A twisted tale from a burning man


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By Spider on Wednesday, July 19, 2000 - 09:34 pm:

    "Little Birds"


    Little birds born without a mother or a father
    I can watch their bodies forming in the running water
    Now there is another in the middle of my mouth
    A hundred altogether within me now
    Little bird, little bird come into my body

    Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking
    Bodies multiplying till they finally overtake me
    Open up my mouth but all you'll ever hear is singing
    Put your hand within me and you'll know what I'm feeling
    I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them

    Daddy come to touch me but he seen his hands are shaking
    Look into my eyes and he could see their bodies breaking
    Push me to the floor and in his hands I started beating
    "I don't want to hear it anymore", he kept repeating
    "Do you really want the burning hell that we believe in?"

    "Did you know the burning hell it took your baby brother?
    Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?
    Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover
    And deep in sin they held each other
    So I took a hammer and nearly beat his little brains in
    Knowing God in heaven could have, never could forgive him
    So I took a hammer and I nearly beat his brains in"

    Little boy born without a father or a mother
    Taken to the river and then pushed into the water
    And the priests are singing that the hell is getting hotter
    "Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
    From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him"
    "Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
    From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him"

    And here beneath the water I can see
    How the lights distort so strange
    And I think this is how I would like to leave my body
    And start again