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The Bedroom
03:20
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Here I made myself a bedroom
For to play out love and lust
Dredged up from some burlesque bedlam
Scented with a rectal musk
Here I felt the earth split open
I’ve felt oceans fall and rise
At the ceaseless thrusting motion
At the flexing of those thighs
At the grinding of our groins
At the tearing of our teeth
Both our bodies grappled here
'Till mine was the one underneath
Here where we made our nest of skin
Here where we played out every part
Here where I let the knife dip in
Here where it haemorrhaged my heart
Something shook me from my sleep
My feeble form, shivering and wet
Grasps for the dreams I longed to keep
Seeped from my pores with cold night sweat
This night I grapple with disease
Locked in a dialogue with death
Searching my soul for calm and peace
Love for this fastly fading flesh
Here where we made our nest of skin
Here where we played out every part
Here where I let the knife dip in
Here where it haemorrhaged my heart
Give me one more chance to begin
Take back my bedroom to its start
Before I let the knife dip in
Before it haemorrhaged my
Heart
My heart
My heart
My heart
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Ripping the tights off my nuclear bride
As we surf the Deoxyribonucleic tide
Held together by gaffa tape, anvil and fire
Barebacking angels in spirals of wire
Though our hearts can't be denied
Burdened with shame, striving for pride
With a lust too hot to handle
Burning bright like roman candles
Where the oxygen thins to a paste or a dream
And the sirens are drag kings with thick lipstick seams
The reactor transmutes breath of god from a scream
Pumping black bile and blood into neighbouring streams
Though our hearts can't be denied
Burdened with shame, striving for pride
Still we're just going through the motions
Stripped of love and deep emotion
My heart drills a hole in the cell of my chest
Whose prison walls labour a deep mortal test
To commit to eternity inside the core
In the hope that it doesn’t become like before
Though our hearts can't be denied
Burdened with shame, striving for pride
With a lust too hot to handle
Burning out like roman candles
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Just a Dream
03:49
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Go back to sleep, it's just a dream
Toothless, torn from mothers breast
And smashed against the cold concrete
It's just a dream, go back to sleep
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
The words that every mother said
When wracked and writhing in your bed
And torn apart at every seam
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
But your dreams don’t offer you distraction
The horrors manifest within your mind
Adrift on a cold sea of strange abstraction
The torment and the terror intertwined
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
I awake choked with a cotton breath
My mouth stuck shut with gum of flesh
And nothing remains as it seemed
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
But my dreams don’t offer me distraction
The horrors manifest within my mind
Adrift on a cold sea of strange abstraction
The torment and the terror intertwined
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
My ma once uttered, by my bed
Cut with my fingernails; my head
She’d heal my wounds and help me keep
…my sanity
…go back to sleep
…go back to sleep
…go back …to sleep
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Waste
04:15
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Do you remember that night
Those few wild hours of our lust
I was young and didn't know you
But I wanted love and gave my trust
I who you fucked with great fury up the arse
I who you fucked firstly slow and then too fast
I who you fucked faster, to the bouncing of the bed
I who you fucked faster, 'till my guts were torn and bled
Don't leave me here all alone since we did what we did
Don't leave me here all alone, since you gave me your seed
Don't leave me here all alone, in the hollow of my hate
Don't leave me here all alone, as my soul degenerates
As your seed germinates
So now I drink every night
I just get drunk to forget
I cruise my way from bar to bar
And drown in drink all my regrets
When I met you in the bar
I thought that you looked so fine
I knew when I spoke to you
You'd be coming back to mine
We'd be necking all the booze
And we'd be snorting all the drugs
We would lock our lips and loins
As we both rolled upon the rug
You who I fucked with great fury up the arse
You who I fucked firstly slow and then too fast
You who I fucked faster, hoping that you wouldn't bleed
You who I fucked faster, as I passed on my disease
Oh please
So now my flesh wastes away
As wretched as is my soul
Which also wastes at each mistake
And grows more bitter ...and more cold
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5. |
Destroyer of Worlds
03:24
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Without love and understanding
There is only fear and hate
And I'm tired of reaching out
To a cold world which won't relate
But I can reinvent myself
And I can take you down
And I can reap my vengeance
I can turn this whole thing round
I'll be destroyer of worlds
I will drag you down with me
My fate has unfurled
Soon you'll see what I see
You will be my pawns
And I will own the game
And the whole world will know
My face and my name
Without love and understanding
There is only fear and hate
And I'm tired of reaching out
To a cold world which won't relate
For human life is pain
There is no other way
There is nothing left to gain
And there is nothing more to say
I'll be destroyer of worlds
I will drag you down with me
My fate has unfurled
Soon you'll see what I see
You will be my pawns
And I will own the game
And the whole world will know
My face and my name
And my name will be death
And my vengeance untold
For my power is great
And my spirit is old
At last to control
And grasp my own fate
Wreak havoc upon
All those that I hate
I will take them all out
Knock them down one by one
And I'll do it with knives
I'll do it with guns
First I'll draw a deep breath
Thrown you swine a few pearls
Then my name will be death
...The destroyer
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Screwed Love
04:48
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Show my mercy
I never meant you any harm
My heart is broken
And you’ve twisted both my arms
You were my mirror
There was so much you made me see
Now I see clearer
How you reflect the bad in me
In turn I’ll take all I can take
And I will twist all things around
I’ll test your limits till you break
And I will kick you when you’re down
Is this true love
This screwed love
Is this true love
This screwed love
Please forgive me
I never meant to cause you harm
My heart is open
Now that you’ve broken both my arms
You know I miss you
In your absence I grow sick
That's 'cause I need you
Just like a junkie needs a fix
In turn you’ll take all you can take
And you will twist all things around
You’ll test my limits till you break me
Then rape me when I’m down
Is this true love
This screwed love
Is this true love
This screwed love
Please excuse me
I didn’t mean to make a fuss
I know I chose this
I must’ve known that soon enough
I would feel trapped here
In the confines of your cage
But I chose this
I submitted to your rage
Yes In truth I asked for all this
And I mapped out my own fate
To be the vent for all your anger
All your hunger, all your hate
So I thank you, I thank you for
The moments that you gave
For making me your lover
And your brother, and your slave
In this screwed love
This screwed love
Is this true love
This screwed love
Is this true love
This screwed love
Is this true love
This screwed love
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Kamikaze
02:43
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With a feverish lust like a fire in your chest
You drug and you fuck 'till there's no fucking left
Your mind is a mire of hunger and hate
Your body's the temple that you desecrate
This mind fucking soothes a little while
Helps you swallow back the bitter bile
Is this the punishment for your past sins
Made you a cushion for the needles and pins
You know you're bound to drown
You hold the ceiling as the walls fall down
Your path is plain to see
Ka-ka-kamikaze
Now you're wired by your veins to a hospital bed
Wasting away and gaunt with regret
At the years misplaced and the youth misspent
And all the people who made you in hate with yourself
Not such a pretty smile
Now I'm choking on the bitter bile
This is the punishment for my past sins
Made me a cushion for the needles and pins
I know I'm bound to drown
I watch the ceiling as the walls fall down
Who'd choose this way to be
Ka-ka-kamikaze
Looking back on the life that you wasted away
No money in the world can buy back those lost days
Cling tightly to the last fond fragments of your friends
Surely too soon for this to be the end
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8. |
After the Flood
02:27
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After the flood
There was waste, there was mud
And the wreckage of all of us flailing
Grasping for fragments
Of what we once had
When we were young and life seemed plain sailing
Grasping for dignity
Grasping for hope
Grasping for strength
Just to survive and cope
But it all washed away
In the deluge that day
And we're left high and dry
In its wake
After the flood
We crawled out of the sludge
Like the first from primordial slime
We came to our feet
And we soon learned to speak
All wounds will be healed in due time
Walking onwards to freedom
Onwards with pride
Onwards in pain
With the thorn in our side
Of when all washed away
In the deluge that day
And we took about all
We could take
After the flood
Crawling out of the mud
We foraged to find a new start
Patching the holes
Making new of the old
We pushed 'till we ploughed a new path
Healing the wounded
The damage now done
Building defences
'Till the next flood comes
And it's all washed away
In the deluge again
And we're left high and dry
In its wake
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9. |
Funeral Dirge
02:07
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When my time to go is here
Call my friends to gather near
Tell the doctor and the preacher that I'm failing
But don’t wallow in your grief
When they put me down beneath
Just sing to me this melody I’m wailing
It goes pick me up and lay me down
And spread the news all over town
Tell them all to come or they'll be sorry
Pick me up and shake me twice
I'm passing on to paradise
This poor boy is going to live in glory
When it's time to say goodbye
All my friends will wail and cry
As they watch the coffin rockin' round and squirmin'
Then they'll raise a mighty shout
When my bones come marching out
And I praise myself and preach the final sermon
It goes pick me up and lay me down
And spread the news all over town
Tell them them all to come or they'll be sorry
Pick me up and shake me twice
I'm passing on to paradise
This poor boy is going to live in glory
When the Earth begins to quake
From the shaking at my wake
I'll be here and making music like I’m livin’
And the sorrow and that grief
Will give the angels sweet relief
Then you’ll know that all my sins have been forgiven
They’ll sing pick me up and lay me down
And spread the news all over town
Tell them all to come or they'll be sorry
Pick me up and shake me twice
I'm passing on to paradise
This poor boy is going to live in glory
Pick me up and lay me down
And spread the news all over town
Tell them all to come or they'll be sorry
Pick me up and shake me twice
I'm passing on paradise
This poor boy is going to live in glory
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Oli Spleen Brighton, UK
A solo artist since 2012, Oli Spleen started making music way back in 2003 with his first band The Flesh Happening.
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Spleen are a five-piece alternative, post-punk, queercore group from Brighton UK, with electro / disco influences and Gothic Sensibilities.
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