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A Perfect Circle
Mer De Noms (2000)
The Thirteenth Step (2003)



Mer De Noms


Hollow
run, desire, run
a sexual being
run him like a blade
to and through the hollow conscience
one motive: cater to the hollow
screaming feed me here
fill me up again
temporarily pacify this hunger that's so cruel
libido throw
dominoes of indiscretions down
falling all around in cycles, in circles
constantly consuming, conquering, devour.
'cause its time to bring the fire down
throttle all this indiscretion
long enough to edify
and permanently fill this hollow
screaming feed me here
fill me up again
temporarily pacifying
feed me here
fill me up again
temporarily pacifying


Magdalena
overcome by your
moving temple
overcome by this
holiest of altars
so pure
so rare
to witness such a lovely goddess
i lost my self control
beyond compelled to throw this dollar down
before your
holiest of altars
i'll sell
my soul
my self esteem
a dollar at a time
for one chance
one kiss
one taste of you my magdalena
i've beared witness
to this place, this lair, so long forgotten
so pure, so rare, to witness such a lovely goddess
and i'd sell
my soul
my self-esteem a dollar at a time
for one chance
one kiss
one taste of you my black madonna
i'll sell
my soul
my self-esteem a dollar at a time
for one taste
one taste
one taste of you my magdalena


Rose
don't
disturb
the beast
the tempermental goat
the snail
while he's feeding on the rose
stay rose, and compromise what i will, i am
been around
the wind silently blown about
again i'm treading so
soft and lightly
compromising my will i am
i am
my will
so no longer
will i
lay down
play dead
play hard to-
in the headlights, locked down and terrified
your deer in the headlights shined down and horrified
when push comes to pull comes to shove comes to step around
this self destructive dance that never would've managed
i rose, i roared aloud, hear my will, i am
i am
my will
so no longer
will i
lay down
play dead
play this
kneel-down gunshy martyr, pitiful
i rose, i roared, my will i am


Judith
you're such an inspiration for the ways that i will never ever choose to be
oh so many ways for me to show you how your savior has abandoned you
f**k your god!
your lord, your christ
he did this
took all you had and
left you this way
still you prayed never straying
never taste of the fruit
you never thought to question why
its not like you killed someone
its not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed
he did it all for you
he did it all for you
oh so many ways for me to show you how your dogma has abandoned you
pray! to your christ, to your god
never taste of the fruit
never stray, never brake, never
choke on the lie
even though he's the one who did this to you
you never thought to question why
its not like you killed someone
its not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
talk to jesus christ as if he knows the reasons why; he did it all for you
he did it all for you
he did it all for you


Orestes
metaphor for a missing moment
pull me in to your perfect circle
one womb
one shape
one result
liberate this will
to release us all
gotta cut away, clear away
slip away and sever this
umbilical residue
keeping me from killing you
and from pulling you down with me
in here
i can almost hear you scream
one more medicated peaceful moment
one more medicated peaceful moment
and i don't wanna feel this overwhelming
hostility
don't wanna feel this overwhelming
hostility
gotta cut away
get away
slip away and sever this
umbilical residue
gotta cut away
get away
slip away and sever this
umbilical residue
keeping me from killing you
(slip away and sever this)
keeping me from killing you


Three Libras
threw you the obvious
and you flew with it on your back, a name
in your recollection
down, among a million, say:
difficult not to feel a little bit
disappointed, and passed over
but i look right through
see you naked but oblivious
and you don't see me
but i threw you the obvious
just to see if there was more behind the
eyes of a fallen angel
eyes of a tragedy
here i am expecting just a little bit
too much from the wounded
but i see
see through it all
see through
see you
cause i threw you the obvious to
see what occurs behind the
eyes of a fallen angel
eyes of a tragedy
oh well
oh well
apparently nothing
apparently nothing at all
you don't
you don't
you don't
see me
(repeat 3x)
you don't
see me, you...
you dont...
you dont see me at all


Sleeping Beauty
delusional
i believed i could cure it all
for you dear
coax or trick or drive or
drag the demons from you
make it right for you sleeping beauty
truly thought
i could magically heal you
you're far beyond a visible
sign of your awakening
failing miserably to rescue
sleeping beauty
drunk on ego
truly thought i could make it right if i
kissed you one more time to
help you face the nightmare but you're
far too poisoned for me
such a fool to think that i could wake you from your slumber
that i could actually heal you
sleeping beauty
poisoned and hopeless
far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
failing miserably to find a way to comfort you
far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
hiding from some poisoned memory
poisoned and hopeless
sleeping beauty


Thomas
humble and helpless
learning to pray
praying for visions
to show me the way
show me the way to forgive you
allow me to let it go
allow me to be forgiving
show me the way to let go
show me the way to forgive you
allow me to let it go
allow me to be forgiving
show me the way to let go
you made me yours
you made me
you pave the way
just praying for you to show me
where i'm to begin
come into
come [?]
come into
come into
come into [?] (repeated with [?])


Thinking of You
lying on [?]
unable to ease this [?]
sleepless, unable to focus on
anything but your surrender
eternal rhythm [?] vision that's my head
[?] to the side of your lying
[?] with a new understanding
[?]
unmistakable noise i was hearing
unmistakable sound I know so well
spin spin with a look in your eye
spin spin with a look on your face like
sweet revelation
sweet surrender
surrender
surrender
surrender
eternal rhythm [?] vision that's my head
[?] to the side of your lying
[?] with a new understanding
[?]
unmistakable noise i was hearing
unmistakable sound I know so well
spin [?] with a look in your eye
spin spin with a look on your face like
sweet revelation
sweet surrendering
sweet revelation
sweet
thinking of you
thinking of you
thinking
(repeat 20x)
sweet revelation
sweet surrendering
sweet revelation


Breņa
my reflection
wraps and pulls me under
clean me
waters to be bathed in Brena
guide me safely in 
worlds i've never been to 
heal me heal me 
my dear brena
vulnerable
but it's alright
heal me heal me 
my dear brena
show me lonely and
show me openings to 
bring me closer to you
my dear brena
vulnerable
but it's alright
opening to 
heal
opening to 
heal
heal
heal


Over
been over
been over this before
been over and over
been over this before
and over
and over this before
so over this
been over this
so over this
been over this
over this before





The Thirteenth Step

The Package Clever got me this far Then tricky got me in I am what I'm after I don't need another friend Smile and drop the cliche 'Till you think I'm listening I take just what I came for Then I'm out the door again Peripheral long the package Don't care to settle in Time to feed the monster I don't need another friend Comfort is a mystery Crawling out of my own skin Just give me what I came for, then I'm out the door again Lie to get what I came for Lie to get just what I need Lie to get what I crave Lie and smile to get what's mine I am what I'm after I don't need another friend Nod and watch your lips move If you need me to pretend Because clever got me this far Then tricky got me in I'll take just what I came for Then I'm out the door again Lie to get what I came for Lie to get what I need now Lie to get what I'm craving Lie and smile to get what's mine Give this to me Mine, mine, mine Take what's mine Mine, mine, mine Take what's mine Mine, mine, mine Lie to get what I came for Lie to get what I need now Lie to get what I'm craving Lie to smile and get what's mine Give this to me Take what's mine Mine, mine, mine Take what's mine Give this to me Take what's mine, take what's mine, mine... Take what's mine, take what's mine, take what's mine, This is mine, mine, mine [whispered] Weak and Powerless Tilling my own grave to keep me level Jam another dragon down the hole Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren One that pushes me along and leaves me so Desperate and Ravenous I'm so weak and powerless over you Someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of China White as Dracula as I approach the bottom Desperate and Ravenous I'm so weak and powerless over you Pale angel go away Come again some other day The devil has my ear today I'll never hear of what you say Promised I would find a little solace And some piece of mind Whatever just as long as I don't feel so Desperate and Ravenous I'm so weak and powerless over you Desperate and Ravenous I'm so weak and powerless over you The Noose So glad to see you well Overcome and completely silent now Without himself You cast your demons out And not to pull your halo down Around your neck and tug you off your cloud But I'm more than just curious How you're planning to go about Making your amends to the dead To the dead Recall the deeds as if They're all someone else's Atrocious stories Now you stand reborn before us all So glad to see you well And not to pull your halo down Around your neck and tug you to the ground But I'm more than just curious How you're planning to go about Making your amends to the dead To the dead With your halo slipping down Your halo slipping Your halo slipping down Your halo slipping down Your halo slipping down [repeated] Your halo slipping down to choke you now Blue I didn't want to know I just didn't want to know Best to keep things in the shallow end Cause I never quite learned how to swim I just didn't want to know Didn't want, didn't want, Didn't want, didn't want Close my eyes just to look at you Taken by the seamless vision I close my eyes, Ignore the smoke, Ignore the smoke Call it aftermath, she's turning blue Such a lovely color for you Call it aftermath, she's turning blue While I just sit and stare at you Because I don't want to know I didn't want to know I just didn't want to know I just didn't want Mistook their nods for an approval Just ignore the smoke and smile Call it aftermath, she's turning blue Such a lovely color for you Call it aftermath, she's turning blue Such a perfect color for your eyes Call it aftermath, she's turning blue Such a lovely color for you Call it aftermath, she's turning blue While I just sit and stare at you I don't want to know Vanishing Disappear Disappear Higher Higher Into the air Slowly disappear No, no longer here Disappear Disappear Thinner, thinner Into the air Never really here What that never Like a thought brushing up against a sigh Floating away Floating away [repeated] Vanishing like a cyan sunday Disappear Disappear Vanish, vanish into the air Slowly disappear Never really here Floating away Floating away [repeated] A Stranger Cast the calming apple Up and over satellites To draw out the timid wild one To convince you it's alright And I listen for the whisper Of your sweet insanity while I formulate Denials of your affect on me You're a stranger So what do I care You vanish today Not the first time I hear All the lies What am I to do with all this silence Shy away, shy away phantom Run away terrified child Won't you move away you ?? I'm better off without Tearing my will down The Outsider Help me if you can It's just that this is going away I want it so quickly please, Help me understand what I've given in to all the years And this darkness I have known Lying to myself again Suicidal imbecile Think about it, put it on the faultline What'll it take to get it through to you precious Come on to this, why do you wanna throw it away like this Such a bitch, why do I wanna watch you Disconnect and self destruct one woman at a time What's your rush now, everyone will have his day to die Medicated, drawn away, picture perfect, no more legiments Narcisistic, drawn away, craving fame and all this decadance Lying through your teeth again Suicidal imbecile Think about it, put it on the fautline What'll it take to get it through to you precious Come to this, why do you wanna throw it away like this Such a bitch, why do I wanna watch you Disconnect and self destruct one woman at a time What's your rush now, everyone will have his day to die They were right about you They were right about you Lying to my face again Suicidal imbecile Think about it put it on the fautline What'll it take to get it through to you precious Come on to this , why do you wanna throw it away like this Such a bitch, come to this, come to this Disconnect and self destruct, one woman at a time What's your hurry, everyone will have his day to die If you choose to pull the trigger, should your karma prove sincere, Do it somewhere far away from here Crimes One...two...three Four...five...six Seven...eight...nine Nine...nine...nine Ten...ten...ten...ten The Nurse Who Loved Me Say hello to the rug's topography It holds quite a lot of interest with your face down on it Say hello to the shrinking in your head You can't see it but you know its there so don't neglect it I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white She's got everything I need pharmacy keys She's falling hard for me I can see it in her eyes She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys Say hello to all the apples on the ground They were once in your eyes but you sneezed them out while sleeping Say hello to everything you've left behind It's even more a part of your life now that you can't touch it I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white She's got everything I need some pills and a little cup She's falling hard for me I can see it in her eyes She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys Pet Don't fret precious I'm here, step away from the window Go back to sleep Lay your head down child I won't let the boogeyman come Counting bodies like sheep To the rhythm of the war drums Pay no mind to the rabble Pay no mind to the rabble Head down, go to sleep To the rhythm of the war drums Pay no mind what other voices say They don't care about you, like I do, like I do Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils, See, they don't give a f**k about you, like I do. Just stay with me, safe and ignorant, Go back to sleep Go back to sleep Lay your head down child I won't let the boogeyman come Count the bodies like sheep To the rhythm of the war drums Pay no mind to the rabble Pay no mind to the rabble Head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums I'll be the one to protect you from Your enemies and all your demons I'll be the one to protect you from A will to survive and a voice of reason I'll be the one to protect you from Your enemies and your choices son They're one in the same I must isolate you Isolate and save you from yourself Swayin to the rhythm of the new world order and Count the bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum The boogeymen are coming The boogeymen are coming Keep your head down, go to sleep, to the rhythm of a war drum Stay with me Safe and ignorant Just stay with me Hold you and protect you from the other one The evil ones Don't love you son, Go back to sleep Lullaby Go back to sleep... Go back to sleep [whispered] Gravity Lost again Broken and weary Unable to find my way Tail in hand Dizzy and clearly unable to Just let this go I am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun I choose to live I fell again Like a baby unable to stand on my own Tail in hand Dizzy and clearly unable to just this go High and surrendering to the gravity and the unknown Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun I choose to live, I choose to live, I choose to live Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun Help me survive the bottom Calm these hands before they Snare another pill and Drive another nail down another Meaty hole please release me I am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun I choose to live, I choose to live

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