THE MERRY THOUGHTS

...meet us at the end of the rainbow...

The Merry Thoughts - Stars


So, here's a time already done
With flowers picked and songs are sung
And stolen words of wisdom chosen for efficiency
You could hold my heart, you could hold my head
In your hands, if you could bear it
If you could bear me, if you could

I would light the stars for you

So, here is that time already done
With flowers picked and songs are sung
And chosen words of wisdom stolen for efficiency
You could hold my heart, you could hold my head
In your hands, if you can bear it
If you can bear me, if you can

I would light the stars for you

I would light the stars for you

About The Merry Thoughts
Originally formed in 1983 by Carsten Mainz (guitar, synthesizer) and Olaf Wollschläger (synthesizer, drum machine). Invited Marvin Arkham a.k.a. Marvo Zoo to play synthesizer at first, then persuaded him to do the singing. Sonja Jordan (synthesizer) made a most welcome addition to the group in late '83. The first line-up lasted nearly two years after which finding the right people became increasingly difficult. In 1991 Sonja (this time on guitar) and Marvin recorded a demo of 'Second Generation', a song from the band's very early days. It was later released as The Merry Thoughts' first single. Carsten joined them to record the second single 'Pale Empress' (1993). In 1994 the first album, 'Millennium Done I: Empire Songs', was finally released. 1996 the second album, 'Psychocult', followed and entered the German Alternative Charts' Top Twenty where it would stay for more than two months. But that was just a small consolation as the process of making that album basically destroyed the group. Up until 2000 Sonja and Marvin still played live with the help of some of their friends and continued to record and write new material. Personal reasons made it impossible for Sonja to stay and she left The Merry Thoughts in October 2000 immediately after what was to be the band's last live appearance. But we can't allow things to end this way, can we?

The Merry Thoughts
Zespół powstał w połowie lat 80tych w składzie: Olaf Wollschlaeger (keyboards, synthesiser, drum machine), Carsten Mainz (guitars, synthesiser), Marvin Arkham (vocals) oraz Sonja Jordan (synthesiser). Problem w tym że członkowie mieli po 15/16 lat i nikt raczej nie traktował tego poważnie. Chcieli nagrać płytę jako dowód swoich starań muzycznych, ale nie dążyli do zostania gwiazdami za wszelką cenę. Okazało się to trochę skomplikowane i płyta musiała poczekać ładnych poarę lat. Dopiero w 1993 roku nagrali album "Millennium Done I: Empire Songs", a trzy lata później prezentowany dzisiaj "Psychocult".
Jeżeli pada nazwa The Merry Thoughts to wszyscy automatycznie dodają "kopia The Sisters Of Mercy" i mają rację - podobieństwo jest ogromne. Muzycy Merry Thoughts są tak dobrzy w upodobnieniu się do oryginału, ze czasami wydają się lepsi od samych mistrzów(!). Gdy usłyszałem ich po raz pierwszy byłem w szoku, myśląc że odkryłem jakiś poboczny projekt Andrew Eldritcha. Zaczynając od charakterystycznego niskiego wokalu, poprzez gitary, bas a kończąc na perkusji - wszystko brzmi jak Siostry. Nawet słynny automat perkusyjny Doktor Avalanche został skopiowany i nazywa się the Thoughtmachine! Pomimo tych wszystkich podobieństw i porównań muzyka broni się sama. Album zawiera dziewieć kompozycji, równych pod względem aranżacji i produkcji utworów, korzeniami siegających do gotyku lat 80tych. I jeszcze ciekawostka: utwór numer dziewięć "Sun and the Rainfall" to cover Depeche Mode z płyty "A Broken Frame".

Lyrics

Black Day

It's a day in a town
Near the edge of the stream and
A weight hangs above this town
See the coloured lights in
The curtain of rain
It's the place where no one
Feels no pain

A black day in a
Black town we're
Killing time without
A sound paint a
Pure tear for the
Hungry of this
Hungry town

Sway, sway out of reason
Let a red rag hide your face
You let i dare not
Wait upon i would for me
Spread your arms wide, wider
Passionlessly fall
At the end of our time
At the end of our time
Like a violet...
Like ... like ... like ...

A black day in a
Black town we're
Killing time without
A sound paint a
Pure tear for the
Hungry of this
Hungry town

Boy Sinister

I knew a smoldering child.

He had shiny blue eyes, oooh.

And the dreams all sang,

as he superceded.

And the time would pass.

its a fatal cling on love.

So his eyes went grey,

and he knew he'd be there.


Boy sinister, bares every fire and every thrill on love

Boy sinister, will roll the rock upon the hill of love.

Boy sinister, despises day and seeks the night, oh no.

And the boy sinister always kills, kill at first sight.


I know a black dream child.

He never shows his eyes, oh no.

And a forgotten tune,

remains his best companion.

So his sweetest dream,

is nightmare for your earth.

Saw his grey-blue eys,

and they'll never come to rest.


Boy sinister, bares every fire and every thrill on love.

Boy sinister, will roll the rock upon the hill of love.

Boy sinister, despises day and seeks the night, oh no.

And the boy sinister always kills, kill at first sight.

Chant

Put it down:
A confession for the charge sheet
Or if you'd like a charcoal sketch...
1, 0
1, 0 is for emotions
Five minutes for the life i've had
And it's six minutes to yesterday
And it's twenty-six years past... twenty-six years past...

I'm looking for a life that feels for me
Make it appeal to me and let it
Chant, chant, babylon
I'm looking for a life that feels for me
Make it appeal to me and let it
Chant, chant, babylon

It hit me,
A flower on my cold side
'call god on a party-line'
Where are my wings?
Don't know where i did leave them
It's getting harder to find the things i hide
Put off
A confession for the blacklist
Or if you'd like my passion-play
Red light,
Red light is for confusion
Five minutes for the life i'll have
And it's seven-something that i dial
And it's twenty-six years past... two thousand years... i dunno
And god just says that it is up to you
God says it's up to you

I'm looking for a life that feels for me
Make it appeal to me and let it
Chant, chant, babylon
I'm looking for a life that feels for me
Make it appeal to me and let it
Chant, chant, babylon

I'm looking for a life that feels for me
Make it appeal to me and let it
Chant, chant, babylon
I'm looking for a life that feels for me
Make it appeal to me and let it
Chant, chant, babylon

I make you a deal
I make you a deal
I can erase your ideals
Yeah, i make you a deal

Dreamland

We are dredging all the oceans
We are lighting all the stars
We are thinking all the notions
Got no time to pity scars
And again i dream the vision
Of the word that's on the wall
Surely, i fulfil the mission
I'm the one who heeds the call

My dreamland: best friend, strong hand
My dream port: too short, my lord
In the end my dreamland, dreamland
In the end you're far too short

In the large room statues will smile
When you close the door behind
There's nobody where no life shines
No memory you could find
In your dreamland may be nightmares
So you better should not sleep
When you stumble down the nine stairs
Out of dreamland you might bleed

My dreamland: best friend, strong hand
My dream port: too short, my lord
In the end my dreamland, dreamland
In the end you're far too short

Flow

It's a time where time is time
Is moving on as i move on
In the day where all the light is
Wishing that the night would come
In the night, a wait for hours
Waiting for the crack of dawn
In the move around, and round and round
In hoping that the change would come
We move around and round and round
Hoping that the change would come
These hands could heal your wounds
These hands could bring you down
These hands could heal your wounds
These hands could bring you down
It's high time

Glory Boys

Fun time is over now
And still no one is satisfied
'cause ashen faces do not glow
Heaven is dropping on the hills
But they are still alive
Dead are the valleys down below
Now, hear the thunderbolt
And lightning lights your blackened skies
When you're afraid of getting fear
The fogs are coming down
And so no one can see the light
Two hearts are never in the clear

The bells are ringing and the sun is shining
On sundays all the suns must shine
The sun is shining and no one sees the bright light
Except the glory boys who cry

The sea is blue
Your boats are small
Though sailors can swim well
Many of them won't reach the land
The wind blows strong
And angels fall
And someone rings a bell
And writes my name into the sand

The bells are ringing and the sun is shining
On sundays all the suns must shine
The sun is shining and no one sees the bright light
Except the glory boys who cry

The glory boys
Have lost their choice

Goddess

Short-wave news arranged the day
As i visited her town
'some bugger in a tank parade,
Maggie's down'
As through the night mascara sights
The oil is done
On my way a shot-down cupid
And he
Is not
The only one

Lipstick on a razor-blade
She's stalking through the light
And all my sirens wail
And she will as she can
As she knows that she can
And all my sirens wail
As she knows that she's a goddess

I found the stairs unlit at night
Tethered by her hair
Maenads
And maggots
Pass my mind
Perfumes on the stairs
There are tales to be told of demotic acts
There are hearts to be sold by demotic sex
And the blue screen flickered shades on us
As the paraffin ran out

Maenads and maggots
Cram it in the archives
Maenads and maggots
Cram it in the archives
I'll be the angel of your mourning, baby

Lipstick on a razor-blade
She's stalking through the light
And all my sirens wail
And she will as she can
As she knows that she can
And all my sirens wail
As she knows that she's a goddess

Goddess
Goddess
Cram it in the archives

Heat

We're on our way to the way to the core
The wind has gone, the sun beats down
We arrived where we've departed long before
On your face the lipstick streams
Without shelter under trees
Loss of home, loss of heart
The feel too numb
Wonder when,
Wonder when the rain will come

This is the time of tension
It's the smile of defeat
It's a touch of madness
It's the heat

This is the time of tension between dying and birth
While blood is sowing the sandy earth
This is the time of tension where you starve while you eat
It's the time of the heat
It's the heat
And neither fear nor courage nor signs of warm rain
Then the sawdust tracks all run where
Towers fall and shout again
Will the rain come?
A last flower: falling towers, falling towers

Jerusalem, athens,
Alexandria, london, vienna
Unreal
Unreal

This is the time of tension
It's the smile of defeat
It's a touch of madness
It's the heat

'and neither fear nor courage'
'and neither fear nor courage'
It's the heat
'this is the time of tension'
'this is the time of tension'
It's the heat

House Of Rain

In the backstreet
Where pagans meet the self
A visit to the mundane pain
Tricks and treats, lies
Collecting dust on shelves,
And novels, in the House of Rain

House of Rain
House of Rain

Elegantly tears fall
Elegant, the dress you wear
The elegance of the insane
Elegantly veils fall
Elegant, the tears your wear
The reason for the obscure name

House of Rain - where fears go light
House of Rain - midwife to lie
House of Rain - a kill to my
House of Rain - hallo - goodbye

In the violet room that's upstairs
She is singing not to cry
Disappointed as no one cares
She won't cry, there's too much pride
Elegantly tears are falling
Elegant, the dress you wear
Elegantly veils are falling
Elegant despair

House of Rain - where fears go light
House of Rain - midwife to lie
House of Rain - a kill to my
House of Rain - hallo - goodbye

House of Rain
House of Rain

I Say

Out where the sweat did flow
From broken stone a wall did grow
Sometimes doubt the word, in sunlight
Sometimes, in the melting sand

Who says what's
Right or wrong
I say i say i say he said
Who says and who rules strong
I say i say i say he said

The walls come down and questions rise
The scents of doubt collaterallized
The broken wall, the broken faith
All shout in the melting sand

Who says what's
Right or wrong
I say i say i say he said
Who says and who rules strong
I say i say i say he said

It's very hard for you, i know
But there's no other way to go
You do not know what i intend
But you should trust the dusty hand
Sometimes i'd like to be like you
This feeling's often coming through
So, you should trust the words i say
So, you should trust the words i say
The words i say

Who says what's
Right or wrong
I say i say i say he said
Who says and who rules strong
I say i say i say he said

Pale Empress

Clad in pretence we face the face of future
And undercover frightened like a child
My order was revenge, now i'm worn out and torn
But you are my tower of power

Would you be my pale empress
My haven in the gale
Would you be my shelter strong
So, would you be my empress
So strong and yet so pale
Would you sing our, sing our
Sing our empire song

I sought some refuge, sought it in your shadow
But shadows are much taller than you are
And our country is a land of tumbling walls
I thought you were, i never saw you are

Would you be my pale empress
My haven in the gale
Would you be my shelter strong
So, would you be my empress
So strong and yet so pale
Would you sing our, sing our
Sing our empire song

Low Violet

The final thing, the biggest scene
Where sand flows slowly, time is just a dream
Call my head and call my name
The heart is dead, now who's to blame
Nothing has changed
Nothing is the same

Somebody sent me ...

The sense comes down in the violet hour
The sense comes down in the violet hour

Our flight was dry, the sun had shone
With a dry eye, give me another gun
Suffocate, we both knew shame
The time they prayed
Again, again
Nothing has changed
Nothing is the same

Somebody sent me ...
The sense comes down in the violet hour
Somebody sent me ...
The sense calms down
Somebody sent me ...

Nothing has changed
Low violet
Somebody sent me ...
Nothing has changed
Low violet
Somebody sent me ...
Nothing is the same
Low violet

Scars

I could've told her that i loved her
But that was the other day
It's funny, the effects of leaving
And yet i've never asked to stay
We have shared nights and days
And the alcoholic haze
And the smoke and the clutch to cling
And songs to sing

I thought i read i said too much
'berlin is back, hooray'
A song by lady peroxide
And i won't ever return
To yesterday

Sometimes it's even easy
Sometimes i just cannot grope

Some fruit are sweet
And some are poison
A sweet suffocating foam
I tamed a beast
I had no choice and
Life is just a palindrome
And here's a cut on my arm
For the cut on your arm
And memories how it could've been
And those tend to cling

I thought i read i said too much
'berlin is back, hooray'
A song by lady peroxide
And i won't ever return, no, no
I thought i read i said too much
'berlin is back, hooray'
A song by lady peroxide
And i won't ever return
To yesterday

Can't turn around, no
No, no, no
Can't turn around, no
No, no, no
Can't turn around, no
No, no, no
Can't turn around no more

Second Generation

We're telling tales of communication,
Tall orders to fulfil
And the pastiche we've invented
Is serving every man
A love pays love for lying,
A true lie to believe
Ideas of lust and dying
All carefully conceived

We are the second generation
We are a nation of innovation
We are the second generation
We are a nation ...

America, america
The western dream is gone
America asleep,
Since mulberry's too long
Dry thoughts for the tenant
And still they come and go
So come and try to tell me
Things i already know


We are the second generation
We are a nation of innovations
We are the second generation
We are a nation ...

And now you stare at me so doggish
But your eyes won't make me cry
The flowers of romance are trembling
Another chance, another lie,
Another shadow for new fires
Ash-wednesday for the prey
And still no-jesus for you
Welcome to devastate

We are the second generation
We are a nation of innovations
We are the second generation
We are a nation of devastation

We're telling tales of communication,
Tall orders to fulfil
And the creatures we've invented
Are serving every man
Now we are loving with reluctance
Our hearts - they never grew
We are meeting in a garden
It's the taming of the shrew

And now you stare at me so doggish
But your eyes won't make me cry
The flowers of romance are trembling
Because our game was just a lie
And in the end we stand alone
All that we wanted ... we want it

We are the second generation
We are a nation of innovations
We are the second generation
We are a nation of devastation

Devastate ...

Devastate ...

Devastate ...

Avarice

The Sun And The Rainfall

Someone will call
Something will fall
And smash on the floor
Without reading the text
Know what comes next
Seen it before
And it's painful

Things must change
We must rearrange them
Or we'll have to estrange them
All that I'm saying
A game's not worth playing
Over and over again

You're the one I like best
You retain my interest
You're the only one
If it wasn't for you
Don't know what I'd do
Unpredictable like the sun
And the rainfall

We Love To

Suddenly the countdown starts it all
Call it likely
We love to
Suddenly the beat will force them all
Call it trendy
We love to
Red red lights to save us all
Call them useful
We love to
Sunset you watch from the shore
You love to
And i laugh, too

As safe as the car of the president is love
Call it safer
We love to
The violet man, he talks again - submit
And we love to
Four letters that were heaven sent he says
Now laugh... you cry
I forgot the times my eyes went wet
No promises and no regrets


Some might say i'm growing cold
Well, maybe i am sold to a dream
Some might trust you,
What you told
But anyway to me you're too
Serene

Oh, love broke out
And i forgot it's war
Being sirens
We love to
A swastika for everybody's heart
Embarrassed we love those
Red red lights to save us all
Call them useful
We love to
Sunset you watch from the shore
You love to, love to, love to, love to

And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
A word to the living, to the late
We love to do the things we hate

Well, some might say i'm growing cold
Or maybe i am sold to a dream
Some might trust you
What you told
But anyway to me you're too
Serene

Perpetual ...
Perpetual ...

And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
A word to the living, to the late
We love to do the things we
And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
And all gods people coming down
Doing things they love to do
A word to the living, to the late
We love to do the things we hate

You Came

You came in the icarus season
You came with metal and steel
You came, not by chance
And not by reason
You came in a world unstilled
Then the lights went out
Still the fragments shout

I found and lost what i adored
I tasted strength and wanted more
I knew the rules of every game
Since your body, since you came
I found and lost what i adored
And lost my loss again

You came in the icarus season
You came with powdered hands
I turned i turned i turned
I had some reason
I turned you couldn't understand
Oh, you can make belief
It' sure we never leave

I found and lost what i adored
I tasted strength and wanted more
I knew the rules of every game
Since your body, since you came
I found and lost what i adored
And lost my loss again

You bought yourself a life, cod
And the screen allows you what a man,
What a man can be

You came in the icarus season
You came with metal and steel
You came, not by chance
And not by reason
You came in a world unstilled
Then the lights went out
Still the fragments shout

I found and lost what i adored
I tasted strength and wanted more
I knew the rules of every game
Since your body, since you came
I found and lost what i adored
And lost my loss again

Psychocult

In the suburbs, in the towns -
A psycho zone
Where the saints, the unbelievers
Found a home
And the love we give is more than you could bear
And the fever
And the fever
And the heat are there

Psychocult - just let it happen
Psychocult - never turn it down

This is the time of tension, it's television height
This is the chrome of your land
This is a bomber flight
And the unbelievers gather and doubt the credit card
For a thousand rotten golf balls
Joyfully fall apart

Psychocult - just let it happen
Psychocult - never turn it down
Psychocult - more of a fever
Psychocult - never turn down
Never turn down, never turn
Down

This is the time of tension
This is the time of tension
This is the time of tension
This is it