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David Sylvian
Nine Horses
Japan Adolescent Sex

Adolescent Sex (1978)

  1. Transmission
  2. The Unconventional
  3. Wish You Were Black
  4. Performance
  5. Lovers on Main Street
  6. Don't Rain on My Parade
  7. Suburban Love
  8. Adolescent Sex
  9. Communist China
  10. Television

Adolescent Sex

  1. Transmission

    Your confiscating transmission
    For liberty, no sympathy
    Don't interfere with direct invitations
    She's talking of communial love

    Woo-wo, woo-wo
    If you had what it takes
    Well, you wouldn't be afraid
    But you got no ID,
    No identity
    You got no ID,
    No identity

    Don't break your heart over me, baby
    Your body falls, too unpredictable
    But I'm dancing
    The game is up -
    Your contraceptives low

    Woo-wo, woo-wo
    If you had what it takes
    Well, you wouldn't be afraid
    But you got no ID,
    No identity
    You got no ID,
    No identity

    Woo-wo, woo-wo
    If you had what it takes
    Well, you wouldn't be afraid
    But you got no ID,
    No identity

    You programme, love, insatiable crime
    Imprisons me - in liberty
    Your chauvinism's a sensuous smile
    Transmission of commercial love

    Woo-wo, woo-wo
    If you had what it takes
    Well, you wouldn't be afraid
    But you got no ID,
    No identity
    You got no ID,
    No identity
    But you got no ID,
    No identity!
    But you got no ID,
    No identity.

  2. The Unconventional

    Take position and love will take a stand
    That is the way it goes

    No inquisition, no cynical demands
    No-one should ever know

    Because I'm dancing
    Dancing to your heart
    Dancing to your heart
    Dancing to your heart, now baby
    Oh, what a way to start
    Because I'm dancing
    Dancing to your heart
    Dancing to your heart, now baby
    What a way to start

    Well, I'm trying to find
    All the love we discovered
    That is the way it goes

    No perversion in this unconventional love
    No way I'd rather see

    No diversion in this unintentional love
    No way I'd rather be

    Because I'm dancing
    Dancing to your heart
    Dancing to your heart
    Dancing to your heart, now baby
    Oh, what a way to start

    Because I'm dancing
    Dancing to your heart
    Dancing to your heart, now baby
    What a way to start

  3. Wish You Were Black

    Degradation takes a soul potential
    The woman ain't to blame, well
    Infiltrate the morning's passing hours
    But love remains the same, well

    I know I wish you were black
    But ain't no use you pretending
    She ain't ever coming back
    To put you on the right track

    Unamerican humour
    With all-American smile
    Hovers on the horizon, baby
    But no-one can reply, well, well

    I know I wish you were black
    But ain't no use you pretending
    She ain't ever coming back
    To put you on the right track
    To put you on the right track
    To put you on the right, right, right
    To put you on the right track

    Breezing, breezing, she's no lover
    Nobody's lover, babe!
    Breezing, breezing

    Satisfaction unrequited
    A ghetto in your heart
    Hoards of mass production baby
    Is keeping us apart

    I know I wish you were black
    But ain't no use singing gospel
    She ain't ever coming back
    To put you on the right track
    To put you on the right track
    To put you on the right track
    To put you on the right, right, right
    To put you on the right track

    Well, I'm trying to find
    All the love we discovered
    That is the way it goes

  4. Performance

    Take it easy
    Check me out - wo-hoo
    Take it easy
    Aw, check me out, check it out!

    I move from the car wash
    Your hands are not clean
    From your fascist graffitti
    I'm getting kind of tired
    Descending escalators
    To the heart of the subway

    But you are not the only one, baby
    Oh, no... check me out!

    Oh, well, it's getting kind of silly
    Inadequate bodies are waging a war
    But you'd better check the situation
    Your mouth is open wide
    But your body is too sore, see

    But you are not the only one baby
    Check me out!

    But my performance is good, oh babe!
    Performance is good, yeah
    My performance is good for your love, for your love
    As I perform for you
    Another nervous breakdown, yeah!

    Well nobody has to suffer
    The camera ejects from another location
    Take refuge in the city
    Then move on down the line
    Between the cradle of stations

    But you are not the only one, baby
    Check me out!

    But my performance is good, oh babe!
    Performance is good, yeah!
    My performance is good for your love, for your love
    As I perform for you
    Another nervous breakdown, yeah!

    my performance is good, aw babe!
    Performance is good, yeah!
    My performance is good for your love, for your love
    My performance is good...

  5. Lovers on Main Street

    Begging, pleading, lose your love to me
    It's all that I need, oh yeah
    And no fool can ease my heart my love, yeah
    The way that you do
    I will follow you
    Lovers on Main Street

    Well, don't forget me when you're laughing
    Disbelieving in all I've said
    When you're lying back to back
    With your problems
    Satisfaction comes slow
    You will never know
    Lovers on Main Street

    But if you need somebody to love
    Think of me
    But if your time has come
    Lovers on Main Street

    Aw well, arguementative self-conceited
    You console all the love I possess, aw baby yea
    But you'll conceal your own misfortune
    Leave heartache behind
    You can always find
    Lovers on Main Street

    But if you need somebody to love
    Think of me
    But if your time has come
    Lovers on Main Street

  6. Don't Rain on My Parade

    Don't tell me not to live
    Just sit and putter
    Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter
    Don't bring around a cloud 'round
    To rain on my parade

    Don't tell me not to fly
    I've simply got to
    If someone takes a spill
    It's me not you
    Who told you you're allowed
    To rain on my parade

    I'll march my band out
    And I'll beat my drum
    And if I'm spammed out
    Your turn at bat sir
    At least I didn't fake it
    Hat sir
    Nearly didn't make it

    Maybe I'm just a rose of sheer perfection
    A freckle on the nose of life's complexion
    A cinder of a shiny apple of it's eye

    I've gotta fly once
    I gotta try once
    Only can die once
    Right, sir?
    Love is juicy, juicy and I'll say
    I gotta have my bite, sir!

    Well, look out love oh babe I'm coming
    Don't tell me not to march
    My heart's a drummer
    Who told you you're allowed
    To rain on my parade

    I'm gonna live and live now
    Get what I want, I know how
    One roll for the whole shebang
    One throw that bell will go clang
    High on the target and wham
    One shot, one gunshot and bam!

    Don't tell me not to live
    Just sit and putter
    Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter
    Don't bring around a cloud
    To rain on my parade

    Don't tell me not to fly
    I've simply got to
    If someone takes a spill
    It's me, not you
    Who told you you're allowed
    To rain on my parade

  7. Suburban Love

    Below the city's hustle begins
    Expression lost in suburban winds
    Don't waste my time, the way you do, yeah
    My heart on Main Street, my love for you

    Take your turn on the love carousel
    Your time will come and I wish you well
    'Cos you've got love
    Got a whole lot more
    If you've got what I've been searching for

    Earth wind, earth wind and fire
    Cannot take me, take me much higher
    Earth wind, earth wind and fire
    Cannot push me, push me much higher

    Earth wind, earth wind and fire
    Cannot take me, take me much higher
    Earth wind, earth wind and fire
    Cannot push me, push me much higher

    Slow down, babe, a love can't wait
    When time comes for you, you can't be late
    With burning love, the whole night through
    What I do babe, I do for you

    So let the wind come rushing in
    Feel a soul sensation begin
    'Cos you've got love
    Got a whole lot more, yeah
    And you've got what I've been searching for, yeah baby!

    Earth wind, earth wind and fire
    Cannot take me, take me much higher
    Earth wind, earth wind and fire
    Cannot push me, push me much higher

    Earth wind, earth wind and fire
    Cannot take me, take me much higher
    Earth wind, earth wind and fire
    Cannot push me, push me much higher


  8. Adolescent Sex

    The sidewalk's trading love
    As subway lights grow brighter
    We're just another hype
    But the pressure's getting harder

    Get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher

    Get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher

    A lovers' etiquette
    Make love on first impression
    And adolescent sex with juvenile intentions

    Get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher

    Get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher

    Whatever gets you through the night
    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night
    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night
    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night

    Get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher
    Get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher
    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher
    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher
    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher

    Well, the lady buys a thrill
    Excitement in succession
    But a heartache won't partake
    In articulate obsession

    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher
    Oh yeah!
    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher

    Oh, well, pretty things at rest
    No courtesy surprising
    For love is heaven blessed
    All catastrophies denying

    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher
    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher

    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night
    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night
    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night

    Aw, when we were out on the streets
    With lovers infections
    Count impossibilities by illumination
    And your body's still damp
    From your one-room apartment
    And your heartache remains, then
    Love's not the anecdote
    You'll submerge again
    Emerge again
    Just get ??astray!

    (Can you hear me?)

    Whatever gets you through the night
    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night
    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night
    Just keep on dancing
    Whatever gets you through the night

    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher
    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher
    Get on up, get on up, get on up
    Take it much higher

  9. Communist China

    Your skin, a white stained sensation
    Clinical bodies won't do, wo-wo!
    And as we're pumping, pumping and resisting
    Inserting love into you

    Communist China
    Communist China
    Take me to heaven
    Somebody wrong

    We'll throw glass in your face
    Call it new propaganda, still
    We've been waiting for so long!

    I'll take you out in the moonlight
    Oblique horizons won't do, wo-wo,
    The knife in your fist
    Is breaking up the white walls
    Here's penetration for you

    Communist China
    Communist China
    Take me to heaven
    Somebody wrong

    We'll throw glass in your face
    Call it new propaganda, still
    We've been waiting for - so long!

    Face-to-face confrontation
    Personal problems for you, wo-wo!
    The conversation's getting far too vicious
    Impersonation won't do

    Communist China
    Communist China
    Oh, take me to heaven
    Somebody wrong

    We'll throw glass in your face
    Say it's new propaganda,
    We've been waiting for.

  10. Television

    I apologise again
    Time after time after time
    The conversation drifts
    In no general direction

    And your aural love
    Is keeping me from bed
    And it's talking and talking
    It's all you ever said
    You know it's all you want
    All you want
    It's all you want
    All you want

    You don't fool me, you don't fool me
    No surprises, no surprises
    Love in the hallway
    Sex on the carpet
    Antagonism rising
    You know you try to categorise me
    Because it's all you ever wanted
    It's all you want
    All you want
    It's all you want
    All you want

    But you're changing my love
    'Cos all you want is - television!

    No heart is infected
    No damage is done
    No cavity open
    Nobody, no fun
    They throw shit in your face
    And you smile
    They throw shit in your face
    And you still come up smiling
    You've got nothing to believe in
    The diverse
    The young and
    The breathing
    It's all you want
    All you want
    All you want
    All you want
    They say it's
    All you want
    All you want
    Television
    Television
    Television
    Television
    Television
    Television
    Television

    You've got blasphemy with a smile
    Insomnia sleeps with you nights
    You've got commercial sex appeal
    In sterile black and white
    You're glorious colourless motion
    From reel to reel you run
    Nocturnal television
    Internal sanctum
    But it's all you want
    All you want
    It's all you want
    All you want - want

    I bet you're changing my love
    All I want is
    Television
    But you're changing my love
    I said I don't want

    Well but you're changing my love
    'cos I don't want
    It's television
    All night and day
    All night and day
    All night and day
    It's all you ever wanted
    It's all you ever wanted
    it's all you want
    All you want
    All you want
    All you want
    All you want

    ...fucking television!