Devil Doll Eliogabalus Lyrics

Eliogabalus Lyrics

I dread the great winged insects

 And the cat-headed butterflies;

 Above all the fleshy wings

 Of the birds

 Trying to clutch me

 At times I thought

 I was a glass bowl

 And I trembled

 Fearing ti be cracked

 Or I felt as if

 I had committed

 A horrible crime

 (But... which one?)

 Sinking off (only)

 At night

 

 Then I was in a vast garden

 And I cut the tree in the middle

 "Tree of the knowledge

 Of dood and evil"

 Building a vessel

 That I named "Narrenschiff"

 And I sailed through

 Black waves of clotted blood

 Closing my eyes...

 

 Whwn I opened them

 I was sitting on the throne

 With the terror

 Of an endless hiccup

 Anxiety

 Not to walk on the lines

 I carry on numbering things

 'Till I forget how many

 Then I start again...

 

 I don't give a damn

 For Caligula: just his horse!

 And I'm bored by

 Julius Caesar's

 Thousands words

 To cross the rubycon only

 

 "The mirror! The mirror!

 The mirrored life!"

 Same and adverse

 The real and its stage

 Flesh and blood puppets

 In the scene of the game

 Bitches to power

 The army is a ballet

 Empty the treasure

 In everyone's hands!

 

 "The mirror! The mirror!

 The mirrored life!"

 

 Sitting along in the empty pit

 Me

 The laughing man

 Innocent or absurd

 Not as death

 Living one instant

 But as the planet

 Diverse and deformed

 Watching the earth

 Beyond the mirror

 

 Now you, just you:

 Child

 Staring at me from the world

 - Biult on eternal repetitions -

 Behind the mirror

 Crack my world from side to side

 Kill me with every day

 To walk together

 Upon the sea...

 

 Life

 Is a state

 Of mind