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Different Lives Shuffle(d) Lives
in different places into wrong categories
familiar problems cross the wires
same old faces and fuse humanities
Watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...
Scientist G.P.'s
with patient guinea-pigs
cureing their head-aches
with drastic side-effects
switch
Doctor rectorates
condescending from on high
for all hallucinaters
see druggist in the sky
switch
Vicar experiments
but 'tis blasphemy
dismissing thought of progess
as the mark of devilry
(Watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...)
switch
People walk Something blows up
and even talk won't come down
people listen scattered muscles twitch
then they halt too late to switch.
(They're dying to switch)
in different places into wrong categories
familiar problems cross the wires
same old faces and fuse humanities
Watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...
with patient guinea-pigs
cureing their head-aches
with drastic side-effects
switch
condescending from on high
for all hallucinaters
see druggist in the sky
switch
but 'tis blasphemy
dismissing thought of progess
as the mark of devilry
(Watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...)
switch
and even talk won't come down
people listen scattered muscles twitch
then they halt too late to switch.
(They're dying to switch)
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Arguably the best album Siouxsie has ever put out, The Scream was once of the most influencial albums for the goth rock sound. I adore this track, and find it a fine way to wrap up the album; resonably low key, yet undeniably catchy. "Watch the muscles twitch for a brand new switch... "
SIOUXSIE: "The vicar becomes the scientist and he applies his religion to science and the doctor becomes the religious person and applies his medicine to religion." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78.
SEVERIN: "It all comes down to the same thing - the hypocrisy of it all." Source: Melody Maker 21/10/78.