1.The Beast Box Is Dreaming
Its shape tells us plainly
Time inside is curved
It holds elvis presley's body
Perfectly preserved
When kennedy came with monroe
Late in '55
The senator carved their names
By the overdrive
It's an accident of nature
Designed by architects
Nasa built it from an alloy
They'd stolen from the czechs
The beast box is dreaming
What you believe
The replica at disneyland
In the big exhibition hall
It's correct to the last nut and bolt
It's nothing like it at all
If a pregnant woman touches it
The child will be shy
And if you glimpse it once
You eventually die
The beast box is dreaming
What you believe
In a dream i'm inside
With my kid brother
There's scenes of awful suffering
We're avoiding looking at each other
Then he's pointing to the handrail
It's long, of burnished chrome
Saying in that stupid voice of his
'some of this would look good
In the bathroom back home'
Freemasons talk about it all the time
Their hands at funny angles
In moonlight it resembles
A biscuit tin that dangles
The beast box is dreaming
What you believe
Juice in the front
Juice in the back
A cardboard gothic frame
They sold it off for scrap last year
To our eternal shame
2.Stupid Blood
That, i'm afraid
And i'm not afraid
Is that
Why cut it fine
In a ludicrous hat
My prick
My very spirit？
My prick
My very spirit
My very stupid blood
Once lit the slow dynamite of habit
For the genius of love
Burn your bridges
Burn your boats
Smell the life you never had
Why cut it fine
In a ludicrous hat？
Burn your bridges
Burn your boats
Smell the life you never had
That, i'm afraid
And i'm not afraid
Is that
3.Against The Past
Candice morganauer's gone to join
The quick and the dead clever
Tonight we're seeing her final film
Her crowning endeavour
She washed herself for years
In mouthwatering praise
But we all know she never grew up
She just shrank sideways
Yesterday was fine, i've forgotten it somehow
Last week wouldn't even show up on radar now
Last week wouldn't even show up on radar now
Winnie the obscure
He's weighing his own heart
He's been sleeping like calvin coolidge
To keep himself apart
And now he's crying
'old drella is dead, and i didn't feel a thing'
And jude the pooh with a landslide smile replies
'all the more power to him'
Under the roofs and the gutters up above
Even the sparrows are burning up with human love
Even the sparrows are burning up with human love
Night of light
It's failing over gringley-on-the-hill
Powders are on the plantation wind
Over dallowgill
We reach the doors to the doubtful city
They close as if in pain
Out on howard devoto boulevard
I remember you and me
We're kissing in the rain
And it's all so gone
And this could never last
I'll stay with you
I'll stay with you
Against the past
It's gone
It could never last
I'll stay with you
I'll stay with you
Against the past
4.Our Curious Leader
Our curious leader knows what's best
How we're signal bound now to existential sex
Our curious leader has such a lovely daughter
We wash their feet and quench our thirst with the same water
Our curious leader, he's never there
He's playing second fiddle to sumptuous despair
Our curious leader is covered in deep sin
And when i grow up you know i want to be like him
Our curious leader reads every dream
In the church of man and bomb and beast and tv and machine
The usual angels will add to your failures
Stand up, be counted, buy bailey's trailers
Our curious leader has ransacked the loft
He's under the impression we have all gone soft
Our curious leader has emptied the larder
Pain is tough going but happiness is harder
5.We Keep On Getting There
We keep on getting there
We'll keep on until we do
I wouldn't hold my breath
If i were you
Right now this could be anywhere
We keep on getting there
Will we never arrive？
And if we ever do
Will we still be alive？
They say we're beyond repair
We keep on getting there
We keep on getting there
We keep on getting there
Our nerves always raw
As it was long ago
We've been here before
Never, never again we swear
We keep on getting there
The tribe time forgot
We can hardly wait
Whether we want to or not
You'll never catch us unaware
We keep on getting there
We keep on getting there
We keep on getting there
We're going with the flow
For the likes of us
There's nowhere else to go
We keep on getting there
There's no going back
We move from sign to sign
Ahead of attack
On a withered wing
With a one word prayer
It's more than
I thought i could ever bear
We keep on getting there
We keep on getting there
We keep on
6.Ticket
Brutal bimbo beauty
Nonsensically sublime
This hammy armageddon
Turns out to be yours and mine
Your face is just the ticket to everything
I ever wanted to see
Your face is just the ticket to everything
I was ever required to be
Sweet subtle nothing
Flower of my will
Your physical beauty
Is making me physically ill
I turn up again
Fantastically resplendent
They pack them in to the hilt
Funny thing is
The theatre hasn't even been built
I was up to absolute beauty
Playing it by my own book
Where there's no justice
In matters of beauty
It's stupid to even look
But i held on to my ticket
I'd sit in front of it and stare
Have pity on me
I've still got it somewhere
7.Animal In The Mirror
You keep forgetting the lines
The lines that show
Where you were bound
Long ago
Animal in the mirror
Live out another mise en scene
Somebody else's summer again
Animal in the mirror
And stop this pretending
There's plenty of time
All your happy endings
Will they never find
Animal in the mirror？
Excited night
Flickering trade
A bag of nerves
On a balustrade
Animal in the mirror
Slow dissolve in tears
Tears that chart
How we're the same
The same worlds apart
Animal in the mirror
And stop this pretending
There's plenty of time
All your happy endings
Will they never find
Animal in the mirror？
Oh lord i spoke up this morning
I had nothing to say
Above the hum of another
Raw and exquisite day
Lord i broke up this morning
I rose in pieces and dreams
I was running late and scared
In paris
In springtime
And fog juice streams
Forget your lines
The lines that show
Where you were bound
Long ago
Animal in the mirror
Slow dissolve
In tears that chart
How we're the same
The same worlds apart
Animal in the mirror
After a fashion
After a fall
After reality
After all
Animal in the mirror
Stop this pretending
There's plenty of time
All your happy endings
Will they never find
Animal in the mirror？
8.Dirty Beating Heart
I copy love really badly
More often than not
All too little i've wanted
An awful lot
So i keep blowing you up
You keep coming apart
It's this dirty big, dirty great
Dirty beating heart
Dirty beating heart
I love my love for you
Dirty beating heart
String me along
Dirty beating heart
You are like naked cable
You're stale, unstable
Dirty beating heart
My carousel
I'm on the trail of vapours
Down a fancy colonnade
Where ghosts of stories parade
Accept this wanton homage
I love my love for you
I am falling off a mountain without a view
Dirty beating heart
I love my love for you
Dirty beating heart
String me along
Dirty beating heart
You are like naked cable
You're stale, unstable
Dirty beating heart
My carousel
Dirty beating heart
I really need to carryon
Dirty beating heart
I know all too well
Dirty beating heart
Wanton homage
It's given gladly
You copy love so badly
Dirty beating heart
How you string me along
Dirty beating heart
My dirty beating heart
Love my dirty beating dirty beating
Dirty beating dirty beating heart
9.Smoking Mirror
The window is wobbling
Rain no doubt
Four part water
One part poison
I really could do without
You can have my picasso
Please lie down
Your funerary nakedness remains
Under your successful dress and gown
Look in the smoking mirror
You're a thinking flame
Into your silence
I'll introduce straight rain
From bergamot to tonka
On a sea breeze of turpentine
A sulphur rose with hammer-dressed eyes
A little light upstairs
At a slumber party poorly lit
A vaseline moon and would-be gems
You sleep on it
You're blinding me with rescue flares
You can have my picasso
Please lie down
Your funerary nakedness remains
Under your successful dress and gown
10.I've Been Expecting You
A massive moon
A jumped-up ape
I kiss the earth and choke
And make it to gatwick
With a drill
And ten red roses
I slip and fall
A banana skin
Break out my heart
Only waving
This night's fine
And all is fair
In love
And the war within me raging
You kill me off in theory
Then you pardon me for breathing
The sweet smell of the street
It was so forgiving
I threw everything at you
My misery, my joy and truth
My haemorrhaging time
You probably don't remember me
Et in arcadia ego
My feelings did so very much for you
I threw nearly everything at you
My misery, my joy and truth
My haemorrhaging time
And my piecemeal grief
And all i was in other eyes
I described it as i did
I tried to find the words to buy you
Cut through to your pretty bones like kindness
You didn't love me with a vengeance
It was always coming true
Am i lucky to be alive, my friend？
I've been expecting you
You probably don't remember me
The bad old days and so on
Back when there was something wrong with love
Little room, jumped-up ape
I kiss the floor and joke
'you're not the only child round here'
In seaweed paint i dance for you
Round the ruins, round the view
The helen ＆ menelaus snack bar
Then you killed me off in theory
Et in arcadia ego
My feelings did so very much for you
The pain is so extraordinary
This pain in all its story tells me
Pain's the best all purpose preservative
You were one of my better creations
Everything's permitted i hereby swear
I cannot change this is how i see it
In these words not other words
Nor at other times nor otherwise
Nor otherwise nor otherwise
You didn't love me with a vengeance
It was always coming true
Am i lucky to be alive, my friend？
I've been expecting you
11.Karezza
The atomic structure
Of this caress
Massive, silent and numb
As light as consciousness
The past is as silent
As the present is ancient
Tirelessly evil
Weary and patient
Colourful killer
Brief cafe
Real ice cream and power
Baby mogul
Mummy's back
To abhor and devour
Once upon a time
Once upon a turbine
Flying the world
Dying of girls
12.Beast Box
The beast box
The beast box
Elvis presley's body perfectly preserved
There's a lot of stories going around
I don't think it's right
Are the neighbours really thinking
Like you and me？
I woke up this morning
As clear as a bell on judgment day
I think it came open yesterday
They've opened the beast box, haven't they？
They've upset the beast box, haven't they？
Beast box
Beast box
Beast box
In this dream i'm inside the beast ＆x with my kid brother
And there are all these scenes of terrible suffering going on...
And i'm starting to feel really really ill...
In a dream i'm inside
I'm with my kid brother
There are scenes of awful suffering
We're avoiding looking at each other
Then he's pointing to the handrail
It's long, of burnished chrome
And saying in that stupid voice of his
'some of this would look really good
In the bathroom back home'
I woke up this morning
As clear as a bell on judgment day
They've upset the beast box
They've opened the beast box
Haven't they？
Beast box
Beast box
They've opened the beast box, haven't they？
13.Jezebel
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