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Siouxsie and the Banshees - Premature Burial

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Premature Burial Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Join Hands
Released: 1979

Premature Burial Lyrics

This catacomb compels me
Corroding and inert
It weights and tries to pull me
Must I resist or re-assert?

The unchanged and the unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me,
We're all sisters and brothers

Ejected to this state of being
Don't bury me with this
I'm in a state of catalepsy
Can I really exist?

Clawing from the inside
Drowning in your chant
Thoughts come flooding through me
Despairing unity

The unchanged and the unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me,
We're all sisters and brothers
Red and white carnations
Can't intoxicate my brain
This blissful suffocation
It is driving me to pain
Oh what a bloody shame

The unchanged and the unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me,
We're all sisters and brothers
I'm not your sister
Or your brother
Don't bury me with this
Join hands-join hands
We're all sisters and brothers
Sisters and brothers
I can't relate to you
You're no relation of mine

Writer/s: SUSAN BALLION, STEVEN SEVERIN, MKCAY, MORRIS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The title of this dirge-like tune was taken from an Edgar Allan Poe story. Siouxsie told Mojo November 2014 the song was, "an expression of claustrophobia, of being hemmed in both by society's and people's limitations."

Siouxsie and the Banshees - O Baby

Siouxsie and the Banshees - O Baby Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Rapture
Released: 1995

O Baby Lyrics

The cracks in the ground grin up at me
Even the creases in my shoes smile up at me
Thought it would end in tragedy
But I'm swimming around in your glory
O Baby O maybe
I'm the lost and found
Look at the stars they're raining down
Even these jewels want to kiss your crown
Don't be afraid it's just your face
Has that effect on heavens' treasure case
O Baby O maybe
You're a paragon
I haven't felt this way before
Impossible to ask for more
Unanswered prayers that went before
Lie like leaves upon the floor
Hang all the world and universe
When I'm with you they always seem perverse
I'm in a state of weightlessness
When I inhale your angel breath
O Baby O maybe
I'm the lost and found

Writer/s: SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (SIOUX, KLEIN, MCCARRICK, BUDGIE, SEVERIN)
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This sunny tune was possibly the last song the Banshees ever worked on. "It's so up and poppy," Siouxsie commented to Mojo, "an unguarded moment when I sound happy."

The video was shot by John Hillcoat who later directed The Proposition and The Road. It was filmed at a children's beauty pageant in Arizona. "All these young girls with plastered smiles and make-up was a bit yuck," Siouxsie told Mojo. "So if you watch the song with the video, the whole thing has a perversity to it." And I got to play this Bette Davis/Baby Jane character."