1. Hymn

step forward
give of yourself
your body is a temple
give of yourself
step forward
your body is the altar
step out of your skin
let the dirt
into your muscles
step forward
give of yourself

2. Taskmaster

Skies precious horns, ordinary chainsaws
I am left with horses revolting in the normalcy
Shipwrecked by a face all sweet and empty
Like a hollow candy or an ice cream smile

Licked down to a cigarette I promptly extinguished
In a dead infection a desk drawer full of blurry sunflowers
Under your bare feet are only symptomatic
Of the monster I have become

Skies precious horns, ordinary chainsaws
I am left with horses revolting in the normalcy

3. Black Centipede

practice choking
practice for the day
my lungs stop drawing breath
practice dying
practice decay
tiny artifacts
screaming in my head
I'm not ready

4. Immune To Life

dead animal lies
under the overpass
immune to life at last
addicted to despair
snort serenity
clouds in the sky
body unnatural
dead animal lies
under the overpass
immune to life at last

5. Fuck You Up And Get High

оригинал: Dwarves

I ain't got a nickel ain't got a dime
Kill your fuckin mind
Gonna get me fuckin high
Gonna take my ride
I'm gonna fuck you up
I wanna fuck you up
I wanna get high

6. Contagion

catch it in your mouth
like dogs
landfill
landlord
one hand to another
spreading the disease

7. Blank Dice

dust through the fingers
sieve catches no gold
no chance with blank dice
medicine is for the weak
which is what I'm becoming

8. Blonde Prostitute

The vomit on your lips tastes like the sex of a twin sister
I can hear your stomach knot as another threshold is reached and crossed
Imagination is the key
So destroy with the nails
Repair with the tongue and repeat
It only hurts if you look
I am a velvet corpse kneeling before you and for a split second
Your eyes were lambs as my fingers slipped around your neck on the way to heaven

9. Patterns Of Failure

With better eyes I could have seen the disgust on your face when i spoke your name
And with better ears I could have heard the disgust in your voice when you spoke mine
And with better hands I could have felt your skin crawl when my fingers touched down upon your neck
And with a better nose I could have smelled the vomit churning in your stomach when you touched me out of pity
And perhaps with a better voice my words might have done more than flatter
And yet even with all these things I know it would have happened the same way because even now I still wish I could do
it all over again

10. Rejection Fetish

A pair of cracked snowflakes bleed behind a veil of crimson butterflies
Her face is a heaven littered with dead angels
I bathed in their blood
Slept upon their severed wings
Imagining a place called innocence
I see flashes of pale skin writhing in bruised ecstasy
I am the immortal disciple of a dying god
Each time she forgives me it becomes easier
Her smile has gone and in the bedroom there is only the hollow scraping of skeletal lovers dreaming of skin

11. Dark Satellites

Rebellion impossible
Your cable crushed in its infancy
They watch you conspire from distances beyond your perception before revolt is feasible
Their ability to negate our strategems must be annulled
We must blind the watchers

12. Purity Undone

I dream of leaving this body through a leak in my skin
Escaping this temple holding a young god in visions of purity
Undone visions of purity
Undone and yet I gave in to divinity or perhaps just sleight of hand
But on the day the guilt fades away I will finally understand

13. Forgotten Child

A sliver of star dances through my sky to crash into another lifetime
Always the journey never the destination
Those lovely columns of fanged smoke wander through plastic gardens
Where kisses blown at a forgotten love still drift looking for a face in a world of masks
I see a light on a dead horizon
Glowing like a bed of sapphires in a sea of ash
But it's a distraction and nothing more just an instrument to measure the darkness
That swallows me from time to time

14. White Sand

Like a rabbit drowning in quicksand
I say as I try to imagine the death whisper of your heart dissolving through my cupped hands
Ambushed by assassins in my blind spot
I couldn't recover in time to save a sleeping child from being pulled in by a silent tide

15. Painter Of Dead Girls

I see the pale girl in a red dress on the stairs of a sinking mansion
Her siblings take me to her sometimes
They say she's my ghost sent back to rape this body
And that I'm a painter of dead girls
Sleeping with the same vultures that tear the flesh from my inspiration
She comes to me obscured a distant figure in the rainfall

16. Down In The Streets

оригинал: The Stooges

Huh!
Down on the street
where the faces shine.
Floatin' around I'm
A real low mind.
See a pretty thing – ain't no wall.
See a pretty thing – ain't no wall.
No wall,
no wall,
no wall.
Uuh!
Yeah deep in the night
I'm lost in love.
Yeah deep in the night
I'm lost in love.
A thousand lights
look at you.
A thousand lights
look at you.
I'm lost, I'm lost, I'm lost – yeah.
Huh
Faces shine – real low mind.
Real low mind.
I'm a real low mind.
real low mind

17. In The Meantime

оригинал: Helmet

Earth tone suits you
So give it a smile
If I could hold your feet down
Get to know for awhile

To make due is a promise
Hard to keep without help
Never taught to look in
I'm too concerned with my health

Help me spread right, ash is
Cow fertilized
Come down in a feed town
Strength to minimize

Hold it

In the meantime