Satan In The Wait

That bastard had a head like a matchstick

Face like he was sucking concrete through a straw

"Some faces not even a mother can love."

Says the spit and spatter of broken glass from above

"There's a tombstone where your headboard used to be."

They tell him every night before sleep

Every night before he dreams big and comes complete

Then he sees himself floating high above the certainty of his feet

Sees some gutless worm, seeking a free ride inside the stomach of a whale

He can live without air for several days, he says

He says he knows things, this man, he says

He says he wouldn't wait for the light or the dark to fade

He says you'll want to move for the mouths of the damned elite

"Yeah, I'm good for whatever."

The other smiles convinced

Tell me what's best and when. I'll save the date

I'll set the tone, I'll wander in my sleep

They each raise a glass and clang

"Here's to what will

Here's to the sharpened pencil

Splitting the cast from the skin

Curing the itch, curling the toes

Here's to celebrity and fulfillment

Here's to the top of the world

Here's to a tired leaning wall

Here's to the tragedy to ensue."

Their bodies are open

Their channels are open

This world is opening up

Up, up, up

Today's gonna feel like tomorrow, some day

Tomorrow's gonna feel like yesterday

This world is opening up

This world is opening up

Today's gonna feel like tomorrow today

(This world is opening up)

Daughters - Satan In The Wait

/ I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. /

For such a long time I couldn't touch anything so strange, dark and immense. To touch something so strongly reminiscent of 'The Dawnward Spiral' not as much of the sound but of this incredible irreversible, uncompromising, intangible feeling of darkness that permeates you through, fascinates, enslaves... While listening to this music, you slowly disappear from this world without noticing that you are trying to solve the riddle which you can never figure out, to realize something that you can never understand...