I wanna die just like jesus christ
I wanna die on a bed of spikes
I wanna die come see paradise
I wanna die just like jesus christ
I wanna die just like J.F.K.
I wanna die on a sunny day
I wanna die just like J.F.K.
I wanna die in the U.S.A.
I wanna die
I wanna die
I wouldn't sell my soul
But I'd hang for this
I gotta get my goal
Cause I'd hang for this
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead Album Lyrics
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead Lyrics
Writer: JEAN FRANK COCHOY
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Teenage Lust
Little skinny girl she's doing it for the first time
Little skinny girl she's doing it and it feels fine
She's taking hold and I'm holding on
Holding on and my sense is gone
I got it you got it she's got it
She's taking hold of her sins now
For the first time
Well she's been told about sins now
But it feels fine
She's taking hold and I'm holding on
Holding on and my sense is gone
I got it you got it she's got it
Little skinny girl she's doing it and it feels fine
She's taking hold and I'm holding on
Holding on and my sense is gone
I got it you got it she's got it
She's taking hold of her sins now
For the first time
Well she's been told about sins now
But it feels fine
She's taking hold and I'm holding on
Holding on and my sense is gone
I got it you got it she's got it
Writer: J REID, W REID
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Far Gone and Out
Sung by willam
I can't explain exactly what I'm doing standing in the rain
Don't do it for fun
Do it if you feel it
Kiss it on the tongue
I'm taking my thoughts to a railway station
Put 'em on a train just to see what's coming back
What's coming back
It's coming like a heart attack
Ice melts too fast
So nothing stays forever nothing's gonna last
She's dressed in black
A black that ends in nowhere and I just got to have her back
And I'm television sick and I'm television crazy
No one works so hard just to make me feel so bad
I'm feeling bad
Oh that's too sad
Hey. hey. hey. she's as mean as mean.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as black as black.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as mean as mean.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as black as black.
Hey. hey. hey. I got to get her back.
Hey. hey. hey. I got to get her back.
Hey. hey. hey. I got to get her back.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as mean as mean.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as sick as sick.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as cool as cool.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as black as black.
I can't explain exactly what I'm doing standing in the rain
Don't do it for fun
Do it if you feel it
Kiss it on the tongue
I'm taking my thoughts to a railway station
Put 'em on a train just to see what's coming back
What's coming back
It's coming like a heart attack
Ice melts too fast
So nothing stays forever nothing's gonna last
She's dressed in black
A black that ends in nowhere and I just got to have her back
And I'm television sick and I'm television crazy
No one works so hard just to make me feel so bad
I'm feeling bad
Oh that's too sad
Hey. hey. hey. she's as mean as mean.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as black as black.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as mean as mean.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as black as black.
Hey. hey. hey. I got to get her back.
Hey. hey. hey. I got to get her back.
Hey. hey. hey. I got to get her back.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as mean as mean.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as sick as sick.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as cool as cool.
Hey. hey. hey. she's as black as black.
Writer: BERTRAM CHARLES REID, CHARLES REID BERTRAM, RAYMOND S. REID
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Almost Gold
Sung by william
You take me here from far
Up to the highest star
You took a part of me
No one else will ever see
And if I gave away
What I'm dying to say
I couldn't give you more than this
I was born and it was bliss
I have died for a thousand years
Tasted salt of a thousand tears
And your kiss was almost gold
You took me near you took me far,
Up to the highest brightest star
You're giving back the exchange,
We got something going on
And if I ever fell from grace
With every living human state
Well I throw the whole thing down
And I take to higher ground
Cast a spell on my surround
Time to think on what I found
This is almost gold
You take me here from far
Up to the highest star
You took a part of me
No one else will ever see
And if I gave away
What I'm dying to say
I couldn't give you more than this
I was born and it was bliss
I have died for a thousand years
Tasted salt of a thousand tears
And your kiss was almost gold
You took me near you took me far,
Up to the highest brightest star
You're giving back the exchange,
We got something going on
And if I ever fell from grace
With every living human state
Well I throw the whole thing down
And I take to higher ground
Cast a spell on my surround
Time to think on what I found
This is almost gold
Writer: J REID, W REID
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Sugar Ray
sung by Jim
Did you do it good
Did you do it right
Did you get that pain
Crawling up your spine
Did you feel the heat
Of my sugar ray
Swear I saw that light
Shining on your face
All my friends have fun with guns
But all I want is you
All I want is you
All I want
Did you read my poem
Did you get my poem
Did it break your bones
Almost broke my bones
Did you feel my lips
Did they slide and slip
Did you feel my head
Shaking through your wrist
Sugar through your ray
All those boys have fun with sores
But all I want is you
All I want is you
All I want
Is you
Darling you're so good
Oh if felt so good
Did you feel that heat
Did you feel the heat
Of my sugar ray
Sugar ray
I almost died
Died died died died
Come enjoy
All I want is you
All I want is you
All I want
Is you
Baby give me
Sugar ray
Did you do it good
Did you do it right
Did you get that pain
Crawling up your spine
Did you feel the heat
Of my sugar ray
Swear I saw that light
Shining on your face
All my friends have fun with guns
But all I want is you
All I want is you
All I want
Did you read my poem
Did you get my poem
Did it break your bones
Almost broke my bones
Did you feel my lips
Did they slide and slip
Did you feel my head
Shaking through your wrist
Sugar through your ray
All those boys have fun with sores
But all I want is you
All I want is you
All I want
Is you
Darling you're so good
Oh if felt so good
Did you feel that heat
Did you feel the heat
Of my sugar ray
Sugar ray
I almost died
Died died died died
Come enjoy
All I want is you
All I want is you
All I want
Is you
Baby give me
Sugar ray
Writer: JAMES REID, WILLIAM REID
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Tumbledown
U.V. RAY - The Jesus and Mary Chain
There's treasure in the pit of the hideous sin
Unpeel ice cool velvet skin
Junk eats trash in a chemical kiss
T.V. poison tastes like this
Broken down Jesus with a taste for trash
Ice cool hip swinger moves too fast
Tear stained nightmares in the cold light of day
sick sick nightmares just won't go away
You gotta kick it while it's on
You gotta take it while it's going
You gotta walk before you run
You're getting fun fun fun
There's treasure in the pit of the hideous sin
Unpeel ice cool velvet skin
Junk eats trash in a chemical kiss
T.V. poison tastes like this
Broken down Jesus with a taste for trash
Ice cool hip swinger moves too fast
Tear stained nightmares in the cold light of day
sick sick nightmares just won't go away
You gotta kick it while it's on
You gotta take it while it's going
You gotta walk before you run
You're getting fun fun fun
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Catchfire
You've been burned now
All over town
Kissin' dirt and make me baby
Even underground
No where to run to uh huh
No where to hide
Baby Catch Fire
Baby Catch Fire
Catch Catch Fire
Catch Catch Fire
Disengage you waste me baby
All over my face
Kissin' dirt and make me baby
In another place
Nothing to say now honey
Nothing to do
Baby Catch Fire
Baby Catch Fire
Catch Catch Fire
Catch Catch Fire
We're gonna crucify her, yeah
We're gonna crucify her, yeah
We're gonna crucify her, yeah
We're gonna crucify her, yeah
Crucify her
All over town
Kissin' dirt and make me baby
Even underground
No where to run to uh huh
No where to hide
Baby Catch Fire
Baby Catch Fire
Catch Catch Fire
Catch Catch Fire
Disengage you waste me baby
All over my face
Kissin' dirt and make me baby
In another place
Nothing to say now honey
Nothing to do
Baby Catch Fire
Baby Catch Fire
Catch Catch Fire
Catch Catch Fire
We're gonna crucify her, yeah
We're gonna crucify her, yeah
We're gonna crucify her, yeah
We're gonna crucify her, yeah
Crucify her
Writer: J REID, W REID
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Good For My Soul
Sung by william
Good for my soul
Heaven knows she's good for my soul
Close to my soul
Heaven knows she's close to my soul
I should have let her know
I should have let her know
Good for my soul, believe me
Heaven knows she's good for my soul, believe me
Ever since she came I've been whole, believe me
Ever since she came I've been whole, believe me
I should have let her know
I should have let her know
She can take the world on another journer into her soul
Good for my soul
Heaven knows she's good for my soul
Close to my soul
Heaven knows she's close to my soul
I should have let her know
I should have let her know
Good for my soul, believe me
Heaven knows she's good for my soul, believe me
Ever since she came I've been whole, believe me
Ever since she came I've been whole, believe me
I should have let her know
I should have let her know
She can take the world on another journer into her soul
Writer: J REID, W REID
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Rollercoaster
Sung by william
Why, keep in touch with my crimes
Cause I left it far behind
Out of sight and out of mind
Down the gutter in the drain
Back to wherever they came
Don't put me down
I don't think that I don't know
Sometimes I feel nothing's good it's all gone wrong
You got respect for my mind
For I've connections too sublime
Look for something hard to find
Easy streets are not for me
When I drown I drown in sea
Don't put me down
I don't think that I don't want
Sometimes I feel nothing's good it's all gone wrong
Can you see her now?
Have you seen her now?
She goes down
She goes down
I can't see
What I can't see
Have you seen her now?
Have you seen her?
Why, keep in touch with my crimes
Cause I left it far behind
Out of sight and out of mind
Down the gutter in the drain
Back to wherever they came
Don't put me down
I don't think that I don't know
Sometimes I feel nothing's good it's all gone wrong
You got respect for my mind
For I've connections too sublime
Look for something hard to find
Easy streets are not for me
When I drown I drown in sea
Don't put me down
I don't think that I don't want
Sometimes I feel nothing's good it's all gone wrong
Can you see her now?
Have you seen her now?
She goes down
She goes down
I can't see
What I can't see
Have you seen her now?
Have you seen her?
Writer: ANDRE FORREST, DAMIAN MARLEY, CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, SEAN DIEDRICK, OWEN REID, CRAIG TAYLOR
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Ultra Tunes, DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Ultra Tunes, DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
I Cant Get Enough
Sung by william
I can't get enough of you
God gave me strength and I gave it to you
I've got sticks in my spine but what can I do
I can never never never get enough of you
You're my kind
Honey you're so cool
You're so cool
You're my kind
You'll be the death of me
Something to do something to hold
I won't come until I've been told
Give me a kick give me it quick
Gimme gimme gimme till I'm sick
You're my kind
Honey you're so cool
You're my kind
You'll be the death of me
Can't get enough
I can't get enough
I can't get enough of you
God gave me strength and I gave it to you
I've got sticks in my spine but what can I do
I can never never never get enough of you
You're my kind
Honey you're so cool
You're so cool
You're my kind
You'll be the death of me
Something to do something to hold
I won't come until I've been told
Give me a kick give me it quick
Gimme gimme gimme till I'm sick
You're my kind
Honey you're so cool
You're my kind
You'll be the death of me
Can't get enough
I can't get enough
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Sundown
sung by Jim
Say a prayer for me
Remember I breathe, I breathe
Grown up twisted in
A place you can't see, can't see
The planet poisoned me
Is a sick place to be, to be
I've got a taste for it
Now I've gotta leave
Goin' away
Sun's comin' down
Sun's comin' down
On me, on me, on me, oh
The world
Is fakin' every deal that it makes
Every handshake
Sometimes crazy people
Come into my space
I got to handshake
The planet's more f*cked up
Than I'll ever be, I'll ever be
I've got a taste for it
Now I've gotta leave
Goin' down
Shine on (Repeat)
Say a prayer for me
Remember I breathe, I breathe
Grown up twisted in
A place you can't see, can't see
The planet poisoned me
Is a sick place to be, to be
I've got a taste for it
Now I've gotta leave
Goin' away
Sun's comin' down
Sun's comin' down
On me, on me, on me, oh
The world
Is fakin' every deal that it makes
Every handshake
Sometimes crazy people
Come into my space
I got to handshake
The planet's more f*cked up
Than I'll ever be, I'll ever be
I've got a taste for it
Now I've gotta leave
Goin' down
Shine on (Repeat)
Writer: MIKAL REID, BUCK STORM
Copyright: Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
Copyright: Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
Frequency
Sung by jim
I wanna die just like jesus christ
I wanna die on a bed of spikes
I wanna die just like jesus christ
With the radio on
I wanna die just like jfk
I wanna die in the usa
I wanna die just like jfk
With the radio on
Radio on
I wanna die just like jesus christ
I wanna die on a bed of spikes
I wanna die just like jesus christ
With the radio on
I wanna die just like jfk
I wanna die in the usa
I wanna die just like jfk
With the radio on
Radio on
Writer: J REID, W REID
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright: Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Honey's Dead is the fourth studio album by the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 1992 on Blanco y Negro Records. It marked a return to a more abrasive sound for the group, as well as incorporating elements of alternative dance.
The album's title refers to one of the band's early hits, "Just Like Honey", and is intended to demonstrate a complete departure from their earlier musical style. The cover art features a detail from the painting Ophelia (First Version) by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes.
Honey's Dead peaked at No.14 on the UK Charts. As of May 1998 the album has sold 122,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The album's first single, "Reverence", attracted some controversy for the lyrics "I want to die just like Jesus Christ", and "I want to die just like JFK". Banned by Top of the Pops, the track peaked at #10 in the UK charts and received airplay in the United States on alternative radio stations.
Honey's Dead was recorded in the band's London studio, the aptly named "Drugstore", with accomplished engineer Flood and future JaMC producer Alan Moulder on board (not to mention a considerably larger bankroll).
Alternative and campus radio stations picked up "Far Gone and Out" which remains one of the band's most popular singles to date, peaking at #23 in the band's native UK. The Mary Chain shared the bill during parts of Lollapalooza 1992 in the U.S. with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Ministry, Lush, Ice Cube and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anheuser Busch even used the samples of "Sugar Ray" as a background bed for their Bud Ice television commercials in 1993.
Honey's Dead was on the short list of nominees for the 1992 Mercury Prize.
The album posts a close second in sales to their next release, Stoned & Dethroned (1994) (which contains the hit single "Sometimes Always" with Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star). The Reid brothers alternate between singing duties on tracks (most likely coinciding with songwriting duties).
Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins has praised the album, stating:
"I like how JAMC were developing their songs, and what they were using, what musical devices they were using, to build dynamics. There are subtle things that really move these songs along - extra percussion loops, or some feedback-y noise appearing halfway through a song. Again, it sounded like nothing else I'd really heard up until then - familiar, but alien too. It was perplexing in a way, because I couldn't work out how they'd done some of it."
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The Jesus and Mary ChainThe album's title refers to one of the band's early hits, "Just Like Honey", and is intended to demonstrate a complete departure from their earlier musical style. The cover art features a detail from the painting Ophelia (First Version) by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes.
Honey's Dead peaked at No.14 on the UK Charts. As of May 1998 the album has sold 122,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The album's first single, "Reverence", attracted some controversy for the lyrics "I want to die just like Jesus Christ", and "I want to die just like JFK". Banned by Top of the Pops, the track peaked at #10 in the UK charts and received airplay in the United States on alternative radio stations.
Honey's Dead was recorded in the band's London studio, the aptly named "Drugstore", with accomplished engineer Flood and future JaMC producer Alan Moulder on board (not to mention a considerably larger bankroll).
Alternative and campus radio stations picked up "Far Gone and Out" which remains one of the band's most popular singles to date, peaking at #23 in the band's native UK. The Mary Chain shared the bill during parts of Lollapalooza 1992 in the U.S. with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Ministry, Lush, Ice Cube and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anheuser Busch even used the samples of "Sugar Ray" as a background bed for their Bud Ice television commercials in 1993.
Honey's Dead was on the short list of nominees for the 1992 Mercury Prize.
The album posts a close second in sales to their next release, Stoned & Dethroned (1994) (which contains the hit single "Sometimes Always" with Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star). The Reid brothers alternate between singing duties on tracks (most likely coinciding with songwriting duties).
Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins has praised the album, stating:
"I like how JAMC were developing their songs, and what they were using, what musical devices they were using, to build dynamics. There are subtle things that really move these songs along - extra percussion loops, or some feedback-y noise appearing halfway through a song. Again, it sounded like nothing else I'd really heard up until then - familiar, but alien too. It was perplexing in a way, because I couldn't work out how they'd done some of it."
Genre(s): Alternative rock, noise rock
Producer(s): William Reid, Jim Reid
Length: 42:39
Released: March 22nd, 1992
Year: 1992