all this chat about the lyrics...I'm glad it wasn't just me..I'm a deafhead so would sing my 'interpretation' of any song...gave most songs a bizarre twist I tell you...! I don't really care what he sang...bloody loved this moody atmospheric stuff and still do.
"Nothing but the knife to live for / One life, all I need"; however, at 4:14 he's clearly saying "Nothing but the NIGHT to live for / One LINE, all I need"
Knowing Andrew and his appetite for selfdestuction by Cocaine, I understand better know as well..
god its a song called AMPHETAMINE LOGIC!!!!! duh people clearly the original lyrics were nothing but the NIGHT to live for one LINE is all i need give me one good reason give me more sssssssssssspeeed mostly he doesnt say speed tho just ssssssssssssp give me more amphetamine logic ughhhhh
+++como olvidar esa rolita++de++sister++of mercy+++solo el recuerdo queda+++va++sobres+++solo para reconosores+++MARTHA++ARON+MIREYA++EL++BUBU++EL ISRRA+MIGUEL+++Y LOS DE MAS++
Translated by a Japanese person, are you having a laugh. Interesting to see where you think I am brutally incorrect. If you think it is nonsensical you obviously don't understand the song.
@mildew808 First of all, sorry for taking such a cunty tone there.
Eldritch wrote in an issue on Underneath The Rock that there's a set of "official" lyrics floating around that was transcribed by a Japanese person; he claimed to have found hundreds of mistakes before giving up on reading it.
There are live versions where it seems rather clear to me that he's saying "knife" - Essen '93 he sings the chorus one more time on his own after the instruments stop.
No probs, we can all be stroppy at times. Falling over, people cold yep I was completely wrong there
.The knife bit I disagree with, not many people hot knife speed. I think it starts as nothing but the life and one life all I need and then changes to night and line as the song becomes more intense and desperate ie as the addiction takes hold.
Stealing hand is stealing time (awake while others are asleep)
We're touched, no idea but maybe a literature reference like Prufrock?
@mildew808 The "knife" interpretion also makes sense in terms of the drug imagery of the song; some take their amphetamine off a heated knife.
The line about women is "And the women come and go"; it's an allusion to T.S. Eliot's "Prufrock".
Hit up, lit up, steel in hand have to be the correct words if the "knife" thing is correct; I'm not sure what "stealing hand" and "we're touched" would mean in any case.
@mildew808 Heh, it seems there comments are in the wrong order. Whatever.
He clearly seems to be saying "watch them do the falling over, watch them do the standing still" and "people cold and people burning" if you listen to clearer live versions, and this also makes sense in terms of the theme of the dramatic person's speedy escape from/description of his existential suffering and burying his head in the ice.
@Strongwhite88 U GOT IT SPEED JUNKIE big time it goes over most peoples heads but they were hitting it up there was no meth 2 smoke back then lol! i should know SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
The thing about Eldritch is he hates, absolutely despises "goth." He's more a humanist, and his lyrics are surreal in the best most politically evocative way. The guy knows politics and history. He's not into vampires and goblins, except maybe as they manifest metaphorically as imperialist/nationalist/political "monsters" --"a people eat each other"; "love for the party for the nation for the death and the defacation" etc. Before goth, there was post punk, Eldritch likes the Furs for example.
Indeed my friend.Eldritch didn't intend to be a precursor of goth music.But,its done.Shame.But if so,I'd like to highlight that today's goth music has nothing to do with Sisters of Mercy and other more or less known bands from 80's considered goth.I'm not a goth,but majority of them don't know what it means and they are teens Nightwish wannabies who just want to be cool,bleak and gloomy.So,I understand why Andrew doesn't want to be associated with goths.Anyway,awesome song ;)
I think he's saying "Nothing but the knife to live for, one life all I need." He's talking about killing his fans. In the beginning of the song, they are doing stupid trendy dances, then they're talking about him like they know him, they're shallow, cold, drugged. The protagonist rock star of the song is having his alienated break down and is at the point of carrying out his fascistic impulses. Not unlike the main character in the Pink Floyd Movie "The Wall."
@dieterderblau hahaha, well yeah I guess the fashion was pretty horrendous... Especially in the 90's. Seeing some old pictures does make me wonder what those people were thinking!!! But the music was pretty awesome, I don't think anything like that will ever be produced again
I wish more teens nowadays listened to this, instead of everyone asking me what the hell I'm listening to!!!! But I guess they don't have a cool dad like mine who introduced me to them!!! It's soooooooooo AMAZING!!!!!!!! I guess all you people were teens in the 80s and 90s. Oh how lucky you are!!!
@thegothicdolly333 Yea, not so much, sure there was SOME good stuff... then there was neon leg warmers... BIG hair... flock of seagulls... deaf leopard... and worse.
Apparently it's understood that he's saying "Nothing but the knife to live for / One life, all I need"; however, at 4:14 he's clearly saying "Nothing but the NIGHT to live for / One LINE, all I need"
he just scored, but like there is no razor blade ( the knife ) handy... ( pre-paper-over-the-gemstones-and-mirror-below and then like the chapstick or lighter run on top to pulverize into powder revolution ). Yet he pauses to reflect ( cause there's a mirror staring right back at himself ) -- and he wishes that he had a life other than this.
And then the night / line should be self explanatory...
the sweltering summer of "85" in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. The Sisters ascend with their brilliant debut major label release. Driving down Beach Blvd to Huntington with my goth friends, coked out of our skulls listening to this "cassette" and playing it so much I had to replace it several times over...also was the summer of The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez...what a crazy, fun, scary, memorable time...
The bass by Adams is amazing.......the song is the ultimate 'Biker song'...since I rode a motor bike....a meanmother of a Ducatti...I used to weave in and out of traffic while imagining myself listening to this..what a song.....The Drum Machine, Doktor Avalanche sounds postively demonic..as does Eldritch!!!
all this chat about the lyrics...I'm glad it wasn't just me..I'm a deafhead so would sing my 'interpretation' of any song...gave most songs a bizarre twist I tell you...! I don't really care what he sang...bloody loved this moody atmospheric stuff and still do.
2pinklips 3 weeks ago
to the dude who said they didnt have speed back then...your a idiot speed has been around since the 1920s...
passworddoesntwork 1 month ago 2
kocham Cię tak że bardziej już nie mogę Ty całym światem moim, Jesteś moim Bogiem ....
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"Nothing but the knife to live for / One life, all I need"; however, at 4:14 he's clearly saying "Nothing but the NIGHT to live for / One LINE, all I need"
Knowing Andrew and his appetite for selfdestuction by Cocaine, I understand better know as well..
lepenseur76 2 months ago
god its a song called AMPHETAMINE LOGIC!!!!! duh people clearly the original lyrics were nothing but the NIGHT to live for one LINE is all i need give me one good reason give me more sssssssssssspeeed mostly he doesnt say speed tho just ssssssssssssp give me more amphetamine logic ughhhhh
mehcanicalbill 3 months ago
@mehcanicalbill Probably those sssss, at the end of the chorus, are suppose to imitate the sound of snorting.
TheCreepyMachine 1 month ago
+++como olvidar esa rolita++de++sister++of mercy+++solo el recuerdo queda+++va++sobres+++solo para reconosores+++MARTHA++ARON+MIREYA++EL++BUBU++EL ISRRA+MIGUEL+++Y LOS DE MAS++
isrrael410 4 months ago
simply amazing
mamatjunit 4 months ago in playlist Αγαπημένα του χρήστη mamatjunit
mi scalda il cuore
helen4garage 5 months ago
Sorry,got fed up with all the knife talk and posted what from memory & listening are the correct lyrics. They were on the original LP cover.
mildew808 6 months ago
@mildew808 Funny, because the lyrics you got "from memory" are brutally incorrect.
centurionofprix 4 months ago
@mildew808 And nonsensical.
centurionofprix 4 months ago
@mildew808 And, incidentally, there is an "official" set of lyrics floating around that was transcribed by ear by some Japanese person.
centurionofprix 4 months ago
@centurionofprix
Translated by a Japanese person, are you having a laugh. Interesting to see where you think I am brutally incorrect. If you think it is nonsensical you obviously don't understand the song.
mildew808 3 months ago
@mildew808 First of all, sorry for taking such a cunty tone there.
Eldritch wrote in an issue on Underneath The Rock that there's a set of "official" lyrics floating around that was transcribed by a Japanese person; he claimed to have found hundreds of mistakes before giving up on reading it.
There are live versions where it seems rather clear to me that he's saying "knife" - Essen '93 he sings the chorus one more time on his own after the instruments stop.
centurionofprix 2 months ago
@centurionofprix
No probs, we can all be stroppy at times. Falling over, people cold yep I was completely wrong there
.The knife bit I disagree with, not many people hot knife speed. I think it starts as nothing but the life and one life all I need and then changes to night and line as the song becomes more intense and desperate ie as the addiction takes hold.
Stealing hand is stealing time (awake while others are asleep)
We're touched, no idea but maybe a literature reference like Prufrock?
mildew808 1 month ago
@mildew808 The "knife" interpretion also makes sense in terms of the drug imagery of the song; some take their amphetamine off a heated knife.
The line about women is "And the women come and go"; it's an allusion to T.S. Eliot's "Prufrock".
Hit up, lit up, steel in hand have to be the correct words if the "knife" thing is correct; I'm not sure what "stealing hand" and "we're touched" would mean in any case.
centurionofprix 2 months ago
@mildew808 Heh, it seems there comments are in the wrong order. Whatever.
He clearly seems to be saying "watch them do the falling over, watch them do the standing still" and "people cold and people burning" if you listen to clearer live versions, and this also makes sense in terms of the theme of the dramatic person's speedy escape from/description of his existential suffering and burying his head in the ice.
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Watch then do, over me Watch then do ,we’re standing still
Nothing but the LIFE to live for, one life all I need. Give me one good reason, give me more sss (peed)
Women, only women come and go. Talk, talking about me like they know
Men, bought and sold, but the world keeps turning
Feel cold and I feel a hole burning
Nothing but the life to live for, one life all I need. Give me one good reason, give me more sss
Pray, pray, pray …
mildew808 6 months ago in playlist sisters of mercy
Nothing but the life to live for, one life all I need. Give me one good reason, give me more amphetamine logic
Because, STEALING hand. We’re touched. Like candles burning. Like Catharine wheels turning. On
Nothing but the life to live for, one life all I need. Give me one good reason, give me more
Nothing but the life to live for, one life all I need.
Nothing but the NIGHT to live for, one LINE all I need. Give me one good reason, give me more. Amphetamine logic
then to end.
mildew808 6 months ago in playlist sisters of mercy
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mildew808 6 months ago in playlist sisters of mercy
Watch then do, over me Watch then do ,we’re standing still
Nothing but the LIFE to live for, one life all I need. Give me one good reason, give me more sss (peed)
Women, only women come and go. Talk, talking about me like they know
Men, bought and sold, but the world keeps turning
Feel cold and I feel a hole burning
Nothing but the life to live for, one life all I need. Give me one good reason, give me more sss
Pray, pray, pray ……
Nothing but the life to live for, one life all I need
mildew808 6 months ago in playlist sisters of mercy
you guys are botards. this song is about stalking and fucking murder.
shebop4331 6 months ago
Masterpiece!
eterna meraviglia *.*
lunaria86 6 months ago 2
okay. der kerl hört sich an wien geistig behinderter. die asp fassung ist weitaus besser.
aber der rest stimmt.
Rikoladddd 7 months ago
@Rikoladddd verpiss dich
LC8dirtdevil 6 months ago
wie kann mann sich nur so ein scheis anhören aber escht
RapSilliG 7 months ago
@RapSilliG
schon alta schwabe, rihanna is viel tighter wa? -.-
GermanSTUKA 2 months ago
@GermanSTUKA ...höhöhööö..danke für's grinsen ;-)
sirPSYCKO 1 month ago
i'm afraid i wasn't around in the 80's but this song makes me wish i was, definiately in smokey basments!!!
kriz2far 7 months ago
Diese Lied ist einfach der Hammer
666Darkpoison 7 months ago
love this song!
silverwolf2061 7 months ago
Hot Metal and Methadrine............aka.. Methamphetamine,, listen to Lucretia...
atrancestance 7 months ago
this song is scary
theTKwithin 7 months ago
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@sacredjimi
To know that you have to know the sound of one hand clapping.
iganzabissassa 7 months ago
this song is about smoking meth for sure lol
Strongwhite88 8 months ago
this song is about smoking meth lol
Strongwhite88 8 months ago
@Strongwhite88 U GOT IT SPEED JUNKIE big time it goes over most peoples heads but they were hitting it up there was no meth 2 smoke back then lol! i should know SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
MrJjjudge 7 months ago
I'm too goth for Andy.
AlienZygote010 8 months ago
I don't get why he goes says "Give me more SSSSsssssssssssss..."
I thought it would mean smack, but that's a slang term for Heroin and that isn't an amphetamine.
Punisher2191 9 months ago
@Punisher2191
what does amphetamine give??sssssSPEED.besides check the live versions of this song.Andrew sings there Give me more ssspeed ;)
7Andy77 9 months ago
MDMA
RoilNoise 9 months ago
The thing about Eldritch is he hates, absolutely despises "goth." He's more a humanist, and his lyrics are surreal in the best most politically evocative way. The guy knows politics and history. He's not into vampires and goblins, except maybe as they manifest metaphorically as imperialist/nationalist/political "monsters" --"a people eat each other"; "love for the party for the nation for the death and the defacation" etc. Before goth, there was post punk, Eldritch likes the Furs for example.
iganzabissassa 10 months ago 2
@iganzabissassa
Indeed my friend.Eldritch didn't intend to be a precursor of goth music.But,its done.Shame.But if so,I'd like to highlight that today's goth music has nothing to do with Sisters of Mercy and other more or less known bands from 80's considered goth.I'm not a goth,but majority of them don't know what it means and they are teens Nightwish wannabies who just want to be cool,bleak and gloomy.So,I understand why Andrew doesn't want to be associated with goths.Anyway,awesome song ;)
7Andy77 10 months ago 2
I think he's saying "Nothing but the knife to live for, one life all I need." He's talking about killing his fans. In the beginning of the song, they are doing stupid trendy dances, then they're talking about him like they know him, they're shallow, cold, drugged. The protagonist rock star of the song is having his alienated break down and is at the point of carrying out his fascistic impulses. Not unlike the main character in the Pink Floyd Movie "The Wall."
iganzabissassa 10 months ago
Fuck, words cant describe ... this song is awesome... makes me feel like a vampire, ..... am I the only one???
mariska83c 10 months ago
@mariska83c
yes you are the only one...still,one is too many...
7Andy77 9 months ago
the song makes more sense after you do the drug haha
goneshootin22 11 months ago 2
@goneshootin22 LOL ... so true!
mariska83c 10 months ago
I've got to buy this album...
WireFireLighter 11 months ago
@CathrineASP right on!!!!!! go go go!!! everyday my senior year i played side one of this record my dad hated it!!
haroldz2323 1 year ago
Best item
mt242 1 year ago
@dieterderblau hahaha, well yeah I guess the fashion was pretty horrendous... Especially in the 90's. Seeing some old pictures does make me wonder what those people were thinking!!! But the music was pretty awesome, I don't think anything like that will ever be produced again
thegothicdolly333 1 year ago
Just amazing....give me more sssssssssssssssssssssss ;)
sinisteracoustics 1 year ago
I wish more teens nowadays listened to this, instead of everyone asking me what the hell I'm listening to!!!! But I guess they don't have a cool dad like mine who introduced me to them!!! It's soooooooooo AMAZING!!!!!!!! I guess all you people were teens in the 80s and 90s. Oh how lucky you are!!!
thegothicdolly333 1 year ago 6
@thegothicdolly333 Yea, not so much, sure there was SOME good stuff... then there was neon leg warmers... BIG hair... flock of seagulls... deaf leopard... and worse.
dieterderblau 1 year ago
@thegothicdolly333 Nothin like a good Sisters live show. Those were the days I tell ya, yer old man has it right.\
This is an epic band, deeper than most can understand these days,
druidsfoot 1 year ago 2
Hilfe, kann mir andrew wircklich so aus der seele sprechen?
Er konnte, kann und wird es können!
PsychoKungfu1 1 year ago
HILFE, kann mir andrew wircklich so aus der seele sprechen!
Ja er konnte,kann und wird können!
PsychoKungfu1 1 year ago
Apparently it's understood that he's saying "Nothing but the knife to live for / One life, all I need"; however, at 4:14 he's clearly saying "Nothing but the NIGHT to live for / One LINE, all I need"
Now the song makes a little more sense to me.
sugarandspice4815 1 year ago 37
@sugarandspice4815
nun ja ich verstehe das so, das leben ist eine nacht und da erübrigt sich das mit einer line von selbst , versteht sich.
echo33ify 1 year ago
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PrimusRaven 1 year ago
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PrimusRaven 1 year ago
@sugarandspice4815 He dose say knife. The songs about hot knifing. Which makes a lot of sense when compared to the name of the song.
PrimusRaven 1 year ago
@sugarandspice4815
8D
I also thought he sings "one life - all I need"
anyway, good song, I like to howl along at night
eyscheisse 1 year ago
@sugarandspice4815 the 1 line he needs is speed thats all this band sung about ok check out AMPHETIMEN LOGIC +TEMPLE OF LOVE!
MrJjjudge 7 months ago
@sugarandspice4815
so, he took one life with a knife to get the line he needed for the night
viipottajaville 6 months ago
@viipottajaville -- perhaps better stated:
he just scored, but like there is no razor blade ( the knife ) handy... ( pre-paper-over-the-gemstones-and-mirror-below and then like the chapstick or lighter run on top to pulverize into powder revolution ). Yet he pauses to reflect ( cause there's a mirror staring right back at himself ) -- and he wishes that he had a life other than this.
And then the night / line should be self explanatory...
Forgive my interjection,
Pneumaton.
pneumatonic 6 months ago
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elarbano 2 weeks ago
smokey 80s basements
betogomez 1 year ago 30
this is a pure goth sound regardless of what people say. probably the greatest goth group of all time.
thejamesdolce 1 year ago 2
the sweltering summer of "85" in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. The Sisters ascend with their brilliant debut major label release. Driving down Beach Blvd to Huntington with my goth friends, coked out of our skulls listening to this "cassette" and playing it so much I had to replace it several times over...also was the summer of The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez...what a crazy, fun, scary, memorable time...
AdamCoffin13 1 year ago
The bass by Adams is amazing.......the song is the ultimate 'Biker song'...since I rode a motor bike....a meanmother of a Ducatti...I used to weave in and out of traffic while imagining myself listening to this..what a song.....The Drum Machine, Doktor Avalanche sounds postively demonic..as does Eldritch!!!
khorrumg 1 year ago
@khorrumg Wouldn't Black Planet be the perfect biker song?
dhdfull 1 year ago
This brought back so many memories of applying makeup ready to go out in the 90's. :)
xxxxSylphxxxx 1 year ago
I used to rip up the dance floor to this sh#t! YES!
...people cold and people burning...
::kick::kick::kick::
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bloody money, temple of love and gimme shelter are the only tracks that r better than this.
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trickydicky1971 1 year ago
nothing but the knife to live for
one life all I need....
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trickydicky1971 1 year ago
Has to be one of my top 3 fav songs by them. So much emotion.
SamSparkus 2 years ago
Great! Full of emotion, full of andrew!
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