Join the dots:
b-sides and rarities 1978-2001


CD 3 (1992 - 1996)


This twilight garden | Play | Halo | Scared as you | The big hand | A foolish arrangement
Doing the unstuck (saunders 12" remix) | Purple haze (virgin radio version) | Purple haze | Burn
Young americans | Dredd song | It used to be me | Ocean | Adonais

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This twilight garden

I lift my lips from kissing you
To kiss the sky
Cloud soft and blue
And slow the sun melts down
Into your golden words for me

I lift my hands from touching you
To touch the wind that whispers through
This twilight garden
Turns into a world
Where dreams are real

No-one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
No-one will ever take your place
So in love with you

I lift my eyes from watching you
To watch the star rise shine onto
Your dreaming face and dreaming smile
You're dreaming worlds for me

I lift my lips from kissing you
And kiss the sky wide deepest blue
And slow the moon swims up
Into your golden words for me

No-one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
No-one will ever take your place
So in love with you

 

This twilight garden


Play

Day after day
I let you down
Promise you to change
Then change my mind
And every time I promise you
It will all be fine
It won't be like this next time

The days you wait
Turn into years
Always wait
Helpless tears
Hopeless nights
And all the fears
It will always be like this

You give me everything you have
Hoping it will someday be enough
To melt my heart
To make me fall in love

Day after day
I let you down
Promise you to change it all
Then change my mind
And every time I promise you
Soon be fine
It won't be like this next time

But tonight we play I think
The final act
I push too hard
And you crack
Walk away
Don't look back
This time you've really gone

You give me everything you have
Knowing it can never be enough
My heart's too old
Too hard
Too cold
For your love

 


Play

Día tras día
Te defraudo
Te prometo cambiar
Entonces hago propósito de enmienda
Y a cada momento te prometo que
Todo estará bien que
No será así la próxima vez

Los días que esperas
Se convierten en años
Siempre esperas
Lágrimas de impotencia
Noches sin esperanza
Y todos los miedos
Siempre será así

Me lo das todo
Con la esperanza de que algún día sea suficiente
Para ablandar mi corazón
Para enamorarme

Día tras día
Te defraudo
Te prometo cambiarlo todo
Entonces hago propósito de enmienda
Y a cada momento te prometo que
Pronto estará bien que
No será así la próxima vez

Pero esta noche representamos creo
El último acto
Empujo demasiado fuerte
Y te golpeas
Te alejas
No miras hacia atrás
Esta vez te has ido de verdad

Me lo das todo
Sabiendo que nunca puede ser suficiente
Mi corazón es demasiado viejo
Demasiado duro
Demasiado frío
Para tu amor


Halo

I never felt like this with anyone before
You only have to smile and I'm dizzy
You make the world go round
A thousand times an hour
Just touch my head
And send me spinning

I never felt like this with anyone before
You show me colours and I'm crying
You hold my eyes in yours
And open up the world
I can't believe all this

I want to keep this feeling
Deep inside of me
I want you always in my heart
You are everything

I never felt like this with anyone before
You fill my head all full of rainbows
And all the rainbows end
Is every step you take
Just to be with you forever

I want to keep this feeling
Deep inside of me
I want you always in my heart
You are everything

 


Halo

Nunca me sentí así con nadie antes
Sólo tienes que sonreir y estoy alelado
Tú haces que el mundo gire
Mil veces por hora
Sólo toca mi cabeza
Y mándame a girar

Nunca me sentí así con nadie antes
Me muestras colores y lloro
Tú sostienes mis ojos en los tuyos
Y conquistas el mundo
No puedo creer todo esto

Quiero conservar este sentimiento
Muy dentro de mí
Te quiero siempre en mi corazón
Tú lo eres todo

Nunca me sentí así con nadie antes
Llenas mi cabeza por completo de arcoiris
Y todos ellos terminan
Es cada paso que das
Simplemente estar contigo para siempre

Quiero conservar este sentimiento
Muy dentro de mí
Te quiero siempre en mi corazón
Tú lo eres todo


Scared as you

You know those things I said
All those things that made you cry
I didn't really mean that stuff
I didn't really mean that stuff
All I ever really mean
When I scream and shout the way I do
Is I don't know
I really don't
I'm just the same as you

You know those things I said
All those things that made you
Run away from me
I didn't mean a word
I didn't really mean I don't believe
All I ever really mean
When I rant and rave the way I do
Is I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm just as scared as you

And sometimes it's so hard
Not to just throw it all away
Sometimes it's so hard
Not to just throw it all away
Like all those things I said
All those things that made you cry
I didn't really mean that stuff
I didn't really mean to say goodbye

You know those things I said
All those things that made you
Run away from me
I didn't mean a word
I didn't really mean I don't believe
All I ever really mean
When I scream and shout the way I do
Is I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm just as scared as you

 


Scared as you

Sabes esas cosas que dije
Todas aquellas cosas que te hicieron llorar
De verdad que no quería decir aquella estupidez
De verdad que no quería decir aquella estupidez
Todo lo que quiero realmente decir
Cuando chillo y grito como lo hago
Es no sé
De verdad
Simplemente soy igual que tú

Sabes esas cosas que dije
Todas aquellas cosas que te hicieron
Alejarte de mí
No quise decir ni una palabra
De verdad que no lo quise decir no lo creo
Todo lo que quiero realmente decir
Cuando vocifero y desvarío como lo hago
Es que tengo miedo
Tengo miedo
Simplemente estoy tan asustado como tú

Y a veces es tan duro
No simplemente soltarlo todo
A veces es tan duro
No simplemente soltarlo todo
Como todas aquellas cosas que dije
Todas aquellas cosas que te hicieron llorar
De verdad que no quería decir aquella estupidez
De verdad que no tuve intención de decir adiós

Sabes esas cosas que dije
Todas aquellas cosas que te hicieron
Alejarte de mí
No quise decir ni una palabra
De verdad que no lo quise decir no lo creo
Todo lo que quiero realmente decir
Cuando chillo y grito como lo hago
Es que tengo miedo
Tengo miedo
Simplemente estoy tan asustado como tú


The big hand

The big hand makes all of your favourite things
Like all your dreams go small
And all your friends run away
Until your memories fail
And the words don't fit
But the way the big hand smiles
You just won't care about it

The big hand makes all of your favourite things
Like all your days run out
And all your hopes disappear
And your smiles just stop
And your eyes go dead
And the shadows start to crawl
In the back of your head

But when the big hand speaks
It's like fireworks and heaven
So you listen
Don't think
And wish for nothing at all
And when the big hand sings
It's like fireworks and friends
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone I'll never
Leave alone again

So when the big hand
Holds up all your favourite things
And with a touch like glass
Starts to squeeze
You don't ask
"Why me?"
You just slip to the floor
Just slip to your knees

But when the big hand speaks
It's like fireworks and heaven
So you listen
Don't think
And wish for nothing at all
And when the big hand sings
It's like fireworks and friends
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Never leaving alone
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone
I'm not leaving alone again

 


The big hand

La gran mano hace que todas tus cosas favoritas
Como todos tus sueños se minimicen
Y que todos tus amigos huyan
Hasta que tus recuerdos fallen
Y las palabras no encajen
Pero la forma en que la gran mano sonríe
Simplemente no volverás a preocuparte de ello

La gran mano hace que todas tus cosas favoritas
Como todos tus días se agoten
Y todas tus esperanzas desaparezcan
Y tus sonrisas terminen sin más
Y tus ojos mueran
Y las sombras comiencen a avanzar lentamente
A tus espaldas

Pero cuando la gran mano habla
Es como fuegos artificiales y el cielo
Así que escuchas
No piensas
Y no deseas nada más
Y cuando la gran mano canta
Es como fuegos artificiales y amigos
Quedándome solo yo no
Quedándome solo
Quedándome solo yo nunca
En soledad de nuevo

Así que cuando la gran mano
Se lleva todas tus cosas favoritas
Y con un contacto fino como el cristal
Comienza a estrujarte
No preguntes
"¿Por qué yo?"
Sólo deslízate hacia el suelo
Sólo deslízate hasta tus rodillas

Pero cuando la gran mano habla
Es como fuegos artificiales y el cielo
Así que escuchas
No piensas
Y no deseas nada más
Y cuando la gran mano canta
Es como fuegos artificiales y amigos
Quedándome solo yo no
Quedándome solo
Nunca me estoy quedando solo
Quedándome solo yo no
Quedándome solo
Quedándome solo
No me estoy quedando solo de nuevo


A foolish arrangement

Christabel strips
And slips like a dream
Breaking ice with arms that gleam with pain
Disdain...
She throws her head
And glides against the stream
Throwing me her bravest smile
Defiant
Glittering
Shivering guile

"Catching a cold is quick this time
But fish?...
Fish may take a while... "

Christabel dips and slips from me
And hand pushed deep inside is suddenly free
Triumphant
Reluctantly
Struggling six legs held up for me to see

"Don't be so scared
It's nothing new
It's the same old game
Only fun with two... "
But fast and over and over
"I can't play this game with you"

Everything she tries to tell me
Leaves me open mouthed and still
Foolishly arrange tomorrow
The way I always will

Christabel trips
And grips my hand
But never to be saved...
For a second I understand
and I fall with her...

"I'll never leave you
Love you
See you change into the man I want
But it's not for long this thing
It's not for long... "

 


A foolish arrangement

Christabel se desnuda
Y se desliza como un sueño
Rompiendo el hielo con brazos que centellean con dolor
Desdén...
Lanza su cabeza
y planea contra la corriente
Lanzándome su más valiente sonrisa
Desafiante
Deslumbrante
Con una astucia temblorosa

"Pillar un resfriado será rápido esta vez
Pero peces?...
Los peces tendrán que esperar..."

Christabel gotea y se aparta de mí
Y una mano puesta bien adentro es súbitamente gratuita
Triunfante
Renuente
Luchando, seis piernas me impiden ver

"No estés tan asustado
No es nada nuevo
Es el mismo viejo juego
Diversión para dos..."
Pero rápido y una vez detrás de otra
"No puedo jugar a este juego contigo"

Cualquier cosa que intenta decirme
Me deja paralizado y boquiabierto
Un encuentro alocado mañana
Tal como siempre haré

Christabel salta
Y agarra mi mano
Pero nunca para ser salvado...
Por un segundo lo entiendo
Y caigo con ella...

"Nunca te dejaré
Amaré
Te veré cambiar hacia el hombre que yo quiero
Pero no dura demasiado ésto
No dura demasiado..."


Doing the unstuck (saunders 12" remix)

It's a perfect day for letting go
For setting fire to bridges
Boats
And other dreary worlds you know
Let's get happy!
It's a perfect day for making out
To wake up with a smile 
Without a doubt
To burst grin giggle bliss skip jump sing and shout 
Let's get happy!

"But it's much too late" you say
"For doing this now
We should have done it then"
Well it just goes to show 
How wrong you can be
And how you really should know
That it's never too late
To get up and go... 

It's a perfect day for kiss and swell
For rip-zipping button-popping kiss and well...
There's loads of other stuff can make you yell
Let's get happy!
It's a perfect day for doing the unstuck
For dancing like you can't hear the beat
And you don't give a further thought
To things like feet
Let's get happy!

"But it's much too late" you say
"For doing this now
We should have done it then"
Well it just goes to show
How wrong you can be
And how you really should know
That it's never too late
To get up and go...

Kick out the gloom
Kick out the blues
Tear out the pages with all the bad news
Pull down the mirrors and pull down the walls
Tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
Oh just burn down the house! 
Burn down the street!
Turn everything red and the beat is complete
With the sound of your world
Going up in the fire
It's a perfect day to throw back your head 
And kiss it all goodbye!

It's a perfect day for getting wild
Forgetting all your worries Life
And everything that makes you cry 
Let's get happy!
It's a perfect day for dreams come true
For thinking big
And doing anything you want to do
Let's get happy!

"But it's much too late" you say
"For doing this now
We should have done it then" 
Well it just goes to show
How wrong you can be
And how you really should know 
That it's never too late
To get up and go...

Kick out the gloom
Kick out the blues
Tear out the pages with all the bad news
Pull down the mirrors and pull down the walls
Tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
Oh just burn down the house!
Burn down the street!
Turn everything red and the dream is complete 
With the sound of your world
Going up in the fire
It's a perfect day to throw back your head 
And kiss it all goodbye!

 


Doing the unstuck (saunders 12" remix)

Es un día perfecto para dejarse llevar
Para prender fuego a puentes
Barcos
Y otros mundos tristes ya sabes
¡Vamos a ser felices¡
Es un día perfecto para meter mano
Despertar con una sonrisa
Sin un problema
Estallar hacer muecas reirse tontamente ser feliz brincar (...) y gritar
¡Vamos a ser felices!

"Pero es demasiado tarde" dices
"Para hacer esto ahora
Debimos haberlo hecho entonces"
Bueno esto va a enseñarte
Cómo de equivocado puedes estar
Y que realmente deberías saber
Que nunca es demasiado tarde
Para levantarse e irse...

Es un día perfecto para besar y enorgullecerse
Para desgarrar cremalleras hacer saltar los botones y bueno...
Hay montones de otras tonterías que pueden hacerte gritar
¡Vamos a ser felices!
Es un día perfecto para soltarse el pelo
Para bailar como si no pudieses oir el ritmo
Y sin dar ninguna importancia
A cosas como los pies
¡Vamos a ser felices!

"Pero es demasiado tarde" dices
"Para hacer esto ahora
Debimos haberlo hecho entonces"
Bueno esto va a enseñarte
Cómo de equivocado puedes estar
Y que realmente deberías saber
Que nunca es demasiado tarde
Para levantarse e irse...

Golpea a la tristeza 
Golpea a la melancolía
Arranca las páginas con todas las malas noticias
Tumba los espejos y derriba los muros
Vuela por las escaleras y levanta los suelos
¡Oh simplemente quema la casa!
¡Quema la calle!
Vuélvelo todo de color rojo y el golpe se completa
Con el sonido de tu mundo
Estallando en llamas
Es un día perfecto para echar tu cabeza atrás
¡Y despedirte de todo con un beso!

Es un día perfecto para volverse salvaje
Olvidando todas las preocupaciones de la vida
Y cualquier cosa que te haga llorar
¡Vamos a ser felices!
Es un día perfecto para que los sueños se hagan realidad
Para pensar a lo grande
Y hacer cualquier cosa que quieras hacer
¡Vamos a ser felices!

"Pero es demasiado tarde" dices
"Para hacer esto ahora
Debimos haberlo hecho entonces"
Bueno esto va a enseñarte
Cómo de equivocado puedes estar
Y que realmente deberías saber
Que nunca es demasiado tarde
Para levantarse e irse...

Golpea a la tristeza 
Golpea a la melancolía
Arranca las páginas con todas las malas noticias
Tumba los espejos y derriba los muros
Vuela por las escaleras y levanta los suelos
¡Oh simplemente quema la casa!
¡Quema la calle!
Vuélvelo todo de color rojo y el golpe se completa
Con el sonido de tu mundo
Estallando en llamas
Es un día perfecto para echar tu cabeza atrás
¡Y despedirte de todo con un beso!


Purple haze (virgin radio version)

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things don't seem the same
Acting funny but i don't know why
'Scuse me while i kiss the sky

Purple haze all around
Don't know if i'm climbin up or down
Am i happy or in misery
Whatever it is that girl put a spell on me

Help me help me

Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blown blown my mind
Is it tomorrow or the end of time

Help me help me

 


Purple haze (virgin radio version)


Purple haze

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things don't seem the same
Acting funny but i don't know why
'Scuse me while i kiss the sky

Purple haze all around
Don't know if i'm climbin up or down
Am i happy or in misery
Whatever it is that girl put a spell on me

Help me help me

Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blown blown my mind
Is it tomorrow or the end of time

Help me help me

 


Purple haze


Burn

"Don't look don't look" the shadows breathe
Whispering me away from you
"Don't wake at night to watch her sleep
You know that you will always lose
This trembling
Adored
Tousled bird mad girl... "
But every night I burn
But every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again

"Oh don't talk of love" the shadows purr
Murmuring me away from you
"Don't talk of worlds that never were
The end is all that's ever true
There's nothing you can ever say
Nothing you can ever do... "
Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name
Every night I burn
Every night the dream's the same
Every night I burn
Waiting for my only friend
Every night I burn
Waiting for the world to end

"Just paint your face" the shadows smile
Slipping me away from you
"Oh it doesn't matter how you hide
Find you if we're wanting to
So slide back down and close your eyes
Sleep a while
You must be tired... "
But every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again
Every night I burn
Scream the animal scream
Every night I burn
Dream the crow black dream

Dream the crow black dream...

 


Burn


Young americans

They pulled in just behind the fridge
He lays her down, he frowns
"Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young?"
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but

Chorus (he)
All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American, she wants the young American
All right
She wants the young American

Scanning life through the picture window
She finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang, but
Heaven forbid, she'll take anything
But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?"

Chorus (she)
All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
"We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"

Chorus (he)
All night
He wants the young American
Young American, young American, he wants the young American
All right
He wants the young American

Do you remember, your President Clinton?
Do you remember, Bill, you have to pay
Or even yesterday?

Have you have been an un-American?
Just you and your idol singing falsetto 'bout
Leather, leather everywhere, and
Not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In case, just in case of depression?
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the afro-Sheilas
Ain't that close to love?
Well, ain't that poster love?
Well, it ain't that Barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you have

Chorus (you)
All night
You want the young American
Young American, young American, you want the young American
All right
You want the young American

You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysle
Black's got respect, and white's got his soul train
Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands ache
(I heard the news today, oh boy)
I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man you can say no more?
And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't there one damn song that can make me
break down and cry?

Chorus (i) (repeat 3 times)
All night
I want the young American
Young American, young American, I want the young American
All right
I want the young American

 


Young americans


Dredd song

Never say it's over
Never say the end
Anytime you stop just start again
Never say give up
Never say give in
You always have to fight to win

However much it hurts
However much it takes
Believe and all your dreams will all come true
However hard it gets
However much it aches
Always believe in me
As i believe in you

To never say too late
Never say it's done
Make me know for real you are the one
The one that never turns
Never walks away
The one that i can trust to always stay

Never say surrender
Never say die
You only ever get there if you try
Never say give up
Never say give in
You always have to fight to win

However much it hurts
However much it takes
Believe that all your dreams can all come true
However hard it gets
However much it aches
Always believe in me
As i believe in you

Never say if only
Never say regret
Only the weak remember to forget
Never say it's over
Never say the end
Never say never again

However much it hurts
However much it takes
Believe and all your dreams will all come true
However hard it gets
However much it aches
Believe in me
As i believe in you

 


Dredd song


It used to be me

All he needs is everyone I've been
And all she needs is everywhere I've seen
All they need is anything I've touched
And all you need is everything I've loved
Everything I've heard everything I've learned
Everything I've tried everything I've held
Everything I've felt everything I've lost
Everything I've cried
Until my whole head shrieks with grinding my teeth
Struggling to find a single word I can keep
Any kind of truth
Any kind of hope
Oh just any kind of word that doesn't make me choke

But I keep saying I will and I won't
I keep saying I do and I don't
I keep saying I feel
But there is nothing to feel
Just astrange kind of nothing where it used to be me...
It used to be me

All he needs from me is everyone i've ever missed
And all she needs from me
Everyone i've ever kissed
All they need from me
Anything i've ever sung
Yeah and all you need from me is everything i've ever said
Everything i've ever done everything i've ever made
Everything i've ever prayed everything i've ever believed
Everything i've ever touched everything i've ever loved
Everything i've ever thought everything i've ever dreamed
Until my whole head screams with grinding my teeth
Desperate to find a single word i can keep
Any kind of faith
Any kind of fix
Oh just any kind of word that doesn't make me sick

And i keep saying i will but i won't
I keep saying i do but i don't
And i keep saying i feel
But there is nothing to feel
Just this strange kind of nothing where it used to be me...

Anything and everything
All that you need
Get it for free
Anything and everything
All that you need
Get it from me

Get it from me
Get it from me
Get it from me

 


It used to be me


Ocean

I don't think i'm any closer now
Than i was at fifteen
I still don't know what i really want
Or how i really feel
Sometimes i think i've seen too much
Sometimes nothing at all
And sometimes i think i just forgot
What i was looking for

But i still need to believe in you
I still need to know you'll never
Never give up
I believe in you...
So how can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
How can you ever stop
Telling me you care?

But i still need to believe in you
I still need to know you'll never
Never give up
I believe in you...
So how can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
Tell me you believe it too
Tell me that you care
How can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
How can you ever stop
Pretending?

 


Ocean

No creo que esté más cerca ahora
De lo que estaba a los 15 años
Aún no sé lo que realmente quiero
O cómo realmente siento
A veces pienso que he visto demasiado
A veces que nada en absoluto
Y a veces pienso que simplemente olvidé
Lo que buscaba

Pero aún necesito creer en ti
Aún necesito saber que nunca
Nunca te rendirás
Creo en ti...
Así que ¿cómo podrías dejar alguna vez que
Mi esperanza se vuelva desesperanza?
¿Cómo podrías alguna vez dejar
De decirme que te preocupas?

Pero aún necesito creer en ti
Aún necesito saber que nunca
Nunca te rendirás
Creo en ti...
Así que ¿cómo podrías dejar alguna vez que
Mi esperanza se vuelva desesperanza?
Dime que tú también lo crees
Dime que te preocupas
¿Cómo podrías dejar alguna vez que
Mi esperanza se vuelva desesperanza?
¿Cómo podrías alguna vez dejar de
fingir?


Adonais

He breaks the spell still young
Awakes from out this dream of life
And leaves us sleeping
Storm racked blind consumed
By phantom pale displays of grief
He slips from out this shadow land of pain
Where heads grow sorrow grey
And age destroys all hope
And spirits crushed
Lament and hide away

But wordless watch the soft sky smile
And breathless hear the low wind sigh
"What death may join no more let life divide"

"Dream yourself awake" he calls
"Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me
Be with me... "

He breaks the chains still young
Dispels the hateful shades of treacherous time
And leaves us sleeping
Tortured mute
Devoured by ghostly shapes of life
He slips from ties of dust
To be the world we dream he lives
A part of everything we feel
The young and beautiful
And brave of heart

But wordless watch the soft sky smile
And breathless hear the low wind sigh
"What death may join no more let life divide"

"Dream yourself awake" he calls
"Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me
Be with me... "
"Dream yourself awake" he calls
"Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me
Frever... "

 


Adonais

 





CD 3 (1992 - 1996)