Album :: Skin is all Sin
Devine Lie create an interesting mixture and an unusual take on Alternative Rock on their new album, Skin is All Sin.
Presenting a harder edge than on their last album Devine Lies, Skin is all Sin kicks off with a hauntingly dark track, Hope in Suicide which explores the feelings of someone who feels trapped and hopeless in today’s pressurized, stress driven world.
While
there is nothing “new” as such in the world of music, it is always nice to
hear someone striving to do something worthwhile and trying to get their message across.
Musically the range of instruments and style of music is impressive, but the lyrics and their inference,
which range from in depth cuttingly personal observations to comments on the state of the world and
the problems we all face today, are what really set Devine Lie apart.
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Skin is all Sin - written, produced and performed by Devine Lie. For more information email Devine Lie |
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Lyrics :: Hope in Suicide
I cry
Before I weep
I cry
Before I sleep
Despair
In my eyes
My heart
Slowly dies
Into valleys so dark
Anguish my countermark
Tunnels of ghosts
Life the lethal dose
No hope for me
Have to decide
Life’s deportee
Hope through suicide
Into valleys so dark
Resolve fading fast
Tunnels of gloom
Tunnels of doom
Can’t see my way
Depression inside
Where can it be
There’s hope in suicide
I drown
Everyday
Vital spark
Ebbing away
Gloom
Descends by night
Tortured
By melancholy blight
Into the valley of death
Away from all this stress
Welcome Hades here
Worship his sharpened spear
Pandora’s box
Lid shut tight
No hope to see
Hope through suicide
Lyrics :: Skin is all Sin
Sweet Majesty
I call you now
Touch my skin
Skin is all sin
Touch my cloak
Black silk of night
Cast your spell
Pentagon of light
Himalayan dreams
Guide me through
Touch my hands
Hands are unclean
Whitest arms
On all the earth
Rush
From the lilac bed
Touch my soul
Deep inside of me
Touch my skin
Skin is unclean
Skin is all sin
Deep dark abyss
I see you now
Bright and clear
With Majickal eyes
Touch my soul
Virgin and untried
Touch my life
Or have I died
Spirits all around
Caress them now
Clear to me
Did anyone see
Golden Dawn
Slipped away
Crack the vault
Keep silence at bay
Touch my soul
Deep inside of me
Touch my skin
Skin is unclean
Skin is all sin
Lyrics :: I Wanted to Be
I wanted to be a great Guitar Player
I wanted to be your all star hero
I wanted to be a deep sea diver
Searching for treasure down below
Why won’t you let me
Do what I need
It’s in my nature to succeed
I wanted to be Che Guevara
I wanted to be the one to save the planet
I wanted to be politically correct
And help get rid of evil Margaret
Why won’t you let me
Do what I need
It’s in my nature to succeed
I wanted to be with anyone else
I wanted to be on my own and single
I wanted to be a futuristic voyeur
And feel the joy and feel the tingle
Why won’t you let me
Do what I need
It’s in my nature to succeed
I wanted to be a great sports star
I wanted to be the one to score
I wanted to be held and acclaimed
By Swedish twins in bed until four
Why won’t you let me
Do what I need
It’s in my nature to succeed
I wanted to be the main dream weaver
I wanted to be the awesome lunch maker
I wanted to be so very very much
But ended up just being a faker
Why won’t you let me
Do what I need
It’s in my nature to succeed
Lyrics :: Is this my Life
Sitting in your chair
Hollow eyes just stare
Is this enough, is this enough
All the promises have gone
All those plans dissolved in one
Who Cares, no one Cares
All those people you once knew
Dead or gone just like you
Should you go to
Meaningless images haunt the walls
Places and times you don’t recall
Is that Life
Left alone to contemplate
Is time alone justified in your state
Is this enough, is this enough
When you were in your prime
Not realizing what comes with time
No not this
Alive but nearly dead
You even have to be fed
Dignity gone
Left alone to contemplate
Is this going to be my fate
Is this my Life
Lyrics :: Truth
When you look at what goes on
In this world we call home
Power trips seem to be
Major corrupting things we see
Doesn’t matter who it is
Same jaunt different ship
Politician or religious seer
All they crave is power here
Truth
Something no one can speak
Starvation is normal
Death is ignored
Just so long as power’s adored
Truth
Never seems to be the way
Today can be hard
Today can be cruel
Tomorrow’s promise is the only jewel
Some dictator in an African state
Is demonized for his hate
Ancient rules drive his greed
Tribal death seems guaranteed
Religious leaders guard their possessions
Driven by murderous regression
Preaching peace and tolerance
So long as your under their influence
Truth
All politicians lie
Watch their hands
Watch their lips
You might escape from their grips
Truth
Why can’t we just get on
Live together
Live for today
Not paradise after you’re blown away
Lyrics :: Pin Stripe Blues
Money Rules
So the saying goes
Your life your death
Who knows
Try real hard
To skim a cent
The bastards just
Take your rent
CCTV
And wire taps
Just a few
Of the traps
Banks in league
With the Government
Paying slush money
For their Management
I got the Pin Stripe Blues
I got the Pin Stripe Blues
No matter how hard
I close my eyes
I can still see their
Fucking ties
Today you need
A small army to help
Keep you legal
And out of debt
Lawyers Accountants
All on the make
Feeding off
The Governments take
Every few months
Another law to learn
Don’t drive here
Or have a smoke
Soon you won’t
Be able to breath
Without getting permission
From the police
I got the Pin Stripe Blues
I got the Pin Stripe Blues
No matter how hard
I close my eyes
I can still see their
Fucking ties
Lyrics :: Reach Up
Sun Climbing high
Reaching up, reaching up
Reaching up to the sky
Touch, feel the air
Going through you fingers
Flowing through your hair
Make the most, while you can
Don’t worry
Don’t leave it in hand
Reach up
Reach up now
Reach up
Reach up anyhow
Live, live for today
In the world right now
There’s no other way
They cause, so much strain
Greedy politicians
Creating so much pain
They lie, everyday
Killing people
Is just their normal way
Reach up
Reach up now
Reach up
Reach up anyhow
Sun, Climbing high
Reaching up, reaching up
Reaching up to the sky
Touch, feel the air
Going through you fingers
Flowing through your hair
Rise above, rise today
Don’t get entangled
In their grimy little ways
Reach up
Reach up now
Reach up
Reach up anyhow
Lyrics :: Shadow Aspect
Sleep
Torments my soul
Waking
From darkness’s control
Am I going insane
What’s hiding in my brain
The Shadow
The Shadows
Trying
To stay awake
Exhausted
By something opaque
I try to refrain
From slicing my temporal vein
The Shadow
The Shadows
Shadow
Are you alone
Shadow
Are you my clone
Shadow
My shadow
My friend
My life
My death
Night
Shows me the way
Remembering
What we had to say
Your insight’s profound
No wonder I feel drowned
The Shadow
The Shadows
Minute
Compared to you
Worthless
By analysis or review
I have to obey
Do everything that you say
The Shadow
The Shadows
Lyrics :: No Hiding Place
You can’t hide away
Away from your yesterdays
You can’t go and change
The things you did
The way you played
You know it’s all gone
Slipped away
Like the dying sun
You know it’s too late
Too late to save you
From your fate
You can’t hide away
Responsibilities far out weigh
Any good you caused
Greed and power
You stand accused
A Butterflies tiny wings
Crushed and broken
In the Land of Kings
Slavery but in name
A subjects life
Not worth the flame
You can’t hide away
Walls are thick but we can see
Mortar red with blood
A million subjects
But no love
Sent across the path
Trenches warm
With the stench of death
You bid them on their way
Couldn’t care less
Who had to pay
You can’t hide away
When you go another stay
No need to atone
No selection
Just on the throne
The pistols always said
Anarchy
But then they fled
The passion of the time
Swept away
Crushed in its prime
© Copyright Devine Lie and Nigel Nicholls 2004 – 2010