Xiu Xiu

A knife in the sun I don't know how it happened The White Lady... Cops, transsexuals, taxi drivers Homosexuals, drug dealers, Mariachis, pick pockets Prince of Peace At least indulge us Flesh was once food Now food is fleshhhh Your lover will hate y...

Shut up shut up i wanna hear that pin pricking shut up shut up i wanna hear that nail scrape shut up shut up up your insipid voice shut up shut up is that your glass heart clinking? i want to go to bed every second wrap your arms around your kitty sh...

All we ever wanted was everything All we ever got was cold Get up, eat jelly Sandwich bars, and barbed wire Squash every week into a day The sound of drums is calling The sound of the drum has called Flash of youth shoot out of darkness Factorytown Oh...

One and a-two and a-three Tumors seem like something you would collect And poison seems like something you would take In the offensive ways of all flesh I am not ready And cannot accept That it is spread like a cancer Goodnight, goodnight Don't look...

grab my face as hard as it's funny to you while i pretend i'm your real dad how is anne's cough today miss sheryl i pretend to ask a daughter who i bug and can only stand to be around me for about 30 seconds but whose picture i wear in a pin inside my...

up, along the rocks, it's good, it's not so hard now. up, I bite my tongue, who cares? this chance to drop off all that you left you left for someone all of this hurt that's wilted off all this relief, it's the oddest thing oh my God, oh my God, oh my Go...

an apple for a brain a bee for a best man a panda is yourself and you holding Butter's hand oh yeah yeah yeah when and why is it us? bearing thy cross of shame lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu sha la la la la la la sha la la la la la la so hideous for...

Your face is down alone On your desk At the end of the city You were squashed into There is no one you love The quivering heart of Gigantor The quivering heart of Cory The quivering heart of Gigantor The quivering heart of Cory Your hair has gone wh...

Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep I'm tired and I I want to go to bed Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep And then leave me alone Don't try to wake me in the morning 'Cause I will be gone Don't feel bad for me I want you to know Deep in the cell of my...

Black phoebe theres a candle in my window black phoebe its all inside of you black phoebe theres a candle in my window baby captain i hope those teary eyes are only from x and i hope they dont dry when your biking photos set you free and you see...

This blue dot of sickly light That is daytime in your embarassed town Burns a hole in the fading yellow ribbon On your fading wine colored Cavaliere The mine has fallen down on you As you dug a well of death Milk and sugar water In brief sympathy with...

Why would mother say such things? Why add tongue to a kiss goodnight? Force me to know The Want. No one needs to know. Be free. Laugh at your son. A child is nothing without hate. Be certain he feels his love is trash. Be the premier to shriek out...

Why ask why not it goes with this night so will it ever stop will it always be this hard there will always be a jar of ash there will always be an unfit mind there will always be a lonely son there will always be a humiliated little girl why ask is th...

Now and then you get what you want Now and then you get what you want I don't want to talk I wish I was dead The reservoir is filling with mold The reservoir is filling with mold I don't want to talk I wish I was dead Oh bunny rabbit Jaundiced by th...

You should have known Yet unashamed That there's no way To save Your wasted flower of youth But you feel the same In spite of all he did to you Sweet heart cut up face That I would have died any number of times for Beat down and beat down So peculia...

Look at me, Nothing bad is ever going to happen to you again. Although you're a solid pile of hate, You're still pretty like a cake. Pulling out a bat at the Kill Me Court, Slaps me that I can't handle you... But yes, no, yes, no, yes, Tell me how to li...

Brian, tender kisses run run run is my wish for you Brian, tender drops of blood run run run I'm thinking of you How far does your brother go with you? Brian, growing boy stay stay stay awake is my prayer for you Brian, tender clutches run run run I'm thin...

sorry I walked away when you told me what you were scared of the night that you turned 12 trying not to cry in front of your older brother he knows where I live, he's not interested I can't have nice things, like a boy who stays who stays around when I ne...

It feels retarded I wonder if you like me Will you be there tonight? Do you mean it when you say what you say? Fixing up my hair I want to impress you Today and everyday Okay, okay okay Okay, So what do you want? I want to be careless too So much wa...

Daniella, Don't say be tender first And don't say teach me Before you get tied up for your first time I'm not like that I'm not so good you will want to Run away for us Your black hair is like black hair Mine I promise is a jerk's hair Your acne is...

This is why events unnerve me They find it all, a different story Notice whom for wheels are turning Turn again and turn towards this time All she ask's the strength to hold me Then again the same old story Word will travel, oh so quickly Travel first a...

foul deeds, indeed, do bring prosperity we may not know our age, we just fought the rifle is heavy beyond compassion so new in destruction your teeth will be forgotten war for cricket children place her foot on the log and chop it off brown brown makes...

Chocolate makes you happy and it keeps you awake as you unbutton your top pants button bewildered by the pain oh oh oh Chocolate makes you happy as you deign to sing along when you thrust two fingers down your throat and wash away what's wrong oh oh o...

You look so cute when you're confused I give you a monkey bite in the arm pit but you say No no no no no no no no no no no no! But you don't know what you want Except to lie upon one with the other behind you But to lie on one side with the big one to the...

I tried hard to be good to you i felt peace inside my head its impossible to just be cool please please please don't don't don't walk like my single hope we closed our lips and we called it our love we swallowed a clover made of lead its unmanageable t...

Up and down through what you thought would be your future Became the dark reminder of What a rash and inconsistent faith you had In loving your true self and your true love Clowne towne no shelter Clowne towne no anything Clowne towne single angel Clown...

Telling your son a joke He doesn't think is funny “We'll catch him unawares but What if he doesn't wear underwear.” Lighting it up You were so cool Her school colors Black and light black Giving it up She has started Your life's colors Black and lig...

Lay down boys, and take a little nap Snow knee-deep in Cumberland Gap Cumberland Gap's a devil of a place Couldn't find water to wash my face Me an' my wife an' my wife's pap Walked all the way from Cumberland Gap Pretty little girl if you don't care...

a witch has come from under the ocean and with a pointed and sharp finger snatched my baby by the crook of her jaw and hooked her breath away and bloated and cut her soft, dearest skin and face her hair has gone from black to green she used to complain...

Despair will hold a place in my heart a bigger one than you do do do and I will always be nicer to the cat than I am to you you you you dear God, I hate myself dear God, I hate myself and I will never be happy and I will never feel normal don't ask me...

Did you know you were going to shoot Off the top of a four year old girl's head And look across her car-seat down into her skull And see into her throat and did you know That her dad would say to you, "Please sir, can I take her body home?" Oh wait, you...

good god baby lady's high aping full on high i cross my heart all the time it's always the same nothing happened i cross my wrist now you shut up it's always the same nothing happened miya jailbird softy sigh miya who cried secret sigh i cross...

I know you like me I know you do That's why when I come around She's all over you And I know you want me too It's easy to see And in the back of your mind You know you should be on with me Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Don't cha wis...

I left a note on his dresser And my old wedding ring With these few goodbye words How can I sing Goodbye old sleepy head I'm packing you in like I said Take care of everything I'm leaving my wedding ring Don't look for me I'll get ahead Remember dearest Don't...

la la holds inside of her the horrible dream of being somebody thinking about her dream makes her feel like it's stupid a dream whose coming true is a must a must it would be so much easier if she was a real girl the preschool students ask her what sh...

oh there is no right there is no wrong the way we live there is only wrong so radical destroyed for nothing and i don't care i don't care anymore remarkable pulsating creature into his calves the poison flows when it is wonderous it makes us who...

Break my face in was the kindest touch you Ever gave Wrap my dreams around your thighs and Drape my hopes upon the chance to touch your arm Fabulous Muscles Cremate me after you cum on my lips Honey boy place my ashes in a vase beneath your workout benc...

Factory girl, factory girl What will I do for you? Nothing, nothing but pull it To LBFM.biz You will not go to heaven You will just go to work And when all the emotions of this Burst forth as a spark Place your phone on your pillow And pet it like a d...

Kneel under faith In growing despair Hung noose of charm I won't stop where you start Faith, torn apart Torn apart Torn apart Oh, no one Oh, no one No, no one Hears no one "Oh brother sleep, oh sister formality Your simple curriculum, opening, ev...

There was never a chance to get away when was it only ever but perverse why could they take a stone and break your arms there could be nothing worse except to live Live, live little girl sold in slavery twenty-five men have their way in you burned up...

You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Anyplace is better Starting from zero got nothing to lose Maybe we'll make something But me myself I got nothing to prove You got a fast car And...

My father thought it was an orange I thought that it was a toy I thought it could be a gift for my son The goat greaves for his life The butcher for meat If you pass under a rainbow You will turn from A girl into a boy If you put on this false beard Y...

is this the first time you've known regard? two weeks not enough to unnotice why are we like this? cut at whats already cut the littlest of stones no one visits this solitude and death for you, gayle lynn 1948 unloved infant girl the loneliest of...

A piano fell on my face You told me to get up When I could not control myself You say to get up Consciousness demolished And I try to hold the pain inside You say to hold it in Love me forever Don't forget me It's the late in the game to ask But I'...

[Verse 1] Take a break The pressure rips her apart The baby duck in you has died Push it out and F-word a duck It's a bad time to be a duck [Chorus] Girl with basket of fruit [Verse 2] She sits on a bicycle and floats in space She is in love with T...

Beat beat me to death I said it beat beat me to death gray death beat me Jimmy is begging beat beat beat beat beat beat If you are expecting consolation I will become outrageous if you expect me to be outrageous I will be extra outrageous chew the c...

confess, tied to a stretcher no longer animal red white and blue, choking on peace your suicide, his politics nay misery my country needs this freedom to contradict your humanness meow meow meow meow la la now we are safe now we are safe you'll ne...

He needs me He doesn't know it, but he needs me And so no matter where he goes Though he doesn't care He knows that I'm here He needs me I ought to leave him, but he needs me I know that I'm not very bright Just to tag along Oh, but right or wrong I...

I know it's dumb to say, That you are on my mind. I know it's stupid to dream, That you might think of me as a man. I can loose my own tie knot, I can button up my own pants. I can buy my own cigarettes, I can pluck my own moustache. I read it's lame...

I did something bad I got in a fight about drugs kicked him in the neck I am helsabot I am all you're not but you wish you were I am working hard don't you laugh at me I am helsabot alcohol fueled robot I take off my clothes then I say to joe "...

If you are wasting your life, say hi If you are alone tonight, say hi If you wish he should die, say hi, hi-hi, hi-hi If you have a hole in your head, say hi If you have a stitch in your wrist, say hi If, when you look at the sky, it is black and shredded...

Put that gun to my temple Put that gun to my heart Always walk off the plank chi cha All always, all always in to the dark A I D S H I V I cannot wait to die Can't you tell Can't you tell Can't you tell Never finish my degree cha chi Never played t...

Defrock human no one stole you day light murder from your front room Distilled violent keep safe please God! I got away pedophile I made it into my own little christian school flung far thy serial will to kill I got away, I got away, I got away, I...

It was all that I wanted from you So I could tell them That we did it That it was like love All that I wish of devotion A little shattering lovelife Made up daring myself to stay A little wish for this time of night A little shattering headache Made...

It was not posed It messed me up It was her recording herself Whisper. "What is it worth to me?" Thinking one thought The advice to be okay. Break into childrens hospital Cry it out. "Dont fuck with me, dont fuck with me" And I broke up without a n...

you had a dream about loss within the fruit there are worms yet still a vow to dare goodnight you had a dream about love could it be you were the one who is waiting patiently for me to disregard caution to feign deafness to wisdom could it be you were...

Little jizzo Little sweetest glob The restrictions is gone The worries is gone When the time is right I will love you like I should When the time is right Come back come back come back The rose elf is stabb-ed The rose goblin is vacuumed O.U.T. out!...

That's a pill and you've got to take it That's a pill that you've got to take I won't rest until you take it That's a heart that you made That's a heart and the both of you made it And I won't rest until I break it It?s ?histroic de la famile It?s l?his...

Someday J.S. When you tell me everything It will make me want to take it too far And when ask me everything I will take it too far The twenty-hundred private loops making up my Ahh! Ian Curtis, I can't believe I said it, wishlist Via heave and via gasp...

Mescal in a bottle and a baby on a boob Hair dyed blonde for nobody, nobody move I wasn't gonna hurt you I’ve heard that one before I wasn't gonna hurt you I've said that one before Flip-flops turned gray And foot twisted ’round the wrong way Puff, puf...

spelling in bruises "crazy iris" writing out in welts "the morbid iris" intolerable incomprehensible you can never earn enough to buy the gun that you want so you photograph the marks but the blood you spite sputters up up up up out out out out...

Knuckle a short life in the ribs It comes out as a joke The God Burner as the unembrace It too, a joke The Great Fish Head deforms the unborn It comes out a great and deformed joke A pig wearing a maid's apron and cap Riding a tomato on rubber wheels...

I got a woman She rules my house with an iron fist I got a woman She rules my house with an iron fist She screams out Jack The Ripper Every time I try to give that girl a kiss I got a woman She strikes me down with a fist of lead I got a woman She st...

Excuse me Is it true what they say? About guys who go out by themselves? Is is true that they go home by themselves? You've seen me dance here alone before Is it tough to watch Friday after Friday? 

Too dumb to be this dumb Too young to be this young Don't do too much GoGo Too clung to be a chum Too prude to be so cute What have I done? GoGo Too [dee] to be a bat Too fat to be so bad Take me instead GoGo Too tight to be so tight Too wrong to...

I can't play When he wakes up She said, "He can't play" When he thinks I'm growing up That song Juno they did in the street So many places to go and not one for me Said the She If they were pretty it'd be okay to say But that day only When She wore dr...

~~~♫♫♫~~~ Just tell him that I need him As roses need the rain And tell him that without him My dreams are all in vain Just say I love him I’ve loved him from the start And tell him how I’m yearning To say what’s in my heart Just say I need him As roses need...

I first saw you You had on blue jeans Your eyes couldn't hide anything I saw you breathing, oh I saw you staring out in space I next saw you You was at the party Thought you was a queen Oh so flirty I came against Didn't say excuse Knew what I was d...

angel wear your 'pray hard' shirt angel your daughter the circle of your line Oh Angelina in a different life Oh Angelina in a sickle cell Oh Angelina in a different time No one can touch you No one can touch you Angel, so faithful The dead will bu...

Don't tell me someone is waiting No one is waiting Don't tell me someone is whispering too Would you sonny, could you bunny? But no one is there Right! A mockery, right? Shut up, shut up, shut up. Shut up, shut up, shut up. Shut up, shut up, shut up....

Can stop lying, I can stop punching my own face I can stop stealing money, I can stop hating my own heart I can do it Because of you I can stop scratching up my cheeks I can stop drinking so much I can stop wanting to kill myself I can stop wanting you...

Luber I want to hug you I want to tell your mom to love you You got your dreams They?re about the Birthday Party I?ve got my dreams Whatever they used to be Luber On your birthday I will answer your 1000 questions Luber let me help you It will eas...

Mary Turner, Mary Turner Mary Hattie Graham 19 years old and pregnant Hazel Turner, Hazel Turner Murdered by a lynch mob She declares his crime a crime And running for her life She is, she is captured Captured at Folsom Bridge Gasoline and motor oil...

Dad, what was Nigel supposed to do with your body? A life I'll never understand Whose false teeth were gently pushed back into your Mouth by your daughter's husband What am I supposed to do with this? I feel like I'm not nice because sometimes It is hard...

How did I end up here curled up on this couch? where did you learn such a bold wink whisking me off to your bedroom? mousey toy this continent is lit by the holocaust beneath my ribs (between my lips) mousey toy how did two tiny ribbons untie and unfo...

Should i treasure the red or treasure the light the bitter juniper is still food pull down your pants by the shi'ites tire my tounge over your gums oh honey bee buzz upon me slip me a note oh God, what a donkey it smells like Fallujah a hammock rod...

It's turning from day to dark Armageddon What made you think life was special? When I look at you I see there is one life that is special We don't need to live to love We don't need to live to love Everyone has failed us and we have failed everyone We...

(Boat Knife Version) I can't wait to watch you get older I can't wait to meet that first boy that breaks your life I can't wait till you realize the family you've been born into I can't wait to watch you turn from good to bad I can't wait to tell your gr...

Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh What have you become? I can't say so Yet run full-on to Run towards nothing No, yes, yeah, no, yes, no, what? No Normal love, normal love Normal love, normal love Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh,...

i know i know i know it's over upon the platform inside the slaughter house just a slip away from murder oooooooooover in the night a mystery should unfold where i wish for waking up unaware but it's not unclear at all underlined in red on your jacket s...

Petite Purposeful like a pillbox Nothing is wrong For nothing does matter Spelling trouble in the clouds And making trouble in clouds This isn't something your heart needs to know A world of trouble falling down as snow You feel worry and you should...

Anthony Llyod cops horse like a reporter A two hour plane trip from his life's work His most important story, sound is faster in water than it is in air A hydrophone will let you know faster that your grandma and your niece are shot dead There's a call at...

Straight ahead what is there? My brother and sister and I Trying to make some sense of this It's just a fleeting thought though For there is nothing in our wondering Night in night out love begins and love ends The red sun rises Sadness is still in prin...

Take your parents credit cards Buy a bunch of crap that you don?t need And will never ever use Your mom and dad are out of town And they trust you implicitly A rubber chicken for the mail man Is on your horizon And there is nothing That I?d rather do...

You look so ready to kill me with your bosses saw Mendocino, Klamath, Siskiyou, Shasta a wasp will find its way into your pointless life its stinger will sting you away this where I live dripping and marked from your paint Jesus is wondering if even He...

of a life that's allotted to be yours a trifle oh take it from me that tonight is closed hot pepper hot pepper hot pepper look at me i am alone hot pepper hot pepper i'm single i have no friends in my new city hot pepper i'm alone without dignity for...

Loner, loner Right, right Loner, loner Right, right So I was just standing there And standing there and standing there and waiting There and waiting There and waiting There and waiting There and waiting Keep me company But like, as a mother Daddy...

[?] had a crush Face made up for taking a punch I want aid and I will not wait Everyone loves you The pain has just begun And everyone hates you The pain has just begun Everyone loves you The pain has just begun And everyone hates you The pain has j...

It's light outside when you finally see a quiet failure sleeping next to you don't think don't try don't rush away when i say you deserve less you try so hard to be as sweet as you can for me but i don't see you for who you are rose of sharon in my...

You say I am loca because I am your girl You say I am stupid because I am your girl You leave me out on the steps you dress me up like a boy You say that I am your secret love You say to be quiet but I want to tell the whole world I like my neighborhood I...

he talked to me like I was smart he sexed me up all the time I did not get it, was this my time to shine I did not get it, had my luck finally turned LA LA LA LA LA I saved up to take him out at night he said the restaurant was all wrong he said he had a...

Though this is all you'll ever get it would be a strange delite no eyes no nose no mind the grey light of Porto stay with you oh how can you love a tiny bug impressed by the night when you cut yourself? save me save me your body rotten as the last melon on the...

Fade cream, all erased I can't remember who you are Hear and taste all erased I can't remember who you are The Simone Hotel The Simone Hotel (Guard, guard Guard, guard Guard, guard Guard, guard) Light a candle, pull the handle You are erased Lig...

L.A. give me some of you L.A. L.A. come to me I've come to you reduce it to dust all that was a promise reduce it to dust oh disintegrate secrets its best you not know I'll never tell push me, I'll never tell stupid it's best I don't say I won't...

The police showed me your photo You looked so unlikable I said, I'm not sure it's you But I wish I said it was you You taught me a lesson People are stupid in the dark People are useless in the moonlight People are meant to be loved Loved without thou...

black lung got you down tonight saving it all for work suha pins her arms to her side watching her twin want to die i hate my body, i hate the desert please let me escape when will i be going home i hate my husband, i hate my children i'm going to han...

Did you know you were going to shoot off the top of a 4 year old girl's head and then look across her car-seat down into her skull and see into her throat and did you know that her dad would say to you. "Please sir, can i take her body home?" oh wait! you t...

If I was more like you More soft More pale We could take drugs together Hand in hand Like father and son I could live with you Ten-thousand-times-a-minute Give up... 

The body breaks And the body is fine I'm open to yours And i'm open to mine The body aches And that ache takes it time But you'll get over yours And i'll get over mine And the sun will shine And the moon will rise up The body calls Yeah, the body...

You wanna see, you wanna see You wanna lick, you wanna kiss You wanna whisper in my ear, bitch? But I don't give a fuck, girl All 'cause you gave me a thousand bucks Ask, I wanna ring the bell (For you and me or you on me) Linked upon the cabinet (The...

Lean against the stove Leave it glowing in the dark Push my hand onto the coil It is burnt now Forever Cherry blossoms fall But for a minute there I have the will to live But then the cuckoo cries Hey!, hey!, hey!, hey! You constantly aspire To th...

I like people who are wrong Could you then feel like I do Collossus bestrides the haves and have nots Go softly this is being sung for you Wake up wake up The wish you made is plucked Go out get up You've done enough enough Wake up wake up To take th...

Let's go out tonight. I feel like picking a fight. I feel like starting a brawl and then slipping out the back door. Do you think that's funny? I don't think it's funny. But our backs have been broken too many times. We've seen all their tricks and we know...

It's always tight at the end of the month. Until that check comes, there's nothing for lunch. I'm sick of all my stuff being halfway broke. Too tired to pretend that I'm not sick of my friends. Some days I'm sorry that I ever moved here. Some days I think...

I'm not tired, I could still go out. I'm not obligated by the morning sun. If we drink enough, we'll be acting tough. We'll laugh the loudest. Let's see them try and stop us. We could talk about the boys you know, a lover's wink. And if the conversation stal...

You thought I was confused. I thought it was strange that you had it all figured out. You had it all wrong. I've been putting you off for months now. Your letter I never replied to, you raise the alarm. You call the police. I've been the supporting role, it...

Perseus holds the head of Medusa oh what i would give to be her my hands cannot hold steady when you reach out to me Jaimie boy oh if you could tell would you ever be taken as i am that i looked to you every night you did not seem to notice god had mad...

Can I pray for your return? The bird I am looking for is not in me It is you It's so clear you missed it What we saw in you Green like flame Someone felt something pure And told it all to you That was why you killed yourself To prove it wasn't true...

Something has to be true Besides what is true Enraged at one's own helplessness Helplessness that is one's own fault God made us and now He wants us to die I cannot care What do you think? What do you do? Kneel before you, just for a moment A child'...

Charismatic, a trapped rabbit Carpet beetle, huhu grub Rice weevil, flatworm Mealy bug, field cricket Grass grub, caterpillar Head louse, utopia I can't bear what they say about you Baptize a goat, sacrifice a goat Let's shove in our wrong as deep, as...

you cut her name into your heart you burn his name into your arm cast out the pig you kiss as love heaven is closed for now you are alone this too, this too shall pass away this too, this too will pass away listen, Steven is singing to you the pain of...

tell me why they hurt you like that i can't see how you go on tonite and today my eyes closed in the club tonite and today the smallest kiss in the world tonite and today i won't forget it or why which boys which girls answered your ad well man it w...

I'm ready to go, It's creeping along. A deep lack of guilt, And fool's sense of love. You can say it's nothing, You can claim there's no-one to hide. You could be respectable and keep it to yourself, Cause we know that she was the best that you've had....

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Love me, say you do Let me fly away with you For my love is like the wind And wild is the wind Give me more than one caress Satisfy this hungriness Let the wind blow through your heart Wild is the wind You touch me I hear the sound of mandolins...

Tonight is anything Goodbye to anything Outside of anything Collide with everything Ring a xadong ding ding Down on your knees Ring a ding ding ding Swallow defeat Relief again Ding ding dong ding Wondering, maybe? Wondering, maybe? Wondering, ma...

never had i seen a woman falling down to the grass court gingko across her face, yellowed by a child and a boyfriend calling so hard to its father, "bury me in the sawdust!" deepen the dread, gotten rid of by this self immolation AGAIN! the dust that hi...