Sung by william
I'm going to the darklands
To talk in rhyme
With my chaotic soul
As sure as life means nothing
And all things end in nothing
And heaven I think
Is too close to hell
I want to move I want to go
I want to go
Oh something won't let me
Go to the place
Where the darklands are
And I awake from dreams
To a scary world of screams
And heaven I think
Is too close to hell
I want to move I want to go
I want to go
Take me to the dark
Oh God I get down on my knees
And I feel like I could die
By the river of disease
And I feel that I'm dying
And I'm dying
I'm down on my knees
Oh I'm down
I want to go I want to stay
I want to stay
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands Album Lyrics
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands Lyrics
Writer: BILLY REID, WILLIAM ADAM REID
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Deep One Perfect Morning
Deep one perfect morning
As the sun is heading up
Into the sky
And i'm sitting here warming
To the coldness of the things
That meet my eye
Something in me's stirring
And the moon and all the stars
Fail to comply
And my thoughts are turning backwards
And i'm picking at the pieces
Of a world that keeps turning
The screws into my mind
Something in me's chilling
And nothing in me's willing
To focus my attention
On the sky
Past the weakened eyes
That feel and scream
Into your soul
Better to paint my hate
On the walls
Before the picture goes
And my thoughts are turning backwards
And i'm picking at the pieces
Of a world that keeps turning
The screws in my mind
And i can see a wide world
For me to tame
As the sun is heading up
Into the sky
And i'm sitting here warming
To the coldness of the things
That meet my eye
Something in me's stirring
And the moon and all the stars
Fail to comply
And my thoughts are turning backwards
And i'm picking at the pieces
Of a world that keeps turning
The screws into my mind
Something in me's chilling
And nothing in me's willing
To focus my attention
On the sky
Past the weakened eyes
That feel and scream
Into your soul
Better to paint my hate
On the walls
Before the picture goes
And my thoughts are turning backwards
And i'm picking at the pieces
Of a world that keeps turning
The screws in my mind
And i can see a wide world
For me to tame
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Happy When It Rains
sung by Jim
Step back and watch the sweet thing
breaking everything she sees
she can take my darkest feeling
tear it up till i'm on me knees
plug into her electric cool
where things bend and break
and shake to the rule
talking fast couldn't tell me something
i would shed my skin for you
talking fast on the edge of nothing
i would break my back for you
don't know why, don't know why
things vaporise and rise to the sky
and we tried so hard
and we looked so good
and we lived our lives in black
but something about you felt like pain
you were my sunny day rain
you were the clouds in the sky
you were the darkest sky
but your lips spoke gold and honey
that's why i'm happy when it rains
i'm happy when it pours
looking at me enjoying something
that feels like feels like pain
to my brain
and if i tell you something
you take me back to nothing
i'm on the edge of something
you take me back
and i'm happy when it rains
Step back and watch the sweet thing
breaking everything she sees
she can take my darkest feeling
tear it up till i'm on me knees
plug into her electric cool
where things bend and break
and shake to the rule
talking fast couldn't tell me something
i would shed my skin for you
talking fast on the edge of nothing
i would break my back for you
don't know why, don't know why
things vaporise and rise to the sky
and we tried so hard
and we looked so good
and we lived our lives in black
but something about you felt like pain
you were my sunny day rain
you were the clouds in the sky
you were the darkest sky
but your lips spoke gold and honey
that's why i'm happy when it rains
i'm happy when it pours
looking at me enjoying something
that feels like feels like pain
to my brain
and if i tell you something
you take me back to nothing
i'm on the edge of something
you take me back
and i'm happy when it rains
Writer: BILLY REID, WILLIAM ADAM REID
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc., DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc., DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, BMG Rights Management
Down On Me
Sung by jim
Sometimes I can fake a smile
But still the world looks down on me
Twenty five years of growing old
It just hangs infront of me
I can't see or understand why
Pushing up can drag me down
Take my time in everything
It breaks me up if I cant sing
I cant see
I cant touch
Sometimes in the summer sunshine
The sky falls down on me
Always in the dead of darkdays
Someone's after me
Talking fast I'm walking backwards
And my head is in the trees
You can hang this heavy feeling
Hanging down on me
Sometimes I can fake a smile
But still the world looks down on me
Twenty five years of growing old
It just hangs infront of me
I can't see or understand why
Pushing up can drag me down
Take my time in everything
It breaks me up if I cant sing
I cant see
I cant touch
Sometimes in the summer sunshine
The sky falls down on me
Always in the dead of darkdays
Someone's after me
Talking fast I'm walking backwards
And my head is in the trees
You can hang this heavy feeling
Hanging down on me
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Nine Million Rainy Days
Nine million rainy days
Have swept across my eyes
Thinking of you
And this room becomes a shrine
Thinking of you
And the way you are
Sends the shivers to my head
You're going to fall
You're going to fall down dead
As far as I can tell
I'm being dragged from here to hell
And all my time in hell
Is spent with you
I have ached for you
I have nothing left to give
For you to take
I have no more empty heart
Or limbs to break
And the way you are
Sends the shivers to my head
You're going to fall down dead
As far as I can see
There is nothing left of me
And all my time in hell
Was spent with you
Have swept across my eyes
Thinking of you
And this room becomes a shrine
Thinking of you
And the way you are
Sends the shivers to my head
You're going to fall
You're going to fall down dead
As far as I can tell
I'm being dragged from here to hell
And all my time in hell
Is spent with you
I have ached for you
I have nothing left to give
For you to take
I have no more empty heart
Or limbs to break
And the way you are
Sends the shivers to my head
You're going to fall down dead
As far as I can see
There is nothing left of me
And all my time in hell
Was spent with you
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April Skies
Sung by jim
Hey honey what you trying to say
As I stand here
Don't you walk away
And the world comes tumbling down
Hand in hand in a violent life
Making love on the edge of a knife
And the world comes tumbling down
And it's hard
For me to say
And it's hard
For me to stay
I'm going down
To be by myself
I'm going back
For the good of my health
And there's one thing
I couldnt do
Sacrifice myself to you
Sacrifice
Baby baby I just can't see
Just what you mean to me
I take my aim and I fake my words
I'm just your long time curse
And if you walk away
I can't take it
But that's the way that you are
And that's the things that you say
But now you've gone too far
With all the things you say
Get back to where you come from
I can't help it
Under the april skies
Under the april sun
Sun grows cold
Sky gets black
And you broke me up
And now you won't come back
Shaking hand, life is dead
And a broken heart
And a screaming head
Under the april sky
Hey honey what you trying to say
As I stand here
Don't you walk away
And the world comes tumbling down
Hand in hand in a violent life
Making love on the edge of a knife
And the world comes tumbling down
And it's hard
For me to say
And it's hard
For me to stay
I'm going down
To be by myself
I'm going back
For the good of my health
And there's one thing
I couldnt do
Sacrifice myself to you
Sacrifice
Baby baby I just can't see
Just what you mean to me
I take my aim and I fake my words
I'm just your long time curse
And if you walk away
I can't take it
But that's the way that you are
And that's the things that you say
But now you've gone too far
With all the things you say
Get back to where you come from
I can't help it
Under the april skies
Under the april sun
Sun grows cold
Sky gets black
And you broke me up
And now you won't come back
Shaking hand, life is dead
And a broken heart
And a screaming head
Under the april sky
Writer: BILLY REID, WILLIAM ADAM REID
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Fall
Sung by jim
Fall to my bended knees
Shoving up till I freeze
Falling on down to you
Down down down
So choked up in the dust
Hand held holy lust
Dragging me to her cross
Fall fall fall
So I dragged you down
C'mon drag me down
So it seems to be
So it seems to me
That I just cant fail to see
Falling on down to you
Down down down
Everybody's falling on me
And I'm as dead as a christmas tree
Fall to my bended knees
Shoving up till I freeze
Falling on down to you
Down down down
So choked up in the dust
Hand held holy lust
Dragging me to her cross
Fall fall fall
So I dragged you down
C'mon drag me down
So it seems to be
So it seems to me
That I just cant fail to see
Falling on down to you
Down down down
Everybody's falling on me
And I'm as dead as a christmas tree
Writer: ALAN PARSONS, ERIC WOOLFSON, ERIC NORMAN WOOLFSON
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Cherry Came Too
Sung by jim
When she walks towards me
I feel something
Crawl beneath my skin
And all the electric stars are shining
Beneath my skin and
Cherry takes me to the place above
With barbed wire kisses and her love
We're going where the oceans blue
Kick the dust and you can come too
In the light of all my darkest mornings
Things fall into place
And all the soft orange coloured dawnings
Fall into place and
Cherry's scratching like a grain of sand
The trigger itch in the killer's hand
Me and cherry are so extreme
Making love to the sound of a scream
Oh cherry honey you got me stuck on a rope
You got me running around
With the fear in my head for you
And I want you
And I'll give you my head
And all the things it said
And I'll give you my thoughts
If those things weren't lost
And I'll give you my soul
To beat it with your pole
I'm going to give you my head
You could kick it dead
And I'll give you my head
Come on and kick me dead
Come on and push me down
Come on and drag me down
Oh cherry be bad
Come on and kiss my head
When she walks towards me
I feel something
Crawl beneath my skin
And all the electric stars are shining
Beneath my skin and
Cherry takes me to the place above
With barbed wire kisses and her love
We're going where the oceans blue
Kick the dust and you can come too
In the light of all my darkest mornings
Things fall into place
And all the soft orange coloured dawnings
Fall into place and
Cherry's scratching like a grain of sand
The trigger itch in the killer's hand
Me and cherry are so extreme
Making love to the sound of a scream
Oh cherry honey you got me stuck on a rope
You got me running around
With the fear in my head for you
And I want you
And I'll give you my head
And all the things it said
And I'll give you my thoughts
If those things weren't lost
And I'll give you my soul
To beat it with your pole
I'm going to give you my head
You could kick it dead
And I'll give you my head
Come on and kick me dead
Come on and push me down
Come on and drag me down
Oh cherry be bad
Come on and kiss my head
Writer: JAMES MCLEISH REID, WILLIAM ADAM REID
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
On The Wall
Unlike the mole
I'm not in a hole
And I can't see anyway
Just like a doll
I am one foot tall
But dolls can't see anyway
The frozen stare
The clothes and hair
These make me taste like a man
Tied to a door
Chained to a floor
An hour glass grain of sand
Life in a sack is coming back
I'm like the clock on the wall
Swim in the sea
Swim inside me
But you can't swim far away
I never grew
Covered up by you
And nothing grows anyway
Life in a sack is coming back
I'm like the clock on the wall
I'm not in a hole
And I can't see anyway
Just like a doll
I am one foot tall
But dolls can't see anyway
The frozen stare
The clothes and hair
These make me taste like a man
Tied to a door
Chained to a floor
An hour glass grain of sand
Life in a sack is coming back
I'm like the clock on the wall
Swim in the sea
Swim inside me
But you can't swim far away
I never grew
Covered up by you
And nothing grows anyway
Life in a sack is coming back
I'm like the clock on the wall
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About You
I can see that you and me
Live our lives in the pouring rain
And the raindrops beat out of time to our refrain
And you and me will win you see
People die in their living-rooms
But they do not need this God Almighty gloom
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm about the rain
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm in eberything
I know thereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something good
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something good
About you
About you
About you
I know thereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
Good about you
Live our lives in the pouring rain
And the raindrops beat out of time to our refrain
And you and me will win you see
People die in their living-rooms
But they do not need this God Almighty gloom
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm about the rain
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm in eberything
I know thereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something good
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something good
About you
About you
About you
I know thereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
ThereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ's something warm
Good about you
Writer: JAMES MCLEISH REID, WILLIAM ADAM REID
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Darklands is the second studio album by Scottish alternative rock band the Jesus and Mary Chain, released on 31 August 1987 by Blanco y Negro Records. The album is the band's first to use drum machines, replacing live drummer Bobby Gillespie, who had left to pursue a career as the frontman of Scottish rock band Primal Scream. Lead vocals are performed by Jim Reid, with the exception of "Darklands", "Nine Million Rainy Days" and "On the Wall", which are sung by William Reid.
Darklands reached number five on the UK Albums Chart, the band's highest-peaking album on the chart to date. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Primal Scream later recorded a cover version of the album's title track as a B-side to their 1998 single "If They Move, Kill 'Em".
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The Jesus and Mary ChainDarklands reached number five on the UK Albums Chart, the band's highest-peaking album on the chart to date. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Primal Scream later recorded a cover version of the album's title track as a B-side to their 1998 single "If They Move, Kill 'Em".
Genre(s): Alternative rock, post-punk
Producer(s): William Reid, Bill Price, John Loder
Length: 35:51
Released: August 31st, 1987
Year: 1987