Star Collector songs

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Lyrics from
Demo Model 256

SKYSCRAPER
Words and Music by V.Wayne
(© Jan. 97)

Stuck in an elevator
Waiting for the man to come
Help yourself and sell yourself
The thought just leaves you numb
Halfway up, halfway down
Halfway there, halfway round
Halfway up, halfway down
I wish I... could get you...

Get you high... high
Skyscraper high
Get you high... high
Skyscraper high

Stalled on an escalator
Cursing the powers out
Light yourself, ignite yourself
And flush that sucker out
Halfway up, halfway down
Halfway there, halfway round
Halfway up, halfway down
I wish I... could help you...

Help you fly... fly
Skyscraper high
Help you fly... fly
Skyscraper high

And what was once a blast is just a cast-off
and who the past has passed still aches to blast off
But a textbook case of a textbook face
Is all they want...

Halfway up, halfway down
Halfway there,halfway round
Halfway up, halfway down
I wish I... could tell you...

Tell you why.. why... you're not
Skyscraper high
Tell you why... why... you're not
Skyscraper high
And help you fly... fly...
Skyscraper high
And get you high... high...
Skyscraper high...

SLOWFADE
Words - V. Wayne
Music - V. Wayne, D. Lawson
(© Nov. 96)

Slowfade... I think about it
Slowfade... when I'm without it
I talk about it, shout about it, scream about it, dream about it
Slowfade... when I'm alone
I just can't seem to be alive with or without it
Slowfade... to disappear

Slowfade... into the nighttime
Slowfade... is it ever the right time
To cry for it, lie for it, fly for it, die for it?
Slowfade... and I'm not proud
I just can't seem to get around with or without it
Slowfade... to disappear

You say that I'm dissolving
You say that you're evolving
And I'm at a standstill, dizzy and aching
Running on the spot, I'm sweaty and shaking
You say... it's my slowfade...

Slowfade... sometimes I wonder
Slowfade... the spell I'm under
Can't hide it, can't ride it, can't glide it, can't slide it
Slowfade... my self-control
I just can't seem to get right with or without it
Slowfade... to disappear

You say that we're dissolving
You say that I'm revolving
Running round in circles, sweaty and shaking
Lying at a standstill, dizzy and aching
You say... its my slowfade...

Slowfade... feeling's lifting
Slowfade... feel I'm drifting away...

SONGS YOU NEVER WROTE
Words - V. Wayne
Music - V. Wayne, D. Lawson
(© Oct. 96)

You had something
Boy, it was something
And now your knees are sore from crawling...

You gave nothing
And got nothing
And wonder why no one's home when you're calling
And free-falling
You're falling on your own...

Do you think that everything's broken
By the lies that meant nothing to me?
Can't you hear the words you had spoken
Have all but disappeared
Like the ringing in my ears
And songs you never wrote...

Without warning
No warning
You acted so surprised but still lying...

And in the morning
The cool morning
Alone with more goodbyes, are you crying?
Slowly dying?
Still denying all your lies...

Do you think that everything's broken...

And when you finally get caught with your pants right down
Will it even cross your mind to come clean from the stench you've left around?

Do you think that everything's broken...

HALF OF NOTHING
Words - V. Wayne
Music - V. Wayne, D. Lawson
(© Oct. 96)

Everything you adore
Is not what she had in store
Despite what she told you
And everything you abhore
Distrust and ignore
Is just the junk she sold you
So with every lie
Your pie in the sky
Turns bitter you are finding
And when you question why
She's the first to deny
The sun isn't shining

Now... though you see
See her go
With all the love you wasted
Now...too much to show
Cause all you know
Turns you cold and jaded

All the promises she made
Just crumpled and faded
Like leaves in September
Sweet days of lemonade
When all was made in the shade
You can't quite remember
Now every time you hear a laugh
It cuts you up in half
You think you're the punchline
She left you paranoid
And planted you a void
Complete with weeds and landmines

Now... though you see...

When you've got half of nothing
When you've got half of nothing
When that's all there is
Anything is something
Anything is something...

Now... though you see...

TURN YOU ON
Words - V. Wayne
Music - V. Wayne, D. Lawson
(© Oct. 96)

If I could tune you in, I would now
If I could tune you out
If I could turn it on, I would now
If I could churn it out
If I could tune you in, I would now
If I could tune you out
If I could turn it on, I would now
If I could churn it out
If I could turn you on...

Blame it on you, blame it on me
Blame it on electric caffeine
Blame it on you, blame it on me
Blame it on the rush of nicotine
Blame it on you, blame it on me
Blame it on the bottle of an old friend
Blame it on you, blame it on me
Blame it on the buzz of novocaine

If I could tune you in, I would now

Blame it on youth, blame it on age
Blame it on things I cannot change
Blame it on youth, blame it on age
Blame it on the same recycled rage
Blame it on you, blame it on me
Blame it on roadblocks I can't see
Blame it on you, blame it on me
Blame words that hold no guarantee

If I could tune you in I would now...

If I could turn you on...

I might turn you on...

SUGAR AND POISON
Words - V. Wayne
Music - V. Wayne, D. Lawson
(© Dec. 96)

I can't need to see the fools are changing
No, I can't need to see the rules estranging
I can't need to feel the drought of reason
No, I can't need to feel the doubt of freezing
Anymore...

The bittersweetness of a lemon drop
I screw my face up and eat it
Watching you guzzle your sugar and poison
And turning green as you need it
But I can't need it...

I can't need the kiss of adulation
No, I can't need to miss the sheer sensation
I can't need to know the horse I'm chasing
No, I can't need to show my mind is racing
Anymore...

The bittersweetness of a lemon drop
I screw my face up and feed it
Watching you guzzle your sugar and poison
And turning green as you need it
But I can't need it...

I can't need the taste... sugar and poison
No, I can't miss the taste... sugar and poison

The bittersweetness of a lemon drop
I screw my face up and bleed it
Watching you guzzle your sugar and poison
And turning green as you need it
(As you need it)
But I can't need it
(As you need it)
No, I can't need it
(As you need it)
No, I can't need it...

MOTORCYCLE
Words & Music - V. Wayne
(© Nov. 96)

You told me that you know me, who and what I am
Let me enlighten you cause yes, I understand
Laced with potential that you thought I'd locked away
Inconsequential from this pedestal today

I was your motorcycle
You juiced me up to gear me down, down, down
I was your motorcycle
You drove me straight into the ground
But the fumes just got me high
So I took you for a ride
Your motorcycle...

Report cards, flying colours, still you said I'd fail
You thought my length of spine had nerves of a fire-sale
It's exponential now from when I recount the days
Inconsequential from this pedestal today

I was your loaded pistol
Loaded me up to shoot me down, down, down
I was your loaded pistol
You blew me straight into the ground
But the fumes just got me high
So I took you for a ride
Your motorcycle...

You told me that you know me, who and what I am
Let me enlighten you cause yes, I understand

I was your poster plaything
You got me up so I'd go down, down, down
I was your poster plaything
You screwed me straight into the ground
But the fumes just got me high
So I took you for a ride
Your motorcycle

I was your motorcycle...

THE DEEP END
Words & Music - V. Wayne, D. Lawson
(© Nov. 96)

I'm goin' to the deep end
Never comin' back again
Goin' to the deep end
Never comin' back again

With all the genius you've got disappearing
And all the beauty you find so endearing
It's so shallow
But I'm drowning

So I'm goin' to the deep end

With all the hype you weave, its hypnotizing
With all that's up your sleeve, its mesmerizing
They're just shadows
And I'm fading...

So I'm goin' to the deep end...

Now all your eye-candy's so revealing
And all your ear-candy's so appealing
I can't taste it
Anymore

So I'm goin' to the deep end...

Yeah, I'm goin' to the deep end
Never comin' back again.

Say that you want me
Don't really want me
Say that you want me
Thought they would... now

Say that you cared
Don't really care
Say that I mattered
Don't really... now

Said you believed
Didn't beleive
Waited to see
If they would... now

Said you were something
Thought you were something
Said I was something
Nothing new... now

Claw at their backs
Follow the pack
Into... into the ocean...

The ocean...

Bleed your mind and waste your time
It's the way you want to run your life
Leave behind all the good you find
Til there's nothing left and you're last in line

Who put the fire in your bed?
Who put deceit in all you said?
Who put the leeches in your head?... they...

Bleed your mind
Bleed your mind
Bleed your mind
Bleed your mind

Stab the hand that feeds you love
Then lash out at the sky above
An empty fist is all you shake
With none to give and all to take

Who put the fire in your bed?...

Bleed your mind

Bleed your mind and waste your time
It's the way you want to ruin your life
And you might find what you leave behind
Will leave you to bleed at the end of the line... so...

Bleed your mind

Seventeen and I had thought I'd found you... I'd found you
Seventeen, I had to be around you... around you
Maybe I was out of place and maybe out of time
Maybe I was out of touch and maybe out of my mind but I thought...

You could be my Morningstar
That's what you are
What you are
Shine like a Morningstar
That's what you are
What you are to me

Had a dream and I could almost taste you... yeah, taste you
Had a dream and I would not erase you... or waste you
Maybe you were in my head and laughing at my brain
Maybe you were in my bed so I was not to blame when I said...

You could be my Morningstar...

You could be my Morningstar
That's what you are
What you are
Shine like a Morningstar
That's what you are
What you are...

Maybe you were in my head and laughing at my brain
Maybe you were in my bed so I was not to blame when I said...

You could be my Morningstar...

What you are to me...