2:23 a.m. - 2006-03-06
ringleader of the tormentors lyrics
ROTT
full lyrics, and a few observations
Posted By: Uncleskinny <Uncleskinny@btinternet.com> (range86-130.btcentralplus.com)
Date:
Howdo.
I've listened to ROTT a few times now (from the Amazon stream version), and I
have to say I love it. A total departure from Quarry, a real variety of styles,
some excellent production, and now I'm really looing forward to hearing/seeing
them live. A few observations:
In my opinion, The Youngest Was The Most
Loved is the best song, and will be a great single; In The Future When All's
Well reminds me of Oasis' Cigarettes And Alcohol; I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero
now, to my ears, is a straight re-working of I Am Two People; in At Last I Am
Born, does anyone else hear someone shout "Marco Martin!", the engineer on the
album? Also in this song, I hear the name Claude Bresson (rightly or wrongly) -
who is this? Probably a mis-hear on my part. Oh, and by the way, I will be
buying the album in all available formats, as I will be with the singles. Now
heres the lyrics, as I heard them. There's two or three bits I just cannot
fathom out, so sorry for that.
Ringleader
Of The Tormentors Lyrics
I
Will See You In Far Off Places
Nobody
knows what human life is
Why we come, why we go
So why then do I know
I will see you
I will see you
In far off places
The
heart knows why I grieve
And, yes, one day I will close my eyes forever
But I will see you
I will see you
In far off places
It's
so easy for us to sit together
But it's so hard for our hearts to combine
And why?
And why?
Why? Why, why, why, why, why?
Destiny
for some is to save lives
But destiny for some is to end lives
But there
is no end
And I will see you
In far off places
If
your God bestows protection upon you
And if the U.S.A doesn't bomb you
I
believe I will see you
Somewhere safe
Looking to the camera
Messing
around and pulling faces
Ya da da
da dum
(Repeat
to end)
Dear
God Please Help Me
I
am walking through
With my heart on a string
Dear God, please help me
And
I am so very tired
Of doing the right thing
Dear God, please help me
There
explosive kegs
Between my legs
Dear God, please help me
Will
you follow and know
Know me more than you do
Track me down and try to
win me
Then
he motions to me
With his hand on my knee
Dear God, did this kind of
thing happen to you?
Now
I'm spreading your legs
With mine in between
Dear God, if I could, I
would help you
And
now I am walking through
And there is no room to move
But the heart feels free
The
heart feels free
The heart feels free
But
the heart feels free
The heart feels free
The heart feels free
But
the heart feels free
The heart feels free
The heart feels free
But
the heart…
You
Have Killed Me
Pasolini
is me
'Accattone' you'll be
I entered nothing and nothing entered me
'Til you came with the key
And you did your best but
As I live and
breathe
You have killed me
You have killed me
Yes I walk around
somehow
But you have killed me
You have killed me
Piazza Cavour,
what's my life for?
Visconti is me
Magnani you'll never be
I entered
nothing and nothing entered me
'Til you came with the key
And you did
your best but
As I live and breathe
You have killed me
You have
killed me
Yes, I walk around somehow
But you have killed me
You have
killed me
Who am I that I come to be here…?
As I live and breathe
You have killed me
You have killed me
Yes I walk around somehow
But you have killed me
You have killed me
And there is no point
saying this again
There is no point saying this again
But I forgive you,
I forgive you
Always I do forgive you
The
Youngest Was The Most Loved
The
youngest was the most loved
The youngest was the shielded
We kept him
from the world's glare
And he turned into a killer
Retrousse
nose
Turned-up and mischievous
Forget-me-not eyes
That cried if we
ever left his side
There
is no such in life as normal
There is no such in life as normal
The
youngest was the most loved
The youngest was the cherub
A small boy from
a poor house
Who turned into a killer
A
blush it rose
If he had to say "Hello"
A lop-sided grin
Strained to
keep the shyness in
There
is no such in life as normal
There is no such in life as normal
The
youngest was the most loved
The youngest was the cherub
The luck was all
before him
With a lovely wife beside him
The
youngest was the most loved
The youngest was the cherub
We kept him from
the world's glare
And he turned into a killer
There
is no such in life as normal
There is no such in life as normal
Ya
da da
(Ad
lib to end)
In
The Future When All's Well
Armed
with wealth
And the best of health
In the future when all's well
I
will lie down
And be counted
In the future when all's well
Oooh…
I
thank you
I thank you with all of my heart
I thank you
I thank you
with all of my heart
Please,
please, stand up and defend me
In the future when all's well
Confront
what you are afraid of
In the future when all's well
Every
day I play
A sad game called…
"In the future when all's well"
Living
longer than
I had intended
Something must have gone right
Oooh…
I
thank you
I thank you with all of my heart
I thank you
I thank you
with all of my heart
Please,
please, stand up and defend me
In the future when all's well
Confront
what you are afraid of
In the future when all's well
Hold
me closely
If your will allows it
In the future when all's well
???????????
'til I can barely stand it
The
future is ended by
A long, long sleep
The future is ended by
A long,
long sleep
The future is ended by a long sleep
The
Father Who Must Be Killed
Stepchild,
you have outlived your time
You represent embarrassment and failure
And
the father who must be killed
Is the blight upon your blighted life
And
his might is his legal right
To ground you down
Stepchild,
with every petty swipe
You just might find you're fighting for your life
And
the father who must be killed
Is a stepfather, but nonetheless
The way
he chews his food
Rips right through your senses
Stepchild,
there's a knife in a drawer in the room downstairs
And you, you know what
you must do
So
the stepchild ran with a knife to his sleeping frame
And slams it in his
arms, his legs, his face, his neck, and says
"There's a law against me now"
And
the father who must be killed
With his dying breath he grabs her hand
And he looks into her eyes
He says "I'm sorry" and he dies
Stepchild,
I release you
With this broken voice I beseech you
"Why
are lives so short?"
The stepchild thought
Half-pointing to the sky
No-one
to warn me, no hand to touch me
And no bible-belters to mess with me
Mama,
don't miss me
Mama, don't miss me
This death will complete me
But
where I go there'll be no-one to meet me
I know there'll be no-one to meet
me
But
still the stepchild pressed
The knife to her throat
Half-pointing to the
sky
Just
as motherless birds fly high
Then so shall I
So shall I
So shall I
So shall I
So shall I
Life
Is A Pigsty
It's
the same old SOS
But with brand new broken fortunes
And once again I
turn to...
Once again, I do, I turn to you
It's
the same old SOS
But with brand new broken fortunes
I'm the same
underneath
But this you, you surely knew
Life
is a Pigsty
Life is a Pigsty
Life is a Pigsty
Life is a Pigsty
Oh,
life, life is a Pigsty
Life... Life is a Pigsty
Life... Life, it is a
Pigsty
Life is a Pigsty
And
if you don't know this
Then what do you know?
Every second of my life
I've only lived for you
And
you can shoot me,
and you can throw me off a train
I still maintain, I
still maintain...
Life,
life is a pigsty
Life is a Pigsty
And
I've been shifting gears all of my life
But I'm still the same underneath
This, you surely knew
I
can't reach you, I can't reach you,
I can't reach you anymore
Can
you please stop time?
Can you stop the pain?
I
feel too cold
And now I feel too warm again
Can you stop this pain?
Can you stop this pain?
Even
now in the final hour of my life
I've fallen in love again
Again, again
Even now in the final hour of my life
I'm falling in love again
Again, again... again
I'm falling in love again
Again, again...
again
I'll
Never Be Anyone's Hero Now
The
lights from the grand houses blind me
"Haves" cannot stand "have-nots"
And
my love is under the ground
My one true love is under the ground
And
I'll never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's hero now
I'll
never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's hero now
They
who should love me
Walk right through me
I am a ghost, and as far as I
know
I haven't even died
And
my love is under the ground
My one true love is under the ground
And
I'll never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's hero now
I'll
never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's hero now
I'll
never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's lover now
I'll
never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's lover now
Things
I've heard, and I've seen, and I've felt and I've been
Tell me I'll never be
anybody's lover now
??????????????????heart
And it hurts when it's true
It only hurts because it's true
On
The Streets I Ran
Oooh
A working-class face glares back
At me from the glass
And lurches
Oh, forgive me
On the streets I ran
Turned sickness into popular
song
Streets
of wet black holes
On roads you could never know
You never have them
But they always have you
'Til the day that you croak
It's no joke
Oooh
A working-class face glares back
At me from the glass
And lurches
Oh, forgive me
On the streets I ran
Turned sickness into unpopular
song
And
all these streets can do
Is claim to know the real you
And what if you
don't leave?
You will kill or be killed
Which isn't very nice
Here,
everybody's friendly
But nobody's friends
Oh,
Dear God
When will I be where I should be?
And
when the palmist said
"One Thursday you will be dead"
I said no, not me,
this cannot be!
Dear God
Take him, take them, take anyone
The
stillborn, the newborn, the infirm
Take anyone
Take people from
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Just spare me!
To
Me You Are A Work Of Art
I
live a life, I feel the pain
To sing the song, to tell the tale
I wish
I'd never even heard the song
I
see the world, it makes me puke
But then I look at you
And know that
somewhere there's a someone who can sooth me
To
me you are
A work of art
And I would give you my heart
That's if I
had one
I
see the world, it makes me puke
But then I look at you
And know that
somewhere there's a someone who can sooth me
To
me you are
A work of art
And I would give you my heart
That's if I
had one
Had one
To
me you are
A work of art
And I would give you my heart
That's if I
had one
I
Just Want To See The Boy Happy
Lord,
these words I beg of you
As I kneel down at my bed
Because soon I will
be dead
Let's face it, soon I will be dead
And
I just want to
I want to see the boy happy
With some hope in his pearl
eyes
Is that to much to ask?
Before
I die
I have one final dream
For my own life
I don't care anything
Lord,
these words I beg of you
As I kneel down at my bed
Let's face it, soon I
will be dead
And
I just want to
I want to see the boy happy
With his arms around his
first love
Is that too much to ask?
Before
I die
I have one final dream
For my own life
I don't care anything
And
I just want to
I want to see this boy happy
Why is this such a bad
thing?
At
Last I Am Born
At
last I am born
Historians note
I am finally born
I
once used to chase
Affection withdrawn
But now I just sit back and yawn
Because I am born, born, born
Look
at me now
From difficult child to spectral hand to Claude Bresson
Blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Marco
Martin!!
At
last I am born
Vulgarians know
I am finally born
I
once thought that time
Accentuates despair
But now I don't actually care
Because I am born, born, born
Look
at me now
From difficult child to spectral hand to Claude Bresson
Blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
At
last I am born
At last I am born
Leading the one true, free life
Born
I
once thought that I
Had numerous reasons to cry
And I did, but I don't
anymore
Because I am born, born, born
At
last I am born
At last I am born
It took me a long, long time
But
now I am born
I
once was a mess
Of guilt
Because of the flesh
It's remarkable what
you can learn
Once you are born, born, born
Born,
born, born
Born, born, born
