Martinis&Bikinis

Sam Phillips Martinis&Bikinis Lyrics
1.Love And Kisses

Pictures steal our memories
Turn our minds to salt
History is written to say it wasn't our fault, wasn't our fault
Send us all your love and kisses
Come and join the dream that never ends
God will grant us all our wishes
Martinis and bikinis for our friends


2.Signposts

I got myself so tightly wound i couldn't breathe
I could feel the fire burning underneath

I wanted to get lost and love the questions there
Beauty and the truth i could breathe like air
Then i finally found the signposts in a strange land

Logic dances you from here to there not very far
Making sense can't tell where you are


3.Same Rain

I went to the sun it was too hot
I went to the moon it was too cold
Went to the mountain it was too young
Went to the ocean it was too old

Is it the same rain that falls on a holy man
Is it the same rain that falls on a liar's hand
Is it the same rain that falls on me

I knew a man a refugee survival was his art
All that he held valuable he carried in his heart

Is it the same rain that falls on the mountain's face
Is it the same rain that falls on the prison gate
Is it the same rain that falls on me

All the money in the world all the power it can buy
Will not take your voice away
Cannot own what you hold inside

Is it the same rain that falls on a poor man's room
Is it the same rain that falls on a rich man's tomb
Is it the same rain that falls on me

Is it the same rain that falls on the raging see
Is it the same rain that falls on the hanging tree
Is it the same rain that falls on me


4.Baby I Can't Please You

Baby i can't please you i can't please you

Every time you start to critize
I can see the misery in your eyes
You say i make your pain
You're trying to turn the blame all around you

You take the words i say and make them mean
Everything they don't baby you're obscene
You don't listen you don't hear
You're blinded by the fear that surrounds you

I know you say love when you mean control
You buy the truth and your heart is cold
So you live in shadows

You try to tell the world how it should spin
But you live in terror with the hollow men
Who stun you with their lies
With fever in their eyes as they drown you


5.Circle Of Fire

I saw you standing there alone
I wondered if you wanted what you owned
Your magic ladders in the sky
Tie you to the place where angels fight

Our madness envy and desire
Ring you with an unforgiving fire
You love them with a burning soul
By the time he sold the ashes they were cold

Fingers crying for you
Sleeping on your doorstep for the proof
Welove ghosts we want to see through
The blood and bones that hide us from the truth

You circle the city from the sky
Watching children swallowing your lies
It breaks you but you will never fall
You've learned that love is greater than it all


6.Strawberry Road

Shotgun alleys with lightning flowers
Under the eyes of fallen statues
Dry blood they've never seen

Pain is sharper when i suspecy
That true love runs looking for us
Like a lion in our dreams

The strawberry road
Where the dream fades
Is down between our longing and desire
The strawberry road
There our hearts break into love

You censor longing and organize beauty
Because you're afraid
You want it more than oxygen or light

You can't get there with your morals
Or without love
Lie down with me
The rules aren't always right

Call it romance or nostalgia
This hunder behind our memories
We've buried it in code

The things we've wanted
When we get them are never enough
Never what they seem
But they lead us to the road


7.When I Fall

We don't want lives of steel
We don't want hearts that feel
We want to live above it all

I feel you closing in
A target on my skin
I think you'll be there when i fall

We might get out of time
We might connect our minds
We might land beyond the wall when i fall

I might give love to you
I might step right on through
Fear might keep me from it all

I climb so high to see
But the ground just teases me
I think you'll be there when i fall

I'm burning
When i fall
I fall
When i fall
I'm amazed by it all

Control is letting go
And i'm the last to know
We might land beyond the wall
I might give love to you
I might step right on through
I think you'll be there when i fall


8.Same Changes

The camera angles and the name campaigns
The stare cuts and the latest extremes
The way we sell ourselves they way we spend our greed
How long it takes hear our dreams

Circle of change the world around you
The same changes
Hold on to the voice inside you
The same changes

The borders and the flags how far our guns can shoot
Fascist slogans and the movie of the week
Popular opinions cars that drive you mad
What they pass assassins and a lucky streak

How much time is wasted how much time is left
What to censor
What to read
How hot the sun burns
What does love require
How we run from the things we need


9.Black Sky

The trees are listening each time a missile's made
They hide three mystics the earth sends from her grave
To tell us the future has been stolen away
By diggers, drillers and sellers
But we won't stop 'till we're under a black sky

He took my picture int he cemetery sun
My body was tempted to crumble into one
Reunion of dust until creation's done
Returning ashes to ashes
We won't stop 'till we're underneath a black sky

The commerce the intrigue
Self-slaughtered souls cry out to dead poor men
For a drink at the water hole
But their tongues will burn dry
As the day they were sold for
Forests raped into deserts
We won't stop 'till we're underneath a black sky


10.Fighting With Fire

He wants to keep in contact
He wants to buy the things he doesn't understand
He wants all the credit
He wants the rights to the soul of every man

I'm not above him but i want to go
Down below the surface where he lives

Fighting with fire
Money's the only thing he has

He wants to get down to business
It's a long way down
But he'll go the extra mile
I wonder when all this started
Who left him empty hearted when he was a child


11.I Need Love

I left my conscience like a crying child
Locked the door behind me put the pain on file
Broken like a window i see my blindness now

I need love
Not some sentimental prison
I need god
Not the political church
I need fire
To melt the frozen sea inside me
I need love

Driving into town tired and depressed
Like a flare the streetlight bursts into an s.o.s.
Peace comes to my rescue i don't know what it means
I need love


12.Wheel Of The Broken Voice

Silence and rage
The scars of a daughter
He gave me the knife
I held it in deep water

Together we make the perfect question
There's never enough to go around
It's a cup with a hole and the love pours on the ground

Wheel of the broken voice

Talking to you hearing another
Past covers truth and watches it smother


13.Gimme Some Truth

I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight-short sighted - narrow minded hypocrytics,

All i want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,

I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic - psychotic-pig headed politicians,

All i want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,

No short haired - yellow bellied
Son of tricky dicky,
Is gonna mother hubbard,
Soft soap me,
With just a pocketful of hope,
Money for dope,
Money for rope,

I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight liped - condecending -
Mommies little chauvanists,

All i want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,

I've had enough watching scenes of
Schizophrenic - ego - centric - paranoic -
Prima - donnas,

All i want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth.