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THE BLOOD RUSH

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(All songs by Page / Willett / Marr)

Produced by Stephen Hague
Dave Meegan and Steve Hillage

Brilliant Shining
Your Luck's Changed
HeavenBlessed
Where The Wild Things Are
Tirade (Everything Must Change)
No Criminal Mind
Cowboy Joe
Money Talks
Big Me
Dancing On (With Canticle)

B-sides :-
Anna's Field
Arabesque
Blanche
Fiction
Forty Thieves
Hold The Mirror
It's Natural
Mother Pearl
Seasong

.oO* Demo Songs *Oo.

(Unknown as yet)

Days Like These
Easier Days
Ghost Of You
Killing The Pleasure
Sideshow
Song For Lovers
Tomorrow Girl
Whipping Boy
Wish Myself Home
You Called

For their passion and patience,
thank you Stephen "The Cooler King" Hague and Dave Meegan.
For their love, support and encouragement,
Megan, Dick, Andrea and Tim, Val, Pete and Jenny,
Helen, Russell, all at 26, Denyse and Bill

All our friends
Especially Chris, Rob, Andy W (for the drama),
Nicky and Hannah, Roger, Sue, Lucy (this one's for you-Heavenblest)
Good old Percy St, Dave Marr, Greg and Jan, Dave 'The' Lewis,
Hi-fi, Pete, Richard in Leeds, Dilys, Andy, Lesley, Dave W,
Graham, Mop - The Aberdeen Clan, Julian, Neil, Simon F,
Martin G, Jim Williams, Mr Hunt, Cosi Greco, Tona, Annie R,
Mandy, Mark S, Geoff D, Paul K, David & Rob at Stylo.

Special thanks to Greg and Carolyne
Adam 'P.R.' Lee for his deft live fingers, Kris Kirk and Push.
Everyone at "The Lodge" in our lean winter, all at Advision,
Livingston, Jacobs & CBS Studios, Sound & Light especially
Jan, John, Mal, John R, Bitchin' Bruce, Jim, Les & Nick.
Thanks to Steve Hillage.
Epic and MCA.
Big thanks to the Skinnies.
For inspiration; our nine Muses, open and closed doors and
the Hydra that is Skin Games.

Brilliant Shining

As sure as the sun will rise
As sure as the stabbing rose withers
World you may get the better of me yet
But I'm a fighting man a civilised man
Taught to believe in the righteous plan
Wrapped in the battle for my body and soul

There's that voice again
Whispering the walls down
Growing to a roaring
In my brain

Look deep and hard inside your hammering heart
Look for the brilliant shining
It's much brighter than the preacher's collar
Look for the brilliant shining
It's much finer than your pin-striped slicker
It's a new old kind of bravery
We could paint the skies with it

With all the promises they make
Sometimes I wonder just for whose sake
I'm looking for much more than a kingdom of bread
If I could pin them down to the giving ground
Shackle and shear the lying hounds
Trapped in the battle for my body and soul

There's that voice again
Shivering the timbers
Growing to a roaring
In my brain

Look deep and hard inside your hammering heart
Look for the brilliant shining
It's much brighter than the preacher's collar
Look for the brilliant shining
We could paint the skies with it

When I'm feeling small
Weaker than a dwarfed bird
No more than a pin-drop
In a hurricane
Comes that voice again
Growing to a roaring
In my brain, saying

Look deep and hard inside your hammering heart
Look for the brilliant shining
It burns brighter than the preacher's fire
Look for the brilliant shining
It's much sounder than your honoured speaker
It's a new old kind of bravery
We could paint the skies with it
It's a new old kind of bravery
We could paint the skies with it

Your Luck's Changed

This year's boy see how he steps
Head and shoulders above the rest
Blue boy, with your velvet touch
Do you hear the blood rushing to her head?

You've got the sun in your name
You've got stars in your eyes
You've got the whole world to blame
Your luck's changing
Your luck's changing
Your luck's changed

This year's girl says "my desires are small
In the scale of all things tall"
This girl says "What you do for me
When you take me in your fatal arms"

You've got the sun in your name
You've got stars in your eyes
You've got the whole world to blame
Your luck's changing
Your luck's changing
Your luck's changed

Stay, awhile, stay
Let her understand you
And she will, she will
Why anything is possible
When you love that way
Hope she doesn't kill the thing before
It sees the light of day

You've got the sun in your name
You've got the stars in your eyes
You've got the whole world to blame
Your luck's changing

Oh love's thick and thin games

She wants all you can give
She wants the flesh of her dreams
Your luck's changing
Your luck's changing
She wants all you can give her
She wants the flesh of her dreams
Your luck's changed
Your luck's changed
Your luck's changed

This year's boy
Your luck's changed

HeavenBlessed

If you're looking for us, we'll be down the wishing-well
Safe as all your houses, come high water or come well
We're going to stay here 'til the sun drops dead
Stay here 'til the madding moon turns red

Heavenblessed, we're heavenblessed

You might think us lonely, you might even think we're bored
You can't see the treasure, in our underworld, no,
We think we'll stay here 'til we're old and grey
Stay here until it's judgement day

Heavenblessed, we're heavenblessed

I think we're heavenblessed
Touching like deep sea divers do
I think we're heavenblessed
Swoon, swoon and love, love
And heaven

If you're looking for a change throw a coin our way
Make a wish, we'll swallow it
Shower you in a golden rain
This love could be yours someday
We're going to stay here 'til kingdom come
Stay here 'til our hearts are heavenblessed

Heavenblessed, we're heavenblessed
Heavenblessed, we're heavenblessed
Heavenblessed, we're heavenblessed
Heavenblessed, we're heavenblessed

I had a dream about you
And me down a wishing-well
And we were halfway heaven
And halfway hell -

I think we're heavenblessed
Touching like deep sea divers do
I think we're heavenblessed
Swoon, swoon and love, love and you
I think we're heavenblessed
Touching like deep sea divers do
I think we're heavenblessed
Swoon, swoon and love, love
And heaven

Where The Wild Things Are

I soak inside your skin
Creep through your flesh with my fingers
Strange the desire to win
Is far from me now
These are words on the rocks
And they're pushing the fool further
They are harsh, white words on the rocks
And they're dashing the coward further and further

So I say walk little world young as you are
Bear yourself where kingdom takes you
So I say walk little world young as you are
In your beat, beat, beat of your wings

Take your time from my life, time
I go where the wild things are

When do I go to the far field ?
When the sky crashes down around my head
I fix to deliver my new love
I am feeling too good to care
This heroin stare that knows you no more
It's you I'm crystallizing
To live and walk in age could be dangerous

So I say walk little world young as you are
Bear yourself when kingdoms break you
So I say walk little world young as you are
In the rush, rush, rush of my blood

Take your time from my life, time
I go where the wild things are

Shall I leave you behind this time ?
Shall I leave you behind ?
When I go where the wild things are
Up the stairs and across the hall
Past the gaunt graffiti walls
Where the wild things go
Up the stairs and across the hall
Past the gaunt graffiti walls
Where the wild things go

Tirade (Everything Must Change)

If I move
And it's a little too sensual
You shout relief
I blame your worn out attitudes
For I believe

Everything must change - can change - it will
Everything must and can

When I spin
In a circle of frustration
I could scream abuse at you too
But I won't sink that low
You think you're clawing at the hidden grain
But I want you to know

Everything must change - can change - it will
Everything must change - can change - it will

When I wear your anger well
When I match the storm in your red eyes
When I stand up on Box Hill
With my head held high in the drunk sky
When I reach that golden gate
And you turn in your dull surprise

Everything must and can and will change

Beat retreat
In that coward's way of yours
I never dreamed
In all my sheltered years
That I would meet
Such a rigid frigid mind

Yes I have yellow hair
Yes I was born blue-eyed
Yes I have child-bearing thighs
But

Everything must change, can change, will change

When I wear your anger well
When I match the storm in your red eyes
When I stand up on Box Hill
With my head held high in the drunk sky
When I reach that golden gate
And you turn in your dull surprise
To meet you equal there
And she's got blue eyes and yellow hair

Everything must and can and will change
Everything must and can and will change

Look I'm on top of the world
Look I'm a rude girl
Look I'm a rude girl

No Criminal Mind

I'm a dreamer by trade
Selling them one by one
The devil compromise,
He's my evil friend
My beguiling one
He will throw me down
Into that unholy ground
Below

Shake and orchestrate
This is a wanton world
In which we talk and think
As one
Were you going to throw me down
Into that unholy ground
Below

These are the words
Of the condemned man
These are the words
Of the condemned tongue
I'm waiting in the wings
For Judgement Day to come
These are the words
When I smile in the dark
Of a barrelled gun, gun, gun - gun

Life is real
Full of illusions to be borne
And cancelled out
I walk on washing lines
Hoping for an easy fall
No criminal, no criminal,
No criminal mind have I
No criminal, no criminal,
No criminal mind have I

These are the words
Of the condemned man
These are the words
Of the condemned tongue
I'm waiting in the wings
For Judgement Day to come
These are the words
When I smile in the dark
Of a barrelled gun

You're scared, aware
That the fear keeps you at bay
No criminal, no criminal,
No criminal mind have I
No criminal, no criminal,
No criminal mind have I

I see the old devil compromise
He's my evil friend
He will throw me down
Into that unholy ground
He says
Shake and Shake and Shake and
Orchestrate
This is a wanton world

Cowboy Joe

When the sun is raw
And hanging heavy
See me high
On my new horizon
Watch me float
With your careless vision
Wish yourself
In my shoes

I'm a Cowboy Joe
I'm a wild west hero

What's this I hear
Hands across the water
Reaching out
For some Edenland ?
I don't mean to insult your
Way of living
But it drives me
To duels at dawn

Like a Cowboy Joe
Like a wild west hero

I will ride into the sun
A jet set rider into the sun
I will ride into the sun
Of the wild west of the wild west of the wild...

What's this I hear
About hands across the water ?
What's this I hear
About a piece of your promised land ?

There are pillars of strength
On my new horizon
Stretching far
As the dead red sea
But I'll turn my back
On this tinsel kingdom
And ride into the sun

I'm a Cowboy Joe
I'm a wild west hero

What's this I hear
About hands across the water ?
What's this I hear
About a piece of your promised land ?

Money Talks

I was filled with a sense of my own importance
When I came face to face with the hysterical truth
That the fat of the land keeps us slender in pocket
Any change we demand is just a distant drum
Clipped wings do not one student of life make
What choice did we have, we were guided so well
Lions led, fed, bred, beaten by donkeys
Like the great man once said, change is at our command so

Roll up
Sell your souls
Sell me anything

See how many talks
And don't you waste it
See how many talks
And don't you waste it

When you say money talks its own common language
Spreading a faith all over the land
The only thing that ever makes us different
Is when it changes hands

Roll up
Sell your souls
Sell me anything

See how many talks
And don't you waste it
See how many talks
And don't you waste it

I see you in your hall of power
Me and these shrinking walls
I see you in your happy hour
Me and my drunken brawls
You in your shining armour
Me on this balding charger
Hey you up there on that blinding horse
Here's me, mine, me, mine

We roll up
Learn to lie
Learn, lie, learn, lie, learn anything

For we see how money talks
And we don't waste it
Spreading a faith all over the land
And we believe it
Oh now we see how money talks
And we won't we won't we won't
We won't waste it. No

Big Me

I'll not rest
I don't want that
I was tempted
But I can't stay here
I want to breathe cat fast
And dare my nine lives
I want to race around
The biting edge

I'll skate across the floor
And put my wings on
I'll fling the open door
And swallow the sun

I'm falling
I'm falling,
I'll be bigger than life
I'll be Big Me

I'm up here
On my mountain
You look small
Do you miss me now ?
From the river to the sea
I trace the lifeline
Where do I finish ?
And you begin ?

I'll stride across the green
My seven-league boots on
I'll sweep the crystal lakes
And gather a storm

I'm falling
I'm falling
Don't you catch me
When I fall
I'll be bigger than life
I'll be Big Me

I'll skate across the floor
And put my wings on
I'll fling the open door
And swallow the sun

I'm falling
I'm falling
Don't you catch me
When I fall
I'll be bigger than life
I'll be Big Me
When I skate across the floor
And put my wings on
I'm falling
I'm falling
Don't you catch me now, don't don't
Don't you catch me now (watch me soar)

I'll be swimming the wastelands and
I'll be skidding the pathways and
I'll be Big Me
I'll be swimming the wastelands and
I'll be skidding the pathways and
I'll be Big Me
Big Me

Dancing On (With Canticle)

Dancing on air Dancing on
Dancing on air Dancing on mid-air
I'm the girl with I'm the girl with the
Whirl, swirling girl, swirling girl I am whirl
I'm the girl with with the streaming white hair
Swirling girl
Tell me why I feel Tell me why I feel
Tell me why I feel I feel stronger than God ?

Is this my sin ? Is this my sin ?
Is this my sin ? Is this my sin ?
Is this my sin ?

Shine the light from Shine the light from your
Shine the light from From your magic lantern
Bright beacon beaming a guide to my steps
Make the shapes dance Make those colours come
Whirl, swirl whirl, swirl, whirl whirl
Make the shapes dance with your magic lantern
Swirl in your world within world

Is this my sin ? Is this my sin ?
Is this my sin ? Is this my sin ?
Is this my sin ?
How will I ever know ?
Is this my sin ? Is this my sin ?
Is this my sin ? Is this my sin ?
Is this my sin ?
How will I ever know ?

Dancing on air Dancing on
Echoes of past I'm the lady of dance
Dancing on air Dancing on
And I fly in the feeling that dares sin of pride
We were living on love living on love
Tell me why I feel stronger than God
We were rivalling love living on love
I feel stronger than God
We were dancing on air dancing on air
Tell me why
Dancing on air Dancing on air
Tell me

Is this my sin ? Is this my sin ?
Tell me
Is this my sin ? Is this my sin ?
Tell me
Is this my sin ?

B-sides:-

Anna's Field

Spangled soaked trees (cover me)
This was one of her favourite fields
Overgrown reeds smother me
This was one of her favourite fields
Her favourite fields

Close my eyes
Count to ten
I go back
To my finest hour when

I swear I heard the angels
Here in Anna's field
I swear I heard the angels
Sing to me of love
And world's above

She had velvet to sell and she sold to me
This was one of her favourite field
Her favourite field
Now she's bible black earth and memory
In a nightmare that I hold so dear
That I hold so dear

Close my eyes
Count to ten
I go back
To my finest hour when

I swear I heard the angels
Here in Anna's field
I swear I heard the angels
Sing to me of love
Sing to me of love
And world's above

Close my eyes
Count to ten
I go back
To my finest hour when
Sunflowers shook
Their summer scent
I'd give the world
For my finest hour when

I swear I heard the angels
Here in Anna's field
I swear I heard the angels
Sing to me they sing to me
I swear I heard the angels
Here in Anna'a field
I swear I heard the angels
Sing to me of love
Sing to me of love
Sing to me of love
And worlds above.

Arabesque

Arabesquan tapestry, rich damask scent
Arabesquan tapestry, rich damask scent

I have faith, I have will
I am the rock beneath your feet
We were standing on the edge of time
Waiting for the world.

Only when I open the door
Can I see through your eyes
Only when I open the door
Can I see through your eyes

We were standing on the edge of time
My friend and I

He said "I am young but I am old
Mine is a wisdom you can unfold"
And he was teaching me his whirlpool mind
Amaranthine, waiting for the world.

Only when I open the door
Can I see through your eyes
Only when I open the door
Can I see through your eyes

Patience she sits on monuments
Letting the worm feed on her cheek
Ever so still
Ever so still
Ever so still she is
What is she waiting for ?
She's figurina of our dreams
Treasurer of our mysteries
Ever so strong
Ever so strong
Ever so strong she is
She's waiting for the world... (16 times)

Blanche (in the Bradford rain)

Blanche in the Bradford rain
Does she exist? You bet she does
Grey skies fall
On another love song
(She) walks down her Northern street
Dreaming she's Ophelia
Drowned in a pool of milk
White and lip thin

A man dreams in doorways
The woman walks alone
(The) Children yell in their play
This is an end of the world place

(The) cold rain falls for hours
Until the new slow motion world is ours
Where everything from green
proves that nothing now can wash it clean and
Blanche on your Bradford patch
Where houses slouch and pavements swell
Still depending on the kindness of strangers
Don't we all in the end?

A man dreams in doorways
The woman walks alone
(The) children yell in their play
She'll bear this message home
A man dreams in doorways
The woman walks alone
(The) children yell, (the) pavements swell
She'll bear this message home

If you could
Break the back of all the dreams you've
Ever had and find yourself
A town unlike all the others
Brimming with attentive lovers
Break the back of all those dreams
You've ever had and find yourself
A town unlike all the others
Away from this end of the world place
Away away get away

Coda (for Blanche)

Get away, I would if I could get away
yes I would if I could get away from here
I never knew shadows I've only known shade
I've never been walking in evergreen glades
Oh I would if I could get away
I've never danced naked on moonlighting beams
I've heard the word love but I don't know what it means
Yes I would if I could get away from here
Break the back of all my dreams get away
Get away, get away.

Fiction

Fiction - Ah
On cathouse corner see them stand
Men without luck and short of a mystery
Surrounded by pale imitated life
Promise them the good things in life

Make it now, make it fast, pay Your homage to the golden palm
What do you have that I must lack ?
Am I the viper in your heart ?

My brother
My lover, my best enemy, mine

Whatever happened to the ruling three
Faith, hope and charity ?
The end defies the means they say
In days like these
(So) any way I choose
Is bound to please them - in fiction

I'm as close as I need ever be,
My breath warms your ear
And I will use you so you'll never know
What hits you when I turn the knife

My brother,
my lover, my best enemy
My best enemy, mine

Whatever happened to the ruling three
Faith hope and charity ?
The end defies the means they say
In days like these
So any way I choose
Is bound to, bound to
Whatever happened to the ruling three
Faith and hope and charity
The end defies the means they say
In days like these
(So) anyway I choose is bound to please them - in fiction

I will use you well
In days like these
I will use you well
In days like these like these
My brother my lover my brother my lover my
Best enemy mine
I will use you so
You'll never know what hits you when
When I turn the knife.

Forty Thieves

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Though the spangled snakes may charm you
Words will never harm you
Magical carpets fly
Over the sea and sky.
Why are the forty thieving ?
Why are the hungry feeding ?
They were more sinned against than sinning
Some justices never change through the ages

Like an Arabian dream you were
You were the only one, the only one.

I sympathize angels
On clouds that carry me higher
I long to walk upon water
And prove the legend right
Am I Arabian dreaming ?
Yeah heh Yeah heh heh heh

What kind of traveler am I
Lost on the golden mile ?
Is that blood on the dry baked ground ?
I turn my face away
I turn my face away, I turn, I turn I

We were more sinned against than sinning
Some justices never change through the ages.
Like an Arabian dream you were
You were the only one, ever.

Oh I sympathize angels
On clouds that carry me higher
I long to walk upon water
And prove the legend right.
Am I Arabian dreaming ?
Heh heh

Magical carpets fly me
Over the sea and the waiting sky
La la la like the King of Kings
I long to sing with the angels
I long to walk upon water
And prove the book of la la lies

Is no Arabian dreaming heh heh oh no woop
Is no Arabian dreaming heh heh oh ooh
Is no Arabian dreaming heh heh heh

Hold The Mirror

She is the red rag
She is the blue red and white flag
that flaunts you
Hers is the voice that persuades
breaks and taunts you

Glassy eyes in glassened houses
Frightened white hairs on end
Is this how you get your pleasure
One kick for good measure
I wait I wait for the axe to fall
I'm here I'm here to risk it all

Hold the mirror to the sky
In out in out in out in
Make it swim in her eyes
In out in out in out in
In her eyes

She is the road's end
The step beyond the limit
You're dared yourself
She is every weakness and flaw
That you hate yourself for
Her padlocks profuse and ridiculous

Break as brittle as her bones do
One more kick for good measure
I wait I wait for the axe to fall
I'm here I'm here to risk it all

Hold the mirror to the sky
In out in out in out in
Make it swim in her eyes
In out in out in out in
In her eyes

Hold the mirror to the sky
Crack the face and bleed it dry
Hold the mirror to the sky
Face the hard and hollow light

Go on shatter me down
Shatter me down shatter me down
You wear your violence like a crown
And its withering my will

Hold the mirror to the sky
In out in out in out in
Make the galaxy swim in her eyes
In out in out in out in

World giddy go round and round and round in her eyes
World giddy go round and round and round in her eyes

It's Natural

The green-fingered man beckons me on
Come into my garden I'll sing you a song
I've got songs for the innocent, songs for the lost
Have you a song for experience, experience ?

Each strange affair
Never fails in the end
To take me there
To your garden

He came in a vision, cloudy and grey
His hair wild matted like gipsy
With a voice like quicksilver he stabbed me to the heart
Are you coming to crush me like King Sea ?

Each strange affair
never fails in the end
To take me there eh eh heh

Grow like a child
Into the light
Like steady flame
We burn away away away away ...

Each strange affair
never fails in the end
To take me there eh eh heh

Grow like a child
Into the light
Moths to the flame
We burn away

I was baptised in fire unlike the good book says,
Under a midnight moon burning above me
I saw a legion of angels, some cruel some kind
Swinging swords of revenge for the knowledge I took

My defence is
It's natural
Na na na natural
It's natural
Na na na natural
My defence is
It's natural
Na na na natural
It's natural

Mother Pearl

There's a land I've heard
A legend of
Where the air is sweet
And the sweetness, grace,
People distant as
The blue disguise
Here they're ruthless as
Our times demand.

Lock, unlock
What treasures to find
Open, shut
The power to blind
Beauty in your own square mile
I hope you find it.

Rise,
In the glittering wake
Of a sense divine
Of a sense divine
Find it,
Find it,
Your sense divine
Your sense divine.

Let me count the ways
We love and hate
Cross the great divide
How I wish you well
If the stolen hour
Brings you no relief
You are restless as
Your times demand

Lock, unlock
What treasures to find
Open, shut
The power to blind
Beauty in your own square mile
I hope you find it.

Rise,
In the glittering wake
Of a sense divine
Of a sense divine
Find it,
Find it,
Your sense divine
Your sense divine.

Seek and you will find
Beauty and the truth
Mother of Pearl
Shining abalone bright oh ha

Let me count the ways
We love and hate
Cross the great divide
How I wish you well -

With a sense of divine,
With a sense of divine
With a sense of divine,
With a sense of divine

You will find it
With a sense of divine
With a sense of divine
You will find it

Find it
The mother of pearl shining abalone bright
You will find it
Find it
The mother of pearl shining abalone bright oh oh oh

Seasong

Walking by the sea
I watch the gulls wheel over me
Sea grey like your eyes
The feeling takes me by surprise

When I was a young girl
I would play in the schoolyard
Taught to mock and to laugh
At anything strange
We'd chant
"Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na"

Child games child games
Child games

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh seasong
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh seasong oh oh
Play me play me your seasong oh

Walking by the sea
I feel the waves caress my feet
Seagreen, cold like your eyes
The feeling whips my stinging eyes

When I was a young girl I would play on the seashore
Talk too much to laugh at anything strange

We'd chant
"Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na"
Child games child games
Child games

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh seasong
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh seasong oh oh
Play me play me your seasong oh oh
Play me play me your seasong oh oh
Oh I oh I love your seasong oh
Oh I oh I love your seasong oh

Whisper words of comfort in my ear yeah heh
In your seasong
In your seasong
In your seasong, song song

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