O the sisters of mercy they are not Departed or gone, They were waiting for me when I thought That I just cant go on, And they brought me their comfort
Here's the story No time to lose (like the present) Now I've lost my friends Now I've lost friends It's not my party, Never will be Feeling out-of-place
The razor bites and the shriek subsides He arches clutching at his sides Across the floor across the tiles The man is dead and the razor smiles A shiny
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor. Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor Somebody tell me about the perfect bomb The royal
With the fire from the fireworks up above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand You run for cover in the temple of love You run for
The lights shine clear through the sodium haze The night draws near and daylight fades Ignore the voices discard the day For the brand new darkness for
She got red eyes She wear dust I went over over over I went bust I kissed I kissed the carpet I climbed the curtain I was certain And I said yeah Yeah
The sun shines on the aluminium I guess this must be the home of the hitmen
Lay me down the long white line Leave the sirens far behind me Paint my name in black and gold My heart my flame my heart my road My heartland fade across
My very life today If I don't get some shelter Yeah, I'm gonna fade away Love, sisters It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Love, sisters It'
The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground In the violet hour to the violent sound And the darkness the blinding the eyes that shine And the voices
Love for the party love for the nation Love for the fix for the fabrication Love for the corpse for the corporation Love for the death and for the defecation
Burn me a fire in the reptile house In the colour and the carnage fall me down My face in the fire in the reptile house And the kissing and the colour
Through the cables and the underground now The faceless breathless calls This is babel, sensurround now This place is death with walls Too much contact
Baby buy an anaconda baby buy a thing to wear She go walking she go crawling she go sliding through the air She go talking warm and fashion she go talking
Alice pressed against the wall So she can see the door In case the laughing strangers crawl and Crush the petals on the floor Alice in her party dress
monochrome The catholic girls now Stark in their dark and white Dread in monochrome The sisters of mercy High tide Wide eyed Sped on adrenochrome For the sisters of mercy
Well alright! It's 1969 ok We got a war across the usa There's nothing here for me and you We're just sitting here with nothing to do There's nothing
