Adore lyrics

 

1. To Sheila

2. Ava Adore

3. Perfect

4. Daphne Descends

5. Once Upon a Time

6. Tear

7. Crestfallen

8. Appels + Oranjes

9. Pug

10. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete

11. Annie-Dog

12. Shame

13. Behold! The Night Mare

14. For Martha

15. Blank Page

16. 17

 

To Sheila

 

twilight fades

through blistered avalon

the sky's cruel torch

on aching autobahn

into the uncertain divine

we scream into the last divine

 

you make me real

you make me real

strong as i feel

you make me real

 

sheila rides on crashing nightingale

intake eyes leave passing vapor trails

with blushing brilliance alive

because it's time to arrive

 

you make me real

you make me real

strong as i feel

you make me real

 

lately I just can't seem to believe

discard my friends to change the scenery

it meant the world to hold a bruising faith

but now it's just a matter of grace

 

a summer storm graces all of me

highway warm sing silent poetry

I could bring you the light

and take you home into the night

 

you make me real

lately I just can't seem to believe

you make me real

discard my friends to change the scenery

strong as i feel

it meant the world to hold a bruising faith

you make me real

but now it's just a matter of grace

 

Ava Adore

 

 it's you that I adore

you'll always be my whore

you'll be the mother to my child

and a child to my heart

we must never be apart

we must never be apart

 

lovely girl you're the beauty in my world

without you there aren't reasons left to find

 

and I'll pull your crooked teeth

you'll be perfect just like me

you'll be a lover in my bed

and a gun to my head

we must never be apart

we must never be apart

 

in you I see dirty

in you I count stars

in you I feel so pretty

in you I taste god

in you I feel so hungry

in you I crash cars

we must never be apart

 

drinking mercury

to the mystery of all that you should ever seek to find

lovely girl you're the murder in my world

dressing coffins for the souls I've left behind

in time

we must never be apart

 

and you'll always be my whore

cause you're the one that i adore

and I'll pull your crooked teeth

you'll be perfect just like me

in you I feel so dirty in you I crash cars

in you I feel so pretty in you I taste god

we must never be apart

 

Perfect

 

I know we're just like old friends

we just can't pretend

that lovers make amends

we are reasons so unreal

we can't help but feel that something has been lost

 

but please you know you're just like me

next time I promise we'll be

perfect

perfect

perfect strangers down the line

lovers out of time

memories unwind

 

so far I still know who you are

but now I wonder who I was...

 

angel, you know it's not the end

we'll always be good friends

the letters have been sent on

 

so please, you always were so free

you'll see, I promise we'll be

perfect

perfect strangers when we meet

strangers on the street

lovers while we meet

 

perfect

you know this has to be

we always we're so free

we promised that we'd be

perfect

 

Daphne Descends

 

with the sugar sickness

you spy the kidnap kid

who kids you to oblivion

it's the perfect hassle

for the perfumed kiss

he makes you miss him more than home

 

you love him

you love him more than this

you love him and you cannot, you can't resist

you love him

you love him for yourself

you love him and no one, no one else

 

past sidewalk ashes a last lovers arc

you come apart to intertwine

it was all so simple

as you watched him move

across the darkness in your room

 

you love him

you love him for yourself

you love him and no one, no one else

 

and the winding vines

the pretty boys dive

and thru the pinhole stars

into the shadow mind

you will lose him then

on some gentle dawn

this boy is here and gone

 

you love him

you love him for yourself

you love him and no one, no one else

you love him

you love him more than this

you love him and you cannot, you can't resist

 

you love him...

 

Once Upon a Time

 

Mother I'm tired

come surrender my son

time has ravaged on my soul

no plans to leave but still I go

 

Fallin' with the leaves

fallin' out of sleep

to the last goodbyes

who cares why?

 

Mother I've tried

wasting my life

I haven't given up, I lie

to make you so proud in my eyes

 

Fallin' out of sleep

crawlin' over me

to the last goodbyes

who cares why?

 

Tuesdays come and gone

restless i still drive

try to leave it all behind

 

fallin', fallin' out of sleep

fallin', fallin' with the leaves

I go crawlin', crawlin' over me

 

Once upon a time in my life...

I went falling...

 

Mother I hope you know

that I miss you so

time has ravaged on my soul

to wipe a mothers tears grown cold

 

Tear

 

the lights came on fast

lost in motorcrash

gone in a flash unreal

but you knew all along

you laugh the light

I sing the songs

to watch you numb

 

I saw you there

you were on your way

you held the rain

and for the first time

heaven seemed insane

cause heaven is to blame

for taking you away

 

do you know the way that I can?

do you know the way that I can't lose?

do you know the things that I can?

do you know the things that I can do?

 

where is your heart? where is your heart gone to?

tear me apart

tear me apart from you

you laugh the light I cry the wound

in gray afternoons

 

I saw you there

you were on your way

you held the rain

and for the first time

heaven seemed insane

cause heaven is to blame

for taking you away

 

the lights came to pass

dead opera motorcrash

gone in a flash unreal

in nitrous overcast

 

do you know the way that I can?

do you know the way that I can't choose?

do you know the things that I can?

do you know the things that I can't lose?

 

tear me apart

tear me apart from you

where is your heart?

where has your heart run to?

 

Crestfallen

 

who am I to need you when I'm down

where are you when I need you around

your life is not your own

 

and all I ask you

is for another chance

another way around you

to live by circumstance, once again

 

who am I to need you now

to ask you why to tell you no

to deserve your love and sympathy

you were never meant to belong to me

 

and you may go, but I know you won't leave

too many years built into memories

your life is not your own

 

who am I to need you now

to ask you why to tell you no

to deserve your love and sympathy

you were never meant to belong to me

 

who am I to you?

along the way

I lost my faith

 

and as you were, you'll be again

to mold like clay, to break like dirt

to tear me up in your sympathy

you were never meant to belong to me

you were never meant to belong to me

you were never meant to belong to me

 

who am I?

 

Appels + Oranjes

 

what if the sun refused to shine?

what if the clouds refused to rain?

what if the wind refused to blow?

what if the seas refused to wave?

what if the world refused to turn?

what if the stars would hesitate?

 

what if, what is isn't true?

what are you going to do?

what if, what is isn't you?

does that mean you've got to lose?

digging for the feel of something new

 

what if the silence let you dream?

what if the air could let you breathe?

what if the words would bring you here?

what if this sound could bring you peace?

 

what if, what is isn't true?

what are you going to do?

digging for the feel of something new

what if, what is isn't you?

does that mean you've got to lose?

 

it came from your thoughts, your dreams and visions

ripped up from your weeks and indecisions

 

what if the sun refused to shine?

what if the clouds refused to rain?

what if the world refused to turn?

what if the clocks would hesitate?

 

what if, what is isn't true?

what are you going to do?

what if, what is isn't you?

does that mean you've got to lose?

digging for the feel of something new

 

does that mean you've got to choose?

the feel of something new

does that mean you've got to lose?

the thoughts you cannot lose

what are you gonna do?

 

Pug

 

kiss and kill me sweetly

come and drive me home

drag the miles in me

I am yours alone

 

inside where it's warm

wrap myself in you

outside where I'm torn

fight myself in two

in two

into you

 

desire me so deeply

drain and kick me hard

whisper secrets for me

try to go too far

 

inside where it's warm

wrap myself in you

outside where I'm torn

fight myself in two

in two

into...

 

please don't change

please don't change at all

bring your rain

bring your rain to fall

 

inside where it's warm

wrap myself in you

outside where I'm torn

fight myself in two

in two

into you

 

come and kiss me sweetly

ride the telephone

drag the miles to me

I am yours alone

yours alone

on the telephone

yours alone

looking for a kiss kiss

yours alone

 

The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete

 

dusty screams, through doors and imaginary floors

"why can't you miss me?"

pistol pete removes the final breaths from her unkind and she is shaken

what does this mean in love or in peace?

with you lying next to me

so faithless serene

and she calls to him

 

let the waste cross the ancient trails to you

far out beneath the sorrow clouds

let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you

let them cry out through your rusted scars

 

alone he roams inside the ordinary catacombs of her waiting

with raven hands she steals and staggers towards her man

still scorned by his demon

 

because he's undone

become the language of

disaster and love, vengeance and dust

and she calls to him

 

let the waste cross the ancient trails to you

far out beneath the sorrow clouds

let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you

let them cry out through your rusted scars

 

dusty screams, through doors and imaginary scenes

of hurt and teardrop

as he holds her down, in the cold lonely winds

together again, her inside him

and she calls to him

 

let the waste cross the ancient trails to you

far out beneath the sorrow clouds

let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you

let them cry out through your rusted scars

 

Annie-Dog

 

amphetamine annie-dog

has her leash and a face

her velvet spleen her shackle spine

her diamond curse

it comes with mine

 

a vessel she

for violent I

confession arms a wake

mine, mine you were always mine

possessed by my taste

 

and below the angel dog

combs her hair and sings her psalms

the bombs go off

she doesn't notice

it all goes wrong

she sets things tragic

she is venus

she is mars

she's electric

and the struggle of

 

upon my face we leave no trace

but in her stomach mercury aged

 

she holds the blood

she carves the knives

she digs the wives in our babies

 

amphetamine annie-dog

pulls her trash

and her stories

from place to place

and bed to bed

gives of herself and the magnet head

 

another floor another ceiling

counting stairs with double meanings

 

is it wrong to be swallowed whole

to disappear in her

to give her the priceless peace

of giving up control

 

we tumble out into the streets

and annie-dog she drags her leash

pretty face

ugly mouth

bitter bred and so released

 

and by the no

and by the yes

annie goes if you couldn't guess

 

a simple man

a sycophant

her elephant with the laughing call

she wants clean sheets

and fresh flowers

and dental shots

and the hong kong glue

 

amphetamine annie-dog

has her leash and a face

 

Shame

 

you're gonna walk on home

you're gonna walk alone

you're gonna see this through

don't let them get to you

 

shame

 

love is good and love is kind

love is drunk and love is blind

love is good and love is mine

love is drunk all the time

 

shame

 

you're gonna walk on home

you're gonna walk alone

you're gonna walk so far

you're gonna wonder who you are

 

shame

 

love is good and love is kind

love is good and love is blind

love is good and love is mine

love is good all the time

 

hello goodbye, you know you made us cry...

 

Behold! The Night Mare

 

I've faced the fathoms in your deep

withstood the suitors quiet siege

pulled down the heavens just to please you

appease you

the wind blows and I know

 

I can't go on, digging roses from you grave

to linger on, beyond the beyond

where the willows weep

and whirlpools sleep, you'll find me

the coarse tide reflects sky

 

and the night mare rides on, and the night mare rides on

with a december black psalm

and the night mare rides on

what i fear is lost here

the wind blows and I know

 

all you have to do is run away

and steal yourself from me

become a mystery to gaze into

you're so cruel in all you do

but still I believe, I believe in you

 

so may you come with your own knives

you'll never take me alive

with all the force of what is true

is there nothing I can do?

 

I can't go on, digging roses from you grave

to linger on, beyond the beyond

where the willows weep

and whirlpools sleep, you'll find me

 

and the night mare rides on, and the night mare rides on

with a december black psalm

and the night mare rides on

 

I've faced the fathoms in your deep

withstood the suitors quiet siege

pulled down the heavens just to please you

to hold the flower I can't keep

 

For Martha

 

whenever I run

whenever I run to you lost one

it's never done

just hanging on

 

just past has let me be

returning as if dream

shattered as belief

 

if you have to go don't say goodbye

if you have to go don't you cry

if you have to go I will get by

someday I'll follow you and see you on the other side

 

but for the grace of love

I'd will the meaning of

heaven from above

 

your picture out of time

left aching in my mind

shadows kept alive

 

if you have to go don't say goodbye

if you have to go don't you cry

if you have to go I will get by

I will follow you and see you on the other side

 

but for the grace of love

I'd will the meaning of

heaven from above

 

long horses we are born

creatures more than torn

mourning our way home

 

Blank Page

 

blank page is all the rage

never meant to say anything

in bed I was half dead

tired of dreaming of rest

got dressed drove the state line

looking for you at the five and dime

stop sign told me stay at home

told me you were not alone

blank page was all the rage

never meant to hurt anyone

in bed I was half dead

tired of dreaming of rest

you haven't changed

you're still the same

may you rise as you fall

you were easy you are forgotten

you are the ways of my mistakes

I catch the rainfall

through the leaking roof

that you had left behind

you remind me

of that leak in my soul

the rain falls

my friends call

leaking rain on the phone

 

take a day paint some trees

may they shade you from me

may your children play beneath

 

blank page was all the rage

 

never meant to say anything

in bed I was half dead

tired of dreaming of rest

got dressed drove the state line

looking for you at the five and dime

but there I was picking pieces up

you are a ghost

of my indecision

no more little girl

 

17

 

17 seconds of compassion

17 seconds of peace

17 seconds to remember love is the energy

behind witch all is created

17 seconds to remember all that is good

17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain

17 seconds of faith

17 seconds to trust you again

17 seconds of radiance

17 seconds to send a prayer up

17 seconds is all that you need