There's a villain in my head
And he's giving me shocks
Save me from me, save me from me

His name is leather mcwhip
And he needs to be stopped
Fly above me, fly above my roam
Fly above me, fly above me

Well I never had much of a lovely goal
Leave me halving, halving ever

It's like my mind's been touched
Though I never was born
Please deform me, please deform me

Let me out
Of my head
In my bed
It's a lovely leather brown poison

No more shine
With the frame
Of a brain
It's a lovely leather brown poison

It's pencil rot!


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    i think it's supposed to be "fly above my home".

    also, it's missing the whole spoken-word part:

    "i'm here to sing a song a song about priviliges the spikes you put on your feet when you were crawling and dancing to the top of the human shitpile, shitpile!

    so now you manage to hallucinate some things that were always in my eyes, always in my eyes and other people see themselves in you and i can see them in you to".

    then it goes,

    "in my head there's a bed it's unmade it's a lovely leather brown poison"

    and a couple of verses i don't know the lyrics to, too.

    eyecoofon May 10, 2006   Link
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    General Comment

    The title is "rot," not riot.

    shesmostunusualon May 14, 2006   Link
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    General Comment

    isn't it leather-bound poison?

    sortileguson May 14, 2007   Link
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    General Comment

    Not to mention "elucidate" rather than "halucinate" [sic].

    angel_wiredon November 18, 2007   Link

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