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Fresh night, candle blood hell
Very dark, placid skies hangs above
No moon shining like the untouched
Ass of the boy next door
Beginning to feel the first impressions
Of a strange drug
Set: the leathery skin of a female
Straddling a furnace
Illuminates in blue
Hands melt against the burning surface
Feel no pain
Kiss the burner, lips fall away
Blood runs down the inside
Of her thighs
She tightens her grip in one last
Exaggerated movement
And falls to the ground
A pile of ashes
The furnace stands triumphant
Over the mound
The next in line, a young boy approaches
And is assaulted by the flames
Shooting out like sharp tongues
Of hungry animals
Of a hungry animal
The disciple now crouches in
The belly of God
His second skin removed
The boy lay sodomized and tired
Sodomized and tired
Theatening my existence with their faces
In a room I sit and I pray
I wash dirt from my face with holy water
I wash dirt from my face with holy water
Dried with the shroud of new Nazarene
You're hiding behind walls I can't see
I'm hiding behind walls you can't see
Very dark, placid skies hangs above
No moon shining like the untouched
Ass of the boy next door
Beginning to feel the first impressions
Of a strange drug
Set: the leathery skin of a female
Straddling a furnace
Illuminates in blue
Hands melt against the burning surface
Feel no pain
Kiss the burner, lips fall away
Blood runs down the inside
Of her thighs
She tightens her grip in one last
Exaggerated movement
And falls to the ground
A pile of ashes
The furnace stands triumphant
Over the mound
The next in line, a young boy approaches
And is assaulted by the flames
Shooting out like sharp tongues
Of hungry animals
Of a hungry animal
The disciple now crouches in
The belly of God
His second skin removed
The boy lay sodomized and tired
Sodomized and tired
In a room I sit and I pray
I wash dirt from my face with holy water
I wash dirt from my face with holy water
Dried with the shroud of new Nazarene
I'm hiding behind walls you can't see
Song Info
Submitted by
tristan_smith On Oct 11, 2002
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Probably my favourite Christian Death song. :)
It could mean many things, but my latest guess is that it could be about a cremation.
Rozz had a problem with heroin. And this song is describing the effect, "Beginning to feel the first impressions Of a strange drug ". Also, he describes a young boy, who could perhaps depict him when he started using.
I could be way off but this song is about heroin. Maybe Rozz didn't take it at this age but there seem to be drugs references within the lyrics, the leather (as in a belt), the flames of a match lighting up the heroin, morphine relieves ""pain" and "the belly of God" could be the comfort blanket that drugs of the opiate variety can provide. The last line for me is the author saying he feels literally fucked and tired - Maybe drained from the drug experience.