them for me -- I may be delayed Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed Kiss them for me -- Kiss them for me Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed @SONG: Fear (of the Unknown) I get the feeling -- I'm not alone I get the feeling -- it's someone I don't know Do you ever have the strange sensation when you're standing mighty tall to jump from 17 floors and crash into freefall but then fear takes control -- fear of the unknown Imagine two complete strangers who suspect they were meant to be both in need of love and affection yet their suspicions prevent something heavenly Fear takes control -- fear of the unknown Aware of what will hurt you you're prepared to remain this way so sad yet safe with your afflictions afraid to start a brand new day We all get the strangest feeling when we're standing mighty tall to jump from 17 floors and crash into freefall but then fear carries all -- fear of the unknown fear takes its toll -- fear of the unknown Aware of what will hurt you you're prepared to remain this way so sad yet safe with your afflictions afraid to start a brand new day @SONG: Cry Cry for the bird with broken wings Cry for the world that will not spin Cry for the loss of innocense Cry for a love, turned loveless Sometimes I think of you, when I'm alone Oh no Cry ... Nothing will ever be the same all is ruined and put to shame tears and stars are one and the same when I look up through my focused lens But sometimes I think of you, when I'm alone Oh no Cry ... tears and stars confide, collide then die Deep inside tears run dry, but I cry and cry. Tiger skins and elephant tusks in guilted mountains seep disgust I look at you and I want to speak for once in a while be a man and weep 'cos all the dolphins and whales have gone all good tidings and hopes have blown all our nightmares are flying home and it's too late to do anything but ... Cry ... tears and stars confide, collide then die deep inside tears run dry, but I cry and cry Cry ... @SONG: Drifter drifter -- sleepwalk drifter -- sleeptalk awake to who is following moving -- like water moving -- drifting on the wind a drifter coming in then I dreamt that I awoke and all around was asleep with eyes in the back of my head awake to who is following, ... drifter coming in never touching down -- never leaving ground a twilight world in which we roam still we don't belong -- drift on At daybreak -- we walk At daybreak -- we talk ready to tear up the world drifter -- sleepwalk drifter -- sleeptalk your everywhere is home yet you never take hold wanting to live everywhere not wanting to live anywhere a twilight world in which you roam still you won't belong -- drift on @SONG: Little Sister Here I sit in paradise my head between my hands Little sister, break your vow break down, the sacred side little sister, break the rules break me in two Little sister, now you're gone let's just say it's a mercy kill but little sister, you've left me howling at the moon If you touched my heart you might be surprised you'd be paralysed Will the free hand of captivity heal all of this brutality? If you touched my heart A truth might lie disguised you'd be paralyzsed If you touched my heart you might be surprised you'd be paralyzsed just once, little sister just once ... @SONG: Shadowtime The voice asleep, the voice has vanished from the top of the sky to the place below touch the surface and the mirror bends your words resound, out of control freeze into time now Still inside, yet doubt survives it all begins, beneath the skin No-one is near, no-one will hear your changeling song take shape in Shadowtime Turn your wish to a vapour, the silhouette fades eclipse your blue eyes, and the outline remains from the house of the moon to the stars up above amidst the comets, first sight of love so begins the countdown Falling sky, a solar sigh it all begins, beneath the skin No-one is near, no-one will hear your changeling song takes shape in Shadowtime Shadowtime -- Catching fire, taking hold all that glisters leaves you cold No-one is near, no-one will head your changeling song take shape in Shadowtime Shadowtime -- @SONG: Silly Thing Alone and left to ponder everything alone and left to puzzle out all the pain such a silly, silly, silly thing you must catch it and cease it while you can Accusations flying -- colliding cheek to cheek button up your lip and think before you speak Oh see him fly into a rage see her crying in her tantrum cage too blind to halt this stupid game Silly thing Now all that's left is a feeling very grim alone and left to think about the stupid thing Yes, she would fly into a rage and he would cry in his tantrum cage a replay of this dumb charade Silly thing I mis-understood you -- I buried my head in sand please accept my feelings of remorse and take my hand Such a sully thing can destroy a man for such a silly thing to come between such friends is hard to imagine or believe Silly thing @SONG: Got to Get Up Got to get up, get into life got to get up and live this life got to get up and win this life No more looking down -- look up skyward up your eyes -- devour the sun Now! Gonna shake my bones gonna shed my skin shake out what's mine, shake out this thing I'm gonna shake my bones, gonna shed my skin shake out what's mine, shake out this thing I've been here too long -- now I'm up skyward up this song -- devour the sun Now! Bad luck you say -- it's just not your day but you've got to reach out -- grab your destiny kick up the dust -- kick up a storm kick out the past and take control There's no-one else -- it's up to you are you gonna wake up, or cry boo hoo? No-one else but you can rise up you know what to do got to get up No more looking down -- look up Come and claim your crown -- got to get up Got to get up @SONG: Silver Waterfalls clouds roll by overhead like giant rays coast a dried up ocean bed dancing winds blow a parody of swirling currents in a long forgotten sea shimmer glimmer shimmer on me the sparkling souls of dreaming children call shimmer glimmer shimmer on me in streets that shine like silver waterfalls in your eyes in the skies in the blood burning indian sunrise shimmer on me (in sleep we grow) we were here long ago and now we roam like ghostly buffalo first two lies then two tears subtle curves, now glistening souveneirs in your eyes in the skies in the blood burning indian sunrise shimmer on me (awake and glow) shivering in silver waterfalls annoint me in silver waterfalls @SONG: Softly Softly into your broken veins Softly into these broken dreams Will you ever come home? Will you ever be found? Standing on shattered windowpane softly I whisper your name concealed in bedclothes of frosting cold Softly the snowflakes start to fall fleecing the velvet skin Suspended in frozen time Icicles slowly drip outside to the rhythm of your wounds here inside I entered your dream, I entered your scheme Softly to swim inside your veins Softly in rippling cellophane to float and glide in time to the rushing in your brain I wanted your lips, yes I wanted your kiss So softly the moment had flown My body outside yours softly collects the falling snow and disappears far away so softly @SONG: The Ghost in You You awoke in a burning paperhouse from the infinite fields of dreamless sleep You return to Tiannammen an eyewitness in a shroud to see them fall, feel them yield reliving the terror of the crowd Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow just for a moment I seemed to know Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow I seemed to know the ghost in you The whisper of your scream sighed through the air and faith-the flag is torn and frayed inferno heat, glory in flame love was beaten and betrayed In every step I hear your sobbing dare I break the shade with one caress? dare I trespass to lift the veil to touch the lips so soft and frail? Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow I seemed to know the ghost in you Your captive heart, the belief you share with a kiss eternal, the spirits of the square Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow hope remains with the ghost in you Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow I seemed to know the ghost in you don't let it blow the ghost in you the ghost in you