TIAMAT

TIAMAT

SKELETON SKELETRON (1999)

  1. Church Of Tiamat
  2. Brighter Than The Sun
  3. Dust Is Our Fare
  4. To Have And Have Not
  5. For Her Pleasure
  6. Diyala
  7. Sympathy For The Devil
  8. Best Friend Money Can Buy
  9. As Long As You Are Mine
10. Lucy

TIAMAT

SKELETON SKELETRON

1. CHURCH OF TIAMAT

No candycoloured paradise
No stary blackholed eyes
No more dreams of neverend
Through embers only dark descends

No more comatose sleepwalking
No feeble sideshow toungetalking
Not even crucified you'd get that far
Nor escape the shining morning star

No lies shall opiate our senses
No spying glasses with shaded lenses
Nor suns that burn a brighter tint
Just lucid weaves in pristine mint

No candycoloured paradise
No stary blackholed eyes
No more dreams of neverend
Through embers only dark descends

No more angels in the snow
No more hunting high and low
No more water in our veins
To seek out gold from grains

No fight to win or loose
No single path to choose
No second coming at all
Just a simple rise and fall

No candycoloured paradise
No stary blackholed eyes
No more dreams of neverend
Through embers only dark descends

No candycoloured paradise
No stary blackholed eyes
No more dreams of neverend
Through embers only dark descends.

2. BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN

We could wander in the Garden of Eden baby
We could do anything tonight, maybe
We could even touch the sky
If we just get up on our feet and try
We could wander in the Garden of Eden baby

Will you settle for the bull's run
For the second best of fun
We're turning
For the fire of a handgun
Burns brighter than the sun
We're burning

Will you settle for the bull's run
For the second best of fun
We're turning
For the fire of a handgun
Burns brighter than the sun

Any colour you like as long as it's black
You could have anything if you just give it back
You could be a celebrity like me
It won't change anything as you will see
Any colour you like as long as it's black

Will you settle for the bull's run
For the second best of fun
We're turning
For the fire of a handgun
Burns brighter than the sun
We're burning

Will you settle for the bull's run
For the second best of fun
We're turning
For the fire of a handgun
Burns brighter than the sun
We're burning
Burning

The bull's run

It burns brighter than the sun
We're burning
Will you settle for the bull's run
For the fire of a handgun

Burns brighter than the sun
We're burning
Will you settle for the bull's run

For the fire of a handgun
Burns brighter than the sun
we're burning
Will you settle for the bull's run
For the second best of fun
We're turning
For the fire of a handgun
Burns brighter than the sun
We're burning

Will you settle for the bull's run
For the second best of fun
We're turning
For the fire of a handgun
Burns brighter than the sun
We're burning

Will you settle for the bull's run.

3. DUST IS OUR FARE

There is a time when some of us are healed
There is a time you're clean and undersealed
There is a time it almost looks like fun
There is a time for the bullet of a gun

No one here drinks water
None of us is sane
If you pretend you're my daughter
We do it again and again
No one here is praying
'Cause no one here is God
And every word we are saying
Might as well be put in blood

There is a time when worms revel in me
There is a time for a pigfaced reality
There is a time and it's usually in the afternoon
There is a time and I hope it will be damn soon

No one here drinks water
None of us is sane
If you pretend you're my daughter
We do it again and again
No one here is praying
'Cause no one here is God
And every word we are saying
Might as well be put in blood

No one here drinks water
None of us is sane
If you pretend you're my daughter
We do it again and again
No one here is praying
'Cause no one here is God
And every word we are saying
Might as well be put in blood

No one here drinks water
None of us is sane
If you pretend you're my daughter
We do it again and again
No one here is praying
'Cause no one here is God
And every word we are saying
Might as well be put in blood.

4. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT

She shivered, afraid that I would shoot
She'd panic, afraid that I would not
She drank it all right before my eyes
Said, be my Lucifer, be my Lord of Flies

I can take all you blasphemy
I can take all your sins

I can end any moment
And let a new one begin

She said, do it and do it now
Yeah, let all black birds fly again
For all fires that burned before
As hell's fire, shall burn bright once more

I can take all you blasphemy
I can take all your sins

I can end any moment
And let a new one begin.

5. FOR HER PLEASURE

Erase the pictures from my mind
Eliminate the presence of your kind
Unloose the string of instinct laws
Just to fall into some other jaws

In pounding afterglow I rise
For the pleasure of dying twice
A wingcut angel in decline
Breathe my air and I'll be fine

Put your teeth in me
Carve your name in me
I don't care if there is something
That I'm too blind to see

Put your teeth in me
Carve your name in me
I don't care if there is something
That I'm too blind to see

Invite yourself and feel free
To pick up splinter of debris
It's in your system exclusive
Subdues all that's delusive

Initially this lie I'd recoil
But again I crawl this dirty soil
Of all possessions I did treasure
This one's strictly for her pleasure

Put your teeth in me
Carve your name in me
I don't care if there is something
That I'm too blind to see

Put your teeth in me
Carve your name in me
I don't care if there is something
That I'm too blind to see

I don't care if there is something
That I'm too blind to see

Put your teeth in me
Carve your name in me
I don't care if there is something
That I'm too blind to see.

6. DIYALA
(Instrumental)

7. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (Rolling Stones Original)

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long long year stolen many man's soul and faith
I was around when Jesus Christ had His moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed His fate
Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name
Cause what's puzzling you is the nature of my game

Stuck around St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change
I killed the Tzar and his ministers, Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank held a gen'rals rank when the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name
Cause what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
I watched the glee while your kings and queens fought for
ten decades for the Gods they made
I shouted out "Who killed the Kennedy's?" when after all
it was you and me
Let me please introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I lay traps for troubadors who get killed before they reach Bombay
Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name
Cause what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name
Cause what's puzzling you is the nature of my game.

8. BEST FRIEND MONEY CAN BUY

We drank as much as we could
And she drank more than she should
We stumbled out of this cheap whiskey bar
And that's the story so far

Guided by the dim streetlights
We walked through the black harbour night
No people, no passing car
Well, that's the story so far

"She thinks she smells the northland snow
Northland snow
And she's as glad as I to go
Ay, to go
Her very bolts are sick for shore
Sick for shore
And I, I want it ten times more
Ten times more"

She silenced her mouth when I asked for her name
And she asked me to please do the same
She said it's all written in the stars
And that is the story so far

She whispered her name when I kissed her goodbye
Her voice stained by whiskey and tar
She went back to where she belonged, and I
I went back to the bar

"She thinks she smells the northland snow
Northland snow"

"She thinks she smells the northland snow
Northland snow
And she's as glad as I to go
Ay, to go
Her very bolts are sick for shore
Sick for shore
And I, I want it ten times more
Ten times more."

9. AS LONG AS YOU ARE MINE

You dance like liquid fire
Like crystal methedrine
You make the stars come closer
The most beautiful girl I've seen

You're everything I want
Only you can set me free
You're an angel in the snow
You're a shot in the arm for me

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine
I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

As long as you are mine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

As long as you are mine

You move and whisper softly
You make me safe and sound
You're a tranquilizer
You make the world go round

You are here beside me
You make me feel fine
I'll go through any day
As long as you are mine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

As long as you are mine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine
As long as you are mine

As long as you are mine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine
As long as you are mine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine
As long as you are mine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine
As long as you are mine

I will let your L.E.D.'s shine
As long as you are mine.

10. LUCY

Lucy was my first choice
Lucy was the one
She was my silent voice
when all was said and done
Yeah, Lucy was a demon
she did it all my way
She'd give me all her fun
as long as I would pay!!

Lucy gave me veil
like shaken crystal clear
When lights were turning pale
then I would still be there
Lucy shone in neon
Lucy swore she's mine
And in another aeon
I would be the first in line.

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