I burn up like a cigarette/ I can feel it scratching against my skin/ Turn away from me/ Just do us in and get it over with/ Turn away from me/ Just do us in and get it over with/ Get it over with/ Visions of violence in the streets/ Town after town after town after town/ Murdered by bureaucracy/ All dying in the city/ Face is pretty like acetone/ Queue up for euthanasia/ This life the only frontier/ Nothing good can come of this/ This life the only frontier/ Nothing good can come of this/ Pantomime horse needs to feed/ I'm stable/ Got got need/ I'm stable

Biting down behind the glass/ Nothing here for miles/ Nothing here for days/ I give up so easily/ And lay myself to waste/ Atrophied, lacerated and as gold as you could be/ Through the bleakest winter/ Firmly within the snow/ The man of a thousand knives laying waste to the foals/ The parks read like gallows/ The land bereft and weak/ Screeching through the hazy day/ Like pestilence, I scurry for weeks/ Paying dearly for past mistakes/ Irregular patterns you can't contain

Muscle spasms on repeat/ Vulgar light prodding, aching/ Quiet hum of machinery/ Hiding away from a city on its knees/ While it stares at a grave dug for itself/ My name is Catherine Wheel/ I contort, twist and bend/ I am the breaking wheel/ It's easy to pretend/ My name is Catherine Wheel/ I contort, twist and bend/ I am the breaking wheel/ It's easy to pretend/ My name is Catherine Wheel/ I contort, twist and bend/ I am the breaking wheel/ It's easy to pretend/ Feeling circled in like vermin/ Led to slaughter like swine/ Tender pools of blood I'm submerged in/ Surrounded by ingrates and philistines/ My name is Catherine Wheel/ I contort, twist and bend/ I am the breaking wheel/ It's easy to pretend/ My name is Catherine Wheel/ I contort, twist and bend/ I am the breaking wheel/ It's easy to pretend/ I see blood far too often/ I crave destruction on my skin/ I am a vomit-soaked caricature of a woman/ Even dressed in the rags of self deception/ One stab wound deserves another/ It will never be too soon

Remnants of red, Ritalin on legs/ You are a stranger unto yourself and I will find you/ Remnants of red, Ritalin on legs/ What more could I say to save you from yourself?/ And what more could I tell you about the moon?/ The world will always need TV chefs/ And the filth, it's so fucking dark, man/ You're a classic case of closet case/ You're a classic case of closet case/ He looks like he lives on his hands/ Use me til I break/ So much bile/ Everyone is alien/ Soul destroyed by vanity/ Love won't cleanse me anymore/ Lay under your blanket of knives/ Slam the door before it leaves/ My throat tightens when I think about you/ You scare me/ And I feel nothing anymore/ I feel nothing anymore/ I feel nothing at all/ Twenty four times two/ Twenty four, twenty five/ Twenty four times two/ Twenty four, twenty five/ Fight hard fuck harder/ Here comes the half trained lawyer/ Here come the remoulds/ I hate blondes and we hate you/ Fight hard fuck harder/ Here comes the half trained lawyer/ Here come the remoulds/ I hate blondes and we hate you/ Fight hard fuck harder/ Here comes the half trained lawyer/ Here come the remoulds/ I hate blondes and I hate you/ I hate blondes and I hate you/ I hate you/ Fight hard fuck harder/ Here comes the half trained lawyer/ Here come the remoulds/ I hate blondes and we hate you/ Fight hard fuck harder/ Here comes the half trained lawyer/ Here come the remoulds/ I hate blondes and we hate you/ Twenty four times two/ Twenty four twenty five/ Here come the rebuilds/ I hate blondes and I hate you/ Fight hard fuck harder/ Here comes the half trained lawyer/ Here come the remoulds

Like a prize in an arcade machine/ My opal eyes stay the same/ Is it past the watershed?/ Or can I take up vigilante justice?/ Face strung like a mellotron/ It's wrong, it's wrong/ Green plastic garden chairs/ They're coming, I'm scared/ Face strung like a mellotron/ It's wrong, it's wrong/ Green plastic garden chairs/ They're coming/ They're on The Old Grey Whistle Test/ Smoking dog ends/ Bones like tent pegs/ Tin cans stacked up on the wall/ Shoot between the gaps to make me fall/ Face strung like a mellotron/ It's wrong, it's wrong/ Green plastic garden chairs/ They're coming, I'm scared/ Face strung like a mellotron/ It's wrong, it's wrong/ Green plastic garden chairs/ They're coming/ I walked into this room with nothing to my name/ My stolen valour/ My sense of smell/ My seven vertebrae/ I walked in this room with nothing to my name/ My stolen valour/ My sense of smell/ My seven vertebrae

I'm sorry, so sorry/ Please accept my apology/ I'm so sorry if I threw a bottle at your wife/ I'm sorry/ So please accept my apology/ The fifth sin is overtaking me/ The metaphor gets lost/ I see two girls covered in blood and I feel nothing/ Limbs hung up like a keychain on a car mirror/ The tasks of the illiterate/ Here's the thread I will cut you off with/ We're one and two/ Do you see me now?/ Objects and liars, touch with no emotion/ My best is far behind me/ Nothing develops, nothing is framed/ Everyday a fake martyr gets laid/ Nothing develops, nothing is framed/ Everyday a fake martyr gets laid/ I was really something/ I was really something/ You don't ever take that razor deep enough, deep enough/ Give me another shot at death/ I can make it this time/ Can we make it this time?/ I can make it this time/ Can we make it this time?/ I can make it this time/ Can we make it this time?/ Bury me under tarpaulin sleet/ Stretch the canvas, stretch the sheets/ Snap out of it, hammer the wedges straight into my brain/ I could never find the brush to put you to paper

I like your hair/ Yeah, what else do you like?/ That's it/ I mean at the moment, you're just hair aren't you? Hormone overdose/ Forced sexuality/ A dog returns to its vomit/ Like you return to your 'art'/ Machines go quiet/ Your heart is silent/ Bodies crawl and writhe and moan/ All I can do is laugh and groan/ Fashion roadkill/ Melody breaker/ Songs about nothing, nowhere, nobody/ I wish everything I ever said was true/ I wish everything I ever said was true/ Bound and gagged and splayed and shaved/ Vocabulary alien/ I can't see how anyone could sin in the context of you/ Your half-eaten future lies dead/ Your empty words never go unsaid/ Although we all know that they should/ It's just a war of the words/ Screaming monsters in the dark/ Just white bread in Noah's ark/ Surface wounds no man can do/ Take it to the hospital/ I will live the quiet life/ While you kill for the spotlight/ The tasks of the illiterate/ You costume all your weaknesses/ A disguise doesn't help it/ You don't even fuck/ You don't even slit your wrists/ A landscape of dullards smothered in mustard/ You don't even fuck/ You don't even want to try/ Tie you to the bed, you cry/ You don't even want to die/ When it matters, tell me why/ You don't even like guys/ Skin so pale/ Bones so sharp/ Stupid boys/ Stupid girls/ Stick it on the internet/ Place it on a safe bet/ Bleed for me/ Die for me/ Cry for me/ Do you understand?/ Skin means nothing/ Put your clothes back on/ You parasite/ Nothing girl

Imagine me a life where you'd all be in my hands/ Quake under my boot/ And tread carefully on the way down/ Ambivalence is my forte/ Like a knife to the torso/ You are no good to me/ My brain is a sewer/ I do not write for you/ King rat takes the stage/ My ribs splayed as an angel's wings/ It feels like you just died/ It feels like you just died/ Too scared/ To hold/ Two steps/ Too cold/ Too scared/ To hold/ Two steps/ Too cold/ This fear is immeasurable/ We are sharing a miserable cell/ This fear is immeasurable/ We are sharing a miserable cell/ Throwing daisy chains at your grave/ Clawing my way to your coffin/ I will remember you as dirt trapped under my nails/ Staring at a bad collage in a worse gallery/ We are miserable twin parasites/ Eagerly awaiting your every word/ It's high heeled hedonism/ These are things you're supposed to discuss with a superior/ I love your spiteful undertones/ I hate your sense of judgement/ When we are more than just the same

Night time epidemic/ Convex lens is blind no more/ Debauchery distracts him from washed up shore/ The story of the eye is written/ Synapse bomb, glass delusion/ January language, January/ Synapse bomb, glass delusion/ January language/ Dog-faced pony soldier/ Priest of the guillotine/ Spend whole nights out your body/ Adrenachrome/ Xylazine

When your back is arched/ On the heretic stake/ When you get to me/ I know my bones will shake/ We'll wave goodbye/ With nocturnal emissions/ Our tar-soaked lungs/ Will intertwine on commission/ I will be the sweetest kill you can get/ The loss of feeling/ A solid soul/ My face obscure/ The skin now burnt/ Safe to say/ It's over/ Spy plane/ Safe to say/ The nerve agents all shoved away/ I will be the sweetest kill you can get/ The loss of feeling/ A solid soul/ My face obscure/ The skin now burnt/ Jackknife ballerina/ Traces sound in American heels/ Safe to say/ Safe to say/ Jackknife ballerina/ Traces sound in American heels/ Safe to say/ Safe to say/ I will be the sweetest kill you can get/ The loss of feeling/ A solid soul/ My face obscure/ The skin now burnt/ The loss of feeling/ A solid soul/ My face obscure/ The skin now burnt

Love hard, hate harder/ You think you're the deer in the headlights, but you're actually the roadkill/ Oh my god, I'm in love/ You're a bimbo in limbo, try a little harder/ You'll stitch the wounds shut eventually/ I need you like a hole in the head/ In sickness and in health/ Suffer the indignity of smiling/ Whilst feverishly yearning/ My heart remains fervent/ Which reminds me/ Do you have to give yourself up to get yourself through?/ Something, something about birds/ Funeral birthday/ Sat in my grave thinking about unresolved hatred/ I need you like a hole in the head/ In sickness and in health/ Suffer the indignity of smiling/ Whilst feverishly yearning/ Cauterise me/ Salvation, please save me/ Show me something new/ Dull your blades/ Dull your swords/ Crack your knuckles and/ Cauterise me

This life of blood sport/ Radium girls in white phosphorus moon/ Auto-asphyxiating, satiates need/ Memory, anger/ Nights jut and bleed/ All the midnight codes/ Hung, drawn, held still and dry/ Bleats of livestock, aching mind/ Winter flower, trampled cries/ Material anger, cluster blind/ Half-cut smiles/ Torn across with nothing achieved/ The implements of failure grafted on me/ Blurred pictures, charred remains, deceitful existence/ Downcast ambergris arrested/ Failed dichotomy/ Exterminated dreams sing liturgy/ Tablature invisible eats culture discreet/ Yellow capped flowers sing low carefully/ Shrieks of motorway bounce clean off hypothalamus/ Vitreous humour consumes, swallows whole, breathes/ Woman off the bridge AM 5:48/ Resumption is declared/ Woman off the bridge AM 5:48/ Resumption is declared/ This life of blood sport/ The radium girls/ Morning sleep/ The awakening/ The recognition/ False profiting/ Morning sleep/ The awakening/ The recognition/ False profiting/ Morning sleep/ The awakening

Your mascara eyes keep running/ Keep running into me/ Your mascara eyes keep running into me/ Can't you hear the way she spits?/ Can't you hear the way she spits?/ Her lips are anaesthetic/ I know I'll regret it/ Your mascara eyes keep running/ Keep running into me/ He screams at everything with as much belt as a shoelace/ He screams at everyone with as much belt as a shoelace/ I vomit on your flowers/ I will become one with this floor/ You're better off without me/ You're better off with me/ Stick your fingers down your spine/ Your arms are my sling/ Your wrists are an accessory/ And I just don't care anymore/ He's much better on his knees/ He's much better as a 'she'/ He's much better on his knees I do not recognise the body lying next to me/ You deny the thing that heals me/ Love is worse than black and blue/ Love is worse than black and blue/ Fetishise your guilt/ Fetishise your guilt/ Fetishise your guilt/ Fetishise your guilt

You depart quietly in your furs/ Under the night's glowing scars/ To no longer be possessed by you/ Will be the bitterest pill/ My passion will lead me dejected/ It will lead me towards this windowsill/ You'll pay me no mind once it's over/ A lurid heart with blood running cold/ I am rabid, full of hurtful desire/ My devotion held/ By lock and key/ She indulges me in my cruellest dreams/ Aching for luxury punishment/ A gentle sting/ Under the pulsating lights of evening/ I throw myself aside/ I am St Sebastian/ I am Lady Jane/ Be my Dionysus/ I will never bore you/ I will only adore you/ Trample me with your scornful ferocity/ And savour my final gasping breath/ I will never bore you/ I adore you/ Curled in your iron ox; deceased