LULLABY

First released 1993

Originally entitled Just Human until just before the album release, Lullaby is a poignant reflection of child abuse which some of Tim’s friends had suffered earlier in their lives.

Bizarrely, the band chose to start many encores with this track. It has also made sporadic appearances in setlists in the past two years, even opening the set at some lower-key shows.

WHERE TO GET

Album Version : Laid LP (514943-1), CAS (514943-4), CD (514943-2)

Album Version : Laid reissue CD (548 787-2)

Album Version : The Gathering Sound boxset USB stick

Acoustic Version (Glasgow Lighthouse 14.9.99) : Live Mercury CDR (no catalogue number)

Live Version : Live in 2008

GUITAR TABS

LYRICS

Since your mother cast her spell

Every kiss has left a bruise

You've been reading too much meaning from existence

Now your head is used and sore

And the forecast is for more

Memories falling, like falling rain

Falling rain

Every view they hold on you's

A piano, out of tune

You're an angel

You're a demon

You're just human

Now your world has turned to trash

Broken windows on the past

Take that child and teach him senseless

Damage the dream, damage the dream

I feel nothing, I feel nothing at all

I feel nothing at all

In this gloomy, haunted place

All the feelings are of shame

All the windows have been broken by the children

So the wind screams up the stairs

Slams doors and rattles chairs

I wish we weren't conceived in violence

Damage the dream, damage the dream

The magic is broken

The house is in ruins

Your memory's one-sided

The side that you're choosing feels nothing

Feels nothing at all

We feel nothing at all