Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth

Fuck, what have you done? I was out wandering with gods What, are you mad at me? Some other reason leaves to me instilled Like a madman, I'll defend the end of the world, as ennui Who said a little upper Won't help you find your way to the light? In a parallel Subtlety, denied Save them, or don't save us For the skin that we steal in the name of your willing God What are you, an asshole that can breathe without any air? Drinking the tears of parasites, are you satisfied? Ooh, there's a carving on the wall The affair is a piece of the estranged, do you see? I am aware of the signs, the lapses in space and time I am a fingertip away, I may Bonjour Just a few remaining words Caught up in a mouthful full of innuen-du-monde, adieu Our manic missive manifest of modern mystery Weigh the weightfulness of mighty-fine conceit We are allowed, allowed, allowed to weep We know right where they'll drown their vendettas in wine So where do we, where do we, where do we sign? And take it all, I'll take it all Every ounce and force, we tear away Take it Take it all, take it all Take it all Woman speaking in Greek

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026

This may be where the sidewalk ends Far below me are shimmering surfaces Water, I need water I've killed everyone here, except for my daughter She had sixteen points to make Five were heads, the other ten were snakes Chasing their tails, bringing her farther down What does it say? Does it say What does it say? Whether you're better than them? Whether it's a matter of sliding out over? Slave to the limit, goodbye, my friends I'm beginning to bond with what I lost sight of Safe to crawl across This tin can, tightrope walk I want to crawl I want to crawl across This footprint dialogue fog I want to crawl Crawl, want to I don't think we should all, we should all We should forget a bit about it Mnemonic man, mnemonic man Do you recall when you pushed a little further? We're just here to burn your cities down Caught a lot of love, heard a lot of empty voices Got a lot to learn to overcome my motives And then move beyond those ordinary ways We have seen the naked, automated cabaret And we've moved, we've moved on So move us on I've had enough of idle revelry I, for one, can only see what dreams may come for us I've had enough of flight and gravity Spill me out, evolved and screaming "I'm not meaningless" Left up to you, I'd drown in the desert Left up to you, I'd use up forever Choking down your plastic water

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026

When your dead rope machine grows cold I'll make you another one out of gold Oh, and when we die, a beast like everyone We'll find you and remind you, you shined once C'est la vie, la vie What may be has already been It's all the same And you dance your magic dance And you try so hard You try to retie all those bitter ends And push them back inside Here's my halo I don't think I'll need that There's a stranger at the door Cuts with frayed incisions On the rope we hold Oh, and when we die, a beast in all of us Will find you and remind you, you shined once C'est la vie, la vie What may be has already been It's all the same And you dance your frantic dance And you try so hard You try to retie all those wicked skins And push them back inside Here's my halo I don't think I'll need that! And I Wherever I will go Wherever I go I wear that coiled fear And in a way, the riddle ends When we can but only and always doubt So, let it all out Let it all out You and I will cut our nooses loose You and I will draw a course If you and I can find a few more minutes to Find a way to find a road You and I will never be alone

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026

I've been dredgin' the lake of my soul For a place I've never been Scattering the last of my thoughts To capture a whim Oh, filled my lungs to limit And found why we stay in denial On this unclimbed stairway Watching life go by I'll make it easier on those of us who don't know that I am still here Imagining dial tone schemes, dial tone schemes When I lost myself in the dark charade But I promise, my performance was flawless I lost myself in the dark charade And I swear, I'm far more crazy than the rumors make me out to be Crazy Crazier than me All we are is all we are Featureless with inside scars We sink through walls and float right through it all If all we are is what they say We'll become them along the way Who were we before we were ashamed? Don't tell them the cause Between fragments of all of us Still the rain to rhyme the reason Takes some time to find the one To find the soul to make me god enough That I could save us all And do you love me, now that I can save us all? Do you love me, now that I can save us all? Do you love me now? If you'll just stand over here We'll find a place where you can waste away Sorry it's not what you sought But superstition is all we brought today, today I'll return you to the wind For circumstantial assurances, love Sold the sea to buy the ship I think I may have fucked up things again Found a way to make your soul alive To make you slide So who will be the first in line? This was all an unfortunate mistake Do you recall a little bit of innocence A time when we could still forgive and forget? I remember plastic pills and crystal balls Within syringes filled, filling up with Algorithms, circuitry This fluid frame has shown me things I fear I know, I believe So who will be the first in line? They're not there, they're not there Don't look at them Don't look, stare with your menacing cinder eyes At the least of us who've given our lives Where the sanguine ought to be We pale in the light we bend Oh, enough said Where's the love, you liar?

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026

These are only words and artificial tones We're just skin and bones playing telephone with things We probably never said at all This world is stitched with schemes Where once there was reality It's hard to reach across the unbelievable distances Between what we really are and who we claim to be The irony engine isn't lost on me The shame is that we saw it coming In the faces of the young among us on crayon and paper drawings The clearest writing on the wall we could ever ask for What do they believe? Where are all their fathers? Where are all their mothers? Who left them there alone with the television remote like some Philosopher's Stone "Figure it out on your own, child" If I still have anything to say, I'll try to make it plain Contrivance is a luxury I don't have in the time that's left before the madness overtakes me I'm a voice among the voices The roar of whispers closes in And the point seems to be pointless And I've forgotten who I am And I've forgotten who I am These are only words Artificial tones These are only words These are only words

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026

It's enough, spirits spill from my lungs Sympatico, villainy, betrayed by my tongues, and Who wants to be worthless? Apparently, I do Change your life and smile a lot They're takin' you, so give 'em all that you've got Just to prove it's you Down, down, apocalypse submarine I'm sure I read somewhere It's safe to get out and go swimming Called her home to weather her veins And who should we blame for these shivering pains? And maybe we die, oh, simply to reach? Out of the confines, out of phase To ready love, to relieve at least all of it Unafraid to know you're through Down, down, apocalypse submarine I'm sure I read somewhere It's safe to get out and go swimming See them worry It couldn't be, oh, brother, I know You realize in the waiting room All I have today, I owe to the road Hey, man, don't be afraid ever I am on the ride of my life Through the land none of us ever walk at ease I walk alone, I walk alone I'm sorry I left without saying I should have said

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026

Raven found herself a skinny skin stiletto In the middle of a crowd, she needs a number Fabricating passion for her painted fellows In the middle of a crowd, she needs a lover And I want to know Why are we breaking bottles when this well is running dry? Drunk on aerosol shithole paradise Keep them guessing Make them sweat it out all at once We've always been I think I'm better than them Spirits thick as thieves, the building speaks in riddles In the middle of a crowd, it needs a number Sharpening its teeth, the spirits' weeping widows In the middle of a crowd, there are no others And I want to know Why are we breaking bottles when this well is running dry? It's the great, subliminal entertainment device With teeth, building living ghosts Be calm, be calm, you riders on the storm! See it for the shadowbox cannibal dance distraction See it for the tired smoke-and-mirror display See it for a crimson neon stained-glass refraction See it for what it is, not what you want it to be Leave a little leather-bound Miranda in the doorway So she won't say a thing Make a little miserable scene out of her I thought we were I thought we had gone Oh, spare the din, your chloroform refrain Pack away those old euphoria grenades Look at all of them reaching Look at all of those hands Pulling, grabbing, pushing, in the interest of an understanding wasteland Winslow, oh, Winslow Don't look away now

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026

Wicker wishes hold the flames at bay No water for the martyr, oh, what a shame Progress is a riddle of delays Serendipitously arranged Watch the embers wither into grey And the filament fade Oh, and the filament fades It is the cause for causing choruses To erupt in front of stages in the dark It is the cure between the words And what we thought we heard as such Cleverness and sleight of tongue Ordinarily, we'd find a better fit And organise the messages' intent With words and scenes, insinuations Emotional manipulation throughout (Throughout) For no good reason, I'd deceive you all Just to get the point across And I've been a hypocrite And I'm certain I have lied And I've been to nothingness And barely bothered to survive I laughed when your levee broke To shed tears when nobody rose To say "It's just a ride" Wearing the weight of the words we never spoke of Turning the weathered side to read their bones The trap that was set was flawed at best The trap that was set was flawed Programmed to make ghosts of all of us Oh, time Gathering us with open arms To feed these hungry birds of war Splitting the line between two sides But I am neither one Usher the windblown into the silos, dead Treated like cattle while we listen for what's next Secretly, we'll take its pulse, dropping from the eaves Tourniquet the pace as the rhythm bleeds Oh, time Flattering us to see ourselves As something more than we define Where does it leave us when we cry? It's not any skin of mine Only locked in these days As our wonder dissipates How did we wait so long to call out? Hello? Don't you know we know you know? Don't you know? You were brave with a free-talking mind And a voice that is still a cry for life And no matter what we want We want to be loved, yes We were here, we were afraid We paid them for the right To commit our own ego suicide But I believe it's just a ride

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026