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Track: Carousel
Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Album: Peepshow (Remastered And Expanded)

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Name: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Spotify Genres: gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, new wave, deathrock, cold wave
Followers: 1,347,086
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U.K. band, formed in London in 1976, fronted by [a=Siouxsie Sioux] (Susan Janet Ballion) on vocals, with [a=Steven Severin] (Steven John Bailey) playing bass. [a=Budgie (2)] (Peter Clarke) on drums (who also worked with Siouxsie as the band [a=The Creatures]) joined them in 1980 up to their demise. Guitarists for the band have included [a=Marco Pirroni] (1976), [a=Pete Fenton] (1976-1977), [a=John McKay] (1977-1979), [a=John McGeoch] (1980-1982), [a=John Valentine Carruthers] (1984-1987), [a=Jon Klein] (1987-1995), [a=Knox Chandler] (1995, 2003) and also [a=Robert Smith] of [a=The Cure] (1980, 1982-1984) (who also worked with Severin as the band [a=The Glove]). Multiinstrumentalist [a=Martin McCarrick] was the band's full-time keyboard player from 1987 onwards. They disbanded in April 1996 and returned once for 'The Seven Year Itch' Tour in 2002.

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Release: Siouxsie And The Banshees* - Peepshow
Year: 1988
Genres: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Styles: New Wave, Goth Rock, Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Synth-pop

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LYRICS

You clamber up
And look behind
Their watchful eyes
The helping hands
A hen that's fierce
And painted blue
With red eyes
Wants to swallow you
A dragon dives and soars on tracks
The hands that strap you to its back
You turn around and look behind
Their smiling eyes
Won't help you down

Their tiny hands
Their tiny feet
Such little hearts
To miss a beat

Grotesque dwarves in mirrored rooms
Pulled and taut a thousand yous
Staring back through stinging tears
Remembering those funhouse thrills

The paintbox tunes and wild balloons
Their watchful eyes, you start to swoon
Oh painted vile in lurid hue
The snarling horse that waits for you

Its motor whirrs and colours curl
Inside your head the monsters whirl
Its motor whirrs and colours curl
Inside your head the monsters whirl

In sucked out
Time stood still
Roundabout back
Carousel
Time stood still
And you remember it well
Carousel

(Thanks to Ally665 for these lyrics)