Necrofauna / The Garden Of Eden

[Instrumental Intro]

[Spoken Verse 1]

I wake up in the dark

The sound of foxes mating reverberates around the inside of the quad of the complex of flats

In which we reside

Like shrieking demonic children

I can't take it anymore

So I rise

Out of my body, up off the bed, and into the shadowed hallway

I shiver, but I'm not cold

Not dramatic, not raining

I'm a spirit, come to haunt the dead

[Spoken Verse 2]

I leave my sleeping self back in there

And step through the closed front door onto the street

The orange glow makes monochrome of the cars hunched over on either side

As if ashamed to wait for their owners to return and slide a key into their ignitions

It's a nasty, wind blown night

But I throw back my head and smile

[Chorus]

Nothing says I love you like this thing

A carrot on a string (Who do you love?)

I've had waking sweats from fever dreams

Guess I'm feeling the sting (Who do you love?)

[Spoken Verse 3]

My gaze returns to Earth

And alights before me on a pulsing hole that has split the air open

Like a portal to another dimension

I approach it and climb in

Despite its colour and appearance, it's filthy

It leaves stains of grass and mud on my naked torso as I clamber through

It's like I'm returning to the womb

[Spoken Verse 4]

I emerge (Don't let me interrupt)

And I'm in the garden

(As long as they stop bothering us)

I can see the awesome minds of Bosch and Milton (As long as they stop bothering us)

Hollis, Coleridge

I see a deer pass me by and I break its neck (Don't let me interrupt)

Rip off its hind leg and take a bite (As long as they stop bothering us)

Through fur, sinew, and bone

[Chorus]

Nothing says I love you like this thing

A carrot on a string (Who do you love?)

I've had waking sweats from fever dreams

Guess I'm feeling the sting (Who do you love?)

[Spoken Bridge]

I do not love this place

We only save what we love

And I do not love this place

[Outro]

I lift the veil from the horizon

And see a future for us there

I believe you will be okay

I believe

It will all, everything

Soaring, soaring, breaking through clouds

Riding vapour trails all across the sky

I believe

You will be okay

You don't have to try

We will be okay

Everything