Song Stuck In My Head This Week - 10th October '10 - Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light

The weekend before I came out to the US I saw Scissor Sisters at a TV taping in London performing a selection of tunes from their three albums. I love everything about this band. The attitude, the music, the clothes, the personalities of the members, it's all just so wonderful.

Jake Shears (the kind of gay guy straight girls wish wasn't gay as he's so hot!) and Ana Matronic (the kind of girl you wish you could be like) make a great pairing to front the band with the lovely Del Marquis and song guru Babydaddy backing them up.

Formed in 2000 by Jake & Babydaddy - who had met the previous year in Lexington, Kentucky - by 2002 they had recruited Ana Matronic & Del Marquis and recorded their first single (one of my favourites) 'Electrobix'. It was the B-Side, however, that got the majority of the attention and got them a record deal in the UK with Polydor. The B-Side in question, a cover of Pink Floyd's song 'Comfortably Numb', was their breakthrough song in 2004 and they have just gotten bigger and bigger as the years have gone by.

This year they released their third album 'Night Work'. Every track on the album is a winner and I'd be hard pressed to pick a favourite but I know that 'Invisible Light', the up-tempo yet dark track that was the first to hit the net prior to the album's release, has been in my head all week.

I hope you like it as much as I do!!

Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light

At the doors of Babylon, You are my Zion,
Pacing Tiger, The keeper's cage,
Invisible light shoots from your eyes,
A sign I can see from my high rise,

Another castle crumbles, another monkey falls,
Just open up your joy and let the sailors climb the walls,
I thought I saw you laughing 10 feet in the air,
It doesn't matter if they touch you where because you can give me...

An Invisible light, An invisible light uh-oh,
An Invisible light, An invisible light uh-oh,
An Invisible light, An invisible light uh-oh,
An Invisible light, An invisible light to keep me alive oh,
looking for the tension
I can feel it with the fingers in my mind...

Opiate Utopia is hotter by the hour,
I found you a flower in a field,
My invention, among the tired, among the poor,
Among the broken, the huddled masses,
Its your time...

You answer to a new name that changes all the time,
I'll call you anything you want if I can say it's mine.
This story's never ending.
My footprint's been erased.
Here you are, kiss of Evil,
I see your mouth, Or is it really...

An Invisible light, An invisible light uh-oh,
An Invisible light, An invisible light uh-oh,
An Invisible light, An invisible light uh-oh,
An Invisible light, An invisible light to keep me alive oh,
Something really gets dimension,
Can't you feel it bend your sense of time...

Babylon,
Where bricks of water and diamonds tower,
Sailor's lust and swagger lazing in the moon's beams,
Who's laser gaze penetrates this sparkling theater of excess and strobed lights,
Painted Whores. Sexual Gladiators. Fiercely old Party Children.
All waked from their slumber to debut the Baccara.
Come to the Light! Into the Light! The Invisible Light...