Alien Skin Song Lyrics The Secret Garden (album) Ghost In The Rain (album) The Unquiet Grave

(album) Dont' Open Till Doomsday (album) Non album single releases 'The Secret Garden' THE SECRET GARDEN My secret garden no friends and no enemies My secret garden there's no need for intimacy My secret garden I feel no rejection there My secret garden I feel so painless in there No faith in love or god above don't need to fear anymore Beneath the ice pressed in this vice but it's where I belong My secret garden I hide from insanity My secret garden where nobody's hurting me SAVE ME If you call me I'll respond but don't think there's nothing wrong Something inside has died I see ashes from the sky can you cry when eyes are dry? Something inside has died Have you ever compromised, your memory revised? Something here has changed Save me, Save me, Save me, Save me Forced to play your hand, pretend to understand Something needs to change, something needs to change On the edge of nothing new, on the edge of the deep blue Nothing seems to change On the edge of nothing new, on the edge of me and you Nothing seems to change Save me, Save me, Save me, Save me CRUSHING FLOWERS You see the danger, I feel remorse Two worlds collide, will time decide What course we take Words free of kindness said out of turn Our worlds collide and will time decide What course we take Crushing flowers in my hands for you Crushing flowers, makes me feel a fool The acrimony, the waste of pain Two worlds collide, will time decide What course we take. Crushing flowers in my hands for you Crushing flowers, makes me feel a fool Crushing flowers in my hands for you

Crushing flowers, now who's the fool? 19th CENTURY GIRL 19th century girl She floats through my mind When i'm dreaming, when I'm not When I'm awake, when I'm tired 19th century girl In her starch, in her gowns She is a vision, I invite, With her rouge, her red lips Bell book and candle She was abused, considered loose, Considered scandalous But she will always be, my delicate flower 19th century girl, I escort her through dark Narrow alleys, to touch her skin, The stain of shame, she risks so much Bell book & candle She was abused, considered loose, Considered scandalous But she will always be, my delicate flower My delicate flower.... HERE YOU ARE When I wake up & no one's there when I call out in my despair There you are, Here you are When I lie there in my sunken bed And with nightmares in my fevered head There you are, Here you are When I feel hurt & something's wrong When I feel old & the world feels wrong There you are, Here you are There you are, Here you are There you are, Here you are ON A FINE DAY On a fine day I will walk you home Through endless rambling meadows On a fine day I will lay with you Beneath the skies of marble But until then I have to sit here And commit my thoughts to memory On a fine day I'll be in my sunday best And at your doorstep On a fine day all that separates us Will be buried forever But until then I have to sit here And commit my thoughts to memory

I believe before this day is through That I wont see morning due, I hear the guns and burning fires scream In my head a vison plays It's of a boy who floats in space And I want you to float with me away On a fine day I'll be in my sunday best And at your doorstep But until then I have to sit here And bury my love in this dirt AIRPORTS I walked on a frozen inland sea In Europe it's ice cold, my skin is blue Winter has closed all of the airports And here I am stuck in Prague There's little to do but just wait here I'm counting the hours, I count them here Winter has closed all of the airports And here I am stuck in Prague Everything's closed the ports are all frozen I'm held up in transit so far from home The glass on the window is frosty & old And hands on the clock are marking the hours Winter has closed all of the airports And here I am stuck in Prague Everything's closed the ports are all frozen I'm held up in transit so far from home BLUE Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Here is is is is the the the the colour colour colour colour I love of spring of sky of earth I love of sad of hurt of life am

is the colour is the colour is the colour is the colour I am, Here I

Come and visit when you're near It's been years but I'm still here Come & visit if you're near My mind changes but it's usually blue Love Love Love Love Here is the break in winter is the courage to live is the sense of purpose is the colour of blue I am, Here I am

Come and visit when you're near It's been years but I'm still here Come & visit if you're near

My mind changes but it's usually blue SUNNY DAY It's a sunny day and my love that went away Is coming home again, it's a sunny day It's a bright eyed day, my secret garden is in bloom And home she'll be coming soon Even blues in the sky make me feel alright Even blues in the sky make me feel alright It's a sunny day, it's the summer of my love And with my love I'll stay Even blues in the sky make me feel alright Even blues in the sky make me feel alright I love sun I love winter; I love spring I love autumn When shes here It's a sunny day and my love that went away Is coming home again Even blues in the sky make me feel alright Even blues in the sky make me feel alright OH MERCY MOONLIGHT Black light can hide away anything Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dogs lie Black night will conceal everything Sometimes it's better to walk away cold Oh mercy moonlight Must you be so cruel as to shine On this narrow secluded pathway That leads to her door Oh mercy moonlight Must you light up the obvious path Does my tell tale heart give away secrets I beg you dim your glow Dark waters by Sometimes fell Black seas the Sometimes make the edge of the port like you're on the edge of the world unknown in the dark you feel you're the last one alive

Oh mercy moonlight Must you be so cruel as to shine On this narrow secluded pathway That leads to her door Oh mercy moonlight Must you light up the obvious path Does my tell tale heart give away secrets I beg you dim your glow END OF THE SEASON It's another nightfall and I do promise that I shall write When my eyes are little more awake and lifelike It's another morning and I do promise that I shall call When the sun is lower in the blinding sky

And every breathing heart will know Life is shared by light & darkness And if you catch me when I'm blue I'm lifeless But today I'll call It's a wonderful world and if I wake up I'll lose that dream And in my dreams I surround myself with simple fine things And every breathing heart will know Life is shared by light & darkness And if you catch me when I'm blue I'm lifeless But today I'll call It's the end of the season, end of the season, end of the season It's a wonderful world and every end of season I change From summer haze to the ice of winter grey And every breathing heart will know Life is shared by light & darkenss And if you catch me when I'm up I'm smiling And today is just that day All Songs Streamed Free @ Bandcamp! 'Ghost In The Rain' VINTAGE Je me souviens de mes annes devant la camra, l'cran de cinma j'tais une desse, j'tais aime, aimez-moi encore I watch you on camera, I watch you on television Vintage, film noir, vintage You're buried in Paris, I follow you I bring you flowers for the grave I bring you flowers for your grave I watch you in silence, I watch you with a child's enchantment Vintage, film noir, vintage You're buried in Paris, I follow you I bring you flowers for the grave I bring you flowers for your grave It's raining and I don't mind, raining, It's raining and I don't care, raining. I watch you on camera, I watch you on television, vintage GHOST IN THE RAIN Goodbye, is that all you came to say? Goodbye, I still cherish yesterday I am the ghost trembling in the rain I am a ghost, remember me this way Take Take I am I am care, where ever you may go care, wherever you call home the ghost trembling in the rain a ghost, remember me this way

STAY WITH ME

When I wake up in the day Morning's lost and slept away And slumber calls me back again Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay with me girl Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay with me girl When the night falls flat and quiet And shadows come alive inside the room And my mind is barely lucid Still I know I'm not here alone And the night turns back to day A web of dreams disintegrate And through the window figures creep Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay with me girl Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay with me girl When the night falls flat and quiet And shadows come alive inside the room And my mind is barely lucid Still I know I'm not here alone BRIGITTE My Brigitte, you are beautiful to me When autumn dies, I'll be left behind My Brigitte, you're a crumpled photograph And when orders come, you'll be by my breast Quiet tonight, on the western front Quiet tonight, on the western front And my Brigitte, though I've never held your face Within my mind, we're in another place My Brigitte, as your photo lives My Brigitte, my life slows down Am I in my twilight? My Brigitte, as the earth becomes my blanket And autumn dies, I'll be left behind Quiet tonight, on the western front Quiet tonight, on the western front My Brigitte, as your photo lives My Brigitte, my life slows down Am I in my twilight? PERFECT WORLD Colours bleed before my eyes In hues of blue, collapse and die But when you're here they bend and swirl And when you're here it's another world Voices shriek around my ears They cry forlorn then disappear But when you're here they dance and swirl And when you're here it's another world Empty skies fade to grey And colours freeze in winter rain

But when you're here they bend and swirl And when you're here it's a perfect world Perfect world, perfect world CANDY LIPS Candy lips and a new Kashmir coat Under bright lights you pretend you're something else But there's scrutiny from every corner When someone else is paying For your perfect face and your candy lips I hear a noise from afar It's just the world tapping on your window frame Candy lips in a sheer lavender dress Beneath bright skies your skin is bankable still But there's scrutiny from every corner When someone else is paying For your perfect features and your candy lips I hear a noise It's just your I hear a noise It's just your from afar world tapping on your window frame from afar world tapping on your window frame

Candy lips beneath bright skies Candy lips beneath bright skies Candy lips beneath bright skies VANISHING GIRL Vanishing girl in a carnival of horrors It's my obsession to watch you vanish Till the next day's show Vanishing girl behind the blood red curtain When you vanish I imagine you with me Till the next day's show Vanishing girl if I stop you from reappearing Then you'll always be with me, you'll only be real In my private show VAMPYRA Vampyra's heart is on her sleeve Exposed to the scorching sun With nowhere else to hide She brings a thousand murderous years And crumples them inside you She wields a shiny needle To insert into your heart A pin prick through your ribs For a swell of light to seep in It is painful, it is ugly Seeing how it beats Vampyra's heart is on her sleeve Exposed to the scorching sun With nowhere else to hide She brings a thousand murderous years

And crumples them inside you CYNTHIA Cynthia Cynthia I can't I can't is crying, it makes me sad, it makes me sad is laughing, it makes me smile, it makes me smile live without you, I can't laugh or cry do without you, I can't live or die

In an icy chamber I lay her down, I lay her down In a stranger's tear-drop, I hear no sound, no life no sound I can't live without you, I can't laugh or cry I can't do without you, I can't live or die Ashes to ashes, I want you back Ashes to ashes, I want you back Cynthia is close to me, I feel her chill, her ghostly chill I can't do without you, I don't wish to try I can't be without, do I live or die? Cynthia, Cynthia ... do I live or die? MUSIC BOX DOLL You look like ghost You're paler than flour You look like a ghost You've been still for an hour But I remember you You were full of life You were ten feet tall That's how I remember, that's how I remember you A music box doll You were easily broken A music box doll Always somebody's token But I remember you You were full of life You were ten feet tall That's how I remember, that's how I remember you You look like a ghost And darkness devoured you A music box doll I'm the ghost here beside you All Songs Streamed Free @ Bandcamp! 'The Unquiet Grave' THE UNQUIET GRAVE The wind doth blow today my love and a few small drops of rain I never had but one true love In a cold grave she was lain I ll do as much for my true love As any young man may I ll sit & mourn upon her grave

For a twelve month & a day The twelve month & a day being up The dead began to speak Oh, who sits weeping on my grave And will not let me sleep? Tis I my love sits on your grave And will not let you sleep For I crave one kiss of your clay cold lips And that is all I seek You crave one kiss of my clay cold lips But my breath smells earthy strong If you have one kiss of my clay cold lips Your time will not be long Tis down in yonder garden green, love Where we used to walk The finest flower that ere was seen Is withered to a stalk The stalk is withered dry, my love So will our hearts decay So make yourself content my love Time will soon call you away So make yourself content my love Time will soon call you away HISTORY I remember history with you larger than life But clarity & memory are fading into white Sometimes it hurts, sometimes I want to turn away When I remember yesterday I remember history, proof-reading the past The tenderness & the savagery knowing nothing will last Sometimes it hurts, sometimes I want to turn away When I remember yesterday I remember yesterday in black, white & grey A ghost-ride in my Sunday best, tomorrow far away Sometimes it hurts, but sometimes it appeals to me When I remember history. LOVE It may be a token, it may be for laughs You may give it freely or give it up by halves You may overstate it when you know it can t begin Or you may overrate it when it penetrates your skin But love means to risk your heart Love means to risk your heart You may bend & break it or crush it beneath your feet Then you say you fake it when it penetrates your skin But Love means to risk your heart Love means to risk your heart THIS ISOLATION Isolation, a raven rapping at my door, This isolation, a tell-tale heart beneath the floor

If you call will I despair? if you re broken will I care? This isolation Isolation, the reaper that never sleeps This isolation, that grimly takes & grimly keeps If you call will I despair? If you need will I care? This isolation Isolation claims life & mind alike This isolation, a sickness that I must fight If you call will I despair? If I m broken will you care? This isolation, isolation, this isolation DIRTY KISSES (A VAMPIRE LOVE STORY) Dirty kisses from a vampiress, dirty kisses Dirty kisses from the mouth of death, dirty kisses When the colour of day disappears When the black & the grey lingers on Dirty kisses where silence lurks, dirty kisses Dirty kisses when the daylight hurts dirty kisses When everyday is the end of the world And everyday brings an end to my world Dirty kisses, dirty kisses Dirty kisses when depression bites, dirty kisses Dirty kisses in a graveyard light, dirty kisses When the morning awakes from its sleep And my skin bids a timely retreat Dirty kisses, dirty kisses COLD Cold, I feel so cold, I feel cold I need the sun to shine again And release my memories and lay them in an unmarked grave Cold, I feel so cold, I feel cold I want to see beauty Not more destruction That will leave me in an unmarked grave It s twelve o clock & I m still here, and I m thinking I don t recognise the world that I was born in. It s twelve o clock & I m still here, and still thinking That I don t recognise the world which I was born in Cold, I feel so cold, I feel cold I need a touch, a human hand Do not deny me And leave me in an unmarked grave EMILY Emily visits me A nightingale angel to the fallen & the weak Administering kindness amongst this misery Emily comforts me With stories of loved ones while dispensing chemistry The doses of morphine help quite the agony Emily, Emily, Emily, Emily (please, please visit me)

Emily, please visit me I need you beside me, it s been three days without sleep Oh, my nightingale angel, Help quiet this agony Emily, Emily, Emily, Emily (please, please visit me) AFTER THE FUNERAL After the funeral I m going home, After the funeral, home on my own There s nothing more to say, nothing more to do Nowhere else to go, can I say I ll miss you? After the funeral the silence grows loud After the funeral, away from the crowd There s nothing more to say, nothing more to do Nowhere else to go, I ll miss you. It s a wet day in May June, July disappear, disappear THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Welcome to the birthday party Welcome to the birthday party Everyone you know will be there, Everyone you know will be there Welcome to the birthday party Welcome to the birthday party I m in a room, it s very small, and I feel like a shadow on the wall No one looks, no one speaks at all, and I don t know why I m here at all Everyone will be clad in style, see everyone wrapped in style I m in a room, a dark place, and I can t see my hands before my face Shapes move, they move away, and I don t know why I even bother to stay Welcome to the birthday party Welcome to the birthday party BLEED When I breathe you die, when you live I die There s nothing in between that s right for you So take these veins, & make them bleed for you Take these veins & make them bleed When I m gone I m yours, when I m here you re gone There s nothing in between that s right for you So take these veins & make them bleed for you Take these veins & make them bleed When I m blue you see red, when I triumph you re blue There s nothing in between that s right for you So take these veins & make them bleed for you Take these veins & make them bleed Make them bleed, make them bleed IF I thought I was happy when I held you in my arms I thought I was special when you spoke only of me But did you mean anything you said? I really don t know what s inside your head All those things you said to me of how strong you felt for me Were they just something you find easy to say? And I m feeling so confused cause I don't know what to do

Part of me says I hate you, part of me knows how I love you If you have me back I want you back, too I thought you were happy, when I laughed it made you smile I thought you would always feel the way that you do now But did I know anything at all? I guess I set myself up for the fall All those things you said to me of how strong you felt for me Are they just something you find easy to say? And I m feeling so confused cause I don t know what to do Part of me says I hate you, Part of me knows how I love you. If you have me back I want you back, too All Songs Streamed Free @ Bandcamp! 'Don't Open Till Doomsday' THE OUTER LIMITS Write me a letter Post it from somewhere far away I cannot reach Send me a moment A moment of your life I'm gasping for breath From the outer limits to the centre of my eyes From the distance stars to the darkness of the night Even in sleep I see you Show me a profile Show me a different type of face A different time and place Send me a signal Send me a signature I know To follow, to go From the outer limits to the centre of my eyes From the distance stars to the darkness of the night Even in sleep I see you RAZOR ARMS There's no escaping this I've no composure left Tied to a falling sky I've nothing left to lose When I crash into your razor arms When I crawl into your bed of blades When I'm torn and no blood remains I'm never going to give it up Never going to give it up Never going to give you up There's a burning ring of fire I'm walking through the hoop I'm, falling through the cracks No safety net beneath When I crawl into your bed of blades When I'm torn and no blood remains

I'm never going to give it up Never going to give it up Never going to give you up SAVIOUR You are You are You are You are You You You You are are are are my saviour the sun and the rain my torment the pleasure and pain my saviour the dark and the light my anguish my blindness and sight

Free me, free me, free me, free me I I I I am am am am your saviour the sun and the rain your torment the pleasure and pain

Free me, free me, free me, free me THE SPIRIT IS WILLING ...go on the same trip together on the same trip together I never took the time to live Now I want it more than anything The spirit is willing But the body cannot hold on The flesh is chilling As the heartbeat stops It's time to caress the past It's time to atone at last The spirit is willing But the body cannot hold on The flesh is chilling As the heartbeat stops The spirit is willing, the spirit is willing IT DOESN'T MATTER (I WANT YOU) How, do I feel about you? How, do I feel about you? It doesn't matter, it don't matter How, I feel about you It doesn't matter, it don't matter Anyway I can't have you Tell me, what do you think about me? So tell me, what do you think about me? It doesn't matter, it don't matter Anyway I can't have you Anyway I don't have you

It doesn't matter, it don't matter Anyway, anyway I can't have you Anyway, anyway I don't have you I want you GLOOMY SUNDAY Gloomy Sunday, everyone is grey Gloomy Sunday, phantoms on their way Gloomy Sunday, shadows on the wall Gloomy Sunday, wanting night to fall The sky is full of rain Lashing at my window pane On this gloomy Sunday, gloomy Sunday Gloomy Sunday, a blue afternoon Gloomy Sunday, a shadow in a room The sky is full of rain Swirling round a broken drain On this gloomy Sunday, gloomy Sunday FOR ALWAYS I will remember you for always I will remember you for always I fear the silence A morgue of silence I will remember you always I will remember you for always And I feel hollow I feel the sorrow These thoughts are for you These words are for you I will remember you always I will remember you always My world without you Hurts without you These thoughts are for you And this love is for you, for always. BURNING IN MY HANDS I want to hold you I want to feel you Burning in my hands Burning in my hands DUST TO ASHES 1945 An unearthly shadow contorts to speak And in a chill i wake from sleep Cause I know where I've been And what my dreams have seen A rumble from my passing thoughts A memory from a day that taunts And I know where you've been And what your flesh has seen Dust to ashes, ashes to dust

On a black Monday came the mighty and the just Dust to ashes, ashes to dust On a black Monday, in which god can we trust? Amidst the ruins I lay her down A melting skyline a mangled sound Then darkness falls again And silence masquerades as friend Dust On a Dust On a to ashes, ashes to dust black Monday came the mighty and the just to ashes, ashes to dust black Monday, in what god can we trust?

ALIEN SKIN The stranger within alien skin All Songs Streamed Free @ Bandcamp! Non Album Single Releases 1000 FEET BELOW Calls me a thousand feet below Calls me a thousand feet below The ocean's waiting and salivating I don't want to go a thousand feet below Awake me when my lover calls Wake me when my lover calls I'm only sleeping wake me I'm sleeping I don't want to go a thousand depths below Cover me the sun is icy cold Cover me the sun is icy cold I'm only floating wake me I'm floating I don't want to know the quiet world below BE MY ANGEL (from 'COLD' ep) Love me, hold me this one last time Touch me, touch me and hold me This one last time You will be my angel You are my angel This one last time You will be my angel Time now, it's time now to close my eyes Hold me, hold me & be with me, Be my eyes You will be my angel You are my angel This one last time You will be my angel You are my angel This one last time, One last time GRAND DESIGNS (from 'Siblings' ep)

What are your grand designs, what is your state of mind? Tell me tell me Where do you go to sleep by chance of me do you dream? Tell me tell me Tomorrow when the sun is brighter Tomorrow will I find my place In your grand designs When Tell What Tell dusk is a misty blur does a lamp by your window burn? me tell me makes you feel alive what part of you do you hide? me just tell me

Tomorrow when the sun is brighter Tomorrow will I find my place In your grand designs What are your grand designs what is your state of mind? Where do you go to sleep by chance of me do you dream? Tell me MY VAMPIRESS (from 'Volume One' album) Take me to your dark place Make me kiss your cold face The candle light is dieing Take me to a cliff top Lie with me upon the bedrock The candle light is dieing Red like wine in pale light Blood trickles down my neck My vampiress Lead me down the staircase Your skin burns when the day breaks The candle light is dieing Red like wine in pale light Blood trickles down my neck You're my siren & my mistress My deadly vampiress PLASTIC LIVES (from 'Siblings' ep) Experimental mind experimental mind Experimental mind experimental mind Plastic Plastic Plastic Plastic hands and plastic eyes head and plastic lies hands and plastic eyes head and plastic lives

PRISONER OF THE TOWER (from 'I'm Your Machine' single) Ophelia cries just like a child, Ophelia fears, Hey baby keep dreaming I'm sailing to you Hey baby keep scheming in the Tower of London And in her room she plots her desparate schemes, And anxiously she waits.... Hey baby keep dreaming I'm sailing to you,

Hey baby keep scheming in the Tower of London My ship is drifting further and I am lost in foreign seas, And will I ever find my way back again, to you? From her window above her watery grave, Ophelia flies Hey baby keep dreaming I'm sailing to you, Hey baby keep scheming in the Tower of London My ship is drifting further and I am lost in foreign seas, And will I ever find my way back again, to you? SHE'S OUT OF MY HEAD (from 'Siblings' ep) She's out of my head tonight And all of the chill of winter returns The call of the night doesn't inspire And scars on the skyline look ugly & cold She's out of my head tonight Shadowy shapes take on her form Stains on the window play tricks on my eyes Thoughts of tomorrow are dismissed or declined She's out of my head She's out of my head She's out of my head tonight And nothing remains except for details of life A whisper of ice goes through my brain And chill in the air dulls the most sensitive pain She's out of my head She's out of my head WATERS ARE RISING (from 'Siblings' ep) Offer me light And guide me through darkness Offer me life I'm craving some kindness Now when waters are rising Over my head, I'm over my head Lend me your life I want something different Lend me your life I want to feel different Now when waters are rising Over my head, I'm over my head Offer me warmth I've never been colder Offer me warmth I've never felt older Now when waters are rising Over my head, I'm over my head WITH YOUR SAD EYES With your sad eyes in this sad room You are invisible to me and I to you Outside the rain is frozen on the window glass and you, are frozen inside Outside the sky is turning into dust and you are, turning to stone With your sad eyes in this sad room You are invisible to me and I to you With your sad smile in this closed room

You are gone Outside the rain is frozen on the window glass and you, are frozen inside Outside the sky is turning into dust and you are, turning to stone With your sad eyes in this sad room You are invisible to me and I to you With your sad smile in this closed room We are gone WORDS DON'T SAY ENOUGH (from 'Siblings' ep) You say that I know you but I'm not really sure When you speak like a stranger I don't know you at all Sometimes words don't say enough Sometimes words don't say enough You're so much the actress well versed in every part That you don't ever stop to be the woman in your heart Sometimes words don't say enough Sometimes words don't speak You know that we promised To always stay in touch And the letters that we wrote All seemed to say so much Sometimes words don't say enough Sometimes words don't speak Sometimes sometimes All Songs Streamed Free @ Bandcamp! All songs written by G Pappas except 'Vampyra' by G Pappas/I Harpy 'With Your Sad Eyes' G Pappas/Phil Kearney 'The Unquiet Grave' Traditional Alien Skin 2013. All Rights Reserved.