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Obsession
02:49
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the girl
whose love grew oh so great
it killed the world
just killed the entire place
don't trust my instincts enough
i don't know who to trust
trust my instinct too much
don't know how to love
so i let my love grow
so large it sucked all the air out of the room
let my love grow
so large it cut a hole in space and time
i am in flux
i am in movement
between these states
i am the undivided middle
you can't have what you can't know
and they can never know
so i let my love grow
so large it's shoved down everybody's throats
expanding
rending flesh and breaking bones
until
it's just a void with me alone
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2. |
Cenobite
04:41
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oh no, here comes all the rain again
but darling, dry your tears
no one cries down here
oh no, here comes another paycheque
gone soon as it came
left you numb and drained
i've seen your darkest fantasies up on the wall
and i must say
they were rather tame
but could you bring them back again?
you're taking every chance we give you til you break
it must be
just an hour away
and you'll come right back again
oh no, feelings get involved again
abandon childish things
and wear your puppet strings
now you feel you're ceding all control again
to the longing flesh
until your body's spent
you let us free and now we put you on display
and you're well received
for what that means
could you come right back again?
we're licking our chops waiting for the abattoir
to do their job
and deliver you
to bring you back again
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3. |
Vice Squad
03:16
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sickos!
perverts!
harlots!
vice squad!
love don't come for free
love is perfect and ideal
it happens naturally
except for me
i'll put you away crook
for the crime
of threatening my good time
with all this talk of labour
and of rights
my god
your body's so sublime
i don't like
the way it opens up my wallet
only i can stop it
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4. |
Backslide
03:56
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you're never gonna change
nothing ever felt so strange
as the day
when you went back to the place
where everybody knows your name
it's no mystery
given you and your history
it's a shame,
but everybody's been there, baby
we've got no right to complain
i stay inside
with the people who i like and who like me
you'll see
we'll get everything right this time
and obviously
i want the high and know the high ain't free
so i'd
let em do most anything
i'd let em do most anything to me
i can see you laid out
on the same old worn out couch
listening to the same old conversations
with a cigarette in your mouth
and when the guy arrives
something inside you dies
but after swallowing a little lump in your throat
suddenly you're feeling really alive
but i am alive,
and everything else i've tried's
just not for me
you'll see
we'll get everything right this time
though obviously
keep your phone on
in case i need to leave
because i'd
let em do most anything
i'd let em do most anything to me
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6. |
Pink Dionysus I
04:41
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witness pink dionysus
all adorned in lace
after the wine's been emptied
tears run down her face
swimming in broken glass
her blood begins to spill
in an ecstatic violence
knows she can't be killed
in the face of pink dionysus,
we see our worst self
the blood and guts we learned
to hide inside so well
in the hotel pool,
the power goes straight to your head
everybody either wants you
or they want you dead
so when the night comes take us
assured she won't mistake us
to be subsumed into the dream
in the pink dionysus,
artifice is fact
we are eternal facades
that cannot be cracked
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Anhedonia
03:30
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like a fever or a figure in the doorway,
i tried so hard just to ignore you for my own sake
last time it all came on so fast, it turned out so fake
but you cut me deep, i just can't figure it out
you've got me frozen on the wall, i'm in the gallery
you asked me why i got so flushed, i blamed an allergy
since imitation's the sincerest form of flattery
you can lead the way until i figure it out
been getting the cold sweats, i can't fall asleep
and i've got some secrets i can't bear to keep
and when i start drinking the feeling creeps back in
it's so warm and so cold and i'm home
it's so warm and so cold and i'm home
in your arms
i never wanted to love you,
the choice was never mine
give it back
because i'm lost in it baby and i don't feel nothing at all
i never wanted to love you,
the choice was never mine
give it back
because i can't find it baby and it don't feel good anymore
last time i saw you we laid on the floor
there were tears in both of our eyes
but i couldn't bear to cry
i just wanted something real
but even you don't feel
all that real anymore
and now i don't know where we stand
because i'd love to make some other plans
but you might be back to sweep me off my feet
we grow old, hot and cold on the phone
please baby, can't leave me alone
oh no, you can't leave me alone right now
right now
i never wanted to love you,
the choice was never mine
give it back
because i'm lost in it baby and i don't feel nothing at all
i never wanted to love you,
the choice was never mine
give it back
because i can't find it baby and it don't feel good anymore
you're so warm and so cold and i'm home
please baby, don't leave me alone
in your arms
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8. |
Joyride
03:44
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we stole a car
from 1984
from the old church lady
who lived with us next door
we hit the road
with no end point in mind
had to keep moving
or else we'd die
couldn't stop complaining
kinda entertaining
all we ever gained was blood
you and i believe in
changing of the seasons
pagan worship of the sun
the only shot we’ve got left
there’s nothing left to do but run
the best that you can say
with your stupid wasted face is ‘fun’
the car is filled with smoke and
laughing like we’re number one
sweating like we’re pigs and
letting costumes come undone
for a while
we sat on the roadside
cookies n’ cream
and enjoying the joyride
30 degrees it
makes me wanna die
here on the dashboard
in this pink light
no,
more alive than ever,
tugging on our tethers,
testing out our wares at night
parking lot of motel,
gas runs out and oh well
break another window, right?
from this moment onwards,
rippling through your whole life
no light from the streetlamp,
just the glimmer of your knife
i need you to protect me
wrap your big strong arms real tight
are we the only ones who
didn’t leave the dream behind?
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open up your heart to the ceiling
don't you know it hurts for a reason
time will take you back to believing
you'll learn to love again
stars
won't you shine on me
won't you dance with me
me and my baby
life
it's enough to cry
it's a lot to give
and it's driving me crazy
i never meant to fight with you
i wanted us to stay together
and even though my love is true
i know that we can't be together
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10. |
Pink Dionysus II
05:52
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i
can't face the morning
i know what the sunlight
does to people like us
hide
from the cock's third crowing
under cover
of liquor and dust
my face
is not flattered
by your raw luminescence
i can only decompose
boys
we witnessed beauty here tonight
everyone brandish your knife
and find a partner
and i'll
find new ways to kill time
but i always thought we'd die
in a freak electrical fire
so now what baby?
the world
that waits for me outside
will be oh so unkind
i'm gasping up for air
i
said i'd never be the one to talk you down
and that got you down
works every time
at the centre,
at the centre of the carnival
in the subway car
where we held and cried
and i
will watch the sun rise
but i deny,
oh i deny
i cling onto these sheets
let me sleep
oh, let me sleep
and i'll
find new ways to kill time
but i always dreamt we'd die
in a freak electrical fire
so now what baby?
i'll spend
my whole life in that dream
smoke rising from the seams
we're gasping up for air
(i'm never waking up)
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Ravine Angel Calgary, Alberta
aoife makes solo music under this name
and previously as model trains (modeltrains.bandcamp.com)
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