The Family and the Fishing Net (Live) [Athens 1987]

[Verse 1]

Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams

Her honey belly pulls the seams

The curves are stiff upon the hinge

Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin

[Verse 2]

Moist as grass, ripe and heavy is the night

The sponge is full, well out of sight

All around the conversations

Icing on the warm flesh cake

[Verse 3]

Light creeps through her secret tunnels

Sucked into the open spaces

Burning out in sudden flashes

Draining blood from well-fed faces

[Interlude]

[Verse 4]

Desire forms in subtle whispers

Flex the muscles in denial

Up and down its pristine cage

So the music, so the trial

[Chorus 1]

Vows of sacrifice, vows of sacrifice

Headless chickens, headless chickens

Dance in circles, dance in circles

They the blessed

Man and wife, undressed by all

Their grafted trunks in heat possessed

[Interlude]

[Verse 5]

Even as the soft skins tingle

They mingle with the homeless mother

Loves the day but lives another

Once was hers

[Verse 6]

Worried father, long lost lover

Brushes ashes with his broom

Rehearses jokes to fly and hover

Bursting over the bride and groom

[Interlude]

The talk goes on

[Bridge]

Memories crash on all the waves

The lifeguards whom the winter saves

Memories crash on all the waves

The lifeguards whom the winter saves

[Verse 7]

Silence falls the guillotine

All the doors are shut

Nervous hands grip tight the knife

In the darkness, 'til the cake is cut

[Chorus 2]

And passed around, cut and passed around

In little pieces, in little pieces

The body, the body and the flesh

Family, family

And the fishing net, and the fishing net

Another, another

Another in the mesh

[Outro]

The body and the flesh

And the flesh