Japanese Whispers


  1. Let's Go To Bed
  2. The Dream
  3. Just One Kiss
  4. The Upstairs Room
  5. The Walk
  6. Speak My Language
  7. La Ment
  8. The Lovecats




      Let's Go To Bed



      Let me take your hand
      I'm shaking like milk
      Turning
      Turning blue
      All over the windows and the floors
      Fires outside in the sky
      Look as perfect as cats
      The two of us together again
      But it's just the same
      A stupid game

      But I don't care if you don't
      And I don't feel if you don't
      And I don't want it if you don't
      And I won't say it
      If you don't say it first

      You think you're tired now
      But wait until three...
      Laughing at the Christmas lights
      You remember
      From December

      All of this then back again
      Another girl
      Another name
      Stay alive but stay the same
      It's just the same
      A stupid game


      But I don't care if you don't
      And I don't feel if you don't
      And I don't want it if you don't
      And I won't play it
      If you don't play it first

      You can't even see now
      So you ask me the way
      You wonder if it's real
      Because it couldn't be rain...
      Through the right doorway
      And into the white room
      It used to be the dust that would lay here
      When I came here alone

      But I don't care if you don't
      And I don't feel if you don't
      And I don't want it if you don't
      And I won't say it
      If you don't say it first

      Doo doo doo doo
      Let's go to bed!
      Doo doo doo doo
      Let's go to bed!




      The Dream



      You're too far away
      Too far away to touch
      And this mother's love inside me
      Hurts too much
      Prettily waving
      Playing on the sand
      Dreaming of everything
      Dancing
      Dancing in our hands
      Dancing
      Dancing

      Dizzy dizzy dizzy
      As I speak
      Like a tumbling cat
      I watch in fascination
      Like a vampire bat
      Don't do it don't do it
      Don't do it don't do it
      Don't give it away
      We'll use it up tomorrow
      If we don't use it today

      Rest your head
      Oh! just put it outside
      All wrapped up in ribbons
      The night
      The dream
      The time love died

      We pushed it in our mouths
      Pushed it deep inside
      All wrapped up in ribbons
      The night
      The dream
      The time
      Love died





      Just One Kiss



      Remember the time that you rained all night
      The queen of Siam in my arms
      Remember the time that the islands sank
      But nobody opened their eyes

      Remember that time that the trees fell down
      The wood crashing through the wall
      Remember the sound that could wake the dead
      But nobody woke up at all

      Somebody died for this
      Somebody died for just one kiss

      Remember the time that the sky went black
      We waited alone on the sands
      Remember the taste of the raging sea
      But nobody held out their hands

      Somebody died for this
      Somebody died
      For just one kiss

      Just one kiss
      Just one kiss




      The Upstairs Room



      I love it all
      These games we play
      I close my eyes
      You run away
      I'm sure I asked you to stay
      But now you're gone

      And so I feel the grey
      Pulse in my head
      I turn off the lights and crawl into bed
      I try to think of sunshine
      But my body goes wet
      With the first crash of thunder...

      I don't think I can know
      Anyone but you dear
      That's for sure!

      When it gets to four
      It's my turn to go
      Oh the kiss!
      So alcoholic and slow
      Arranging me for Saturday
      I thought you would know
      That I always sleep alone...

      I don't think I can know
      Anyone but you
      Dear
      That's for sure!

      The upstairs room is cool and bright
      We can go up there in summer
      And dance all night...

      Your sister started talking at a minute after ten
      So everyone jumped up
      And then fell over again
      In April you can join them
      And stare at me
      At the ghost from your past...





      The Walk



      I called you after midnight
      Then ran until I burst
      I passed the howling woman
      And stood outside your door

      We walked around a lake
      And woke up in the rain
      And everyone turned over
      Troubled in their dreams again

      Visiting time is over
      And so we walk away
      And both play dead then cry out loud
      Why we always cry this way?

      I kissed you in the water
      And made your dry lips sing
      I saw you look
      Like a Japanese baby
      In an instant I remembered everything...

      I called you after midnight
      Then ran until my heart burst
      I passed the howling woman
      And stood outside your door

      I kissed you in the water
      And made your dry lips sing
      I saw you look
      Like a Japanese baby
      In an instant I remembered everything...




      Speak My Language



      It was only yesterday
      Waving arms across the street
      Your white face left me blue...
      How can I say all the things
      I have to say to you?
      Oh! all the people here
      All look the same...
      The little time I spend with you
      We drink each other dry

      Mammnnarghaassstmmetc!
      Speak my language!

      It was only yesterday
      My eyes touched yours across the street
      We cut the words
      And waved goodbye
      And dropped off the edge of the world

      Mammnnarghaassstmmetc!
      Speak my language!




      La Ment



      Today there was a tragedy
      Underneath the bridge
      A man walked
      Cold and blue
      Into La Ment
      The sky coloured perfect
      As the man slipped away
      Waving with a last vanilla smile...

      Somewhere at a table
      Two drowned fools
      Smoking
      Drinking water as they talked
      Of how they loved our lady
      And oh! the smell as candles die...

      One more ice cream river body
      Flowed underneath the bridge
      Underneath the bridge




      The Lovecats



      We move like cagey tigers
      We couldn't get closer than this
      The way we walk
      The way we talk
      The way we stalk
      The way we kiss
      We slip through the streets
      While everyone sleeps
      Getting bigger and sleeker
      And wider and brighter
      We bite and scratch and scream all night
      Let's go and throw
      All the songs we know...

      Into the sea
      You and me
      All these years and no one heard
      I'll show you in spring
      It's a treacherous thing
      We missed you hissed the lovecats

      We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
      Wonderfully pretty!
      Oh you know that I'd do anything for you...
      We should have each other to tea huh?
      We should have each other with cream
      Then curl up by the fire
      And sleep for awhile
      It's the grooviest thing
      It's the perfect dream

      Into the sea
      You and me
      All these years and no one heard
      I'll show you in spring
      It's a treacherous thing
      We missed you hissed the lovecats

      We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
      Wonderfully pretty!
      Oh you know that I'd do anything for you...
      We should have each other to dinner huh?
      We should have each other with cream
      Then curl up in the fire
      Get up for awhile
      It's the grooviest thing
      It's the perfect dream

      Hand in hand
      Is the only way to land
      And always the right way round
      Not broken in pieces
      Like hated little meeces...
      How could we miss
      Someone as dumb as this?

      I love you... let's go...
      Oh... solid gone...
      How could we miss
      Someone as dumb as this?












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