The Damage Done (song)
The Damage Done is the title track of The Sisters of Mercy's very first single The Damage Done.
The Sisters swear that John Peel played the record twice. As the research of the wonderful people
at the incredible John Peel Wiki recently revealed, it was, however, not The Damage Done that got played,
but Watch. This issue and the according circumstances are perfectly elaborated on at the most lovely
I Was A Teenage Sisters of Mercy Fan blog under Sisters Mysteries V – did Peel play Damage Done?.
See also this thread @The Heartland Forums and John Peel Shows 1980-85.
The song The Damage Done is also available on the compilation Some Girls Wander By Mistake.
Lyrics
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor.
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
Somebody tell me about the perfect bomb
The royal valley on a blitzkrieg bomb
Somebody tell me how to use my gun tools
Kiss the napalm in the afternoon
I saw the film, I saw the place
I live to work for the killing sake
When I think you're knocked, when the radio died
And the rhythm played from every side
See the rebel and the damage done
See the debris and the damage done
See the wreckage and the damage done
See the film, see the damage done
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor.
This is the image, this is the place
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
This is the way the world will end
Somebody tell me about the ...
The waltzing man have dancing eyes
I need to know about the ...
This is the way the world will end
Me I'm lost and the radio's dead
Now I'm relaxed and the radio's dead
The rhythms gone, the radio's dead
And the damage done inside my radio.
Music: Andrew Eldritch, Gary Marx / Lyrics: Andrew Eldritch
Lyrics and music are property and copyright of their respective rights holders and provided only for study purposes.
Analysis
Some basic analysis has been done at 1959 and all that ...
