Every Time I Die

vague men tied to a stake gather round your little ones feast your eyes, steady your aim, behold! we hit shore dragging miles of verse poisoned food on the line we're throwing it back. thought the meat of this kill would feed starving artists for centu...

Old black tusks ripped off of the beast at the bank of the swamp and carved into statues of arthritic gods or the handles of blunt swords that you;ll one day ruin upon, with your eyes covered in miss. Shot down in its sleep, the big game of the world wid...

She leaves her love songs loaded by the bedside. She keeps her scars in six chambers and crying takes aim in a trembling hand. I left my goodbye in the dialtone, sincerely cold. Goddamn these red lights. Get me out of this town while every road still leads ho...

Cleaned up a mess I'm in, now I am born again. Naked, spotless motion without strings. I've flushed the filth to the sea, the limbs and sharp debris but if that water rises woe is me. Hearts aren't beating their counting down. Breaths aren't stolen they're gro...

All of a sudden you're dead The ground cracks and takes you in You've no time to be born again There was nothing where something had been But every grave that blooms is anchored in miles of roots In the seed is the tree In the flesh is the feast There w...

You got me right where you wanted me So what do we do if I can't hold this pose for too long? Do we shoot again, or does the whole operation shut down and we go back to the board? I practiced all my lines, oh yea I'd feed every child in the world But it's a on...

I was wrong, close one. I am wrong. I said it. It was wrong, I mean it. Did it stick? Come down from there. I know it's hard to swallow. When your head is overturned. Hey there girls, I'm a cunt. There was venom in the heart of the dagger. They found a worm in...

Despite what you think, I can offer you nothing. I'm seasick and strung out and tired of adjusting. Hands on the dashboard where I can see them. Hands on the dashboard where I can see them. Let me think. Let me think. I'm all backed up. Just let me think. If y...

we're making habits out of vanities and gospel for the stalls. the less you breathe the more you see of it all. the lions share is courting the teen one hand holds them back while the other is holding me. we don't connect though we're both disconnected. oh, o...

Blood letting just to slake the lust of the little fangs writhing around the trough. Oh how they run. While my love, back home at our infirmary, is drying up. Her heart beat is on hold so if tomorrow finds her dead, I'll blame the ones that "loved" me best; Th...

Girl, what are you scared of? All will be lost anyway I see no good reason to pray I will meet you There’s a light where you go Don’t let in mistakes that haunt you There will be no pedigree Hopelessness like you would not believe I won’t blame yo...

two sets of taillights burn dim and divide, stretch for miles making track marks across what veins fail to carry. you should have taken my keys while my hands were shaking. you could have kept the dead gone, entombed in the soil of arms. raise the breathing ab...

We drew a crowd. The crowd drew the blood. Fawning swindlers. There's a shark in the stream where the newborns are baptized. Who let the flatterer into the gallery on our sweet sixteen? Take him away. Get him against the wall for the witnesses. This is doom in...

play with the bow at the bridge. tune your voices to minor chords. this is the lowest we've ever been until we bend for the offering. we're giving a knee jerk response to the awe. we come strapped to the bed, on display from the duty of tour. they picked up...

Yeah! I ain’t afraid of the dark I ain’t worried about the savages loose in the night But you show me the things I’ve done and girl you know I get ch-ch-chills All down my crooked spine Kill the lights Kill the lights Kill the lights I’ve seen to mu...

Trained in the art of devastating the arts by remaining unmoved in their midst. We came down, down, down from that high and now we're looking for more. We're bloodless now, and we are uninterrupted by the majesty of it all. We're passed around, around, around...

A proud hush had taken hold and you worshipped at its feet. But calm was not long for this world. Calm was not long for this world. I took up arms and you begged let it be, but reason don't live here no more. Reason don't live here no more. Step aside, it's...

How you gonna get up if you ain't never been down? How you gonna move on if you ain't never had enough? Give the signal Advance the pill pushers Administer a change purse full of thorazine Show this girl a little bar courtesy and keep her senses clear of the s...

Boys: Shoot to thrill from the hip. It's time we put the "act" in action. We've tricked the pigs into thinking that this auction is a pageant. In no time there will be makeup on our new set of cutlery. The livestock is star struck. They're all salivating...

You were alone when you came in You'll be alone when you leave again And in the middle there's nothing that can keep you around when it's time to go home Because everybody I lean on (since I don't trust myself) Leans on someone else Watch the colonies col...

reposition the phantom rigged in reflective tape. situated like a makeshift antenna, grinning like tinfoil. we're losing reception. we can't pick up the game. i should be discontinued. i am a broadcasting embarrasment. hiss like the damned. decoding the transm...

Peel off the leather and dig out your heart (x4) Right before your very eyes I slipped off the husk I mastered the slight There's a getaway car that's been waiting my whole life The engine has been running since the moment I arrived A trap door in the gal...

To my mistress the bridge, I don't feel well. I'll be leaving and you can't stop me. We've been carrying on too long, We've been carrying on too long, I'm sorry, but I'm gone. I've got a bad reputation to think about. I've been dirty, I've been wrong. May...

God knows id love to feel something but nows not the time caught up in the heartless disorder of a friday night focus dont stay distracted to lose sight of the treasure ??? I will cherish this love for the rest of my night, the rest of my night One day...

So long to young love I’ve anchored my heart. Farewell to small joys I’ve burned down the bar. I’m changing my name so I don’t do no harm. Some say it’s vanity, some say its charm. No levels, still the same old devils. Frightened of fear, a servant...

Pull the car over you're frightening the kids. What did you promise us about grinning in the rear view mirror without your fake teeth in? Keep your glass eye glued on the end of the highway up ahead of us. The collision is always licking it's lips. You weren't...

Admist the most barren scene how are we lost? You've got to be fucking kidding me. Shut up. Just give me the wheel and I'll drive. You are not yet fit to speak on my behalf. We deserve to be moved by more than force alone. Instead I've been witness to loss upo...

Turns out I never had a thought at all. I've been talking in my sleep, reciting teleprompted anthems - a marionette strung tight to the executives upstairs. I almost had myself convinced that I meant everything I said. What a shame. Oh captain, my captai...

Deaf, blind granite block Content to graze with familiar stock A local lard, not an english black We don't venture into the fog Homeward bound and gagged not twenty steps from the door Dispensable as cooks at sea or journalists sent to war No one found me spel...

This is a cause for celebration here in the belly of the swarm. The situation demands that we raise our glasses in honor of the spokesman we've fixated to the floor. Give us your headlines, hymns, and your saddest verse. You're not partnered with the half hear...

No man abandon his post. A gatecrasher has called us to arms. Take up your torch. I want this ship cleaner than a hospital ward. A radical has polluted our ranks. Slouch into position men, this is a war. Set the traps. We'll have that criminal's head marched t...

Insect lust or insect love, there's no telling them apart if you're not a bug. But from down here I can see the gears the guts of the watches, molecular tiers. Now, if you're a bug in insect love then you only do things with other bugs. But if it's lust (...

Sign my farewell with the chimes of clock radios 7a.m. Sun reveals a failed cherubim dangling from the rafters Like a sentimental ghost floating midway Between the curse of the sky And you this noose carries what atrophied wings Can't don't you want me disench...

My cancer came knocking. It was dressed to the nines. So I peeled back my skin and I let it come inside. But it won't leave, though the guests have gone. No, it pours a drink and requests another song. Now it sleeps in between us. Splits and doubles in size. A...

What we're doing is so wrong, and what you're wearing is so right, it's so tight, but I've never felt better, so I'm going out to get her and I don't care what set of wheels I steal to get there. Balance is a minor setback. What she thinks is alright, and the...

I’m joining a cult. Cut off my hair, clean out my head, fill me with song. Scrap obstructed eyes. Leave my friends behind. Say I’m free. Say I’m free. Say I’m free and I am. Reverse the poles on the magnet. Pierce the armor of habit. I’m joining a cult. C...

I'd rather beg your forgiveness than solicit permission. I'd rather know that it broke your heart than doubt that it will. Every time we divide we put zeros under the line and we publish it as our proof that nothingness is divine. I can't find a way to grind...

From my skin I emit flashing lights In my eyes all you find are flashing lights From my mouth every sound a warning bell Fill the room Kill the mood and overwhelm Break up the crowd Suck the life out Break up the crowd Suck the life out Paralyzed unti...

We opened the box and looked inside Two animals, one is dead, one's alive All we think we know is always wrong The heavens fell in a thick awful shroud that covered the earth, but there wasn't a sound Nobody saw it so nobody heard it All these equations w...

Don't try to resist. You're coming with us. Provisions are made. Accomodations are met. Your words are encoded in the bleak genetics of the mob. Praise Apocrypha--omitted offense--to relieve us of guilt but not of our sin. We've sacrificed discourse at the fee...

No broken hearted people, no crash, no flame, no sermon at a casket nor a howl into the grave. Every bone was in position. Ever hair was in it's place. A light comes. (x4) Pulled of a dark country road. New Roman suicide note. All the way, all the...

I brought a rumor when I came down from the mountain That spread quicker than the fire in your eyes Heaven won't let me in, I took my medicine Salt water couldn't quench my thirst at the fountain Burn slow, there's no rush You're right, always right I w...

the amateur camera captures her motion as perfectly as the strangle knot confine that she wears on her wrists. the trunk preserves the new car scent of the princess skin. disinfectant spit adding luster to chapped lips. if she comes to, i'll tell er that she's...

Stutter step to the beat of a disparaged lover. Dumb and pulsing we've become. The bedroom door is an old black lung. It's arrhythmic. Uninviting and pliable. With the noble irreverence of shrapnel she came for us. Bore into our heads and found thoughtlessness...

Drifting on refuse paraded through the town square. Waving to the families of victims of the flood. Straddling the front door of a Catholic orphanage. I decorated it myself. Thank you, you're too much. Honestly. It was nothing. We should all just thank god I'm...

Marched from a burning ship into a rained out parade With a bottle and a bible The dregs are armed to the teeth We trade distinction and praise For the tedious claim that we were wed in the trenches While college boys pine for loveless exchange We carry...

Am I the only one that saw the sun burn out? The locusts keep their rhythm. My watch has broken down. I wake up and take on water, sink to the peak of despair. What I need is a cigarette. No more prayers. The planets unaligned. We have saints without...

Pay no mind To the stranger in The 4 a.m He’s not the one we know And he knows I slept through the war You waged with him For a little bit Until he cracked your bones And you had to let go So I make believe I’ve discovered peace But I’ll skin the...

Looking forward to a flatlined love affair, the comfort of a dire lovesickness I've come to cherish bed sores, and the salt in my own tears My beautiful affliction, your kiss festers like a boil I find myself ugly in your eyes of asylum scenery Have you come t...

We've drained full confession booths Polluted drinking wells with our repentances and then stood, Grinning with our arm around shoulders of a rotting child. Hold that pose. Provisional, arrogant little pigs who devour their siblings. Shoot that dog if we...

This isn't at all unpleasent. I'm enchanted by the lavish ballet, and I'll whistle the tune all the way to the gallows that I heard at the cabaret. At the sheriff's singal, the orchestra moves the floor. Don't it make you feel wonderful? Body twisting stric...

I'm a great oasis Yeah I'm a mirage I'm a beam of old light from a vanquished star and I'll only guide you into the dark I'm a parasite with a tapeworm Yeah I got a bulletproof vest Knowing my bad luck I ain't ever gonna die so the good will never get any...

You've heard the voice of God, solely. Everything is so clear to you. Reload for the greater good. Focus. Throw us at the feet of the fools. You don't know how lucky you are that your life is so characterless. All the worlds a cage and we are animals pounding...

I should have drown in the flood with the rest I had the chance The current was pitiless And proof of man was wiped from the face of earth The song, the dance Yeah, I should have gone with it Alas, I'm stranded alone in the wake Now I have lost all sigh...

At the bottom of the first drink, I found my nerve. At the bottom of the next one, I met my girl. At the bottom of the third drink, I found the fourth. And at the bottom of that one was a trojan horse that carried in demons who brought their brides....

Sever the nerve, the skin, the scale Gather your bones from beyond the pale Come out of the wild and into the world Burn all the books, put out your eyes Lower your sword, the end is nigh Sink through the pinewood and into the dirt Out of your body and i...

oh lord, I am saved. judge says I'm fit to swing. 'bout time, I have prayed my woman just might wear my ring. oh you know I'm no good. you know I'm no good at court ordered goodbyes but when I'm gone you'll see I'll be a better man yet. for the dispossessed ge...

Tonight the cinema's the treatment clinic where the perverts seek the cure. Show me the rape scene one more time for the cause. And I promise we'll behave like perfect christians. We'll sing theglory of the gospel for some whiskey and a skin flick. Halleluja...

The great American mischief has muted our hearts and our rhythms are met with the inharmonious grunts of electric guitars. It's all but too much. Nobody out there believes the obscene are reprieved. Everybody get fed up. My baby better get high, I've got somet...

Thanks lord, but I don't need any more poor advice, poor advice. Caught in the canon with a one way ticket. Four riders in a town with one horse. I've wagered a sure thing, Against what was behind the first door. Stack the chips, ready to ride. Out of s...

We cut our teeth in the bedroom. We slit our wrists in our costumes. All of them, witches. Witches. Witches. Witches. We are the death of the party. We are the life of the funeral. All of us ragmen. Ragmen. Ragmen. Ragmen. I want the ripened fruit....

Tonight I'm coming home in a coma if it fucking kills me. Listless but relieved, beaming like a newborn hostage. Orphaned by an ambulance. I got this new black eye just for you. Your hopeless romantic now hopelessly rheumatic. Poets grinding teeth to powd...

neuron flash in fifty watts pinpointing to the streetlight limbo. told me it was chemistry why i behave like this. why i move in misdirected impulse and speak in scrambled clusters of white noise. traction is not a term of endearment. death is an experiment be...

Cut your brake lights, brake your headlight and waited for you at the stop sign Disconnected iron lungs, insurance fires, our smothered young Always the first one on the scene A pyromantic midsummer nights dream Thank you, lord: 1) For this oil slick 2) For he...

I feel alright but I’m buried alive. Nothings healed, just covered by time. I want to pray but I think I’m possessed. Constant cardiac arrest. I’m standing in the way again. I can’t see the road ahead. I have taken too much. Once a ladder now a c...

Blow your fucking brains out (x2) Tune that pale flame out Extinguish the glow forever And in will come the sun (x4) Blind fold your eyes, you are loved Trust in her aim, you are loved Now dance to the grave, you are loved No one will ever know who they...

i am a very important person. i've acquired a genetically altered handshake capable of speeds up to 30 mph. hair arranged by the most advanced landscape surveillance operators our company can afford. i have a very expensive pen. i use big words quite often in...

Wherever I go, there too shall be grief. (My love) doting on me, tenderly. Vacant praise for her hollow man. Such poise. What loyalty. What elegance. Inspired lust in a languid tongue. (Gave blood) and found me where there once was none. So I burned the bridge...

How ironic I'm nailed to the cross while the vultures stuff their mouths. God and the devil are split by a thin white line Six feet from an early grave nine inches from being saved eighteen hundred miles of skeletons on the interstate Why do I give myself a...

Baby, you got me all wrong And maybe I am not at all down and out I'm high and I'm in Don't you know who I am? I'm the jaded one with pop insensitivity When I finish struggling, we can make our way to the dance floor and stand like strangers in an elevator stu...

Yea I know I look worse for the wear. But I have everything at my fingertips. I've been infantilized by a pat on the back and an endless go-ahead. Ain't nothing gonna break my stride. Ain't nothing gonna slow me down. Oh no. When there's no one disapproving....

There was gossip There were pleas There were rumors of meaning in meaningless things Widows readied their marital beds Litters of bastards gnawed at your breast The filthy are first to be showered in love The world's gone mad We dress them in furs as t...

The stand will suffice, I suppose. A tunnel painted on a brick wall. When the crowd arives in droves, they won't question the depth at all. I got a weak heart, so I've heard. I wouldn't know because it hasn't said a word. All the winters, not a sound. It prob...

I have lived every day of my life Thinking only of what I should think When I read back at everything That I have written On how I lived my life And in the process of doing so I have started the chance to feel alive. Just to stay an observer of an impa...

Bedeck your gown in bricks. There's leeches stealing across the stage. Come hell or ocean water I won't end up without. Applaud the gall of the black cloud groping a drunken teenage vow. As saline drips from her prom dress, damp hands are dessicated. There's a...

I need a new rock bottom. I've got to find a beloved back alley. I'm bored as hell in Sodom and Eden is just another dry county. The local haunts have been blessed, all their spirits dispossessed. Even our bed is the second best and the end isn't near it is no...

I want to be dead with my friends, I want to be dead with my friends, Wide-eyed, brilliant, dynamic rest I want to be dead with my friends. Where the iron sharpens the iron. I want to be dead with my friends (Mother load, unforgettable hands?) Let bored...

I used to love her But I had to kill her I used to love her, Mm, yeah But I had to kill her I had to put her six feet under And I can still hear her complain I used to love her, Oo, yeah But I had to kill her I used to love her, Oo, yeah But I had to kill her...

I've dropped my conscious and cast another stone. I took to preaching while dancing on the coals. I can't say where I've been and only God knows where I'll be. But there must be a place for a wretch like me. Oh, lord knows I'm tired, But I, I, I won't re...

Turn the lights off, turn the lights off Your daddy better lock up his girl. Say a prayer boy, call on the cross Cause you ain't got no more when the music comes on. Board up the doors and windows Keep your crying under your breath. 'Cause I smell a drop of be...

Put me to rest before it spreads. It's not long until the bugs eat through to the castle wall and besiege my noble heart. New flags are raised. Cut off the gangrened limb. In case it begins at the neck. Save yourself from me. Save yourself from me. Please, on...

Wait until they send your son home in a box. See if you're dancing when water is everywhere. Anguish is endless but deaths unambiguous. Wave as it carries him off and pose while it fits you in hospital gowns. Flirt with the men dressed in white. Slip into bed...

Eyes of celibates, burning images worn down rotted lies Lips dried peeling, eyes separate our lives dead underneath your skin This blood's not mine, you fucking whore, you don't deserve my gods You're a deified angel, you leave me sickened in prayer It's...