Gabriel Peter The Family And The Fishing Net Lyrics

The Family And The Fishing Net Lyrics

Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams

 Her honey belly pulls the seams

 Curves are still upon the hinge

 Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin

 

 Moist as grass, ripe and heavy as the night

 The sponge is full, well out of sight

 All around the conversations

 Icing on the warm flesh cake

 

 Light creeps through her secret tunnels

 Sucked into the open spaces

 Burning out in sudden flashes

 Draining blood from well-fed faces

 

 Desires form in subtle whispers

 Flex the muscles in denial

 Up and down its pristine cage

 So the music, so the trial

 

 Vows of sacrifice, headless chickens

 Dance in circles, they the blessed

 Man and wife, undressed by all

 Their grafted trunks in heat possessed

 

 Even as the soft skins tingle

 They mingle with the homeless mother

 Who loves the day but lives another

 That once was hers

 

 The worried father, long lost lover

 Brushes ashes with his broom

 Rehearses jokes to fly and hover

 Bursting over the bride and groom

 

 And the talk goes on

 

 Memories crash on tireless waves

 The lifeguards whom the winter saves

 

 Silence falls the guillotine

 All the doors are shut

 Nervous hands grip tight the knife

 In the darkness, till the cake is cut

 Passed around, in little pieces

 The body and the flesh

 The family and the fishing-net

 And another in the mesh

 

 The body and the flesh