The Dope Show
The drugs they say
make us feel so hollow
we love in vain
narcissistic and so shallow
the cops and queers
to swim you have to swallow
hate today
there's no love for tomorrow
we're all stars now in the dope show
there's lots of pretty, pretty ones
that want to get you high
but all the pretty, pretty ones
will leave you low
and blow your mind
we're all stars now in the dope show
they love you when you're on all the covers
when you're not then they love another
the drugs they say
are made in California
we love your face
we'd really like to sell you
the cops and queers
make good-looking models
I hate today
who will I wake up with tomorrow?
there's lots of pretty, pretty ones
that want to get you high
but all the pretty, pretty ones
will leave you low
and blow your mind
they love you when you're on all the covers
when you're not then they love another
we're all stars now in the dope show
Mechanical Animals
We were neurophobic
and perfect
the day that we lost our souls
maybe we weren't so human
if we cry we will rust
and I was a hand grenade
that never stopped exploding
you were automatic and
as hollow as the 'o' in god
I am never gonna be the one for you
I am never gonna save the world from you
but they'll never be good to you
or bad to you
they'll never be anything
anything at all
you were my mechanical bride
you were phenobarbidoll
a manniqueen of depression
with the face of a dead star
and I was a hand grenade
that never stopped exploding
you were automatic and
as hollow as the 'o' in god
I am never gonna be the one for you
I am never gonna save the world from you
but they'll never be good to you
or bad to you
they'll never be anything
anything at all
this isn't me i'am not mechanical
i'am just a boy
playing the suicide king
Rock is Dead
All simple monkeys with alien babies
amphetamines for boys
crucifixes for ladies
sampled and soulless
worldwide and real webbed
you sell all the living
for more safer dead
anything to belong
rock is deader than dead
shock is all in your head
your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
so fuck all your protests and
put them to bed
god is in the tv
1,000 mothers are praying for it
we're so full of hope
and so full of shit
build a new god
to medicate and to ape
sell us ersatz
dressed up and real fake
anything to belong
rock is deader than dead
shock is all in your head
your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
so fuck all your protests and
put them to bed
god is in the tv
Disassociative
I can tell you what they say in space
that our earth is too grey
but when the spirit is so digital
the body acts this way
that world was killing me
that world was killing me
disassociative
the nervous systems down,
the nervous systems down
I know
I can never get out of here
I don't want to just float in fear
a dead astronaut in space
sometimes we walk like
we were shot through
our heads, my love
we write our song in space
like we are already
dead and gone
your world was killing me
your world was killing me
disassociative
your world was killing me
your world was killing me
disassociative
I can never get out of here
I don't want to just fload in fear
a dead astronaut in space
the nervous systems down,
the nervous systems down
I know
The Speed of Pain
They slit our throats
like we were flowers
and our milk has been
devoured
when you want it
it goes away too fast
when you hate it
it always seems to last
but just remember when you think
you're free
the crack inside your fucking heart is me
(thought, not spoken):
I wanna outrace the speed of pain for another day
I wish I could sleep
but I can't lay on my back
because there's a knife
for everyday that I've known you
when you want it
it goes away too fast
when you hate it
it always seems to last
but just remember when you think
you're free
the crack inside your fucking heart is me
(thought, not spoken):
I wanna outrace the speed of pain for another day
lie to me, cry to me, give to me
I would
lie with me, die with me, give to me
I would
keep all your secrets wrapped in dead hair
I hope at least we die holding hands
for always.
Posthuman
She's got eyes like Zapruder
and a mouth like heroin
she wants me to be
perfect like Kennedy
this isn't god, this isn't god
god is just a statistic,
god is just a statistic
say,
"show me the dead stars,
all of them sing."
this is a riot
religious and clean
god is a number you cannot count to
you are posthuman and hardwired
she's pilgrim and pagan
softworn and social
in all of her dreams
she's a saint like Jackie-O
this isn't god, this isn't god
god is just a statistic,
god is just a statistic
say,
"show me the dead stars,
all of them sing."
this is a riot
religious and clean
coma white:
"all that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold"
I Want to Disappear
Look at me now
got no religion
look at me now
I'm so vacant
look at me now
I was a virgin
Look at me now
grew up to be a whore
and I want it
I believe it
I'm a million different things
and not one you know
Hey and our mommies are lost now
hey, daddy's someone else
Hey, we love the abuse
because it makes us feel like we are needed now
but I know
I wanna disappear
I wanna die young
and sell my soul
use up all your drugs
and make me come
yesterday man,
I was a nihilist and
now today i'm
just too fucking bored
by the time I'm old enough
I won't know anything at all
Hey and our mommies are lost now
hey, daddy's someone else
Hey, we love the abuse
because it makes us feel like we are needed now
but I know
I wanna disappear
I Don't Like the Drugs (but the drugs like me)
Norm life baby
"we're white and oh so hetero and
our sex is missionary."
Norm life baby
"we're quitters and we're sober
our confessions will be televised."
you and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all.
I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
I don't like the drugs, the drugs the drugs
Norm life baby
"our god is white and unforgiving
we're piss tested and we're praying."
Norm life baby
I'm just a sample of a soul
made to look just like a human being.
Norm life baby
"we're rehabbed and we're ready
for our 15 minutes of shame."
Norm life baby
"we're talkshown and we're pointing
just like christians at a suicide."
you and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all.
I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
I don't like the drugs, the drugs the drugs
"There's a hole in our soul that we fill with dope
and we're feeling fine."
I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
I don't like the drugs, the drugs the drugs
New Model No. 15
I'm as fake as a wedding cake
and I'm Vague and I know that I'm
Homopolitan
pitifully predictable
correctly political
I'm the new, I'm the new, new model
I've got nothing inside
better in the head and in bed
at the office
I can suck and I smile
new
new
new model
I can choke and diet on coke
I'm Spun and I know
that I'm Stoned and Rolling
lifelike and poseable
hopeless and disposable
I'm the new, I'm the new, new model
I've got nothing inside
better in the head and in bed
at the office
I can suck and I smile
new
new
new model
don't let them know how far you go
or that you use your "lovers"
oh look, you're like a vcr
stick something in to know
just who you are you
new
new
new model
User Friendly
Use me when you want to come
I've bled just to have your touch
when I'm in you I want to die
user friendly fucking dopestar obscene
will you die when you're high
you'd never die just for me
she says,
"I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you
'til somebody better comes along."
use me like I was a whore
relationships are such a bore
delete the ones that you've fucked
user friendly fucking dopestar obscene
will you die when you're high
you'd never die just for me
she says,
"I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you
'til somebody better comes along."
Fundamentally Loathsome
I want to wake up in your
white, white sun
I want to wake up in your world
with no pain
but I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday
while you are numb all of the way
when you hate it you know you can feel but
when you love it you know it's not real
no
and I am resigned to this wicked fucking world
on its way to hell
the living are dead and
I hope to join them too
I know what to do and I do it well...
when you hate it you know you can feel but
when you love it you know it's not real
no
shoot myself to love you
if I loved myself I'd be shooting you
The Last Day on Earth
Yesterday was a million years ago
in all my past lives I played an asshole
now I found you, it's almost too late
and this earth seems obliviating
we are trembling in our crutches
high and dead our skin is glass
I'm so empty here without
I crack and split my xerox hands
I know its the last day on earth
we'll be together while the planet dies
I know it's the last day on earth
we'll never say goodbye
the dogs slaughter each other softly
love burns its casualties
we are damaged provider modules
spill the seeds at our children's feet
I'm so empty here without you
I know they want me dead
I know its the last day on earth
we'll be together while the planet dies
I know it's the last day on earth
we'll never say goodbye
Coma White
There's something cold and blank behind her smile
she's standing on an overpass
in her miracle mile
(coma):
"you were from a perfect world
a world that threw me away today
today to run away"
a pill to make you numb
a pill to make you dumb
a pill to make you anybody else
but all the drugs in this world
won't save her from herself
her mouth was an empty cut
and she was waiting to fall
just bleeding like a polaroid that
lost all her dolls
(coma):
"you were from a perfect world
a world that threw me away today
today to run away"
a pill to make you numb
a pill to make you dumb
a pill to make you anybody else
but all the drugs in this world
won't save her from herself
Irresponsible Hate Anthem
I am so all-american, I'll sell you suicide
I am totalitarian, I've got abortions in my eyes
I hate the hater, I'd rape the raper
I am not the animal who will not be himself
fuck it
Hey victim, should I black your eyes again?
Hey victim,
you were the one who put the stick in my hand
I am the ism, my hate's a prism
let's jut kill everyone and let your god sort them out
fuck it
Everybody's someone else's nigger/I knowyou are so am I
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers
I don't need to choose a side
I better, better, better, better not say this
better, better, better, better not tell
I hate the hater, I'd rape the raper
I am the idiot who will not be himself
fuck it
(chorus)
The Beautiful People
I don't want you and I don't need you
don't bother to resist, I'll beat you
It's not your fault that you're always wrong
the weak ones are there to justify the strong
the beautiful people, the beautiful people
it's all relative to the size of your steeple
you can't see the forest for the trees
you can't smell
your own shit on your knees
Hey you, what do you see?
something beautiful, something free?
hey you, are you trying to be mean?
if you live with apes man, it's hard to be clean
there's no time to discriminate,
hate every motherfucker
that's in your way
the worms will live in every host
it's hard to pick which one they eat most
the horrible people, the horrible people
it's as anatomic as the size of your steeple
capitalism has made it this way,
old-fashioned fascism
will take it away
(chorus)
Mister Superstar
Hey. Mr. Superstar:
"I'll do anyhting for you"
"I'm your number one fan"
hey mr. porno star, I, I, I, I want you
hey mr. sickly star,
I want to get sick from you
hey mr. fallen star,
don't you know I worship you?
hey mr. big rock star,
"I wanna grow up just like you"
I know that I can turn you on
I wish I could just turn you off
I never wanted this
hey mr. superhate,
I just want to love you
hey, hey, hey mr. superfuck,
I wanna go down on you
hey mr. supergod,
will you answer my prayers?
hey, hey, hey mr. superman,
I want to be your little girl
(chorus)
hey mr. superstar,
I'll kill myself for you
hey mr. superstar,
I'll kill you if I can't have you
superstar, superfuck baby...
Angel With the Scabbed Wings
he is the angel with the scabbed wings
hard-drug face, want to powder his nose
he will deflower the freshest crop
dry up all the wombswith his rock and roll sores
dead
is what he is, he does what he please
the things that he has you'll never want to see
what you're never gonna be now
sketch a little keyholefor looking-glass people
you don't want to be him
you only want to see him
mommy's got a scarecrow, gotta let the corn grow
man can't always reap what he sow
"he is the maker"
(he is the taker)
"he is the saviour"
(he is the raper)
(verse 2)
(chorus)
get back you're never gonna leave him
get back you're always gonna please him
Antichrist Superstar
you built me up with your wishing hell
I didn't have to sell you
you threw your money in the pissing well
you do just what they tell you
REPENT, that's what I'm talking about
I shed the skin to feed the fake
REPENT, that's what I'm talking about
whose mistake am I anyway?
Cut the head off
Grows back hard
I am the hydra
now you'll see your star
prick your finger it is done
the moon has now eclipsed the sun
the angel has spread its wings
the time has come for bitter things (chorus)
the time has come it is quite clear
our antichrist
is almost here...
it is done
The Reflecting God
your world is an ashtray
we burn and coil like cigarettes
the more you cry your ashes turn to mud
it's the nature of the leeches, the virgin's
feeling cheated
you've only spent a second of your life
my world is unaffected, there is an exit here
I say it is and then it's true,
there is a dream inside a dream,
I'm wide awake the more I sleep
you'll understand when I'm dead
I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me
saw heaven and hell were lies
when I'm god everybody dies
scar/can you feel my power?
shoot here and the world gets smaller
scar/scar/can you feel my power?
one shot and the world gets smaller
let's jump upon the sharp swords
and cut away our smiles
without the threat of death
there's no reason to live at all
my world is unaffected, there is an exit here
I say it is and then it's true,
there is a dream inside a dream,
I'm wide awake the more I sleep
you'll understand when I'm dead
(bridge)
(chorus)
"each thing I show you is a piece of my death"
shoot shoot shoot motherfucker
no salvation, no forgiveness
"this is beyond your experience"
forgiveness...