THE MAN'S A SANDWICH

that suit and tie
those beady eyes
those plump white cheeks
in front and behind

eat that sandwich like you earned it
did you find somebody to degrade today?

LEGERDEMAIN

i look at pictures of myself
and before they proved my existence
now they seem surreal
now they descend like a fog

an endless knot i can't untie
while i try and read the ghost inside his eyes

it's a disappearing act
i see me fade away
it's just confidence tricks
it's just legerdemain

there's a you in there somewhere
in the empty space between
but i just can't pin you down
you're a goddess of the gap

an endless knot i can't untie
plucking coins from my ear while you divert my eyes

it's a disappearing act
i see you fade away
it's just confidence tricks
it's just legerdemain

i keep going back and forth
i keep going back and forth
but i don't know what it's worth

MOSQUITO

tell me can you hear the angels singing?
only the ears of a child could know such music
this is the pitch of the modern age
in desperate times we can eat our own young

no room for you in the new utopia
just another hungry mouth to feed
you've got nowhere to go - and you can't even go nowhere
gonna wipe the scum clean off the streets

the future is a chainlink fence
it runs for miles, it's barbed and charged
you can crowd around it like insects
it's manned and scanned, patrolled by guards

discipline - order - property - authority

TORTURE PORN

there was a sweetheart hiding inside me
but i found him out and cut him up
hung him by his heels and tore out his throat
so now he tries to sing but just gurgles blood

i'm becoming the monster i always was
so go ask God, and he'll just shrug
go ask God, he'll say "just because"
no real reason we crawled from the mud

now i feel so great, you could shred your face off me
we'll fry it in onions 'til it's sizzling n juicy
eat me with your eyes and your mouth can have seconds
dribbling on your bib like a good little glutton

i'm becoming the monster i always was
so go ask God, and he'll just shrug
go ask God, he'll say "just because"
no real reason we crawled from the mud

nothing phases me anymore
blood banal as torture porn
nothing phases me anymore
blood banal as torture porn