Old School Goth Songs

[Tulizar]

It's Saturday nite and I'm all alone. Digging through all of my old favorites.

Bauhaus
Bela Lugosi's Dead

White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead

Anyone else?

[A Gunslinger]

I used to like Siouxie and the Banshees...certainly her catalogue has some old school goth.

[Lorelei]

SONG: The Killing Jar


Down where this ugly man
Seeks his sustenance
Down in the blue, midnight flare
A glass hand cuts through the water
Scything into his twisted roots

Then from his eyes
Spring fireflies
Breathing life
Into a roaring disguise

Needles and sins, sins and needles
He's gasping for air
In the wishing well
Dust to rust, ashes to gashes
Hand around the killing jar

A soft hoodwink of shadow
The size of make-believe
Punches through his spike of rage
A glass hand cuts through the water
Snuffing out the magic fury

Then from inside
Bolt lightning cries
Swiftly crushed
The final, muffled sighs

Needles and sins, sins and needles
He's gasping for air
In the wishing well
Dust to rust, ashes to gashes
Hand around the killing jar

I still have most of her stuff in my collection Gunslinger...it used to freak my mom out.

[Tulizar]

I still have most of her stuff in my collection Gunslinger...it used to freak my mom out.

One of my favorite dance songs:

Sisters of Mercy
This Corrosion

Gimme the Ring, kissed and toll'd
Gimme something that I missed (Gimme the ring)
A hand to hold, wild and what it seems(Gimme the ring)
Kill the king, when love is the law,
And the we'll turn round... (Gimme the ring)
Gimme dream child
And do you hear me call? (Gimme the ring)
On the loan and on the level
...still on the floor (Gimme the ring)
Sing dream child
And do you hear at all?

CHORUS
(Sing)
(Sing)
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...

Gimme siren, child and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right and wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?

CHORUS

On daze, like this
In times like these
I feel an animal deep inside
Heel to haunch on bended knees
Living on if and if I tried,
Somebody send me... please...
Dream wars and a ticket to seem
Giving out and in
Selling the don't belong
Well, what do you say
D'you have a word for Giving Away?
Got a song for me?
CHORUS

I got nothing to say I ain't said before
I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more
I don't need no one to understand
Why the blood run hold
The hired hand
On heart
Hand of God
Floodland and Driven Apart
Run cold
Turn
Cold
Burn
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand

[A Gunslinger]

I still have most of her stuff in my collection Gunslinger...it used to freak my mom out.

As did mine. We were just doing our jobs!

[Cail]

You raise me up
When I'm on the floor
You see me through
When I'm lonely and scared
And I'm feeling true to the written word
And you're true to me
And still I need more
It would tear me apart
To feel no one ever cared
For me
For me
For me
You are a tower of strength to me

You stand firm and proud
When the wind blows in your face
And when the sun shines in your eyes
You just turn your head away
To me
To me
To me
You are a tower of strength to me

You rescue me
You are my faith
My hope
My liberty
And when there is darkness all around
You shine bright for me
You are the guiding light

To me
To me
To me
You are a tower of strength to me

You are all passion and heart
When I lay in your embrace
And heaven is in your kiss
Salvation lies just a touch away

To me
To me
To me
You are a tower of strength to me

I love me some Mission UK and Sisters of Mercy.

[stonemaybe]

Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Cail]

I'm so Goth I'm dead.

[stonemaybe]

I'm so Goth I'm dead

I'm so goth I rose again undead!



.....nnnnnncccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllllllllldddddddddddddddd

[dANdeLION]

My fav Bauhaus, besides Bela, were Silent hedges, Telegram Sam, Ziggy Stardust, Terror Couple Kill Colonel, the Spy in the Cab....hell, I just love Bauhaus!

[Lord Mhoram]

("Sisters of Mercy"=Leonard Cohen allusion.)

[Tulizar]

("Sisters of Mercy"=Leonard Cohen allusion.)

Apparently he had an impact on the Sisters of Mercy:

The band cited Leonard Cohen and Motörhead, as well as the The Stooges and Suicide among their influences.

Anyway, here's Cohen's Sisters of Mercy:


Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on.

And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this
song.
Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long.

Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your
soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how
you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've
sinned.

Well they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them.

They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn

they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a
stem.

When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.

Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the
moon.
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your
night:
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all
right,
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all
right.

[Lord Mhoram]

Great song! But not goth at all.

[Tulizar]

Great song! But not goth at all.

Bah, some moody synth and guitars with a black clad moaner behind the mic--instant goth!

I thought it was cool that they consider Cohen an influence.

[Lord Mhoram]

Definitely. Anyone who lists Mr Cohen as an influence is worthy of respect, IMO.

[Cail]

Ahem.....

Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more
I want more

(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

D'you get scared to feel so much?
To let somebody touch you?
So hot, so cold, so far so out of control
Hard to come by, and harder to hold

Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
I want more

(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

There are parts of me that don't get nervous
Not the parts that shake
You won't get what you deserve
You are what you take
Learning to cry for fun and profit
I'm not done yet
Counterfeit dollars or the English zloty
Anything I can get

Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more

(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

All the love that you can get
All the love
That I can't get to...

[Tulizar]

Ahem.....

Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more
I want more

Can't get enough of those Sisters!



How about a little Cure to bring us down:

It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
Going home time
A story on the radio...

Something small falls out of your mouth
And we laugh
A prayer for something better
A prayer
For something better
Please love me
Meet my mother...
But the fear takes hold
Creeping up the stairs in the dark
Waiting for the death blow

Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Fighting for freedom on the television
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
Have we got everything?
She struggles to get away...

The pain
And the creeping feeling
A little black haired girl
Waiting for Saturday
The death of her father pushing her
Pushing her white face into the mirror
Aching inside me
And turn me round
Just like the old days
Just like the old days

Caressing an old man
And painting a lifeless face
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
All shadows and deliverance
Under a black flag
A hundred years of blood
Crimson
The ribbon tightens round my throat
I open my mouth
And my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water
Over and over
We die one after the other
Over and over
We die one after the other after the other...

It feels like a hundred years
One hundred years...

[Cail]

oh it's opening time
down on fascination street
so let's cut the conversation
and get out for a bit
because i feel it all fading and paling
and i'm begging
to drag you down with me
to kick the last nail in
yeah! i like you in that
like i like you to scream
but if you open your mouth
then i can't be responsible
for quite what goes in
or to care what comes out
so just pull on your hair
just pull on your pout
and let's move to the beat
like we know that it's over
if you slip going under
slip over my shoulder
so just pull on your face
just pull on your feet
and let's hit opening time
down on fascination street

so pull on your hair
pull on your pout
cut the conversation
just open your mouth
pull on your face
pull on your feet
and let's hit opening time
down on fascination street

[Menolly]

Would the band Black Tape for a Blue Girl be considered goth? I'm friends with the band member Sam's brother and that brother's wife.

Sam and Lisa attended the Passover seder I did at my friends house a few years ago. Lisa sang kiddush for us.

[Tulizar]

Would the band Black Tape for a Blue Girl be considered goth? I'm friends with the band member Sam's brother and that brother's wife.

Sam and Lisa attended the Passover seder I did at my friends house a few years ago. Lisa sang kiddush for us.

I've never heard of them. Are they still together? I sampled a few of their songs and they sort of remind me of Dead Can Dance. I'm not sure how to categorize them--gothic, new-age, neo-classical?

I loved some of their answers given to questions submitted by their fans.

Are you a perkie goth or a Mopey goth?
Elysabeth:I am as perkie as they get.
Lisa: i was mopey, but now am perkie.
Sam: grumpy goth


If you could force one state in the continental U.S. to secede to Canada, which one would you find most appropriate to select and why? (can't pick Alaska)
Elysabeth: Texas because it's too big.
Lisa : washington, because i don't like microsoft
Sam: tough question.... maybe washington....so THEY would have to
have to deal with Bill Gates