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Hacksaw
05:21
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behind the streets
and who's to know?
beyond the levels even you would go
and no way out but pleading red
and no way out but silent blue
and still the cash rolls through
immersed inside the blackest sweat
where mercy is a dirty word
get out as far as you can get
still bloody walls stretch undisturbed
a filth of bodies hogs the floor
the iron clamps are taut and strained
and something almost grabs the doors
but down and down they go again
behind the streets
and who's to know?
beyond the levels even you would go
and no way out but pleading red
and no way out but silent blue
and still the cash rolls through
behind the streets
and who's to know?
beyond the levels even you would go
and no way out but pleading red
and no way out but silent blue
and still the cash rolls through
and still the cash rolls through
and still the cash rolls through
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The Winter Tide
03:48
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Frozen coma hearts cracking out cheap stone
Tapping tender bone words
In the spine-red sun
To the scent of flies
To the howling of the wires
Nailing concrete televisions into their gums
These stoic coma hearts cracking out cheap stone
Preening old meat minds
Dancing barbed smiles through the snow
To the humming of each corpse
To the churning of steel skies
As a ditched laughter lands
Just as everyone will know
So these words are being written
But there's nothing left to say
These fucking words are being written
But there's nothing left to say
These words are being written
But I can't take it away
These fucking words are being written
But there's nothing sacred left to say
Frozen coma hearts cracking out cheap stone
Sluicing tender bone words
Though that spine-red sun
Through a thousand screens of flies
Though the howling of the wires
Nailing more concrete inanities into their gums
These stoic coma hearts cracking out cheap stone
Preening old meat minds
Dancing barbed smiles through the snow
To the humming of the now
To the churning of steel skies
And something ever yet more vulgar
And everyone could know
Whilst far from dawn in the winter tide
So far from dawn in the winter tide
So far from dawn...
These words are being written
But I can't take it away
These fucking words are being written
These words are being written
But I can't take it away
These fucking words are being written
But there's nothing sacred left to say
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Pulp
05:30
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Sleep, sleep so softly
Locked in endless corridors of night
Sleep, sleep so softly
It may never really be all right
But sleep, sleep so softly
As we are sleeping too
The duties done, and cases spun
And stronger hands all holding you
Sleep, sleep so softly
As the coffers fill with spoils
Sleep, sleep so softly
So softly, so soiled
Sleep, sleep so softly
As our heads are sleeping too
And don't you make a fucking sound
These big strong hands all holding you
Big strong hands
Stronger than outdated care
Big strong hands
Strip the sacred 'til it's bare
Big strong hands
Powers firm and absolute
Big strong stinking hands
Ripping out the roots
Sleep, sleep so softly
As they come to lock the door
Sleep, sleep so softly
As blood trickles down the polished floor
Sleep, sleep so softly
As we'll be sleeping too
The duties done, the case is spun
And stronger hands are stuck like glue
Big strong hands
Stronger than outdated care
Big strong hands
Strip the sacred 'til it's bare
Big strong hands
Powers firm and absolute
Big strong stinking hands
Ripping out the roots
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Picnic
03:40
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every bear behaves
every bear behaves
every bear behaves
as every good bear should
comb your hair and brush your teeth
fetch the plates
unpack the meat
and settle down
it's time to eat
run run run
as fast as you can
run run little bears
here comes the man
run run run
as fast as you can
run run run
you're getting very tired
it's getting very late
and every little bear
in a very weary state
you're getting very tired
it's getting very late
it's time to get to bed
in a very weary state
slaughter in the woods
slaughter in the woods
and every bear behaves
as every good bear should
and every bear behaves
as every good bear should
and every bear behaves
as every good bear should
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Ugly Feeling
04:50
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Joy
04:42
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An injection of orphaned light
Mixes
Dissolves
Fades from sight
Soaked into sheets of shivering meat
Stripped between beats
By the screech and the squeal
The screech and the squeal
Of disjointed dismembered days
By the absent regret of the room
By the absent regret of the room
With the smiling doll seconds swept into dust
Footsteps flinch through the gloom
Footsteps flinch through the gloom
Under the stump of a seeping moon
Under the stump of a seeping moon
The walls splutter inwards
The dolls lose their eyes
A body is somewhere
Polluted by sweat
A mind inside rammed deep into night
Chewed up with the cold
From the scratch of some breath
The scrape of some fingers around this skin
Stretching each sob out to find a way in
And time knows how long
The present goes on
It isn’t over yet
Bleached driftwood bones stuck through
Obsolete meat
An incomplete mind
Where a single song plays on repeat
In a maze of locked doors
Thoughts gather
Like whores
Bleached driftwood bones stuck through
Obsolete meat
An incomplete mind
Where a single song plays on repeat
In a maze of locked doors
Thoughts gather
Like whores
A cry beyond rain
Beyond dawn
Alone
And time is a four letter word
A cry beyond rain
Beyond dawn
Alone
And nothing could have heard
The room is untouched
Shouts come from the street
From the children playing at living
And splashing in puddles
Right under your feet
In the world you can never enter
In the world you can never leave
In a world so red
So blue
So grey
That threw the child in you away
In the world you can never enter
The world you can never leave
A world so red
So blue
So grey
That threw the child in you away
That threw the child in you away
That threw the child in you away
That threw the child in you away
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A Longer Night
05:38
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8. |
Razing Harbour
04:11
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Chained locked
Chained locked
Chained up fast to learn to fall
Locked away beyond the sprawl
Clients come and clients leave
And all the past is make believe
Chained locked
Chained locked
Chained locked
Chained locked
1996
Cape Town
Hair pulled out and heads pushed down
Screaming silenced
Blindfolds tight
Zunaid’s returning with the night
Chained locked
Chained locked
Chained locked
Chained locked
Enjoy this drink
Enjoy that smoke
Held against the bed
And choked
Perhaps you can get used to this
You won’t
You won’t
Beaten
Bloodied
Gashed apart
And no space left to store your heart
Beaten
Bloodied
Gashed apart
And no space left to store your heart
Chained up fast to learn to fall
Locked away beyond the sprawl
Clients come and clients leave
And all the past is make believe
There’s nothing worth the trade in hearts
There’s nothing worth the trade in hearts
There’s nothing worth the trade in hearts
There’s nothing worth the trade in hearts
Chained locked
Chained locked
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Bleach For The Stars Harwich, UK
Experimental multi-genre concept albums, all with a prominent Industrial edge.
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