Amethyst Deceivers

Pay your respects to the vultures
For they are our future
Our fathers and mothers have
They have failed to release us
Into the welcoming arms
Of the amethyst deceivers

So pay your respects to the vultures
For they are your future
Our fathers and mothers have
They have failed to release us
Into the welcoming arms (repeated)
Of the amethyst deceivers (repeated)

So pay your respects to the vultures
For they are your future
Our fathers and mothers have
They have failed to release us
Into the welcoming arms (repeated)

So pay your respects (repeated)
To the vultures (repeated)

Are You Shivering?

(Brr-rr-rr-rr-rr)

Are you still shivering? Are you still cold?
Are you drowned in silver or are you bathed in gold?

This dream's my vitality
With threads as fine as a spider's web
They pour from your mouth
They pour from your mouth
Are you still shivering?
Are you still cold?

In the oceans of the moon
Swimming squidlike and squalid
This bright moon is a liquid
This dark earth is a solid
Are you loathsome tonight?
Does your madness shine bright?
Are you loathsome tonight?

Are you still shivering? Are you still cold?
Are you still shivering? Are you still cold?
Are you drowning in silver?
Are you drowning in silver?
I sit down and shiver in your silver river

Are you loathsome tonight?
Does your madness shine bright?
Are you loathsome tonight?

In the oceans of the moon
Swimming squidlike and squalid
This bright moon is a liquid
This dark earth is a solid

Bang Bang

Originally performed by Sonny & Cher.

He was five and I was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
And he wore black and I wore white
And he would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down

Seasons came and changed the times
When I grew up, I called him mine
And he would laugh and he would say
"Remember when we used to play?"

Bang bang, I shot you down
Bang bang, you hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, I used to shoot you down

Music played and people sang
Just for me the doorbell rang

And now he's gone, I don't know why
And till this day, sometimes I cry
He didn't even say goodbye
He didn't take the time to lie

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down

I Am Angie Bowie (Sine Waves)

I am Angie Bowie
I am Angie Bowie... no! (repeated)

I Don't Want to Be the One

And the tiredness is still here
And the tiredness is still real
And the tiredness

I don't want to be the one (repeated)
To find out why they came
To play their stupid vicious games
I don't want to be the one
I don't want to be the one
To spend my life looking back
To see the skies turn black
I don't want to be the one
I don't want to be the one

I don't want to be the one (repeated)

Last Rites of Spring

We are children
We are children
We are children
We are children of the dark sun
We are children
We are children
We are children of the black sun

We are children
We are children of the black sun
We are born
We are born
We are born under a black sun
We are children
We are children

And William Burroughs is hallucinating in space
And William Burroughs is hallucinating in space

Are we going in space?
Are we going in space?

And William Burroughs is hallucinating in space
The animal's saliva will survive
And the animal's saliva will survive
And the animal's saliva will survive
And the animal's saliva will survive
And as a human race
We are going deranged
We can be arranged
And the animal's saliva will survive

The saliva will survive
And the animal's saliva will survive
Saliva will survive
And the animal's saliva will survive (repeated)
And William Burroughs is hallucinating in space
And the animal's saliva will survive
And the animal's saliva will survive
And the animal's saliva will survive

And the spiral ??? will survive
...???...

And William Burroughs is hallucinating in space
And William Burroughs is hallucinating in space

Ostia

The introductory reading is an excerpt from an Italian poem, Una disperata vitalita (A Desperate Vitality) by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Quanto al futuro, ascolti: i suoi figli fascisti veleggeranno verso i mondi della Nuova Preistoria. Io me ne staro la, come colui che sta sulle rive del mare in cui ricomincia la vita. Solo, o quasi, sul vecchio litorale fra ruderi di antiche civilta, Ravenna Ostia o Bombay -- e uguale -- con Dei che si scrostano, problemi vecchi -- quale la lotta di classe -- che si dissolvono... Come un partigiano morto prima del maggio del '45, comincero piano piano a decompormi, nella luce straziante di quel mare, poeta e cittadino dimenticato.

Attempted translation: As to the future, listen: your fascist sons will sail to the worlds of New Prehistory. I will stay there, one who stays on the seashore where life begins again; alone, or almost, on the old coast among the ruins of ancient civilisation: Ravenna, Ostia, or Bombay, it makes no difference; with gods that lose its crust [?], old problems -- like the class struggle -- that dissolve away. Like a partisan killed before May '45, I shall begin to decompose, slowly, slowly, in the agonising light of that sea, a poet and a forgotten citizen.

There's honey in the hollows
And the contours of the body
A sickly golden river
A sticky golden trickle

You can hear his bones humming
You can hear his bones humming
Singing like a puncture

And the car reverses over
The body in the basin
The shallow sea-plane basin

Leon like a lion
Is sleeping in the sunshine
Lion lies down
Lion lies down

You can hear his bones humming
You can hear his bones humming

He said murder me
He said murder me in Ostia
He said murder me in Ostia
Then throw my bones over
The white cliffs of Dover

Leon like a lion
Is sleeping in the sunshine
And the lion lies down
Lay down with me, little lions
Lay down with me, little lions
Lay down with me, little lions
Lay down with me, little lions

Lay down with me, little lions
Lay down with me, you little lions
Lay down with me, little lions
Lay down with me, little lions

Lay down with me, little lions

An Unearthly Red

God told me to do it
God told me to do it
He said God told me to do it
God told me to do it
He said God told me to do it
He said God told me to do it
He said God told me to do it
He said God has told me to do it
He said God told me to do it
He heard messages from God
He heard messages from God
Oh, he heard messages from God
And God told him to do it
He says my father is God
He says my father is God
God is my father
My father is God
So he said God told me to do it
He said God told me to do it
God told me to do it
He said God told me to do it
My father is God
My father is God
My mother is a whore
My mother is a whore
He said God told me to do it (repeated)
My father is God
My father is God, ???
But my mother is a whore, ???
But my mother is a whore
She is the mother of all whores
And the President of America wakes up
With something dripping from his hands
Dripping an unearthly red
And is it dripping or only tripping?
Is he screaming or is he dreaming?
Is he screaming or is he dreaming?
Or is he tripping, or is he ripping?
Is he tripping, or is he ripping?
I don't know -- no!
Because God told him to do it
An unearthly red, an unearthly red
...???...
He's a liar, liar, liar
He's a liar, he's a liar (repeated)
'Cause he said God told me to do it
'Cause God told me to do it
He said God told me to do it
Swallow the Bible, swallow the Bible
Swallow the Bible
Tear a page out and swallow the Bible

He said, he said God told me to do it
Oh yes, he said God told me to do it
My mother is a whore
She is the mother of all wars
She said God told me to do it
She said God told me to do it
She said God told me to do it
...???...
My father is a whore
He caused the mother of all wars
My mother is a whore
She is the mother of all wars
She poured war milk on it (repeated)
My father is God
Oh what a burden: my father is God
But my mother is a whore
She is the mother of all battles
She'd infanticide for cattle
She'd infanticide for cattle
She should be locked inside with cattle
She should be locked inside with cattle
She should be locked inside with cattle
Yes, my mother is my ???
My father is God
My father is God... said my
But my mother is a whore
...???...
She is the mother of all wars
She is the mother of all wars
She is the mother (repeated)
She is the mother of all wars

The Universe is a Haunted House

No angels are here (repeated)

Whistle and I'll come to you my lad (repeated)

I am not here; I am there
I am not there (and the ambulance died at my feet); I am down here
And the ambulance died at my feet
Whistle and I'll come to you my lad
Whistle and I'll come to you my lad
And then the ambulance died at my feet
Whistle and I'll come to you my lad (repeated)
Whistle... whistle!
Whistle and I'll come to you my lad
Whistle and I'll come to you my lad
Whistle and I'll cut you with a knife
Listen, I will fuck you with a knife
Listen and I'll fuck you with a knife
(cough)
Listen and I'll fuck you with a knife
Listen and I'll fuck you with a knife
Listen, I will fuck you with a knife
Whistle and I will fuck you with a knife
Whistle
Whistle and I'll come to you my lad

Whistle and I'll fuck you with a knife!
Whistle and I'll fuck you with a knife!
Whistle and I'll cut you my lad

Don't have to say it
Between all of our sins
I don't have to say it
I put liquid LSD in my eye
I put liquid LSD in my eye
I put liquid LSD in my eye
Whistle and I'll come to you my lad
Whistle I will come
Listen I will come (repeated)
To put liquid LSD in your eye (repeated)

Gold is the sky in concentrate
Power in its purest state
I put liquid LSD in your eye
Power is, gold is
The metal with the broadest shoulders
The metal with the broadest shoulders
The metal with the tallest orders
The metal with the broadest shoulders

A Warning from the Sun

The sun is coming
The dragon flies
His breath will drown
This world with astral fire
(repeated)

The sun is coming (repeated)