Torch Song Lyrics

Armalite, street lights, nightsightsSearching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighterDeath in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll kill youFor a long forgotten cau...Read Full Lyrics

I was flicking through the channels on the TVOn a Sunday in Milwaukee in the rainTrying to piece together conversationsTrying to find out where to lay the blameBut when it comes ri...Read Full Lyrics

Three boats down from the candy, vacant deckchairs on a floodlit beachThree boats down from the candy, rollers coast invade the deepest sleepThree boats down from the candy, carnal...Read Full Lyrics

Good morning!When you look into the mirrorDo you see a face you hardly recogniseIf you look into the sun too longDo the things you see begin to burn your eyesPaper liesJust to expr...Read Full Lyrics

I lie awake at nightListening to you sleepingI hear the darkness breatheAnd the rain against the windowAfter all this timeCynical and jadedAll the stones are diamondsAll the blues ...Read Full Lyrics

Everybody knows that we live in a worldWhere they give bad names to beautiful thingsEverybody knows that we live in a worldWhere we don't give beautiful things a second glanceHeave...Read Full Lyrics

Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimonowearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding.Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears.Safe in my own words, learn...Read Full Lyrics

On promenades where drunks propose to lonely arcade mannequinsWhere ceremonies pause at the jeweller's shop displayFeigning casual silence in strained romantic interludes 'Til they...Read Full Lyrics

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner barRises at twilight, gets dressed in a dazeBlack leather crackles and cold water runsAs she touches the walls of memory mazeAnd the shadows ...Read Full Lyrics

A ghost of a mist was on the fieldThe grey and the Green togetherThe noise of a distant farm machineOut of the first light cameA tatered necklace of hedge and treesOn the southern ...Read Full Lyrics