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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Israel
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“Israel” is a song by post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released as a non-album single on November 28, 1980, because the band wanted to put out a Christmas single
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cities in Dust
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“Cities in Dust” is a song written and produced by British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released in 1985 as the first single from their seventh studio album
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Fireworks
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The body is wrapped in shadow / The face is built of cinders / And panic tears thro' your silhouette / As you're squeezed by burning fingers / And he's crackling in our colours
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Shadowtime
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“Shadowtime” is the 2nd single from Siouxsie And The Banshees' 10th studio album Superstition. It was released on 1st July 1991 and reached position 57 in the UK singles chart and
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Scarecrow
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[Verse 1] / He trembles in the bitter wind / Until it's time for us to speak / Whilst others here are sleeping sound / I'll slip away by floorboard creak / Upon the hill he'll hear
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Icon
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[Intro] / My eyes went up to Heaven / You didn't say I'd be blind without them / Icons feed the fires / Icons falling from the spires / Thine eyes rain down from Heaven / You
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Dizzy
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[Chorus] / Dizzy / Dizzy / Oh, so dizzy / [Verse 1] / Scorpio rising on the horizon / Thunder tumbling from the mountains / Harpy sirens strangle silence / A piece of mind left
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hybrid
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It's a hybrid of me / I'm a hybrid of he / You're a misfit of me, I'm a misfit of you / In limbo / Carbon copies run blue / A reminder for you / But they're only skin deep
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hong Kong Garden
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Siouxsies and the Banshees inspired a generation to dress in black, from hair roots to shiny shoes.
The apparent racist lines in the song were later explained as reflecting the
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Rhapsody
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In the soil of our sadness / Hear our hearts bell a serenade / A faint choir tenderly shaping / A lament, a hollow refuge / In the blood of the twinkling sky / Breathing in air
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cannons
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Troubled weather's on its way / Tempests threaten us today / There's no respite, from long dark nights / Just the fantasy of spring / From the hailstones of summer / To a scorching
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Dazzle
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[Intro] / The stars that shine and the stars that shrink / In the face of stagnation, the water runs before your eyes / [Verse 1] / Swallowing diamonds, a cutting throat / Your
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Helter Skelter
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[Intro] / When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide / Where I stop, I turn, and I go for a ride / When I get to the bottom and I see you again / Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Trust in Me
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[Verse 1] / Trust in me, just in me / Shut your eyes, trust in me / You can sleep safe and sound / Knowing I am around / [Chorus] / Slip into silent slumber / Sail on a silver mist
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Night Shift
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This song is about serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, also known as the “Yorkshire Ripper,” who was convicted of murdering 13 women (mostly prostitutes) between 1975 and 1980.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Overground
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[Verse 1] / Got to give up life in this netherworld / Going to go up to where the air is stale / And live a life of pleasantries / And mingle in the modern families / [Chorus
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cry
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[Verse 1] / Cry for the bird with broken wing / Cry for the world that will not spin / Cry for the loss of innocence / Cry for a love, turned loveless / [Pre-Chorus] / Sometimes I
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Skin
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[Verse 1] / Mink, seal and ermine / Smother fat women / I have a noble cause for skin / There's just too many of them / The only necessary cull / Curse the brain inside its skull
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Stargazer
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The 2nd single from their 1995 album The Rapture and the last single released from Siouxsie And The Banshees, “Stargazer” is an uptempo pop-track just like the first single “O Baby
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Carcass
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The 4th song on Siouxsie And The Banshees' first album deals with a butcher that is falling in love with his meat, because he can’t find a human girlfriend. An unconventional love.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Into the Light
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“Into the Light” presents an engaging and systematic reflection on death and what comes after it. It is written from the perspective of a person with conflicting beliefs about
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – 92°
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[Sample from "It Came from Outer Space" (1953)] / Did you know that more murders are commited at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once. Lower
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Switch
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Different lives / In different places / Familiar problems / Same old faces / Shuffle lives / Into wrong categories / Cross the wires / And fuse humanities / Watch the muscles
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Painted Bird
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“A very violent book,” described Siouxsie Sioux in an NME interview (April 17 1982), referring to Jerzy Kosiński’s controversial Painted Bird.
But there’s also like an abstract
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Monitor
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[Chorus] / Monitor outside / For the people inside / A prevention of crime / A passing of time / They come and they go / It's a passing of time / They come and they go / Whilst we
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Trophy
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Ohh, ohh / Ohh, ohh / [Verse 1] / Headhunters, headshrinkers / And long distance runners / Dust gathers on mementos / Dust gathers on proud moments / [Pre-Chorus] / Young voices
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Circle
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Pretty girl of 16 has fun and runs crazy / Ruined girl of 16, now a mother, grows lazy / Next a 16-year old baby like mother, grows lazy / And her stomach is churning / Whilst her
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Ghost in You
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In “The Ghost in You,” Siouxsie and the Banshees tenderly broach the subject of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and resulting massacre of 1989.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Dear Prudence
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[Verse 1] / Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play? / Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day / The sun is up, the sky is blue / It's beautiful, and so are you / Dear Prudence
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Mirage
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[Verse 1] / I'm just a vision on your TV screen / Just something conjured from a dream / Seen through your x-ray eyes, a see-through scene / The image is no images, it's not what
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cascade
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[Verse 1] / Oh the air was shining / Shining like a wedding ring / Barbed like sex, I felt 10,000 volts / My chest was full of eels, pushing through my usual skin / I opened up new
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Kiss Them for Me
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The song pays homage to the life and death of Jayne Mansfield, a 1950s and early 60s sex symbol. Mansfield and Cary Grant made a film in 1957 called Kiss Them for Me.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Carousel
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[Verse 1] / You clamber up and look behind / Their watchful eyes, the helping hands / A hen that's fierce and painted blue / With red eyes, wants to swallow you / [Chorus] / A
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)
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Originally recorded in English as “Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)” the song was then recorded in German with the title “Mittageisen”. “Mittageisen” is a word play based on the German
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Candyman
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[Verse 1] / Sickly sweet, his poison seeks / For the young ones who don't understand / The danger in his hands / With a jaundiced wink / See his cunning slink / Oh, trust in me, my
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Paradise Place
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Look to the hills, now look at my face / Do you notice my eyes, are they in the right place? / Lo-lo-lo-lo-lo, lo-lo-lo-lo-lo / There's a Mantovani backdrop to pucker-up a tummy
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – This Wheel's on Fire
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[Verse 1] / If your memory serves you well / We were goin' to meet again and wait / So I'm goin' to unpack all my things / And sit before it gets too late / [Pre-Chorus] / No man
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