Exterminating Angel

The sun also rises…

In hell.

But now never again, kill the lights

Fucking break the skin.

Gave it all I had, now I've nothing left to give

And if you love life, there's some life you won't live

Burned my bridges beneath me

I've more than had my fill…

So much, more unspeakable

In the four chambers of my heart:

In the torture chamber of my heart

Laid out on that floor

Those nights hanging by a thread

Unsure whether it was desire or despair that kept me drawing breath

When all my dreams came down to nothing,

Left me just another piece of meat

For you I carried my life on in my teeth

Through betrayed years and bloody tears

And pits where you can only crawl

Poor Grendel's had an accident…

So may you all

And in dust the end of all my fears,

Nothing an on one can reach you in here-

Holy of holies, the altar of flies

And I will sleep in your embrace tonight.

She draws me close and shuts my eyes,

Regrets and secrets, don't say a word (on rustling wings of leper skin)

Slides a finger in every nerve.

We burned down the candles of our youth

Bathed our lives in heart and soil

Poured out our corroded insides while we could

Body and…

Sold-

For blood money that bought our ghettos and gods

The black skies hanging over the highways-

So this is how it comes to a close

And she's wringing all the memories from my heart

With all the tenderness of the dispossessed

Counting down the seconds in bitter fear

Praying to cease to exist

Thy silent hands they come for me

Thy cold caresses they comfort me

Thy icy blood it runs through me

When I'm asleep in your embrace

FOREVER.

I'm never coming down again

(into nothingness I'll never know).