Skinny Puppy

Glass Houses

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Glass Houses Lyrics

sit in darkness understand
what i am is what i am
overshadowed by assertion makes me certain
solemn ponder wander shake
shaded with a doubt nightmare full of fear
solvent raining from the sky
backlog danger hypnotize
glass blown eyes
stain in drain on procreate
fascinate me instigate care to here
morbid desert ice cream eyes
so deceiving fraternize carefully
create vision fabricate
smash to pieces watch and wait
crash glass houses
hasten grasp calculate
foreign object fornicate
smash glass houses
misinterpret reprimand are you here myself
demands mediocre are you hearing headspace clearing

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lastrites On Jun 07, 2002

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2002-06-07 02:28:22

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by israel51

18y ago

this song really kicks the shit on any other skinny puppy song is so sick and unique...and his voice sounds really amazing ...love it

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by heltir1723

16y ago

fragility of reality tunnel. the ease of "changing your mind."
we have freedom of reality within the centimeters of our heads, shut up in the darkness of our domicile sanctuaries.
we can walk out of our homes with an entire worldview in place.... only to have reality rain down like "solvent," eating our eyes from our us, the beholders, and all our presumptions of having any pitiful grasp on some clear calculation of any such quantitative and objective measurement, or model of our world and any concept of ultimate truth... smashed into fragile shards

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by autoerratica

10y ago

cEvin Key: "the song glass houses was actually originally about a glass house my cats smashed that was around this buddah"

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by autoerratica 10y ago

"all i had was a porta studio tascam 244 and a pcm41 digital delay. I carried home stuff I had recorded at the Images in vogue warehouse, and also from 1126 Barclay. Got my first synth, the MultiMoog for 200 while at 1455 Robson St. The first song written with it was Glass Houses."

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