Bokor - Iesu From Mattoroso lyrics

Place my white skull high above my City So that I can forever see Come all the cleansing desert nights Come all the silent clarity Let me look down upon all the swollen saviours All the prophet flesh lined up along the dry roads All the sweet crosses and failed resurrections All the sun gods grinded to dust like bugs I will have a legion other gods Lead them forth into this world Soak them up from the grit in the backyards On to the streets of all our Babylon I will succumb to your lukewarm Providence Only after the desert has been paying its due Only after the rain has stirred the Sleepers And their voices will rise like a buzzing wonderous sea I will throw myself in the Pit And await your rain of stones For I alone have seen the Truth And hollered out the Name And the Name has heeded me And broken all the bonds And Harlots will wake up by my bed As my wounds will heal As they dance in the smoke Of inscense, hashish and myrrh Oh Lord, if my hands have offended you Oh Lord, if my hands have offended you Then I'll cut them off Just not today Burn skin, burn away Behind the veil Filled with new life When the rains come I find my flesh feasted upon 'Till all is white and clean Pearl white bone tools left in the wild Scar tissue on the hands of thieves This dove is just a rat with wings This lion just a sack with maggots within But I am your King Oh I've come to be your righteous King But I will be King Oh I will be King Why is my City a grave? Why do the lepers I cure Keep wearing their wounds with such pride? Why is my City so hungry? Why do the man-children starve When I have shown them all there is to eat? All my skin is peeling now All the other lives I nurtured with me Are ready to fly Pushing out through me My blistered surface To dry their pretty wings In the sun and fly Why does my City refuse The Gospel I sung for seven years? The marriage of man and locust, under my rule? Why is my City so strange? Filled with strangers and foreign blood? Why do they mock their King And why must I leave? And walk with no skin between me and the desert Walk with no skin between me and the Swarm Bone to bone, marrow to marrow Hollow soul to hollow soul Spine to spine. Fever to fever Broken shell to broken shell Salt to salt. Hunger to hunger Trembling flesh to tremling flesh Walk with no skin into the Swarm Walk with no skin into the Swarm