Violent Measures

 I didn’t give it a name
I didn’t need it to come alive
Desperate times call for stolen
Yes, these were violent measures

 So I rapped on your door again
I never loved you more than then 

Clairvoyant

 When I closed my eyes I saw prairies
Someone out there was being buried, oh
My means were gladiatorial
My heart was dictatorial, oh
And I wrote it down on my ledger
As if by stroke I’d feel safer, yho
I stayed in here to get pleasure
My chances sure would be better, oh
With you being here

 So I look to you
I look to you

Love does not make me clairvoyant
All I know is how to be your servant
Love did not make me clairvoyant
All I knew was how to be your servant 

So I’m running around on that prairie
Like a gambling lamb
Love I’m terrified
I’m running around on that prairie
Like a gambling lamb
Love I’m terrified

 And I look to you…

Interloper

 When last did you go to Bacchanalia?
He seems to have seen you there
You know the one who puts me in hysteria
And makes me behave like a cur

 You know the one who would shame me
In matters of the loin
And make me believe
That I’ve been alone in some hopeless void

 You know the one
Mnxim
Come on, you know the one

 I am in love, I’m an interloper
I am in love, I’m no interloper

 Good Lord I see him now
Good Lord I see him now
Tell me what happened to the opium of your word
Let me put my finger in the cavern of his mouth

 I am in love, I’m an interloper
I am in love, I’m no interloper

 Good Lord I see him now

Who did you love in Bacchanalia?
Do you think they would have loved you too?
Now those boys smile when they see ya
I guess it’s something I should get accustomed to
Ooh, something I should do

 Do you see them now?
Do you see them now?
Did they suddenly appear for what they were?
Hmmm, baby, there’s something in your mouth 

I am in love, I’m an interloper
I am in love, I’m no interloper 

Oh! Do you see them now?

 In everything I look for a sign
In the birds
Or the blue of the sky

You Will Not Die

 And when I drank until full
With no tear to cry
There was nothing to give up 

And in the morning when I woke
I knew I would not die

 And I’ll live
Just to see you die
‘Cause I was easy to give up
And in the morning when I wake
I know I will not cry

You sent me away

 I’ve heard there’s a light
That’s invisible
For the ones who do stray
When I’m alone I know that we’re indivisible

Still when I drink until full
With no tear to cry
I have noting to give up

 And in the morning when I wake
I know I will not cry

 You sent me away  

Presbyteria

 I remember Presbyteria
Those sunny days when…
In Presbyteria

 Don’t run away
Say your prayers
In Presbyteria 

Black and white never looked so good

 Well as far as I know
It must have been years ago
Since I’ve last laid my eyes upon you 

And I know without a shadow
of a fucking doubt
You always meant so well 

Black and white never looked so good 

Sunday morning
When the bells rang twice
You’d know that…

Black and white never looked so good
(You always meant so well, didn’t you?)

The Dead

 Well there’s one
They are gray-eyed I’m sure
They open and close doors
Then feed me in the evening
When I’m breaking my fast 

I’m walking on the balls of my feet
In the cold to meet you
I wish I had shoes on 

Well this time
I’m gonna love them unceasingly
Sing hallelujah sort of willingly
And dance in front of god like David did 

I’m walking on the balls of my feet
In the cold to meet you
I wish I had shoes on 

Star Red

 And I found you
I found you in the absence
I went back home to Alice

 I remembered that moment
A worrisome fragment
When I read you the Bible
Because you were simply unable 

Star Red

Then I found you
I found you in the excess
I haven’t been home to Alice

 I remember the moments
No, never the ailments
The beer on the Bible
I’m still wicked
And I don’t mind the revels

 Star Red

 And I twirled around the room
I walked around the room
With tears in my eyes
With tears in my eyes
Oh, grandmother
The world outside

 Not the one who’d borne me
But the one who loved me
The one who brought light
And was beaming with pride

Fog

 I’ve got this fog
It runs through me
Decades and it all seems
She’s been crying herself to sleep
She cries she goes, oooh

 The devil I know will try
To stir up in me
A vengeance that is not mine
Try not to please him

Come on… 

By the Gullet

 Seized me by the gullet again
Naked, a body that boasted youth
I immersed myself in it

 And I bit into the dated fruit
I immersed myself in it

And I bit into the dated fruit
I stayed in there until my fingers pruned
It was then I knew that I was not ruined
I immersed myself in it
(Will never happen again) 

And I could be found dancing again
In the back of a room of the Holiday Inn
With a glass and a grin
The light flooding in
Who knows me here?
All I know is that I’m living again

So I went walking
I’d never seen so much beauty in the face
Of a man so cunning
I immersed myself in it
Said I’ve been drowning
I immersed myself in him
Thought I was better
I thought myself loose-limbed and lithe
I was longing again 

And I could be found dancing again
In the back of a room of the Holiday Inn
With a glass and a grin
The light flooding in
Who knows me here?
All I know is that I’m living again

And on the ground behind me
I left a trail of water
Loath to look back
Busying my mind with the strength
I wished to gather 

(A benevolent will had summoned me) 

All Along

 I’ve been hammering at the same wall
Without a hand to help me break my fall
A dog that chases what it had all along
And never knows when it has done wrong

 I’ve had you here all along
I need you all day long

 I woke up in bed and said,
“I want my innocence back”
I want my baby back
I woke up in bed and said,
“I want my baby back”

 I had been stammering all night long
I sang my prayers to an unknown god
I danced on tables my shouts were so strong
I drank till it hurt
Smashed some bottles
Sang along 

Hmmm, no one to tell me I’d done wrong
Oooh, look away
You’re not that strong 

 I woke up in bed and said,
“I want my innocence back”
I want my baby back
I woke up in bed and said,
“I want my baby back”

 I want some innocence back
I want my baby back
I need some innocence back

Teen Prayer

 When I woke up the room was dark
When I woke up the room was dark
When I woke up without a friend
No hallelujah
When I woke up the room was dark

 Yellow house
Dull red roof and a garden
In this house we praised the Lord
I was a virgin

 In my house
When I sing the gods come calling
Yet in this house
When I’m asleep
Devil comes crawling

 And when I sleep the room is dark
When I sleep the room is dark
When I sleep I need your hand
A hallelujah
When I sleep the room is dark

 Oh, boy
White Jesus loves you now
Much more than he’ll ever love me 

Lord in your house
When the boy comes in I’m falling
He pins me down
He moves in me
He keeps me crawling 

And when I wake the room is dark
When I wake the room is dark
When I wake with him in me
Lord, hallelujah
When I wake the room is dark

 When I wake this room is dark