Week Three: Siouxsie & the Banshees - "Dazzle" - Hyaena

From the beautifully arranged opening orchestral strings, to the drum beats that follow, to Siouxsie's poignant lyrics, this song just rocks!  There is a particular remix of this song that all of the 80s and goth clubs that I used to frequent loved to play, and I loved when they played it too because I could always tell who the hardcore Siouxsie fans were by the way they danced to the song.  There is a repeat of the "skating bullets" phrase in the middle of the remix, and all the hardcore fans knew to repeat their same dance move to the repeated phrasing.  Everyone else who was kind of a fan had already moved on to "...on angel dust".  It's those little details that I always seem to relish the most.

Swallowing diamonds
A cutting throat
Your teeth when you grin
Reflecting beams on tombstones
A jamboree of surprises
Playing russian roulette
Or the lucky clip
A clenched fist to your heart
Coal dust on your lungs

A silver tongue for the chosen one
Heavy magnum in your side or a bloody thorn

Skating bullets on angel dust
In a dead sea of fluid mercury
Baby piano cries
Under your heavy index & thumb
Pull some strings -- let them sing

The stars that shine & the stars that shrink
In the face of stagnation the water runs
Before your eyes
Dazzle
It’s a glittering prize