The Scriptures Of Illumina (Ka-Spel, Edward)
@ (c)1995, Terminal Kaleidescope #888
@ Transcribed by $aint @ndrew and Jon Whitney for cloud-zero
Killer bees patrolled the border, Mad Dog Caesar rolled the dice, they
seized control while we were sleeping, glued pitch black patches on our
eyes. If seeing you is loving you, I think I'll tear out both my eyes.
I'm happy on this private island, the only place I have to hide. We huddle
close, we're wearing muzzles, we carry crosses nine to five. And though
we roll in black sand blisters, somehow we just stay alive. It's in their
interest but I haven't figured out the reason why and if I did I'd keep it
quiet cos black is white and truth is lies. In this place called Illumina
the white light never fades. Oh, Illumina my door is open, I'm nervous in
the shade. In this place called Illumina the white light never fades. Oh,
Illumina my door is open, I'm nervous in the shade.
Speech: Breakfast is served at the monument at precisely 5:05. Not a
second earlier, not a second later. A neon light flashes 'EAT - DON'T
TALK.' It's blazing above our heads. Just as if we'd never seen it
before, if we'd actually needed to be reminded. We don't want to be
reminded. A friend of mine once whispered out, hinting somehow the food
seemed better one morning. They took him away, they strapped him to the
chair. They put electrodes in his head and they illuminated him and his
eyes would turn into bright bright candle like messages that flashed and
flashed, "I talked, I did not eat. I am a reminder." I am a constant
reminder of how you should behave. I am a constant reminder of the
priviliges of being obedient at all times. We must fade out, out.
We called it Operation Friendly because the victims were restricted.
Nothing got beyond the fence, the gifted were extracted. For the greater
good we kept it classified. We filed survivors under S, ran some tests, I
served the finest medication. I watched them laugh themselves to death.
It makes a tidy end. We called them Holy Mercy candies cause it's Christ
who buys the wine. He slowly runs his finger down the perforated spine.
He takes the time to listen carefully. Your pain drifts away, your pain
drifts away. I should know it was me who ran the tests, watched you laugh
yourself to death. It makes a tidy end. The jury all wore clothes-pins,
the judge was unimpressed. There simply was no punishment devised to suit
the hellish inner squirms of the one called Dr. Bliss. So they locked him
in his playpen where he's busy playing chess with Napoleon. I stand here
unimpressed. But I shall laugh myself to death cause it makes a tidy end.
It makes a tidy end.
All the world's a stage - you failed the first audition. Doomed to walk
the wings beyond my vision. Send in the hand. I tried to understand. I
tried to find the man behind the mouse, the sleeping lion just was not
there. I screamed, I shook you, I shot you twice, you apologized. That's
why Jack's a dull boy.
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Jenny danced with Joey on the table when the jukebox played their tune.
He'd kiss her navel, she'd swoon like Isadora. Hit the floor. The
special room would saw clean through the gates of old Gomorrha. Oh, they
never saw us watching, clapping, gnawing, snapping, clawing through the
jungle, twisted arms and knotted legs. And that for every secret wish you
slept with. Down in Lazy Lover's Leap I took a seat inside a cubicle. I
peeked at you, watched movies starring meecey films of you. See me, see
you, we are everything, we're nothing. Wish I had another coin. The star
attraction of this evening is a ceiling full of holes. The thrusted Brits
on a pole, and all the bodies I've lusted for line up. I'm transparent.
No one sees the hunger in my eyes. No, no one sees the hunger in my eyes.
If every dream's a growing seed, I will not sleep in your dimension.
[voice with distortion]
I bleeded for my purple card, I didn't have a stamp so I pleaded for my
stamp, I didn't have a card. And everywhere I traveled faces turned and
turned away. Yes I cleared the shopping malls, I watched them slowly
climb the walls dive head first in the river, one by one. I'm the never
man, the man without a face without a number. I strolled into the movies,
turned a camera on myself. I screened my never profile coast to coast. I
fantasized the countdown and a melt down. {14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0} Now I'm walking through the ghosts but no they don't see
me. They don't see each other. They're the never men and no they don't
see me. (Never never never man.) They don't see each other. (The never
man.) I'm the never man, the man without a face without a number. No one
knows the number that sits proudly on the front of heaven's door. The
never man. Run away, run away. Never meant to be. Run!
Lost in light to face the far side. Touch me. Kissed by time. Still
young enough to fly. Touch me. The stars seem closer tonight. If I had
hands, well I'd surely dig them. If I had ears I'd steal your thunder.
Just give me life. I will roll through famine fields on giant wheels.
I'll sprinkle, heal, I'll give you back the day. Just touch me.
Play it, play it then behave. Oh yessiree, we have the chains. Now
here's the instructions: Thou shalt rave, Thou shalt give us more Marias.
For our lady, she is fertile. Our lady, she sells, and we can smell that
pot of silver. It is waiting maybe you can have some here, here. But
play it, play it one more time again, again, again, again. A thousand
times come out from that shadow boys. It's kind of hard to hear you
through that god awful fucking noise. They have trouble selling accidents
like this. Oh play it, play it, play it one more time, one more time. I
wish they all were virgins, oh they've been screwing us for years. They
wish that they were virgins, screwing us for years. You Wish you were a
virgin, you've been screwing us for years.
Killer bees besieged the border, evil warders rolled the bees. The eyes
of wise guys, slick reporters now hanging from the Judas tree. The TV
screen is scrambled and the radio's jammed but I dutifully follow orders
cause you never can, you never can. Who slinks through the cracks across
my wall, who listens for my footsteps as night falls, who amplifies the
sighs, the curses, fantasizes all the worst things. And I'd rather be a
gray man than the great pretender shouting at the moon. Ah, the moon.
They switch it off at night because it isn't square. And I'd like to
think back to those midnight walks with you but I don't dare. I guess that
knowing you is loving you so I'll simply change the channel. I'll wipe a
cold flannel across my face. I'll watch that space. I'll watch that
scrambled space and think of nothing just in case they're watching,
prying, tapping, probing, watching, prying, tapping, probing, watching,
prying, tapping, probing. Sure thing nothing's sacred in this place they
call Illumina. Our Illumina. The door is open. I'm nervous in the shade
oh Illumina.
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