Lyric discussion by alicialuewho 

Cover art for Tarantula lyrics by This Mortal Coil

These lyrics are not totally correct and partially nonsensical.

Here's what is really being sung:

I'm living but I'm feeling numb, can see it in my stare I wear a mask so falsely [now], and I don't know who I am [This void that wells] inside of me, ??thwarting me away?? <--"thwarting me away" is incorrect but I don't know what is actually being sung I've noticed in other eyes, time's closing in

But when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula

The future's looking rather grim, strange black [time] Decisions lie with stupid men, alone with my life [They're choking and they're hyping me], expecting me to fall But only if I'm threatened will the tables turn

But when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula

My world's under a sentence of death, I was born [under clouds] But when the pressure gets too much for me, I bite