Floodland

THE SISTERS OF MERCY - FLOODLAND

01. Dominion / Mother Russia
02. Flood I
03. Lucretia my reflection
04. 1959
05. This corrosion
06. Flood II
07. Driven like the snow

Dominion / Mother Russia

Refrain 1:
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the day
When I close my eyes
When I look your way
When I meet the fear that lies inside
When I hear you say
In the heat of the moment
Say, say, say

Chorus:
Some day, some day, some day - Dominion
Come a time
Some day, some day, some day - Dominion
Some say prayers
Some say prayers
I say mine

In the light of the fact
On the lone and level
Sand stretch far away
In the heat of the action
In the settled dust
Hold hold and say
In the meeting of mined
Down in the streets of shame
In the betting of names on gold to rust
In the land of the blind
Be...King, king, king, king

(chorus)

Some day, some day, some day - Dominion
Some say prayers
Some say prayers
I say mine

(refrain 1)

Some day, some day, some day - Dominion Some say prayers Some say prayers I say mine I say mine I say mine We serve an old moan in a dry season A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun Dreamers of sleepers and white treason We dream of rain and the history of the gun There's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia A white house in a red square I'm living in films for the sake of Russia A Kino Runner for the DDR And the fifty-two daughters of the revolution Turn the gold to chrome Gift ... nothing to lose Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home, sing: Mother Russia Mother Russia Mother Russia rain down down down Mother Russia Mother Russia Mother Russia rain down

Flood I And her hallway Moves Like the ocean Moves At the head of the river At the source of the sea Sitting here now in this bar for hours Trying to write it down Fitting in hard with harder to come Trying to fight it Down the river there's a ship will carry you Down river down stream Down the river there's a ship will carry the Dream Dream of the flood Down the river there's a ship will carry the Dream of the flood And her hallway ... As the water come rushing over As the water come rushing in As the water come rushing over Flood ... Flood ... Push the glass, stain the glass Push the writer to the wall It may come but it will pass Some say we will fall Dream of the flood ... Flood ... And her hallway ... Oh, maybe, in terms of surrender, On a backcloth of lashes and eyes In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth And ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes And ashes and ashes and lies ... And her hallway ... Like ... As the water come rushing in As the water come rushing over Sitting here now in this bar for hours While these strange men rent strange flowers I'll be picking up your petals in another few hours In the metal and blood, in the scent and mascara On a backcloth of lashes and stars In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth And ashes and ashes and sechondhand passion And stolen guitars Lucretia my reflection I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down I hear empire down I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Love lost, fire at will Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear Dive, bombers, and Empire down Empire down I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me, We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take direction, Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me We look hard We look through We look hard to see for real Such things I hear, they don't make sense I don't see much evidence I don't feel I don't feel I don't feel A long train held up by page on page A hard reign held up by rage Once a railroad Now it's done ... I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down ... We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take reflection, Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me ... 1959 Living as an angel in the Place that I was born Living on air Living in heaven Giving the lie down, the line To the There's my heaven And I know Which way the wind blows In nineteen fifty-nine Which way the wind blows In nineteen fifty-nine And the wind blows still And the wind blows wild again For a little child an never kill this clean This way And it feels like me today Tell me Do you feel the same? Isabelle? Or do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine? ... Do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine? And the wind blows wild again And the wind blows wild In nineteen fifty-nine In fifty-nine Isabelle Do you, do you fell the same? Come with me Like a little child Like another gun Like homeless, restless, known to none, like Way beyond the line Like it never was In nineteen fifty-nine This corrosion

Gimme the Ring, kissed and toll'd Gimme something that I missed A hand to hold, wild and what it seems Kill the king, when love is the law, And the we'll turn round ... Gimme dream child And do you hear me call? On the loan and on the level ... still on the floor Sing dream child And do you hear at all? Chorus: Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing ... Gimme siren, child and do you hear me? Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call? Sing, child, of right and wrong Gimme things that don't last long Gimme siren, hild, and do you hear me call? (chorus) On daze, like this In times like these I feel an animal deep inside Heel to haunch on bended knees Living on if and if I tried, Somebody send me ... please ... Dream wars and a ticket to seem Giving out and in Selling the don't belong Well, what do you say D'you have a word fro Giving Away? Got a song for me? (chorus)

I got nothing to say I ain't said before I bled all I can, i won't bleed no more I don't need no one to understand Why the blood run hold The highered hand On heart hand of God Floodland and Driven Apart Run cold Turn Cold Burn Like a healing hand (x4)

Flood II And her hallway Moves Like the ocean Moves And her hallway Moves Like the sea Like the sea She says no no no no harm will come your way She says bring it on down, bring on the wave She says: nobody done no harm Grace of God and raise your arms She says: face it and it's a place to stay Chorus 1: This, this is the way it was This, this is the way it is When the water come rushing, rushing in Chorus 2: She says She says anytime Raise your arms Flood And her hallway Like ... Like ... Like a million voices call my name Like a million voices calling Not now, not never again ... Sitting here now in this bar for hours Strange men rent strange flowers Seconds to the drop but it feels like hours and I Think I'm going to ... going to ... (chorus 1) (chorus 2) And her hallway ... (chorus 2) And her hallway ... As the water come rushing in Like the sea As the water come rushing over Dream of the flood In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth And ashes and ashes And ashes and ashes And ashes and ashes And ashes and ashes and lies ... As the water come rushing in, rushing in At the head of the river At the source of the sea And her hallway ... Like ... Flood ... Driven like the snow Still night, nothing for miles, White curtain come down, Kill the lights in the middle of the road And take a look around ... It don't help to be one of the chosen One of the few, to be sure When the wheels are spinning around And the ground is frozen through, and you're Driven, like the snow Pure in heart Driven together And given Away to the west A white dress 'Til the river don't run A black dress Looking like mine 'Til the sun don't shine no more Where the sky meet the ground Where the street fold round Where the voice you hold don't make no sound, look Snow on the river and two by two Took a lot to live a lot like you, I don't Go there now, but I hear they sung Their "Fuck Me And Marry Me Young" Some wild and some big white bed, now You know better than that, I said, Like a voice in the wind blow little crystals down Like brittle things will break before they turn Like lipstick on my sigarette And the ice get harder overhead Like think it twice but never never learn ... And the mist will wrap around us And the crystal, if you touch it ... And the cars Lost in the drift Are there And the people that drive Lost in the drivft Are there And the cares I've Lost in the drift Are there Theirs, ours, Lost in the drift Are.. Driven Driven together And driven Apart voltar