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Tiny baby, so naive
I can't believe what you believe
You were once so happy here
It may not be Eden or summer in Greece
You may not even find the Gold Fleece
In the drag of this atmosphere
Now I don't want to bring up a delicate matter
No I'd much rather bribe or flatter you
'Cause flattery gets me everywhere
But you punctured my tires, you crossed all my wires
I brand your acolytes as a pack of liars
And the fire's singing everywhere
Buckle like a wreck on the cold green sea
Like you were a ripple in my memory
I lent you some collateral to buy new clothes
It went out the window and up your nose
And that's the end of the honeymoon
Yeah we walked down the aisle for another mile
I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles
And you can have all the money soon
You're so deluxe, you're so divine
You're so fifty light years ahead of your time
You're a riddle, you're a ripple
You're the human sacrifice to the goddess of ice
Your hairdo is filled with diamonds and lice
And you're hardly off the nipple
Another little glitch in continuity
Like you were a ripple in my memory
| joempie (Switzerland) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 05:38 Everybody in The Church loves this song :) Interesting, I never realized they could sound like Bauhaus... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 11:22 Cynaera wrote: I really hope Bill reads this one on the air someday - SO funny! Thanks for the blast of intelligence mixed with humor. Miss you so much, Ann... |
| piripimpo | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 08:01 MY CULT BAND STEVE KILBEY AND MWP FOREVER THE BEST |
| philbertr (Roch New York) | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 07:47 This just kept growing and growing on me as I listened...I was really bummed out when it was over! ![]() |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 07:46 This song is so much better than a 6.7... |
| Zep | Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 17:51 Sounds like some good 80s psychedelic rock.... would mix well with Echo |
| wrangler (swamps of jersey) | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 08:45 from a church album i don't own (yet). love this band |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 08:41 ...oh, very nice after tango for django... |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Apr 28, 2011 - 18:44 lwilkinson wrote: I think that's referred to as "Syncronicity" (Karl Jung); simultaneous knowledge passed thru' the unconscious that is "realized" on a universal level across the globe.....................or it could just be space aliens with little pointy heads and bad skin. I really hope Bill reads this one on the air someday - SO funny! Thanks for the blast of intelligence mixed with humor. |
| rlr511 (Philadelphia) | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 04:05 Sounds like a soundtrack from a B grade movie |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Feb 24, 2011 - 17:06 ...i realise that i'm just repeating myself at this point, but damn, this is good music... |
| socalhol (Seattle) | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 15:06 lkbooth71 wrote: A Love and Rocket's chaser would be tasty right about now...yes that too, I was thinking Jesus & Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey" might be nice! |
| Pieter (Sydney Australia) | Posted: Jul 04, 2009 - 00:05 If that's a dingo on the cover, it's a long way from home. |
| WayUpNorth (Edge of Nowhere) | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 05:02 love this song ... great morning music. |
| lwilkinson (North Am-Home of the Last of the Rugged Individualists) | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 11:57 xkolibuul wrote: Joseph Campbell was really good at wild unsubstantiated theoretical leaps. Mexico didn't need the Old World to learn how to build pyramids. Don't believe the hype. I think that's referred to as "Syncronicity" (Karl Jung); simultaneous knowledge passed thru' the unconscious that is "realized" on a universal level across the globe.....................or it could just be space aliens with little pointy heads and bad skin. |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Feb 27, 2009 - 10:20 ...magnetic disturbance distorting the meters... |
| thetimebeing2112 (Near O-Town Flah de Dah) | Posted: Sep 23, 2008 - 17:37 Damn. Love the lyrics to this song. Now I don't want to bring up a delicate matter No I'd much rather bribe or flatter you 'Cause flattery gets me everywhere But you've punctured my tires, you've crossed all my wires I brand your acolytes as a pack of liars And the fire's singing everywhere I leant you some collateral to buy new clothes It went out the window and up your nose And that's the end of the honeymoon Steve Kilbey's the only guy who could write this stuff...... |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: May 02, 2008 - 12:20 ...nice... |
| xkolibuul (Chuckanut sandstone) | Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 12:11 Joseph Campbell was really good at wild unsubstantiated theoretical leaps. Mexico didn't need the Old World to learn how to build pyramids. Don't believe the hype. driver8 wrote: |
| greg6494 (St. Louis) | Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 12:02 it is officially friday afternoon now. and quite the perfect choice song to begin it with. |
| Wisecrowe (York, PA) | Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 12:01 My first time hearing the tune, but--WOW!--what a kickass album cover. |
| Nabla (Ver-Cork-st (Ireland)) | Posted: Sep 25, 2007 - 11:16 Shesdifferent wrote: What an excellent choice!
I agree! Excellently chosen - like the tune. |
| driver8 (Back in The Village) | Posted: Jul 24, 2007 - 13:49 His passing through my life was like a whisper... but he made ripples in my little pond.... |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Mar 20, 2007 - 21:28 jadewahoo wrote: The only church I pay attention to is The Church. What an excellent choice!And the songs not bad either! |
| moonbat (Flying Low and Avoiding The Radar) | Posted: Mar 01, 2007 - 18:17 driver8 wrote: Cool, thanks for the info! Time to get out of Iraq before we blow up the rest of the Ziggurats. Mmm...now I crave a Zagnut. |
| driver8 (ina gadda da vida) | Posted: Feb 14, 2007 - 17:15 moonbat wrote: Great album. Dark as hell, but great.
Driver8, would that temple be considered a ziggurat? Cute dog. isn't that (ziggurat) a candy bar? i keed! I guess it could be considered a ziggurat. Wiki reports about ziggurats in mesopatamia while this one is in Egypt. Something of note: Joseph Campbell in his Masks of God books says that there is archaelogical evidence supporting a direct link between Mesopotamian ziggurats and the pyramids of Egypt. Campbell also states that from Egypt, the Mesopotamian culture was passed on almost simultaneously on two separate fronts to Crete and India. From India it reached China and from there it crossed the ocean to the pre-columbian societies of Central and South America, which could explain the similarities between ziggurats and Mayan pyramids. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 12:10 Shades of The The in this number, the singer sounding more than a little like Holly Johnson. IMO naturally :) |
| rgrace (Rio Nido, CA) | Posted: Jan 18, 2007 - 21:15 Definitely not a cover of the Grateful Dead's Ripple. Now that would be something to hear, wouldn't it? |
| moonbat (Flying Low and Avoiding The Radar) | Posted: Dec 20, 2006 - 18:31 Great album. Dark as hell, but great. Driver8, would that temple be considered a ziggurat? Cute dog. |
| driver8 (At the Mountains of Madness) | Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 19:25 High lights from research by Joseph Burns : 1) It is the Step Pyramid of King Zoser of the Third Dynasty - who reigned from c2780 to 2720 BC. 2) The Step Pyramid is found at the site of Saqqara in Egypt and pre-dates what we commonly know as the pyramids and is built differently. 3) Historians say it is the 'first' pyramid built with 'steps', while later pyramids are big triangular mountains of rock. 4) Its creator, Imhotep, came to be deified in later Egyptian tradition. He is the first artist whose name has been recorded in history, and deservedly so, since his acheivement is standing still today." 5) Under King Zoser, a set calendar in egypt of 365 days started in 2772. Also this period has the first reports of domesticated dogs in Egypt. 6) The dog that graces the album cover is in fact called Spot, and not Fido as many scholars have suggested. |
| driver8 (At the Mountains of Madness) | Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 14:55 ![]() |
| ecocommie (Hillsboro, OR) | Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 14:54 Reminds me of Love and Rockets- |
| jadewahoo (...somewhere in the Darkness) | Posted: Oct 08, 2006 - 17:20 jadewahoo wrote: The only church I pay attention to is The Church. rixtar99 wrote: figures Which means what? |
| fuh2 (I think I'm in the USA) | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 14:17 TIGS |
| rixtar99 (The O.C.) | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 14:14 jadewahoo wrote: The only church I pay attention to is The Church.
figures |
| lkbooth71 (Oakland, CA) | Posted: May 15, 2006 - 09:53 A Love and Rocket's chaser would be tasty right about now... |
| bob789 | Posted: May 15, 2006 - 09:51 topherg87 wrote: i dont much care for this...
Nope, me neither. Gimmicky. |
| topherg87 (here and now) | Posted: Feb 13, 2006 - 17:27 i dont much care for this... |
| jadewahoo (Sedona Az, Beautiful Earth) | Posted: Dec 17, 2005 - 09:52 The only church I pay attention to is The Church. |
| littlevelvet | Posted: Nov 03, 2005 - 12:48 I feel like I'm 18 again. Glad I'm not so moody anymore. Good to hear The Church again. |
| Beastie (Rye, NY) | Posted: May 10, 2005 - 15:38 Yeah! Brilliant! |
| Ngoziman (Under the sheets) | Posted: Feb 26, 2005 - 03:47 I seem to remember that the video to this was sort of...well...ripply...or maybe it was one too many VBs. |
| trekhead | Posted: Dec 29, 2004 - 05:18 YYYYEEEAAHHH, BERRRBERRR!!! |
| stevebeaver (Fairfax, VA) | Posted: Dec 14, 2004 - 09:53 I am SO SO SO glad I did not go out to lunch right now like I was thinking of. |
| drH (Bush's Amerika) | Posted: Nov 29, 2004 - 15:57 jdorn1 wrote: The Starfish album was great, but there is a even BETTER music by The Church. Something off of Remote Luxury or Seance woud be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttt! I guess I'll have to do some uploading of my own.
Thanks to you who got The Church into the RP playlis You're welcome, re this particular song. :) |
| jdorn1 | Posted: Aug 18, 2004 - 12:44 The Starfish album was great, but there is a even BETTER music by The Church. Something off of Remote Luxury or Seance woud be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttt! I guess I'll have to do some uploading of my own. Thanks to you who got The Church into the RP playlis |
| Angloray (Lost Angeles) | Posted: Aug 18, 2004 - 12:28 love The Church. Love his voice. |
| drH (on the Left) | Posted: Jun 10, 2004 - 19:30 Note to Bill: It's not Church. It's THE Church! |
| rumplestiltskin | Posted: May 28, 2004 - 13:58 Bill, kudos on the very informative segue! (The song that came before it in this playlist was Tom Petty - Love is a Long Road.) Clearly, the repeated driving chords are very similar, if not the same, though the songs are indeed quite different. |
| drH (Fernwood, OH) | Posted: Apr 06, 2004 - 16:20 ladyj wrote: wow!! yeah really, thanks. I love this album. never thought anything would get accepted from this one. Do you think they might like something from the "Sometime Anywhere"? Surely "Two Places At Once" belongs in the library! |


A Love and Rocket's chaser would be tasty right about now...
