Eye Lyrics

CYNTHIA MASK
napoleon
wore a black hat
ate lots of chicken
and conquered half europe
napoleon
was caught by the british
imprisoned on elba
he died on the phone

chamberlain
came crawling from munich
with one piece of paper
he waved at the camera
peace in our time
oh thank you herr hitler
tell that to the polish
tell that to the jews

you take your babes
up to the bathroom
and then you lead
them into the bedroom
gnarly babes
for pleasure and profit
correctly applied
could bring good results

cynthia mask
you're wearing a cynthia mask
cynthia mask
you're wearing a cynthia mask

you're dressed as yourself
you walk down the pavement
you smile like a bowl
you grin like a melon
the people that pass
they think that they know you
they're too busy thinking
to see who you are

i'll reach your lungs
like smoke in the orchard
scattered in bushes
the firemen laughing
i'll rap your hands
with personal signals
don't come to me later
come to me now

cynthia mask
you're wearing a cynthia mask
cynthia mask

cynthia mask
i know how she feels
but can't say a word because
nothing is real in here
not even her

disguise yourself
as you or another
a brick or a spider
in hunger and silence
the yawning cross
the hill full of pebbles
inside you forever
inside you is all

cynthia mask

CERTAINLY CLICKOT
(she's certainly clickot)
(she's certainly cruel)

she was tapering to a point
in a corona of foam
i had one chance to stop her eggs
pronounced 'eggs' or 'brad'
but although inches from her column
i started falling out

dover, get undressed, this
car is parked with a sponge
a mine is a persuasive place
especially when it's dark

she uncorked herself
teeth spilling from her nostrils
her handle inflated to fill
my hand just so

and in her breast pocket she wore
a fish named angelo
of which i have the duplicate
eric

QUEEN ELVIS
people get what they deserve
time is round and space is curved
honey, have you got the nerve
to be queen elvis?

see that man who mows his lawn
he'll hang in drag before the dawn
some are made and some are born
to be queen elvis

it could break your mother's heart
it could break your sister's heart
coming out's the hardest part
when you're queen elvis

justify your special ways
justify your special ways

getting blow-jobs from the press
oh, i'm jealous can't you guess?
i could never fit your dress
queen elvis

oh and i'll sculpt you
so very hard
oh and i'll sculpt you
'til you bleed

everybody must get stoned
all together all alone
babbling beside the throne
of queen elvis

justify your special ways
justify your special ways

two mirrors make infinity
in the mirror you and me
find out just what love could be
queen elvis

oh and i'll sculpt you
so very hard
oh and i'll sculpt you
'til you breathe

people get what they deserve
time is round and space is curved
honey, have you got the nerve
to be queen elvis?

FLESH CARTOONS
linda ryan
in the sky
i've seen her laughing
but i've never seen her cry

she took a fireman
it was a half empty flight
he brought his hose and
everything just turned out right

i'm just watching

german leather
a german tongue
lapping pleasure
when he's rubbery and young

he played the oboe
i thought he would
he does it better
than a guitarist like me could

i'm just watching
don't mind me
i'm just watching
on my own

flesh cartoons
flesh cartoons

life is easy
life goes by
linda ryan
she's still up there in the sky

thank you linda
she doesn't age
despite the weather
she looks the same on every page

i'm just watching
don't mind me
i'm just watching
on my own

i've got no feelings
i've got no friends
i've got insurance
and i despise those who pretend
life's a movie
life's a dream
i love you baby
things are always what they seem

i'm just watching
don't mind me
i'm just watching
on my own

flesh cartoons
flesh cartoons

'CHINESE WATER PYTHON'
[instrumental]

EXECUTIONER
don't wait up any longer
i'm not coming home
you know you're always stronger
when you're on you're own
you said the sweetest things
that's what you said
here's a relationship
with a gun to its head

i'm the executioner of love

our love has been found guilty
our love is turning bad
before i pass the sentence
have you anything to add?
it wasn't easy but
it wasn't fun
but when you start these things
see what you've done

you're the executioner of love
you're the executioner

your childhood is over
there's nowhere you can hide
there's nowhere you can hide
there's nowhere you can hide

it crawls towards you bleeding
begging for a kiss
even if you don't mean it
it's only just a kiss
i know how judas felt
but he got paid
i'm doing this for free
just like live aid

i'm the executioner of love
i'm the executioner of love
i'm the executioner of love

LINCTUS HOUSE
you know i used to call my baby up
and we'd get real close
just like the telephone was a sofa
and our thoughts would mingle
and we'd leave our minds wide open
like a big window in the evening air
and we'd say,
'hey baby, come on in and help yourself to my soul'
'hey baby, come on in and help yourself to my soul'
but these days, even saying, 'hello? how are you?'
'i'm fine, how are you?' takes a lot of sweat

ain't that a shame
ain't that a shame
but in linctus house
in my flesh hotel
i don't care anymore

you know my baby and me
as kimberley would say
we'd curl up like two dogs
in front of a fire
and our eyes would reflect each other
in the warm long heat of love
yeah, the warm long heat of love
and i would hear the rain falling
on the leaves outside
i could'nt stand to close the window
'cos i'd shiver if i left her side
but now i'd shake if we should meet
and i spend most of my time in the bushes

ain't that a shame
know what you're doing
ain't that a shame
know what you've done
but in linctus house
in my flesh hotel
i don't care anymore

'i understand how everything sometimes
turns out to be nothing,' you say
but i wonder if you do
and if we understood each other
there'd be no need to talk
but even that, even talking is out of reach
should i say it with flowers or
should i say it with nails?
i'm not the kind to push you around
but i don't want to make myself vulnerable
and if i was on my knees
you'd have a pretty good view of my skull
and i happen to know you're carrying a chisel

but in linctus hotel
in my flesh hotel
i don't care anymore
no
in linctus house
in my flesh hotel
i don't care

ain't that a shame
know what you're doing
ain't that a shame
know what you've done

SWEET GHOST OF LIGHT
sweet ghost of light, when you appear
you fall around me, everywhere
i see your face as you pass by
as fragile as a dragonfly
you jab me in the kidneys like
a compass or an iron spike
but i can't help believing you
because i love the things you do

sweet ghost of light, i've lived too long
i'd die for you inside this song
the sweetest death that i can dream
like petals flowing down a stream
that turn to blood, as they dissolve
it's all around you i revolve

sweet ghost of light, you'll never fade
by nothing else are you betrayed
you fill me 'til i'm empty and
you empty me like grains of sand
i love you more than anyone
beneath the moon, beneath the sun

COLLEGE OF ICE
[instrumental]

TRANSPARENT LOVERS
on the horizon of the gulls and plovers
she saw the outline of transparent lovers
in a hotel room underneath the covers
who should i see but the transparent lovers
why is she built that way i soon discovered
try to embrace her your transparent lover
try to belong to her you won't recover
see your reflected in your transparent lover

gone lord, gone, gone
fade boy, fade
gone lord, gone, gone

faintly above the cliffs they held each other
one is the angel, one's the transparent lovers
your going to lose her like you lost your mother
but you'll remember your transparent lover
all men are killers or they're killers brothers
i'm going to die for my transparent lover

my transparent lover

gone lord, gone, gone
fade boy, fade
gone lord, gone, gone

summery phantom as she fade she hovers
i'm going to find her my transparent lover

my transparent lover

BEAUTIFUL GIRL
i'm in love with a beautiful girl
yes i'm in love with a beautiful girl
well i thought i knew all about everything
but i'm in love with a beautiful girl

and she's staring through a crack in the sky
yes she's staring through a crack in the sky
well i thought i knew all about everything
but i'm in love with a beautiful girl
well i thought i knew all about everything
but i was wrong

well i thought i knew all about everything
i thought i knew all about everything
but i'm in love with a beautiful girl
yes, i'm in love with a beautiful girl
oh, i thought i knew all about everything
but i'm in love with a beautiful girl

she's in love with a wonderful guy
yes, she's in love with a wonderful guy
well i hope she's in love with whom i think she's in love
i'm in love with a beautiful girl

i'm a charming and dangerous guy
yes, i'm a charming and dangerous guy
if you don't expect too much it's alright
i'm in love with a beautiful girl
yes, i'm in love with a beautiful girl
well i thought i knew all about everything
but i'm in love with a beautiful girl

and we're going through a hole in the sky
yeah, we're going through a hole in the sky
we'll be up there for the longest while
'cos i'm in love with a beautiful girl
yes, i'm in love with a beautiful girl

well i thought i knew all about everything
but i'm in love with a beautiful girl
yes, i'm in love with a beautiful girl
well i thought i knew all about everything
but i'm in love with a beautiful girl

RAINING TWILIGHT COAST
i'm on a raining twilight coast
sending out postcards to the one i love
and the rain falls, up from the ground
no one sees it, 'cos there's no one around

just one thing baby, you forgot my heart
just one thing baby, you forgot my heart

and i remember when i was young, they said, "work hard,"
and i said "certainly, 'cos it's fun"
and so i tried it, i did what i could
made no difference, it never did any good

just one thing baby, you forgot my heart
just one thing baby, you forgot my heart

'cos i'm a fish baby, with a shimmering skin
and i find an opening, and slide right in
the sea is my mother, pea green and wild
there's so many ways, you can screw up a child

just one thing baby, you forgot my heart
just one thing baby, you forgot my heart

CLEAN STEVE
man next door came round one night
to ask me for a drink
i said i didn't anymore
he said, 'that's what you think'

a tendril curled around his leg
as he got up to leave
he said, 'a friend of yours was here
but we all call him steve'

clean steve
clean steve
they don't come any dirtier than me
better watch out all you space cats
clean steve is a mineral man

my cousin bruce came round to stay
the father of my son
he tore apart a stethoscope
and pointed at the sun

'there's tentacles between our worlds,'
he said, 'so i believe'
i said, 'the man next door's best friend
was making videos with clean steve'

you could have knocked him down with a feather

clean steve lent me a pound
in nineteen seventy-four
that was a lot of money then
i was extremely poor

we had a party three years later
clean steve wore a robe
he brought a new nick lowe cassette
and played it in the road

clean steve
clean steve
they don't come any dirtier than me
better watch out all you space cats
clean steve is a mineral man

i called up mark ellen
but he wasn't really in
instead i talked to his wife claire
about some gigs she'd seen

clean steve was outside the house
watching both his feet
we all had dinner with him once
he gave us lots to eat

there's some real people in the world
and some who are pretend
clean steve is making videos
with the man next door's best friend

he's good at playing frisbee
and his teeth are shining bright
i think he comes from liverhead
if all my facts are right

clean steve
clean steve
they don't come any dirtier than me
better watch out all you space cats
clean steve is a mineral man

AGONY OF PLEASURE
in agony of pleasure
i crumble to my knees
i lick your frozen treasure
you cup my furry bees

but one bee bubbles over
your fleshy brimming cup
it falls into the clover
and lands all downside up

it crawls across your stomach
not far above the food
that you are still digesting
inside your large intestine

and into your hydrangea
it draws its furry legs
you're crouching like a stranger
that aches to lay her eggs

in ecstacy of pressure
you quiver in the jam
while naked angels measure
a piece of rotting ham

in symphonies of jelly
you play with my disease
while back across your belly
there crawl dusty bees

GLASS HOTEL
seems like you were in a glass hotel
seems like, seems like
seems like there was someone else as well
seems like, it seems

seems like you were in your glass hotel
seems like, seems like
it seems like everything was going well
it seems like a dream

well the radio was playing
in the darkness of the hall
there was someone standing with you
who just wasn't there at all
and you were laughing

well the telephone was ringing
in a corridor of blue
a geranium came out of it
reminded me of you
and i was crying

seems like you were in a glass hotel
seems like, it seems like
seems like there was someone else as well
it seems like, it seems

well there's nothing in the future
and there's nothing in the past
there is only this one moment
and you've got to make it last
and you were laughing in a glass hotel

SATELLITE
every day the satellite
seems to be the door of someone's reach
every day the satellite
seems a little further on the beach

satellites and stags
i'm growing betsy in a bag
and she don't mind
as long as things are round

every day the satellite
jerky little canister of gold
who's to be the satellite
with inches of whole betsy growing cold

i'm into you so far
i'm out the other side
and orbiting is just a waste of time
next time i get into you
i swear to god i won't come out again
swear to god i won't come out again

satellites and stags
i'm growing betsy in a bag
and she don't mind
as long as things are round

every day the satellite
seems a little further out of reach

AQUARIUM
in the aquarium
you stroked a greasy ray
just at the end of day
way down in monterey

in the aquarium
the fish went through the trees
the planes went through the seas
and you were still with me

everything revolves around the sun
you know i'm gonna miss you when i'm gone
everything revolves

i never knew a thing about you
i never knew a thing about you
i headed in a dream towards you
i wonder if i ever saw you
but i never knew a thing about you

she says she's gonna saw her head off
she only does it for attention
like other people i could mention
she wasn't feeling good to start with
you're not someone i want to part with
all you need is love
but all you get is afraid

everything revolves around the sun
you know i'm gonna miss you when i'm gone
everything revolves

QUEEN ELVIS II
people get what they deserve
time is round and space is curved
honey, have you got the nerve
to be queen elvis?

see that man that mows his lawn
he'll hang in drag before the dawn
some are made and some are born
to be queen elvis

it could break your mother's heart
it could break your sister's heart
coming out's the hardest part
when you're queen elvis

justify your special ways
justify your special ways

getting blow-jobs from the press
oh, i'm jealous can't you guess?
i'd never fit inside your dress
queen elvis

oh and i'll sculpt you
so very hard
oh and i'll sculpt you
'til you bleed

everybody must get stoned
all together all alone
babbling beside the throne
of queen elvis

justify your special ways
justify your special ways

two mirrors make infinity
in the mirror you and me
find out just what love could be
queen elvis

oh and i'll sculpt you
so very hard
oh and i'll sculpt you
'til you breathe

people get what they deserve
time is round and space is curved
honey, have you got the nerve
to be queen elvis?