The Psychedelic Furs

Psychedelic Furs (2008)

The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in London in February 1977. Led by singer Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs were one of the many acts spawned from the British post-punk scene. Their music went through several phases, from an initially austere art rock sound, to later touching on new wave and hard rock.

Song lyrics

Talk Talk Talk (1981)

All songs written by Richard Butler, John Ashton, Roger Morris, Tim Butler, Duncan Kilburn and Vince Ely.

• Give me all your paper ma
  So I can get a train.
  They just wanna suck you in
  To being one of them.
  Tell her that I'm not in here,
  Tell her I'm a freak.
  Tell her that I fall about
  Every time I speak.
  • "Dumb Waiters"

• She lives in the place
  In the side of our lives
  Where nothing is
  Ever put straight.
  She turns herself round
  And she smiles and she says
  'This is it'
  'That's the end of the joke'
  And loses herself
  In her dreaming and sleep
  And her lovers walk
  Through in their coats.

  Pretty in pink,
  Isn't she?
  Pretty in pink,
  Isn't she?

  • "Pretty in Pink"

Forever Now (1982)

All songs written by Richard Butler, John Ashton, Tim Butler and Vince Ely.

• There's an army on the dance floor
  It's a fashion with a gun, my love
  In a room without a door
  A kiss is not enough in.

  Love my way, it's a new road,
  I follow where my mind goes.

  • "Love My Way"

• So swallow all your tears, my love
  And put on your new face.
  You can never win or lose
  If you don't run the race.
  • "Love My Way"

Mirror Moves (album) (1984)

All lyrics written by Richard Butler and Tim Butler, except as noted.

• A race is on I'm on your side
  And hearing you my engines die
  I'm in a mood for you.
  For Running away
  Stars come down in you
  And love, you can't give it away
  • "The Ghost in You"

• There's a way to turn it off
  It gets so hard at times
  To take it serious
  It really gets to be a drag
  When all we really need is love
  Here come cowboys
  Here to save us all.
  
  • "Here Come Cowboys"

• There's a hole in the sky
  Where the sun don't shine
  And a clock on the wall
  And it counts my time
  And heaven
  Is the whole of the heart
  And heaven don't tear you apart
  • "Heaven"

• At the end of the day
  It's a price that you pay
  With your pieces of love
  All your pieces of love
  • "My Time", written by John Ashton and Richard Butler

Midnight to Midnight (1987)

All tracks composed and arranged by Richard Butler, John Ashton and Tim Butler.

• And it feels like love,
  But it don't mean a lot.
  And it feels like love,
  And it's all that we've got.

  There's a Heartbreak Beat playing all night long
  Down on my street.
  And it feels like love, got the radio on,
  And it's all that we need.

  • "Heartbreak Beat"

Book of Days (1989)

All lyrics written by Richard Butler.

• Days that never come
  To shine a light on the damage done
  Somedays without a sound
  I feel the dark even closer now
  I wear it, a winter coat
  I'm far away but not far enough
  What's true is torn
  And shouted down
  • "Shine"

• All of this I now regret
  Not a name that I might place
  Not at my parade
  Framed the faces I applaud
  All the same sad eyes
  Write the world between the lines
  • "Torch"

• This day is not my life
  The passing time is not my life
  The thorn that's in my side
  Is all these scenes that we regret
  The wasted words we can't forget
  • "House"

World Outside (1991)

• And with her step I move my feet.
  And with her hand I feel my skin.
  And with her need I find I'm saved.
  And with her dreams I'm laid.

  Until she comes again.
  The sun goes out and night comes in.
  The time goes 'round and day grows dim.
  Until she comes again.

  • "Until She Comes"