Anorexic Beauty - Freaks

Sitting alone on / a cold bar stool, / your cold, hard eyes make me / feel a fool. / Pastel-white features, / high cheek-bones, / scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones. / The girl of my nightmares, / sultry and corpse-like. / The girl / of my / nightmares. / Brittle fingers, / and thin […]

Life Must be so Wonderful - Freaks

Life must be so wonderful, living here on your own, / please call / around to see. / And maybe I’ve been loving you for too long, / and now blind, / I watch you bleed. / You rot in your bedroom, you cry on the phone. / Well I’m sorry / but he’s not […]

The Never-Ending Story - Freaks

When all should be done and gone, / he comes round again to see, / he can’t keep himself away. / He touches her hand and it starts again. / His work is an ugly mess. / He prods and it cries in pain. / He kicks and it starts to scream. / He hurries […]

Master of the Universe - Freaks

I am the master of this universe / and I’ve got so big it hurts / Raise your eyes and graze your knees / oh for your master is displeased / because you dared to doubt his word / his polished surface dulls and cracks / Your bitter laughter breaks his back / I am […]

There’s No Emotion - Freaks

As I lay / down in the bedroom, / there came a sound / from far away. / As I strained / my ears to listen / I could hear / a thin voice say: / ‘In your heart / there’s no emotion, / and your soul, / your soul just dried away. / There’s […]

They Suffocate at Night - Freaks

His body loved her, his mind was set on other things Keep your face out of sight and your thoughts to yourself And this went on for several nights festering in silence, growing in the dark And this they saw as love. Love So sad to see They suffocate at night Oh this they saw […]

Don’t You Know - Freaks

There’s not much time for talking, / all your friends are / going to walk away. / If there was time for talking / all too soon you’d be / lost for things to say. / Don’t you know she could break you, / every bone that’s inside of you? / Then again she might […]

Being Followed Home - Freaks

I’m being followed home, / I’m being followed home, / I don’t know what for, / I don’t know by whom. / The smell of your dress, / a face in the rain, / the pavement shines wet / in focus again. / Oh… / oh… / oh… / oh. / In a dead seaside […]

I Want You - Freaks

Hey, / you can look, you can look just like anyone else / if that’s what you want to do. / I, / I could laugh, I could laugh in your face if I want / oh, but I’m not going to. / ([backing vocals:] ba ba ba ba) / When we met last week […]

Fairground - Freaks

As the signs outside proclaimed, nature sometimes makes mistakes. Was it the mother or the father to blame, inside the damp grass and tilted tent? As the signs outside proclaimed, nature sometimes makes mistakes. Was it the mother or the father to blame, inside the damp grass and tilted tent? / Won’t you come with […]