ChemoJam Baxter – Wings Cost Extra Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- I've been staring off this roof for as long as I can remember
- In an unspent hour I buried in late December
- Where the icy winds tug and unravel your raison d'être
- And the scene beyond swells in its dirty decadent splendour
- A mere blemish in a scene seldom relished
- Dogs howl and withering addicts hang at the chemist
- I shrugged of the lingering grip of the psychedelics
- And grabbed one his the neck
- To examine his drab aesthetics
- His skin hung like patchwork hammocks from his limbs
- Gaping mouth like an ink stain splattered on his chin
- The sweat cascaded from his palms
- With a stance reminiscent of a circus bear balanced on a pin
- I travelled on a whim aboard the final train to central
- To where the world's weirdest freaks and invalids assemble
- The torrential rain flooded our minds with squirming invertebrates
- That dictate our movements through pockets of heavy turbulence
- Pigs prod at a child, losers become cheaters
- Strange wild beasts eat buckets of lesser creatures
- All the dealers either shrunk to single cell amoebas, burnt their
- Features off, robbed their connections or found Jesus
- Disembodied heads in dusty corners
- Headless bodies inject liquor directly into their organs
- The never ending crux of a very strange performance
- The beauty's in the gutters
- This entire world is flawless
Hook
- Scramble for a seat at the centre, fangs on discount, wings cost extra
- Still freefalling on a seven day bender, leap from the cliff tops, wings cost extra
- Still in awe of it all, tear a hole in the head, cram it full of debris
- Bag of souls to injest
- Primal spasm for one, peel an inch from the brain
- Whisk the earth to a pulp, sit and drink the remains
- Air heavy with sin, name written in lights
- Wouldn't swap it for shit, eyes teaming with life
- Keep hold of your face, days mimic a dream
- Still chewing the sky, reboot the machine
Verse 2
- The smell of crack wafts from the brothel beside the chicken shop
- Above a sewer teeming with giant beetles and killer wasps
- Opposite the corner where kids gorge on forbidden slop
- And when their stomachs burst, wipe their innards off
- And go about your business
- Blind eyes in a barrel, a tycoon launches grenades at a herd of cattle
- Slimy little boutiques buried beneath the gravel sell portable weapons
- For the killer that likes to travel
- The modern mammal, a delicate balance of blood and flesh
- I spat the phlegm from my mouth and swung a left
- Past a crowd of braying patriots dying a dozen deaths
- And a crazed woman drilling a hole in her lover's chest
- I saw them all smeared across my vision
- You were always taught to fear the competition
- The gin took a hold of the scene and pulled it apart
- Revealing manic pigs slithering adders and rabid gibbons
- All tearing through the hours
- Fiends feed addictions
- Inpatients rattle off an endless list of symptoms
- The earth yawns and wipes a city from existence
- In a mouthful of crumbling buildings and little infants
- I leaned forward and ordered another double
- And tunnelled out of my mind through a forest of fat and muscle
- Fucked on every such substance you could fit atop a shovel
- I text my bredrin and tell her I've been staying out of trouble
- Yeah right
Hook
- Scramble for a seat at the centre, fangs on discount, wings cost extra
- Still freefalling on a seven day bender, leap from the cliff tops, wings cost extra
- Still in awe of it all, tear a hole in the head, cram it full of debris
- Bag of souls to injest
- Primal spasm for one, peel an inch from the brain
- Whisk the earth to a pulp, sit and drink the remains
- Air heavy with sin, name written in lights
- Wouldn't swap it for shit, eyes teaming with life
- Keep hold of your face, days mimic a dream
- Still chewing the sky, reboot the machine