Ripper

Always red lights
Skinned stars
Mind torn
Breath tar
Nails grip
Nights stripped
Another heap of lukewarm hits
Hung by the same tongues
It's only just begun
Hung by the same tongues
It's only just begun

And your paralysed ice eyes
Aren't ready for this big surprise
Pockmarked and whimpering through
Insubstantial dreams
With wills crushed
Heads rushed
Traipsing through this black slush
Dissociate too late to extricate from degradation

Razor-wire whispers
Beating back the blisters
Hate scrapes down all the soul it can
Everything I am
Feeding terminal addiction
For the bitter
Bruised
And broken
I could not feel complete...

So many plastic places
Meshed with miles of plastic faces
Piles of useless plastic lives all
Lashed to loss and locked in stasis
As you guzzle down my shivers
Cold hard words ripped through my throat
Cold hard cash nailed to your hands
I hope we both chew till we choke

Puppet string garrotting
Stench of rust and rotting
Maggots in the mainframe
Feed this machine
Filth fetish flagellants
Obscene and ignorant
Demented dirge-worship with your sycophant screams
Filth fetish flagellants
Obscene and ignorant
Demented dirge-worship with your sycophant screams

Control
Control
Control is sold
Control
Control
Control is sold

Always red lights
Skinned stars
Mind torn
Breath tar
Nails grip
Nights stripped
Another heap of lukewarm hits
Hung by the same tongues
Observe
Decay is done
Hung by the same tongues
Observe
Decay is done

Always red lights
Skinned stars
Mind torn
Breath tar
Nails grip
Nights stripped
Another heap of lukewarm hits
Hung by the same tongues
The fucking race is run
Hung by the same tongues
And the fucking race is run