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At the Heart of It All

These are the lyrics from Leonard Cohen's You Know Who I Am.

You cannot follow me
I am the distance you put between
All of the moments that we will be

You know who I am
You've stared at the sun
Well, I am the one who loves
Changing from nothing to one

Sometimes I need you naked
Sometimes I need you wild
I need you to carry my children in
And I need you to kill a child

You know who I am

If you should ever track me down
I will surrender there
And I will leave with you one broken man
Whom I will teach you to repair

You know who I am

I cannot follow you, my love
You cannot follow me
I am the distance you put between
All of the moments that we will be

You know who I am

...meaning we've finished. (laughter)

Cathedral in Flames

Parts of these lyrics are based on Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, specifically: "from words they passed to deeds" (when the libertines enact sexual practices they have been discussing) and "he is ... given a chance to recover his breath, exposed to the process again" (of a boy being tortured).

Circle within circle
And when that hour came
From words they passed to deeds
Spires, spirals, and stones rise
And in the distance, a cathedral in flames

Given a chance to recover his breath
And exposed to the process once more

The youth squirmed in a shower of gold
That etched on his skin the words
"Paradise stands in the shadow of swords"

Godhead=Deathhead

Godhead turns death-head!
Godhead turns death-head!
Godhead turns death-head!
Godhead turns death-head!

Three in one, one in three
The crutch of Christianity

This is not Paradise Lost but Paradise disowned

Virgin Mary, weak and wild,
Rids herself of an unwanted child
Price of love, pain to pay
For a quick visitation in the hay
A reign of love that stank of death

Nowhere New Jerusalem
No Festival of Light
A moral mean majority
Who'd kill a queer for Christ
Kill a queer for Christ
Kill a queer for Christ
A moral mean majority
Who'd kill a queer for Christ

Panic

Anything will be all right
If you come out in the night
With your life sewn open
Breathe in, put the bone back in
Buried under the skin
Murder in reverse

Out of time and out of place
And out of spite, swallow the spike

Anything will be all right
If you come out in the night
The only thing to fear is fear itself
The only thing to fear is fear itself
The only thing to fear is fear itself
The only thing to fear is fear itself
The only thing to fear is fear itself
The only thing to fear is fear itself
The only thing to fear is fear itself

Restless Day

Each time I wake up
Each time I say
The shifting slow beginning
Another restless day
Doubt and indecision
Push me on my way
The shifting slow beginning
Another restless day

Supermarket Sunday
Faces cold and grey
No bread or milk or tea left
No energy to play
Fear is the jailer
That locks my love away
The boy on the checkout
Says "Have a restless day"

Who has the nerve
To dream, create, and kill?
While it seems the whole moves
Every part stands still
So there's nothing, yes, there's nothing
Everything makes me ill
While it seems the whole moves
Every part stands still
Every part stands still
Watching television in the afternoon
Wasting my life away
All they want to show me is
What's under the clock today

But even rats in a cage
Are liable to stray

The Sewage Worker's Birthday Party

Bowl crouchers
Shits
Pisses
Turd mouth

- I warned you.

- Come on, Tiddler!
- Are you sure about this?

- Well, you ate some.
- Just about.
- ??? flush it now.

Solar Lodge

See the black sun rise in the solar lodge
See the black sun rise in the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge

Stop like a clock
Like a hole in the ground
Stop like a clock
Like a hole in the ground
Like a lock
Like a knife in the sound
From the solar lodge
From the solar lodge

See the black sun rise in the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge

Like a hole in the ground
Like a knife in the sound
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge
See the black sun rise from the solar lodge

The Spoiler

The spoiler (follows you)
In spoiler's time (from place to place)
Old man's eyes
(In a young boy's face, in a young boy's face)
Walking in another's skin
Walking in another's skin
(Walking in another's skin)
The spoiler
The spoiler
(The spoiler's catch)
Boys who exist
(In the stories of shadows)
On our walls
Who take to the floor (like a falling wall)
To dance (to dance with oblivion)
Black boxes (black light)
He works (at night)
The spoiler
The spoiler
The spoiler
(Louder, louder, louder, louder, louder)
Spoiler, spoiler
Spoiler, spoiler
The spoiler
Spoiler, spoiler
The spoiler
Spoiler, spoiler
His head (resting)
His hands (continents)
Spoiler
His feet
Spoiler
His heart (apart)
The spoiler
(Down under, down under, down under)
The spoiler
(The)
The spoiler
Spoiler, spoiler, the spoiler

(repeated in various arrangements)

Tainted Love

Originally performed by Gloria Jones.

Sometimes I felt I had to run away
I had to get away
From the pain you drove into the heart of me
The love we share seemed to go nowhere
And I lost my life
For I tossed and turned, I couldn't sleep at night

Once I ran to you, now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all

Tainted love
Tainted love
Now, now I've got to run away
I've got to get away
You don't really want any more from me to
Make things right
You need someone to hold you tight
And you say love is to pray
But I'm sorry, I don't pray that way

Once I ran to you, now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I gave you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly

Oh
Tainted love
Tainted love
Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm going to pack my things and go

Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love
Touch me with your tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love

Tenderness of Wolves

Was all in vain, or did you cry?
No need to ask; my tears have run dry
This is the end of my pity
I wait to die

You now the living, me now the dead
You now the living, me now the dead

To prove that you loved me
Mere words could not have said
Biting into skin, into flesh, into me
Taking all you could
Oh, I'd still give you blood
Just to paint your lips
If you should wish them red
My desires your kiss completed
But only now I can see
The vicious joy when you took delight
Behind each kiss your poison bite
And when my all was given
And you had taken
O doglike Judas, you did disappear

Was all in vain, or did you cry?
No need to ask

You now the living, me now the dead
You now the living, me now the dead