an unfeeling body. Lyrics

So I sit in silence

Engulfed by grief

I mourn what was once a marvelous and magical masterpiece

I'm Caesar in his final hour

And you fiddle while Rome burns

An unfeeling body

I'm a dog on his back and you are merciless

I lay, a fetus, anchored by a heavy heart

Infinitely aggravated by your callousness

So I sit in silence

A pin drop could burst my ear drums

My mind riddled with violence

And echoes of redrum ring true to me

I'm the son of Jehovah in the minute he breathed his last

And you

An unfeeling body with the kiss of Judas

So sweet

And suave

And sacred

And scintillating

And safe

But there're chinks in your armour

You are Brutus

And like Peter in the garden of Gethsemane

Thrice you denied my existence

Troubling to mine mind how you mindlessly mute us

And just look how that added solar systems

And galaxies

And universes

And space to our distance

And so you sit in silence

Pacified by the relief that you no longer have to carry this secret

Oh, to pick your brain like surveying the ceilings of the Sistine chapel

I would give a limb or two although that would be worth as much to you as the ruins of Babylon

An unfeeling body

With a touch as cold as June tho I still think of you fondly

Mere millimetres the space between our vessels

But Hills

And dunes

And deserts

And forests

And oceans

And mountains

And Everest we would have to wrestle to reconcile our hearts

And so we sit in silence

Met with a rude awakening

We've been kicked out of Eden

It's much colder beyond those walls there's no mistaking it

A pair once revered we are Adam and Eve and

Now we are the subjects of ridicule,

And heartbreak

And fidelity

And infidelity

And trust

And mistrust

And quarrels

And passion

And pride

And lust

And love

Beautiful, agonising, tragic, doomed love

Oh, how I wish I could barter with father time

So that he may reverse his hands

And return to the day we committed that lovecrime

So I keep hold of my beating drum and not invite you for a dance