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Come to my house tonight
We can be together in the nuclear sky
And we will dance in the poison rain
And we can stay a while in Heaven today
Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
Let's die together?
Two hearts under the skyscrapers
There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in paradise
Or have you come to catch me?
Come to my arms tonight
Just you and me together under electric light
And she will dance in the poison air
And we can stay together
Two hearts under the skyscrapers
There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in Paradise
Or have you come to catch me?
Come to my arms I'm lost
Just you and me together in the year of the horse
Single file in the nuclear night
And we could feel a little closer
As we tumble through the sky
Let's stay together, let's stay these days are ours
Let's stay together
Two hearts under a skyscraper
Let's stay together, let's stay in this broken down love
Let's stay together, two hearts under the skyscrapers
We can be together in the nuclear sky
And we will dance in the poison rain
And we can stay a while in Heaven today
Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
Let's die together?
Two hearts under the skyscrapers
There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in paradise
Or have you come to catch me?
Come to my arms tonight
Just you and me together under electric light
And she will dance in the poison air
And we can stay together
Two hearts under the skyscrapers
There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in Paradise
Or have you come to catch me?
Come to my arms I'm lost
Just you and me together in the year of the horse
Single file in the nuclear night
And we could feel a little closer
As we tumble through the sky
Let's stay together, let's stay these days are ours
Let's stay together
Two hearts under a skyscraper
Let's stay together, let's stay in this broken down love
Let's stay together, two hearts under the skyscrapers
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"We can be together in the nuclear sky
And we will dance in the poison rain"
Imagery related both to the nuclear arms race, and also the Chernobyl disaster which was not too far in the past at the time. Nuclear radiation and poison rain were serious realities in those nations.
"Let's stay together" might refer to all of the countries in general, that are much weaker as independent nations than they would have been as one united entity.
The skyscraper/motorway imagery might refer to the urbanization of these countries in the Soviet years, and the knowledge that there was more to come.
"Just you and me together in the year of the horse
Single file in the nuclear night"
The year of the horse was 1991, immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And "single file in the nuclear night" could mean that each country, one after another, must address the situation of the collective future.
"Let's stay together in broken down love."
Once you get on the idea of the USSR satellite country thing, it's hard to get rid of it.
A pair of lovers have made a pact to kill themselves together. The vocalist tells his lover to meet at his place (a highrise building). Upon arrival, he wonders if his lover will back out ('or have you come to catch me?'). They dance in the rain on the rooftop, preparing to jump off together.
I've only ever been able to make out the odd line or two, and it is something like:
I don’t need to do that thing here...
...Not tonight, not going to see the band...
..Not tonight I'm gonna be sick...
...I’m gonna spew
Don't take me down to the park with the cars
Don't take me there
Take me somewhere else
Sounds a bit freaky. I also have a live version of this track and it sounds like Brett sings something completely different, only Wikipedia mentions '16 tears' which is in this live version and is apparently a lyric from the original version (though you can’t hear those words at any point in the song). Here's what I can make out - the brackets denote uncertainty over the lyric, the ? is where I have no idea:
See our lives in the shadow of a gun
Trippy little girl where the pigs don't come
16 tears for every year
Hooked up together with the [burning year]
Here lies the shadow of a gun
Standing in the sky like ...?..
[Tina had the floor] and the child in my bed
.....?..........?........... and the lice in the bed
.....?..........?........... to the tune of a scream
Looked out his window he saw the gas fire on
He saw a fat cow in a single bed
Ripping up a storm like ..?.. for the dead
See our lives in the shadow of a gun
Trippy little girl where the pigs don't come
16 tears for every year
Hooked up together with the [burning year]
Here lies the shadow of a gun
Hanging in the sky like a [heart] from the sun
Smashed and grab with the concrete dream
of a ..?.. ...?....... to the tune of a scream
Fat cow ...?... through the trees
Half way down the city on his hands and knees
See our lives in the shadow of a gun
Trippy little girl where the pigs don't come
16 tears for every year
Hooked up together with the [burning year]
considering how obsessed Brett Anderson is/was with London, he certainly didn't think much of it.
I think it's even more touching than radiohead's ode to a suicide pact 'exit music (for a film)'
Come to my house tonight
We can be together in the nuclear sky
And we will dance in the poison rain
And we can stay a while in heaven today
Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
Stay together
Two hearts under the skyscrapers
Come to my arms tonight
Just you and me together under electric light
She will dance in the poisoned air
Just you and me forever by the motorway there
Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
Stay together
Two hearts under the skyscrapers
There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in paradise
Or have you come to catch me?
Come to my arms I'm lost
Just you and me together in the year of the horse
Single file in the nuclear night
And we could feel a little closer
As we tumble through the sky
Stay together
Stay, these days are ours
Stay together
Two hearts under a skyscraper
Stay together, let's stay in this broken down love
Stay together, two hearts under the skyscrapers
(Stay together... Stay, these days are ours...)