XTC

Skylarking

Mermaid Smiled lyrics

From pools of xylophone clear
From caves of memory
I saw the children at heart
That we once used to be
Borne on foaming seahorse herd
Compose with trumpeting shell
From lines across their hands
A song as new as new moon
As old as all the sands
Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild
Lost that child 'til mermaid
Smiled

Summoned by drum rolling surf
As laughing fish compel
The young boy woken in me
By clanging diving bell
Breakers pillow fight the shore
She wriggles free in the tide
I'm locked in adult land
Back in the mirror she slides
Waving with comb in hand
I was lucky to remain beguiled
Grown to child since mermaid
Smiled

XTC

Albums Song Lyrics

Album Name: Skylarking

Release date: 2005

1. 1000 Umbrellas
2. Another Satellite
3. Ballet for a Rainy Day
4. Big Day
5. Dear God
6. Dying
7. Earn Enough for Us
8. Grass
9. Mermaid Smiled
10. Sacrificial Bonfire
11. Season Cycle
12. Summer's Cauldron
13. That's Really Super, Supergirl
14. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
15. The Meeting Place
16. Sacrifical Bonfire

Album Name: Homespun

Release date: 2005

1. Easter Theatre
2. Frivolous Tonight
3. Fruit Nut
4. Greenman
5. Harvest Festival
6. I'd Like That
7. I Can't Own Her
8. Knights in Shining Karma
9. River Of Orchids
10. The Last Balloon
11. Your Dictionary

Album Name: Apple Venus, Pt. 1

Release date: 2005

1. Easter Theatre
2. Frivolous Tonight
3. Fruit Nut
4. Greenman
5. Harvest Festival
6. I'd Like That
7. I Can't Own Her
8. Knights in Shining Karma
9. River Of Orchids
10. The Last Balloon
11. Your Dictionary

Album Name: Upsy Daisy Assortment

Release date: 2005

1. Ball and Chain
2. Chalkhills and Children
3. Dear God
4. Earn Enough for Us
5. Funk Pop a Roll
6. Generals and Majors
7. Grass
8. King for a Day
9. Life Begins at the Hop
10. Love on a Farmboy's Wages
11. Making Plans for Nigel
12. No Thugs in Our House
13. Respectable Street
14. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
15. Senses Working Overtime
16. The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
17. The Disappointed
18. The Mayor of Simpleton
19. This World Over

Album Name: XTC Live

Release date: 2005

1. Are You Receiving Me?
2. Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)
3. Burning With Optimism's Flames
4. Generals and Majors
5. Life Begins at the Hop
6. Living Through Another Cuba
7. Love at First Sight
8. Making Plans for Nigel
9. No Language In Our Lungs
10. Respectable Street
11. Scissor Man
12. This is Pop?
13. Towers Of London

Album Name: Nonsuch

Release date: 2005

1. Books Are Burning
2. Bungalow
3. Crocodile
4. Dear Madam Barnum
5. Holly Up On Poppy
6. Humble Daisy
7. My Bird Performs
8. Omnibus
9. Rook
10. That Wave
11. Then She Appeared
12. The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
13. The Disappointed
14. The Smartest Monkeys
15. The Ugly Underneath
16. War Dance
17. Wrapped in Grey

Album Name: Oranges and Lemons

Release date: 2005

1. Across This Antheap
2. Chalkhills and Children
3. Cynical Days
4. Garden of Earthly Delights
5. Here Comes President Kill Again
6. Hold Me My Daddy
7. King for a Day
8. Merely a Man
9. Miniature Sun
10. One of the Millions
11. Pink Thing
12. Poor Skeleton Steps Out
13. Scarecrow People
14. The Loving
15. The Mayor of Simpleton

Album Name: The Big Express

Release date: 2005

1. All You Pretty Girls
2. I Bought Myself a Liarbird
3. I Remember the Sun
4. Reign of Blows
5. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
6. Shake You Donkey Up
7. The Everyday Story of Smalltown
8. This World Over
9. Train Running Low on Soul Coal
10. Wake Up!
11. You're the Wish You Are I Had

Album Name: Mummer

Release date: 2005

1. Beating of Hearts
2. Deliver Us From the Elements
3. Funk Pop a Roll
4. Great Fire
5. Human Alchemy
6. In Loving Memory of a Name
7. Ladybird
8. Love on a Farmboy's Wages
9. Me and the Wind
10. Wonderland

Album Name: English Settlement

Release date: 2005

1. All of a Sudden (It's Too Late)
2. Ball and Chain
3. Down in the Cockpit
4. English Roundabout
5. Fly On the Wall
6. It's Nearly Africa
7. Jason and the Argonauts
8. Knuckle Down
9. Leisure
10. Melt the Guns
11. No Thugs in Our House
12. Runaways
13. Senses Working Overtime
14. Snowman
15. Yacht Dance

Album Name: Black Sea

Release date: 2005

1. Burning With Optimism's Flames
2. Generals and Majors
3. Living Through Another Cuba
4. Love at First Sight
5. No Language In Our Lungs
6. Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins)
7. Respectable Street
8. Rocket From A Bottle
9. Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
10. Towers Of London
11. Travels In Nihilon

Album Name: Drums and Wires

Release date: 2005

1. Chain of Command
2. Complicated Game
3. Day In Day Out
4. Helicopter
5. Limelight
6. Making Plans for Nigel
7. Millions
8. Outside World
9. Real by Reel
10. Roads Girdle the Globe
11. Scissor Man
12. Ten Feet Tall
13. That is the Way
14. When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty

Album Name: White Music

Release date: 2005

1. All Along the Watchtower
2. Atom Age
3. Do What You Do
4. I'm Bugged
5. Neon Shuffle
6. New Town Animal
7. Radios in Motion
8. Set Myself on Fire
9. Spinning Top
10. Statue of Liberty
11. This is Pop?
12. X Wires

Album Name: Go 2

Release date: 2005

1. Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)
2. Beatown
3. Buzzcity Talking
4. Crowded Room
5. I am the Audience
6. Jumping in Gomorrah
7. Life is Good in the Greenhouse
8. Meccanic Dancing (Oh We Go!)
9. My Weapon
10. Red
11. Super-Tuff
12. The Rhythm
13. Jumping In Gomorah

Album Name: Chips From The Chocolate Fireball

Release date: 2005

1. 25 O'clock
2. Bike Ride To The Moon
3. My Love Explodes
4. What In The World?...
5. Your Gold Dress
6. The Mole From The Ministry
7. Vanishing Girl
8. Have You Seen Jackie?
9. Little Lighthouse
10. You're A Good Man Albert Brown (Curse You Red Barrel)
11. Collideascope
12. You're My Drug
13. Shiny Cage
14. Brainiacs Daughter
15. The Affiliated
16. Pale And Precious

Album Name: Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)

Release date: 2005

1. Boarded Up
2. Church of Women
3. I'm The Man Who Murdered Love
4. In Another Life
5. My Brown Guitar
6. Playground
7. Standing In For Joe
8. Stupidly Happy
9. The Wheel and the Maypole
10. We're All Light
11. You And The Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful

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