Minotaur - Johnny Pulp and the Lemonheads
strange light strange darkness
say what you think say what you can say
Sleeve Notes
the parade is moving and the volcano is alive desperate men are drinking in the two o'clock dive she's collecting the eggs from the straw times like these everyone's wanting more of more i guess we settle for less for half for something we can bear try and protect our life whilst the soul tears well my tears are bitter and true all I want is you all I want is you the flying dutchman he's arrived again down in the bay no one is speaking they don't know what to say some find their guns other their tell tale heart some of the women know this is where they stop then start i guess we settle for less for half for something we can bear try and protect our life whilst the soul tears well my tears are bitter and true all I want is you all I want is you why is it the last moment that knows everything in its grasp where the greatest word is there in that moment the very last and I look up into the un eyes wide open and blind sorrow is sorrow and yes you're one of a kind i guess we settle for less for half for something we can bear try and protect our life whilst the soul tears well my tears are bitter and true all I want is you all I want is you did you see who died in the midnight storm did you know those who wailed and seemed all forlorn did you cry out in the middle of the strange times were you one of those who couldn't recall their lines i guess we settle for less for half for something we can bear try and protect our life whilst the soul tears well my tears are bitter and true all I want is you all I want is you who came out of the ground with wild eyes and a cry is this the meaning of loving that no one knows how to die drive round the ring road keep going round and round seems the romance is something no one knows if they're lost or found I watched as finally he pulled out after a while returned to the great sea and its unfathomable miles and that face was unforgettable and buried deep in my mind the terror and hopelessness of this loving kind i guess we settle for less for half for something we can bear try and protect our life whilst the soul tears well my tears are bitter and true all I want is you all I want is you I am a strange crab with a shell walking the shore line of sand I know well each particle hard and firm in my claws affirming my ways, my methods and laws down on the seashore there are strange things seaweed and herring gulls and whatever nature brings and bottles and junk people left behind and cliffheads and storms going in circles and lines the sea comes in churned up in froth and bile strips me of everything rolled me for miles until crashing up against a hard black rock I lay on my back and upside down took stock down on the seashore there are strange things seaweed and herring gulls and whatever nature brings and bottles and junk people left behind and cliffheads and storms going in circles and lines the sky on the ground and the earth in the sky and my feet wriggling mad where there used to be eyes my heartbeat peddling madly a hundred miles an hour and what used to taste sweet now tasted sour down on the seashore there are strange things seaweed and herring gulls and whatever nature brings and bottles and junk people left behind and cliffheads and storms going in circles and lines the moon lay between my legs and glowed a ghostly silver light like a spirit had growed heard the whispers of time and some new dispensations danced in my mind to these strange incantations down on the seashore there are strange things seaweed and herring gulls and whatever nature brings and bottles and junk people left behind and cliffheads and storms going in circles and lines am I free from the old ways that condemned me to sin am I free to move on to restart and begin again well the rain is falling and the sea still flows so its anyone guess where any of this with me goes down on the seashore there are strange things seaweed and herring gulls and whatever nature brings and bottles and junk people left behind and cliffheads and storms going in circles and lines down on the seashore there are strange things seaweed and herring gulls and whatever nature brings and bottles and junk people left behind and cliffheads and storms going in circles and lines one last drink don't know what place this has become don't know who I am or when this sadness will be done I spend days with the children sun on the flower pots sing lullabies tending the nursery rhymes and nursery cots watch the way the light catches up the solid shape of the room and listen to the low drone of the pipes and if the noise comes too soon wonder why the man at the counter hesitates before he speaks wonder who sees these multitudinous things how existence leaks woke up one day and found out that I was someone else ophelia had committed suicide and I was somewhere on a different shelf i guess everything is quite funny from your point of view well the days over and I think I might have lost you Yes I guess I've lost you words don't count that much it's true wrote a dictionary left me green left me blue did you count to ten or more did you see did you see all that I saw minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie buried in the maze no one can reveal aint that just like true love hidden and sealed well here comes the last message scrawled on the door I love the way you lie there naked on the floor I'm just dreaming you know it's never quite real anyhow what I need to know is how you feel minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie you're so young and I'm older than the mountain my blood turned black turned into oil and pain listened to you speaking in tongues sang with Dylan that song about being so young do you really see me do you really want this aren't you compromised by your own sense of bliss or are you real and broken by the truths of this terrible life I'm tired and only half alive now so much trouble and strife minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie buried in the maze no one can reveal aint that just like true love hidden and sealed saw you lie down saw you speak your strange talk and you laughed at my stories and the way that I walk can I buy you a drink and lets sit still in the corner of the room I break easy you know it you can read my palm know my gloom I know so many people and know those who died laughed and loved and knew the strength of those who cried tears of the rich and tears of the poor come take me take me through the door minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie buried in the maze no one can reveal aint that just like true love hidden and sealed did you hear my crying did you see my tear did you hold me close just to crush my fear I'm just a fool you know that's the real truth right paint me the painting that'll tell it straight catch the truth in the light minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie buried in the maze no one can reveal aint that just like true love hidden and sealed why wont you stop with me for a little while I don't want a thing you know, well, maybe your smile see you in your fancy things your fancies and bows give me what you have before the time it goes fall down on your knees and put your hands to the glass fall down and when you've done you know nothing really lasts ah but then there's a twist and there's a shout and there we start to get what its all about minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie buried in the maze no one can reveal aint that just like true love hidden and sealed sat in the church listened to the preacher with what he said and it made so much sense was big enough for the dead but the living we need something stranger and maybe less but that's just a passing fancy whose life's not a kind of mess minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie buried in the maze no one can reveal aint that just like true love hidden and sealed want to be straight like an arrow in motion everything I say creates a wild commotion flashing lights and music from the place of the dead listen honey listen to what I tried what I never said you've gone away well I guess that's the way such is such I laugh to scorn everything that happens it feels too much not sure i can be still be here listen to romantic poets sing well autumn winter spring sadness and all it can bring minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie buried in the maze no one can reveal aint that just like true love hidden and sealed the man who sold the world is a burned out case in the mirror I see his cracked broken face who is it making his way to the end of the line ah well this is the place all we need now is the right time minotaur you know you're going to die so fearsome and yet your beauty it's no lie buried in the maze no one can reveal aint that just like true love hidden and sealed yea, true love hidden and forever sealed saw a young man he was weeping and an old woman with a dog sleeping the uxbridge road is a long line of heartbreak walk there somedays up the avenue and take time , time to stop and time to think when you get to St Stephens well you're on the brink ever felt the blues ever felt something real on the avenue to the station did it all feel the real deal count down the footsteps feel the winterland breeze where your fate is a place you live but can't seize ah yea you just can't seize ever sat down and thought in the broadway centre ever wondered why and that text you sent her dreams of films float by near the studio phantoms and ghosts drift by the window some days the crowds all seem to be quiet as hell other times the noise is you'd put on a price and sell ever felt the blues ever felt something real on the avenue to the station did it all feel the real deal count down the footsteps feel the winterland breeze where your fate is a place you live but can't seize ah yea you just can't seize walk through the parks listen to the grass small talk in the shops you know won't last jays and shapeshifters, whisky and beer old mother hubbard robin hood king lear ho sang soo with Captain America on a bench adjani kissed by Kinski ah drink to the wench ever felt the blues ever felt something real on the avenue to the station did it all feel the real deal count down the footsteps feel the winterland breeze where your fate is a place you live but can't seize ah yea you just can't seize and tears in the eyes of the king whose gone blind turtle doves flying who knows what they'll find sugar plum fairies and boy scouts laugh us to scorn and the clock chimes the hour that these days were born here comes the chopper to fly over our heads and here comes the lanterns to light up our beds sleep until time has done all that it could and dream that the prophets knew all that they should take away all this don't let me drown in the deep this is vanity fair ah let me sleep ever felt the blues ever felt something real on the avenue to the station did it all feel the real deal count down the footsteps feel the winterland breeze where your fate is a place you live but can't seize ah yea you just can't seize crawling through the high meadow grass herod's on the rampage he's part of the cast of killers and villains and ne'er do wells with curses black magic and demon spells bewitched by your own corruption pack your bags and wait on the station you stole and you murdered you trapped in mirth now you'll pay for what you did and be banished from earth steal the ring and forget yourself become the scottish king and gain false wealth marry quick and rich and climb on up drink the poison from Hamlets poisoned cup bewitched by your own corruption pack your bags and wait on the station you stole and you murdered you trapped in mirth now you'll pay for what you did and be banished from earth dream all the time of fortune and fame kill the good and the bad they're all the same find a secret that only a God could take be the wall street wolf do what you will make no mistake bewitched by your own corruption pack your bags and wait on the station you stole and you murdered you trapped in mirth now you'll pay for what you did and be banished from earth flash your teeth and circle the world with a smile sleep with vultures and wolves all cruelty and guile don't really care what is truth and what lies all you need is whatever it buys stare hard in silence at the camels eye close the tombs and walk away from whatever will die build a wall so high you can't see what's what what's bad is good what's what is not bewitched by your own corruption pack your bags and wait on the station you stole and you murdered you trapped in mirth now you'll pay for what you did and be banished from earth in the middle of the night the rats come and go you listen in fear like someone from Edgar Allen Poe your heartbeat loud likes its in a vault and you bury yourself in your lies and your faults from the dismal march strange figures float up to your house no matter how remote and hidden you re from the ones you did wrong and these creatures they sing the saddest of songs bewitched by your own corruption pack your bags and wait on the station you stole and you murdered you trapped in mirth now you'll pay for what you did and be banished from earth and the words on your lips are all the names of those that you left behind and ruined and maimed the women in bondage the children the slaves You try and pray but you're already in Hades bewitched by your own corruption pack your bags and wait on the station you stole and you murdered you trapped in mirth now you'll pay for what you did and be banished from earth songs of hopeless desire and guilt and despair songs of the angels carried off through the air professors wring their hands and write their books all I know was how I was dazzled by your words and looks got accused first thing at dawn got to admit I felt forlorn ate a little but had a bad taste in mouth these accusations have sent my world south songs of hopeless desire and guilt and despair songs of the angels carried off through the air professors wring their hands and write their books all I know was how I was dazzled by your words and looks on a higher level there are secrets and lies the postman the baker creep around in disguise Poirot and Barnaby Sherlock Homes and the rest Dig the depths like in North By North West songs of hopeless desire and guilt and despair songs of the angels carried off through the air professors wring their hands and write their books all I know was how I was dazzled by your words and looks standing in a field under the blank endless sky death might come down without saying why crows are sitting on a fence in a row Who is that wailing from the dungeon below songs of hopeless desire and guilt and despair songs of the angels carried off through the air professors wring their hands and write their books all I know was how I was dazzled by your words and looks The man in the mask is the only one telling no lie Who's the stranger in the counting house and why somedays a dragon the next a mouse a gingerbread man in a gingerbread house songs of hopeless desire and guilt and despair songs of the angels carried off through the air professors wring their hands and write their books all I know was how I was dazzled by your words and looks hansel and gretel got to eat the damned witch I forgot my umbrella this weather's a bitch the dancing girls are weeping in the candle light and shepherds are watching everything i n sight gunfire in the distance and the howl of a dog Nietzsche in the middle of night digging up God the Golem is sleepwalking whilst everyone sleeps Dr Faust is burning books whilst poor Gretchen weeps songs of hopeless desire and guilt and despair songs of the angels carried off through the air professors wring their hands and write their books all I know was how I was dazzled by your words and looks Did you see the van and its blue flashing light when they carried me away as I screamed with all my might the butcher the baker three men in a boat Like a dog they took me to the place and cut my throat songs of hopeless desire and guilt and despair songs of the angels carried off through the air professors wring their hands and write their books all I know was how I was dazzled by your words and looks got a bomb about to explode everything can seem a heavy heavy load but I'll climb the ladder crawl in through the window stare down from above at all the people below werewolf and dracula and the hunchback of notre dame the world's a wild wild ride and we're all going insane fiddlesticks and tindersticks the lost highway's blue all I've got now babe are my memories of you yea those memories of you sad sad eyes and a furtive little smile walk the tightrope go the whole damn mile ladies of the night talk to me on the bus going home and there's a wishing well and you're never alone werewolf and dracula and the hunchback of notre dame the world's a wild wild ride and we're all going insane fiddlesticks and tindersticks the lost highway's blue all I've got now babe are my memories of you yea those memories of you curfews at nightfall and shadows and flames I was counting the minutes never knew their names sunrise brings knowledge you never thought you knew there's always some third when you thought there were just 2 werewolf and dracula and the hunchback of notre dame the world's a wild wild ride and we're all going insane fiddlesticks and tindersticks the lost highway's blue all I've got now babe are my memories of you yea those memories of you grain of sand in the hand crumbling down saw you smiling one day the next saw you frown tired and not sleeping the crowds stumble about Cordelia's changed her mind the world's in doubt werewolf and dracula and the hunchback of notre dame the world's a wild wild ride and we're all going insane fiddlesticks and tindersticks the lost highway's blue all I've got now babe are my memories of you yea those memories of you three ships a sailing and Bluebeard's at home bodies piling up but he's always alone the wolf in the forest is making his eveil way and grandma's baking pies and has no more to say sleep the sleep of the dead and smoke by the glass candlelight flickers across hear the midnight mass monks and ballet dancers make strange kind of twins both know what it means to fall know all of your sins werewolf and dracula and the hunchback of notre dame the world's a wild wild ride and we're all going insane fiddlesticks and tindersticks the lost highway's blue all I've got now babe are my memories of you yea those memories of you a dwarf is sitting down the back of my throat Ivanhoe rides across the bridge of the castle moat Wrestlers and boxers wipe off their bloody sweat a last drink at midnight is full of regret werewolf and dracula and the hunchback of notre dame the world's a wild wild ride and we're all going insane fiddlesticks and tindersticks the lost highway's blue all I've got now babe are my memories of you yea those memories of you Dietrich and Bogart roll out the threads of despair Dietrich and Bogart roll out the threads of despair albatross is killed in the wild ocean air and curses tumble across her beautiful face the queen of hell is coming she has you in her embrace werewolf and dracula and the hunchback of notre dame the world's a wild wild ride and we're all going insane fiddlesticks and tindersticks the lost highway's blue all I've got now babe are my memories of you yea those memories of you my big blue cadillac wont be coming back lost my money in a bet my long fate looks like that give me a kiss as I go don't worry I reap what I so storms and rainfall and then piercing blue skies that look you have with your dark savage eyes and a smile that rises and never gives up well it was bound to happen one day you ran out of luck dig my soil with your plough that was then this is now hope is good in a blistering gale Steal the boat and let's set sail storms and rainfall and then piercing blue skies that look you have with your dark savage eyes and a smile that rises and never gives up well it was bound to happen one day you ran out of luck my fragile head your sturdy heart someone here's upset the applecart hold my hand and take my money call me loser call me honey where's this town are we lost come to the hearth count the cost burn the papers no one need know leave at midnight come on lets go storms and rainfall and then piercing blue skies that look you have with your dark savage eyes and a smile that rises and never gives up well it was bound to happen one day you ran out of luck some strangers are good and kind others they don't pay you any mind me I don't even know who I'm meant to be look away honey there's really nothing to see storms and rainfall and then piercing blue skies that look you have with your dark savage eyes and a smile that rises and never gives up well it was bound to happen one day you ran out of luck down in the town everything is noise and light I'm rushing down the main road getting out of sight the cops are mean and hungry like they need to kill you're head down in the cafe and paying your bill storms and rainfall and then piercing blue skies that look you have with your dark savage eyes and a smile that rises and never gives up well it was bound to happen one day you ran out of luck and later when the whole scene has found a quiet pitch they find a body out at the crossroads by the ditch blood and tears and flies buzzing around the song goes dark into the cold cold ground storms and rainfall and then piercing blue skies that look you have with your dark savage eyes and a smile that rises and never gives up well it was bound to happen one day you ran out of luck strange light strange darkness all over the land I screamed out once and reached out my hand seemed far below whatever was there in the darkness couldn't make out anything save suspecting I wasn't blessed ill seen ill said who know if I'm dead grew and grew and did what we do and got to be old but nothing shook off like I was stood still in a fold between time passing and space growing small and words and dreams all that returned my calls ill seen ill said who know if I'm dead inside a cylinder or some other cramped and dismal space I have crept and crawled and pressed against my face destiny and fate who know what they're supposed to mean I feel lost and trapped and helpless and mean ill seen ill said who know if I'm dead want to move to the left want to move to the right want to stand up a little or dig down in the night daylights just a gleam that soon disappears all my mind holds now are what will soon disappear one day alive and then the next time dead I can't tell you what happened or what God might have said I stretch and then hug myself in the weird gloom and curse living itself for this impossible doom ill seen ill said who know if I'm dead but curses are nothing they're a waste like sighing so is hope so is vengeance so is smiling or crying words what are they well they come so I keep them on there's dread and no more so let all of this run ill seen ill said who know if I'm dead say what you think say what you can say born once on your own burial day I'm a grave man a gleam in some mother's eye came from the swaddling robes with a strange cry how strange this is waking from the uncalled womb into the time and space that already has marked your tomb why was it we were born like this grave and wombs, despair and bliss reeds and cold wind blows across the wilderness we walk and nothing comes from nothing and all is wild idiot's talk I see only dimly now and was blind as an infant in original blood dragging my own corpse across so many years its all I could drain away the days drain away the night the universe is all and in t he dark I crawl and crawl and crawl and crawl why was it we were born like this grave and wombs, despair and bliss last night ah or was it tomorrow the sleet and the sun I started to say then started again then each word was undone by what followed or by what before can't really recall looked for the garden seem to have been the day of the fall trapped in the land between the bottom and the unseen peak when will these moments end and when will I find peace and sleep why was it we were born like this grave and wombs, despair and bliss oh where are you going my dark haired girl said it to the blackbird as it bobbed its black tail you were moving like an arrow down the long hill I watched you disappearing and then my heart stood still you're my omen my strange dark truth you're the devil walking on the roof see you here and see you there kiss me once and kiss me twice if you dare prince charming holds a golden spell his face is a dream cuts through the thorns of life and makes it all seem more real than the mountain and the bubbling fairy brook knows the lands of enchantment like he wrote the book you're my omen my strange dark truth you're the devil walking on the roof see you here and see you there kiss me once and kiss me twice if you dare godzilla in the deep electric storm buzzing in a myth being born and Thor blasting lightening shapes like the earth is being torn and cupid is a seraphim and hides his supreme me power he shoots the lovers heart in two any day and any hour you're my omen my strange dark truth you're the devil walking on the roof see you here and see you there kiss me once and kiss me twice if you dare once there were great giants living all across the land they fought the gods and murdered some it all got out of hand prometheus wandered for a while and then he stole the flame that made the people love and hate and know they were to blame you're my omen my strange dark truth you're the devil walking on the roof see you here and see you there kiss me once and kiss me twice if you dare the earth did shake and the joker fled the prison block and the watching saints fell down and their hearts began to knock until great spirits rose up into the widening sky and a virgin spring broke open the ice and then started to die come back come back I heard the nightingale sing and there were all sorts that were in the doorway listening but soon the dawn was started and the crowd did fall away and ring a ring a roses was what the children start to play you're my omen my strange dark truth you're the devil walking on the roof see you here and see you there kiss me once and kiss me twice if you dare black ice cold lava flows the world is breaking down the great wind blows from heavens gate it blows without a sound the gambler and the locksmith sit together in the night and ghosts are too fearful to show they're all too full of fright you're my omen my strange dark truth you're the devil walking on the roof see you here and see you there kiss me once and kiss me twice if you dare yea, twice if you dare