Eros Zeta And The Perfumed Guitars (2024)

 




















Realm Of Minor Angels lyrics - The Church

Your face in the press
The bars and the stars upon your dress
Dress casually
And love eventually
I'm starting to break
Only so much that any one man can take
Take your time, my friend
And love will find you in the end

So no more reproach
In these cards and envelopes
Don't bother crying
I know you're lying

Autumn leaves on the trees
These tiny things mean so much to me
So much I never told you
And now I'll never hold you
And the forecast is sleet
On the street we used to meet
We'd stop and eat
It was so sweet
So glad that I found you

So no more reproach
In these cards and envelopes
Don't bother crying
I know you're lying

No more "See ya later"
No more "It can wait"
And all the time
I was alone
I was
I was alone
Alone

Pleasure lyrics - The Church

(Oh my pounding heart wants to pull you apart)

It's a mistake
Empty handed at daybreak
The form of the skin is a lie in the flesh
What's it take
It's a trap
Strap on your head for another lap

Land on your feet in another suite
It's sweeter complete
Still standing in the street

On the street where you live with its mansions and flats
With its fountains and statues and gardens and flowers
With its starlings and rats
Where you stand in the shadow behind the great window
And you say well that is that

It's a pleasure
And your beck and call at your leisure
The root of desire is the crack in the seam
Hesitation
It's a scam
Jam on your ring different I am

Land on your knees wherever you please
Seizing control still standing in a hole

And a whole year goes by in the wink of a pigsty
Oh don't be shy
It's rewards and receipts
You're so bored and deceitful
Oh my oh my
Oh my pounding heart wants to pull you apart

Oh my pounding heart wants to pull you apart
Yeah my pounding heart wants to pull you apart

Oh my pounding heart wants to pull you apart

Amanita lyrics - The Church

Amanita
Did you ever really meet her?
With her feathery rods filaments of the gods
Dust and powder cloudy shower

In a nursery little baby crying
In a nursery little tree growing
In a nursery Amanita
Amanita

I stupidly assume you'll be in your room
And there'll always be room for me
You should have a zoom with me

It's getting to the stage
Where everyone thinks they're gonna be someone
In this big world and that makes me laugh
I gotta laugh yeah
Or I'll cry yes I cry

Amanita burning all through the night
Eros Zeta down for the fight
Nothing sweeter than to be by your side
We're not in the business of surrender
Amanita tear down the veil
You cannot beat her
He no alpha male
Nothing sweeter than watching it fail
But we're not in the business of surrender

2054 lyrics - The Church

Meanwhile in 2054
Things are getting insane
The cost of living
The lost art of forgiving
All my royalties running down the drain

A trillion streams in a millisecond
Let's see that means I earned about three cents
A trillion dreams in the human cloud
Now we got no defense

Two thousand
Two thousand and fifty-four

Meanwhile, in 2054
And things are really warming up
The art of prayer or start talking to the air
Your karma runneth over my cup

A million minds in the afterglow
But my guitar is still in hock
A million kinds of time in my mind
I just can't find a clock

Two thousand
Two thousand and fifty-four
Not like it was before
All crime and no more law
Two thousand fifty-four

Two thousand
Two thousand and fifty-four
Not like it was before
All crime and no more law
Two thousand fifty-four

Meanwhile, in 2054
Things have ground to a halt
The core is melting
Rain keeps pelting
But it ain't no one's fault

Not like it was before
All crime and no more law
Two thousand fifty-four

Not like it was before
All crime and no more law
Two thousand fifty-four

Manifesto lyrics - The Church

This is the world
Anterior world
Only world we got today

Slippery ladder
Of success
Now you know
Oh boy, what a mess

Keep yourself together, man
There's people out there clapping for ya

I don't know
What you think
Time to ditch the accent
And have another drink

I know you're gonna love it
I know you're gonna love it

The frozen mud gets into your head
And the sights strut a thousand feats
And you really think it was all
Put here for you
Put down a deposit on a boat, ahh
We'll sail away into the heat

It must be summer somewhere after all
I saw a picture of it on a printer
And a photo in a hall

I know you're gonna love it
I know you're gonna love it

I met her on a train in New Guinea
She was cultured, just like you
She did some dealings
But she still had feelings
Introduced me to some people she knew

Was a dentist from Hong Kong
He really loved my song
That same old fucking thing in all those ears
So I plucked my lute
And I breathed on my flute
Shoot me if that ain't showbiz, huh!

Now I find myself here
At a bad time of year
At a bad time of day
In a bad kind of mood
I heard the food is okay
Have you eaten today?

I know you're gonna love it
I know you're gonna love it
(Oh, you're gonna love this one alright)

I know you're gonna love it

The Immediate Future lyrics - The Church

Can you feel it coming
Can you feel it coming
With its implication
With its complication

Did you feel it coming
Did you feel it calling
With its freeze
With its fleas

Can you see it coming
Can you see it coming
With its net
And its pamphlet

Want to see it coming
Want to see it coming
With its money
It's so sunny

Sonny Jim
Got a long go ahead
Think about tomorrow
Before you go to bed

Sonny Jim
You better wait
In the immediate future

When Pluto was a planet
And I was your man
And the time was up
Escape was a plan

And you left me Albany
Around the bed star
You took down my page
And souped up my car

Everyone was stunned
They were all amazed
How you spent your nights
And squandered your days

Angel
Are you broken now
Angel
Of the immediate future

Angel
Are you broken now
In the immediate future (angel)

Angel (in the immediate future)
Are you broken now
In the immediate future

Angel (in the immediate future)
In the immediate future (angel, are you broken now)

Angel (in the immediate future)
Are you broken now
In the immediate future (angel, are you broken now)

Angel (in the immediate future)
Are you broken now
In the immediate future (angel, are you broken now)

Angel (in the immediate future)
Are you broken now
In the immediate future (angel)
(In the immediate future)
(The immediate future)
(Angel)
(I never wanted)
(I never wanted, never wanted you)
(In the immediate future)
(Angel)
(Angel)
(And I never wanted you)
(I never wanted you to leave)
(In the immediate future)
(I never wanted you)
(I never wanted you to leave...)

Sublimated In Song lyrics - The Church

Sublimated in song
I long to be reconciled with you
Now where we belong
I'm talking like a child for you

And every day would be like a holiday
And what ya wanna tell me to be
I'd do anything you say

Disappear into the crowd
I wanna be allowed to do
Standing here in a cloud
I'm so proud of you baby

And every time I see ya
Will be like the first
And every time I leave ya
Will be like the worst

Sublimated in song
I long to be reconciled with you
Now where we belong
I'm talking like a child for you

And every time I see ya
Will be like the first
And every time I leave ya
Will be like the worst
And what ya wanna tell me to be
I'd do anything you say
And every day would be like a holiday

Song 18 lyrics - The Church

When you were together
And every single thing was going your way
You never dreamed you'd fall off the beam
But it's all over for today

You said it was better if I could forget
That I'd ever met ya
Yet you lingered on but the feeling was gone
The feeling was gone

When you were a child
And your mother never let another person come near you
You never thought
You would get caught
And no one available to hear you

You said it was better if I could forget
That I'd ever met ya
Yet you lingered on but the feeling was gone
The feeling was gone

When you came to me it was easy to see
That I'd want you for eternity
The time was so right so step into the light
And be free

You said it was better if I could forget
That I'd ever met ya
Yet you lingered on but the feeling was gone
The feeling was gone

When you were a child
When you were together
When you were together

The Weather lyrics - The Church

Baby Baxter
Baby Baxter

Back in December
I was still your boy
New Year's Eve, I believe
That was joy

It came and went
Quickly spent
I'll fight off the wolves, honey
If you pay the rent

You'll keep me dry
You'll wanna lie
About the weather
You keep me warm
Every time we are together

I said to St. Christopher
As I hit the road
You Better cool down
Or this fool will implode

Come and gone
Just like a song
I give you everything
If you sing along

Into your room
Like a bridegroom
The weather

Into your hands
Upon these lands The rain

I got a life
In every damn dimension
I play my parts
To numerous to mention

I came and saw
Who wants more
I rob from the rich
And you give to the poor

You fall and grow
You come and go
The weather

I hear a voice
Only you would know

I hear a voice
Only you would know

I hear a voice
Only you would know

I hear a voice
Only you would know

Korea lyrics - The Church

Korea is nice this time of year
Snow so white
The pine is so green

There was a cafe
A cold afternoon
We sat safe inside

Now you're talking to Sun Kim Jong
I wonder what she'll say
She'll wonder where I am today

Skyscraper
Up in the clouds
And a face against the windscreen

You so gone
In your scarf
Wonder how you lost your keys

Now you're walking with Sun Kim Jong
I wonder where you'll go
Guess I never really know

Korea is clay this time of year
And the lights flash down
On the wind black streets

I checked out
Of my hotel
And you always parked in the driveway

Now you're sleeping with Sun Kim Jong
I wonder what she'll dream
I wonder if she dreams of me

Now you're working under Sun Kim Jong
I wonder how she writes
And how it feels inside
Inside

Song From The Machine Age lyrics - The Church

All your household gods
They want to be friends with me
I'm a high resolution
Gimme a revolution

I lay my hands carefully down
On the levers of your machine
I slide up in between
Where I can't be seen

Sun Kim Jong
Electrical seizure
I'm playin' along
I'm tryin' to please ya

I wouldn't know
If it's day or night
But every time you love me
Well it feels alright

She make you feel so special
She gonna make it alright

Her time is so precious
Little time tonight

I tell ya baby
You're a damn fine woman
I don't care
That you wanna kill me

You wire me up
You fire me up
I sing like a choir
Like Steve Kilbey

She make you feel so special
She gonna make it alright

Her time is so precious
Little time tonight
Presh little time tonight
Precious little time tonight

Sleeping For Miles lyrics - The Church

On the coldest day of the year
Sun still yet to appear
I wake and find myself here
Daybreak for my sake is not full of cheer

I've been sleeping for miles
I'm keeping my smile
But it might take a while

On the darkest night of the week
Heaters here are antique
I don't want to sound oblique
The things I saw ought not be the things that you seek

I'm dreaming for days
Beam in through the face
Look at my face
Look at the way angle heads slight the human race

Maybe you could just turn off the light
'Cause I'm filled with the sight
I'm filled with the sight (light)

Last Melody lyrics - The Church

The people of the city
In the place
Go about their daily lives
Before you say goodbye
Foil if you got the time
And I come up a hill
To the very top
It's a long way down
Winding around
The cathedral
And the boulders in a field
Cherry blossom shutters into view
And I'm thinking of you
I'm thinking of you
Somewhere out there
You still exist
Inside the time of our love
Inside the time of our love
Above the town
Where love ran aground
Where love ran aground
Where love ran aground

A Strange Past lyrics - The Church

A strange past just passed me by
And the faster you laugh and the longer you cry
Dark star heart of your black eye
And the smarter you scoff and the harder you die

And all little tiny animals drinking at the waterhole are shocked
They say babe you rock

A changed mind find your own way out
And the more that you scream and the more that I shout
A diamond matrix hologram of your black eye
And the more you release the less that I try

And all the cars and spas and aeroplanes and all the hotel rooms are locked
Baby babe you're blocked

Music From The Ghost Hotel lyrics - The Church

(Instrumental)

A Strange Past (Radio Edit) lyrics - The Church

A strange past just passed me by
And the faster you laugh and the longer you cry
Dark star heart of your black eye
And the smarter you scoff and the harder you die

And all little tiny animals drinking at the waterhole are shocked
They say babe you rock

A changed mind find your own way out
And the more that you scream and the more that I shout
A diamond matrix hologram of your black eye
And the more you release the less that I try

And all the cars and spas and aeroplanes and all the hotel rooms are locked
Baby babe you're blocked

The Hypnogogue (2023)












Ascendence lyrics - The Church

When the sea is boiling
And the Earth recoiling
Kundalini coiling, rushing like a current up your spine

And you know these days are strange
And that something had to change
Something always out of range
Something no one else can find

When the weather darkens
And still no one hearkens

Strange time, strange land

Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward
Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward
Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward

And the universe changed its mind
And you want what you can't find
And you say, "I saw the sign"
It's a sign for the blind

Into your heaven, I want to get even
Into your heaven, I want to get even

When the weather darkens
And still no one hearkens

We struggle with our thoughts
In a dream, in a room, in a song, in a paper
In an article you read in the age

Ascendence, ascendence
Ascendence, ascendence

Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward
Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward
Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward

C'est La Vie lyrics - The Church

Hey, they say
C'est la vie
Here comes the future
According to me
Oh no, they go
How can this be?
I wouldn't fuck with that
So good luck with that

Watch out, tiger
You're on the skids
Falling outta favour
With the kids
You couldn't do
What Joe Public did
You couldn't change her
You're just a stranger

Oh, yeah
You're so good
Fizzle in the drizzle
Walk through the wood
Oh, yeah
You're so bad
You blew the bonanza
With the chances that you had

What if I told you
What if I told you it was true?
What if I told you
What if I told you it was you?

(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
This could be better
This could be better than you think

What if I told you (What if I told you)
What if I told you it was true?
What if I told you (What if I told you)
What if I told you it was you?

What if I told you (What if I told you)
What if I told you it was true?
What if I told you (What if I told you)
What if I told you it was you?

Hey, they say
Hey, they say
C'est la vie
Hey, they say (Hey, they say)
Hey, they say
C'est la vie (C'est la vie)
Hey, they say
Hey, they say
Here comes the future
According to me
C'est la vie
Hey, they say
Hey, they say
Oh no, they go
How can this be?
C'est la vie
Hey, they say (I wouldn't fuck with that)
Hey, they say
So good luck with that
C'est la vie

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

I Think I Knew lyrics - The Church

I think I knew what you wanted
Nothing made sense to me anymore
I think I knew what this machine has done to you
It's playing that song I adored

Hey
Can you help me to see
Well ok
Nevermind

I think I knew what you wanted
You find a way to turn this all off
I think I knew how one and one and one make two
It's playing my song too softly

I think I knew what you wanted
I think I better think it through
I think I knew where it all was leading to
Just playing my song just for you

Hey
Can you help me to see
Hey
Nevermind

Hey
Can you help me to see
Well ok
Nevermind

Flickering Lights lyrics - The Church

A vision of you so water clear
The thought of it pursuing me all through these years
Just one click, she disappeared
Maybe you're just being a baby

Walk on through the darkness
Walk on through the storms
Walk on through the roses and the bricks
And walk on through

An image of you so damned indelible
Haunting me always, oh so incredible
So tangible, it's almost edible
Maybe you're just being a baby

Walk on through the thunder
Walk on through the rain
Walk on through the brambles and the briars
And walk on through

You got the rest of me
You wanted none of it
You got the best of me
I wanted all of it

The Hypnogogue lyrics - The Church

When you wanted it
I was there
When you first went in
No one twisted your arm
When you tasted it
Like you'd been tasting it your whole life
As you went under into unknown
Remember the music
Pulled out of your head
Tinkling piano trickling into the cans
Insulating guitars
Reptilian bass, the kick in your face
The snare in your heart

You won't get something
Did you make a reservation

You won't get something out of mind
You won't get some things outta my time
I got no reservations
You won't get something out of mind

Woozy strings in the garden
You finger the cymbals
You gawk at machine
Heads cast up your account
Suddenly we had too much
The organs were swelling
The moonbeams were burning
The arrows did fall
Then like the tide went out
The ensemble were dying
Quickening flourish
But that's another story

I gotta jet
It's already too late
It's already too soon
I'm ready to jam

Your tranquil apartment
The ambient music
Music for love time
Incantation in song
Now I stand empty-handed
At the threshold of silence
At the end of performance
At the end of a life

Albert Ross lyrics - The Church

Pretty as sin, the evening began
Think I'm going back to sleep now
The greediest wish, the tastiest dish
Delicious encounter
Kudos all around
Now I want this forever

Everyone must want something
Everyone must want something
Somewhere you cannot go

The luckiest shot
The suckiest plot
Hot nights in the port, I caught you briefly
You were such a good sport
You said, "I want this forever"

Everyone must want something
Forever
Everyone must want something
Somewhere you cannot go

Everyone must want something
Forever
Forever
Everyone must want...
Forever
Forever
...Something

Thorn lyrics - The Church

If you wanna see the future, that's okay
If you buy all of the sky
I'd say come back another day
If you wanna sit on nature that's too bad
If you bleed the silver seed

When you gave your numbers
I was laughing in my office
The offers pouring in and exploring all the office all the way

And I wanna send a shout out to all the ladies
I'm saying Eden is coming back soon
As we walk thru the dawn and the mist and the thunder
Aching to be kissed

If you wanna see the future, that's okay
If you buy all of the sky
I'd say come back another day

Jumble back desk dressed in white
Like the night dressed in black
I'm going down lost in a town
I won't be back

Where have you been all day?
The Elysian fields where we shake this pain away
What have you done all day?
Ridden on the wind, sparkled in the sea spray
In the light of a morning so cold and so gray

And I wanna send a shout out to all the ladies
Bathing in the Tigris and Euphrates
I'm saying Eden is coming back soon
With new improved features and the gardens all in bloom
As we walk through the dawn and the mist (And the thunder)
Our teeth are chattering
Our feet are aching to be kissed

Aerodrome lyrics - The Church

A warm afternoon and I'll be there so soon with you
On any Saturday I'll find a way to break through
Running on the spot in the aerodrome
Journey so hot all the way home
I hate feeling this alone

They're gonna fade it
They're gonna fade it
You're gonna hate it

I wish I never said it, I wish I never read it
I wish I never bought it, I wish I'd never thought it at all
The jungle all crushed by a monsoon
The journey all rushed beneath a lonely moon
I hate feeling this alone

They're gonna fade it
They're gonna fade it
You're gonna hate it

They're gonna fade it
They're gonna fade it
You're gonna hate it

The hidden cost of living, now, I'm giving this life
A burden of the boomers, now, the rumours are rife
The echo snatched away by the whispering wind
A serpent is hatched, a new world begins
I hate feeling this alone

I hate feeling this alone
Don't wanna feel so alone now
I hate feeling this alone

Hey

These Coming Days lyrics - The Church

The wallpaper at your favourite café
The paper flowers in the kitchen
The aromatic pines, the rambling vines
Fill up all of your days
Gardens on rooftops in the city
Speedboats moored up to the jetty
The biblical palms, the loveliest psalms
Take up all of your days

And it happens again
And it happens again

The rusty steel chassis of a stripped down car
Spirit emits a signal near and far
The beckoning hand, the welcoming land
Fill up all of your days
Fill up all of your days

The flying and the fallen
Finding yourself in your enemies heart
3:30 and you knock off early
4:00 and you're ready to start

You can smell the future
And it happens again
You can smell the future
And it happens again
You can smell the future
And it happens again

It happens again
You can smell the future
It happens again
You can smell the future
It happens again
You can smell the future
It happens again
You can smell the future

You can smell the future
You can smell the future
You can smell the future
You can smell the future

No Other You lyrics - The Church

Sun Kim Jong
Well she got in my song
Running ahead in my head

Sun comes along
Nothing can go wrong for her
Shes laughing out loud
Shes making me proud

And justice is hidden
Then love comes unbidden
I'm kidding
There's no other you
There's no other you

Sun Kim Jong
I feel you belong
Bless sister double happiness

Sun comes along
Moon sings her swansong
Shes running a muck like fuck

When the spell is broken
Love is unwoken
I'm joking there's no other you
There's no other you

Succulent lyrics - The Church

Who imagined you?
The nuts and the bolts
The end of the night charging me up like 1000 volts
Drop me a line 'cause I'm sinked and hooked
And turn on the light, I'm checking it out and this space is bold

The feeling peeled away
The ceiling flaking down
The hotels are all empty
So I'm kneeling on the ground
Kneeling on the ground

Who imagined you?
The veins and the nerves
The start of the race thrashing my steed, crashing your curves
Drop me a line
Line up for the queue
Excuse me, user, I'm wondering who on earth imagined you

The feeling peeled away
The ceiling flaking down
The hotels are all empty
So I'm kneeling on the ground
Kneeling on the ground

I am the voice in another room
Entombed in the dead part of your heart
Voice from a gloomy future
Voice from a gloomy past

The hotels are all empty
The feeling peeled away

I am the voice in another room
Entombed in the dead part of your heart
Voice from a gloomy future
Voice from a gloomy past

Voice from a gloomy future
Voice from a gloomy past
Voice from a gloomy future
Voice from a gloomy past

Antarctica lyrics - The Church

Antarctica
I hear you calling me all through the night
Antarctica
I feel you holding me so cold and white
Antarctica
I feel you watching me and take a big bite
Antarctica
I hear you calling me all through the night

I'm coming on board
I feel your hand on my shoulder
I'm coming on board
I feel your hand on my shoulder

Antarctica
Well I been calling for days
Antarctica
I been freezing today
Antarctica
Yeah you been under my gaze
Antarctica
Well I been calling for days

Well I was out there
Well I was out there
Yes, go on
Well I was out there that day
Yes, yes
Well I was out there that day
Go on
Go on
Oh, no, I can't go on
Yes, yes
Oh, no, I can't go on
Yes, yes
Oh, no
Oh, no

Down on the cold side of town
You take the easy way down
The fisherman and his shack
Water so cold and so black
The scientist in the graveyard

Sea lion marching up the boulevard
The doctor and his wife who ran away
They don't care
The walrus and the carpenter
They don't care

Second Bridge lyrics - The Church

I'm sorry
I was miles away
A black cloud left me here with a lack of remorse
Of course
We've been blown off course
A source of the present
The moon as a crescent

The master and the servant
The dragging of the current
The pressure of the distance
The measure of insistence

They say this isle is full of noises
An intruder in the burrow
The hand within the hollow
Follow me down to the ruined town
The tears upon the pillow
The shock of the first hello
The web upon the window
The shadow of a widow
Today they wake up to a nightmare
The choking of the shallow
The weeping of the willow

I wanted to be here for you (Possession)
I'm home to lay, I'm fading out
We loved you even greater (New position)
And you ought to
And you ought to know

The terrain upon the surface
The meaning of the purpose
I'm nervous about the delay
The chatter of the carriage
The marriage to the damage

We'd love to be here for you (Possession)
We're home to lay, you're fading out
We loved you even greater (New position)
Things you ought to
Things you ought to know

Today I came to in the morning
I was writhing in the undergrowth
The DA says you're under oath
And tonight I go to my sleep backwards
And then I'll live life forwards
I'll be completely normal

Man Woman Life Death Infinity (2017)




















Another Century lyrics - The Church

I gotta light a candle for you
So you can see yourself in the dark
I gotta get a handle on you (so you can see yourself)
And the hand will leave a mark

I gotta get directions off you (can you see yourself)
The mirror flare could be anywhere

The night is a liar
Overthrow the tyrant
Overthrow the tyrant

And in the fading light I saw
When you asked yourself
Why has this happened to me
Once or twice (once or twice)

Something nice might have come of it

I gotta fight a battle for you
Dial it back another century
Another night I'd settle for you (you can see yourself)
Every morning and everywhere

Today is a liar
Undergo the silence
Undergo the silence

And in the fading light I saw
When you asked yourself
Why has this happened to me
Once or twice

In the fading night I heard
When they shoot themselves
How did this happen to me
Once or twice (once or twice)

Something nice might have come of it
Something nice might have come of it

I gotta light a candle for you
So you can see yourself...

Submarine lyrics - The Church

It's all about love
It's all about love
It's all about love
It's all about love

Submarine the city
Sydney city of lizards
City in a jungle
City in a desert

(No matter what you say)
A desert swallows a forest
A glacier in your valley
Valley in the ocean
Desert in a sea

Nature loves a winner
We gonna end up some creature's dinner
Devil loves a sinner
You were on the menu
You're just a beginner
(So scared of love)

Submarine the monster
Shudders in its mansion
Ugly in its city
Ugly in its beauty
An ocean swallows the island
Takes us squares and guard us
Takes us city and mansions
Takes her devil and monster

For King Knife lyrics - The Church

A song for king knife
Along the lines of the vine of life
A new song for the king
The king of nearly everything
The king
The king
The king

A dog and a unicycle
A thimble and a thrush, no rush
The show will start without you

A pony and a clown
A ticket to the dance, no chance
The show will start without you

A crown for queen spoon
A lovely eiderdown, been too soon
A new crown for the queen
The queen I've nearly never seen
The queen
The queen
The queen

A wicked little mannikin
A squirrel and a bird, I heard
The show will start without you

A window in a tree
A flourish and a feather forever
The show will start without you
And the show will start without you
Yes the show will start without you

Undersea lyrics - The Church

Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Sky makes the money man flee sorta
Lie makes a funny man plead and slaughter

Crack makes a low boy ache faster
Flack makes a slow boy shake faster
Slack makes a show boy fake his master

Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Sly makes a honey man bee sorta
Why makes a honey man bee sorta
(I can see the water)

You are the bee, the best of the bunch
And they laugh out loud at this stupid little lunch
Comin' closer following a hunch (find you're out there)
Undersea

(Fly makes a honey man
Fly makes a honey man bee
Fly makes a honey man)

Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Sky makes a money man flee sorta
Lie makes a funny man plead and slaughter
(I can see the water)

Crack makes a low boy ache faster
Flack makes a slow boy shake faster
Slack makes a show boy fake his master
(Its effect disaster)

You wanna take the rest of the stuff
Well everybody said we can never get enough
Comin' closer, a blind man's bluff
That's rough, I can tell you it's rough
(...best you might bee)

You want all your love off the cuff (slow boy, low boy)
Comin' closer, puff by puff
Undersea (undersea)

(Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Fly makes a honey man bee)

Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Fly makes a honey man bee

Fly makes a honey man bee sorta (fly makes a honey man)
Fly makes a honey man bee (fly makes a honey man)

Fly makes a honey man
Fly

Before The Deluge lyrics - The Church

Well you never really had a choice
Fall in line now your mind's full up stuck
Life is a distraction in a dream
Bundle of bees follow the breeze

Lost love
They found you now
Round 'em up
You got me now

Well I never really had a clue
My hands are full of sandals
Feet so tender bare
Stumble in a cyclone of drones
They're watching everything we cannot see

Shanghai
You turn me on
Oceania
You got me now

Something
Something so huge
Before the deluge
No refuge
Something

Something in the wild reeking of despair
Some grand gesture gone and test your scant resolve
Recontextualizing sex
Your accidental rehab in a lab

Century
Century of roll
Brasilia
Oh you got me now

Twilight falls so cold into the aching rooms
Sign of love now is alive on grooves
Life is a sequence in a routine
New test tube baby can be in tears upon the tracks

Baby, oh America
Bad hit you got me now

Something
Something so huge
Before the deluge
No refuge

Something
Something so huge
Before the deluge
No refuge

I Don't Know How I Don't Know lyrics - The Church

Voyage begins with a single sail
Weave through the heaving sea
Even as the city leaves me

I don't know how I don't know why

Pale glare deceiving
Jail bird sings such a sad song
Even as the city leaves me

I gotta choose sometime
I gotta lose sometime
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why

I step into the shade where the fading loom
I get a bit delayed in the waiting room
I get a bit unmade on a mushroom
I get a bit abraded in your jaded tomb

I gotta choose sometime
I gotta lose sometime
I gotta choose sometime
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why

A Face In A Film lyrics - The Church

Crocodiles and allegations
Scale of your intrigue
Never mind my palpitations
It's like the League of Nations

Snakes and laddered stockings
Are ripping in the sea
Never mind the boat is rocking
Sequences unlocking

Sing but seldom seen the sun of salvation
New moon of celebration in your sky
A face in a film I saw
To whom you bore a strange similarity
I walk before you like a door

Monsters and mirages
A minaret, a coronet
Like a motor when it charges
Gotta pay for all the surges
Silhouettes and sentimental
A figure in the surf
Oh the time is tempermental
All our lives are not attained

Sing but seldom seen the sun of salvation
New moon of celebration in your sky
A face in a film I saw
To whom you bore a strange similarity
I walk before you like a door

In Your Fog lyrics - The Church

Soul unto soul
Until everybody know
All the lost souls went below
When you see her say hello
Greed unto greed
Until everybody feed

Exhaust a mustang
You burn down a boulevard painted new
When suddenly bang!
You take your last look
You read your last book
You're unobtainable in your fog
Unashame-able like a dog

Greed into greed
Until everybody feed
Meek will be a seed
Need to succeed
Soul unto soul
Until everybody know

And youth must go
You shake from the battle when your bottle is lean
And when you gone
You do the fast bit
You have your last hit

It is delusional
The unreal deal
I'm confused enough
Like an eel

Holy water
Fill me with euphoria
Holy water
Fill me with euphoria

It tastes delusional
The unreal deal
I'm confused enough
Like an eel

You take your last look
You read your last book
You're unobtainable in your fog
Unashame-able like a dog

Something Out There Is Wrong lyrics - The Church

Oh no
All the little rivers and the shivers go
Blow me down
Look, see
All the little devils and their hooks in me
Wake me up
Shake me down

When the stars align
A line appears so fine
When the stars align

Oh boy
All the little singers that we will enjoy
Turn my head
Then we
Take a little trip to like Italy
With its heel
What you feel

When the stars align
A line appears so fine
When the stars align

Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong

Oh yeah
Rush right in we just don't care
Careless fools
Dumb luck
All the little gigabytes what the fuck
What the hell
Who can tell

So hard
Sold my little soul now by the yard
Hardly a star
Pick a card

Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong

Dark Waltz lyrics - The Church

When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain with all your being
Said you never knew such rapture could stop your tiny eyes from seeing (when I wasn't there)

When you turn out for fun but someone's playing a part that someone else is reading (when I wasn't there)
Down hotel corridor room 44 before your harm [heart?] was bleeding

Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain
(When I wasn't...)

When you orchestrate a breakout through the emerging surge of bleak ideas (when I wasn't there)
And overhead the camera's idiot gaze, it just blinks and leers (when I wasn't there)
When you apprehend the weekend that just ended has been gone for years (when I wasn't there)

Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain

When you live and die and laugh and cry all in the space of a second (when I wasn't there)
When you hit the subtotal on your bill and still it was all so much more than you reckoned (when I wasn't there)
When you stumble on the path of tears don't crumble now that future has beckoned

Oh, all over it
Feels like never again

Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound

Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain

Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain
(When I wasn't there) [repeated to end]

"Further / Deeper" (2014)

Vanishing Man lyrics - The Church

Sinister bastard
Your casket groans from sins
You pulled a fast one
Slug a drug from plugins
Narcissus black
It's grim up to the brim
You little cracker
Watch your back pilgrim

Can't stop it
We got it coming
We got a calling, majesty and power
Like you know you should
We got a feeling
We cannot feel it
We gotta send this majesty and power
Like you know you could

And when you bring the fire
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power

Vanishing man
You can appear as you like
You took her demand
Bestrode it like a bike
Lucifer Jones
In heck up to your neck
A big bag of bones
Oh watch your spell check

Can't stop it
We got it coming
We got a calling, majesty and power
Like you know you should
We got a feeling
We cannot feel it
We gotta send this majesty and power
Like you know you could

And when you bring the fire
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power

Beelzebub brown
It's hot holed in this grotto
You dang it down
I frown at you
You're blotto

Like you know you should
Like you know you could

And when you bring...

(Majesty and power)
(Majesty and power)

Delirious lyrics - The Church

Sedate me
I'm fated to be seriously delirious
It's not far with all my heart
And I can't even understand a thing or two
What you gonna do

Aaah, aaah

If anyone thinks this is easy
When everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me

Deflated, undersaturated
I'm captivated, delirious
I hope so with all my soul
And I can almost comprehend night from day
What you gonna say

Aaah, aaah

If anyone thinks this is easy
And everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me

Oooh, oooh
The pieces are easy
Try to put them together
Oooh
Try to put them all together

And I, I can almost recognize wrong from right
Almost but not quite

If anyone thinks this is easy
And everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me

You're delirious
It's deliberately done
Delirious
Do you think you could please me

Pride Before A Fall lyrics - The Church

On tippy-toe, quiet you go
So not to wake the sleeper
And now you know that actual love
It goes further, deeper

Pride before a fall
Dark before the dawn
Fall and fall and fall
Call into you all

You face the blame graceless, ashamed
But baby it's a creeper
You fan the flame, empty flame of fame
But if the heart is deeper / But it burn harder, steeper

Lust and anger, pride and sloth
We took her from the same cloth
All that envy, vanity
Gonna be the end of me

On tippy-toe, careful and slow
Find the knees are weaker / loser, weeper

Pride before a fall
Dark before the dawn
Fall and fall and fall
Call into you all

(Seek light from the stars tonight
Up from the planet sky
Live love as the sunlight)
Pride before a fall (She's caught in the spotlight)
Dark before the dawn (Seek sun from the planet sky)
Fall and fall and fall (Live bright as the sunlight)
Call into you all (Pride before a fall)

Toy Head lyrics - The Church

When you take off your head
But the darkness prevails
And they loosen the screws
But that remedy fails

You flake away just like gold
The flecks are under my skin
And you reach into time
Feel the era begin

When you take off your head
And you see the void yawn
And you feel the bough break
And a monster is born

You walk away like a fool
Darts fly into your flesh
Don't wait around too long
Hook is deep in the mesh

Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed
Ahh-ahh, take off your head

Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?

When you take off your head
Then there's the glow of the burn
All the shadows increase
All the horrors return

Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed
Ahh-ahh, let's take off your head
Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed

When you take off your head
And you set it aside
Yet the fog will persist
And the morning subside
When you take off your head
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh

Yes you slip off the barbs
In some idiot's bed
You were looking for laughs
And the laughs disappeared
You're a million years old
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh

So you take off your head
But you find love inside
And you do as you're told
You get a vulture eye view
So you take off your head
Ahh-ahh-ahh

(Ahh-ahh-ahh, take off your head)
(Ahh-ahh-ahh, take off your head)

Laurel Canyon lyrics - The Church

All those times we parted
All those times we saw it through
Couldn't finish what I started
I was diminished without you

There's music in my memory
And I listen as the miles go by
I guess I'm only temporary
Like a love song flowing by

Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where it's always Saturday

Said that I was always welcome
When we said goodbye in the harshest lights
I sense that should that will come again
I'd find a hundred men to mind you get out alright

And even as I stand here
I understand there has been some mistake
And even as I roam here
That lonesome sound, that old heartbreak

Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where that is I just can't say
I just can't say

Where the birds are singing vespers
The four rivers bringing out my best
In this place forgive our trespasses
Unless there's more, much more to confess

Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where you can never hide away

Love Philtre lyrics - The Church

The buzzing chrome of blue unending
Pretending I still have somewhere left to turn
The fading flower of hours wilting
Love philtre, still something left to learn

There's still a love to live for
We're reinvented, our minds are made up
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred

The sensual realm of stone invaded
Pervaded by a sense of betrayal
The hidden life of love corroded
I'm loaded to love's details

There's still a love to live for
We're reinvented, our minds are made up
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred

A lovely loss of blossom scented
Repented by the tops of the hoy, coy

The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred

The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred

The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred

Globe Spinning lyrics - The Church

Long and lonely
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go

(Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away)

It's almost never tomorrow
Time has left no footprint in these sands
No hint of passing in these lands
When there's no light to follow

Long and lonely
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go

The power to stop is beholding
You cowl but I think withholding from love
After the pain has dropped
After the rain

(Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away)

We're spending more than we borrow
Money has no meaning in the hand
It's just columns buried in the ground
Scheme of things so heavily hollow

Long and lonely
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go

The coward has charges misleading
He barges in disbelieving no more
Back but no emptier
Covered in dirt

Out you go, out you go, out you go
Falling far away
Out you go, out you go, out you go
Falling far away
Falling far away

Old Coast Road lyrics - The Church

Sun coming down on my shoulder
Moon going down in the sea
I knew nothing could hold her
It took everything from me

We drove into the salt water
A clear sweet shadow lit out
Rolled in stolen Corona
The highway was drowning her out

And then she told me
Don't be afraid of yourself
But when she rolled my dice
That double six was for someone else

I asked if it was over
I mask over my hate
Sadder, well I could control her
Down to her matter late

And then she told me
You've only got today
But when I asked for another
She looked at me and looked away

And then she showed me the menace in her past
And then she showed me another way
And then she owed me everything
But she couldn't stay

Sun coming down on the shoulder
Moon coming up from the sea
Days pass from warmer to colder
Return like a child unto me

And then she told me
Don't be afraid of yourself
And then she told me
You only got today
And then she told me
You'll never be alone
But on that Old Coast Road
When I woke up there was no one home

Lightning White lyrics - The Church

The toffee tar of our wrong road has melted
Crashed the car but no one ever felt it
In summer when it rains on a hot wet night
And everything looks spooky in the lightning white

You say, 'Hey, is everything ok?'
You're in your old Arabian nights
Long, long way to me

And has the money been sorted
Have all the men disappeared
And have the people cavorted
It's reported
We're near
Just as I fear

The greedy smile of a creature now ending
Another mile and everyone befriending
Those humid evenings, it's just like Pompeii
When the first shock hit it lit up like day
When the players all stopped and dropped down their acts
And the lava lover lie, stops in her tracks
You go 'Oh!' over a rainbow and the old Arabian nights
Right now, long ago

And has the stuff been imported
And have the audience cheered
And have the customers bought it
Its sort of cheer
Just as I fear

I gotta go in the other direction
I got a god, his name is perfection
I got a girl, she is my reflection
I got a world of total connection

In summer when the atmosphere caves in the roof
And all the stars in the black sky hold themselves aloof
You think my eyes are on the blink
But I'm in my old Arabian nights drowning in the sink

And has the money been sorted
And have the room disappeared
And have you people cavorted
It's reported
We're near...

Let Us Go lyrics - The Church

See the baby walking through the sleet
A monster moves in the violent sea
Go, I let that go

The tightrope breaks, the magic's gone
Nothing matters, we're falling stars
Evaporate, dust in space
The music fades, no accolades
No, that's a snow

If you touch us we'll disappear
If you're waiting we're never here
If you listen, please just let us know
Please let us go

If you touch us we disappear
If you're waiting we're never here
Oh, let it grow

See a baby walking through the sleet
A monster moves in the violent sea
She's the one with the wild white feet
She's the one with the moon and star
No, I let that go

The tightrope breaks, the magic's gone
Nothing matters, we're falling stars
Evaluate, does this taste so good
No, please, let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go (Please let us go) (No please don't let us go)
Let us go (Please) (No please don't let us go)
Let us go

Volkano lyrics - The Church

We never recognize the tell-tale signs
Well boys, make your choice, make up your minds
All of this cargo and all of the seas
Wherever they go it was by a beaked prow and a fair breeze

Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello
To the volkano (to the volkano)

We never anticipated anything that happens
The minute the light gets thinner the sky just blackens
And all of these waves, all of this sound
Wherever we go it was by our lucky fingers and our honour bound

Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello
To the volkano (to the volkano)

And all of this water, and all of this land
We gotta give the people something they gonna understand

Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Gone, running for the sun (do you want to stay and say hello)
Before the storm erupts again (to the volkano)
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello (wanna stay and say,
stay and say hello) (wanna stay and say hello)
To the volkano

(Do you wanna stay)

Miami lyrics - The Church

I'm moving back to Miami
And you'll be able to see me
I'm living down by the sea babe
Now you'll be able to see me (any time you like)

And if you walk away
Nothing will change
I think that it's strange

I think that it's easy
It's easy for you
Asleep in the darkness
After what you went through
My curtains are open
Fog confuses the light
Some distant reflection
Some elusive night
Alright

Ahh baby
Won't you fly down to me
In the place by the sea
I think Humphrey Bogart stayed there in 1943
He was joined by Janet Leigh, babe

And if you never come
Well that would be strange
I don't think I've changed

I don't think I mentioned
I met someone else
Her compassionate tears
Oh they were like tiny bells
She was better than both of us
I shoulda stayed my hand
I shoulda stayed in Miami
With the seagulls and sand
But the devil is doubt
And I'm out on the street
Walking about
Talking so sweet
Bringing brief reminders
I singing your softest song
I thinking it's all a dream
And I'll wake up and be gone
Be gone!

Oh baby
Whatever I say, it has escaped me
Maybe I'll find the money
Fly you first class on BOAC
If you come down to Miami

You can leave right away
If you are game
I think I'm the same

I think of you cold
I think of you still
I think of you living
Your ziggurat on a hill
The gardens were moving
Like waves on a shore
My head always aching
My eyes always sore
Swim in cool heat
Some weather door slammed
A car started up
Frequencies jammed
Miami, Miami
My fingers and pores
Someone picks up
All in due course

Marine Drive lyrics - The Church

No need for turquoise tortoise
No heed the board is toward us
No need for idle mortis
Can't I'm gonna short us
Down on Marine Drive
You can aspire

Line 'em up and shine 'em up and sign 'em up (if you find a fortune key)
Well I don't care
Burn 'em up and learn 'em up and turn 'em up (won't you find a sweeter key)
I don't mind
Cash 'em up and bash 'em up and lash 'em up (if you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't care

Sweet weed for mask and snorkel
No bubble when you chuckle
Down on Marine Drive
You can aspire

Line 'em up and shine 'em up and sign 'em up (if you find a fortune key)
Well I don't care
Burn 'em up and learn 'em up and turn 'em up (oh won't you find a sweeter key)
I don't mind
Cash 'em up and bash 'em up and lash 'em up (if you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't care
Stick 'em up and lick 'em up and hit 'em up (won't you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't mind (I don't mind, I don't mind)

The Girl Is Buoyant lyrics - The Church

Continental driftwood feels good
Hold it down, floating around
King of the disclaimers
Defamer of the famous
Rocking the boat
Never know love as loud

Without sin the girl is buoyant
You can see she is clairvoyant
Then they say the girl is bolder
Got this day job night had sold her

Elemental ocean
A quotient of salt
Don't float down
Beginning with our town

The rush of heat succeeds against the [?]
Without a sound, we all run around
(Without a sound)

Without sin the girl is buoyant
You can see she is clairvoyant
Then they say the girl is bolder
Got this day job night had sold her

Scraping past he's faster than the last one
Freshly crowned, we all run around
Without a sound

Xmas lyrics - The Church

Drifting along at eventide, it was Christmas
Loneliest day of the year if you're alone

Where you going to?
Nobody knows
What's it coming to?
It's coming blow by blow

No snow for you
No not today
You stop your bridges
And you burn them all away

Walking about, give me a shout, it was Christmas
The saddest day of the year if you're still sad

Holiday spot, all hurrying up for the Christmas
Those rich Italian girls with their mum and their dad

Rolling along quite nicely thanks
Or lolling about our malleable shanks
And the serpents cut through the surface
With all their spray

Drifting around at the eventide, it was Christmas
Loveliest day of the year if you're alone

Where you going to?
I'm going home I suppose
What's it coming to?
It's coming and it shows

No cheer for you
No not today
They took your baubles and your tinsel
And threw them all away

Where you going to?
I'm gonna change my clothes
What's it coming to?
Well nobody knows

Where you going to?
Where the wildflower grows
Where's it coming from?
Where the river flows

No cheer for you
No not today
They took your baubles and your tinsel
And threw them all away

No snow for you
No not today
You stop your bridges
And you burn them all away

EP: "Pangaea" (2009)




LLC lyrics - The Church

Baby
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down

Baby
I'm over the moon over you
I'm over the moon over you
I won't let you down

You found your way here as if by a star
And people you meet might not know who you are
The world that surrounds you, strangers are far
And I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you

Baby
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down

Caring and sharing with all that you found
??? but strong and your laugh's a great sound
When I'm away I miss you around
And I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you

Baby
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down

Eyes just so blue you can't help but charm
You walk round with an ages old calm
Your beat catches on when you pound on a drum
I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you

Insanity lyrics - The Church

It's just insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream

A time I live again
Is only pain in my head
And you can't let them take it if you're suicidal
And it's full of holes is only your rival
I need some recompense

It's just insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream

The jailers hands turn sour
It's getting worse by the hour
And you know that solution's getting complicated
And I can't believe how long I've waited

Can you get back to that other place
That we are now afraid to face

It's insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream

And it's inexcusable and unacceptable, out of character and incontestable
Poisonous, viscious and underhanded
And it surely can't be the way God planned it
And let's just admit that everything's random
And the riots that come, and then its hard to withstand them
It's totally insane

So Love May Find Us lyrics - The Church

I'm feeling uneasy
And I'm feeling weird
Everything's coming down the line
Exactly as I feared

And nobody helps me
And nobody knows
Nobody left in this city with its...
Its hits and its blows

And the first time the end appeared
I was skeptical like the rest
I marvelled as the markets fell
'Cause up till then I guess we've been blessed

First the water
And then the earth
And then the air, yeah
For all it was worth

The fire was subtle
It burned in your bones
It churned in your sea
And left you alone

It was then that I noticed the stars
Dismayed to see them look so old and red
I was hidden as the animals roared
Watched it all from inside your head

And nobody sees me
Now nobody cares
Nobody living in the city
With its graces and airs

The fire was icy
It burned in your veins
It turned in your wake
Shot up your brain

I'm feeling uncertain
I'm feeling exposed
I'm feeling there could be much, much more to this
Than I ever suppose

When I think about afterlife
I become so confused
I shiver when I think of my friend
And I think what's the use

Now we've gotta try, try, try
Gotta learn to say goodbye
Gotta spit right in your eye
And find some truth within this great lie

Feeling I'm injured
I'm feeling so raw
Like some childish imbecile
Like some crashing bore

The fire was distant
It burned without smoke
It learned to stand water
It stood up and spoke

Feeling uneasy
Feeling weird
Everything coming down the line
Exactly as I feared

In between the ether and the water line (I'm hearing voices, screams)
Down beside the engines as we ride and glide and churn inside (he didn't get you somewhere else)
And outside the reckless night, uncertainty delivered me (he wanted our spirits)
In between the cracks have all appeared (so that love may find us)

(Haven't seen her, should believe her, she'll be a living soul)

(Haven't seen her, should believe her, she'll be a living soul)

I don't want your spirit or your doubt
I don't want your deserts or your seas
I don't want the city or it's dreams
I just want to see you on your knees

"Untitled No. 23" (2009)

Cobalt Blue lyrics - The Church

Desert wind in a telephone box
Dial my numbers up
Picks my locks
Picks his kind
To go and mingle in my mind

Here I am on the edge of every town
You read my fortunes up
You lead it down
Lead me to land
Let it run right through my hand

And its nothing
Nothing you could know
Let it go
Nothing really that you could know

Motel bar, the dirty sulky moon
Turn my head up
Let it all cocoon
Let it go
Nothing really we could know

And its nothing
Nothing you could know
Let it go
Nothing really that you could know

Deadman's Hand lyrics - The Church

On our way to crush the revolution
Camp by a lake in the blackened lands
Dealing out love and retribution
Dealing out the deadman's hand
We've all known the pain
And we're all gonna hurt again and again

Empire's got you by the balls
And sleep keeps awake for the tear
And it's calling you
Pulling you back here

On our way to crush a revolution
Lost in the caves of a used up place
Night comes down with all its implication
Something brushing against your face
And we've all known fear
And we're all gonna find more of it here

Empire's got you by the balls
And you wish that you never appeared
And it's pulling you
Pulling you back here

(Where are we)

(Where are you)

On the way to crush the revolution
Wilderness and its burning bush
The enemy seeks our dissolution
All he needs is a little push
And we've all known hurt
And we're all gonna find it here in this dirt

Empire's got you by the balls
And war keeps drawing near
And it's pulling you
Pulling you back here

Pangaea lyrics - The Church

I got my hand on my heart
I got my heart on my mind (we've drifted apart)
I gotta jump on the clock
I gotta find me some time

Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)

You got your hands 'round my throat
You got your voice in my head (no matter what)
You better jump on the clock
You better watch where you tread

Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)

(gotta try so hard)
(gotta try so hard)

They got their rationales
They had their winning streaks (it's never enough)
They better jump on the clock
They better count up their weeks

Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)
Pangaea ahhh (gotta find some time) ahhh (gotta find some time)

Happenstance lyrics - The Church

When the distant charge of love is felt
And the fruit is heavy on the vine
Rivers rushing as the snow it melts
I should take some time
Really make you mine

Happenstance
Such a charmer

Like an extinguished star
You're gone yet still remain
And you've taken it so far
Return to outer space

If I lay me beside you
Your golden hair frozen

Happenstance
Such a charmer

Close your eyes in the dark
And open up a door
You feel the energy arc
You're not here anymore

When the honeyed days of love return
And the king is drunk upon his throne
City's empty and the crystal burnt
I should take some space
Be with you some place

When the hopeless nights of love have gone
And the spirits are still within the trees
And we're running back to Albion
I should take some chance
Given happenstance

Happenstance
Such a charmer

Space Saviour lyrics - The Church

My little lonely
She's my one and only
All the love just stone me
And I can't let it go

Like a siphon or straw
Something to adore
On the fatal flaw
And I can't let it go

Oh my little saviour
On her good behaviour
All the self she gave you
Now you can't let it go

Like a needle or tack
When she's giving you back
And the stages go black
And you can't let it go

And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
And I gotta get out

And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
And I can't let it go

My little heart
With a cosmic handshake
Hammer on till daybreak
I can't let it go

Like a Zorro or zealot
Bite it just too feel it
She gonna reveal it
Then you can't let it go

Oh my little wonder
Makes you stop to ponder
Makes me kind of fonder
I can't let it go

Like I live and I learn
Like a Chinese burn
Just wait till you turn
I can't let it go

I gotta get up
I gotta get on
I gotta get off
I gotta get out

I gotta get up
I gotta get on
I gotta get off
And I can't let it go

My little panda
I don't understand her
With her natural grandeur
I can't let it go

Like a trick or tornado
No she ain't afraid
Nothing gets delayed
And she won't let it go

My little golden
Her love and her holdin'
Only serves to embolden
And I can't let it go

Like a fraction or flake
I do it all for her sake
I do it all for her sake
Then I can't let it go, no, no

And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off

And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
But I can't let it go

Can't let it go
It doesn't know
Cause I can't let it
I can't let it go

Baby don't say no
Can't let it go
I can't let it go

Can't let it go

On Angel Street lyrics - The Church

Sunday disappears into a fog
Darkness invites us all inside
To hide amongst the lamplight radial glow

Shadow in the pool
Winter in the wind
A message in the fallen leaves

Cruise down to the plaza in your Merc
Never really know how or where to go
Blow me down you're outside a bank on Angel Street

I arrive but never leave
You leave but never stay
It kind of reminds me of the salad days

I saw your brother during lunch
I saw at once that he was lost and he was mad
He had been standing in the rain to get some snow

But the snow it couldn't fall
The people all go home
And he just kind of stood there helplessly

You should change the message on your machine
So sad, so strange baby to hear my name
Makes me cry when you say we're not at home

And the line it just goes dead
And the trail it just goes cold
I guess that story's told anyway

Sunken Sun lyrics - The Church

I drowned in a river that had run dry
I drank a sea of gold
I shivered like a stone in the great unknown
Oh, not unknown but just untold

I dreamed I saw the Minotaur
I dreamed I was his twin
It seemed I tore some kind of door
Because now he can get right back in

And I don't wanna talk about it anymore
And if I have to do it again I'll give you what for

I watched the sullen sun shrink
And the levee run out of steam
Eternity loomed in my garret room
I saw you once in some kind of dream

I had a girl in the underworld
She was a spirited little thing
She was so cute, oh, you shoulda seen Pluto
She opened up her heart to sing

And I don't want to talk about it anymore
And if I had to do it again I'll give you what for

I ripped up my return ticket
I hurled it into the sky
I knelt down, I kissed the ground
I knew then it was your turn to fly

Anchorage lyrics - The Church

Scales of an angel
Wings of a snake
Living here in the future
With the racket that you make

Memory of a scream
Heart of the flame
Talking in a lark's tongue
And more of the same

Green ice is on the melt
Just the way the dead have felt
Nothing like the way my name is spelt
But I belt it out anyway

Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me

Mouth of a river
The fingers of a flute
The trees get used for rifles
Growing lovely shoots

Around the captain's table
The silent diners slept
In the white of morning
The distance slowly crept

And the ice in my glass
And the hit of the past
And the great icy blast
I pass it on to you

Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me
'thing is hurting me

Words of a mute
The passion of a rock
Waking early on an Easter Sunday
Just before the cock

The motion of a statue
The honour of a rat
The street was almost empty
But then you saw through that

And the ice in the box
Falling off the shelf in blocks
Down at the docks
Well I was shocked not to be discovered

Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me

Strength of a lamb
The shape of a cloud
The eyes of the star
Cruelty of a crowd

This afternoon is crushing down
The bars are all closed today lady
Middle of town is a long way down
I'd hate to see you break your crown

And the ice in my drink
My drink in your lap
Just a process in a trap
I'll slap it out of you
Slap it out of you

Music of the snow
Tempts the flake
Nature, you don't know
A nice delicious ache

The conscience of a fox
Love about the size of a shoe box
The school of hard knocks
They box it out of me

The ice in my throat
A message in the note
Just like a sinking boat
You coat yourself with sympathy

Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me 'thing is hurting me

Lunar lyrics - The Church

All that it was was a fine-toothed comb
Only in on the night
All that it was was just one pound of flesh
And you didn't get it right

All that it was was a cannibal buzz
Leading you on, day on day
All that it means was in old Paris scenes
An old, sour Beaujolais

All that it wore was a little brittle slip
Drooping right over my head
All that it says is there's nothing left to bless
All that it said is it's dead

"Shriek: Excerpts From The Soundtrack" (2009)

Duncan And Mary lyrics - The Church

Mmmm...
Mmmm...
The white of her beneath the white
And in my thoughts
Where I can enslave everyone and everything
I cross the space between our bodies
I place my mouth upon her breast
She expresses neither surprise nor shock
But only sucks in her breath
Moans
Slowly places her soft hands behind my head
Drawing me into her
Her hands so cool on my hair
Her body soft soft soft soft
I think I'm going mad

Even The Flies Have Eyes lyrics - The Church

(Even the flies have eyes) Janice [repeated several times]

The Gray Caps lyrics - The Church

 "Do you think she can see us from in there?"
"Naw-she's busy."
"She's deep in thought, she is-but what could she be thinking about?"

"How long's she been in there?"
"Seven days. I bring her food and drink. I take it out again. She's got enough paper in there to last another week."

"Wasn't her brother the mad historian who went digging into the secrets of the gray caps? Didn't he go under the city?"
"He's there now, some say, along with the snails and the cursed gray caps."
"What's she do then?"
[?]
"What could she be typing so furiously?"
"The story of your life. A history of pubs and bars. How should I know."
"Whatever it is, it must be important. To her."
"Funny. That typewriter's like an echo. It falls away when we stop talking."
"Yes, yes it does! Do you think she's...?"
"Naw-I must be wrong. Hasn't got anything to do with us. Hasn't got anything to do with us."

Ambergris lyrics - The Church

Dare I deprive the reader of that first glimpse of Ambergris? That first teasing glimpse during the carriage ride from the docks? That glimpse, and then the sprawl of Albumuth Boulevard, half staid brick, half lacquered timber? The dirt of it, the stench of it, half perfume, half ribald rot. And another smell underneath it-[Coughs]-the tantalizing scent of fungi, of fruiting bodies, of spores entangled with dust and air, spiraling down like snow. [Violently coughs] The cries of the vendors, the cries of the newly robbed, or the newly robed. The first contact of shoe on street out of the carriage-the resounding solidity of that ground, and the humming vibration of coiled energy beneath the pavement, conveyed up through shoe into foot, from foot into the rest of the body suddenly energized and woken up. The sudden hint of heat to the air-the possibilities! [Maniacal laughter]-and, peeking out from the storm drains, from the alleyways, the enticing, lingering darkness that spoke of tunnels and sudden exploration. One cannot mention our move to Ambergris without setting that scene, surely! That boulevard became our touchstone, in those early years, as it had to countless people before us. It was how you traveled into Ambergris, and it was how you carried them out when you were finally left.

But as fascinated as Duncan would become with Ambergris, he went elsewhere for his education. At our mother's insistence, in one of her few direct acts of parenting. Duncan received his advanced degrees in history from the Institute of Religiosity in Morrow [or as the historians call it, "that other city by the River Moth," a good hundred miles from Ambergris] Hooo-ahhh! Yeah! Hoo-hoo-hooaaahhhh! Yeah! No, no, no, no, no....

Duncan devoted one dark, ripe little corner to the "changing facade of Ambergris," as he called it. At first, this corner consisted only of overlapping street plans, as if he were building an image of the city from its bones. The stark white paper, the midnight black veins of ink, contrasted sharply with everything else in his rooms. [Maniacal laughter] No, no, no, no, no....

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