Lyrics: Belly "Star"
Susan May
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@ALBUM: Star
Compiled by Sandro Emerim (PEAR...@aton.inf.ufrgs.br)
Lyrics from the album "Star"(1993), by BELLY
Songs lineup:
(1) Someone to die for
(2) Angel
(3) Dusted
(4) Every Word
(5) Gepetto
(6) Witch
(7) Slow Dog
(8) Low Red Moon
(9) Feed The Tree
(10) Full Moon, Empty Heart
(11) White Belly
(12) Untogether
(13) Star
(14) Sad Dress
(15) Stay
All songs produced: TRACY CHISHOLM & Belly
Engineered: TRACY CHISHOLM
Recorded at: Sound Emporium Studios, Nashville
Mixed at: Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Nashville
except "Dusted", "Gepetto", "Slow Dog", "Feed The Tree"
produced: GIL NORTON
engineered: TRACY CHISHOLM
recorded and mixed: Amazon Studios, Liverpool
Assistant engineers:
Sound Emporium: LINELLE
Sixteenth Avenue Sound: GRAHAM LEWIS
Amazon: DAVE BUCHANAN
All songs written: TANYA DONELLY,
except "White Belly", Tanya Donelly & Fred Abong
All songs published: SLOW DOG MUSIC BMI
"Full Moon, Empty Heart" and "White Belly" remixed: BRIAN HARDEN
Additional musicians:
CHUCK GRANING: slide guitar on "Witch"
guitar on "Low Red Moon"
and additional vocals on "Untogether"
JOHN DOUGLASS: violin on "Stay"
CHUCK GRANING: appears courtesy of "Fire Records"
BELLY is:
Tanya Donelly: Vocals, Guitar, Goddess
Thomas Gorman: Guitars, Organ on "Low Red Moon"
Fred Abong : Bass (*)
Chris Gorman : Drums, Percussion
(*) Current bassist is Gail Greenwood
@SONG: Someone To Die For
Poor thing, poor thing
Do you have a sister?
Would you lay your body
Down on the tracks for her?
Step one, tiptoe in hell
For her?
Don't you have someone you'd die for? (5x)
@SONG: Angel
Give it to me please
I said to God
It's only fair
Instead, he sent three Angels
To move the river
So now it flows by my house
So now it goes by my house
Angel. Angel.
I'd still rather have the moon
I've had bad dreams
So bad I threw my pillow away
Move the river
So now it flows by my house
So now it goes by my house
Angel. Angel.
I'd still rather have the moon
@SONG: Dusted
Baby's playing dead in cellar
Gave her water, just got paler
Grass stains, back burns
She's a screamer
She's just dusted, leave her
If you see her, don't upset her
Never seems to get much better
Grass stains, back burns
She's a screamer
She's just dusted, leave her
Her hmm hmm goes to your heart
Her hmm hmm sticks in your head
Baby's playing dead in cellar
Gave her water, just got paler
Grass stains, back burns
She's a screamer
She's just dusted, leave her
@SONG: Every Word
So you go to leave
More room for me
Uh uh oh, you gave me too much room
So I filled it up with chairs you can't sit on,
But if you want to stand there, stand there
Uh uh oh, you told me to much
You thought I would leave you
I heard every word, I heard every word
I heard every word
So you go, and it all goes darker like
These chairs, these eyes, this room
Closes its windows
These chairs, these eyes, this room, this heart
I heard every word, I heard every word
I heard every word
@SONG: Gepetto
So he's lying on top again
Just like Gepetto with his doll
And he's right around the bend
And I can't get him out of this house
And if you bore him, you'll lose your soul to him
So that kid from the bad home came over my house again
Decapitated all my dolls
And if you bore me, you'll lose your soul to me
(sha la na, sha la na, sha la na)
Hey Gepetto, where'd you put it? Oh Gepetto whoa whoa (2x)
And if you bore him, you're gonna lose your soul
(sha la na, sha la na, sha la na)
Hey Gepetto, where'd you get to? Oh Gepetto whoa whoa (2x)
(sha la na, sha la na, sha la na)
Hey Gepetto, what'd you get me? Oh Gepetto whoa whoa
So he's lying on top again
Just like Gepetto
(sha la na, sha la na) (3x)
@SONG: Witch
You're not safe in this house
You're not safe
Hear, hear
In some witch's bed
In some witch's bed
You know the one
She lies all it up (3x)
You're not safe
In this house
@SONG: Slow Dog
Near the backroad
There's a dog will run out
Who can see her spit up leaves a dog won't
even touch
Come to shoot that dog long ago
Just can't leave that dog alone
Maria carry a rifle
Maria carry a dog on her back
That dog is hit again
That slow dog is hit again with his
see-thru skin, the kinda skin you can see
through
He's shot again, he's shot again
He's shot (ah ah ah ah ah ah)
He's shot again
He's shot again
He's shot (ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Heal me by a river
Man retires his wife says but she was so
sad and sick
His heart breaks in the mud
Gotta leave this world by 21
Couldn't leave that dog alone
Maria carry a rifle
Maria carry a dog on her back
That dog is hit again
That slow dog is hit again with his
see-thru skin, the kinda skin you can see
through
He's shot again, he's shot again
He's shot (ah ah ah ah ah ah)
He's shot again
He's shot again
He's shot (ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Maria carry a rifle
Maria carry a dog on her back
Maria carry you on her back...
@SONG: Low Red Moon
So what, you think this is usual
Strange moon, strange land
Strange man
Hold your hands with ?tightly? horses
Hold'em, hold'em kindly
Man
Low red moon
I'll paint you
Sleep like a baby
Sleep like a baby
And you shine so different on another
You shine different on another
I look up and I see the raising of an old hope
Brave and tattered
A shinning night with shinning eyes
That shines around me brightly
So now I say "This is beautiful"
I think you are
Strange
Low red moon
I'll paint you
Sleep like a baby
Sleep like a baby
And you shine so different on another
You shine different on another
Strange moon, strange land
Strange
Moon you made me cry when I was young
And I was young
Now I've got strong arms
Strong arms from the Spinning God
And I say "He belongs to me, he belongs to me"
His arms ________________
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@SONG: Feed The Tree
This old man I've talked about
Broke his own heart, poured it in the ground
Big red tree grew up and out
Throws up it's leaves, spins round and round
I know all this and more
So take your hat off when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree
This little squirrel I used to be
Slammed her bike down the stairs
They put silver where her teeth had been
Baby Silvertooth she grins and grins
I know all this and more
So take your hat off boy when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree
Take your hat off boy when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree
This old man I used to be
Spins around, around, around the tree
Silver baby come to me
I'll only hurt you in my dreams
I know all this and,
I know all this and, I know all this and more
So take your hat off boy when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree
Take your hat off when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree
@SONG: Full Moon, Empty Heart
Sleep in now now
Sleep in now now now
It's still night out
Sleeping
Don't look at me, looking back at you
Out the window backwards
Out the window backwards
Sleep...
See this child twisted over from me
At the window backwards...
At the window backwards...
Sleep in now now
Sleep in now now now
Sleep now
Now fall to the bed
Put your hand in your hair
Then now fall to the tile
Stick your finger in your eye
(That's the only way you cry)
Now, now
Full moon pass the wind outside waves
Hee now, hee hee now
Sleep in now now
Sleep in now now
Sleep in now now
Sleep, sleep, sleep...
@SONG: White Belly
Now there's some hurricane
Put it on your back love a heart attack
Made a mistake on the firescape
In San Francisco
What mind would back in a highway
In L.A.
Put on your black dress
Float on your back
Too long, too lame
Now I'm gone
Somewhere to sleep
Somewhere to sleep
Somewhere to scrape your body off my feet
Put on your black dress
Float on your back
Too long, too lame
Now I'm gone
White belly up in the sun (4x)
Still diving, fall in The Big One
Put on your black dress
Float on your back
Put on your black dress (White belly up in the sun)
Float on your back (White belly up in the sun)
Too long, too lame
Now I'm gone
White belly up in the sun (4x)
@SONG: Untogether
I was friendly with this girl who insisted on touching my face
She told out-rageous stories, I believed them
til the endings were changing from endings before
She's not touching me anymore...
Untogether. I couldn't help him, I got hard.
You can try your whole life, but you can't save the unsaveably
Untogether.
I was shipwrecked with this frog who was ?constantly? testing my faith.
He made outrageous demands, I ignored him,
til I strapped on my bird feet and surfed into shore
He's not touching me anymore.
Untogether, I couldn't help him, I got hard.
You can try your whole life,
but you can't change the unchangeably
Untogether.
Now this bird nests on my back, keeps me turning and straining to see.
We threw out-rageous parties, we were golden.
Now the bird keeps her distance, and I keep my spleen.
Sometimes there's no poison like a dream.
Untogether, I couldn't help it, it got hard.
You can dry your eyes,
but you can't hold the impossibly
Untogether.
@SONG: Star
It's hard for star
Sweet sweet sweet wind
Burn off his skin
Get it to reach
Sachuest beach
I can never win
With this body I live in
@SONG: Sad Dress
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Think about dixie
She ducked when she ran
Made up these bad reasons to stand by her man (he goes)
Miss the vein once
Try try again I swear
(I just went) my my your dress says so sad
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@SONG: Stay
Stay, oh uh oh oh stay (2x)
Salmon dives for that big dusky pearl
Salmon sighs, he knows he's older than me
Sleeps with the fishes soon
Stay (stay), oh uh oh oh stay (2x)
Salmon crawls on the belly of God
Salmon falls on his face in love with me.
He grows as old as the sea
Deep where the fishes are.
Stay, oh uh oh oh stay (4x)
He lives in the yard, he keeps himself hard
He keeps himself homeless and heartless and hard
He sleeps under stairs along with the heirs
Of nothing and nothing means no one who cares
But I love him dear and I love him dear
And I've loved him hundreads of thousands of years.
Stay. Stay (stay with me) oh uh oh oh, stay (stay with me).
Stay. Stay (stay with me) oh uh oh oh, stay (stay with me).
It's not time for me to go. (3x)
Stay.
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: Salmon dives for that big dusky pearl
: Salmon sighs, he knows he's older than me
I've always heard this bit of the song as 'Solomon dives...' - although
every listing of the lyrics I've seen does show 'Salmon...' so I guess it's
me that's wrong! Apologies if it's me being stupid and there's something
blindingly obvious - but what does that bit mean?
tim harris
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Susan May
mistakes are not my fault.
I always thought she was saying "salmon"..although they don't dive, do
they ?? :)