THE TOP

1984

1 . shake dog shake
2 . birdmad girl
3 . wailing wall
4 . give me it
5 . dressing up
6 . the caterpillar
7 . piggy in the mirror
8 . the empty world
9 . bananafishbones
10. the top

shake dog shake

Ha ha ha
Wake up in the dark
The after-taste of anger
in the back of my mouth
Spit it on the wall
And cough some more
And scrape my skin with razor blades

And make up in the new blood
Spurning sex like an animal of god
I'll tear your red hair by the roots
And hold you blazing
Hold you cherished in the dead electric light

Your face
I'll never see you this way again
I captured it so perfectly
As if I knew you'd disappear away

Shake dog shake

You hit me again
You howl and hit me again
The same sharp pain
Wakes me in the dark
And cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart
My heart
My shaking heart

Shake dog shake

But we slept all night in the
virgins bed
And dreamed of death
And breathed like sick dogs
We slept all night in the
virgins bed
And breathed like death
And dreamed of sick dogs

Shake dog shake
Wake up in the new blood
Make up in the new blood
Shake up in this new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is

Shake dog shake

birdmad girl

This girl has got a smile
That can make me cry
This girl just burns with love
She's burning burning deep
outside

Night time night time
Sets my house on fire
I'll turn into the melting man
I'll lose my life
To feel I feel desire

Oh I should feel
Like a polar bear…
It's impossible

She flies outside this cage
Singing girlmad words
I keep her dark thoughts deep inside
As black as stone
And mad as birds

Wild wild wild
And never turn away
Sends me all her love
She sends me everything
She sends me everywhere

Oh I could be
A polar bear…
But it's impossible

I try to talk
The sky goes red
I forget
So fill in my head
With some of this
Some of that
Some of every word she says

Oh I should be
A polar bear
But it's impossible

wailing wall

The holy city breathed
Like a dying man
It moved with hopefull tears
With the tears of the blind
And on and on as the night
drew in
Through broken streets
That sucked me in
My feet were bare and cut with stones
With walking to the promised land

I pushed through crowds
Through seas of prayers
Through twisting hands and choking air
A vulture at the wailing wall
I circled
Waiting

give me it

Get away from me
Get your fingers out of my face
This room's so hot
This room's so hot

I break the walls

Get away from me
Leave me alone
Like the pig on the stairs
Hanging
In a groovy purple shirt

Gasping for air
I'm gasping for air
I'm gasping for love
I'm gasping for air

Slit the cats like cheese
Then eat the sweet sticky thinghs
Suck harder suck harder
Suck your insides insides out

Blood thick swimming round your feet
As you're choking
Choking
Choking on the fleshy words

Give me it give me it give me it
Deaden my glossy mind
Give me it give me it
Make me blind
One step back one step down
And slip the needles in my side
My head is cold
My hands are cold
My heart is cold
My heart is black
And stops every fucking night
Every night
I wait untill it stops

Sing birds sing birds sing birds sing
Get away

dressing up

Going under slowly
It never seems too late
Going under so slow

Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to touch all this

I'm dressing up to dance all week
I'm dressing up to sleep

Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to be all this

I could eat your face
I could eat all of you
Oh this night will never let me go...

Going under slowly
It never seems too late
Going under slowly
You'll pick me up again

the caterpillar

Flicka flicka flicka
Here you are
Cata cata cata
Caterpillar girl
Flowing in
And filling up my hopeless heart
Oh never never go
Dust my lemon lies
With powder pink and sweet
The day I stop
Is the day you change
And fly away from me

You flicker
And you're beautiful
You glow inside my head
You hold me hypnotized
I'm mesmerised
Your flames
The flames that kiss me dead

piggy in the mirror

Shapes in the drink like Christ
Cracks in the pale blue wall
I'm walking slowly and quickly but
Always away
Twisting twisting to the floor

Flowers in your mouth and the same dry
Song the routine for laughter land
16 white legs and a row of teeth
I watch you in secrecy

Your dying for the hope is gone
From here we go
nowhere again
I'm trapped in my face
and I'm changing
Too much
I can't climb out the way
I fell in

Jump with me
For that old forgotten dance
The midnight sun will burn you up
Your life is cold
Your life is hard
Your life is too much for words

These occasions are such a relief
Another point another view to send
We start to talk
And it's all so safe
I feed you in my dreams

Footsteps on a wire
High above my head
The stain reveals my real intention
I'm the waiting beast
I'm the twisted nerve
As I dance dance
Back to the body in my bed
Disappear everywhere and watch me
Pull my lips apart
Exploit inspire encourage
Be responsible for this
Ha ha

Look at the piggy
Piggy in the mirror

the empty world

As stiff as toys
and tall as men
and awing like the wind torn trees
she talked about the empty world
with eyes like poisoned birds

she talked about the armes
that marched inside her head
and how they made
her dreams go bad
but oh how happy she was
how proud she was
to be fighting in the war
in the empty world

bananafishbones

Curl into a ball
like you have more fun
That would make it faster
Why do you do it do you act like you?..

Don't fight
Go red and blue and black and white
Sell this sell this
Or leave it senseless
like a suck on a gun?
Put a piece of metal in your head you said
Make you dead
Make you hippa hippa hippa hippa

A palace of stones
Of your bananafishbones
I'd buy you a hundred years old
To celebrate our difference
Theorise and talk yourself
Until you're tired and old

I don't think
I don't think
I make use of all this time
Oh kill me kiss me once
And then we'll throw it away
And then we'll throw it away

Turn off the lights
And tell me about the games you play

the top

I don't care
If only I could say that
And not feel so sick and scared
I don't care
If only I could say that
If only my eyes would close

It's Jesus brilliant
You used to laugh
Walking these gorgeous blocks
This top is the place
Where nobody goes
You just imagine
Just imagine it all

Everyday I lie here
And know that it's true
All I really want is you
Please come back
Please come back
Like all the other ones do

Please come back
All of you