Artists

Peter Murphy – vocals, lyrics
Mick Karn – bass, keyboards, guitar, saxophone (all instrumentation except percussion)
Paul Vincent Lawford – percussion, drum machines

Written by Mick Karn & Peter Murphy. Produced by Dalis Car & Steve Churchyard. The third track (4:40) on The Waking Hour (Beggars Banquet, November 1984), also released as the album’s only single.

Dalis Car was a short-lived collaboration between Peter Murphy, newly freed from Bauhaus, and Mick Karn, the former bassist of Japan, and this was the project’s one single. A music video starring the pair was directed by Geoff Lowe. The album went over budget and sold poorly, and the duo split in 1984 on bad terms, though they reunited in 2010 for a follow-up EP, InGladAloneness, shortly before Karn’s death.

Dalis Car – The Judgment Is The Mirror Lyrics

I question her around the clock
Hanging on her words
Hear myself say the world has stopped
The first step is the worst
The dance is new, momentum high
Like swelling waves around
Hear myself say the flow has stopped
I ask can I be found?
Humanity is young and sure
The judgement is the mirror
Mother Nature and all her work
The judgement is the mirror
The world confronts a change [us chained]
The judgement is the mirror
[It] Smile[s], conscious pain
The judgement is the mirror
The swords of men who criticize
The judgement is the mirror
And this we spend to feed our pride
The judgement is the mirror
She offers me a line of truth
The danger in the mirror
She offers me a line of truth
The danger in the mirror
I question her
’round the clock
Hanging on her words
The world has stopped
The dance is new
The momentum high
Like swelling waves
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