Sheep Farming In Barnet – 1979
(Transcribed by Mike H – incomplete. Corrections credited to: Alv and Mona, 'Popst@r')
Also mentioned in a contemporary BBC TV 'Shoestring' story with Trevor Eve

Side 1 Heaven – Side 2 Hell


Neon Womb
(Words: Toyah Willcox / Music: Joel Bogen & Pete Bush – 1979)

In the neon womb of verbal mime
I’m so out of touch with life and time –
In the catacombs where nothing rhymes,
Nothing exists ’cept that which is mine.

My mind is,
My mind was –
(Oo-hoo!)

Standing all alone in the neon womb
Reminds me of my mother’s lonely tomb.
The air in the city is as cold as fire,
And this mother city calls me a liar!

My mind is,(Oo-hoo!)
My mind was
End, beginning, all.

I’m insane,
My body is a neon womb.
I’m a neon, I’m a neon womb,
Neon womb –

My heart’s a womb,
My mind’s a womb,
My body’s a tomb.
My mind’s a womb,
My mind’s a womb,
My body’s a tomb.

I’m a neon, I’m a neon womb.
A neon’s here, neon’s there,
I’m a neon womb.

Standing all alone in the neon womb,
Reminds me of my mother’s lonely tomb.
The earth, the city, is as cold as fire,
And this mother city calls me a liar.
...

A neon...

---

Indecision

I see, I seek
Deceiver of deception;
Creation
Of my deprivation;
I see, I see
A split disposition;
I will, I won’t
Decide my indecision.

Journey never ends,
We revolve to go
Then return again.
Journey never ends,
Just like the sea
We revolve to go
Then return again –
See, see, see...

An intruder from oblivion
Makes his decision
The deception of a madman –

Journey never ends,
I really try to go!
I pain myself to leave
Then return –

I see, I seek
Deceitful of deception;
Creation
Of my deprivation;
I see, I see
A split disposition;
I will, I won’t
Decide my indecision.

Journey never ends,
I finally explode...
See, see, see...

I see I see I seek
I see I see I seek
I see I see I seek
I see I see I seek...

See, see
See...

---

Waiting

Bones stand waiting
Beneath the unbroken sea.
Warm ice paints the sky
In tranquility.

Bones stand watching
We’re waiting
Waiting for hipocrasy –
We’re waiting

Sun rises
We are a sphere in flames.
Bones rise
To shade our eyes –

But the sea becomes,
The sea becomes
The sea again.

Now my planet,
It’s in flames.
We’re at war,
The planet’s at war.

I feel a fire running through my mind –
I was a warrior,
But life’s unkind.

Talking to
Talking to
Talking to...
To my kind.

Trees, fields, life’s serene –
Now I find your life totally obscene.

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
My kind –
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
My kind.

My planet, it’s at war.
And my body’s in flames;
And my body’s in flames
My body’s in flames...

Flames
Flames
Flames
Flames...

---

Computer

Bring on the wooden boxes –
Lost all my friends, they’ve died.
Watched my heroes
Tape their memories –
I broke down and cried.

At least that changes history,
You know that’s something
Before they go.

Bring on the computers,
The ones that cannot lie.
Tape every grey cell,
Every scene, and every sigh.

You can be my friend or
Stay until I die.
And when I do go,
Computer, can live my life.

Bring on the computer,
The one that cannot lie.
Tape every grey cell,
Every scene, every sigh.
...

Bring on the computer,
The one that cannot lie.
Tape every grey cell,
Every scene, and every sigh.

They’re painting the deliverance
Of the ones that they despise.
Since there’s eternity
In their beautiful immortal eyes.

Bring on the computers,
They want to see me die!
Tape my every grey cell,
Every scene, and every sigh.

I, I’m still waiting,
I wanna be immortalised.
But time it drags so slowly,
I’m slowly losing my mind!

Computers
Oh they talk to me,
I can hear them now –
They’re laughing at me.

---

Victims Of The Riddle

Take a tine of unwanted embryos,
Paint a bird then let it go.
Give me that phoetus you want to destroy,
I'll create neither a girl;
I'll create neither a boy.

I’m a monster in the eyes of Troy;
I’m a monster in the eyes of the boys.

Give it life,
Drown it in love;
Watch it writhe,
Try to escape
At the point before death.
Oh tell it my love was fake.

See my only lifeform is
Rolling on the floor –
Who is it? Where is it? Why?
See my only lifeform
A-rolling on the floor –
Who is it? Why? Where is it? Why?

What is your crime, what have you done?
You’re a victim.

Is there a heaven? Is there a hell?
Do both exist? You can tell.

Only the victims –
Your life is a riddle.

---

Elusive Stranger

Elusive stranger,
Captive son of mine,
Dead and floating in the air
Feel the pain the pain in me.
I feel the pain the pain,

Elusive-lusive-lusive-lusive stranger
Elusive-lusive-lusive-lusive stranger

Touch me,
Keep your eyes on me.
Let my wings unfold to you;
I watched you die
In restless sleep,
Wishing (elusive)

Elusive stranger
Stay alive for me.
Elusive stranger
Your as deep as the sea.
Oh no, don't go,
I'm alone in my madness;
My empty room is full of people,
Nasty wicked people
Please go

I touch a porcelain face,
It could so easily break.
I'm a ghost of the future,
In time I will wake.
200 years,Life will be mine,
All mine.
There's a part of me missing,
I'm suspended in time.

Built my walls around me
By the power heaven sent;
My mind knows no weakness,
My body holds all strength.
Please come back to me,
Don't go

Eclipse my life,
Close my eyes,
Let me start anew;
Free my soul,
Oh let me go,
Split my cells in two –

Elusive stranger
You'd better come back to me.
Elusive stranger,
Touch me...

---

Our Movie

Let my light blast your shadow into trees,
Be my tall black ghost moved by the breeze;
We'll shine our movie into the sky,
Watch this world like a vast green eye.

I'm walking
In a garden,
The plot grows...

Walking in a garden where a christmas tree grows.
Standing at the foot of a brook;
The pregnant mare smells and moves so slow.
She's so amazing,
I can feel her foal grow.
She is so amazing,
Strike a match,
Light a cigarette,
Turn
And
Go!

Walking on the sands in the city of death,
Dismembered bodies breath dismembered breath.
Dancing on time in my mourning dress,
I'm trapped in the void of eternal stress.

I'm walking,
Oh,I'm dying –
What's this movie?

Walking on the sands in the city of death,
Dismembered bodies breath dismembered breath.
Dancing on time in my mourning dress,
I'm trapped in the void of eternal stress.

She, she, she is so amazing.
Time for my death,
It will be amazing.

---

Danced

I love you strange man,
You had come from so far away.
Talking,
We were talking –
Well, we tried –
Then we danced.

Laughing,
We were laughing.
But then we touched –
I just broke down and cried.

I felt your planet
So far away,
Touching the love
From your distant star.
The pain’s,
The trouble’s, past
From your distant star.

We’ve been waiting two thousand years
For you to come again.
That’s a long, long time
Just to learn the truth.
And then we
Danced.
Dance...

Dance, dance, dance your life away.
Dance, dance, dance your life away.

Dance...

Dance, dance, dance your life away.
Dance, dance, dance your life away.

So far away –
Goodbye my lover,
My father, my brother, my lover –
I’m going away...
...

---

Last Goodbye

She reaches out
To hold him tight –
"Don't worry, love. I'll be your sight."
A smile appears,
He's so polite;
His mind's at work
In the dark of night.

But when the bullet hit his eyes
He never worried –
Oh, you should've heard her cry –
He's always ready to take in her lies.
But now the time has come,
Let's say goodbye –

Goodbye.

He points the knife between her eyes,
It's light reflects on the one he despises.
Here's one for the pain,
here's one for the lies.
When blood flows out I watch her say "goodbye."

But when the bullet hit his eyes
He never worried –
Oh, you should've heard her cry –
He's always ready to take in her lies.
But now the time has come,
Let's say goodbye –

Now is the time of the last goodbye
Goodbye, I love you
I want you, dear

Woooah

Goodbye
Goodbye,
Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, I love you, Goodbye dear
I needed you and I've used you
Goodbye, dear

Now is the time of the last goodbye
Goodbye
Now is the time of the last goodbye
I love you
Now is the time of the last goodbye
I want you, dear

---

Victims Of The Riddle (vivisection)
(With special thanks to Alv at Popst@r: 'The world's most difficult to decipher lyrics – screams, gurgles and cacophony omitted!' – Alv)

Destroy –
Neither, Neither, Neither,
Oh what?
Escape,
Human, Fish –
Why?
He can hear me –
Fish –
I'm a fish –
I was once a human but now I'm a fish.
I'm piece of haddock;
Only cod fillets,
He's ever so nice!

---

Race Through Space

Please show me a place –
We race through space
Like a dying race;
Music shoots through my eyes,
Trapped in a chamber of hollow sound.

Lonely growing child
Trapped within the sand,
Had a little life
Grasped within the land.
I see marble in the church,
Upon the throne I perch –

After my birth

Sky is falling,
My eyes are sinking in.
Embryo still growing;
Alight my reign of sin.
Sky is falling in

Wings are damp;
Funereal's out of hand.
Child's cries echo across the sand.
Child dies
Now forgotten land –
Who knows,
Living through time.

Hahahahahahaa ooh

Oh, the arches seem so high,
Towers of glass deform my sky.
Gothic crosses make me cry,
remain nomad,
Repeat the lie.

Embryo
embryo
Watch me grow
watch me grow