WHERE DOES YOUR BODY BEGIN?
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
Now is your body you?
I SEE THEM ALL LINED UP
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
I finally got back what was always, righffully, mine.
UNREAL
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 blind...Unreal.
FANLETTER
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.
Now you're mine. Yeah you're mine...
YOUR NAKED BODY
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
Beneaih the cold, blue, starlight...
LOW LIFE FORM
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
IF YOU...
If you carry the light for me, through oceans of melting steel
The very next sound you feel, will be the low red sky bleeding
But oh, it's all right, I don't care, it's all right...
I'm subtracting the air from my lungs, so someone will breathe in me
My body's just empty skin, floating through tunneling space
But oh, it's all right, I don't care, it's all right...
If you put your wet mouth on my skin, I will black out my blue eyes
And the very next sound you feel, will be my white body bleeding
But oh, it's all right, I don't care, it's all right...
WHY I ATE MY WIFE
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
I can't go on with the song - but you're singing.
BLIND
Now some of us are weak, and some endure
And some people live their lives, with a violence that's pure and clean
But I saw a man cry once, down on his knees
In the corner of a darkened cell, and his pain meant nothing to me
But I was younger then, and young men never die
When I walked out in the sun, I was strong, clear minded,
and blind
And please don't ask me a question, you'll just be misurderstood
And if you could step inside me, you'd feel what hatred brings
And if you could see with my eyes, you'd see what self-deception means
I was younger once, and I created a lie
And though my body was strong, I was self-deluded, confident,
and blind
Now show some pity, for the weak of will
Because when we're drinking, we can never be filled
And show some undentanding, for the lonely fool
Because when l'm drinking, l'm out of control
No I was never young, and nothing has transpired
And when I look in the mirror, I feel dead, I feel cold,
I am blind.
All words and music (C) 1995 M. Gira/Young God Publishing (ASCAP)