Graveyard Prom

from Awaken Necropolis by Baby Killer Estelle

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The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.

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Oh darling, darling darling, I’ll kiss your cold blue hands
I want to be your someone
I want to be your man
Oh darling, darling, darling, It’s not hard to understand
Our bodies crushed beneath the weight of the fat old fatherland

The revolution’s already come and gone
We’re surrounded by police cars
So let’s run off into the night
And take back what should have been ours

Sadistic fate has severed our heads
There’s a prom in the graveyard tonight
Oh baby, we’re born dead

Oh darling, darling, darling the maggots eat my hands
But how they long to carress you
I’m a tired and broken man
Oh darling, darling, darling, and I’ll never understand
Why time is out to get us
Ripping our hair out strand by strand

It’s a national emergency
We’re surrounded by police cars
So let’s run off into the night
And take back what should have been ours

And if things worked out a little differently, these shrunken skulls could have been human heads
There’s a prom in the graveyard tonight
Oh baby, we’re born dead
Oh baby, we’re born dead

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from Awaken Necropolis, released August 23, 2010

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