Steve HACKETT
Wild Orchids
(2006)
1. A Dark Night In Toytown 3'38 (Steve Hackett / Roger King)
2. Waters Of The Wild 5'36 (Steve Hackett / Roger King)
3. Set Your Compass 3'37 (Steve Hackett / John Hackett)
4. Down Street 7'34 (Steve Hackett / Roger King)
5. A Girl Called Linda 4'47 (Steve Hackett)
6. To A Close 4'48 (Steve Hackett)
7. Ego And Id 4'08 Ego And Id (John Hackett / Nick Clabburn)
8. Man In The Long Black Coat 5'10 (Steve Hackett)
9. Wolfwork 4'49 (Steve Hackett)
10. Why 0'47 (Steve Hackett)
11. She Moves In Memories 5'00 (Steve Hackett)
12. The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing 3'01 (Steve Hackett)
13. Howl 4'31 (Steve Hackett)
Total Time: 57:26
Engineering & Programming on "Man In The Long Black Coat" by Benedict Fenner
Engineering on "Why" plus Additional Engineering on "A Dark Night In Toytown" and Backwards Voice on "Toytown" intro / outro by Jerry Peal
Design by Harry Pearce
Cover Painting by Kim Poor
Special Thanks To
All Tracks Published by Stephen HACKETT Ltd.
except: "A Dark Night In Toytown", "Waters Of The Wild" and "Down Street"
Published by Stephen HACKETT Ltd. / KING CUSTARD MUSIC;
"Set Your Compass" Published by Stephen HACKETT Ltd. / COPYRIGHT CONTROL;
"Ego & Id" Published by COPYRIGHT CONTROL;
"Man In The Long Black Coat" Published by SONY / ATV MUSIC Publishing (UK)
Steve Hackett plays FERNANDES Electric and K. YAIRI Acoustic Guitars
1. A Dark Night In Toytown
Alone in the crowd
Beside the big wheel
You've run out of luck
I know the way you feel
A dark night in toytown
Round the carousel
If you want to ride faster
It's happiness I sell
If you can't find heaven
I'll show you a ghost train to hell
The pleasure principle
Is what I had in mind
I'll make you feel invincible
Then you'll be mine A gorilla tranquiliser
Will help to slow you down
Monsters of the Id
Call from the underground
I know I seem sordid
Beneath you at first
I'll pierce your defences
Take away your thirst
I hold you gently
You gasp out loud
Blood on your white cheek
The fairground closes down
2. Waters Of The Wild
Come away 0 human child
To the waters of the wild
With a fairy hand in hand
For the world's more full of weeping
Than you can understand
Fly away you stolen child
Through a magic lantern slide
Singing in the acid rain
With all those who drink from
The waters of the wild
Far away my lost child
I see your breath and your smile
On the silver frosted lawns
In the dream that came alive
At the end of nowhere
3. Set Your Compass
Underneath a sailing moon lemon lime ginger soft glow
Scale the woodland around the dale
Rising falling through hedgerows
With her train the queen of night
(Her pale window)
(Calming your fear!
(With die Earth)
Slowly turning the tide (in the lowland)
From the long arms of the sea
Set your compass by your dream (falling)
Grazing sheep have lost their way
Fifty fathoms below the bay
Windward of the sunken rock (blowing)
Faces set like gravestones (staring down)
Oarsmen pull to cleave the brine Neath the black cliffs their cross-bones
Under the waves and put to right Toy armies too rusty to fight (in the lowland)
Cling to the wheel how deeply you breathe
Set your compass by your dream (falling)
Grazing sheep have lost their way
Fifty fathoms below the bay
4. Down Street
Dear friend you've come at last I wish to impart to you something of a deeply personal nature Dare we venture off the map And indeed between the cracks To a private road of sorts I presume you have a strong will And the stomach to match the underbelly of our fair city
You'll need this firm crowbar
Whilst I implore you to utilise no sense of smell
And to think people live down there
A rush of chill air heralds our clattering necropolis railway
Strangled streams, smothered rivers, London always gives me the shivers
Forty abandoned stations and Churchill's last bolthole
Impregnable as Hitler's bunker
Can't you see them dancing on the platform at Down Street
5. A Girl Called Linda
Read me a dream sighs Linda
Flying through nursery windows
Leaving a night light burning
Keep all my love beside you
Toys R Us for you dear
Chocolate Crocodile tears
Now look who's talking
Jigsaw Junior High School All overtime in play group
Under a railway footbridge
Primrose Hill by moonbeams
Buckle my shoe in springtime
Winter's child grows restless
Pining for bread and roses
Somewhere she's been before
Gazing at the farmyard
All those things adored
Only until she's bored
Climbing the wall of China
Outside the old toy station
Wrapped in a garden glory
Read me a bedtime story
I know that you have to grow up
Leaving all this behind you Farewell my lovely Linda
Sweet as a birdsong Linda
Once in a dream called Linda
6. To A Close
When the debs came down in their famous gowns
Jacqueline at once was the talk of the town
Launched and lunched on
Society's cream
Smiled and curtsied so gently
Toujours chercher pour quelque chose
As the curtains are drawn to a close
When her Daddy's bank sailed close to the wind
He traded it all for Gordon's Gin
All the King's horses and all the
King's men
Conquered elsewhere never
Said a discreet madam with your pedigree
A belle de jour If ever I've seen
The home service the French lesson round
So neatly attired costing one hundred pounds
Propped up in bed all alone at
The Ritz
The Evening Star printed she razored both wrists
Dressed in her furs with her girdle and gloves
Surrounded by photos of all her old loves
7. Ego And Id
Heard you on the radio (You) sounded very strange Voices in the distance Way beyond my range
Tried to call the station Panicked and I ran Tried to find the moment When you and I began
Looking in the mirror Cut off all my hair Made myself a moment When no one seemed to care
This room is getting smaller My ego and my Id Now I'm really sorry For all the things I did
8. Man In The Long Black Coat
Crickets are chirping the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hanging dry
Windows wide open African trees
Bent over backward from a hurricane breeze
Not a wont of goodbye not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
Somebody seen him hanging around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts
of town
He looked into her eyes when she
stopped him to ask
If she wanted to dance he had a face
like a mask
Somebody said from The Bible he
quote
There was dust on the man in the
long black coat
Preacher was a-talking there's a
sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience
is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your
guide
When it's you who must keep it
satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
To give her heart to the man in the long black coat
There are no mistakes in life
some people say
And it's true sometimes you can
see it that way
Well people dont live or die people
just float
She went with the man in the
long black coat
There's smoke on the water it's
been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted neath the
high crescent moon
With a pulse and vibration and
the rumbling force
Someone is out there beating on
a dead horse
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote She gone with the man in the long black coat
9. Wolfwork
Clapperboards sandwich hordes
scavengers in paradise
Training their eyes under grey
porridge skies
Magistrates ivory gates opiates
potentates
Kings of carrion badness in the blood
It's all wotfwork
Faxes from a wall of corpses
Gorging on each day in mourning
Father time squeezing the sun
For light relief they bare their teeth
And turn on their own
Rolling around on a fresh bed of nails
Come and see the show
Join in the ring
With your mouth open wide
10. Why
Why must you treat me like a child
Why not join me on the prom
I'd go on singing forever
But cremation wont be long
11. She Moves In Memories
(instrumental)
12. The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing
History's a vinyl record stuck in a
Blessed robots with so much to
prove
You could say so much to lose
The scorching air The slumbering mass Of forgotten things
Preening peacocks ignite the fuse
Trumpets and promises a turn of
the screw
To have a human face we'll have to
start all over again
Back to the drawing board all the
boys and men
When you lose your kite in the wind
and fall on the trees
You're sucked in bulletin blown out
The glory of the past is really a tomb
The thing from the crypt long nurtured you
13. Howl
(instrumental)
Beside the big wheel
You've run out of luck
I know the way you feel
A dark night in toytown
Round the carousel
If you want to ride faster
It's happiness I sell
If you can't find heaven
I'll show you a ghost train to hell
The pleasure principle
Is what I had in mind
I'll make you feel invincible
Then you'll be mine A gorilla tranquiliser
Will help to slow you down
Monsters of the Id
Call from the underground
I know I seem sordid
Beneath you at first
I'll pierce your defences
Take away your thirst
I hold you gently
You gasp out loud
Blood on your white cheek
The fairground closes down
-
Come away 0 human child
To the waters of the wild
With a fairy hand in hand
For the world's more full of weeping
Than you can understand
Fly away you stolen child
Through a magic lantern slide
Singing in the acid rain
With all those who drink from
The waters of the wild
Far away my lost child
I see your breath and your smile
On the silver frosted lawns
In the dream that came alive
At the end of nowhere
3. Set Your Compass
Underneath a sailing moon lemon lime ginger soft glow
Scale the woodland around the dale
Rising falling through hedgerows
With her train the queen of night
(Her pale window)
(Calming your fear!
(With die Earth)
Slowly turning the tide (in the lowland)
From the long arms of the sea
Set your compass by your dream (falling)
Grazing sheep have lost their way
Fifty fathoms below the bay
Windward of the sunken rock (blowing)
Faces set like gravestones (staring down)
Oarsmen pull to cleave the brine Neath the black cliffs their cross-bones
Under the waves and put to right Toy armies too rusty to fight (in the lowland)
Cling to the wheel how deeply you breathe
Set your compass by your dream (falling)
Grazing sheep have lost their way
Fifty fathoms below the bay
4. Down Street
Dear friend you've come at last I wish to impart to you something of a deeply personal nature Dare we venture off the map And indeed between the cracks To a private road of sorts I presume you have a strong will And the stomach to match the underbelly of our fair city
You'll need this firm crowbar
Whilst I implore you to utilise no sense of smell
And to think people live down there
A rush of chill air heralds our clattering necropolis railway
Strangled streams, smothered rivers, London always gives me the shivers
Forty abandoned stations and Churchill's last bolthole
Impregnable as Hitler's bunker
Can't you see them dancing on the platform at Down Street
5. A Girl Called Linda
Read me a dream sighs Linda
Flying through nursery windows
Leaving a night light burning
Keep all my love beside you
Toys R Us for you dear
Chocolate Crocodile tears
Now look who's talking
Jigsaw Junior High School All overtime in play group
Under a railway footbridge
Primrose Hill by moonbeams
Buckle my shoe in springtime
Winter's child grows restless
Pining for bread and roses
Somewhere she's been before
Gazing at the farmyard
All those things adored
Only until she's bored
Climbing the wall of China
Outside the old toy station
Wrapped in a garden glory
Read me a bedtime story
I know that you have to grow up
Leaving all this behind you Farewell my lovely Linda
Sweet as a birdsong Linda
Once in a dream called Linda
6. To A Close
When the debs came down in their famous gowns
Jacqueline at once was the talk of the town
Launched and lunched on
Society's cream
Smiled and curtsied so gently
Toujours chercher pour quelque chose
As the curtains are drawn to a close
When her Daddy's bank sailed close to the wind
He traded it all for Gordon's Gin
All the King's horses and all the
King's men
Conquered elsewhere never
Said a discreet madam with your pedigree
A belle de jour If ever I've seen
The home service the French lesson round
So neatly attired costing one hundred pounds
Propped up in bed all alone at
The Ritz
The Evening Star printed she razored both wrists
Dressed in her furs with her girdle and gloves
Surrounded by photos of all her old loves
7. Ego And Id
Heard you on the radio (You) sounded very strange Voices in the distance Way beyond my range
Tried to call the station Panicked and I ran Tried to find the moment When you and I began
Looking in the mirror Cut off all my hair Made myself a moment When no one seemed to care
This room is getting smaller My ego and my Id Now I'm really sorry For all the things I did
8. Man In The Long Black Coat
Crickets are chirping the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hanging dry
Windows wide open African trees
Bent over backward from a hurricane breeze
Not a wont of goodbye not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
Somebody seen him hanging around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts
of town
He looked into her eyes when she
stopped him to ask
If she wanted to dance he had a face
like a mask
Somebody said from The Bible he
quote
There was dust on the man in the
long black coat
Preacher was a-talking there's a
sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience
is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your
guide
When it's you who must keep it
satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
To give her heart to the man in the long black coat
There are no mistakes in life
some people say
And it's true sometimes you can
see it that way
Well people dont live or die people
just float
She went with the man in the
long black coat
There's smoke on the water it's
been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted neath the
high crescent moon
With a pulse and vibration and
the rumbling force
Someone is out there beating on
a dead horse
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote She gone with the man in the long black coat
9. Wolfwork
Clapperboards sandwich hordes
scavengers in paradise
Training their eyes under grey
porridge skies
Magistrates ivory gates opiates
potentates
Kings of carrion badness in the blood
It's all wotfwork
Faxes from a wall of corpses
Gorging on each day in mourning
Father time squeezing the sun
For light relief they bare their teeth
And turn on their own
Rolling around on a fresh bed of nails
Come and see the show
Join in the ring
With your mouth open wide
10. Why
Why must you treat me like a child
Why not join me on the prom
I'd go on singing forever
But cremation wont be long
11. She Moves In Memories
(instrumental)
12. The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing
History's a vinyl record stuck in a
Blessed robots with so much to
prove
You could say so much to lose
The scorching air The slumbering mass Of forgotten things
Preening peacocks ignite the fuse
Trumpets and promises a turn of
the screw
To have a human face we'll have to
start all over again
Back to the drawing board all the
boys and men
When you lose your kite in the wind
and fall on the trees
You're sucked in bulletin blown out
The glory of the past is really a tomb
The thing from the crypt long nurtured you
13. Howl
(instrumental)
Scale the woodland around the dale
Rising falling through hedgerows
With her train the queen of night
(Her pale window)
(Calming your fear!
(With die Earth)
Slowly turning the tide (in the lowland)
From the long arms of the sea
Set your compass by your dream (falling)
Grazing sheep have lost their way
Fifty fathoms below the bay
Windward of the sunken rock (blowing)
Faces set like gravestones (staring down)
Oarsmen pull to cleave the brine Neath the black cliffs their cross-bones
Under the waves and put to right Toy armies too rusty to fight (in the lowland)
Cling to the wheel how deeply you breathe
Set your compass by your dream (falling)
Grazing sheep have lost their way
Fifty fathoms below the bay
-
Dear friend you've come at last I wish to impart to you something of a deeply personal nature Dare we venture off the map And indeed between the cracks To a private road of sorts I presume you have a strong will And the stomach to match the underbelly of our fair city
You'll need this firm crowbar
Whilst I implore you to utilise no sense of smell
And to think people live down there
A rush of chill air heralds our clattering necropolis railway
Strangled streams, smothered rivers, London always gives me the shivers
Forty abandoned stations and Churchill's last bolthole
Impregnable as Hitler's bunker
Can't you see them dancing on the platform at Down Street
5. A Girl Called Linda
Read me a dream sighs Linda
Flying through nursery windows
Leaving a night light burning
Keep all my love beside you
Toys R Us for you dear
Chocolate Crocodile tears
Now look who's talking
Jigsaw Junior High School All overtime in play group
Under a railway footbridge
Primrose Hill by moonbeams
Buckle my shoe in springtime
Winter's child grows restless
Pining for bread and roses
Somewhere she's been before
Gazing at the farmyard
All those things adored
Only until she's bored
Climbing the wall of China
Outside the old toy station
Wrapped in a garden glory
Read me a bedtime story
I know that you have to grow up
Leaving all this behind you Farewell my lovely Linda
Sweet as a birdsong Linda
Once in a dream called Linda
6. To A Close
When the debs came down in their famous gowns
Jacqueline at once was the talk of the town
Launched and lunched on
Society's cream
Smiled and curtsied so gently
Toujours chercher pour quelque chose
As the curtains are drawn to a close
When her Daddy's bank sailed close to the wind
He traded it all for Gordon's Gin
All the King's horses and all the
King's men
Conquered elsewhere never
Said a discreet madam with your pedigree
A belle de jour If ever I've seen
The home service the French lesson round
So neatly attired costing one hundred pounds
Propped up in bed all alone at
The Ritz
The Evening Star printed she razored both wrists
Dressed in her furs with her girdle and gloves
Surrounded by photos of all her old loves
7. Ego And Id
Heard you on the radio (You) sounded very strange Voices in the distance Way beyond my range
Tried to call the station Panicked and I ran Tried to find the moment When you and I began
Looking in the mirror Cut off all my hair Made myself a moment When no one seemed to care
This room is getting smaller My ego and my Id Now I'm really sorry For all the things I did
8. Man In The Long Black Coat
Crickets are chirping the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hanging dry
Windows wide open African trees
Bent over backward from a hurricane breeze
Not a wont of goodbye not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
Somebody seen him hanging around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts
of town
He looked into her eyes when she
stopped him to ask
If she wanted to dance he had a face
like a mask
Somebody said from The Bible he
quote
There was dust on the man in the
long black coat
Preacher was a-talking there's a
sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience
is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your
guide
When it's you who must keep it
satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
To give her heart to the man in the long black coat
There are no mistakes in life
some people say
And it's true sometimes you can
see it that way
Well people dont live or die people
just float
She went with the man in the
long black coat
There's smoke on the water it's
been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted neath the
high crescent moon
With a pulse and vibration and
the rumbling force
Someone is out there beating on
a dead horse
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote She gone with the man in the long black coat
9. Wolfwork
Clapperboards sandwich hordes
scavengers in paradise
Training their eyes under grey
porridge skies
Magistrates ivory gates opiates
potentates
Kings of carrion badness in the blood
It's all wotfwork
Faxes from a wall of corpses
Gorging on each day in mourning
Father time squeezing the sun
For light relief they bare their teeth
And turn on their own
Rolling around on a fresh bed of nails
Come and see the show
Join in the ring
With your mouth open wide
10. Why
Why must you treat me like a child
Why not join me on the prom
I'd go on singing forever
But cremation wont be long
11. She Moves In Memories
(instrumental)
12. The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing
History's a vinyl record stuck in a
Blessed robots with so much to
prove
You could say so much to lose
The scorching air The slumbering mass Of forgotten things
Preening peacocks ignite the fuse
Trumpets and promises a turn of
the screw
To have a human face we'll have to
start all over again
Back to the drawing board all the
boys and men
When you lose your kite in the wind
and fall on the trees
You're sucked in bulletin blown out
The glory of the past is really a tomb
The thing from the crypt long nurtured you
13. Howl
(instrumental)
Flying through nursery windows
Leaving a night light burning
Keep all my love beside you
Toys R Us for you dear
Chocolate Crocodile tears
Now look who's talking
Jigsaw Junior High School All overtime in play group
Under a railway footbridge
Primrose Hill by moonbeams
Buckle my shoe in springtime
Winter's child grows restless
Pining for bread and roses
Somewhere she's been before
Gazing at the farmyard
All those things adored
Only until she's bored
Climbing the wall of China
Outside the old toy station
Wrapped in a garden glory
Read me a bedtime story
I know that you have to grow up
Leaving all this behind you Farewell my lovely Linda
Sweet as a birdsong Linda
Once in a dream called Linda
-
When the debs came down in their famous gowns
Jacqueline at once was the talk of the town
Launched and lunched on
Society's cream
Smiled and curtsied so gently
Toujours chercher pour quelque chose
As the curtains are drawn to a close
When her Daddy's bank sailed close to the wind
He traded it all for Gordon's Gin
All the King's horses and all the
King's men
Conquered elsewhere never
Said a discreet madam with your pedigree
A belle de jour If ever I've seen
The home service the French lesson round
So neatly attired costing one hundred pounds
Propped up in bed all alone at
The Ritz
The Evening Star printed she razored both wrists
Dressed in her furs with her girdle and gloves
Surrounded by photos of all her old loves
7. Ego And Id
Heard you on the radio (You) sounded very strange Voices in the distance Way beyond my range
Tried to call the station Panicked and I ran Tried to find the moment When you and I began
Looking in the mirror Cut off all my hair Made myself a moment When no one seemed to care
This room is getting smaller My ego and my Id Now I'm really sorry For all the things I did
8. Man In The Long Black Coat
Crickets are chirping the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hanging dry
Windows wide open African trees
Bent over backward from a hurricane breeze
Not a wont of goodbye not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
Somebody seen him hanging around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts
of town
He looked into her eyes when she
stopped him to ask
If she wanted to dance he had a face
like a mask
Somebody said from The Bible he
quote
There was dust on the man in the
long black coat
Preacher was a-talking there's a
sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience
is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your
guide
When it's you who must keep it
satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
To give her heart to the man in the long black coat
There are no mistakes in life
some people say
And it's true sometimes you can
see it that way
Well people dont live or die people
just float
She went with the man in the
long black coat
There's smoke on the water it's
been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted neath the
high crescent moon
With a pulse and vibration and
the rumbling force
Someone is out there beating on
a dead horse
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote She gone with the man in the long black coat
9. Wolfwork
Clapperboards sandwich hordes
scavengers in paradise
Training their eyes under grey
porridge skies
Magistrates ivory gates opiates
potentates
Kings of carrion badness in the blood
It's all wotfwork
Faxes from a wall of corpses
Gorging on each day in mourning
Father time squeezing the sun
For light relief they bare their teeth
And turn on their own
Rolling around on a fresh bed of nails
Come and see the show
Join in the ring
With your mouth open wide
10. Why
Why must you treat me like a child
Why not join me on the prom
I'd go on singing forever
But cremation wont be long
11. She Moves In Memories
(instrumental)
12. The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing
History's a vinyl record stuck in a
Blessed robots with so much to
prove
You could say so much to lose
The scorching air The slumbering mass Of forgotten things
Preening peacocks ignite the fuse
Trumpets and promises a turn of
the screw
To have a human face we'll have to
start all over again
Back to the drawing board all the
boys and men
When you lose your kite in the wind
and fall on the trees
You're sucked in bulletin blown out
The glory of the past is really a tomb
The thing from the crypt long nurtured you
13. Howl
(instrumental)
Tried to call the station Panicked and I ran Tried to find the moment When you and I began
Looking in the mirror Cut off all my hair Made myself a moment When no one seemed to care
This room is getting smaller My ego and my Id Now I'm really sorry For all the things I did
-
Crickets are chirping the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hanging dry
Windows wide open African trees
Bent over backward from a hurricane breeze
Not a wont of goodbye not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
Somebody seen him hanging around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts
of town
He looked into her eyes when she
stopped him to ask
If she wanted to dance he had a face
like a mask
Somebody said from The Bible he
quote
There was dust on the man in the
long black coat
Preacher was a-talking there's a
sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience
is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your
guide
When it's you who must keep it
satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
To give her heart to the man in the long black coat
There are no mistakes in life
some people say
And it's true sometimes you can
see it that way
Well people dont live or die people
just float
She went with the man in the
long black coat
There's smoke on the water it's
been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted neath the
high crescent moon
With a pulse and vibration and
the rumbling force
Someone is out there beating on
a dead horse
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote She gone with the man in the long black coat
9. Wolfwork
Clapperboards sandwich hordes
scavengers in paradise
Training their eyes under grey
porridge skies
Magistrates ivory gates opiates
potentates
Kings of carrion badness in the blood
It's all wotfwork
Faxes from a wall of corpses
Gorging on each day in mourning
Father time squeezing the sun
For light relief they bare their teeth
And turn on their own
Rolling around on a fresh bed of nails
Come and see the show
Join in the ring
With your mouth open wide
10. Why
Why must you treat me like a child
Why not join me on the prom
I'd go on singing forever
But cremation wont be long
11. She Moves In Memories
(instrumental)
12. The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing
History's a vinyl record stuck in a
Blessed robots with so much to
prove
You could say so much to lose
The scorching air The slumbering mass Of forgotten things
Preening peacocks ignite the fuse
Trumpets and promises a turn of
the screw
To have a human face we'll have to
start all over again
Back to the drawing board all the
boys and men
When you lose your kite in the wind
and fall on the trees
You're sucked in bulletin blown out
The glory of the past is really a tomb
The thing from the crypt long nurtured you
13. Howl
(instrumental)
scavengers in paradise
Training their eyes under grey
porridge skies
Magistrates ivory gates opiates
potentates
Kings of carrion badness in the blood
It's all wotfwork
Faxes from a wall of corpses
Gorging on each day in mourning
Father time squeezing the sun
For light relief they bare their teeth
And turn on their own
Rolling around on a fresh bed of nails
Come and see the show
Join in the ring
With your mouth open wide
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Why must you treat me like a child
Why not join me on the prom
I'd go on singing forever
But cremation wont be long
11. She Moves In Memories
(instrumental)
12. The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing
History's a vinyl record stuck in a
Blessed robots with so much to
prove
You could say so much to lose
The scorching air The slumbering mass Of forgotten things
Preening peacocks ignite the fuse
Trumpets and promises a turn of
the screw
To have a human face we'll have to
start all over again
Back to the drawing board all the
boys and men
When you lose your kite in the wind
and fall on the trees
You're sucked in bulletin blown out
The glory of the past is really a tomb
The thing from the crypt long nurtured you
13. Howl
(instrumental)
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History's a vinyl record stuck in a
Blessed robots with so much to
prove
You could say so much to lose
The scorching air The slumbering mass Of forgotten things
Preening peacocks ignite the fuse
Trumpets and promises a turn of
the screw
To have a human face we'll have to
start all over again
Back to the drawing board all the
boys and men
When you lose your kite in the wind
and fall on the trees
You're sucked in bulletin blown out
The glory of the past is really a tomb
The thing from the crypt long nurtured you