Dazzle - Siouxsie and the Banshees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQcOVQEJor8&fmt=18
Lyrics
swallowing diamonds
a cutting throat
your teeth when you grin
reflecting beams on tombstones
a jamboree of surprises
playing russian roulette
or the lucky clip
a clenched fist to your heart
coal dust on your lungs

a silver tongue for the chosen one
heavy magnum in your side or a bloody thorn

skating bullets on angel dust
in a dead sea of fluid mercury
baby piano cries
under your heavy index and thumb
pull some strings -- let them sing

the stars that shine and the stars that shrink
in the face of stagnation the water runs
before your eyes
dazzle
it's a glittering prize

Single by Siouxsie & the Banshees
from the album Hyæna
B-side "I Promise", "Throw Them to the Lions"
Released May 25, 1984
Format 7" single, 12" single
Recorded 1984
Genre New Wave
Alternative rock
Label Polydor
Writer(s) Siouxsie & the Banshees
Producer Siouxsie & the Banshees
Mike Hedges

"Dazzle" is a song written and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees. It was co-produced with Mike Hedges and was released as the third single from the band's sixth studio album Hyæna.

The song begins with a gradual fade-in of an orchestral strings section and progresses to a drum-driven, majestic anthem. The lyrics ("...swallowing diamonds / a cutting throat) came after watching the final scene of Marathon Man where Laurence Olivier puts diamonds in his mouth.

"Dazzle" climbed to number thirty-three on the UK singles chart and was Siouxsie & the Banshees' eleventh top-forty UK hit.

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[cheaplalique]

this is the song that got me into SATB back when I was a sophmore in high school.......Is it just me or was music better back then? Guess I'm just old.

[LaraCgurl]

I love you Siouxsie!!

[Fiaganja]

@cheaplalique you sure are

[californioxochipilli]

I haven't heard this song for a few decades, the intro alone brought a few tears.

Hyaena is Siouxsie and the Banshees best album. The Creatures "Feast" is also a phenomenal album.

There is music from the 80's that touched the souls a handful of people, but there were peers back then who "didn't get it".

2012: I live in the Bay Area surrounded by people from all over the world. I feel like a foreigner on my native land.

This song roots me back to that sense of truth and inner power.

[TheNEK1995]

ONE OF MY FAV...C

[LJSphoenix1968]

@cheaplalique I think you're absolutely right...music was better! Listen to the spirit of this song...intense AND beautiful! Aaaaah, at least we were there to hear this stuff when it was new.

[clayguy33]

@cheaplalique I like to consider myself objective ... and no, it's not just you. :)

[FuckURmorals]

@LollyGabby I am very confused as to the point of your reply... But whatever. It's all good.

[awellfedbottomfeeder]

12/28/1985 TIL NOW ALL THE same.......thank you An agit prop of hope a prayer for the commo man. Beauty abounds  EE Cummings done proud.

[LollyGabby]

@FuckURmorals thats your own opinion

[Dagarvs]

@SaschaDuda it was made by musicians then, not recording companies.

today it's "hey, i found a great musical group!"

"really? what do they look like?"

[FuckURmorals]

@cheaplalique Nope, it was much better back then!