The Scream:

Pure

Instrumental

Jigsaw Feeling
(Severin)

Send me fowards--say my feelings
But all the signals--send me reeling
Jigsaw Feeling

One day I'm feeling total
the next I'm split in two
My eyes are doing somersaults
staring at my shoe

My brain is out of my hand
there's nothing to prevent
The impulse is quite meaningless
in a cerebral non-event

Send me fowards--say my feelings
But all the signals--send me reeling
Jigsaw Feeling

Five fingers do my walking
ten toes unravel 'Knots'
Amorphous jigsaw pieces
falling into slots

Send me fowards--say my feelings
But all the signals--send me reeling
Jigsaw Feeling

So I just sit in reverie
getting on my nerves
The intangible bonds that keep me
sitting on the verge...
of a breakdown
of a reaction
of a result
Complete me...maybe...defeat me.

Overground
(Severin)

Got to give up life in this netherworld
got to go up to where the air is stale
and live a life of pleasantries
mingle in the modern families

Overground--from abnormality
Overboard--for identity
Overground--for normality
Overboard--on identity

This limbo is no place
to be a digit--Another space
in another crowd
I'm nameless bound

Overground--from abnormality
Overboard--for identity
Overground--for normality
Overboard--on identity

Overground--I'll be worse than me
Overground--it's clear to me
I'll be worse than me.

Carcass
(Severin/Sioux)

Someones in cold storage
seeking heinz main-courses
craving for a raw love
He'll hide you from the cleaver
he'll hang with you forever
longing for a fresh meat

By hook or by crook
you'll be 1st in his book
for an impaled affair
By hook or by crook
you'll be last in his book
of flesh oh so rare

Be a carcass--Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Be a carcass--Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love

Someones left in cold storage
thawed in heinz main-courses
carving for a new tin
He got you with the cleaver
he hung you up forever
anticipating new skin

Out of the frying pan
and into the fire
58th variety

Out of the frying pan
and into the fire
mother had her son for tea

Be a carcass--Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Be a carcass--Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love

In love with your stumps
in love with the bleeding
in love with the pain
that you once felt
as you become a carcass
you become a carcass
carcass...carcass...carcrash.

Helter Skelter
(Lennon/McCartney)

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.

Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.

Helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter.

Will you, won't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.

Look out helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter
Look out, cause here she comes.

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
And I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
And I get to the bottom and I see you again

Well do you, don't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.

Look out helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter
Look out helter skelter

She's coming down fast
Yes she is
Yes she is.

Mirage
(Severin)

I'm just a vision on your T.V. screen
just something conjured from a dream
seen thro' your x-ray eyes,
a see-thro' scene
the image is no images
it's not what it seems.

My limbs are like palm trees
swaying in no breeze
my body's an oasis
to drink from as you please
I'm not seeing what I'm meant to believe in
your non excuse for human being.

It's not plain to see
that I'm playing with me
A photo-fit of loose ends, framed in 3-D
seen thro' your x-ray eyes,
a see-thro' scene
the image is no images
it's not what it seems.

Metal Postcard
(Sioux)

Reunion begins
with a glass of mercury
whilst televison flickers
for another news bulletin
flints light up the eyes
of the seated family

"Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned
Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal will rule in my masterscheme"

With a clockwork jerk
pluck cogs from fob watches
for dinner on Friday
then recoiling say excuse me
"Must go recycle
my precious machinery"

"Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned
Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal will rule in my masterscheme"

It's ruling our lives
there is no hope
thought I'd drop a line
the weather here is fine
but day and night it blares
commanding through loudspeakers:--

"Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned
Metal is tough, metal will sheen
Metal will rule in my masterscheme"

Nicotine Stain
(Sioux)

It's just a habit
when I reach to the packet
for my last cigarette
until the day breaks
and then my hand shakes
but it it's just driving me insane
when the smoke gets in my brain
I can't resist it.

Wallow in that ash bath
soaking up the fumes
and see the nicotine stain
start to spread

I'm so congested
cos north, south, east and west
catarrh rests on my chest
congealed and twisted
cough up and shift it
but I can feel my lungs collapse
sinking deep into my lap
I'm so useless

Wallow in that ash bath
soaking up the fumes
and see the nicotine stain
start to spread

I'm so useful
if you don't want to fight
just give your foe a fright
say you'll drop me
on every country
see all will be stone dead
when the nicotine stain spreads
just light me

Suburban Relapse
(Sioux)

I'm sorry that I hit you
but my string snapped
I'm sorry I disturbed your cat-nap
but whilst finishing a chore
I asked myself "what for"
then something snapped,
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse

I was washing up the dishes
minding my own business
when my string snapped
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse

(Should I?)
Throw things at the neighbours
expose myself to strangers?
kill myself or...you?
now memory gets hazy?
I think I must be crazy
but my string snapped
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse.

Switch
(Sioux)

Different lives
in different places
familiar problems
same old faces

Shuffle lives
into wrong categories
cross the wires
and fuse humanities

Watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...

Scientist G.P.'s
with patient guinea-pigs
cureing their head-aches
with drastic side-effects
switch

Doctor rectorates
condescending from on high
for all halucinaters
see druggist in the sky
switch

Vicar experiments
but 'tis blasphemy
dismissing thought of progress
as the mark of devilry
switch

People walk
and even talk
people listen
then they halt

Something blows up
won't come down
scattered muscles twitch
too late to switch