Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 01:11:53 -0700 From: shane Subject: [20k] These Mortal Coils Originals Lyrics I collected these lyrics from official and fanmade Web Sites dedicated to the original artists. You'll find that the originals contain lyrics that differ or were unused in the TMC covers. Get out those albums and sing along! > KANGAROO by Big Star (Alex Chilton) I first saw you You had on blue jeans Your eyes couldn't hide anything I saw you breathing, oh I saw you staring out in space I next saw you You was at the party Thought you was a queen Oh so flirty I came against Didn't say excuse Knew what I was doing We looked very fine 'Cause we were leaving Like Saint Joan Doing a cool jerk Oh, I want you Like a kangaroo > SONG TO THE SIREN by Tim Buckley (Tim Buckley/Larry Beckett) Long afloat on ship less oceans I did all my best to smile 'Til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang, "Sail to me, sail to me, Let me enfold you, Here I am, here I am Waiting to hold you" Did I dream you dreamed about me? Were you hare when I was fox? Now my foolish boat is leaning Broken lovelorn on your rocks For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow: O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow" I am puzzled as the newborn child I am troubled at the tide: Should I stand amid the breakers? Should I lie with death my bride? Hear me sing, "Swim to me, swim to me, Let me enfold you, Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you" > HOLOCAUST by Big Star (Alex Chilton) Your eyes are almost dead Can't get out of bed And you can't sleep You're sitting down to dress And you're a mess You look in the mirror You look in your eyes Say you realize Everybody goes Leaving those who fall behind Everybody goes As far as they can They don't just care They stood on the stairs Laughing at your errors Your mother's dead She said, "Don't be afraid" Your mother's dead You're on your own She's in her bed Everybody goes Leaving those who fall behind Everybody goes As far as they can They don't just care You're a wasted face You're a sad eyed lie You're a holocaust > FOND AFFECTIONS by Rema Rema (Rema Rema) Fond affections are never said They're only sung in songs I never was naive enough to know when I was wrong There's no light at the end of it all Let's all sit down and cry There's no light at the beginning Let's all sit down and cry Now it's time to say goodbye Now it's being forced upon you It's just that person by your side remaining distant Now the winter's growing close The days are getting older I can tell by your face That your heart is getting colder There's no light at the end of it all Let's all sit down and cry There's no light at the beginning Let's all sit down and cry > ANOTHER DAY by Roy Harper (Roy Harper) The kettle's on, the sun has gone, another day She offers me, Tibetan tea, on a flower tray She's at the door, she's want's to score, she really needs to say: "I once loved you a long time ago, you know Where the winds own forget-me-nots blow, you know But I couldn't let myself go Not knowing what on earth there was to know But I wish that I had, 'cause it makes me so sad that I never had one of your children." Across the room, inside a tomb, a chance is waxed and waned The night is young, why are we so hung-up, in each other's chains I must take her, I must make her, while the dove domains See the juice run as she flies Run my wings under her sighs As the flames of eternity rise To lick us with the first born lash of dawn Oh really my dear, I can't see what we fear With ourselves, sat here between us And at the door, we can't say more, than just another day Without a sound, I turn around, and I walk away > NOT ME by Colin Newman (Colin Newman) It may be as you say, I'll admit But you don't sound convinced Between the surface you and the surface me You didn't touch me It may be as well that I didn't see the point You didn't touch me I suppose it's just hollow No idea, no spark But I thought that in order to survive you need to touch me All of the me's > THE JEWELLER by Pearls Before Swine (Tom Rapp) The jeweler Has a shop On the corner of the boulevard In the night, In small spectacles, He polishes old coins He uses spit and cloth and ashes He makes them shine with ashes He knows the use of ashes He worships God with ashes The coins are often very old By the time they reach the jeweler With his hands and ashes He will try the best he can He knows that he can only shine them Cannot repair the scratches He knows that even new coins have scars So he just smiles He knows the use of ashes He worships God with ashes In the darkest of the night Both his hands will blister badly They will often open painfully And the blood flows from his hands He works to take from black coin faces The thumbprints from so many ages He wishes he could cure the scars When he forgets he sometimes cries He knows the use of ashes He worships God with ashes > TARANTULA by Colourbox (Martyn Young) I'm living but I'm feeling numb, can see it in my stare I wear a mask so falsely numb, and I don't know who I am Despite the worlds inside of me, thwarting me away I've noticed in other eyes, time's closing in But when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula The future's looking rather grim, strange black tide Decisions lie with stupid men, alone with my life That choking and the hype in me, expecting me to fall But only if I'm threatened will the tables turn But when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula My world's under a sentence of death, I was born underground But when the pressure gets too much for me, I bite > MY FATHER by Judy Collins (Judy Collins) My father always promised us That we would live in France We'd go boating on the Seine And I would learn to dance We lived in Ohio then He worked in the mines On his dreams like boats We knew we would sail in time All my sisters soon were gone To Denver and Cheyenne Marrying their grownup dreams The lilacs and the man I stayed behind the youngest still Only danced alone The colors of my father's dreams Faded without a sound And I live in Paris now My children dance and dream Hearing the ways of a miner's life In words they've never seen I sail my memories of home Like boats across the Seine And watch the Paris sun As it sets in my father's eyes again My father always promised us That we would live in France We'd go boating on the Seine And I would learn to dance I sail my memories of home Like boats across the Seine And watch the Paris sun As it sets in my father's eyes again > COME HERE MY LOVE by Van Morrison (Van Morrison) Come here my love This feeling has me spellbound Yet the storyline, in paragraphs, laid down the same In fathoms of my inner mind I'm mystified, oh, by this mood This melancholy feeling that just don't do no good Come here my love And I will lift my spirits high for you I'd like to fly away and spend a day or two Just contemplating the fields and leaves and talking about nothing Just layin' down in shades of effervescent, effervescent odors And shades of time and tide And flowing through Become enraptured by the sights and sounds, In intrigue of nature and beauty Come along with me And take it all in Come here my love > STRENGTH OF STRINGS by Gene Clark (Gene Clark) In my life the piano sings Brings me words that are not the strength of strings Fiery rain and Ruby's cooling sun Now I see that my world has only begun Notes that roll on winds with swirling wings Brings me words that are not the strength of strings When I'm feeling high, or I'm feeling low, or there is no change Somehow days keep melting into the night And there's always high on the cosmic range I am always high, I am always low, there is always change Hear the strings are bending in harmony Not so far from breaking on the cosmic range > MORNING GLORY by Tim Buckley (Tim Buckley) I lit my purest candle close to my Window, hoping it would catch the eye Of any vagabond who passed it by And I waited in my fleeting house Before he came I felt him drawing near As he neared I felt the ancient fear That he had come to wound my door and jeer And I waited in my fleeting house "Tell me stories," I called to the Hobo; "Stories of cold," I smiled at the Hobo; "Stories of old," I knelt to the Hobo; And he stood before my fleeting house "No," said the Hobo, "No more tales of time; Don't ask me now to wash away the grime; I can't come in 'cause it's too high a climb," And he walked away from my fleeting house "Then you be damned!" I screamed to the Hobo; "Leave me alone," I wept to the Hobo; "Turn into stone," I knelt to the Hobo; And he walked away from my fleeting house > I WANT TO LIVE by Gary Ogan & Bill Lamb (Gary Ogan) I've gathered all my lifetime memories of you My lusty sentiments that made life seem true I'm rather selfish and I mean to be unkind And you can't imagine what it does to me inside But where am I, I want to die I want to live, I want to die If I were someone I would like to be a fool No one would know me, and I think that would be cool I'd paint a picture of my life upon your wall And use the colors that have made life seem small But where am I, I want to die I want to live, I want to die But you've got a way of understanding me And I just call it one of your mysteries But you know you've got to stay close to me, close to me But where am I, I want to die But where am I, I want to die I want to die, I want to give I want to die, die die die die, die die die die > FIRE BROTHERS by Quicksilver Messanger Service (Gary Duncan) In the valley where the moons and lovers play Live two children who were born on Saturday One was dark, one was fair Fathered by the hawk, mothered by the mare Stranger children you have never seen Brothers of the forest and the sea One was land, one was air And they kept the fires burning there In a golden vessel and silver vase Kept them burning in the strange enchanted place Kept them burning to the sky For they knew someday the sun would die > I MUST HAVE BEEN BLIND by Tim Buckley (Tim Buckley) Here I am believin' words again Here I am tryin' to find your love again Here I am down on my knees again Prayin' for a love that we used to know Both of us know how hard it is to love and let it go Both of us know how hard it is to go on living that way When so few understand what it means to fall in love And so few know how hard it is to live without it Lord I must have been blind, oh, I must have been blind Lord, I must have been blind Ah, to hold something real, and not believe it To live in her life, and never trust it To give all you know and never feel it To hold back each day until it dies away Both of us know how hard it is to love and let it go And both of us know how hard it is to go on living that way When so few understand what it means to fall in love And so few know how hard it is to live without it Lord, I must have been blind, I must have been blind Lord, I must have been blind, Yes, I must have been blind > ALONE by Colin Newman (Gilbert Lewis/Colin Newman) Alone, with too much generosity A theatre mask of hostility attracts Assaults occur, infrequently And those who come, to conquer? Need strength But damage accumulates Still moving him to tears Retained a sense of humour > DRUGS by Talking Heads (David Byrne) And all I see is little dots Some are smeared and some are spots Feels like a murder but that's alright Somebody said there's too much light Pull down the shade and it's alright It'll be over in a minute or two. I'm charged up...Don't put me down Don't feel like talking...Don't mess around I feel mean...I feel O.K. I'm charged up...Electricity The boys are making a big mess This makes the girls all start to laugh I don't know what they're talking about The boys are worried, the girls are shocked They pick the sound and let it drop Nobody know what they're talking about I'm charged up...I'm kinda wooden I'm barely moving...I study motion I study myself...I fooled myself I'm charged up...It's pretty intense. I'm charged up...Don't put me down Don't feel like talking...Don't mess around I feel mean...I feel O.K. I'm charged up...Electricity. > MR. SOMEWHERE by The Apartments (Peter M. Walsh) Day comes up sicker than a cat Something's wrong that is that Mr. somewhere missing somewhere Never did figure just how much A boat from the river takes you out 'Cross the other side of town, to get out, To get out you take the tide, any tide, Any tide like there isn't gonna be any tide Mr. somewhere missing somewhere Never did figure just how much Missing somewhere Never did figure just how much A world like tomorrow wears things out It's hard enough to get what's yours for now And the hardest words are spoken softly, Softly look, no hands upon Mr. somewhere missing somewhere, Never did figure just how much Missing somewhere Never did figure just how much Now the milkman beats you to the door That was once a home, home no more Mr. somewhere, missing somewhere Couldn't get the calendar to stop Missing somewhere Never did figure just how much Missing somewhere Never will admit just how much > WITH TOMORROW by Gene Clark (Clark/Davis) It was more like a dream than reality I must have thought it was a dream while she was here with me When she was near I didn't think she would leave When she was gone it was too much to believe So with tomorrow, I will borrow Another moment of joy and sorrow And another dream, and another With tomorrow So with the sun there won't be time just to look behind There won't be reasons, no descriptions for my place and mind There was so much I was told, it was not real So many things that I could not taste, but I could feel So with tomorrow, I will borrow Another moment of joy and sorrow And another dream, and another With tomorrow > YOU AND YOUR SISTER by Chris Bell (Chris Bell) They say my love for you ain't real But you don't know how real it feels All I want to do Is to spend some time with you So I can hold you, hold you Your sister says that I'm no good I'd reassure her if I could All I want to do Is to spend some time with you So I can hold you, hold you Plans fail every day I want to hear you say Your love (run, run) won't be leaving (run, run) Your eyes (run, run) ain't deceiving (run, run) Fears will soon fade away Smile now, don't be afraid All I want to do Is to spend some time with you So I can hold you, hold you And let me whisper in your ear Don't you worry, they can't hear All I want to do Is to spend some time with you So I can hold you > NATURE'S WAY by Spirit (Randy California) It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong It's nature's way of telling you in a song It's nature's way of receiving you It's nature's way of retrieving you It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong It's nature's way of telling you summer breeze It's nature's way of telling you dying trees It's nature's way of receiving you It's nature's way of retrieving you It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong It's nature's way, It's nature's way It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong It's nature's way of telling you in a song It's nature's way of receiving you It's nature's way of retrieving you It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong > I COME AND STAND AT EVERY DOOR by The Byrds (Hikmet/Waters) I come and stand at every door But no one hears my silent dread I knock and yet remain unseen For I am dead, for I am dead I'm only seven although I've died In Hiroshima long ago I'm seven now as I was then When children die they do not grow My hair was scorched by swirling flame My eyes grew dim, my eyes grew blind Death came and turned my bones to dust And that was scattered by the wind I need no fruit, I need no rice I need no sweet, nor even bread I ask for nothing for myself For I am dead, for I am dead All that I ask is that for peace You fight today, you fight today So that the children of this world May live and grow, and laugh and play > SEVERAL TIMES by Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook (Pieter Nooten) Several times I looked in your eyes Several times I saw you wishing to stop this Ways much longer than, than we could see before We started to walk, well actually we tried to go forward and... Several times I looked in your eyes Several times I saw you wishing to stop this > LATE NIGHT by Syd Barrett (Syd Barrett) When I woke up today And you weren't there to play Then I wanted to be with you When you showed me your eyes Whispered love at the skies Then I wanted to stay with you Inside me I feel alone and unreal And the way you kiss will always be A very special thing to me When I lay still at night Seeing stars high and light Then I wanted to be with you When the rooftops shone dark All alone saw a spark Spark of love just to stay with you Inside me I feel alone and unreal And the way you kiss will always be A very special thing to me If I mention your name Turn around on a chain Then the sky opens for you When we grew very tall When I saw you so small Then I wanted to stay with you Inside me I feel alone and unreal And the way you kiss will always be A very special thing to me > HELP ME LIFT YOU UP by Mary Margret O'Hara (Mary Margret O'Hara) I don't have to tell you that you're all alone Hear what you will, you're not gone You'll have to be with your kind I'll have to stay with my own kind Help me lift you up, help me lift you up So sorry if I can't stop pretending So sorry if I don't let you go Like this, but not like this is ending I think you know, I think you know Help me lift you up, help me lift you up I have a dream, it's very clear You're all around, but never near Help me lift you up, help me lift you up > CAROLYN'S SONG by Rain Parade (David Roback) I heard that you said that you feel all alone Do you think that they could understand When they told you go ahead Is it in your head are you upside down You drive around feeling sad And I wish you everything I ever said Do you understand, are you feeling dead? Are you lost, are you sad? Did I leave you alone? Do you think that I don't understand? What it's like to feel all alone? > `TIL I GAIN CONTROL AGAIN by Emmylou Harris (Rodney Crowell) Just like the sun over the mountain top You know I'll always come again You know I love to spend my morning times Like sunlight dancing on your skin I've never gone so wrong as for telling lies to you What you've seen is what I've been There is nothing I could hide from you You see me better than I can Out on the road that lies before me now There are some turns where I will spin I only hope that you can hold me now 'Til I can gain control again Like a lighthouse you must stand alone And mark a sailors' journey end No matter what seas I have been sailing on I'll always row this way again Out on the roads that lies before me now There are some turns where I will spin I only hope that you can hold me now 'Til I can gain control again I only hope that you can hold me now 'Til I can gain control again > I AM THE COSMOS by Chris Bell (Chris Bell) Every night I tell myself "I am the cosmos, I am the wind" But that don't get you back again Just when I was starting to feel okay You're on the phone I never wanna be alone Never wanna be alone I hate to have to take you home Want you too much to say no, no, Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Never wanna be alone I hate to have to take you home Want you too much to say no, no Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah My feeling's always happening Something I couldn't hide I can't confide Don't know what's going on inside So every night I tell myself "I am the cosmos, I am the wind" But that don't get you back again I'd really like to see you again I really wanna see you again Really wanna see you again