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Laudanum & Lavender

from The Flesh Machine by Oli Spleen & DELVI$

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I on my bed in limbo lie
My moonward face fixed to the skies
Lank space and scytheless time abound
In twice five miles of fertile ground

Laudanum and lavender
Heavy lids and vacant stare
In Xanadu I lost my place
A crack den does not a Coleridge make
A crack den does not a Coleridge make

I deranged all my senses ‘till my brain became demented
Exhausted poisons in myself and kept their quintessences
I let my loins be mounted, to be trampled by the troops
Who cheat my heart and laugh and squirt upon it jets of soup

With all the gang-rape, self-hate
So much sex that’s unsafe
I sold myself, I made mistakes
A rent boy does not a Rimbaud make
A rent boy does not a Rimbaud make

Laudanum and lavender
Laudanum and lavender
Laudanum and lavender
Laudanum and lavender

I’ve delighted in debauches and done everything I please
Exposed myself to every form of violence and disease
Devoured flesh and excrements and found the dark within
And made my own morality, supreme spiritual sin

By all means take the bait, make mistakes
Do what thou wilt for fuck sake
Just let you life be what you make
A death cult does not a Crowley make
A death cult does not a Crowley make

Laudanum and lavender
Laudanum and lavender
Laudanum and lavender
Laudanum and lavender

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from The Flesh Machine, released August 8, 2008

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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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