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Towering Flesh Lyrics
she frolics through the rain
whispering love insane
her kisses exit through
heart-shaped exit wounds
her skin like flesh of angels
her blood my catholic wine
it moves slowly through me
disintegrates my spine
she's got heroin embraces
that I still need to be in
I force myself to loathe her
so I can fall for her again
so I can fall for her again
her lips are wet with venom
her posture's serpentine
she'll touch my arm and flowers grow there
poisonous and obscene
her lips are wet with venom
her posture's serpentine
she'll touch my arm and flowers grow there
poisonous and obscene
all her shrugged little movements
and their despotic majesty
in the midst of such perfection
I can't help but feel diseased
This song is just completely amazing, my favorite by far. Best lyrics, best song structure, best everything, every lyric in this song is incredible.
Anyway, I'm not really sure, but it sounds to me like someone who's depressed and/or really unhappy with himself falling in love with someone who, to them, is perfect and it just makes them feel even worse. And then when he feels like he doesn't feel the same about her anymore he makes himself hate her so he can start fresh... I dunno, I think I'm just barely in the ballpark there
she's got heroin embraces that I still need to be in I force myself to loathe her so I can fall for her again so I can fall for her again
It's definitely a love song but the girl in question has an opoid based painkiller addiction and she shares the meds with him. So not only does he want to amputate her emotionally he wants to physically as well because he's going through withdrawal when she isn't around.
Just because it says the word Heroin, you automatically assume the girl in question is a drug addict? Give me a fucking break, heroin is a massively addicting drug, and the feeling of love can be very much like a drug. The phrase "heroin embraces" can merely mean that the character in this song is masochistically addicted to this girl.