1. |
Bloodsucker
02:05
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Your flesh is a factory
Spinning out skin bone and teeth
I hear your blood and bile seep
I feel your heart each time it beats
Isn’t that just love, my lovely?
That you should feed me when i’m hungry
It isn’t much I need
So please, don’t be afraid to bleed
Surely yours, the purest love
The kind sent down from heaven above
I know your heart too kind and sweet
To withhold from those in need
I know, my love, you’d never curse me
To waste away when I’ve grown thirsty
It isn’t much I need,
Please don’t be afraid to bleed
Isn’t that just love, my lovely?
That you should feed me when I’m hungry?
And you’ve got blood in such excess
It must be no great burden to divest,
And how much could you need?
So, please don’t be afraid to bleed
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2. |
What’s Her Name?
02:56
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Who is my love?
And what is her name?
Her blood stains the ground,
And who is to blame?
My heart is an abattoir,
My heart has a thirst
She won’t be the last,
No, she wasn’t my first
My love has been bound
My love has been drowned
And we’re all just dirt in the ground
My maiden fair with long dark hair
Laid roses ‘cross her chest
My maiden fair with long dark hair
Laid in the river bed
My loves come unwound
My love bleeding out
And we’re all just dirt in the ground
My maiden fair with long dark hair
And roses in her mouth
My maiden fair with long dark hair
She’s just dirt in the ground
We’re all gathered round
We’re all gathered round
And we’re all just dirt in the ground
We’re all gathered round
We’re all gathered round
And we’re all just dirt in the ground
So would you kill me now?
Oh would you kill me now?
I know you know how
I know you know how
A maiden fair with long dark hair
Left flowers on my grave
A maiden fair with long dark hair
Away she’s gone away
Who is my love?
And what is my name?
My blood stain the ground
But who is to blame?
A girl in the garden
A girl in the mirror
A girl in the graveyard
My dear, my dear
My dear, my dear
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3. |
Slaughterhouse Floor
03:24
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Oh my love said her heart was a slaughterhouse floor
She said la la la
She said my heart was a wrought iron door
She said la la la
She said I’ll be your battering ram
She said la la la
Said I’ll be your locksmith i’ll be your man
She said la la la
She said always wear your heart on your sleeve
La la la
Cause love only lasts for as long as you bleed she said
La la la
So I met my love on the slaughterhouse floor
She said la la la
And I checked the locks on my wrought iron door
I said la la la
Said I don’t want no battering ram
I said la la la
But I’ll be your butcher knife, i’ll be your man
I said la la la
Always wear another man’s heart on my sleeve
La la la
Cause my love only sees what she wants to see
La la la
Be thou flesh of my flesh and i’ll be the house that you haunt
Lay down your neck for my blade and I’ll be what you want
And I can’t seem to imagine, perfect love
But I have to imagine
That it’s blood, blood, blood
Oh my love said her heart was a slaughterhouse floor
She said la la la
She said my heart was a wrought iron door
She said la la la
She said I’ll be your battering ram
She said la la la
Said I’ll be your locksmith i’ll be your man
She said la la la
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4. |
Coming Soon
01:59
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Ask me where your body ends
And where mine begins
And tell me where the blood still flows
Are you now a fire?
All burning desire
But for what god only knows
Ohhhhh
Ooooh
And what kind of blessing
This obsession
Molten metal in your veins
I might try to match it
But my mask is cracking
If only I could feel your pain
Ohhhhhh
Ohhhhhhh
Systems conjoined
At unstable points
Bloody electric,
What is your metric?
Tracing the impulse
Is one true and one false?
What is a fire?
Who is a liar?
Oooh
Oooh
Tell me where the tower ends
And tunnel begins
Tell me do you love the wound?
Kneeling at the altar
Our bodies falter
I guess the end is coming soon.
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5. |
She Decays
02:37
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My love she sits where green is deep, asleep.
Her parted lips lie cold and full of thorns,
This sleeper whispers to me do not mourn.
We’ve left to many secrets here to keep
My love she warns me gentle, do not weep
Sap trickles from her lids where they are torn,
As at her throat the sweet new growth is born
And who am I to say where vines should creep
(One day, turns to three turns to five one day I won’t remember)
(I am the insect walking here)
(Forgive the future forget the fear)
She tells me what I know, I cannot stay
And offers me the flowers at her wrist
Reminds me of the fruits that come in may
And leaves me bleeding from her final kiss
I go, relent and leave her to decay
Leave life and death together, bound in bliss.
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6. |
Discover This Body
03:20
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The smooth expanse unbroken,
But not hard to tear apart
That’s where we start
The knife is sharp
I promise this,
Then deeper in
It takes some force
For bone to split
Unfold the ribs
Like pages in a book
The flesh now held and hooked
Would you like to take a look?
Lean over now
I’ll show you how
Just a little bit
Now that body splits
That’s it
Don’t push it too far
See?
Your heart still beats
For me.
See?
Your heart still beats
For me.
Your blood still seeps for me,
Your lungs still breathe for me.
Do you see?
See?
Your heart still beats for me
Your heart sill beats for me
Your heart still beats
Your heart still
Beats
And when we put you back together
What shape would you take?
I can go whichever way
You like
My stitches tight and sure
Who are you anymore
Let's find out together
What's rejoined whats severed
Whats born anew now
Who are you now?
Uncover the body
Discover this body
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7. |
Infinite, Intimate
02:43
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The soul is an emergent property of the body
All structure is anatomy
And thus sufficient understanding of systems and lines
Allows the capacity for creation of something that is truly alive
A vaulted rib cage over head (we are playing god again)
(we are playing god again)
That Holds the weights of giant’s flesh (we are building god again)
(We are filling god again)
Impermanence is an inevitability of the human body
Decay is the unavoidable fate of our anatomy
Thus we endeavor toward structures that defy our sense of time
In the ways of Fungus. Forest. God. Alive
We are the ones who serve it well (we are playing god again)
(we are playing god again) (this place is for you)
Who strive to live outside ourselves (we are building god again)
(We are filling god again) (it is a place of honor)
In the absence of a God understood to be clearly embodied
We create her in our passion for anatomy
The greatest end of humanity would be this:
In short, create what we cannot imagine to exist
We stand in pride, we stand in awe (we are playing god again)
(we are playing god again) (this place is for you)
That we, so small, can build a god (we are building god again)
(We are filling god again) (it is a place of honor)
(The love of god is infinite)
Not the house of god, but rather the housing of god
(The love of god is intimate)
(The love of god is infinite)
Be within me, for this too is my body
(The love of god is intimate)
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8. |
Something In The Woods
06:14
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Lost some, lost some, something in the woods somewhere
Lost some, lost some, something in the woods somewhere
Lost some lost some something I, lost some lost some something
And I I I’m afraid that it’s my mi i ind
Lost some lost some something I, lost some, lost some, something
And oh oh oh I know that it’s my sou o oul
Would you still come with me
if you knew where I’d been?
Would you still say you love me
if you knew the state I’m in?
Lost some lost some something I, lost some lost some something
And I I I’m afraid that it’s my mi i ind
Lost some lost some something I, lost some, lost some, something
And oh oh oh I know that it’s my sou o oul
A girl in the garden
a girl in the mirror
My mind a broken glass
Oh how I’ve come to fear her
Lost some lost some something I, lost some lost some something
And I I I’m afraid that it’s my mi i ind
Lost some lost some something I, lost some, lost some, something
And oh oh oh I know that it’s my sou o oul
My love is the face of the moon
My love is the sun
My love is a sword outstretched
My love she’s a loaded gun
I’ll be true to my I’ll be true to my
Lo o o ove
I’ll be true to my I’ll be true to my
Lo o o ove
If my love will be true to me
If my love will be true to me
I am the madman
And I am a prophet
I am the end of the world
Then again the beginning of it
Lost some lost some something I, lost some lost some something (I’ll be true to my, I’ll be true to my)
And I I I’m afraid that it’s my mi i ind (Lo o o ove)
Lost some lost some something I, lost some, lost some, something (if my love will be true to me)
And oh oh oh I know that it’s my sou o oul (if my love will be true to me)
My love is a wildfire
My love is a chain
But my love, I cannot be bound
For my love, I’m the rain
My love will you let me go gently
My love will you forsake my name
My love please forgive and forget me
My love for I cannot be saved
My love will you let me go gently (Lost some lost some something I, lost some lost some something)
My love will you forsake my name (And I I I’m afraid that it’s my mi i ind)
My love please forgive and forget me (Lost some lost some something I, lost some, lost some, something)
My love for I cannot be saved (And oh oh oh I know that it’s my sou o oul)
My love will you let me go gently (Lost some lost some something I, lost some lost some something (I’ll be true to my, I’ll be true to my) )
My love will you forsake my name (And I I I’m afraid that it’s my mi i ind (Lo o o ove)
)
My love please forgive and forget me (Lost some lost some something I, lost some, lost some, something (I’ll be true to my, I’ll be true to my))
My love for I cannot be saved (And oh oh oh I know that it’s my sou o oul (Lo o o ove)
My love will you let me go gently (Lost some lost some something I, lost some lost some something (I’ll be true to my, I’ll be true to my) )
My love will you forsake my name (And I I I’m afraid that it’s my mi i ind (Lo o o ove)
)
My love please forgive and forget me (Lost some lost some something I, lost some, lost some, something (If my love will be true to me))
My love for I cannot be saved (And oh oh oh I know that it’s my sou o oul (If my love will be true to me)
My love will you let me go gently
My love will you forsake my name
My love please forgive and forget me
My love for I cannot be saved
Would you still come with me
if you knew where I’d been?
Would you still say you love me
if you knew the state I’m in?
Lost some, lost some, something in the woods somewhere
Lost some, lost some, something in the woods somewhere
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9. |
The Other Half
03:12
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Where I lay my chest comes unfolded and unfurled
And there the bottom falls, down out of the world
It sings to me hypnotic, thoughts pulled in and swarming
About my soul the landscape transforming and transforming
Traced down my back I feel the song, echoes etched in skin
I ask where lies the world and where do I begin?
As within color, bridges form of light
The pattern wraps around me and devours my mind
And I see within it, my star blazing and caged
Unspooling and unspinning, I cannot hold its shape
I feel myself arising, in shifting waves embraced
Identically I’m sinking, In the shifting waves embraced
Transcendence born of ruin, blood red pulsing through
In the twisted body, mutagenic flowers bloom
Endlessly dissolving the edge of sea and sky
My world is surely ending, I feel it all unwind
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10. |
Perfect Love
03:29
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God Is A Mouth
Feel it’s echo in all other hungers
Feel it burning in your flesh
All things carried in the blood
Pulsing in the cavern of your chest
Desire renders us repulsive and divine
This body. This temple. Wretched and sublime.
I’m only playing god again
I’m only playing god again
What tenderness could you expect to find?
Coming from these hands of mine
How many times do I have to say this,
All surgeons, all lovers, all artists are sadists.
God is a scream, and a gaping silence.
The love of God is violent.
Repulsive and divine
Wretched and sublime
But you only say “See?”
“My heart still beats.”
The body broken open
There my hands, your heart
No more shall we part
I promise this.
Repulsive and divine
Wretched and sublime
This Temple,
This Body
This Temple,
This Body
This Temple,
This body
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11. |
Like God
05:32
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Oh I’ll be true to my love
If my love will be true to me
Who is my love?
And what is her name?
Her blood stains the ground
And who is to blame?
My heart is an abattoir
My heart has a thirst
She won’t be the last,
No she wasn’t my first
I’ll be true to my,
I’ll be true to my love
I’ll be true to my,
I’ll be true to my love
If my love will be true to me
If my love will be true to me
Desire renders us
Repulsive and divine
Your body, my temple
Wretched and sublime
Tell me where your body ends
And the world begins
Can you point me to your view
When the mirror breaks
And glass permeates the skin
Are you me or am I you?
Or are we…
Only playing god again
We’re only playing god again
Can you hear the angels sing
You say that you love everything.
What tenderness did you expect to find?
Coming from these hands of my mine
How many times will I have to say this
All surgeons, all lovers, all artists are sadists
I’ll be true to my
I’ll be true to my love
I’ll be true to my
I’ll be true to my love
Her body is a sanctuary
Of blood and bone that shall not spare me
When I lay down my weary head
You’ll find the architect is dead
Am I the one you need?
My heart upon my sleeve?
For you?
For you?
Am I a place of honor?
How long, you think, before you find this?
My love, my god
I’m often violent
I fear I know not who you are
And one day you’ll cut out my-
Who is my love?
And what is my name?
My blood stains the ground
And you are to blame.
But I’ll be true to my love
If my love will be true to me
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