NINEVEH
Text and music: Lilou & John
A thousand stars are dying
Baptized in Jonah’s flesh
Fires for the crying
Burn our shadows to ash
Nineveh, Nineveh on fire, fire
Burning in Jonah’s eyes
Cursed by the word of a liar, liar
The roll of a loaded dice
A thousand stars are dying
Darkness crawl from the east
Dressed in eyes and iron
Carry the mark of the beast
Nineveh, Nineveh on fire, fire
Burned by a foreign god
Cursed by the words of a liar, liar
Money instead of blood
Nineveh, Nineveh on fire, fire
Burning in Jonah’s eyes
Cursed by the word of a liar, liar
The roll of a loaded dice
A thousand stars are dying
Animals walk the earth
Burning birds are flying
Sons of those who crawled in dirt
Nineveh, Nineveh on fire, fire
Fire that falls like rain
Cursed by the words of a liar, liar
Will you endure this pain?
A thousand stars are dying
Baptized in Jonah’s flesh
Fires for the crying
Burn our shadows to ash
Nineveh, Nineveh on fire, fire
Burning in Jonah’s eyes
Cursed by the word of a liar, liar
The roll of a loaded dice
Nineveh, Nineveh on fire, fire
Burning in Jonah’s eyes
Cursed by the word of a liar, liar
The roll of a loaded dice
SNAKE PIT
Text and music: Lilou & John
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel the world is a shapeshifter honey
Changing face every day
Can’t you see the small girl behind every woman
In that trade
Can’t you see every customer wants good value
For a night on the town
Can’t you feel the slight vibration from the train crash
Under ground
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel the sun is a burning bitch baby
For those who sweat every day
Can’t you see the devil behind every person
In your trade
Can’t you see cotton is sharper than knives for
Songbirds in the field
Can’t you hear the dogs they’re barking baby
Don’t get killed
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel
Can’t you feel the bullet is far from shot and
The fuse has not been lit
Can’t you see the war going on down below in that
Sulfur pit
Don’t you know the heart is a muscle now baby
The beat is far from kind
Can’t you see the snakes crawling over each other
Deaf and blind
KINGLY INFANT
Text and music: Lilou & John
If only you could see me
Acknowledge my existence
See beyond the gray mist
Of my self-resistance
Tell me I am worthy
To live among the living
Tell my self-denial
Don’t be so unforgiving
If only you could see me
The fiend within I wonder
Could I bare it with me
Wherever I may wander
The heart I know was stolen
By the shadowbreaker
Transcended by the void
And slaughtered by the maker
If only you could see me
Who dwell among the shallow
Could you bring me solace
When the skies are narrow
Would you smile back at me
By the finite portal
Say enter this and see
A dead becomes a mortal
If only you could see me
But then I know, you couldn’t
Make your cold eyes warmer
Too much at stake, you wouldn’t
Denounce this kingly infant
Halt her blind ambition
Make her love the shadow
The beggar and the vision
DOGS OF HABANA
Text and music: Lilou & John
Dogs got tics and fleas, yeah baby, I got only tics
You get that when your daddy is playing dirty tricks
With your mind like shooting down everyone you love
Saying that money will fall down from above
So when my eyes seem goofy
And I make stupid sounds
Just laugh at me cos I’m alive
Yeah I am still around
Dogs got tics and fleas, yeah baby, I got only tics
And my words that stutter like bullets into bricks
When your daddy say dear daughter everything’s okay
But you are just a lazy child that wanna play all day
So when my eyes seem goofy
And I make stupid sounds
Just laugh at me cos I’m alive
Yeah I am still around
Dogs got tics and fleas, yeah baby, I got only tics
Your skin is kind of greasy but an execution sticks
So listen up now daddy, I hope I’m not too rude
I really like this dungeon but I need some food
So when my eyes seem goofy
And I make stupid sounds
Just laugh at me cos I’m alive
Yeah I am still around
WHITE WIDOW
Text and music: Lilou & John
My lipstick glows just like a bloody full moon
Necklace dazzling like a thousand stars
A coral reef on my wrist like bangles
Black eyeliner like seaweed from afar
Black eyeliner like seaweed from afar
The mighty ocean’s deep blue endless body
Shakes her water off the ragged coast
I rise up through the golden twilight surface
I am what every man has wished the most
I am what every man has wished the most
I undress and show you things to die for
I know you wanted them all through your life
Now get your clothes off give me your horizon
I’m no lady no no I’m your wife
I’m no lady no no I’m your wife
Come and lay down by my side my darling
Forget the dry wells where you’ve been
My body yearns for rivers full of silver
Enough to give me long and pleasant dreams
Enough to give me long and pleasant dreams
I move my hands across your crooked body
Down to your hips where I drop your spine
I tell you stop this feminist old nonsense
Just plug it in and unleash the man behind
Just plug it in and unleash the man behind
Walk with me a demon with another
Our fantasies will dry this ocean clean
We’ll rid the waves of oil and vain illusions
I’ll make you realize it’s not a dream
I’ll make you realize it’s not a dream
DEAD PUPPY SONG
Text and music: Lilou & John
Unlike people, you waved your tail
When you saw me
Unlike people, you waved your tail
When you saw me
Unlike people, you waved your tail
When you saw me
Unlike people, you waved your tail
When you saw me
There ain’t no lying in a dogs eye
And now I gotta bury you, son, under your tree
Your heart was bigger than me
Your heart was bigger than me
Unlike people, you licked my hand
When you saw me
Unlike people, you licked my hand
When you saw me
Unlike people, you licked my hand
When you saw me
Unlike people, you licked my hand
When you saw me
There ain’t no lying in a dogs eye
And now I gotta bury you, son, under your tree
Your heart was bigger than me
Your heart was bigger than me
Just like people, you had to die
In the morning
Just like people, you had to die
In the morning
Just like people, you had to die
In the morning
Just like people, you had to die
In the morning
There ain’t no lying in a dogs eye
And now I gotta bury you, son, under your tree
Your heart was bigger than me
Your heart was bigger than me
CALAMITY JANE
Text and music: Lilou & John
I can never feel for you
Like the way I used to do
I was yours now you have won
My heart is lost all faith is gone
To me your words were always kind
Now I realize I was blind
You say you’ll end your life if I leave
Well that is your choice and I won’t greive
I never trusted anyone
As much as you look what you’ve done
I gave you love you shattered mine
Broke my heart a thousand times
You went behind my back and lied
Left me alone and crucified
You say you’ll end your life if I leave
Well that is your choice and I won’t greive
I tried to make our house my home
But you just left me all alone
For years I thought you loved me too
But in your heart was only you
I thought you were the one you said
Now I wish that you were dead
You say you’ll end your life if I leave
Well that is your choice and I won’t greive
There I was but where were you
Dreamed you were with someone new
Pack your things and say goodbye
I will never live a lie
I will find the perfect man
You will die by your own hand
You say you’ll end your life if I leave
Well that is your choice and I won’t greive
HORSEFLY WOOD
Text and music: Lilou & John
I can’t find them
I can’t find the children
Are they lost forever
Lord help me
I’ve been searching
I’ve been searching for them
Long lost children
In the Horsefly wood
I can’t find them
I can’t find the children
Are they lost forever
Lord help me
I’ve been searching
I’ve been searching for them
Long lost children
In the Horsefly wood
Who has left them
Who has left them dying
Are they lost forever
Lord help me
I’ve been searching
I’ve been searching for them
Long lost children
In the Horsefly wood
Have you found them
Are they walking with you
Can you lead me to them
Lord help me
I’ve been searching
I’ve been searching for them
Long lost children
In the Horsefly wood
In the turmoil
In the rocky river
In the foaming water
Lord help me
I’ve been searching
I’ve been searching for them
Long lost children
In the Horsefly wood
Were they praying
Were they singing to you
Did you hear them praying
Lord help me
I’ve been searching
I’ve been searching for them
Long lost children
In the Horsefly wood
Will I find them
Bring them food and water
If I keep on searching
Lord help me
I’ve been searching
I’ve been searching for them
Long lost children
In the Horsefly wood
Lord please help me
Help me find the children
Are they lost forever
Lord help me
I’ll keep searching
I’ll keep searching for them
Long lost children
In the Horsefly wood
PURPLE ARROW
Text and music: Lilou & John
I see you
On the highway
Purple arrow
In the sky
I know you
In the skyline
In the harbor
I’m alive
I find you
On the sidewalk
In this Memphis
Of my dreams
I move you
From the backyard
To the centre
Of the world
I hear you
Paint the landscape
With the colors
Of the wind
I see you
On the highway
Purple arrow
In the sky
I see you
On the highway
Purple arrow
In the sky
I see you
On the highway
Purple arrow
In the sky
27 Club
Text and music: Lilou & John
It was a celluloid photo burning in the late night wind
And the ticket to Eden somebody tried to win
It was a shout in the night that echoed and died in vain
For the wall was a wall of darkness and deep slow pain
And the microphone singing was all that they left alone
It was a ticket to Eden that led away from home
It was a grind in a mill that cracked every single bone
But the words they carved were still in the cold stone
And their long eyes dried in the dark at the local pub
And the cars were running outside the 27 Club
They all took to the highway speeded along the sea
And the pain that hit them dragged them into the deep
And the records sold were an echo in that wall
Covered in a story to sell and tell them all
That the ticket down to Eden is a ticket none can buy
It’s a journey only for them who live to die
GUERILLA POETRY
Text and music: Lilou & John
Sleep my little ray of light
Be a sun tomorrow
Then you’ll dance all through the grass
Run like an arrow
Sleep my little superboy
Put on your suit tomorrow
Then you’ll shine my little star
Be this city’s hero
Sleep my little willow leaf
Look to the south tomorrow
Then you’ll stretch out over the pond
Shade the rabbit’s burrow
Sleep my little buccaneer
Sail the seas tomorrow
Then you’ll find a treasure chest
Together with Jack Sparrow
Sleep oh little heart of mine
Sleep onto tomorrow
Then you’ll see the morning sun
Shining through your window
OLD MOONSHINER
Text and music: Lilou & John
Dear mother my mountain of silence
Full of thick charcoal lines
Up ‘gainst the back of a donkey
Going up to the mines
Pickaxes rusty abandoned
Old veins from the year of the flood
Machines now lost in the river
Meltwater hunger and mud
Yes I know mother
You’re sucked dry
Will you even bother
When I die
Here’s to you mother
Lowland rye
The moon will shine down on me
When I die
I wrote you three letters to tell you
How much it would cost me to die
Where nothing but sulfur is shining
Where only the birches grow high
Denied of all I have sought for
Believed I was made for a cause
Where rocks were my bed and my skyline
To rest on the bones of my horse
Yes I know mother
You’re sucked dry
Will you even bother
When I die
Here’s to you mother
Lowland rye
The moon will shine down on me
When I die
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