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lyrics
[I just thought I should warn you…]
That I've already martyred you in my mind
I'm spending more and more of my mornings in lonely boredom
absorbed in the sort of sordid consorting that keeps me mourning
the loss of nothing more than merely mortal enjoyment
But now I'm lost in the background, ages from the battleground
like pages from the papers of people who time forgot about
I've got an out--all I need's a victim and their whereabouts
and thereabouts is where we bring this back to how I singled out
your simple self--I'm sorry for the way I feed, and how I prey
on human hearts and body parts like I died and escaped the grave
I'm singled-celled, not sorry for the way I feel or how I pray to nothing
--not to god, and not for my country
And though I know that it's the moral pejorative I'm a pessimistic
nowhere man, living in my nowhere land, making all my nowhere plans
thinking thoughts of no clear end before I bend to break/I thought I should say:
[I just thought I should warn you…]
That I've already written you off,
already written you into the very lines of this song
I've transformed you from your former form into these formal formants,
forging forward, uniformed to form the format for this fortune, but
I don't want to seem too callous,
my skin is still subjectable to bruises and to scratches.
My brain is still the same old grey contorted muscle mass, it's
pumping full of chemicals to counteract imbalance
But, I don't think I've popped a pill to counteract this sadness
Cause loneliness is foreign to serotonin synapses
I wish that I could coexist with all of nature's forces
but as it is, I'm waging war from coast to shining coast, it's
Like I'm playing God and you're the host, the prophet of Lord Voldemort,
the mortal soul that holds the greatest burden ever known, I know
I shouldn't be so slow to see my own patterns regrowing, but...
So run, run, run, as fast as you can
I'm a vampiric cannibal, the tales you heard ain't allegories
Yeah--run, run, as fast as you can
I'm a vampiric cannibal, only concerned with capitol
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