Black Planet - The Sisters of Mercy

Alice pressed against the wall So she can see the door In case the laughing strangers crawl and Crush the petals on the floor Alice in her party dress She thanks you kindly So serene She needs you like she needs her tranqs To tell her that the world is clean To promise her a definition Tell her where the rain will fall Tell her where the sun shines bright And tell her she can have it all Today Pass the crystal spread the Tarot In illusion comfort lies The safest way the straight and narrow No confusion no surprise Alice in her party dressed to kill She the thanks you turns away She needs you like she needs her pills To tell her that the world's okay To promise her a definition Tell her where the rain will fall Tell her where the sun shines bright And tell her she can have it all Today Today Alice Don't give it away

Lay me down the long white line Leave the sirens far behind me Paint my name in black and gold My heart my flame my heart my road My heartland fade across the line Heartland sing the faces shining In the failing failing failing Heartland make the places mine Clearly now the past mistakes The giant steps we had to take The path that ever promise made To die in dream dissolve and fade My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland Behind the lines a face that glimmers Still looking for a face that shines In the promise in the places I'm going to make them mine My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland heartland heartland My heartland-

We'll turn away in a passive decision We'll take the steps through the unmarked door A look back for another collision But the boys of the spires Are boys no more Not black and red boys Frightened by the night By the catholic monochrome The catholic girls now Stark in their dark and white Dread in monochrome The sisters of mercy High tide Wide eyed Sped on adrenochrome For the sisters of mercy Filled with Panic in their eyes Rise Dead on adrenochrome We had the power We had the space We had a sense of time and place We knew the words We knew the score We knew what we were fighting for For the freedom The time to choose But time to think Is time to lose The signals clash And disappear The shade too loud And the sound unclear For the High tide Wide eyed Dread in monochrome Denied in spite Disliked in monochrome Panic in their eyes Rise Dead and monochrome The sisters of mercy Spite On adrenochrome The way is clear The road is closed The damage done And the course Imposed you

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

We were together since we were five She was so pretty Emma was a star in everyone's eyes And when she said she'd be a movie queen Nobody laughed With her face like an angel She could be anything Emmaline Emma Emmaline I'm gonna write your name high on the silver screen Emmaline Emma Emmaline I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen At seventeen We were wed And I worked hard to earn our daily bread And every day Emma would go out searching for that play That never, ever came her way And sometimes she come home and she'd be so depressed I'd hear her crying in the back room and be so distressed And I'd remember back when she was five To the words that used to make Emmaline come alive It was... Emmaline Emma Emmaline I'm gonna write your name high on the silver screen Emmaline Emma Emmaline I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen It was a cold and dark December night When I opened up the bedroom door To find her lying Cold and still upon the bed A love letter lying on the bedroom floor IT read, 'Darling I love you But I just can't keep living on dreams no more I've tried so hard not to leave you alone But I just can't keep trying no more' Emmaline Emma Emmaline I'm gonna write your name high on the silver screen Emmaline Emma Emmaline I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen