1. |
The Beekeeper's Dream
03:50
|
|||
They know my face - they know what I have done
I’ve stolen their liquid gold again
Year after year after year after year
So wrong
So wrong
So wrong
Every night they creep into my sleep
Wax in my lungs and bee queens in my ears
A crawling blanket of angry bees covers me
So wrong
So wrong
So wrong
Tell my sons that I love… that I hate what I do
I’ll give it all back and I’ll run and I’ll run and I’ll run
But it’s too late - they are turning my skin to fire
So wrong
So wrong
So wrong
|
||||
2. |
The Listening Flower
05:09
|
|||
She lies, happy in the summer sun
Catching sun rays with her mind
With golden petals she can hear the bees
They bring her all their fairy tales
She says there’s a rabbit on the moon
And a hidden tigress too
She knows the legend of Yueliang Shan
And the songs of Tenochtitlan
She loves me
She loves me not
She loves
She says everything is fine
Life knows
She loves me
She loves me not
She loves
She says everything is fine
Let’s sink to the bottom of the sky
She lives in a floating garden
Magic dragons underneath
She blooms so bright she blinds my eyes
But who needs eyes when you have dreams
Fly home little bee and then come back
Come back in the middle of my night
I feed you honey from my belly button
When I sense your buzz in the dark
She loves me
She loves me not
She loves
She says everything is fine
Life knows
She loves me
She loves me not
She loves
She says everything is fine
Let’s sink to the bottom of the sky
She lies, happy in the summer sun
Catching sun rays with her mind
With golden petals she can hear the bees
They bring her all their fairy tales
Fly home little bee and then come back
Come back in the middle of my night
I feed you honey from my belly button
When I sense your buzz in the dark
She loves me
She loves me not
She loves
She says everything is fine
Life knows
She loves me
She loves me not
She loves
She says everything is fine
Let’s sink to the bottom of the sky
|
||||
3. |
Night Shards
05:00
|
|||
And so we glide into the night
Entangled narratives
Tell me all those ancient tales
Before they fade away
I remember violet flowers
Dancing in the storm
But in your mind the flowers were pale
And stale in deadly calm
Yesterday became
And last year yesterday
Rewriting biographies
Whose histories are these?
Try to find the path back home
False memories of youth
We fly into oblivion
Too dark to see the truth
And so what is left of us
Just shards of memories
Drifting far away
Into the haze
All our memories are lies
We lie on lies
|
||||
4. |
Strange Flowers
04:48
|
|||
Seeking dreams in angel flowers
Out of reach, across the water
She beckons with wily vines
Too far, too far
She sends pictures through the sky
Suspension points to mark the way
Sultry signs on shiny leaves
Find me, try me
Lose the way and fly by night
We have magic and the wind
Sleep, my flower, and twist my mind
If only I could just once see your shining heart
Burning bells and worship spurs
Chameleon spiders hide in light
Ultraviolet ultraviolence
No more, no more
Nectar gleams in faint starlight
Mirage of honey in desert flowers
But too many distracting colours
Too bright, too bright
Lose the way and fly by night
We have magic and the wind
Sleep, my flower, and twist my mind
If only I could just once see your shining heart
Strange flowers
Strange flowers
Strange flower, hey, hey
Strange flower, hey, hey
Morning comes, a cruel sunrise
Pictures fade in blinding light
The scent has left, it is too late
The flower, gone before I knew its real name
|
||||
5. |
Drone Wars
04:30
|
|||
Nameless knights, we bear no arms
We mean no harm, we are never coming home
Breed us, feed us, love us and kill us,
We’re useless forever but tomorrow we’ll be gone
Brothers, come fly with me
Kamikaze lovers, you will die with me
Remote controlled by ancient desires
We’ll be dead before the honeymoon
We know no flower, no work, no fear
Summer is our grave but we have a sweet dream
A single love, lose everything
For her dark brown eyes and her heavenly scent
Brothers, come fly with me
Kamikaze lovers, you will die with me
Remote controlled by ancient desires
We’ll be dead before the honeymoon
Some time ago
For the first time in a 100 years
They say that one of us made it
They say he loved and lived
But is it only a rumour?
Is it only a dream?
But then who cares
Who cares if you consider the prize
All for a single embrace
But she will break your promises
She will break your promises
For good
Brothers, come fly with me
Kamikaze lovers, you will die with me
Remote controlled by ancient desires
We’ll be dead before the honeymoon
Male voice: Drone wars
Female voice: Come fly to me
Male voice: Drone wars
Female voice: Come die for me
|
||||
6. |
Space Girls
05:22
|
|||
In my former life
A Muscovite stray dog
Embarked on Noah’s arc
A single animal
A one-way ticket then
I have returned with friends
A star without a name
I’ve come to recompense
You say they call you Major Tom
And that you are a junkie like me
Take off your helmet,
To hear my siren song
Love me in zero gravity
Love me in zero gravity
To hell with ground control,
Your circuits and your wife
I’m going to make you whole
For the first time in your life
Feel my gentle sting
And taste my honeyed kiss
Now let go of my hands
And sink into the abyss
You say they call you Major Tom
And that you are a junkie like me
Take off your helmet
To hear my siren song
Love me in zero gravity
Love me in zero gravity
Bye bye, my love
Deep space, sleep deep
My face, your final dream
Let go, be free
Bye bye, my love
Deep space, sleep deep
My face, your final dream
Let go, be free
Love me in zero gravity
Love me in zero gravity
|
||||
7. |
I Stung Gwyneth Paltrow
04:31
|
|||
I have died for your sins
So you may shine eternally
Pierced for your transgressions
Crushed for your iniquities
I gave you my greatest gift
The ultimate sacrifice
In the name of undying beauty
I took the fate that you try to evade
But I will rise from the dead
So you and I can meet again
I shall judge you righteously
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth
And no eye has ever seen,
Nor the heart of man imagined
The sweet revenge I have prepared
A six-legged goddess awaits you
|
||||
8. |
Dying Killer Bee Queen
04:10
|
|||
Seven summers… but I like the winters best
Darkness, sweetness and stories
For months, only stories - or were they dreams?
Who knows?
In the beginning
I murdered my royal sisters
There was no choice
It was written
I killed my lovers too
Or they killed themselves
Who remembers, who cares
It is so long ago
But my children. My daughters! My babies.
Flying girl soldiers. Poison arrow princesses!
Dead before their mother, almost all
Do you know I gave each of them names?
How proud I was of the first one
Little Eve who wanted to be a courtesan
And dreamed of flying to the moon
You give them sweets and they’re off to war
We conquered a continent
We crossed the Amazon
And the Panama Canal
In formation flight!
How I longed for our heroines to return
To tell the stories of our glorious victories
But their bodies litter the battlefields
From Sao Paulo to San Francisco
The ones that come back: cowards
Their quaint stories of pretty meadows
I never cared for flowers much
Or the foragers’ dainty dances
Now I am a cave animal
I remember everything
But I am tired of hexagons
And of wax and of war
Here they come again
“It’s time for another egg!”
I have given you all the eggs I have
I have nothing else to give
Kill me, my daughters
I have seen enough
Don’t let me croak like an old dog
Let me die like a warrior
|
||||
9. |
California Gold
03:31
|
|||
Thirty million hungry sisters
Riding west on eighteen wheelers
Seedy bees without frontiers
And no sleep till we reach Lost Hills
California almond rush
The whole world belongs to us
An army of trees in a diamond grid
Just three weeks to get filthy and rich
Let’s get high on pesticides
Mix the sick with spider mites
Sweet deceit and deformed wings
Colony collapse, an American dream
We’re a whole new generation
With no need for explanations
Bright white lines to mark the way
The flowers are brown and our hearts are grey
California almond rush
The whole world belongs to us
An army of trees in a diamond grid
Just three weeks to get filthy and rich
Let’s get high on pesticides
Mix the sick with spider mites
Sweet deceit and deformed wings
Colony collapse, an American dream
|
Killer Bee Queens London, UK
We are an alternative rock band from London, consisting of bee scientist Lars Chittka and musicians Katie Green and Rob Alexander (Butterflies on Pins)
Streaming and Download help
If you like Killer Bee Queens, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp