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atsonicpark 05.21.2006 07:50 AM

"Would you like to suck my cock?
Berzerker."

Dues 05.21.2006 08:11 AM

This one's from Cocksucker Blues [Rolling Stones]:

"Oh where can I get my cock sucked?
Where can I get my ass fucked?
I ain't got no money,
But I know where to put it every time"

Extra info on the subject: Supposedly there's a documentary on the Rolling Stones, that is hyper (!) at the lack of a better term, entitled 'Cocksucker Blues' that circulates 'round the globe, that was at some point official (meaning the Stones allowed the documentary to be shot), but that was banned from public viewing at peer Label and Stones pressure because of its way too explicit [re: full on S, D & R'n'R] content. I wanna watch it.

Florya 05.21.2006 11:32 AM

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

Johnny Cash's video of his version of this NIN song made me cry, and I'm not a Johnny Cash fan or particularly sentimental.

golden child 05.21.2006 11:47 AM

ejaculation is a waste of valuble resources.

alyasa 05.21.2006 01:05 PM

The breath of the morning
I keep forgetting
The smell of the warm summer air

I live in a town
Where you can't smell a thing
You watch your feet
For cracks in the pavement

Up above
Aliens hover
Making home movies
For the folks back home

Of all these weird creatures
Who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves
And live for their secrets

They're all uptight
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...

I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it

I'd tell all my friends
But they'd never believe
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely

I'd show them the stars
And the meaning of life
They'd shut me away
But I'd be all right
All right..

I'm just uptight
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...
Uptight...

(P.S. Is that HOLE?)

HaydenAsche 05.21.2006 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by golden child
ejaculation is a waste of valuble resources.


AOR! The Great Gods of No Wave!

"Your kids are not safe from us homosexuals.
Your kids are controlled by the intellectuals.
Your kids will dabble in that devilish stuff.
Your kids will dream about their teacher's muffs!"

alyasa 05.22.2006 12:20 PM

Hey hey little baby break down
Button-up baby you come undone
Hey hey little baby get down
Before you fall and hurt someone

acousticrock87 05.22.2006 01:51 PM

Now the police have taken you from under my wing
Do you think they dare defy me, I who am king
Now, you must lie in that county jail
Where I can't get to you by visit or mail
So squirm with discomfort, wriggle and cough
Six days of madness, you might throw me off
Curse me in name. Defy me in speech
But you'd pick me up right now if I were in your reach
All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate
Hear now, younng man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate
Don't be afraid, don't run, I'm not chased
Son, my name is Heroin. You'll be back for a taste

finding nobody 05.22.2006 02:26 PM

See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
(And) see the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
(I can) hear the undertaker's bell
(Yeah), nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

alyasa 05.22.2006 09:49 PM

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.


EyeballGrowth 05.22.2006 09:56 PM

 

EMMAh 05.22.2006 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saturnine
when i looked in the void
you know, and when it was talking to me
THE VOID
when i fill the void

free rep to anyone who can name the artist
__________________

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But users, cheaters
Six-time losers
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles


HOLE :love:

Hope ~ Sublime
You say you want perfection, that's your self-destruction.
You don't know what you want, it's gonna take you a year to find
out.
I am not givin up.
And when you've had enough, you take your bruised little head
and you'll come running back to me
I know that I will be the only on

HaydenAsche 05.22.2006 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth
 


I hate you so much.

noisemachine 05.22.2006 10:27 PM

Velvet Underground - The Gift (one of the few songs that I still really pay attention to the lyrics)
Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit.
It was now mid-August which meant that he had been separated from Marsha for more than two months.
Two months, and all he had to show were three dog-eared letters and two very expensive long-distance phone calls.
True, when school had ended and she'd returned to Wisconsin and he to Locust, Pennsylvania she had sworn to maintain a certain fidelity.
She would date occasionally, but merely as amusement.
She would remain faithful. But lately Waldo had begun to worry.
He had trouble sleeping at night and when he did, he had horrible dreams.
He lay awake at night, tossing and turning underneath his printed quilt protector, tears welling in his eyes,
As he pictured Marsha, her sworn vows overcome by liquor and the smooth soothings of some Neanderthal,
Finally submitting to the final caresses of sexual oblivion. It was more than the human mind could bear.

Visions of Marsha's faithlessness haunted him.
Daytime fantasies of sexual abandon permeated his thoughts.
And the thing was, they wouldn't understand who she really was.
He, Waldo, alone, understood this.
He had intuitively grasped every nook and cranny of her psyche.
He had made her smile, and she needed him, and he wasn't there. (Awww.)
The idea came to him on the Thursday before the Mummers Parade was scheduled to appear.
He had just finished mowing and edging the Edelsons lawn for a dollar-fifty
And had checked the mailbox to see if there was at least a word from Marsha.
There was nothing more than a circular form the Amalgamated Aluminum Company of America inquiring into his awning needs.
At least they cared enough to write.

It was a New York company. You could go anywhere in
the mails. Then it struck him: he didn't have enough
money to go to Wisconsin in the accepted fashion,
true, but why not mail himself? It was absurdly
simple. He would ship himself parcel post special
delivery. The next day Waldo went to the supermarket
to purchase the necessary equipment. He bought
masking tape, a staple gun and a medium sized
cardboard box, just right for a person of his build.
He judged that with a minimum of jostling he could
ride quite comfortably. A few airholes, some water, a
selection of midnight snacks, and it would probably be
as good as going tourist.

By Friday afternoon, Waldo was set. He was thoroughly
packed and the post office had agreed to pick him up
at three o'clock. He'd marked the package "FRAGILE"
and as he sat curled up inside, resting in the foam
rubber cushioning he'd thoughtfully included, he tried
to picture the look of awe and happiness on Marsha's
face as she opened the door, saw the package, tipped
the deliverer, and then opened it to see her Waldo
finally there in person. She would kiss him, and then
maybe they could see a movie. If he'd only thought of
this before. Suddenly rough hands gripped his package
and he felt himself borne up. He landed with a thud
in a truck and then he was off.

Marsha Bronson had just finished setting her hair. It
had been a very rough weekend. She had to remember
not to drink like that. Bill had been nice about it
though. After it was over he'd said that he still
respected her and, after all, it was certainly the way
of nature and even though no, he didn't love her, he
did feel an affection for her. And after all, they
were grown adults. Oh, what Bill could teach Waldo --
but that seemed many years ago. Sheila Klein, her
very, very best friend walked in through the porch
screen door into the kitchen. "Oh God, it's
absolutely maudlin outside."
"Ugh, I know what you mean, I feel all icky." Marsha
tightened the belt on her cotton robe with the silk
outer edge. Sheila ran her finger over some salt
grains on the kitchen table, licked her finger and
made a face.
"I'm supposed to be taking these salt pills, but," she
wrinkled her nose, "they make me feel like throwing
up."
Marsha started to pat herself under the chin, an
exercise she'd seen on television. "God, don't even
talk about that." She got up from the table and went
to the sink where she picked up a bottle of pink and
blue vitamins. "Want one? Supposed to be better than
steak." And attempted to touch her knees. "I don't
think I'll ever touch a daiquiri again." She gave up
and sat down, this time nearer the small table that
supported the telephone. "Maybe Bill'll call," she
said to Sheila's glance.
Sheila nibbled on a cuticle. "After last night, I
thought maybe you'd be through with him."
"I know what you mean. My God, he was like an
octopus. Hands all over the place." She gestured,
raising her arms upward in defense. "The thing is
after a while, you get tired of fighting with him, you
know, and after all he didn't really do anything
Friday and Saturday so I kind of owed it to him, you
know what I mean." She started to scratch. Sheila
was giggling with her hand over her mouth. "I'll tell
you, I felt the same way, and even after a while," she
bent forward in a whisper, "I wanted to," and now she
was laughing very loudly.

It was at this point that Mr. Jameson of the Clarence
Darrow Post Office rang the door bell of the large
stucco colored frame house. When Marsha Bronson
opened the door, he helped her carry the package in.
He had his yellow and his green slips of paper signed
and left with a fifteen-cent tip that Marsha had
gotten out of her mothers small beige pocket book in
the den. "What do you think it is?" Sheila asked.
Marsha stood with her arms folded behind her back. S
he stared at the brown cardboard carton that sat in
the middle of the living room. "I don't know."

Inside the package Waldo quivered with excitement as
he listened to the muffled voices. Sheila ran her
fingernail over the masking tape that ran down the
center of the carton. "Why don't you look at the
return address and see who it is from?" Waldo felt
his heart beating. He could feel the vibrating
footsteps. It would be soon.

Marsha walked around the carton and read the
ink-scratched label. "Ugh, God, it's from Waldo!"
"That schmuck," said Sheila. Waldo trembled with
expectation. "Well, you might as well open it," said
Sheila. Both of them tried to lift the stapled flap.

"Ahh, shit," said Marsha groaning. "He must have
nailed it shut." They tugged at the flap again. "My
God, you need a power drill to get this thing opened."
They pulled again. "You can't get a grip!" They
both stood still, breathing heavily.
"Why don't you get the scissors," said Sheila. Marsha
ran into the kitchen, but all she could find was a
little sewing scissor. Then she remembered that her
father kept a collection of tools in the basement.
She ran downstairs and when she came back, she had a
large sheet-metal cutter in her hand.
"This is the best I could find." She was very out of
breath. "Here, you do it. I'm gonna die." She sank
into a large fluffy couch and exhaled noisily.
Sheila tried to make a slit between the masking tape
and the end of the cardboard, but the blade was too
big and there wasn't enough room. "Godamn this
thing!" she said feeling very exasperated. Then,
smiling, "I got an idea."
"What?" said Marsha.
"Just watch," said Sheila touching her finger to her
head.

Inside the package, Waldo was so transfixed with
excitement that he could barely breathe. His skin
felt prickly from the heat and he could feel his heart
beating in his throat. It would be soon. Sheila
stood quite upright and walked around to the other
side of the package. Then she sank down to her knees,
grasped the cutter by both handles, took a deep breath
and plunged the long blade through the middle of the
package, through the middle of the masking tape,
through the cardboard, through the cushioning and
(thud) right through the center of Waldo Jeffers head,
which split slightly and caused little rhythmic arcs
of red to pulsate gently in the morning sun.

noisemachine 05.22.2006 10:31 PM

...and "Twilight" by Elliott Smith

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time
I better stop now before I start crying
Go off to sleep in the sunshine
I don't want to see the day when it's dying

She's a sight to see, she's good to me
I'm already somebody's baby
She's a pretty thing and she knows everything
But I'm already somebody's baby

You don't deserve to be lonely
But those drugs you got won't make you feel better
Pretty soon you'll find it's the only
Little part of your life you're keeping together

I'm nice to you, I could make it through
That you're already somebody's baby
I could make you smile if you stayed a while
But how long will you stay with me baby

Because your candle burns too bright
Well, I almost forgot it was twilight
Even if I think that you are right
Well, I'm tired of being down, I got no fight

You're wonderful, when it's beautiful
But I'm already somebody's baby
And if I went with you I'd disappoint you too
Well, I'm already somebody's baby
Already somebody's baby

dietzer123 05.22.2006 10:54 PM

would you like to making fuck
berzker

alyasa 05.22.2006 11:53 PM

"Fight tuberculosis, folks." Christmas Eve, an old
junkie selling Christmas seals on North Park Street.
The "Priest," they called him. "Fight tuberculosis, folks."
People hurried by, gray shadows on a distant wall.
It was getting late and no money to score.
He turned into a side street and the lake wind hit him like a knife.
Cab stop just ahead under a streetlight.
Boy got out with a suitcase. Thin kid in prep school clothes,
familiar face, the Priest told himself, watching from the doorway.
"Reminds me of something a long time ago." The boy, there, with his overcoat
unbuttoned, reaching into his pants pocket for the cab fare.
The cab drove away and turned the corner. The boy went inside
a building. "Hmm, yes, maybe" - the suitcase was there in the doorway.
The boy nowhere in sight. Gone to get the keys, most likely,
have to move fast. He picked up the suitcase and started for the corner.
Made it. Glanced down at the case. It didn't look like the case the boy had,
or any boy would have. The Priest couldn't put his finger on what was so
odd about the case. Old and dirty, poor quality leather, and heavy.
Better see what's inside. He turned into Lincoln Park, found an
empty place and opened the case. Two severed human legs that belonged to
a young man with dark skin. Shiny black leg hairs glittered in the
dim streetlight. The legs had been forced into the case and he had to use
his knee on the back of the case to shove them out. "Legs, yet,"
he said, and walked quickly away with the case.
Might bring a few dollars to score. The buyer sniffed suspiciously.
"Kind of a funny smell about it." "It's just Mexican leather."
"Well, some joker didn't cure it."
The buyer looked at the case with cold disfavor.
"Not even right sure he killed it, whatever it is.
Three is the best I can do and it hurts. But since this is Christmas
and you're the Priest..." he slipped three bills under the table into the
Priest's dirty hand. The Priest faded into the street shadows, seedy
and furtive. Three cents didn't buy a bag, nothing less than a nickel.
Say, remember that old Addie croaker told me not to come back unless
I paid him the three cents I owe him. Yeah, isn't that a fruit for ya,
blow your stack about three lousy cents.
The doctor was not pleased to see him.

"Now, what do you WANT? I TOLD you!"
The Priest laid three bills on the table. The doctor put the
money in his pocket and started to scream.
"I've had TROUBLES! PEOPLE have been around!
I may lose my LICENSE!" The Priest just sat there, eyes, old and heavy with
years of junk, on the doctor's face.
"I can't write you a prescription." The doctor jerked open a drawer
and slid an ampule across the table. "That's all I have in the OFFICE!"
The doctor stood up. "Take it and GET OUT!" he screamed, hysterical.
The Priest's expression did not change.

The doctor added in quieter tones, "After all, I'm a professional man,
and I shouldn't be bothered by people like you."
"Is that all you have for me? One lousy quarter G? Couldn't you lend
me a nickel...?" "Get out, get out, I'll call the police I tell you."
"All right, doctor, I'm going." Of course it was cold and far to walk,
rooming house, a shabby street, room on the top floor.
"These stairs," coughed the Priest there, pulling himself up along the
bannister. He went into the bathroom, yellow wall panels,
toilet dripping, and got his works from under the washbasin.
Wrapped in brown paper, back to his room, get every drop in the dropper.

He rolled up his sleeve. Then he heard a groan from next door,
room eighteen. The Mexican kid lived there, the Priest had passed him on
the stairs and saw the kid was hooked, but he never spoke, because he
didn't want any juvenile connections, bad news in any language.
The Priest had had enough bad news in his life.
He heard the groan again, a groan he could feel, no mistaking that groan
and what it meant. "Maybe he had an accident or something.
In any case, I can't enjoy my priestly medications with that sound coming
through the wall." Thin walls you understand. The Priest put down his
dropper, cold hall, and knocked on the door of room eighteen.
"Quien es?" "It's the Preist, kid, I live next door."
He could hear someone hobbling across the floor.

A bolt slid. The boy stood there in his underwear shorts, eyes black with
pain. He started to fall. The Priest helped him over to the bed.
"What's wrong, son?" "It's my legs, senor, cramps, and now I am without
medicine." The Priest could see the cramps, like knots of wood there
in the young legs, dark shiny black leg hairs.
"A few years ago I damaged myself in a bicycle race,
it was then that the cramps started." And now he has the leg cramps back
with compound junk interest. The old Priest stood there, feeling the boy
groan. He inclined his head as if in prayer, went back and got his dropper.
"It's just a quarter G, kid." "I do not require much, senor."

The boy was sleeping when the Priest left room eighteen.
He went back to his room and sat down on the bed.
Then it hit him like heavy silent snow. All the gray junk yesterdays.
He sat there and received the immaculate fix. And since he was himself a priest,
there was no need to call one.

alyasa 05.22.2006 11:55 PM

And:

Faster than a bullet
Terrifying scream
Enraged and full of anger
Hes half man and half machine

Rides the metal monster
Breathing smoke and fire
Closing in with vengeance soaring high

He is the painkiller
This is the painkiller

Planets devastated
Mankinds on its knees
A saviour comes from out the skies
In answer to their pleas

Through boiling clouds of thunder
Blasting bolts of steel
Evils going under deadly wheels

He is the painkiller
This is the painkiller

Faster than a lazer bullet
Louder than an atom bomb
Chromium plated boiling metal
Brighter than a thousand suns

Flying high on rapture
Stronger free and brave
Nevermore encaptured
Theyve been brought back from the grave

With mankind ressurrected
Forever to survive
Returns from armageddon to the skies

He is the painkiller
This is the painkiller
Wings of steel painkiller
Deadly wheels painkiller

krastian 05.23.2006 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth
 

Dayummm....how'd you get my picture?

porkmarras 05.23.2006 09:05 AM

Spoiled lyrics

Artist: Sebadoh
Album: III

Spoiled children soon to fall
Freedom is the lie we live
We will wait for tragedy
And scatter helpless to the fire
Sorry for ourselves
Sorry for the things we've seen
No one cries for help
Waiting for the fire
When all our toys are burning
All these empty urges must be satisfied
Acted outside
Precious strength to turn the game to history
Giving up, I'm blown away
He said all I had to say
The final days have come and gone
Safe inside; there's nothing wrong
Nothing in these words
Sorry force of habit
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Dumb & cruel
Cut before it's grown
Lies so forced in bored control
It learned all that it cares to know

porkmarras 05.23.2006 09:10 AM

I Luv U lyrics

Artist: Dizzee Rascal
Album: Boy in da Corner

I luv u
Iii...i..i..i luv u
I luv I luv I luv u
Iii...i..i..i luv u
Iii...i..i..i luv u

I luv I i I i luv u
I I i I i luv u
Iii...i..i..i luv u
Ii luv u I luv u
I I i I i
I I llluv u u u

[dizzee rascal:]
Yo if that girl know's where you stay thats poor
Some whore banging on your door what for
Pregnant? What're you talking about this for
Fifteen, she's underage thats raw
And against law 5 years or more
Now she wants a score and half of a draw
That the kind of threat that you can't ignore
That whore got you pinned down to the floor
But its your own fault you said three magic words (i love you)
When thats the one for the birds
When you said that she forgot other boys
Its over you better start buying the toys
There was no intention in front of your wife
That she knows this that she's ending your life
Its a real shame you got hacked by the whores
Its a real shame that kid probably aint yours

[chorus]

[dizzee rascal:]
That girl' some bitch ya know
She keep calling my phone
She dont leave me alone
She just moan and groan
She just keep ringin me at home
These days I dont answer my phone

[girl:]
That boy' some prick you kna'
All up in my hair
Thinks that I care
Keeps following me here
Keeps following me there
These days I cant go no where

[girl:]
Aint that your girl
[dizzee:]
Nah it aint my girl
[girl:]
I swear that's your girl
[dizzee:]
Course it aint my girl
[girl:]
She got juiced up
[dizzee:]
Oh well
[girl:]
She got chatted up
[dizzee:]
Oh well!

I swear thats your man
[girl:]
I aint got no man
[dizzee:]
You was with that man
[girl:]
He was just any man
[dizzee:]
He got hotted up
[girl:]
Oh well
[dizzee:]
He got whacked up
[girl:]
Oh well!

[dizzee rascal:]
Alright, she's a bad girl ima buss doe
Captain rascal with a crossbow
She came she got picked off yo
Nah its not a love ting, get lost hoe
Dizzy rascal come down like snow
With freezing cold flows like moscow
Dumb hoe, get me upset, guns blow
Bitch, you're not ready for skid row
Leap low dizzy rascal dig low
Big feet for the force with my big toe
I got no chaps, no chains not much doe
Get juiced but this ain't a love ting hoe
Dont slap or you might get a ho-hoe
Jambo coming through like rambo
Love ting takes two like tango
But she aint my wifey she can go

[chorus]

[dizzee rascal:]
Listen, I like your girl so you better look after your girl
Or I might just take your girl and make your girl my girl
Switch your girl with michelle
Switch michelle with chantelle
Play chantelle with shennele
Lyrical clientelle but I aint a bow cat, I dont like the smell
Im gonna go through a shell and make a boy feel unwell

That girl's from school, that girl's from college
That girl gives brains, that girl gives knowledge
That girl gives head, that girl gives shines
That girl gives bj's at all times
She looks decent, she looks fine
But dont talk about wifey she's not mine
She got batches, 6 in a line, believe me thats not a good sign

[chorus]

EyeballGrowth 05.23.2006 10:54 PM

 

alyasa 05.25.2006 11:09 PM

Borderline cases
Reinforced glass
Absent friends
Passport photos an elastic past
Empty pockets
And they think it is all
They think its soul
All wrapped up on a swollen lip
He draws the warm pipe
Chemicals!
Chemicals capture in winter's grip
Turn us on
Seperate the leper
Hungry ghosts
Hungry ghosts
Another imprint
In borrowed clothes
We can be numb
Passing through

Blow blow blow blow

Borderline cases
Future proof
Real thin air
Real thin air
Real thin air

terminal pharmacy 05.25.2006 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alyasa
"Fight tuberculosis, folks." Christmas Eve, an old
junkie selling Christmas seals on North Park Street.
The "Priest," they called him. "Fight tuberculosis, folks."
People hurried by, gray shadows on a distant wall.
It was getting late and no money to score.
He turned into a side street and the lake wind hit him like a knife.
Cab stop just ahead under a streetlight.
Boy got out with a suitcase. Thin kid in prep school clothes,
familiar face, the Priest told himself, watching from the doorway.
"Reminds me of something a long time ago." The boy, there, with his overcoat
unbuttoned, reaching into his pants pocket for the cab fare.
The cab drove away and turned the corner. The boy went inside
a building. "Hmm, yes, maybe" - the suitcase was there in the doorway.
The boy nowhere in sight. Gone to get the keys, most likely,
have to move fast. He picked up the suitcase and started for the corner.
Made it. Glanced down at the case. It didn't look like the case the boy had,
or any boy would have. The Priest couldn't put his finger on what was so
odd about the case. Old and dirty, poor quality leather, and heavy.
Better see what's inside. He turned into Lincoln Park, found an
empty place and opened the case. Two severed human legs that belonged to
a young man with dark skin. Shiny black leg hairs glittered in the
dim streetlight. The legs had been forced into the case and he had to use
his knee on the back of the case to shove them out. "Legs, yet,"
he said, and walked quickly away with the case.
Might bring a few dollars to score. The buyer sniffed suspiciously.
"Kind of a funny smell about it." "It's just Mexican leather."
"Well, some joker didn't cure it."
The buyer looked at the case with cold disfavor.
"Not even right sure he killed it, whatever it is.
Three is the best I can do and it hurts. But since this is Christmas
and you're the Priest..." he slipped three bills under the table into the
Priest's dirty hand. The Priest faded into the street shadows, seedy
and furtive. Three cents didn't buy a bag, nothing less than a nickel.
Say, remember that old Addie croaker told me not to come back unless
I paid him the three cents I owe him. Yeah, isn't that a fruit for ya,
blow your stack about three lousy cents.
The doctor was not pleased to see him.

"Now, what do you WANT? I TOLD you!"
The Priest laid three bills on the table. The doctor put the
money in his pocket and started to scream.
"I've had TROUBLES! PEOPLE have been around!
I may lose my LICENSE!" The Priest just sat there, eyes, old and heavy with
years of junk, on the doctor's face.
"I can't write you a prescription." The doctor jerked open a drawer
and slid an ampule across the table. "That's all I have in the OFFICE!"
The doctor stood up. "Take it and GET OUT!" he screamed, hysterical.
The Priest's expression did not change.

The doctor added in quieter tones, "After all, I'm a professional man,
and I shouldn't be bothered by people like you."
"Is that all you have for me? One lousy quarter G? Couldn't you lend
me a nickel...?" "Get out, get out, I'll call the police I tell you."
"All right, doctor, I'm going." Of course it was cold and far to walk,
rooming house, a shabby street, room on the top floor.
"These stairs," coughed the Priest there, pulling himself up along the
bannister. He went into the bathroom, yellow wall panels,
toilet dripping, and got his works from under the washbasin.
Wrapped in brown paper, back to his room, get every drop in the dropper.

He rolled up his sleeve. Then he heard a groan from next door,
room eighteen. The Mexican kid lived there, the Priest had passed him on
the stairs and saw the kid was hooked, but he never spoke, because he
didn't want any juvenile connections, bad news in any language.
The Priest had had enough bad news in his life.
He heard the groan again, a groan he could feel, no mistaking that groan
and what it meant. "Maybe he had an accident or something.
In any case, I can't enjoy my priestly medications with that sound coming
through the wall." Thin walls you understand. The Priest put down his
dropper, cold hall, and knocked on the door of room eighteen.
"Quien es?" "It's the Preist, kid, I live next door."
He could hear someone hobbling across the floor.

A bolt slid. The boy stood there in his underwear shorts, eyes black with
pain. He started to fall. The Priest helped him over to the bed.
"What's wrong, son?" "It's my legs, senor, cramps, and now I am without
medicine." The Priest could see the cramps, like knots of wood there
in the young legs, dark shiny black leg hairs.
"A few years ago I damaged myself in a bicycle race,
it was then that the cramps started." And now he has the leg cramps back
with compound junk interest. The old Priest stood there, feeling the boy
groan. He inclined his head as if in prayer, went back and got his dropper.
"It's just a quarter G, kid." "I do not require much, senor."

The boy was sleeping when the Priest left room eighteen.
He went back to his room and sat down on the bed.
Then it hit him like heavy silent snow. All the gray junk yesterdays.
He sat there and received the immaculate fix. And since he was himself a priest,
there was no need to call one.


this i would say would be a piece of prose set to music rather than lyrics, it was in existance as a text before the collaboration between wsb and kc

schizophrenicroom 05.25.2006 11:58 PM

"been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding
the cretins cloning and feeding
and i dont even own a tv
put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me
you told them all i was crazy
they cut off my legs now i'm an amputee goddamn you!"

its such a silly song, but i love it so.

terminal pharmacy 05.26.2006 12:04 AM

JOHN FRUSCIANTE LYRICS

"Mascara"

There's a belt of sun dripping through a porthole
In a set design
Can you read your name?
It's been so long since we blew from the inside
So where have you been since you fell off the flat edge
Of the world under an ugly sky
You've been lying by
But they meant you, dance under the moonlight
Do what you think is the sum
Of the flesh and blood
Above there's small birds gone to trembling
In for thousands of your years

[Voice 1:] You felt like crystal in your thighs
[Voice 2:] You get four red candles
[Voice 2:] On the table with your penis by your eyes
[Voice 1:] You're the one that makes me realize
[Voice 1:] Big water flowing through to tomorrow
[Voice 2:] Through to your vacation
[Voice 1:] Apples and cake must have been your stake
[Voice 2:] ? [something about "a gallon of wine"] but the smile you send in my direction
[Both: Makes me feel like I'm alive
[Voice 1:] You're hidden by your wooden legs
[Voice 2:] You're my kind, You're my kind
[Voice 2:] You always make me feel like a moon in my life
[Voice 1:] Stay here in down at the world's edge, for a time
[Voice 2:] It always makes me feel good to know you're alive, wrapping your ties
[Voice 1:] Down by the whirlpool, I finally realized you must have bittenyour snake,
Your little guy
[Voice 1:] I've been insane well the time is slow
[Voice 2:] I've been to a society where you can't see yourself and you can't feel sunshine
[Voice 2:] And if you see me roaming the hillside won't you come along? It's all gone to
The top of yourself. You'll always be alone.
[Voice 1:] The Pope don't matter when the pawn is your sea, don't you agree?
[Voice 2:] I like you in my love, makes me feel good just to know I can love someone like you.
They'll make it hard for you choose. I can understand but when you see the tears coming you close
Your eyes.
To you I'm sure it's no surprise that I could be one of the dead.
Thank god my underwear's full of lead without you. Without you.
[Voice 1:] When you're around I'm wound around your thumb. You wanna be numb inside the gun.
All your different delights are one big fight against thebaby inside that you've mistaken for pain.


IAmTexas 05.26.2006 01:39 AM

Bedoin tribes ascending
from the egg into the flower,
alpha information sending
state within the heaven shower
from disciples the unending
subtleties of river power.
They slip inside this house as they pass by.

If your limbs begin dissolving
in the water that you tread,
all surroundings are evolving
in the stream that clears your head,
find yourself a caravan
like Noah must have led,
and slip inside this house as you pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.
True conception, knowing why,
brings even more than meets the eye.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

In this dark we call creation
we can be and feel and know
from an effort, comfort station,
that's surviving on the go.
There's infinite survival in
the high baptismal glow.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

There is no season when you are grown.
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown.
There is no reason to rise alone.
Other stories given have sages of their own.

Live where your heart can be given,
and your life starts to unfold
in the forms you envision
in this dream that's ages old.
On the river layer is the only sayer.
You receive all you can hold,
like you've been told.

Every day's another dawning.
Give the morning winds a chance.
Always catch your thunder yawning.
Lift your mind into the dance.
Sweep the shadows from your awning.
Shrink the fourfold circumstance
that lies outside this house.
Don't pass it by.

Higher worlds that you uncover
light the path you want to roam.
You compare there and discover
You won't need a shell of foam.
Twice born gypsies care and keep
the nowhere of their former home.
They slip inside this house as they pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.
You think you can't, you wish you could.
I know you can, I wish you would
slip inside this house as you pass by.

Four and twenty birds of Maya
baked into an atom you
polarized into existence,
magnet heart from red to blue:
to such extent, the realm of dark
within the picture it seems true,
but slip inside this house and then decide.

All your lightning waits inside you.
Travel it along your spine.
Seven stars receive your visit.
Seven seals remain divine:
seven churches filled with spirit,
treasure from the angels' mine.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by
The space you make has your own laws.
No longer human gods are cause.
The center of this house will never die.
There is no season when you are grown.
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown.
There is no reason to rise alone.
Other stories given have sages of their own.

Draw from the well of unchanging.
Its union nourishes on
in the right re-arranging
till the last confusion is gone.
Water-brothers trust in the ultimust
of the always singing song they pass along.

One-eyed men aren't really reigning.
They just march in place until
two-eyed men with mystery training
finally feel the power fill.
Three-eyed men are not complaining.
They can yo-yo where they will.
They slip inside this house as they pass by.
Don't pass it by.



-"Slip Inside This House" by Roky Erickson and Tommy hall

alyasa 05.26.2006 05:49 AM

Mascara was beautiful... Why does John Frusciante's solo work seem much better than RHCP's? And I guess, yeah, it's not exactly lyrics, just bending the rules a bit for "the 'priest' they called him".

terminal pharmacy 05.26.2006 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alyasa
Mascara was beautiful... Why does John Frusciante's solo work seem much better than RHCP's? And I guess, yeah, it's not exactly lyrics, just bending the rules a bit for "the 'priest' they called him".


his solo work is much more interesting and beautiful and inspiring than anything rhcp have done, particularly the first album which mascara is from. which is now back in circulation with a reprint. john originally try to buy back everything the record company had because he didn't want it out there because he thought it was just shite, he did the same with smile from the streets you hold which is kinda average in his most fucked up junk phase. but niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt is a incredibly beautiful album.

terminal pharmacy 05.26.2006 06:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IAmTexas

-"Slip Inside This House" by Roky Erickson and Tommy hall


is this a 13th floor elevators track or from some other roky project???

Onani Nic 05.26.2006 07:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy
is this a 13th floor elevators track or from some other roky project???


i know its on Easter Everywhere which is a 13th Floor Elevator album. A very good album too

porkmarras 05.27.2006 09:35 AM

Spacemen 3
Mary Anne (Campbell/Hubbard)

Mary Anne, hold my hand
Pretty babe, I understand
You say it’s time to grab it blind
Cheering crowds they screw my mind
Just one time, I tell you now
Do your thing girl and do it loud
The desert sand, the secret plan
Lord’s own knowledge is in your hand
Grab a hold and ride that freight
Be yourself, don’t hesitate

Mary Anne, hold my hand
Pretty babe, I understand
You say it’s time to grab it blind
Cheering crowds they screw my mind
Just one time, that’s all I ask
To do my thing, girl, and do it fast
The desert sand, the secret plan
Lord’s own knowledge is in your hand
Grab a hold and ride that freight
Be yourself, don’t hesitate

Mary Anne, hold my hand
Pretty babe, I understand
You say it’s time to grab it blind
Cheering crowds they screw my mind
Just one time, I tell you now
Do your thing girl and do it loud
The desert sand, the secret plan
Lord’s own knowledge is in your hand
Grab a hold and ride that freight
Be yourself, don’t hesitate

luxinterior 05.27.2006 11:18 AM

First some Nick Cave songs, and then other stuff, and end with T. Rex:

"I kick every goddamn splinter
Into all the looking eyes in the world
Into all the laughing eyes
Of all the girls in the world"

"This desire to possess her is a wound
and it’s naggin at me like a shrew
but, I know, that to possess her
Is, therefore, not to desire her"

"No carpet on the floor
And the winding cloth holds many moths
Around your Ku Klux furniture
I cum of death-head in your frock
We discuss the murder plan
We discuss murder and the murder act
Murder takes the wheel of your Cadillac
And death climbs in the back"


"And a murder of crows did circle round
First one, then the others flapping blackly down "

"No carpet on the floor
And the winding cloth holds many moths
Around your Ku Klux furniture
I cum of death-head in your frock
We discuss the murder plan
We discuss murder and the murder act
Murder takes the wheel of your Cadillac
And death climbs in the back"


"And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
and a thousand pigeons fall around her feet"

"And every day I agree you throw me down by the Christmas tree
I watched your lights blink on and off while you start your fun with me
I, I know your reasons and I, I know your goals
We can fuck forever but you will never get my soul"

"I took a record of pretty music I went down and baby you can tell I took a record of pretty music now I’m putting it to you straight from hell I’ll stick it deep inside I’ll stick it deep inside cause I’m loose"

"Now I’m walking on downtown, in a town that is not my home,
and shopping for breakfast, to be eaten all alone
and dreaming of houses, none of them that I own --
but that’s not my provence -- that’s not for what I am known."

"Architecture students are like virgins
with an itch they cannot scratch,
Never build a building till you’re 50
what kind of life is that?"

"To hold the t.v. to my lips, the air so packed with cash
then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in the vacant lot
To lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks
and watch beneath the eyelids every passing dot"

"Today you're gonna be sick so sick you'll prop your forehead on the sink say oh Christ oh Jesus Christ my head's gonna crack like a bank
Tonight you'll fall asleep in clothes-so late like a candy bar wrapped up for lunch that's all you get to taste poverty and spit poverty and spit
Nausea bloody red eyes go to
Nausea bloody red eyes go to
Nausea bloody red eyes go to sleep
You're talking out of harmony you can't remember what you said cut it out you feel retarded take the scissors saw the head"

"I'll call you thing
just when the moon sings
and place your face in stone
upon the hills of stars
and gripped in the arms
of the changeless madman
we'll dance our lives away
in the ballrooms of mars"

"My life's a shadowless horse
If I can't get across to you"

"Standin' on a corner by my old high school,
I let this female call me a fool
I got on my knees and begged to the sun
And I knew that my manhood had begun"

porkmarras 11.22.2006 09:49 AM

Broadcast - We've Got Time


You and I, got something
Why don`t we try
What fools cannot buy
What lives cannot hide
You wrote your name, in silver light
The question still unanswered
Just in case it`s not right
We`ve got time to work it out
We`ve got what numbers cannot have
Who knows we`ll work this rhythm out
Miricle man possessing all that you can
Will you change the circumstance
Let it happen by chance
You wrote your name in silver light
The question still unanswered
Just in case it`s not right
We`ve got time to work it out
We`ve got what numbers cannot have
Who knows, we`ll work this rhythm out.
We`ve got time to work it out
We`ve got what numbers cannot have
Who knows, we`ll work this rhythm

lucyrulesok 11.22.2006 10:42 AM

I really like alot of Jeffrey Lewis' lyrics, especially his song life...

Life is a story don't you doubt
bad times give you something to talk about
the next time you feel you're all worn out
remember life is a story
don't you doubt
it only takes a day for everything to turn around

Love is a story they tell to you
but the way they tell it ain't quite true
you'll wake up one day and you're twenty-two
you know love is just a story that they tell to you
love takes a lot of work like everything else you're gonna do

Friends are just the people that you can talk with
somebody to talk about that somebody to talk about this
but everyone changes and forever is a myth
friends are just the people that you can talk with
a lot of them'll leave but only a few you're gonna miss

School is the place where I did my growing
they fill your brain to overflowing
they tell you this is all stuff you need to be knowing
school is the place where I did my growing
just when I got to like it it was time to be going

The world is the place where it all happens
they draw lines on it and call it a map
in between every line's a different flag flapping
the world is the place where it all happens
six billion people all taking turns eating in a napkin

Animals are critters just like you and me
the only difference is that they don't worry
about things that they can't smell or see
animals are critters just like you and me
so we buy pants and deodorants and claim not to be

Songs are just something to waste your time
I listen to yours and you listen to mine
before we know it the day's gone by
songs are just something to waste your time
so is everything else to do whatever makes you feel fine

God's just a story someone made up long ago
before they had books and tv shows
I don't believe in him and I ain't afraid to say so
you know god's just a story someone made up long ago
but it's hard not to be superstitious despite all you know

Everyone's born and everyone dies
everyone has a time and wonders why
the ocean's blue so is the sky
everyone's born and everyone dies
the old lady cries, the new baby cries...and sighs

Kisses are weird but they can be fun
instead of shaking hands it's like shaking tongues
I wish I got to do it more when I was young
kisses are weird but they can be fun
I hate going months and months without kissing anyone

At this point it's been since uh...how many months
1 2 3 4 5 6...7
I think if kissing someone could make them pregnant
the last person I kissed would have had their kid by now

*snort laugh snort*

Dreams are weird but they can be fun too
they happen more often than kisses it's true
in some I was naked and in some I flew
dreams are weird but they can be fun too
I wonder if you're dreaming about me when I'm dreaming about you

Now that you heard everything I said
there ain't nothing new inside your head
if you want, disregard it all go ahead
now that you've heard everything I said
there are probably one or two things you coulda been doing instead

Life is a story don't you doubt
bad times give you something to talk about
the next time you feel you're all worn out
remember life is a story
don't you doubt
it only takes a day for everything to turn around

and i also really like some of the lyrics from the fiery furnaces' rehearsing my choir

"i reached for the arm of the armchair and missed"

porkmarras 11.26.2006 01:52 PM

Hefner-Love Will Destroy Us In The End

All day,
staring at the ceiling making friends with shadows on my wall.
All night,
hearing voices telling me that I should get some sleep, cause tomorrow might be good for something
hold on,
feeling like I'm headed for a break down,
and I don't know why,
But I'm not crazy I'm just a little unwell I know right now you can't tell,
but stay a while and maybe then you'll see a different side of me.
I'm not crazy I'm just a little impaired, I know right now you don't care,
but soon enough you're gonna think of me,
and how I used to be me,
Talking to myself in public,
dodging glances on the train.
and I know,
I know they've all been talking about me I can hear them whisper,
and it makes me think there must be something wrong with me,
out of all the hours thinking,
somehow,
I've lost my mind.
But I'm not crazy I'm just a little unwell I know right now you can't tell,
but stay a while and maybe then you'll see a different side of me.
I'm not crazy I'm just a little impaired, I know right now you don't care,
but soon enough you're gonna think of me,
and how I used to be.
I've been talking in my sleep,
pretty soon they'll come to get me,
they're taking me away,
I'm not crazy I'm just a little unwell I know right now you can't tell,
but stay a while and maybe then you'll see a different side of me.
I'm not crazy I'm just a little impaired, I know right now you don't care,
but soon enough you're gonna think of me,
and how I used to be,
yeah how I used to be,
how I used to be,
I'm just a little unwell,
how I used to be,
how I used to be,
I'm just a little unwell

finding nobody 11.26.2006 03:57 PM

Have you ever seen the face
You know the one i'm talking about
Have you ever been to that place
You know i'm not supposed to say

Have you ever seen the face
You know the one i'm talking about
Have you ever been to that place
You know the one i'm not supposed to say

Holding on for something have you ever held on
Holding on for someone
Feels like holding on too long
Have you ever held on

It's not me I am pretending
I'm not saved he turned me down
He turns down

It is so nice to meet you
Who's gonna look at for you
It's not me, I am pretending
I'm not saved he turned me down
He turns down

Have you ever seen the face
You know the one i'm talking about
Have you ever been to that place
You know the one i'm not supposed to say

Holding on for something
Have you ever held on
Holding on for someone
Feels like holding on too long
Have you ever held on

It's not me I am pretending
I'm not saved he turned me down
He turns down

Glice 11.26.2006 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by porkmarras
Hefner...


I fuggin' loves Hefner I does.

The Fall's Mark E Smith has written oodles of great lyrics. I shan't reproduce any here.

Danny Himself 11.26.2006 06:39 PM

Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
Youre losing the calling that youve been faking
And Im not kidding

Its damned if you dont and its damned if you do
Be true cause theyll lock you up in a sad sad zoo
Oh hidy hidy hidy what cha tryin to prove
By hidy hidy hiding youre not worth a thing

Sew your fortunes on a string
And hold them up to light
Blue smoke will take
A very violent flight
And you will be changed
Sand everything
And you will be in a very sad sad zoo.

I once was lost but now Im found was blind
But now I see you
How selfish of you to believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming

Metal heart youre not hiding
Metal heart youre not worth a thing

Metal heart youre not hiding
Metal heart youre not worth a thing

cat power, 'metal heart'

porkmarras 11.27.2006 04:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glice
I fuggin' loves Hefner I does.

The Fall's Mark E Smith has written oodles of great lyrics. I shan't reproduce any here.

The poor man's Belle And Sebastian.


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