Black Drum Machine

It is always night for you here
d
Your brother was the first boy inside of you
d
And as a locust would eat
d
Your father was the first man inside of you
d

Your body is all your own
d
Keep it away from mine
d
I love you, Bill
d
You forgive everything
d

To die and not breathe
d
To writhe desolated
d
To crawl towards colorlessness
d

The grass across the yard
d
My father was the second man inside of you
d
The sailor is dead
d
The social worker is dead
d
The software engineer is dead
d
The singer is dead
d

You have always lied to us
d
Richard Brautigan never stuffed his underwear in your mouth
d
I love you, Bill
d
You forgive everything
d

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry
d

Let them sing for joy
d
But it was you to whom the raven called
d

There must be some things
d
For which our God cannot be accused
d
There must be some things
d
For which our God cannot be accused
d
Both feet jammed against your heart
d
Both feet jammed against your heart
d
Do you want me to write your name?
d
Do you want me to tear it up?
d
Do you want me to throw it in the garbage?
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-black-drum-machine-lyrics

Smear the Queen

Slap your cheeks for color
d
And suck your stomach to your spine
d
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright, you look fine
d

Horsewhipped you’ll forever be
d
But much as his love runs down your thighs
d

Throw your arms around my neck
d
And throw the rest against my chest
d
You woke up with your hands down someone else’s stretch-pants
d
Held your breath ‘til you blacked out
d
Wash his taste out of your mouth
d
Surprised you could stomach it
d

Led him by the halter
d
Put the blinders on your eyes
d
It’s time, it’s time, you look like mine
d

A man you can never be
d
But just as the horseflies crowd your eyes
d
I tried, I tried
d
So before you change your mind
d

Throw your belt around my neck
d
A brick in the small of the back
d
Smear the queen
d
They bashed his teeth in with an elbow cast
d
Held his throat ‘til he passed out
d
Count the men inside your mouth
d
Surprised that you could stomach it
d

Bridle yourself for secret love
d
An armful of charm
d
Held up in hotel Golgotha
d
The bridegroom of blood
d
Useless and covetous of love
d
It’s over and over
d
The pale horse you should be frightened of
d
The horror, the horror
d

A kiss on the forehand
d
A kiss for the lip strap
d
A kiss on the nose band
d
A kiss on the throat latch
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-smear-the-queen-lyrics

Factory Girl

Factory girl, factory girl
s
What will I do for you?
s
Nothing, nothing, but pull it
s
To LBFM.biz
s
You will not go to heaven
s
You will just go to work
s
And when all the emotions of this
s
Burst forth as a spark
s
Place your phone on your pillow
s
And pet it like a dead kitten
s

The sheltering hand casts the shadow
s
Of cum thrown on the face of your mom
s
If that does not end the world
s
Then the world just ends when you’re dead
s
It’s no mean feat to fuck yourself in the ass
s
Yet how often we bring it off
s
There is dignity in serenity
s
And dignity, too, in a clenched fist
s
Dedicated to a monstrous worthlessness
s
Thank you for making this purse
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-factory-girl-lyrics

Born to Suffer

Now and then you get what you want
s
Now and then you get what you want
s

I don’t want to talk
s
I wish I was dead
s

The reservoir is filling with mold
s
The reservoir is filling with mold
s

I don’t want to talk
s
I wish I was dead
s

Oh, bunny rabbit
s
Jaundiced by the bummer of habit
s
Is there a plantain big enough
s
To cave your head in?
s

Sweet clot, you are what you are
s
Sweet clot, you is what you is
s
You feel it now
s
Misplaced by the world
s

I don’t want to talk
s
I wish I were dead
s

Born to suffer
s
You are embarrassed by this thought
s
And with that, all your dreams are gone
s
Fall apart
s
Try not to cry in public
s
Try not to cry in public
s
Try not to cry in the shower
s
And try not to cry at the clinic
s

If God won’t come, I’ll go to him
s

Born to suffer
s

Source: https://genius.com/27777060

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Gul Mudin

Gul Mudin, pop-pop-poppy
d
Fantasy of kill team
d
Sergeant Gibbs cut off your finger
d
Andy Holmes put it in a sock
d
Bravo Company, 3rd Platoon
d
Pool of blood reflecting the sky
d

Blowing out savages
d
Beating off military
d
Corporal Jeremy
d
Open-mouthed and idiotic
d
Firefly seen by
d
Daylight is but a bug
d
Oh, close your eyes, Mudin
d
You’re aglow in the night
d

Queer for death, pup pup army
d
Stoned on hash, porta-potty
d
In the dust they pushed your father
d
But you climb into his heart
d
Curling up into a ball
d
Rest your head upon his hate
d

Judgement will never be lifted
d
A crow taps the face of your son
d
The Virgin might could not clip its wings
d
For hell is hot, hell is hot, Satan’s cock, hell is hot
d

Blowing out savages
d
Beating off military
d
Corporal Jeremy
d
Open-mouthed and idiotic
d
Firefly seen by
d
Daylight is but a bug
d
Oh, close your eyes, Mudin
d
You’re aglow in the night
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-gul-mudin-lyrics

Chimney’s Afire (Mickensian Suicide)

You had to dig hard
s
To find the cult of arteries
s
Astride the great gulf sea
s
Across Dresden kitchen
s

Chimney’s afire, chimney’s afire
s
The vast deep’s surface shines
s
With gore and spermaceti
s
An outlook certain
s

Oh, vanity!
s
You are a cutting vessel
s
Racing with whispered furies
s
On hellhounds’ broken backs
s

Chimney’s afire, chimney’s afire
s
The vast deep’s surface slips
s
With gore and spermaceti
s
An outlook certain
s

Draw in the line
s
Don’t let it twist or tangle
s
Bring the beast clear and close
s
And let your lance drive true
s

Chimney’s afire, chimney’s afire
s
The vast deep’s blah-blah-blah
s
Gore and spermaceti
s
On that which could not be forgiven
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-chimneys-afire-mickensian-suicide-lyrics

The Oldness

Something wrong
d
Will molest you in drug stupor
d
On onslaught, constant and dry
d

Web of oldness
d
Makes creaking timbrel sounds
d
Beneath the grass, beyond the sky
d

Teasing dirty furry
d
Abominations
d
Will lick you awake and eat your weight
d

Before and after the words
d
Get down, put your arms under your body
d
The oldness
d

I dreamt that I was aloft
d
On beating wing
d
A sound unlike any bird’s
d

Out of the corner of my eye
d
I saw a great bat’s wing
d
Oh, the oldness
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-the-oldness-lyrics

I Luv Abortion

Little Jizzo
x
Little sweetest glob
x
The restrictions is gone
x
The worries is gone
x

When the time is right
x
I’ll love you like I should
x
When the time is right
x
Come back, come back, come back!
x

The rose elf is stabbed
x
The rose goblin is vacuumed O-U-T, out!
x

When I look at my thighs, I see death
x
It is great, I love abortion!
x
You are too good for this life!
x
When I look at my thighs, I see death
x
It is rad, I love abortion!
x
You are too good for this life!
x

A hyena infected with rabies
x
Would have given birth to you
x
There are too many important things
x
That I can’t be for you!
x

We will meet again when the time is right
x
Jump head first against the side of an outhouse
x
Don’t do it, Little Jizzo!
x
Don’t be as a frog!
x
Don’t be like a crab!
x

When I look at my thighs, I see death
x
It is great, I love abortion!
x
When I look at my thighs, I see death
x
It is great, I love abortion!
x
You are too good for this world!
x
When I look at my thighs, I see death
x
I love abortion!
x
I love abortion!
x

Let all you have lived be as if a dream!
x
Let all you have lived be as if a dream!
x
Let all you have lived be as if a dream!
x

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-i-luv-abortion-lyrics

Honey-Suckle

You have tried
d
You are ripped up
d
But nothing has changed
d
They have told you
d
You will be lucky
d
But nothing has changed
d

I can’t wait to set it off
d
And it will be the end, finally
d

I’m gonna lie back down
d
And ask for nothing, nothing
d
I’m gonna throw it back
d
And let it, let it go
d

Though I’m not concerned
d
For this how it goes
d
I am ill, but it doesn’t hurt
d

I get up, get up
d
But my day is ruined again
d
I get up, get up
d
But the day is ruined again
d

You can run
d
But what’s the point?
d
They won’t catch you
d
You can love
d
But to what end?
d
They won’t leave you
d

I’m gonna lie back down
d
And ask for nothing, nothing
d
I’m gonna throw it back
d
And let it, let it go
d
I get up, get up
d
But my day is ruined again
d
I get up, get up
d
But the day is ruined again
d

Yesterday was awful
d
Today is discolored
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-honey-suckle-lyrics

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Beauty Towne

Three boys in a burning Panzer
s
Doing nothing not to shove our throats in the flames
s
We shan’t let go
s

Oh friend, oh foe, oh friend, oh foe
s

Beauty Towne
s
How little have we learned?
s
Beauty Towne
s
The fruit that we deserve
s
And we had, and we had
s
And we had more than we could take
s

Three orcs under plague of darkness
s
And like Egypt, we had it coming all along
s
I won’t believe
s

Oh fiend, oh foe, oh fiend, folio
s

Beauty Towne
s
How little have we learned?
s
Beauty Towne
s
The fruit that we deserve
s
And we had, and we had
s
And we had more than we could take
s
Beauty Towne
s
The hair remains the same
s
Beauty Towne
s
Hung by the rope of shame
s
And we tried and we failed
s
Not to live this way again
s

Chelsea Alvarez, Jherek Bischoff, Scott Goodwin
s
Mike Hadreas, Ruthie Haskell, Keehnan Konyha
s
Brian McFadden, Caralee McElroy, Sam Mickens
s
Zac Pennington, Jamie Stewart, Wilbert Williams
s

Beauty Towne
s
How little have we learned?
s
Beauty Towne
s
The fruit that we deserve
s
And we had, and we had
s
And we had more than we could take
s
Beauty Towne
s
The hair remains the same
s
Beauty Towne
s
Hung by the rope of shame
s
And we tried and we failed
s
Not to live this way again
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-beauty-towne-lyrics

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