Pornography

[Verse 1]

It doesn't matter if we all die

Ambition in the back of a black car

In a high building there is so much to do

Going home time, a story on the radio

[Verse 2]

Something small falls out of your mouth and we laugh

A prayer for something better

A prayer for something better

Please love me

Meet my mother, but the fear takes hold

Creeping up the stairs in the dark

Waiting for the death blow

Waiting for the death blow

Waiting for the death blow

[Verse 3]

Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot

Fighting for freedom on the television

Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs

Have we got everything?

She struggles to get away

The pain and the creeping feeling, a little black haired girl

Waiting for Saturday, the death of her father pushing her

Pushing her white face into the mirror

Aching inside me and turn me 'round

Just like the old days

Just like the old days

Just like the old days

Just like the old days

[Verse 4]

Caressing an old man and painting a lifeless face

Just a piece of new meat in a clean room

The soldiers close in under a yellow moon

All shadows and deliverance under a black flag

A hundred years of blood, crimson

The ribbon tightens round my throat

I open my mouth and my head bursts open

A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water

Thrashing in the water

Over and over, we die one after the other

Over and over, we die one after the other

One after the other

One after the other

One after the other

One after the other

[Outro]

It feels like a hundred years

A hundred years

A hundred years

A hundred years

A hundred years

[Verse 1]

Movement, no movement, just a falling bird

Cold as it hits the bleeding ground

He lived and died, catch sight, cover me with earth

Draped in black, static white sound

[Chorus]

A day without substance, a change of thought

An atmosphere that rots with time

Colours that flicker in water, a short term effect

[Verse 2]

Scream as she tries to push him over

Helpless and sick

With teeth of madness, jump, jump, dance and sing

Sideways across the desert, a charcoal face bites my hand

Time is sweet, derange and disengage everything

[Chorus]

A day without substance, a change of thought

The atmosphere rots with time

Colours that flicker in water, a short term effect

A short term effect

[Outro]

An echo and a stranger's hand, a short term effect

An echo and a stranger's hand, a short term effect

[Verse 1]

Creatures kissing in the rain

Shapeless in the dark again

In the hanging garden, please don't speak

In the hanging garden, no one sleeps

[Refrain]

(In the hanging garden)

(In the hanging garden)

[Verse 2]

Catching halos on the moon

Gives my hands the shapes of angels

In the heat of the night, the animals scream

In the heat of the night walking into a dream

[Chorus]

Fall, fall, fall, fall into the walls

Jump, jump out of time

Fall, fall, fall, fall out of the sky

Cover my face as the animals cry

[Refrain]

(In the hanging garden)

(In the hanging garden)

[Verse 3]

Creatures kissing in the rain

Shapeless in the dark again

In a hanging garden, change the past

In a hanging garden wearing furs and masks

[Chorus]

Fall, fall, fall, fall into the walls

Jump, jump out of time

Fall, fall, fall, fall out of the sky

Cover my face as the animals die

[Bridge]

(In the hanging garden)

As the animals die

Cover my face as the animals die

[Outro]

(In the hanging garden)

(In the hanging garden)

(In the hanging garden)

(In the hanging garden)

(In the hanging garden)

(In the hanging garden)

[Verse 1]

Scarred, your back was turned, curled like an embryo

Take another face, you will be kissed again

I was cold as l mouthed the words and crawled across the mirror

And wait, await the next breath

[Refrain]

Your name like ice into my heart

[Verse 2]

A shallow grave, a monument to the ruined age

Ice in my eyes and eyes like ice don't move

Screaming at the moon, another past time

[Refrain]

Your name like ice into my heart

[Verse 3]

Everything as cold as life (Can no one save you?)

Everything as cold as silence (And you will never say a word)

[Outro]

Your name like ice into my heart

Your name like ice into my heart

[Sample 1: Robin Whitting - reversed]

Well, in just a moment, we finally put BBC 2 to bed, but, a reminder that there's a treat in store for opera lovers starting tomorrow evening with a sparkling performance from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden of one of the world's best-loved Romantic operas: Pavarotti [?] Puccini at five-past-eight tomorrow. Well now there's the last look at the clock this eve, and the time's just winding its way round to eight minutes to one. If you're still up and about and want a bit more entertainment, a reminder that our colleagues over at BBC Radio are still on the airwaves. On Radio 2 in eight minutes Sheila Tracey - that's Radio 2's "Tiger Tim" - takes over with the Truckers' Hour, and then at 2 o'clock You and the Night and the Music with Tim Gudgin through 'til five. But for now, on behalf of everyone here on BBC 2, this is Robin Whitting-

[Sample 2]

Yeah, a green sedan. No, the licence plates were covered with mud. They took tyres and gas. (Tell him they took all the cash.) They robbed the cash register too. I got word that the police had them bottled up... but they slipped through again. (I wonder if the baby is born yet.) Poor Joan. They're being blamed for every crime committed in the country

[Sample 3: Germaine Greer and Graham Chapman]

[Incomprehensible]

[Verse 1]

A hand in my mouth, a life spills into the flowers

We all look so perfect as we all fall down

In an electric glare, the old man cracks with age

She found his last picture in the ashes of the fire

[Verse 2]

An image of the queen echoes round the sweating bed

Sour yellow sounds inside my head

In books and films and in life and in heaven

The sound of slaughter as your body turns

[Refrain]

But it's too late

But it's too late

[Verse 3]

One more day like today and I'll kill you

A desire for flesh and real blood

And I'll watch you drown in the shower

Pushing my life through your open eyes

[Outro]

I must fight this sickness

Find a cure

I must fight this sickness