Crooked Spoons

Otep · The Ascension [2007]

Take me down...

Where the baptized drown!

So they say



Surface dweller

Shallow swimmer

Let's lick

My wounds



So they say I killed a man

So they say I took his head

So they say he was a scourge

And all the world are his children

The best thing he ever did

In this life was let me live

Digging swiftly out of Hell

Madness helps me save myself

Crooked spoons on every wall

Genocide lines the hall

To gauge needles and a prayer

Smearing sin everywhere



(chorus)

What else could you need?

You've taken everything.



Surface dweller

Shallow swimmer

Let's lick

My wounds



We feed until we're engorged

Let them sleep I need some more

Nooses made of human hair

Bodies falling from thin air

We speak and preach forbidden truth

This is it we're through with you

I'm choosing to lose my mind

Rape the blade and call it wine

Crooked spoons on every wall

Genocide lines the hall

To gauge needles and a prayer

Smearing sin everywhere



(chorus)

What else could you need?

You've taken everything.



Surface dweller

Shallow swimmer



I sleep too deep

For you to wake me

I sleep to deep

For you to wake me

I sleep to deep

For you

You'll never wake me



My lips are kissed

With tiny stitches!



(chorus)

What else could you need?

You've taken everything.



The venom

That slips

From your lips

The tiny lies

Shining in your eyes

Pain in my veins

Shallow

Hollow

Incarcerated soul

I sleep to deep

For you to wake me

Up!