Original album

Broken DiamondsI Explode Rebel Of Love Rebel Run Martian Cowboy Dreamscape Time Is Ours Love Is The Law Remember The Vow

bOnus Tracks

To The Mountains HighBaptised In Fire

Haunted Be Proud, Be Loud (Be Heard)

Laughing With The FoolsUrban Tribesmen

The Furious FuturesStand Proud

Ieya 1982 [Full Length]

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

Love is the Law is a saying I borrowed from the famous occultist Aleister Crowley...

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(Words Willcox/music bogen)

TemptationMotivationHesitationTrepidation

And we’re walking on broken diamondsBlinded by their lightIn a world of splintered fragmentsCareering through our lives

FascinationSensationsDestinationsCelebrationsInfatuations

No it ain’t easy And I know that you really tryAlthough nothing can save usOur love is a star in the sky

InsinuationsReputationsSituationsImagination

We’re picking up the piecesWe’re picking up the pieces

All the little pieces

I’ve got you and you’ve got meI’ve got you and you’ve got meYou’ve got me, you’ve got meYou’ve got me, you’ve got meBegging on my knees

FascinationTemptationJust imaginationOr infatuationInfatuation

i EXPlODE(Words Willcox/music bogen)

Skimming the surface of a sleepThe rain falls hard fromthe heavens deepShatters my hopes, shatters my dreamsShatters my windows into smithereens

And the feeling gets too hard to hold

I explode

I explodeI explode…

Adrenalin rushIt’s all too muchI’m pouring over the thresholdI was warned and I was told

I was warnedI was told

Elusive strangerCome on, lay it on the lineAlone in my madnessI’m alone for all timeI’m alone for all time

Shatter my hopesShatter my dreamsClose the doorShatter my windows into smithereens yeah

rEbEl OF lOVE(Words Willcox/music bogen)

Who are you?Your skin cuts – it bleedsThen is clear before the new day is throughWho are you?You’ve opened the door before I’ve rung the bellWho are you?I won’t tellAre you the Rebel of Love?

Your soul shinesYou give life such respectLike part of a strange sectOr some new religion

The boy, a new toyTakes the razor and shaves his headRemoves the emblem from his chestAnd lays it to rest upon his bed

Urban warrior, angry, bitter and ignored

Your behaviour doesn’t go with your faceYour body doesn’t move the way your mouth behavesBut this taste in my mouthMean machine what a dreamAnd going to waste

He left us wanting moreIt’s blatantly obvious his every moveScored the highest score

He moved He moved

He moved in bodyand soulIn body and soul

He moved He moved Really moved in bodyand soulIn body and soul

rEbEl run(Words Willcox/music Darlow)

Praying to the silent manA new day dawnsBehind the acetylene tanksA dog’s lamentWakes the new ageBut falls in splintered fragmentsAround his cageLike everyone they said there’d beSo much more to 1984

Rebel runDon’t shoot your gunRebel runRun run run

Now get downAnd stay downYou’ve gotta learnTo kiss the ground

You see a cityWe’ll watch it fallWe’re the hobosOf planet patrolLean machinesCollidingOut of control

You bring me fearI’ll bring you laughterTell you tales ever afterAnd we’ll rise unseenIn the shadowsWe’ll live your dreams

You’ve gotta get awayYou’ve gotta get awayRebelYou’ve gotta get awayYou’ve gotta get away…

It’s just a power game It’s just a power gameRebelYou’ve gotta get awayYou’ve gotta stay away

marTian cOWbOY (Words Willcox/music bogen/Darlow/spalding)

Desert Hound

Martian CowboyLet me hold your handDown the freeway rolls a wayward beer canAnd a desert houndCarries decaying memories awayFor the dogs to sense another day

Hold me in your armsThis planet is far from MarsLet’s just hold hands(for now)And we’ll take it as it comes

Celestial Stowaway

Martian CowboyCome again another day‘Til then we’re just a star awayMy Martian CowboyRemember today

Red planet

Sun riseRed planetSun rise

Decaying carsSplintered tyresThe deserted freewaysof MarsMy Martian CowboyHold me in your arms againI said –

DrEamscaPE(Words Willcox/music bogen)

Now the whole of the human raceNeeds a dreamscapeIn your scrapyards ofhuman emotionPut your minds in locomotion

City people shoutLet me outLet me outLet me out

Now the whole of the human raceCome to the dreamscape

The horns of elfin land are calling youToday’s the day we open our gates

Come awayCome awayCome away…

It’s the great escapeIt’s the great escapeIt’s the great escape

TimE is Ours(Words Willcox/music bogen)

War

The burningBurn, burn, burn, burn turningI’m yearning, yearningYour presence is my breakthroughBut all scars fade with time

They say that time is ours They say that youth is a flowerWhose blossoms soon blow

awayAnother year lying on soft blades

I love you too much to hurt youBut I must leave you behindYour patience is your virtueYour love light will burn forever in my mind

Your presence is my breakthroughBut all scars fade with timeAnd love heals and love forgivesEven the greatest crime, yeah!

lOVE is THE laW(Words Willcox/music bogen/Darlow/spalding)

Love is an oceanLove is a flameLove is cruelLove is vain

Love is the lawFrom the lion’s maneLove is the law

To the tigers clawLove is the lawLove is the law…

So wrap your arms around meHold me warm and tightThis fatal fascinationWill make us orphans of the night

Love is for foolsLove is insaneLove is brutalLove is a plague

It’s fatalIt’s fatal

Love is the lawLove is the law…

rEmEmbEr (Words Willcox/music bogen/Darlow)

Everything and everyoneEverything and everyone I have ever lovedHas been taken from meAnd I’m not taking it

anymore

Can someone save me (anyone)From walking out the doorSomeone grab my armBefore I do what I regretted before

Remember the pastRemember our songRemember when the days were so longRemember our vow - “We’ll never die”Remember we prayed to the mountains high

But can you save usWe’re winning if you tryLet’s forget our pastsJust look to the skyI can see the crimeI was ripped and tornI’ve been on this journey many times beforeMany times beforeI’ve been ripped apart

RememberRememberNo one gets out of here alive

THE VOW(Words Willcox/music bogen/spalding)

In every waking hour I miss youIn my dreamsI never kiss youAnd in the shadowscreatures want to hurt youBut in love and warI’ll never desert you

And I breathe white firein angerI breathe white fire in angerIn every waking hour I miss youIn my dreams I never kissed you

And somewhere on another star a man holds his brotherLooking at the faded scars of their landAnd he wonders if another planet has survived man

And I breathe white fire in angerI breathe white fire in anger

I’ll never desert youI’ll never desert you

And somewhere on another star a man holds his brotherAnd he loved him, he loved himLike he loved no other

BONUS TRACKS

TO THE mOunTains HigH (Willcox/bogen) arranged by bogen/Darlow

They drove me to the other side of the airportIt’s dead or aliveAs light dribbles down the invisible outsideThe mist around the planeI guess once I’m taken from hereI’ll never return again

What have I done?What is the crime?Just like youI’m a victim of time

It’s the child in his eyesAlways made me cryAnd I said to myself “I will rise to the highest high”(Never say die)It’s so easy to see the gloryBut there’s many sidesto the storyAnd we’re all staying a lie

They drove me to the other sideJust in time for high tideEverything in life is a state of mindSo I’ll cancel the future if only the strong survive

baPTisED in FirE(Words/music Willcox)

When I get confusedDo you know what I do?I go into the mirror - my mental riverIn the calm beneath the stormI see life from the outside

I silence the demonsI bring the angels in

I am a phoenix andI will surviveHigher and higherBaptised in fire, fire, fire

Nothing for my interests anymore, anymoreThe changing raging in my veinsIn my veinsShatter the mirrorBorn again, born againin the flames

And I silence the demonsBring the angels inI am a phoenix and I will surviveHigher and higher, higher and higherBaptised in fire

When I get confusedDo you know what I do?I go into the mirror - my mental riverIn the calm beneath the stormI see life through my window’s wicked eyesI see a wallBaptised in fire…

HaunTED(Willcox/Darlow)

I say “yes” and you say “no”If that’s the way you feel then why don’t you go?You’ve closed so many doors for meAnd I don’t think I’ll ever find the key

You say you love meWell that’s finePossessiveness, the sweet imprisonment’s crimeYou’ve taken everything that’s mine

What kind of love is thisWatching this you want to hold and kiss

I want to close my eyesDrift away, just drift awayBeneath the sun I want to runJust run away, run away

You say you really love meBut who’ll ever knowI have closed the doorsto my mind

You’re not having that, that is mineYou’ve clouded too many dreams this time

bE PrOuD, bE lOuD (bE HEarD (Willcox/bogen)

You give me fire

Fire… in my soulI think I’ve been here long ago beforeAs a child divine takes the dancefloorOn a blanket of light he moves the night

Be proud, be loud, be heardI can hear his words

He sent me spinningI’m really spinningAround and aroundWith my feet off the groundIf I stop I’ll come-a-tumbling down

You give me fireYou give me hungerDeep in my soulBe proud, be loud, be heard

Can you hear his words?

Be proud, be proud

Fire in my soulI think I’ve been here beforeAs a child divine takes the dancefloorOn a blanket of light he moves the nightAnd I’m falling into his eyes

You give me fireI’ll give you hungerSoul deep

Be proud, be proudBe proud, be proud

And now you’re spinningYou’re really spinningAround and aroundWith your feet off the groundIf you stop we’ll come-a-tumbling down

You give me fireFight! Bite!You really got that look in your eyes tonightBe proud, be loud, be heard!Can you hear the word?

laugHing WiTH THE FOOls (Willcox/bogen)

Celebration of foolsSomeone somewhere is looking at meSomeone somewhere is looking at the same stars as meA bittersweet taste shivers through me

I’m laughing with the fools, laughingCan you see?I’m laughing with the foolsA celebration

The rain falls hard on the carbon copy streetsBetween the binsA tramp, someone’s son is fast asleepThe rain falls hard on the carbon copy streetsBut on the stage you seeSomeone somewhere laughing at me

Celebration!Celebration of fools

Love Is The LawMusic arranged by Simon Darlow & Joel Bogen Produced by Nick TauberRecorded at Marquee Studios in the summer of 1983Recorded & mixed by Simon Hanhart & Phil HardingAdditional engineering by Mark WadeAssistant engineers: Andy Lovell, Mike Higgs, Mike Duffy, Rob Waldron

Toyah Willcox: vocalsJoel Bogen: guitarsSimon Darlow: keyboardsAndy Duncan: drums and percussionBrad Lang: bass (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13) Phil Spalding: bass (tracks 7, 8, 9)Strings on track 10 conducted by Denys Darlow

Backing vocals on Love Is The Law by the Angels & Demons - Simon Bewick, Bill Britton, Alison Carron, Steve Guest, Russ King, Hayley Middleton, Lunar “Bill” Pritchard, Kevin Tucker and Linda Wood.

Thanks to the Rockshop and Rod Argent Keyboards

Original Album ArtworkDesign: John Swannell/Geoff HaplinPhotography: John Swannell

Be Proud, Be Loud (Be Heard)Laughing With The Fools(Willcox/Bogen)Produced by Nick TauberEngineered by Simon HanhartToyah Willcox: vocalsJoel Bogen: guitars and guitar synthsPhil Spalding: bassAdrian Lee: keyboards Preston Heyman: drums Photography: Robert SaidmanArt direction: John Gordon Sleeve concept: Toyah Willcox

Urban Tribesmen (Willcox/Bogen/Spalding/Lee/Phillips)The Furious Futures (Willcox/Bogen/Spalding)Stand Proud (Willcox)Produced by Nick TauberEngineered by Simon Hanhart Tape Operators: Mark Wade & Andy Lovell Toyah Willcox: vocalsJoel Bogen: guitars and guitar synthsPhil Spalding: bassAdrian Lee: keyboards Simon Phillips: drums

Ieya 1982(Willcox/Bogen/Bush)Produced by Nick TauberToyah Willcox: vocalsJoel Bogen: guitars and guitar synthsPhil Spalding: bassSimon Phillips: drumsIan Curnow: keyboards

All songs published by Big Game Music, except 4, 8, 9 & 10 by Big Game Music/Perfect Songs Ltd, and 5 by Big Game Music/Perfect Songs Ltd/Warner Chappell Music Ltd.

Tracks 11-12 originally released as B-Sides of the 1983 12” single Rebel Run (SAFELS56)

Track 13 originally released as the B-Side of the 1983 12” single The Vow 1983 (SAFEL58)

Tracks 14-15 originally released as 1982 single Be Proud, Be Loud (Be Heard) (SAFE 52)

Tracks 16-18 originally released on the 1981 EP Four More From Toyah (TOY 2)

Track 19 re-recorded verion originally released as 1982 standalone single Ieya (SAFE 28)

Love Is The Law2013 Digital Edition

Compiled by Craig AstleyArtwork: Alan SawyersImage restoration: Nic Sawyers

P 1981-1983 Safari Records Ltd.C 2013 Safari Records Ltd.

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