On lead poisoned wings, you try to sing
Freak beak shrieks are thrown at your confusing hue
The peacock screaming eyes show no mercy oh, oh no mercy
Painted bird, it's absurd
Just a tainted bird hurting their twisted nerve
Painted bird, it's absurd
Just a tainted bird hurting their twisted nerve
The flock will make you choke on this sadistic joke
And the whippoorwills they make a din
In laughing unison, you're Hitchcock carrion
In laughing unison, you're Hitchcock carrion
Carry on
Painted bird, it's absurd
Just a tainted bird hurting their twisted nerve
Painted bird, it's absurd
Just a tainted bird hurting their twisted nerve
I hear your sorrow, may lose tomorrow
You'll lose you sorrow
When a fated weather will cleanse away
That painted feather and all that sorrow, sorrow, sorrow
A coquette in fur purr for the painted bird
Confound that dowdy flock with a sharp honed nerve
Because we're painted birds by our own design
By our own design, oh there's no more sorrow, sorrow, sorrow
Have you heard about the painted bird
Just a tainted bird hunting their twisted nerve
We've lost our sorrow, now it's tomorrow, tomorrow
No need to hide your feather under a fated weather
No more sorrow, sorrow
We've lost our sorrow
Now we're painted birds
Mocking that twisted nerve
It's absurd, it's absurd, painted bird
You are the melting men
You are the situation
There is no time to breathe
And yet one single breath
Leads to an insatiable desire
Of suicide... in sex
So many blazing orchids
Burning in your throat
Making you choke
Making you sigh
Sigh in tiny deaths
So melt!
My lover, melt!
She said melt!
My lover, melt!
You are the melting men
And as you melt
You are beheaded
Handcuffed (in lace and blood and sperm)
Swimming in poison
Gasping in the fragrance
Sweat carves a screenplay
Of discipline...and devotion
So melt!
My lover, melt!
She said melt!
My lover, melt!
Can you see?
See into the back of a long, black car
Pulling away from the funeral of flowers
With my hand between your legs
Melting...
Oh the air was shining
Shining like a wedding ring
Barbed like sex
I felt 10,000 volts
My chest was full of eels
Pushing through my usual skin
I opened up new wounds
Pouting, shouting
Oh love - like liquid falling
Falling in cascades
Oh love-lorn victims laughing
Laughing in cascades
The sun was rich
Rich with a song of sin
My breath melted my words
Into strange alphabets
Tormenting my tongue
Pouting, shouting
The heartbeats were echoing
Echoing the revolver
Emptying into my mouth
I pulled a face from my pocket
And smiled a leper's grin
I felt somebody close
Pouting, shouting
Do you hear this breath?
It's an obsessive breath
Can you feel this beat?
It's an obsessive heart beat
Waiting to be joined with its obsession
I close my eyes
But I can't sleep
The thin membrane can't veil
The branded picture of you
The signs and signals show
The traffic lights say go
Again you baffle me
Pretending not to see me
I broke into your room
I broke down in my room
Touched your belongings there
And left a lock of my hair
Another sign for you
You screamed into my face
Get the hell out of my place
Another sign for me?
Can you forgive me?
For not understanding your ways
You know sometimes you take it all too far
Then i remember it's a game between you and me
A divine test for us two
It's all in my imagination
Yes they even say that our mission
Is only my obsession
Do you hear this breath?
It's an oppressive breath
Suffocating in the poison of your obsession
can you feel this beat?
It's a possessive beat
Your pulse stops in the claws of your obsession
The signs and signals show
The traffic lights say go
Again you baffle me
Pretending not to see me
