renunciation of faith: the renunciation
of a religious or political belief or allegiance[14th century. Via French from, ultimately, Greek apostasies,
literally “standing away,”
from histanai “to stand”
]
it’s the
same sad scene we see every day
you
suckling orphan babies
&
then making them pay
some are
born addicted
to mom’s
apple pie
others are just
born
crucified
a
million starving contestants from the institution
must
learn the art of temple prostitution
reality
shows
only our
real
destitution
waging
our life on those
who
can’t really care
clawing
american
idol
breasts
laid
pathetically
bare
you
pretend to be Big Mommy
but baby
knows best
you’re
like a sky drawn in pencil
more
like a greedy
black
hole
than
a slice
of
ginger-
bread
threatening
to withholdforever
the
simple pleasures you hid
making
us believe in
whatever
all
the
violence
you
did
you
delight in the spanking
the
discipline
&
breaking in
your
captive phalange
rejected
army of
kids
so your
towers on fire
whadda
you expect me to do?
i tried to
put out one CON-flag-raisin’
but then
there was two
how
strange are your values
you
still haven’t a clue
you
supplied the motive
&
the matches
even
provided the tools
hearts
burst in your wallet
and it’s
undeniably true
the only
gain from this war
always
comes back to you
as fire
drips from our hair
our
fingers turn blue
it’s an
endless mad cycle
circa
1492
you
enslaved us with warlords
keen
masters of despair
their
vampire necks so
wasted
tasteless
&
bare
gave us
nothing real zero
no prices
to compare
a
phantom king reappearing
to a
clown who’s not there
you
confused the attorneys, cannoned a christ
fought
to remove distance between wrong & right
created
gospels torn from a history of pain
crossbows
& jawbones
lurid
fables of witchcraft
heretics
hawking
holy
hemp
&
wolf bane
you
called in the chaos
darkMadonna on a train
then
offered up the nails
to an
unwitting Magdalene
you
tried to make me drink hemlock
flushed
thru a cracked rusty grail
forced
me to wash in gods blood
from a
bottomless pail
doomed
to repeat
&
forever unveil
black
burning crosses
ridden
straight out of hell
all i
perceive has never been free
a
simulated landscape
rising
high above molten sea
steam
noiselessly churning
the
myths of equality
memories
born on rejection
&
disharmony
you have
unerringly learned how
to fuck
the world soul
&
somehow in that dumpster
of a
heart you always know
she’ll
dust herself off
then
come back for some more
we have
so much in common—
just
like me she’s
your whore
taken in
the new roman senate
or on a
cold bathroom floor
if there
really was a god
she or
he might intervene
such a deus
ex machina
would
steal
every
scene
just for
once play the good guy
try to
even the score
now
there’s a nice god
we all
could adore
but as
it stands now
yes,
we’ve seen it all before
no one
shows us the exit
or even
draws a
front
door
the
curtain explodes & the stage is on fire
the
price of admission can’t get any higher
i will
rush to the flames
like a babe in its arms
showing
no fear
no signs
of alarm
finally
completing this auto-da-fé of the blest
i’ll be
free from this trial & its senseless inquest
You're not a stranger to me
And you are something to see
You don't even know how to please
You say a lot but you're unaware how to leave
My darling lives in a world that is not mine
An old child misunderstood out of time
Timeless is the creature who is wise
And timeless is the prisoner in disguise
Oh who is the beauty who the beast
Would you die of grieving when I leave
Two children too blind to see
I would fall in your shadow I believe
My love is a man who's not been tamed
My love lives in a world of false pleasure and pain
We come from different worlds, we are the same, my love
I never doubted your beauty I've changed
I never doubted your beauty I’ve changed
Changed…
Who is the beauty
Where is my beast (my love)
There is no beauty
Without my beast (my love)
Who is the beauty
Who my love…?
Oh la bête, la bête
Where is my beast?
My beauty my beauty
My beautiful beautiful beautiful
Beautiful beast
Little jimmy’s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain,
And he’s right on time, right on time
That’s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the
highway
All the dogs are barkin’ way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin’ nordhbridge way out on the railroad
Together all the tipping trucks will unload
All the scrapbooks built together stuck with glue
And I’ll stand beside you, beside you
Oh child, to never wonder why
To never, never, never, never wonder why at all
To never, never, never, never wonder why
It’s gotta be, it has to be
Across the crystal pavements
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide
The dynamo of your smile caressed the
Barefoot virgin child
To wander past your
window in the nighttime cross the floor
Crying as ecstasy surrounds you
This time it’s really
found you
Through the night air your proud time is open
Go well on your merry way
against the pointed
idle breeze
Past the footlights of the brazen silence easy
In the night you cry and you want spirits to tell you
Everything’s alright
Go ahead and do it one more time baby
You’re satisfied I guess, you’re way up and the sky comes down
Kaleidoscope
Open and just hold the lantern in the doorway,
For the freedom of it.
And you take the night air through your nostrils
And you breathe in,
you breathe out, you breathe in,
You breathe out, you
breathe in, you breathe out
And you breathe just like that, just like that
How high does it get you when it gets you high
You may not know how high it’s got you until you turn around
And I’ll point a finger at you, point a finger at you
You say which way, which way
That’s alright, we’ve gotten hip to it
Goin’ to do it right this time
Beside you
Beside you, beside you
To never wonder why
To never, never, never, never wonder why at all
Never never never never wonder why at all, Oh Child.
