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SABACHTHANI LYRICS
"Miserable Endings" (2007)
1. Christabel's Journey
2. The Skull of an Angel
3. The Thief and the Fallen
4. Nine Circles
5. Skarlet Industries
6. Josephine Sleeper
1. Christabel's Journey
Man of ivory skin
you could have had everything
For the morningstar alone
Oh fallen one
I will follow you in
neath the earth where you keep your sin
No whores of babylon
wakes your lust
I have seen your desire
You cast your own shadow now
In a river of despair
You wallow
You took the taste from my lips
with a grin and then thrown aside
All the urges you restrain
Uncovered
The taste of you was all I had
The grace of you, the chime in every step you take
The death of men, all weak of heart
But I will always be there for you
I'll give you life and pull you down
way down to where I lay
Patiently awating zest
My pain be kept inside forever more
I have failed. My tears prevailed
And now I crave for you to cover me
With your warmth, your loins and breast
the final test
You love was all I wanted
Man of ivory skin
Since you reek of the filth of him
I cannot touch you now
Oh fallen one
Come hither that I may
see you once more my lover
In chains, your servant
I'll gather the fallen stars for you
Is this your best excuse
No more in the eyes of your lord, a woman
You have stained yourself with me
and kissed me in blackest horror
I shall give your soul back to you now
for all you may have suffered by my hands
I'll capture all your demons and put them down to sleep
like swarms of tiny insects crushed beneath your feet
And skip over stones and pebbles and nightmarish fiends
to the place where we lay together and shared in your heat
Once there I'll choke the fire that burns deep within me
and give you lord of liars a final forbidden treat
Christabel, where are you now?
Please return to me from the mist.
You skip over stones and pebbles and nightmarish fiends
to the place where we lay together and shared in my heat
Once there you'll choke the fire that burns deep in me
and give me, lord of liars, forbidden treats
The taste of you was all I had
The grace of you, the chime in every step you take
The death of men, all weak of heart
But I will always be there for you
I'll give you life and pull you down
way down to where I lay
Patiently awating zest
My pain be kept inside forever more
I have failed. My tears prevailed
And now I crave for you to cover me
With your warmth, your loins and breast
the final test
Your lust is all I want
2. The Skull of an Angel
I cant bow to you, dear lord if your hands are shaking
Hold your knife steady and firm
For you I will consume
I have bled all your flowers and unmasked your vast perfection
In loathe I turn away
But I hunger every day
I've lived all your wonders and I've seen the edges of you
The fear and the blood of christ
And your filthy paradise
Through the glass I can see them
All the ghosts that you believe in
Be still and touch me again
And I'll give you everything
Hear, what will I feel?
I cannot see
Read loudly to me my lord and forgive...
me, what will I be?
I cannot dream
Read loudly to me my lord and free me...
To this day I have never felt so lonely
Your hope shattering still, my fragile mind and will
I try and I listen to the snakes that slither around us
Your voice deep in my head
And I pour another drink
Your face isnt hidden
You're the mouth of every child that starve and bleed
The skull of a beast, in a carnival of greed
I cant bow to you dear lord for your hands are still shaking
violently and desperately... For you I will devour.
When you're done I'll get up and walk
through the desert and through the crowd
They'll touch me with your eyes
but father you will fail tonight
Here I stand in naked flesh
with your army watching me
I will not cry like him
I will not suffer for your sins
Let the children come to me
all the same for they cant believe
I lay my collar down
And drink your tears for one last time
Even now when you leave my side
and give birth to another christ
I would stand there in your light
But father I have forsaken me
what will I feel?
I cannot see
Read loudly to me my lord and forgive me
what will I be?
I cannot dream
Read loudly to me my lord and forgive me
what will I feel?
I cannot see
Read loudly to me my lord and forgive me
what will I be?
I cannot dream
Read loudly to me my lord and forgive me
3. The Thief and the Fallen
You leave yourself behind
In the arms of the mob and their fear
You burn like their torches
With the true passion of disbelief
And you love your pain, in every way
Her dress is still on the ground
You cannot find your prey now,
Her ghost still clutching at you
This, where you left her dead
Save me from them, attend to my wake
We wield our laughter like sadness
Like hours only borrowed in death
Please let me in, into your heart
With all but your shadow concealing me
Darkness revealing I fall...
Paradise was yours, dismembered now
On a throne with a crown and an opera
And your eyes can't stand the light
In the dying of night, you drown
You have forsaken birth,
And spoken in tongues of salvation
This is a plauge of hands,
A life of stolen treasure
Take me from them, I have no one else,
I'll sear my way straight through your bosom
With claws and with teeth right through you
I'll tear you apart, like the dress that you loved
You kept your rage safe for the mornings
When I was defenseless and weak...
Yours is the night, avatar of sorrow
Far from your own, lost and alone
I wept for you, gave my eyes to see
All that was you, gave my hands to feel
I gave my life for you lies,
Called you out, forced to cry
Gave my breath for your breath
Come lay your hands upon me
Yours is the night, avatar of sorrow
Far from your own, lost and alone
4. Nine Circles
With my hands with holes right through them
I could see your hollow heart
Where we climbed the roof together
To escape from the dark
Through the nights we prayed for nothing
To the emptiness of you
Were your wings not cut and severed clean from you
You would fly
No amount of tears can save you boy
You are forever falling
Here, ten thousand devils begin to cry when you open up your bloodshot eyes
And they raise their hands up to the sun and they bow their heads down in rememberance
Would you join me in my cold prison?
My winter, my winter!
I would cry but my tears are frozen
Unwritten, unwritten!
To the dawning when I was rejected
Corrected, erected!
I lock myself up with death and reap!
I arch my back to the morning
Tempting you
And cringe into a statue
And close my eyes
Carry yourself above me
In the light
And leave the earth in my hands
To despise
What remedies you've chosen
Wont heal me
I stand among the broken and believe...
Cant you see I was god when you gave to me?
All your life, all your woes and the ocean that raged inside you
On my knees on the ground I am lost somehow
Trembling hands in my hands, you have weighed me down
Lay to waste all that I have suffered for
Cast your stone, I'll be last through my dying hour
I've become tragedy in its utmost meaning
Maybe now, Jesus Christ... all my pain...
Ten little angry devils left, marching down from a funeral
Nine little angry devils left, joining hands in circles of fire
Eight little angry devils left, on a bridge to weak to hold them all
Seven little angry devils left, each one with a gun to their head
Six little angry devils left, building walls to the emptiness
Five little angry angels left, and they spread their wings over your eyes
Four little angry devils left, and the drinks are on the house
Three little angry devils left, drawing straws on who's to die
Two little angry devils left, looking into eachothers eyes
One little angry devil left, there's no hope... no hope... there's no...
5. Skarlet Industries
This will be my storm to defeat,
You will dance in black snow and misery
To the sound of carnivals,
I wash the rust away from you
And with your golden skin
You steal all the glow from the sun
What world lies beyond the smoke
As the dust settles on our clothes
They slid their envelopes
Neath our door just to see me twitch
Wake up, my hands are tied
To a girl and her corroded soul
By god I think I know her,
By smile... by name...
She lays puzzles with a broken mirror
Makes a picture of a factory,
I try to slit my throat with my pillow
To feel what she feels...
I try to touch myself, I can still hear
I can still smell their passion
What numbness pass through my veins,
No lust... no shame...
They used to be so brave,
Do you recall, do you remember anything?
We played a bold messiah,
Do you believe, do you pretend to be anything?
All my life I have seen your face,
And the end is always near, here with you
I saw you lose your ground
In a marvelous black and white
On the tiles I write you down,
Like a scar painted hologram
This room will pass you by
As you hang yourself in the draft
With your needle halfway in,
What else will you take from me?
Wake up, your hands are tied,
And the wars that you fought forgotten
And the beauty of the slaughter
Escapes you, your mind is tried
They whisper in the voice of your blood
Of the day when you will save them all
See me leaning on the windowpane
To feel what you feel...
Come make my soul as your soul,
Be the machine, be the cruel fight for beauty
What numbness pass through your veins
All lust... no name...
We are the wildest of them,
You cannot die, I cannot see you dancing
We've lived our lives in anguish,
I cannot move, you cannot flee this horrid place
I paint myself a mouth with which to kiss you
Your abstinense! No city shall ever burn here,
You can't sear me, I play with the cold horizon
And please myself, and watch you when you are sleeping
A child once wept at the sight of your milkwhite body
You will return to me,
From the hallway and from the dream
Why are you afraid, my love?
This is the grave you have dug for yourself
I watch you melt away,
While you die in your masquerade
This world will pass you by
To a song trailing down from above
6. Josephine Sleeper
Sweet Josephine
Collapsed against the wooden wall
And no one could hear
All the poems she read to him
Barefeet and all
Every splinter a different dream
Josephine never slept
She denied it all
In the night - she would rage against the heaven
Silently - slide across the dust and rubble
Where he lay - open doors like words are spoken
Still her fears - She has sealed this room forever
She had a love for death
It was the taste of it
In every single breath
Where he would sing a song to live
With many hours left
And countless sorrow too
She could not feel bereft
And still she lost it all to him
Always at war with night
That brought the walls too close
As when the days took flight
And trembling legs were still too strong
She could not weep for him
But touch him through the wall
He might be listening
And they would lay together
It's all the same to her
For she had waited much too long
There was a crack in the bed
Where Josephine Sleeper hid away
And no one could see
Whatever games she would play there
And she would pretend
Those were his fingers that she felt
One final sigh
And they would touch death
All gone now - all her lust and love forgiven
Josephine - fold around her own endeavours
She'd cast herself
Down unto the floor
All to feel his breath again
Warm against her neck
Sweet Josephine
There are no dreams for her
Fingers braded through eachother
She sings a lullaby
He cannot hear
And throws her arms around
Dancing with her only lover
It's what she cannot feel
That frightens her
The things she might reveal
Stirring up the darkness of him...
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