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"Cut To Black" is a total sphere-gasser Barry, you maestro you, I tells ya true!
☆☆☆☆☆
Brecon Charles Walsh
Melbourne,
Australia.
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I was high when I met her
I really should have known better
She was wild and licentious
Love by the hour’s unpretentious
She was hankering for attention
Neon drug store blessing
I was young and adventurous
With a buck to buy some brand new shoes
The stars they were fading
The high that I am still chasing
At the midnight Hacienda Blue
All my dreams had come true
Ahh Lady you shot me
Lady you shot me
I’m a man and salvation is here
Temptation’s calling me loud and clear
She light me up and blow me away
King of lost souls on my knees and I pray
Cupid’s bullet loaded in her gun
Conquest feels like redemption
Angel singing a devil’s song
Don’t wait for heaven, cos here I come
That bad apple that tastes so sweet
Back seat girl knocked me off my feet
At the midnight Hacienda Blue
All of my love won’t save you
Ahh Lady you shot me
Lady you shot me
Blood moon bathed in cheap champagne
Sunset strip swallowed my soul once again
At the midnight Hacienda Blue
All my dreams faded from view
Lady you shot me
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Demon Lover
03:53
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Got a sweet connection
Sure to ease my worried mind
I’ve a certain predilection
To her kind of womankind
Gonna take it higher
Way above the stars
Riding on desire
Beyond Jupiter and Mars
Beams of light come blasting
Through the darkened dawn
And just like Aphrodite…
(She moved fast then she moved slowly)
Demon Lover
She calls me by my name
Love me like no other
When she draws me to her flame
Devil now a dancing
To a different kind of tune
The poison’s so entrancing
From sundown until noon
Blues they’ll come a knocking
You better send them on their way
And just like Aphrodite …
(She moves fast then she moves oh so slowly)
Everybody’s telling me I’m crazy to fall
(Ain’t nobody’s business BA you just tell ‘em all
To take a long vacation where the sun don’t shine)
Don’t bother me brother while I’m busy getting mine!
Demon Lover
She’s my baby my babababa baby!)
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Cut To Black
03:55
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Starlight in motion caught in a frame
She lights up the picture time and again
Luminous in dead of night
She’s crystalline in black and white
TV light guides me next to her
Behold natural phenomena
In close up from head to toe
Possessed by … ‘the girl in the video’
And I lose myself again
We cut to black
And I’m on my knees
My breath is loud
My hands are tied
I’m trying hard to find the lies
Flesh is stronger than spirit I cry
Makes my loneliness so magnified
A drop of blood spins on a dime
As I tune in for the very last time
White noise on the flickering screen
Hollywood is burning it’s quite a sight to be seen
Ain’t got the time to moralise
The revolution is being televised
And I lose myself again
We cut to black
And I’m on my feet
My breath is loud
My hands are untied
And who I am, sanctified
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Manhattan Satin
04:16
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Honey I’m in Limbo
Climbing from a window
They’re making millions on the street
Catch me slick and dirty
Mama lips so flirty
Just south of Ludlow where we meet
So we set it and forget it
Cos the time is right to strike
All you suckers following the blind
So we set it don’t regret it
As we bleed into the night
No point in suffering when you
Got one thing on your mind
Honey I wake as the lights are low
Hearing my song on the radio
Bittersweet sound cos here I go
People all sing with me
I’ll take my chances baby
Manhattan Satin they say
Don’t stop the merry go around
Across four channels baby
Manhattan Satin they say
Can’t stop the merry go round
Ticking like a time-bomb
Super Feds are real gone
Made it to Lexington alive
Nightmares and desire
Soul a catch a fire
Just as we’re hitting one two five
And we get it don’t forget it
howling back down underground
Odds against tomorrow intertwined
And we get it don’t regret it cos the hours winding down
Can’t think of suffering when you got one thing on your mind
Baby I’m high like a superstar
Pumping out bass from a jaguar
Alien force comin’ down the street
People all sing with me
I’ll take my chances baby
Manhattan Satin they say
Don’t stop the merry go around
Across four channels baby
Manhattan Satin they say
Can’t stop the merry go round
I’ll take my chances baby
Manhattan Satin they say
Don’t stop the merry go around
Across four channels baby
Manhattan Satin they say
Can’t stop the merry go round
Downtown
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These Would Be Blues
04:36
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I’m a certain kind of man with a certain kind of wound
I’m hungry and I’m aching from my soul down to my shoes
Everything you need to know you’ll pick up from the clues in these would be blues
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN
My legs are weak and weary as I walk among the dead
I fear that I might lose my mind or is that in my head?
It’s hard to be unquestioning with all that has been said (plus these would be blues in my bed)
The world it swims around me as I slip into the lake
At first it feel untimely and a terrible mistake
I’d better take my medicine and give myself a break from these would be blues on the make
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN
I’m a certain kind of man with a certain kind of wound
I’m hungry and I’m aching from my soul down to my shoes
Come down from that auction block and stroll into the town
Meet me there at six fifteen and lay your burden down.
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN
You’ve got to lay your burden down
Lay your burden down
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Please Don't Call On Me
04:54
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I am the devil
I am your mother
Dancing in circles
Come be my lover
Pulled underneath by an ocean of grief
Struggling sometimes to breathe
The sum of all fears can be found in your tears
(Something I don’t believe)
See my impression of life as confession?
I got it down to a T
When I awaken my hands will be shaking so
Please don’t call on me
Stroll into town with my head above ground
something that I can’t afford
If I’m not mistaken the plans that I’m making
will be laughed at by the law
Smiling and waving and looking for something
That sits in the eye of my need
While I am making it
F is for faking it.
Please don’t call on me.
Please don’t call on me
Please don’t call on me
Please don’t call on me
Cos I’m young and I’m free
All outta time so I walk the thin line
Travel the length of the land
All I was looking for spills now onto the floor
While my bones turn into sand
Back near the station beneath murmurations
I am engulfed by the sea
While I am living they’ll be no forgiving so
Please don’t call on me
Sirens wailing
Sirens calling my name
Sirens screaming
Sirens calling my name
Pulled underneath by that ocean of grief
No longer able to breathe
The sum of all fears can be found in my tears
(Something I now believe)
See my impression of life as confession?
I had it down to a T
I won’t be waking my hands won’t be shaking so
Please don’t call on me
Please don’t call on me
Please don’t call on me
Please don’t call on me
Cos I’m young and I’m free
I am the devil
I am your mother
Dancing in circles
Come be my lover
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Amen White Jesus
03:41
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Amen White Jesus
Killed me off a demon
Death by fatal cool
Springing from the shadows (now I’m)
Gonna run a fool
You are not my doctor
You’re just here to wipe the drool
When it’s time it is time
Acts of retribution
Spectre of the feast
Regulate and strangulate but you
Got away at least
He was just your burden baby
I’m the king of beasts
When it’s time it is time
You got yours I got mine
Baby I’m on fire like a
hotel up in flames
Cross the road to piss on me
But I won’t be naming names
Drive those nails into my hands
If you need someone to blame
When it’s time it is time
Reconciliation…
A space without my face
Let’s all do the monkey
While we feed on your disgrace
Crawling through the trenches
How we gonna win the race?
When it’s time it is time
Lord this blessing is divine
Take me down to market
Gotta find some proof
Sorry is a con job so I’m
Puking up the truth
Piss off my haters
When I’m acting all aloof
When it’s time it is time
Take me to the doctor
Got a jingle jangle Jones
Fire up that swingy
And I’ll swing my broken bones
The sun don’t smile on easy street
When your tripping in your homes (Holmes)
When it’s time it is time
Loving me will be your only crime
Elevated system well
I was gone too long
Jump back in the story
For the price of just one song
Excuse my red neck radar
When I’m talking right from wrong
When it’s time it is time
Devil in the details
Blessing and a curse
Double headed mama
Only gonna wake my thirst
You hope I’m last of a big long line
But baby I’m the first
When it’s time it is time
Guess there’s no need to write another line
Ketosis psychosis
Trouble on the run
Welcome to the future I’m so
Glad that you could come
Days turn into weeks and months
Cos now we’re having fun
When it’s time it is time
I’m just fucking with your mind!
Amen white Jesus
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One Last Midnight
04:26
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You melted into night that’s when I pulled you from the shadows
That lengthened on the ground
Where your foot steps were swept away
The birds they cried like humans in pain cos their beaks had all been broken!
I smiled and took your hand and
said I’m glad that you’re okay
Will you remember?
Will you remember?
Wild fires out of control
We hardly see the sun now
Wild fires outta control
We hardly see the sun
Shots fired wide of the goal
The game it should be won now
Wild fires out of control
We hardly see the sun… anymore
You spoke of someone colder than a church pew in December
And how you left him in a carpet
buried somewhere in the snow
I took your hand and we flew on up
To the tops with no protection
You smiled and said, ‘Well look at that
I’ve completely gotten away!’
Will you remember?
Will you remember?
Wild fires out of control
We hardly see the sun now
Wild fires outta control
We can hardly see the sun
Shots fired wide of the goal
The game it should be won now
Wild fires out of control
We hardly see the sun
I’m burning for you baby
Burning for your love
I’m burning for you baby
Now there’s no one up above
I’m burning for you mama
Burning for your love
I’m burning for you baby
Now there’s no one up above
(But me)
Gimme one last midnight …
Gimme one last moonlight ….
Gimme one last midnight …
Gimme one last moonlight …
Alone with you
I’m burning for you baby
Burning for your love
I’m burning for you baby now
There’s no one up above
I’m burning for you mama
Burning for your love
I’m burning for you baby
Now there’s no one up above
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9. |
Was It A Dream?
04:00
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Was it a dream?
Was it a dream?
Was it a fantasy?
One in reverse
Devoid of reality
Was it a dream?
Was it a fantasy?
I got a feeling…
When I hit the switch and ride the sun into the stars
Kill the lights cos baby I’ll be driving way too far
Where this never ending trip will take you
I can’t say
When you wake this side of night and day
Was it a dream?
Was it a fantasy?
One in reverse
Devoid of reality
Was it a dream?
Was it a fantasy?
I got a feeling…
In my loneliness where separate flesh cannot be one
Slip asleep and drop under a spell to come undone
Elevate up high and let your body lose your mind
If you see me maybe you will find
That your free again so head on up into the sky
Taking flight now let your body go just where it might
To a place where nothing matters not a single care
Then you wake and wonder were you there?
Was it a dream?
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Snakes in the pyre
I’ll be setting my sail for a kingdom that will never expire
Where dreams never die
And the masses won’t sing when the world that we live in is a liar
Back in the day
I guess we’re gonna go hungry tonight because they want it that way
So who wears the crown?
Well It’s never that simple when you’re lying face down on the ground
Mary of the skies
Arms open wide
I’ve fallen too far
To the other side
But…
(Everything’s fine
I’m sitting right here
Just waiting for the end of time)
The trees twisting in the wind
I’m moving my legs but my body just refuses to swing
At the end of my rope
I’m wrestling free like Houdini in the city of hope.
Where all that remains
Is to tether my mind from thinking that we were one and the same
Who wears the crown
Well It’s never that simple when you’re lying face down on the ground
Mary of the skies
Arms open wide
I’ve fallen too far
To the other side
But…
(Everything’s fine
I’m sitting right here
Just waiting for the end of time)
Take it easy baby
Don’t chase yourself out of the rooms
Take it easy mama
Don’t chase yourself out of the rooms
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Barry Adamson London, UK
Barry Adamson rose to prominence as the bass player in Mancunian legends, Magazine.
His establishment as a solo artist came
after a three-year stint with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and heralded the release of first solo album, 'Moss Side Story’.
Look out for the release of the movie length documentary - Scala!!! , a new studio album ‘Cut To Black' and much anticipated live shows.
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