Love And War
Let others sing of love
I’ll sing of war
My enemy rank with hate
I’ll turn into my whore
I’ll slit his gut with bloodlust
From side to side
I’ll laugh and spit in his face
He’ll sob and then he’ll die
Let others sing of love ...
Oh yes I am a cursed man
I die by the gun
I stick my rifle up your arse
And watch your guts run
Let others sing of love ...
Humanity is something
I have trampled into dust
I’ll slit your gut from side to side
Consumed in my bloodlust
Let others sing of love
I’ll sing of war
Card Game
In their card game you’re a chip
You’re a whore in which they’ll slip
In their chess game you’re a pawn
Falsely honoured truly scorned
In their dice game you they’ll roll
Lie to Heaven goes your soul
Playing poker fuelled by lust
They’ll drink champagne you’ll be dust
In their card game what they win
Each wager is a sin
In their chess game you’ll be raped
For formation a strong shape
In their dice game your snakes eyes
Cannot see their greed and lies
Playing poker their desire
They don’t care if you expire
Kill you on a Monday
I’ll kill you on a Monday
just for the fun
Slash away with my sword
watch your blood runs
Kill you on a Tuesday
make mincemeat of you
Smile and laugh
as I run you through
Kill you on a Wednesday
I’ll cut off your head
Put your head upon a pole
celebrate you’re dead
I’ll kill you on a Thursday
blow you to kingdom come
Laugh at the grieving
of your widow and your son
Kill you on a Friday
your blood I’ll spill
On Saturday boast
to your daughter you I killed
But on Sunday
to the chapel I will go
Where god he will thank me
for the duty I did show
There is no glory in battle
There is no glory in battle
There is no glory in war
You are all just fools
The politicians whores
There is no glory in battle
Each of you a fool
For greedy power brokers
You are just a tool
There are no just reasons
There are no just ends
You’re just a worthless pawn
Liars you defend
There is no glory in battle
There is no glory in war
You are all just fools
The politicians whores
You cannot fight for God
Or for a holly cause
You fight for evil greedy men
you are their abject whore
There is no glory in battle
Each of you a fool
For greedy power brokers
You are just a tool
So proud warrior
Wear your uniform with pride
You are fool an idiot
No matter the side
There is no glory in battle
There is no glory in war
You are all just fools
The politicians whores
Devil
The devil's bought your body
The devil’s bought your soul
So now to do his evil
Is your only goal
Serve each of his evil deeds
‘Cause suffering and pain
You’ll steal for him you’ll rob for him
Kick em till they’re lame
The devils bought your body ...
Your body and your soul
Serve evil the divine
You’ll flail the skin from sinners backs
Drink blood as holy wine
The devils bought your body ...
You’ll bow down to Satan
Satan is your king
And when he rapes your daughters
they’ll wear his ring
Love it is a luxury
Love it is a luxury
In it I won’t invest
It’s a monster I will slaughter
My soul it will not rest
Love is a battle
Of grief loss and pain
Old warriors or lovers
Equally disdained
How proud we are to murder
Rape pillage and maim
How glorious to inflict
Indignity and pain
How proud the agony
Of our bayonet’s lust
Like a child molester
In our victims we thrust
Love it is a luxury ...
We are the lowest of the low
Pathetic is our pride
Our patriotic duty
Is vile from the inside
Each mumbled word of honour
An empty rotten sham
The flags wrapped round our corpses
Each one of us damned
We lie in holy places
Consecrated by the state
Our religion are mouthpieces
For those filled with greed and hate
Love it is a luxury ...
A river of tears
A river of tears is what you will cry
When it is your turn to die
Whatever you try to defeat
It’s all ego and deceit
A river of tears is what you will cry
When it is your turn to die
So with blood lust cut her flesh
Until there is nothing left
A river of tears is what you’ll cry
Because there is no reason why
You’re enemy it lies inside
That serves your greed and foolish pride
Trancred and Clorinda
Trancred and Clorinda
They had a little fight
They slashed each others flesh with swords
Until they lost their lives
They fought their holy battle
Then went to God above
Well God he said you’ve fucked up bad
I am a god of love
Trancred and Clorinda
They had a little fight
They slashed each others flesh with swords
Until they lost their lives
So noble warrior types
You’d better beware
You think you’re going to paradise
God won’t have you there
Trancred and Clorinda
They had a little fight
They slashed each others flesh with swords
Until they lost their lives
Thou shalt not kill God once said
He meant it through and through
Warmongers and soldier pawns
Looks like you’re all screwed
God is gonna get ya
God is gonna get ya ...
God is gonna get each one of you
Kill you
You’re a twat a turd a pig kill you
Cut you’re throat you’re grave I’ll dig kill you
You’ll be dead and I will live kill you
You’re a bastard I won’t forgive kill you
We all need someone to hate
With this blade you’ll meet your fate kill you
You’re not human you’re just a thing kill you
On which my hatred I will fling kill you
I’ll take my sword and cut you’re throat kill you
And on your corpse I will gloat kill you
So now I feel my blood lust rise
Get ready now meet your demise
When the deed the deed is done kill you
I’ll be happy I’ll have fun kill you
Then I can enjoy you’re fate
And someone new I can hate kill you
We all need someone to hate
With this blood meet your fate
So now I feel my blood lust rise
Get ready now meet you’re demise
Kill you kill you ...
Lover's return
She waits and stares out to sea
She sits and waits eternally
For her lover to return
The bitterest a lover spurned
So she sits in grief and shock
The seagulls around her mock
For her lover to return
The bitterest a lover spurned
She stairs out a ship to see
In it her love it’s not to be
For her lover to return
The bitterest a lover spurned
Her tears into the sea they flow
Like a fountain her grief grows
For her lover to return
The bitterest a lover spurned
Her love is bitter as a war
Her love cuts deep as any sword
For her lover to return
The bitterest a lover spurned
Winners and losers
Love is like a battlefield
A weapon used
How often have a pair of eyes
Destroyed and abused
All is fair in love and war
Winners and losers by the score
But just as war is never sacred
Love will always be
Those who do betray
Hell waits eternally
All is fair in love and war
Winners and losers by the score
The greatest warriors
In the flames of hell will burn
Hell has no fury
Like a lover spurned
All is fair in love and war
Winners and losers by the score
The starcrossed lovers
They bathe in bliss
The glory
Of their first kiss
All is fair in love and war
Winners and losers by the score
And Parting is
Such sorrow sweet
The white hot coals of hell
They’ll eat
All is fair in love and war
Winners and losers by the score
Nightingale
So the nightingale does sing
Love is upon the wing
Her voice it melts hearts made of stone
She sings for all of those alone
The nightingale does sing
The lovers night she brings
The drunks sing in the square
The lovers their love share
So the nightingale does sing
Love is upon the wing
The nightingale she sings of death
Of love and what of life is left
The nightingale does sing
The lovers night she brings
And all the drunks in all the bars
Her voice it opens every scar
Enemies of love
Enemies of love
To Hell you are bound
In Hades you will burn
Eternal violence all around
Enemies of love
For each act you’ll receive
Eternal suffering
For each of your bad seeds
Warmonger’s politician
Holy man and king
Each drop of blood you spilled
Increased your suffering
As you sow so you shall reap
Eternal is that law
Every warrior
Is lower than a whore
Enemies of love
Enemies of love
Enemies of love
Love a Whore
The best fruit is the forbidden
And love is the path to forgiving
That which you cannot attain
Sucks you to it like a drain
The love I feel it is so pure
I tell myself so I endure
I suffer pains which I can’t cure
If only I could love a whore
Sometimes I think that I might cry
I never do and I know why
Because with love I will endure
If only I could love a whore
The neon lights go fizzing by
On lonely nights I wonder why
The love I feel it is so pure
If only I could love a whore
Venus
Venus you’ll rape evil you shape
In this world honoured a king
Down to Hell now you’ll go
Try there your power to fling
Two by two ungrateful souls
How the world you sucked
Raping each virgin you found
Leaving each one of them fucked
See all the hypocrites see all the priests
The politicians and kings
Take each one and with joy in your heart
Each one in hell fling
How many corpses lie in their graves
How many girls for you raped
The camel who goes through the eye of a needle
Not one of you God will take
You believe your god and country are right
Your god believe he is just
Your priests your murders sanctify
Each killer to Hell is thrust
A Tribute (of sorts) to Monteverdi is a fusion of the familiar squeeze-box stomp of the Tiger Lillies and the baroque harpsichord flourishes of McGuinness. Inspired by Monteverdi's Madrigals of Love and War, the new works touch on murder, rape and mutilation. And Jacques' vocals - his voice is the missing link between classical falsetto and Berlin cabaret - range from a Tom Waits growl to an angelic operatic warble as he rages against religious and political hypocrisy in times of war. Mark Fisher - The Scotsman
What The Tiger Lillies have come up with - Songs of Love and War - is, on the evidence of the preview CD, both aural seduction and assault in the same breath. There is edgy beauty, rage and a sense of politics. Sarah Unwin Jones - The Herald
The Tiger Lillies (collaborating with David McGuinness of Concerto Caledonia) present their tribute to Monteverdi's Madrigals of Love and War. Harpsichord, Accordion, church organ and musical saw unite in songs of the futility of war.
Credits:
© 2007 MISERY GUTS MUSIC / TIGER 016
ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY MARTYN JAQUES
MARTYN JAQUES - VOCALS / ACCORDION / UKULELE / PIANO
ADRIAN STOUT - DOUBLE BASS / SINGING SAW / BACKING-VOCALS
ADRIAN HUGE - DRUMS / TOYS / BACKING-VOCALS
DAVID McGUINESS - HARPSICHORD / ORGAN
