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Echo & the Bunnymen – The Cutter
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“The Cutter” is the second single released from Echo & the Bunnymen’s 1983 album Porcupine.
The song features an Indian raga violin being played by L. Shankar, the famed ethnic
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Echo & the Bunnymen – The Cutter (Alternate)
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[Intro] / Cutter / Cutter / Cutter / [Verse 1] / Who's on the seventh floor? / Brewing alternatives / What's in the bottom drawer? / Waiting for things to give / [Pre-Chorus
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Solex – The Cutter
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Who's on the seventh floor / Brewing alternatives / What's in the bottom drawer / Waiting for things to give / Spare us the cutter / Spare us the cutter / Couldn't cut the mustard
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Way Out and Up We Go
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“Way Out and Up We Go” was originally released as the B-side to Echo & the Bunnymen’s 1983 single, “The Cutter”.
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Porcupine
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There is no comparison / Between things about to have been / Missing the point of our mission / Will we become misshapen? / A change of heart / Will force the nail / Nailed to the
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Ripeness
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[Verse 1] / I found a thing in a bedroom / Change the shape of the world for long enough / Got the boat till as far as I could / Afford it to take me, it was far enough / [Verse 2
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Echo & the Bunnymen – In Bluer Skies
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[Verse 1] / What needs must be / I realised / I'm walking out / From blackened skies / You say belief / Is in our eyes / But how can I believe / In blind lies / [Chorus] / I'm
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Clay
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Am I the half of half-and-half / Or am I the half that's whole? / Got to be one with all my halves / It's my worthy earthly goal / It's my worthy earthly goal / It's my worthy
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Bedbugs & Ballyhoo
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Buffalo and bison / Bison and buffalo / Cannonball and rifle / Rifle and cannonball / That's the way the thunder rumbles / That's the way the thunder rumbles / Rumbles... / Down on
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Gods Will Be Gods
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How can you pretend / When there's so much at stake / That it's a different world / And your hands don't shake? / At the end of the room / And the foot of the bar / We knew that
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Heads Will Roll
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[Verse 1] / Partly politic / Heads will roll / Mostly politic / God must call / 'Til the winning hand does belong to me / [Refrain] / What if no one's calling / God then must be
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Echo & the Bunnymen – The Somnambulist
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[Verse 1] / The dreams are chair wheels in his oceans / Walks in his sleep, the somnambulist / Beneath the seabed, magic potions / Waters deep for the somnambulist / [Chorus
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Echo & the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (All Night version)
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[Verse] / Under blue moon I saw you / So soon you'll take me / Up in your arms, too late to beg you / Or cancel it, though I know it must be / The killing time / Unwillingly mine
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Echo & the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
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Often regarded as Echo and the Bunnymen’s greatest song, this 1984 single hit #9 on the UK charts.
The song was also featured in the 2001 film Donnie Darko.
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Echo & the Bunnymen – My White Devil
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The title of this song makes reference to Webster’s 1612 tragedy The White Devil.
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Angels and Devils
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[Verse] / Call it a day / When night becomes our mad escape / Forgetting the things you mean to say / When all the right words come too late and / Everything falls out of place
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Crystal Days
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Here am I / Whole at last with a golden view / Looking for hope / And I hope it's you / Splitting my heart / Cracked right in two / The pleasure of pain endured / To purify our
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Echo & the Bunnymen – The Puppet
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I'll practice my fall / For practice makes perfect / Chained to the wall / For maximum hold / The window's too far / Too far from my legs / Open the door and let out the cold / You
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Echo & the Bunnymen – The Back of Love
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[Verse 1] / I'm on the chopping block / Chopping off my stopping thought / Self-doubt and selfism / Were the cheapest things I ever bought / When you say it's love / Do you mean
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Bring on the Dancing Horses
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The name of this song is probably an allusion to the Lipizzaner Stallions from the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, which performs a specific type of “dressage”, which is a
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Zimbo
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Flying / And you know I'm not coming down / You're trying / But you know you must soon go down / All my colours / Turn to clouds / All my colours / Turn to cloud / Zimbo zimbo
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
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[Verse] / All at sea again / And now my hurricanes have brought down this ocean rain / To bathe me again / My ship's a-sail / Can you hear its tender frame / Screaming from beneath
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Nocturnal Me
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A brutal and menacing song, rife with equally evil orchestration. Its meaning is wide open to interpretation, but for me, there are three possibilities.
1. Its deeply, darkly
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Angels and Devils (live)
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Call it a day / When night becomes our mad escape / Forgetting the things you mean to say / When all the right words come too late and / Everything falls out of place / Under the
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Echo & the Bunnymen – My Kingdom
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[Verse] / I chop and I change and the mystery thickens / There's blood on my hands and you want me to listen / To brawn and to brain when the truth's in the middle / Born of the
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Silver (Tidal Wave)
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[Verses] / Swung from a chandelier / My planet sweet on a silver salver / Bailed out my worst fears / 'Cause man has to be his own saviour / Blind sailors / Imprisoned jailers
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Silver
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[Verse 1] / Swung from a chandelier / My planet sweet on a silver salver / Bailed out my worst fears / 'Cause man has to be his own saviour / Blind sailors / Imprisoned jailers
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Seven Seas
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Stab a sorry heart / With your favourite finger / Paint the whole world blue / And stop your tears from stinging / Hear the cavemen singing / Good news they're bringing / Seven
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Thorn of Crowns
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Ah ah, ah ah / Ah ah, ah ah / You set my teeth on edge / You set my teeth on edge / You think you're a vegetable / Never come out of the fridge / C-c-c-cucumber / C-c-c-cabbage / C
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Echo & the Bunnymen – The Yo Yo Man
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Froze to the bone in my igloo home / Counting the days 'til the ice turns green / You know when heaven and hell collide / There are no in-betweens / (I'm the yo-yo man) / Flames on
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Never Stop
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Good God, you said / Is that the only thing you care about / Splitting up the money / And share it out / The cake's being eaten / Straight through the mouth / Poison / Poised to
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Nothing Lasts Forever
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I want it now / I want it now / Not the promises of what tomorrow brings / I need to live in dreams today / I'm tired of the song that sorrow sings / And I want more than I can get
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