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?

Death is centrifugal

Solar and logical

Decadent and symmetrical

Angels are mathematical

Angels are bestial

Man is the animal

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 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

THE OCEAN COLLECTIVE — 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?

COIL — ROSA DECIDUA

I hear your voice sing near to me

I've put away the poisoned chalice (for now)

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...

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

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

SONGS: OHIA — LIONESS

Whether you save me

Whether you savage me

Want my last look to be the moon in your eyes

Want my heart to break if it must break in your jaws

Want you to lick my blood off your paws