@ALBUM: bloodletting @ARTIST: Concrete Blonde @SONG: Bloodletting (the Vampire song) There's a crack in the mirror and a bloodstain on the bed- there's a crack in the mirror and a bloodstain on the bed- O you were a vampire and baby I'm walking dead O you were a vampire and baby I'm walking dead Chorus: I got the ways and means to New Orleans I'm going down by the river where it's warm and green I'm gonna have a drink, and walk around I got a lot to think about oh yeah There's a rocking chair by the window down the hall I hear something in the shadow down the hall O you where a vampire and now I am nothing at all O you where a vampire and now I am nothing at all (Chorus) They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night They were naked as the day they were born skin all bone-china white O you were a vampire and I may never see the light (Chorus) @SONG: The Sky is a Poisonous Garden The stars above shine down below the fever you hold on this night deathly cold I can feel from this side of the door I can feel Eleanor He said, sun don't rise... he said sun don't shine he said don't bring tomorrow to justify tonight The moon is full-the stars are bright and the sky is a poisonous garden tonight. Sip your Tequila. Give me some time to unlearn all I've learned for the spring to unwind and then came your sweet mouth I began to move mine. They knew with the dawn- they knew with the day they knew what they had would be young naked prey and attacked from all sides by a world filled with poison and hate Eleanor trembles. Eleanor moans. Somehow, this body is someone she always has known she cries tears on his chest O so silent and slow- She said please don't go. Please don't go- and she cried and she died in his arms and he cried nevermore the moon is full, the stars are bright and the sky is a poisonous garden tonight. @SONG: Caroline I hear you're driving someone else's car now- she said you came and took your stuff away. All the poetry and the trunk you kept your life in- I knew that it would come to that someday when I opened up my eyes- the train had passed the station and you where trapped inside and I never wonder where you went I only wonder why... Chorus: Oh Caroline Oh Caroline Oh Caroline Oh Caroline Well I hear you're using someone else's number she said she saw you in the store today it don't matter whose address you're listed under I only know they'll never make you stay Like a memory in motion, you where only passing through That is all you've ever known of life, but that's all you'll ever do. There's a dream I have where I sail away and I'm looking back at you and I wave goodbye I wonder why I wonder... (Chorus) In another life I see you As an angel flying high, And the hands of time will free you - You will cast your chains aside - And the dawn will come and kiss away Every tear that?s ever fallen From your eyes... Behind those eyes, I wonder @SONG: Darkening of the Light Like a ghost-is the curtain in the white light of the morning- dancing in the morning are you there-are you there? and a shadow-like a sadness falling all across the garden dancing in the garden are you there, are you there? Chorus: Shine on, friend. Goodnight Why then the darkening of the light and the leaves at my feet whisper sounds so familiar whisper so familiar- are you there? are you there? (Chorus) where the clouds pull apart and the moon changes faces in the quiet secret places are you there? are you there? @SONG: I Don't Need a Hero You always said I was a liar but we burn like a house on fire... no matter what, you know that to be true and everything you gave to me changed everything I used to be much more than anyone I ever knew Chorus: and I don't need a hero I don't need a soldier I did when I was younger- but now that I'm older I don't need a father I don't wanna be your mother it's just that anyone of us is half without another one is you The colors of that piece of time and still so fresh inside my mind and it makes the movie of my like seem pale- and all the games I have to play I got to give a lot of me away but the part with us will never be for sale (Chorus) The words of love have been confused the ways of love have been abused- is this a lottery you win or lose? I don't know- It's a endless circle over time the place inside where I hold and find your sweet and happy music in my soul @SONG: Days and Days The dirty leaves are sailing on a hot wind ocean and the summer comes and the summer goes and always has & will and something somewhere that you said goes ricochet all through my head and flashing like a neon sign the time stand still Chorus: Hours of forever, coming all together at the crossroads of a minute. And you and me were in it and I never saw it coming. never saw it fade away today, today, today....Days and Days and still the whining of the wheels sounds closest to the way I fell and winter comes, and winter goes. And always has & will another hour, another day, another year you pissed away remember walking in the Rain? I'm walking there still. (Chorus) Like every heart to the beat before and every wave to kiss a shore I'm not the first, I'm not the last... And soon to be your past but every morning, when the light comes creeping in around my eyes another future falls behind the one I had in mind @SONG: The Beast The prey of the beast screamed bloody murder the line is so fine between hoping and hurting former believers they beg for release as love looking down on them Smiles and picks his teeth trapped in between heaven and hell he knows all the secrets and don't want to tell there's nowhere to run and there's nowhere to hide love knows you all too well He will find you Love is the ghost haunting your head love is the killer you thought was your friend love is the creature who lives in the dark sneaks up, will stick you and painfully pick you apart Love is a poet, love sings the songs pointing his finger you follow along voices are calling, the monster wants out of you paws you and claws you, you try not to fall Love is the leech, sucking you up love is a vampire, drunk on your blood love is the beast that will tear out your heart hungrily lick it and painfully pick it apart (Repeats) Love is a ghost, haunting your head love is the killer you thought was your friend Love is the teacher who lives in the dark sneak up and stick you and painfully pick you apart @SONG: Lullabye When the sky has fallen like a blanket on your shoulder and the moon is like a mother looking over you forever and the dawn is so familiar you were meant to be together like a fog around a mountain-forever Chorus: so softly-so sweetly surrounding you completely sing you a lullabye-a lullabye to you when your breathing is the wind and your crying is the rain well I know you will remember because the music is forever the living of a lover- and the loving of another like a sister to a brother like a father to a mother (Chorus) @SONG: Joey Joey, baby-don't get crazy detours. fences... I get defensive I know you've heard it all before- so I don't say it anymore I just stand by and watch you fight your secret war. Although I used to wonder why- I used to cry till I was dry. Still sometimes I get a strange pain inside Oh, Joey, if you're hurting, so am I. Joey, Honey-I got some money all is forgiven. Listen, listen and if I seem confused I didn't mean to be with you. And when you said I scared you, well I guess you scared me too. But we go lucky once before and if you're somewhere out there passed out on the floor. Oh Joey, I'm not angry anymore. @SONG: Tomorrow, Wendy (this is about someone with AIDS as explained in concert) It is complete now-two ends of time are neatly tied a one-way street, she's walking to the end of the line and there she meets the faces she sees in her heart and mind They say-goodbye-tomorrow Wendy's going to die underneath the chilly gray November sky we can make believe that Kennedy is still alive we're shooting for the moon and smiling Jackie's driving by They say-good try- tomorrow Wendy's going to die I told the priest-don't count on any second coming. God got his ass kicked the first time He came down here slumming He had the balls to come, the Gall to die and then forgive us- no, I don't wonder why I wonder what he thought it would get us-hey hey, good try- tomorrow Wendy's going to die