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My Velvet Cage - A Tribute to Venus in Furs

by Wave Noir

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1.
These days I try So hard to reach Without pulling You're charmless, servile So many times Let me be near you You have the rhyme Yours are the signs that we read Our faithful conduct Tell me again, Majordomo Kid glove or halo Hand over fist Can't you see me? You have the rhyme Yours are the signs that we read
2.
Old man Did I spy you in the club bar Did I complicate The telling of the story of your life? Did your eyes blur When you spoke of Arabia Did you feel choked as you recalled The blaze of the sun? Old fool Tugging at the sleeves of the young man Your well-worn tales Echo through the pyramid walls I can see you now in a poor re-make of 'Beau Geste' Clinging to the back of a camel As the sand dunes rise and fall Old one Won't you join me in a last toast? So stylized We'll even dash out glasses to the floor We'll get soaked on perished Ouzo Then dance to the rhythm of a thousand desert guns
3.
I look in your eyes, see love's lies Smiling, hiding Did you realise, how soon love dies When you stray? Are you dead or alive? Is your heart up for sale? From a look in your eyes, how would I know? I fall through the days, my horoscope says Now you must be strong, in so many ways You try to erase what we've become I work so hard just to get through these days Just to get through I worked through But never again Now you try... Suspicious emotions You were the first one to give up... trying A suspect emotion When you drove the car through love's red light And when we meet
4.
Jenny's been in Re-hab, 59 days Shakin' and a-shiverin' as she claws her way though the waters Drug-dry, sleepless, dead on her feet Black kohl shadows spinning wheels When she hears those whispers ... Now her friends have grown older, she's living alone Section 2 Order, like a rolling stone A long time burning, fever's so high Jenny spills over she's a kiss-and-tell spy Hush daughter ... With her drip-dry lips kissing Fucked up grin The holes in her stockings Where the world pours in Sweet sister ... Blind paranoia in the wink of an eye She wakes in the morning And it seems like the world Froze over ... Now the walls have grown ears And the rumour is clear : Run for tomorrow every time That you hear Cold whispers
5.
Take down all your pictures Tear away your paper heart With the power of accommodation Hurry now, well make a start Disregard the cries of derision I can feel trade winds blow They fan the torch of our elation Take my hand, we'll watch it glow Sometimes I feel there's a wall in your heart The screen door protects us from falling If I held your hand could you believe once for me? This feeling of heaven takes you down Far away On some desert background Our wayward lives are pushed out of phase If I accept your reluctant kisses Could you abhor my indifferent ways? Breathless now Our spirits falter As I lose the hand That you extend Until such time I will consider And take up the challenge again
6.
Oh stop the world spinning around Violin fingers will help us down Closer, closer we sail No one will hear us we'll talk in Braille Now our estrangement is made White room, snowy arcade Take up your fur my winter prize Box-hat, veil... such a thin disguise 'These are my guards'... you used to say Snow girl beside me a step away Sable becomes you I'm told White room, dizzy with cold Oh will the warmth never begin? Snowscapes' shower invites us in Only a calm breeze remains Cooling our volcanic love again Soon the violin fades White room, snow melts away...
7.
Witness our exhilaration, we're feeling our way as we run The landmarks slide as our two hearts collide The first wild kiss has begun I wait for your touch like a schoolboy, a bogus conductor of youth The arch of a mouth and I dare not cry out As the first wild kiss cuts through I watch as your lips come between us, dividing me from other men In dreams I will capture the moment of rapture And lust for the wild kiss again
8.
Call me liar I half expect you to Whip band moves once Black glove remains Battlefield clay Mouth to mouth delay Her halo towers Above me again Hold the light close It gets so dark in here Each spark reveals Devil's bouquet Cellar blue Love holds no charm for you Whip hand moves twice Whirls me around You walk abroad Tourists of the heart Whip hand guides you Pushed far away Who'll turn a page See me in my velvet cage Whip hand snakes out Glove cracks down
9.
Call it escalation Call it a means to an end Question the wealth of division That makes us unnatural friends Such deep and hollow wounds Platonic love bites rend This is their mark of affliction The lifebelt on which you depend Look at the art that surrounds you The dead things you've worked to arrange New friends have locked up your talents Platonic Love lies strange - Call it escalation Call it a means to an end Question the wealth of division That makes us unnatural friends
10.
UIU - Almost 05:18
Now it's time to hide away once again That's what you told me Now we've come so far I know we'll get through in the end That's what I told you You hurt me I hurt you I can't see whats different now Don''t tell me youve found Something new Now it's almost true Soon sunrise Will cast her glow over me It's just like a movie For these last few hours I'll close my eyes and pretend I'm almost beside you I was told I could see you At your place A silhouette from the picture Framing my face I will hold you like I hold on to my dreams I will hold you like I hold on to my dreams Now it's time to hide away once again Now we've come so far I know we'll get through in the end That's what I told you Almost in love
11.
Welcome to Heaven : We finish as we start I relinquish everything By merely taking part Now I feel so hollow I'm glad you feel the same Where once I'd turn away Now I struggle to remain You talk of contribution Heaven knows, I've tried I reach out to hold you But now my arms are tied I feel a new sense of power I try and hold it in But where does thinking end And thoughtlessness begin So welcome to our Heaven You women and you men Pistol - whipped forever By the Governmental pen There can be no amnesty For terrorists like us We used to be such romantics Now our bubble's burst
12.
Twins like us were bound to get along Cold from the old days living life alone But if it could be that I was you and you were me I'd help you to see: you've got to be yourself Look after the boy I remember him well I left you at the station With a small electric toy held in his hand Shy from me, he hid behind your skirt where it began Like a man, trying everything So breathe me in Inside of these words You must admit when we gelled was something worth Deep and truthful, would compel you to stay And find yourself through all of me this way Now I see the scale of all the years you've had to live alone, like a stone Cold and hard and scattered on the beach, out of reach: The tide just pushed and pulled you Something's changed Changed my way of being Changed my way of life You know I could be whatever you charged me up with For it can be revealed now: I put my hand inside the Bell-Jar I'm checking out you, you're checking out me Steel and crystal so shiny and strong All along Twins like us were born to be OK Anyway, I guess you've somewhat autographed the boy Guess we've made him our push-me-pull-you toy When the love can't take reveals you as a fake For these lost years will show that this union was the right way Darling girl, I'll tell you I'm gonna love you till I'm ashes I put my hand inside the Bell-Jar I'm checking out you, you're checking out me Now hear: now this: now kill: now kiss Now fade away Anyway
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about

Venus in Furs is a highly rated band which evolved out of the post-punk explosion of the early 80s. The mysterious frontman of the Brighton-based project - Times - continues to make music to this day.

A couple of contemporary dark alternative musicians, such as Shad Shadows, Two Moons, The Stave Church and others, are paying their tribute to the master, with the first WAVE.NOIR-project "My Velvet Cage".

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released August 9, 2020

Music & Words to All Songs Composed by TIMES
SNOWSCAPE - Music by TIMES & SKOT LUCY
Publishers: Eyeglass Music / Movement (UK)
All Songs by Kind Permission & Arrangement with MOVEMENT (UK) 2020
COVER - Original Woodcut by JOHN MASOURI
Project Coordinated by WaveNoir 2020 (www.wavenoir.net)

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