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Dry

Record Details

Release
1992
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  1. Oh My Lover
    Oh My Lover

    Oh my lover, don’t you know it’s alright.
    You can love her and you can love me at the same time.
    Much to discover, I know you don’t have the time
    but oh my lover, don’t you know it’s alright.

    Oh my sweet thing, oh my honey thighs,
    give me your troubles, I’ll keep them with mine.
    Take at your leisure, take whatever you can find
    but oh my sweet thing, don’t you know it’s alright.

    It’s alright.
    It’s alright.
    There’s no time
    so it’s alright.

    What’s that colour forming around your eyes?
    Waltz my lover, tell me that it’s alright.
    Just another before you go away,
    oh my lover, why don’t you just say my name?

    And it’s alright,
    say it’s alright.
    There’s no time.

  2. O Stella
    O Stella

    Stella-Marie you’re my star
    Stand on ground look up at her
    Just hanging in the gold stone
    Just hanging there face froze

    But I think I see her smiling

    Stella-Marie you’re my star
    In your blue, blue tavern you light my lantern
    O Stella’s large, pink on her face
    It’s glowing this place

    A place for heroes only

    Stella-Marie you’re my star
    I pin you to my chest, sell you to the rest
    I kiss her gown
    Send those angels down to woo me now

    I think I see her smiling

  3. Dress
    Dress

    Put on that dress
    I’m going out dancing
    Starting off red
    Clean and sparkling, he’ll see me

    Music play make it dreamy for dancing
    There must be a way that I can dress to please him
    It’s hard to walk in the dress, it’s not easy
    I’m swinging over like a heavy loaded fruit tree

    If you put it on, if you put it on…

    It’s sad to see
    Lonely, all this lonely
    Close up my eyes
    Dreamy, dreamy music make it be alright

    Music play make it good for romancing
    Must be a way I can dress to please him
    Swing it, sway, everything’ll be alright
    But it’s feeling so damn tight tonight

    If you put it on, if you put it on…

    You pretty thing my man says
    But I bought you beautiful dresses

    Filthy tight, the dress is filthy
    I’m falling flat and my arms are empty
    Clear the way, better get it out of this room
    A fallen woman in dancing costume

    If you put it on, if you put it on…

  4. Victory
    Victory

    I stumble in and in
    you fit me with those angel wings
    send me gold, set me high
    set it up till I’m in the sky

    and the storm is gone
    and the temperature’s high
    and delight is dining at my table

    till I think ha, ha, ha, how lucky we are
    an angel at my table, God in my car
    get it at sea, take a ship
    I’d christen her ‘Victory’, she’d make it

    Victory!

    Come on boys let’s push it hard
    you bump down push your motor car
    come on boys you’ve done us proud
    you sweat, dig, I’ll mop it right off your brow

    Victory!

    till the storm is gone
    and the temperature’s high
    and delight is dining at my table

  5. Happy and Bleeding
    Happy and Bleeding

    She burst, dropped off
    picked the fruit, and realised
    I’m naked, I’m naked too

    So cover my body, dress it fine
    hide my, in linen and lace
    been sewing since time began

    More than the hills
    more than the trees
    more than the mountains, you

    More than I can see
    in front of me
    more than the mountains, you

    so fruit flower myself inside out
    I’m happy and bleeding for you
    fruit flower myself inside out
    I’m tired and I’m bleeding for you

    This fruit was bruised, dropped off and blue
    out of season, happy and bleeding
    long overdue

    too early and it’s late too
    mind and body,
    I would and I would not do

    so fruit flower myself inside out
    I’m happy and bleeding for you
    fruit flower myself inside out
    I’m tired and I’m bleeding for you

    fig, fruit, flower myself
    inside out for you

  6. Sheela na gig
    Sheela na gig

    I’ve been trying to show you over and over

    Look at these my child-bearing hips
    Look at these my ruby-red, ruby lips
    Look at these my work-strong arms
    You’ve got to see my bottleful of charm
    I lay it all at your feet
    You turn around and say back to me

    He said
    Sheela na gig, Sheela na gig
    You exhibitionist!

    I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair
    Just like the first time, said you didn’t care
    Wash that man right out of my hair
    Heard it before, no more
    Wash that man right out of my hair
    Turn the corner, another one there
    Wash that man right out of my hair
    Heard it before

    He said,
    Sheela na gig, Sheela na gig
    You exhibitionist!
    Put money in your idle hole

    Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
    Just like the first time, said you didn’t care
    Wash that man right out of my hair
    Heard it before, no more
    Take my hips to a man who cares
    Turn the corner, another one there
    Take my hips to a man who cares
    Heard it before

    He said,
    Sheela na gig, Sheela na gig
    You exhibitionist!
    Put money in your idle hole

    He said,
    Wash your breasts, I don’t want to be unclean
    He said,
    Please take those dirty pillows away from me

  7. Hair
    Hair

    Samson, the strength that’s in your arms
    Oh to be your stunning bride

    Samson, your hair glistening like sun
    Oh would that it were mine

    Samson your hair that’s in my hands
    I’ll keep it safe you’re mine

    He said, Wait! Wait!
    Delilah my babe!

    You lied in my face!
    You cut off my hair!
    You lied in my bed!

    Samson, you stay with your ‘Lilah
    I hold you in my hands
    your hairy strength – my man

    He said, Wait! Wait!
    Delilah my babe!

    You lied in my face!
    You cut off my hair!
    You lied in my bed!

  8. Joe
    Joe

    Joe, ain’t you my buddy thee
    stay with me when I fall and die
    always thought you’d come rushing in
    to clear the shit out of my eyes

    Joe ain’t you my buddy thee
    lay my enemies out in lines
    come in close and I’ll wash your feet
    with my hair I’ll mop them dry

    Joe, you be my buddy please
    in this hell and dead-lock time
    when I’m trussed in that headache tree
    cut me down with your silver knife

  9. Plants and Rags
    Plants and Rags

    plants and rags
    ease myself
    into a body bag

    dreamt a man
    he fed me fine food
    he gave me shiny things

    white and black
    are you looking for the sun boy?
    the sun doesn’t shine down here, no

    white and black
    are you looking for the sun boy?
    the sun doesn’t shine down here in shadow

    house and home
    who thought they could take away that place?
    but they lead us outside and they lead us out quietly

  10. Fountain
    Fountain

    stand under fountain
    cool skin, wash clean
    wash him from me

    along comes wind, a big bone shaker
    blows off my clothes, completely naked
    what to do when everything’s left you?

    out of the blue, it is he
    a vision to me, bearing leaves
    and petals green, covers me in all my shame

    hand in hand, he’s my big man
    stays with me some forty days
    no words, then goes away – I cry again

    on my hill I wait for wind

  11. Water
    Water

    water, I’m walking on water

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    living by the right lines
    reading what the very man said

    water, I’m walking on water

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    Mary, Mary drop me softly
    I’ve been reading what your very man said

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    leave my clothes on the beach
    I’m walking down into the sea

    prove it to me

    now the water to my ankles
    now the water to my knees
    think of him all waxy wings
    melted down into the sea

    Mary, Mary what your man said
    washing in all over my head
    Mary, Mary hold on tightly
    over water, under the sea

    water, I’m walking on water