On the cusp of vessel 18 A look of terror in our eyes The moonlight licked the face of danger Innocence made us like soldiers Untouchable and golden The quilt of darkness dotted with our teardrops I know you're sad I'm leaving So this may hurt a little But girl look from your window late tonight You think my heart is frozen While yours is slowly grieving You'll see the boy you loved Start burning in the sky We were a dozen to the project With a galaxy of questions And all we heard was lies about the truth No choice but be obedient Like prisoners of war Caught on the wrong side of morality and youth We thought about our loved ones Tallied 50 on our foreheads With the pen your mother gave me in the Spring The sun beat at the windows Within an hour James had cracked Left the ship and died still clinging to the wings Start burning in the sky Start burning in the sky Start burning in the sky Start burning in the sky

It's not in my mind It's not in my mind Na-na-na-not in my mind Na-na-na-not in my mind We're on an infinite line We're on an infinite line Get out of my mind Get out of my mind Ge-ge-ge-get out Ge-ge-ge-get out Ge-ge-ge-get out Get out We're on a ladder to God We're on a ladder to God Ladder to God Ladder to God Ladder to God Ladder to God Space cunt Brain wash Star dust Space fuck, cunt Cunt Ge-ge-ge-ladder to God Ge-ge-ge-ladder to God Ladder to God Ge-ge-ge-ge, ha, ge-ge-ge-ge, ha Ge-ge-ge-ge, ha, ge-ge-ge-ge, ha Get fucked We're on a ladder to God We're on a ladder to God Get fucked, out Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck Fuck, fuck B-b-b-blessed (shut) B-b-b-blessed (shut, fuck, up) B-b-b-blessed (shut, fuck) B-b-b-blessed (bliss) B-b-b-blessed (shut, fuck, up) B-b-b-blessed (bliss) B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed (fuck) B-b-b-blessed (fuck, fuck) B-b-b-blessed (bliss, bliss) B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed B-b-b-blessed

Now Michael is done, stripped bare of pretense Soaking his sheets while counting insects He's a grid on the sun, he's the hate in the love Every hole is a leak when Michael does speak But Michael will win, there's a flame on his tongue His words are burned meat, to muscle and rend Now Michael will cloak every raft in his moat To speak is to choke, to leave is to come When the other has come, then Michael is done Is done, is done, is done, is done Is done, is done, is done, is done Is done, is done, is done While cracking his lens, he is breaking his hands Growing wings from his back, Michael sinks in his sack When Michael is gone, some other will come When the other has come, then Michael is done Is done, is done, is done, is done Is done, is done, is done

Now, you be the mother, and I'll be your fool I'll hide myself deep inside Your crimson pool The muddy water runs Beneath your folds You won't let me breathe You won't let me go Now, you be the stranger, and I'll be the white-skinned son You'll blacken my innocence With sugar and opium The children were suffocating Down in your damp cave And you were the mother, and I was the sleeping slave Protect me from violence Hold me in your cool lips You drug me with kindness So I can pretend I exist Now, you be the only child I'll suck on your breast You'll feed me with gasoline I'll burn my name in your head Ah-ah-ah Ah-ah-ah Ah-ah-ah, ah, ah Ah-ah-ah

Your light is in my hand Your light is in my hand Your light is in my hand Your light is in my hand Your mind is in my eye Your mind is in my eye Your mind is in my eye Your eye is in my mind Your mind is in my eye Your eye is in my eye Your eye is in my eye Your eye is in my eye Your eye is in my eye Here Here Here Here

Now, some of us are weak And some endure And some people live their lives With a violence that's pure and clean But I saw a man cry once Down on his knees In the corner of a darkened cell And his pain meant nothing to me But I was younger then And young men never die When I walked out in the Sun I was strong, clear-minded and blind Now, don't save a prayer for anyone It doesn't do any good And please, don't ask me a question You'll just be misunderstood And if you could step inside me You'd feel what hatred brings And if you saw with my eyes You'd see what self-deception means I was younger once And I created a lie And though my body was strong I was self-deluded, confident and blind Now, show some pity For the weak of will Because when we're drinking We can never be filled Show some understanding For the lonely fool Because when I am drinking I am out of control No, I was never young And nothing has transpired But when I look in the mirror I feel dead, I feel cold, I am blind I am blind I am blind I am blind