Does anybody have lyrics for Cocteau Twins songs?
Only Elizabeth Fraser, and she’s not telling. (Although there are some hilarious attempts at transcriptions available on the Cocteau Twins Web page). All we know for sure are some couplets that appear on the LPs of Garlands and Head Over Heels: Things from the forest die here / But I don’t / Dead forest things are offered here / But I’m not Garlands evergreen / Forget-me-not wreaths / Chaplets see me drugged / I could die in the rosary When Mama was moth / I took bulb form Glass candle grenades are popping / Still we’ll not keel over Tinderbox of a heart / Left a shell is all Fig up my love paramour / Ooze out and away onehow (Note that the last line became a song title on The Moon and the Melodies, as did “bloody and blunt”, a phrase from Musette and Drums. Only fitting, since “head over heels” itself was a line from the song All But An Ark Lark from the Lullabies EP!).
