Madrugada - The Nightly Disease

MADRUGADA

THE NIGHTLY DISEASE (2001)

  1. Black Mambo
  2. Step Into This Room And Dance For Me
  3. Nightly Disease Part II
  4. Lucy One
  5. Hands Up - I Love You
  6. A Deadend Mind
  7. The Frontman
  8. We Are Go
  9. Into Heartbeats
10. Sister
11. Two Black Bones
12. Only When You're Gone

MADRUGADA

THE NIGHTLY DISEASE

1. BLACK MAMBO

When you're on your own
And you've got them twisting bones
And a red hot poker burning in your ear
You think you had it
But you ain't nowhere near
You think you had it
But you're nowhere near

Ah, black mambo gonna knock you down to the ground
Black mambo, little chicken better, run, run, run

Don't let the children catch you
Don't let the children catch you

Gonna lock you down with liquor and love
Black mambo, little chicken better run, run, run
Don't let them catch you out here on the street
'Cause you got no soul
Black mambo, little chicken better run, run, run

Don't let the children catch you
Don't let the children catch you

Gonna lock you down with liquor and love
I lock you down with liquor and love
Ah, black mambo with a funeral horn
Run, run, no, no, no
Black mambo coming for you
Ah, black mambo comes knocking with a funeral horn
Black mambo, little chicken better run, run, run

Don't let the children catch you
Don't let the children catch you

Don't let the children catch you
Don't let the children catch you.

2. STEP INTO THIS ROOM AND DANCE FOR ME

Closer, move in closer
Closer now than
Than ever before
I doubt it that you can survive
So far from your trenches and your friends
This is where competition starts and
And all that ends

I sense a lot of tension
Loose, loose
Pull out your arsenal
Dance

Step into this room and dance for me
Step into this room and dance for me
Come on, lady, dance for me
Come on, come on, dance for me
Step into this room and dance for me

By now we should know the music and the steps
Oh, me, I never asked, I never set you up
A little something for me?
A little something thrown back at me?

This is the floor, these are the rules
These are the moves
This is the room in which we dance
Close the door, say you will dance

Step into this room and dance for me
Step into this room and dance for me
Come on, lady, dance for me
Come on, come on, dance for me
Step into this room and dance for me
Step into this room and dance for me
Come on, come on, dance for me
Come on, come on, dance for me

Step into this room and dance for me
Step into this room and dance for me
Come on, lady, dance for me
Come on, come on, dance
Step into this room and dance for me
Come on, come on, dance
Step into this room and dance for me.

3. NIGHTLY DISEASE PART II

There is a hole in the night
That the city keeps travelling round
There is a hole in the roof where the ego comes down
There is a hole in the closet where the coats go to fly
There is a hole in the closet where noisy cats go to die

I step away from the window
I am struck by a nightly disease
Something has been coming
A long time it's been crawling
Out of pitch-black and expanding seas
It's clearly headed in my direction
I am strong but I need protection

A hole in my heart tonight
There is a hole in my heart tonight
There is a hole in my heart tonight
There is a hole in my heart tonight
Alright

Ah, there were times when I had just one eye
It took a field to fly and a bird to cry
Or just a bad foot and a bad-fingered hand
Just a bad foot and a bad-fingered hand
Yeah

That sort of memory is no match for my poisonous pen
Big bad boy approaches the mirror
With a dead black bird in his bad-fingered hand
Hand extended in my direction
I am strong but I need protection

There is a hole in my heart tonight
There is a hole in my heart tonight
There is a hole in my heart tonight
There is a hole in my heart tonight
Alright

Hand extended in my direction
I am strong but I need protection
Just a bad foot and a bad-fingered hand
Just a bad foot and a bad-fingered hand
Just a bad foot and a bad-fingered hand
Just a bad foot and a bad-fingered hand.

4. LUCY ONE

Lucy, relax
All the way down
Creep

The first one
Lucy One
Hey, come on
Lucy One

The power
And a strong knee of stones
Bone upon bone
Lucy One

Touch me
Stone by stone
Lucy
We are both glass and stone

Hey, we can disappear here without
Nobody even noticing and
We are new and improved
We are new and improved

Oh, Lucy
Lucy One
Got such a big hand
Such a big hand
Such a big, big voice
There's such power in me
Such greatness, such pain
There is enough of me for you

Oh, Lucy
Let me get through to you
Hey kid, we can disappear here without
Nobody even noticing and
We are new and improved
We are new and improved

Oh, Lucy
Oh, Lucy One
Gonna fly all the way home now, Lucy One

Touch me
Stone by stone, Lucy One
Oh, I love you
We are One

Blood, flesh, hand, late
Escape, power, fire, love
Oh, bone upon bone
In a stone upon stone
Oh, I love you
Oh, I love you

Red, Lucy One
Burn
Oh, burn, yeah
In the glass of the bone
And it concealed my love
Oh, Lucy
Oh, Lucy One
You're gonna fly all the way home now
Lucy One
Oh, Lucy One.

5. HANDS UP - I LOVE YOU

There's no use to complain
Or start it off again
There's no sign of weakness in me
Do I compel you like you compel me?
And nothing stays the same
And no one said it would
I would not think of such things if I could
If I could help myself
If I could

So put your warm little hands where I can see them
Put those hands on my face
Tell me you love me
And no one else
Or close those little hands
Now they're fists
Oh, little fists

Punch a hole in me with those fists if you
If you ever wanted to punch a hole in me
And find out what's in me
There is really nothing in me

And nothing stays the same
And nothing ever happens to you
That will happen to you again
Or is this the way it was?
Was it this same room
This same fight, this same scene
With us dancing on the kitchen floor
And the wind climbing in through the open window

I used to hear distant cracks out in the city night
I could swear some one was being shot down
Now we hear that all the time

So do you like where we're headed?
Does it make sense in your eyes?
Oh, do you miss me, baby, when I fall asleep?
Do you reach out for my arm?
Do you find it's too far away, do you?

Now tell me I'm handsome
I will tell you we are really not old at all
There's no use to complain
Still you and no one else

So put your warm little hands where I can see them
Put those hands on my face
If you get any out of this
Then that's the things that make me sleep all day
And I'll explain my love for you
On another day.

6. A DEADEND MIND

Hard to bring out some things with a deadend mind
What you know is no credential
Oh, not at all essential
Hard to bring up small things with a deadend mind
I didn't fill the sea or invent the moon
How did it all occur so soon?

So I finally fall behind
With a deadend mind
I wasted all this time
With a deadend mind
Oh, deadend mind
A deadend mind

Hard to come up with some things with a deadend mind
What you know is no credential
Oh, not at all essential
Small things like your sealed body and your sealed face
Oh, not at all essential
Oh, not at all essential so

So I finally fall behind
Fall behind with a deadend mind
I wasted all this time
With a deadend mind
Oh, deadend mind
Oh, deadend mind

Deadend mind.

7. THE FRONTMAN

Let's walk on by, this time, this time
Let's keep it right, just like it used to be
It's such a long and wasted ride
When you're on your own, when you're all alone
I throw a word in for the real men
Hey, driver man, hey, cardboard man
On a cardboard scene you know it's never make-believe
Now, do you believe in me?
And freedom's only what they strip away from you
You fight back
Oh, what you gain is nothing like it

Let's walk on by
It's a mellow song and I mean it well
Don't you trample me down!
'Cause it took a lot of nerve
For me to try and come across
Let's do it, let's do it right
I tried, I tried so hard I could only fail
Let's do it, let's do it right

Right now, right now
And don't you ever walk away from me
I'm gonna need you 'round for the rebound
I search myself for sheets of paper
Some little stain, some little stain
And this is all conclusive evidence
Everybody rise, I rest my
I rest my case, case

Let's walk on by
It's a mellow song and I mean it well
Now don't you trample me down!
'Cause it took a lot of nerve
For me to try and come across
Let's do it, let's do it right
I tried, I tried so hard I could only fail
Let's do it, let's do it right

Right now, right now
I find it hard being strong these days
I find it very hard, hard
And even harder in the night-time
When all these clouds come down
I find I'm very, very, hard to define
I could not be electric animal's, front-man
All distorted, all noise
And this is never, ever, my familiar voice
No, no, no

Let's walk on by
It's a mellow song and I mean it well
Now don't you trample me down!
'Cause it took a lot of nerve
For me to try and come across
Let's do it, let's, let's, let's do it right
I tried, I tried so hard I could only fail
Let's do it, let's do it right
Right now, right now
Right now, oh
Right now.

8. WE ARE GO

In for no surprise
In for weary eyes
A dusty green disease
Distracting shuffling of feet
I try to fit in where we meet
I start falling in love with these streets

Don't want to know you
Already know you
Already know your needs

Listen: we are go for the old ride
Listen: we are go for the old ride
Listen

Killing time, killing time
I want a ride
I'm going for the old ride
Come on

Try to make it real
Try something I can feel
I try to make it real
Try something I can feel

Don't want to know you
Already know you
Already know your needs

Listen: we are go for the old ride
Listen: we are go for the old ride

Killing time, killing time
I want a ride
I'm going for the old ride
Come on

Listen: we are go for the old ride
Oh, listen: we are go for the old ride
Oh, listen, yeah
Killing time, killing time
I want a ride
I'm going for the old ride
Come on

A dusty green disease
Distracting shuffling of feet

Listen: we are go for the old ride
Listen, yeah
Oh, listen
Listen, yeah.

9. INTO HEARTBEATS

Walk this way into heartbeats
And airwaves and tears
Talk this way into heartbeats
And blankets and ears

Any side of you
Any side will do
Any part of you
Anything will do

It's not boiling down to anything at all
I stop trying to make sense of you

Walk this way into heartbeats
And airwaves and years
Walk this way
This is not making movies
Moving slowly
Making movie tears
Any side of

I'm not looking for a sign
I'm not trying to punch a hole in you
I'm not looking for a spot
I'm not trying to make sense of you at all

Any part of you
Any part of you
Anything will do
Anything will do

Any part of you
Any part of you
Anything will do
Anything will do

Any part of you
Any part of you
Anything will do
Anything will do

Any part of you
Anything will do

Any part of you
Anything will do.

10. SISTER

Go to sleep, sister, go to sleep
Within the deep, dry well of my whisper, go to sleep
You have been coming for a while to my different rooms
You're one big Hollywood anthem to my groan
Is it you, is it me, is this how you'll appear
You know I never understood your cry
And I guess I never tried

Go to sleep
Sister
Go to sleep

Go to sleep
Sister
Go to sleep

Oh, go to sleep
Oh, sister
Go to sleep

Another day will soon be rising from the ground
With another distant whisper carried at the speed of sound
Go to sleep
Points me back to the far provinces of our past
Oh, there were crying sleepless centuries
But never like this
And as it appears
I never understood your cry
And I guess I never tried

Sister, are you still awake?
Yes, I'm still awake
I've been walking in the sidewalk sun
Sidewalk, sidewalk sun

Oh, go to sleep
Oh, sister
Go to sleep

Oh, go to sleep
Velvet sister
Go to sleep

Within the deep, dry well of my whisper, go to sleep

Oh, go to sleep
Oh, sister
Go to sleep

Oh, go to sleep
Sleep
Go to sleep

I've been out walking in the sidewalk sun
Sidewalk, sidewalk sun

I've been out walking in the side
Side, side

Sidewalk sun.

11. TWO BLACK BONES

Two black bones
Two black bones
And a hole in the woods

Two black bones
Two black bones
Two black bones
And a hole in the woods

One more time

Two black bones
Two black bones
Two black bones
And a hole in the woods

Shot
Shot
Shot

One more shot
One more shot
One more shot
And I'll be gone

Two black bones
Two black bones
Two black bones
And a hole out in the woods

Yeah, ah yeah

I had a dog
I had a dog
I had a dog
Now he is gone

We put him in the ground
Blankets wrapped around his angry sleep
Leaving cancer there to burn and ache in the barren land

That dog, it's asleep
Come on
Stop
Oh yeah

Had a dog
Had a dog
I had a dog
Now he is gone
Gone, gone, gone

And it makes me wanna sing
Makes me wanna sing.

12. ONLY WHEN YOU'RE GONE

Only when you're gone
Only when you're gone
Only when you're gone and away
Only when you're gone

Gonna need a hammer and nails
To construct this bitter love song
This crude testament in song
That rings out only when you're gone

Only when you're gone
Only when you're gone
Only when you're gone and away
Only when you're gone

Rude are the tongues of love
That speak of mercy for us all
And leave us only with a song
And leave us only with a song
Now it's a cold and hollow whisper
That consumes my body when you're gone
Gone

Only when you're gone
Only when you're gone
Only when you're gone and away
Only when you're gone

And it's only when you're gone and away
Your ghost moves through me in that special way
It's a nice hotel, my hotel
Come fill the darkness of this prison cell
I'll love you long
And I'll love you well

So bury me in the kitchen
Bury me at the store
Bury me everywhere you go
In the shadows of the hallway
Ah, for we do no longer know
What we can no longer hold
On days like these our heads fill up with smoke
And our memories grow old

Only when you're gone
Only when you're gone
Only when you're gone and away
Only when you're gone

Only when you're gone
Only, only when you're gone
Only when you're gone and away
Only when you're gone

You're gone away
You're gone away.

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