Protomartyr

When you call me on the phone and you say my name You'll find out I am not your friend If you call me up and do it again You'll find out four fists meet their end I can't lie When you call me out my name and you say it again You'll find out I am not th...

I'm getting old Worse than before Un-invincible Close but not pitiful I discovered To drink it slowly The great unfolding And wait for their arms to hold me Down the hall Alcohol for free All alone with me All alone with me You used to be so bea...

Not by my own hand Automatic writing by phantom limb Not with my own voice Pleurisy made to stand on two legs That's how I bar my door In this age of blasting trumpets Paradise for fools Infinite wrath In the lowest deep a lower depth I don't want to...

Hello there You are all now witnesses To a kind of confrontation Between me and These three men It ain't so simple Treason is crime No, it ain't so simple And here's the reasons why This one, he always jeers me Makes fun of my scanty head I'll sen...

First it was induced Induced under color of official right Set me up for a comeback son You set me up for a comeback Pass the box fill the money up Pass the box fill the money up Induced under color of official right Sing a sad song You filled him fu...

Take it from somebody who knows There's something coming up and I think it's gonna be a joke I gotta laugh about it, laugh about it on my own Life itself like an arrow shot on its arc First it's born, then it grows and then it goes How many suffered tryi...

What have they wrought From screen to self? Electronic malfunction The strange opinions From foreign lands The tumbling waves of complaint From lonesome men You let them into our home You let them into our home You let them into our home Boyce or B...

They bathed me They clothed me Not in the dress I loved All those years ago They dropped me In the cheap plot To save a couple dimes Seems like such a crime And all that loving, that's leaving Replaced now with complaining down in this hole And...

Clandestine time The small, unseen things That do the job While the minutes tick by idly Abridged from life Folded into abstraction And on the clock The proof we are here Is the dust that they're breathing The proof we're apart Is the fact they're...

Have you heard the bad news? We've been saved by both coasts A bag of snakes with heads of gas The complicated haircuts ride in on a white ass And I'll try to live defeated Come and see the good in everything Outside, animals sound Come and see the ope...

From a high window I spied a pale brown thing Though it was very far away I heard its voice inside my head: "You've been spending your time With corpses in regalia You better get to stepping while you can" They have a certain charm The way they move...

Suddenly I had the whip hand I've been waiting I'll get it right now Friends Look upon me As a sodden priest Takes a middling vow Suddenly it seemed I had to take them to the sheltered eyes I had to show them that the weakest hands Can still make...

Against the sea, a hidden incorporated town That glows like zircon in a fire Its straight white streets They crawl with consumers and their dogs Migrant workers tend the transplant poplars The liberal-minded here They close their eyes and dream Of tech...

Agent intellect knocks and says "Again, again, again" The saltmine racist gang The spoils of the pizza king That's not gonna save you, man That's not gonna save you, man The oligarch lenders' guile The largesse of the Lombard Bank That's not gonna sa...

Beneath the shade I will wait For Ellen Though I have gone before I will wait For Ellen I'll pass the time With our memories For Ellen I took them on ahead I kept them safe For Ellen Beyond the river I will wait For Ellen I will wait I wil...

Waking up on another day Last night's mistake Sleeping in the hay The sun cracks open Like a running egg They found my body in your head They found my body after a thousand years How many babies born this year? And can we all send them right back? F...

There's a light on my street But it's broken, so it mostly stays dark And in the darkness I see them, they know they're creeping And most things are frightening through lace curtains As I smoke in my fear and I slowly breathe I saw a woman in scrubs Pul...

Well, well, well I wish that all the stupid Would drain right off of me son, hey! I want to move it I want to get what I need I want free supper Don't get it, we suffer All the girls there on the street, they They all come up to me, say "All we want...

In ancient Palestine, a Roman middle manager Dresses down a radical "I have a backlog of so-called prophets You are of a multitude" The offender said, "I witness truth" Perplexed and filled with pique The jailer replied, "Truth, what is it?" Outside of...

Dread 2017 18 Air horn age Age of horn blowing Mental corkscrew Starwipe to gloom Pulling cork, snoring out all day Woke up in the stadium district Here is the thing, here is the thing Hey, well now later the hour Now you know innovative thievery i...

Hot wheel city Neon awe Around the block there is a natural law I am bored with it And I was born with it I am bored with it And I was born with it Smoking gods Spoke in bars Sparking cars, burnt shells I was born with it And now I am bored with...

I'm gonna tell you a story About how it was When I'm asleep And I do dream I see him there Sitting in that chair And when I'm awake And I'm walking through the day I see him, see him there Sitting in that chair In a house of books Blowing smoke fr...

Ahhhh you Heretics, cheats Fifty misses deep, common thief DUI-OWIs Exit MacGuffin’s, exit! You’re not a regular here I forgive you though Saw you wobble at JAMS last week The judge’s racket is big business you know? Chemist priest Proves they don’t...

The day comes Same as before Goes out again Television a concave window Lawyers and murderers The law is confusing the order makes no sense Scratching the skin Staring at walls Staring at floors The plan today is not to die The cure-all is always o...

And I'll take that applause Because I deserve it The audience is but vapor In my hand And I'll take that applause Because I need it Six-winged seraph flying Over my head Nothing ever after And I'll take that applause Because I lose it Cherubim an...

In my sphere Dialogue Of precious Silver and gold In my sphere All styles Welcomed Inside, no fear Don't trip fall in evil Don't trip fall in evil In my sphere In my sphere Outside Walls are Inside nowhere Don't trip fall in evil Don't tri...

I will touch the screen no more I will not have a drink I will touch the screen no more I will not have a drink Punch the shot, punch the shot! I will touch the screen no more I will not have a drink I will touch the screen no more I will not have a...

The machinist man The night foreman And he works all week While the city sleeps And when the weekend comes He will have his fun It's a high life Another high life Hey female You better run There are things that are built in the skulls of man Th...

Shade goes up Shade goes down One of my dead moods A clack in the brain, yeah Just a clack in the brain Don't feel nothing for anyone Don't feel no love for anything Maidenhead Here I come I have arrived 

I said it three times, guess I'll say it four I'm sad and sick to watch you devolve Your pen has gone gray The view has been walled And no one knows what you're saying at all See-through skin - barnacles of age Male plague, male plague Old days mis...

To create, pass on, pass on What's mine, now yours, pass on Written in stone, no longer in sand, pass on Pass on, to create To grace, what's mine, now yours, I'm gone, pass on To create, create, pass on, pass on What's mine, now yours, I'm gone, pass on,...

In the far desert On a distant blasted plain A forgotten corner Amid the death of all things Not under the blinding sun or the cultivator's toil Only in darkness does the flower take hold It blooms at night, it blooms at night In the old city, in ab...

Mero Met Livy in the line To drown the frogs mouths In the bar I've told you about They talked of philosophical things Like transcendent And the opposite Of suffering Mero Said he could walk The city only On hot fry bags, cognac bottles, and used r...

I recall seeing the pope Pontiac 1987 Money changing between hands Outside the Silverdome Afterwards a riot broke Old folks turned brutish Trampling their way out the gates Towards heaven That fall from grace Knocked me on my knees Don’t tell anyone...

Same face in a different mirror Ugly is intact But now the frame is clearer Guilt cries like an unfed pet To remind the past will rise again Another up to another wrong bend Society's plotting with the vermin Another empty room Another stained shirt D...

The Wayne County Stank Dogs Will play in the open air there The suburban fathers Will be in the city center The sports bar exploded and everyone died Now you know how it feels to be alive Scum, rise! And who was the target? An old man with a tattoo o...

How I am supposed to live With all this shit up to my ears Plebs are fighting over this You sound like a true son of Dis A thousand weeping ovaries Hawks rip out the liar's eyes I've been here since 2006 Spoken like a true son of Dis My DVD has a ter...

Let them be shocked By gravity Then the ground Fate rushing upwards Make their heads go pop Throw them from the rock Greedy bastards Rank amateur professionals Emotional cripples Gluten fascists Alt-weekly types Human dieldrin Envious cowards E...

It meant a lot to me then It matters less to me now And any pleasure derived Was knowing that they'd never feel as good As a badge pinned on a thrift store coat That smelled of sauerkraut and cloves An angry customer's face Confused because they didn...

Before recorded time In some suburban room, see The devil in his youth He grew up pale and healthy With the blessings of his father The devil in his youth His privilege came before him The promise of adoring The devil in his youth But it all change...

Sound the alarm Sky's a swarm Not in my house Stabled up Leave with my books Do I escape? Maybe I leave? Ride out? I don't think so Milky eyes upstairs Should I tell them to bug? Plan an escape See where they go? Follow them down To where they...

Who said "to thine own self be true?" Oh right, the guy who got ran through And who decreed that all unclean get thrown in a ditch outside town? Oh right, that was God Let me tell you how to make it in the world today And by 'I,' I mean "Simplis Pueris M...

Holding onto a horsehead lighter Flick the bic and I seem brighter Can you hear that distant laughter? Desperate men making empty chatter This is the time of legal tender That is a call that's always answered I was denied and not pushed forward Choking...

This is an old folks party This is an old folks party Welcome To Uncle Mother's Leave your children In the car The procedure In the kitchen Will remove your Inmost light Right! Though there's smiles there On placid faces Something evil Is thin...

I gave him a cigarette So he opened up his head The man forever on the corner He called it his pre-vision: Unhorse for me, dear sir The marble emperor Defenestrate the king The howling waves of people Crashing through the first blockade The guards -...

It was something that I read in a book About a gang of bandits around a prairie fire One was going to empty his gun Into a sleeping man because he snored too loud Then another one stopped him there With the terror of two sailors in a smuggler's boat And...

See a pair of fellas Rolling down a hill Punching the life out of each other Glamour waves the air Wait Wait Wait Ironic t-shirts wet with blood An argument over aesthetics That would be my guess Wait Wait Wait Friend for all occasions Muscle...

My friend flip Gave a gift to me: Oblong box Plastic made Mostly tin Cheap electronics Plug it in With blinking lights A hum within Want remover Those judges shows I used to like Continue on but I don't mind Actors playing both parts Judge Mathi...

They will never ask you What the wall said To you in that room Listening through plaster The sodium light's a hissing wound Nights spent alone in company The glass screwed into your fist Beware of pity When it comes back it sounds like this Remembe...

A trick of heredity A zipcode A last name A cell deforming A businessman's handshake His waning ardor needs blood to metastasize I decide who lives and who dies Water as commodity All is comedy Acts of God Acts of the purse-milking apostles Pulling...

False happiness is on the rise See the victims piled high In a room, without a roof Sharp mind, eternal youth I'll be the first to never die Nice thought, and I'm never gonna lose it The city grows within my head Street plans follow electric grids Br...

The sound that you're hearing across the river Saying "everything's fine" The sound across the river into your brain pan Saying "everything's fine" The sound going across the ocean Saying "everything's fine" It says want, want, want, want, want what you...

The moon is a former friend who no longer lights the way Through an ever thickening lens I see only frightening things That's if I see them at all against the yellow wall You win again Up the four flights of stairs On the landing a child's chair I suppo...

July 1st, 1959 Ward D-23 State hospital Social psychologist Personality theory Three schizophrenics in a room Each one believing they're Christ Joseph, Clyde, Leon Rotating chairmanship Second verse of America Sometimes the first Joseph protects Eng...