Lovesubzero

Colder love, colder love
Colder love, colder love

My love is in your hands
Divinity commands
Can see it in your eyes
In a world without end

Bow my head and wonder
There’s nothing I would not do
Bow my head and wonder
There’s nothing I would not do
For your love, for your love, for your love
For your love, for your love, for your love

Sweeter that night, that morning light
(When love did loving meet)
I knew him well and we could dwell
(In ecstasy complete)

I gave him there my thought, my care
(So did my spirit flower)
Love, may it rest upon his breast
(A cedarwood-scented hour)

When morning air ruffled his hair
(Among ramparts blowing)
I felt his hand, a quiet command
(Tranquillity bestowing)

And face to face with love’s own grace
(Fears no more parading)
I left him there with all my care
(Among the lilies fading)

My love is in your hands
Divinity commands
Do anything for your love
Do anything for your love
Your love

Lovesubzero, lovesubzero, lovesubszero, love
Lovesubzero, lovesubzero, lovesubszero, love
Lovesubzero, lovesubzero, lovesubszero, love

Ah love, ah love
Do anything for your love

Lovesubzero, lovesubzero, lovesubszero, love

Ecce Homo

Is there a god living in your old age golden dream
Already crucified in the imagination of men
Resurrecting the lost flesh, for the honey is the money to sell
The silver dollar, the poison pen, I’ll see you boys in hell

The power to give (the world that I know)
The power to take (the world that you know)
The power to hate, where stars and stripes are sovereign

Inside ourselves there’s a whole new another world
The guilt that hurts has no refrain, it’s a guilt that has no name

The power to give (the world that I know)
The power to take (the world that you know)
The power to hate, where the hashtag is heaven or hell

Fight fire with fire, we can walk on water
We will die, we will live forever
Ecce! Ecce homo!

Now loathe and fear breaks into war as religious incantations sing
We kiss his hand, his holy hand, the realm of the Kill Kill King
Come and see how we sold out our souls
Lost and double-crossed, all in the name of original sin

The power to give (the world that I know)
The power to take (the world that you know)
The power to hate, it’s your price tag to heaven or hell

Fight fire with fire, we can walk on water
We will die, we will live forever
Ecce! Ecce homo!

Backslider, backslider on the hill
Puts his knife in the gut of sinners
Big cities, big cities falling down
This is war, this is war, we’re killers

Sweet dreams smell of everything
Everything money can buy
The high hopes they sold you on
Won’t get you to heaven but you can try

Ecce! Ecce homo!
Ecce! Ecce homo!

Fight fire with fire, we can walk on water
We will die, we will live forever
Ecce! Ecce homo!

The Church of Love

Happiness is heaven, and heaven is at our feet
(In the Church of Love)
Happiness is heaven, and heaven is at our feet
(In the Church of Love)

This is the Church of Love
Our love is its own
We pray in our own way
No Pope, no Rome

Here comes King Princess
I told you not to wear that dress
The love that dared not speak its name
Now is the love that knows no shame

Shame, shame, shame, we know no shame
We’re all eloping to the Church of Love
Celebrate the Church of Love
Call me by my name

This is the Church of Love
Our love is its own
We’re all eloping to the Church of Love
Celebrate the Church of Love
Our love is its own
Our love is its own

Happiness is heaven, and heaven is at our feet
(In the Church of Love)
Happiness is heaven, and heaven is at our feet
(In the Church of Love)

(In the Church, in the Church, in the Church of Love)

Stations of the Cross

How can I speak when you’ve not spoken?
How can I sleep when all is broken?
It’s true, true
It’s you, you, you

Making all my life so complicated
Breaking up my bones ‘cause they’re hated
It’s you, you, you

The Stations of the Cross, the magic and the loss
All the push and the shove, from the drink and the drugs
When it comes down to love, there’s nothing left to do
No more water, no more wine, just give me back my time

How can I breathe when you’re still crying?
Don’t even know if I know I know you
I do, do, do

Time, time, time, it’s taken all my time
Now there’s nothing left to give, and nothing else is mine
The Stations of the Cross, the magic and the loss
All the push and the shove, and the battles that it cost

So lonely, lonely, lonely
Give me back my time
Life is hard when love is cold
Colder than the blood, the blood that’s in your veins
The Stations of the Cross
Don’t nail me to this cross

The Stations of the Cross, the magic and the loss
All the push and the shove, my heart, my hand in glove
When it comes down to love, there’s nothing left to do
No more water, no more wine, just give me back my time

Time, time, time, it’s taken all my time
Now there’s nothing left to give, and nothing else is mine
The Stations of the Cross, the magic and the loss
The Stations of the Cross, don’t nail me to this cross

Lady Esquire

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)
Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)

When she comes, when she comes around
She’ll steal your soul and lead your heart astray

Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)
Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)

She rings the doorbell of perception
Lets loose her Diamond Dogs to play

Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)
Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)

We’re on the hill near the Seven Towers
‘Hey man, do ya wanna see the buildings dance?’

I love, you love
Love me, love me, Lady Esquire
Hold me, baby, show me, baby, the secret sign
Hold me, baby, show me, baby, the world is mine
Do ya wanna, do ya wanna, wanna see
Do ya wanna see the buildings dance?

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)
Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)

And now I’m not my father’s son
Now I can be . . . anyone

Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)
Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)

I’m packing my bags, I’m going away
From the dull suburban grey

Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)
Lady, Lady (Hey!), Lady Esquire (Hey!)

(Am I alive?) Am I alive?
(Am I alive?) Am I alive?
I am dancing, I am dancing

I love, you love
Take me, make me a Virgin Prune
Hold me, baby, show me, baby, the secret sign
Hold me, baby, show me, baby, the world is mine
Do ya wanna, do ya wanna, wanna see
Do ya wanna see the buildings dance?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the buildings dance
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the buildings dance
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the buildings dance

We are the boys from Ballymun
‘Ya handbag, ya pansy’
The buildings dance

When the World was Young

When the world was young and time was too
Ol’ troubled me meant the best for you
I wondered

When the world was small and time did call
We sold ourselves, we done it all
And I wondered, I wondered

Where we gonna be?
What we all could see?
If we come to be?

Time flies, heroes sigh
Love overcomes, we won’t die
Time sees but never knows
Love overcomes, it’s where you go

When the world was young (when the world was young)
When the world was young (when the world was young)
And I wondered, we wandered
When the world was young

Tell me beautiful things that speak to me
All I hear are sounds of old contrition
Like once I said, I said ‘I needed you’
Indecision was my decision

Walk in the world, we walked in the world
We reached for the sky, reached for the sky
Walk in the world, jump for the sun
We saw in the sky, we saw in the sky

And I wondered, we wandered
When the world was young
When the world was young
When the world was young

Baby, we’re crying
Baby, we’re dying
Baby, we’re flying
(High, high, high)

Baby, the lights, the shining lights
Away from Cedarwood, from Cedarwood
Helium highs, all those fights
No more heroes, just zeroes now

When the world was young
When my world was young
I wondered, we wandered
When the world was young

Time flies, time crawls
It’s standing still now, standing still now
Time flies, time crawls
It’s standing still now, it’s standing still now

When the world was young
When my world was young
And I wonder

The Best Boys in Dublin

One is red, one is blond
The best boys in Dublin town
Stan the Man, Ralfie too
The best boys in Dublin town

The best boys in Dublin town
The best boys in Dublin
The best boys in Dublin

One is red, one is blond
The best boys in Dublin town
The best boys
We love you

Lamento

Your heart is deceitful above all things
And love so unconditional, and what that brings
Cold is the hand that holds the knife
And cuts deep like a thief in the night

Stop! Baby, baby
There’s a crack in your heart
Stop! Baby, baby
Hold on to your heart

Hurt is a dark and vacant room
And hate is the thing that comes too soon
Gone is the pain your love did bring
And your heart is deceitful above all things

Stop! Baby, baby
There’s a crack in your heart
Stop! Baby, baby
Hold on to your heart

Goodbye, my love, goodbye
You are the one that took away the sun
You, my love, goodbye
The deed is done, love is dead

Tears are the thoughts we cannot keep
And tears for the fears we hold deep

To feel the love of the one that gives love
Is the fire that keeps us alive
Hey, ma — Annie, Annie Storey
Annie Storey

Stop! Baby, baby
There’s a crack in your heart
Stop! Baby, baby
Hold on to your heart

Goodbye, my love, goodbye
Lost in space, no time, no place
You, my love, goodbye
Your love was gold, in the line of blood
Your loving son

The heart will crack, the heart will break
But broken, live on

When the World was Young (Reprise)

When the world was small and time did call
We sold ourselves, we done it all
And I wondered, we wandered

When the world was young
When the world was young

When the world was young
When the world was young
When my world was young

Cabarotica

1982
Remember, remember

Carnivore, it’s a carnival
Where everything is available
Hey-hey! Hey-hey!
Cabarotica (Cabarotica)

Déjà vu, déjà vu–vu-void
A place to dance or be android
Hey-hey! Hey-hey!
Cabarotica (Cabarotica)

The people here, so tragically hip
‘Oh come and taste, taste these lips’
Hey-hey! Hey-hey!
Cabarotica (Cabarotica)

I got the boat, the boat and the train
To London Soho, exotic terrain
Doc Martens, a four-yard skirt
I don’t kiss, I kill when I hurt

Young love, young love with nowhere to go
(Hey-hey!) Just a boy, just a boy in the West End
Young love, young love with nowhere to go
Cabarotica (Cabarotica)

Knock-knock on the Blighty door
‘Aller en France, you Paddy bore’
Hey-hey! Hey-hey!
Cabarotica (Cabarotica)

I’m not a Paddy, nor a lad insane
I dabble taboo, don’t play your game
Din Glorious, so so profound
No room in heaven, I’m hell-bound

Star, stardust crush
Took me high (high, high)
Star, stardust crush
If I die, I die

So long to Soho, the epicentre of dirty obscene
Hell’s Hundred Acres now squeaky clean
Oh the Piccadilly rain and the hallowed ground
Where the great diviners did tread
So long to Soho, the streets are now all but dead

Young love, young love with nowhere to go
(Hey-hey!) Just a boy, just a boy in the West End
Young love, young love with nowhere to go
Cabarotica (Cabarotica)

Amaranthus (Love Lies Bleeding)

I’m lovesick now that you’re gone
Gone to a place, a place unknown
Your bad brains and broken bones
The lights are on, no one’s home

Is it something that I said?
Or just the voices in your head?

Oh, oh Amaranthus
Woe, oh Amaranthus
Oh, oh Amaranthus
Woe, oh Amaranthus

Now all I am is every man she ever knew

Your lost soul, no longer kind
Stuck in the past with a dangerous mind
Love lovesick now that you’re gone
There is no place, no place called home

Is it something that I said
Or just the voices in your head?

Oh, oh Amaranthus
Woe, oh Amaranthus
Oh, oh Amaranthus
Woe, oh Amaranthus

Amaranthus

They have never ever seen
The beauty that hides inside of you
We have never ever known
The crazy things that frighten you
You, beyond redemption
Mother!

Oh, oh Amaranthus
Woe, oh Amaranthus
Oh, oh Amaranthus
Woe, oh Amaranthus

Amaranthus

Now all I am is every man she ever knew

Oh, oh Amaranthus
Woe, oh Amaranthus
Oh, oh Amaranthus
Woe, oh Amaranthus

‘Happy birthday, Fionán’

Daze

When the days are long and the nights drag on
Anxiety is calling
When you feel too much but you know nothing
Too much information

Got a noise inside my head
Heartbeat is pleading
I’m 21st century dead
And all life is a ghetto

So I’m feeling low and I won’t let go
You can’t lead this horse to water
And I will not try, I will not lie
But I can’t control disorder

Now there’s ice in the storm like a Bitches Brew
And we never never got no warning

Got a noise inside my head
Heartbeat is screaming
I’m 21st century dead
And all life is a ghetto

All the days, the days that drag us under
And all the ways, the ways that make us wonder

Is it any wonder?
Is it any wonder?

There’s a noise in my head
And the voice, it said:
‘You’re a thief of fire’
So I kick like hell
For the singer must sell
For the thing we call desire

Is this desire?
I’m down to the wire

Like a gun going off in my head
The noise is bigger and bigger
I’m 21st century dead
And all life is a ghetto

All the days, the days that drag us under
And all the ways, the ways that make us wonder
(These days that fall asunder
These days that make us wonder)

Down all the days, all these days that fall asunder
Love will find its way if the days don’t drag you under
Down all the days, all the days that make us wonder
We’re guilty in our ways
Cupidity, cupidity, it’s in our ways
We’re in a daze

La la la la la . . .

Gimme money, gimme sex
Gimme food and cigarettes
Gimme all that I can get
Gimme what I’ve not seen yet
‘Is that it all?’ I hear you say
I think you know there’s nothing left
Let’s suck the marrow from the bone

Damn those days, these demon days
I’m in a daze, we’re in a daze

Behold the Man

Behold the man

This God of yours
In lies and dreams
Your populism
Hates all, it seems
I can see
And so can you

Behold the man

All lyrics by Gavin Friday