ORIGINAL ALBUM Broken Diamonds I Explode Rebel Of Love Rebel Run Martian Cowboy BONUS TRACKS Dreamscape To The Mountains High Time Is Ours Baptised In Fire Love Is The Law Haunted Remember Be Proud, Be Loud (Be Heard) The Vow Laughing With The Fools Urban Tribesmen The Furious Futures Stand Proud Ieya 1982 [Full Length] Love is the Law is a saying I borrowed from the famous occultist Aleister Crowley... I was never a fan of what he represented, which was mainly dark, devious and debauched, but I thought the phrase ‘Love Is the Law’ was possibly one of the most beautiful to ever be uttered because it crosses every social and tribal divide. The making of this album was the happiest period of my life because in 1983 everything was going right. I was starring in a stage play called ‘Trafford Tanzi’, which won me especially huge critical acclaim, and I was about to star in a film, ‘The Ebony Tower’ with Lord Laurence Olivier just as soon as the album was finished. Because my schedule was incredibly full, the band moved into my house in Finchley, London where we transformed my gym into a make-shift recording studio to pre- write and programme all the material in the daytime. I’d then go to the theatre for five o’clock and meet the band at the Marquee Studios to do the main recording of the vocals after midnight. It was a killer timetable but I loved it with a passion. There were a lot of the fans around at this time, as many as three hundred camped outside the Mermaid Theatre, permanently, whilst I was performing ‘Trafford Tanzi’ and they would then follow me to the Marquee Studios and camp out there all night listening to the recording sessions. It was while we were recording the title track that we felt we didn’t have enough voices available to us to make the track sound like a tribal mass, so we got the fans in. Back then they called themselves the ‘Angels and Demons’, and we taught them the song at two in the morning and thus we have the tribal choir on the title track. Because of work and time commitments we tended to write very quickly. I’d complete a lyric the same day as I had to record the vocal, this has it’s up and down side, but the most powerful effect is spontaneity and a broad spectrum of possible meaning in each song as I never had time to rethink anything. Also, as you may guess, I was surfing on adrenaline for almost six months and by the time I got to the recording studio at midnight each day I was literally ready to explode, thus the track ‘I Explode’, one of my all time favourites. Sometimes my head would be racing so much that the only way to get me to calm down was to give me a sleeping pill. This is not something I would readily admit, but it was the only way the producer could get me to sit long enough to finish a track and is the reason ‘Rebel of Love’ and ‘Martian Cowboy’ sound so relaxed for a Toyah song! I love this album and the news of its digital re-release has filled me with joy and I hope you experience at least a little of that too. Toyah Willcox BROKEN DIAMONDS All the little pieces Adrenalin rush (Words Willcox/Music Bogen) It’s all too much I’ve got you and you’ve got me I’m pouring over the threshold Temptation I’ve got you and you’ve got me I was warned and I was told Motivation You’ve got me, you’ve got me Hesitation You’ve got me, you’ve got me I was warned Trepidation Begging on my knees I was told And we’re walking on broken Fascination Elusive stranger diamonds Temptation Come on, lay it on the line Blinded by their light Just imagination Alone in my madness In a world of splintered Or infatuation I’m alone for all time fragments Infatuation I’m alone for all time Careering through our lives I EXPLODE Shatter my hopes Fascination (Words Willcox/Music Bogen) Shatter my dreams Sensations Close the door Destinations Skimming the surface Shatter my windows into Celebrations of a sleep smithereens yeah Infatuations The rain falls hard from the heavens deep REBEL OF LOVE No it ain’t easy Shatters my hopes, (Words Willcox/Music Bogen) And I know that you really try shatters my dreams Although nothing can save us Shatters my windows Who are you? Our love is a star in the sky into smithereens Your skin cuts – it bleeds Then is clear before the new Insinuations And the feeling gets day is through Reputations too hard to hold Who are you? Situations You’ve opened the door Imagination I explode before I’ve rung the bell Who are you? We’re picking up the pieces I explode I won’t tell We’re picking up the pieces I explode… Are you the Rebel of Love? Your soul shines He moved in body Now get down You give life such respect and soul And stay down Like part of a strange sect In body and soul You’ve gotta learn Or some new religion To kiss the ground He moved The boy, a new toy He moved You see a city Takes the razor and Really moved in body We’ll watch it fall shaves his head and soul We’re the hobos Removes the emblem In body and soul Of planet patrol from his chest Lean machines And lays it to rest upon Colliding his bed REBEL RUN Out of control (Words Willcox/Music Urban warrior, angry, bitter Darlow) You bring me fear and ignored I’ll bring you laughter Praying to the silent man Tell you tales ever after Your behaviour doesn’t go A new day dawns And we’ll rise unseen with your face Behind the acetylene tanks In the shadows Your body doesn’t move the A dog’s lament We’ll live your dreams way your mouth behaves Wakes the new age But this taste in my mouth But falls in splintered You’ve gotta get away Mean machine what a dream fragments You’ve gotta get away And going to waste Around his cage Rebel Like everyone they said You’ve gotta get away He left us wanting more there’d be You’ve gotta get away… It’s blatantly obvious his So much more to 1984 every move It’s just a power game Scored the highest score Rebel run It’s just a power game Don’t shoot your gun Rebel He moved Rebel run You’ve gotta get away He moved Run run run You’ve gotta stay away MARTIAN COWBOY Sun rise The horns of elfin land are (Words Willcox/Music Red planet calling you Bogen/Darlow/Spalding) Sun rise Today’s the day we open our gates Desert Hound Decaying cars Splintered tyres Come away Martian Cowboy The deserted freeways Come away Let me hold your hand of Mars Come away… Down the freeway rolls a My Martian Cowboy wayward beer can Hold me in your arms again It’s the great escape And a desert hound I said – It’s the great escape Carries decaying It’s the great escape memories away For the dogs to sense DREAMSCAPE another day (Words Willcox/ TIME IS OURS Music Bogen) (Words Willcox/Music Hold me in your arms Bogen) This planet is far from Mars Now the whole of Let’s just hold hands the human race War (for now) Needs a dreamscape And we’ll take it as it comes In your scrapyards of The burning human emotion Burn, burn, burn, burn Celestial Stowaway Put your minds in locomotion turning I’m yearning, yearning Martian Cowboy City people shout Your presence is my Come again another day Let me out breakthrough ‘Til then we’re just Let me out But all scars fade with time a star away Let me out My Martian Cowboy They say that time is ours Remember today Now the whole of They say that youth is a the human race flower Red planet Come to the dreamscape Whose blossoms soon blow away To the tigers claw anymore Another year lying on soft Love is the law blades Love is the law… Can someone save me (anyone) I love you too much So wrap your arms around From walking out the door to hurt you me Someone grab my arm But I must leave you behind Hold me warm and tight Before I do what I regretted Your patience is your virtue This fatal fascination before Your love light will burn Will make us orphans of the forever in my mind night Remember the past Remember our song Your presence is my Love is for fools Remember when the days breakthrough Love is insane were so long But all scars fade with time Love is brutal Remember our vow - And love heals and love Love is a plague “We’ll never die” forgives Remember we prayed to the Even the greatest crime, It’s fatal mountains high yeah! It’s fatal But can you save us Love is the law We’re winning if you try LOVE IS THE LAW Love is the law… Let’s forget our pasts (Words Willcox/Music Just look to the sky Bogen/Darlow/Spalding) I can see the crime REMEMBER I was ripped and torn Love is an ocean (Words Willcox/Music I’ve been on this journey Love is a flame Bogen/Darlow) many times before Love is cruel Many times before Love is vain Everything and everyone I’ve been ripped apart Everything and everyone I Love is the law have ever loved Remember From the lion’s mane Has been taken from me Remember Love is the law And I’m not taking it No one gets out of here alive It’s the child in his eyes THE VOW I’ll never desert you Always made me cry (Words Willcox/Music I’ll never desert you And I said to myself “I will Bogen/Spalding) rise to the highest high” And somewhere on another (Never say die) In every waking hour star a man holds his brother It’s so easy to see the glory I miss you And he loved him, But there’s many sides In my dreams he loved him to the story I never kiss you Like he loved no other And we’re all staying a lie And in the shadows creatures want to hurt you They drove me But in love and war BONUS TRACKS to the other side I’ll never desert you Just in time for high tide TO THE MOUNTAINS Everything in life is And I breathe white fire HIGH (Willcox/Bogen) a state of mind in anger Arranged by Bogen/Darlow So I’ll cancel the future if I breathe white fire in anger only the strong survive In every waking