LANTERN
performed on:
This cut is just Nick and his acoustic, but with full-on harmonies by Janet and Christina. This clocks in at barely two minutes so it's never in danger of wearing out its welcome. At earlier shows the song had almost sounded like thrash.
THIS LIFE BELONGS TO HER
It's being loaned out
To the one waiting in the shack
Who I'll meet beside the lantern
I'm cold and I'm lost
While we're making love
What have I done this time?
The passive victim
Or the double crosser
Miserable anyway
Her words and her sex dissolving me
One mistake follows another
And I'm diving in
Diving in to the beauty
She's so pretty
The room is so quaint
And it feels so good
It turns me inside out
And she moans softly
And it all comes flooding back
It's cold and I'm lost
While we're making love
What have I done this time?
The lantern explodes
She kills me again
We kill each other
The house burns down
I open my eyes
I open my eyes and here she comes
I open my eyes and it's not her I see
It's the one I need