1985 B-sides & Extras Lyrics

The Exploding Boy — B-side to Inbetween Days UK 7”/12” singles

I couldn’t hear a word you said
I couldn’t hear at all
You talked until your tongue fell out
And then you talked some more
I knew if I turned
I’d turn away from you
And I couldn’t look back

Tell yourself we’ll start again
Tell yourself it’s not the end
Tell yourself it couldn’t happen
Not this way
Not today

A Few Hours After This — B-side to Inbetween Days UK 12” single

The look before I go
Is the look for you
You only have to look, and it will all come true
And we can fall outside
Into the busy night
Or pull me down in here
You know it’s all the same
I only want to see if you are happy again
Or we can roll around
And find out upside down, oooh

A few hours after this and we’re apart again
Like two white checks
Like opposite poles
In a secret game
(Like nothing like these, I suppose)
I really should have known by the cut of your smile
That the answer would be simple
It still took you a while to get it out of me
I thought you’d do it easily

Just put your hands around my heart
And squeeze me until I’m dry
I never thought you’d ever start to ever ask me why…

I never saw you again
I never saw you again
I never saw you again
I never saw you again

A Man Inside My Mouth — B-side to Close to Me UK 7”/12” singles and Quadpuss/Half an Octopuss 10”/12” singles

I woke up at seven and my body was vibrating
I was wrapped up in a blanket
I was grey
Damp and sore
The bedroom was an engine and my heartbeat was erratic
Like I think I’m at the racing
Like the night before
I remember one girl standing
One was sitting on the ground
One was holding me up
The other pulling me down
And I couldn’t decide which one was real
Because there wasn’t a sound
(Like I was pregnant again)

“Don’t move don’t blink don’t think don’t even breathe” she said
“Or the photograph will spoil
And cut you off at the head”
So, I was sucking
I was sucking like a fat lady would
But I couldn’t hold it down another second
(Bleagh!)

“Don’t twitch don’t shout don’t think don’t even breathe” she said
“Or the photograph will spoil and cut you off at the head”
So, I was sweating
I was sweating like a fat lady would…
And I woke up
With a man inside my mouth
(This won’t hurt at all)

Stop Dead — B-side to Inbetween Days US/Canada 7”/12” singles and Close to Me UK 12” single

Let me forget
Let me forget
Or let me go
Let me go
I’ll keep it quiet as a whisper
I’ll keep it low low low…
Never!
The biggest word I ever heard
Stop dead
Stop dead
You’re getting too close

Before you even opened your eyes
I moved about a million ways
I killed about a million people
And filled about half a day
Before you even opened your eyes
You had to have to ask me who
I love it
I mean you

My face was in your hands
You looked into my eyes
You said I tasted right
And swallowed me alive

New Day — B-side on Quadpuss/Half an Octopuss 10”/12” singles

New day
In heaven the ground is waiting
For the dust
The seed
My love once more
I shout
New day
Hold the air and gasp in life
This solid dance
This cold cold night
Is gone…
The dark heat throbs
The fools’ sweat swims
The hazy lights
The deadly sins
Are gone…
Crack the stone
Invade my head
Dropping honey dropping dead again
The silence shouts
Across the gap
Another dreaming
Love me again
Shout…

Kyoto Song — Demo February 1985

A nightmare of you of death in the pool
Wakes me up a quarter to three
I’m lying on the floor of the night before
With a stranger lying next to me

A nightmare of you of death in the pool
I see no further than this dream
The trembling hand of the trembling man
Hold my mouth to hold in a scream

It looks good, it tastes like nothing on Earth
It looks good, it tastes like nothing on Earth
It’s so smooth it even looks like skin
It tells me how it feels to be new

It tells me how it feels to be new
Paralyzed by the stars aligned
It tells me how it feels to be new
And every word belongs to you

A nightmare of you of death in the pool
Wakes me up a quarter to three
I’m lying on the floor of the night before
With a stranger lying next to me

A nightmare of you of death in the pool
I see no further than this dream
The trembling hand of the trembling man
Hold my mouth to hold in a scream

It tells me how it feels, it tells me how it feels to be new
Didn’t find the sense, it finally went away
And everyone belongs, everyone belongs to you

A Few Hours After This — Demo February 1985

If I screw up my eyes
Or screw up my face
Or I’ll turn on the lights
And disguise the distaste
Of this taste in your mouth
I’m sick of this tongue
On the film of your eyes

It’s the way I’ll become
I’m obsessed with the way that you try
To end up to miss a step
Do it for me

And day after day
Makes me wish I was you
Squeeze it till I’m dry
She was worried by the million that came to your mind
If I asked this all again
Again

See my feet
Spinning out again
This is going
Never gets seen
When this choice is made

Dress me up dress me up
In yellow or blue
I’ll always fall all the way
In front of you
Of you
Paralyzed his hands away
The sound of the dead
These clouds away
You never stop
The sunsets go
Dreams away

How can you be so proud?
If you heard the song
Of this cold night
How are you happy
Hold me tight
Try and stall the only one
I cannot taste
Mourning
As we’re happy
Helpless son
It’s crystal clean
It’s cut for family
A mother who could spit
Say it every time
Take it to everyone
And look away

When did you know this time?
I’ll go
Tell me all the tears
Who speak
Still I know
Here they go
These gorgeous fools
Have gone to dance
It seems like fizzy nights away
Nights away
I’ll never
Never