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Fathoms

by BFG

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Higher Than Heaven Is Back to the bathroom floor again, On your knees like a long lost Sunday, Won't you ever come back down, Won't you ever come back down? You walk walk walk around the trees Never, ever find the woods, I talk talk talk to my new disease, Something you never understood It goes higher than heaven is. It goes higher than heaven is. Biting tongues and crawling walls, Oh, you could disappear hear. If I'd the time and if I had the mind I'd go back to the start, Break my back to break my heart. It goes higher than heaven is, Deeper than down, Goes higher than heaven is, Deeper than down. Won't you ever come back down?
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MALARIA SUMMER With feet of clay and brains to match, I kiss fever lips You catch me before I collide but, I went to far before I said it. And they didn't reply when I said where, Where are the hands to guide us, and I let out a smile when I said where, Where are wings to fly us? Gone, up and away, my happy side, Another souls lost forever and If you wear that dress again this will not last forever. I got what I wanted and not what I needed, too proud to admit it, too scared to change. I got what I needed but not what I wanted, can you tell me which way is out? I don't want to think about it, Cause I can't live without it, Might as well take my arms away, Might as well take my legs away. And they didn't reply when I said why, Why aren't the stars all shining and, I meant what I said when I said why, Why don't you come out fighting? Sun, scarring the sky, brings Malaria Summer. You under the sun, kills me inside. I got what I wanted and not what I needed, too proud to admit it, too scared to change. I got what I needed but not what I wanted, Can you tell me which way is out? I don't want to think about it, Cause I can't live without it, Might as well take my arms away, Might as well take my legs away. Where are the hands to guide us? Where are the hands to guide us?
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LAUGHING TIGERS No, no, no, See it ain't that easy, Though I don't suppose you Ever had the problem. Can you feel it? Sounds like big wheels turning, Feels like God's own fury, Looks like no one's learning. Laughing tigers. Laughing Tigers. And you're too scared to close your eyes. And there's nothing for you in the scheme of things. And I can't say what day it is and Does it really matter anyway? Cut down from both sides, the ground you gave was swallowed whole. Left with pain, a shadow of doubt, and fear is the best form of defence. Cut down from both sides, the ground you gave was swallowed whole. Left with pain, a shadow of doubt, and fear is the best form of defence. Hey, can you feel it? Like a warm wind blowing, Laughing tigers, Laughing tigers. Hey, can you feel it? Like a warm wind blowing, Laughing tigers, Laughing tigers.
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Fathoms 05:01
FATHOMS And I can't find the connection. In hope, there is desperation. Outside, nothing seems real And inside, there's nothing to see of me. And now that we're together, I think I've gone too far. I still awake from fields of sleep to a troubled world, six fathoms down A happy road, where I must go, Hope dashed upon the rocks below You know The ocean never leaves those Who now, then and shall forever know. As the water takes a hold To keep you in his memory, The way you are the way I think you used to be. To take away all the doubt And the things I can't undo, The wind of change, it blows softly on you. And she slipped down...
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Firefly 04:39
FIREFLY Here at the start, Here at the end, Counting every breath that you take. In forest shapes, shrink and grow Voices through the fog that blind us. From here to home, from head to bone As the world walks into the water. In reverence to God's first animal All the others bow down before him Hypnotised, mesmerised, Waiting for the sun to climb Firefly, dragonfly, you burn so bright and fly so high, fly so high.
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Coming Home 04:11
COMING HOME Wind blows ghost-like summer rains That roll over the sand, shore, my sea. All the words you left unspoken. 10,000 miles and the chain has broken I'm coming home I'm coming home. It's my reward all that I'm longing for. It's my reward all that I'm longing for. Somewhere between heaven and me, Is you, too hazy, too far out of reach. I call for dawn to break down the shadows, I go whatever which way the wind blows, and I'm blinded by your day, Like a pale moon at morning, I'm left feeling that way, I'm left feeling that way, It's what Made the people, tore this heart apart And we'll Kill the nation, lose all salvation. I'm coming home I'm coming home. It's my reward all that I'm longing for. It's my reward all that I'm longing for. Inside she breaks Deceiving worlds with a Perfect face... I'm coming home I'm coming home. It's my reward all that I'm longing for. It's my reward all that I'm longing for.
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SOUTHERN BELL This city never sleeps, This city runs the clock with every God given hour No time to stop and think, No time for anything but tomorrow's dress and yesterday's news Waiting for the dawn, I see patterns forming, undercurrents running, Screaming in my ears The city smokes and roars, This is what we struggled for? And the weak at the wall get no answers, for now And I found a picture of you, Hidden away in the pages at the back of my mind. And all the things you said, you promised me that would never come true, Came with the morning, this morning Cars slide past and blind into the winter heart as madness screams across this land, Rising with the dawn, the voice of treason, singing, screaming through electric air, And I found a picture of you, hidden away in the pages at the back of my mind At the back of my mind. Gulls fly to the canopy It's old and grey Like my face Today
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ANOTHER ISLAND With heavy heart, we hit the ground We fly so high to reach so low. The busy streets of empty faces, outside The distance I feel begins to grow. With heavy heart, we hit the ground With heavy heart, we hit the ground We fly so high and fall so far. They fight in fields so rare. The funeral drum, the soldier's song, Reminds me of another island Where the same weak voice sings on and on and on... With heavy heart, we hit the ground With heavy heart, we hit the ground We fly so high and fall so far.
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UNSURE, SHE SAID And the lights on the freeway Of all the people coming home, Flicker round the wall and ceiling, Leave me cold and leave me feeling Like the taste of the gun that still remains, blunt and empty on the table. "Unsure, but willing and able To take away your freedom." She said, "Leave your clothes where they stand," And "This sea will have us all." Leave your clothes where they stand. She said I think I'm going down and I said yeah. But I got people underhand and a heart that don't know When to stop I tried love, money and alcohol and "You just don't know what pain is." Christene, the colour of your mind Colours my obsession, now Just press your hands together, stuck Between him and heaven. She said "Leave your clothes where they stand," And "The sea will have us all." Leave your clothes where they stand. She said I think I'm going down and I said yeah.
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Mako 05:23
MAKO It's the weight of the wind, you know, That blows through old and weathered stones That broke the straw that broke your back, Sold and saved to halt the lack of Circumstance, will take a rag, Lay it on our burning brow, Mothers of fate and destiny have played a higher on me. Mako. Mako. And the stain on your skin that still remains, Blue as the sky, wild untamed, And twice as holy as blood or wine Our hearts, arms, minds entwine. The flame burns bright in your eyes, The vows of ice, a world of fire, It's so cold, Divine inspired. Mako. Mako. It's the weight of the wind you know...

about

Fathoms was BFG's debut album, containing "Higher Than Heaven" that was recently voted in the "Top Twenty Gothic Tracks of All TIme".

The same track was made Melody Makers "Single of The Year" by leading Gothic writer Mick Mercer.

Described by the US's legendary DJ Coyote J as " More Intense than Joy Division without the depression" the story came full circle when Joy Division's / New Order bassist Pete Hook invited BFG to tour with New Order.

Featuring x Fatory Records artists and Chameleons members the BFG played to over 15,000 fans at Germanys Loreley Stadium.

Interpol, The Editors, White Lies all and even the Killers, all give Fathoms a tip of the titfa.

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released April 4, 1988

Music BFG
Produced Mike Simii
Engineer Guy Hatton ( Utah Saint)

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BFG Manchester, UK

Following tours with The Cult, New Order, and the Smiths as Drummer with Factory Records band Lavolta Lakota Mike Simmi left to form BFG in Summer 1985.. On hearing the early demos , Joy Division and New Order bassist Pete Hook invited the band to support New Order. ... more

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