A Birthday Bash

By Cursive

On I Am Gemini

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[Lyric Note]

Pollock has been beaten and pinned down, Cassius is the victor. He drags Pollock onto a chair and binds his arms and legs


[Cassius]

Repeat after me: I will not repeat

The horrifying dreams I cannot delete

Try as I might to erase my mind

I keep finding traces of you inside

Repeat after me: I will not repeat

The lust and the greed and the gluttony

Try as I might to erase my mind

I keep doubling back to Gemini

Now that I've got you all tied up in knots

We're going to tell the tale that I almost forgot

We're going to recreate what I should've stopped

We're going to blow this unholy house to dust

We're going to have a birthday bash just for us


[Lyric Note]

Cassius, busy about the room, sets up sticks of dynamite


[Cassius]

Line up the candles, two by two

Two for every year beaten black and blue

Two for every monster more deformed—

By forced reform!

[whispering in Pollock's ear]

So, here we are again, living in the scene of the crime

So, how's it all look, are the decorations right?

The only difference is, now we've got these big red sticks;

Two by two, you got to help me get 'em lit


[Lyric Note]

Cassius begins lighting the many wicks


[Cassius]

Light 'em up, light 'em up

Light 'em up, light 'em up

A troubled little boy stranded in an orphanage

An imaginary friend hidden underneath his skin

An identical twin, whispering inside his head:


[Pollock]

Stab with all your heart, I wanna see red


[Lyric Note]

Dynamite starts blowing up throughout the house. The ceilings crumble as Pollock remains strapped to a chair, terrified. Cassius maniacally screams, lighting more dynamite

[Cassius, loudly]

We're going to blow this unholy house to dust!

Come on, light it up!

We're going to blow this unholy house to dust!

Come on, light it up!

Light it up! Light it up!

Light it! Light it!


[Lyric Note]

...and the house explodes to smithereens