Agony and Ecstasy and Agony

We Know Where You Sleep

Close your eyes when we kiss… ‘Cause I am prepared to set myself on fire for this

2. The Kids Will Grow Up to Be Assholes

You don't want your messes cleaned You don't want your bodies fixed You don't want your problems solved, stories all resolved You'll have nothing to lean on You don't want your stitches sewn 'Cause then you'll have the big unknown We'll be watching you so watch your mouth… You better watch your mouth

3. Wait Until I Get My Hands on You

So go ahead, hold your breath Be my guest, see if I care ‘Cause it's your life, it's your face in the place of the mirror And here's to you, merci beaucoup But wait 'til I get my hands on you That's all you will get – a bear hug from your armless brother So save your teeth for the toothy grins to your mother

4. You Will Never Take Me Alive

Did you know that you nurse a beehive? Come and get it! Come take me alive All our noses are aiming at grisly frontiers We will show this cruel world… We will show this cruel world we were here

5. Delivered in a Firm Unyielding Way Lingering for Just a Bit Too Long to Communicate the Message “I Own You”

She usually comes to see me at night, and she— she lives up in the attic, and sometimes when my friends come around, she— she hides from them.​

Um, a lot of, uh, household items go missing. We've had guests that— that have encountered her.​

She likes this place. She likes the attic especially, that's why she lives up there.​

6. The Most Important Part of Your Body

‘Cause when you know too much Aren't you able-bodied, dear I think you know too much The mind knows what the mouth wants

7. You're One of Them Aren't You?

Go ahead, good friend, scream all you want to You're legless and limping and lost and it's just like they like you And I can feel your tender bodies coming near I see 'em hanging from the crystal chandelier I'm hope for the hopeless I'm help for the helplessly hopeful Life is long when you're lonely The ugly, the unclean, the unfit will fuck the unhappy

8. The Song Will Eat Itself

Singing strong knees, clean kidneys Singing for sharp minds Let's organize before they rise Singing strong knees, clean kidneys Singing so they hear Let's let this world know we were here

9. ...And All the Candy You Can Eat

And that's the fever talking, honey "I've come to fatten you up" 'Cause I'm an open book, my honey Except for when the book is shut

10. All Manner of Pox and Canker

The baby hair you saved Will circle around their drains They got a big sick surprise for you… Yeah, it's, it's in the oven, it's in the oven

11. At the Other End of the Leash

I come home right on time Calmly loosen my necktie We stare at the wall watch We're moving the furniture around I come home first in line Wanna loosen my necktie But it's your world we live in We're moving the furniture around

12. The House is Alive and The House is Hungry

I want a man who splays down in the street The swinging bodies and the children in the wet concrete The house with the laughing windows Spilling blood like a cheap innuendo