Marc Almond Album

I lost you in the great big city
You gave me your number
But fate, she closed her eyes
And the wind blew it away
I know you're sometimes at a bar
But I can't recall the name
You could have called
I'm sure you have a story
And you're not to blame

In time the tears will come
And the memory of you will hurt inside
I know life must go on
And I won't see you again

And life goes...
Oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh
I'll cry tomorrow baby
Oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh
But tonight I'm gonna dance

Brilliant creatures
We were brilliant creatures

Bitterness is a pure feeling
Makes me feel that life's worth living
And when the pain becomes too much
I'll turn and walk away

Just standing in the rain
I'll take the romance of the night
I'm not gonna waste my time
I've got a life to live

And life goes...
Oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh
I'll cry tomorrow baby
Oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh
But tonight I'm gonna dance

Am I still in your heart
Or do I shed my tears for nothing
Do you think of me at all
Tell me that it all means something
I could wait for you to call
But when tomorrow never seems to come
I'll close my heart to you
Promises, I've heard them all before

Outside the snow is falling
In my heart a voice is calling
Time to end the story
Turn and walk away
Remember that we were brilliant creatures
Flaming creatures
For a fleeting moment in a dream
And life goes on

Out there in the jungle
Dancing to the beat
Out there on a limb
Pumping up the heat
We can tango making pictures
In the smoke and shine
As in our heads the chemicals
Turn crystalline
We can turn on the power
And make the zombies fight
I'm dancing on the table
And the city is mine tonight

Out there table dancing
In the city that eats the sky
Out there table dancing
In the city that eats the sky

And it's love by mirrors tonight
And it's love by illusion (all right)
When you're out there, out there (x4)
When you're out there

Up there on the table there's a different view of life
Up there on the table there's a different view of life

And it's love by mirrors tonight
And it's love by illusion (all right)
When you're out there, out there (x4)
When you're out there

The city's alive the city's alive tonight
The city's alive the city's alive
There'll be no crying tonight
'Cause it's

And it's love by mirrors tonight
And it's love by illusion (all right)
When you're out there, out there (x4)
When you're out there

Out there is a furious sky
A savage scream in the city machine
Out there there's a place for you and I
Out there the fabulous die
The subway stars are stealing cars
Out there we can dream, we can dream
When we're out there

And it's love by mirrors tonight
And it's love by illusion (all right)
When you're out there, out there (x4)
When you're out there

Join the drama of the urban scene
With leather jackets and gasoline
You can use your attitude
Let the city get you in the mood

We can dream, we can dream
Of adventure in the land of love
We can dream of adventure in the land of love

Strip and tease and bump and grind
It's not real, it's in your mind
Take the stage when the crowd is yours
Bathe yourself in the cheap applause
Let's go naked, let's all fly
We could dream or we could die, tonight

Behind the dirt
Sprawled before us
Behind narrow eyes
And faces of fat
Beyond those hands
Opened or closed
That strain in vain
Nor raise thier fists
Further than frontiers
That barb our path
Further than misery
We must look

We must look at
What is beauty
The grey sky or blue
The women by the stream
The faithful friend
Tomorrow's sun
The fly to the swallow
The boat that returns
The faithful friend
Tomorrow's sun
The fly to the swallow
The boat that returns

Beyond the concert
Of sobbs and tears
Of cries of anger
Of men in fear
Beyond the din of
Streets and singers
Of warning sirens
Of swearing porters
Stronger than children
Who recount the wars
And stronger than
The great who've made us make them

We must listen to
The bird in the wood
THe murmer of summer
The rising of blood
THe mother soft songs
The childrens prayer
And the noise of the earth
Gently falling to sleep
THe mother soft songs
The childrens prayer
And the noise of the earth
Gently falling to sleep

We must listen
We must look

Hail Hail the Idol
Hail Hail the Idol

Idol be bad
Idol be wild
Martyr your heart
Father a love child
We need all your kinks
And your dark attitude
We live on your sins
And your volatile moods

We love you, we love you
We love you, we love you
You're a pop up poster of a teenage dream
We love you, we love you
We love you, we love you
A fur inferno on a twisted scene

Go for the gold
Never grow old
In the bed or the car
It's the end of the star
Burn yourself out
Do yourself in
Don't try to mend
All gods fall in the end

Hail Hail the Idol
Hail Hail the Idol

We loved you in black
We adored you in pink
Up in the dock
Or drowned in the drink
Wrapped up in foil
Anointed in oil

We love you, we love you
We love you, we love you
Rip out your soul as you're playing the role
We love you, we love you
We love you, we love you
Nail up your hands to fulfil our demands

Go for the gold
Never grow old
In the bed or the car
It's the end of the star
Burn yourself out
Do yourself in
Don't try to mend
All gods fall in the end

Sweet crucifixion

We hate you, we hate you
We hate you, we hate you
Watch them turn cold as you start to grow old
We hate you, we hate you
We hate you, we hate you
Vinyl to burn as the crowd starts to turn

Go for the gold
Never grow old
In the bed or the car
It's the end of the star
Burn yourself out
Do yourself in
Don't try to mend
All gods fall in the end

Be what you are
In the bed or the car
In the bath or the bar
It's the end of the star
Burn yourself out
Do yourself in
Don't try to mend
All gods fall in the end

Fail Fail the Idol
Fail Fail the Idol
Fail Fail the Idol
Fail Fail the Idol

All gods fall in the end

Valentino the sheik was the God of them all
But his macho was dented and he took a fall
Garland sang tragedy touching our hearts
But her life was a tragedy more than her art
Fabian and Avalon gold lamed and cute
Kissed fickle fame and went straight down the chute
Elvis the cat loved us tender with youth
But what we were seeing was never the truth
Just wanted to sing but fame made its demands
And died while still young trying to please all his fans
James was a rebel that stood for an age
A drink and a drive and then death took the stage
Poor Billie Holliday paid all her dues
When her close friend the needle gave her the blues
Janis at night cruised for boys on the strip
But death by the bottle is what made her hip
Marylin's beauty showed age every day
But her sinister end helped her keep age away

We love you, we love you
We love you, we love you
We love you, we love you
We love you, we love you

Brian Jones had an aura that Mick soon would crave
But pills and a pool set the scene for the grave
Jim lived his life to put edge to his songs
But he died in the bath to reach where he belongs
Jimi played notes that were all heaven-sent
But the drink and the drugs made sure that's where he went
Osmond and Cassidy records all gold
But they made the mistake of growing too old
Bolan got fat was not pleasant to see
But we loved him again when he met with a tree
Kurt was unhappy with fame and success
A gun in the mouth and one hell of a mess
And who will be next on the big cross of fame?
A white sequinned glove and a big famous name?

We hate you, we hate you
We hate you, we hate you
We hate you, we hate you
We hate you, we hate you

He's bringing trouble
A suitcase of heartache
Another sad scene on the way
He wears a necklace of tears
A string of bright trophies
Throwing a new love away every day

It must be the angel in her kiss
That makes him the devil in her arms
It must be the angel in her kiss
That makes him the devil in her arms

She was as sad as the sea out of season
The winter took her baby away
Stitched up her dreams
With Italian seams
And buried the needle away
I gotta say

It must be the angel in her kiss
That makes him the devil in her arms
It must be the angel in her kiss
That makes him the devil in her arms

And she'd kill for the thrill
Of the love in his eyes
Billy Macbeth all thunder and lies
Show her the way to his hand in his glove
That put her the candle she lit for his love

It must be the angel in her kiss
That makes him the devil in her arms
It must be the angel in her kiss
That makes him the devil in her arms

She's just another lost case
To the heart of a man
Another lost case
To the heart of a man

I would like to clip your wings
Grounded angels are useless things

It must be the angel in her kiss
That makes him the devil in her arms
It must be the angel in her kiss
That makes him the devil in her arms

Wild wild child of the London night
Prowling under cover of the city lights
Waiting for a chance to strike, strike, strike
You're gonna strike at my heart
Tonight

There's trouble going on
Behind your eyes
Blue little eyes
Where trouble lies
They gave you too much trouble
But not enough time
The time starts here
And here you'll find
I want to be inside
Be inside your mind
Riding where your secrets hide
And worship at the shrine

It's time to be adored and explored
So you wanna be adored and explored
And you're gonna be adored and explored
So come on and be adored and explored

There's a storm coming up behind your eyes
You're gonna give the world a big surprise
They gave you too much trouble but not enough time
Now there's plenty of time so for now be mine

It's time to be adored and explored
So you wanna be adored and explored
And you're gonna be adored and explored
So come on and be adored and explored

No more tears
For downtrodden years
You're an undiscovered land
Unexplored by man
Open your mind
Leave it all behind
Its all there to find
In a too bright mind
Unconventional child
You ran too wild
Now its written in the sky
You'll emerge as the butterfly
As the butterfly

So you wanna be adored and explored
And you're gonna be adored and explored
Yeah, it's time to be adored and explored
So come on and be adored and explored
Adored and explored
You wanna be adored and explored (x3)
Adored and explored
Adored and explored...

A winter morning sun in New York
Champagne wakes and checks the time
It's hard to keep a cup of coffee down
When there's so much on your mind
Kicks a cockroach 'cross the bedroom floor
Checks the mirror grabs some clothes
Waits for the aching to subside
Where to find it no-one knows

And they say you're doing fine
They're just playing with your mind
And they never even know your name
But they all want you to shine
To glitter all the time
They all want a little taste of Champagne

Takes the subway early afternoon
Downtown to Eighth Avenue
To the Show Palace Theatre
Where Champagne bares all
In a low rent nude revue
In the darkness shadow people
Stare at Champagne glassy eyed
Takes the tips and imitates a smile
Waits for the aching to subside

And they say you're doing fine
They're just playing with your mind
And they never even know your name
But they all want you to shine
To glitter all the time
They all want a little taste of Champagne

Later in a room
On a little glass pipe
Sweet dreams to help him
Forget his life
He leans on the wall
Rolls back his eyes
And says to all the aching Goodbye

Keep on looking now
You gotta keep on looking now
Keep on looking now

You're looking for love
In all the wrong places

Where your walk it's always shadow
Conversation always shallow
When they talk they never look you in the eye
They look over your shoulder
To faces even colder
And you feel a little older
Every time

You're looking for love
In all the wrong places

When you're looking for reaction
When you're searching for direction
When you're scared of rejection
Or attack
You need the warmth of loving
When you're growing tired of seeing
A colourless reflection
Looking back

You're looking for love
In all the wrong places

Something real to fill those little empty spaces
So you're looking for love in all the wrong places

You need understanding
You need a home
All those people so alone
You need understanding
You need a home
All those people so alone

You're looking for love
In all the wrong places
You're looking for love
In all the wrong places

You better keep on looking now!

And so the evening shade will fall
Where nameless voices call and call
And think of all the friends you made
While you toast with Prozac and lemonade

You can hold me under septic skies
(You can dream to your own places)
Watch the sun set in my eyes
(You can't seem to put)
Could this be the time to die?
(A name to all the faces)
The wind upon your face
(Something real)
Your lips upon my lips
Like urban velvet
(To fill those little empty spaces)

So you're looking for love in all the wrong places
You keep on looking for love in all the wrong places

Dream and take away the tears
(Keep on looking now)
Drift on to where your heart is numb
(You gotta keep on looking now)
It's lovely there where love becomes
A drug to fill your need
Just believe in you!
And learn to love yourself
Before anyone else

I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough

And I wake up
And it's there like a freezing cloud
Passing over the sun
And I open my eyes
I'm not moving
White as a ghost
And stiff as a gun
And I wake up my senses
And I push all the stars from my head
Is this what it's like to be dead

And my heartbeat races onward to the other side of the city
Where you await for me to feed my addiction to you my love
I just can't get enough

I'm a lover, unrequited
There's a desperate look in my eyes
And I come with the night like a panther
With a longing for you in my sight
And I'm burning a candle at the window
Hoping you'll be drawn into the light

And my heartbeat races onward to the other side of the city
Where you await for me to feed my addiction to you my love
I'm addicted to you, I've got to have a little of your love
I just can't get enough

Getting hungry, feeling lovesick
Shivering cold with the longing for love
I'm above, like an eagle, flying low
But I know where to go I've the soul of a dove
Love's a need that consumes me gets into me
And of you I just can't get enough

And my heartbeat, races onward to the other side of the city
Where you await for me to feed my addiction to you my love
I can't get enough

One day the devil came above ground
One day the devil came above ground
To study his interests
He saw everything
The devil, he heard everything
And having seen all
Having heard all
He returned to his home below
And down below
They organised a grand feast
At the end of this feast
The devil rose to deliver his speach
This is the jist of what he said

Okay!

Okay
The world up there is like a sea
Of raging fires that spit and roar
Okay
And man has fought like crazy
With dangerous games of war
Okay
Trains are derailed
A crash
His boys filled with ideals
Place bombs on the tracks
Well that creates original death
That death creates without confession
Confessions without remission
Okay
Nothing is sold
But all is bought
Honour and sainthood
Okay
And states change secretly
Into anonymous societies
Okay hey hey
And the mighty extort their dollars
From countries that are poor
And Europe also rips the scars
With it's post colonial gorge
That creates death from starvation
And starvation of nations
Okay
And man has seen so much of it
That his eyes have become grey
Okay, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
And no songs seem to exist
Except when sung on stage
Okay
They dispense with hired thugs
And jack-ass poets get the elbow
but in the papers everywhere
Every shit has his photo
That creates evil in honest folk
And laughter in dishonest ones
Okay! Okay! Okay! Okay!
Okay! Okay! Okay! Okay!
Okay!
Okay! Hahaha!
Okay! Hahaha!
Okay

Fantasy dancer
Dangerous rhythm
Dance me your dance of
Love forbidden
Its love to die for
Love to cry for
Love to say goodbye for

Dance your way into my heart
Where I can love your scars
They tell me what you like
They tell me who you are
Come on and take my hand
You'll soon be seeing stars
And when you dance I dream
Of love in the extreme

How sweet and dark is love
When you have the taste for blood
It's love to die for
Love to cry for
Love to say goodbye for

Paint your eyes in
Thrill vermilion
Pout your lips
Bare your teeth
And look ferocious
You're to die for
You're to cry for
You're to say goodbye for

So what's on the menu
Is it violence again
And is that blood or lipstick
With which you're writing your name
You cut deep with sorrow
You carve it with disdain
And when I get you home
You'll never be alone
Again

Violence, violence, violence, violence
The violence, the violence of love

Violence, violence, violence, violence
The violence, the violence of love

Violence, violence
The glamour of violence
The glamorous violence
The glamour of your violence
The glamorous violence
The glamour of violence

Now you're kissing other guys
And when you kiss you close your eyes
Do you hold regrets or do you easily forget
Can you be so quickly swayed
Can tender words just fade away
Can you blame me for feeling betrayed

As one love dies a new begins
Do you say the same to him
If he knew the things I knew
Would he say "I love you too"
Soon you'll turn, for him too late
Recrimination and heartache
Would you blame him for feeling betrayed

Betrayed
Betrayed

Put all your trust in someone who
You believed was true to you
That's how a broken heart is made

Now I know your plan in mind
To take from everyone you find
Capture hearts with your cute smile
Hypnotise and beguile
Cruel love is the game you play
Were you treated once this way
The world dealt you a bad hand
And you're gonna make it pay
You were...

Betrayed
Betrayed

Put all your trust in someone who
You believed was true to you
That's how your broken heart was made
That's how your broken heart was made
That's how my broken heart was made
That's how my broken heart was made

Betrayed
Betrayed
You betrayed me
You betrayed me
That's how my broken heart was made
Another broken heart is made

On the prowl
Up to no good
Got to find a lover by midnight
On the prowl
Wish that I could
Satisfy my predator nature

Star shine bright
Won't you heal my sorrow tonight
Let's chase the moonlight
Burn the town to rubble
And go looking for some trouble
To fight

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

Out on the night's horizon we go
Up where the stars are hiding
Until the sun's arising
Look out we're all going on the prowl

On the prowl
Stalking the town
Gonna add you to my private collection
On the prowl
Hear me growl
Gonna trick you with my lies and deception
Hold on tight
As we go cruising down the strips and the alleys
Chasing like vampires
Tearing up the city
As we look for something pretty to bite

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

Out on the night's horizon we go
Up where the stars are hiding
Until the sun's arising
Look out we're all going on the prowl

Prowling the night
Looking for love
Searching for someone
To fit like a glove
Into the clubs
Into the bars
Dodging the lights
Kicking the cars
Prowling the night
For something to do
Stalking the town
Looking for you

Star shine bright
Won't you heal my sorrow tonight
Lets chase the moonlight
Burn the town to rubble
And go looking for some trouble
To fight

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

We're going on the prowl
And we go out on the night's horizon we go
Up where the stars are hiding
Until the sun's arising
Look out we're all going on the

Lost little child star
You stand on the stage
Your head in your hands
While you cry
You feel so afraid
That your beauty will fade
Into the indigo sky

Glamorous, beautiful, tragic and doomed
Always someone new close behind
All those tears, or just nails
Which harden your heart
What will I find when I look in your eyes?
I'll find that beauty is all in your mind

We grow and we bloom
Our glow fills the room
And we spend our short times
In the sun
But like the leaves in autumn
We fall to the ground
Spent...too young

I'm lost like you're lost
I'm in need of your shine
I'm unsure of the world just like you
Child star, oh child star
Look inside your heart
For beauty, oh beauty is you
Oh beauty, oh beauty
Is you

I lost you in the great big city
You gave me your number
But fate, she closed her eyes
And the wind blew it away
I know you're sometimes at a bar
But I can't recall the name
You could have called
I'm sure you have a story
And you're not to blame

In time the tears will come
And the memory of you will hurt inside
I know life must go on
And I won't see you again

And life goes...
Oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh
I'll cry tomorrow baby
Oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh
But tonight I'm gonna dance

Brilliant creatures
We were brilliant creatures

Bitterness is a pure feeling
Makes me feel that life's worth living
And when the pain becomes too much
I'll turn and walk away

Just standing in the rain
I'll take the romance of the night
I'm not gonna waste my time
I've got a life to live

And life goes...
Oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh
I'll cry tomorrow baby
Oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh
But tonight I'm gonna dance

Am I still in your heart
Or do I shed my tears for nothing
Do you think of me at all
Tell me that it all means something
I could wait for you to call
But when tomorrow never seems to come
I'll close my heart to you
Promises, I've heard them all before

Outside the snow is falling
In my heart a voice is calling
Time to end the story
Turn and walk away
Remember that we were brilliant creatures
Flaming creatures
For a fleeting moment in a dream
And life goes on

Once in a night
I spent in Istanbul
I had a dream of a forbidden world
Where even angels
Fear to look upon
A place where all of love is doomed to die

Her face appeared
Through clouds of bitter wine
Sour as the morning's early hours
She took my hair
And she curled it around
Her fingers
I was but a fool for love

The scent of Turkish oils
Mixed with the harsh tobacco
In the overcrowded bar
Hashish
And cool mint in her hair
I was a fool for love
I was a fool

She sang to me
A torch song softly laced
With mysteries Arabian
It poisoned my mind
A sickness in my soul
I tried
I didn't want to hear at all

A curtain fell
Before my eyes I did
Succumb into her healing breast
She sang that song
I gave her all my soul
And my all
To the pleasures of the flesh

I cried that night
For those forsaken times
Those times when I was
Simply satisfied
I turned to dust
That night a thousand times
That night a thousand times I died inside
And through what's left
Of my sad life I hear
Her singing in the fevers of the night

Look into the mirror of my eyes
And tell me what you see
It's not your love I need
You'll see
Sorrow, tears and darkness
These are the pleasures
Beyond your dreams

I found myself
Down by the sea
A hundred years ago
When I was in my teens
And years go by
I turned into a man
My childhood trapped within the sand
I crawled through life
On broken glass through hell
It seems I wakened my desires
And woke one day
Wet with the sweat of fear
Wet with the sweat of fear
As now with you

I'll reveal your mother
Come to me
I'll take you to the safety of the womb
Tell me your secrets
Sorrow tears and darkness
Pour out your heart
Sorrow tears and darkness

You'll be a fool
A fool for love

And hell had never seemed so good
As when I lost my soul
Became a fool for love

Help me, please to find my way
Look into the mirror of my eyes
Your kiss has clouded up my mind
And tell me what you see
I was a fool, a fool for love
It's not your love I need
I cried for those forsaken times
You'll see
She took my soul in Istanbul
Sorrow tears and darkness
She left me on that night to die
These are the pleasures beyond your dreams
These are the pleasures beyond all my dreams

I am lost
Help me to find my way
Here in a world where angels fear to gaze
My love is doomed to die
Alone tonight in Istanbul
And I a fool
For
Love