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The Unwashed Masses
03:08
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Full-frontal heartthrob, you my one true love
Like saint Sebastian skinny-dipping in Capote's Cold Blood
You got Tasmanian passion in a dopamine flood
Wickedest witch now float like spit, float dead dove
And yeah you saw me on some long lost trip.
I bent back time I kissed you dead on the lip.
Would've left a mark if I thought you were
The type who could handle it.
Give it up for the unwashed masses
Sucking their thumbs
Narcan for breakfast and glass caskets
Can't wait to drop the bomb
Give it up for the unwashed masses
Hating themselves
And give it up for, their children at war
Dying to preserve the Bible belt
Cuz all their lies are black and white
but what I do with my life
Is none of your concern
But I give it up for the unwashed masses
Waving their guns
I give it up for the unwashed masses
They know not what they've done
Say your prayers, say grace
Die alone, save face
You a waste of time
Say your prayers, say grace
Die alone, save face
You a waste of mind
Full-frontal, heartthrob
You my one true love
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Venus in Pisces
04:42
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Baby's spun in stinging nettle
Kisses just like heavy metal
Turn my tears to diamonds
In his Chernobyl wake
And love's fickle as bad weather
Shredding violets petal by petal
Lock me in your tower
But you won't forget my name
Because I made you
Stiff as a board
Light as a feather
Venus in Pisces, mi amor
Get your shit together
Corn-fed in Italian Leather
Wish we could have slept together
The blowflies growing louder
In the remains of the day
Now I wish I was never born
but from the stem the rose is severed
And I look good in my crown of thorns
The brightest angel giving rides to the devil
Because he made me
Stiff as a board
Light as a feather
Venus in Pisces, mi amor
I got my shit together
By the pricking of my thumb
Something sickening this way comes
Bodies dancing in setting suns
He has returned from sea foam
So take the crop
Take the blood
Drift away
The year is one
Take the crop
Take the blood
Drift away
The end has begun
Yeah he swore
He swore he'd never
But time is a relative endeavor
The stained glass growing smaller
As his hearse pulls away
And he lays there stiff as a board
But his heart weighs less than a feather
Venus in Pisces, mi amor
We go on and on forever
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The Sea Will Tell
03:11
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Pleasure
03:30
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The virgin can’t hold the lion forever
And I can’t take my love to the grave.
Baby, if you broke it we’ll put it back together
In love with the parts that Jesus couldn’t save.
And if you’re worried I can’t stomach it,
You don’t know the fire I’ve swallowed.
So take my hand and we’ll be done with it,
I’ll give you shelter from the storm.
And when I know no pleasure,
Then I’ll know no pain.
If they go, they go together,
The sane inside insane.
But I love you in my pleasure
And I love you in my pain.
I recognize the way they move
and it seems to be the same.
I want to touch you, I want to taste.
I want to stand still inside your grace.
I’m not ashamed, I’m not ashamed,
I’m not ashamed, I’m not ashamed.
Because when faced with the options
on how I’d love to spend my days,
I don’t really care who is up there watching,
I choose pleasure, I choose pain.
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John
03:24
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What a waste of a young body.
What a waste of a curious mind.
What a waste of a young body.
I heard he covered the boys in lime.
What a waste of a young body.
What a waste of a naïve mind.
I did what I did, and I’m not sorry.
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
Do you, do you, do you, do you love me?
Do you, do you still love me now?
Do you, do you, do you, do you love me?
Do you, do you still love me now?
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
When I got raped, I didn’t cry.
I became the stars in the sky.
Did what I had to do to survive.
I became the veins and ley lines.
And did you know, her legs were never found.
The girl-next-door that he cut up and drown.
Did you know her legs were never found.
Wrapped in plastic, she won’t make a sound.
Do you, do you, do you, do you love me?
Do you, do you still love me now?
Do you, do you, do you, do you love me?
Do you, do you still love me now?
Do you, do you, do you, do you want me?
Do you, do you still want me now?
Do you, do you, do you, do you love me?
Do you, do you, do you still love me now?
I guess we learned how to love from a monster
So how could we expect anything more.
And we learned how to love from a monster
So how could we protect the ones we adored.
Do you, do you, do you, do you love me?
Do you, do you still love me now?
Do you, do you, do you, do you love me?
Even after you let me down.
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
John, I learned what it’s like to die.
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Harness
03:27
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I never could accept love
The way the vultures arrange the bones.
Prince Charming and white horses,
My Medusa turned them all to stone.
So I roll on,
Leave the relics in Rome.
Settle the desert in a fugue state
And burn down like my childhood home.
I am the flowers dying in the glass vase.
I am the eyes in moonlight unfazed.
Nothing can touch me if I am empty.
No one can hurt me because I can’t feel.
Boy in a harness, I watched you heart break,
All dressed in leather, it was severe.
The moment of sadness, the death in your sex tapes,
You got the leverage baby, sweeten the deal.
Never could, never could, never ever could accept love.
Never could, do any good, do any good except love.
And you learned in the moonlight,
I am just what you like,
And you still fantasize about that night,
Dying in your bed all alone.
Your eyes were glowing violet,
Said you’d like to try it,
And you were hooked
from that moment forward.
I am the flower dying in the glass bowl.
I am the eyes without any soul.
Nothing can touch me because I’m not friendly.
No one can hurt me the harder skin heals.
Boy in a harness, girl with the most cake,
my little Judas, my little earthquake.
The moment of silence for my latest mistake.
Cross out his name and move onto the next take.
Never could, never could, never ever could accept love.
(and I will harness, and I will harness, and I will harness my heartbreak)
Never could, do any good, do any good except love.
(and I will harness, and I will harness, and I will harness an infinite strength)
Never could, never could, never ever could accept love.
(and I will harness, and I will harness, and I will harness my heartbreak)
Never could, do any good, do any good except love.
(and I will harness, and I will harness, and I will harness an infinite strength)
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8. |
Ecdysis
02:39
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Speed away, speed away,
Speed away from my past lives.
Sweet remains, sweet remains,
Sweet remains go bump in the night.
Now become, now become
Now become with all that I lost.
Now become, now become,
Now become at any cost.
And there’s a creek where I shed my skin,
Watch the fish dog my shadow and begin again.
Love’s a rope, tied a noose and I played with fire.
There’s a creek where I shed my skin and die.
Poison ivy, poison oak, evil eye me
All I’ve ever known.
And for a moment, for a moment
For a moment, the roach glows pure white.
All my dreams, all my visions,
All my love it’s all inside.
Speed away, speed away,
Speed away from my past lives.
Sweet remains, sweet remains
Sweet remains go bump in the night.
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