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The Cure
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Shake Dog Shake
04 : 55
2
Birdmad Girl
04 : 05
3
Wailing Wall
05 : 17
4
Give Me It
03 : 42
5
Dressing Up
02 : 51
6
The Caterpillar
03 : 40
7
Piggy in the Mirror
03 : 40
8
The Empty World
02 : 36
9
Bananafishbones
03 : 12
10
The Top
06 : 50
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Track Lyrics
Shake Dog Shake Lyrics
[Intro]
Ha ha ha
[Verse 1]
Wake up in the dark
The aftertaste of anger in the back of my mouth
Spit it on the wall
And cough some more and scrape my skin with razor blades
[Pre-Chorus 1]
And make up in the new blood
And try to look so good, follow me
Make up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is, ha ho ho
[Verse 2]
As stale and selfish as a sick dog
That's spurning sex like an animal of god
I'll tear your red hair by the roots and hold you blazing
Hold you cherished in the dead electric light
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Your face
I'll never see you this way again
I captured it so perfectly
As if I knew you'd disappear away
[Chorus]
Oh, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake dog, shake
Oh, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake dog, shake
[Bridge]
You hit me again, you howl and hit me again
The same sharp pain
Wakes me in the dark, cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart
My heart, my shaking
[Chorus]
Shake, shake, oh, shake dog, shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake dog, shake, shake, shake
Shake dog, shake
[Verse 3]
But we slept all night in the virgin's bed
And dreamed of death and breathed like sick dogs
We slept all night in the virgin's bed
And breathed like death and dreamed of sick dogs
[Refrain]
Oh, shake, shake
Oh, shake, shake
Shake, shake
Shake dog, shake
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake dog shake
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake dog, shake
[Outro]
Wake up in the new blood
Make up in the new blood
Shake up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is
Shake dog, shake
Shake dog, shake
Shake dog...
Piggy in the Mirror Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Shapes in the drink like Christ
Cracks in the pale blue wall
I'm walking slowly and quickly but always away
I'm twisting, twisting to the floor
[Chorus 1]
Flowers in your mouth and the same dry song
The routine from laughter land
Sixteen white legs and a row of teeth
I watch you in secrecy
[Verse 2]
You're dying, for the hope is gone
From here we go nowhere again
Oh, I'm trapped in my face and I'm changing too much
I can't climb out the way I fell in
[Chorus 2]
Jump with me, for that old forgotten dance
The midnight sun will burn you up
Your life is cold, your life is hot
Your life is too much for words
[Chorus 3]
These occasions are such a relief
Another point, another view to send
We start to talk and it's, and it's all so safe
Oh, I feed you in my dreams
[Verse 3]
Footsteps on a wire, high above my head
The stain reveals my real intention
I'm the waiting beast, I'm the twisted nerve
As I dance, dance back to the body in my bed
As I dance, dance back to the body in my bed
To the body in my bed, oh
[Outro]
Look at the piggy, piggy in the mirror
At the piggy, piggy in the mirror
At the piggy, the piggy in the mirror
At the piggy, piggy in the mirror
Oh, look at the piggy in the...
At the piggy, piggy in the mirror
Oh, look at the piggy in the mirror
Oh, look at the piggy in the mirror
Oh, look at the piggy in the mirror
Oh, ho
The Empty World Lyrics
[Verse]
As stiff as toys and tall as men
And swaying like the wind torn trees
She talked about the empty world
With eyes like poison birds
[Chorus]
She talked about the armies that marched inside her head
How they made her dreams go bad
But oh, how happy she was, how proud she was
To be fighting in the war in the empty world
[Verse]
Stiff as toys and tall as men
Swaying like the wind torn trees
She talked about the empty world
With eyes like poison birds