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No Bright Side

Cardiacs

***No Bright Side*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth extended play, *Day Is Gone*. It is the second track on the EP.

## Lyrics

There is no bright side,
There is no bright side!

While Mother keepest,
Watch while and weepest
Till memories crowd.

And Father mourneth,
Absence his burneth,
Grief will cry aloud.

And no one lives,
The spores have landed;
There is no bright side.

Silence is golden,
Even my spirit sleeps in my open hands.

Wettened every flap of England’s flag,
Proclaimed that all around are free,
And millions earthly joy remains
Fiery sparks, the eye of breaking hearts
Producing to mind in every shape and kind,
Produce the mind.

Had no idea, no one did, make it quick
And I don’t want to hurt.
She is my witness,
One more stab and it’s back to the shop
Or leave as things are.

Vain deceit of grief,
Show of unbelief,
Hope to blind and brief.

Hide my beloved,
Death is passed,
Again no more to me.

Had no idea, no one did, make it quick
And I don’t want to hurt.
She is my witness,
One more stab and it’s back to the shop
Or leave as things are.

## Credits

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Foundling

Cardiacs

***Foundling*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth studio album, *Sing to God*. It is the twenty-second and final track on the album and the twelfth track on the second volume.

## Lyrics

Tasting sweet and beautiful
(But awful too),
Here comes the bride.
No one knows where she came from.

Ghostly lady is here to warm your bed,
Both now and in the life everlasting.

Leaving something in the air,
Here comes the bride.
No one knows where she came from.

He would give himself ten showers a day
In the murky ponds and weedy rivers.
And it was wicked of you big dead boy,
Suddenly just went to sleep.
Well, here we are.

I could walk with angels
But I'd rather walk with you.
(You are) only a foundling.

Ghostly lady is here to warm your bed,
Both now and in the life everlasting.

Leaving something in the air,
Here comes the bride.

Nobody knows where she came from.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Bite 3/a

Cardiacs

***Bite 3/a*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their debut demo album, *The Obvious Identity*. It is the ninth track on the album.

## Lyrics

I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Mom!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Dad!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Mom!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Dad!

And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it.

I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Mom!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Dad!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Mom!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Dad!

And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it.

I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Mom!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Dad!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Mom!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Dad!

And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it.

I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Mom!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Dad!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Mom!
I don’t wanna bite any puddings, Dad!

And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it,
And you don’t need it.
Vermin Mangle

Cardiacs

***Vermin Mangle*** is a song by Cardiacs. It was intended to be the last track on the album *LSD*, but was released as a single onto the band's Bandcamp page on September 1, 2020 following the death of Tim Smith.

## Bandcamp Description

> *Of stars and planets,*
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> *of darkness and light,*
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> *of all universal energies issues forth*
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> *the fragile beauty of*
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> *VERMIN MANGLE …*
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> … *a present for YOU*
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> *by way of gracious thanks*
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> *for your abiding LOVE*
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> *and LOYALTY towards,*
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> *the stellar gift that was and will forever be,*
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> *TIMOTHY CHARLES SMITH.*
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> *Send him home:*
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> *Send him near and far.*
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> *Remember him.*
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> *July 3rd, 1961–July 22nd, 2020*
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## Lyrics

Think of a way;
Then always go the other way.
In customary evenings, legendary mornings,
Louder than drums and softer than a cloud,
Leaves being blowed away.

Hard as soft nails and knives and even
Harder than pulling a soldier off your sister,
Hands were all shaking; they’re all of his fingers.

Son, stop staring yond.
If you look, your eyes will grow germs.
You can’t pick them up ’cause they’re glued to the floor.
Made it unkind (not money) for not staring all day at them.

And has your mother sold her mangle?
Last time I did saw her, she was in a dream dress
Playing with flies in the weeping willows’ dank dark ditch.

So, not so perfect.
But seeing as how it is a funny kind of apple who practices every day,
There’s room for a big forgive and a surprise and adventure.

And what adventures?
And all only for feat. Are
They building a long slide
And along it they glide,
Danger all around and without a sound,
Bound on the ground?

I am the git that walks all by himself.
Your bargain was by me;
All places are alike to me.
“How did I get here?” said I, who can’t believe me eye.

Hands are all shaking
That out all of his fingers.
Hands, they were all shaking;
Then all of his fingers.
Hands were all shaking; they’re all of his fingers

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Kitching, Sean (July 24, 2020). "Remembering Tim Smith of Cardiacs". *The Quietus.* Retrieved January 29, 2021.
Ideal

Cardiacs

***Ideal*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth extended play, *Day Is Gone*. It is the third track on the EP.

## Lyrics

Lights in darker places
Darker than lights in places
Than lights in places down far
Cold as like's recalling winters
Recalling winter
Recalling, wind says too far

Tasting her with those sensitive suckers
Sea birds destroyed her
Sea birds destroyed her nest
I don't feel like one, I don't live like one
They put me on a wheel and I said yes

Ideal
No peace of mind Ideal mind's hard to find
All we ever do is die
All we ever do is dying for a peace of mind
Hard as hard is to find
All we ever do is die
All we ever do is ideal

I say don't breathe in
It'll save you the bothering of breathing it all out again
Hens attack us I say look for yourself
A ring of suffering horses are

Ideal
No peace of mind Ideal mind's hard to find
All we ever do is die
All we ever do is dying for a peace of mind
Hard as hard is to find
All we ever do is die
All we ever do is that's all we ever do

Ideal
No peace of mind Ideal mind's hard to find
All we ever do is die
All we ever do is dying for a peace of mind
Hard as hard is to find
All we ever do is die
All we ever do is die

Ideal
No peace of mind Ideal mind's hard to find
All we ever do is die
All we ever do is dying for a peace of mind
Hard as hard is to find
All we ever do is die
All we ever do is ideal

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Arnald

Cardiacs

***Arnald*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their second studio album, *On Land and in the Sea*. It is the sixth track on the album.

## Versions

'Arnald' is the seventh track on the live album *All That Glitters Is a Mare's Nest* which was released on May 15, 1995.

## Lyrics

To steal away and then decide is cake on top and real inside.
Appreciate and leave behind.
The love is bad; the love is kind.

Duty command and mystery,
A shout and all of history.
And never really thought about
Probed in depth and forgot about.

To fall on evil days;
Troop home to grots and caves.

The latest spade to build a moat,
A ship to mend and send afloat.
And all the fishes in the sea
Around the sides of my country
Will follow ship to where she lies
And close in fruitless sleep her eyes and
Disconnect and comfort me,
Safe in the arms of my country.

Her water sweats from high
And peels me where I lie.

Troop home to silent grots and caves,
Troop home and mimic as you go.
The mourning winding of the waves
Which to their dark abysses flow
And out her water that sweats from very up high
Peels me where I lie.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Fast Robert

Cardiacs

***Fast Robert*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their second studio album, *On Land and in the Sea*. It is the eighth track on the album.

## Versions

'Fast Robert' is the thirteenth track on the live album *All That Glitters Is a Mare's Nest* which was released on May 15, 1995.

## Lyrics

The life and soul cries himself blind for shorter life,
A sight for eyes,
The life and soul,
Dull as ditch water and swallow whole.
The birthright of a baby soul
Covers her baby with mothers’ hole.

One day he’s born and he likes the world
And all she holds, she says she’s round, and in the ground
Life all around, life all around and it takes him down.
The dark's too brown to see what’s here but it keeps him warm
And it knows no fear like day or year.

Poison in my idle mind makes quick work for the
Mephistopheles
Who quickly makes his excuses.
To heaven his own course he sets.
With a mind to save his soul and mine, what’s falling to thinking
Pretty girl oblivion, hostility and suspicion?
So what creates competition?
Pipe retracted,
Stowed away.

Cover the baby without thinking as if to shield him with the warden-ship of a jar.
His mum will hide him away from all danger but not very far,
Not very far.
Sleeping, quietly dreaming the last moments of some
Medicine and national song all upside down.
It came out wrong and turned me on,
It turned me on.
It turns me sleeping, quietly dreaming the last moments of some
Drowning girls and drowning boys
Bob up and down like stupid toys.
They bob like you who loved me too;
Who loved me just in time to cover the baby without thinking
As if to shield him with the warden-ship of a jar.
His mum will hide him away from all danger but not very far,
Not very …

Cover the baby without thinking as if to shield him with the warden-ship of a jar.
His mum will hide him away from all danger but not very far,
Not very far.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Dirty Boy

Cardiacs

***Dirty Boy*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth studio album, *Sing to God*. It is the eleventh track on the album and the first track on the second volume. The song was also featured on *Greatest Hits*.

## Lyrics

We cut all his eyes, we did.
Squeezed the lids and down the grog into hole,
He skip with cow-eyed smile to the blissful;
Into craggy dress and we will praise him,
We will praise him off his pins;
Clear him of all sins.
Oh my! We sang with strength to carry on;
Encouraged him to sing along;
We sang of all the world and praised him, hooray!

Stay alive to live or without
And he is down all over and out.

Watch us hang on shoulders as tall as gold as
Feely hand and finger around all we
And look to see if we care if he is heaven sent or
Hell-bent but we will praise him,
We will praise him all away.
Praise him all away.
My arms chancing and you will no way
Live long enough to repay me.
I praise you anyway, always.

Wipes last with brown and pale:
Dirty Boy, he gone all stale.
And down the stair and hallway crawling
And pig and toast and kitchen brawling.
Night-time days are all weekless.
Alarm charm, he’s all up and dressed.
He dirty boy, he bathroom dances
And check his jam and breathe on glasses.

Spiny grip brings all off ‘Mr Regal jelly’ in hand.
Warm feel and suck regal man suck bland.
Suck bland away and he a sleepy cow-eyed dog.
He treading soft sand,
Kiss and stroke and praise him,
Stroke and praise him.
All is worth a kiss,
Not how to cleanse.
And fowl preserver of sick somehow don’t worry now.
Hold his mouth and stop him breathing
Over and out!

## Credits

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Imperial Tithe

The **Imperial Tithe** refers to the process of an Imperial world ceding its supplies to the Adeptus Administratum. It is measured in Grades, where officers of the Administratum calculate the number of materials, resources, and Imperial soldiers a world must supply.

Due to the size of the Imperium of Andarra, a large military force is required in order to sustain its massive borders. The Imperial Tithe was originally conceived by the Mother of Mothers as a way to encourage humanity to devote themselves to the ideals of manifest destiny.

## Grades

A planet's tithe is determined by a Marshall and his accomplices, who would examine the worth of the planet and evaluate its tithe grade. These tithe grades determine the number of resources a planet must give to the Imperium. If a planet fails to meet its tithe, the Imperium will exact harsh punishments on the planet—the most common type of punishment are executions, but in the most extreme cases, where a planet has continuously failed to meet its tithe, the Inquisition will enact exterminatus so as to spread the message that failure will be met with blood.

1. Exactis extremis
	* The largest Imperial tithe.
	* A planet must give 20% of its population to the Administratum, from which they would be processed into the Adeptus Militarum.
	* If a planet does not have a sustainable population, then it must hand over 45% of its industrial output and raw minerals to the Administratum.
2. Decuma Primaris
	* The most common type of Imperial tithe.
	* A planet must give 10% of its population to the Administratum, where they would be processed into the Adeptus Militarum.
	* If a planet does not have a sustainable population, then it must hand over 15% of its industrial output and raw materials to the Administratum.
3. Adeptus Non
	* This Imperial tithe is applied to a select few worlds, mainly Spartan homeworlds or the forgeworlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
	* Planets designated with Adeptus Non are given the right to not pay any tithe to the Imperium; however, they are advised to hand over 5% of its industrial output to the Imperium.

## Criticisms

Since its inception, the Imperial tithe has been criticised for its harsh terms. Countless men and women have been taken away to be processed into the Adeptus Militarum, never to see the light of their homeworlds again. Planets have been stripped bare of its resources, restricting these planets from paying future tithes. In addition, before Emperor Karl Franz's coronation, there were more than a dozen different tithe grades; and the punishments were much harsher back then. After his reforms, however, the number of tithes were reduced to three tithes, as listed above. Nevertheless, the Imperial tithe continues to be a heavily-contentious point in the Senatorum Imperialis, with some of its most radical members calling for its complete abolishment from the Imperial bureaucratic system.
There's Good Cud

Cardiacs

***There's Good Cud*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fifth studio album, *Guns*. It is the second track on the album. The song was also featured on *Greatest Hits*.

## Lyrics

Wounded spawn from our devil’s open sore
Was even more bloody than before
Said ‘Don’t you get me!
Don’t you spoil the air with all your craziness!
Don’t you get me!
Fuck you! You don’t you get me!’

There’s good cud,
There’s dead good sticker, sing
Mercy alive, hot dog love’s a-winnin’.
‘Don’t you get me!
Don’t you spoil the air
With all your craziness!
Don’t get for all time,
All this whole carcass of mine!’

I’m a wastrel; I’m a sister’s boy.
Mercy alive, hot dog loves in, oh, joy.

Said ‘Don’t you get me!
Don’t you spoil the air with all your craziness!
Don’t you get me!
Get someone else, don’t get me.’

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Ditzy Scene (single)

**"Is everybody happy?"**

This article is about **the 12" single by Cardiacs, ***Ditzy Scene*****. You may be looking for **the song with the same name**.

## Ditzy Scene

### Label

ORG Records

***Ditzy Scene*** is the eleventh single by Cardiacs.

## Tracklist

All songs produced by Tim Smith.

## Concept and music

*Ditzy Scene* is a 12" single. The songs may have later been featured in the abandoned album *LSD*.

## Release and promotion

Album cover2007 CD album cover2007 CD back coverThe single was released in the UK on November 5, 2007 by ORG Records.

The 12" single was released on Bandcamp on February 4, 2018. It has not been officially released anywhere else online.

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ "Cardiacs' Community | Cardiacs". *Bandcamp*. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
A Big Noise in a Toy World

Cardiacs

***A Big Noise in a Toy World*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their second demo album, *Toy World*. It is the sixth track on the album.

## Lyrics

Nobody mentioned
Possibly leave your self-discretion
And turn me all around
Not to have to tell me
What’s around underground
And turn me all around

Gets me down so mind my manners
My own mind soon puts me under
Think I care to think that I’m
Concerned about some backstreet wonder

But then again
Far it’s going to live past time
Easily ignored when I’m aware
Sheepily
Enjoing myself in time
A-weighing that everybody’s there

Take me home I shouldn’t mind
I wouldn’t in your sorry situation
And to put me in the backseat
From the taxi drivеr

Nobody mentioned
Possibly leavе your self-discretion
And turn me all around
Not to have to tell me
What’s around underground
And turn me all around
Another day in a small way
A heyday for the average ego
It’s ok it must be good ‘cos
They say - it’s nighttime

Bide my time tomorrow is
Another day but not to mention
Be expected childhood ending up
A song in childhood even
Well not quite as so good as
My body where’s the backseat driver
(-seat driver, -seat driver)
It’s my thick skin
It’s finer
It’s finer
Inside her
It’s finer
It’s finer
Inside her
It’s finer
It’s finer
Inside her

Bide my time tomorrow is
Another day but not to mention
Just another big noise in a
Toy World

## Credits

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Signs

**"Is everybody happy?"**

This article is about **the song by Cardiacs, ***Signs*****. You may be looking for **the 12" inch single with the same name**.

### Album

Guns

***Signs*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fifth studio album, *Guns*. It is the tenth track on the album. It was released alongside 'Sang 'All Away Away!'' and the instrumental to 'Dog-Like Sparky' on August 2, 1999 in a CD by the Alphabet Business Concern.

## Lyrics

Sleep them well, all them dry bones.
After we shot to his death,
The horse and the rocking boy
Folded up like a dead balloon.
All breathing not welcome,
Ah, kiss me, I’m sore.
Million eyes watching all but is
Worth a kiss on this phiz,
All on this phiz and more.

Oh, my saviour, create me to die alone.
I’m what you flush; I’m your children.
Nursing a desire with poison,
Mothering stray waifs with germs
All trying to kill them.

Then sleep better and easy,
Awaken all the guilties.

Now, come down here for all of us
And throw this off axis
Without trying too hard.
Starry shake and awaken all the guilties;
Protect the innocent lambs.
Make we sleep better and easy,
All his loss all not was.
And where is his eyes?

Think on this: you did not miss;
Didn’t know if your distress
Were short not everlasting.

Sleep thee well better and easy,
All this loss no what cost no more,
No more the horse and the rocking boy.
Million eyes watching all, but is
Worth a kiss all on this phiz, ah!
This is ah!
This is ah!
Plant me, oh joy!
Oh, my saviour, create we all to die alone, no.

No more the horse and the rocking boy,
No more the horse and the rocking boy,
No more the horse and the rocking boy,
No more the horse and the rocking boy.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
The Duck and Roger the Horse

Cardiacs

***The Duck and Roger the Horse*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their second studio album, *On Land and in the Sea*. It is the fifth track on the album.

## Versions

'The Duck and Roger the Horse' is the first track on the live album *All That Glitters Is a Mare's Nest* which was released on May 15, 1995.

## Lyrics

Duck tells me that I must look a treat.
I look my best, so I tell him, ‘Scrub my head and feet, make me nice and neat.’
I’m a different man so they say, ha ha ha ha!
Roger sees me and begins to cry without warning.
‘Why are you more than me?’
‘I am right, so make me wrong.
Your horsey skin won’t make The Somme.
Your voice is left … disarm me!’

Duck say the horse is daft … (all right)
Sing with your heart and be satisfied with mourning.
Duck says you’ve disowned me.
We are full of horsey love but we won’t pull if you don’t shove,
You’re faceless in this army.

(Horsey going round with his little wheel on the floor)
Sulking in the cupboard is a horsey going round with his little wheel on the floor
Sulking in the cupboard is a duck!

Mr Flower, he’s bent on fucking power!
He grazed his face to claim his place then claimed he did some more.

‘I am right, so make me wrong.
Your horsey skin won’t make The Somme.
Your voice is left … disarm me!’

Horsey going round with his little wheel on the floor
Sulking in the cupboard is a horsey going round with his little wheel on the floor
Sulking in the cupboard is a …
Make me nice and neat make me look a treat! Oh, fuck off!

Be kind and put me to sleep, please. I won’t be long.
But don’t be sad when there is nothing like a lullaby.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Is This the Life? (single)

**"Is everybody happy?"**

This article is about **the 12" single by Cardiacs, ***Is This the Life?*****. You may be looking for **the song with the same name**.

## Is This the Life?

### Label

Alphabet Business Concern

***Is This the Life?*** is the third single by Cardiacs. It features three songs from the album *A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window*.

## Concept and music

*Is This the Life?* is a 7" and 12" single. It is Cardiacs' best known and most successful work.

## Release and promotion

Album coverVinyl album coverVinyl back coverThe single was released in the UK in 1988 by the band's long-running own label, the Alphabet Business Concern.

Though the single is discontinued, all of the tracks from the 7" single were included on the album *A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window*. 'Goosegash' was only included on the Torso release of the album, however, and has not been officially released online.

## References

### Citations

*Some of this article uses text originally authored on Wikipedia.*
She Is Hiding Behind the Shed

Cardiacs

***She Is Hiding Behind the Shed*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their third studio album, *Heaven Born and Ever Bright*. It is the second track on the album. The song was also featured on *Greatest Hits*.

## Lyrics

Tuesday and what’s happening now,
It’s not real life; it’s not fantasy-by-side
The sea-by-side.
Back the shed, that's where she hides from me.

Dear everyone, axe in me,
Hoping I don’t get lost in heaven.
Nevermind, I’ll see you there.
Goodbye, my favourite and I don’t care.

You don’t have to live in there,
But some of us can who dare.
Here comes the never;
I can’t even find my shoes.
Back the shed, that’s where she moves from me
And everyone before.
Leave me inside my floor.

‘You’re right,’ she said; she nods her head.
I thought we’d be alright, instead
I think she hides behind the shed.
‘Thank you, I taught you well,’ I said.

‘You’re right,’ she said; she nods her head.
I thought we’d be alright, instead
I think she hides behind the shed.
‘Thank you, I taught you well,’ I said.

Nevermind, I’ll see you there.
Goodbye, my favourite and I don’t care.
I really don’t, I’ll see you there.

Leaved me in with no definite right
To leave me inside my floor.

Tuesday and what’s happening now:
It’s not real life; it’s not fantasy-by-sides
The sea-by-side.
Back the shed, that’s where she hides and
You don't have to live in there,
But some of us can who dare.
Here comes the never;
I can’t even find my shoes.
Back the shed, that’s where she moves from me.
Sea-by-sides the sea-by-side.
Back the shed, that’s where she hides from.
‘You’re right,’ she said; she nods her head.
I thought we’d be alright, instead
I think she hides behind the shed.
‘Thank you, I taught you well,’ I said.
‘You’re right,’ she said; she nods her head.
I thought we’d be alright, instead
I think she hides behind the shed.
‘Thank you, I taught you well,’ I said.
‘You’re right,’ she said; she nods her head.
I thought we’d be alright, instead
I think she hides behind the shed.
‘Thank you, I taught you well,’ I said.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Cardiacs Mark II

"**Cardiacs Mark II**" refers to the lineup of Cardiacs from 1994 to 2003, consisting of Tim and Jim Smith, Bob Leith (a.k.a. Babba) and Jon Poole. It began when former drummer Dominic Luckman left the band following the release of the album *Heaven Born and Ever Bright* and Bob Leith took his place. Two studio albums were recorded and released with the lineup: *Sing to God* and *Guns*.

The lineup changed in 2003 with Jon Poole leaving the band and current guitarist Kavus Torabi taking his place, thus marking the end of Cardiacs Mark II.
Let Alone My Plastic Doll

Cardiacs

***Let Alone My Plastic Doll*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their debut demo album, *The Obvious Identity*. It is the eleventh track on the album.

## Official Audio

It is the thirteenth track on the live album The Special Garage Concerts which was released in 2005. It is the thirteenth track of the first volume.

## Lyrics

You can’t watch me
Just ’cause I’m watching you.
Just get on with breathing.
Getting on, not much time.
Best say I can sleep now,
Can’t you tell me a good story?
Make it stand well in its story.

You can’t watch me
Just ’cause I’m watching you.
Just get on with breathing.
Getting on, not much time.
Best say I can sleep now,
Can’t you tell me a good story?
Make it stand well in its story.
Nurses Whispering Verses

Cardiacs

***Nurses Whispering Verses*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth studio album, *Sing to God*. It is the twenty-first track on the album and the eleventh track on the second volume. The song was originally recorded for *Toy World*, and was released in 1981, before the album was discontinued due to its age and unprofessional sound. 'Nurses Whispering Verses' was also released on *The Seaside*.

## Versions

'Nurses Whispering Verses' was originally recorded for *Toy World*, but the album has since been discontinued. The song was re-recorded and included on the album *The Seaside*.

## Lyrics

All fear and power,
All ready for warning me.
Askew with red jetted eye,
All as a day in sand (and rain).
And when you're near all me now
And then think never before did it seem so far away,
All hostile to me.
The nerve is bared the sense is real.

There’s places and houses fired,
Inspires all fire in the inside you.
Times are fine find all nine
And nurses find me in again.

Treating our matey kiteman,
Boiling off his belly,
Papering his length all off his swing.
He mask his hand and he grin to stay here,
Or even to play here,
Rather than be kept in on his own.

We only know what doesn’t show;
What do don’t ask me why.
Oh, we’re in again and we’re all the same,
Red as egg laid on the page.
Don’t mind the unbalanced mind,
It’s fine and mine and yours too.
Share with me and me is clean and
Treating our matey kiteman,
Boiling off his belly,
Papering his length all off his swing.
But I don’t really think so;
Maybe I don’t think I care.
So, no one else can know.
Ah well, another day
Now now.

## Demo Lyrics

The lyrics for 'Nurses Whispering Verses' were altered in the Sing to God release. On *The Seaside* and *Toy World*, the demo lyrics were used.

You’re never in, I called again
I’ve been around twice today
No friend of mine, no enemy
So who exactly are you?
When you’re nearer me now, and then
But never before did it seem so far away and hostile to me
The nerve is bared, the sense is real

There's places and houses
Spires inspire to find the time to
Times are finе, find the time
The nursеs find me in again

Oh now, simpering nurses whispering verses
Spoiling our vacant ever-changing pointless situation
To stay here, or even to play here
Rather than kept in on my own

We only know what goes to show
What to and ask me why
Oh we’re in again, oh we’re all the same
Turning around, it seems so strange now
Don’t mind the unbalanced mind
It’s mine, and mine is yours to
Share with me and me is clean and…

Oh now, simpering nurses whispering verses
Hold me away from you I’ll stay, but I don’t really think so
Maybe
I don’t think I care

Close me slowly round and round and we’ll see
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah well, another day now

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
The Safety Bowl

Cardiacs

***The Safety Bowl*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their second studio album, *On Land and in the Sea*. It is the twelfth track on the album. It was released alongside 'Baby Heart Dirt', 'I Hold My Love in My Arms' and 'Horse Head' in a CD by the Alphabet Business Concern.

## Lyrics

At the plate staring
And he’s left with so much on the side.
If it comes alive,
Shift with spoony fork and knife.
Break it; walk safety away from strife.

Kind and cutlery finds a pea
And punctures with a hole,
All the dinners roll
Into the safety bowl for feasts of reason
And the flow of soul.

Bins the bowl as he says,
‘Falsehoods and a man of straw
Is all my eye and Betty Martin saw.’

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Red Fire Coming Out From His Gills

Cardiacs

***Red Fire Coming Out From His Gills*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth studio album, *Sing to God*. It is the nineteenth track on the album and the ninth track on the second volume.

## Lyrics

King of all lice
Of wood ship building,
Believing that his sink is clean.
But Mr Sun’s too high up in sky
And the sea’s far too big for drowning.

Erecting fin time,
Cut through the ocean waves.

One million miles an hour,
Faster than a torpedo.
Morbid seas,
The morbid breeds
Untidy seas.

Meanwhile, on the wrong side of fences,
All killing and dashing of brains.
Next to normal life with games and companions,
Shouting too loud for him to sing.

Are all his blackbirds
Inside the steely metal gut of famous?

Action Fish cutting the waves,
Firing hot red fire from his gills,
The more we steals,
The more we feels.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Discography

Cardiacs began releasing music in 1977, when they completed their first demo album under the name Cardiac Arrest. They released a second album in 1981 and created their own label, the Alphabet Business Concern, shortly after. With this label, Cardiacs released their third demo album and began to release extended plays (EPs) and singles. The band's biggest mainstream success came in 1988 with the release of A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window and the minor hit single Is This the Life?. The album On Land and in the Sea followed, and then Heaven Born and Ever Bright came after the compilation album Songs for Ships and Irons. The critically named masterpiece Sing to God was released after a three year hiatus. After another three year hiatus, Cardiacs returned with a fifth studio album, Guns, in 1999.

## Discography

* Albums
* Singles

#### Studio albums

**A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window**
(1988)**On Land and in the Sea**
(1989)**Heaven Born and Ever Bright**
(1992)**Sing to God**
(1996)**Guns**
(1999)

#### Demo Albums

**The Obvious Identity**
(1980)**Toy World**
(1981)**The Seaside**
(1984)

#### Compilation Albums

**Archive Cardiacs**
(1989)**Songs for Ships and Irons**
(1991)**Sampler**
(1995)**Greatest Hits**
(2002)

#### Extended plays (EPs)

**Seaside Treats**
(1985)**Big Ship**
(1987)**Night Tracks**
(1988)**Day Is Gone**
(1991)

#### Singles

**A Bus for a Bus on the Bus**
(1979)**A Cake for Bertie's Party**
(1979)**Food on the Wall**
(1979)**There's Too Many Irons in the Fire**
(1987)**All Spectacular**
(1987)**Loosefish Scapegrace**
(1987)**Is This the Life?**
(1988)**Goosegash**
(1988)**I'm Eating in Bed**
(1988)**Susannah's Still Alive**
(1988)**Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love**
(1988)**All His Geese Are Swans**
(1988)**Baby Heart Dirt**
(1989)**I Hold My Love in My Arms**
(1989)**The Safety Bowl**
(1989)**Day Is Gone**
(1991)**Bellyeye**
(1995)**A Horse's Tail**
(1995)**No Gold**
(1995)**Manhoo**
(1995)**Spinney**
(1995)**What Paradise Is Like**
(1995)**Odd Even**
(1995)**Hurricane**
(1995)**Devils**
(1995)**Signs**
(1999)**Sang 'All Away Away!'**
(1999)**Dog-Like Sparky (Instumental)**
(1999)**Ditzy Scene**
(2007)**Gen**
(2007)**Made All Up**
(2007)**Vermin Mangle**
(2020)

#### 12" singles

**A Bus for a Bus on the Bus**
(1979)**There's Too Many Irons in the Fire**
(1987)**Is This the Life?**
(1988)**Susannah's Still Alive**
(1988)**Baby Heart Dirt**
(1989)**Bellyeye**
(1995)**Manhoo**
(1995)**Odd Even**
(1995)**Signs**
(1999)**Ditzy Scene**
(2007)
Gen

Cardiacs

***Gen*** is a song by Cardiacs. It was released alongside 'Ditzy Scene' and 'Made All Up' in a CD by ORG Records.

## Lyrics

Mother fear always worried
Something got the wrong idea
All around and knows
Something not keen and we might saw

It may well be
It's like as many overboard as they say
Overboard on we D-Day gather
Fuck off my least is more

Light of my
All of my life
All of my life
Be good size

You got it right
Not just two hundred
Be a good size
Be good size
Be good size

We do lack do we lack
Our lucky spirit earth
Round ship all around
All freedom say nothing
And nothing more

Some to do with or not really good
At this one time is like all the worst crap
You ever did see in front of your eyes
All at once a time

You got it right
Not just two hundred
Be a good size
Be good size

Light of my
All of my life
All of my life
Be good size
Be good size

You teem in
We have for surprise
Back around the vacuum in
Well played, ah well

How she do it
Spot by a house
Twinlings viewing down for the size
At least what is left of it now

You got it right
Not just two hundred
Be a good size
Be good size

Light of my
All of my life
All of my life
Be good size
Be good size

Light of my
All of my life
All of my life
Be good size

You got it right
Not just two hundred
Be a good size
Be good size
Be good size

## Credits

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Night Tracks

***Night Tracks (The Janice Long Session)*** is the third EP by Cardiacs. It features four songs from multiple albums.

## Tracklist

All songs produced by Janice Long.

## Concept and music

*Night Tracks* was recorded on Janice Long's Night Tracks show on BBC Radio One on November 27, 1987.

## Release and promotion

Album coverVinyl back coverThe album was released in the UK in 1987 by the label Strange Fruit.

Though the album is discontinued, all of the tracks from the EP were included on other albums.

## References

### Citations

*Some of this article uses text originally authored on Wikipedia.*
Mare's Nest

Cardiacs

***Mare's Nest*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their second studio album, *On Land and in the Sea*. It is the ninth track on the album. The song was also featured on *Greatest Hits*.

## Animation

In 1989, an animation was made for the song by Nick Goodman.

## Lyrics

In my home, my daddy TV brings in all mother world
And she sings so fine,
Springs hope and fears all on the world.

We must, with a tombstone, brave shut the shark out from his grave.
Wash him bloodless, smooth him fair,
Stretch his limbs; sleek his hair.

Home, this my own receptacle which has seen better days
And a cap full of wind for assistance moves my sea.
When pace is easy under sail, though it’s taking a while,
Better watch, better watch, I don’t blink and …

Blink!
Isolation goes on, happy as the day is long and it drag it’s slow length along.
Blink!
Isolation goes on, happy as the day is long and it drag it’s slow length along.
Blink!
Isolation goes on, happy as the day is long and it drag it’s slow length along.

Pain. Penalties his gain. He’s dead, laying stiff in the arms of assistance
Bringing in life from all around daddy TV brings in all mother world!

(Blink!)
Isolation comes again in the shape of a child made of plastic.
Put tears on its stupid face.
(Blink!)
Isolation comes again in the shape of a child made of plastic.
Put tears on its stupid face.
Blink and isolation goes on happy as the day is long,
Bringing in life from all around;
Daddy TV brings in all mother world!

Home, this my own receptacle which has seen better days
And a cap full of wind for assistance moves my sea.
When pace is easy under sail, though it’s taking a while,
Better watch, better watch, I don’t blink and …

From my country, spring hope and fears for all mother world, saying,
‘We must, with a tombstone, brave shut the shark out from his grave.
Wash him bloodless, smooth him fair,
Stretch his limbs; sleek his hair.’

Blink! Isolation goes on happy as the day is long and it drag its slow length along
All over the world.
And she sings so fine; springs hope and fears.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
All Spectacular

Cardiacs

***All Spectacular*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their compilation album *Songs for Ships and Irons*. It is the seventh track on the album. It was released alongside 'There's Too Many Irons in the Fire' and 'Loosefish Scapegrace' in a CD by the Alphabet Business Concern.

## Versions

'All Spectacular' is the ninth track on the live album *All That Glitters Is a Mare's Nest* which was released on May 15, 1995.

## Lyrics

Life, everything.
Dead and burying.
Good man, scared, takes sail through his life.
Let’s sing of his life!
Let’s sing of his life!
All his might against terror and fright,
Let’s sing of his might!

All spectacular,
Ridicule and fear!
Good man, scared, takes sail through his life.
Let’s sing of his life!
Let’s sing of his life!
All his might against terror and fright,
Let’s sing of his might!

Life, everything.
Dead and burying.
Good man, scared, takes sail through his life.
Let’s sing of his life!
Let’s sing of his life!
All his might against terror and fright,
Let’s sing of his might!

Good man, scared, takes sail through his life.
Let’s sing of his life!
Let’s sing of his life!
All his might against terror and fright,
Let’s sing of his might!
I Hold My Love in My Arms

Cardiacs

***I Hold My Love in My Arms*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their second studio album, *On Land and in the Sea*. It is the fourth track on the album. It was released alongside 'Baby Heart Dirt', 'Horse Head' and 'The Safety Bowl' in a CD by the Alphabet Business Concern.

## Versions

'I Hold My Love in My Arms' is the sixth track on the live album *All That Glitters Is a Mare's Nest* which was released on May 15, 1995.

## Lyrics

I wash my love with dews wet dream;
I walk my love in mornings gleam.
Our love, I know, will never go.
I strive to keep her aglow.
Our head heavy lovers charms;
I hold my love in my arms.
In my arms, I hold her. She loves me.

Her view must feed me as I wake,
So with as a bride I’ll take.
Our love, I know, will never go.
I strive to keep her aglow.
Our head heavy lovers charm;
I hold my love in my arms.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Manhoo

**"Is everybody happy?"**

This article is about **the song by Cardiacs, ***Manhoo*****. You may be looking for **the 12" inch single with the same name**.

### Album

Sing to God

***Manhoo*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth studio album, *Sing to God*. It is the ninth track on the album and the ninth track on the first volume. It was released alongside 'Spinney' and 'What Paradise Is Like' on January 1, 1995 in a CD by the Alphabet Business Concern. The *Odd Even* 12" single was released the same day. The song was also featured on *Greatest Hits*.

## Lyrics

Burned as bright as a rocket. All falsehoods set alight
Flamed raised in shame on a speedier course.
And who’s to blame for
Breakings its own self-inflicted graceless home?
Blind be spirit-core with its lies;
A misty veil hides a pitiful vengeance born to sail on
all of the seas and a-never returning;
Needs to take some beauty sleep deep in the
Oceans and obsolete
Kindly spears core with its penknife.

Blind be spirit and lost again and dust in eyed
Heavy heads get buried deeper.
Sand in scratching naked eyes
Lost again in a lie all dreadful, oh yeah!

When truth looks like a lie in a different way and
Kept alive and bound by bad chains in a
Beautiful cage,
Inside is fear and stable minds
Always forever questioning stubborn you
Befriending your tears and in a different way
The need to take some beauty sleep deep in the
Ocean is obsolete.
Blind be spirit-core, with its lies
Sand in scratching naked eyes
Lost again in a seasick land all weepier.
Blast me silence and hurt me ears and blast again
With a rifle all dreadful, oh yeah!
Blind be spirit dust in eyed heavy heads get deep and –

Truth looks like a lie; was held it out to him
Who shook the tree viciously for love.

Blind be spirit and lost again and dust in eyed
Heavy heads get buried deeper.
Sand in scratching naked eyes
Lost again in a seasick land all weepier.
Blast me silence and hurt me ears and blast again
With a rifle all dreadful, oh yeah!
Belly-eyed bleeder all terminal, decieve, you fivver of the order
Comes up swimming up a shape with a stinging tail.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
It's a Lovely Day

Cardiacs

***It's a Lovely Day*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their third demo album, *The Seaside*. It is the fourth track on the album.

## Versions

'It's a Lovely Day' is the third track on the live album *All That Glitters Is a Mare's Nest* which was released on May 15, 1995.

It is also the fourth track on the live album *The Special Garage Concerts* which was released in 2005. It is the fourth track of the first volume.

## Lyrics

I suppose I could start
Closed behind the door
People looking at me
Ha ha ha ha
See the big ship sailing by

Pick me up and turn me round
Into the disarray around me
Somedays this and somedays that
It's acting so banal awhile
So ask me nicely
La la la la
Ask me nicely
La la la la
Wild thing you make everything groovy
You make everything groovy

These giraffes eat leaves
And they run oh so very fast
If you wanted to catch one, yeah
You would have to take a car

Long necks so they reach the leaves
Up high in the sky in the trees
They run fast and they have a baby
They would given half the chance to
Ask me nicely
La la la la
Ask me nicely
La la la la
Wild thing you make everything groovy
You make everything
Turn around me all of the time
It seems to be all of the time
So welcome all to
The ugly bug ball
Isn't it a lovely day?
Ha ha ha ha
Watch me running around awhile
Pick me up and turn me round
Into the disarray around meSomedays this and somedays that
It's acting so banal awhile
So ask me nicely
La la la la
Ask me nicely
La la la la
Wild thing you make everything groovy
You make everything
Turn around me all of the time
It seems to be all of the time

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
ORG Records

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**ORG Records** is a British record label owned by Org Records Limited. "Kissing big ugly sharks since 1986", ORG has expanded from its Organ Radio fanzine/Radio Organ radio show roots to issue a series of limited-run singles, called the Org-An-Ised Single Series, in the electronic and alternative music fields & a limited compilation series of various music styles (earliest volumes on cassette only & titled "The Organ").
Eat It Up Worms Hero

Cardiacs

***Eat It Up Worms Hero*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth studio album, *Sing to God*. It is the second track on the album and the second track on the first volume.

## Lyrics

Make eyes pretty, wear clean dress
And boy get shot into the wilderness.
Moving like a worms hero,
Looks both ways and goes.

Gives birth in his throat,
Pin legs make his torso leak.
Airs her holes,
Her tiny sides going in and out,
Shiny worm to heal her hole.

Gives birth in his throat,
Pin legs make his torso leak.
Airs her holes,
Her tiny sides going in and out,
Shiny worm to heal her hole.

Gives birth in his throat,
Pin legs make his torso leak.
Airs her holes,
Her tiny sides going in and out,
Shiny worm to heal her hole.

And all the beauty tells him he is worms hero.
He is love and hatred.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Joining the Plankton

Cardiacs

***Joining the Plankton*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fourth extended play, *Day Is Gone*. It is the fourth and final track on the EP.

## Lyrics

Die time!
Jump out of lifes egg and join the plankton
Inking off across the beds
Inking off across the, and across the thing
'cross the thing

Ink me!
Come to me exploring ah!
And joining the plankton inking off across the beds
Inking off allways
So we'll swim and froth with limbs the blue

This much, the ultimate in devotion
And sensitive suckers beating and cleaning and
Keeping me sweet and serene
Inked in my face and jetted off
Enough please, RELEASE MY HEAD!
Hand offered with thanks
Mistakes my turgid gland for my hand

Die time!
Jump out of lifes egg and join the plankton
Inking off across the beds
Ink my face and froth with limbs the blue-ah!
Jetting off with thanks mistakes my turgid gland for my hand

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
Cry Wet Smile Dry

Cardiacs

***Cry Wet Smile Dry*** is a song by Cardiacs. It is a track featured on their fifth studio album, *Guns*. It is the fourth track on the album.

## Lyrics

It is today couriers day;
I have a letter to say
Pen is good for nothing, do me in.
This letter – old letter – is arrears;
It shall stay to the post for years, yeah.
Till at what o’clock is ten clock strike?
Cry wet smile dry, if you won’t then say goodbye.
It is not that.
Tie ’em, rope ’em, brand ’em in the eye.

And all we want to see’s all that
It is remarkable.
The streets be laid out by line
And to paved, yeah.

Until two o’clock after midnight,
At what o’clock are you to bed?
I think yet that it is ten clock strike.
This letter – old letter – is arrears;
It shall stay to the post for years.
This day is good for nothing,
Do me in.

How is the day of the month, the year,
The day, the hour, etcetera,
That is some letter to me
Go brand them in the eye,
See ’em wet and cry,
Making ’em smile dry,
Cry Dixie hang ’em high,
Brand ’em in the eye,
Oh my! See ’em wet and cry,
See ’em wet and cry.

I am to tell some words that I know by heart:
“Tie ’em, rope ’em, brand ’em in the eye,
Cry all wet and smile dry.”

I see ’em wet and cry
Making ’em smile smile dry,
Cry Dixie hang ’em high,
Brand ’em in the eye,
Oh my! See ’em wet and cry,
Making ’em smile dry,
Cry Dixie hang ’em high,
Brand ’em in the eye.

## Credits

 **Published by** | Alphabet Business Concern
The Special Garage Concerts

***The Special Garage Concerts Vol I & II*** is the fourth live album by Cardiacs. It was recorded over three nights at the Garage in London and released exclusively on CD.

## Background and production

At these concerts, Cardiacs only played songs that predated 1984, some of which had not been heard for many years. The track 'Gloomy News' had never previously been released and was available for purchase for the first time on *The Special Garage Concerts Vol I* compact disc. The album was also alternatively packaged and released with *The Special Garage Concerts Vol II* as part of a two-disc digipak.

The length of the sets and complexity of the material demanded intensive rehearsal. In an interview, Kavus Torabi compared learning the 35 song set with revising for an exam. The album was generally well-received by progressive rock fans. Louder Sound's Prog Magazine featured the Vol I rendition of 'Let Alone My Plastic Doll' in its publication as part of its list of Cardiacs' best songs.

## Release and promotion

Album coverThe album was put on the band's Bandcamp page on March 7, 2018 and would later also appear on other streaming services.

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Lawsom, Dom (August 11, 2014). "Kavus Torabi's Guide To Cardiacs". *Prog Magazine*. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
2. ↑ Vennart, Make (July 18, 2015). "The 10 best Cardiacs songs as chosen by Mike Vennart". *Prog Magazine*. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
3. ↑ "Cardiacs' Community | Cardiacs". *Bandcamp*. Retrieved February 14, 2021.

### External links

* Official Cardiacs website