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Copacaballa

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Copacaballa

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By the pricking of your thumbs

Something wicked this way comes

By the pricking of your thumbs

Something wicked this way comes

I am the most accomplished surgeon

Of moral deformities

I am professor of energy

Napoleonic electrifier of souls

Your glorious palaces are hospitals

Set amid cemeteries

There's an outsider inside

Where no one can hide

There's an outsider inside

Where no one can hide

I am the most accomplished surgeon

Of moral deformities

I am professor of energy

Napoleonic electrifier of souls

I am an eternal vessel for forces that nestle

For forces that sleep in the minds of the weak

And even as you've been 'thout your nightly dreams

Explained it all from your giant books

Not even as you've been 'thout your nightly dreams

Explained it all to me from your giant books

You made me feel

I would never be alone

You knelt me down

To kiss the bones on your throne

The angles small

Or still in their moorings

Of Leviathan distortions

Casting out

Casting out your nets of darkness

Casting out

I'm casting you out

Smear thyself with the vixen's tan

And beware the bloody steps of man

Smear thyself with the vixen's tan

And beware the bloody steps of man

I want to be a stranger

Become a shape changer

Your glorious palaces are hospitals

Set amid cemeteries

I'm trying to strip the silence away

High up there with thy hiss

That's where all the magic is

High up there with thy hiss

That's where all the magic is

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