Shinning Sinners Lyrics - Marc Almond

Well, I'm walkin' blind down danger street 

The street where eyes don't dare to meet 

Dirt doorways frame silhouettes 

A teeth, grind, grinning smile of threat 

Down here you ask for all you get 

These east side angrys'll getchoo yet 

Ignore the cat calls look straight ahead 

You could wind up the other side of dead 

(If you're lucky) 

Well, I took a glance sideways 

Straight into some Chicano chick's eyes 

They were pretty wild 

Like she'd been snortin' some of that cocaine 

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She was mean for trouble, boilin' for blood 

But I had to say she was stacked 

From the tip of her toes to her flaming red hair 

She's gonna drag me up to her carnal cage of no way out desire 

Help, help 

You gotta help yourself 

Help me, help me 

You son of a gun 

You gotta run muchacho run 

Well, I was getting to know the neighborhood 

Getting to know how it looked and smelled 

Watching the windows in tenement hell 

Love was rape and love for sale and death a fact of life 

Love was rare but who cares? Who cares? 

When you're living by the knife 

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Well, I took a slug of bitter coffee 

Pulled a face as bitter hit me 

End up with a new mouth 

Carved where my throat used to be 

And then I saw him, tall and proud 

Wearing the entire city garbage dump 

Around his neck and wrists 

And then I saw him 

Dirty red Chicano sweat bandanna 

And colors held together by filth and fury 

Oh, wow, ee, ow 

The leader of the shining sinners 

The leader of the shining sinners 

And she was by his side 

This Vampira I'd seen earlier 

She looked at me the look of scum 

Help, Help 

You gotta help yourself 

Help me, Help me 

You son of a gun 

You gotta run muchacho run 

He walked, did I say walked? 

Well, I mean walked 

Right up to me at a slow pace 

He looked down at me and said, "Shit" 

My knees were bucklin' 

My brow was sweatin' 

I stared straight ahead at his knee cap 

I had to strike soon 

The leader of the shining sinners 

Sweet 'n' sharp and cool 'n' calm 

He lives for them, they die for him 

Bitten through with nails of hatred 

He takes his band of laughing dead 

To gather up the wages of skin 

Keep my eyes upon the pavement 

Nothing else could save me 

In this battlefield of blood and bruises 

I'll take this brave stiletto 

And with all the courage left in my heart 

I'll, I'll take the life of the leader of the shining sinners 

He lay upon the ground 

Coughing up blood 

He looked up at me 

Yes, I was the big one now 

And said, "I wanted to shake your hand, you little runt 

For having the guts to walk into my neighborhood 

I liked you" 

And with that he died 

Leaderless and laughless 

The wastrels of the shining sinners 

Lay me out like some dead cat on the ground 

I taste the taste of human filth 

My courage caves in on itself 

Now no one's leading anyone anymore 

And I wondered what I did it for 

And I wondered what I did it for 

Why did I do it? Why? 

Why did I do it? 

Why, why did I do it? 

Why? Why? Why?