"This is a message to the sky..."

"Hey Jesus, won't you come on down?"

28 February

(From Living With the Human Machines)

Well, I'm only sorry there were so many more Strangelove lyrics I wasn't able to crowbar in this month.

For instance "The man in the moon's got it in for me." (Sixer)

Marvellous.

"You are right out of my mind & I am totally off your head."

27 February

(From Nobody's There)

"Smoke shall twist beyond my trying eyes."

26 February

(From Fire (Show Me Light))

"Give yourself a chance to see you're exactly what you're meant to be."

25 February

(From Little Queenie)

"Something of dreams that was taken away..."

24 February

(From The Return of the Real Me)

"The city smiles a neon smile..."

23 February

(From The City Song)

"Everything that they've told me amounts to nothing I can use."

22 February

(From World Outside)

"I'm gonna pack my flag and dance now..."

21 February

(From Sand)

"The dream that I had was a dream in a waking world."

20 February

(From Time For the Rest of Your Life)

"Stone against stone against stone in my way..."

19 February

(From Is There a Place?)

"He's a movie waiting, a connoisseur of strange extremes..."

18 February

(From Last Great Rock 'n' Roll Queen)

"Sometimes near but always there..."

17 February

(From Visionary)

"Sway to the breeze all around of this loneliest day."

16 February

(From Sway)

"Watching the movement on my bit of sky."

15 February

(From Another Night In)

"So cautious of the words down here & what I say."

14 February

(From Chances)

"I will drift 'cross this sea with my wooden memory."

"I'll throw my stone of stone lives into the sea of black."

13 February

(From The Sea of Black)

"Living in the water and the sound."

12 February

(From All Because of You)

"A futureless peepshow."

11 February

(From 20th Century Cold)

"The living daylight's far away."

10 February

(From Hopeful)

"Might I say, it's sometimes good to know that you're insane..."

"Might I say, I get the feeling I could be the same."

9 February

(From Hysteria Unknown)

"The electric skies....meet the world that nobody can find..."

8 February

(From Spiders & Flies)

"As time dragged on their branches became so complicatedly intertwined..."

"...That it was impossible to tell from which person they had originated."

7 February

(From Ghost Haddock)

"Slower than a sack of Sundays."

6 February

(From The Drinker)

"The dust that you once came from is the dust you will return to again."

"We live one life, one life to each remember -

The dust that you once came from is the dust you will return to again."

5 February

(From Bethlehem)

"Sadly, people that you never understood bring you more heartache."

4 February

(From Kite)

"So beware of supervision, know your keeper and destroy him..."

3 February

(From Zoo'd Out)

"A secret hidden in the dirt."

2 February

(From Mona Lisa)

"We're going to make it to the moon...but I don't want go there..."

"...But I don't want to stay...

But I really don't think I can go..."

Back in the day, Strangelove were accused of being "miserablists" in unimaginative & frankly miserable quarters.

This accusation never took into account the sneering intelligence & often hilarious delivery of their words, nor the affecting accomplishment of their music.

Strangelove was in fact, a wonderful thing - rich in stories, observations, darkness, obsession, comedy.

For every ten snarling tales they told of addiction, violence, paranoia & breakdown, they told a gentle other of spirit, nature, dreams & compassion.

Wise, clever, well-versed in The Way of Things & sadly gone, February's men are Strangelove.

1 February

(From Casualties)