1. THE END OF REBIRTH

At last I heard those words from you
But they make me disgusted with myself
Life choked back into you
With ambivalence

Familiar closed hearts conceal their loneliness
As best as they can
When together
Even further apart

Open your heart
As wide as the sky
This pain worse than death
I just ran away
Lonely?
Yes lonely
But you can't always rise from the dead


2. PATTERN BLUE

All scrambled inside
Pattern blue
No not an angel without wings
God be with(out) you

Matte this smashed facade
With AT field
Its wings penetrated and destroyed me
Pattern blue

Gentile
Or jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward
Consider
Phelbas
Who was once as handsome and tall as you
(T.S. Eliot)


3. EMPIRE

Gluttonized foundation
Well versed in the art of slavery

Patrons of feudal interest
Scurry around a concrete beehive

Crazed civilization frantically going nowhere.


4. USE OF WEAPONS

Battered arrays and jagged contours
A scaling box that beseeches me
Chamber a round into my head
From the breach


5. TYPEFACE

In the pilot tunnel
Arranged printers blocks
Slowly deranged
Contours twice removed
Amputated from myself
Asbestos head rush
Flushes memory
Registration marks
(Of) memory.
People fonts
Social
Typeface
Template
Armageddon
Scaled to one.

Disposal protocols for a human typo
In a library operating backwards.


6. CASTRATION RITE

An axis in motion distributing ran
Into the poverty of my ego
Distortion screaming streaming sending
Eurythmic continuity skips no double taps

Split open my chest and cut out my lungs
Sew me back up just the same
A stigmata a mutilation
Your blood dies with me I can't help but laugh

I can't help
Help but laugh
As I take
Knife in hand
And castrate my fucking self

Would God I could die for thee
O absalom my son


7. THE INALIENABLE DREAMLESS

Duplicitous chastity preserved for rape

As my vicious circle comes around again
Pirouetting like a fan dancer

Choreographed into the desire for rebirth
Or just a wish for death

The river of Sai inseminated
By Kefka's sulfurous and potent intention

A subtle but more penetrating violation
Barring divine intervention

I count wire guided sheep
Each one an exploding bob
Inhabitat peopled by the inalienable dreamless


8. CARCASS LOTTERY

Paper covers rock
Rock blunts stone
Paper covers rock
Paper covers rock
Paper cuts rock
Trading paper cuts

Tattooed design
Name fucking
Dearly ordained
Gouged out behind

But am I
Privy to your
Anemic antipathy
Vacuum ready

Paper covers rock
Paper covers rock
Paper covers rock
Paper cuts rock
Paper cuts scissors
Rock blunts stone

A legible price quote the only death certificate
Throat slit silent, spin the wheel of misfortune

Carcass lottery one room four walls
When displacement takes you out, on the killing floor.


9. RADIANT ARKHAM

Quickening of reminiscence
Cradled in radiant Arkham
Death is what has been given
My emptiness runs

Destroy me it is my wish
To fill this grave in the air
This crooked skeleton tumults
In a horrible silence

Zoom in and down from in an unnatural way
Just like you I have no name


10. DOMINION

Provisioning drain
Circuitry of extraction
Trapped in cancer
Obsessed illusion

Rapacity of carnage exceeds tolerance
Thoughtless abuse practiced rape
Supervised extraction suits voracious interests
That sap the blood from the Earth's heart

The spine of a prolonged delusion
We are controlled by unseen terror


11. TOKYO

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12. LOVELESS

I have
Never
Felt
I fell

Into
Arms
That hold me
I pass through you
Like a ghost

With her
Fingers
(She) so gently
Traced the contours
Of my face

Bringing out
The warmth
From a place
Deep in my heart


13. COMPILING AUTUMN

Rotate
Through all
The seasons
Of dante
A siege
Surrounding
Watership down

Cannot stop
Reverse rebirth
Always pain
In my heart
Made from
Sorrow
To live forever
Live forever in hell

A moment
Of kindness
Sullened


14. LEADEN STRIDE TO NOWHERE

Feeling the stones as they're cast at Mercer
On a shortcut to the soul of Io
A trail of tears inclining obstacle at a right angle

One leaden stride to nowhere


15. DROWNED

Waterlogged skies and orphaned stares
Embrace a world of stripped out color
Catatonic my gaze is frozen
Pruning skin clasped in soldiered prayer
This deathscape a gargoyle with its own heartbeat
Arteries flow with greying blood
Virga erupts in a morphine downpour
Mildewed eyes stare straight through it
Staring and waiting still

Lungs flooded with ether
Eyes rolled over black
Are you closer to heaven
Or closer to hell?

Driftwood skin fastened
To bones cast in salt
Fade to black as lips slowly part
Words fail me submerge and drown

There is no current just a stagnancee
These lungs would rather burst than spare me breath
Spit out the air and sink to the bottom
Drowned


16. ANGEL PRESENT

A ghost passes through you
I feel it and I scream
Search lights pry at my dreams
This is my memory

A lonely series
Repeats without even a pause
Floating weightless
Uninterrupted until I exhale

Ghosts have no shadows
They must conspire for even one
Yearning for a solid heart
I feel an angel present

Glowing drifting
I remember tomorrow
Spin drift snow screen
Floating down in a spiral from an endless heaven above


17. THE NECROPOLITAN

Poisoned waves of chloroform salt the air without desire
Manifest in numb
Mefisto in basalt expressed in numbers
This alias my orthodox a full sense surround

The last few years here seemed a lifetime

(Sincerly) alone again I masturbate
But it feels more like rape

Lean back and bask bask in the sunshine
Even it doesn't make me seem seem more alive

Poisonous cares without words are expressed
How could I resist such a polite feign of death
Touch me oh please I want to know that it's real
And if it's not it's better just to pretend

Violent angel
Invaded with madness and fed only scorn
Worthless object
Follow the blood trails that lead to my heart
I turned it to stone so you'd never bleed another drop
Try and you try there's a part of me still that will never die


18. IKARUGA

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19. ONE LAST FINAL DYSTOPIA

Dystopia


20. IKARUGA PROMO VIDEO

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21. 7.62 MM (LIVE 1996)

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