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01. Cavity - First Communion

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
Let's Skirt the issue of Discipline
Let's start an illusion
with hand and pen
Re-read the words and start again
Accept the gift of sin
The gift of ...
Pleasure is bleeding to smoother the words
The four walls drain me dry
Of all imagination
Crying out to be told to stand still
Crying out to be told to stand still
The price of red death
Is the price of true love
The black Queen jumps through my skin
The king of hearts is waiting
Close to home
Someone's shooting outside
Trigger finger itchy
Another moving target
Move blood on your Surplice
More blood for the price of red death
Nailing you to the wall
Nailing you to the Spanish Mystic
Nailing you to the wall
Three shots ring out to scream
Who wants to play Roman Soldier
That lives inside of me
Perennial Artist what do you see?
What do you see?
My secret fear of being alone
I sit and hold hands with myself
I sit and make love to myself
I've got blood on my hands
I've got blood on your hands
Blood on your hands
Blood

02. Figurative Theatre

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
In the shallow holes
Of a thousand eyes
In the knee-deep graves
Of future survivors
The fleshless guests live off
Children of the past
Their aging fingers cast the
Shadow of Death

Their razor sharp tongues
Invite to relax
As they slip the skin of your
Eyelids back
Invasive spectators
Get into the act

With roses and candles
Silver knives and spoons
Persona read women dance with
Priests on a side road
Your vision perspectives are
Turning to stone
Cabaret slide show starts
Shooting their loads
Act one is the end, the show
Now begins

Breath ballet prancers spin on
Porcelain backbone
A child's muddled cry turns into
Hilarity
Ungracious freeloaders leave their
Dead on a doorstep
Flowers of doom bloom in prosperity
Luxuries of past days are
Luxuries of our days
Luxuries of past days
Luxuries of our days

03. Burnt Offerings

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
Fresh night perfect insanity
Very dark placid skies bring an end
No moon shining like an untouched
Ass of the boy next door
Feeling the first impressions
Of a strange drug
Set the leathery skin of a female
Straddling a furnace
Illuminates in blue
Hands melt against it's surface
Feel no pain
Kiss the burner, lips fall away
Blood runs down insides
Of her thighs
She tightens her grip on one last
Exaggerated movement
Then falls to the ground
A pile of ashes
The furnace stands triumphant
Over the mound
The next in line, a young boy
Approaches
He is assaulted by the flames
Shooting out like sharp tongues
Of hungry animals
Of hungry animals
The disciple now crouches in
The belly of god
His second skin removed
The boy lay sodomized and tired

04. Mysterium Iniquitatis

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
Sevlesmeth pleh ohw esoht spelh dog
Sevlesmeth pleh ohw esoht spelh dog
Dog
Ereth si on ytic dog
Ereth si on ytic dog

It's Only Theatre of Pain
It's Only Theatre of Pain
It's Only Theatre of Pain
It's Only Theatre of Pain
Only Theatre of Pain
Only Theatre of Pain
Only Theatre of Pain
Only Theatre of Pain

Surrigate Mother
Surrigate Father
Uoy era ym olich
I am uoy
Uoy era em
I am uoy
Ouy era em, uoy era em

It's Only Theatre of Pain
It's Only Theatre of Pain
Only Theatre of Pain
Only Theatre of Pain

Peru resh!
Ahis zyxur li peru resh
Ahis zyxur li peru resh
Ahis zyxur li peru resh
Ahis zyxur li peru resh
Relficul

05. Dream For Mother

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
Dreaming about my mother dying
My mind is set at ease
Number the bodies in the mortal world
Spreading disease
Nodding acquaintances to be sure
Making 'Him' a household world

Introduce realism the eye of the beholder
Final resting place
Of many would be heroes
In New York Park after dark
The time of clinical death is fixed

Don't be frighten
Necrophiliac relationship
During the freezing process
Note the murders
Grisly attitude
Crossed above my head
To protect it from the rocks
Palliation from a weaker sex
Palliation from a weaker sex
I'm avoiding what i can see
I dreaming about her dying

06. Stairs - Uncertain Journey

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
Lucifer
Pereish I recall sin
Lucifer
Pereish I recall sin

Satan be
Satan be

This is the city of God
This is the city of God
Ereht is on ytic of Dog
Nmad eht eman of Dog
Ahis zyxur il
Ahis zyxur il
Ahis zyxur il
Ahis zyxur il

Pray to mother
Pray to father
Pray to mother
Pray to father
Satan be
Satan be Who art in Heaven
Satan be Hallowed be thy Name
Satan be Thy Kingdom Come
Satan be Thy will be done
Satan be on Earth
Satan be as it is in Heaven
Satan be
Satan be Gone

Lucifer
Pereish I recall sin
Lucifer
Pereish I recall sin
This is the city of God
Ereth si on
Ytic fo Dog

07. Spiritual Cramp

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
Incurable disease on the day of rest
Walking on water in a sea of incest
I've got an image of Jesus
Embedded on my chest
I can't leave home without my
Bullet proof vest
Killing myself for the perfect honeymoon
Fighting with scorpions tied around my neck
I hear the pitter patter
Of a killer on the loose
Children using their fingers instead of words
Crosses burn your temples
On slaughter avenue
It takes too much time to say 'I refuse'
Time is digging graves for the chosen few
Children dig graves for me and you
Describe the illness I'll prescribe the cure
Start your two day life
On a two day vacation
I've got a spiritual cramp going for my ribs
Those gangsters toting guns
Are shooting spikes through my wrist
Children using their fingers instead of words
Fingers bury children under the boards
I can die a thousand times
But I will always be here
With the power skull secrets
Of forgotten years
The hangman's noose is trenched
With bloodstains of tears
My hands are the killer that confirms
My tears
Jesus won't you touch me
Come into my heart
Where the Hell are you
When the fire starts?
On a mission of the father
To reduce the gates of hell
The ivory bone eyed mother's flesh
Is starting to swell
I'm setting twenty-two tables
For the funeral feast
Satan is by far the kindest guest

08. Romeo's Distress

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
Burning crosses
On a nigger's lawn
Burning dollars
What's a house without a home?
Dance in your white sheet glory
Dance in your passion
Talk about sugar on the six fingered beast
Conversation about the holes in your hands
Walk through the garden
Of men's desires
Conversation about
The kingdom of fire
What's that moving in the basement?
What's that moving in the attic
Who's that walking in the shadow
Who's that walking in the streets

Kiss on my hand
After dark
Kiss on my hand
After dark
Kiss on my hand

Romance in sequence
Harmful to the blind
Burning hearts
Through the top of your skull
Dance in your white sheet glory
Dance in your passion
Your days are numbered
With l,love in your eyes
Love?
Pull down the Sheets
Take off your clothes
Get out of bed
I'm so tired

09. Resurrection - Sixth Communion

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
The ceremony Cradles my head in trace
I brush dust from my teeth
Fleeing hands and spiders
Plead for salvation
They wash the clawed of a priest
Ritual mockery rectified doubt
I'm holding with arms open wide
Sleeping endless sleep
On a bed of nails
Wake me up with your kiss

I'm waiting for consummation
I'm waiting for contemplation
I'm waiting for confrontation
Waiting for a place to
Lay my body down

The proud encasing of another soul
Buried deep 'neath the shroud
Flourished with the venom
Of the serpent's son
I close my eyes retreat
The prayer hands lays down
On the edge of my sleep
Sister death in lepers's guise
Through crimson eyes
Of the holy one
All will learn to see

Invocations are invitations
To the bloody red sheets
The circle is broken
By the sleeve
A sacrifice of one

Resurrection- past reflection
Revelation- last discretion
Confession- confession
Incomplete
Resurrection

10. Prayer

Music by Christian Death
Lyrics by Rozz Williams
Fehtaf ruo
Nevaeh ni tra ohw
Eman yht yb dewollah
Omec modgnik yht
Enod eb lliw yht
Nevaeh ni si ti sa htrae no
Daerb yliad ruo yad siht su evig
Sessapsert ruo su evigrof dna
Su tsniaga ohw esoht evigrof ew sa
Noitatpmet otni ton su dael dna
Live morf su reviled tub, nema