- 23 Beers
She gropes the midget's dick with her lobster claw
The Devil disappeared into the monster's maw
A damsel in distress dissected with a saw
I always thought I was a seer, but now I've seen it all.
Now I lay me down to sleep, caught high and by the deep
Script to the sea wall, three sheets to the wind
Twenty-three beers and a bottle of gin.
- Acrophelia's Lament
There, the trout cavort with butterflies on pins
And mummies try to cheer me with their rictus grins
As pickled punks stare through the junk, he mounts a cat with fins
Does he notice, there beneath my dusty skin
The warmth glowing within?
Mermaids, hideous, scream their lust through lips sealed with twine
Can he turn to me if it proves in the end
Things with flippers and fins make untrustworthy friends?
- Charmed, I'm Sure
Like shadows on a silver screen
We're drinking rum and kerosene
You are polite and I'm obscene
I'm very pleased to meet 'cha
I'm very pleased to meet 'cha
We'll drink your blood and use your bones
To build Geodesic Domes
- Come to the Circus
Come to the circus while you can,
We've got a grand disaster planned.
Its sure to stimulate your glands,
So pop your pooper in the stands.
Well step inside our circus tent,
You'll wonder where your money went.
You want to see the circus freak?
- Hoochie Coochie Girls
We are the hoochie coochie girls
From all around the world
Watch them as they dance across the floor
And if you have the courage
And you could spare a dime
These girls will keep you coming back for more
Murder murder every day
- Hot Potato
Playin' hot potato with a hand grenade
Shakin' like a leaf on a tree
you can see my blow myself to smithereens
Oh look it's raining pieces of me
Oh look up in the sky
It's a hole about the size of Texas
Oh fuck it's the end of the world
And don't you come a-crawlin' to me
- If I told you once
If I told you once I told you a thousand times, my dear
Never to fall in love with a man who drinks from the well of despair
I thought from the very start I’d made it quite clear, I fear
Now you’re wretchedly fucked as you swing from a rope
At the top of the stairs
If I told you once, I told you twice
I was held in the grip of incurable vice
- July Like a Dog
As I held secrets and most of them yours
As you led me to water in the company of whores.
Your honey-tongue dripped from the lies that you've told
And I hope that you die in great pain when you're old.
The windows were steaming and your body was spent
And you thought that I had no idea where you went.
But the sheep smelled like semen and none of it mine
- Marshmallows and a Holy Bible
Welcome Lords and Ladies; Tarts and Trollope; Friars and Flagellants
As we open this glorious season of killing, in Jesus name.
Reach into the Crypt, for there your future lies
Free you from your past, and all your human ties
Happy little larval friends will dine upon your skin.
We'll pocket your gold teeth before we notify your kin.
Bury you beneath the shade of the old hanging tree.
- Pink Elephants On Parade
Look out! Look out!
Pink elephants on parade
Here they come!
Hippety hoppety
They're here and there
Pink elephants ev'rywhere
Look out! Look out!
They're walking around the bed
- Wicked Fascinations
Welcome to our wicked little fascinations
Right on time to join us for the ride
We've devised an antiquated machination
Oddities await so won't you kindly step inside?
We're inclined towards sybaritic exultation;
You might find you'll have us for the night.
Fall in line, we'll administer inoculations