Destroyer

[fox69]

"Blue Flower / Blue Flame"

"Blue Flower / Blue Flame"


Okay, fine,
even the sky looks like wine,
and everywhere I turn there's
a new face in town
stuck inside the well
fresh hells to attend to...

Blue flower, blue flame
a woman by another name is not a woman.

Don't know why,
don't know when,
a cathedral sick of the sky again
says to it––

"Oh, please not now! Will you just look at the time––it's standing still!"

Somewhere applause falls dead on the hillside...

Blue flower, blue flame
a woman by another name is not a woman.
I'll tell you what I mean by that.
Maybe not in seconds flat,
maybe not today...

Blue flower, blue flame
a woman by another name is not a woman.
I'll tell you what I mean by that.
Maybe not in seconds flat,
maybe never.

A gray ashen sadness rises like the sun, oh well.
It was time I decided to try this hotel:

Her world...

Tulip has an inner animal,
she's in it for a good time.
I was on the outs for a while
but now things are all right.

I gave you a flower because foxes travel light
and a penny for your thoughts was never enough––
your head gets filled with that stuff.

 

[fox69]

"Breakin' The Law"

"Breakin' The Law"


I can never place the name with the face.
I can never place the name with the face.
Don't touch me, don't touch me up,
Do the tease by the numbers.
It's not much, but I'm going under
It's not much, but I'm going under
It's not much, but I'm going under

Liar Liar, everything's on fire
So I don't want to hear how you crossed the wire.
Don't touch me, don't touch me up
Watch I'll take it to the river.
You'll come too, little Indian giver
You'll come too, little Indian giver
You'll come too, little Indian giver

So give us the keys, now.
We'll burn this hall of justice down.
Around the ankles or just to the ground
Hats off to the city fathers, they're no longer
A hundred feet tall.
They're no longer, no longer
We're just here another hundred feet stronger

 

[fox69]

"Bye Bye"

"Bye Bye"


1, 2, 3, 4

Pero tú de qué vas,
ya no pisaré tu dique de broma
en la gominola, bye, bye.

Ladridos que silbar,
juntos y a tres me alejo un pasito
de la escaramuza, bye, bye.

Tormenta en la comunión,
que conservarás en lona de circo,
estampa desnuda y no más.

Cangrejo de color
huye en el solar de lirios llorones,
harén de carmines, bye, bye.

Culebras en el telar,
es tu carnaval, rival en la sombra,
risueños de sobra, bye, bye.

 

[fox69]

"Canadian Lover / Falcon's Escape"

"Canadian Lover / Falcon's Escape"


Canadian lover, don't demean yourself
Though I know you and I know you mean well
Beneath a starlit night, in a prairie fire
With the pioneering spirit just about to expire
So what're you doing?
Looking for answers
Staying up all night with the calico dancers
Walk a thousand miles as the falcon flies
And like the wandering Jews
Someone's bound to get wise with you

 

[fox69]

"Certain Things You Ought To Know"

"Certain Things You Ought To Know"


It was cutting. It was done with style.
It was just a way to see you smile.
Shadows in the snow:
There are certain things you ought to know.
There are certain things you ought to know.

Springtime on the barricades -
Our Springtime Charades.
Oh, don't mind me, it's just that vipers define me
And I never thought it'd be this way...
Springtime on the barricades -
Our Springtime Charades.
Now don't mind me, it's just that vipers define me
And I never thought it'd be this way...

Bridges made of sand
Are the ones in your hand.
Let go...
There are certain things you ought to know.
There are certain things you ought to know...

All a dagger can ever be
Is a ship against the sea
Turning to snow...

 

[fox69]

"Child Of Styx"

"Child Of Styx"


Child of Styx
False pleasures do abound
The staff picks
Have run us underground
There are no schools left to accept you

Child of Styx
A famous photojournalist
Couldn't have said it better when you said
I'm tired of chasing history's head
Perfection lies in the letter

Await the resurrection of style
A love of grace could carry us through
What's a country mile to the likes of you

Just please
Don't call them like you see them
No, please
Don't call them like you see them
No, please
Don't call them like you see them

What was once behind the red door
Is still behind the red door
Child of Styx

 

[fox69]

"Chinatown"

"Chinatown"


You can't believe
The way the wind's talking to the sea.
I heard that someone said it before,
I don't care,
I can't walk away, I can't walk away...
In Chinatown...

The wind and the rain:
To your detriment you try to explain
A government swallowed up in the squall.
I can't walk away, at all,
In Chinatown...

You can't believe,
Though I'm sure somebody's said it before:
I know you and I know the score...
I can't walk away, you can't walk away...
I can't walk away, you can't walk away...
I can't walk away, you can't walk away...
I can't walk away, you can't walk away...

I can't walk away...

 

[fox69]

"City Of Daughters"

"City Of Daughters"


Oh, City of Daughters,
Is that what you wanted to be?
Oh, City of Daughters,
Is that what you wanted to be?
Oh, City of Daughters,
Is it not safe to say you've come when called?
A minor point of contention:
It's the pointlessness of the invention.
Trust, there's no need to remind us
We're all dying alone tonight!

In a City of Daughters.
Sister, I confess, I have forgotten just what it is that you wanted to be.
Fluffing and a-folding those clothes that you were sold in
To servicing what it is you always wanted to be.
In Vancouver, things are simple when they fit you to a "T".
Once again, you have refused the new pornographies
A minor bone of contention:
It's the soullessness of the convention.
Rock 'n' Roll sure came through for you.
Why would anybody want it to?

What is it about music that lends itself so well
To business-as-fucking-usual?
A minor source of contention:
The resourcelessness of the convention.
Rock 'n' Roll sure came through for you.
Why would anyone want it to
When we can burn the living
Proof, go!

 

[fox69]

"Comments On The World As Will"

"Comments On The World As Will"


O, to shy away from days of opulence,
Of fakings, and false-starts.
Open up the chests of all our best men.
We don't demand villainry,
We demand a new dawn.
Girls are foxes.
Boys are boxers
His and Hers troubled ambassadors
Whose times have yet to come.
There are no locks, there are no keys,
Only excecutors and executees.
What will our cut come to
With minds so new, with mouths so clean?

 

[fox69]

"Crystal Country"

"Crystal Country"


So This is Crystal Country,
where refugees flee like I fly...
into forests of your eyes...
Hey, I saw full-on Night there...
She said - "You'll always be alone,"
and she was right, there...
She said you'll always be alone,
and she was right there rummaging through the eastern townships...
Just wait, here comes the comeback you've always hated...

Somewhere an olive branch is being planted
in honor of a dancers body and, granted,
you could take This as a sign that there is life outside the mine,
and maybe things are looking up but, Buttercup,
the form insists on rupture and therefore we break...
Ok?

So This is Crystal Country,
and, like refugees flee I fly...
into the forests of your eyes...
Hey, I saw full-on Night there...
She said - "You'll always be alone,"
and she was right, there...
She said you'll always be alone,
and she was right there rummaging through the western townships...
where they're staging a play called Comeback...
The only line is - "Don't go..."

Somewhere an olive branch is being planted
in honor of a dancers body and, granted,
I know things have never looked This good but -
somehow - indulge your life at sea for now...

Cause when a breeze is blowing,
it's just Crystal Country showing us
that everything must break to be beautiful
and, honey, that's what I meant when I called and said -
"This is fucked"...