Francis Bacon, Three Figures and Portrait, 1975, Oil paint and pastell on canvas, 1981 x 1473 mm
S. Crisostomo. 2011/ 2012
oil , gold leaf on linen cm 90 x 120
When I was a teenager, this was a thing of forbidden wonder - the type of underground, alt culture urban legend that isn’t technically possible anymore. Kids today can’t possibly appreciate the feeling of tracking down a rare video artifact, because everything now is a mere Google search away. I found this video at the bootleg VHS stand at a local comic book convention, sitting between duped Red Dwarf compilations and home video of early Nirvana shows. There was no context provided, no wiki page to reference - just a Xerox-copied cover with a backwards n and “broken” on the front, and a list of the contained music videos on the back. I can’t remember what I paid for it, but it was a weighty purchase at the time - $30, maybe. And when I unveiled it with my friends on my bedroom VHS player, it was worth every penny: Scary and gross and awesome - and again, without any context. For all I knew, the “snuff” segments could have been real. I felt I had something truly rare and unique, possibly dangerous. And that was what rock music was about in the 90s: It was danger and dirt and hate and anger and pissing people off. There isn’t any of that left in mainstream rock anymore (is there even mainstream rock anymore?). So if you’re young, and seeing this for the first time, remember that this is not for you. It’s a product of a bygone era. It was never meant for searchable, on-demand access, never meant for the soft-hearted masses who put no effort into seeking it out. It’s here now because it should be preserved - but really, if you didn’t find this on VHS decades ago, or seek it out on file-sharing networks more recently, you don’t deserve it.
Morning Star, your beauty gave me something to believe in
when I had nothing, I was nothing
Your helped me to erase my future before it erased me
I can’t resist
I don’t exist
If I can’t have you air aint shit
I wonder. I Tumble. I gasp. I reach.
I feel your lips, I miss your tongue
I need your touch, my Morning Star
I went to far Lucifer
You broke my fall then rose again
and left me here alive
yet dead again
I don’t dream when I sleep
Without you I am hollow
I can’t think of anything but me
Empty. Empty. Empty. Empty.
Through a Glass Darkly, I stare into The Winter Light and all I hear is Silence
silence
Chorus
The morning after it made sense
I lost my chance for one more kiss
I wish I could, I should, I would
I think I’d like to try again
I cry. I sleep. I drink. I think.
I wouldn’t like to be in my shoes
If I lost you like I did
I think I’d die. Oh shit. I did.
I wish I never met you were the six words I said
That finally pushed you to leave me for dead
No past now. No future now.
No warmth now. Just me now.
Just this alien view, that keeps me from you
and the rest of the world
It’s just impossible.
Unbearable. Undeniable.
Maddening. Deafening. Isolating. Alienating.
Abandoning. Abandoning. Abandoning. Abandoning.
(Why have you forsaken me?)
Chorus
The morning after it made sense
I lost my chance for one more kiss
I wish I could, I should, I would
I think I’d like to try again
I cry. I sleep. I drink. I think.
I wouldn’t like to be in my shoes
If I lost you like I did
I think I’d die. Oh shit. I did.
Suddenly I’m back in your heart
and you expect me to play the part
It’s impossible, what you ask of me
There’s no way I can be what you want
I can’t believe, the words you’ve said
There’s something you’re not telling me
1, 2, 3,4
I know what you’re looking for
and every time you run out
you come back to me and ask for more
Every time you come to me
I’m willing to give up everything for you
There’s nothing like us
There’s nothing like you
There’s absolutely nothing I can do
Chorus
Every time you fall apart, do you wonder if I’m watching?
Here we are, where I’ve longed to be
and it’s worse than what I thought it would be
Is it easy now? Have you come undone?
Is there no place left for you to run?
Are you playing with me? Is this what you want?
A final farewell that makes me crawl?
Every time you come to me
I’m willing to give up everything for you
There’s nothing like us
There’s nothing like you
There’s absolutely nothing I can do
Chorus
Every time you fall apart, do you wonder if I’m watching?
Watch Me
Touch myself
Watch the time go by
Watch me
kill myself
Pretend you don’t have eyes
Watch me
kill myself
Pretend you don’t have eyes
But in the end we were given the chance to love
In the end we were given the chance to live
Touch me. Feel me. Give me. Beauty.
Fire. Life. Love. Chaos.
Universe. Me. You. Us.
We are everything
We are nothing
And now our beauty is broken
And I don’t know if we can
Piece it back together
Together again
If kissing me makes you feel alive
Then Killing me will make you feel like a god
Boredom plays trick on your mind
All along you wanted to kill the time
Cos deep inside you feel you’re not alive
Breathe Lucifer
There’s nothing for you here
Those bare white walls will force themselves inside
But they are not you
And you don’t need them
Take a deep breath
You will ascend again
Chorus
Everybody wants something so bad they can’t stop thinking of it
Everybody wants someone so bad it hurts to breathe without them
Everybody tries so hard to bury what they know’s inside
Everybody wants and tries but few will get their satisfaction
Breathe but you can’t have it all
Because you’re a sinner and there’s blood in your veins
They’ll come at you with everything to leave you without anything
“Repent” is what they say and take everything away
But they’re insane
So point the way to Heaven
Point the way to pain
Point the way to madness
Point the way to life
And breathe
My Morning Star
You will ascend again
Chorus
Morning Star
It’s much too late
To close the gates
That held back the flood
We’re drowning in
Our own dreaming
That made us believe we could overcome what we are
Morning Star
You descended into nothing but half dead arms
that cling to you like the last source of water
In the sudden flood of our love
Morning Star
There’s nothing left
The exit is closed
Morning Star
There’s nothing left
The exit is closed
Morning Star
Fire. Heat. Lips.
Tongue. Skin. Feel sin.
Your eyes. Your hands.
Touch me. I grow hard.
Heat. Fire.
Turn me on.
The chaos that brought your heart to me
is a beautiful example of random divinity
Your eyes, your lips, your tongue, your hair
All remind me why I need the air
The chaos of the universe
only makes sense when we kiss
The chaos of the universe
only makes sense when we kiss
You’re all I can think of
You consume me
You possess me
You’re all I can think of
You possess me
You consume me
Your eyes, your skin, your everything
Your eyes, your skin, you’re everything
There’s nothing
Nothing like our fire
Erase the future now! (repeat)
Keep the windows closed.
Keep the doors shut.
Turn the lights on.
No one gets in or out.
I can feel the air on my skin
I can hear a far off dog
Outside in the dark
Clawing at the door
Keep the windows closed.
Keep the doors shut.
Turn the lights on.
No one gets in or out.
She’s in here somewhere (repeat)
I don’t wanna be there when you finally come back to me
And tell me everything you wanted wasn’t what you thought it was (repeat)
I don’t care if you wanna
die, live, fuck, breed
I’m beyond whatever happiness you might feel (repeat)
Suicide. Smile. Cry.
The universe in the blink of an eye
Suicide memories
A tough pill to swallow, lies
The sky falls and it’s so bright
There’s no place left for you to hide
You’re pushing me away from here
All in the blink of an eye
Suicide and ecstasy.
Alone so far away from me.
Suicide and ecstasy.
Alone so far away from me.
I don’t wanna be there when you finally come back to me
And tell me everything you wanted wasn’t what you thought it was (repeat)
Someone hold me, tell me I’m pretty
Someone hold me, tell me you need me
Someone talk to me, I hate feeling lonely
Someone. Anyone. Rescue me, set me free.
It’s all bullshit anyway
I cannot be what you say
I must find a way to make life mine and push them all away
It’s all bullshit anyway
I cannot be what you say
Someone make the pain stop
Someone help me make it go away
(repeat)
Chorus
My black heart machine beats like this
Something deep inside of me
Tells me nothing’s wrong with me
You’re the one who hated me
You’re the one who hated you
Something deep inside of me
Tells me nothing’s wrong with me
You’re the one who started this
You’re the one who made me like this
It’s all bullshit anyway
I cannot be what you say
Someone make the pain stop
Someone help me make it go away
(repeat)
Chorus
My black heart machine beats like this
I’m not crazy
You’re the one who’s crazy
Chorus
My black heart machine beats like this