Fighting dead-pan insomniacs all clustered by the sea
Your eyes reflected by the light
And im waging wars with me

The visions of the cedar tree
Ought not to surface too closely
But im in at the weekend
And im waging wars with me

Soft cells soft cells approaching
Soft cells approaching me

Throw the dice and take your turn
Beria speaks to me
Shot dead by the cedar tree
And im waging wars with me
Yeah im waging wars with me

Soft cells soft cells approaching
Soft cells approaching me

In a suburban Moscow town
History speaks to me
Soft cells approaching

And im waging wars with me.

Soft Cell

The Delta State

Have you felt the nerve gas
Stinging at your throat?
Spinning through the tunnels
Like a pale and twisted note

God created Sarin
As a way to stamp beliefs
Sick and twisted blisters
With the gnashing of your teeth

It was nt right to foul your tunnels
It was nt right to steal your sleep
But in your mind we ll walk forever
With a message that will keep

God created Sarin

The Delta State

she was a leader of a cult just without any followers
with someone else s malaria and night s of drug fever
she was sweet like my camomile flower
but oh no oh no deborahs dead

i could nt wait to get closer

but the followers they mingled unwisely
shooting hearts through hoops and hoop s through hearts
nervosa did nt know any better

and oh no oh no deborah s dead

drawing lines over leonard cohen

ive tried and tried all night

strange obssessions are her rituals

but i ve tried

but so so, so so deborahs dead  

deborah

The Delta State

Everything is illuminated
In this place to be
Red turns too yellow
And yellow turns to green

The matches are your fingers
And your fingers are your hands
Your skills are out of practice
And your practice burns the land

Well im in love with your ephogys
But the path rots my shoes
The marching curdles the blood

The blood that runs through you

August 1939 (miscellaneous)

The Delta State

½ pound of mince
Onions
1 clove of garlic
1 tin chopped tomatoes
Pinch of salt and pepper
Oregano

Spaghetti Bolognese

The Delta State

In a room full of subtitles it's so hard to make out the truth
When all that you've said, falls to the floor, I just sit and watch your lips move

yeah we can still have it all
cause my young bare bones don't feel the cold
so I'll keep you safe
oh yeah I'll keep you safe
And first chance I get I'll take the money and run

You seem so uncatchable to me
But that's just your way
Oh Cathy don't stand still or you'll drop like a stone
Into the arms of yesterday

yeah we can still have it all
cause my young bare bones don't fell the cold
so I'll keep you safe
oh yeah I'll keep you safe
Until the page puts on something white and we start all over again

'Subtitles'

The Delta State

Oh don’t you give me that look
Or I’ll take the colour from your eyes
Now don’t you say that I’m yours yet
Cause I don’t believe in you
I’ll unbutton your mouth
But only cause you ask me too

You’ve got me feeling like a ghost
You’ve got me feeling like a ghost
Oh don’t stop now
Is it something I said
Just cause I’m the one you love the most

You say you don’t even know me, well not yet
I said I don’t even care, just as long as I get
Something new
So won’t you stay with me a while
And remind me what I saw in you

You haven’t even told me your name
You haven’t even told me your name
All these yellow haired girls with whiskey in their veins
Keep falling down, don’t you love them all the same
Stop wasting time, do what your suppose to do
So burn those kissy lips
But only cause I asked you too.

heavens on a hook
swinging in the sky
don’t look up
cause she don’t know love

she don’t know love
she don’t fight it lately

another wet brunette
drops her pretty head
holds her breath
& leaves you for dead

she don’t know love
she don’t fight lately

victory twitched
the fucking little witch
kissed her last kiss
cause she don’t know love

she don’t know love
she don’t fight lately

‘She Don't Know Love’
The Delta State

They PROMISE you SUCCESS
And that their DREAMS are the best for USa
And it’s your DUTY to listen
To their EMPOWERED VISION from above
There’s a hand over my mouth
That I put there in case
My voice disappears and another one takes its place

The candidate came
He was PROMISING CHANGE like they do
These tricks that they play
Just get in the way of the TRUTH
With their NLP scripts
That drop words at the same time
As our soldiers hug the ground in a firing line

And they say it's gonna be alright?

There’s so many ink faces
Sleeping walking in photographs
These images are conditioned
But they’ll tell you it’s not like that
And you forget what they said
With both hands in the sky
Then you realise it was just another kit they fly

And they say it's gonna be alright?

In alphabetical order
One by one
They wrap themselves in the flag
And abseil down the pole
This goes on for days and days
Until someone at the top says
“Sorry chaps, we've made a mistake”
“This isn’t a pole and that ain’t a flag”
The movie finishes
We’re filed out and are left to make up our own minds.

say that i want it, say that i need it
find the life jacket
better lay on/off the c
leave the page melting
speeding up in my vicinity
now my mouths coated
now my mouths coated with antifreeze
listen i want it
another sick morning won’t hinder me

say that i want it
say that i need it
blink and you’ll miss it
restless i’m static
graffiti bleeds
lap of the circuit
lap of the circuits enough for me

now my mouths coated
now my mouths coated with antifreeze
listen i want it
another sick morning won’t hinder me

tilt my head back too far
till' i can’t even move
can’t even reach my smile
let alone watch the news

subtle tones surround me
filling in the empty space
glazed face values
are nothing but mine to waste

fallen the hazy light
multiplies with every raid
calling her sunken eyes
as they begin to fade
fade

I can smell the desperation every time you turn your head
Hang on the words I’ve said
Now the door won’t shut and the phone just rings
My ears are all mouthed
I’m falling into things
The language spinners have loosen their strings
Cause only dead fingers talk in Braille.

The character collector clears his throat and hands you a note
That splinters the light
It leaves you gasping for air
Yet your fully aware of your own irrelevant demise
The roads don’t move they just chapter the course
Cause only dead finger talk in Braille.

‘Twelve Dot Cell ’
The Delta State

According to them
According to you
I am the silent TV that locks up your room
The flicking walls that stare straight back
I’m at my most patient
And your lost inside this fading light

With the volume turn down
You bring me your weak eyes
And expect them to open wide
Come on, we'll leave them all behind
Now I could make it easy for you
If you let me try
Inside this fading light

There is no rush
Just waves that rise
I am the edges
That silvercord
The flicking walls

Just give me something to take my mind of this.

It’s getting late
And I’m running out of excuses
Just trying to look busy
For the ones I’ve laid and the ones that got way
And I’ve been trying to tell them that they’re not safe in here
No, not anymore

Hush now kid
Cause there’s no going back
SO don’t spill the beans
Cause they’re all we have
Better make em’ last
We’re not safe in here
No, not anymore

‘You're Not Safe In Here ’
The Delta State

Like the touch of a house light
Like the breeze behind midnight
Oh you’d never know
I’m fast running out of sleep
Running over wide awake concrete
The sooner I’m back
The sooner we can have ourselves a freeze out
Just don’t wake up

‘Don't Wake Up ’
The Delta State

the walls are so blue in this dirty old house
the raindrop colours are running round
& i’m not the only one tangled up in their love

every single day i walk on water just to get close to you
but it seems to me that i’m losing the blues
& gaining you
i’m gaining you

i shake your meaningless hand
& blend into a reservoir of dreams
i have no reason to be here
but i’m half gone
looking for something else

‘Where Did You Come From?’
The Delta State

before the sun comes up
& you lose your looks
& it starts to wear off
slowly at first
before bribery wins
the breath taking begins
it oversees, it oversleeps
it goes on & on & on
like this for weeks

i don’t feel it
i don’t feel no fear
i can see it
coming out of nowhere

i’m hungover half listening
to the drugs that you bring me
cut the cord
close the door
before the day rushes in
& now the diamonds are thirsty
for their last hit of love
pass the light, come alive
cause i’m sobering up

i don’t feel it
i don’t feel no fear
i can see it
coming out of nowhere

before i make up my mind
before they take us away
before the rebels arrive
before they ask us to stay
before i forget what i’ve said
before i forget what i’ve said
it’s too late for me to stay
i’m not coming back from here

‘Pale Blue Rebels’
The Delta State

nevertheless, fog, technicoloured winks in red green madness
a haze of science down stream greets the buzzing showered streets like magnetic language
& I don’t think for one minute they know where to go

soft warm breeze through my window
with unforeseen daylight peering out into the heavy liquid air
too cold to focus on altitude thieves
the pavement glows a faint shade of me
lob-sided nights face the traffic
it’s neon tapered fingers reaching for the overcrowded sky
either side of this taxi there are two angels here to protect
us soft warm breeze through my window

‘&’
The Delta State

she was all febrile
from accelerated speech
now she talks herself into anything

i can still hear her say
there’s no life in here
it’s all in your head

five conversations later
i’ve lost momentum
i’m shivering like a fool who should know better and the burning flames do somersaults all night

i can still hear her say
there’s no life in here
it’s all in your head

she can talk herself into anything
all night
all night
all night short

‘five conversations’
The Delta State

Intravenous Ocean
I’ll drift an extra mile
I’m sinking into winning this time
I’ve got minutes left to smile
She said “Won’t you come closer.”
“I could get use to you being around.”
“But before we end up a each others throats,

you better turn this boat around.”

I’m not about to let you go.

“It’s just something that happened.”
That’s all she had to say.
“In time you’ll swim ashore.”
“It will be like I never went away.”

I’m not about to let you go.

‘Intravenous Ocean’
The Delta State

all the kings men
tremble at the prospect of seeing this again & again
but I would say that
yeah I would i’ve watched them fall asleep at the wheel i’ll watch them drift

it came & went
from the corner of luna to the first signs of there decent
they seem so comfortable now with their refurbished smiles
i’ve watched them fall asleep at the wheel i’ll watch them drift

this is where we tell you what you’ve always known
the world races past in soft blurred motion
we march in single file as right as rain
like all the kings men

‘all the kings men ’
The Delta State

kill the sun i’m too deep in light
the ghosts i know only ride at night
they’ll take your money
they’ll take your soul
we ain’t coming back here no more
we ain’t no better place to go
little iris, a long way home
you know you want it
you know you can’t stay
let it ride, let it take you away

my hands are tide to your spine
don’t let go, don’t press rewind
you’re the bait & i’m the catch
& i’m loaded again my child
she’s looking sinister, but i don’t mind
the sky reflecting of her every word
you know you want it
you know you can’t stay
let it ride, let it take you away

there ain’t enough friday’s left
i’ll soon be falling out of cars again
i can’t go back, i can’t go back to that
little iris will see to that
so let it ride, let it take you away
let it ride, let it take you away
the ghost i know only ride at night
so kill the sun i’m too deep in light

‘Let It Ride’
The Delta State