Perry Blake Lyrics

 

Perry Blake

Little boys & little girls

The hunchback of San Francisco

1971

Anouska ( I want to come home )

Broken statue

Genevieve ( The pilot of your thighs )

So long

Naked man

Widows by the radio

Weeping tree

House in the clouds

 

 

Perry Blake

Little boys & little girls

Tragic tenor sing to me

Of lust and deep depravity hello? Hello?

Lock me up this time for good

Before i might be understood hello? How low...

So all of the worlds

Little boys&Little girls

Can sleep peacefully

In their tiny beds

Tragic tenor kiss my ass

And give my filthy mouth a bath hello? Hello?

Lock me up this time for sure

Before somebody finds a cure hello? Hello?

So all of the worlds

Little boys & Little girls

Can sleep peacefully

In their tiny beds

 

The hunchback of San Francisco

Morning has broken the silence of night

Now you'll have to use kindness to fight

It's just like asbestos, it sticks to your skin

It burns within

Luck is a hunchback, travelling light

With rags and transistors to hold up the sky

Drink to the hearts that San Francisco stole

But drink slow

'Cause I'm a lonely Man

And you're a lonely Girl

And it's a lonely world

If you make Vegas, leave on the lights

I want to see your expression change

Hatred will take you to unknown heights

Drink slow

'Cause I'm a lonely Man

And you're a lonely Girl

And it's a lonely world

 

1971

Throw away your suitcase

Come back to bed

There is nothing I wouldn't do

For a girl in distress

I've loaded my weapon

I'm wearing my best

There is nothing I couldn't stoop to

For a Girl in distress

Nothing I wouldn't stoop to

We are out in the hills now

Looking over the sea

There is nothing she wouldn't do

To a man on his knees

 

Anouska ( I want to come home )

Moments come, moments go

There is nothing else

I will hide in this lifetime of ignorance

Nouska-Anouska I want to come home

Nouska-Anouska I feel so alone

Voice of God comforts some

When a love dissolves

Voice of God comforts none

When a child's stillborn

Nouska-Anouska I want to come home

Nouska-Anouska I feel so alone

I recall a thousand English hands

They were praying for an avalanche

Nouska-Anouska I've been so alone

Nouska-Anouska I want to come home

I belong to where the angels die

Long before they even learn to fly

I recall a hundred summer days

Summer Girls I knew would never stay

I belong to where the angels die

Long before they even learn to fly

Nouska-Anouska I want to come home

Nouska-Anouska I feel so alone

 

Broken statue

She is wearing a complexion

Like the inside of a church

That has never seen two lovers

Just before they lose their thirst

She likes nature in spite of

What nature did to her

And she loves enough to jaywalk

Enough to get hurt

And if she falls in the path of

The midday traffic

I will sleep by the bed of a broken statue

Radio for help now

She's gone missing again

Without a raincoat or a hairbrush

Without a witness or a trail

We like Nature in spite of

What Nature does to us

And we love to jaywalk

But not enough to get hurt

And if she walks in the path

Of the midday traffic

I will keep by the grave of a broken statue

If she walks in the path

Of the midday traffic

I will walk in the path

Of the midday traffic

And she falls in the path

Of the midday traffic

I will keep by the grave of a broken statue

 

Genevieve ( The pilot of your thights )

Genevieve, Genevieve

Dreaming of those castles in the sky

Genevieve, Genevieve

And clocks that couldn't wait to tell the time

That's why I'm the pilot of your thighs

The one who holds your hand

When you stare in those canals

The pilot of your thighs

Genevieve, Genevieve

Horoscopes were written in the snow

Genevieve, Genevieve

Sometimes the sun just gets too close

That's why I'm the pilot of your thighs

The one who holds your hand

When you stare in those canals

The pilot of your thighs

 

So long

Every night and every day

Comes a newly hatched decay

Nothing ever satisfies

Until you lose your appetite

So long, so long baby baby

So long, so long

A feeling that will never die

Kept a vigil by your side

Helpless as the melting snow

There are things that we will never know

So long, so long baby baby

So long, so long

 

Naked man

Naked Man dreaming of a Naked God

Naked God dreaming of a clothed world

Hopeless dawn offers up it's tragedy

Fading sun washes out to Sea

And you know that's how it goes

When people steep themselves in Faith

You know that's how it goes

That's how it goes

Child of Prague, lying through it's broken teeth

Get a dog, at least they don't forget

And we know that's how it goes

When people steep themselves in Love

We know that's how it goes

That's how it goes

Valentine, Why should I remember you?

Valentine, Please let me forget.

Valentine, Why should I remember you?

Valentine, Please let me forget

Let me go.

 

Widows by the radio

Drink to our demolished home

Wher loss resides alone

Like a widow by the radio

Child, childhood is a place

Where sorrow comes of age

A widow by the radio

Try to understand

I couldn't hold your hand

I couldn't even hold a gun

Surely we could find

A reason or a sign

That everything's not gone for good

Autumn whispers through the trees

Cheap things to her and me

But patience wears a uniform

Nature take care of your sons

I think they have become

The Darlings of the universe

Try to understand

I couldn't hold your hand

I couldn't even hold a gun

Surely we could hide

A reason or a sigh

That everything is  gone for good.

 

Weeping tree

Weeping tree, shoulders to the sky

Never understood why

Weeping tree, should've let you go

How was I to know?

And if you find a clue

 I hope you find it soon

Some people hold their breath forever

And if you find a house

Where you can live without the one you love

Weeping tree, fruitless, stands alone

Where lovers long dead used to go

Weeping tree, should've let you go

But how was I to know?

And if you find a clue

I hope you find it soon

Some people hold their breath forever

And if you find a house

Where you can live without the one you love

 

House in the clouds

I left my house in the clouds

I walked into someone's afterlife

She kept a pill in her hand

To take when we were about to land

Did you try

To let it go on by?

Did you try?

The Needles and the Uniforms

A schoolgirl and a unicorn

Eclipse a love with a loss

I sought comfort in her underwear

I shaved my face twice a day

Those crazy lambs

They will suffocate

Did you cry

Or let it go on by?

Did you cry?

The aftertaste of something warmer

Of schoolgirls and of unicorns.

Did you try to let it go on by?

Did you try?

The schoolgirl and the unicorn

The Needles and the Uniforms;

I washed her face in the rain

I will return to that place again

Back to my house in the clouds

Back to my house in the clouds