1. |
Worm's Dream
01:13
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Lifeless, strung out
On the pavement
I had only
Just killed
The worm
London was a
Hollowed bombshell
Children playing
In the rubble
Where the Worm had
Thrown up its tail
People crawled out
In their millions
From the belly
Of the pink thing
They had dreamt a
Way to survive
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2. |
Wyrmlands
03:51
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The Worm is here!
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This is Wyrmlands
Population: you
Worm Country
This time
I know things are ‘gonna get bad
Grab the women, make them make fast
To the tunnels with the children and the rats
This time
I know things are ‘gonna be worse
Than the last time when they caught us
At St. Pancras, with our pants down, acting ‘sus
Remy talked just like the others
And Tommy was the undercover
Some men are strong, some men are weak
The more they look, the less they see:
Livestock hanging from the cranes
Dancing dogs that talk like men
Talking of their higher needs
A woman’s touch, a vulture’s beak
I am god, a child
Cut by his own hands
With a scythe of rib
From the great Worm of our lands
This is Wyrmlands!
The ground just fell beneath my feet
And there I was, amongst the worms
I watched them as they fucked each other
In the mud
And it felt just like looking in the mirror
For the first time in my life
I knew what I was and I cried
Why am I pink?! Why am I blind?!
Why do I writhe inside this body?!
Oh!
But if my childhood me
Would bear a grudge
For the man I grew up to be
Kill him - he knows too much
This is Wyrmlands motherfucker!
And we don’t do that shit round here
Not back in Wyrmlands -
Whisht! Lads, haad yor gobs
An Aa'll tell ye's aall an aaful story
Whisht! Lads, haad yor gobs
An' Aa'll tell ye 'boot the Worm
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3. |
The End Is Now
03:58
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I was born in the War of the Worms
At the fall of the vertebrate government
There were men burning holes in the earth
And they woke up the god in the sediment
Hey, hey hey! I fade away!
And when it rains -
That’s when the King comes up to ground
And when the earth begins to shake!
We all know the End Is Now!
There’s a fire in this house
It’s burning down
Leave without a sound
There’s a fire in this house
Burn me - Inside Out!
I was lost, I was based, out of space
Being chased by the men in the countryside
- That’s life -
You were torn, carving holes in your side
Try’na find a way to cut out the parasite
Hey, hey hey!
And we were betrayed -
By the men who traded spines
To join the Worm King’s cavalcade
The End Is Now
There’s a fire in this house
It’s burning down
Leave without a sound
There’s a fire in this house
Burn me inside out!
This is not your world!
Yeah! Come on -
Dream!
Yeah! Come on - dream!
Dream another world!
Cos I’m a -
Wormchild!
Let me tell you about how I became..
Yeah!
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4. |
Days
04:29
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Days
Haven’t left the bed in weeks
Every time I fall asleep
I only see your face
Haven’t seen your face in years
Every time I reach for you
It disappears
Seasons come and die
Today the sun shines through my window blinds
Tomorrow it will rise
As surely as you will forget me
And when it rains
I waste away
Praying you won’t leave me in the morning
Promised I would learn to let you go in time
I can’t let you walk away
I can’t watch you fall away
And so I feed your ghost
Talking in my sleep
I don’t want to face the days
I don't want to ever wake
And so I feed your ghost
Keep it close to me
It’s you, it’s you, it’s you
It’s you, you, it’s you
Haunt me ‘til my dying days
Have I told you, darling -
You’re the ghost I fear the most
Stay and never leave
I remember yesterday
Torquay Harbour in the rain
But all the while the thing
Was growing deep in me
It’s eating me,
Still eating me
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
Not today
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5. |
Saddest Worm Ever
05:30
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Power gets you high! Power gets you high!
Power gets you high! Power gets you high!
Such a small affair…
Like a gun to the head
Maybe next time
You won’t let me fail you twice
You will dance me to my deathbed
Like a gun to the head
Like a gun to the head
Maybe next time
You won’t let me fail you twice
You will dance me to my deathbed
Oh no,
You’ve been letting me down
You’ve been letting me down
All this time
My my oh my
What a sad little life
We lead - don’t we?
Can’t even say we tried
Do you remember when we had -
Almost nothing to lose
And you said that was real freedom -
For it was freedom to choose
How to fill all the hours
How to spend all the days
But you found it too much
And it made you afraid
So you work and you slave
And you save for a sunny day
Like a gun to the head
Like a gun to the head
Maybe next time
You won’t let me fail you twice
You will dance me to my deathbed
Like a gun to the head
Like a gun to the head
Maybe next time
You don’t have to tell me twice, and
You will dance me to my deathbed
Like a gun to the head
And in a manner of speaking
Speaking - for the final time
You had me, and lost me
Why was I surprised?
But when I first saw the news
Saw the injured and dead
And I knew it was you
From the second I read
That the suspect was found
With a worm crawling from her mouth
And a gun to the head
Here Henry Lies
Where do we go when die?
Will there be an afterlife?
Or will worms eat us in our deathbeds?
Power gets you high!
Power! Power! Power! Power!
You my boy!
I’m crawling round your body now
My worm child
Ho yay! Ho yay!
All good citizens of Wyrmlands!
Harken unto these words!
The Worshipful Worm has commanded that I make known unto you
That henceforth, the crimes of grunting and consuming worms
Under the flag of Henry Spychalski’s so called Grunter Rebels
Will be sentenced to death by public execution in the town square!
Eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat
Flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh
Cow, chicken, pig, human!
Cow, chicken, pig, human!
What’s the difference? What’s the d-
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6. |
Liverpool Street
04:55
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Dear listener
Mister Henry Spychalski is exhibiting extremely volatile behaviour
There is a confluence of long standing abandonment and rejection issues
With mythological and quasi-biblical delusions
Expressed in long, rambling narratives
[Hoo! Ha! To the - door!]
Punctuated by song and dance
Apart from the standard diagnoses of narcissism, depression and acute psychosis
I believe that the incident that we refer to as ‘The Event’
Has triggered a dissolution of the distinction
Between symbolic and real figures in his mind
Where’d you go?
Sometimes
I catch
Myself
Falling
Backwards
To where
We said
Goodbye
On the concourse
Running late for
Your plane just like
Always, always
I don’t notice
My tears til the
Ticket man asks
Am I okay
When the smoke clears
And the doors close
Wave to me from
The train windows
I’ll call your name
For the last time
I will love you
Til my last breath
And in death I will go
To the church where me made
Vows that we couldn’t keep
While the children we made
Held the train of your dress
Off the dust on the floor
There where happiness lives
I will sleep forever more
Lover, hold me
Memory, haunt me
Take me back to
Liverpool Street
By the time you hear these words
Maybe I’ll be over you
Until then, I’ll wait for you
With unshakeable patience
I’ll wait where you left me -
By the trains
At Liverpool Street station
It is most likely in this petri dish
That the Worm was born
Patient strongly believes -
And is perhaps correct in believing -
That he’s the only one capable of killing the worm
and that this is a necessity for salvation
He made the Worm
He has to kill the Worm
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7. |
The Worm
05:17
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Henry! Henry! Henry!
Today I proclaim that a worm has swallowed England!
And despite what you have been told
It is not of a face, nor spine, nor legs
It does not want your jobs, your women, or your cattle sheds
The Worm lives deep within yourselves!
And you live deep within the Worm!
Hatred is the Worm!
Envy is the Worm!
Ego is the Worm!
We’ll break God’s rib
To make a scythe
To carve our way out of his cage into the light!
And very soon, no crops could grow, nor seeds be sewn
And all the while, the acid in the belly rose and rose and rose
When you meet the Worm
You must kill the Worm
We were born deep
In the belly
Of a great worm
Of a worm that swallows worlds!
Of a worm with no way out!
There’s a worm in - everybody
And we’re living - in the belly
Of a worm inside the man!
And the man’s inside the Worm!
Father, are we wretched?
Are men no more than just worm gods?
Aren’t our bodies like theirs -
Soft and pink and feeding off the
Corpse of the earth?
We are Worm God!
We are Worm God!
Man is Worm God!
And if you meet the Worm on the road to the promised land
You must kill the Worm
We were born deep
In the belly
Of a great worm
Of a worm that swallows worlds!
Of a worm with no way out!
There’s a worm in - everybody
And we’re living - in the belly
Of a worm inside the man!
And the man’s inside the Worm!
I cross my heart and hope to die
I tie the rope and hope it works this time
It looks just like the worm that’s haunted me
Through all my life
And my life
Flashed before my eyes -
I was a just child
I was playing football with my father in the garden
I could hear my mother calling us for tea
I kicked and then
The ground just fell beneath my feet
And I saw worms -
We were born deep
In the belly
Of a great worm
Of a worm that swallows worlds!
Of a worm with no way out!
Of a worm called Capital!
Kill yourself to
Kill the Worm inside you
Die a man
Or live to see
Yourself become a worm god like me!
(A cacophony of maggots)
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8. |
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In a dream you found a way
Saw your chance to start again
No more living day by day
No more running from the rain
In a dream you found a way
In a dream you found a way
To survive!
Dream another world!
Dream another life!
Dream it all away!
Dream it never ends - dream!
You must not sacrifice your children to Moloch!
You must not sacrifice your children to the Worm!
You must not allow yourself to be a passenger
In someone else’s dreams!
For you will live to see another land!
And you will live to walk another road!
You will live to drink from the well of human kindness!
Drink, child, drink!
And you will find a way!
Everything will find a way!
Everything will find a way - to survive!
Lord! Fill me with your love
I’ll open myself up
But lord tell me why,
Why you never just gave me a sign?
Tell me how to keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Dream another world child!
Dream another life child
Dream a pair of wings!
Dream you never wake - up!
And together the ants will conquer the elephant!
Together man walking hand in hand will conquer the worm!
Set fire to this cathedral of hatred!
That we lust!
At the top of the world!
For you are an architectural model of an angel!
Yes! You are Jesus Christ walking on the water!
Dream another world!
Dream another life!
And you will find a way!
Everything will find a way!
Everything will find a way - to survive!
Lord! Fill me with your love
I’ll open myself up
But lord tell me why
Why you never just gave me a sign?
Tell me how to keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Without judgement
Without judgement
Without judgement
Without judgement
Lord!
I know you’re gonna save me - oh Lord!
I know you’re gonna save my soul!
I know you’re gonna save me - oh Lord!
You are an architectural model for something beyond yourself
You are not an angel
You are not infinite
Your feet will blister from the walk to the well of human kindness
You will wonder if you made the right choice
You will miss your bed
You will wonder if this was meant for you
This morning,
Our cat walked into the kitchen
And dropped a worm at my feet
Its claws had ripped the small pink thing in two
Two worms, now racing each other
Back towards the garden door, and the mud
I kneeled down at the side of the small twitching things
And gathered them in my palms
I walked out into the garden
And lowered my hands to the wet earth
‘Life is beautiful’ I said
Life is very beautiful.
Then I opened my hands
And the worm crawled out
And then -
I opened my eyes
~
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9. |
Lay Me Down
04:55
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The sun was a flaming death star
On the day you were conceived
The sky shattered like a sheet of glass
And the waves were like mountains
And the mountains swallowed themselves
Fish crawled out from the boiling oceans
Birds fell from the sky - bloated with their song
Trees felled themselves
And all the moon bugs in the long grass were buzzing
And all of this you shall inherit
As far as you can see
All of this is yours
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I am hanging by the wire
I can’t get much higher
I think we misunderstood
God’s intentions are good
I am wading through the mire
And the world’s on fire
This time it ended for good
Like they said it would
Lay me down
I’ve got no end
Lay me down
My only friend
This leads nowhere
Still I pretend -
Lay me down
Just like God meant
I had a dream about us where
We were two halves of a worm
Then I woke and you were there
Telling me nothing was wrong
Well ain’t that just like us
To destroy the things we love
Then you come back to me
You walk in and the clouds burst!
Lay me down
I’ve got no end
Lay me down
My only friend
This leads nowhere
Still I pretend -
Lay me down
Just like God meant
Oh no, oh no -
Don’t fall away
Don’t fall away
Don’t fall away
~
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