Lydia Lunch

WE HANG OUR HEADS IN THE HEAVY HOUSE WITH HALLS THAT SCREAM A LONG SLOW NO DIRTY THOUGHTS FALL FROM MY SOUL, HEAPED LIKE CLOTHES UPON THE FLOOR THIS NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND LIES THAT BURN HOLES IN MY PETTY HEAD, FLESH CREEPS UP ALL THE WRONG WALLS, IT'S MY MISFOR...

How does, who does, do we choose one why can't I have more than one to see to say to do what to see you once a daydream stay too... why can't you see what I'm saying why can't I have more than one She can't, doesn't want to see me hanging on your every moveme...

13 Dimensions If we stretched this hour it would go on forever once more skewered coming out of both sides It's a day of waiting... waiting two plus three and here I go again what will follow yes I know all of the answers and I'll tell you no lies... I'm afra...

History draws its substance from the archives of blood Your blood We're all gatecrashers to the apocalypse We're all the gravediggers of the future Each generation raises monuments To the executioners which have preceded it Man is just a prisoner of path...

I am bongo crazed with the crazy beat Makes me stamp and shout Get up on my feet All the boys go wild with the bongo chill Chase the girls around for a bongo thrill Forget the beach Party with no stuff 'Cause it's kind of fun But it's not enough Let...

Bodies Bodies Touched by the toil and plunged into his arms Cursed through the night with eyes of alarm A melody black flowed out of my breath Searching for death, but bodies need rest Bodies Under the soil now waiting for worms All that I feared is...

I gotta let you go Watch you walk away Never meant to hurt you Or to cause you more pain I gotta let you go And as a cruel as it seems Didn't want to tie you down Just to keep you with me Used to live in heaven Drown in your blue black eyes Melt int...

The story of man makes me sick Inside, outside, I don't know why Something so conditional and all talk Should hurt me so. I am hurt, I am scared I want to live, I want to die I don't know where to turn In the void and when to cut Out For no...

In my time of dying I don't want nobody to cry All I want for you to do is to take me when I die Meet me, Jesus Meet me, meet me in the middle of the air With these wings, help me lord You better build me another pair Well, well, well, so I can die eas...

Hey, don't laugh at him just because he's fat You're not the fat man? I'm the fat man I'm the fat man, you're the fat man Who's the fat man? I'm the fat man He's the fat man, I am the fat man I thought I was the fat man Well, let's get this straight, n...

I am an island in this cesspool called history I inhabit the crumpled remains of a place that Once was...suffocating in a solitude so fulfilling That the merest rendevous becomes a cruxifiction A solitude more chaotic than war A stoic who remains undaunt...

Alabaster moonshine Thunder burns at midnight Drinking firewater With the devil's daughter Everybody's looking for A belly to cry on these days A secret understanding There's fire in the temple Miraculous collision Disturbed somnambulism Some days...

I am king I can do anything Come follow Come fall I will show you All and mine Everythings mine Then give you twin bright coins To put all your eye lights lids down Then fasten the door Wander down Fall in time Fall in time Fall in time Fall in...

Blood and guts in the movie house, slaughterhouse, slaughterhouse He rips through all the movie buffs, he rips them up, he rips them up He goes where don't wanna go and what he does, he doesn't know He's the saddest creature known to man An unknown sam in...

Take the right bank to the night river Watch the dreary soul seekers wretched What flies by night, dies by daylight Under broken trees we rest our weary hearts, our weary feet On the banks of the river deadly Souls are swallowed dead and lonely I could...

And delirium is just a disease of the night Delirium is just a disease of the night Delirium is just a disease And I'm just another daughter of darkness, darkness Psycho-tropic wasteland Just another wretched witch entranced By the voodoo of the living d...

All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be like they are Come on baby... Don't fear the Reaper Baby take my hand... Don't fear the Reaper We'll be able to fly... Don't fear th...

It's raining at the border, tears of love like blood spilt Stagnant on the carpet It's raining and another filthy widow watches And the self is no friend and all enemies attack from within Way down deep, you know why The darkness is separated by a slow, r...

Dread, that subterranean world Where one awakes from dread to dread Sleep does not put an end to dread It's as if dread is both day and night In a mobile disaster Which allows everything to remain Twisted in an endless twilight Perpetual limbo where ev...

If these were the last things That I could remember In this the country of lost things Then please just five more minutes Fulfill my final wish A kiss before dying Your breath upon my lips Black eyes move ever closer I hear the angels call If...

To escape the perimeter of this Fleshy prison...to escape into milky Nimbus, blurry eyed, light headed To erase dreams, memories, visions To ultimately forget every word Every face, every nightmare A permanent amnesia, which forgoes Responsibility...th...

It's raining at the border, tears of love like blood spilt Stagnant on the carpet It's raining and another filthy widow watches And the self is no friend and all enemies attack from within Way down deep, you know why The darkness is separated by a slow, r...

We've dug our graves under separate candlestick tonight The moon separates the seas From you and me and sleep And we curse weep till we curse the same god There's a crack in the ceiling it breaks Like a neck in my heard and hard goes tumbling down We go...

Sunday is gloomy My hours are slumberless Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers Will never awaken you Not where the black coach Of sorrow has taken you Angels have no thoughts Of ever returning you Would they be angry If I thought...

You ever wake up with hangover The size of Mississippi Feeling like you were broken down Busted up and thrown up On the wrong side of nightmare alley You can't remember who you did Or what you did to them Now you met or where they dropped you off But y...

Somebody broke in, but all that was missing were the polaroids The scene of the crime could be anywhere, at any time And I'm always salivating about maniac responsible I know that to attack is merely the desire to free one's self From infatuation that ther...

There must be ninety two degrees in the shade You want a hot tip You want a hot tip on dead jockey He ain't coming home tonight He's going nowhere tonight He popped a deuce on the number two Horse went down in the fourth Had to shoot the horse "Why sh...

Tell me that you're sick of me Warn me that our love's diseased Threaten that you'll cheat on me You'll beat me up until you bleed You'll drink so much that I'll be sick You'll drive my car off cliff Tell me that I'm just too mean Insatiable I'm never...

With knees that crush the deafened stones With silent incantations I pray Defile this slopside beside all the rest Tie me to a tree, I bet you don't I wish I would, I wish, I wish I wish I wish you would I couldn't turn tomb after tomb in this graveya...

We come spinning out of nothingness Scattering stars Hoping that somewhere over the horizon Lies an incredible lightness A lightness of being without being Where everything falls away Dissolves, disintegrates into subatomic particles Where the soul is d...

Yours is a history of torture and cruelty An incubator of sorrow and misery You justify yourself in all your delirium The scars from your father left a mark on your lips Torn between licking at wounds or at kicking me Confusion it mandates your every emot...

The void is just an inverted dream In which we are all enguled Doomed to the empty hours of eternity To the periphery of Shudders and mildewed desires Where idiot savants wander the Wasteland in search of lost love Amonst the ruined And what you call...

Johnny had a habit Didn't stand a chance Walked right up behind him Shot him in the back Johnny had a habit Turning skin to black and blue Irish fists bush into lips Fractured wrists and fingertips Anything to get a kick Slits his belly with a blade...

My windows are on the street And there's knives in my drain I've broken the cardboard Forced fists in my brain I blacken the walls as I suffer my youth I've got the cancer of birth And I ask what's the use There's knives in my drain And there's shafts...

We had a date 12th street at eight If you're done I'll be there don't be late Instructed as such Without a soft touch If it would've mattered it didn't too much I waited for you a minute or two Well just what kind of a girl do you think I am Fumbing a...

I've told you that I'm Lightning's girl But you keep hanging 'round If Lightning ever catches you He's got to put you down (spoken) About six feet! Stay away from Lightning's girl And this part of town Stay away from Lightning's girl Or he'll put you...

I would not like to not know lock your door I would not like to not know lock your door Shut up and die I wish it was me prisoner of my own demise Kiss the bride and make her cry roll over and die bye bye baby bye bye I could almost cry like tears of blood an...

Slipping seething living breathing Ghost on my mind Ponder flounder searching tersely His cowboy eyes Snidely grinding slowly winding Knots in my hair Creepy weepy slowly seeping Fear what's not there Writhing hiding coinciding Sunburnt it died Lie...

Everybody smokes in hell Everybody smokes in hell Up pops the devil with a belly full of tricks Offers you the world if you give his tail a kiss Got a big red sack full of all your favorite things Pulls you by the hair shoves some candy in your mitts Ta...

Fingers move fingers My wrists made of satin Don't be afraid of what's gonna happen Elbows to ankles my fists out of place I turn around backwards and off slides my face Bones plattered shattered Dissolving my skin My torso melts it flows out my shins...

The need to feed The need to feed, to feed in To find someone, anyone that can Feed into you what you need The need becomes An impossibl irritant Finding someone who Can feed into you what you need That most reminds you of yourself That most remind...

I'm sick to death of your excuses! You're sick to death and giving me excuses! No excuses are good excuses. And you stand accused. I'm talking to you. Yeah, I'm talking to you. And I'm talking to you. And I'm talking to you. And I'm talking to you. I'...

Wanna desappear into the ether Find the place where time bends backwards Disappear, pass like night Disappear, pass like night Pass, pass like night...knife in water...killer's urge Before the slaughter...dancing naked In the moonlight...pass like night...

I live round the shack outback It's full of rats and razorbacks I get my knife and cut 'em down You think I won't just stick around Cornfed boys in gunnysacks Digging holes and filling cracks Souped up cars and monster trucks Killing pigs and smoking du...

Lonesome train cries like a deadman Bruised skin blood kissed hands Siren howl echo, parks in panic Portrait of the minus man Helicopters scan for perpetrators Broken body face down in the sand Innocence stumbles into slaughter Portrait of the minus ma...

Close the curtains Don't answer the phone Got an unlisted number Your adress is unknown You can leave the town I won't leave you alone Try star 69'ing me, baby Ain't nobody home I smoke in the shadows I breathe like a ghost You sleep with the lights...

He slits my throat and drinks my blood and says that this just ain't enough It doesn't matter anyhow It doesn't matter anyhow My wrists are tied above my head He says He loves me when I'm dead It doesn't matter anyhow cause it don't hurt if you don't fall He...

So, your heart may not be broken, we can only hope for the worst You just can't keep from repeating, hand to hand, heart to heart Break always in the dark and so much less special than the rest Too many lips to weep a sad and seamy side to the same old sto...

You believe in mutilation like it means something Blood cuts on the wrists, dirty bruises, scratches Wet hair on the damp floor Bound by ropes, candle wax, tears, terror All beautiful memories, beautiful Right from the start I knew we couldn't go on long...

Oh my god awful ugly, and I could end up getting shit-kicked Jesus gets arrested and married to an infidel kills I've had enough for one girl whose time has not yet come to pass I've had enough I've had it The earth spits blood and swallows us whole Some...

In the cool of the evening When everything is getting kinda groovy I call you up and ask you If you'd like to go with me and see a movie First you say no, you've got some plans for the night Then you stop and say "alright" Love is kinda crazy with a spooky lit...

The plastic crumbles and the walls fall in The sidewalk's melting I begin to spin You know where I'm going and You know where I've been My mind's exploding like it's never been The sidewalk's melting I begin to spin I can't look down, I might fall in I'm looki...

Take the wheel, of the world, And drive, drive, drive, drive, drive. Quick as a gun. Blind like a ghost. I catch most things in my blood You all lose between rooms... One last gasp before I go... Your crystal skin laced with rust Laced with rust, lace...

The clock died at a quarter to Midnight frozen angels on my bedpost tripping over some senseless beggar a simple case of mistaken face my how nothing changes different men in the same positions. Time died at a quarter to Midnight the scent of a ghost fills th...

Show me Show me Loosen it up Let it flower Tickle it a little Against yourself I would love to Reach over and touch you Blessing you with lip smacking Tongue lashing urgency A baptismal if succulent caresses And heavenly aromas Feast upon these o...

All the times I told you I love you I really loved you Sometimes I love you so much I wanna tear you apart You're just another that failed me again I wanted more than love I wanted suffocation Tie me to your leash Drag me all over the ground I want t...

You wondered about love, is there something stronger? We'd kill for the same things you own it now, it's my hate Your beauty puts this curse on me And it's called love, but it's not love at all I know now that i don't have you for that long You don't ha...

Dead still the hour in the middle of the day Dead still the horror in the middle of the day Pulling at your collar, pulling at your hair You've got to find a way to get out of there What do you do when your legs won't run When you want to scream but you can't...

The moon's at night like you and maybe stars are When I lie in bed, when I lie, I lie I wear a mongolian hat, it's a real mean steal with a real mean point That stars the pillow dead, that stabs it I lie in dream blood, stabs soak the bed We come from dea...

Sour, dour, drowning Wrists tied and twisting Dance a nursery tune It's two times misses you Sour milk and curdles Cuddles baby bottles Cover in a corner Yearning little learner Sour, dour, drowning Wrists tied and twisting Dance a nursery tune It'...

Picked up in a roadside diner Just a hair short of the number five Slumped across a dirty counter Jinglin' a pocket full of dimes Leaving town in a hurry Had no time to pack your bags Ask a waitress for direction Heading south of the mexicali line Bu...

How bad you want it, when you can't have it And now you're crying dying in your living hell I played your mamma, I played your pappa And now you get to play your motherfucking self You know you want it, you really need it You bisy frying dying in your li...

Elements of desire conspire to keep you twisted Your pleasure's always sweeter When you're hurting someone' s sister You're moved by savage impulse Just a puppet of your instinct One more poet of disaster Who's been praying for oblivion You've been bapt...

Could get very lost a cove no bigger than a bread box And no place to rest my headstone, beat a river Beat it thru the rock and hope to God that it rains They say that Sunday's very ugly And lock the door to the cage and throw away the keyhole When there...

Blood is just memory without language The sins of the flesh are just a sacrifice to Venus Passion plays itself out in the killing zone of false memory All these secrets they just stain my recollections Little by little the sun invades the sky's absence D...

So, I'm so ugly So, I'm so stupid So, so pathetic I'm the most pathetic thing You've laid your eyes on But what if you're worse? But what if you're worse? But what if you're worse? What does that make you? I'm the most pathetic thing You've laid you...

Why don't we do it in the road Why don't we do it in the road Why don't we do it in the road Why don't we do it in the road No one will be watching us Why don't we do it in the road Why don't we do it in the road Why don't we do it in the road Why don...

This is forced up from the world of whispers Where terror and negation are out on an endless prowl I'm just trying to summon I'm just trying to summon the memory of pre-epidemic Existence while nursing bruised ideals, which combat human shortcomings We a...

Your love is The beauty of death Your love is A dozen dead roses Your love is Your weakness Your love is The beauty of death Your love is A dozen dead roses Your love is Your weakness Your love Takes the shape of A puddle on the floor Your lo...