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“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.
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Hymn_01
04:52
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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…
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3. |
(a)=arcsin
01:51
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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…
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4. |
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“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.
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5. |
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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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6. |
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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.
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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.
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8. |
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“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.
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9. |
Magnets Coil (Sonar Mix)
04:37
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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.
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10. |
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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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