[Intro]

Despair will make me a modern man

And happiness makes me ugly

Sat on street corners heavy as the rain

Only neon light above me

Reaching out across the congregation

You are all things to all people

I am course but I shine in the dust

Of your mellow hunger

And your millions of blisters

[Verse 1]

Paralysed by your invitation

Carcinogens in my bloodstream

I am in no mood for your talking

I am in no place to be hearing

Where are these bruises from?

I don't have a desire to remembеr

Parallel lives are unfolding

Within thе membrane that stretches

Between a birth so violent

And a death cold and dark

I am the all-loving all-seeing corporation

Of tomorrow's beautiful future

I am your brain's twisted aneurysm

The burgeoning cancer in your heartbeat

I am the broken splinters

Of your beautiful furniture

Buried in my fingertips

I am nothing and everything

[Chorus]

And if I'll heal

This aching will

Fade into nothing

To nothing

[Verse 2]

Spring rises slowly like a cruel fever

The new world will not save me

Do we have vows to be writing?

Or are they swallowed in shame and mucus

Pressed thick to the back of your teeth?

I find my holy scripture in shopping lists

Caravans of bloated wombs

And black tar binding the wings of seabirds

Settle down now, there's curtains drawn

And a comfortable bed to be living in

My prescription takes the edge off

And the garden is a runaway success

Tin metal and autumn collide

In the screeching of your industrial travel

I am happy when I'm flying

I am happy when I'm sleeping

I am nothing and everything

[Chorus]

And if I'll heal

This aching will

Fade into nothing

To nothing

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

I will be unfolded as your father was before you

I am the pennies laced along your insides

I am the long tunnel that leads nowhere

I am the skin between your knuckles

I am everything and nothing

I am the man who builds the bomb

I am the beginning and the end

[Chorus]

And if I'll heal

This aching will

Fade into nothing

[Outro]

I feel a heaviness upon my eyelids

I cannot see you for who you are

Dim the lights, there is something beautiful waiting to happen

Dim the lights, there is something beautiful