Orpheus


sorabji.com: What song or tune is going through your head right now?: Orpheus
By JusMiceElf on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 12:32 pm:

    This one was even better live than on CD. All four Mekon singers traded off, each taking a verse, then near-shouting the chorus.

    Orpheus



    All my time I spent in heaven
    Revelries of dance and wine
    Waking to the sound of laughter
    Up I'd rise and kiss the sky
    Ecstacy and fornication
    Music, lust and poetry
    Something stirs, I hear a warning
    I look for Euridice
    Lose your head
    Searching through the pits of Hades
    Like a miner in the gloom
    I seek out to find my baby
    Don't look back the warning booms
    In my thoughts that warning shakes me
    How can fate deceive me now?
    I will think on worlds in order
    I will make a solemn vow
    Lose your head
    One last glimpse to take back with me
    Said my eyes, despite the fear
    One last glimpse was all they needed
    "Loose the Mekons!" came the cheer
    Torn in two and cut and scattered
    Limb from limb and heart from mind
    In the water hear me singing
    As my head swirls in the brine
    Lose your head
    I will teach them with my lesson
    I will teach them with my song
    I will speak of all life's wonders
    Where I land will be renown
    Where I land will be the fortress
    Of this fight against the tides
    Tides of rotten patriarchy
    Tides of greed and fits and lies
    Lose your head