Be Excellent To Each Other

Drowning in waves of childish pain
Left inside the fury
Speaking in language unknown
Sensing the futility

Halted and softly clasping childish ways
Saving the tension

Unleashing the wirey limbs
Scratching for some memory
Remember the single fool's anatomy

A teacher follows
Handle so carefully with

those lost shallows

Sitting watching those fragments
From the outside from the eye
Without your punishment I'm
wishing, hunting for you
Painting an ornament for ornaments sake,
Losing a twice fortunate face
Again a bafflement, again it burns
Lost lost forever
Forever lost

So soft, a fickle you know what
I can't work, I think I see even you
So soft thanks, a seat opposite you
Tighter, self disciplined and dead

I was fire to myself
She's so good, she's fantastic
In the window, nice for gods gone on mind
I never can predict my pretty arm

Drops of liquid flesh
falling from
Clouds of tangled limbs
saying how
They wish they'd been born
away from
Tainted, flowing skies
Snowflakes make a mess
falling on
The face which softly grins
looking at
God caught out in the storm
trying to
Stop the fear and lies
She was putting on that dress
with the
Fingers and eyes and things
saying how
She'd be broken, she'd be torn
towards her
Strangled, woeful cries
He struggled from her caress
as the
Knife cut off his dreams
gagging as
He splattered across the lawn
she said
She'd be born as he dies
as she
Spat into his eyes

She can only save herself by the time I returned
As she reached for her neck, my heart
skipped a beat
skipped a beat
She can only save herself, despair does that
Contents scattered around, and my heart
Skipped a beat
Skipped a beat
It's swollen with recoil, Despair does that
Why but I felt like laughing
Skipped a beat
Skipped a beat
Were you shot at?
Were you shot?
Waiting for an accident
Waiting to be shot

I'm totally bored of Spellbound. Nice as it is, it's overplayed. It depends on what you get out of Siouxsie's music. I tend to consider it beyond music and into something much more. An experience. Something akin to looking at god or something. Juju and Tinderbox are some of the more intense albums and it's great you've been enjoying them. Join Hands is about the darkest blackest album they've ever done, Kaleidoscope is a delightful mix of lighter dreamy experimentation, Kiss in the Dreamhouse is sultry exotic smouldering, Nocturne is a fab live album, Hyaena is a mix of gorgeous open textured almost jazz type stuff and then some greatly intense darker stuff like Blow the House Down and We Hunger, Through the Looking Glass is generally lighter fare being covers but yet still has delightful emotion in such as the cover of Strange Fruit and Hall of Mirrors as well as the luxurious cover of This Wheel's on Fire, Peepshow is about the best produced album they ever did, totally solid and brilliant with a pop tinge but a huge amount of excitement in so many of the tracks such as Burn Up and Rhapsody, Superstition is lightweight and not brilliant compared to others but has its merits with the likes of Drifter, Ghost In You, Little Sister and Softly being rather wonderful. The Rapture is a bit of a mess being the last album but even at their worst it's utterly engaging.

Then there's the Creatures output. Feast is an incredible album (Available on the Bestiary compilation along with the Wild Things EP), largely just drums and voice but Siouxsie's voice is like a strike of lighting against dark black clouds. Hugely intense tracks like Sky Train and Strutting Rooster with incredible rhythmic variation, complexity and skill. Boomerang album was recorded 6 years later in Spain and certainly has that feel about it. Brilliant stuff but more sophisticated and intellectual for the most part. Anima Animus album is a bit of a mess, bad production but the songs are amazing live. The Eraser Cut EP that preceeded AA is incredible though. Hai is interesting but never fully hits the mark. Lots of big big drumming but it just never seems to reach a finale properly in any track.

Siouxsie's solo album Mantaray is full of great tracks but you've got to experience them live to really understand them properly.