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1 - There's something that sounds like a song
2 - In my garden, by the willow--
3 - A piper:
4 - "Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"
5 - I see him when I turn the lights down low,
6 - In my garden, wading through the pond.
7 - Rest and sing: "Lover oooooooh..." [ca. 0'46]
8 - "Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"
9 - I've called him by every name I know,
10 - By every name I know,
11 - But he won't answer me.
12 - He keeps coming forward, but never moving.
13 - Is there no destiny here?
14 - It sounds like a song
15 - In my garden, by the willow--
16 - A piper:
17 - "Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"
- line 7: "...and sing: Lover" uncertain
1 - Held in your arms in the back seat,
2 - Cruising down the main street,
3 - How can anyone have such little defense?
4 - You're soft.
5 - In between the sheets, left in limbo,
6 - Covered me like the pillow--
7 - I can hardly tell the difference.
8 - You're soft,
9 - So soft.
10 - To be, to be with you
11 - I'd leave everything.
12 - But I don't know how to deal with you.
13 - I swear you'd fall like a feather if I was cruel.
14 - Love would melt me like hot butter.
15 - You're soft,
16 - So soft.
17 - To be, to be with you
18 - I'd do anything.
19 - Walking down the street, brushing arms,
20 - You're moonlight dancing.
21 - I try hard to keep my feelings in.
22 - You're soft.
23 - Dancing to the music, so low.
24 - I knead you like dough.
25 - How can anyone be so loving
26 - And soft,
27 - So soft?
28 - To be, to be with you
29 - I'd leave everything.
30 - But I don't know how to deal with you.
31 - I swear you'd fall like a feather if I was cruel.
32 - You melt me like hot butter.
33 - You're soft,
34 - So soft.
35 - To be, to be with you
36 - I'd do anything.
1 - A long way up in light-years,
2 - Just a pinpoint in space,
3 - In a century of planetary storms,
4 - Stranded at the moonbase,
5 - The air is getting low.
6 - The air is getting low.
7 - Looking out at the roof-window,
8 - I've seen many strange things,
9 - From shooting stars to Stars 'n' Stripes--
10 - Thought I'd caught a glimpse of golden wings.
11 - The air is getting low,
12 - The air is getting low,
13 - The air is getting low,
14 - The air is getting low.
15 - I got the vision of a big white dove.
16 - I've heard the creaking of the pearly gates above.
17 - I'm wond'ring why the big white dove
18 - Is keeping me waiting, keeping me waiting,
19 - Keeping me waiting, keeping me waiting,
20 - Keeping me waiting, keeping me waiting.
21 - Looking way down below me,
22 - The worlds are all awhirl-whirly.
23 - Won't you come along beside?
24 - This place waits for company.
25 - The air is getting low.
26 - The air is getting low.
27 - I leave my limbs behind me.
28 - As I'm being lifted
29 - Out into the--into the
30 - Spiritual boom-boom abyss.
31 - The air is getting low.
32 - The air is getting low.
33 - The air is getting low.
34 - The air is getting low.
35 - I got the vision of a big white dove.
36 - I've heard the creaking of the pearly gates above.
37 - I'm wond'ring why the big white dove
38 - Is keeping me waiting, keeping me waiting,
39 - Keeping me waiting, keeping me waiting,
40 - Keeping me waiting, keeping me waiting.
1 - Soon it will be the phase of the moon
2 - When people tune in.
3 - Every girl knows about the punctual blues,
4 - But who's to know the power behind our moves?
5 - A day of coincidence with the radio,
6 - And a word that won't go away.
7 - We know what they're all going to say.
8 - "G" arrives--"Funny, had a feeling he was on his
way!"
9 - We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
10 - Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
11 - We raise our hats to the hand a-moulding us.
12 - Sure 'nuff, he has the answer,
13 - He has the answer
14 - He has the answer,...
15 - "Oooohooo hoooo...
16 - Oooohooo hoooo...
17 - Oooohooo hoooo..."
18 - You pick up a paper. You read a name.
19 - You go out. It turns up again and again.
20 - You bump into a friend you haven't seen for a long time,
21 - Then into another you only thought about last night.
22 - You hear your sister calling for you,
23 - But you don't know where from.
24 - You know there's something wrong,
25 - But you don't want to believe in a premonition.
26 - We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
27 - Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
28 - We raise our hats to the hand a-moulding us.
29 - Sure 'nuff, he has the answer,
30 - He has the answer
31 - He has the answer,...
32 - "Oooohooo hoooo...
33 - Oooohooo hoooo...
34 - Oooohooo hoooo..."
- line 15 - 17 and 32 - 34: the album version has:
Om mani padme,
Om mani padme,
Om mani padme hum
(Note: the name "Carmilla" comes possibly from the vampire story of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu.)
1 - Last night you were on my balcony.
2 - You needn't try, know the whole story.
3 - Before it's too late I must get away,
4 - But both of us know you must stay.
5 - Oh, come on, Carmilla,
6 - Surrender into the roses.
7 - Go back home under the posies.
8 - Surrender into the roses,
9 - Carmilla, Carmilla, Carmilla.
10 - Tying, dying, flowers around the room.
11 - It keeps me safe, but oh! the sickly perfume.
12 - Well, it makes me long for the good times,
13 - When you were really alive.
14 - Oh, come on, Carmilla,
15 - Surrender into the roses.
16 - Go back home under the posies.
17 - Surrender into the roses,
18 - Carmilla, Carmilla, Carmilla.
1 - Four strings across the bridge,
2 - Ready to carry me over,
3 - Over the quavers, under the bars,
4 - Out of the realm of the orchestra,
5 - Out of the realm of the orchestra.
6 - Filling me up with the shivers.
7 - Filling me up with the shivers.
8 - Filling me up with the shivers.
9 - Get the bow going!
10 - Let it scream to me:
11 - Violin! Violin! Violin!
12 - Get the bow going!
13 - Let it scream to me:
14 - Violin! Violin! Violin!
15 - Hear the haunting melody.
16 - Leave me enough for my country. [ca. 1'04]
17 - Here in a wood, in a green story
18 - Hearing the Banshee riddle.
19 - Hearing the Banshee riddle.
20 - And jigging along with the fiddle.
21 - Jigging along with the fiddle.
22 - Jigging along with the fiddle.
23 - Get the bow going!
24 - Let it scream to me:
25 - Violin! Violin! Violin!
26 - Get the bow going!
27 - Let it scream to me:
28 - Violin! Violin! Violin!
- line 15 - 19 (second verse): completely different in the album
version:
Paganini up on the chimney,
Lord of the dance,
With Nero and old Nicky.
Whack that devil
Into my fiddlestick!
Give me the Banshees for B.V.s, [B.V.s = backing vocals]
Give me the Banshees for B.V.s.
- line 16: uncertain, can also be "Give me enough..."
- line 17: uncertain, maybe "Hearing a word, in a green story."
Tour of Life: "Here in a wood/ Hearing a word, in the green valley."
1 - Destiny took me in her arms and told me:
2 - "You're a little lost on the fall.
3 - You fall for all the men
4 - You shouldn't fall for all at all."
5 - Ooh, I know she knows, but still I go on,
6 - Well, I'm a fool.
7 - Climbing up the (l)adders
8 - To slide down the adders
9 - On the rocks,
10 - On the rocks,
11 - On the rocks,
12 - On the rocks...
13 - Joan of Arc walks into my mirror,
14 - A burning sword.
15 - I'd like to cry.
16 - I look into her eyes.
17 - I see she's seen the long days and night. [ca. 1'00]
18 - "Ooh," she says,
19 - "The games are still the same, I see,
20 - But they've changed the names now.
21 - Are all Lionhearts put in parks, apart?"
22 - Lionhearts in the asylums,
23 - Lionhearts tossed at sea,
24 - Lionhearts who've lived their lives, like Arthur.
25 - Lionhearts in cathedrals,
26 - Lionhearts at mournings,
27 - Lionhearts in every seed--
28 - But they're sown
29 - On the rocks,
30 - On the rocks,
31 - On the rocks,
32 - On the rocks...
33 - Somebody I couldn't see
34 - Tied me up and put me away,
35 - Here on the rocks,
36 - Here on the rocks,
37 - Here on the rocks...
- line 4: "all at all" uncertain
- line 7: She sings "adders", but surely means "ladders"
Think of the board game "snakes and ladders": It is played with
counters and dice in wich "ladders" afford short cuts to the
finish, but "snakes" oblige players to descent to nearer the
starting-point.
- line 15/16: This is: "I'd like to cry-ee..looki-into her
eyes." Maybe it's "Looking.."
- line 17: uncertain, "seen the" might be "sitting",
the "t" from night is inaudible.
1 - I stayed the night in your arms.
2 - Over half an hour I stayed awake,
3 - Looking at you.
4 - Your face seemed radiant.
5 - The wall was to steep [ca. 0'30]
6 - With a crack in the moment
7 - As I held you.
8 - Oo-ooh...
9 - While na-na ne-ne-na ne-na-na Davy dozed.
10 - I closed my eyes.
11 - Realised the time is close for us to go.
12 - Hold me, oh hold me.
13 - Davy, Davy,
14 - Bending like a willow-branch.
15 - He rocks me like a baby.
16 - Oo-ooh...
17 - I know he loves another lady,
18 - But I still see him in the hallway
19 - Calling me.
20 - Oh, when we danced so closely,
21 - I really felt as though I was melting
22 - In a pool.
23 - Oo-ooh...
24 - Oh,
25 - While na-na na-na na-na-na Davy dozed.
26 - I closed my eyes.
27 - Realised the time is close for us to go.
28 - Hold, please hold me.
29 - Davy, Davy,
30 - Bending like a willow-branch.
31 - He rocks me like a baby.
32 - Oo-ooh...
-the echoes are on the original tape.
- line 5/6: uncertain:
The wall-s ###
With a crack ###
maybe "The wall with the ceiling with the crack remembers."