1. |
Chinese Finger Trap
01:41
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Say the magic words
Get yourself out of here
If you're out there
I hope you're near
I saw death rising from the earth
As we picked flowers from her streets
And they could never hear our screams
Over the loud horns and tire screech
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2. |
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"I can feel the breakdown is coming"
She says pacing back n forth back n forth
When she slips through the cracks into a parallel dual reality
A mitosis of the mind
A part of her here
A part of her there
I follow
(Something quite sinister at work here)
While the rest of us are stuck in some catatonic liminal orgy
The dancing shadows mimicking the grotesque theatre of their counterparts
(I'm not quite sure where this is going)
It's become quite clear we've overstayed our welcome
The shadow and their summoners trade places.
A violent cerebral episode ensues…
(Something uncanny in the way she moves)
You really lost it this time
Lost it this time, yeah
This is not the world you used to know
And as the bodies thrash against the walls and piss-soaked carpet
In the spasms of their dying
I hear as they let out their exaltations of flickering joy
Hunter seeker needle jamming into anything that resembles virgin flesh
Weapons of love and war
Everybody here has embraced the bomb a thousand times over
Take the cash and let the credit go
A penny for a lifetime
A pill for your thoughts?
And a wishing well where all the money goes
(and it goes..)
In this Lovecraftian hellscape,
She holds herself together with the composure of a distant star
(and it goes..)
Always exploding,
(and it goes..)
Only held together by the gravity in it's center
But the breakdown is coming
If you don't like this world
You should see the others
If you don't like this world
You should see the others
If you don't like this world
You should see the others
If you don't like this world
You should see the others
You should see the others
You should see the others..
You really lost it this time
Lost it this time, yeah
This is not the world you used to know
Come back to earth
Come back to earth
The breakdown is coming
It's just around the corner
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it now?
We're just waiting for the other shoe to drop
But who are we kidding ourselves
It's already here
It's upon us
Like a rapture
Hosanna!
We shall be seized from these mortal vessels
We'll leave these human suits behind
Just you and I
You and I
We shall be whole again
As if nothing had ever changed
The gift of another chance
But how many did we take in vain?
You really lost it this time
Lost it this time, yeah
This is not the world you used to know
Come back to earth
Come back to earth
You really lost it this time
Lost it this time, yeah
When you come crashing back down
Let the earth embrace your bones
Brutish things bellow in this dark underbelly
I think we both know how this one ends
The same tricks that we use to discern madness from mystics
The writings on the wall
But no one has the answers
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3. |
Pollux
05:13
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God help me find my soul
Among this dead-eyed
Porcelain doll
Porcelain doll
I know this is wrong
But it feels so
How it feels so
Right
You are a love I have left behind
I have washed my hands
I have shed this lie
But every layer I strip away
There you are and we go on another day
(We will be erased)
(Oh, we will be erased)
(This day)
Whittle you down
I will whittle you down again
Till there's nothing left but splinters in my hands
Nothing can save us now
To help me find my face again
Alone and dark and lost again
Enraptured in this repulsion
Oh how it feels so right
It feels so right
But you hung up your love like a leather skin tie
Around the door, we locked from the inside
When we go to sleep tonight
I hope, I pray, an empty space where you
Lie
There was a time when you meant much to me
I gave you flowers to mask the rot beneath the trees
But goddamn do I know the feeling
To call the bluff of the autumn leaves
Taking every last chance they get
Before losing grip to the dirty earth below
(We will be erased)
(So we can be whole again)
We will be
(We will be erased)
(So we can be whole again)
Erased
Whittle you down
I whittle you down again
Til there's nothing left but splinters in my hands
Nothing can save us now
We will be erased
(Hosanna, Hosanna, please save us)
So we can be
(Hosanna, Hosanna please, please, please, please)
Whole again
The remains of romance drenched in sheets
Two straights disguised as obtuse queens
My life entwined in an endless spin
Between their legs, I will make amends
To atone the sins I have made in vain
Across the mirror, as she does the same
When we awake and the light had changed
I will play my part
Only I remain
Only I remain
Hosanna, Hosanna
Please save us, please save us
They don't know they're dead yet
Phantom armies fighting wars the world has long lost forgotten
They don't know they're dead yet
The sky is falling, the world's imploding
We're already dead now
We're already dead now
We're already dead now
We're already dead now
We're already dead now
Already dead now
Already dead now
Already dead now
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4. |
Alecto
05:16
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But at what cost?
Your soul
Familiar bodies
The memory of skin and the way it dissolves in another lover's arms
Sudden molecular breakdown
Absolved by the addition of time
Everything's changed
Everything's changed
Everything's changed
I see you
My crooked twin
You watch me with tilted eyes
You, you think
I could ever be like you
Five hours disappeared
To haunt me forever
Nose bleeding, mouth sewn shut
Ghostly presences are all that's here
Untie this umbilical noose from my throat
This is not the world you used to know
Dead before fully formed
She's assimilated to the womb
Gone forever
Gone for good
I'm right here and
Gone for forever
Gone for good
Slipped through the cracks in the floor
She ain't ever coming back
Ever coming back
She ain't ever coming back
She ain't ever coming back
Ever coming back
Slipped through the cracks in the floor
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted now?
Did you get what you wanted?
I'mma give you what you wanted now
Did you get what you wanted
Gonna give you what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted
(Who do you think you are)
(You're not real)
Gonna give you what you wanted
(Give her back)
(You fucking liar)
(You fucking imposter)
You fucking judas
Baby's given me the ultimatum
"You know the door" she says
"But if you go,"
"I'm afraid I'll never know the person who comes out the other side"
(You're not here)
She was never here
(She's not real)
She was never here
(I'm right here)
She was never here
(I'm right here)
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5. |
REV9
05:50
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So why won't you tell me who did that to you
Weren't we just kids,
Is there no place for innocence
Even if you knew
A gaslight is nothing in the full light of the sun
We can never be safe where we are seen
Just keep your head low
Your head low
We can never be safe where we are seen
Just keep your head low
Your head low
Sum of all our parts without
What they took away
Summon to my mind now
What did they take away?
Sum of all our parts without
What they took away
Summon to my mind now
What did they take away?
Cut the fucking lies and just tell me the truth
To scorch the Earth beneath our feet
Leave not a trace of what you've seen here
Seen here
Sum of all our parts without
What they took away
Summon to my mind now
What did they take away?
Sum of all our parts without
(Some of our parts without)
What they took away
(What they took away)
Summon to my mind
(Summon to my mind)
What did they take away?
(What did they take away?)
The light had changed, wrong color, wrong way
You're losing it, you're losing it
And won't you meet me half way through
You're losing it, you're losing it
The sum of all our parts without
What they took away
(We can never be safe where we are seen)
Summon to my mind now
(This body and the damage done)
What they took away, took away
Oh what they took away
(All my bullets for the love you stole)
What they took away, took away
What they took away
Oh, what they took away, took away
What they took away
The sum of all our parts without
What they took away
Summon to my mind now
What did they take away?
Sum of all our parts without
(Sum of our parts without)
What they took away
(What they took away)
Summon to my mind
(Summon to my mind)
What did they take away?
(What did they take away?)
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6. |
Safeword
05:16
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I have no mouth
And I must scream
God how I want to believe
This ghost you've built up inside your head
Lying down at your feet
This kiss of death to my left cheek
To coax a name, of determined fate
Traitor
Traitor
My sweet master
Spit it out
Speak no evil
(To kiss the boot that tramples your neck)
(To lick the knife that severs your spine)
Thy will be done
(Fat off the flesh, drunk off the blood)
(Fat off the flesh, drunk on the blood)
Lovely, the venom dripping down my throat
Damned to stone
Writhing in the flesh used to bind you
But who's going to touch you now?
Oh to be the noose that cradles your neck
I will hold you close in your little death
Rejoice
Rejoice
My sweet master
Spit it out
Speak no evil
Thy will be done
(To kiss the boot that tramples your neck)
(To lick the knife that severs your spine)
(Fat off the flesh, drunk off the blood)
(Fat off the flesh, drunk on the blood)
Captive of the sun
Go ahead and finish what you started
Tell me what you know
Silence will only make this harder
But if your spirit won't break
I guess your bones will do
Cat got your tongue
I guess we're only just getting started
Nowhere left to go
Look at what you made me do
You will give me what I want
The road to truth is always paved in blood
I will whittle you down
No-one can save you now
To kiss the boot that tramples your head
To lick the knife that severs your spine
Fat off the flesh, drunk off the blood
Fat off the flesh, drunk on the blood
Godly betrayal
Who is to love me now
Homicidal planet, black iron prison
Who is to love me
Now
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7. |
Retcon
08:07
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It is happening again
These eyes in my brain
These marks on my skin
A voice with no name
If I'm just a patsy
A lamb for the slaughter
To justify reason
To damn your sons and your daughters
It is happening again
These eyes in my brain
These marks on my skin
Oh but who's to blame
But look who is peaking
From behind bloody curtains
To justify reason
To mask the sins of the father
Skimming the pages of your life
Blacking out what you don't like
Rip them out, we will rip them out
Eyes, tongue and ears
You were never really here
Something lingers in the corner
(Corner)
Something stands at the foot of my bed
(Foot of my bed)
It sits on my chest
(Sits on my chest)
It wants my
Wants my
Wants my soul
(Wants my soul)
Memory, such a fickle thing
Carve thy skin
A memento for me
What they don't know can not hurt us
Lest they forget
What time will show us
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
Remember it your way
You know what that makes
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
The one pointing fingers
Ghosts caught in the frame
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
The check has been made
Cause it's their game we play
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
The breakdown is coming
Or they fucked with your brain
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
Rose-tinted glasses
But it's my world erased
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
Wiped from your conscious
But it's my soul that breaks
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
Remember it your way
You know what that makes
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
Remember it your way
But we know who's to blame
Poking and prodding
Is not that much better
When the light has changed
But the touch stays the same
Can we pick up the pieces
To put back together
The parts of ourselves
That we left in the rubble
How can we ever
Reap what was stolen
Another one for the taking
Another one for the slaughter
Something lingers in the corner
(Corner)
Something stands at the foot of my bed
(Foot of my bed)
It sits on my chest
(Sits on my chest)
It wants my
Wants my
Wants my soul
(Wants my soul)
How can we ever reap what was stolen?
Murder flies south in the sowing season
A sin that can never ever be forgiven
It is happening again
It is happening again
It is happening again
It is happening again
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
Remember it your way
You know who's to blame
Who holds the camera?
Who holds the tape?
Remember it your way
You know
(What that makes)
(I don't think you are
who you really are)
(I don't think you are
who you really are)
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8. |
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I stole a glimpse from my car's window
To meet the gaze of a woman flickering underneath my porch light
To whom I already knew was there
And had been there a lifetime
Before we had the audacity to call her house
Our home
Before we had the nerve to gut the walls of the place she once knew
Love
For the heinousness of our transgression
She made damn sure to take the liberty in her own hands
To make my family just as more strangers to each other
Than we could ever make her feel in her own home
She waves
Not to me
But to the streetlight that entraps me
The street that has been paved a thousand times since she was here
In the body and flesh
In the flesh and blood
The cage that imprisons our souls
While we may declare ourselves alive for such a fleeting time
She waves to the line of houses
In the hope that the generosity of a familiar stranger she once knew
Would rescue her from this child
Tapping
Tapping at her fishbowl
And return her to the eternal ocean
Which she was never born to
But knows deep in her heart
Her being belongs to.
In that moment
I saw you naked
For everything you ever were
And everything you will ever be
And in the refraction of the porch light I believe I saw myself too
Naked and terrified of what people would do
When they find the bodies in the walls
To defile the memory of whatever time hadn't gotten to
So there she is
Under the cold porch light
Waving to future ghosts
I meet her gaze once more
But she sees right through me
A videotape
Doomed to repeat herself
For the rest of eternity
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9. |
Castor
07:19
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In the panels of
Barren winter static
Twice erased and now
Here you are
Old enough to know better
But from up here
You have such lovely
Bones
Did you hear that?
I think it's the sound of our bones settling in
Did you hear that?
I think it's the sound of our bones settling in
My lips and cheeks I bit raw
Trying to erase the taste of you
But your sweet memory
Has been tainted by the blood in my teeth
But you beg for love this real, oh
You beg for love this real
How can we burn down this bridge any faster
How can you bear the cross of an apathetic lover
With every breath you begged me to love you
While I was trying my best
Just to drown out all the oxygen
God did we suffocate
And god did we ever burn
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
Did you hear that?
I think it's the sound of our bones settling in
Did you hear that?
I think it's the sound of our bones settling in
We will be erased so we can be whole again
We will be erased so we can be whole again
How brittle our bones have grown
We made angels in the snow
Forever erased and yet here you are
Old enough to know better
Old enough to know better
As I slept next to you
As the snow fell
(As we kissed)
(As we embraced)
As we laid naked in our whimsical arrogance
Taunting the wild winter air
As if the bitterness from the cold
Could never possess us
As it tapped at our bedroom window like a wraith
An omen of the worst to come
(The worst to come)
(The worst to come)
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
You beg for love this real
Did you hear that?
I think it's the sound of our bones settling in
Did you hear that?
If only I had known I'd never let you in
We will be erased so we can be whole again
We will be erased
Ghosts in the snow
With nothing but a trail of blood behind us
You and I
You and I
We will be erased so we can be whole again
The sigils of a memory lost to the march of time
You and I
You and I
How brittle our bones have grown
We make angels in the snow
Forever erased and now here we are
Old enough to know better
Old enough to know better
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