Peter Murphy
Peter John Murphy (born 11 July 1957, near Northampton, England, raised in … Read Full Bio ↴Peter John Murphy (born 11 July 1957, near Northampton, England, raised in Wellingborough, England), is the vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus who later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria.

By 1983, Bauhaus broke up and Murphy went on to new projects not involving Bauhaus members Kevin Haskins, David J, or Daniel Ash. After some brief dabbling with acting and dance - including a slightly odd televised performance to Bauhaus's "Hollow Hills" - he soon formed Dalis Car with Mick Karn, the bass player from Japan.

Murphy's solo career over time became more varied than Bauhaus, ranging from pseudo-pop to haunting ballads that showcased his deep and complex vocals. After the commercial non-start of Dali's Car, Murphy's first solo album was similarly overlooked. Should the World Fail to Fall Apart did spawn several singles, including a cover of Pere Ubu's "Final Solution" that made a minor splash on the club scene.

The followup, Love Hysteria, did much better. It also marked the beginning of a long-term collaboration with songwriter Paul Statham, who co-wrote songs with Murphy until 1995. The resulting singles "All Night Long" and "Indigo Eyes" helped garner a wider following, and the black-and-white video for "All Night Long" entered rotation on MTV.

The pinnacle of Murphy's solo popularity came with the release of Deep. For this album Murphy reinvented himself as somewhat of a rock-god, now sporting hair dyed platinum blonde and performing a much more aggressive alt-rock sound. The single "Cuts You Up" from Deep held on to the top spot on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for longer than any other single before - displacing "So Alive" by his former Bauhaus-bandmates Love and Rockets.

In 2000, Murphy performed his international Just for Love tour, which resulted in the album aLive Just for Love. It is a live recording of the fully uninterrupted set from the El Rey show in Los Angeles on November 30, 2000. During the tour, Murphy chose to perform with only two back-up musicians, Canadian electric violinist Hugh Marsh and Peter DiStefano from Porno for Pyros on guitar, although former Bauhaus bassist David J sometimes joined the trio for an encore. At this point he also contributed to works by noted film composer Harry Gregson-Williams.

Also in 2000, Murphy gave a nod to the North American goth scene, where his solo works and his works with Bauhaus are still very popular, by making a surprise guest appearance at the sixth annual Convergence festival in Seattle, to perform a low-key, acoustic solo set.

In 2004, Murphy signed to yet another new label, Viastar, which was home to several other 1980s pop artists who had moved into more eclectic areas. Despite numerous problems with the label, the album Unshattered was released, showcasing Murphy returning to a more pop sound.

Murphy undertook extensive tours of the U.S.A and Europe to promote 'Unshattered' in 2005, with a live band featuring guitarist Mark Gemini Thwaite of The Mission UK and Tricky on guitar, Jeff Schwartoff of Human Waste Project and Professional Murder Music on bass and Justin Bennett of Skinny Puppy on drums. Murphy and the band reconvened in November 2007 for shows in Portugal and Spain, with Nick Lucero replacing Bennett on drums. In May 2008 Murphy recorded a cover of the song "Warm Leatherette" with Trent Reznor and Jeordie White from Nine Inch Nails. This was played live at an intimate studio performance, and the video recording was released on both the official Nine Inch Nails website and YouTube. A full-length album called Ninth was released in 2011, featuring the single "I Spit Roses".
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Peter Murphy Lyrics


*Fun Time Fun Hey baby we like your lips Fun Hey baby we like your…
01. All Night Long When the night is closing Eyes are running wild Then…
02 Final Solution The girls won't touch me 'cause I've got a misdirection Livi…
02. His Circle And Hers Meet As if afloat, as if afraid The spirits meet Waited for an…
03. The Scarlet Thing in You From the world to the dreaming fields of light Yeah…
04 indigo eyes Fire burning in a hill The lines are rocky rough Red angel…
05. Never Man The love of the Never man Jumps through the blackest heat Hi…
05.-Keep me from harm Health is all I'm asking for Love is all I need Hope…
07 Jungle Haze You smile at me With your lost eyes In awe of what…
07.Cuts You Up I find you in the morning After dreams of distant signs Yo…
09. Final Solution The girls won't touch me 'cause I've got a misdirection Livi…
09. Hit Song Walking in the street Breath the only friend Strangers pass…
09.-Hit song Walking in the street Breath the only friend Strangers pa…



11. All Night Long When the night is closing Eyes are running wild Then…
A Strange Kind Of Love A strange kind of love A strange kind of feeling…
All Night Long When the night is closing Eyes are running wild Then…
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything All we ever wanted was everything All we ever got was…
Answer Is Clear Teach him to be happy Teach him some control Teach…
Big and Tiny Stepping on the road He made his way To the stellar far…
Big Love Of A Tiny Fool Stepping on the road he made his way To the stellar…
Blind Sublime It looks a dream And feels the same I could conquer it And…
Blinded Like Saul Love it when you tilt me Take me tip toe in…
Blue Heart How rich is your surface How much do you care Does…
Blue Heart * How rich is your surface How much do you care Does…
Breaking No One Four skies in one night The earth from your face It takes…
Canvas Beauty Here stands the canvas beauty at her door Calling beneath t…
Canvas Beauty (romance version) Here stands the canvas beauty at her door Calling beneath th…
Cascade We have no image We're just called the good friends We…
Confession I could use your gullibility Distort the painful truth Pre…
Cool Cool Breeze Cool cool breeze Rivers flow below The darkened room is clos…
Crème de la crème We joined this land, where they paint the ice. To find…
Crystal Wrists I can't see the light, I'm thrown in disgust They speak…
Cr`eme De La Cr`eme We joined this land, where they paint the ice To the…
Cuts You Up I find you in the morning After dreams of distant signs You…
Deep Ocean Vast Sea Deep ocean vast sea Your ocean heart Clothed in respect And …
Dialogue- on 'Keep Me From Harm' Health is all I'm asking for Love is all I need Hope…
Disappearing You came, I saw, I held your hand out of…
Dragnet Drag Look at them now Look at them do Look they found…
Dragnets Drag Look at them now Look at them do Look they found…
Dream Gone By Let go all the tears of your life The one…
Dreams Let go all the tears of your life The one…
Eliza My sin is a decade long guest Accepted as a norm How…
Emergency Unit Save me save me, make me true Turn turn, let me…
Face the Moon I looked at all the women Checking out their features One wa…
Fake Sparkle Or Golden Dust Gone to sound Your vision' thirst On a parted road To wan…
Final Solution The girls won't touch me 'cause I've got a misdirection Livi…
First Stone My white visions continue This younger skin's outgrown old w…
Fun Time Fun Hey baby we like your lips Fun Hey baby we like your…
Gaslit I come in time to see the kids They're throwing an…
Girlchild Aglow Throws a look Blows away She woke up to follow The lapping o…
Give What He's Got Xavier new boy love's venus the cat But he's locked up…
Gliding Like a Whale It only takes the time Between here and there For…
God Sends Of course we can see From the lipstick that's used From ev…
Hang Up They come on over, said the tripper to the was…
His Circle and Hers Meet As if afloat, as if afraid The spirits meet Waited for an…
Hit Song Walking in the street Breath the only friend Strangers pass…
Holy Clown Whether you have an inner judge Or an amassed altered jury …
Huuvola One fine night The air did bring Two little ones Called to…
I Four skies in one night The earth from your face It takes…
I Am My Own Name I am my own name I am my own I am my…
I Spit Roses The captain is sea In the moonlight the same The ship all…
I'll Fall With Your Knife To the crowd To the world You were so dry And with a…
I'm On Your Side It seems like the day Like there is no way To get…
I've Got a Miniature Secret Camera I am responsible Leper and still Ready to take the fool ?…
I've Got a Secret Miniature Camera I am responsible Leper and still Ready to take the fool ?…
I’ll Fall With Your Knife To the crowd To the world You were so dry And with a…
Idle Flow Idle flow I've been running too slow I use so much time Now…
Ill Fall With Your Knife To the crowd To the world You were so dry And with a…
Indigo Eyes Fire burning in a hill The lines are rocky rough Red angels…
Indigo Eyes 98 Fire burning in a hill The lines are rocky rough Red…
Ive Got A Miniature Secret Camera I am responsible Leper and still Ready to take the fool ?…
I’ll Fall With Your Knife To the crowd To the world You were so dry And with a…
Jemal Dua Allah'im lütfet ki gittigmiz her yere baris gotürelim B…
Jungle Haze You smile at me With your lost eyes In awe of what…
Just For Love There is no place like Just for Love Just understand that Ju…
Keep Me From Harm Health is all I'm asking for Love is all I need Hope…
Kill the Hate Take me on a trip Take me from the hip Keep…
Kiss Myself Open my eyes But they're not mine I'm looking from you As yo…
Let Me Love You Love me now Until the end of time See me over…
Lion Toward the leaves Scattered brushed Long brown leadened S…
Loctaine Words are just broken up the singer's tones now flowing f…
Love Me Tender Love me now Until the end of time See me over…
Low Room You've been away a while, while the art on the…
Marlene Dietrich My mother loved it so she said Sad eyed pearl and…
Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem My mother loved it so she said Sad eyed pearl and…
Memory Go Fade away Is that not What was what What you thought? Dr…
Mercy Rain Would you walk with me tonight Could you run where the…
Mirror To My Woman's Mind You came to the lobby straight I Took your hand, felt…
Mirror To My Woman`s Mind You came to the lobby straight I Took your hand, felt…
Mirror To My Woman’s Mind You came to the lobby straight I Took your hand, felt…
My Last Two Weeks When I returned You buried my last two weeks My last…
Never Fall Out Eh If you fall in love with me You'll never fall out If…
Never Man The love of the Never man Jumps through the blackest heat Hi…
No Home Without Its Sire No yester dreams No grey desire No body's sap and tire No…
No Home Without it´s Sire No Yester Dreams No grey desire No body's sap and tire No so…
Our Secret It seems like a day A day that I call…
Our Secret Garden It seems like a day A day that I call…
Peace to Each Eh Eh Eh Honey butterfly Blue ring around my eye Cele…
Piece of You I don't want to be a part Of a second part But…
Roll Call On a long and winding grey paved street Your breath the…
Rollcall On a long and winding grey paved street Your breath the…
Sails Wave Goodbye Dream the light was shining hard And though the lie was…
Scarlet Thing in You From the world to the dreaming fields of light Yeah…
Secret It seems like a day A day that I call…
Secret Silk Society Secret silk society Secret silk society Secret silk societ…
Seesaw Sway I failed to se into your eyes As I plundered the…
Seven Veils The day grows older. The moon appears in a mirror A…
Should the World Fail to Fall Apart Should the world fail to fall apart And lock off in…
Shy One day you will be the one To say I'm sick…
Sliding like a whale It only takes the time Between here and there For…
Slowdown The point is up Touch, elbows touch Tell them to look away…
Socrates The Python Today Your problems are not Of blind belief That is or…
Strange Kind of Love A strange kind of love A strange kind of feeling…
Strange King of Love A strange kind of love A strange kind of feeling…
Subway It's like there's a straight way you know, you know I've…
Surrendered Everybody's born surrendered Everybody from the same place H…
Tale of the Tongue The time is coming ripe We are running fast I see you…
The Answer is Clear Teach him to be happy Teach him some control Teach…
The Answer is Clear (album version) Teach him to be happy Teach him some control Teach him what…
The First Stone My white visions continue This younger skin's outgrown old w…
The Light Pours Out of Me Time flies Time crawls Like an insect Up and down the walls …
The Line Between the Devil A white light blazing deep Through the wasteland searching w…
The Prince & Old Lady Shade The prince was a bird Not guilty or the like A true…
The Scarlet Thing in You From the world to the dreaming fields of light Yeah…
The Secret Thing In You From the world to the dreaming fields of light Yeah…
The Sweetest Drop Roll yourself away from me Unveil me from your layers Lay…
The Weight of Love The story still in the works The players fishing ideas Walki…
Thelma Sings to Little Nell Fragments spinning in the waves The sea is dreaming of shini…
Things To Remember Thing to remember when writing figures of speech and sound T…
Time Has Got Nothing To Do With It Make me a mannered, a mannered thing Carved of wood,…
Uneven & Brittle I stay away when you burn me like fire I'm unmatched…
Velocity Bird I'm a velocity bird in an invisible star I'm a velocity…
Wild Birds Looked like a blue eyes lonely boy Hair skating to the…
Wish I wish it was spring I wish it was your house We'd…
You're So Close Say you! I can hear the groove I can hear the…
Your Face Water Lily Freedom Where does the Spirit lay? Freedom Lying …


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