Selfish Portrait Lyrics

At the heart of her outrage There lies a veil of tears Stories of lost times She'll spread among the fields And we touched the land Of weeds where nothing grows And she watched my ...Read Full Lyrics

Silvermine, I'm falling into this Silvermine and no way through Silvermine I can't relinquish this Silvermine neither can you I led him down to it Can't get 'round to it I led him...Read Full Lyrics

Well I'm a skyscraper carnivore Living on the thirteenth floor The wife's got scabies, the dog's got rabies The kids are having fun just having babies And the guy next door says, "...Read Full Lyrics

The oceans are drying, children stop crying We're trying, we're dying to leave this island to you No recovery, each day's a terrible discovery Under the wound they cover me, is thi...Read Full Lyrics

In some lysergic africa, you've come back as a warrior In abyssinia Now the elephants are dead and gone And everything's been put back wrong Ivory and diptheria In some lysergic af...Read Full Lyrics

All this body gets in the way (it's so far away) A reminder, a viewfinder for you Poor old mr. faust, he had to sign in blood Surrounded by temptation, brimstone and mud I'm neve...Read Full Lyrics

You are altogether beautiful Oh girl companion of mine And there is no defect in you There is no defect in you With me from lebanon my bride With me from lebanon, may you come May ...Read Full Lyrics

Music in starling st sounds like the wind Down the cafe when the daylight has thinned Harry and dorothy say let's begin You clap your hands for a jug of fine wine Two ugly jail-wo...Read Full Lyrics

I once had this woman, a surrealist woman She changed before my very eyes One minute revolving, next minute dissolving I wish that it had been otherwise I followed her home, I fo...Read Full Lyrics

[Unreleased, from a demo reel dated Dec. 14, 1983.] (I, I, I, I) I take the things from their leather cases And I arrange them in their special places I collected people like you ...Read Full Lyrics