GALLOWS LYRICS

1. Mystic Death

You need to be afraid. As life's luxe dulls everyone leaves.
We'll have found our place. Gone together under the waves.
She will be my name. You mean nothing to me.
She will be my llame. You mean nothing.
Even bad dreams are too good, they're too good.
Even bad dreams are too good, too good for you.
Even bad dreams are too good, they're too good.
Even bad dreams are too good, too good for you.
You need to be afraid. Desolation will be your godhead.
fve been promised heaven before. All the colours in the darkness.
Crawl back inside her. With love that's shattered.
Crawl back inside her. With love that's cold.
Even bad dreams are too good, they're too good.

Even bad dreams are too good, too good for you.
Even bad dreams are too good, they're too good.
Even bad dreams are too good, too good for you.

Cut the chord. Walk into the sky.
Like a world I've never known. It's all there when l close my eyes.
And what's left mirrors what went before.

And what's left mirrors what went before.
And what's left mirrors what went before.
And what's left mirrors what went before.

Mystic Death comes for us all. Mystic Death, Mystic Death comes for us all.
Even bad dreams are too good, they're too good.
Even bad dreams are too good, too good for you.
Even bad dreams are too good, they're too good.
Even bad dreams are too good, too good for you.

2. Desolation Sounds

At the edge of the water. At the foot of the hills.
Fogs claws at the mountain. And the passing ships.
If desolation were a sound, I've heard it
Trample the tall grass. Let distance darken my skin.
Swim in grey oceans. That end where they begin.
If desolation were a sound, I've heard it
There's hope in desolation. It's a familiar sound.
There's hope in desolation. Black boots on the pavement.
Under the midnight sun. Older than imagination.
Savage as can be. If desolation were a sound, I've heard it.
There's hope in desolation. It's a familiar sound.
There's hope in desolation.
There's mercy after all. There's mercy after all.
There's hope in desolation. It's a familiar sound.
There's hope in desolation. It's a familiar sound.
There's hope in desolation. It's a familiar sound.
There's hope in desolation.

3. Leviathan Rot

Let this circle represent the other sun.
Eclipse the light that surrounds us.
Fall through shadow across the sky.
Practice eternity until dawn arrives.
In the shadow of the cataract city.
Fucking up the atmosphere. Their knives below the water.
Just like I'd always feared. Lost in her snowy complexion.
Numb to her artless touch. Searching for a little hell.
Up in her guts. Life's as cheap as you want to make it.
In the cloak our hands created.
Life's as cheap as you want to make it.
In the cloak our hands created.
Let leviathan rot. Eclipse the light surrounding me.
The stations of the upside down cross.
Life's beauty is its decay. Let leviathan rot.

4. Chains

North thaws, South disappears, East vanishes, West fades.
Cut the love out of my days. You'd see me in chains.
North thaws, South disappears, East vanishes, West fades.
Draw down the moon and walk away. You'd see me in chains.

l don't need another violent summer.
l don't need another violent summer.
l don't need another violent summer.
l don't need another violent summer.

Of sham youth, sham art, sham revolution, sham hearts, sham love, sham death,
sham lives, sham sex, sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll.

North thaws, South disappears, East vanishes, West fades.
Draw down the moon and walk away.
You'd see me in chains.

ln chains, you'd see me in chains.
ln chains, you'd see me in chains.

l don't need another violent summer of sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll.
l don't need another violent summer of sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll.
l don't need another violent summer of sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll.
l don't need another violent summer of sham rock and roll, sham rock and roll.

5. Bonfire Season

Time to shed my skin, It's time to shed my skin.
The shrines we built we must transcend. It's time to shed my skin.
Hang it from the trees, hanging from the trees.
Their arms reach out and haunt the streams.
Hanging from the trees.
Burning like a bonfire until there's nothing left.
I'm losing my desire to be in love with death.
Leave it all behind, I leave it all behind.
For the slow kiss of the lashing tides. I'd leave it all behind.
That's where it ends, that's where it ends.
Handcuffs and hospital beds, that's where it ends.
Burning like a bonfire until there's nothing left.
I'm losing my desire to be in love with death.
Burning like a bonfire until there's nothing left.
I'm losing my desire to be in love with death.
The snake eats its tail, the snake eats its tail.
It's silent and slow behind the veil.
The snake eats its tail, the snake eats its tail.
The snake eats its tail. It's silent and slow behind the veil.
The snake eats its tail. Burning like a bonfire until there's nothing left.
I'm losing my desire to be in love with death.
Burning like a bonfire until there's nothing left.
I'm losing my desire to Be in love with death.

6. Leather Crown

Prayer wheels keep spinning and pagan blood returns.
Haunted by visions of crawling death the invisible worm.
With a look so gone and a mask so spectral.
We both know what's behind the green door of a life that's spent so reckless.
Goddamn the day I was born.
I've been patient for too long.
Goddamn it all, Goddamn it all.
Goddamn the day l was born.
I've been patient for too long now.
Dreams of the pentagram while I'm inside her.
Leather crown upon her head unforgettable and frightening.
A symbol of well being drawn on to her skin.
Held my spirit in her hands. I should have seen the omen.
Goddamn the day l was born. I've been patient for too long.
Goddamn it all, Goddamn it all. Goddamn the day I was born.
I've been patient for too long now. The widening circles of her desire seeking out new flesh.
Cut off from her nirvana a vision of regret.
Only sinking deeper into waters of lust.
Sold into captivity with no one left to trust.
Goddamn the day l was born.
I've been patient for too long.
Goddamn it all, Goddamn it all. Goddamn the day I was born.
Goddamn it all, Goddamn it all.

7. 93/93

I strike the bell. I light the flame. There is no grace.
There is no guilt. This is the law. Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love is the law. Love under will and that's all.
Love is the law, love is the law. Love under will and that's all.

Behold this bleeding breast of mine. Gashed will the sacramental sign.
I strike the bell. I light the flame. There is no grace. There is no guilt.
This is the law. Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love is the law.
Love under will and that's all. Love is the law, love is the law.
Love under will and that's all. Bring me though midnight to the sun.
Love is the law, love is the law. Love under will and that's all.
Love is the law, love is the law. Love under will and that's all.

8. Death Valley Blue

We are both prisoners. We want, we want, we want, we want.
To make our escape. We are both refugees.
We hope, we hope, we hope, we hope. To someday find our place.
Let it go and disappear. If they don't return baby I'll he here.
In the end I'd die for you. I'm born again death valley blue.
Let it go and disappear. If they don't return baby I'll be here.
In the end I'd die for you. I'm born again death valley blue.
We are both atheists. We pray, we pray, we pray, we pray.
We'll never feel his grace. We are both nihilists.
Our world, our world, our world, our world. Is void and space.
Let it go and disappear. If they don't return baby I'll be here.
In the end I'd die for you. I'm born again death valley blue.
Let it go and disappear. If they don't return baby I'll be here.
In the end I'd die for you. I'm born again death valley blue.
Let it go and disappear. If they don't return baby I'll be here.
In the end I'd die for you. I'm born again death valley blue.
Let it go and disappear. If they don't return baby I'll be here.
In the end I'd die for you. I'm born again.

9. Cease To Exist

You are the forest I'm lost in the trees.
The cold ground trembles beneath our feet.
The world's wide void in the curve of her breast.
Endless beaches through the tears on her dress.

If I told you this was killing me would you stop.
If I told you this was killing me would you stop.
If I told you this was killing me would you stop.
If I told you this was killing me would you stop killing me.

The low sun hides the last house on the lane.
Gathering darkness like there's no other way.
I'll make you a mother light up the abyss.
In dreaming meadows I cease to exist.

If I told you this was killing me would you stop.
If I told you this was killing me would you stop.
If I told you this was killing me would you stop.
If I told you this was killing me would you stop killing me.
If I told you this was killing me would you stop.
If I told you this was killing me.

10. Swan Song

I arranged it all in my head. I'd write silences from here on out.
One last trip across the expanse. It would come to an end.
Spells still assembled in my mind. They were different now.
The alchemy was in the words.
The routine of chaos had diminished and died.
Gold for bondage.

They'll be no swan song just a light to guide you through the snow.
They'll be no swan song just a night when you're truly lost

I had already sang the night. The magick of it all had left me.
I was lost in myself. I crawled out of its dripping jaws too many times.
Gold for bondage.

They'll be no swan song just a light to guide you through the snow.
They'll be no swan song just a night when you're truly lost.
The night came where I was lost. And no longer knew who I was.





GALLOWS LYRICS