1. Intolerance 2. Prison Sex 3. Sober 4. Bottom 5. Crawl Away 6. Swamp Song 7. Undertow 8. 4 Degrees 9. Flood 69. Disgustipated
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I don't want to be hostile I don't want to be dismal but I don't want to rot in an apathetic existance see I want to believe you and I want to trust and I want to have faith to put away the dagger. but you lie, cheat, and steal and I tolerate veil of virtue hung to hide your method while I smile and laugh and dance and sing your praise and glory shroud of virtue hung to mask your stigma as I smile and laugh and dance and sing your glory while you lie, cheat, and steal. how can I tolerate you. our guilt our blame I've been far too sympathetic our blood our fault I've been far too sympathetic I am not innocent you are not innocent no one is innocent. I will no longer tolerate you even if I must go down beside you because no one is innocent you lie, cheat, and steal I will not tolerate you I will go down inside you I must go down inside you no one is innocent Back to top
it took so long to remember just what happened I was so young and vestal then you know it hurt me I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive even if signs seem to tell me otherwise I've got my hands bound my head down my eyes closed and my throat wide open do unto others what has been done to you I'm treading water I need to sleep a while my lamb and martyr you look so precious won't you come a bit closer close enough so I can smell you I need you to feel this I can't stand to burn too long released in sodomy for one sweet moment I am whole do unto you now what has been done to me you're breathing so I guess you're still alive even if signs seem to tell me otherwise won't you come a bit closer close enough so I can smell you I need you to feel this I need this to make me whole release in sodomy for I am your witness that blood and flesh can be trusted and only this one holy medium brings me piece of mind got your hands bound and your head down and your eyes closed you look so precious now I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this shit, blood and cum on my hands. I've come round full circle my lamb and martyr this will be over soon you look so precious Back to top
there's a shadow just behind me shrouding every step I take making every promise empty pointing every finger at me waiting like a stalking butler who upon the finger rests murder now the path called "must we" just before the son has come Jesus, won't you fucking whistle something about the past and done why can't we not be sober I just want to start this over why can't we drink forever I just want to start things over I am just a worthless liar I am just an imbecile I will only complicate you Trust in me and fall as well I will find a center in you I will chew it up and leave I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down mother Mary won't you whisper something about the past is done why can't we not be sober I just want to start this over why can't we sleep forever I just want to start this over again I am just a worthless liar I am just an imbecile I will only complicate you Trust in me and fall as well I will find a center in you I will chew it up and leave trust me why can't we not be sober I just want to start this over why can't we sleep forever I just want to start this over again I want what I want Back to top
my compassion is broken now My will is eroded now desire is broken now it makes me feel ugly on my knees and burning My piss and moans are the fuel that set my head on fire. smell my soul it's burning I'm broken looking up at me, the enemy I have swallowed the poison you feed me but I survive on the poison you feed me and it leaves me guilt fed hatred fed weakness fed it makes me feel ugly I'm lying on my knees and burning (?) I set my head on fire dead inside shit adds up at the bottom if I let you you would make me destroy myself in order to suvive you I must first survive myself I can sink no further and i can not forgive you there is no choice but to confront you to engage you to erase you I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain I will use mt mistakes against you there's no other choice shameless now nameless now no one now my soul must be ironed 'cause my fear is naked naked and fearless and my fear is naked dead inside nameless now shameless now nothing now no one now shit adds up as you see me naked now fearless now shit adds up it leaves me dead inside hatred keeps me alive (?)ness keeps alive weakness keeps me alive guilt keeps me alive at the bottom Back to top
crawled away from me slipped away from me I tried to keep ahold but there was nothing I could say slid away from me crept away from me tried to keep it down but there was nothing I could say so what you're trying to say is you don't wanna play but what you want and what you need don't mean that much to me I can see your back is turning if I could I'd stick the knife in crawled away from me slipped away from me I tried to keep ahold but there was nothing I could say slid away from me crept away from me tried to keep it down and there was nothing I could say what you're trying to say is you don't wanna play but what you want and what you need don't mean that much to me I can see your back is turning if I could I'd stick the knife in this is love this is my love for you this my love say you won't go get up now what you're trying to say is you don't wanna play but what you want and what you need don't mean a fuck to me I can see your back is turning if I could I'd stick the knife in Back to top
my warning meant nothing you're dancin' in quicksand why don't you watch where you're wandering why don't you watch where you're stumbling you're wadin' knee deep and goin' in this bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a stupid beligerant fucker this bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a dumb ass beligerant fucker I hope it sucks you down my warning meant nothing you're dancin' in quicksand why do0n't you watch where you're wandering why don't you watch where you're stumbling you're wadin' knee deep and goin' in and you may never come back again this bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a stupid beligerant fucker this bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a dumb ass beligerant fucker I hope it sucks you down wander in and wandering no one even invited you in you still stumble in suffocate why don't you get out while you can my warning meant nothing you're dancin' in quicksand why don't you watch where you're wandering why don't you watch where you're stumbling you're wadin' knee deep and goin' in and you may never come back again this bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a stupid beligerant fucker this bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a dumb ass beligerant fucker I hope it sucks you down wandering wondering no one even invited you in you're still stumbling suffocate what don't you get out no one told you to come my warning meant nothing you're dancin' in quicksand why don't you watch where you're wandering why don't you watch where you're stumbling you're wading knee deep and going in and you may never come back again this bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a stupid beligerant fucker this bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a dumb ass beligerant fucker I hope it sucks you Back to top
I've been struck dumb by a voice that speaks from deep beneath the cold black water twice as clear as heaven and twice as loud as reason It's deep and rich like silt on a riverbed and just as undisturbing the currents mouth below me opens up around me suggests and beckons all while swallowing it surrounds and drowns and sweeps me away but I'm so comfortable.. too comfortable. shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up you're saturating me so how could I let this bring me back to my knees again again again I've been baptized by your voice it screams from deep beneath the current of the water and it's half as high as heaven and half as clear as reason it's cold and and black like silt on the riverbed just as never ending the currents mount below me opens up around me chasin' back (?) swallowing so tossin and tossin me away (?) shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up you're saturating me so how could I let this happen again why don't you kill me I'm weak and numb and insignificant and I'm back on my knees lost in euphoria I'm back down I'm in the undertow I'm helpless and awake in the undertow I'll die within your undertow it seems there's no other way out of this undertow Back to top
get up free yourself from yourself locked up inside you like the calm beneath castles is a cavern of treasures that no one has been to let's go digging bring it out and take you back in you won't do what you'd like to do lay back and let me show you another way I'll kill what you want me to take what's left and eat it take all or nothing life's just too short to push it away take it all take it all in all the way in let it go let it go in you won't feel what you'd like to feel lay back and let me show you another way I'll kill what you want me to take what's left and eat it take all or nothing life's just too short to push it away knock me down I'll just come back running knock you down it won't be long now all the way in all the way I'll kill what you want me to take what's left and eat it take all or nothing life's just too short to push it away take it up higher 4 degrees warmer give in now and let me in you'll like this in don't pull it out it brings us closer than dying and cancer and crying come on you can take it all just like that I'll kill what you want me to take what's left and eat it take all or nothing life's just too short to push it away Back to top
all I knew and all I believed crumbling images that no longer comfort me I scramble to reach higher ground order and sanity something to comfort me take what is mine hold what is mine suffocate what is mine bury what's mine soon the water will come and claim what is mine I must leave it behind and climb to a new place now this ground is not the rock I thought it to be thought I was high, and free I thought I was there divine destiny I was wrong this changes everything take what is mine hold what is mine suffocate what is mine bury what's mine soon the water will come and claim what is mine I must leave it behind and climb to a new place now the water is rising up on me thought the sun would come deliver me but the truth has come to punish me instead the ground breaks down right under me cleanse and purge me in the water Back to top
And the angel of the lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber. And took me on high, and higher still until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own midwest. And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil. One thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear. And terror possesed me then. And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust." And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers"" Can I get an amen? Can I get an hallelujah? Thank you Jesus. this is necessary life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on... this is necessary It was daylight when you woke up in your ditch. You looked up at your sky. That made blue be your color. You had your knife there with you too. When you stood up there was goo all over your clothes. Your hands were sticky. You wiped them on your grass, so now your color was green. Oh Lord, why did everything always have to keep changing like this? You were already getting nervous again. Your head hurt and it rang when you stood up. Your head was almost empty. It always hurt you when you woke up like this. You crawled up out of your ditch onto your gravel road and began to walk, waiting for the rest of your mind to come back to you. You can see the car parked far down the road and you walked toward it. "If God is our Father," you thought, "then Satan must be our cousin." Why didn't anyone else understand these important things? You got to your car you tried all the doors. They were locked. It was a red car and it was new. There was an expensive leather camera case laying on the seat. Out across your field, you could see two tiny people walking by your woods. You began to walk towards them. Now red was your color and, of course, those little people out there were yours too. Back to top
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