Lacerate

You cut so quick

I bleed so deep

Your fire, your ice, your sharp mystique.

You cut me quick

My breath so sharp

We've never been so far apart...

Wrecked

I'm stuck in the dream I had at eighteen,

I never knew you would be so mean.

Or maybe it's me,

So lost at sea,

But why would you want to drown with me?

Screams

But do I really wish that I could build a time machine?

And go back to when you were falling for me,

Instead of falling away.

...Cos as crazy it seems, baby, we both had dreams

And now were tearing, at the seams.

Brown Eyes

Stressed,

Depressed,

But very well dressed.

I get nervous round you

(I've often professed).

Sinned

And we're running babe from heaven to hell

Escaping it all, escaping our cell.

The rush only takes a fraction of time

Cursed we may be but baby you're mine...

Spilling

And through our lips, you will suck my evil soul

And downward spiralling we will fall, far to end it all.

You can never understand how hard it is to love you every day

For the sizeable pain through my shrunken frame, for the strength I pray...

Dissection

Ugly, tattooed and battered blue

She's lonely, she's bony and craving you.

She's reckless, she's lost, she slowly unwinds

You walk away swiftly as her veins they divide...

Blanche

Her beauty was like the edge of a sharp knife.

Lethal

Yet it drew you so near...

The Incident

Since I heard what happened I can't stop thinking about you.

In that dark, with so much pain;

No face, no name, no one to blame.

Now in that white room all alone

So many faces, fights forgone...

Trauma

With a beast that's inside I'll say goodbye;

To my life, to my pride and all of these lies.

With a beast in my mind that's biding its time

I won't have to try to say goodbye...

Drown

Like those waves by the beach,

Just out of reach,

The shadows each night grow darker.

Like fear of the dark and Death's own mark

He wished for the courage to ask her.

Wash

Yes it's true you brainwashed me and now I'll brainwash you.

Yes it's true;

You said you loved me and now I'm crushing you.

Yes it's true I'm a little confused

But now I can see that we're finally through.

Scrambled

And through the deep, the scars that you keep
That leave you empty, after defeat

You try til morning, on your two feet

But they all fall final from this pain it aint cheap!

Departed

Since you left I can't stop crying

Deep deep down, it feels like I'm dying

From top to toes I feel so numb

But alone I can see what I did was dumb.

I'm all alone, I'm oh so scared

I wish I were, much more prepared...

Melancholia

Like moments of fear and ink to bone

No matter the surface, deep down she's alone.

She's alone in the crowd, alone on the floor,

All around, the monsters roar.

Cherries

For a lot of those people it was the drugs, then the depression. Then a different type of drugs to cure that. For me it was the fuzzy peace of drugs that took away the pain, at least temporarily. "That's a short cut to addiction..." she said, winking a heavily lashed eye.

But everything in that life was addictive, certainly...

New Fear

And through the storm, feel me shake

Nurse me through pain and the pills I take.

And through the storm, smother my roar

I'm so so scared that I love you more...

Bivouac

I miss those nights:

Around the fire with all the fun we could want. Smoke filled tents and screaming dreams. Visions on the sands. Bodies colliding and laughter, everywhere.

Him

And each day with you I feel more alive

Afterglow

But I can't wash your scent from off my skin.

No matter the showers, no matter the hours

I can feel you on me, feel your powers.

Filthy

Always well dressed, aims to impress

A hooker at heart and a tramp, at best.

Always in the latest, hangs with the fakest

She could have been the greatest but instead she gets wasted.

Removed

Like burning flesh

Flash bulb pressed

To never be seen again.

The Hunter

All inked up, she wants to play

Til he warns her, low, to keep away

The shaking bones of her birds cage chest

Is where she wants his hands to rest.

But he won't flinch, that she knows;

He whispers "babe, there's far to go".

New

Beautiful pain, so much to gain

Deep inked words on a skeletal frame.

Discipline

In crowded deserts and empty streets

She wants to know when they will meet.

But through crowded deserts and empty rows

She really wonders, how far to go?

Her body aches, her body screams

You hear her cry please Set Me Free

Stain

And deep below skin where hope will begin

I'll paint my feelings black.

With needles sharp and a wounded heart

I'll let the pain attack.

Fire

It's easy to say you never knew me

Yet you found it no trouble when you tore and threw me

Aside, you put me, you didn't care

Yet you still were the one to cry about "fair".

You weren't ever honest, you really could lie

But in your defense, so could I...

Forbidden

And even though your body's banned,

I'd like to take you by the hand.

And even though there leers a fright,

I'd like to hold you, through the night,

Be with you, out of sight,

Not shy away from your villain's bite.

Counterfeit

Like cigarettes and sin as our days begin

The nights that follow fall.

You left the room while the speakers boomed

Only to follow his call.

Skeletal

Cigarettes & death, empty threats. Wasted youth & late night bets. Bets you lose & the women you choose; to devour your soul while you try to prove. Something more, a late night whore. Never stopped creeping out that door. Shut doors, alone. Her lonely throne. As she slowly fades, into bone.

Passage

I don't think I could lose you,

So instead I try to bruise you...

I Can't Love You This Much

In spite of all these nights

I'd rather argue with you than be with someone else.

In spite of you and all your lies

I'd rather be with you than all alone and by myself.

Draught

With eyes so cold I never knew their colour,

And a heart so black it broke me.

Entangled arms through tripped upon nights,

It was only death that woke me.

Bygone

And even now, when i see you,

My heart it runs so fast.

But when you talk, there's no words left,

For you are only my past.

fraud

And she'll take to the skies

With your hopes in her eyes,

Dream weaver, what a deceiver

It took a fool to truly believe her.

rouge

And as I passed you on that street with your empty dark eyes,

My heart both froze and, tried to hide.

Frightened but glad you hadn't seen me,

Hadn't ever seen my lies.

silence

You don't want anybody at all,

You just cant stand the darkness on your own...

memorium

Like blood stains and sweat:

Cold and wet.

Pressed into sides, crushed into walls

Just wiped up proof, hidden in drawers.

angelic

I can fly... but I want his wings,

I can feel but I want that strength that he brings...

longing

These stockings ripped all up my thighs

And these lights they play with my eyes.

This dance floor, tonight will quake,

While in your arms I shake and shake...

patois

if only you could lick my wounds for me...

interstice

Thin with longing

With her cracking white bones

This girl finally sees that she's all alone...

Heart Beats

...And at Death's bedside she became Blue's bride

Crying each night to release fear and spite.

When she came she bit deep, releasing the heat

And left in the cold, to find what was old.

smoulder

fire and brimstone

smoke and hope

you thought he loved you

but you were merely a joke

vinyl

i remember that one night when we kissed;

i could feel your smile upon my lips

and for the first time in a while, i remember feeling happy...

one more night

he drops to his knees

she says "please my love please,

don't you ever leave

me in this maze

you know that youre all i need?"

inked

all the stars and all the boulevards

the crushed-dream girls who try so hard.

they walk the streets, at midnights hour,

trying so hard to reclaim some power.

sun fall

and back at home she went out in the city and had too many drinks. she danced all night and saw stars in the air. glitter, magic things. she had arms draped around her and numerals were sprinkled throughout the evening. men men men. the night was alive, pumping like an organ. but all the magic dissolved when he told her his name.

landing

as we flew into delhi it was pitch black. a new mass of people, places, ideas... positioned as fairy lights under stretched, hazy skin.

we swooped and descended, the adventure begins.

peregrinations

and his body was tattooed with stories of the centuries

the bleeding lines a map of time and lies

"follow" he said, "youll find what youve been looking for..."