Unwoman

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it g...

You alone shared my tears As we watched such injustice unfold I alone looked into your eyes As rationale was retold Most people argue Pandering to the middle You are always radical Uncompromising When others would follow their rules You would be nobo...

Time is running all too slow I always stop when I must go. When I race I fall behind And curse the shadows in my mind. (too slow, must go, too slow, must go) Walk the street with empty hands Can't keep up with life's demands. Tried it fast and tried i...

We hear beauty Over the sounds of industry All this technology Can't supplant humanity Abandoned factories our Fallow fields what will we sow They may have cities but We have something they can't control And there is no hope without hope We write p...

If I could save you I would kiss you I would run to you I would fix you If I could stitch their hearts I'd collect another All the lonely boys I could be their mother If it was more than the lure Of a possible fall I would consider Breaking it all...

Am I making up a breakdown For the art that is a symptom Breeding problems like rats For the bounty their tails fetch Parading my damage -- a perfectly cultivated wreck And all the voices begging "Let us have our beauty Sing no more of tragedy! Or yo...

I learned to love from songs I know I do it wrong I fall fast and not very well Try to dissemble, but you can tell I can't play by the rules Too impatient to be pursued But you got under my skin Your skin under my nails Your smell on my hair Your marks on my...

The song claws at my throat Buried alive They need me to be weak That's how they thrive Even now they took my time, they take my time My fingers twist in pain Feeling their way With just a fool's hope For the escape What I know is my own strength, is my own...

I feel so unsure, As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor. As the music dies, Something in your eyes, Calls to mind the silver screen, And all its sad goodbyes. CHORUS I'm never gonna dance again, Guilty feet have got no rhythm. Though it's easy t...

"That's one of the unfortunate by-products of a married woman falling in love. There are almost always casualties, Eve." In retrospect it seems I've lost I could have won, but at what cost? Is it too late now to be brave? When there's no love left I can save...

When we were girls We were our own little world It seemed that we were unbreakable So we pushed the limits Unbearable poverty makes you think anything's better than what you have Unspeakable acts seems exciting You'll sacrifice everything for the chance But...

If only we could live on hunger If only we could be sustained by being desired It wouldn't be such a tragedy That you're so goddamned civilized You haven't used those eyes on me in years But I remember when you were wild So I am making peace with the em...

Despite all my protests Its simplicity Calls me to its breast The comfort of normality What I want is to be a commodity From here it's just too easy Oh to be typical Just as selfish as To be pandered to like the middle class 'Cause there's too many stars Not...

If only I could be Docile and compliant If only I could fit her shoes If only I could be The doll that you imagine I'd proudly shape myself into your muse If only she knew The future she was after She would never choose eternity with you It's not her place...

I ride over rivers and mountains Trees are covered in blossoms and mosses To deliver my wilted body to your door I'm weighing my gains and losses You welcome me with the look of a madman I lose myself in your pandemonium The bed next to the railroad sh...

Each girl thinks she will be the one To love you despite all you do wrong Each time you make the same mistakes But so does she You think that to be a good person Means merely causing no one harm But since we're all responsible for ourselves It's...

For so long you, you were the one The standard against which All others were compared And I thought since my feelings never changed You were the one for me Now I'm cursing you for letting me hope Cursing your push and pull Hating you for ever letting me go An...

When the buildings fell I was not afraid of terrorism I was afraid of my own nation's call to repression and pre-emptive aggression Now I see my fears were justified And our fearless leaders -- once again they lied Why will he never tell us the real reasons?...

Half a world away I waited, silent You'd kept me hanging on while I knew I needed distance You finally threw me down, no promise anymore Our words of love, delusions fell apart, copulating on the floor And summer came and destroyed any other words Now I can n...

When it comes time to confess this duplicity Will I say that that is not the real me? The seduced and romantic girl is Not the opposing nature I hide You should be afraid of this un-needing side Right now I don't need you at all And I am planning to take comp...

Who is this girl? Mysterious and silent, invading my world She's been on both sides of envy now Patience has paid off at last Knowing not what she now enjoys Only that her time with you ends too fast Ooh if only she could see herself Through your admiring ey...

We take another turn On piss-stained marble floors Outside the world burns The empire runs its course Yet here we are safe In long-abandoned halls We only have to wait Until the morning calls But will dawn come? Will we see it? Has the Earth stoppe...

I am all raccoon eyes, I am peacock-colored flesh I am supple parchment, my skin a palimpsest In red filigree the madmen carve their illustrious names And with clumsy blue marks in quick succession stake their claims No no nobody can own me This is my o...

All we want is freedom from lies Freedom to create our own lives To be human, simply; to live without your fucked up morality You can't legislate reverence Our cultures are our own There is no god for us We can't believe what we know is false Stop prosthelet...

With an empty heart and all my hope wrapped tight around me Fled into lonely night, I'm still here you never found me Running past fantasies (in anonymity) of your Utopian daylight Pretend I'm someone else (one of many) memories don't seem to fit right Those...

What can you do when there's no one left to turn from When you're alone in your artificial world What can you do when there's no one left to frown at What can you say when there's no one left to scorn Sit and drown your sorrows in a cup of jealousy Tell them...

I've got that teenage feeling A whole lot of good it does me Part of the allure was I didn't know What I was getting into But I can't break the habit of you Though I say I want to Oh I need one more rendezvous -- then I'll quit This nasty habit of you You st...

This must be the worst part of missing you I cry at a picture of me kissing you And I've forgotten just how you smell I only remember I loved it so well Oooh it's heavy Deep in my belly I picture your touch And know that you miss me this much I don't...

I think a lot about all the things that I have broken I look around at what remains, hoping If I turn away will I be submerged in regretting Or will I succeed in forgetting For too long I've wanted a forbidden kiss to force me to decision Chaos of lust i...

I could warn you of my hunger Scare you further away But all I want is to circle your feet Listen, and obey How can we meet as equals When I am full of such destruction And you have mastered stillness and peace And claim no desire for disruption Must...

I awake in strong arms and soft sheets I lay in bed with the king I don't know how I got here My head on his left shoulder, he's still asleep When palace guards enter: "I'm a lover now, not an assassin," I say They laugh, roll their eyes and walk away...

If I woke up in Temescal more than once I would have fallen in love Not with you, but with your neighborhood Which had already carved itself into memory in realtime Burned with luminous skin in the late morning sun And the perilously foreign-yet-familiar...

You don't ask what happened His history is a private matter You wouldn't like what you find Just pray to never ask for The violence he keeps confined Oh all the women before you He didn't deserve us, we were cruel You dear you are different, you are so innoce...

(Nolite te bastardes carborundorum) Will I buckle under? Will I become just what they want me to be? (Here in terror indentity crises are so petty) How can we submit to this? Separated in red Our identities Split three ways (Will I submit) You have reduced...

He rushed us straight on, sweep feet out under Me, melt for blush, now felt naked say "ah" So simply be loved and Only error still frees us Happy error here frees up Speak still sweet the more he saw Sell the leave more where he's too fond you see He'd have...

My many admirers bring me flowers But I spend my nights alone They promise me diamond rings I prefer to wear rhinestones It's your light on my face Your carefully chosen hues You know the stories behind my words You know me far beyond my cues But the...

The echoes fade each season and return I am haunted by "We have all the time in the world" Because you, my young older man, won't deceive me with permanence You will never lie or let me hope In these electric daydreams I search for you Here are the empty stre...

Last night we slept with our fingers intertwined I'm in love in a city that will never be mine All our moves are impetuous But your spell was cast before we were us In the moment I'm head-over-heels with this And I promise I won't mind missing it And I...

Is she secretly on my side? Does she know all the reasons I've cried? And secretly still sing along The soundtrack of her life my songs (She always got the meanings wrong) She's my sororal doppelganger Following close like a phantom Loving my discards...

Such a lovely fall from grace Such a pretty tearful face Silence rules falsely empty hearts In this fevered, cold embrace Intuition's wrong, though dreams implore so strongly Upon these wings of fire no other has desired so Could my hope be killed within anot...

Sweet unrest grows sour -- striving, excruciating yet wanting so badly to atone... "Go, then and scorn fidelity. Guilt will follow." This tightrope I walk slices through my feet as the are clay As if I were meant to fall into both sides of sorrows (so grave,...

I'm in the land of sunlight And long, long shadows And I am listening To slow, sad echoes Pay no attention to lover death She has come to seduce you again Let us distract you with sex and violence They are your best friends She comes to you with prom...

I only wanted to make something better than myself I never resisted being criticized No I listened to everything anyone has said But some things are not meant to be analyzed It's all over now I've grown so tired of listening to all the doubt The fear so consu...

I can hear your voice whenever I want to But it's not the same as when we were alone That night in the second bed they bought you Because you were the star and I was the girl backstage And you would sing to me The song that would have been a lullaby, a l...

This house is now barren and cold Where once it was scented, overgrown So glad to be leaving this misery Silence, eternal sterility Someone said, "You want to think you are good" No: I don't care what I think When most people would rather hate than communica...

You sleaze in everything you do. Once you sodomized a child, and never even knew her name. That night I lay and wished for none of what you tried to give me. "You're like two sirens" you said. But I never called you. Still I always wanted my name in lights Wh...

I love what's new so much I can't tell what's best I'll never have what I want I want what I can't get I won't control myself, I won't hide The blackness draws you in, my pupils are so wide It scares you when I look into your eyes But this is the kind...

All I wanted was to be Heard over the crowd But I did not recognize My voice that loud Wishes come true with lies How can I rest when I must keep spinning To stay upright And is the best I can hope for Nightmares to fill my mind? I embody powerless...

Do you ever wonder, wonder who Silently came, quickly left, left a flower for you? He said "be wary of symbols" and I see them so clear But I have dreams -- one of them is you -- they eclipse all my fear Can you tell me why I dream of you? Hungry and male, an...

Oh never again to be swept off my feet, nevermore nevermore nevermore And never again know the hope so sweet, nevermore... But "nevermore?" I've said it before, nevermore... And always the same find the lies, all the blame lies within, evermore, evermore But...

The damage was done preemptively Blame the force of these memories Abstain all you want you can't shake your hold on me Though you won't call me -- you play it right Still my mind lingers in those nights And you don't have to try to twist that knife But if I...

Pink shoes never touch the ground Walk of shame back from your house My town like I've never seen On your side the grass is green Mission boys nod as I pass In Spanish compliment my dress Makeup's smeared but I don't care Now at last I'm so aware Your scent...

Some people use words, gasps of air Some use flesh, objects of desire seeking power Either way, from either side, the desire is the same: Love, whatever that means, whatever it brings, I'll do what I can, to find it Some follow, others seek Are we what we fee...

The guilt anchored me But your face could launch a thousand ships And the sky on those nights would steal any heart And now the remorse is yours I hung her on your wall for a reason -- bloody hands, roses I would have done anything to be rid of her Except give...

Those nights of chasing your ghost Following the sound of your voice, echoing through my head Running after Darkness, running after the rain Have finally come to an end After all my hope has died Obsession the brightest fire Burned in me so long how could I G...

I take the dress down from the attic I slip her on and tie her lace Tonight she might be stained and battered In your dangerous embrace I am satin, fretted and frayed By life's jagged edges When I let myself out to play Despite consequences Intensity is mute...

I drive by your mother's house Though she's asleep, and you are out Two thousand, eight hundred and ninety eight miles away To be precise Just to smell that air again To feel nostalgia mixed with pain For the days when you were here And I would come wh...

Without any moon to guide us One impulse from what's denied us You gave me this potent mix As if you don't know your strength To possess beauty wild as this Silently conjures every wish I could pretend I don't know You're paralyzed yet it shows All t...

You're fearless and lawless, you follow no captain But you're ruled by desire approaching obsession I am a shapely vessel full of riches to plunder I've been breached before, but I've never gone under You cannon blasts split me, resolutely defiled I am h...

I am ripe, full, swollen You examine my body where it has fallen You have a habit to feed -- and this fruit seems Like the sweetest poison I am supine, passive, silent I long to be used used in the way I was meant Obscene fertility in casual beauty My...

I play the odds for any coins the gods might toss us You are content just gazing at the stars that cross us They keep throwing things to wish upon But it's never enough to loose our bonds They keep taunting us with fantasies Compromises for improbabiliti...

For too long I paid lipservice to liberation Let my young self be subsumed in our relations Don't think for a moment I don't take responsibility But you have to agree it was time I set myself free Is it wrong to distill what we had for so many years Down...

I pulled myself out of the rubble With no expectations or hope Vaguely curious what lies beyond I emerged to cross the bridge alone I did not expect to find a new dealer for desire A new leader into the era where we'll thrive It was you, holding the pow...

I walked all around the city All the places you and I went This is not bittersweet It is thoroughly tainted I could try to reclaim it For me and future loves But my mechanism's broken I'll never clean enough I am a firecracker disguised as a...

I could stand here in the dark Until they bring me a glass jar To catch the things I want to catch To keep a spider as a pet I could howl up at the moon Until the ending comes too soon For things I used to beg to fetch Things like you, my pet And the...

We all worked in a factory Where only Faustian bargains were made When the circuses and bread ran out Our subversive plans were laid Now you ask us what did we do For the revolution today? We learned when life throws you sarin To sing a sweet serenade...

The city is war-torn And nearly impassable I act the lovelorn Dramatically laughable You said you'd come see me Here underground Now it's closing night You can't be found I go through the motions again and again But you are not here to see them I g...

With a promise to set me free From the cage I'd locked myself into He appeared with many keys How could I refuse? These golden bars they hold perfection But were chosen by mistake (mistake) Comfort would be my tomb I had to run away (he led me away)...

"Are you not fonder of me than of all the rest?" cried her eyes "Yes, you are dearest of all to me -- you, the silent one; if not no one, then you." But then he speaks of her -- the unknown, a false angel. The mermaid chokes in fear, but still she hopes... H...

You look so intriguing In that old-fashioned clothing Your eyes so alluring So young, yet so knowing In black fishnet stockings And dark velvet gown You visit the nightclubs All over town You meet a young man there You know the type In exchange for a slow da...

It's not that you loved too much It's that love alone is not enough I didn't set out to break your heart I wonder, why did I follow this far? We ate and drank the very finest Walked in gardens and sunned by the sea Scaled walls, danced till covered with...

We tear love out by its roots Replant it in a hundred distant gardens "The love is dead, long live the love" And we have no gods, no partners The leaves grow pale and weak The flowers bloom too soon I let them fall all around me, falling for me I blus...

I can wash you off of me But I still smell of the treacherous sea Which threatens to transform me Into a creature I don't want to be All wetness and slime, the color of a bruise All darkness and regret, the things that sailors lose The only one of my ki...

Don't crush her fairy's wings Hold her gently in your hand Help her to feel tall again None of this was planned She's too small for the pen Can't write her story down Too small for the pen Can't bring her mind around She's wilting in the corner No o...

I wasn't looking for -- Trouble found me It rests with eyes and words, for now my treachery Does the young planet know the force with which she pulls Who can blame two bodies for obeying gravity? Yes there are things that can't be undone But neither can they...

Within, without and over, you are to me Under the sky, under the sand buried your face beneath Only for our comet somewhere far away Denying the pain we cause ourselves you should stay The truth will come; I can't go on Let it wash into the sea Why don't you...

(Oh pretty boy, how can I feel sad for you? I don't even know your words are true And this light is a dying star) Never more will I wish for vacant skies to pull me in All my memories are nightmares I'll sleep alone all of my life For no one wants to touch me...

Don't call me tonight It would make it impossible What I realized today is that in loving you I forgot to love myself Then I was nothing, you lost interest More importantly, I lost interest in myself This is what has happened every time I finally saw the err...

"I choose to love this time for once With all of my intelligence I wasted so many years Seeing myself as no more than a prize Hoping someone could win me, lift me up Until I decided to climb Now it's so been lonely here Feeling so superior Thought I'...

Written in red their protest stands, For the Gods of the World to see; On the dooming wall their bodiless hands have blazoned "Upharsin," and flaring brands Illumine the message: "Seize the lands! Open the prisons and make men free!" Flame out the living...

I won that fight The pain was mine I sunk to martyrdom So... you'll never see how you betrayed me Soon there will be no more -- you'll no longer plague me How could you think to take away my home How could I have thought to sacrifice myself for you again? Wil...