1. BRUISES

Bend over, scream.
Will you ? You will fight it.
Rise and account for it.
This wreck, you caused it.
You wish you were me... like you have a chance.
That's not what you get, it is not my fault.
I'll take what I can get.
Right, you've had your chance.
Bend over, scream.
I'll take what I get.
Living with decisions ; unmade, or half-made at best.
You wish you were me.
Right, you've had your chance. Bend over, scream.
I'll take what I get.


2. AS FLAKES OF ASH

Pitch black. Searching.
Can't speak, but I'm smiling.
I beg, from within.
Keep me here.
You must leave me.
Happy, as flakes of ash.
Disassociate me from this sagging shell.
An inner self immolation.
Memories, as flakes of ash.
Left in subspace ; happy, dissolved, dwindling.
Disassociate me from this sagging shell.
Left in subspace.
Happy, as flakes of ash.


3. TIGERSTRIPE

You have forgotten.
I'm still right here.
Barefoot. Naked.
I'm still here.
You will find me.
Faith is with me but she's a lie, like a whore paid to play wife.
Faith ? Where are you ?


4. WET DEATH

Slide into wet death.
Life is wasted on the id.
Bites, cuts, smiles.
Life is wasted on the id.
The inner self stays unfulfilled.
Our knives are too sharp.
Life is wasted on the id.
The inner self stays unfulfilled.
Can't pull out.
All the way deep inside, forever.
The inner self stays unfulfilled.
Forever.
Life is wasted on the id.