SO RED THE ROSE / 1985

ELECTION DAY

Wild kind of look to the day, opening eyes impale neon flickers

She moon she turning away, the city`s her slave but he`s cheating his mistress

She`s moody and grey, she`s mean and she`s restless (so restless)

All over you as they say rumours or rivals yell at the strike force

Hi guys, by the way, are you aware you`re being illegal

It`s making your saviour behaviour look evil

`scuse my timing but say, how d`you  fit in with this flim, flam and judy

 

Maximum big surprise your smile is something new

I pull my shirt off and pray, we`re sacred and bound to suffer the heatwave

Pull my shirt off and pray  we`re coming up on re-election day

 

Don`t even try to induce, in all my restrain there`s no hesitation

All the signs on the loose `cause sanity`s rare this end of the hard day (yeh)

Shadows are crawling out of the subway

Any way that you choose  in every direction just to confuse me

 

Maximum big surprise she knows something  new

I pull  my shirt off and pray, I`m saving myself to suffer the heatwave

Pull my shirt off and pray, we`re coming up on re-election day

 

By roads and backways a lover`s chance down wind

Cut open murmurs and sounds becalm hands on skin

Carry further oh...entangled strands all sing

Saving some time to slip away we could dance oh...

 

Shouldn`t be asking wild and scheming

Could be my election day

 

Stretching my luck down the way

To your invitation stretching my body

Use your intuitive play

`cause maybe we have more playtime than money

 

Maximum big surprise you know something new

I pull my shirt off and pray, we`re sacred and bound to suffer this heatwave

Pull  my shirt off and pray, we`re coming up on re-election  day

 

Re – election day
KEEP ME IN THE DARK

When the evening sunlight`s fingers stretch across the floor

Cover up your eyes with feathers softly close the door

 

Take me in your heavy lips, take me where the shadows slide

The lacey intrigue of this weekend should not be abused

 

You can take me where you want but  could you take me all the time

 

Away yeah oh wait a little longer don`t go too far

I wouldn`t lie, I wouldn`t like you keeping me in the dark

 

Tender is the truce, I`m tasting but watching you dictates

Heady nights of sleepless wasting a face I can`t escape

 

We could wave the world goodbye to all of the boys cherrio

 

Away yeah oh wait a little longer don`t go too far

I wouldn`t lie, I wouldn`t like you keeping me in the dark

 

Help me cause I`m sinking deeper, tell me what to say

When without words you call me closer each time you turn away

Something inside you cries but is it something  I`ll never find

 

Away yeah oh wait a little longer before we go too far

I wouldn`t lie, I wouldn`t like to think you were keeping me in the dark
GOODBYE IS FOREVER

Sometimes you have no choice

Sometimes you got no voice to say

Say if you will the words

Say if your world is so grey

We can decide it

Without no tears no tragedy

Sure I wouldn`t break and cry if

You walk away believe me.

 

Hey goodbye, goodbye is forever

Hey forever, goodbye is for ever and ever.

 

Sometimes it makes no sense

This side of cruel coincidence

Caught up in our barbed wire

To set us free believe this

 

Hey goodbye, goodbye is forever

Hey forever, goodbye is for ever and  ever.

THE FLAME

I could feel the breeze blowing chance

Blowing through my doorway

Warm and restless just as you walked by

Inside of smoky halls a circle drawn

And voices call

To raise some magic wind in my world

Strange coincidence each time you look my way

This sinking  feeling scares me

Know my weakness call it déjá-vu

Never put my trust in fate surprises do arrive so late

Why should I be surprised by you

 

Straight to the heart straight for this precious shining

How do you dare step into my flame

One from the heart, one for this precious shining

How can you steel my flame

 

Sometimes cards are drawn and the tables turn

The waiting game is over

Take this dealers hand and steal away the dawn

Don`t  give me any chance to wander back from this innocence

Don`t give me any chance at all

MISSING

And as I wandered down to where you lay

The blood rushed up to meet

The roses in your hair

I thought I saw you smile

But now I don`t see you anywhere

 

Whispering your love song  in my ear

How can you touch me

When you`re not really here

 

Stumbling out I made my way

Toward the open door

Climbing  fast the sun pouréd  streaming laughter

Down into your empty gaze

Where can I find you now I want to

Join in your game

I hear you calling

I hear you calling, calling, calling, calling

 

Whispering your love song in my ear

How can you touch me

How do you really dare

STRATENÁ

Keď skĺzol som k tvojmu lôžku,

krv akoby náhlila sa v ústrety

ružiam v tvojich vlasoch..

I zdalo sa mi na okamih krátky,

že vidím tvoj úsmev..

...bol to však len dojem vratký.

Zašepkáš mi svoju pieseň lásky

a ja cítim, ako sa ma dotýkaš..

ako len môžeš..?

Kde si a kde svoje dlane máš?

Cestou neistou a vratkou

k otvoreným dverám kráčal som,

keď lúče slnka v závane smiechu

zmrzli tvojim prázdnym pohľadom.

Povedz, kde ťa mám hľadať..

túžim vnoriť sa do tvojich hier.

Odkiaľ stále prichádza

to ďaleké volanie z tvojich pier.

Šepkáš mi svoju pieseň lásky

a ja zavše cítim, ako sa ma dotýkaš..

ako len môžeš..?

toľkej trúfalosti v sebe máš!

THE PROMISE

Whose tears on a gaping voice

Who`s stretching arms match the hunger of mine

There lips will they never join

But always draw me closer an further entwined

 

With a promise dealer understand all freedoms fade away

To a point of view where many different pathways meet

And we`re standing on this precipice with nothing much to gain save

But the deep blue screams of falling dreams with our next move

 

Heaven hide your eyes

Heaven`s eyes will never dry

 

The shades of a thousand steel

Come flashing by my face in the fury of war

In desolation and abandoned fields

The hungry make their stand when they`ll stand for no more

 

Hear the passion in their voices see the heaven in their eyes

Their hopes and schemes are waiting dreams of less than paradise

And sometimes we make promises we never mean to keep

For blackmail is the only deal a promise dealer sees

 

Heaven hide your eyes

Heaven`s eyes will never dry

EL DIABLO

Enter newborn players and gather weigh their innocence

Only the brightest shine but not forever

Many lights die many tears rain

When those tears run dry on a mountain madness day

 

You were just in time for a foolish deal for love I sold

Can`t stand another howling day inside this empty skin

While the beacons burn I`ll say

Await return from so far away

 

One life with the devil do I play

For so long el diablo is to blame

 

Oh...

 

Oh el diablo el diablo won`t you sell me back my soul

Oh el diablo el diablo won`t you sell me back my soul

 

Wedding is on the wind does she blow my way

She can dance and she can sing she will tear your heart away

While the promise burns I`ll stay

And will you return from so far away

 

One life within the devil do I play

(It`s been) for so long, el diablo is to blame

 

One life but the devil is in my way

 

Oh...

LADY ICE

Lady Ice slips into her soul

Lady Ice leaves a house so could

Lady Ice did you know that the world was lonely too

 

Drifting snows searching plains and high

Turning stones as she looks for the heart somebody stole

 

She knows the violation

In lovers arms without occasion

But who knows where to find a true heart for Lady Ice

 

Mesmerised in the candle flame

Compromised by the cruel bands of steel around her breasts

 

She knows the desolation

Of lovers arms their isolation

But who knows where to find the true heart for Lady Ice

 

Lady`s eyes slip away to the part she plays in school

 

She knows of roles and hideaways

Suppose she knows but turns away

She knows where to find a true heart for Lady Ice

 

Lady Ice step outside your soul

Lady Ice do you know that the world is frightened too

SINGLES
SAY THE WORLD

There's a skill, it's nothing we could learn at school

With a will to survive beneath this rule

Money thrives as corruption's president

Waste the life of the young and innocent

 

But after all every system can be disobeyed

So, when we call, please don't think twice or be afraid

Hey, mister, say something

 

Say the word - if your eyes are open

Say the word - before this love is broken

(Say the word)

 

The lights are down, but you dont sleep so tight

The word's around that we play for keeps tonight

As we all know even the best made plans go wrong

sometimes

But if it blows we'll be the ones they victimize

Hey, mister, say something

 

Say the word

if your eyes are open

it's time we tried

Say the word

before this love is broken

 

Say the word

if your eyes are open

it's time we tried

Say the word

before this love is broken

 

Say the word

if your eyes are open

it's time we tried

Say the word

before this love is broken

 

Say the word

if your eyes are open

it's time we tried

Say the word

before this love is broken

to put this right

 

Say the word

if your eyes are open

it's time we tried

Say the word

before this love is broken

to put this right

 

(Ha!)

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