B i o g r a p h y (by John Bush )
Influenced by cool jazz,'60s pop and classic film-soundtracks, the trip-hop duo Mono formed around vocalist Siobhan De Mar� and producer Martin Virgo, a one-time member of Nellee Hooper's production team which worked on Massive Attack's seminal "Unfinished Sympathy" as well as Bj�rk's Debut. After Virgo hooked up with De Mar� in mid-1996, the pair recorded the Life in Mono EP and signed to Mercury by the end of the year. After working on their debut album Formica Blues, Mono gained a comparatively high profile through an appearance on the soundtrack to the American film Great Expectations. Formica Blues was released in America in February 1998, six months after its British appearance.
Non Album Tracks - Misc - Madhouse
Formica Blues
**** Thanx to Leslie who corrected my own interpretation **** Life in mono
The stranger sang a theme, From someone else's dream The leaves began to fall And no one spoke at all But I can't seem to recall When you came along Ingenue, Ingenue, I just don't know what to do The tree-lined avenue Begins to fade from view Drowning past regrets In tea and cigarettes But I can't seem to forget When you came along Ingenue, Ingenue, I just don't know what to do Ingenue, I just don't know what to do X5
Silicone So many times, I've tried to make you understand You never tried to see behind my smile If I didn't know you like I do I'd get you into The secret in me Just because I'm good at fooling you When no one's around I walk in your shoes I'm smiling while lying to you I'm smiling while lying to you If you only knew I always try to hide behind a painted smile So many things the public never seen If I didn't know you like I do I'll get you into The secret in me Just because I'm good at fooling you When no one's around I walk in your shoes I'm smiling while lying to you I'm smiling while lying to you When will you see true I'm smiling while lying to you I'm smiling while lying to you If you only knew I'm smiling while lying to you Won't you come (?) to see true I'm smiling while lying to you If you only knew I'm smiling while lying to you Would you concede my smile I'm smiling while lying to you If you only knew
*** Thanx a lot to Frederic for this one ***
Slimcea girl Coming with me
As she walked down the street The rain began to fall He called out But she passed on by Like she never noticed him at all Then the words of the song Remind her of those days Sees herself in the face of a stranger Sat in a Station Road Cafe She remembers the day When things were going her way Only memories remain of The way she used to be Way she used to be She stays home every night And exagerates her past Now he knows That slimcea girl And she lives alone in Prozac Park All the old photographs Were never thrown away She looks through them For what made her cry And then she decides live for today She remembers the day When things were going her way Only memories remain of The way she used to be Way she used to be Sample : Why don't you come to me ? I'll come with you The way she used to be Way she used to be She'll never go back again The way she used to be Way she used to be She'll never go back again The outsider I will never witness your love again I will never witness your love again I will never knew the stranger in you I will never knew the stranger in you The stranger the stranger the stranger... I will not surrender my life for you I will not surrender my life for you You only see the sadness in me I never knew the stranger in you The stranger the stranger the stranger... Disney town Walls are white Burning boredom And her shoes are tight They're never right Open shop, nothing left Because they tied the knot They lied a lot He tells her She feeds him She hates him more His teacup She spits in He loves her more Once again She frys his breakfast As she counts to ten Remembers when Alone at night The nylon head Upon his trophy wife Her talk show life She throws up He comes down They watch TV They live in Disney Town She’s his Barbie Ah… Ah… He tells her She feeds him She hates him more His teacup She spits in He loves her more She throws up He comes down They watch TV They live in Disney Town She’s his Barbie Ah ...
The blind man Sample : What are you waiting for X4 Searching for the answers but we've lost our way No one ever stops to hear what you've got to say I'm locked inside you, let me out Trapped in a vision of what there about Looking for a reason that will never be I'm not the person that you think you see There's something wrong here There's no doubt You're like a blind man Can't see our. If he can't hear he must feel If he can't feel he must see If he can't hear he must feel And if he can't see you feel the need in me Feel the need in me Sample : What are you waiting for Feel the need in me Walking through a shallow empty world of doubt I'm in the picture now But you want me out There's something strong here You don't see You've gone too far now So empty If he can't hear he must feel If he can't feel he must see If he can't hear he must feel And if he can't see you feel the need in me If he can't hear he must feel If he can't feel he must see If he can't hear he must feel And if he can't see you feel the need in me Feel the need in me Feel the need in me Sample : What are you waiting for X4 If he can't hear he must feel If he can't feel he must see If he can't hear he must feel And if he can't see you feel the need in me Feel the need in me Sample : What are you waiting for Feel the need in me Sample : What are you waiting for X3
High life You never heard a single word That I said to you tonight You don't remember anything at all You seem to think that makes it right It's not the way you hurt me It's not the way you scream and shout You'd never listen to a word I say Always try to shut me out You, lately You're nothing like the man I used to know 'Cause you just live the High life all you do is get High life all you see is the High life and you never come down Going around in circles That never end or ever start You always run away from everything You hide behind your past You always seem so distant You always seem to be unsure We used to get through nearly anything But you don't know me anymore You, lately You're nothing like the man I used to know 'Cause you just live the High life all you do is get High life all you see is the High life and you never come down Down You never come down Down You never come down Down You never come down You, lately You're nothing like the man I used to know 'Cause you just live the High life all you do is get High life all you see is the High life and you never come down High life all you do is get High life and this is the worst trip You've ever been on Playboys I survived despite you I survived despite you 'Cause I lived in you 'Cause I lived in you I survived despite you...
Penguin Freud No direction, need protection, All the futures pass with me Feel rejection, isolation Still in silence Want to be, lone in me Beauty stupid Nothing but vanity Can't you see Feel deception Lost direction Like never before Like never before I still see myself in you now Like a lifetime lived before So indifferent No commitment Always hiding safe in me Close my eyes tight Just to feel right But the words mean nothing to me Beauty stupid, Nothing but vanity Can't you see Feel deception Lost direction Like never before Like never before I still see myself in you now Like a lifetime lived before Lost in your own world Trying to see through mine, But I'm just fine Lost direction Feel deception Like never before Like never before I still see myself in you now Like a lifetime lived before
Non Album Tracks
Madhouse
( Psycho Ost - 1998 Version)
Into me I got this sense that you can see Into me I feel your eyes following me Into me I feel you cruise over in me Into me I know you know the best in me There's something strange in you Into me Just like the voice she speaks Come to me You just take the best in me Can't you see I'm no good without you But there's something in your smile That makes me wanna doubt you There's nothing left and I can't be with you I'm in your world and there's nothing I can do There's something strange in you Into me (echoing) I got this sense that you can see Into me I got this feeling oh Into me Into me Into me
*** Thanx a lot to Angel fot this one ***