A Perfect Circle - Judith

You're such an inspiration for the ways
That I will never, ever choose to be

Oh, so many ways for me to show you
How your savior has abandoned you

Fuck your God
Your Lord, your Christ, He did this
Took all you had and left you this way
Still you pray, you never stray, you never
Never taste of the fruit
Never thought to question why

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
Praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed
He did it all for you
He did it all for you

Oh, so many ways for me to show you
How your dogma has abandoned you

Pray to your Christ, to your God
Never taste of the fruit
Never stray, never break never
Choke on a lie!
Even though He's the one who did this to you
Never thought to question why

Not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ as if He knows the reasons why
He did it all for you, oh
He did it all for you, whoa
He did it all for you

A Perfect Circle - The Hollow

Run desire run

Sexual being

Run him like a blade

To and through the heart

No conscience

One Motive

Cater to the hollow

Screaming feed me here

Fill me up again

Temporarily pacify this hungering

So grow

Libido throw

Dominoes of indiscretions down

Falling all around

In cycles

In circles

Constantly consuming

Conquer and devour

Cause it's time to bring the fire down

Bridle all this indiscretion

Long enough to edify

And permanently fill this hollow

Screaming feed me here

Fill me up again

Temporarily pacifying

Feed me here

Fill me up again

Temporarily pacifying

A Perfect Circle - Orestes

Metaphor for a missing moment
Pull me into your perfect circle

One womb
One shape
One resolve

Liberate this will
To release us all

Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue that's
Keeping me from killing you

And from pulling you down with me in here
I can almost hear you scream

Give me
One more medicated peaceful moment
One more medicated peaceful moment

And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
Hostility
Because I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
Hostility

Gotta cut away
Clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
Gotta cut away
Clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue that's
Keeping me from killing you
Keeping me from killing you

A Perfect Circle - Rose

Don't disturb the beast
The tempermental goat
The snail while he's feeding on the Rose
Stay frozen, compromising
What I will, I am

Bend around the wind
Silently thrown about
Again I'm treading so
Soft and lightly
Compromising my will
I am

I am
I will
So no longer will I
Lay down
Play dead
Play your doe in the headlights
Locked down and terrified
Your deer in the headlights
Shot down and horrified when
Push comes to pull comes to shove
Comes to step around this self-destructing dance
That never would've ended
Til' I Rose,
I roared aloud here
I will
I am.

I am
I will
So no longer will I
Lay down
Lay dead
Play this
Kneel down
Gun-shy Martyr
Pitiful
I rose, I roared
I will
I am

A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras

Threw you the obvious
And you flew with it on your back
A name in your recollection
Down among a million same

Difficult not to feel a little bit
Disappointed and passed over
When I look right through,
See you naked but oblivious

And you don't see me

But I threw you the obvious
Just to see if there's more behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel,
Eyes of a tragedy

Here I am expecting just a little bit
Too much from the wounded
But I see, see through it all
See through, see you

'Cause I threw you the obvious
To see what occurs behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel,
Eyes of a tragedy

Oh well, oh well
Apparently nothing,
Apparently nothing at all

You don't, you don't
You don't see me

You don't, you don't
You don't see me

You don't, you don't
You don't see me

You don't, you don't
You don't see me

You don't see me

You don't, you don't
You don't see me at all