1.
Siouxsie & The Banshees performing "Love in a Void"
live on the British TV show "Something Else," 1979. Robert
Smith of The Cure is on guitar:
Too
many fools blocking my motion
Clouding my eyes, must be the potion
Spots in my eyes, must be the lotion
Spots in my eyes, must be the lotion
Love
in a void
It's so numb
Avoiding love
It's so dumb
Love in a void
Too
many bigots for my liking
Too many critics, too few writing
Rabid dogs that aren't biting
Rabid dogs that aren't biting
Love
in a void
It's so numb
Avoiding love
It's so dumb
Love in a void
Jaded
reputation on which you're staking
Lots of money for the making
For all the stars they're just faking
For all the stars they're just faking
Love
in a void
It's so numb
Avoiding love
It's so dumb
Love in a void
2.
Siouxsie & The Banshees performing"Jigsaw Feeling" live on the Old Grey Whistle Test, 11 November 1978. "Pure"
is an instrumental song; Steve Severin's (bass) comments regarding
the song and the band's approach to music follow here:
"For 'Pure', you can also substitute 'essence'. That song
wasn't written--it just happened. It happened during a sound check
in France some time ago. Also it summed up all that we were going
through back in those days. It happened on stage and we just called
it 'Pure'. That's what happens when the band lets loose."
[Source: Melody Maker 21 October 1978]
"It was a case of us knowing what we didn't want,
throwing out every cliché. Never having a guitar solo,
never ending a song with a loud drum smash. At one point, Siouxsie
just took away the high-hat from the drum kit."
"Siouxsie wanted a guitar sound like a cross between The
Velvet Underground and the shower scene in Psycho."
[Source: Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk
1978-1984]
Send
me forward, say my feelings
But all the signals, send me reeling
Jigsaw feeling
One
day I'm feeling total
The next I split in two
My eyes are doing somersaults
Staring at my shoes
My
brain is out of my hand
There's nothing to prevent
The impulse is quite meaningless
in a cerebral non-even
Send
me forward, say my feelings
But all the signals, send me reeling
Jigsaw feeling
Five
fingers do my walking
Ten toes unravel knots
Amorphous jigsaw pieces
falling into slots
Send
me forward, say my feelings
But all the signals, send me reeling
Jigsaw feeling
So
I just sit in reverie
Getting on my nerves
The intangible bonds that keep me
Sitting on the verge....
Of a breakdown
Of a reaction
Of a result
Complete
me, defeat me, maybe
3.
Siouxsie & The Banshees performing "Lullaby"
live in London, July 2002:
The
lunacy will leave the day
Luminous in flight
As the moon spits out
In jagged beams
Another night
Wrap
around this brilliant veil
Tranquil and unbroken
As you spiral down
A world of clay
And taut convulsion
The
dream swan spins
And cartwheel turns
Down deep within your violet slide
The sun begins to rise
Shaking
down its morning swords
To thaw your frozen eyes
The dream swan spins
And so conceals
A heart that aches and yearns
O
hush awhile
Sleepless child
I'll
be watching over you
4. Siouxsie & The Banshees performing "Melt!"
live on the British TV show " Old Grey Whistle Test,"
12 November 1982. Robert Smith of The Cure is once again on guitar:
You
are the melting man
You are your situation
There is no time to breathe
And yet one single breath
Leads to an insatiable desire
Of suicide in sex
So
many blazing orchids
Burning in your throat
Making you choke
Making you sigh
Sigh in tiny deaths
So
Melt!
My lover, melt!
She said melt!
My lover, melt!
You
are the melting man
And as you melt
You are beheaded
Handcuffed in lace, blood & sperm
Swimming
in poison
Gasping in the fragrance
Sweat carves a screenplay
Of discipline and devotion
So
Melt!
My lover, melt!
She said melt!
My lover, melt!
Can
you see?
See into the black of a long, black car
Pulling away from a funeral of flowers
With my hand between your legs
Melting