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Hymn_01: Virtual (Expanded)

by The Mercy Cage

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1.
“fuck prozac” she said it’s such an ordinary drug it’ll make you better if better is really how you need to feel fake plastic overture the smile crack’d the mirror wavers 15 years of freedom in one tiny little pill & yet… like a virus she comes like a virus she comes & we suffer the flesh we are as one no more vibration, no more colour to not go quietly into the night where did your light go? the flame snuffed out the lamp convulsing dry swallowed, somewhat damaged crawling on the floor the picture incomplete attacks the image takes a blowtorch to the flame of memory scars like the sun sheds its lie on everyone as ever, the same… and we suffer the flesh missed dreams of hope, faith oh everything is wrong awake with the dead he dreams of prozac, god & the atomic bomb.
2.
Hymn_01 04:52
another anthem for the disappeared feeding back this time i promised you the murder of faith & the siren blasts to herald the dawning of another age with rapt & keening voices the lie enshrined again marked by the sins we’re inching up to it i never said that all was well you know it scars like hell oh man it hurts like anything time to piss another useless lie away we pray we pray i never said that all was well you know it scars like hell man it hurts like anything time to piss another useless lie away we pray to the church of the cathode ray. crucified by the past crucified by the shame the sheep go marching on & on repulsed from the barricades & the siren blasts to herald the dawning of a new age indoctrinates through fear & i am on my knees again i never though it would end this well it scars like hell it hurts like anything…
3.
(a)=arcsin 01:51
ever the tragic beauty queen miss vegas ’84 this is the seed of the word this is the base for the metaphor arms splayed in the shape of the cross another crucifixion play how’d we get so wrong? & why are you so far way? why are you so far away… tell me…where is the end? bang the rhythm of a new drum bang the rhythm of the new…
4.
“fuck prozac” she said it’s such an ordinary drug it’ll make you better if better is really how you need to feel fake plastic overture the smile crack’d the mirror wavers 15 years of freedom in one tiny little pill & yet… like a virus she comes like a virus she comes & we suffer the flesh we are as one no more vibration, no more colour to not go quietly into the night where did your light go? the flame snuffed out the lamp convulsing dry swallowed, somewhat damaged crawling on the floor the picture incomplete attacks the image takes a blowtorch to the flame of memory scars like the sun sheds its lie on everyone as ever, the same… and we suffer the flesh missed dreams of hope, faith oh everything is wrong awake with the dead he dreams of prozac, god & the atomic bomb.
5.
celebration day & yet again i feel this small she sets fire to the stars she has come possessed structures collapsing & i feel almost human again mad as birds shares my bed godhead bleeding through the walls [fucking on prozac never seemed so pure] oh let it stain & the flames lick higher as the heat grows stronger & i just feel dirty it comes to nought & i suffer join the black celebration let the hate bite harder reunion let it stain… lost in the madhouse she walks the tightrope of the nightmare again delusional, entrenched dulled by her will & the tourniquet tightens… as the flames lick higher & the heat grows stronger & i just feel dirty it comes to nought & i suffer join the black celebration let the hate bite harder reunion let it stain… let it stain. she is the knife of mercy she is the blade when all is right & i am numbed by occasion & i am bathed in the light she says: “you were always a failure” & she says: “you were never that good anyway” bodies entwined, flesh elastic i lick the sweat off her skin this is a trigger for the downside… as the flames lick higher & the heat grows stronger & i just feel dirty it comes to nought & i suffer join the black celebration let the hate bite harder reunion let it stain… & the sane face etched with the restless horror as the inmates feint it turns to smoke as it lingers join the black celebration let the hate bite harder reunion let it stain…
6.
bright eyed & weak kneed converging on the sin she rips apart the circuitry & puts the wires in reflecting on the shame of a life gone astray kill the body, tune the mind & watch the worthless flesh waste away wasting away rusting on the vine this mechanical halo steps out of time you call for the angels but they’ve all gone away the future’s not here to stay let the past sing [breaks god] flays away the skin [breaks god] the experiment begins [breaks god] make it clean, make it new metal on metal screaming “I renounce you” wasting i refuse to understand wasting take the body, make it whole put out my hands wasting i refuse to understand wasting… dilate the mind as the body lies church comes home distils the code lost in the dream feeding it back into the soul of a new machine bulb flickers on the scene of the crime a step too far this time make the past scream: [breaks god] flays away the skin [breaks god] the experiment begins [breaks god] make it clean, make it new metal on metal screaming “I renounce you” wasting i refuse to understand wasting take the body, make it whole put out my hands wasting i refuse to understand wasting…. violate the mind let the body die take me home.
7.
you took you removed all that was pure & right you tore it all down & replaced it with this hole & i sit here wracked with fear of the surrounds of the disease you took everything away… wind back the hands of time i am poisoned by the stain of this chemical halo neurotic from the sickness as the blade slips in like the leper said: “reduce, distil, purify, teach” this cancerous exorcism of all that you stole from me you took everything away… wind back the hands of time i am poisoned by the stain you took everything away… you took everything away wind back the hands of time [reduce distil purify teach] [this cancerous exorcism] [all that you took from me] [rain, rain wash away] [purifies the sin] [the horror of the expectation] [razor slipping in] wind back the hands of time.
8.
“fuck prozac” she said it’s such an ordinary drug it’ll make you better if better is really how you need to feel fake plastic overture the smile crack’d the mirror wavers 15 years of freedom in one tiny little pill & yet… like a virus she comes like a virus she comes & we suffer the flesh we are as one no more vibration, no more colour to not go quietly into the night where did your light go? the flame snuffed out the lamp convulsing dry swallowed, somewhat damaged crawling on the floor the picture incomplete attacks the image takes a blowtorch to the flame of memory scars like the sun sheds its lie on everyone as ever, the same… and we suffer the flesh missed dreams of hope, faith oh everything is wrong awake with the dead he dreams of prozac, god & the atomic bomb.
9.
bright eyed & weak kneed converging on the sin she rips apart the circuitry & puts the wires in reflecting on the shame of a life gone astray kill the body, tune the mind & watch the worthless flesh waste away wasting away rusting on the vine this mechanical halo steps out of time you call for the angels but they’ve all gone away the future’s not here to stay let the past sing [breaks god] flays away the skin [breaks god] the experiment begins [breaks god] make it clean, make it new metal on metal screaming “I renounce you” wasting i refuse to understand wasting take the body, make it whole put out my hands wasting i refuse to understand wasting… dilate the mind as the body lies church comes home distils the code lost in the dream feeding it back into the soul of a new machine bulb flickers on the scene of the crime a step too far this time make the past scream: [breaks god] flays away the skin [breaks god] the experiment begins [breaks god] make it clean, make it new metal on metal screaming “I renounce you” wasting i refuse to understand wasting take the body, make it whole put out my hands wasting i refuse to understand wasting…. violate the mind let the body die take me home.
10.
celebration day & yet again i feel this small she sets fire to the stars she has come possessed structures collapsing & i feel almost human again mad as birds shares my bed godhead bleeding through the walls [fucking on prozac never seemed so pure] oh let it stain & the flames lick higher as the heat grows stronger & i just feel dirty it comes to nought & i suffer join the black celebration let the hate bite harder reunion let it stain… lost in the madhouse she walks the tightrope of the nightmare again delusional, entrenched dulled by her will & the tourniquet tightens… as the flames lick higher & the heat grows stronger & i just feel dirty it comes to nought & i suffer join the black celebration let the hate bite harder reunion let it stain… let it stain. she is the knife of mercy she is the blade when all is right & i am numbed by occasion & i am bathed in the light she says: “you were always a failure” & she says: “you were never that good anyway” bodies entwined, flesh elastic i lick the sweat off her skin this is a trigger for the downside… as the flames lick higher & the heat grows stronger & i just feel dirty it comes to nought & i suffer join the black celebration let the hate bite harder reunion let it stain… & the sane face etched with the restless horror as the inmates feint it turns to smoke as it lingers join the black celebration let the hate bite harder reunion let it stain…

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'hymn_01-virtual' was a free downloadable pre-release promotional EP for the 2005 album 'scree: transmissions'. Featuring 3 songs from the album, plus 3 remixes by breathingunderwater's Dean Young.

'hymn_01: virtual [expanded]' adds some out-of-print compilation appearances & unreleased mixes to the original.

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released October 13, 2004

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