Tanith and the Lion Tree (Ka-Spel, Edward)
Where I go the cancer grows; the ill wind blows;
the rivers crack + flush the damned out from
their homes... I tie their hands + go. Where I stay, the
earth decays - a harvest of abortion. I extort them,
hold an auction... they fall down + pray for rain. I give
them scorching acid 'til they learn the reason why...
Why? I'm not saying !Me ! I throw the first grenade...
Me ! I light the Barricades... My way ! And did you see
my lips move in the waxworks... Did I catch your eye?
Or did I serenade you in a dream? You can't specify
my name, though you know you've got my number.
Mine's the face you can't remember. Go back to the
mirror-look again.And where I turn the fire burns. And
where I sleep, the Windows weep + when I point a finger
the assassin creeps + triggers pandemonium. I drove
the train to Dachau, wore the hood of the Ku Klux Klan. I
carve the cross into a bloody sword; I slice off the hand
that feeds you - cook it slowly, lick it clean. I put it in my
pie-don't you want to know the reason WHY ?
She fed the lion candy so its teeth turned pink +
scattered. She gathered up the pieces, hid them
deep beneath her bed + made a wish for lion trees-so
roses grew. Red roses + the lion watched his ghost go
hunting bees.... Bees which hovered, dropped + split
as thorns grew moist + ripped. Black yellow dripping
red.... It wrecked the carpet, made the lion weep for
his meat. Live meat. Raw meat. Tanith climed the lion
tree. The lion tree was very pleased. She fed the lions
candy as she handed out the straws.
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Your lies are like the creeping fog that blinds me,
guides my injured soul into the blender with a thousand
knives that grind me into powder. Coal black. Gelatine.
Can serve me on a plate + watch me shimmy,
shimmy. Red. Cholestrol. Intravenous. Feed me, feel
my nerves explode galactic in your veins. You taste
my essence - does my hot exquisite pain excite you?
Does it? Hell you care... I'm just another notch; another
conquest, another lock of hair tossed in your casket.
Come tomorrow it's like I was never really there...
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Jerkov cuts it charismatic - strikes his match on his
jaw. Smokes in threes (all Gauloises!), strokes his
saftey clip + tips his tribly. Truly! Bad guys freeze at such
a moment. Wise guys make it for the door, but all the
dark-eyed scarlet honies form a circle. They adore the
way he petticakes the waiters, sucks his T-bone blood
red raw; slips his lion ladies' fingers, slides his plate
across the floor + leaves
You make the sun shine... Keep me warm at night.
Sometimes you are my guiding light. When I'm week
or desparate, you'll stretch out your hand... It's a hand
that offers courage; it's a hand that calms me down +
leeds me to a land that we discovered countless lives
ago - still young enough to change this wicked world.
But tell me angel, where to now ? Shall we chase
rainbows; ride the stars by night. Stay close ...be my
second sight. Show me our tomorrows, cos I can't
dream alone.
They kept Alfredo in a box + fed him potatoes
three times daily with a pinch of salt. He'd yell, assault
the waiters. So they covered up his windows, put the
box upon a string + sparred... said "Sweet Alfredo,
we're just like butterflies, but know we can sting like the
bees... like the bees that took old Mama Liza when
they tied her up with string + threw the cream cakes,
sprayed the syrup... Safe behind the vizors; they
taped the screams + played them to the neighbours
over barbecued Bartholomew + home-made blood
wine stamped by the feet of the man who would be
Christ. Send the lions in - the 'entertainment'!. No-one's
ever bored. Life is so much more fulfilling since they gave us all
these prisoners of war... Some guys picked the perfect
lovers...Some guys pick the perfect whores...Some
go for slavery - the old way.It's all within the law. Life is
Brighter since they gave us all these prisoners of war...
no lyrics are printed, but throughout the song Ed sings
"Baby, my Baby"
I watched the smoke rise slowly from your tired
eyes. Two columns formed a marble gateway to a
starlit room. And , painfully, you raised your stick + led
me through with promises of paradise, where nothing
ever dies - it blossoms. I followed, pacified. No
preconceptions, open-eyed. My faith worn on a
shaky hand but hanging to your ribbons. We danced
across the crystal ocean, we sheltered from the
storm. We were warm inside a blacklight cavern -
watched the red sky raining roman candles; washed
our hands in amber - we ere married in the shade. A
shadow band was serenading Adagio, then faded
yellow, grey-green, purple, blue... A rainbow whirlpool
pulled us down; we tiptoed sensless underground.
There was nothing we could hold but each other.
You murmered your apologies; I smothered you in
sympathy. We crawled, we shivered to the mirror
where you stretched your shaky hand - hung bravely
to my ribbons... And me? I watched your tired eyes
slowly burning. Slowly burning. (Fade away)
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On the border of beyond and nowhere fast, I forward
marched thorough mines. My best friend Rover by my
side... my guide - he ran before me. Scoring bones of
dead explorers scattered in the dust.. it makes a plate
that's fit for pedigrees. It's minus x degrees + falling.
And I'm thankful for the gloves they gave me. I'm
thankful for the mask when they sent me to the front
armed with a white flag + a mask. "Go win their
confidence", they said, "then steal their money -
shoot them dead. We'll split things 50-50.
Now I don't believe in promises.
I don't believe in you.
I don't believe in anything... would you?
instrumental, can hear Ed's voice all w/ all sorts of effects
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