For M.

Cackle tap ash
s
Wobble dump Apple Jack
s
Melanie
s
Onto apple blossom buds
s

Roll a die
s
Pick a hole
s
Thelarche
s
Minivan
s
Limp in
s
Shut up
s
Fucking fuck
s
So bad, so fast
s

Boiling sugar
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Cinderblock
s
Screwdriver
s
Cub Scout knife
s

Goodnight thought
s
The apartment stank
s
Goodnight pain
s
Murdered by a slob
s

No form
s
Nor waste
s
Alone
s
But for
s
Pluto
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-for-m-lyrics

A Bottle of Rum

Run away
s
Get away, Roberta
s
Disobey? Obey?
s
Curare, curare
s
To claim
s
What?
s
What?
s
Unashamed of pain
s
Unashamed of pain
s
A bottle of rum
s

In the ways of a dream
s
Meaningless to believe
s
In a rage as a habit
s
Oh, that it were a dream
s

It was nice when you were nice
s
Roberta
s
Tonite and today
s
San Josie, San Jose
s
Rebuff
s
Whom?
s
Ricochet the pain
s
Ricochet the pain
s
A bottle of rum
s

In the ways of a dream
s
Meaningless to believe
s
In a ragе as a habit
s
Oh, that it were a dream
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-a-bottle-of-rum-lyrics

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Knock Out

Knock out, a knock out
d
Fouled tomato at the gate
d
Knock out, a knock out
d
Why did I go out?
d
Hey, hey
d
Knock out, a knock out
d
Wrists affixed to the stake
d
Knock out, a knock out
d
Incredible to love you
d

Eyes, out a cage
d
Frock, divorcee
d
Thighs, disarray
d
Light black, all the way
d

Knock out, a knock out
d
No matter what I take
d
Knock out, a knock out
d
When did you get out?
d
Hey, hey
d
Knock out, a knock out
d
To be fleeing unrestrained
d
Knock out, a knock out
d
Inconsiderate to love you
d

Eyes, out a cage
d
Frock, divorcee
d
Thighs, disarray
d
Light black, all the way
d

The rosette spoonbill flying pink
d
Into a yellowed tangle of the cypress dome
d
Killing a scorpion with an orthopedic tennis shoe
d
Against your hotel room tile
d
A crude and inaccurate drawing of
d
Your feet and ankle and ankle brace
d
Shaking up and chucking bottles of Vincentka
d
Off the balcony at a burning star
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-knock-out-lyrics

Saint Dymphna

Getting used to battery
s
Getting used to getting through it
s
Consequence of no consequence
s
If any calm, a calm despair
s

Each nite is stupid
s
Callous, severe
s
Each nite is out of control
s
Brutal and cruel
s
Headphones turned up
s
Cuckoo and bright
s
Scream into the flickering void
s

Black lipstick
s
No eyebrows
s
Black pharmacy hair
s
No safe place to stay
s

You’ve tried to run before
s
And you will try again
s
He is not what you are
s
His life is not the end
s

Caring not for the thorns
s
But the thorns are always therе
s
Wait as you lead the way
s
Maculate to immaculatе
s

Each day, ludicrous
s
Cuckoo and bright
s
Each day preposterous rot
s
Brutal and cruel
s
Volca turned up
s
Callous, severe
s
Riot into glittering space
s

Black trench coat
s
No bus pass
s
Black pointed shoes
s
No safe place to stay
s

You’ve tried to run before
s
And you will try again
s
He is not what you are
s
His life is not the end
s
You’ve tried to run before
s
And you will try again
s
This is not what you are
s
This life is not the end
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-saint-dymphna-lyrics

It Bothers Me All the Time

Rats are loyal to the Earth
s
Dung beetles are loyal to the Earth
s
You are less than the rat
s
And rats will eat anything
s
Children and dogs
s
Unable, unsure, unhappy, ungood
s

Wherever it is, it bothers me all the time
s
Whomever it is, it bothers me all the time
s
Whichever it is, it bothers me all the time
s
Whatever it is, it bothers me all the time
s

Cries of freedom, cries of pain
s
Nothing ever free, nothing free of pain
s

Caracaras are loyal to the Earth
s
Coconut crabs are loyal to the Earth
s
But you are less
s
Than a crab
s
Not fine enough to delite
s
In the glaucous field
s
A knife, a fork, a bottle, a cork
s

Wherever it is, it bothers me all the time
s
Whomever it is, it bothers me all the time
s
Whichever it is, it bothers me all the time
s
Whatever it is, it bothers me all the time
s

Cries of freedom, cries of pain
s
Everything is free, everything is pain
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-it-bothers-me-all-the-time-lyrics

A Classic Screw

So they may be glued
s
Marrow to marrow, cheek to cheek
s
The hound’s leg broken across
s

Lashed to shatter
s
But unleashed
s

A braid, uh-huh, of his hair-brained-ed hair
s
A red pepper, the jar, yeast
s
Black flame lit to top
s

Lashed to shatter but, uh-huh, unleashed
s

Why protect the person who hurt you?
s
Why so they can do it again?
s
Morrigan – repel, warp, release, dinge
s

Send back the wrong heaped over me
s
To him
s

Run out cartoonish oblivion
s
Fundamental sorrow to bequeath
s
Purposely madе to unfit
s

Lashed to shatter but unleashеd
s

Candyland toward candyland
s
Minnie Mouse leap!
s
You have set to a-wavering a thoughtless mind
s

Lashed to shatter but
s
Yada yada
s

Why protect the person who hurt you?
s
Why so they can do it again?
s
Morrigan – repel, warp, release, dinge
s

Send back the wrong heaped over me
s
To you know who
s

A classic screw!
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-a-classic-screw-lyrics

One Hundred Years

It doesn’t matter if we all die
s
Ambition in the back of a black car
s
In a high building there is so much to do
s
Going home time, a story on the radio
s
Something small falls out of your mouth and we laugh
s
A prayer for something better
s
A prayer for something better
s
Please love me
s

Meet my mother, but the fear takes hold
s
Creeping up the stairs in the dark
s
Waiting for the death blow
s
Waiting for the death blow
s
Waiting for the death blow
s

Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
s
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
s
Have wе got everything?
s
She strugglеs to get away
s
The pain and the creeping feeling, a little black haired girl
s
Waiting for Saturday, the death of her father pushing her
s
Pushing her white face into the mirror
s
Aching inside me and turn me ‘round
s
Just like the old days
s
Just like the old days
s
Just like the old days
s
Just like the old days
s

Caressing an old man and painting a lifeless face
s
Just a piece of meat in a clean room
s
The idiots close in under a yellow moon
s
All shadows and deliverance under a black flag
s
A hundred years of blood, crimson
s
The ribbon tightens round my throat
s
I open my mouth and my head bursts open
s
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
s
Thrashing in the water
s
Over and over and over and over, we die
s
One after the other
s
One after the other
s
One after the other
s
One after the other
s

It feels like a hundred years
s
A hundred years
s
A hundred years
s
A hundred years
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-one-hundred-years-lyrics

I Dream of Someone Else Entirely

A barbershop mushroom of blonded hair
s
Two stomped upon children dressed up as parents
s

All of us, always humiliated
s
All of us, always tightened in fear
s
All of us, always a scream
s
All of us, always shy, shy shy
s

I dream of someone else entirely
s
I dream of someone else entirely
s
You said to me
s
“When I think of this family and who is in it
s
How is that supposed to make me feel about myself?”
s

A punishment bottle of hot sauce
s
Complete and totaled insanity crudely assembling one life
s

All of us, always odd
s
All of us, always nite peoples
s
All of us, always quiet as a breech
s
All of us, always waiting awake
s

I dream of someone else entirely
s
I dream of someone else entirely
s
To’ve yelled in my little face
s
“It sounds phony when you say ‘I love you, mom!'”
s

All of us, always whipsawed
s
All of us, always bewitched by shade
s
All of us, always dis-considered
s
All of us, always together alone
s

I dream of someone else entirely
s
I dream of someone else entirely
s
Burst apart by the knuckling jockeys and merchant seaman
s
I dream of someone else entirely
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-i-dream-of-someone-else-entirely-lyrics

Fuzz Gong Fight

Je t’aime the valley OH!
s

Only a book from behind
s
Pop pop pop from behind
s
There is no ice in my drink
s

Sitting on you to come back
s
Least of them, least of all you
s
Dolly, who happened to you?
s

Renounce to renounce anything
s
Candy is everything
s
There is no ice in my drink
s
Pop pop pop pop from behind
s

Daddy, all at once
s
Just for once
s
Anywhere anyway
s
Daddy, all of you
s
Just for you
s
You don’t want you to stop
s
I don’t care
s

Let him lay down in your lap
s
Dampening everything
s
A lap that is not meant for love
s

Rake the nits out from your hair
s
Pick it out, pick it
s
There are no nits in my drink
s

It’s good to see us again
s
Everyonе says you look good
s
Grinding out everything good
s

The distancе between you and me
s
You never made a record I liked
s
A lap that was not meant for love
s
Pop pop pop pop you and me
s

Daddy, all at once
s
Just for once
s
Any towne, any way
s
Daddy, all of you
s
Just for you
s
You don’t know what I want
s
I don’t care
s
All at once
s
Just for once
s
Any towne, any way
s
Daddy, all of you
s
Just for you
s
You don’t know what I want
s
I don’t care
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-fuzz-gong-fight-lyrics