@ALBUM--CUISINE These are the lyrics to the Severed Heads album _Cuisine_, as Tom Ellard wrote them in the _SevCom Booklet 6_. SONGS IN THIS FILE--Pilot in Hell; Seven of Oceans; Finder; Estrogen; King of the Sea; Host of Quadrille; Life in the Whale; Twister; Ugly Twenties; Piggy Smack; Golden Height/I'm Your Antidote; Goodbye Entered by Dave Watson of the Severed Heads Liberation Front (aj153@freenet.carleton.ca) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Pilot in Hell Fifteen years have passed The desert sands adhere to your hands and block your airways Trickle down your throat,encrusting on your heart Every night the flight resumes, the foe replies, the fall returns Deep in the sands you hold your bible / Deep in the heart of enemy land Did you leave something behind? / Your televised dismay was plain Did you leave something behind? (they're here....) Was it Romans three or two / that spoke to you of crescent lands Parked and blessed by tactical flashes / weighed upon the heathen hand? Did you leave something behind? (they're here....) High in the sky the way is clear / The reasons fair and the air is yours ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Seven of Oceans Here we are, seven of oceans / great divide conquers emotions, for good Drives in car, transfers allegiance to land / Looks to land's earthen embrace (Lum dum dum...) I was led to believe that changes came Changes came when I was very much older Layer the stone when limbs are worn down / layer the soil when mind has gone Here are you, swept in on beaches Tail winds, tangled nets / tasting soil, tail flaps in sunlight --------------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Finder (Sweetheart) it is due to you that my soul has swung so low (Sweetheart) it is due to you (Sweetheart) it has come the day that my song has flown away (Sweetheart) it has come that day Drive--the past like a highway / Drive--Stop at the halfway Drive--see all the paths that I could have chosen There are cars on fire and there is smoke on the road and... There are cars on fire. Fire. (Sweetheart) it is due to you that my soul has swung so low... -------------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Estrogen Did you ever say to yourself, "What's under this dress has done me good. I had all of the flame without the pain of motherhood. Without an heir I am alone but I have done nothing wrong." (Rejoins the sea) Did you ever say to yourself, "I am led by my parts. I am the sum of the seductive arts. Now one of the family, I sold my privacy, but I have done nothing wrong." Time calls / Estrogen calls / Rejoins the Sea (Time crawls) ----------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: King of the Sea Here is the cup that holds your chances (all hail the king of the sea) Here is the fruit of the sea Take this wine and toast your new life (all hail the king of the sea) Parade your watery state C Here your reporter treads water / Here your reporter loses his air Here your reporter treads water / Here lies your future Here you are, the watery power / King of liquids and prince of thirst--C ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Host of Quadrille Hot on the heels of '78 / The wailing dance of the cardiac rate Break out lungs in ecstacy / the gross physique of devilry says, "Oh! When they play the music too slow my heart falls into the cold / and the ice has come again!" Take my future, take my hand / Take a turn in the promised land Host of quadrille, heel of fire / spirals down the steepest spire The spiral of hope and the noose of the rope and the draw of the blade ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Life in the Whale Here in the depths of the whale / Therein the hopes of the unsaved Drunk on the aqua vital / Fallen in vessels, broken in seas And my hands are as tight as the tightness can be and they hold on the thoughts of another and my throat is dry as the dryness can be and these are the floats of another ----------------------------------- @SONG: Twister (Twister!) Down in the fields the bodies are lying in spirals Hanging from trees, they're clicking their heels to (Twister!) Down in the towns the water is brown with my taste Nutrasweet and nuclear waste C Yippee yi yay kiyay kiyay! / Disease is touring the U.S.A. and stopping at Denny's along the way A Texan nachos and the bubonic plague (Twister!) Down in the streets the cars are spinning in spirals Not surprising--there's no one driving (Twister!) East to West, the world is blessed with my fame A growing pain that's hard to explain--C (Twister!) Back at home the cold is growing, back at home (When I wanna hold you all I gotta do...) ----------------------------------------- @SONG: Ugly Twenties I was shocked and sad to hear / that your laugh had caught another ear and the seeds that I had spread / entered in another bed and... C Fold your face in a lie / Curry the favour of magazines Weigh the words in a style / Reflects back well on yourself Is it serious? An understanding? / A walk in ways that I can recall in a memory that falls / Dark in parts and sad in total--C Oh, talk and preen yourself / splash on colours and eternity In the boasts that you tell / sleep fast in your media shell--C --------------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Piggy Smack Here under wraps human surplus / sirloin and dark peephole deluxe Here in the cage steroid surprise / babel skinned consolation prize C I've got an audience that loves my face I've got an audience I call my own I've got an audience but for the grace of God go I Travel around the foreign towns / Ports of culture and the courts of old Travel around the gaping crowds / the mothers and fathers of qualms Here in the cage personal dark / Taste sensation pleasure park Here in the flesh piggy smack / Vitamin lack and roller coast--C ---------------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Golden Heights / I'm Your Antidote You'd do well to think on my virtues, fatal and final The people that you'd care to remember sign in and sign out Reflect in your death bed the things that you said Tap into your life, draw the blood of strife Open up your hands and prepare for the golden life Recently it comes to me I don't know where I've been It calls me when I sleep, the time is hidden from me Time has come again, the end has taken hold of me - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I'm your antidote, settled in your town / Take a look around Feel the heat of my hands rain on my command Twists your words and twirls your skirts / Hides the day and keeps your time I'm your antidote, made my home in your harms --------------------------------------------- @SONG: Goodbye Death travels slowly charity favours / cost of the moment crust of the crater Sober and gentle base of the total / craft of the hopeful founded in style C And air - people are waiting for me / My name will fall in the rain Death travels slowly upwardly mobile Pope of the gentiles, scourge of the missiles Past of the nubile told in the papers / Lost in the chases over the climb--C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL LYRICS PUBLISHED BY POLYGRAM MUSIC AUSTRALIA