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Phantasmagoria
05:04
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He was a black boy, taste of candy-apple on his tongue;
She was a white girl, side-by-side they stood in love so young;
They bought the ticket for the ride and stepped into the car;
Crashing through seven doors, they climbed the hill into the deepest dark!
Oh! In the night
Can you see, see the light?
In the dark, hold me tight
And we’ll see, it’s alright!
In spite of the snakes and skeletons that rattle in the dark;
In spite of the sign that warned of swift removal from the park;
They left the track and found a place behind a scene of gore
And traded passions in the halls of this Phantasmagoria!
Oh! In the night
Can you see, see the light?
In the dark, hold me tight
And we’ll see, it’s alright!
Adam and Eve were walking;
They were alone and talking,
Watching a star, so small,
Burning beyond the wall.
And it was a lovely garden,
But Daddy was always watching,
Weighing the bad and good;
He never understood;
Adam and Eve were walking;
They were alone and talking:
In the glade,
There was an
Apple.
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Runaways
07:25
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There’s so much I want to see
so take my hand and run away with me
right through the gatekeepers
into the verdant black.
They can wave that fiery sword
— but baby we’re not going back!
Can you hear it sighing in the trees,
beyond these houses and sanctuaries?
We tasted the fruit,
all dripping down,
that juice was sensual.
Now there’s something out there
that I wanna know!
Be my shelter and I’ll be your light
We don’t need no guide
Let our hearts decide, oh
And if judgement fall on where we lie,
let it fall like feathers,
‘cuz here together
We stand.
So let ’em cry
Just let them weep, baby
They talk of angels falling,
but their own paths are steep.
And now they’re staring
as if they’re not wearing
mortal skin!
If there’s something beyond here,
I wanna know!
Be my shelter and I’ll be your light
We don’t need no guide
Let our hearts decide, oh
And if judgement fall on where we lie,
let it fall like feathers,
‘cuz here together
We stand.
(Born in succession:
Love and Transgression.
Born in transgression:
Love is succession.)
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Poison and The Cure
03:51
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I caught the message from the radio
When all alone was all I had
It blew right through me like a heavy snow
It said there’s good in feelin’ bad
It set the match to my
My kerosene
It stole the color
From my dreams
And it felt like
Everything I need
I burned my Guess T-shirt and stonewashed jeans
All I wanna wear is black
Gave away my Motley Crue and Roxxette tapes
And I don’t ever want them back
Cuz there’s a fire
Burning me
From the outside,
You can’t see,
And if I die at
Seventeen
Give my younger brother
Everything, everything!
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Something Wicked
05:48
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And you now remember:
You were 12 years old
When you first heard it calling
Like a long steam-train, in the late-late night
When the leaves started falling
And the softness of her skin, when you held her close,
Said you’d be with her always
Then the frost blew in -- and what Heaven knows
Can’t help heal your heartache
Don’t matter which way you run
Something wicked this way comes
Bodies, they undress for bed
Words whispered by lips of red
They’re watching you through the fence
The veil of your innocence
The silk, from the spider, spun
Something wicked this way comes!
Were you all alone? Was it on a Sunday?
The sound of you crying
Brought your mom upstairs, but what could she know
Of living and dying,
The body, the bread, the blood in the cup
Of faith and the maker,
And the guilt you feel for the wordless joy
Of animal nature!
Don’t matter which way you run
Something wicked this way comes
Bodies, they undress for bed
Words whispered by lips of red
They’re watching you through the fence
The veil of your innocence
The silk, from the spider, spun
Something wicked this way comes!
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Wipe Those Tears
03:26
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It's always something!
It never fails!
Waiting to catch you
with teeth and nails!
From outta nowhere!
TEN TIMES YOUR SIZE!
This alligator
eat you alive!
Just when you thought it was behind you and the coast is clear
It sets upon you and it makes you want to disappear
Wipe those tears away
They got no use at all
The weakness you betray
is the name they're sure to call
So watch those words you say
And stand up straight and tall
-- And wipe those tears away!
It always follows
you around!
You can't escape it!
It's written down!
Come like a postcard,
right to your door!
Ain't even no surprise no more, well...
Across the town could have been anyone but now it's here
it's such a mess well I suggest you better listen here:
Wipe those tears away
They got no use at all
The weakness you betray
is the name they're sure to call
So watch those words you say
And stand up straight and tall
-- And wipe those tears away!
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6. |
She's Gone
02:08
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Call out the boys
She’s up and gone again
Give the hounds the dress
And let go of their chains…
She’ll be mine again!
Before the night is through
In one piece or many
She’ll be back with me
Or she will be in me!
And I know it sounds cruel
From the lips of this fool
I’ve searched this world through and through
And the only one for me is you!
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Quoth the Raven
06:09
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Ain't no trick
telling how it started
Just a twitch of the heart
An animal
within your blood awakened howling
Hallelujah!
Spot of moon
in the place you're hiding
holds your heart in its tide
Flesh and bone
And hair!
And hunger never-ending!
Mountains move ya!
It's just a question of unfathomable size:
What defines you, anyway?
Down a hall of mirrors you'll go, chasing your disguise
until it suits you.
Fare thee well!
Lost behind you evermore,
Such sweetness, never to restore,
The warning perched upon the door,
(Quoth the raven)
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore!”
Little one,
Ain’t no tale I’m telling.
We are flawed by design.
Twice we’re born,
The sheep is shorn, the wolf is waiting
Howling through ya!
So come stand next to me
And see why my teeth
Are so bright and shiny…
It's just a question of unfathomable size:
What defines you, anyway?
Down a hall of mirrors you'll go, chasing your disguise
until it suits you.
Fare thee well!
Lost behind you evermore,
Such sweetness, never to restore,
The warning perched upon the door,
(Quoth the raven)
Quoth the raven, “Never--”
Here to stay forever!
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore!”
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8. |
Unmarked
03:31
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(instrumental)
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Tiny Captains
02:36
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When your hands are small
and your body slight
And you’re just a frag-a-ment
of a mel-o-dee -- oh!
And your stars align
but you can’t take flight,
You’re not a little bit like me!
And I am a captain of the universe,
one tiny boat in the sea
No port of call,
no direction at all!
Millions have gone before me!
When I’m battle-scarred,
and when my hands are tired,
take me home.
Vessel be bound in a tourniquet,
send me that wave of relief!
Damage be done —
but we live through this one!
Lifetimes have flashed before me!
May our love be long,
but when I’m dead and gone —
Let me rot.
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Healed!
05:09
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Clearly, you recall a revival
They brought her to the stage in the light
The body in the hands of the faithful
Never walk again, ‘til he cried:
“You are healed!
You are healed!”
Certain that your family would shame you
Holding all your secrets inside
So you wore the clothes that they gave you
Told if you believe, you’ll be fine
You are healed!
You are healed!
Alone in the dark you’ll find
In the wild in the back of your mind
You are the natural kind
And it’s alright
The curses that they’re dealin’
You can’t let ‘em keep you in
Scared as you are,
I know that you can understand!
Fear is what you face in the mirror
No one knows the battle you fight
The bullies on the bus call you queer,
And the thing that hurts the most is, they’re right.
You are healed!
You are healed!
Alone in the dark you’ll find
In the wild in the back of your mind
You are the natural kind
And it’s alright
The curses that they trade in
You can’t let ‘em fence you in
Alone as you are,
I know that you can understand!
You are healed!
You are healed!
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11. |
System Failure
02:44
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Systems failed you’ve had your warning,
now your world will come crashing down
Into the abysmal darkness,
where evil is lurking and vices are found
My light’s been dimmed down inside me,
there’s nothing around but this dark lonely shroud
Evil stalking and listening, we're watching…
waiting for your arrival home
(Ah, ah, ah)
It’s a long fall from where you are
(Ah, ah, ah)
We tried to warn you, we've shown you the signs
(Ah, ah, ah)
Hold on tight, you’re going down
Ooo-ooh
We want you on your knees,
the one you pray to won’t help you now
You’ve cursed your children, their children,
with lies and greed and a mask of love
You’ve doomed us all to this fate,
making us weak so the monsters come out
Hallowed horrors in the corridor,
waiting for you to show them when
(Ah, ah, ah)
It’s a long fall from where you are
(Ah, ah, ah)
We tried to warn you, we've shown you the signs
(Ah, ah, ah)
Hold on tight, you’re going down
Ooo-ooh
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12. |
Cain and the Fireboys
06:44
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Nothing fun ever happens here, he said,
Striking a match and igniting his brother
As we gathered near the gas-cans
Smoking and laughing as the flames grew higher...
He held a razor like a paintbrush, cutting the
Truth, raw and bleeding, in the bellies of swine
Our homeroom teacher fell to his knees, praising the
Curve and the cut of the line
Said, “Ooh, you better look out for this one!
'Cuz he’s a killer for sure!”
Nothing cool at the car-park, so he
fashioned a piece made of meathooks and teen!
It struck a nerve with the Paris Review,
It had a compelling aesthetic principle!
Ooo, and all the mothers across the land
Brought their babies to touch his hand
He became the special man,
And we were The Firebrand…
From ten or twenty dustbowl towns to
Maybe a hundred a thousand or more
They were fucking in the streets!
They were painting in blood!
They were calling out his name!
Soon they were chewing-off their own hands and feet, they were
They were trampling each other to please us!
We brought the madness first-class coast-to-coast!
Like the Beatles we were bigger than Jesus!
Oh, how to measure a mind like that? He was
Always a step ahead, a font of fashion
-- Signing his name with a blood-red passion!
Yeah, and that piggy was rich and fat!
Violence is a song from the heart!
Art is murder, and murder is art!
…
Nothing cool ever happens here, he said
We were lying in his bed, all warm and numbered.
Nothing cool ever happens here, he said
And put a gun to his head.
Oh, what a beautiful bang!
(Bang, bang!)
His finest work!
A masterpiece!
Oh, we started singing his name!
Oh, Cain! Oh, Cain!
Hey, we love you man!
Oh, what a beautiful bang!
(Bang, bang!)
His finest work!
A masterpiece!
Oh, we’re still singing his name!
Oh, Cain! Oh, Cain!
The song goes on forever!
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All is Lost?
06:26
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Black on black, or so they say:
The clothes of the enemy
make him so
hard to see
in the dead of the night
until he is right
upon you.
Some slight of hand
The deal, and the card hidden upsleeve
secrets and plans
revealed as the cellblock surrounds you
All is lost
All is not lost
All is lost
A shadow moves in the darkness...
( . . . )
Your kin turn around
his tongue in their mouths
the mask is off
his face is everywhere
"Give us a sign
watch all the stars fall from the sky
black as the final curtain
live if you dare
Hope and despair
will pair in your head; the trick is, now,
holding them side by side like
the blue and the red."
And that's what he said,
before he consumed the poison.
Some slight of hand
The deal and the card hidden upsleeve
secrets and plans
revealed as the cellblock surrounds you
All is lost
All is not lost
All is lost
All is not--!
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