Siouxsie and The Banshees - We Fall

This song is a B-side of Fireworks 12'' (1982), which was included in Downside Up B-Sides and Rarities Album in 2004.

SIOUXSIE "When we heard these live drums back I knew we had to use them. They sounded very 'Can' but with a Budgie twist. So we looped them in the studio and were inspired to come up with this hypnotic free fall. I love it. The voice at the very beginning is our sound man of the time, Tim Sunderland, testing my microphone with Budgie during a sound check."

SEVERIN "During a long tour of Scandinavia Siouxsie had asked our soundman to record all our soundchecks on a tape. One night I was going through the cassettes and found that he had captured this lovely rolling drum pattern that went on for quite some time without any interruption. Nigel transferred it to 24 track tape and Siouxsie laid down a vocal arrangement. McGeoch and I added textures. The lyric is concerned with the feeling of falling in dreams. Dying in your sleep."

Lyrics:
Screaming blue and tangerine
Come and join this crazy dream
Of vampire kites painted white
Trails of vampire kites torsos painted white
They're all around so don't make a sound
See spikes of sparkling green
See waves of tangerine
Please don't scream in this dream
See a tiny box of silver
See a flaming glove of amber
We start to fall
At the beginning of a fall
They say when you hit the bottom
You don't wake up at all
Not at all
We start to fall

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