Crash & Burn

claws · 17 Apr 2003, 10:53

Anyone know where you can find the lyrics for this song?

zigeunerweisen · 17 Apr 2003, 18:03

It might be something along these lines:

swing on the wires
shiver to shine
tie on the chrome and plastic
hum of the power lines
sum of a love
trip the light fantastic

do I drive
or am I driven
can I break what I've been given
take a walk
turn
talk or crash and burn

everybody die...
my oh my
? mumbles
you'll find
? mumbles
? mumbles
? mumbles

do I drive
or am I driven
can I break what I've been given
take a walk
turn
talk or crash and burn

hum of the power lines
sum of a love

do I drive
or am I driven
can I break what I've been given
take a walk
talk or crash and burn

or crash and burn

claws · 17 Apr 2003, 23:05

In the "mumbles" section, I also caught the words "soldier in the army of the reich". The rest is just not possible to hear.

claws · 19 Apr 2003, 19:42

Is there any particular reason for why Eldritch hasn't published the lyrics for this song?

paint it black · 19 Apr 2003, 20:33

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1053

claws · 14 Sep 2003, 20:58

My current research on the lyrics for this song is as follows (I'd be happy if someone can fill in the blanks):

slip on the wire ??
shimmer to shine
slide on the chrome and plastic
the hum of the power lines
sum of a love
trip the light fantastic

do I drive
or am I driven
can I break
what I've been given
take a walk
turn, talk or crash and burn

(mumble) ??
nazi soldier in the army of the reich
(mumble) ??

do I drive
or am I driven
can I break what I've been given
take a walk
turn, talk or crash and burn

the hum of the power lines
sum of a love

we slip on the wire ??
we shimmer to shine
we slide on the chrome and plastic

do I drive
or am I driven
can I break
what I've been given
take a walk
turn, talk or crash and burn
or crash and burn

Almiche V · 14 Sep 2003, 21:53

I always thought the "take a walk" lyric was "take cover". Take a walk fits in better though.

14 Sep 2003, 22:06

snubnoseuk wrote:I always thought the "take a walk" lyric was "take cover". Take a walk fits in better though.

i always heard "take a walk"

claws · 15 Sep 2003, 07:06

is the row "slip on the wire" correct? I'm very uncertain on this

Almiche V · 15 Sep 2003, 23:22

I think the first two lines of the second verse are:

Everybody get a

??
I've got mine

I think. Why won't he put us out of our misery and publish the lyrics?

claws · 16 Sep 2003, 12:36

snubnoseuk wrote: Why won't he put us out of our misery and publish the lyrics?

Maybe because what we find as mumble IS in fact mumble

Almiche V · 16 Sep 2003, 21:02

MrChris · 17 Sep 2003, 11:35

Maybe he's intending to change them. Perhaps the songs will still mature betwixt stage and vinyl. We can hope...

itnAklipse · 24 Sep 2003, 19:04

instead of 'sum of a love' i always hear 'someone to love' but i wouldn't count on it being either one. some of the lines you people have deciphered look good (at least the '..chrome or plastic'), some are just plain bad poetry Eldritch would never write

also i don't think it's 'nazi soldier' because the word nazi sounds too short for it...it could be 'marching soldier...'

dei

Brad · 24 Sep 2003, 19:34

It is not Nazi soldier but rather "a tin soldier in the army of the blind."

MrChris · 25 Sep 2003, 11:56

Now that is a scary avatar...is it you?

Jim · 25 Sep 2003, 13:58

snubnoseuk wrote:I think the first two lines of the second verse are:

Everybody get a ??
I've got mine

I think. Why won't he put us out of our misery and publish the lyrics?

I heard that, or maybe "Nobody mumble mumble, I got mine" I'm pretty sure that verse changes a little bit on all 3 of the recordings I've got (Mera Luna 12/8/00, Leeds 17/2/01 and The Forum 6/9/00).

At the end of the verse after the soldier bit, I hear (sometimes) either "he don't care" or "so he don't mind" - on different recordings mind you.

Importantly I also noticed that Eldy throws in "and she said" before some choruses. Listen out for it - it'll probably be important for figuring out the song.

Gary · 25 Sep 2003, 19:18

Swing on the wire
Shiver to shine
Tie on the chrome and plastic

Hum of the power lines
Sum of the love
Trip the light fantastic

Singing
Do i drive or am i driven?
can i break, what i been given
take a walk
turn talk, or crash and burn

Everybody in the light
down down
nuclear blast
Married to a soldier, in the army of the reich
Lean on back so, lean on back

She sais

Do i drive or am i driven?
can i break, what i been given
take a walk
turn talk, or crash and burn

Hum of the powerlines
Sum of the love

Shiver to shine
slip on the tin and plastic

Do i drive or am i driven?
can i break, what i been given
take a walk
turn talk, or crash and burn

Taken from the dvd of 19/4/2003, comments?

itnAklipse · 25 Sep 2003, 19:42

Far, and no cigar. Not even close to making any sort of sense. No marriages, no swingings on the wire, no sum of love. And it's not "shiver to shine" it's "shimmer to shine". The basic mistake you're doing is just taking the vowels and not paying attention to the rhythm of consonants.

Apologies if i sound like a self-imposed authority. But then again, i am.

dei

Gary · 25 Sep 2003, 20:09

yep u r, anyway, ill post an mp3 sometime, and someone else can try. im pretty sure its got the clearest lyrics, as far as the mumbling is concerned

itnAklipse · 26 Sep 2003, 10:29

After listening to the London 190403 version, i concur. It is indeed
"she's married to a soldier in the army of reich" (the "she's" in the beginning changes the rhythm right)...but where Gary suggested "lean on back" at least the last line is "she don't mind...she says..."

But on that mumbling verse, the first line is something like "everybody got

" and the second "i got my

" and what i can hear there would be "sheets" but of course it's not that, i've just no idea what it would be...you people with english as mother's tongue will probably come up with good ideas for what word it could be

i must say, this is more difficult than transcribing Summoning's "Dol Guldur" lyrics...'twas easy compared to this!

dei

Jim · 26 Sep 2003, 10:57

This sounds like we're in the right direction.

And am I imagining it, or did we not decide at some point that "break" would actually be "brake" in a Von meaning twist.

I'm sure I saw it written like that somewhere...

hallucienate · 26 Sep 2003, 11:07

Are you guys done yet? I want to know what to sing in the shower.

Jim · 26 Sep 2003, 11:31

I know, it's dead cactchy and I hate singin' it phonetically.

MrChris · 26 Sep 2003, 12:04

It is indeed very catchy. I think it should be entered into the Eurovision song contest.

A bit like Marian - 'A Song for Europe', as our stumpy leader used to say. Only it makes you jump up and down a lot, whereas Marian makes you jump down, and not up again.

So please someone find out the lyrics. I haven't even got a decent recording - I've got it from Bristol 2003, but the recording levels are very low, and I haven't worked out how to pump them up for a compilation I'm, well, compiling on windows media player. I'm a flipping peasant, me.