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.
credits
from scree: transmissions,
released September 12, 2006
s c r e e: transmissions written, performed, mixed & mastered by The Mercy Cage @ Virus Event Theatre Labs Tauranga New Zealand December 2002 – July 2004
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