Song Lyrics
It was inside you now it’s in the trash
She whispers murders
I’m a natural man in an unnatural world
The streets are empty and lead nowhere
Winding around concrete gods with sapphire eyes
I will never be beautiful again
In your eyes I am forsaken
Arson is as arson was but arson is different in her hands
She gives it meaning, I give it meaning
I’m fine
No really, I’m fine
Seriously, I’m fine
I dig a little bit deeper every night
I get a little bit closer every night
I am a princess striped in black
Staggering home
Staggering
Lipstick or blood
Sometimes it’s hard to tell
Palm of the atheist
Sometimes you wish
Sometimes your wish comes true
Sometimes you wait
Sometimes that’s all you can do
Sometimes you dream
Sometimes you’re drifting away
Sometimes you talk
Sometimes there’s nothing to say
It’s your fault you’re ugly
Hurts, does not it hurt?
To be among the beautiful ones when daylight comes too soon
Awake from a dream to this cold place
And wretched face you find
When you make it through the night
Whisper kiss me on the missing parts
To everyone you see
Look in the mirror and I see your ugly face
And I turn away as I watch you take my place
I leave with no goodbyes because
I’ve got to escape
The nerve was pinched scientifically
He grimaced in anguish and began to lactate
We were out of the window by nightfall
Walking chalk lines under midnight’s gaze
Shadows hide us for now
Amnesia catharsis
Frozen silhouettes standing on your doorsteps
With glimmering knives at night
Slither under the cover of the absent sun
And attack
They want to colonize your cunts with my mind
Fix your head to fit my heart
Paint your face to play the part
Peering eyes disapprove and are shut
In one, two
Hedonistic stabs
As you wait for another I’ll be miles away
I don’t care if it is you that is there
Walking on glass and coal
I know your sick
And I can’t help but steal your pills
Don’t get lost on those hills
The outside’s shiny but the inside kills
Kills
Red wire
For everyday that bore those holes in you
It takes the fearful ones
Hidden desire
And it takes you
Poor miserable you
Blood is spilled between your eyes and the screen
In your cold lonely apartment
Can you see the lights in the city at night?
Shining on the runaways and the broken hearts
Where is the man with the skeleton hand?
You can tell by the look in his eyes
Proud to wear that uniform
We despise
There is no blood in these wires (I can’t shut my eyes)
Cut them
They’re breeding soldiers in these wires (I can’t shut my eyes)
Cut them
There is brainwash in these wires (I can’t shut my eyes)
Cut them
Never get to me (I can’t shut my eyes)
Cut them
Eyes lit by fire and hands hold candles underground
Were you left out of the love affair?
Wrote fuck you on the bathroom wall
She wasn’t really trying
It looked like she was laughing when she was crying
Convention intervention
A fluorescent slut screams at the edge of the dust
Blowing and keeping our vision dim
Somewhere inside these paper-thin masks
There grows a center
A center you will never see
The blurred eyes of the innocent
That drag me across the sand
On my knees at the temple
And the knife in my hand
Came to see blood
We are just shells of ourselves when we want her
We are just shadows when we touch her
Shatter the glass so I can see through
This place is canceled out
We are just hanging around waiting
For tigers and panthers to lie down
Ghost of a mother, ghost of a father
Calling you back home
Vacant city, vacant heart
Hide your face away and cry
For not feeling wrong
The perils of teamwork
In from the dark path into the dark hall into the dark room into the dark gloom
Faces move as if made of snakes
Pouring over games that have no stakes
I can hear the nightmare inside outside
Vultures in tunnels that lead to the sun
The dead are mechanical and convince everyone
People want to be warmed not warned
I’ll let your eyes be my mask
Simple, secure
I won’t say a word
It is so dark here in your room
I can still smell that whore in my clothes
And the sun is rising
Condemn yourself in someone else
To stop the pleasure or pain
Gorgeous gorgon
Waiting for your word to slow me
Waiting for your love to haunt me
Waiting for your god to stop me
Kill
Her eyes were murderous lovers turned to stone
She lives amongst these sculptures
And can’t stand to be alone
We were hideous
And for beauty you have to pay
We didn’t want to be happy anyway
Who knew it could be so easy
Resurrection
Do you still know who you once were?
So long ago, so hard to be sure
I can’t let go of something so pure
And you’re not sick
So you can’t be cured
And I won’t give up so easy on you this time
I won’t let them fuck with you or mess with my mind
Because they don’t know what to say
And they don’t know what to do
And they know you're not that way
And that’s why they buried you
Being sawed in half
You wake up lost and follow a stranger home
It’s four a.m. and the lights are still on
We’re living in the cracks you caused
You make your own
The part that is borrowed
And you pass it out so everybody knows what your about to do
What made her real was the way her hands would have burned had she touched the light
Twist it out of the ceiling
And toss it onto the floor
Searching for some feeling
I don’t have anymore
All the tortured are reading lines
It’s easier to make up your face
Than to make up your mind
Maybe if you ran a little bit faster you wouldn’t have to hide
Just peel back the plaster and let me see inside
There are a million holes in your own life
And you’re buying disease
And you’re laughing
And you’re so sure
Twist around and they’re selling you the cure
I’ve walked miles between these walls
I’ve breathed the air between these walls
You're breaking up
And I don’t know if I care
Raise your right hand and vanish
Faces almost become familiar in their beauty
Then become brutally ugly in their strangeness
Then become brutally ugly in their familiarity
Listen, I’ve been thinking and I think you’d better cool it
You know, straighten up
I used to like to pretend I was you
But now I scared
You have a good heart don’t you?
I’m gonna call the cops
I can’t cry because I don’t care
It hurts me too
To care so little about you
Wow, you’re so compassionate
With tears and everything
You are also very good at being yourself
You are a champion of many things
You move so fast I feel as though I’m standing still
Where are you going?
Can I come along?
I can’t die because I’m made of steel
I am not a robot
I have a heart
Are you crying?
Cadaver party
It’s such a sinful wish to sleep at night
With flowers and crosses on telephone poles
At this speed it looks like a graveyard
At this speed it feels like my funeral
Rise now I command you…Rise now I command you
Hope is better than what we hope for
It’s hard to believe this disease is better than its cure
More
I keep thinking someone’s going to burst through that door
And give me an award
I feel like I should be bleeding but I can’t find any holes
Or any proof to show
I must really be callous
I didn’t even wince when they showed the photos
Attack like the crocodile
From the dark riverbanks
With vacant eyes
And armored skin
They will be drinking
And then they will be underwater with teeth
Rolling and rolling with nowhere to go
But down
I keep thinking someone’s going to raise their hand and say they understand
Come on and give me just one more shot
All I’m asking for is just one more little try
Come on, I promise to impress you this time
Walking corpse with me
And you
I move into the heat
And you do too
(You are lost now and you have no home)
Crowded rooms stay warm (moving forward and sinking downward)
(Never sleeping and never waking)
(Always passing and never meeting)
But you need more
City of the new species
Let’s go to the abandoned factory and dance to the sounds of the ghosts at the wheel
Shadows and lovers escape at sunrise
Fathers and mothers cry
Headlights in our hiding place
Aisles and aisles of eyes
Hungry eyes
Lean out the window and listen to the sirens
High above the terrible news
We never get that terrible news
We could hold hands over this city
Listen to the fox
Sit next to the fox
But don’t believe a word he says
Brainwash the tiger
It’s hidden in downstairs-carpeted cages
It’s hidden in darkened rooms with glowing screens
All your friends are there
You better fight like the tiger
Have stripes like the tiger
Have claws like the tiger
Because they’re coming for you
We are one when I wear a mask
We are one when you don’t ask
Everybody wants it from me
Home is just a place we go
Never found a reason just go
You’ll never really breathe again
Never really see again
First you’re your own and you do what they say
Then you’re yourself when you do what they say
Then you’re your own and you do what you want
But what you want is oddly similar to what you’ve always done
I’m just a character in a story you love
I used to cry
But now I’m reading the same story
And you know what?
I need to be entertained too