Album: First And Last And Always (1985)
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  • In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt
    In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom
    In the wake of this ship of fools I'm falling further down
    If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home

    I hear you calling Marian
    Across the water, across the wave
    I hear you calling Marian
    Can you hear me calling you to
    Save me, save me, save me from the grave

    Marian
    Marian, there's a weight above me
    And the pressure is all too strong
    To breathe deep
    Breathe long and hard
    To take the water down and go to sleep
    To sink still further
    Beneath the fatal wave
    Marian I think I'm drowning
    This sea is killing me

    I hear you calling Marian
    Across the water, across the wave
    I hear you calling Marian
    Can you hear me calling you to
    Save me, save me, save me from the grave

    Was ich kann und was ich könnte
    Weiß ich gar nicht mehr
    Gib mir wieder etwas schönes
    Zieh mich aus dem Meer
    Ich höre dich rufen Marian
    Kannst du mich schreien hören
    Ich bin hier allein
    Ich höre dich rufen Marian
    Ohne deine Hilfe, verliere ich mich in diesem Ort

    I hear you calling Marian
    Across the water, across the wave
    I hear you calling Marian
    Can you hear me calling you to
    Save me, save me, save me from the grave

    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian
    Marian Writer/s: Andrew Eldritch, Wayne Hussey
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

  • Nick Needs More... from Heartlandummm, no one said Hussey wrote the lyrics, Sidney. twice stated, Andrew wrote the lyrics to both "Black Planet" (Hussey original title and chorus was "Damce on Glass") and "Marian". Hussey wrote the MUSIC. just the MUSIC. given the fact that they both did alot of drugs back then, i always wondered if this was, along with the Sistets nane, another reference to the great Captain Mandrax, the man himself, Leonard Cohen. like not a cover but a version, a bastardized version. especially because of the german verse, but then i remembered the real Marianne was norwegian not deutsch. so long that theory!
  • Sid from Detonation BoulevardWayne Hussey did not write the lyrics to Marian. Eldritch wrote them, as the album sleeve notes clearly state, and clearly these are not Hussey's style (c.f. Garden of Delight for instance, which does date from the same sessions). Eldritch's opinion of Hussey's abilities as a songwriter at the time are well documented and it's hard to imagine him singing any of them on the album in any case.
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