Carnal Symphonies 1

Tease the spine
Drink the wine

Pull down the ropes
Arouse the hopes

Shake the feathers
Break together

Whisk the skin
Swerve within

Bind the slot
Blind and hot
Find the spot
Dive and plot

Rise from the east
Quietly leave

Search for another
...
...
...

I always catch another

 

Veronika Kirsch: A Handful of Nails

I fell in love with bitter tones

And every demon in her bones. 

She teased me with a fishhook smile

Reduced me to an ash fed pile

And then blew me away

Blew me away

Blew me away

With the slam of her tongue

And I knew that I'd won

She's a handful of nails

And oh,

She cuts me deeper

She's a handful of nails

But oh

She's such a keeper. 

To bleed is just to love through pain

Like tears of joy we're all insane

The problem always seems to sit

On top of broken skinless wrists

And she blew me away

Blew me away

Blew me away

With the stab of her lips

And I fell for her. 

She's a handful of nails

And oh,

She cuts me deeper

She's a handful of nails

But oh

She's such a keeper. 

She's a handful of razorblades

She's a hassle and I'm the haste. 

She's a handle and I'm the blade

She's a black hole and I'm the space

She's a sample and I'm the plate

She's a battle and I'm the fate

She's a rattle and I'm the snake. 

She's my lover I love and hate

She's such a good liar. 

And an even better lover

So I melt in her fire

And never want another. 

I fell in love with her rusty tips

And missile long legs that could sink ships

She slaps me with the jagged binds

And loves to kill me in her mind

So she blew me away

Blew me away

Blew me away

With the flick of her eyes

And I gripped her thighs

She's a handful of nails

But she's a keeper

And as long as I'm in hell

I'll always keep her

 

She's a handful of nails. 

Veronika Kirsch: Lost Angeles

She's leaving for a life

Of false love and glamour

In the middle of the night

She walked with a stammer 

Her beauty's to cold

For the one take sunsets

Her skin is too bold

To make something of it

But there she goes. 

She's waiting for sun in a cave. 

She will never be saved. 

Not by the skin on her face. 

Her beautiful face. 

She twirls in twisted shades,

Mauves and grays. 

Moves with grace. 

Oh, how she'd love a taste.

She's lost in the city

With nowhere to go

Los Angeles pretty

Much wilted her soul

Her heart is too true

To survive in evil

Her love just won't move

She knows she loves me still

So here I go

She's waiting for sun in cave

She will never be saved

Not unless I make my way

To her. 

Veronika Kirsch: Fancy Drinks and Handcuff Links

She wore her wine on her sleeve

Desperately seeking 

A partner with an acquired taste

For unfaithful fates

To handcuff to my king bed. 

But I'm still home

And neither one of them knows

That I'm watching

From the bathroom closely 

With me in one hand

And my machete in the other. 

Licking the blade

As she licks his skin all over.

Captivated by the dance

Of two entwined evils thrusting. 

My angel's halo 

Is rusting from their mixing sweat. 

He bends her down. 

She screams his name. 

And just before he's almost done

She turns 

And

Slits his throat

And I

Fall in love again

And we 

Had a new favorite drink

In Sex Fervent Blood. 

Veronika Kirsch: Heliosanteria

Let's run around

And paint the world ahead

Your hair's on fire

And you love to stare

Our time's forgotten

Our legend's short

Our body's toss and turn

The sky inside out. 

Like a violin 

Played on the sun

I melt your heartstrings till they're stones

You would never

Come to and just realize everything we've done 

Can make a home 

built on the sun

Feel so cold. 

Let's fall in love

Until we hit the backdrop

We'll build a sky

Of pieces 

Of the bottles 

Of ourselves 

Veronika Kirsch: Queen of Spades

Lay back

Because she always runs the table. 

Her mouth has a dream

Of painting me paler

She lives

To burn through all the men who 

Met her

And left her

For best 

and better

Killing the pain

And killing me again

And she digs and digs and

Killing the pain

She's killing me again. 

Watch out

Because she likes to swing the shovel

Around like fans

Cheering her to do it. 

I fall 

To my knees and beg her

For more

And more

You 

Fucking whore!

Killing my pain

And she's killing me again

And she digs and digs and

Under my skin

And over it in trends

She followed me 

for weeks 

after we broke up. 

Watching 

my new routines. 

Plotting 

her misinterpreted 

delusions. She planned 

like parenthood. 

But completely forgot 

who I really was. 

She forgot 

that I needed a murderer 

just as bad as she 

needed a victim. 

And she digs

Deeper everyday 

To keep from etching tallies

After each losing fray. 

And she digs

Deeper everyday 

She's trouble with a shovel

In brilliant sweet and subtle ways. 

She dug

For hours just to put me

In her little locket heart

She slapped

The dirt above my grave

She yelled

You're on 

You're wrong

And now

You're gone!

Under my skin

And over again in trends

And she bears a grin and

Buried me in

Her heart again. 

I'm an Ace of Hearts

She's the Queen of Spades

And we love the colors of our days

When we kill all of our nightly shades. 

Veronika Kirsch: A Morbid Waltz in Fresh Angel Blood

We met

In a black ballroom

With my 

hands all over her dress. 

We danced

In a black bedroom

With my 

hands all over her chest

We killed

In a black back room

With my

Hands all over her neck

We laughed

In a black courtroom

As we 

both were sentenced to death

Veronika Kirsch: Ember Rain

I'll inhale you like smoke

Of a burning night. 

And mix you with my coke

Until we're both alike. 

I'll kiss you in the mud

until your voice is wet

As you fall into my blood

And the sun regrets 

Ever falling down alone behind the sea 

In shades of cooling heat. 

I'd serenade you all night long

If you would scream my name. 

And I'd never do you wrong

Even if you didn't do the same. 

I'm just an ember in your eyes

Around the firestone

But when the lights go out outside

I'm gonna walk you home. 

I'm not a star

But I know I'll brighten up your heart 

I'm not star

But I shine at night so far. 

Oh I shine at night so far. 

And you'll never see me if you never even look. 

Now there's nothing to do 

But want you until you want me back. 

I see your sadness in the sand

Standing bland and bleak

And I'm reaching for your hand

Because I just can't speak

You've got a hole inside you black

And burning deeper still

Even though I can't piece it back

I can help it heal. 

I'm not a star

But I know I'll brighten up your heart

I'm not a star

But I shine bright from afar

Oh I shine bright from afar

And I'll never let you find your way right back to black. 

Now there's nothing to do

But love you until you love me back. 

Veronika Kirsch: Veils of Vegas Cry

Burn yourself and cry

You've finally lost it all

Sell yourself and buy

Your way back in the ball

You're learning how to sink

Like a hole in the ground

Full of quicksand and frowns

As you drown in the town 

You once thought you'd own. 

Veils of Vegas cry

"You've cut too deep to feel it!

You will never die

But suffer here repeated!"

You're learning how to hang

In the sun from a rope

Tied around your own throat

As you quote all the quotes

You once thought you wrote. 

Someday you'll flee

Looking for greener grass in the desert. 

And someday you'll see

Vegas ain't all it's cracked up to be. 

Veronika Kirsch: Vaudeville Voicemail

I visit your voicemail everyday

like it's my favorite 

midnight cabaret. 

I fall asleep in puddles 

of tear fed ashes 

prescription plastics 

and old shot glasses

serenaded by the hymns of heartbreak. 

They say,

please enjoy the music 

while your party is reached 

then all I hear are 

incoherent screams 

played to a beat

for 32 seconds 

and your voice so sweet 

comes on so sorry 

for missing my call 

and promises to get back 

to me as soon as you can. 

But I know better. 

I know it's not really you 

because you'd never 

apologize first. 

Ballad for a Southern Belle

If we fought again, you swore you'd leave

But you said that more than once. 

I loved you more than you would ever need.

You were more than all my wants. 

And I was so surprised 

That night in July 

When every star fell from the sky

And cried. 

I walked through the door 

To a note on the floor

And everything turned black and white. 

It said:

I can feel your love coming from a mile away

But I haven't felt nothin in a thousand days 

And I'll miss you

Oh baby I'll miss you

But I've been sitting here wishing for too damn long

I know I gotta move on and accept you're gone

But I'll miss you

I swear baby I'll miss you. 

And with a whiskey bottle and a carton half gone

And my tears in a puddle laying next to the phone

Each day goes on so slow

Because I don't wanna let go 

And each time I lied with my eyes wide shut

And a cold right side I just miss your touch

Each night goes by so slow

I don't think I can ever let go. 

I can feel your love coming from a mile away

But I haven't felt nothin in a thousand days 

And I miss you

Oh baby I miss you

Well I've been sitting here wishing for too damn long

I know I gotta move on and accept you're gone

But I miss you

I swear baby I miss you.