Shake Dog Shake Lyrics
Wake up in the dark
The aftertaste of anger in the back of my mouth
Spit it on the wall
And cough some more
And scrape my skin with razor blades
And make up in the new blood
And try to look so good
Follow me!
Make up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is
Ha ha ha!!!
Spurning sex like an animal of god
I'll tear your red hair by the roots
And hold you blazing
Hold you cherished in the dead electric light
I'll never see you this way again
I captured it so perfectly
As if I knew you'd disappear away
You howl and hit me again
The same sharp pain
Wakes me in the dark
And cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart
My heart
My shaking heart
And dreamed of death
And breathed like sick dogs
We slept all night in the virgin's bed
And breathed like death
And dreamed of sick dogs
Shake dog shake
Wake up wake up wake up!
Shake dog shake
Make up in the new blood
Shake up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is...
This song reminds me of the opening to Joy Division's CLOSER -- "Atrocity Exhibition" "this is the way, step inside..." -- Robert is inviting us into the madcap world that is THE TOP. While Joy Division's album is one darkly affected by Ian's imminent suicide -- complete desolation and deformation create the macabre circus we are being welcomed into, on THE TOP the circus is seen through the kalaidescope vision of an artist on drugs. At a dark moment, after having been drenched in pharmaceuticals for days, the artist is revealing his visions -- THE TOP has so many colours and is so brutally honest, it doens't sugar coat -- it is the vision of an artist at a moment in his life.
only 5 comments does not give this song justice. Why do people only seem te recognize lullaby and pictures of you and stuff like that? This song deserves more attention
"Me hating myself...but a fab open guitar tuning..." - (Cure News 10 - December 1990)
more self loathing...great song...even better live!
Ah! Wonderful self loathing. Loathing of giving yourself to others.
perfect
can someone tell me, the top, the sounds on it...are they all similiar to The Caterpillar, that being the only song i've heard from the particular album...i keep saving up money for The Top and spending it on other cure albums at the last minute for some reason...next time
Narrative prose about a fictional AND true occurrence. Part inside-voice and part recollection of events; emotionally representative and pure, like the instincts of a wild animal under domestic intention. Rad.
I read somewhere in a book about Witchcraft connected to Gerald Kelly,that the song was about Aleister Crowley in part at his Abbey of Thelma in Cicily. Am not 100% sure which book I think it may have been a Geralk Kelly biography.Anyway Kelly knew Crowley from Cambridge. When Crowley went to Cicily he was perportted to be doing sex magick with a 'K' with others.Whildt drawing and painting weird,dark murals on the walls of nightmare scenes,the idea being that you could overcome your fears by looking at pictures of them. Hence the lyrics "We slept all night in the Virgin's bed and dreamed of death and breathed like sick dogs" and so on. The original LP copy of The Top where this song is the opening track originally featured a nasty demonic looking six pointed star as well as other symbols. Robert virtually produced a lot of this album on his own playing bass parts etc.using session drummers like he had with Vince Ely on some of the Japanese Whispers songs. Eventually Porl Thompson Andy Anderson and Phillip Thorn alley joined but he was still not talking to Simon Gallup,after they're bust up during the "Pornography" Tour. I hope one day to find this book again and update this. A very dark song indeed and used recently on they're latest Tour.2023
"Live in Paris" version is excellent! Released Feb 24