The Church

[fox69]

"Hotel Womb"

"Hotel Womb"



Volcano pierce the air, ashes block out the sun
Down in the lair, well I met her there
With a price for everyone
I paid eighty dollars for this wedding ring
I couldn't take it off if I tried
And the cactus sure tastes strangely sweet
As it goes down inside

I'll dream I'm safe in my hotel womb
Soft and soul made, it's a wonderful room

A sudden voltage in the night, with a rainforest girl
As we float downstream to the Amazon River
Where the black waters swirl
I say, why are you people wearing those masks?
I say, can we be reconciled?
She says the mother of the storm has to roam the sky
Searching for her child

I'll dream I'm safe in my hotel womb
Soft and soul made, it's a wonderful room
I wish I'm back in my hotel womb
Slip through the crack, to that wonderful room

Morning comes at last, and she's lying by my side
She's got the face of the widow that keeps following me
And the body of my bride
I say, why are those buildings swaying like trees?
I say, can we stop for a while?
She says, can't you hear the city that's hidden in there?
It's just another mile

 

[fox69]

"Hounds Of Love"
(originally by Kate Bush)

"Hounds Of Love"
(originally by Kate Bush)



When I was a child
Running in the night
Afraid of what might be

Hiding in the dark
Hiding in the street
And of what was following me

Doo doo doo doo doo doo
The hounds of love are hunting me
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
I feel your arms surrounding me
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
I've always been the coward
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
And I don't know what's good for me

Now here I go
It's coming for me through the trees
Oh help me someone
Help me please

I take my shoes off
Throw them in the lake
And I'll be
Two steps on the water

I found a fox
Caught by dogs
He let me hold him in my hand

His little heart
It beat so fast
And I'm ashamed of running away

And nothing's real
I just can't deal with this
I'm still afraid to be

(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Among your hounds of love
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I feel your arms surrounding me
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I've always been some coward
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I don't know what's good for me

Now here I go
It's coming for me through the trees
Oh help me darling
Help me please

Can take my shoes off
Throw them in the lake
And I'll be
Two steps on the water

I don't know what's good for me
Don't know what's good for me
I need love love love love

I don't know what's good for me
Don't know what's good for me
I need love love love

I don't know what's good for me (Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I don't know what's good for me
I need love love love love

I don't know what's good for me (Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I don't know what's good for me
I need love love love

Take my shoes off (Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Throw them in the lake (Hounds of love)
And I'll be
Two steps on the water (Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
(Hounds of love)

 

[fox69]

"Hunter"

"Hunter"


A silver lamp-lit sign
Flashes in the rain
Inside the taxi
That takes me to my plane
And the party's over
With a head that throbs
It's none of my business you see
I'm just doing my job

I'm gonna track you down
[L](Lived by the sword, dies by the sword)
[R](He obeys the law, where the stuff is sold)
I'm gonna catch your scent
[L](Bind our hands on the wall, everything else looks sore)
[R](What we do it for, and the casts are sore)
I'm gonna spring your trap
[L](And the casts have soul, what can you use them for)
[R](Then you ran to the hall, bind their hands to the wall)
I'm gonna track you down
[L](Locusts steal the sword, the air occurs the sword)
[R](Die by the sword, lived by the sword)

And let's see, you were last seen leaving Tony's Bar
With a dark suspicious man
And some intoxicated woman
'Cause your wife doesn't understand
A carnation in your buttonhole
Greed inside your veins
Smooth threats and promises
Hotel rooms and chains

Closing in like snow and rust
Leave you high and dry
First you're gonna simmer
Then you're gonna fry

 

[fox69]

"I Am A Rock"

"I Am A Rock"



A winters day, in a deep and dark December
I am alone, gazing from my window into the streets below
On a freshly fallen, silent shroud of snow
I am a rock, I am an island

Don't talk of love, well I've heard the word before
It is sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock, I am an island

I have my books and my poetry to content me
I am shielded in my armor
Deep within my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock, I am an island

And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries

 

[fox69]

"I Don't Know"

"I Don't Know"



I don't know what people say now
Walk away next Tuesday now

I don't know if you've been told
All that glitters is not cold

Mmm, and I don't know how you do it
After all, you've been through it

Well I don't know how you're feelin'
After all you've had to deal with

Well I don't know if all that's true
and I'm still me you're still you

Well I don't know what I should try, man
I'd like to live before I die, man

That's it

 

[fox69]

"I Kept Everything"

"I Kept Everything"



I kept everything
Mornings and days paraded through space
And stripped of all their meaning

I saved everything
But this afternoon I just ran out of room
I haven't got the foggiest

Yeah (yeah, yeah) let me get this straight
If it's a matter of luck (yeah, yeah)
Or a matter of fate

I'm a tiny little flash in a damaged universe
You know what makes it bettter only makes it worse

Trying to find you
Try to remind you
Trying to find you

I see everything
Glitter and glamour, the bitter, the hammer
That smashes up the evening

I heard everything
Buzzes and creaks, cymbals and shrieks
I haven't got the feeling left

Wait (yeah, yeah)
Let me sort this out
If it's a question of faith (yeah, yeah)
Or a question of doubt

You're an undiscovered wonder in a desolated place
I wonder who's representing you, handling your case

Trying to find you
Try to remind you
Trying to find you

(Yeah, yeah)
(Trying to find you) (Oh, oh)

 

[fox69]

"In A Heartbeat"

"In A Heartbeat"



Your room is damp, your love's turning cold
Where is the meaning that I thought we could hold
I can't believe what has happened to you
I stand back and watch, 'cause there's nothing I can do

What poetry, a delicious joke
All your flame going up in smoke
Just once more, just once again
If I ever get caught here, they know who to blame

In a heartbeat
And a heartbeat's all that it takes
In a heartbeat
In a heartbeat, see your heartbreak
You can see your heartbreak
That's all that it takes

I play some records but the words are too strange
I call you sometimes but your number's been changed
I will remember every smile and tear
But when I listen to you I just don't want to hear

 

[fox69]

"In This Room"

"In This Room"



Oh the avenging angel
Shiver in the way of her stare
I will admit that she never loved me
But I admit that I didn't care
And it's too damned late to buy the gate
And why close it if your heart isn't there
And since you know it all
I could give you a call
I could give you something fine to compare yourself to

My eyes begin to ache in the cold electric light
There are no windows in this room
In which we've been sitting all our lives

Some incredible distance
Some incredible place
Sometimes I think, and sometimes I sink
In some incredible race
And it's too damned soon for a man of fortune
To have to run or lose his face
And since you know it all
I could give you a call
I could give you a lot more than a taste of yourself, too

 

[fox69]

"Incident On Bannerville"

"Incident On Bannerville"



We were on a street called Bannerville. I remember that. Huh. The streetlights were bare of the terrible burden of death. Yeah. Some of them work. They glowed green. At the end of Bannerville, we'd turn to the right and we'd be a block away from the Truffidian Cathedral.

A strange surge of joy or recognition overtook us, all out of proportion to our reality. We began to run, to laugh, abandoning our shuffle through the shadows; with safety so close, it was agony to walk slowly. The worst seemed past. It really did. I was already thinking about what I'd say to Bonmot. I was already thinking about that, Truff help me.

And Sybel had been holding my hand. He was a little behind me at this point. We were almost at the end of Bannerville, not more than twenty feet from safety. Overhead, a street lamp flickered free of the green glow that pervaded the rest of the city.

And we were both about to turn the corner. I could hear Sybel's heavy breathing as he ran. Then I heard an unfamiliar sound-a sound trapped between a gasp and a moan-and when I turned and looked at Sybel, all I could see was a mist of blood, floating out in streamers. I stopped running and stared. I couldn't breathe for a second. Nothing of him was left-not even his shoes, man. Nothing at all. His dissolution was complete and utter. There was such a final terrible beauty to it. I thought it must be an absurd magic trick, a horrible joke. But it wasn't, and the laughter caught in my throat and became a sob. Yeah, laughter caught in my throat and became a sob. Yeah.

(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)

 

[fox69]

"Insanity"

"Insanity"



It's just insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream

A time I live again
Is only pain in my head
And you can't let them take it if you're suicidal
And it's full of holes is only your rival
I need some recompense

It's just insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream

The jailers hands turn sour
It's getting worse by the hour
And you know that solution's getting complicated
And I can't believe how long I've waited

Can you get back to that other place
That we are now afraid to face

It's insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream

And it's inexcusable and unacceptable, out of character and incontestable
Poisonous, viscious and underhanded
And it surely can't be the way God planned it
And let's just admit that everything's random
And the riots that come, and then its hard to withstand them
It's totally insane