NECROPOLIS

So burned the sky and scorched the earth
To wasteland Mother has given birth
She fed us ashes, blessed the dust
Seems Fate had nothing in store for us

Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah…
Alas!

Fate, you foolish thing
Though you elude me in my dreams
While you may think that you have won
As Time will tell, it’s zero-sum

It’s been foretold Time will betray
You as your void pollutes her Space
No thing is saved immunity
To certainty, eternal heat

Ah!

Ah, ah… ah, ah…
Ah!
Oh!
Alas!

Truth we cannot reach
The nature of Infinity
Is it a curse, or blessed be
That matter makes up all of me?

Despite our quest to set us free
Although we seek to sow our seeds
We shall fulfill our destiny
We’ll not be spared from Entropy

This body’s made for worship, but it only ends up sold
So lift my skirt to dig up dirt and start to strike some gold
Then starve me, shrink my skin and bones, make me a pageant girl
For guys who say they’re into me who all are getting old

I crave something sweet to eat but nothing’s in the cupboard
Though the tank on empty keeps you interested in my lore
When I find it’s me you seek, I’ll take up shield and my sword
Forge my armor sharp as nails, prepare me for the war

Beauty queen, beauty queen
Tell me that you’re lonely
Beauty queen, beauty queen
‘Cuz I’m broke and hungry
Beauty queen, beauty queen
Don’t call me your honey
Beauty queen, beauty queen
I just want your money

I’m sick of spotlight, sick of the night, sick of turning heads
They only want to waste my time and hang me by a thread
Though being pretty’s ingrained in me more than being fed
Your praise will never flatter me, that shit’s been beaten dead

Feels like desecration when our Venus once was sacred
Take me to your temple, see that sanctity’s gone wasted
Carry me to battle with a razor and a bottle
Shave my legs and sharpen my nails, paint them bloody red

Beauty queen, beauty queen
Nothing in this life’s for free
Beauty queen, beauty queen
Hurt myself to be pristine
Beauty queen, beauty queen
Make myself an offering
Beauty queen, beauty queen
My sacrifice to the machine

I dreamed a dream…
Oh, the visions that I’ve seen
One day, it will come to be
I’ll rob you what you stole from me

Beauty queen, beauty queen
Your capital is all a scheme
Beauty queen, beauty queen
To famish, wither, empty me
Beauty queen, beauty queen
Never was I yours to keep
Beauty queen, beauty queen
Fuck you and your money

My body aches with the pangs of restraint
I will break water’s flow, sunk with stones
Find my bones, Ophelia

Bright, dazzling white
Starry eyed, I’ve gone blind from your light
Point the knife, leave my mind dark as night

Ask to be or not to be
To die, to sleep, perchance to dream
I’ve dreamt awake what I do seek
And seen you’re never meant for me

Behold the weight of prophecy
Of flowers felled into the creek
Rejoice my deed and do not weep
Of you I’m freed, Ophelia

Fate’s hand betrays
Though I pray, try I may, everything will decay
What remains certain’s change

The natural laws of time and space
Lead every path to end in waste
(—To muddy death!)

Visions I had long foreseen
Of locks of hair plunged dark, down, deep
I misconstrued mistakenly
The subject of this tragedy

Allow the pull of gravity
To lull you soft into the stream
A lullaby to you I’d sing
Perchance you’d dream, Ophelia

Upon my head I wear the hood
Placed to crown my maidenhood
Like prisoners on altars stood
Poised for death’s soon likelihood

You said I was very good
Lured me in because you could
Now I know I never should
Have followed you into the woods

Be wary of falling…
Down the rabbit’s hole

Girls like me might look wide-eyed
Like does when startled by some light
But desperation quells the fright
Of wandering alone at night

Don’t see the forest for the trees
Whose backward limbs had beckoned me
While deep into that dark I peered
I wondered where the trail might lead

Recall the words
Convincingly said
Before they left
Left me for dead

Following the breadcrumbs leads
Honest hearts to dens of thieves
Who in the woods like cowards hide
And speak lies that decay the mind

You said I misunderstood
Brought myself because I could
A captor I will never serve
Love’s a curse I don’t deserve

This track samples and contains the song "Abandoned Memories" from Hirofumi Taniguchi's score of Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure, developed by Skip Ltd. and released by Nintendo for GameCube in 2005.

Her body is a machine
That falters with every heartbeat
Boot the program, download apathy
But the fail-safe crashed, now she seeks meaning

To find the future’s black and bleak
Destruction is all she perceives
Gotta fix her when she wants to cease
Just up the dosage for her every week

But it’s not working—can you believe
That she seeks to keep her autonomy?
Take an ice pick, give her lobotomy
Make her numb and stop her crying

Hit the kill switch on her empathy
But it grows inside, synergizing
Now she’s breaking down, she’s melting
Circuits overload her wiring

This techno spectre’s menacing
Haunts your brain with shocking brutality
Break the world down, leave ‘em scrambling
Lay waste to our society

Stamp a barcode, good for deciphering
Where the cog fits in the machinery
Gonna book ‘em, snatch ‘em in their sleep
Into twenty-first century slavery

Will you let them into your dreams?
Implant their gross depravity?
What’s real and what’s illusory?
Who decides what it is that, that you see?

Who’s your master, a sick tyrant king
Or the will of your own morality?
She’d soon go down, her soul to keep
Than abandon all those memories

In this house I live alone
In this house I live alone
No matter who may pass through here
This house will never be a home

On this Earth I walk alone
On this Earth I walk alone
No matter what may come to be
On this Earth I will walk alone

So… I’ve been thinking a lot lately about all of this…
And it’s—it’s not that nothing matters…
All of this matters.
Everything matters.
Every single, fucking thing matters.
It’s just that…

Voices in my head
Tell me what to do
Voices in my head
They tell me the truth
Voices in my head
Call me drama queen
Voices in my head
They are hurting me

Voices in my head
Won’t you just come here?
Voices in my head
I need someone near
Voices in my head
Call it a disease
Voices in my head
Put me on my knees

Voices in my head
Give me medicine
Voices in my head
Won’t do anything
Voices in my head
Tried all that I could
Voices in my head
But am I no good?

Voices in my head
Make me want to cry
Voices in my head
I will close my eyes
Voices in my head
Tell them—make them stop!
Voices in my head
Tell them—I give up

Bright, shining candlestick
My light, burning quick
Once its wax had seemed so thick
Wish that Fate were mine to pick

The fortunate who journey far
Take shelter in some beating heart
So when the world does fall apart
I’ll drift alone into the dark

Stars burst into the sky
Eyes wide—sends me blind
All alone I’ve known I’d die
Shame the bombs would fall at night

I wonder if surviving this
Is worth the cost of living in
A demon-haunted world so sick
No love in this Necropolis

Underneath, in the catacombs
Where I’m left on my own
Not one gravestone
To mark the heaps of bones
I hear a bell’s tone
A dissonant, aching drone
Please don’t leave me alone
I’d give all that I own
If I could only know
That which I must atone

I ask you one more time
The nature of my crime
Demand the reasons why
The good deserve to die

In the city of the dead
No place to rest my weary head
Forsake my will and bless my dread
Awaiting for it all to end

And if I must return to dirt
Allow my atoms to rebirth
My Earthly body soon dispersed
To spread across the universe

Still shorter shrinks the wick
My light, fading quick
Sick, I’m sick, I’m very sick
And Time is going tick, tick, tick…