Hell's Itch

[Chorus: Stu Mackenzie]

Flick the switch

Hell's itch

Derma-glitch

Hell's itch

Bewitched

Hell's itch

Perpetual twitch

Hell's itch

[Verse 1: Stu Mackenzie, (Ambrose Kenny-Smith)]

Why, why, why, when my nail glides

Through my epidermis, does it feel so joyous?

The deeper the cut, the thicker the blood

Subcutaneous fat feels good like that

Dancing beneath my wafer-thin crust

Teasing me, taunting me, my unquenchable lust

If I only could locate this bug

Oozing under like a slug

I'd slice my skin to get within

Lacerate my own linchpin

Nominate my next of kin (Nominate my, next of kin)

Destroy myself with no chagrin

Find the source of this deep remorse

Buried deep inside me like a sunken horse

Rooted below in the innermost abyss is a

Fathomless unscratchable itch

[Verse 2: Stu Mackenzie]

Shed my skin if need be to suppress

The itch for it would fill me with glee

Whatever is this persistent yearn

To rip off my skin and stop the burn

Crawling tender temptations

Catacombs beneath layers of hatching eggs

Thunder threads

Claws enthralled in pitted keratosis

Lacerations peeling paper thin

Barbecue skin, deeper burying

Woo!

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus: Stu Mackenzie]

Flick the switch

Hell's itch

Derma-glitch

Hell's itch

Bewitched

Hell's itch

Perpetual twitch

Hell's itch

Rising pitch

Hell's itch

Latent witch

Hell's itch

Grisly stitch

Hell's itch

[Post-Chorus: Stu Mackenzie]

The old adage: Pain is easier to endure than an itch

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2: Stu Mackenzie]

Shed my skin if it need be

To suppress the itch for it would fill me with glee

Whatever is this persistent yearning

To rip off my skin and stop the burning

Crawling tender temptations

Catacombs beneath layers of hatching eggs

Thunder threads

Claws enthralled in pitted keratosis

Lacerations peeling paper thin

Barbecue skin, deeper burying

[Chorus: Stu Mackenzie]

Flick the switch

Hell's itch

Derma-glitch

Hell's itch

Bewitched

Hell's itch

Perpetual twitch

Hell's itch

Woo!

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3: Joey Walker]

Let the sun burn, oh, my cells gurn

When the skin drips I sing the hell's itch

Deep in the compost, believe that the worm

Can still see the light, oh, I sing the hell's itch

I sleep with the rat whose kiss has set me free

Oh, I sing, oh, I sing the hell's itch

Prick the ceramic, bodily condom

Be gone, oh, baby, please be gone

The breeze on my flesh feels so fuckin' good

Look at me now, oh, Helen

Yeah, I'm finally red, yeah, I'm finally red

Yeah, I'm finally red

Ooh, I'm finally red, ooh, I'm finally red

Ooh, I'm finally red

[Verse 4: Stu Mackenzie]

Why, why, why, when my nail glides

Through my epidermis, does it feel so joyous?

The deeper the cut, the thicker the blood

Subcutaneous fat hurts good like that

Dancing beneath my wafer-thin crust

Teasing me, taunting me, my unquenchable lust

If I only could locate this bug

Oozing under like a slug

I'd slice my skin to get within

Lacerate my own linchpin

Nominate my next of kin

Destroy myself with no chagrin

Find the source of this deep remorse

Buried deep inside me like a sunken horse

Rooted below in the innermost abyss is a

Fathomless unscratchable itch