The Changeling lyrics – Toyah
(Transcribed by Mike H. Corrections credited to: Alv and Mona, 'Popst@r')
Creepy Room
Are you sitting comfortably?
Then we’ll begin.
This is the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
The telephones keep ringing,
Driving me insane.
Radio waves and monosodium glutemate
Poison me.
Alcohol caresses my veins,
Tobacco makes me sick again.
My head’s confused,
It explodes into mental mayhem.
I get these wild, wild moods,
I get obsessed,
Everything seems so very pointless.
What is it all aiming for?
A world without wars would never exist.
A world without wars is a dream for realists.
Education for what?
It’s just to brainwash kids.
Someone must have designed this,
I feel that it’s all pre-planned.
I don’t want my kids to live in fear of man.
We all explored and exploited,
But the world keeps turning,
Keeps turning
I’ve been a naughty, naughty girl.
I’ve spoken out loud against the world.
They’re sending me to the creepy room
For some chemically induced fear,
Because my mind’s out of tune,
I need some “cold discomfort”.
I scare the monster in the creepy room –
He doesn’t like my eyes, he says
They look like wounds –
The monster screams!
But monster, don’t you know?
No-one can hear you scream
In the creepy room
Street Creature
I belong to the street,
But I’m just a super-feature
In a magazine,
Blown from the dustbin to the gutter,
I’m just a street creature.
You can hear me approaching
Tapping feet,
I’m a wild child
I’m just street meat.
I’m gonna to take the car
In the dark of night
And travel home
To see all my old friends.
Catch them by surprise
Just to let them know
I’m not living these lies,
I belong to the streets,
I’m a wild child.
I’m searching,
Always searching,
Always searching,
For a new destination
Yes I’m searching,
Always searching,
Always searching,
For a new destination
City lights
Blink like electric eyes
As I move on
In and out of trees.
Lizards run through pylons
And telegraph wires
Higher grow my fires of curiosity.
I’m searching,
Always searching,
Always searching,
For a new destination
Yes I’m searching,
Always searching,
Always searching,
For a new destination
Til I’m going to get there,
And I’m going to get there
I won’t be stopped
But the news travels fast
So I gotta get away,
Gotta get away,
Gotta get away today.
Who and what am I to say
The why’s and where’s?
All I know is
I’m going to escape.
I’m searching,
Always searching,
Always searching,
For a new destination
Yes I’m searching,
Always searching,
Always searching,
For a new destination
Til I’m going to get there,
And I’m going to get there
And I’m going to get there
Gotta get away,
Gotta get away,
Gotta get away today.
And I’m going to get there
And I’m going to get there...
Street creature
Street creature...
Castaways
We leave the approach,
The runway’s no longer close –
Journey into discovery,
Exiled into night flight.
We’re on our way
To mysterious worlds.
Moonlit horizons from a hazy moon,
Starlight sprinkled on blue lagoons –
We’re castaways,
On our way
To mysterious worlds.
Today!
Candy-floss and new messiahs,
A cosmic pill with painless fire,
Penny arcades and daisy chains,
Rock Facades and quiz games
The weather was fine,
We’re castaways;
On our way
To mysterious worlds.
We left a dying world behind,
Slowly eaten by the mists of time.
The weather’s good;
Take-off was fine.
Now we’re castaways,
On our way
To mysterious worlds.
There’s no turning back,
No change of course,
Don’t even think we should
We wouldn’t
If we could –
Luck’s on our side,
The weather’s good,
Take-off was fine.
Now we’re castaways,
On our way
To mysterious worlds.
Today!
Luck’s on our side,
We throw our cares into the sky,
It’s you and I,
It’s you and I.
Another planet, another time,
We disappear into the night –
We left the dying world behind,
Slowly eaten by the mists of time.
Now it’s and you and I,
Just you and I
It’s you and I –
We leave the approach,
The runway’s no longer close.
We’re on our way –
We’re pioneers.
Disappear,
Disappear...
The Druids
The meeting commences
In the arena;
Gladiators
And space defectors.
In walk the druids and the shock troops
In walk the druids and the shock troops
Ringside seats,
Bird’s eye views,
Video cameras only tell the truth.
Milliards of youths
Complacent in their eyes
Of their contemporary sleuths
In walk the druids and the shock troops
In walk the druids and the shock troops
Witch-wizards sat on cosmic thrones,
The new age crowned of skin and bones.
The sacred priestess of Merlin The Mage,
Opens the book,
She turns the page –
Then in walk the druids and the (screaming) shock troops
In walk the druids and the (screaming) shock troops
Then in walk the druids and the (screaming) shock troops
Screaming, screaming
In walk the druids and the (screaming) shock troops
Screaming...
This mercy of silence,
An orgy of peace.
They’re all here
From every sphere,
From every planet
To shake their spears.
Divide the lands
Of the halls of Pan.
Painted warlords
In their hordes,
Azard kings and OBI queens
Step from my skull
And live my dreams.
Angel And Me
I knock the telephone from the table
And the room starts to purr.
I splash the contents from a drawer,
A photo, mid-air,
Starts to twirl,
It falls –
Why do you always cry when you come to see me?
I always die to see you smile.
You see, I have a secret –
That’s why I always smile.
Yes I know the window’s dirty,
And I’ve noticed that all the plants are dead.
Why don’t you ever hear a single word I say?
I’ve been trying to tell you
She’s on her way –
Angel!
I want to introduce you to someone
You’ve never met before –
As you can see she’s very special to me.
She stretches the skin of her silvery wings,
Puts her hands through the bars to me.
She steps through the wall
As if it’s a door
And I rise from the floor
As I did before.
I knock the ’phone from the table
And the room starts purring,
I smash the contents from a drawer
And a photo starts twirling
It’s the angel,
It’s the angel,
It’s the angel and me.
I push the blade to your eye,
Break the bars,
Watch you cry,
Set myself free –
It’s the angel and me,
And me.
I run in the wind,
I run to the river,
There’s blood on me,
It’s your memory.
It’s the smile of
It’s the smile of
It’s the smile of
insanity.
You fall to the floor
As my fist hits your jaw
But I don’t cry
I don’t cry
I don’t cry
I don’t care.
Get your hands off me,
Get your hands off me,
Get your hands off me,
Can’t you see?
She’s come for me.
It’s the angel,
It’s the angel,
It’s the angel and me.
It’s the angel,
It’s the angel,
It’s the angel and me.
It’s the angel,
It’s the angel,
It’s the angel and me...
The Packt
The doors blow open
You’ve arrived –
“Now why do you kill,
Bring diseases and plight?”
I sigh.
Silence –
Cold icy air.
Black
manic stare.
Wait!
A reply –
“No, not I, it’s a lie,
It’s a lie –
I wouldn’t do these things,
It’s she, she sinned.”
You make my flesh creep,
You’ve always managed to repulse me.
Along the shore
The cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink
Behind the lake;
Strange is the night,
Now black stars rise,
Many moons circle through the sky –
Why, where is she now?
She’d let the dawn rise,
She’d bring peace,
She’d
Silence the beast!
He scratches his leathery skin and grins;
A pungent stench emits from him.
“Yes,” he said, bowing his thorny head,
“She’s dead!”
Along the shore
The cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink
Behind the lake;
Strange is the night,
Now black stars rise,
Many moons circle through the sky –
Why, where is she now?
She’d let the dawn rise,
She’d bring peace,
She’d
Silence the beast!
“I’ll make ye a packt –
I’ll stop war.
Starvation, disease, poverty.
I’ll even stop time!
But you’ll be mine for eternity!
Remember!
No more time.
“If you want to rid me,
I present to you
The atom bomb –
It will rid all I’ve promised!
Now remember the packt!
You’re mine!”
I feel my skin hang
To my skull –
Suction
Forces my shell to break –
Liquid confusion
Hits
The
Deck.
Life In The Trees
Life in the trees,
Reflections seen in mango leaves,
No more spaceship for me.
I’ve landed with my very own
Baboon society.
Eating bark and gum leaves,
The swamp’s the life for me.
I’m sitting in the hot seat.
I’m onto a winning streak!
Coo, cooo, cooo conny con corn
coo conny con corn
Coo, cooo, cooo conny con corn
Life in the trees
Is serene, grooming,
Picking up fleas.
There’s no fleas on me
Just pink skin;
I’m the weirdest thing
They’ve ever seen!
I’m sitting in the hot seat.
I’m onto a winning streak!
Coo, cooo, cooo conny con corn
coo conny con corn
Coo, cooo, cooo conny con corn
This is where all mutations should be,
In the mangroves where it’s mucky.
I don’t miss TV and I don’t miss the concrete,
It’s so wildly obscene
To be like an animal;
To squeal and squawk,
And walk and stalk –
I’ll be like an animal,
I’ll bite and scream;
I’ll swing through the trees
with the greatest of ease,
Eating the leaves that give me dreams.
It’s a life in the trees
It’s a life in the trees
It’s a life in the trees
It’s a life in the trees...
Dawn Chorus
Wasp waisted
Modest and man-shy
We can never decide
Which colour shall we paint our eyes.
We’re getting ready
To walk out in style,
Wicked ladies,
Satan’s toys,
We’ve got the nails,
Acting coy,
We going after the girl-shy boys!
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Seductive eyes draw me in
On this dark-tinted night,
Wild boys with their batons and pearls,
“Hello boys, we’re the midnight girls!”
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Thighs
Touch thighs,
And eyes
Collide,
Driving me crazy,
Driving me crazy!
Wasp waisted
Modest and man-shy,
Eyes catch eyes
And visions ignite,
Let’s send this tainted night
To the slaugter
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
We all brave the storm,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus –
Here come the dancing boys,
Here come the wild girls,
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the night,
Here it comes,
The dawn chorus...
Run Wild, Run Free
Well I sell my soul to Faust
Each and every night for you,
Rip-roaring drunk
I peel my face away
For you –
It’s a lonely time,
I’ve walked from the limelight
Into an empty cobbled street –
For you...
You’ve gotta live young, die young,
You gotta toughen up,
Run wild, run free.
Can’t you see
What they did to my god?
You’re not going to do it to me,
I’m going to run wild, run free.
Catch me if you can,
But remember I’m a woman –
I’m devious, I’m small, I’m impeccable.
I’m a warrior, I’m immaculate, I’m imperial.
I’m unique, I’m inscrutable, I’m going to break free.
You steal my pennies,
You steal my thoughts –
I’m going to break free!
You imprison me,
You suffocate me,
I’m going to break free!
I’m going to cut you down,
I’ll slit your throat
Before you touch me!
I’ll get you back
Before your warm breath
Dost touch me!
I’ll slit your throat
Before your tall eyes
Do see me –
Run wild, run free
Run wild, run free
Run wild, run free
Get away from me
Run wild, run free
Get away from me
Run wild, run free
Get free from me
Run wild, run free
Get free from me...
Brave New World
(Words: Toyah Willcox / Music: Joel Bogen – 1982)
A loneliness
That no-one knows,
When his love dies
Yours grows and grows.
It’s a cruel world –
Shall I tell you what I’ll do?
I’ll forget you.
New beginnings,
New surroundings,
New love,
Another world to dream of.
New beginnings,
New surroundings,
New love,
It’s a brave new world.
Remove the thorn from the lion’s paw.
Hear my words,
Pain no more.
I’m going places
I’ve never seen before.
New faces,
New words.
Send my kisses to the old world –
New beginnings,
New surroundings,
New love,
Another world to dream of.
New beginnings,
New surroundings,
New love,
It’s a brave new world.
Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah
It’s a brave new world
Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah
It’s a brave new world
I’ll forget you –
I’ll move on.
New beginnings,
New surroundings,
New love,
It’s a brave new world.
New beginnings (it’s time)
New surroundings (to move on)
New love,
It’s a brave new world.
New beginnings,
New surroundings,
New love,
It’s a brave new world.
New beginnings, (it’s time)
New surroundings, (to move on)
New love,
It’s a brave new world.
New beginnings,
New surroundings,
New love,
It’s a brave new world.
New beginnings, (it’s time)
New surroundings, (to move on)
New love,
It’s a brave new world.
New beginnings...
Duppi Do Duppi Do
Duppi Do Duppi Do
I’ll forget you...
Duppi Do Duppi Do
Duppi Do Duppi Do
I’ll move on
I’ll forget you
The voice of discontented youth...
