Laughing Stock

Talk Talk Laughing Stock Lyrics
1.After The Flood (9 26)

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)

Sang soulless loud
Herding step on flesh and nothing else
To well to drown and drown
Sleight of reason how they come
Cain in number

Shake my head
Turn my face to the floor
Dead to respect to respect to be born
Lest we forget who lay
Who lay

Alone the crowd
Spurning step by static blame something else
Thirsting within, without
Sighted, weeded, how they run
Slain in number

Shake my head
Turn my face to the floor
Dead to respect to respect to be born
Lest we forget who lay
Who lay


2.Ascension Day (6 00)

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)

Bet I'll be damned
Built the debt I turned twos up today
Bet I'll be damned
Gets harder to sense to sail

Farewell
Mother numb to and devout to
Reckon luck sees us the same

Weighted my hand
Kill the bed I'll burn on judgement day
Weighted my hand
Get hard hit to sin to sail

Farewell
Mother numb to and devout to

Double deal
A season wrapt
Too lax to lapse so soon
Reckon luck sees us the same

Bed on my back
Dealt my hell I've dealt my months of May
Bed on my back
Get parted ascension day

Farewell
Mother numb to and devout to
Reckon luck sees us the same
Reckon love deals us the same


3.Myrrhman (5 33)

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)

Place my chair at the backroom door
Help me up I can't wait anymore

Blessed love the love I've seen
Stair by idle stair
Faith one path and the second in fear

I start in hope
A half wit am I read
I start in hope

And tread dependence beneath my feet
Step right up something's happening here
Something's happening here


4.New Grass (9 46)

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)

Lifted up
Reflective in returning love you sing
Errant days filled me
Fed me illusion's gate in temperate stream
Welled up within me

A hunger uncurbed by nature's calling
Seven sacraments to song
Versed in Christ should strength desert me
They'll come, they come
Come there, come come do they

Lifted up
Reflected in returning love you sing
Heaven waits
Someday Christendom may come
Westward evening sun recedent
Set my resting vow
Hold in open heart
Open heart


5.Runeii (4 58)

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)

Well aren't you success
In answer select
Apologies met
An effigy blessed

Slow to bleed fair son
Rescinded

Well aren't you suspect
In answer unread
Meander contest
So effortly blessed

Slow to bleed fair son


6.Taphead (7 01)

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)

When do you know you know
You know you learn
Do you die in sin or born again
With will to wind and wander climb
Through needle neck to consent

When do you know you know
You know you learn
Arrive at spring once again
And still to rise beyond the tide

And mortal track
Fretful or fair
By straw by strap
Toughening tear

Dust to dust to dust to dust
Consume
For what is worth upon me
Nascent, naissant