보니 프린스 빌리의 2001년 본작은 앨범 아트윅이 이미 모든걸 설명하는 듯 하다. 마치 전작의 어둠의 세계를 빠져 나오려는 버둥거림이 본작의 그런 풍경을 낳은거 같다. 어둠의 사생아처럼, 전작의 어둠의 세례와 고해성사 후, 보니 프린스 빌리의 변화된 심경의 첫번째 결과물이 본작이다. 좀 더 나이브해지고 부드러워진 앨범은 본작의 고갱이 AFTER I MADE LOVE TO YOU 의 여성 코러스로 위무 받으려는 듯 하다. 그러나 그것은 그가 몰두했던 세계에 대한 잠시 동안의 휴식어었을 터, 거의 마지막 트랙인 GRAND DARK FEELING OF EMPTINESS이 웅변하듯 그는 여전한 어둠의 본질을 희석시키지 않고 있다. 다만 어느 시인의 싯구처럼, 그리고 본작이 아트윅처럼 '어둡지도 밝지도 않은 길이 우리를 데려가'주길 바라는 듯 하다. .... ....
I've been with you for a fairly long time May I call you, may I call you, may I call you mine? And you, unknown, have been with me May it always, may it always, may it always be
Please don't leave my side, remember I love you None of what I have done wrong was really done against you If you love me, and I'm weak, then weaker you must love me more To re-enforce what's also strong and all the love we have in store
By example you show me that living's alright Stay here with me, stay here with me, stay with me tonight And come with me when I go into the bedroom And we'll play bride, and we'll play bride, and we'll play bride and groom
If you had not been born you know What would I, what would I be then? I would not have had strength to grow And be counted, and be counted among men
Please don't leave my side, remember I love you None of what I have done wrong was really done against you If you love me, and I'm weak, then weaker you must love me more To re-enforce what's also strong and all the love we have in store
In the morning we'll wrestle and ruin our stomachs with coffee Won't we be, won't we be, won't be happy And we will rise in anger, love and ardour Shining, shining, shimmering in love's armour
I wrote a careless love "Love me not for I'm above Above a cloud all flat and white And with another love tonight" And then a careless love By weighty cloud above Was ground into the floor To loving breathe no more
Lady as I leave you Limp on the floor Distorting our voices Slamming the door I say sorry I say bye bye I say miss you I say cry cry
There is grime on my face There is crust in my eye There is no-one in the place But no-one said goodbye This is how I start another day in my kingdom
There is hate in my heart This is how my day starts There is blood on my hands From the murder of a man This is how I start another day in my kingdom
And where is my queen She's as gone as can be She was a fine looking lady And she liked to go down on me And I liked to go down on her too
In Indya there's the taj On good times there was rog And here-ee look and see All there is is me This is how I start another day in my kingdom This is how I start another day in my kingdom
There are good times to be had Only insane's really bad The lord and I agree It's not too off to be What we are As long as we're royalty You fuck and what's to do (you fuck!) It's not your kingdom too
Eloquent, I soon retire To nothing else I may aspire After I've made love to you
In the dark I see you glisten To your breath I lay and listen After I've made love to you
In your arms I'm softly resting Memories of you undressing And your lips my final blessing I never knew The embrace that I'd been lacking Has been found with kisses smacking And two bodies there attacking I and you
Baby why don't we feel guilty Why's it seem we're doing right When we're doing something filthy In a rented room tonight
I think it's cause we love the now We love forever love, and how And my life's your love, anyway And your life's my love, everyday
You are mine oh now forever Think of you always wherever After I've made love to you After I've made love to you
Mrs. William, where is William? Where has William go? You know you shouldn't Come into a place like this alone
Now if you'd like to sit here at my table, I'll abide But it isn't usually my thing to do anothers bride I'll sell my heart, I'll sell my brain I'll sell my love and all my fame
My mother maybe And my brother too To raise the stake to pay for you To get you from his side
And then I'll watch, keep one eye open Halfway fearing, halfway hoping That blackguard boy with handsome muscle Disturb your sleep with tiny tussle
And earn by stealing Mrs. William Mrs. William gone again But with your eyes and with your aura You'll never leave this place alone
I have you always, the taste of us coming You'll make the beasties and the flora You're part of our eternal home Humble and bow down
Born in sheep's blood plain and simple Washed out of my mother's temple All around I heard them laughing As father sheep had stood there calving
Black they were, with white eyes gleaming Right in heaven life was seeming Brittle wind blew snow upon me I got blanketed all white and frosty
In my time I grew and killed them Or out of memory I willed them And willed in a greater history Out of massacre and mystery
Was no longer wealthy, woolly Nor anything I could grasp fully Someone rush to re-inject me God of gods, won't you protect me?
Fixed my face and marching onward Marching running ever forward Buildings were a bloody vessel Edging me below the trestle
There in coal and whitened gravel I built a shield of wooden baffle Inside of which I raised a fire So I could tonight retire
Everyone will tell you it's evil to be A free-thinking pecker like bonnie old me But I'll flex my armies and blow out my gut And prove I'll be loved by any old slut
Look here in my wallet, it's loaded and true And now I can leave here and go and find you
All and all is one thing today One good effort made on its way To take in a love and pass on a feeling Of heart in chest slowly unpeeling
Lilly can take it with a smile and not a frown In the room where she lives blessed I guess She wears my favor and shows it around And in doing so I too get blessed
Rules explode and we call her mine And she has my baby and things are fine She can't hold her eyes still or her voice The way nooses hold necks still in excellent poise
Lilly can take it with a smile and not a frown In the room where she lives blessed I guess She wears my favor and shows it around And in doing so I too get blessed
Jug holds a gallon and you hold my arm And I hold a million in bottle and yarn And gem isn't sacred when mother has breathed You know - you told me that
A shark and a dog - now you're laughing The dog licks the shark dry in your photographing And I lick you dry until you're laughing My finger is in your behind
I woke up fat and almost unhappy But the bigger the laugh the bigger the belly And I bellow out and the whole bed it shakes And you smile at my laugh as it rocks you awake