[Verse 1]
It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
Going home time, a story on the radio

[Verse 2]
Something small falls out of your mouth and we laugh
A prayer for something better
A prayer for something better
Please love me
Meet my mother, but the fear takes hold
Creeping up the stairs in the dark
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow

[Verse 3]
Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Fighting for freedom on the television
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
Have we got everything?,
She struggles to get away
The pain and the creeping feeling, a little black haired girl
Waiting for Saturday, the death of her father pushing her
Pushing her white face into the mirror
Aching inside me and turn me 'round
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Just like the old days

[Verse 4]
Caressing an old man and painting a lifeless face
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
All shadows and deliverance under a black flag
A hundred years of blood, crimson
The ribbon tightens round my throat
I open my mouth and my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water
Over and over, we die one after the other
Over and over, we die one after the other
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other

[Outro]
It feels like a hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
				

[Verse 1]
Movement, no movement, just a falling bird
Cold as it hits the bleeding ground
He lived and died, catch sight, cover me with earth
Draped in black, static white sound

[Chorus]
A day without substance, a change of thought
An atmosphere that rots with time
Colors that flicker in water, a short term effect

[Verse 2]
Scream as she tries to push him over
Helpless and sick
With teeth of madness, jump, jump, dance and sing
Sideways across the desert, a charcoal face bites my hand
Time is sweet, derange and disengage everything

[Chorus]
A day without substance, a change of thought
The atmosphere rots with time
Colors that flicker in water, a short term effect
A short term effect
A short term effect

[Outro]
An echo and a stranger's hand, a short term effect
An echo and a stranger's hand, a short term effect
				

[Verse 1]
Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In the hanging garden, please don't speak
In the hanging garden, no one sleeps

[Refrain]
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)

[Verse 2]
Catching halos on the moon
Gives my hands the shapes of angels
In the heat of the night, the animals scream
In the heat of the night walking into a dream

[Chorus]
Fall, fall, fall, fall into the walls
Jump, jump out of time
Fall, fall, fall, fall out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals cry

[Refrain]
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)

[Verse 3]
Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In a hanging garden, change the past
In a hanging garden wearing furs and masks

[Chorus]
Fall, fall, fall, fall into the walls
Jump, jump out of time
Fall, fall, fall, fall out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals die

[Bridge]
(In the hanging garden)
As the animals die
Cover my face as the animals die

[Outro]
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
				

[Verse 1]
I chose an eternity of this
Like falling angels, the world disappeared
Laughing into the fire, is it always like this?
Flesh and blood and the first kiss
The first colours, the first kiss

[Verse 2]
We writhed under a red light
Voodoo smile, Siamese twins
Girl at the window looks at me for an hour
Then everything falls apart
Broken inside me, it falls apart

[Chorus 1]
The walls and the ceiling move in time
Push a blade into my hands, slowly up the stairs
And into the room, is it always like this?

[Verse 3]
Dancing in my pocket
Worms eat my skin
She glows and grows with arms outstretched
Her legs around me, in the morning I cried

[Verse 4]
Leave me to die, you won't remember my voice
I walked away and grew old
You never talk, we never smile
I scream "you're nothing
I don't need you any more, you're nothing"

[Chorus 2]
It fades and spins
Fades and spins
Sing out loud, we all die
Laughing into the fire, is it always like this?

[Outro]
Is it always like this?
Is it always like this?
				

[Verse 1]
Sharp and open, leave me alone
And sleeping less every night
As the days become heavier and weighted
Waiting in the cold light
A noise, a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten
With spiders inside them
And dust on the lips of a vision of hell
I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year

[Verse 2]
A hundred other words blind me with your purity
Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance
I think about tomorrow, please let me sleep
As I slip down the window, freshly squashed fly

[Refrain]
You mean nothing
You mean nothing

[Verse 3]
I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls
All the time, lose me in the dark, please do it right
Run into the night, I will lose myself tomorrow
Crimson pain, my heart explodes
My memory in a fire, and someone will listen
At least for a short while

[Bridge]
(I can never say no)
I can never say no to anyone but you

[Verse 4]
Too many secrets, too many lies
Writhing with hatred
Too many secrets, please make it good tonight
But the same image haunts me, in sequence, in despair of time

[Chorus]
I will never be clean again
I touched her eyes, pressed my stained face
I will never be clean again

[Outro]
Touched her eyes, press my stained face
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again
				

[Verse 1]
Give me your eyes that I might see
The blind man kissing my hands
The sun is humming, my head turns to dust
As he plays on his knees
(As he plays on his knees)

[Chorus]
And the sand and the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away on a strange day

[Verse 2]
And I laugh as I drift in the wind
Blind dancing on a beach of stone
Cherish the faces as they wait for the end
Sudden hush across the water
And we're here again

[Chorus]
And the sand and the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away on a strange day

[Bridge]
My head falls back and the walls crash down
And the sky and the impossible explode
Held for one moment, I remember a song
An impression of sound
Then everything is gone forever

[Outro]
(A strange day)
(A strange day)
				

[Verse 1]
Scarred, your back was turned, curled like an embryo
Take another face, you will be kissed again
I was cold as l mouthed the words and crawled across the mirror
And wait, await the next breath

[Refrain]
Your name like ice into my heart

[Verse 2]
A shallow grave, a monument to the ruined age
Ice in my eyes and eyes like ice don't move
Screaming at the moon, another past time

[Refrain]
Your name like ice into my heart

[Chorus]
Everything as cold as life (can no one save you?)
Everything as cold as silence (and you will never say a word)

[Outro]
(Your name like ice into my heart)
(Your name like ice into my heart)
				

[Sample 1: Robin Whitting - reversed]
Before we finally [?] BBC 2 today [?] A reminder that there's a treat in store for opera lovers [?] tomorrow evening with a sparkling performance from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden of one of the world's best-loved Romantic operas: Pavarotti [?] Puccini at 5-past-8 tomorrow. Well now there's the last look at the clock this eve, and the time's just winding its way round to eight minutes to one. If you're still up and about and want a bit more entertainment, a reminder that our colleagues over at BBC Radio are still on the airwaves. On Radio 2 in eight minutes Sheila Tracey - that's Radio 2's "Tiger Tim" - takes over with the Truckers' Hour, and then at 2 o'clock You and the Night and the Music with Tim Gudgin through 'til five. But for now, on behalf of everyone here on BBC 2, this is Robin Whitting-

[Sample 2]
Yeah, a green sedan. No, the licence plates were covered with mud. They took tyres and gas. (Tell him they took all the cash.) They robbed the cash register too. I got word that the police had them bottled up... but they slipped through again. (I wonder if the baby is born yet.) Poor Joan. They're being blamed for every crime committed in the country

[Sample 3: Germaine Greer and Graham Chapman]
[Incomprehensible]

[Verse 1]
A hand in my mouth
A life spills into the flowers
We all look so perfect
As we all fall down
In an electric glare
The old man cracks with age
She found his last picture
In the ashes of the fire

[Verse 2]
An image of the queen
Echoes round the sweating bed
Sour yellow sounds inside my head
In books
And films
And in life
And in heaven
The sound of slaughter
As your body turns...

[Refrain]
But it's too late
But it's too late

[Verse 3]
One more day like today and I'll kill you
A desire for flesh
And real blood
And I'll watch you drown in the shower
Pushing my life through your open eyes...

[Outro]
I must fight this sickness
Find a cure
I must fight this sickness