Destroyer Album

Okay, fine,
even the sky looks like wine,
and everywhere I turn there's
a new face in town
stuck inside the well
fresh hells to attend to...

Blue flower, blue flame
a woman by another name is not a woman.

Don't know why,
don't know when,
a cathedral sick of the sky again
says to it––

"Oh, please not now! Will you just look at the time––it's standing still!"

Somewhere applause falls dead on the hillside...

Blue flower, blue flame
a woman by another name is not a woman.
I'll tell you what I mean by that.
Maybe not in seconds flat,
maybe not today...

Blue flower, blue flame
a woman by another name is not a woman.
I'll tell you what I mean by that.
Maybe not in seconds flat,
maybe never.

A gray ashen sadness rises like the sun, oh well.
It was time I decided to try this hotel:

Her world...

Tulip has an inner animal,
she's in it for a good time.
I was on the outs for a while
but now things are all right.

I gave you a flower because foxes travel light
and a penny for your thoughts was never enough––
your head gets filled with that stuff.

Susan, the truth is,
sipping sherry branded by moonlight's just a game people are playing tonight.

Seriously, terror advances...so

Sorry if you should find me
thinking of only the things that I need.
I've been living in America in churches of greed––it's sick!

No, it's cool.
You go. I'll stay,
perfectly at home with this dread.
Dark leaves form a thread!

So,
should you still want me
you can find me down at the café,
a little bit too busy being served.
Sworn enemy of the waitresses there,
a late September sunlight travels through her hair––it wants to be seen...
Nah, it's cool.
You go. I'll stay,
perfectly at home with this dread.
Dark leaves form a thread!

Oh, The State cut off my arms
and the state tore my eyes with her nails.
Hey, I was just put on this earth––a bad wind to trash the sails of all you evil men!

You should know somewhere in the night
There's a blue broken drum playing dead.

And that's...good to know!

Oh, The State tore out our hearts
and The State exposed our hearts
and wounded me, gave me this bad knee, tore down my baby's favorite tree...

But, oh!
You should know somewhere in the night
There's a blue broken drum playing dead.

And that's good to know!

Loose lips sink the lives of disgusting women,
so the State rolled me up into a ball.
I crushed diamonds in the fall and traded them for bread!
Turn away if you should hear me begin to sing!
I look like a fucking monster with this wing!
Craving new experiences, so what––

Oh but maybe you should know!
Somewhere in the night
there's a blue broken drum playing dead!

True love regrets to inform you
There are certain things you must do
to perceive his face In the stains on the wall

I didn't know what time it was at all
I didn't know what time it was at all

Foam hands

Since you've been gone
Since you've been gone
Me and the King have been steadily growing apart
He lives down the hall

I didn't know what time it was at all
I didn't know what time it was at all

Foam hands

I'm not the kind
To tell you what is true
And what is totally out of control

I didn't know what time it was at all
I didn't know what time it was at all

Foam hands
Foam hands
Foam hands
Foam hands

You in white, and me in grey go well tonight.
So let's linger here.
This used to be my favorite palm tree––
I was starving in that shithouse, the world.
But now it's gone,
and the whole point of everything's the "moving on."
Well, let's see, a calm and a storm and––okay!––a star's born.
Now let me just sit here and eat these almonds, on 3 and 4 and...!

Beware the company you reside in! Beware the company you reside in!
Beware the company you reside in! Beware the company you reside in!
Beware the company you reside in! Beware the company you reside in!
Beware the company you reside in!
Beware!

Nicole, she, blasted on ecstasy
in some East Pender hovel circa 1993.
It was a good year, it was a very good year.
And now it's gone,
they're saying the whole point of everything's the "moving on."
Well, I can't help but feel somewhat opposed to this,
my shit having been torched by fascists.
Though, in some small way, we're all traitors to our own kind...

Caution, hot ashes
The girl says to her first kiss

They stuck eternity inside a bird's fist just to watch it fly
Just to make it go
Just to let them slip away
Don't ask me how I know
I just do

Night surgeon dons his robes
To take apart a fellow amateur
Well I've heard it once said
One gives what one gets
Oh I didn't go out into this world
Just to get stung by rich mans hornets
Who amongst us has left these things undone
Who let these animals into my kingdom

A blind doe learns to work the rig
A once thin man turns into a pig
The endless groves where my soul pukes the night away
The problem as I see it
I was messed up
On a tangent I was wrong
They mix them strong
And I was partial to the feeling
It's a terrible feast we've been stuffing our faces on
A terrible breeze from the east coming on
Bearing the scent of our one hundred first kills
You love her you leave her
You try to achieve
But the vision that she has from the start
I've got street despair carved into my heart
I've got street despair carved into my heart

My dear didn't you hear
A chorus is a thing that bears repeating
And the problem as I see it is
Girls stay away from that shit

Saw you in Swan Lake you were great
Saw you down in Strathcona square devouring an AfterEight
Who cares I didn't mean it
For your last encore
You sawed yourself in half
It was just you and your raft and this crummy requiem
Shooting rockets

Run or fly
At some point I had to ask why
I had to show you a world not tethered to disasters
But this would prove impossible
I snuck a look inside your skull and said
Don't look now
But Gretchen's seeing red again
The truth is a thing to coax out of it shell
The truth on this you and I are going to tangle
Off treacherous bliss off
First you come in all sweet
And then on tiger's paws you retreat
Into a darken nether shadow region
Hey are they still serving that piss
Shooting rockets

And it'd be true what they say
Were they to say why yes I dig the scourge

It's not that I quit
It's not that my poems are shit
In the light of the privilege of dreams
Alive she cried once now alive she screams
Shooting rockets

Praise be the delightful muezzin tending his flock
Praise be those alabaster hands running amok on your body
They love you in spite of your lame scene

We live in darkness the light is a dream you see
Shooting rockets

Common scars brought us together.
Common scars brought us together.

A commoner's scars brought us together beneath an idiot's moon.
It comes too soon.
Just plant Tulip and watch her bloom.

Introducing angels.

Common scars brought us together.
Common scars brought us together.

Prominent scars brought us together beneath the light of the moon.
It's not too soon.

Flower-girl stalks the groom:
a degenerate drunk on war graves, saying–– "Guide me, misty poets!"

Introducing angels.

See the sun crawling over the sky.
Keep an eye on the surf and the sea and the sand.
Don't you know every night is a stand-off with the fucking horizon!

You had a real time of it.
Staring off into the light.
Hands tied behind your back.
Steel chair giving you shivers.
You've always had a problem flowing down rivers...

See the rain falling down from the sky to its death,
Smashed on the street in despair, somewhere over there I swear!

You had a real time of it.
Staring up into the light.
Hands tied behind your head...go!

Stranded on the carousel.
A cripple from the wreck.
I was ringing a bell's neck, looking for a sign.

"Three stars means I'm losing you,"
says The Night to one of her romances.
The plane lands and everybody dances, it's fine...

You had a real time of it.
Staring off into the light.
Hands tied behind your head.
Steel chair giving you shivers.
You always had a problem flowing down rivers!
You've always had a problem flowing down rivers!

The leopard of honor speaks to a crowd of the dead, shouting out for more
Suspiciously formed of the fast ones, you must always leave them wanting, he said
So we went down to the store
I saw you at the store
Now, in this regards, where do I start to keep us free - keep us apart?
I wanted to speak up, but it was not my place
Just some little shit in love with your eyes - a brute adrift in space
Pirouettes across the sky's faces where you'll find me
I was dead on my feet
Asleep for days
A stranger to the sun's brutal gaze, ah yeah
Mother Superior's the only one who calls
She says, "Hey, when are you ever coming over?"
Remove that wretched writing from the wall
It's just more pictures again.
Jenny fell like a ton of bricks
Jenny fell like a ton of bricks
These are characterized as special times, and these are special times -- oh
Jenny fell like a ton of bricks
She travels in and out of you like some shade whistlin' Dixie
I didn't know why, I guess I was high
Sick mansions freckle the skies, saying, "For Christ's sakes, inhabit me"
I was dead on my feet
Asleep for days
A stranger to the sun's brutal ways, ah yeah
Mother Superior's the only one who calls
She says, "Baby, when are you ever coming over?"
Enjoy the wretched writing on the wall
Enjoy!
Will the leopard of honor speak? Will the leopard of honor speak?
Please stand, open your mouth, put out your hand and say
"I saw you standing there singing for money"
Going dum da da dum

I was caught in the middle of a world war
This time it was dense light vs. the azure
I was high as a kite, I was never coming home tonight

And I couldn't believe how loud it was.
What devilry the source of this screaming
You and your dress: fair game.
The birds off Plaza Trinidad: insane.
You can watch them go!

I was stuck inside a river's flow, a corridor's glow's idea of an ocean
Okay, it's agreed I wasn't much to look at then
Known mostly for the whites of my eyes
A hen clucking escape from her torn surface

And I couldn't believe how loud it was
What devilry the source of this screaming
You and your dress forgave the birds of Plaza Trinidad
and soon you can watch them go!

I was stuck inside a river's flow, a corridor's glow
A world at war! The kind of thing we've seen before!
Dense light vs. the azure
I was high as a kite, I was never coming home tonight.
And I couldn't believe––

How loud it was.
How loud it was.
And I couldn't believe how loud it was, how loud it was.
And I couldn't believe how loud it was, how loud it was.

Libby's first sunrise.
You've been wasted from the day
Of wandering and boozing and sleeping outside.
Now the light holds a terrible secret and now you know, oh,
That this is what you get.

You've been wandering around.
You've been fucking around.
You've been wandering around.
You've been fucking around...uh.

Libby's first sunrise.
You've been wasted from the day
Of wandering and boozing and sleeping outside.
Playing the idiot all of your life and this is what you get.

Master of all you survey,
But today you've been wandering around.
You've been fucking around.
You've been wandering around.
You've been fucking around...uh.

Libby's first sunrise.
You've been wasted from the day, and now you know, oh.
Suffering idiots all of your life and this is what you get.

Now the light holds a terrible secret.
The light holds a terrible secret.
The light holds a terrible secret.
The light holds a terrible secret. Oh, the light!

Oh, the light!