The Top

Ha ha ha

Wake up in the dark

The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth

Spit it on the wall

And cough some more

And scrape my skin with razor blades



And make up in the new blood

And try to look so good

Follow me

Make up in the new blood

And follow me to where the real fun is

Ha ha ha



As stale and selfish as a sick dog

Spurning sex like an animal of god

I'll tear your red hair by the roots

And hold you blazing

Hold you cherished in the dead electric light



Your face

I'll never see you this way again

I captured it so perfectly

As if I knew you'd disappear away



Shake shake shake shake

Shake shake shake shake

Shake dog shake

Shake shake shake shake

Shake shake shake shake

Shake dog shake



You hit me again

You howl and hit me again

The same sharp pain

Wakes me in the dark

And cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart

My heart

My shaking heart

My howl my shake dog



Oh shake dog shake

Shake shake

Shake dog shake



But we slept all night in the virgin's bed

And dreamed of death

And breathed like sick dogs

We slept all night in the virgin's bed

And breathed like death

And dreamed of sick dogs



Shake shake

Shake dog shake



Wake up wake up wake up

Shake dog shake

Wake up wake up wake up

Shake dog shake

Wake up in the new blood

Make up in the new blood

Shake up in the new blood

And follow me to where the real fun is

Shake dog shake

This girl has got a smile

That can make me cry

This girl just burns with love

She's burning burning deep outside



Night time night time

Sets my house on fire

I'll turn into the melting man

I'll lose my life

To feel I feel desire



Oh I should feel

Like a polar bear

Like a polar bear

It's impossible



She flies outside this cage

Singing girl-mad words

I keep her dark thoughts deep inside

As black as stone

As mad as birds



Wild wild wild

And never turn away

Sends me all her love

She sends me everything

She sends me everywhere



Oh I could be

A polar bear

Oh I could be

A polar bear

But it's impossible



I try to talk

The sky goes red

I forget

So fill my head

With some of this

Some of that

Some of every word she said



Oh I should be

A polar bear

But it's imposible

The holy city breathed

Like a dying man

It moved with hopeful tears

With the tears of the blind



And on and on as the night drew in

Through broken streets

That sucked me in

My feet were bare and cut with stones

With walking to the promised land



I pushed through crowds

Through seas of prayer

Through twisting hands and choking air

A vulture at the wailing wall

I circled

Get away from me

Get your fingers out of my face

This room's so hot

This room's so hot



I break the walls



Get away from me

Leave me alone

Like the pig on the stairs

Hanging

In a groovy purple shirt



Gasping for air

I'm gasping for air

I'm gasping for love

I'm gasping for air



Slit the cats like cheese

Then eat the sweet sticky things

Suck harder suck harder

Suck your insides insides out



Blood thick swimming round your feet

As you're choking

Choking

Choking on the fleshy words



Give me it give me it give me it

Deaden my glassy mind

Give me it give me it give me it

Make me blind

One step back and one step down

And slip the needles in my side



My head is cold

My hands are cold

My heart is cold

My heart is black

And stops every fucking night

Every night

I wait until it stops



Sing birds sing birds sing birds sing

Get away

Going under slowly

It never seems too late

Going under so slow



Dressing up to kiss

Dressing up to touch all this



I'm dressing up to dance all week

I'm dressing up to sleep



Dressing up to kiss

Dressing up to be all this



I could eat your face

I could eat all of you

Oh this night will never let me go...



Going under slowly

Never seems too late

Going under slow

You'll pick me up again

Flicka flicka flicka

Here you are

Cata cata cata

Caterpillar girl

Flowing in

And filling up my hopeless heart

Oh never never go

Dust my lemon lies

With powder pink and sweet

The day I stop

Is the day you change

And fly away from me



You flicker

And you're beautiful

You glow inside my head

You hold me hynotized

I'm mesmerized

Your flames

The flames that kiss me dead

Shapes in the drink like christ

Cracks in the pale blue wall

I'm walking slowly and quickly but

Always away

Twisting twisting to the floor



Flowers in your mouth and the same dry

Song the routine from laughter land

16 white legs and a row of teeth

I watch you in secrecy



You're dying for the hope is gone

From here we go nowhere again

I'm trapped in my face and I'm changing

Too much

I can't climb out the way I fell in



Jump with me

For that old forgotten dance

The midnight sun will burn you up

Your life is cold

Your life is hard

Your life is too much for words



These occasions are such a relief

Another point another view to send

We start to talk

And it's all so safe

I feed you in my dreams



Footsteps on a wire

High above my head

The stain reveals my real intention

I'm the waiting beast

I'm the twisted nerve

As I dance dance

Back to the body in my bed



Look at the piggy

Piggy in the mirror

As stiff as toys

And tall as men

And swaying like the wind torn trees

She talked about the empty world

With eyes like poison birds



She talked about the armies

That marched inside her head

And how they made her dreams go bad

But oh how happy she was

How proud she was

To be fighting in the war

In the empty world

Curl into a ball like you have more fun

That would make it faster

Why do you do it do you do it do you act like you?

Why do you do it do you act like you?



Don't fight

Go red and blue and black and white

Sell this sell this

Or leave it senseless like a suck on a gun?

Put a piece of metal in your head you said

Make you dead

Make you hippa hippa hippa hippa



A palace of stones

Of your bananafish bones

I'll buy you a hundred years old

To celebrate our difference

Theorise and talk yourself

Until you're tired and old



Disappear everywhere and watch me

Pull my lips apart

Exploit inspire encourage

Be responsible for this

Ha ha



I don't think

I don't think

I make use of all this time

Oh kill me kiss me once

And then we'll throw it away

And then we'll throw it away



Turn off the lights

And tell me about the games you play

I don't care

If only I could say that

And not feel so sick and scared

I don't care

If only I could say that

If only my eyes would close



It's jesus brilliant

You used to laugh

Walking these gorgeous blocks

This top is the place

Where nobody goes

You just imagine

You just imagine it all



Every day I lie here

And know that it's true

All I really want is you

Please come back

Please come back

Like all the other ones do



Please come back

All of you