Favourite Sisters Lyrics

THE place for your Sisters-related comments, questions and snippets of Sisters information. For those who do not know, The Sisters of Mercy are a rock'n'roll band. And a pop band. And an industrial groove machine. Or so they say. They make records. Lots of records, apparently. But not in your galaxy. They play concerts. Lots of concerts, actually. But you still cannot see them. So what's it all about, Alfie? This is one of the few tightly-moderated forums on Heartland, so please keep on-topic. All off-topic posts will either be moved or deleted. Chairman Bux is the editor and the editor's decision is final. Danke.
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"Mundane by day, inane at night." It's a good all-purpose put-down as well.

The whole of Nine while Nine I find personally evocative based on a thoroughly cold and miserable hour at Guildford station listening to FALAA, but I'd accept that pathetic fallacy doesn't make for a great lyric.

SKOS is stunning ... and when I meet a girl who gets the point I'll get married :oops:

"... dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill / I hear dive bombers and /
Empire down." Welcome to Apocalypse: The Musical. I'll have a front row seat and some popcorn please.
Names are just a souvenir ...
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You disappoint! Hasn't anyone heard the line, A HARD REIGN HELD UP BY RAGE ?!?
.... there is no semblance of rock 'n roll around here!
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And the devil in black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away
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you reap what you sow
put your face to the ground
here come the marching men, your colours wrapped around
Wyrd bið ful aræd...

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Big Si wrote:you reap what you sow
put your face to the ground
here come the marching men, your colours wrapped around
:notworthy: 8) :twisted: 8) :notworthy:
Another Shade of You.
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In illusion comfort lies....

and
Mundane by day inane at night
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion
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All of This Corrosion.

It's prose mate.
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We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
Rain from Heaven

As the water flows over the bridge
As we walk on the floodland
As we walk on the water
We forget
We forget
Rain from heaven
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markfiend wrote:We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
Rain from Heaven

As the water flows over the bridge
As we walk on the floodland
As we walk on the water
We forget
We forget
Rain from heaven
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that's one of my faves too... asmuch for the delivery as well as the lyric itself.
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IMO Gift is worth buying for that song alone...

Not that the others aren't great too!
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
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i'm quite partial to all of those snippets that appear in the top corner of the heartland homepage ;)

...which for those that don't already know are pulled at random from this list: http://www.myheartland.co.uk/quotes.txt
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OK. I've racked my brains but it won't come to mind.

Where does 'tunnel vision & the scars to prove it' come from?

All the others are easy...
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straylight wrote:OK. I've racked my brains but it won't come to mind.

Where does 'tunnel vision & the scars to prove it' come from?

All the others are easy...
I was going to let you suffer, but...

Clicky

:von:

Hey, I bet you're a regular on here joined up again with a new name just so you don't embarras yourself by not knowing that, right? :P
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Or even embarrass yourself by mis-spelling "embarrass" :oops: :lol:
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
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I have to back up a couple of replies with:

Flowers on the razor wire

Also:

Everybody got friends got shot upside and over down the line
Everybody got assignations
I got mine

Perhaps the most brilliant:

Jihad! 8)
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Neverland (a fragment)

I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a
ticket to Syria

I had everything within my reach
I had money and stuff
each and every call
too much but never enough
tear it up and watch it fall
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Red Sunsets wrote:Neverland (a fragment)

I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a
ticket to Syria

I had everything within my reach
I had money and stuff
each and every call
too much but never enough
tear it up and watch it fall
:notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Sh1t! Forgot that one; Also one of my favourites.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
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markfiend wrote:I was going to let you suffer, but...

Clicky

:von:

Hey, I bet you're a regular on here joined up again with a new name just so you don't embarras yourself by not knowing that, right? :P
No, just someone who has been reading for a while without joining in. Thank you & Black Horizon for the answer which is so obvious now! As it always is, once someone tells you.
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straylight wrote:
markfiend wrote:I was going to let you suffer, but...

Clicky

:von:

Hey, I bet you're a regular on here joined up again with a new name just so you don't embarras yourself by not knowing that, right? :P
No, just someone who has been reading for a while without joining in. Thank you & Black Horizon for the answer which is so obvious now! As it always is, once someone tells you.
Hehe cool. Come on and join the fun! We don't bite ;D

*Added: Coo, my 1111st post. Another meaningless milestone :lol:
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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markfiend wrote:
*Added: Coo, my 1111st post. Another meaningless milestone :lol:
i know what you mean..the other day i saw the post count in general chat was something like 44444 and i was like :notworthy: :roll:
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:lol: Meaningless yet significant numbers, eh? If we had an extra finger on each hand we'd all be counting in base twelve anyway, and "1000" would be 1728...

And before "Pedants' corner" starts, by 1111st, I meant "One thousand and eleventy-first". It shouldn't have been 1111th at all. Oh no.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
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See, it was because of me posting gibberish like this that I started the "off-topic topic". How the feck do you get from posting about Sisters lyrics to random musings on number theory? Gah.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
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you can always use the lyric search feature on my site :innocent:
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Love for the party love for the nation
Love for the fix for the fabrication
Love for the corpse for the corporation
Love for the death and for the defecation
Romance and assassination
Give me the love of genocide
Give me love
I no longer get very wrought up over the liminals

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four useless gods upon a day
so blinded by the filth on sunday
saying the words for the idiots
you are miracle drivel
optical sewer
listens to the flowers fall
paint the words upon the wall
I no longer get very wrought up over the liminals

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