Please God No

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Can you see my body
Can you see it grow
Do you see it throbbing
Won't you watch it glow

I don't want it, make it end
Stop this mad unsightly trend
I don't want it, make it end
Stop this mad unsightly trend
Take this red-veined, oddly-angled stone

Can you hear the thunder
Can you hear it crack
Can you see it stretching
Stretching through the black

Stirring in the steeple
Up on Federal Hill
Can't you feel it coming
Coming for to kill

See the haunter, watch it fly
Membranes pushing to the sky
See the three-lobed burning eye
I am it -- it is I

Can you see my body
Can you see it grow
Do you see it throbbing
Please - God - no...

Can you hear the thunder?
Can you hear the thunder?
Can you hear the thunder?
Can you hear the thunder?

See my body, see it grow
See it throbbing, please god no
See the haunter, watch it fly
Membranes pushing to the sky
See my body, see it grow
See it throbbing, please god no
Cross my heart and hope to fly
Stick an insect of Shaggai


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    This song is about H.P. Lovecraft's Story "The Haunter of the Dark." The "red-veined oddly angled stone" is the Shining Trapezohedron in the tale.

    thicketson February 16, 2006   Link

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