Get all 41 Billie Ray Martin releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Electribe 101 - The John Peel Session, Electribal Soul, Heading for the Night - The Frankie Knuckles Mixes, Your Loving Arms (Original single with Bonus and unreleased Mixes), The Glittering Gutter - The U.S. Club Mixes, Billie Ray Martin Vocal Sample Pack - The song sessions, The Soul Tapes, Strongheaded Woman, and 33 more.
1. |
||||
You can’t say I’m not human
But every hour, every minute,every second and beyond can pass me by
I’m really anything but bland
But what you see is what you get when I parade my silhouette down Rodeo Drive
And you can look inside
There is a light that shines
Under the pale white smile
You could say I’ve got some fame
Well I go out to lunch with actors now and then
And when I go home I’m still the same
And there’s really nothing there
When I look into the mirror I see really nothing here but a face and name
And you can leave me here
For where the glitter lay
There is a battlefield
And you can leave me here
I have no enemies
Only reality
If I was anybody then
I was a nobody to most but that was better
Now I’m everybody all the time
And I am miserable
Under the pretty shell
There are a thousand holes
|
||||
2. |
Candy Coated Crime
04:56
|
|||
I was on my best behaviour
When the old attraction came to rise
If I make my breath go faster
The moment would arrive
Many times I’ve tried to refrain
But the image won’t subside
Could you be my sweet accomplice
In my candy coated crime
And if I only knew
If you know too
And what to do
Then I could do it to you
The moment would arrive
And if I knew you’d say
You would be meeting me halfway
Then I could plan it with you
My candy coated crime
Who would show the faintest interest
If I took it way too far this time
Who cares if I get arrested
I’m only playing CSI
It’s like murder in a sweet shop
You can’t tell the blood from sweet delights
Could I be identified of
My candy coated crime
And if I only knew
If you know too
And what to do
Then I could do it to you
My life is on the line
And if I knew you’d say
You would be meeting me halfway
Then I could plan it with you
My candy coated crime
And if I only knew
If you know too
And what to do
Then I could do it to you
The moment would arrive
And if I knew you’d say
You would be meeting me halfway
Then I could plan it with you
My candy coated crime
|
||||
3. |
||||
Mama was beautiful
A mountain of fake hair would sometimes peek through the bedroom door
The money never hugged her the money was never warm
It did not tell her stories it did not sing bedtime songs
There were always sedate veils of some kind behind her eyes
And daily doses of something were keeping her paralyzed
Mama gave her Nembutal
When she interfered in her schedule
The measures were inevitable
Come on now be a good girl
Mama gave her everything
That chemicals and cash could bring
But instead of owning everything it only disowned her
Taking her life in hand
Selling her roller skates for an abortion
Almost joining the women’s movement
But she said the only movement I’m interested in
Is the one that gets me outta here and to Hollywood where I belong
Rosy cheeks productions helped her get to Hollywood
Where a girl’s gotta do what’s to do and be what she’s not
Now she’s dropped the booze and drugs
And discovered Häagen-Dazs
Her lips are injected with half her ass
Now she looks like the other girls
And she dropped the shoulder pads
For a pair of muscly lads
Don’t want to get Oprah on your ass
But her biography still won’t pass
Mama gave her everything
That chemicals and cash could bring
|
||||
4. |
I'm Not Simone Choule
05:36
|
|||
Now I know descending stairs are long
I’ve seen their faces gather, quite aware
This dream could last a lifetime
Now I see my fate ahead of me
I wear her floral dress my teeth are bare
This dream will last forever
And there’s no rest
Despite the silence
And there’s nowhere left to run
There’s a light there
At the bottom
They won’t find me
When I’m done
Now there’ll be someone that isn’t me
The lipstick on my mouth
It isn’t fair
The wig I’ll wear forever
There’s a ghost called isolation
It’s a tenant in my home
Where I will be who they tell me
When I’m down there
They’ll have won
And there’s no rest
Despite the silence
And there’s nowhere left to run
There’s a light there
At the bottom
They won’t find me
When I’m done
|
||||
5. |
||||
6. |
||||
7. |
||||
8. |
Billie Ray Martin Berlin, Germany
"Billie Ray Martin is one of the living legends in modern music history and one of the best voices on planet earth."
DJ Hell
"Billie Ray Martin is an absolute revelation."
K.Hollings, The Wire
Billie Ray Martin: "I'm a kid from Hamburg’s red-light district, who wanted to be a soul singer, but ended up playing repetitive machine music, while still trying to be a soul singer"
... more
Streaming and Download help
If you like Anatomy Of A Plastic Girl - EP, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp