Fata Morgana

Lyrics

[Hook: Rituals of Mine] Try to go my own way But I don't hurt Try to tell you my way But I don't hurt I cannot get you to see that But I don't hurt Cannot get you to see that But I don't hurt [Verse 1] I don't want to give myself away I can never leave this shell I made Getting hard to breathe in cellophane Ending all I see it's cell decay Devil on his knees there's hell to pay When I'm lost in trees I'm well aware They're never not in season evergreen, see Better lost at sea than Tetracaine My fears will never alter me to grow complacent Hearing all the hollow speech from ghosts that say it Tears fall from a martyr that's a hopeless place Mirror made of water that's an oceanscape, there's no escape Is anybody out there living in the downward? City on the outskirts pity for the outbursts Skin me from the inside divvying the cloudbursts Drifting in the midnights admitting I'm an outcast Sinning til I count lashes self-flagellate 'Til the doubts pass licking on the ground glass Wilting rose that's emitting from the brown grass Fills my soul with epiphanies that outlast [Hook: Rituals of Mine] Try to go my own way But I don't hurt Try to tell you my way But I don't hurt I cannot get you to see that But I don't hurt Cannot get you to see that But I don't hurt [Verse 2] I've been pulled out to sea to die Lull me to sleep before Skull seems to shrink in size Cold fingers reach to sky Snow lingers freezing nights Soul speaks like meteor Hope extinguished beaming eyes Woe is me still beacon-like My body smells like it's petrichor My coffins got all the best decor Nonchalant when I exit form While the non-savants play the Devil's chord I stalked you when I ventured forth You stalked me like a vegetable Let's talk until we smell the posey Stock it in my ventricles They skip their stones til it's chipping bones I still sit alone with the rigmarole Bitter tones kissed my throat, razorblades Misanthrope fades away in Interzone I'm still hanging by a twisted rope I stayed alive I'm immortal While the distant crows sing my written prose I was written off but never pigeonholed [Hook: Rituals of Mine] Try to go my own way But I don't hurt Try to tell you my way But I don't hurt I cannot get you to see that But I don't hurt Cannot get you to see that But I don't hurt [Interlude: David Thewlis & Lesley Sharp] Was I bored? No, I wasn't fucking bored. I'm never bored That's the trouble with everybody: you're all so bored You've had nature explained to you, and you're bored with it You've had the living body explained to you, and you're bored with it You've had the universe explained to you, and you're bored with it So now you just want cheap thrills, and like plenty of 'em And it don't matter how tawdry or vacuous they are As long as it's new, as long as it's new As long as flashes and fucking bleeps in 40 fucking different colours So whatever else you can say about me, I'm not fucking bored Yeah, alright So how's it all going for you? It's a bit boring actually [Verse 3] Purgatory bound my feet in limbo Tearing off their skin with screams like Sindel Air it out again it seems so simple Parables I left still speak in riddles Had to ante up no sleep like vigil Cactus on my thumbs it feels like thistles Adamantium now seems like tin foil Add ammonium I breathe in thick oil People still belie I need to tip toe Leaving me to die completes the mythos Bleakness in my mind I keep in temple Even when I lie keep peace like Shinto Beats my heart provides the key and tempo Demons in my mind that means their kinfolk Secrets in their eyes I peek in windows Beat 'em when they try they'll bleed like Kimbo Daddy used to fight he'd teach me Kenpo Manic in the night fight dreams like Klitschko Had to use the light to read through grimoires Atoms that divide in sync like pitfalls Venom that I spew secretes from lymph nodes When I let 'em near the leeches stick close Set 'em on a pier they'll sleep with minnows Camera obscura I see through pinholes [Hook: Rituals of Mine] Try to go my own way But I don't hurt Try to tell you my way But I don't hurt I cannot get you to see that But I don't hurt Cannot get you to see that But I don't hurt [Outro: Rituals of Mine] Patience, graceless, all of the same mistakes Everybody wants to know their fate Ageless, weightless, counting the clock for days Everybody wants to know the end I've got the only way out, the only way in Take it to the grave I'll take it all the way, way back All the while now, all the time now, time to take it Time to take it way way back