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David Sylvian
Nine Horses
Japan Obscure Alternatives

Obscure Alternatives (1978)

  1. Automatic Gun
  2. ...Rhodesia
  3. Love Is Infectious
  4. Sometimes I Feel So Low
  5. Obscure Alternatives
  6. Deviation
  7. Suburban Berlin
  8. The Tenant

Obscure Alternatives

  1. Automatic Gun

    Too many heartaches have been rejected
    A notified delay
    I feel adrenalin ejecting
    And I'll soon go on my way
    And it's so hard now
    And it's so hard now
    Beating on my brain
    I find no fascination to stimulate
    I'll do it all again

    Oh you find love inside an automatic gun

    Another lifestyle breaks on the carpet
    Nothing as before
    Without old intuition
    We're feeling stronger
    We're communists at war
    And it's so hard now
    And it's so hard now
    Authority denied
    We pull the trigger
    The cartridge empty
    But marxists still reply

    Oh you find love inside an automatic gun

    I throw my fist in your chest
    In search of a refugee
    Love is bust from an air assault cannon
    ???
    Heaven in your hands
    Go beating on my brains
    Go beating on my brains
    Go

    With new abandon
    We're resurrected
    Throwing you apart
    With acclamation
    Company deposited
    Pissing on your heart

    Oh you find love inside an automatic gun

  2. ...Rhodesia

    Standing outside on a kitchen floor
    Love utensils in the palm of her hand
    Saluting supermarket majorettes
    We understand
    Oh muzak for digital clocks
    Departmental stores, vacate no sound
    Exchanging surgical appliances
    On hired ground

    And love blows through Rhodesia
    And love blows through Rhodesia

    Soldierettes marching in the parking lot
    Bleach your body
    Be proof to the fact
    Moving out in all directions
    And turning back

    Oh, heartaches from Amsterdam
    Masturbated over jilted bouquets
    Approximation's counting on a freight line
    We pull away

    And love blows through Rhodesia
    And love blows through Rhodesia

    Oh, Nazis in full attack
    Burning niggers in a cotton field
    Service stations offer promises
    And promises offer me

    And love blows through Rhodesia
    And love blows through Rhodesia

  3. Love Is Infectious

    She keeps her patience for the bedroom
    Should satisfy her for a week
    Her domination is executed cheaply
    With her studio technique
    What's new?
    She carries love in a carrier bag
    What's new?
    She don't keep her body clean
    Oh, Oh, Oh
    Illegitimate contributions
    And neurotic fantasies conceived

    Love is infectious
    I don't know about that
    Love is infectious
    I don't know about it

    She keeps appointments by the hour glass
    Guerilla warfare in her bed
    And constant love is oh oh so negative
    We're simulating sex instead
    She carries love in a carrier bag
    She don't keep her body clean
    Oh, Oh, Oh
    Illegitimate contributions
    And neurotic fantasies conceived

    Love is infectious
    I don't know about that
    Love is infectious
    I don't know about it

    No personality's essential
    Nobody strictly in command
    She's not direct, elusive
    Or inadequate
    Love's incompatible commands

    What's new?
    She carries love in a carrier bag
    What's new?
    She don't keep her body clean
    Oh, Oh, Oh
    Illegitimate contributions
    And neurotic heartaches are conceived

    Love is infectious
    I don't know about that
    Love is infectious
    I don't know about it

  4. Sometimes I Feel So Low

    I feel so rejected
    Come dance for me
    I need alternative living
    To feel objectively

    Sometimes
    I feel so low

    Wholesale on heartaches
    'Cross a warehouse floor
    Outside a heart beats faster
    Inside it needs far more

    Sometimes
    I feel so low

    So close to heaven
    Come reach for me
    I feel the pressure rising
    We're descending constantly

    Sometimes
    I feel so low

  5. Obscure Alternatives

    Love's incentives understood
    Irregular thoughts comply
    And still afraid of every word
    Love is unsatisfied

    Zero down to zero
    Submerging in every man
    Zero down to zero
    Catch me as best you can

    Well you must know something
    'Cos we're dying of admiration here
    Mastering obscure alternatives

    Between the dialogue lovers run
    New decisions we won't decide
    And still afraid of every word
    Love remains unsatisfied

  6. Deviation

    Delivering protests of intellect and
    Persevere over singular verbs
    Your head is fucked
    And the sequel is indirect
    And we don't know which way to turn

    Still we had fun, fun, fun, fun
    While you're dancing
    We had fun, fun, fun, fun
    With you all
    We had fun, fun, fun
    While you're dancing
    And we'll have fun, fun, fun
    When you go

    Deviation
    Step on your fingers
    Deviation
    Step on your toes
    Deviation
    Step on your fingers
    Deviation
    Comes and goes

    Engineering love on the autobahn
    Germanic hands positioned by you
    They're making love without precision
    And we don't know just what to do

  7. Suburban Berlin

    Flirting new ambition
    Pressure for the ceiling
    No vacation on immaculate times
    Domestic training
    A woman's intuition
    A love is churning out on factory lines

    Health demanding
    Unfit behaviour
    Commuters converse in satirical signs
    Know no news and no personnel crisis
    With new indifferent industrial crimes

    Welcome to suburban Berlin
    Welcome to suburban Berlin

    Love affairs
    And endless strategies
    I don't believe in a word they said
    City limits
    No more information
    Go follow navigation in your head

    Welcome to suburban Berlin
    Welcome to suburban Berlin

  8. The Tenant