Well, as an always curious person I've been wanting to find the exact lyrics of all Sisters songs I have, since many lyrics sites have many mistakes and parts missing. And because I will need to hear the entire song and stop it on various occasions, it will take a long time. But I have begun on my personal fave lyrics (Dominion) and then on into Flood I as the two merge their begin and end together. I have succeeded in finding a few minor details that I haven't found in any other source. Because it is hard to decipher words just by listening carefully or checking a site for extra certainty, the results may not be 100% accurate but at least a lot better than most sites.
Dominion:
"In the heat of the night
In the heat of the day
When I close my eyes, when I look your way,
when I meet the fear that lies inside, when I hear you say
In the heat of the moment
Say say say
Some day
Some day
Some day
Dominion
Come a time
Some day
Some day
Some day
Dominion
Some say prayers some say prayers
I say mine
In the light of the fact
On the lone and the level
Sand stretch far away
In the heat of the action
In the settled dust
Hold hold and sway
In the meeting of mined
Down in the streets of shame
In the betting of names on gold to rust
In the land of the blind
Be
King, king, king, king
Some day
Some day
Some day
Dominion
Come a time
Some day
Some day
Some day
Dominion
Some say prayers some say prayers
I say mine
In the land of the blind
Be
King, king, king, king
Some day
Some day
Some day
Dominion
Some say prayers some say prayers
I say mine
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the day
When I close my eyes, when I look your way,
when I meet the fear that lies inside, when I hear you say
In the heat of the moment
Say say say
Some day
Some day
Some day
Some day
Dominion
Some say prayers some say prayers
I say mine
I say mine
I say (mine
We serve an old) man in the dry season
A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun
Dreamers of sleepers and white treason
We dream of rain and the history of the gun
There’s a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia
A white house in a red square
I’m living in films for the sake of Russia
A Kino runner for the DDR
And the fifty-two daughters of the revolution
Turn the gold to chrome
Gift, nothing to lose
Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home, sing
Mother Russia
Mother Russia
Mother Russia, rain down down down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia
Mother Russia, rain down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia
Mother Russia, rain down down down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia
Mother Russia, rain down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia
Mother Russia, rain down down down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia
Mother Russia, rain down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia
Mother Russia, rain down down down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia
Mother Russia rain down down down down down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia"
- there's ofcourse always the debate about the "pun" usage in songs, here we have the "mined", "sway" and "Kino" that can be interpreted as "mind", "stay" or "say" and "keno".
- in the 6th time the choral sings "Some day, some day, some day" , Andrew actually drops in for a fourth "Some day" , which is not noticed in many lyrics databases.
- there is also the debate about where Dominion stops and the so called sub-song Mother Russia begins. Lyrically, this is somewhere between the last "Some say prayers some say prayers" and "...man in the dry season".
because between those, there is a three time repeat of "I say mine" of which the third is interrupted by the opening "We serve an old...". One could say the "I say mine"-'s are Dominion, which would create a difficult situation, but usually, the first "I say mine" of the three is counted as Dominion and the other two belong to Mother Russia. This is for instance the method in the Dominion video clip, which stops after the first.
- and finally the point where Dominion/Mother Russia ends and Flood I begins. On a CD this point can be found at the twenty-fourth time "Mother Russia" is said, because between the "Ru..." and the "...ssia" the song changes into Flood I, which can be noticed because the singing is suddenly higher pitched. If we count the "Mother Russia"-'s in Flood I as still a part of Dominion/Mother Russia, the additional lyrics are
"Mother Russia rain down down down down down
Mother Russia
Mother Russia"
...after which no more singing can be heard. Yes, five times "down" in the last part.
Flood I:
"Her hallway
Moves
Like the ocean
Moves
At the head of the river
At the source of the sea
Sitting here now in this bar for hours
Trying to write it down
Fitting in hard with harder to come
Trying to fight it down, the river there’s a ship will carry you
Downriver downstream
Down the river there’s a ship will carry the dream
Dream of the flood downriver there’s a ship will carry the
Dream of the flood
Her hallway
As the water come rushing over
As the water come rushing in
As the water come rushing over
Flood
Flood
Push the glass, stain the glass
Push the writer to the wall
It may come but it will pass
Some say we will fall
Dream of the flood
Push
Flood
Hallway
Push
Oh maybe in terms of surrender
On a backcloth of lashes and eyes
In the flood of your tears
In sackcloth and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and lies
Push
Her hallway
Push
Like, like, like
As the water come rushing in
As the water come rushing over
Sitting here now in this bar for hours while these
Strange men rent strange flowers
I’ll be picking up your petals in another few hours
In the metal and blood in the scent and mascara
On a backcloth of lashes and stars
In the flood of your tears
In sackcloth and ashes and ashes and second-hand passion
And stolen guitars
Her hallway
As the water come rushing in
Like the sea
As the water come rushing over
Dream of the flood
In the flood of your tears
In sackcloth and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and love as the water come rushing over
Rushing in
At the head of the river
At the source of the sea
Her hallway
Flood
Like, like, like
Flood"
- nothing really special, but there is something worth noticing: during this song Andrew whispers multiple times, and I have tried to hear what he said. Mostly he says "Flood" "Her hallway" and "Like, like, like" but upon careful listening it is revealed that he also says something like "Push" multiple times, for example:
"Some say we will fall
Dream of the flood
Push
Flood
Hallway
Push
Oh maybe in terms of surrender"
It definately sounds like "push", but maybe I'm wrong.
- Andrew likes enjambments as we can see, especially if he can create multiple meanings with it:
"Trying to fight it down, the river there’s a ship will carry you..."
but I spotted something very unusual at a certain point which may not be a word, but it is definately a vowel and if interpreted the way I heard it, it creates a whole new possible meaning to "strange men rent strange flowers":
"Sitting here now in this bar for hours worries
Strange men rent strange flowers"
Try it yourself, you might be surprised.
- and finally: during the second "and ashes and ashes........etc" I heard Andrew did most certainly NOT say "lies", but, as far as I could hear, he said "love".
"In sackcloth and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes and love as the water come rushing over..."
More to come soon!
