Voices

"Love, just don't stare"
He used to say to me every Sunday morning
The spider in the window, the angel in the pool
The old man takes the poison, now the widow makes the rules

"So speak, I'm right here"
She used to say to me, not a word, not a word
Judas on the ceiling, the devil in my bed
I guess Easter's never coming
So I'll just wait inside my head

Like a scream but sort of silent
Living off my nightmares

Voices repeating me
"Feeling threatened, we reflect your hopes and fears"
Voices discussing me
"Others steal your thoughts, they're not confined within your mind"

Thought disorder, dream control, now they read my mind on the radio
But where was the Garden of Eden?
I feel elated, I feel depressed
Sex is death, death is sex
Says it right here on my Crucifix

Like a scream but sort of silent
Living off my nightmares

Voices protecting me
"Good behavior brings the Savior to his knees"
Voices rejecting me
"Others steal your thoughts, they're not confined to your own mind"

I don't wanna be here
'Cause of my suffering, 'cause of my illness
Only love is worth having (only love is worth having)
Only love is what matters
Loving every people on equal terms

You've got to know who you're dealin' with because, like a stranger
Hey, just might come in through here with a gun
And then, what would you do, eh?
Everything is immaterial
You know that reality is immaterial
This is not reality
Mm, oh

I'm kneeling on the floor, staring at the wall
Like the spider in the window
I wish that I could speak
Is there fantasy in refuge?
God in politicians?
Should I turn on my religion?
These demons in my head tell me to

I'm lying here in bed, swear my skin is inside out
Just another Sunday morning
Seen my diary on the newsstand
Seems we've lost the truth to quicksand
It's a shame no one is praying
'Cause these voices in my head keep saying

"Love, just don't stare
Reveal the word when you're supposed to"
Withdrawn and introverted, infectiously perverted
"Being laughed at and confused
Keeps us pleasantly amused enough to stay"

Maybe, I'm just Cassandra fleeting
20th century icon bleeding
Willing to risk salvation to escape from isolation
I'm witness to redemption
Heard you speak but never listened
Can you rid me of my secrets?
Deliver us from darkness?

Voices repeating me
"Feeling threatened, we reflect your hopes and fears"
Voices discussing me
Don't expect your own Messiah
This never-world which you desire is only in your mind