@ALBUM: Immunity ARTIST: Rupert Hine Lyrics taken from Immunity CD (A&M 394 858-2): Music written and arranged by Rupert Hine Lyrics by Jeanette Obstoj (The occasional misprint corrected...) @SONG: I Hang On To My Vertigo A bat on the edge With a bad mind Privately found The best release I know Some way to let go I hang on to my vertigo I hang on A slow death ahead Is a sad slide Perfectly formed To feel a fall like lead A balcony for my bed I hang on to my vertigo I hang on Spinning alone I look down I'm unshy on the skyline Hiding at home Don't you feel low Wasting your breath And your friends' time Up, oh I want to be alone Me on a high wire A cat on the ledge With a bad sign Secretly dead It's good to look down A one way view and so I hang on to my vertigo I hang on Spinning alone I look down I'm unshy on the skyline Hiding at home Don't you feel low Wasting your breath And your friends' time Up, oh I want to be alone Me on a high wire Up, oh I want to be alone Me on a high wire I'm over your head @SONG: Misplaced Love You noticed that I closed my eyes again And smiled in all the silence I have grown in me for you But then what accident of stars Brought you so late into my arms Where even now another sleeps Here in my heart I know that you and I are one I wonder if some joker laughs as he looks on I wonder if some joker laughs as he looks on I wonder if some joker laughs as he looks on At all our misplaced love You noticed that I turned my head away And cried for all the goodness I have found deceiving you Ah well how could we know the hand Fate chose to be our guide was tired Of lover's bliss and holding hands Deep in my heart I know that you and I are one I wonder if some joker sighs for what we've done I wonder if some joker sighs for what we've done I wonder if some joker sighs for what we've done With all our misplaced love I noticed that you touched my soul in time And lied to stop my leaving For a place where no one hears But then what randomness and chance Could move the mountain from our dreams Or break the spell upon us now And though deep in my heart I know you and I are one I wonder if the joker dies what will become I wonder if the joker dies what will become I wonder if the joker dies what will become Of all our misplaced love @SONG: Samsara Samsara was the state I lived in The city walls forestalled a break-in The brochure told folks they were safe here A destination with no check-in The women there were tantalising Shame shaped their minds through advertising The clothes we chose for lies to live in We had no guide but television Samsara was the state that I lived in A destination with no check-in. Samsara Samsara was the state I lived in Just like L.A. with no religion Some teacher told me I was gifted Her number wasn't even listed I wasn't sure if she existed Samsara was the state that I lived in A destination with no check-in. Samsara Now far from home this body's shaking With fantasies I fed to blind me The open door is now behind me One day I woke and it was missing @SONG: Surface Tension While you wait There's always something Looming low Will it show Your heart is thumping Halloween without a pumpkin Halloween Breeding in the stream The programmes come the same Why not the dream Can I keep on running Can I keep on running While you watch There's always something Taking sides Find a clue In any language Halloween without a pumpkin Halloween Sleeping still they look No meaner than their eyes Trick or treat or lies Can I keep on running Can I keep on running It's only surface tension But break it and we sink Reach out for the master's mask The wound is deeper than you think While you sleep There could be something Closing in You don't know Could this be London Halloween without a pumpkin Halloween Breathing on the phone The city creaks alone They know you're home Can I keep on running Can I keep on running It's only surface tension But break it and we sink Reach out for the master's mask The wound is deeper than you think @SONG: I Think A Man Will Hang Soon I think a man will hang soon He's hiding in a back room His morals are confused now Like walls they're bound to crack soon The room turns to a corner His choice is getting smaller There'll be no need for violence For years he's thought it out in silence I think a man will hang soon Contorted by the full moon Someone should hide the noose now This place may make us blind soon And no one shares his sadness So it changes into madness He'll chant throughout his trial He will be sentenced on arrival A woman scorned is witness And they believe her innocence In sweet revenge she has one need The ace is safe inside her sleeve The ace is safe I think a man will hang soon His face is not his fortune I think a man will hang soon The scent's disguised by perfume She will accept no rival The bitch's hand is on the Bible I think a man will hang soon He only broke the curfew @SONG: Immunity Immunity it's my discovery Immunity my way of hiding when the truth hurts me My way of cruising through what won't let me be It's my discovery No vexation No frustration Least of all no pain or penetration And no contamination Immunity it's my discovery Immunity my way of hiding when the truth hurts me My way of crusing through what won't let me be It's my discovery No sensation No elation Processed all my thought communication I've tamed imagination Out of reach But never out of touch My frozen smile could never be enough Once I wanted you but love cost me too much Immunity it's my discovery Immunity my way of hiding when the truth hurts me My way of crusing through what won't let me be It's my discovery Fake events and discontent The whole world's bent On leaving just a monument Immunity... (etc.) @SONG: Another Stranger Remember darkness It's full of strangers meeting strangers talking code Remember voices Sometimes these voices print out danger And I am just another stranger Find another stranger Who's lost another stranger Trying not to love you Trying not to love you... Remember nonsense You were its witness while computers searched for fame Remember judgement Sometimes the finger points to blame us Would you believe another stranger Find another stranger And name another stranger Trying not to love you Going over you with a fine tooth comb Concentrating on your faults There's not a single flaw Just ease my conscience Remembering how we met Tease myself with memories Oh how could I forget Remember silence It stores a message of the future you will know Remember pictures Sometimes an image comes to trick us It could be just another stranger Here's another stranger Inside another stranger Remember journeys They're full of promise taking chances breaking code Remember places Sometimes these faces spy like neighbours And am I just another stranger Meet another stranger Who needs another stranger Who's lost another stranger Inside another stranger Nothing's stranger than Trying not to love you Trying not to love you Facing all @SONG: Psycho-Surrender She stroked the telephone She touched the radio She felt the magazine She couldn't even scream The cinema was far too far Women sick of slimming Eat the pills of living Boredom, boredom, boredom Psycho surrender Boredom, boredom, boredom Boredom, boredom, boredom Psycho surrender Boredom, boredom, boredom And nothing seems important In the corner with the wardens Nothing happens and nothing shines And no one minds He locked another room He threw away the key No one would ever know A siren in the crowd Drowned every sound for miles and miles Big men from the bottom In a trap that's rotten Boredom... (etc) You've got a room And nowhere else to go A trouble maker then But looking at her now No one would ever know An understanding once Fast and easy Turned out just the same To slow and crazy Boredom (etc) (SOLO) Boredom (etc) No winters No windows No winners No view No you to Remind me of Things I should do... @SONG: Make A Wish Remember the cornfields The radio's dead How I worried our planes would collide And we'd never reach That secret tropical beach Oh make a wish And hand me down that clever book I think I'm falling down... There's no light on the road Oh I waited for hours I wanted to give her flowers I'll make a wish I stayed up all night for this I've said enough There's no catch It's take twenty two Met my match It's all happened before a flash reflected in her eye... how could we say goodbye... in the heat of the day... it could have been the end... of more than you and me And didn't you love New York And the sight of natural green A sad adventure this has been But now my mind is new and clean We'll meet again in another dream Make a wish for all you've seen Oh make a wish Don't hand me down some clever book There may be time for just one look We'll have to say it all With just one look we'll have to say it There's no light on the road Oh I waited for hours I wanted to give her flowers I'll make a wish I stayed up all night for this Make a wish and give up your thinking Make a wish her body is shrinking Make a wish the last eye is blinking Make a wish for water worth drinking Make a wish my vision is feeble @SONG: Scratching At Success He's scratching at success Like some poor dog locked in a room His claws are torn and sore And still no one will open up the door The water he drank long ago And food can't ease the roaring pain And even as he howls No one will bring him fame I told you so many times, my nails are wet you are the one I will forget.