LO! LYRICS

1. Hall of Extinct Animals

Made wingless to be consumed
Lead me down to the path
Of the slaughter yard
Lead me down to the path

2. As Fools Ripen

Vestigial heart
Mongrel seed
Spectres of the soul
Neglected synthetic
Our puppet life
I can't deny
Squandering time
A shell forever
Your plague elect
All heavens sheep now shall receive
Their Judas goat I will deceive
All heavens sheep now shall receive
Their Judas goat I will deceive
Your usurper repent suffer
Cruelty personified
We nullify inside
Wade out in a silent sea of human grief
Come drown with me
Wade out in a silent sea of human grief
Come drown with me
Hollow as prayer
Empty as a psalm
Man's grotesquerie
Awe and abuse
Our ape deities
Cluster fucks
Hollow as prayer
Empty as a psalm
Snake amongst hens fools ripen
Blind vanity gluttons
I am the canker
The mouth of dirt
Carrion beggar
Your vile Christ

3. Glutton

Curse of technology
Ill lust of the west
A horde grown insensible
Life spent craning of necks
Such a wastage of flesh still glued to that screen
Our love now mechanized
Death of intimacy
Morons en masse
Granular identities
Our double edged sword
Plugged in humanity
Connected but empty
Hollow as prayer
False as a psalm
You're absent from your present
Fear of regrets addicted to staying abreast
Cyclops of distraction
Clutch the world in your hand
Cyclops of distraction
Glutton
Glutton
Maladaptive modern man
Whores for convenience
Slave to fashion
Maladaptive modern man
Whores for convenience
Slave to fashion
Glutton
Glutton

4. Locust Christ

We monkeys die a martyr's death
Via a million cuts
I call for regicide of our vulture Christ
Performing anti miracles
Sporadic whims
Tyrant democracy
Dethrone unrobe world breakers
Nailed to the beehive
Pray to the locust Christ
Emperor of demise
Skin slaves chained
To this ball of ash
Skin slaves chained
To this ball of ash
Marvel at our dying reef
Choke on this last gasp of hope
Decapitate our bloated priests
Ape blood debt

5. Butcher Birds

A tailored dread
Keeps insects at prayer
Dull witted worms captives of terror
This blind faith is indefensible
Meek is our herd
All the more malleable
Praise our western bliss
Raise our glutton kids
Kept in fear paralysis
Scapegoats and witch lists
Praise our western bliss
This horse with blinders on
Theatre of war
Butcher birds
Play out our gruesome acts
Mouth of coal
Skin of ash
Pretty as the crucifix
The banker's pawns
We bowerbirds
Use death to line our nests
Wings of lead souls of dirt
Pretty as the crucifix
Stripped naked exposed you'll be thankful
Home grown demon
Stripped naked exposed
Willingly we succumb shepherd us
Dull witted worms captives of a tailored dread
Bow down now stay mute and loyal

6. Bombardier

They came just after dark
Shortly after the sirens wailed I could hear the planes grinding overhead
In my room, with its black curtains drawn across the windows
You could feel the shake from the guns
The motors seemed to grind rather than roar
And to have an angry pulsation
Like a bee buzzing in blind fury
As we stepped out onto the balcony a vast inner excitement came over all of us
An excitement that had neither fear nor horror in it, because it was too full of awe
The whole horizon of a city lined with great fires – scores of them
Perhaps hundreds
There was something inspiring just in the awful savagery of it
Into the dark shadowed spaces below us while we watched
Whole batches of incendiary bombs fell
Then quickly simmered down to pinpoints of dazzling white, burning ferociously.
All around below were the shadows
The dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
These things all went together to make the most hateful
Most beautiful single scene I have ever known
(correspondence of the London blitz by Ernie Pyle)

7. A Tiger Moths Shadow

Old vessels for the yard
Guilt ridden and battle scarred
Nostalgic impotence
As our own children stalk us
Masterless warriors
Senile with sheathed swords
Dull dreams all burnt out
Once were gods now slumber
Usurp life pathetic
Knell in your dying church
Of thriving lies accept it accept it
Usurp life pathetic
Kneel in your dying church
Of thriving lies accept it
Here's to your legacy
Judge me hung jury
Wardens to a sty
Dead birds fill a black sky
Usurp life pathetic
Kneel in your dying church
Of thriving lies accept it accept it
Usurp life pathetic
Kneel in your dying church
Of thriving lies accept it accept it
Here's to your legacy
Judge me hung jury
Wardens to a sty
Dead birds fill a black sky
The constant feast left you hollow
All hail your locust Christ
His age of sorrow
He's always been here our psychopomp
The Judas steer is one of us
Old vessels for the yard
Guilt ridden and battle scarred
Masterless warriors
Senile with sheathed swords
Dull dreams of past burnt out
Here's to your legacy
Judge me hung jury
Wardens to a sty
Dead birds fill a black sky

8. Judas Steer

To fillet through our hides to savour each of our crafted lies
You'd prefer to wield the blunt knife revel in this fear you smear
Inhuman nature
Melt you down to mend my rotten crown
Who's smiling now
Your veneer of god
Segregate us apes we
Ignore our DNA
Now clamber over our family skeletons
Hail the Judas steer
Hail our psychopomp
He'd love to lead us to the axe
Melt you down to mend my rotten crown
Who's smiling now
Your veneer of god
Spread my wings to flee your sufferings
Who's smiling now
Your veneer of god
We all shit seed choke
Snakes among us
You've always been here
You never loved us our Judas steer
We'd love you to lead us to the axe
We'd love you to lead us to the axe

9. Bestial Beginnings

A muse not worth truth
Kept in the cage of my chest
No respite in the flame
No warmth in the breath
This long age of life
Chains amass I suffer
This skin tarnished and worn
It's just more of the same
And we'll fester forever
The battered spouse and her vile Christ
Cake on the mask comply
The battered spouse and her vile Christ

10. The Worms Lament

Our past forever clings
Fresh paint on old sins
We are damned men laughing
We are damned men laughing
Pack us well no room to fall
We stand in death erect loyal
Warmonger first world snake
Present false flesh to rake
So the worms cry out "inject us with fear"
So the worms cry out "hand me a gun"
Raise a glass
Stave off the horror
Flesh drum beats on
Gods of ruin
The grand deceiver spoke
"addicts for terror!"
The grand deceiver spoke
"sheep for heaven!"
Raise a glass
Stave off the horror
Flesh drum beats on
Gods of ruin
The grand deceiver spoke
"addicts for terror!"
The grand deceiver spoke
"sheep for heaven!"
Our past forever clings
Fresh paint on old sins
We are damned men laughing
We are damned men laughing
Our past forever clings
Fresh paint on old sins
We are damned men laughing
We are damned men laughing
So the worms cry out "inject us with fear"
We the worms cry out "beat our flesh drums"
The grand deceiver spoke
"addicts for terror!"
The grand deceiver spoke

11. Gods of Ruin

Cloak our dying forms
In liars robes
Slither on life enders
Twisted will guilty smiles preaching peace
Elect the tainted
Pray to gods of ruin
Cashing in war lusting for death
Trusting in wolves
Gods of ruin
Gods of ruin fatal love of guns
Death immediate become a flood of bullets now
Gods of ruin fatal love of guns
Death immediate become a flood of bullets now
Worship opinion over facts
Primal rejection suit of false flesh
Bow to your death pope
Behold our locust Christ
Draw up extinction plans
Pontificate demise
Raise the runts worship mediocrity
Praise the stunts
Rejoice romance my rifle
Deep throat the cold barrel







LO! LYRICS