A small collection of song lyrics I resonate with, enjoy, or find memorable for one reason or another.

COIL — FIRE OF THE MIND

Does death come alone

Or with eager reinforcements?

Does death come alone

Or with eager reinforcements?

Death is centrifugal

Solar and logical

Decadent and symmetrical

Angels are mathematical

Angels are bestial

Man is the animal

THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS — METAL EYE

Don't bother peeking at what's under her dress

You should know by now she gets by with less

Your last night together desire arrives like a terrorist

When flesh meets metal all that breaks is the fist

When she was born there must have been a spark

But there's nothing there now in her cold chrome heart

She bites the bullet

So watch it go off

And watch it explode

In her platinum mouth

RECOIL — INCUBUS

I am the victim of lying morality

And so, I am beyond caring

I am born ten thousand times

In ten thousand ways

My head swims in spoilt mother's milk

I am too alive

There are too many of me

Too many to kill

They're in my head

They know my name

My name is death

But I am alive

I am alive

THE OCEAN — PARABIOSIS

Homo deus

By removing death

From our lives

How different has our world become?

We stay young 'til thy kingdom come

Face death, effacing death

From our every day lives

Tell me just how clean have we become?

How safe have we become?

How bleak has it become?

How dead have we become?

FOETUS — ANYTHING (VIVA!)

You start to admire the flagrant disregard

For the sanctity of other people's lives

By the filthy few in positions of power

Who go for the jugular in order to survive

Disinfect those dangerous rabid dogs

Make sure the kids stay in

'Cause if you wanna be immortal

You gotta have something to trade in

HAUJOBB — MORE THAN US

I knew there was no escape

From that embrace

She is more than us

She showed me the wonders

I could never have imagined

Worlds I could never have dreamed: truth, no less

She is

Atomic, petrochemical, genocidal, bad news

She is

Consumer-oriented, globalised, and inhuman

She is

Her name is hidden under layers of layers and pseudonyms

But I know her well

I sleep like a baby

In her many arms

While she strides across the battlefields

Dancing, singing, feeding

COIL — ROSA DECIDUA

I hear your voice sing near to me

I've put away the poisoned chalice

And lie down amongst the flowerbeds

Whichever stars we walk among

We both seek out the darkest red

The wine was turned to blood again

Without this blood we'd both be dead

I've wound myself tight into the hedgerows

Let's see which way the winter wind blows...

AGALLOCH — TO DROWN

They escaped the weight of darkness

To forge a path into the marrow of the spirit

They chose to drown in a deeper vacancy

An emptiness that quells the null

A pool for the forgotten

They escaped the weight of darkness

To drown in another

THE OCEAN — MIOCENE | PLIOCENE

Recurrence for the weak

Eternal spiral of self-defeat

Set out to find your niche

Relearn how to use your teeth

You are unique

But you will disappear

From this bleak celestial sphere

Time is not a line to connect the dots

Cosmic wheel

Cyclic history, repeat, eternity

CULT OF LUNA — CYGNUS

She'll be standing strong

Her hair is lost in storm

Open your mouth and let air rush in

To get a sense of her form

Leave her to sing her withered songs

In tunnels painted like the dawn

Write your letter to the night

Sightless, songless, silent giant

SONGS: OHIA — FAREWELL TRANSMISSION

There ain't no end to the sands I've been tryin' to cross

The real truth about it is

My kind of life's no better off

If I've got the map or if I'm lost

There ain't no end to the desert I'll cross

I've really known it all along

Mama, here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws

Must be the big star about to fall

FOETUS — SLOG

According to me, Mister Marquis, you mix up passion and cruelty

'Cause passion extinguishes sympathy and makes you cold and hard like me

Stronger and stronger charms are needed to satisfy the passion

And pain awakens nerves when utilised in this fashion

The pain of others also causes extraordinary excitation

This cruelty shows your energy, not your degeneration

Horrible spectacle, execution, slaughter, disease, and death

You ain't tasted nothing 'til you got Foetus on your breath!