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100 Faces

by Lilou & John

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1.
He broke my neck, yes he did Joséphine This cannot be, it must be a dream I see you cry beyond the black veil You are so beautiful and yet so frail For months I have tried to take you away But you were too scared and decided to stay You said that we could not survive on our own Two ten year old girls without any home He broke my neck, yes he did Joséphine You wonder how everything could might have been But sweet love do not blame yourself for my death I will always be your 'Lizabeth Every time he hurts you my love I look down at you like a star from above So close to you but not there by your side I would have kissed you had I been alive He broke my neck, yes he did Joséphine Your father who found the small space between The roof and the wall where you kept me from him Waiting for our new life to begin You are so hungry, too pale and too cold I know, Joséphine you will never grow old Slowly he breaks down your body and heart Your father that killed me and tore us apart He broke my neck, yes he did Joséphine But I can still reach you throughout every dream Someday you'll find me, your 'Lizabeth Then we will be free in the silence of death Yes we will be free in the silence of death
2.
Let's go to Paolo's, walk in the rain Go to the zoo today, catch a train Go anywhere we want to go, drink 'til dawn Forget that I was one day even born Let's do a nightclub or picnic in the parks Sit there in the grass, listen to the larks Pretend they are in love, though they are not Let me forget I saw what I forgot That's it what I want is what I get Yeah I'm only happy when I forget Yeah I'm only happy when I forget Let's say I love you, fingers crossed Let's say I know what I've lost I wanna get away, stay anyway Forget what I desire, cut the pain I'll buy myself a ton of sleeping pills Call it accessories for deeper thrills Pretend I'm happy, need no break Lie and forget that I am fake That's it what I want is what I get Yeah I'm only happy when I forget Yeah I'm only happy when I forget Let's say we go separate ways We could meet again someday It's a lie I know, that is true My biggest lie is I love you That's it what I want is what I get Yeah I'm only happy when I forget Yeah I'm only happy when I forget Yeah I'm only happy when I forget
3.
100 faces 03:18
You think you know the part of me that is not skin and bone Trapped behind my hundred faces I am all alone I stare out through a veil of glass that's never gonna break On the outside I am just the one you want – a fake Rainy day The umbrellas are up and running all along the street First of may Puddles of water splashed onto my naked feet I walk alone I wear no clothes I wear no make up no perfume Just a dream Where I can be the one no one has ever seen You think you know the part of me that is not skin and bone Trapped behind my hundred faces I am all alone I stare out through a veil of glass that's never gonna break On the outside I am just the one you want – a fake Bird of prey I walk into the park and see the hawk with silicon eyes Seize the day Be hungry for more and passionate and live your life Polished chrome My face is like a 50's big American car Just a dream I am a faded memory a perfect sunshine machine You think you know the part of me that is not skin and bone Trapped behind my hundred faces I am all alone I stare out through a veil of glass that's never gonna break On the outside I am just the one you want – a fake A fake A fake A fake A fake
4.
God 04:00
I saw you on the night sky in a space suit from Soviet I saw you climb for freedom over the Berlin wall I saw you drive a racing car, sign up for New York Jets More than that I cannot recall I saw you in a uniform on sepia photographs I saw you in your glasses at Charles de Gaulle I heard you had negotiated peace in Vietnam More than that I cannot recall But I know your life was just a mesmerising dream I told myself to hide away all that I had seen I saw you talk to natives in Papua New Guinea I saw the world cup final when you scored that goal I saw you win the marathon on our color TV More than that I cannot recall But I know your life was just a mesmerising dream I told myself to hide away all that I had seen I saw you race to Antarctica on the open seas I heard you on the radio the god of rock and roll I saw you with a Nobel prize in white laboratories More than that I cannot recall But I know your life was just a mesmerising dream I told myself to hide away all that I had seen But I know your life was just a mesmerising dream I told myself to hide away all that I had seen
5.
My eyes they mesmerised me When I was a kid Saw beyond the seas of blue Saw beyond the lids Caught by my own torture Isolated by My own wish to survive where All I could was die Mirrors they deceived me Told me who I was Said to me remember All that you have lost This is your life abandoned By your family Cast out into the abyss Of a raging sea Voices caught me freezing Coming from the dark Of the bedroom corners The whisper from my heart Beware oh little soldier Your sword is made of wood Just remember when you die You did the best you could Endless was the long line Of empty shallow days Behind the wall of self deceit Where I chose to stay I came out to the starlight The nights that were so clean Just the fading torture From a mesmerising dream At night the wind was chilly At least I wasn't home Werewolves out for children Left my mind alone I wasn't scared of ghosts there They hid within the walls Of the house where death awaited Behind the wooden door Hallowed be thy name they said But I knew they were wrong There is pit where gods and devils Will not stay for long A fear so deep and painful It makes a demon cry Alone it is, alone when Murder victims die My eyes they mesmerised me When I was a kid Locked myself out from the world Scared behind the lids Caught by my own torture Isolated by My own wish to survive where All I could was die My own wish to survive where All I could was die

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100 Faces was Lilou & John's first album and everything was made in a haphazard manner. Lilou got a cold a week before recording, John hadn't practiced playing to a metronome and none of them had ever visited a recording studio. The end result was however an EP that stretched beyond mainstream pop and marked the beginning of a new kind of music.

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released August 26, 2016

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Eclectic heterodox shadowband creating music for introspective dissent in Drone City.

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