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                  SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES:  Tinderbox
               (Typed in by Lord Edward on August 22, 1986)

CANDYMAN

  Sickly sweet, his poison seeks
  For the yound ones who don't understand
  The danger in his hands
  With a jaundiced wink see his cunning slink
  Oh trust in me my pretty one
  Come walk with me my helpless one

  Candyman

  Syrup lies  upon your tongue
  GE Latine salive spills
  The flash of a guillotine a smile

  Candyman -- oh candyman

  No pity for him, their misery screams
  Unspeakable things

  A cool missile, yes it's in his smile
  With open arms to welcome you
  Beware the masked pretender
  He always lies, this candyman
  Those lips conspire in treachery
  To strike in cloak and dagger, see!

  Candyman -- oh candyman

  And all the children, he warns "Don't tell,"
  Those threats are sold
  With their guilt and shame  they think they're to blame
  For candyman -- oh candyman

THE SWEETEST CHILL

  Hearing you -- in my sleep
  Feeling you -- your cadence seeps
  Whispering in flashback -- the spectres of your memories
  Fall in glistening showers -- such a tender descent
  Intones this haunting lament

  The sweetest chill

  Fearing you -- but calling your name
  Icy breath -- encases my skin
  Fingers like a fountain of needles
  Shiver along my spine
  And rain down so divine

  The sweetest chill

  A drowning so sublime -- spins in a heavenly climb

  Calling you -- tears thaw my sleep
  Wanting you -- this hoary web is weaved
  From this strange confusion
  Grows a perverse communication
  It enthralls me and coils me around

  The sweetest chill

  Enchantment ebbs and whirls -- the sweetest chill
  Enchantment ebbs and whirls -- oh the thrill
  The sweetest chill

THIS UNREST

  This unrest beats out my breath
  Disconnected thoughts jangle in a mess

  This unrest crucifies my chest
  Without anaesthetic it cuts
  Through tumorous flesh

  This unrest beats out my breath.......

  This unrest beats in my chest
  Discordant limbs watch unimpressed
  At the aimless walk the mindless talk
  The pictures leap out and dance for me
  They laugh at me

  As your bitterness closes in
  You're feeling very old again
  Ah just to sleep, without these thoughts
  But the angels shout, resurrecting doubts

  Ah we meet again, my trusty friend
  Demanding new favours for old times sake
  Inside this captive frame
  Come and claim your liberty

  Metal and flesh will fuse today
  These visions jump out and blast my days
  Clean away.......

CITIES IN DUST

  Water was running; children were running
  You were running out of time
  Under the mountain, a golden fountain
  Were you praying at the lares shrine?

  But oh your city lies in dust, my friend

  We found you hiding -- we found you lying
  Choking on the dirt and sand
  Your former glories and all the stories
  Dragged and washed with eager hands

  But oh your city lies in dust, my friend

  Hot and burning -- in your nostrils
  Pouring down your gaping mouth
  Your molten bodies -- blanket of cinders
  Caught in the throes.......

  And your city lies in dust

CANNONS

  Troubled weather's on its way
  Tempests threaten us today
  There's no respite, from long dark nights
  Just the fantasy of spring

  From the hailstones of summer
  To a scorching winter land
  A frozen death sleep, then this heat
  Beats down on this buckled land

  Flames lick closer to the core
  From city limits fireball
  And in a headless chicken run
  Race red and screaming fire engines
  The the cannons came

  'Neath the brooding sky
  Beneath its baleful eye
  The cannon shot, the cannon crack
  Disturbing night dreams

  People fled in droves
  To the lakes and to the shores
  Left behind a near ghost town
  Save the life of the cannons resounding
  Still there was no rain

  Once more in the line of fire
  Hovers the preying sky
  The cannons aim jabs at the eye
  Heralding the rain.....

PARTY'S FALL

  Your parties fall around you
  Another night beckons to you
  Your parties fall around you
  Another night beckons to you

  Shadows loom as you resist the gloom
  Faded hues issue forth and bloom

  A bed of leaves for a lover
  Awake with a kiss and rise asunder
  And when the party's over
  You retreat in a realm of slumber

  In your mind, crystal lights rebound
  Wheels spin round and you hear the sound
  Of autumn's call at party's fall

  Through rose-tinted glass you still remember
  The gladness, not sadness, only laughter

  In your mind vicious lights rebound
  Wheels spin round and you hear the sound
  Of autumn's call at party's fall

  The smile in the mirror grows weaker
  The laughter you heard is growing fainter

  Your parties fall around you
  The night forgets to rouse you
  Your party's fall astounds you
  An aura of sadness abounds you

  Glad rags sigh
  Maybe you're alone inside, don't hide
  Hurting all the time, hurting deep inside, don't cry
  My happiness depends on knowing this friend is never alone
  On your own
  A party on our own
  We'll have a party all our own inside
  No sighs

92 DEGREES

  The day drags by like a wounded animal
  The approaching disease, 92 degrees
  The blood in our veins and the brains in our head
  The approaching unease, 92 degrees

  Long ago in the headlines, they noticed it too
  But too late for the loved ones and nearly for you.....

  Shaky lines -- on the horizon
  Snakey thoughts -- invade each person
  Watch the red line -- creeping upwards
  Watch the sanity line weaken
  The volcanic depths of Hades' ocean
  Bubble under, these crazed eruptions
  It wriggles and wrythes and bites within,
  Just below the sweating skin

  I wondered when this would happen again
  Now I watch the red line, reach that number again
  The blood in our veins and the brains in our head......

  Drink the water with jagged glass
  Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth
  Not 91 or 93, but 92 Fahrenheit degrees

  Shaky lines -- on the horizon
  Snakey thoughts -- invade each person
  Not 91 or 93, but 92 Fahrenheit degrees

LANDS END

  Come take this hand at twilight's door
  I'll meet you there, we'll share the moonlit floor
  Through the driving rain, colours run in veins
  Ozone fills the  air, two figures disappear

  Come let's take flight, let's quit this scene tonight
  Whilst they sleep on endless, in their wrecked designs
  Sleep on endless in your wrecked designs

  Moths touched by flame repeat their fatal game
  Forever and eternally, the cliffs around the crashing sea
  Unsolved and endless, wait for me

  Undulating far below, where lucid waters flow
  Their faces seem to know........

  Where the land falls to an end
  This hidden tale begins
  Take a walk with me, down by the sea
  Take a walk with me
  Down by the sea

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