Swans can refer to:
One second burns for a billion years
And time is relative
And light is physical
We feel your body
We feel your feelings
We see the eye of god shine through the citadel
And space is empty behind the universe
The past and future were simultaneous.
Inside your body we feel your emptiness
The light we breathe in is your unconsciousness
And your body disappears,
Burning backwards through the years
And in your hands time was made
And through breathing
You'll erase it
But we can see forever.
Before love and hate
And we will fall right through the wall of the place where we were made
And The Endless Crowds Of People
They Walk Upon This Stone
Where Will Their Memory Go
Where Did Their Minds Come From
And I Was Only A Child
When I First Looked In Your Eyes
And Saw Your Body Rise Over The Ocean
We Saw The Golden Boy Bleed Love
Onto The Sand Like Rain
While We Were Injecting Colours
Into Our Open Veins
And Deep Beneath The Water
The Dead Black Silence Crawled
Far Away Across The Ocean
The Golden Boy's Beneath The Sea
The Golden Boy Swallowed By The Sea
And Love Is Sometimes Violent
And Violence Has No Constraint
And I Can See Inside You
Yes I Can Feel What You Think
And With This Knife Of Silver
I Will Release Your Soul
And Throw It Out Into The Ocean
Nine Million Miles In A Straight Line
In A Place Just Like This
In A Ship On The Water
Where No Dimensions Exist
My Hands Are Holding Your Picture
And The Image It Shifts
I Tear It Up And Scatter It Over The Ocean
There's a soft idea, wrapped around your mind.
You're spread out on the bed.
You're suffering for god.
I want the center of your heart.
I've been wondering what it takes to destroy you.
I found out yesterday: all you need is humility.
I want the center of your heart.
I recorded your voice on the telephone.
When you heard it, you cried "where am I now? I've been nailed down".
I want the center of your heart.
My body's been used and eaten, but I still feel nothing inside myself.
I sweat when you're on top of me, and I can't distinguish you from me.
I want the center of your heart.
I know I'm beautiful when you touch me.
I know what you're thinking.
I want the center of your heart.
Hold onto me.
Talk To Me
Tell Me The Truth
This Sells Sour
Burn My Face
This Smells Sour
Burn Me Now
And we steal our experience from an object that suffers
But the brightest pain leaves a shadow on no one
I saw you through the window masturbating to the violence
And the blood and the bodies floated through the blue sun.
And the green earth turns to flesh in your hand
And the ether was born in the lungs of an ancient man
We hallucinated at night.
Our mind's in the light
But I can't feel the body of the image which is now penetrating
my sight
But you're beautiful.
And you're real
Are you beautiful?
Are you real?
And my body begins where your memory ends
You were melted from stone.
I was touched by your hands
I can feel it when pleasure moves up your spine
I can tell we're alive because your blood just blended with
mine
And the angels of heaven never sacrificed a sensation as pure
as the cut of this knife
And the wisdom contained in the telepathy of fear
Solidified our suffering into the droning sound I still hear
But you're beautiful.
And you're real
Are you beautiful?
I'm Your Stupid Child.
I'm Your Stupid Naked Child.
I'm Your Stupid Helpless Child.
I'm Ashamed Of What I Am.
I Like The Way That Feels.
I Like The Way That Burns Me.
I Like The Way That Dulls Me.
I Like The Way That Cuts Me Down.
I'm Your Stupid Child.
I'm Your Stupid Child.
The day I was born, your shadow fell across my mother's breast.
When I opened my eyes, you coloured my mind.
Every move I make, is by your desire.
Every move I make, is by your hand only.
Now I'm still a child, but I'm closer to death.
Cover me in roses, gently touch me while I sleep.
When I dream I'll dream of drowning in a pool of scented blood.
Now I'm still a child, but I'm closer to death.
You said "take this it's yours" so I've kept it locked away.
Now you're curled up beneath tme in a pool of your own blood.
be strong
be hard
resist temptation
stick your hand in your eye
close your fist
resist
flex your muscles
walk on this line
look straight ahead
flex your muscles
be hard
The sun is rising over the buildings across the street
The sun is god's face looking down at me as he cries for what he's done
I will survive my life if I close my mind to all the things
I could never, never, never, never, never, never be
You used to be there when I'd cry, though you'd not see fit to comfort
I don't need you anyway, and I'll never call you back to me
But I miss the way your body looks when you lay there naked next to me
But I won't cry, no, I will survive the light of the sun as it enters me
Let it come right in, let the sun come in
Let the sun come in, let it come in
Let it come on it, let the sun come in
Let the sun come in, let it come in
Now they say that hell is a place where memory's dead and the
only
thing left is this moment moving further away
But I will always try to remember the way you moved your lips
against mine in the lonely bed
If I forget who you were then, I will lose what I am now
Forever and ever and ever and ever again
But I won't cry, no, I will survive the light of the sun as it enters
Let it come right in, let the sun come in
Let the sun come in, let it come in
Let it come on it, let the sun come in
Now the past is untrue, and this breath is a lie
And the sun is an emptiness, that burns through the sky
And this ground it will slide down, down into the sea
And when this body dies, no man will ever breath one word
Of ignorance, for me
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to consume
Now the earth bleeds cold water, in my open hands
But their bodies bleed poison, and they swallow the sand
And we'll walk to the river, where we will die of a thirst
And my fate, it's no question: every fool he is broken
Beneath the same holy curse
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to burn, to sand
(Gira, Jarboe)
We are special
We are perfect
We were born in the sight of god
We were born in the sight of god
Our suffering bodies will suffer no more
Our suffering bodies will suffer no more
We are children
Children of God
We are children
24 hours, split three ways.
Because you bought one third, you own everything.
Shut off the possibility, and wipe out the imagination.
Now the world stands still.
I'll take it with me to my grave.
Wrap your hands around my neck.
Now choke me slowly, but I won't die.
I know one thing, and one thing only: you are what you learn to need.
I'll surround myself with things that look like me.
By my side,
You'll never be
By my side,
You'll never be
'Cause I'm fake at the seams,
I'm lost in my dreams
I want you to know,
That I can't let you go
And you're never coming home again
By my side,
You'll never be
By my side,
You'll never be
You'll never be
I wanted to tell you I'd changed
I wanted to tell you that things would be different this time
I see you,
You see me,
Differently
I see you,
You see me,
Differently
You tell me that you love me but you never want to see me again
You tell me that you love me but you never want to see me again
You tell me that you love me but you never want to see me again
And She Sits There By The Wall
Making Holes Where I Just Stood
And Her Hands They Touch Her Face
Like Her Face Is Made Of Wood
And She Holds On To A Memory
Of Something I Never Said
But She Still Can't Quite Remember
If My Eyes Are Blue Or Dead
She's The Mother Of Us All
She's The Victim Of My Sadness
And The More She Tries To Know It
The More She'll Never FIll It
She's A Universal Emptiness
A Universal Emptiness
She's A Universal Emptiness
And A Total Lack Of Faith
And I Saw Her Once Before
Down On Her Bended Knees
Through A Window Of The Church At Night
Confessing To The Broken Priest
She Is Holy, As All Women Are
And She Suffers Like A Saint
Yeah She Touched My Hand With Cruelty
But I Was Punished Far Too Late
She's The Mother Of Us All
She's The Victim Of My Sadness
And The More She Tries To Know It
The More She'll Never FIll It
She's A Universal Emptiness
A Universal Emptiness
She's A Universal Emptiness
I SAW A WHITE FINGER ON A BARBED WIRE FENCE. I KNEW IT WAS DANGEROUS, BUT I TOOK THE RISK. AND YES IT WAS SWEET, SO SWEET TO EAT. NOW SEE HOW THE FLESH IS PRICKED, AND BLEEDS. YEAH, IT BLEEDS, IT BLEEDS, SEE HOW IT BLEEDS... I SAW A LITTLE BABY CRAWLING DOWN THE STREET. I SAID HEY COME OVER HERE BABY, YOU LOOK GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT. I SAID COME OVER, DEAR, YOU KNOW WHAT I'LL DO. WELL I'LL MAKE YOU MY MIRROR OF THE THINGS THAT I CHEW. LITTLE YUM-YAB. LITTLE YUM-YAB... WE ARE THE WILD. WE ARE THE RISK. COME LITTLE YUM-YAB. COME SLASH YOUR WRIST. WE ARE THE WILD. WE ARE THE RISK. COME LITTLE YUM-YAB. GIMME A KISS. NOW BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT. I'LL BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT.
i give you money. you're superior.
i don't exist. you control me.
you're corrupt. you deform me.
you own me. you own me.
i worship your authority.
i worship your authority.
you're deformed. you're corrupt.
I give you money,
You're superior.
I don't exist:
You control me.
You're corrupt,
You're deformed,
You're corrupt:
You control me.
Own me, own me,
Own me, own me,
I'm your property...
You're corrupt,
You're deformed.
You corrupt,
You deform me.
Own me, own me,
Own me, own me:
You never close your eyes
When I am near you
You never say you know me
When I am inside of you
Girl you know it's only a feeling
Girl you know you lie and you steal
When you take my trust in your body
Nothing inside you is real
Nothing inside you is real
Nothing inside you is real
Nothing inside you is real
You are another person
When you are alone
Nothing moves inside you
No one holds you down
Girl you know it's only a feeling
You should never trust what you feel
When you forget your body
Nothing inside you is real
Nothing inside you is real
Nothing inside you is real
Nothing inside you is real
You're not real
I Don't Know Where I Am
I'm Dancing In My Corpse
I Don't Remember Anything
I'm Wearing Your Flesh
Your Flesh Is My Face
I Love Your Face
I Wrap Your Flesh Around My Face
When I Wear Your Flesh I Love Myself
When I Wear Your Flesh I Love Face
I Wrap Your Flesh Around My Flesh
Then I Love My Flesh
I Love Your Face
All I Can Do Is Kill
All I Can Do Is Kill
Swans and their partners they stay
Faithful forever or die on the water
Foxes are only good for ruffling feathers
Leading lambs to the slaughter
Swans
Effortlessly beautiful, take care!
You ought to be aware of foxes hiding
Go on
There's time for you to sail back to his side
While I forget I ever saw you gliding
Swans and their partners they stay
Faithful forever or die on the water
Swans
Effortlessly beautiful, take care!
You ought to be aware of foxes hiding
Go on
There's time for you to sail back to his side
While I forget I ever saw you gliding
Swans
The swans begin to bellow
Bellies full of pearls
Screaming down the houses
Whilst the willows start to fool
Bow their boughs and buckle
The curtains they are drawn
The cavalcade and symmetry
Commands for those to move
The mutiny procession
Somber and serene
A pageant on behalf to show
Her majesty's esteem
The lake is turning darker
It's as black as ostrich plumes
Though I paraded answers
With a noble magnitude
Nail down the mirrors
Pour the wars in the rooms
The hands of the grandfathers
Have settled on high noon
We are the ire
We are the ire
We are the ire
Here come the ire
Dear God In Heaven
I Feel For You
Dear God In Heaven
I Feel For You
I'll Hang For You
I Feel For You
I'll Hang For You
I Feel For You
I'll Hang Myself
I Feel Myself In You
I'll Hang For You
I Love Myself In You
Dear God In Heaven
I Feel For You
Dear God In Heaven
I Feel For You
I Won't Do Anything
I Won't Do Anything
I'll Remember Everything
I'll Remember Everything
Dear Dear God In Heaven
I Feel Myself In You
Dear God In Heaven
I'll Hang For You
I'll Lie To Myself.
I'll Lie To Myself.
I'll Lie Down Here.
I'll Lie Down Here.
I'll Lie Down Beside You.
I'll Lie Down Beside You.
I'll Believe In Myself.
I'll Believe In A Lie.
I'll Cut Off My Right Hand And Stand In Your Shadow.
I'll Lie To Myself.
I'll Lie To Myself.
I'll Crawl All Over Myself And Stand In Your Shadow.
I'll Crawl All Over Myself And Stand In Your Arms.
I'll Lie To Myself.
Let Me Go.
Let Me Go.
Instrumental
And She Sits There By The Wall
Making Holes Where I Just Stood
And Her Hands They Touch Her Face
Like Her Face Is Made Of Wood
And She Holds On To A Memory
Of Something I Never Said
But She Still Can't Quite Remember
If My Eyes Are Blue Or Dead
She's The Mother Of Us All
She's The Victim Of My Sadness
And The More She Tries To Know It
The More She'll Never FIll It
She's A Universal Emptiness
A Universal Emptiness
She's A Universal Emptiness
And A Total Lack Of Faith
And I Saw Her Once Before
Down On Her Bended Knees
Through A Window Of The Church At Night
Confessing To The Broken Priest
She Is Holy, As All Women Are
And She Suffers Like A Saint
Yeah She Touched My Hand With Cruelty
But I Was Punished Far Too Late
She's The Mother Of Us All
She's The Victim Of My Sadness
And The More She Tries To Know It
The More She'll Never FIll It
She's A Universal Emptiness
A Universal Emptiness
She's A Universal Emptiness
And A Total Lack Of Faith
Oh Jesus,
Oh Jesus,
You're my only god.
Oh Jesus,
Oh Jesus,
You're my only firl.
I follow you now.
I'll follow you down,
To a dirty black room,
Where the air is gone.
I'll lie down on the table,
And I'll wait for you,
To step inside me now.
Step inside me now.
Come on,
Come on in.
Oh Jesus Christ,
You're my only,
My only God...
If I drink your blood,
I will be like you.
Girl, I want to be like you.
I'll look into your eyes,
And close my mind.
Get out of my mind.
Get out of my head.
Oh Jesus,
Oh Jesus,
At last it's coming up, the sun
The bodysnatcher's day be gone
With blackened teeth and ruddy skin
And swigging long upon his gin
He's weak with his breaking back
The corpse he carries in his sack.
The bulging burlap caked with clay
Is foul yet musky from where it lay
Beside his shovel, oh precious rubble
Inside her cold and lonely grave
The mournful wind sings songs of praise:
How lovely she in her blue dress
Behold the tempting virgin flesh
Her sunken eyes filled with blind grace
Her shrunken lips with secret tastes ..
For raven hair in tangles coiled
Upon white satin, he hath toiled.
He'd held her dainty feet and sighed...
The downy smooth upon her thighs
And wrapped within his fraying scarf
One little heart floats in a jar...
Swaying quiet now lifts his head
This robber stops to toast the dead
And pray will he in town lust waits
For paid he'll be by pounds just weighed...
This night he'll roam the streets of mud
He's slushing down these roads of blood
Tonight he'll own the meat and mud
This night he'll roam the streets of mud
HE'S SLUSHING DOWN THESE ROADS OF BLOOD
Tonight he'll own the meat and mud
HE'LL DRINK THESE STREETS
HE'LL EAT THIS BLOOD
How lovely she in her blue dress
Behold the tempting virgin flesh
Ravished only by one called
play with a pig, and you become a pig
play in the mud, and you sink in the mud
fall in a hole, and you stay in a hole
you'll be there to look at, at the top of the stairs
they're talking about you
when they come down, they'll know what to do
they've worked out a scene
according to your weakness, according to how you
can be used
look at the monkey suck and pull
look at monkey chew on his leash
I Open You
I Make You Feel
Through Me You Know
Desires Are Real
From Secret Dreams
I Give These Things
This Deep Incision
Cold Incislon
This Deep Infliction
Of Tender Precision
Listen To My Voice
You Have No Cholce
Now Move Under Me
Now Move Under Me
Now Move Under Me
In Your Secret Dreams
This Deep Incision
Cold Incision
This Deep Infliction
When the cool light flows through 10 million minds
Our experience will blend us in your sight
Our experience will blend us in with the stars
No we'll never know how unreal we are
And when the cool light flows and 10 million sleep
Our experience will blend in with your sightless
dreams...Urreal
Through telepathy we'll shoot through the sky
And we'll shine like steel in a clear white fire
We'll taste your honey mouth and kiss your eyes like mirrors
And fill your body up with 10 million tears
Our experience is shiffing, your body's made of clear light
We'll blend in with your image - a picture draamed by the
(Gira, Westberg, Parsons, Kizys)
These are the things I hold onto
These are the things I use to deceive myself
I line them up in front of me
I judge them carefully
Then I throw them all away
I throw them all away
I am a small man
I am not a dangerous man
I love a child
I love a beautiful child
I love a child
I love a beautiful child
I will hold this child in my arms
And caress his soft head
Listen to him cry
Listen to him cry
I can kill the child
The beautiful child
I will kill the child
The beautiful child
This is my life
This is my choice
This is my damnation
This is my only regret
This is my life
This is my life
This is my sacrifice
This is my life
This is my only regret
That I ever was born
This is my sacrifice
After I Bed With Thee
Your Soul Shall No Longer Be
Deep Inside The Hollow Space
Only I Can Fill It's Ache
And In Your Newfound Ecstasy
Thine Eyes Shall Search Mine Pleadingly
I Am The Light The Way The Dark
And When You Sleep Thy Demonic Heart
Dost Take You Down Beneath The Ridge
To Where Is Found The Silent Bridge
So Leap Unto The Shame No More
Come Sleep Among Us Chambered Whores
And I Will Eat You
And I Will Eat You
When You Touch Yourself Again Through Me
Love Is The Roaming Tragedy
When You Touch Yourself Again Through Me
Love Is My Roman Polanski
When You Touch Yourself Again Through Me
Love Is The Roman Tragic Seed
i don't feel pain
i never escape
i'm under the bed
i'm licking the floor
i never dream
this isn't real
not real [x2]
you know everything
i forgot how to breathe
you're touching my chest
when i'm touched i bleed
i never dream
this isn't real
I won't remember what you were when you were young.
You were no-one then and you're nothing now.
Do you remember what you denied me then.
Do you remember what you deny my body now.
I do, I do, I do, oh I do.
When I feel your heart we will come undone.
We will fall apart.
We will fall apart.
We will fall apart.
We will fall apart.
Will you deny me, when I get down on my knwws.
You're nothing now.
Your body's burning down.
Do you remember how cruel you used to be.
Do you remember what you deny my weakness now,
I do, I do, I do, oh I do.
When you remember who you are, we will come undone.
We will fall apart.
We will fall apart.
We will fall apart.
Now I'm not a man and I don't feel love
And I don't see anything coming down from above
But this world spins slowly and I see a light
Rising up from behind the horizon up into the clear black sky
But I don't see you in my line of sight
I saw you kneeling on a desert plateau
Your eyes were melting from inside your skull
The wind was burning holes into my skin
Where does a body end?
Your voice is drifting through the stratosphere
My mouth is drinking from your pool of tears
I saw your heartbeat in the radium screen
What does a body mean?
The future's leaking through a shut lead door
In the ruins of a city under the forest floor
Your naked body's buried in a vacant field
What does your body feel now?
The air is black and has no oxygen
The bodies in the river float beneath the sun
Transparent skin it shines a light from deep within
Where does your body begin?
The stars are hidden by a mirrored sky
And darkness disappears behind reflected light
Perception is a distance in a closed-in space
How will your body escape?
The crowd is feeling you inside your head
Your imagination's canceled by the opposite
And every possibility's been proved untrue
I'll drink the moonlight from your hands
I'll swim an ocean filled with sorrow
No lover please don't go
We can crucify tomorrow
Let the sunlight feed the air
Let it fill our lungs with lies
We'll be memorized by shadows
But our loneliness will survive
Now the sugar in your soft voice
Makes the sweetness in your weeping
And the black rose that you swallowed
Feeds the solitude you're dreaming
No I'll never taste your tears again
In the darkness that we're breathing in
Now the sun will kill the garden
My Heart Pumps
My Legs Move
I Sit Down
I Rot
I Hide My Stink
I Follow Directions
I Know How To Work
I Keep My Mouth Shut
I Know My Place
I Hide My Stink
I Need You More Than I Hate Myself
You Hurt Me Then You Hurt Yourself
Why Hide The Lie
I'm Sorry
I'm Sorry
I Won't Do It Again
I'm Sorry I Love You
I Won't Do It Again
I'm Sorry
I Need You
I Love You More Than Myself
I'm Sorry
I'm Sorry
I Won't Do It Again
I Am Your Only Friend
I Am Your Only Friend
A Screw (Holy Money)
Keep Your Head On The Ground
Push Your Ass Up
Move Around
Shake It
Cry
Cry
Cry
Cry
Open Your Mouth
Here's Your Money
Open Your Mouth
This Feels Good
Here Is Your Money
This Is Love
Open Your Mouth
Here Is Your Money
Holy Money
Holy Love
Holy Money
Holy Love
And nothing is written in the book, reality is made by you
And every lie that you pursue, eventually turns true
And I was told that your eyes would shine, a light up into space
And infinity would then consume this ordinary place
You know nothing, you know nothing at all
How could you know, you'll never know anything at all
You'll never know, you'll never know anything at all
You know nothing, you know nothing at all
I saw you standing in the fire, beneath a crimson moon
The ocean whispered on the sore, and echoed in the ruins
Inside your body is a clear blue light, and time was made from this
Your shadows swallow everything it feels. You punish us with bliss
You know nothing, you know nothing at all
How could you know, you'll never know anything at all
You'll never know, you'll never know anything at all
Here I am in my chamber
In my room full of words
Always searching for patterns that will give life to a line
My poetry is frozen though it's beginning to melt
The solid form is changing to the liquid of thoughts written down
Sentence after sentence in a language not mine
Loss of point no direction
A jigsaw where no pieces fit
I envy the writers and the poets who know the way to the places poetry grow
There is no harvest if you never sow
So I beg, steal and borrow wherever I go
If words were like music this would be a book
But this is not even worth the time that it took
Not even a novel just a self-pity tale written by someone that always will
fail
So very fragile inside
That's why I hide it in the empty phrases
When they crucify your body
On the white wall above your bed
The words your body bleeds down
Will describe my happiness
The joy l'm feeling now
As the universe withdraws
Is equal to the pain
My mother choked out from her jaws
As she endured without complaint
Then laid me out into the sun
Like some skin from in her throat
Like a living piece of scum
Like a red sack full of failure
Infested with my future crumbs
Of pleasure pain and fear and hatred
And hunger for your helpless tongue
With your naked back on gravel scraping
And your claws hooked in my neck
You know l'm just your little infant crawling
Down your bloody stinking mess
And all you people I once knew
You betrayed me once too much
l'd like to sew your eyelids shut
While planting seeds of hatred in your guts
Then masturbating slow and lazy
I'll feel the pain that you'll soon feel
When my memories infect you
With the disease that never heals
I give you money,
You're superior.
I don't exist:
You control me.
You're corrupt,
You're deformed,
You're corrupt:
You control me.
Own me, own me,
Own me, own me,
I'm your property...
You're corrupt,
You're deformed.
You corrupt,
You deform me.
Own me, own me,
Own me, own me:
I'm your property.
Reeling the liars in. We are reeling the liars in. We are removing their face, collecting their skin, we are reeling the liars in. We are burning thmen in a pile. We are burning them in a pile. The only true thing, the place to begin, is to burn up the liar pile.
Now the sun will hide beneath the ridge tonight. Clear flames of revenge will lick the black sky. And I, I will sing as you eat their tongues. For I am the saint who will lead them to us...
So I'm reeling the liars in, reeling the liars in, Here is my, now drive the nail in, I am reeling the liars in. Here is my tongue, now cut out my sin, we are reeling the liars in. There is only one way. One place to begin. By reeling this liar in.
Your life is in my hand
Your life is in my hand
Your life is in my hand
Your life is in my hand
Your mind is in my eye
Your mind is in my eye
Your mind is in my eye
Your eye is in my mind
Your mind is in my eye
Your eye is in my eye
Your eye is in my eye
Your eye is in my eye
Your eye is in my eye
Your eye is in my eye
In (4x)
Sometimes when I think about it, it doesn't make any sense
I mean I'm alive and plan to be for another seventy years
Time waits for no one
Not even for god
We're only immortal for a limited time
Someone said that we were only born to die
Someone said there is a meaning with it all
I love the world and I barely believe that I will leave it for one good day
Someone said my religion is the way
Someone said don't try to say that you are not afraid
No
I refuse to let the angels take me away
I have already learned what heaven and hell is about
The big sleep is the only thing that is for sure and we're all gonna face
it
It's something we have to endure
Dreamers say that time will come with a way to stay alive
They mean science will finally reach its goal and offer everlasting life
I love my life and it's so hard to hear that one day all I will disappear
I have seen grief and what it does to you
The day will come when I will lose what I was made of
I try to imagine what that would be like but the thought is so unreal so it
is filtered out
I'm so afraid that I won't have the chance to tell the ones I love how I
feel inside
I hide my emotions for far too long
I'm so afraid too lose you and all that's the essence of this song
Am I the only one to think that hell is to be left alone
To live without that special someone
To feel like the king that lost his throne
Have you ever seen the dying
Touched the fading one
The last time I saw the queen of nostalgia she was basically already gone
Time waits for no one
Not even for heroes
Life will have its way and we have to follow
Someone said it might be true what they say
Someone said I will be able to freeze the frame of what you are today
I have no wish to be young forever
I just don't wanna die
Someone said you're souls will live again
I say the only one that I wanna be is me
Your lipstick smear across your face,
Now toss your hair in dirty grace.
Pink leather strap on your guitar,
Now spread your legs - how bright you are.
Mmmmmm,
They all know your name, Collie,
Claw your way to fame...
There's a star in her eyes and she knows it,
There's a star in her mind year she shows it,
There's a star in her eyes and she knows it,
A star in her mind yeah she grows it...
And every evening the sun comes up when she goes down,
And every evening the mud fills up her bridal gown.
The little girl inside of you,
Has made her dreams come true.
And tonight you take the stage.
You wear a dress of blood and lace.
You left a stain where you have kneeled
But Collie, you're still invisible...
Your lipstick smear across your face,
Now toss your hair in dirty grace.
Pink leather strap on your guitar,
Now spread your legs just like a star...
And I'd like to eat her breasts and know God,
And I'd like to taste her flesh and grow hard,
And I'd like to eat her breasts and grow God,
Instrumental
I need alcohol
Because it opens my blood
I need alcohol
because it empties my head
I need alcohol
I need alcohol
I need alcohol
I see them all lined up,
Like naked children at the wall.
Their skin is hanging off in sheets.
Each face is painted like a whore.
Their blood is shining in the sun.
Their wounds are powdered with white salt.
Their lips are shaping silent words:
I see my name as it spills out.
I see them walking on their knees,
Led in a chain by laughing girls.
I see them sucking on the dirt,
As if inhaling the whole world.
And one by one their throats are cut,
And each one sings his choking song.
And each one sings his lullaby,
And each one falls and then he's gone.
And I feel good,
Yeah, I feel fine.
And I feel good:
I've been waiting far too long...
I see their bodies in the pyre,
Leaking black smoke into the flames.
And all the people stand around,
Shaping lips into my name.
And soon the sun begins to sink,
Behind a wall of dirty air.
I see their bones there in the pile,
And taste the smell of burning hair.
And all the children howl for mile.
The rain spits down a million knives.
I see you running through the field.
I see you running for your useless life.
I feel you choking on your tongue,
I feel the breath attack your chest.
The dogs are ripping at your feet.
I see you bleeding out your happiness.
And I feel good,
Yeah, I feel fine.
And I feel good:
I finally got back what was always,
stupid snake
big strong boss
break my back
blood runs black
cut my throat
kill me snake
do what i say
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
Saw the word
I want to hear
Say the word
I want to hear
Come up behind me and hold on
Come up behind me and hold on
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
And close in around me
Say you'll do anything for me
Say you'll do anything for me
Say you'll do what you don't understand
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
Come all around me and hold on
The future's leaking through a shut lead door
In the ruins of a city under the forest floor.
Your naked body's buried in a vacant field
What does your body feel now?
The air is black and has no oxygen
The bodies in the river float beneath the sun
Transparent skin it shines a light from deep within
Where does your body begin?
The stars are hidden by a mirrored sky
And darkness disappears behind reflected light
Perception is a distance in a closed-in space
How will your body escape?
The crowd is feeling you inside your head.
Your imagination's canceled by its opposite
And every possibility's been proved untrue
Throw your mind away
Fall into the sea
There's nothing solid here
Dissolve your body today
There's a sun in the sky.
We're in the atmosphere
Throw yourself in the sea
There's nothing solid down here
Mind/body/light/sound
Mindless, bodyless, soundless light
This ordinary night
This ordinary day
They're twisted out of shape
Then they disintegrate
Cool water runs through the ground
The ocean blends with the air
Throw yourself in the fire
There's nothing solid around here
Mind/body/light/sound
Mindless, bodyless, soundless light
The world was over today
The time is already gone
Throw your mind in the sea
Eternity doesn't last very long
There's some people on earth
They live in separate minds
Dissolve your body today,
There is no more outside
Mind/body/light/sound
Mindless, bodyless, soundless light
I'll Walk Fifteen Steps Across The Room
I'll Stay There Until I Know Where I Am
I Won't Move Until I Know Where I Am
I Won't Move Until I Remember Where I Am
I Won't Move Until I Remember
Remember Me?
I Should Have Hurt You
But I Couldn't Hurt You
So I Let You Hurt Me
Because I Need You
Force Yourself On Me.
I Know Where My Money Comes From.
I'll Do Anything For You.
When Your Hands In My Mouth I'll Force It Down.
I'll Force It Down In Me.
Hold It In, Take It Out Of Me.
Push Me, I'll Move.
I'll Do Anything For You.
The Sun Is An Acid Eye
We're Corroded With Pleasure Inside
There's A Hole In Your Thin White Skin
Now We'll Never Be Clean Again
Our Hands Are Two Broken Claws
We Scrape At The Ground For Hours
I Buried This Sound In The Floor
To Gain Control Of This Feeling
(Amnesia)
And This City's A Crowded Room
And The Earth Is A Closing Tomb
In My Hand Is Your Perfect Womb
When You Breathe Your Breath Is Obscene
My Heart Is A Lead Box
Ideas Are Shutting Locks
The Air Was Just Turned Off
And You're Sucking From This Machine
(Amnesia)
The Sun Will Not Rise Today
You Children Will Stay Where You Lay
The Oil Is Black And It's Thick
And Sex Is A Void Filled With Plastic
The President's Mouth Is A Whore
When There's Murder The Audience Roars
There's No Room Left For The Strong
Everything Human's Necessarily Wrong:
Somewhere, through the frozen fields,
Somewhere, beneath your pale and tender skin,
Lies a house, absorbing fear and pain -
Solar, Red, Contained -
And feeding on my dreams.
Somewhere cold, inside the optic wire,
Down where fingers and semen crack and bleed -
There I will be, with my arms spread out and broken,
Waiting for your breath, to animate my veins.
We're not alone: All our thoughts are numbered -
Malignant and cold, animal and hungry.
But I will contain all that ever was or will be,
Then I'll watch my skin erupt, in a symphony of flames -
Screaming out your name, screaming out your name...
Why can't I hide inside your halleable, electric face?
You'd suck away the pain, and swallow down my sickest dreams.
Now my body fgeels like snow, spilling out the shattered screen -
Where will we be then, when all the fear and blood are gone,
Drained into one hundred million open children's mouths -
Screaming out your name,
Mother/Father
Hey hey,
Now mother father
Hey hey
Now my bloody mind
Hey hey
Now killer father
Hey hey
Now mother mind
There s a place in space where violence and love collide inside
And solid is wide
And heat is cold
And birth is death
And creation and time are made from destruction
From fucking destruction
Fucking destruction
Fucking destruction
Fucking destruction
Hey hey
Now mother father:
Now ride! now ride!
My Frozen Empty Violent Mind Caressed The
Hidden Hair That Shines
With Liquid Lust I Left Behind,Your Body
Stained With Ruined
Eyes, I Cut The Skin Concealed The Crimes
With Liquid Hate I
Left Inside And Lonliness Is Buries Here In
Rotting Holes
Beneath Your Fear, Your Agony Your Twisted
Struggle Two Bodies
Sink In Meat/blood Strangled.,The Smell Of
Death, Your Tortured
Gash, Enfold Me In Your Mother's Arms, Now
Hold Me In Your
Mother's Arms, Now Hold Me In Your
It's not easy to get at your mind.
You dig a hole in the bed and that's where you stay.
I'm alone and I'm burning slowly.
I don't regret a thing.
I loved something once, but it turned into something I don't recognize.
I loved something once, but it burned while I held it in my hand.
No matter how hard I try, you'll pull me back down again.
You'll betray me without any sense or shame.
You'll betray me and I'll burn for your memory again.
I'll burn for your memory; I'll burn for your shame; then I'll take myself
in my own hands.
Then I'll break myself down with my own hands.
(Gira, Westberg, Parsons, Kizys)
In the place
Where no one knows
Where they were before
Or what they're doing where
They are now
I will be there
With my eyes wide open
I will be there
(I will be there)
I will be ready
To receive
The new mind
Now I am a man
Now I am a man
But I'm nothing now
And God is mine
Yeah God is mine
Yeah my sin is me
And God is mine
Now I am ready
Now I am ready
To receive
The new mind
Now people get ready
People get ready
The sex in your soul will damn you to hell
The sex in your soul will damn you to hell
Damn you to hell
Damn you to hell
I will be there
I will be there
When he calls my number I will be there
Let the light come in
Damn you to hell
Let the light come in
Damn you to hell
Now save your soul
Damn you to hell
Now save your soul
Damn you to hell
Save your soul
Save your soul
Save your soul
I heard your voice in my mind - you were Iying
I saw you under the door - you were sleeping
An ocean bleeds in your veins - now you're melting
Your hand holds onto the sun - protecting
The air is red and cold - in your insides
I feel your tongue in my mind - caressing
I feel your eyes in mine - remembering
You peel my body away - you're emerging
I put my mouth on your name - and I swallowed
I heard a sound in your chest - it was hollow
Your hand was under my skin - yes l'm fallow
I'll curl my body inside - to see through you
I love you more than my mind - but l'm Iying
I can't remember the words - but I loved you
I can't remember my name - you live through me
I can't remember the words - now l'm Iying
Down at the bonom of the deep black sea
Your naked body is waiting for me
Beneath a halo of underwater light
Reflecting red stars of madness
In your eyes, in my eyes...
And in the future there will be noone
And all the water will turn to stone
And in the desert where your memory lies
I'll kiss your shadow in the sand
Money's Flesh.
Money's Flesh In Your Hand.
This Money's Flesh.
This Money's Flesh In Your Hand.
When You Pay, Your A Servant.
You Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
Money's Easy To Get Out Of Your Flesh.
Money's Easy To Get Out Of Your Flesh.
Flesh Is Easy To Get When You Work For Your Money.
Flesh Is Easy To Get When You Work For Your Money.
When You Get Pain:you Deserve It.
When You Get Pain:you Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
Tonight I'll spend the night in Mona Lisa's bed
She'll hide this beaten man beneath her innocence
Tonight no dreams ignite in Mona Lisa's mind
We'll ride a drowning world through the cold dark skies
My Mother Earth
My Mother Earth
Mona Lisa
My mind's an ocean in Mona Lisa's hand
She dreams a hardened world where the water runs red
Tonight my dreams unborn on Mona Lisa's breasts
We'll walk a burning world where the sun shines darkness
My Mother Earth
My Mother Earth
Mona Lisa
My Heart Pumps
My Legs Move
I Sit Down
I Rot
I Hide My Stink
I Follow Directions
I Know How To Work
I Keep My Mouth Shut
I Know My Place
I Hide My Stink
I Need You More Than I Hate Myself
You Hurt Me Then You Hurt Yourself
Why Hide The Lie
the punishment fits the crime.
nothing beats humiliation.
humiliation's a disease.
nothing beats humiliation.
nothing beats them like a cop with a club.
nothing beats them like a cop in jail.
nobody beats your head in like a cop in a jail.
nobody hurts you like a cop with a club.
nobody rapes you like a cop with a club.
nobody beats your body like a cop in jail.
nobody burns their body like a cop.
nobody burns your skin off like a cop in jail.
the heat hurts.
humiliation's a disease.
And I'll sleep in the sea
And I'll wait there beneath the mud
And forgotten dreams and disease
And what's the secret I'll drain from your soul
And sweet is the sugar I'll drink from your skull
And where is the wound that shines the blue light
Come down off your throne and leave your body alone
Somebody must change
You are the reason I've been waiting so long
Somebody holds the key
Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home
Come down on your own and leave your body alone
Somebody must change
You are the reason I've been waiting all these years
Somebody holds the key
But I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
Oh, and I'm wasted and I can't find my way home
But I can't find my way home
But I can't find my way home
But I can't find my way home
But I can't find my way home
Still I can't find my way home
And I ain't done nothing wrong
But I can't find my way home
At the least come join me
within the belly of a big blue beast
set asail, catch a breeze
and come on
Don't forget to fill your suitcase
now watch it sink
'cause where we're going we don't need a thing
Not a map, or a seed,
'cause where we've been is who we used to be
We started wrapping our regrets in cloth
are you defined by all the things you want
or did you get caught up in the things that we are not?
You were born to believe you can't get lost
So when you run you always get to far
Now there's nothing you haven't seen,
but where we're headed we have never been
Past the pavement that we used to walk
Past the people that we used to know
now come on, go
past the people that have broke our hearts
we started laughing at them from afar,
but now we've climbed too high without a rope
now come on, go
No, we are not swans
nor are we as ugly as we think we are
we don't take to compliments, but please don't stop
now come on, come on
We are not swans
We fit into each other we are Russian dolls
where somewhere in the center sits a beating heart
but come on, come on
We are not swans
now do you feel we've gone too far
or do you feel we've reached the top
or do you feel like letting go
now come on, hold on
we are not swans
nor are we as ugly as we think we are
We aren't falling fast but we are falling far
now come on, come on
we are not swans
our fathers gave us features that we didn't want
our mothers claim those features made them fall in love
but come on, come on
we are swans
we are flying higher than our counterparts
we have got each other I'd say that's enough
now come on,
come on,
"A Screw (Holy Money)" by The Swans
Keep your head on the ground, push your all up. Move around, shake it, cry,
cry, cry, cry. Open your mouth, here's your money. Open your mouth, thi$ feel$
good. Here is your money, this is love. open your mouth, here is your money.
The secret sign of a charmed existence
Is the shiny liquid on her lips
And the ecstasy that comes with her image
Grows from the power that the money gives
And she's got a celebrity lifestyle
And she's just floating in space
Yeah she's got a celebrity lifestyle
And all her ch ldren want a suck and a taste of oh her
Celebrity lifestyle
Yeah her celebrity life
And she's just a drug addiction
And a self reflecting image of a narcotized mind
The secret wisdom of 120 days is hidden deep in between her legs
And sexual transcendence is reserved for the wealthy
But is only one joy that money can make
She's got a celebrity lifestyle
And she's got a glowing white face
Yeah she's got a celebrity lifestyle
And she ties her naked children up with wires and lace
Oh her celebrity lifestyle is the product of a celebrity mind
And her celebrity mouth is the perfect image of the end of time
Oh we're alive
Oh we're alive
Oh my celebrity lifestyle
There's blood on your hands, baby.
Baby, there's blood on your hands.
Mama's gonna get even with you.
Mama's gonna get you back.
When all the blood's washed over you mama will never forget.
Mama loves you too much, baby.
Mama loves you too much to cry.
Mama loves her darling boy.
She'll hold you close in her arms.
Mama's gonna wash his sweet body.
Mama loves you too much to cry.
Mama loves you too much, baby.
(Gira, Jarboe)
I found you lying where I drowned you
I found you lying where I lay with you
Where I threw you in the water
Where I drowned you in the river
Where I watched you roll away
Where I watched your body roll away
Roll away
Roll away
From everything we think we know
We'll lie down in the warm green grass
And the sun will shine on our pale shape
Our blood will flow black in the dirt
Take this glass of water, hold it in your hand.
Drink the water slowly, don't show an emotion.
Take your clothes off.
Sit on the edge of the bed.
Cover yourself with your hands.
I'll stand in the corner.
I'll stare at the wall.
I'll try to remember what you look like sitting there.
We're seperate bodies.
We'll never understand what the other one needs.
It's just like breathing.
It's just like breathing water.
Sit there with your clothes off while I look at you.
We'll never change.
The world's getting smaller with every second we breath.
When silence falls
And light remains
And time is born
Beneath the sun
I'll hide your name.
Inside a word
And paint your eyes
With false perception
And I feel your mind
In everything
And every breath
Destroys a sound.
And I will follow
A false sensation.
And I'll always believe.
Your blood promise
And every breath.
I stole from you
And I never will see
Your perfect body
And you never have spoken
An unclear word
And I'll never betray
(Gira, Westberg)
Hold onto my hand
Hold onto my unborn hand
Feel what I'll never be
Need me badly
Need what I have
Need what I am
I am a dead man
Now I am a dead man
I am selfish
I am unborn
I am unborn now
I am unborn
Need my love
Need my fake love
Hold onto my hand
Hold onto my unborn hand
Need what I make you become
Blind love
Blind love
I am a dead man
I am a cold dead man
And I am unkind
I am unkind
Feel my hand
Feel my dead hand
Need my love
Need my blind love
Love blind
Blind love
Feel good
Feel good now
Love
Get Drunk
Get Drunk
Breathe In
Breathe In
Don't Breathe
Don't Breathe
Blackout
Blackout
Don't Talk Until You're Spoken To
Don't Talk Until You're Spoken To
Don't Breath
Don't Breath
Blackout
Blackout
When, When We Were Young
We Had No History
So Nothing To Lose
Meant We Could Choose
Choose What We Wanted Then
Without Any Fear
Or Thought Of Revenge
But Then You Grew Old
And I Lost My Ambition
So I Gained An Addiction
To Drink And Depression
(They Are Mine
My Only True Friends
And I'll Keep Them With Me
Until The Very End)
I'd Choose Not To Remember
But I Miss Your Arrogance
And I Need Your Intelligence
And Your Hate For Authority
But Now You're Gone
I Read It Today
They Found You In Spain
Face Down In The Street
With A Bottle In Your Hand
And A Wild Smile On Your Face
And A Knife In Your Back
You Died In A Foreign Land
And They Found My Letter
Rolled Up In Your Pocket
Where I Said I'd Kill Myself
If She Left Me Again
So Now She's Gone
And You're Both In My Mind
I've Got One Thing To Say
Before I Am Drunk Again:
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Sun
God Damn Anyone
That Says A Kind Word
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Light It Shines
And This World It Shows
She holds a key to the room down there
And I, I will follow, but I'll never fall in
Yeah, we'll suffer for nothing, and we'll never forgive
God said to no one to do what he did
One second in your presence is a miracle of love
One second denied is a miracle of love
The young man is weakness in a lover's disguise
The woman is strong in her warm-bitter lies
How will they hope what they can never percieve?
And how do they love what they fail to decieve?
One second in your memory is a miracle of lies
One heartbeat in your body is a miracle of love
White light on a black sky is a miracle from above
The Wind Blows After Dark
And Then Goes My Heart
I Never Wanted This To Start
Forever Haunted By The Dark
The Wind Comes In
The Wind Comes In
Here He Comes For My Life
Here She Runs For The Knife
I'm Not The Type
To Tell Your Wife
The Wind Comes In
The Wind, Our Sln
The Wind Blows After Dark
When He Comes For My Heart
I Never Want This To Stop
And What Is Sorrow But To Knife The Wind
inhuman and stupid
the idiot crawls
into a crack
and eats his food
a diet of pain
he completely ignores
closing his mouth
he closes his mind
he talks to himself and listens
and says:
speak
talk to me in my sleep [x2]
walk me to the corner and strike a match
put it on my toungue
I Won't Think It
I Won't Speak It
But I Feel It
And I See It
And It Comes Down
And Surrounds Us
With Sensation
With Perfection
Without Purpose
And There's Colour
And There's Light
And There's Movement
On The Other Side Of The World
With Each Movement
New Reactions
Cause Sensations
Which Move Through Us
And The Warm Wind
Kissed Your Body
And The Sun Was Rising
On The Other Side Of The World
And There's Colour
And There's Light
And Sensation
On The Other Side Of The World
Now I Breathe It
And I See It
Before Thinking
And It's Perfect
Without Purpose
And There's Colour
And There's Light
And They're Rising
There's flowers in my house
And a boat that I might sail
No surprises in the record collection
You must have thought I was someone else
I'm still afraid to get lost
In a city I might explore
But I'm not afraid to hide
I never quite [Incomprehensible] in my door
In my door, in my door, in my door
Oh, you want to be a writer
Fantastic idea
You say you've never seen Alaska
I really think you'll like it there
Maybe you should travel with me
Is this the best idea
Because you've never seen a red wood
And you've never dodged a deer
A deer, a deer, a deer
A deer, a deer, my dear
One swan is deceiving us all
Oh, I for one should know
I never felt myself so graceful
And I never swam so slow
So slow, so slow, so slow
So slow, so slow, so slow
if you wanna be the star
just get the big guitar
a pair of leather jeans
lends credibility make all the critics cream
just get down on your knees
learn how to scream and seize
every "opportunity"
you'll make them beg for it
you're one tough rockin' bitch
you got a lot to show
on college radio
so drop all the petals soft as velvet
tear up your petals moist and delicate
flower petals soft as velvet
rip up the petals moist and delicate
they're falling
now I know you wanna be the rage
wanna live inside the formaldehyde cage
i know your mind's made up
your breasts tattooed
the power won't rub off
now it's part of you
you got nothing to prove
you got nothing to prove
you've shown to those pricks once more
made them beg for it
you're one bad bitchin' whore
so drop all the petals soft as velvet
tear up your petals moist and delicate
flower petals soft as velvet
rip up the petals moist and delicate drop all the petals soft as
velvet
tear up your petals moist and delicate
flower petals soft as velvet
rip up the petals moist and delicate
rip up the petals moist and delicate
flower petals soft as velvet
rip up the petals
rip up the petals
the punishment fits the crime.
nothing beats humiliation.
humiliation's a disease.
nothing beats humiliation.
nothing beats them like a cop with a club.
nothing beats them like a cop in jail.
nobody beats your head in like a cop in a jail.
nobody hurts you like a cop with a club.
nobody rapes you like a cop with a club.
nobody beats your body like a cop in jail.
nobody burns their body like a cop.
nobody burns your skin off like a cop in jail.
the heat hurts.
I see them all lined up
Like broken children at the wall
Their skin is hanging off in sheets
Each face is painted like a clown
Their blood is shining in the sun
Their wounds are powdered with white salt
Their lips are making silent words
I see my name as it spills out
I see them walking on their knees
Lead in a chain by laughing girls
I see them sucking on the dirt
As if inhaling the whole world
And one by one their throats are cut
And each one sings his choking song
And each one sings his lullaby
And each one falls and then he's gone
And I feel good
Yeah I feel fine
Yeah life good
And I've been waiting far too long
I see their bodies in the pyre
Leaking black smoke into the flames
And all the people stand around
Shaping lips into my name
And soon the sun begins to sink
Behind the wall of dirty air
I see their bones there in the pile
And taste the smell of burning hair
And all the children howl for milk
The rain spits down a million knives
I see you running through the field
I see you running for your useless life
I feel you choking on your tongue
I feel your breath attack your chest
The dogs are ripping at your feet
I see you bleeding out your happines
And I feel good
Yeah I feel fine
Yeah I feel good
Now you say you're lonely
You cry the long night through
Well you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
You drove me
Nearly drove me
Out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Rememeber
I rememebr all that you said
Told me
Love was too Plebeian
Told me you weere through with me and
Now you say you love me
Well just to prove you do
Come on and cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
Now you say you love me
Well just to prove you do
Come on and cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river
Over you
You were wrong to resist nem
I was wrong to forgive.
Now I loathe my own weakness,
But you praise me for this.
There's a place in your future,
Where the wound will be healed,
And the children you injured,
Will rise up, purified,
Then kill your name...
You're afraid of the mirror,
So you can crawl on the floor,
Where you count your perversions,
I'll cut up my time into two seperate pieces.
In one place, I'm someone I don't know.
In the second place I don't remember my name.
I'll maintain control: I'll imitate you perfectly.
Now nothing's there: you win.
My flesh hangs loose on my bones,
I'm old, I'm poisoned.
I feel everything at once.
Now throw me out the window.
Watch me fall.
I'll try to remember if I've ever been here before.
I can't remember.
I'll imitate everything around me perfectly.
Time will always win.
It's poison.
I've never loved you.
I was never here.
I remember what it felt like to take a deep breath, then exhale, then forget
what I had just done.
I was never here.
I'll imitate everything around me.
I, I've been lonely
And I, I've been blind
And I,. I've learned nothing
So my hands are firmly tied
To the sinking leadweight
of failure
I've worked hard all my life
Money slips through my hands
My face in the mirror tells me
It's no surprise that I'm
Pushing the stone up the hill
of failure
They tempt me with violence
They punish me with ideals
And they crush me with an image of my
life that's nothing but unreal
Except on the goddamned slaveship
of failure
I'll drown here trying
to get up for some air
But each time I think I breathe
I'm laid on with a double share
of the punishing burden
of failure
I don't deserve to be down here
But I'll never leave
And I've learned one thing
You can't escape the beast
In the null and void pit
of failure
When I get my hands on some money
I'll kiss it's green skin
And I'll ask it's dirty face
"Where the hell have you been?"
"I am the fuel that fires the engine
of failure."
I'll be old and broken down
I'll forget who and where I am
I'll be senile or forgotten
But I'll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
on failure
I saw my father crying
I saw my mother break her hand
On a wall that wouldn't weep
But that certainly held in
The mechanical moans of a dying man
Who was a failure
My back hurts me when I bend
Because I carry a load
My brain hurts me like a knife-hole
Because I've yet to be shown
How to pull myself out from
The sucking quicksand
of failure
Some people live in hell
Many bastards succeed
But I. I've learned nothing
I can't even elegantly bleed
Out the poison blood
Open Your Mind
Sensational, Metaphysical, Insatiable,
Astronomical,
Phenomenological, Ontological,
Heterosexual, Astrological,
Testimonial, Biophysical, Suicidal,
Emotlonal, Sensval, Bismual,
Questionable, Not Censurable, Alienable,
Spiritual, Musical,
Horizontal, Sociable, Incredible, Maniacal,
Psychological, Comical, Reprehensible,
Experimental, Chronological, Biological,
Gullible, Unprofessional, Beautiful,
Homicidal, Matrimonial, Testimonial,
Homosexual, Fertile, Bestial... Anything At
come here you freak
i saw you crawling last night
big erection in your hand
you rule the world
you're gonna murder somebody weak
strong men win at violence and abuse
i'm not scared
i'll take what i want
something for nothing
cut out the infection
beat up the violator
gag him
then screw him down
hammer the nail [x4]
knock him down
murder his influence
cut off his deception
rape his memory
Put your hand on my shoulder.
Turn me around.
I'm helpless, I'm spinning.
Turn me around.
Turn me around.
I'll open myself, and I'll never close.
The red rose in my hand is my gift to you.
Turn me around, turn me around.
Put your hand on my shoulder and turn me around.
Over and over, turn me around.
And what do I do,
With the gift you present to me,
The one no one else would buy?
They would not accept the filthy premise of your most terrible innocence.
So let them say, how were you wild,
For what you really were was tender.
Yes how you screamed, all through the night,
Yet silent tears streamed down through morning light,
I have healed the broken wings of fallen angels and laid the wildest storms
to rest
I have tamed the fury of a thousand oceans
All I've done is to fall asleep
A tribute to the dreaming
A hymn to the delusions that sometimes really feel like they're real
In the deepest slumber
Reality is blended with fantasies and things I have repressed
When I awake all the stories remain inside my head
Memories forgotten always reappear in the wicked sceneries
Characters that once fell into oblivion united with my recent past
Tribute to my dreaming
Hymn to the delusions that I sometimes really wish were for real
In the deepest slumber reality is twisted and staggered across the halls of
my head
When I awake I can remember it still and it is nothing that my scenes can
kill
And I fall through the passage of time
Then there's the nightmares
That never seen to leave my mind
I can't escape it
They're even stronger when I close my eyes
How to forget and how to erase all the wicked scenes in here
How to make them disappear and burn this patchwork of fear
How to delete
How do I stop all the sickening things I see in this spurious diary that
wasn't made by me how to replace my artificial memories
Now the past is untrue, and this breath is a lie
And the sun is an emptiness, that burns through the sky
And this ground it will slide down, down into the sea
And when this body dies, no man will ever breath one word
Of ignorance, for me
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to consume
Now the earth bleeds cold water, in my open hands
But their bodies bleed poison, and they swallow the sand
And we'll walk to the river, where we will die of a thirst
And my fate, it's no question: every fool he is broken
Beneath the same holy curse
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
Now the past is untrue, and this breath is a lie
And the sun is an emptiness, that burns through the sky
And this ground it will slide down, down into the sea
And when this body dies, no man will ever breath one word
Of ignorance, for me
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to consume
Now the earth bleeds cold water, in my open hands
But their bodies bleed poison, and they swallow the sand
And we'll walk to the river, where we will die of a thirst
And my fate, it's no question: every fool he is broken
Beneath the same holy curse
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to burn, to sand
You Can Hear Them Out There
They're Gonna Follow You Down
On The Rocks
In The Air
Inside Your Mind They Made You Scared
Of All The Lies That Have Been Told
Of All The Hearts Now That Have Been Sold
Of All The Tears That've Been Disowned
Those Cries Are Gonna Swallow Up The Seeds
You Have Sown
So Hold On And Make It Last
Hold On For Your Last Holy Breath
Hold On For Your Faith
It Has Lapsed
Those Cries Like An Acid
They Will Eat Through Your Mask
Those Cries Like A Hammer
They Will Nail Down Your Past
Those Cries Gonna Swallow Up
Your Last Dying Gasp
You Can Hear Them Out There
They Come Inside And Ride You Slow
They Come Inside Where They Will Grow
Without A Hope Without A Dream
Without Anything
Without A Demon To Turn The Key
Of All The Lies Now That Have Been Told
Of All The Hearts Now That Have Been Sold
Of All The Tears That've Been Disowned
Those Cries Are Gonna Swallow Up The Seeds You Have
Sown
Those Cries Gonna Getcha Chill You Down To The Bone
Those Cries Like An Acid They Will Eat Through Your
Mask
Those Cries Gonna Swallow Up Your Last Dying Gasp
So Hear Them Now
All The Deadeyed Souls Who've Spent Their Lives
And Just Grown Old
So Hear The Cries
From The Deadeyed Souls Who've Spent Their Lives-
Now I just want to thank you
For going insane
Every second that you suffer
Is a loss that I gain
Every breath is a drain down
Down into a hole
And your mind is a shrinking thing:
It was crushed by your skull
Now you f eel time unfolding
Deep in your chest
And your body's expanding
Now there's none of you left
So I just want to thank you
For losing your mind
Yeah you burned just like joan of arc
Purified by the flames
You re alive! you re alive!
Now just want to thank you
For the light that you spread
And magnesium and sulphur
And the fear in your head
And I just want to tell you
You're nothing so new
Every time that you touch it
It'll turn against you
Now your future's a cold thing
Down in the damp ground
And your memory's a lead room
Containing this sound
So I just want to thank you
For killing your mind
All the life that you bleed out
Well I steal it for mine
See God's Sun Go Down Behind That Hill
See God's Sons Go Down That Lonely Road
See God's Sun Fall Behind That Hill In Darkness
See God's Sons Go Down That Godforsaken Road
Then See Us Need More
Then See No More
Then See No More
Then See No More
See Us Deliver Where Other Men Will Fail
See Us Hold Heaven While Others Burn In Hell
See Us God's Sons, Guarding Heaven's Gate
Then See Our Sun Go Black Because We Made One
Mistake
Then See Us Need More
Then See No More
Then See No More
I will pray
I will pray
I will go down low
And I will pray to you
Down as low as I can go
I will go there and I will pray to you
I will beg you
I will beg you lord
I will deny myself
I will deny you lord
Though I've done nothing wrong
Never in my live
No no no no no
I will beg you lord
And I will pray for you to forgive me now
I will go down to the centre of the earth
And I will curl up in flames
And I will beg you lord
Take me in your cruel arms
Take me down home
And will say
"Come into me, lord, come in now
Come on in
Praise the lord!
Praise God!"
Come into my heart, sweet lord
Come into my heart
I am open
I am torn apart
I am naked
And I am impure
I am sexless
I am foul
I am ignorant
And I am hateful
Forgive me lord
Come in
Come on in
Praise God
Praise the lord
Praise god
Praise the lord
wrong or right
it's not right
wrong or right
it's wrong
use your body to get satisfaction [x2]
satisfy the dog, satisfy the dog [x2]
use your hands to build things
use your hands to break things
right or wrong
it's not right
right or wrong
it's right
Now I've Got Nothing To Look At
And I've Got No Pain To Deny
And I've Got No Body To Bleed For
And I've Got No Sun To Pull Down From The Sky
But I'm Saved, Yeah I'm Saved
And I Don't Understand It, I'm Saved
If Mercy Were To Hold Me Closely
And Hide Me In Her Place Of No Pain
The Angels Would Throw Down The Water
They Cried From One Hundred Million Eyes
And I Have A Feeling That's Growing
Somewhere Behind My Sleeping Mind
Yeah I'm Saved, I'm Saved
Yeah I Don't Know Why, But I'm Saved
When Sunlight Falls On Your Shoulder
You Look Like A Creature From Heaven
You're Holy When You Open Your Eyes
And Look Up Inside That Sheltering Sky
And You're An Angel, I'll Never Betray You
But I'll Always Be A Lonely Child
Yeah Still I'm Saved
I'm Saved
Yeah I Don't Deserve It
I'm so glad I'm better than you,
I'm so glad I'm better than you are.
I'm so glad I'm better than you,
I'm so glad I'm better than you are.
Sit here. Now look in the mirror -
Something's wrong, your face is distorted.
Feel the flow: there's blood in your body.
And you can see clearly every heartbeat you make.
Close your eyes, touch your mouth in the mirror -
That's the wound that is made where the past meets the future.
I'm so glad I'm better than you,
I'm so glad I'm better than you are.
I can see clearly through this veil of reality.
And I can remember the feel of your skin.
No you never knew me and you never will
When nothing's there, nothing is concealed.
I'm so glad I'm better than you,
I'm so glad I'm better than you are.
I'm so glad I'm better than you,
Thrill of fear
Flash of cruelty
Was what I sensed
Of the signs you were sending
Lives as one
But seperated
Who'll drow the lines
Who tells when it's too late?
And as the swans prepare for their leaving
Can't change what's done it's unforgiven
Bitter is the taste
Of your way
Cannot rewind
Can't take it back...
The picture is clear
And so brave,
But you wanted to have it
Your own way
Sometimes things are
As they seem...
And as the swans prepare for their leaving
Can't change what's done it's unforgiven
Bitter is the taste
Of your way
Cannot rewind
Can't take it back
How long do we have? (2x)
And as the swans prepare for their leaving
Can't change what's done it's unforgiven
Bitter is the taste
Of your way
Cannot rewind
Can't take it back
How long do we have?
As the swans prepare for their leaving (How long do we have?)
Can't change what's done it's unforgiven (How long do we have?)
Bitter is the taste
Of your way (How long do we have?)
Cannot rewind
Can't take it back
(Gira, Jarboe)
We are special
We are perfect
We were born in the sight of god
We were born in the sight of god
Our suffering bodies will suffer no more
Our suffering bodies will suffer no more
We are children
Children of God
We are children
Children of God
cut off the arms.
cut off the head.
cut off the legs.
get rid of the body.
heartache to heartache.
job to job.
dollar to dollar.
body to body. pus.
poison. blood.
shit: get rid of the body.
heartache to heartache.
heartache to heartache.
why hide
my heart pumps.
my legs move.
i sit down. i rot.
i hide my stink.
i follow directions.
i know how to work.
i keep my mouth shut.
i know my place.
i hide my stink.
i need you more than i hate myself.
you hurt me then you hurt yourself.
I Live In An Empty House
There's No-One There But Memory And Me
But I Loved A Woman Once
One Hundred Years Ago For A While
When She Left Here She Was Filled With Hatred
And With A Second Child
Now I Heard Nothing Ever Changes
But Nothing I Touch Has Stayed The Same
Everything Just Turns To Poison
That I Have Loved Or Made
So Bury My Children's Children
In A Deep And Lonely Grave
Anything Is A Cause For Sorrow
That My Mind Or Body Has Made
There's A Fire On The Water
There's A Hole In The Sky
There's The Devil Coming Down For Me
To This Room Where I'll Die
There's A Man With A Black Heart
He's Standing There Up On The Hill
He's Lifting Up With His Burning Hands
A Fire That Does Not Kill
He's Calling Down To Me Alone
He's Calling Down To Me Alone
He Says, "Get Down On Your Knees And Cry Alone
No One Will Cry For You."
So Jane Mary, Cry One Tear
Jane Mary, Cry Just One Tear For Me
Jane Mary, Cry One Tear
Jane Mary, Cry Just One Tear For Me
No We Have Never Been Here
And We'll Never Be Gone
I Saw Your Voice Rise Up
And Cut Into The Heart Of The Sun
I Kissed The Lips Of A Girl
She Took Her First Breath When The World Was Young
I Felt The Cold Of The Air As It Burned By Empty Lungs
And We Have Never Been Born
And We Will Be Consumed
And Unreality Is Buried Beneath The Truth
And Though We've Never Been Here
We Will Never Be Contained
And Reality Is Naked Beneath The Moon
So We'll Go Down To The Ocean
And Wash Our Memory Clean
We'll See The World For The First Time
Through An Unburied Eye
And Though The World Will Stay The Same
And We're Certain To Die
We'll Raise Our Hands Up To Heaven
And Sacrifice Our Limitations
And The Pain And Frustration
Are Equal To The Bliss Of Release
And In The Eyes Of Nature
We'll Live For An Eternity
And In The Eyes Of Nature
We Could Never Have Been Born
And The Light That Surrounds Us
Will Take Us Into It's Arms
And When We Die We'll Disappear
Into The Eyes Of Nature
And We're Here Just For A Little While
And Then Our Body Disappears
Into The Eyes Of Nature
Into The Arms Of God
Into The Mouth Of Indifference
Into The Eyes Of Nature
And We Are Nothing But Experience
In The Eyes Of Nature
And We Will Live Forever
(Gira, Jarboe, Kizys)
In my garden
Things grow in my garden
Things will grow
Then they die
Then they fall away
Then they're gone
In my garden
In my garden
We'll never grow old
We'll never grow old
In my garden
Where the dew never dries
In my garden
In my garden
These roses
These black orchids are our friends
In my garden
When we breathe
When we breathe this air
We will breathe in these things
We will breathe in these things
In my garden
In my garden
We'll never die
We'll never die
In my garden
For The Love Of Life
For The Love Of Life
In The Light Of Life
In The Love Of Light
And The Strong Survive
For The Love Of Life
And The Strong Will Rise
In The Endless Light
For The Blood Of Life
For The Love Of Life
In The Bloodless Light
For The Love Of Light
In The Blood Is Light
In The Light Is Life
For The Love Of Life
For The Love Of Life
In The Endless Light
In The Blood Of Life
Now The Strong Will Rise
For The Love Of Light
In The Bloodless Light
Now The Strong Survive
For The Love Of Life
For The Blood Of Life
And The Heavens Come
For The Strongest Ones
In A Universe
Made Of Blood And Love
In The Blood Is Light
In The Light Is Life
For The Love Of Life
Out of our head
Out of our mind
Into your hands
Into your eye
Warm in your mouth
Warm in your mind
Warm in your belly
Just like a drug
Sha la la la
Cool on your tongue
Soft in your hands
Down on the floor
Red in your mind
Out of our head
Out of our mind
Into your head
Just like a drug
Sha la la
Sha la la la
Hard in your hands
Hard in your mind
Hard in your belly
Hard in your face
Down on the floor
Hard in your mind
Into your head
Just like a drug
Sha la la la
Sha la la la
Some Men Are Made Of Steel And Blood
Some Fall From Heaven When Their Time Does Come
Some Of Us We Run From A Shapeless Form
And Some Men They Hide From A Howling Storm
Now I Will Wander Through The Falling Flames
And I Will Drown In The Burning Rain
Sha La La La La La La, Let It Come Down
Sha La La La La La La, Let It Come Down
There Is A Place With Nothing To Gain
There Lies The Lover Who Has Broken No Chain
He Sits By The Window And He Stares At The Dark
She Feels For The Knife That Will Split His Heart
Now We Are Betrayed In The Cold Black Pain
And A Fire Will Rain Down Again And Again
Sha La La La La La La, Let It Come Down
I couldn't stop myself
I knew I'd do it again
But I could heal myself,
If I could feel your skin
And if I comprehend this moment
I know we'll live again
And if I heal your wound
We will make love again
And now we're slipping through this millenium
We should feel sorry for the people
Can I kiss your skin?
And there's hunger in the desert.
And missiles in the sky
And every soul is interwoven
Before the wrong or right
I know we'll live again
Though it's just a feeling
I know we'll never end
Now I'm breathing the breath of god,
And the cold wind cleans my
Mind
And I'm standing in a ring of fire, and
My haert s made of light
And I fly across the red mountains.
And my hands contain the sky
And earth rolls away in
Darkness, and I ride a piece of
Lightning,
Killing time, killing time
Now they punish our imagination, and
Corrupt our blood with fear,
And infinity's beneath the ocean, but
Oblivion sits right beside
Me here
So we are blind and we're polluted,
And each breath is drunk with
Tears
We'll drift away across tomorrow,
And we'll ride the breath of
Nothing
Through the yers, killing time,
When Other People Say
You're Someone To Misuse
Shut In Behind Your Young Girl's Face
And Helpless In Your Bed Of Thorns
I'll Remember Who You Are
Yes I'll Remember Who You Are
I'll Remember Who You Are:
A Young Girl, Unchained
Come Back Here Now
I Know You're Somewhere Still Alive
Strong Behind Your Young Girl's Tears
I Know You're Somewhere, Unchanged
Oh I Remember Who You Are
Yes I Remember Who You Are
I Remember Who You Are:
A Young Girl, Unchained
There Stands A Young Girl, Naked
In Her Innocence Unused
And She Holds Me In Her Small Hand
And She Smiles Down On Me
I Am Innocent In Her Dark Eyes
I Will Lose My Heart In The Sand
You're Cruel, But You're Good For Me
And You Hold Me In Your Young Girl's Hand
I Remember Who You Are
Yes I Remember Who You Are
I Remember Who You Are
And All Across America
The Poison Fires Glow
And In The Blood Of Our Procreation
Annihilation Grows
Yes Love Was Made For Slaves Like Us
Designed To Fetishize
Consumption, Waste And An Identity
Based On A Dying Lie
So God Forgive America
The End Of History Is Now
And God May Save The Victim
But Only The Murderer Holds Real Power
We Came Across The Seas
We'd Fill With Offal And Disgust
And Any Object Industry Required
We Bought, Enslaved, Or We Crushed
And Now Our Minds Are As Naked As The Paradise We
Stripped
And Our Reward Is Our Entropy
Our Emptiness Is Our Gift
So God Forgive America
And Every Human On This Earth
And God Forgive The Ruined Lives
i saw a white finger on a barbed wire fence.
i knew it was dangerous but i took the risk.
and yes it was sweet so sweet to eat.
now see how the flesh is pricked and bleeds.
yeah it bleeds. it bleeds. yeah it bleeds. see how it bleeds.
i saw a lil baby crawlin' down the street.
i said hey come over here you smell good enough to eat.
i said hey come over dear and you know what i'll do.
i'll make you my mirror of the things that i chew.
little yum-yab. Litrle yum-yab
we are the wild. we are the risk.
come little yum-yab. come slash your wrist.
we are the wild. we are the risk.
come little yum-yab. gimme a kiss.
we are the wild. we are the risk.
You're My Father
I Obey You
I Want You To Be My Father
I Want You To Be My Father
You Know What I Am
You Know What I Am
I Want You To Kill Me
I'm Weak:
Take What's Mine
Make Me Feel Good
Make Me Feel Soft
Come Into My Room
Put Your Hands On My Throat
Now Choke Me
We'll Die
Make Me Nothing
Make Me Nothing
Be My Father
Be My Father
Think For Me
Make It Right
Think For Me
Make It Right
Put Your Hands On My Throat
Choke Me
And I am the sun
I rise above the world
And when the light goes out
I kill another child
And I am insane
I crawl into your mouth
I grow like a flower
I grow a suicide
And I am the sun
And I am the light
And I am the sun
Yeah I am the light
And I am the dog
I cut out my eyes
Yeah I will nullify
My true love creation
And I am the sun
I love everyone
I live inside your chest
I grow like a cancer
And I am the sun
And I am the light
Yeah I am the sun
Yeah I am the light
I love everyone
Can I steal your mind?
And can I crawl down inside?
And when I am your child,
Can I feed in your eye?
And can I drink the air,
Down in your cold black lung?
And can I breath the sweet,
Sick and lonesome blood?
Love is everywhere.
No we will never escape.
I love you more than my life.
No, we will never escape...
Can I cut out the core,
And steal the food in your head,
And curl my body inside,
Down where it's dark and it's wet?
I love you more than your life.
I love your body and mind.
I love you more than your life.
I'll Walk With You
Through Space And Time
And When Sleep Is Near
I Will Fold You In
I'll Disappear With You
In Clear Blue Flames
And When Our Time Arrives
Now you be the mother,
And I'll be your fool,
I'll hide myself deep inside,
Your crimson pool.
The muddy water runs,
Beneath your folds,
You won't let me breathe,
You won't let me go.
Now you be the stranger,
And I'll be the white-skinned son,
You'll blacken my innocence,
With sugar and opium...
The children were suffocating,
Down in your damp cave,
And you were the mother,
And I was the sleeping slave.
Protect me from violence,
Hold me in your cool lips,
You drug me with kindness,
So I can pretend I exist.
Now you be the oly child,
I'll suck on your breast,
You'll feed me with gasoline,
It's All Right, We're In Heaven.
This Is Heaven, We're In Heaven.
Our Body's Broken.
The Earth Is Moving.
Our Bodies Breathing.
Our Blood Is Moving.
It's All Right, We're In Heaven.
permission is bloodless. ambition is senseless.
don't make a wrong move work with a purpose.
you win or you lose. imitate a slave.
don't make a wrong move learn from experience.
don't be useless.
waste is obscene don't make a wrong move.
You're Body Is Warm.
You're Hiding Yourself.
Sleep On This Bed.
Cover Yourself.
Nothing Will Go Wrong.
Protect Yourself.
Sleep On This Bed.
Hold On To Yourself.
Nothing Will Go Wrong.
Nothing Will Go Wrong.
She'll go down there to nowhere soon
She'll stand there still with her head in the moon
I will be her nowhere man
We're not named until the end
Ooh ooh
That girl was so much better than me
But it always goes wrong
There's no cure for the lonely
With loneliness she'll sink in the sand
I feel the heat go out of her hand
We were born with our face to the wall
We only have one chance to crawl
When we laid down there I held your hand
And never feel your body again
Ooh ooh
Cut down the preacher, he just lies
Burn all the books that closed my mind
Destroy it all, it's all untrue
In the place
Where no one knows
Where they were before
Or what they're doing where
They are now
I will be there
With my eyes wide open
I will be there
(I will be there)
I will be ready
To receive
The new mind
Now I am a man
Now I am a man
But I'm nothing now
And God is mine
Yeah God is mine
Yeah my sin is me
And God is mine
Now I am ready
Now I am ready
To receive
The new mind
Now people get ready
People get ready
The sex in your soul will damn you to hell
The sex in your soul will damn you to hell
Damn you to hell
Damn you to hell
I will be there
I will be there
When he calls my number I will be there
Let the light come in
Damn you to hell
Let the light come in
Damn you to hell
Now save your soul
Damn you to hell
Now save your soul
Damn you to hell
Save your soul
Save your soul
Save your soul
Save your soul
use sex for control
use power for power
use money for cruelty
use hate for freedom
take control and keep it
don't let go
he was your friend
she was your friend
they were wrong
turn against them
sex, power, money, hate
take control and keep it
don't let go
power for power
I want power, because it feels good.
I want power - I'll wash America with blood.
I want power: a clear blue light in the sky.
I feel power, running through my veins and out my eyes
And into empty, godforsaken minds without reality.
I feel power. I feel a sacrifice.
I am dead to right or wrong.
I want power, just like our father knew.
I want power, I'll put my hands in you.
I want power, though the earth is lost and spinning.
I feel power, buried in the ground where twenty million
Died like heroes stealing this same power that I'm feeling.
I feel power. I feel a sacrifice.
Now my blood is feeling clean.
And I feel the power burning like a spear inside of me.
I feel good. I feel right.
My man walks on hands and knees
I am his first and only child
He is mine
He is my saint
He brings me roses and incense
And he closes my mind
He closes my mind
With real love
Real love
Real love
Real love
I will kiss the ground
Where he left a taste
of his strength of mind
Take me down
Take me down now
Take me down
Into the cold dead earth
Take me down
Take me down there
In your hands again
Take me down
Take me down
With real love
Real love
Real love
Real love
When I dream that sweet dream
When I forget where I am
I will always remember
Your hand on my shoulder
Pulling me down
Pulling me down
Into the cold dead earth
Take me down there
With real love
Real love
Real love
Why Be Ashamed Of Hatred
There's Nothing Wrong With Burning
I Work Hard For Everything I Own
Everything I Own Chokes Me When I Sleep
Why Be Ashamed Of Burning
Why Be Ashamed Of Burning
You Do What You Want:
Then You Cut Out Your Heart
You Do What You Want:
You Burn Out Your Heart
You Burn Out My Heart
Then You Eat My Heart
You Cut Out Your Heart
Then You Eat Your Heart
You Burn It
Then Eat It
You Burn It
I'm weak and I'm slow, when you are near.
Defeated, I'll disappear.
I left myself, beneath your skin.
What were you?
Who was I then?
Look over there, against the wall.
There's a memory there: red hands, blood and hair.
I don't know where you are.
I Mean Nothing To Myself.
I Mean Nothing To Myself.
I'm Nothing, I'm Nobody.
I Hate My Body, I'm Stuck In Myself.
I'm Nothing, I'm Nobody.
I Don't Move, I'm Stuck In Myself.
I Hate My Body, I'm Stuck In Myself.
I'm Nothing, I'm Nobody.
I'm Nothing, I'm Nobody.
Glory!glory!glory!
Glory!glory!glory!
(Gira, Westberg, Kizys)
We'll fall down
On broken knees
And we'll cry for you now
We'll cry for your mercy
We believe in love
We believe in love
God save us now
We believe in love
We degrade ourselves
But we dig our own grave
Jesus Christ the Lord
Save us now
We believe in love
We believe in love
God save us now
We believe in love
You said all my life
Would be in vain
If I gave up on anything
I knew to be true
Or a provable lie
So I believe in love
I believe in love
God save us now
I believe in love
And I open the door
And there they lie twisted
And misshapen
They suffer for love
And they're sick to death
Of the dreams they used to have
And they're sick to death
Of their beautiful lie
God save us now
God save us now
God save us
Please
Save us now
We believe in love
We believe in love
God save us now
We believe in love
God save us
Oh Jesus, oh jesus: you're my only girl.
You're my only god.
Oh jesus, oh jesus: I follow you now, forgive me now.
I'll follow you down, to a dirty black room, where the air is gone.
I'll lie down on the table, and I'll wait for you to step inside me now.
Oh jesus, you're my only girl.
I'll look into your eyes, until I lose my mind.
Get out of my mind.
Get out of this place.
The air is gone.
You're my only girl.
You're my only god.
If I drink your blood, I will be like you.
Girl I want to be like you.
I will lose my mind.
You're my only god.
Caches Toi, Caches Toi
Et Sors Seulement
Dans Une Chanson Que Tu Chantes Une Fois
Une Chanson Que To Chantes
get into this car. get into this car.
bow your head down. your flesh is soft.
your flesh is clay. flesh is easy to shape.
flesh is easy to shape. get into your cell.
get into your bed. your flesh is soft.
your flesh is clay. flesh is easy to shape.
And the violence in my insides is glowing and malignant, and
the only way
to stop it, is to cut a hole and let the fresh air come in.
And your public face is dripping, now you're famous and
you're beautiful,
but i can still remember when your mouth was always open,
like a stairway
leading down to hell.
Now your perfect body's shining, and the camera's always
circling, and the
boys and girls are dreaming, and your naked body's bleeding
where the dogs
have ripped away your skin.
And the world is always shrinking, and my mind is
disappearing, in the holy
adulation of your all-inclusive open arms, and feeling
penitential, l'm cuning
off my finger, and l'm faxing you the image, via omnipresent
electricity.
And the communists were torturing a sacred man and
women, whose screams flew
out the window and through the Himalayas, then changed into
a buttelfly and
drifted through the wind, and landed on a street in Paris,
where you crushed
it underneath your high-heeled fin.
Now l'm killing and l'm stealing and l'm raping and l'm burning
and l'm
feeling kinda magic due to mental enervation, so i'll send my
mind into the
hard body of a rockstar, and maybe then you'll fuck me,
'cause 5 million
people love me, and you wanna suck my energy.
Yeah this world is made of losers, but I wanna be a winner,
I'll do anything it takes to hypnotize the upturned faces, into
trusting me completely so they'll
need me to supply, the object that will fill the emptiness that
was created
by repetition of an image and a sound they recognize, and
their malleable
identities will be sexually excited by the product which I will
then provide.
And this planet keeps on drifting through a thick and viscous
blackness, every
pleasure every weakness will come true before we're
finished, and l'm Iying
in my bed and my hands are gening bloody and l'm thinking I
can save you
from the phony world you live in, and maybe you will hide me
deep inside your perfect body and I'll melt into the glistening
flawless contours of
your immortal flesh.
I'm A Coward
Put Your Knife In Me
Walk Away
Walk Away
Walk Away
I Don't Know You:
I Can't Use You
I Don't Know You:
I Can't Use You
Put Your Knife In Me
Put Your Knife In Me
I Love You
I'm Worthless
Put Your Knife In Me
Walk Away
I'm Worthless
I Love You
I'm Worthless
I Love You
I'm Worthless
Worthless
Hey hey hey Nathalie
Hey hey hey Nathalie
Love is strong, Love is long
Live forever in this song - Nathalie!
Kill the cruel, heal the blind
Cut your name onto the sky - Nathalie!
Hey hey hey Nathalie
Hey hey hey Nathalie
Scatter joy, Steal the light
Dance upon a useless lie - Nathalie!
Love is strong, hate is gone
Live forever in this song - Nathalie!
choking while laughing
the dog splits open
his steel heart cracks
and his blood pumps out on the sidewalk
you laugh out loud
the sound hangs in the air
and discolors the walls
and poisons your mind
it sticks to your mind [x2]
bolt the door shut
and sit down at the table
while hiding your teeth
your insides split open
When, When We Were Young
We Had No History
So Nothing To Lose
Meant We Could Choose
Choose What We Wanted Then
Without Any Fear
Or Thought Of Revenge
But Then You Grew Old
And I Lost My Ambition
So I Gained An Addiction
To Drink And Depression
(They Are Mine
My Only True Friends
And I'll Keep Them With Me
Until The Very End)
I'd Choose Not To Remember
But I Miss Your Arrogance
And I Need Your Intelligence
And Your Hate For Authority
But Now You're Gone
I Read It Today
They Found You In Spain
Face Down In The Street
With A Bottle In Your Hand
And A Wild Smile On Your Face
And A Knife In Your Back
You Died In A Foreign Land
And They Found My Letter
Rolled Up In Your Pocket
Where I Said I'd Kill Myself
If She Left Me Again
So Now She's Gone
And You're Both In My Mind
I've Got One Thing To Say
Before I Am Drunk Again:
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Sun
God Damn Anyone
That Says A Kind Word
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Light It Shines
And This World It Shows
God Damn The Sun
As your hands tightened around your throat
I knew that this time you would kill me
And like all the times before
When I didn't struggle
Because there was no use
Again I succumbed
Again the mask melts away
There's Patchouli Blossom, Frankincense,
And Rose
I'm Lavender, Lavender
There's Cedarwood, Champa. Musk, And
Myrrh
I'm Lavender, Lavender
I Was Smolderlng Then Yov Breathed Deep
May Yovr Soul Be Free Now My Smoke Is
Sweet
There's Sandalwood, Lilac, Magnolia
I'm Lavender, Lavender
Ylang Ylang, Jasmine, Amber
I'm Lavender, Lavender
I Was Smoldering Then You Breathed Deep
Now Our Sovl Is Free And Ovr Smoke Is Sweet
This Is Mine
I Own It
I Own This Thing
I Hate Everything That I Don't Own
I Own This
I Own This Hole
It's Mine
Get Out Of My Hole
It's Mine
It's Mine
When You Touch My Things You Spoil Them
When Things Get Dirty I Spit Them Out
I Own This
I Own This
It's Mine
Oh My Father He Was Born Beneath The Water
And My Mother She Was Born To No One's Daughter
And I, I Was Born Beneath The Dying Sun
Born From The Mouth Of A River That Would Not Run Dry
La La La La La La La La La Lie
La La La La La La La La La Lie
Oh The River That Runs With Love It Won't Run Dry
La La La La La La La La La Lie
Well I Awoke This Morning In The Blackest Night
And A Million Stars Were Aching In The Sullen Sky
And I Heard The Great Machines As They Bled And Cried
And I Saw The End Of The World, I Had No Question Why
La La La La La La La La La Lie
La La La La La La La La La Lie
Hold On To The One You Love And Kiss Her Before She
Dies
Oh The River That Runs With Love It Won't Run Dry
Oh My Father Made The Water When He Cried
But The River That Runs With Love It Won't Run Dry
And The Sun Will Burn A Hole In The Purple Sky
And wide are your delusions,
Deep red is the space behind your eyes,
Closed forever is the door to your troom,
But inside there lives the sound,
You despise,
But I love...
Mother, I was wrong.
We're Standing By A River
In A Place Where Nothing Moves
And The White Light In The Sky
Is Meaningless And Cruel
And We Turn Our Face Away
From A Cold And Violent Wind
And We Bow Our Heads Down
And We Pray To The Sound
Of Freedom
With A Mirror In My Hand
And My Eyes Burned In The Fire
Drunk On Self Deception
And Punished By Desire
Leaping Directly Into A Bright White Sea
I'll Keep Myself Breathing
And I'll Swallow The Sound
Of Freedom
Nobody Else Can See You
Nobody Knows You Feel
Go Further Inside You
Where Nothing Else Is Real
Now Throw Yourself Into A Pool
Of Silence You Can See
And Hold The Mirror Before Your Eyes
And Light The White Light, It's The Sound Of Freedom
Now Time Is Just A Picture That
Moves Before Your Eyes
And Every Lie That I Believe
Is Falsely Compromised
And This Is Not A Sound
And We Are Not Alive
Someone Else Was Here Before
In Someone Else's Mind
And The Ground We Walk Is Sacred
And Every Object Lives
And Every Word We Speak
Will Punish Or Forgive
And The Light Inside Your Body
Will Shine Through History
Set Fire To Every Prison
Set Every Dead Man Free
And The Air We're Breathing Now
We Breathed A Million Times
And The Darkest Dreams We Dreamed
Were Dreamed By Other Minds
So Take Us To The Water
Take us to the sound
And Wash My Soul Away
Where It Can Never Be Found...
And The White Light That Surrounds Us
Is The Sound Of Freedom Pounding
And The Ground That Opens Up
Spits The Fire From Freedom's Mouth
And The Concrete, Glass And Steel
Break With A Freedom You Can Feel And
The Wind That Blows Through Heaven
It Screams The Sound Of Freedom
And The Violence That Destroys
Is The Birth Of Freedom Singing
And The Lovers In The Field
Make The Sound Of Freedom Bleeding
And The Pain That Eats My Mind
Is The Shout Of Freedom's Life
And The Sea That Splits In Two
Is The Cut Of Freedom's Knife
And The Fire That Burns This City
Is The White Light In Freedom's Eye
And The White Light Is The Sound
(SHA LA LA LA) (Gira, Westberg, Parsons, Kizys)
Out of our head
Out of our mind
Into your hands
Into your eye
Warm in your mouth
Warm in your mind
Warm in your belly
Just like a drug
Sha la la la
Cool on your tongue
Soft in your hands
Down on the floor
Red in your mind
Out of our head
Out of our mind
Into your head
Just like a drug
Sha la la
Sha la la la
Hard in your hands
Hard in your mind
Hard in your belly
Hard in your face
Down on the floor
Hard in your mind
Into your head
Just like a drug
Sha la la la
The future's leaking through a shut lead door
In the ruins of a city under the forest floor.
Your naked body's buried in a vacant field
What does your body feel now
The air is black and has no oxygen
The bodies in the river float beneath the sun
Transparent skin it shines a light from deep within
Where does your body begin
The stars are hidden by a mirrored sky
And darkness disappears behind reflected light
Perception is a distance in a closed-in space
How will your body escape
The crowd is feeling you inside your head.
Your imagination's canceled by its opposite
And every possibility's been proved untrue
Now is your body you
(Gira, Westberg, Jarboe)
Because I love you
I give you this
Don't be afraid of this
You can trust me now
Though we will deceive ourselves
You can trust me now
You can trust me now
Don't be afraid of this
It's not unusual
It's not unusual
Because I love you
You can trust me now
You will never know
You will never know
You can not trust me now
Don't be afraid of this
You can trust me now
It's not unusual
You can not trust me now
You will never know
It's not unusual
When you are old and tired, and sickness breeds in you, I hope you forget me
then, forget what I've done to you.
You were my only friend.
Then I was half alive.
That's more than I could ever ask, but I took your trust and ruined you.
If you were here with me in this room, I'd stand right in front of you, and
beg you to forget, I was ever inside you.
You were the only thing I ever owned, worth anything at all, and still I
took your heart and held it and turned it to stone.
When you are sick and tired, and you're confined to your memory, throw me
out of your mind:
Twenty four hours, split three ways
Because you bought one third, you own everything
Shut off the possibility, and wipe out the imagination
Now the world stands still
I'll take it with me to my grave
Wrap your hands around my neck
Now choke me slowly, but I won't die
I know one thing, and one thing only
Tou are what you learn to need
I'll surround myself with things that look like me
I'll take them with me to my grave
When they crucify your body
On the white wall above your bed
The words your body bleeds down
Will describe my happiness
The joy l'm feeling now
As the universe withdraws
Is equal to the pain
My mother choked out from her jaws
As she endured without complaint
Then laid me out into the sun
Like some skin from in her throat
Like a living piece of scum
Like a red sack full of failure
Infested with my future crumbs
Of pleasure pain and fear and hatred
And hunger for your helpless tongue
With your naked back on gravel scraping
And your claws hooked in my neck
You know l'm just your little infant crawling
Down your bloody stinking mess
And all you people I once knew
You betrayed me once too much
l'd like to sew your eyelids shut
While planting seeds of hatred in your guts
Then masturbating slow and lazy
I'll feel the pain that you'll soon feel
When my memories infect you
Someone was here before me and they took the possibility away
And without any control or freedom the elements were laid down
in this way
And so my mind is slowly devoured by the ideas to which it subscribes
And in the end I'm left with nothing except the memory of
believing my own lies
And where are you now, my most unfortunate lie?
The light shows my face in the mirror and my hand as it reaches
to touch
The evidence of pain and delusion and a mind which was never clear
enough
I saw the sun rise in an ancient desert where this moment was first
foretold
And the black water was thick as blood and my hands they were full of
gold
And where are you now, the most lethal, all consuming lie I ever told?
OH JESUS, OH JESUS, YOU'RE MY ONLY GOD.
OH JESUS, OH JESUS, YOU'RE MY ONLY GIRL.
I FOLLOW YOU NOW.
I'LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN
TO A DIRTY BLACK ROOM
WHERE THE AIR IS GONE
I'LL LIE DOWN ON THE TABLE, AND I'LL WAIT FOR YOU, TO STEP INSIDE ME NOW. STEP INSIDE ME NOW. COME ON, COME ON IN. OH JESUS CHRIST, YOU'RE MY ONLY, MY ONLY GOD... IF I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, I WILL BE LIKE YOU. GIRL, I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU. I'LL LOOK INTO YOUR EYES, AND CLOSE MY MIND. GET OUT OF MY MIND. GET OUT OF MY HEAD. OH JESUS, OH JESUS, YOU'RE MY ONLY GOD...
odey the strange-haired woman with sad singing lips
the child of pleasure unbound
her bud and bloom are tortured execution
a ritual awakening
transport transformation
in her altar of temptation
taste of bliss. annunciation
treasure book and temple
eternal idol mystica
the sweet meat - love and holy cult
ravished demons speak in tongues
soak emotion dogs
bhvee·mwocrd·uption of
lost in the labyrinth
thunderbolt sensation
cabalistic kiss the electric spectre
sleepwalker dream-hunter
nightmare tempest
discharge orage and please my mind
we reap the fruit
we're calling the vultures
Come Morocco Night
The Sand Is As White
As The Moon Is Bright .
Like Birds In Flight
Soaring High
We're Lost In The Light
Come Morocco Night,
You Shimmer.
You're Shimmering.
You Shimmer.
You're Shimmering,
the only real thing's misery.
submission means you get murdered.
you get revenge when you wait for it.
frustrated means you're insane.
he's a dead thing under the sheet.
causing pain.
sex turns impotence into decay.
unconscious repression degrades the real thing.
you can't kill a criminal need.
you're polluted with fear you need comfort.
you can't kill what you don't see.
you cant' think what you don't own.
you can't rub what you don't recognize.
you don't get what you really deserve.
you can't fight if you don't feel it.
obedience pays if you use it right.
you degrade yourself when you hide your fear.
when you eat your pain you keep you nerve.
use it right.
or don't feel it.
Love will save you when the ocean splits itself in two
Love will save you when the cold wind blows right through you
Love will save you when the poison eats the precious air
And love will save you from the snake that crawls around down there
But it won't save me
Love will save you from the evil and the greed of ignorant men
And love will save you from the guilt you feel when you
betray your only friend
Love will save you from yourself when you lose control
And love will save you from all the lies your lover ever told you
But it won't save me
Love will save you from the truth when you think you're free
Love will save you from the cold light of boring reality
Love will save you from the corruption of your lazy-minded soul
And love will save you from your selfish and distorted goals
But it won't save me
Love will save you from the black night and the lightning and the ghost
Love will save you from your misery, then tie you to the bloody post
Love will save you from the hands that pull you down beneath the sea
Love may save all you people, but it will never, never save me
you're too close.
i don't recognize your smell.
you're in the wrong skin.
i don't recognize your smell.
your mouth smells strange.
some people want to kill you.
some people want to fuck you.
when you say the wrong word.
you could be screwing yourself.
when you act the wrong way.
when you do the wrong thing.
you could be screwing yourself.
don't be a whore.
Don't let the troll into your bed
he'll take your soul then eat your head
inside the honey hollow space
licking his fingertips of cake
He brings the whirling deep in your heart
then sing as twirlling demons dark
to take you down beneath the ridge
To where is found his silent bridge
Still is the water green and thick
he'll drag you under with his stick
see flaxen gold floats there through the mist
he killed someone's daughter with his wick
An arm with grey skin bobs slowly in the pit
No don't let the troll creep in your door
he'll take you in sleep to his chamber of horror
are you dreaming no use pleading