Bloodletting

Concrete Blonde Bloodletting Lyrics
1.Bloodletting

There's a crack in the mirror
And a bloodstain on the bed -
There's a crack in the mirror
And a bloodstain on the bed -
O you were a vampire and baby
I'm walking dead
O you were a vampire and baby
I'm walking dead

I got the ways and means
To new orleans i'm going
Down by the river
Where it's warm and green
I'm gonna have drink, and walk around
I got a lot to think about oh yeah

There's a rocking chair by the window
Down the hall
I hear something there in the shadow
Down the hall
O you were a vampire and now i am
Nothing at all
O you were a vampire and now i am
Nothing at all

They used to dance in the garden in the
Middle of the night
They used to dance in the garden in the
Middle of the night
They were naked as the day they were
Born skin all bone-china white
O you were a vampire
And i may never see the light


2.Caroline

I hear you're driving
Someone else's car now -
She said you came and
Took your stuff away.
All the poetry and the trunk
You kept your life in -
I knew that it would
Come to that someday
- like a sad hallucination
When i opened up my eyes -
The train had passed the station
And you were trapped inside
And i never wonder where you went
I only wonder why...

Oh caroline (x 4)

I hear you're using someone else's number
She said she saw you in the store today
It don't matter whose address
You're listed under
I only know they'll never make you stay

- like a memory in motion
You were only passing through
But that's all you'll ever do -
There's a dream i have where i sail away
And i'm looking back at you
And i wave goodbye
I wonder why i wonder...


3.Darkening Of The Light

Like a ghost - is the curtain
In the white light of the morning -
Dancing in the morning
Are you there - are you there?
And a shadow - like a sadness
Falling all across the garden
Dancing in the garden
Are you there, are you there?

Shine on, friend. goodnight
Why then then darkening of the light

And the leaves at my feet
Whisper sounds so familiar -
Are you there? are you there?

Where the clouds pull apart
And the moon changes faces
In the quiet secret places
Are you there? are you there?


4.Days And Days

The dirty leaves are sailing
On a hot wind ocean
And the summer comes
And the summer goes and always has & will
And something somewhere
That you said goes ricochet
All through my head
And flashing like a neon sign
The time stand still

Hours of forever. coming all together
At the crossroads of a minute.
And you and me were in it
And i never saw it coming,
Never saw it fade away
Today, today, today.... days and days

And still the whining of the wheels
Sounds closest to the way i feel and
Winter comes, and winter goes,
And always has & will
Another hour, another day, another year
You pissed away
Remember walking in the rain?
I'm walking there still.

Like every heart to beat before
And every wave to kiss a shore
I'm not the first, i'm not the last...
And soon to be your past
But every mourning, when the light
Comes creeping in around my eyes
Another future falls behind
The one i had i mind


5.I Dont Need A Hero

You always said i was a liar
But we burn like a house on fire...
No matter what, you know that to be true.
And everything you gave to me
Changed everything i used to be
Much more than anyone i ever knew

And i don't need a hero
I don't need a soldier
I did when i was younger -
But now that i'm older
I don't need a father,
I don't wanna be your mother
It's just that anyone of us is half
Without another one is you

The colors of that piece of time
Are still so fresh inside my mind
And it makes the movie
Of my life seem pale -
And all the games i have to play
I got to give a lot of me away
But the part with us
Will never be for sale

The words of love have been confused
The ways of love have been abused -
Is this a lottery you win or lose?
I don't know -
It's an endless circle over time
The place inside where i hold and find
Your sweet and happy music in my soul


6.Joey

Joey, baby - don't get crazy
Detours. fences... i get defensive
I know you've heard it all before -
So i don't say it anymore
I just stand by and watch you
Fight your secret war.
Although i used to wonder why -
I used to cry till i was dry.
Still sometimes i get a strange pain
Inside
Oh, joey, if you're hurting so am i.

Joey, honey - i got some money
All is forgiven. listen, listen
And if i seem to be confused
I didn't mean to be with you.
And when you said i scared you,
Well i guess you scared me too.
But we got lucky once before
And if you're somewhere out there
Passed out on the floor.
Oh joey, i'm not angry anymore.


7.Lullabye

When the sky has fallen
Like a blanket on your shoulder
And the moon is like a mother
Looking over you forever
And the dawn is so famaliar
You were meant to be together
Like a fog around a mountain - forever

So softly - so sweetly
Surrounding you completely
Sing you a lullabye - a lullabye to you
Lullabye - a lullabye to you

When your breathing is the wind
And your crying is the rain
Well i know you will remember
Because the music is forever
The living of a lover -
And the loving of another
Like a sister to a brother
Like a father to a mother

So softly - so sweetly
Surrounding you completely
Sing you a lullabye - a lullabye


8.Poisonous Garden

The stars above shine down below
The fever you hold on this night
Deathly cold
I can feel from this side of the door
I can feel eleanor

He said, sun don't rise...
He said sun don't shine
He said don't bring tomorrow
To justify tonight
The moon is full - the stars are bright
And the sky is a poisonous garden
Tonight.

Sip your tequila. give me some time
To unlearn all i've learned for the
Spring to unwind
And then came your sweet gentle mouth
I began to move mine.
They knew with the dawn -
They knew with the day
They knew what they had
Would be yound naked prey
And attacked from all sides
By a world filled with
Poison and hate

Eleanor trembles, eleanor moans.
Somehow, this body is someone
She always has known
She cries tears on his chest
O so silent and slow -

She said please don't do. please don't go -
And she cried and she died in his arms
And he cried nevermore
The moon is full, the stars are bright
And the sky is a poisonous garden
Tonight.


9.The Beast

The prey of the beast screamed
Bloody murder
The line is so fine between
Hoping and hurting
Former believers they beg for release
As love looking down on them
Smiles and picks his teeth
Trapped in between heaven and hell
He knows all the secrets
And don't want to tell
There's nowhere to run and there's
Nowhere to hide
Love knows you all too well
He will find you

Love is the ghost haunting your head
Love is the killer you thought
Was your friend
Love is the creature who lives
In the dark
Sneaks up, will stick you
And painfully pick you apart

Love is a poet, love sings the songs
Pointing his finger you follow along
Voice are calling,
The monster wants out of you
Paws you and claws you, you try not to fall

Love is the leech, sucking you up
Love is a vampire, drunk on your blood
Love is the beast that will
Tear out your heart
Hungrily lick it and
Painfully pick it apart

Love is a ghost, haunting your head
Love is the killer you thought
Was your friend
Love is the teacher who lives in the dark
Sneak up and stick you
And painfully pick you apart


10.Tomorrow, Wendy

Original version by andy prieboy

It is complete now - two ends of time
Are neatly tied
A one-way street, she's walking to the
End of the line
And there she meets the faces she sees in
Her heart and mind

They say - goodbye - tomorrow wendy's
Going to die
Underneath the chilly grey november sky
We can make believe
That kennedy is still alive
We're shooting for the moon and smiling
Jackie's driving by

They say - good try -
Tomorrow wendy's going to die
I told the priest - don't count on
Any second coming.
God got his ass kicked the first time he
Came down here slumming
He had the balls to come, the gall to die
And then forgive us -
No, i don't wonder why
I wonder what he thought
It would get us - hey hey, good try -
Tomorrow wendy's going to die