Horse Legs

LYRICS:

Can I, low as I have fallen
not hold dearly to something?

Her eyes, lifeless as they may be
presented something easy

But oh, to say that I could hold you
outside of bespattered sheets
my plastic darling,
would be a dream

Unlike those witches I detest,
she’s always at her best

An idol of a girl; she always leaves me empty,
my comforting, vacuous effigy of nothing really

But oh, to say that I could hold you
outside of bespattered sheets
my plastic darling,
would be a dream

Would blood offered up in flames
fix life into her gaze?
Wine, roses, ocean candles?
There's no price I wouldn't pay!

LYRICS:

Mind your bleeding heart
That heavy head may have brought you far
but the morningstar you indulgently admire
blinds you as it lights your eyes on fire

But only if they knew
the world for an object as you do
they'd look down and see
solid ground beneath their feet
Turn away to sensibly believe

The light reflects on all that's real:
could it really be so simple?
If all you know is nothing still,
then be fulfilled

Fade into your bones
as every shallow breathe you earn turns cold,
and you've nothing left to hold within your hands
Change heads and resolve to fall again

because can't they see
that everything they need 
is empty feeling?
A tired impulse fired off
without a meaning
And all the world must know:
they're insects on a rock
and they've been dying too slow

The light reflects on all that's real:
could it really be so simple?
If all you know is nothing still,
then be fulfilled

Nothing Still

LYRICS:

Came upon my doorstep
a little man with a lowered head
He asked if I would be so kind:
allow him to give me his life

So I clothed him in a burlap sack,
dirt-black and ripped in half
He kissed my hands as I laughed
and got to breaking to his back

So every night as I beguiled my 
guests with glorious excess
I called upon my newest loathsome slave
to entertain them

He'd lick the floor and run on fours
if I demanded
Of all the servants of my house,
he was the lowest there had been

I rose, shiny and gold
to angels' arms as they were told 
to bathe me head to toe in
golden honey, poured atop me,
as from a rusted gas can
slopped waste upon my servant's head
And so they said, "Our work's been done
Now clean each other with your tongues"

So as the days went by and that 
little servant served his purpose
I observed etched on his face
repugnant nervousness and

though that meek wretch never met my eyes, 
one night he dared to spite me
Awoke his voice at dinnertime, 
recounting defiantly his dream

I listened to it all and said, 
"It must be so,
that such a sorry epiphany could give one 
such as yourself so much hope

For even in your fantasy,
in death you still serve me
Your only place in heaven's 
as my punishment, you see" 

I rose, shiny and gold
to angels' arms as they were told 
to bathe me head to toe in
golden honey, poured atop me,
as from a rusted gas can
slopped waste upon my servant's head
And so they said, "Our work's been done
Now clean each other with your tongues"

The Pongo's Dream

LYRICS:
I know I bore you,
but I never once thought to ignore you
I fear that I've gotten
quite too comfortable

But when you were here before,
it was harder to admit
that the placid look you scorn
no longer quite makes you sick

I simply want to hurt you,
ruin you just for the urge to
I no longer care
about the finer things

But when you were here before,
it was harder to admit
that the placid look you scorn
no longer quite makes you sick

Revenger

LYRICS:

As I've been forced to
become reliant on you,
I can't make sense of being alone
So if I spoke, would you throw this old dog a bone?

Carry on by my command
Your being lies within my hands
Reject the hunger that keeps you alive,
I'm never going to let you die anyway

When anyone could look at you now,
pacing, aimless in your cell,
as your complexion dissapears
because you're never getting out of here

It's not hard to see that I have been
trying so hard to die within
this cage you've put me into 
just to make me need you
So what's the point not eating out your hand?
Make no mistake - he turns his back
on being the lion to become your housecat

Bleary phantom in the glass,
habit seems more foreign concept
A million years, and you're what's left
Without me you would never last

So be content with what you have:
a pale portrait of the past,
four-by-five under blue sky
a model of a paradise

It's not hard to see that I have been
trying so hard to die within
this cage you've put me into 
just to make me need you
So what's the point not eating out your hand?
Make no mistake - he turns his back
on being the lion to become your housecat

Born In Captivity

LYRICS:
Before you bow your head,
just say it's not enough
Confess you hold your tongue,
because it can't be what you want

To blow away,
chasing ash off cigarettes
knowing nothing's getting rid
of that bitter taste

So find a reason to cut your hair
because nothing ever changes around here
and fill your head
with empty promises that you'll forget
Time and time again you'll understand
that even after all that,
you ain't got nowhere
because nothing ever changes around here

Nothing ever changes

You know it ain't so bad after all,
because the bed you lie on rots so nicely
down until nothing's left
and it's the only choice you have

to shut yor mouth and give it up
because you know that 
nothing ever gives enough
for you to make it out of this bitter way

So find a reason to cut your hair
because nothing ever changes around here
and fill your head
with empty promises that you'll forget
Time and time again you'll understand
that even after all that,
you ain't got nowhere
because nothing ever changes around here

Nothing ever changes

Jacket And Gloves

Bear With Me

Love, Again (feat. Gethsemane)

im just ken

LYRICS:

Old boy,
you never pictured such a perfect place
and pissed it away
I guess you never really meant to change

And days fly by 
when you're living in a dream
You'd say that it was easy
picking up the pieces

And old boy,
you thought you had some friends
You always said that you were better than them
This is how you make amends

Old Boy

LYRICS:

You've seen a picture 
of it all
move and speak in tongues
You'd better not

Might hear those witches
singing songs
under moonlight
or not at all

So well this 
brave new world
has taken your heart,
convinced it apart

Take a move
down to the city
Put on red tonight
Leave yourself behind

Stretch and reach for 
flesh and bones
Not with that holy probe,
it's all we need to know

So well this 
brave new world
has taken your heart,
convinced it apart
(x2)

Witch's First Failure

Lead guitarist from PHOEBE AND THE NURSES

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