The Top (1984)
Shake
Dog Shake
Ha ha ha!!!
Wake up in the
dark
The aftertaste of
anger in the back of my mouth
Spit it on the
wall
And cough some
more
And scrape my
skin with razor blades
And make up in
the new blood
And try to look
so good
Follow me!
Make up in the
new blood
And follow me to
where the real fun is
Ha ha ha!!!
As stale and
selfish as a sick dog
Spurning sex like
an animal of god
I'll tear your
red hair by the roots
And hold you
blazing
Hold you
cherished in the dead electric light
Your face
I'll never see you
this way again
I captured it so
perfectly
As if I knew
you'd disappear away
Shake dog shake
You hit me again
You howl and hit
me again
The same sharp
pain
Wakes me in the
dark
And cuts me from
my throat to my pounding heart
My heart
My shaking heart
Shake dog shake
But we slept all
night in the virgin's bed
And dreamed of
death
And breathed like
sick dogs
We slept all
night in the virgin's bed
And breathed like
death
And dreamed of
sick dogs
Shake dog shake
Wake up wake up
wake up!
Shake dog shake
Wake up wake up
wake up!
Shake dog shake
Wake up in the
new blood
Make up in the
new blood
Shake up in the
new blood
And follow me to
where the real fun is...
Shake dog shake
This girl has got
a smile
That can make me
cry
This girl just burns
with love
She's burning
burning deep outside
Night time night
time
Sets my house on
fire
I'll turn into
the melting man
I'll lose my life
To feel I feel
desire
Oh I should feel
Like a polar
bear...
It's impossible
She flies outside
this cage
Singing girlmad
words
I keep her dark
thoughts deep inside
As black as stone
And mad as birds
Wild wild wild
And never turn
away
Sends me all her
love
She sends me
everything
She sends me
everywhere
Oh I could be
A polar bear...
It's impossible
I try to talk
The sky goes red
I forget
So fill my head
With some of this
Some of that
Some of every
word she says
Oh I should be
A polar bear...
But it's
impossible
The holy city
breathed
Like a dying man
It moved with
hopeful tears
With the tears of
the blind
And on and on as
the night drew in
Through broken
streets
That sucked me in
My feet were bare
and cut with stones
With walking to
the promised land
I pushed through
crowds
Through seas of
prayer
Through twisting
hands and choking air
A vulture at the
wailing wall
I circled...
Waiting...
Get away from me
Get your fingers
out of my face
This room's so
hot
This room's so
hot
I break the walls
Get away from me
Leave me alone
Like the pig on
the stairs
Hanging
In a groovy purple
shirt
Gasping for air
I'm gasping for
air
I'm gasping for
love
I'm gasping for
air...
Slit the cats
like cheese
Then eat the
sweet sticky things
Suck harder!
Suck harder!
Suck your insides
Insides out!
Blood thick
swimming round your feet
As you're choking
Choking
Choking on the
fleshy words
Give me it give
me it give me it
Deaden my glassy
mind
Give me it give
me it
Make me blind
One step back and
one step down
And slip the
needles in my side...
My head is cold
My hands are cold
My heart is cold
My heart is black
And stops every
fucking night
Every night
I wait until it
stops...
Sing birds sing
birds sing birds sing
Get away...
Going under
slowly
It never seems
too late
Going under so
slow...
Dressing up to
kiss
Dressing up to
touch all this
I'm dressing up
to dance all week
I'm dressing up
to sleep
Dressing up to
kiss
Dressing up to be
all this
I could eat your
face
I could eat all
of you
Oh this night
will never let me go...
Going under
slowly
Never seems too late
Going under
slowly...
You'll pick me up
again
Flicka flicka
flicka!
Here you are
Cata cata cata!
Caterpillar girl
Flowing in
And filling up my
hopeless heart
Oh never never go
Dust my lemon
lies
With powder pink
and sweet
The day I stop
Is the day you
change
And fly away from
me
You flicker
And you're
beautiful
You glow inside
my head
You hold me
hypnotized
I'm mesmerized...
Your flames
The flames that
kiss me dead
Shapes in the
drink like Christ
Cracks in the
pale blue wall
I'm walking
slowly and quickly but
Always away
Twisting twisting
to the floor
Flowers in your
mouth and the same dry song
The routine from
laughter land
Sixteen white
legs and a row of teeth
They watch you in
secrecy
You're dying for
the hope is gone
From here we go
nowhere again
I'm trapped in my
face and I'm changing
Too much
I can't climb out
the way I fell in
Jump with me
For that old
forgotten dance
The midnight sun
will burn you up
Your life is cold
Your life is hard
Your life is too
much for words
These occasions
are such a relief
Another point
another view to send
Hey hey hey!
We start to talk
And it's all so
safe...
I feed you in my
dreams
Footsteps on a
wire
High above my
head
The stain reveals
my real intention
I'm the waiting
beast
I'm the twisted
nerve
As I dance
Dance back to the
body in my bed
Look at the piggy
Piggy in the
mirror
As stiff as toys
And tall as men
And swaying like
the wind torn trees
She talked about
the empty world
With eyes like
poisoned birds
She talked about
the armies
That marched
inside her head
And how they made
her dreams go bad
But oh!
How happy she
was!
How proud she
was!
To be fighting in
the war
In the empty
world!
Curl into a ball
like you have more fun
That would make
it faster
Why do you do it
do you do it do you act like you?
Why do you do it
do you act like you?
Don't fight
Go red and blue
and black and white
Sell this sell
this
Or leave it
senseless like a suck on a gun?
"Put a piece
of metal in your head" you said
"Make you
dead
Make you hippa
hippa hippa hippa... "
A palace of
stones
Of your
bananafish bones
I'd buy you a
hundred years old
To celebrate our
difference
Theorise and talk
yourself
Until you're
tired and old
Disappear
everywhere and watch me
Pull my lips
apart
Exploit! Inspire!
Encourage!
Be responsible
for this...
Ha ha!
I don't think
I don't think
I make use of all
this time
Oh kill me kiss
me once
And then we'll
throw it away
And then we'll throw
it away...
Turn off the
lights
And tell me about
the games you play...
"I don't
care"
If only I could
say that
And not feel so
sick and scared
"I don't
care"
If only I could
say that
If only my eyes
would close...
"It's Jesus
brilliant"
You used to laugh
"Walking
these gorgeous blocks...
This top is the
place
Where nobody goes
You just imagine
You just imagine
it all... "
Every day I lie
here
And know that
it's true
All I really want
is you
Please come back
Please come back
Like all the other
ones do...
Please come back
All of you...