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ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST
'TIL DEATH DO US PART AND IN GOD WE TRUST
A PAIN INSIDE I JUST CAN’T WITHSTAND
YOUR SCREAMS GIVE ME THE UPPER HAND
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LAUGH AT YOU, SCREAM AT YOU
LAUGH AS YOU WRITHE IN PAIN
LAUGH AT YOU, SCREAM AT YOU
LAUGH AS YOU SCREAM MY NAME
SHADOWS FALL FROM THIS BLACKENED SKY
DRY ALL YOUR TEARS NOW, THERE’S NO NEED TO CRY
TEAR YOUR VERY LIFE APART
NO LOVE RESIDES IN A ROTTING HEART
[CHORUS]
PREPARE MYSELF FOR ETERNAL DAMNATION
YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES AND I’LL FIND SALVATION
WITH ONE LAST BREATH YOUR BODY SHAKES
I PRAY TO THE LORD YOUR SOUL TO TAKE
[CHORUS]
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Children shouldn’t play with dead things
Get this into your head
Children shouldn’t play with dead things
At night stay tucked in bed
Children shouldn’t play with dead things
Don’t matter if you’re paid
Children shouldn’t play with dead things
Some kids are easy led
Remember mamma said
Show respect for the dead
Don’t ask Orville to play
Just let him rest
Or with your life you’ll pay
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Asleep in no where’s land waiting for the days curtain call
Were they once just like us? It’s been so long they can’t recall
They watch us as we try to save our hopeless tortured souls
It won’t be long now before time ravages, takes its toll
Out from the shadows with a gleeful immortality
Can we really believe in all of the things that we see?
A wilful stare, just outta sight
Arise the creatures of the night
Pain anguish and desire
locked up, howling wails a desperate cry
Jealous of our life force, it makes us something they despise
They wait for unsuspecting souls to wander through their place
This looking glass hides the look of distain upon their pale white face
Out from the shadows with a gleeful immortality
Can we really believe in all of the things that we see?
A wilful stare, just outta sight
Arise the creatures of the night
Nocturnal gazes hide under this barren, poisoned landscape
Awaiting the time to rise up, destruction in their wake
Their deathly desires under wraps, a deathly dying void
In their celestial wake all life we know and trust will be destroyed
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Here in this space there is no light
Morbid fascination takes flight
Recoil as deathly silence breaks
All our desires laid to waste
How did you wake up in this place?
No precious tears, no saving grace
No shadows here all is too black
There’s no way out we can’t backtrack
[chorus]
You close your eyes and scream again
I close my ears to all your pain
You close your eyes but not to sleep
I feel your pain but I won’t weep
Lethargic thoughts prised in my mind
Stalked by the night thine concubine
Join in this spectral requiem
You have no choice there is no time
I’ll keep you locked up in this place
Nocturnal pleasures face to face
My knife won’t leave you any marks
Nothing to see here in the dark
[chorus]
Why have our lives entwined this way
Loneliness, desperate treachery
Our souls will join up with the lost
This twilight curse we came across
No need to fear what we must face
All is forgotten, laid to waste
Here in this cellar dark and neat
I shall recite this bitter-suite
[chorus]
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She’s all dressed up in black the nights her habitat
Better watch your back
Hanging out in the cemetery
'cos that’s where she likes to be
Alice loves the dead
Why’s she wear that spike thru her tongue
where’s her last boyfriend gone?
Is this my insanity, or has she set her sights on me?
That girl’s got such Goth Chic
I think her head spins round, leaves green puke on the ground
She’s all dressed up in black the nights her habitat
You better watch your back
Why’s she wear that spike thru her tongue
where’s her last boyfriend gone?
Is this my insanity, or has she set her sights on me?
That girl’s got such Goth Chic
She makes my heart a race when I see her pale white face
Hanging out in the cemetery that’s where she likes to be
Alice loves the dead
Why’s she wear that spike thru her tongue
where’s her last boyfriend gone?
Is this my insanity, or has she set her sights on me?
That girl’s got such Goth Chic
Black eyeliner, pale white cheeks, quick someone call a priest
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Demeanor wild, long forgotten child
Wipes away all tears from their eyes
Slicing you up, service with a smile
Walking along murderer’s mile
Laughing at the pieces, looking like a priestess
Hear darkness call beyond this mortal recess
Laughing at the pieces, looking like a priestess
Hear darkness call beyond this mortal recess
She’s the kiss of death; you better watch your step
She’s the kiss of death; you better watch your step
Devastation rife, a begotten life
Longing for your torturous plight
Cuts you up, tears you apart
Just one glance the pain’s in your heart
Laughing at the pieces, looking like a priestess
Hear darkness call beyond this mortal recess
Laughing at the pieces, looking like a priestess
Hear darkness call beyond this mortal recess
She’s the kiss of death; you better watch your step
She’s the kiss of death; you better watch your step
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Coming dancing from a darker street
with a strangeness of movement, of eye and of speech
A taste of fresh blood on the wind and we crawl
in search of the ultimate thrill of them all
A touch of the neck and I lean
a rush like no other sanguine, Benzedrine
As junkies are we in the thrall of the high
can't ever grow old, can't ever die
There's no going home
We're the silver in the street light
we're something just outta sight
We're the needle on the dance floor
the needle on the dance floor
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Between the period of 2005-2006 Enniskillen deathrock band 'The Mysterious Deadbeats' released an EP titled 'Songs To Die For' and released their one and only album 'Kiss of Death'. The band pressed up about 60 'physical' copies of the album on CD, as well as offering the album and EP to download for free online, before swiftly splitting up, before anyone had really even noticed they existed, let alone knew they had gone...
In the year 2010 the core members of 'The Mysterious Deadbeats' regrouped and returned under the name 'Joy of 6', and guess what there were now six of us! Eventually over time, 6 became 4 and in October 2014 we morphed into 'Tragedy Vampires'. Many of these 'Mysterious Deadbeats' tracks can still to be found in the 'Tragedy Vampires' live sets to this day! So, just in case you are ever 'un' lucky enough to hear us live and want to hear some of the stuff that we played that's not actually on the album (that we have most likely coerced you into purchasing) then, here it is and for free too...
I know, our generosity knows no bounds!
Tragedy Vampires release their debut album on Friday 13th March 2015, but we thought we'd share these songs again as 'The Mysterious Deadbeats' project and these songs will always be very dear to our rather cold, gothic, tragic, sombre hearts...
What? pretentious, us..? Never let it be said! ;-)
released February 18, 2015
