Flesh (alternate title: Andy Warhol's Flesh) is a 1968 film directed by American filmmaker Paul Morrissey.
Flesh is the first film of the "Paul Morrissey Trilogy" produced by Andy Warhol. The other films in the trilogy include Trash and Heat. All three have gained a cult following and are noted examples of the ideals and ideology of the time period. The films are also known to have broken boundaries and paved the way for future filmmakers.
The film stars Joe Dallesandro as a hustler working on the streets of New York City. The movie highlights various Warhol superstars, in addition to being the film debuts of both Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling. Also appearing are Geraldine Smith as Joe's wife and Patti D'Arbanville as her lover.
As the film begins, Geraldine ejects Joe from their bed and insists he go out on the streets to make some money for her girlfriend's abortion. This leads to Joe's various encounters with clients, including an artist who wishes to draw Joe, played by Maurice Bradell, Louis Waldon as a gymnast, and John Christian. Scenes filmed on the streets of New York City show Joe spending time with other hustlers, one of which is played by his real life brother, and teaching the tricks of the trade to the new hustler, played by Barry Brown. The film includes a scene of Joe interacting with his real life one-year-old son. Flesh concludes with Joe in bed with Geraldine Smith and Patti D'Arbanville. The women strip Joe and begin to get intimate with each other. In turn, Joe gets bored and falls asleep.
I see a vision
Daydreams of something I need
Before I wake from this daze
My sense of wrong has depleted
Memory under amnesia
I must have this flesh
Fallen to psychosis
No way can I comprehend
I've lost all control over
Actions you can't prevent
Memory under amnesia
I must have your flesh
I turn to face you
The lifeless color of skin
A victim of another
That resides within
Memory under amnesia
Baby, I can hardly recognize myself
Touch me
The light is going blue
Morning approaches
The pain's still here
I'm empty, empty, empty
Sounds of the world
Of laughter and tears
I've nothing left
I'm empty, empty, empty
Heaven is forbidden
But I'm going soon
Kiss me, one last time
Before I take my flesh away
Heaven is forbidden
But I'm going soon
Kiss me, one last time
Kiss me, one last time
I want wisdom on tap
Flowing like water
Strange I want that because
I'm empty, empty, empty
So now eat your words
I hope you choke
I feel nothing no more
I'm empty, empty, empty
Baby, I can hardly recognize myself
Touch me
Heaven is forbidden
But I'm going soon
Kiss me, one last time
Before I take my flesh away
Heaven is forbidden
But I'm going soon
Kiss me, one last time
Have you ever loved a woman
who instead of give or trade
would seduce you with a trade
By the Egyptian Gate
I wait in my penance vest
I've never been so lost before
So I can't help myself possessed
I want to be torn through
The material of your flesh
Your husband lies unconscious
On Samuda's precipice
I drink in the dead night air
And your astringent kiss
She's slovenly lovely
He's a moth over opium
So long time stone cold sober
Now marked down for delirium
Her perfume draws his blood out
And back to this asylum slum
One man, one woman
Walk around Newington Green
The worst case of resemblance
In N16
I hate having to desire you
Hate feeling this again
I hate having to desire you
In common with other men
My fellow-creature-gods look out
To be mutually blessed
This therapeutic age leaves them cold
So fashionably distressed
But I just want to be torn through
Here in this night
In the darkest of hours
I feel a cold wind that tells
Of a storm front drawing near
It speaks of greed and of hunger
Of envy and dread
Tells of the anger and hate
That arose from the fear
Who said life's easy
Who said life's fair
Who said good luck will be with those who dare
To follow their heart, and not follow their fear
And if the good all die young
Then who are all those still here
Take a look around you
See what you've got
You just see what you don't have
And of that you still have a lot
The sky is the limit
The sky's not enough
The tough keep going
Not only when the going gets rough
It seems we all
Don't worry much
About what is happening
Left and right of us
But even if I try my hardest
Not to care
One question remains
And I'd like to hear your answer
Acting on target
At robotic speed
Recklessly feeding
Your robotic needs
No minute wasted
Emotions refused
Your brain's exploited
Your heart remains unused
It seems we all...
Name your price
How much is it to buy your loyalty
I'll do so, if I can afford
Name your price
How much do you charge to show remorse
To throw your indifference overboard
Won't you once
Think just a little while about
What you will leave behind
When you decease
Won't you once
Just once be good for something
Good for someone
Good for yourself at least
Here in this night
In the darkest of hours
I feel a cold wind that tells
Of a storm front drawing near
It speaks of greed and of hunger
Of envy and dread
Tells of the anger and hate
That arose from the fear
Who said life's easy
And who said life's fair
Who said good luck will be with those who dare
To follow their heart not their fear
And if it's hope that dies last
Why do all us hopeless still live
Brother kills sister
Father kills son
Religion kills reason
Reason becomes undone
The end always
Justifies the means
Just running a program
Rooted deeply in our genes
It seems we all...
Name your price...
I have no faith
In a God above
But if I had
Then this would be my prayer:
Oh Seven Seas
Raise all your waves
Evil is hiding in the shadows
Of the big big city lights
A man-eating monster
Is crawling up your back
Getting ready to attack
Sick and perverted
A psycho's been unleashed
With a mind of delusion
He turned into the beast
An when the night is falling down
He's hunting in the streets
Flesh
He's a virtue with the knife
Flesh
He's eating you alive
Bloodstained
He dwells on mortal sin
With a sick and morbid grin
He is the devil
Lurking in the dark
Possessed by the obsession
He's ripping out your heart
And in the shelter of the dawn
He's pleasing his appetite
Flesh
He's a virtue with the knife
Flesh
He's eating you alive
Flesh - Flesh
Solo
An when the night is falling down
He's hunting in the streets
And in the shelter of the dawn
He's pleasing his appetite
Flesh
He's a virtue with the knife
Flesh
He's eating you alive
Flesh - Flesh
He's cutting you
He's slicing you
Flesh, the subject of my sins
Juicy, the liquor of my debaucheries
Wet, draining with desire
You’re wet, so wet
Red hot, the fire of my senses
Lips, watered by my seeds
Throat, the organ that will drink me until the end
You’re thirsty, so thirsty
Come and taste the wine of liberty
Free within your flesh
Let your body confronts with real sexuality
Deep inside your flesh, your flesh
Put another "X" in sex, go further and further
Put another "X" in sex, bite stronger and stronger
Lust, the only word that will guide me until the end
Tongue, the precious arrow that reach me to make me come
Come and taste the wine of liberty
Free within your flesh
Let your body confronts with real sexuality
Deep inside your flesh, your flesh
The bursting balloon coctails are soon
young glands young flesh invade the room a sardonic mood ughh...
watch the rich fatty eating raw fish with avid curiosity
oh piggy squeals and donkey brays-at a sober party doggy barks and horsey neighs-try to shock the party
impaled on pleasure impaled on a spear impaled with danger impaled with fear
a disfigured dismembered sex with a third world cast young glands young flesh the beating heart
oh piggy squeals and donkey brays-at a sober party doggy barks and horsey neighs-try to shock the party
the bursting balloons cocktails are soon young glands young flesh penetrate the room they fall on the camera lens against the tumble dry screen on the edit room floor lies a messier scene
The day rolls in, the night rolls out
Desire rules without a doubt
The heart beats fast, you salivate
And when you come it won't be late
I guess by now you got the score
A little taste you want it more
From San Antonio to Marrakesh
Yeah when the night comes
Every body's gotta have FLESH
You got me all soakin' wet
FLESH - the only thing that's worth the sweat
From the day that Eve did Adam
Down to Romeo and Juliette
Everybody gotta have...
The prince of lust has met his match
The witch has brewed her baddest batch
His sword is sharp and hard as stone
Her cauldron begs for one more bone
And so my love, this story's told
From modern times to days of old
From Boston Mass to Bangladesh
Yeah, when the night comes
Everybody's gotta have FLESH
It's got me all soakin' wet
FLESH - the only thing that's worth the sweat, yeah
From the Mississippi River
To the highest mountain in Tibet
Everybody gotta have...
FLESH - you got me all soakin' wet
FLESH - the only thing that's worth the sweat
FLESH - you got me all soakin' wet
FLESH - the only thing, the only thing, the only thing
From a suvie in a Rickshaw to a bimbo in a pink Corvette
Parked on the edge of another cool moment
listening to the different frequencies shift… shift…
I place my head in your hands as an act of atonement
for the things I did to your perfect posture…
Flesh
Body of a boy, mind of a monster
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever,
Flesh
The will to resist her has turned to water
ahhh.. baby, i can hardly recognize myself
mmmmmmmm.... touch me
The light is going blue.
Morning approaches.
The painÂ's still here.
IÂ'm empty - empty - empty.
Sounds of the world,
Of laughter and tears.
IÂ've nothing left.
IÂ'm empty - empty - empty.
Heaven is forbidden
But IÂ'm going soon
Kiss me one last time
before i take my flesh away
Heaven is forbidden
But IÂ'm going soon
Kiss me one last time
Kiss me one last time
I want wisdom on tap, flowing like water
strange i want that because
IÂ'm empty - empty - empty.
So now eat your words,
I hope you choke.
I feel nothing no more.
IÂ'm empty - empty - empty.
ahhh.. baby, i can hardly recognize myself
mmmmmmmm.... touch me
Heaven is forbidden
But IÂ'm going soon
Kiss me one last time
before i take my flesh away
Heaven is forbidden
But IÂ'm going soon
Kiss me one last time
Oh, the law is the law, for no man wrote the law
They who would change the law, just abuse it
Oh, the law is the law, there is no justice outside the law
But if you know the law, you can use it
If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will
As your faith is so you are, where your mind is there you are
Just as action follows thought, you can be whole again
Be healed again and make your body follow
You are thy flesh and flesh will obey
You are thy flesh and flesh must obey
Oh, your life is your life, no one else can live your life
And the debts of your life, you must pay them
If a man knows the law, he gets help from the law
Only fools fear the law that can save them
If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will
As your faith is so you are, where your mind is there you are
Just as action follows thought, you can be whole again
Be healed again and make your body follow
You are thy flesh and flesh will obey
You are thy flesh and flesh must obey
As the bell must strike the hour
As the west must stab the sun
So our hearts
Must heed the flow
Of deeper tides that run
Far beyond the bare indifference
That prosperity esteems
Where the spirit
Raves and dances
Through our very veins
At winters edge you found me
By the fields of wild gold
My hands still filled with ashes
From fires long cold
You pulled me from the wreckage
Of bitterness and blame
Flung open the page
And put some flesh on
The bones of my dreams
On the streets
The blossom snowing
And the drum is beating slow
And I hear you speak so clear
Well I'm slicing through the fear
Setting all the beacons
Blazing, baby oh!
It's staring out plainer than ever
Brighter than all the fools
Gold that gleams
It's simply now or never
Putting flesh on the bones
Of my dreams
Putting flesh on the bones
Of my dreams
Putting flesh on the bones
Of my dreams
And they can plunder
The cave of sorrows
They can strip the gallery bare
Try to build a fence
Around the visions
In our heads, choke every spark
In a cloak of despair
But we got something
They can't stifle
With their price tags
And picture frames
Got a flower for every rifle
Hey girls lets see if we can bring out the rapists in the new men
Hey girls it's the comfort of the only half-way human
It's the power of the clawing self, of the dead and those just waiting
It may be fleeting but it's so intoxicating.
And I love you, whoever you are, yeah, I love you.
I love you, whoever you are, yeah I love you.
Hey girls we're almost there so we might as well stop swimming
Hey girls ain't you heard we're more concerned about the hegemony, than the women
Hey girls pull it down, there's money, c'mon babe, just a little
Pull it down stick it out open up just a little babe, just a little baby
Hey doc take your knife to me, scar my snatch into a smile
strip me and dissect me milk my tears and tap my bile
Hey doc can youtake my skin and melt it into plastic
Beauty isn't truth it's just youth, it's adaptive and it's elastic.
And I love you, whoever you are, yeah, I love you.
I love you, whoever you are, yeah I love you.
Hey girls, we're all the same, aren't we...
INTO THIS VOID I WILL GIVE MY SELF-CONTROL
INSIDE THIS NOISE IS A WEAK AND GODLESS SOUL
GIVE ME WHAT I KNOW
FEEL THIS EGO
THERE'S A RUSTY HALO ON MY HEAD
IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THAT I SAID
THIS IS THE DOME OF MY BETRAYAL
THIS IS THE FINAL BROKEN NAIL
FILL THIS HOLE
SUCK THIS SOUL
I'M THE THING THAT I CAN'T CONTROL
PRESS MY FLESH
THESE EYES ARE TWITCHING LIKE A CUP OF SQUIRMING FLIES
I am eager
Ready for anything from you, Lord
But there's a part of me that's lazy
As an old dog sleeping by the fire
Motivated
To do whatever you ask, Lord
But there's a part of me that's lustful
Given to falling into old ways
CHORUS:
I must Keep watch and pray
I must run run from temptation
My Spirit is willing
But my flesh is weak
I am eager
Ready for new life with you, Lord
But there's grave clothes hung in my closet
That I dressed in before I knew you
CHORUS:(2X)
I must Keep watch and pray
I must run run from temptation
My Spirit is willing
But my flesh is weak
END:(4X)
Lord, weak I might be
But there is such strength in thee
Jesus, weak I might be
Masses of meat
Serving the fattest beings
Carnivores consume
Just for their pleasure
Eating without knowing
the sickening ways...
The product lived to die to feed
all those selfish needs
New breed of bacteria
Shall rule this place
Viruses transform to kill
The strongest of all
Eating all the living
Even "superior" human race
Tearing apart all we have built
Deserting the woods, decaying cities
Corpses lying on the streets
Dead bodies rot to contaminate
Diseases from the air, water and skin
Butchering every single living thing
Consumed
Contaminated
Take these hooks from my flesh,
Cast across the ring of fate
By the fire in thine eyes.
This Temple is reduced to ash.
This Corss this thing of hate,
Desire never dies.
Burried deep beneath a shroud of sleep,
Desire never dies.
Lord have mercy.
Thake these tears and wipe the slate.
Fear not heresy!
Draw the line across this circle of my fate.
Take these hooks from my flesh,
The flesh of a sentient being.
This temple is reduced to ash,
Kiss me one last time
- one last time.
- one last time.
- one last time.
The light is going blue.
Morning approaches.
The pain's still here.
I'm empty - empty - empty.
Sounds of the world,
Of laughter and tears.
I've nothing left.
I'm empty - empty - empty.
So now eat your words,
I hope you choke.
I feel nothing no more.
I'm empty - empty - empty.
Heaven is forbidden
But I'm going soon
Kiss me last one time before
I take my flesh away
Heaven is forbidden
But I'm going soon
Kiss me one last time before
I take my flesh away
Kiss me one last time
Seeing nothing - Lying waiting
Can't you hear me fall
Cracked ceiling - So revealing
Still no sign at all
Rain falling - Voices calling
Standing straight and tall
Blood burning - Moving once again
Ah flesh is yearning - Yearning for the skin
Down to nothing - Empty as a knee
Something reeling - Blindly I can see
I'm doing something - Temptation on the floor
I just keep waiting always wanting more
Slowly crying - Raining(ringing) with disease
Empty bottles - Filling with my dreams
Visions fill me destroying all my faith
So deceiving - Lying me to waste
Controlling bodies forcing me to sin
I see the nails carving in my skin
Blood burning - Moving once again
Ah flesh is yearning - Yearning for the skin
Lust calling me - Primal urges through
Losing all control and all I see is you
Blood burning - Moving once again
Ah flesh is yearning - Yearning for the skin
Lust calling me - Primal urges through
Losing all control and all I see is you
Blood burning - Moving once again
Ah flesh is yearning - Yearning for the skin
Blood burning - Moving once again
Ah flesh is yearning - Yearning for the skin
Flesh controls my body
Always craving sex
Flesh - skin - muscles - fibers start to flex
Addiction of another kind - kind I can't resist
Nothing holding me back now, feeling all the things I
do
Feeling - feeling - feeling the flesh that belongs to
you
Cause I'm feeling flesh
Flesh controls - Flesh controls
The bursting balloon cocktails are soon
young glands young flesh invade the room
a sardonic mood ughh...
watch the rich fatty eating raw fish with avid curiosity
oh piggy squeals and donkey bray -- at a sober party
doggy barks and horsey neighs -- try to shock the party
impaled on pleasure impaled on a spear impaled with danger
impaled with fear
a disfigured dismembered sex with a third world cast
young glands young flesh the beating heart
oh piggy squeals and donkey brays -- at a sober party
doggy barks and horsey neighs -- try to shock the party
the bursting balloon cocktails are soon
young glands young flesh penetrate the room
they fall on the camera lens against the tumble drier screen
on the edit room floor lies a messier scene
oh piggy squeals and donkey brays -- at a sober party
doggy barks and horsey neighs -- try to shock the party
"Get off the mic and get off the coke!"
"On the count of three"
"1...2..."
"one for the cuervo, two for line"
"Get off the mic and get off the coke!"
"Get off the coke!"
We came here to slit your throat
You came here to sniff some coke
Kid don't fall like all the rest
Cuts through soul and cuts through flesh
When they started to scream
I thought I might, geez, singin
"Everything good ain't as good as it seems"
Get ripped like flesh, you got kitten's pride
I'll make a mess on your set and your dress
Handle my business, or handle your princess
When I was younger, was no different
It's all effort, taste the sweat
Screamin at the earth, cause she don't hate me yet
Slug HAS to give a fuck, I know better
MAN, I'm just a rapper on luck
Still stuck in the same mind state I grew up
Still paranoid, still waitin to duck, What
Tryin not to get caught in the plague
Got a lot to say before your dumb ass walks away
Load up one verse, let it boom
Like a gunburst and left your head sun burnt
Can I... run up in your settlement
Should I... bring wash like the government
The flow is dangerous as unguarded children
Runnin the streets in a project buildin'
So desensitized, got no feelings
Numb to the world, 6'4, with the 5 foot ceilings
The math is inaccurate, broken dialect, English ambassadors
Henesey fifth to the lips and the blunt of this
Weed call, great food, seutures, we feelin it
I be porno whipped, house looking show ownership
When we know he just a worker
Makin five fifty somethin, barely controlling shit
Keep frontin, I'ma hurt ya
Now your face getting scraped by asphalt
Off a somersault, flesh wound
Bring in a bag of salt
Surprise y'all, come to bed
My nut stains look like wet Wonderbread
White and thick, I don't ever bite my lip
Give a damn if you like my shit
The box is full of foxes
Standin topless, lickin the splotches
Here kid, want to sniff some coke?
Rhymesayers Entertainment, we ship the dope
Your dick's short and funny like Piscopo
Give it up, man, how you gonna stick the dough
Pay me anyway, and you can have that tramp
I can get another lady any day
They gonna ban my shit like Joe Camel
Come off like a sandal, spittin the flow ammo
Believe it, get a pack of Whitecastle Cheesesticks
And PEEP the remix
Smart for the whips, fiddle frame parchment
March for the clique, Jughead motor like a mineark on the power cables
Chewing through the ?? My slang letter dopeman pretty
No free pony rides, no basket of kittens
No Playdoh fun bags to reep for Christening
Little courts rainbows, Pegasus and Wizards
Just me shoving caine in the gash in your throat with the premise
Middle of New York with a sack full of action
Cash with the school kids toke crack with magnums
Def Jukie, jet black, black lungs, black hoodie
Both crushin with a musket pressed to the musk of the budget
And I'm a must of the crunk shit
YOU GET DOWN
You don't know the meaning of dope anyhow
You probably think I'm a joke by now
But we got more clay and more coke then y'all
"Good God!"
"Oh my God"
"God, God"
"God Damn!"
"God helped me change" -
"Pray to God that you could be like us" -
"God damn...damn" -
"Oh my"
"Lord!"
"CUT!" -
"God Knows!"
"GOD GOD GOD"
"Oh Lord"
"Dear God" -
"and damn it"
"God Damn!"
This is not the way into my heart, into my head
Into my brain, into none of the above
This is just my way of unleashing the feelings deep inside of me
This spark of black that I seem to love
We can get a little crazy just for fun, just for fun
Don't even try to hold it back, just let go
Tie me up and take me over till you're done, 'til I'm done
You got me feening and I'm ready to blow
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Get undressed, t-taste the flesh)
Bite into me harder, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Pass the test, t-taste the flesh)
Hold me up against the wall
Give it 'til I beg, give me some more
Make me bleed, I like it rough
Like it rough, rough, rough
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
Hold my arms above my head and push my face into the bed
'Cause I'm a screamer baby, make me a mute
You put your hand upon my neck and feel the pulse beat-beat-beat-beat
It's like a trigger get me ready to shoot
Wanna wrestle with me baby, here's a sneak little peak
You can dominate the game 'cause I'm tough
I don't play around that often, when I do, I'm a freak
So you'd better believe I like it rough
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Get undressed, t-taste the flesh)
Bite into me harder, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Pass the test, t-taste the flesh)
Hold me up against the wall
Give it 'til I beg, give me some more
Make me bleed, I like it rough
Like it rough, rough, rough
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
Hold me down and make me scream
Lay me on the floor
Turn me on and take me out
Make me beg for more
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Get undressed, t-taste the flesh)
Bite into me harder, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Pass the test, t-taste the flesh)
Hold me up against the wall
Give it 'til I beg, give me some more
Make me bleed, I like it rough
Like it rough, rough, rough
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Get undressed, t-taste the flesh)
Bite into me harder, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Pass the test, t-taste the flesh)
Hold me up against the wall
Give it 'til I beg, give me some more
Make me bleed, I like it rough
Like it rough, rough, rough
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
Push up to my body, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Get undressed, t-taste the flesh)
Bite into me harder, sink your teeth into my flesh
(Pass the test, t-taste the flesh)
Hold me up against the wall
Give it 'til I beg, give me some more
Make me bleed, I like it rough
Like it rough, rough, rough