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There's A Ghost In My House
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Original UK release
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First released 27 April 1987 on Beggars Banquet 7": Beg187; 12": Beg187T; 7" hologram cover: Beg187H; and cassette: Beg187C
01. There's A Ghost In My House
(Dozier/Holland/Holland/R. Dean Taylor)
2:36
There's a ghost in my house
The ghost of your memory
The ghost of the love that was took from me
Our love used to be
Only shadows in the past I see
Times can't seem to've erased
The vision of your smiling face
Dead flowers I sent thee
I can't get over ye
There's a ghost in my house
I can't hide (ghost in my house)
For the ghost of your love is inside (ghost in my house)
Keeps on haunting me (ghost in my house)
Just keeps on becalling me (ghost in my house)
Down in my tea cup
I see your face looking up
Sitting in my easy chair
I feel your fingers running through my hair
Though we're far apart
Your spectre's in my heart
There's a ghost in my house
I can't hide (ghost in my house)
For the ghost of your love is inside (ghost in my house)
Keeps on haunting me (ghost in my house)
Still just a part of me (ghost in my house)
By the way I hang my head
You can see I'm afraid
Thought my heart knows you're gone
My mind keeps rolling on
There's a ghost in my house
I can't hide
In my house I am helpless
[?] practice superstitious
I hear footsteps on the stairs
I know there's no-one there
Keeps on haunting me
Keeps on haunting me
There's a ghost in my house
A ghost of your memory
A ghost of the love that was took from me
Ghost in my house
02. Haf Found Bormann
(Smith)
2:43
Red out 2SW185 rocking horse
This is [...] 3600 leader copy
Nimrod expedition reports
Haf found Bormann
Captured resistance was in the form of two false Aztecs
In fact Sudanese agents
We have eliminated
Equipped with spears containing modern razors
Arsenal with shells M14 issue
Captured
Confiscated
Nimrod is vindicated in the highest
Haf found Bormann
Captured
Vials of stupid serum
Refer galley
Refer Paraguay
Refer Vatican
Refer P2
Great glory to God
Haf found Bermann
Nimrod is vindicated in the highest
18 degrees [...]
Nimrod reports
Haf found Bormann
North north west [...]
Haf found Bormann
Advise
Transmission ends
03. Sleep Debt Snatches
(Smith)
6:18
Out of the air sometimes in fitful sleep
Snap right up, lean out of the bed
Pivot your legs, shake your head,
Take an easy breath.
Think how great God's golden assurance is
In set-backs and great success
Got bad dreams through sleep debt
Hold the grip, make a mark on your head,
Your body and legs take a rightful rest
While you're left to Hell's dispatches
Grip the mind, kids, close the hatches
Here are some sleep debt snatches
04. Mark'll Sink Us
(Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith)
4:53
The ward was arraigned with spats of blood.
The victim, castigate, and yet, part of us.
The thoughts in eyes as seen under a hood
Burned in my own eyes and in my blood!
Mark'll sink us.
A message mesmerized, on all English breath,
the crux pretty grasped, but mostly misunderstood.
Mark'll sink us.
I am desolate. I live the black and blue of the night.
Friend depression comes now and again once in a blue moon.
It points backwards thus:
Mark'll sink us
05. Hey! Luciani
(Hanley, S/Smith)
3:34
Aborteum
I said Luciani
The future's here today
I said Hey Luciani
Pope of three three days
They made out you were are an ultra nut
And had no time for your Christianity
You paid with your life for their treachery
The future's here today
The future's here to stay
Luciani
Hey Luciani
Jesus has gone away
I said Hey Luciani
Meet the Church Bank S.A.
They said you were of peasant stock
And one day the curia murdered you
Your hermeneutics are through
And on that fruited plain
The corporate bishop's graze
Exit church of poverty and pain
The future's here today
The future's here to stay
Hey Luciani
A pop star in your cell
I said Hey Luciani
A Polish son of Hell
You were the first John Paul I
How is it your 'Christian' is gone?
Can you see it from your grave?
The TV snow-storm on top,
The brass Holy Grail
Imitation for sale
The future's here today
Luciani
And all the cowls are black
On an inquisition rack
The future's here today
The future's here to stay
Luciani
(7" side 1: track 1; side 2: track 2)
(12" side 1: tracks 1,2; side 2: tracks 3,4)
(Cassette sides 1 & 2: tracks 1,5,2,3)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Brix Smith - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Marcia Schofield - keyboards
Simon Wolstencroft - drums
Produced by: Grant "Showbiz" Cunliffe
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded at Abbey Road, London; Brixton and Manchester late 1986/early 1987.
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