Standing on the Golden Gate bridge.
looking for the girl who
did not like to live
look for the girl with the atropine eyes,
as she flies!
I've got cabin-fever
I've been in my head for far too long
my brains are blowing out from pressure-jeasy
my strings are melting and I'm sure that I can fly-
maybe I'll try!
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(pre-chorus)
It's another fucking sunset and
I'm checking out tonight.
Slipping into sleep, your
memory slaps me awake.
I don't want to die.
I want to fuck you one more time.
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Chorus
I don't want to die!
I can hurt you more alive
if that keeps me here for one more day
it's all I need to say
stumbling through this world with all my lies
failing comically at all I try
I feel I'd like to die
but it hurts even to try
why should I try?
nausea, sweet nausea
anticipate my bane
sanctify and vilify to keep us both alive
I'll just go to sleep
tomorrow means another chance at being sane
(pre-chorus, chorus) out...
2. Field of Poppies
Can you get to the other side
can you get to the other side of the
my kisses are narcotic
chorus;
I'm a 2-bit baby boy
(chorus)
I kiss you all to miss myself
her blood will become the wine
of the field of poppies
without laying down to go to sleep
and never waking up again?
field of poppies
with your body intact,
your self-respect and your friends
you kick and sweat when I'm not there
we'll be blowing up a mountain
when I whisper through your hair
shake me then erase me
you can never quite replace me
you're in my blood
I'm in your soul
lost in the city streets
screamin' for his next mommie
lookin' up and clunching any
skirt that slishes (whispers) by
I fear my own thoughts
reflected in your yellow eyes
I miss you like the devil misses God
I'll bite her lip and taste her blood
and roll her blood upon my tongue
that I will sup every time
I want you behind me
get behind me!
get thee behind me!
3. Pet the Princess
Love spreading
I want to
chorus:
pet the princess, beauty-fuel
I want to
I'm flying
I'm dreaming
eyes open
toes pointed at the sky
legs trembling
remembering this moment as
a child
just want you
but I'm not
man enough or true enough to me
I want to drown in you
faerie-princess beautiful
I'll drown in you
jump into your ocean
but I cannot
swim at all
I'm falling
I'll catch myself in time
to land and wake with you!
4. Hey Louie!
Chorus:
Hey Louie! I Love you man!
I like your girl and I like your band
(chorus.)
Warrior heart
I get strength from men like you
(chorus.) (chorus.) (chorus.)
You must be the most loved boy in
this whole electric world!!
I love you more than a lover, brother.
cool like a chick, but you're a man
I watch the world on louiecam
I like the way that you understand
It cut my heart when I made you mad
Hey Louie, I'm your biggest fan.
holding court
since a child
in my soul
you’ve been through what I’ve been through
Louie is a man’s best friend
that’s why Louie is in demand
5. You!
You!
You!
Chorus
all the vampires in my mind
You!
You!
(chorus)
middle 8;
you will do the backstroke
you were made by me from dust and clay
you are owned by me,
I made you.
You know that I like you.
and I think that I need you
and you know that I'm bad for you.
have many precautions
in your psychic firewall
to keep out viruses like me
conspiring to eat my time
pull me into your abyss, then leave!
You know that I own you
you gave me permission
I'll take your youth while I grow old!
you know that I'm poison
you know that you like it
you know that I'm gift to you!
in the pools of my desire
hold me up to the light
drain my pool as I require
and snips and bales of old-wives tales
so I determine how and when to play with you
I'll give you back to your desire
set you free and start a fire
moth into the flame.
6. You lie all the time
Well;
Hippie with a gun
Chorus: You lie all the time
poet, thief and strongman,
6 cents in my pocket,
I see lovers hold each other
(chorus)
You can kill yourself with rock n' roll,
or you can give your ass to god
Or you can stay the way you are forever,
with a needle in your arm.
Punker hearing bells
If this one goes to heaven,
that one goes to hell
it's you that you adore
The church is full of charity,
My bedroom's full of whores
people tell me I'm a star.
lost my girl a town ago,
guess I haven't gone that far
kisses, dance and beer,
watch your own reflection,
in your eyes so near.
They put me in some city hotel
With running water and electric light
They gave me money, and a woman
Said that I was doing right
They said they'd pay for every song,
I sang them every song I knew
They put their wires back in their suitcase,
The words I sang were true!
The woman took my money
My wife sits staring at the wall
My song is on the radio
I'm drunk and I don't care at all!
(chorus x2)
7. Shatter your picture
I cannot feel these feelings anymore
I'm measuring time with cigarettes
hold me
Chorus:
shatter your picture
I lie awake in bed and twitch
everybody's mad at me today
(chorus chorus)
take me to the tower
You looked so good walking out my door
your perfume it remains, blessing my crimson bed
it's a shame, you've set up house inside my head.
I'm wondering just how chillingly alone
I can get
I possess a bone-deep longing
to be half of a whole
slay me
nail me to the floor
scatter my ashes
shatter your pictures of me
(repeat)
I wipe my sweat off on your dress
I'm lying balled-up, twisted, chewing upon your crucifix
The sidewalks and the ceilings look the same in any town
(chorus)
middle 8 inst.
I don't care, I feel that I'm right anyway
your tattooed skin is cracking under
the strain of relief
I'm measuring moments with years
screaming while enumerating fears
measure my reaction
take me to the tower,
splatter my religion
tatter my wishes
torture my reaction
and leave.
be all of the things that I'm afraid to be
(fade out.)
back to skull world