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Put Your Lips On My Lips

by Alien Skin

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your clever eyes your knowing face I find in there my hiding place call me by name circle my brain sleep in me sleep in me kiss kiss kiss the ghost inside me kiss kiss kiss you walk inside me kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss your voice inside me kiss kiss kiss your strength to hold me kiss kiss kiss me my trembling eyes my solemn face i look at me standing in your place call me by name circle my brain sleep in me sleep in me kiss kiss kiss the ghost inside me kiss kiss kiss you walk inside me kiss kiss kiss kiss me kiss kiss kiss your voice inside me kiss kiss kiss your strength to hold me kiss kiss kiss me
2.
love lies cut in the busy street in the busy rain, blood runs in streams pouring like champagne i don't love you i don't love you i don't love you or want you here i don't love you i don't love you i don't love you or want you here ice melts on the floor the winter is inside i've lived and i have died i don't love you i don't love you i don't love you or want you here i don't love you i don't love you i don't love you or want you here cleopatra, for her amusement stuck a golden needle in her slave girl's breast you're not you're not as bad as that looks that wear no face that bother me in sleep you have nothing, you have nothing i care to keep i don't love you i don't love you i don't love you or want you here i don't love you i don't love you i don't love you or want you here cleopatra, you're not, you're not as bad as that i don't love you i don't love you i don't love you or want you here i don't love you i don't love you i don't love you or want you here
3.
i just like to see i just like to see i just like to see the words formed by your hand i just found a letter it didn't make much sense to me i don't care i just like to see the words formed by your hand words of obscure meaning words on printed paper i just like to see the words formed by your hand i just like to see i just like to see i just like to see the words formed by your hand i just found a letter your writing could be hard to read it's of no concern i just like to see the words formed by your hand i just like to see i just like to see i just like to see i remember my girlfriend i remember my best friend i remember my woman i remember my wife i remember you i just like to see the words formed by your hand
4.
this happy life now that your gone my sanguine face a dress to put on kiss me in darkness kiss me at night's rest kiss me in our room it's still here for you with every living thing i bury it alive to watch it come back to me and if it's really love then let it be complete come back to me for keeps midnight it is window moon the wicker chair begins to move kiss me in darkness kiss me at night's rest kiss me in our room it's still here for you with every living thing i bury it alive to watch it come back to me and if it's really love then let it be complete come back to me for keeps
5.
put your lips on my lips surrender your eyes look at me whenever you think it’s your time to die put your lips on my lips so please just stay while the sky outside is blue in the dark in the void i die too put my face on your face your pallor is worn the room is close whenever you think its your time to die put my lips on your lips so please just stay while the sky outside is blue in the dark in the void i die too outside the day gives no quarter the sun is blocked by black flags of merciless clouds put my lips on your lips put my lips on your lips
6.
Yes She Does 03:14
cold earth cold sky cold fire cold eyes she loves me she loves me yes she does she loves me she loves me yes she does closed door closed room no warmth no word she loves me she loves me yes she does she loves me she loves me yes she does just like a drowning man i hang tight to belief i have nothing left she loves me she loves me yes she does she loves me she loves me yes she does
7.
i thought that i could learn to smile without you i thought that i could learn to laugh without you i thought i could express my hate for you but now i know i doubt this too all this too i don’t want you I don’t need you is this the greatest lie i ever told you? i don’t want you I don’t need you is this the greatest lie i ever told you? i thought that i could learn to love without you how can i ever learn to live, live without you? i don’t want you I don’t need you is this the greatest lie i ever told you? i don’t want you i don’t want you is this the greatest lie i ever told you? the greatest lie the greatest lie i told you
8.
beneath the funeral skies the party dances one and twenty souls with skeleton eyes and murdered hearts false or true smoke and ice dust and earth i wait for night i do promise to love you after death do us part i do promise to love you after death do us part the peasant girl from Domrémy you are not her and i am not your saviour i'll gather the moss i'll stay right here whisper sounds silent words stir the air i wait for night i do promise to love you after death do us part i do promise to love you after death do us part i will dig beneath the dirt with my rigid fingers you and i are not unique history repeats and lingers beneath the funeral skies beneath the funeral skies
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Unborn 03:58
if i said i'm sorry would you understand if i said i could not i'd not be a lover or friend i walk in winter i walk inside this storm my brain fever lingers i want something to feel unborn you said it will soon be over please find someone new i said please don't speak about this i would rather hold and follow you i will freeze in winter i will freeze inside this storm my brain fever lingers i want something to feel unborn i walk in winter i walk inside this storm i walk in winter i walk inside this storm i want something to feel unborn i want something to feel unborn
10.
a pill for the night it helps me to sleep i see your face upon the glass the dark window the empty street today i’m on earth tomorrow i’m gone i’ll follow you halfway cross the sky the darkness of space surrender my world to follow you halfway cross the sky i feel the guilt alive and alone when it’s always been the two of us why you and not me why me and not you today i’m on earth tomorrow i’m gone i’ll follow you halfway cross the sky the darkness of space surrender my world to follow you halfway cross the sky today i’m on earth tomorrow i’m gone i’ll follow you halfway cross the sky
11.
she left her presence in every room of this house she left her future for me to do what i care so change everything in any way you want just leave something for me as it was paint every wall in colours you desire just leave something for me as it was she's here beside me when familiar life carries on so change everything in any way you want just leave something for me as it was paint every wall in colours you desire just leave something for me as it was

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released April 22, 2022

Download includes full CD album artwork as bonus items.
Also, I handmade videos for 6 album songs, watch them here...
www.alienskinmusic.com/music-videos

Dedicated to Irene, everything for always...

LINER NOTES:
"Cleopatra, for her amusement, stuck a golden needle in her slave girl's breast". I read that line in Dostoyevsky's novel, ‘Notes from the Undergound’. I adopted it for a song lyric setting in motion the beginnings of a new album. The peasant girl from Domrémy burnt at the stake under funeral skies, from Mark Twain's 'Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc', had me emotionally stirred.

Consuming 101 audiobook-novels and listening to volumes of electro-gothic-goodness from a certain not-to-be-named band during lockdowns, galvanized this literary and music inspiration, materializing as the album, ‘Put Your Lips On My Lips’.

Ultimately, the album is a dedication to Irene, my late wife and favourite human whose life ended in 2020. It has no rigid narrative but the totality of the work expresses in atmosphere, in melody, in lyric, a state of existence...my reality in the moment.

‘Put Your Lips On My Lips’ began life in October 2021 and was fully realized, grown up and ready to leave home by November’s end. It was so spontaneous and organic in its writing, performance and production - almost automatic - that I barely remember making it. For me, the album is a random diary and archive of favourite tunes, vocals, synth layers, atmosphere and rhythms. gp

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Alien Skin Melbourne, Australia

I've been making darkwave electropop from elements of 80s post-punk subculture for over 40 years. Including years in the Australian band 'Real Life' which topped world charts in the 80s with 'Send Me An Angel'.

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