A Perfect Circle Lyrics - Mer de Noms

Mer de Noms
plus "Diary of a Madman/Lovesong", live cover

Hollow
Run, desire
Run, this sexual being
Run him like a blade
To and through the heart

No conscience
One motive
To cater to the hollow
Screaming...

Feed me here
Fill me up again
I'm temporarily
Pacifying this hungering

So grow
Libido, throw
Dominoes of indiscretions
Down

Falling all around
In cycles, and circles
Constantly consuming
Conquer and devour

Cause it's time to bring this fire down
Bridle all this indescretion
Long enough to edify
And permanently fill the hollow

Screaming feed me here
Fill me up again
I'm temporarily
Pacifying

Feed me here
Fill me up again
I'm temporarily
Pacifying

---

Magdalena
Overcome by your
Moving temple
Overcome by this
Holiest of altars

So pure
So rare
To witness such an
Earthly goddess

I lost my self control
Beyond compelled
To throw this dollar

Down before your
Holiest of altars

I'd sell
My soul
My self-esteem
A dollar at a time

For one chance
One kiss
One taste of you
My Magdalena

I bear witness
To this place
This prayer
So long forgotten

So pure
So rare
To witness
Such an earthly goddess

That I'd sell
My soul
My self-esteem
A dollar at a time

For one chance
One kiss
One taste of you
My black Madonna

I'd sell
My soul
My self-esteem
A dollar a time

For one taste
One taste
One taste of you
My Magdalena

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Rose
Don't disturb the beast
The temperamental goat
The snail
While he's feeding on the rose

Stay frozen
Compromise what
I will
I am

Bend around
The wind
Silently blown about
Again I'm treading so

Soft and
Lightly compromising
My will
I am

I am I will
So no longer
Will I lay down
Play dead, play your doe

In the headlights
Locked down and terrified
Your deer in the headlights
Locked down and horrified

When push comes to pull
Comes to shove comes to
Step around this self destructive dance that
Never would've ended till

I rose
I roared aloud hear
I will
I am

I am
I will
So no longer
Will I lay down

Play dead play this
Beat down
Gun shy
Martyr pitiful

I rose
I roared
I will
I am

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Judith
You're such an inspiration
For the ways that I will never ever choose to be
Oh so many ways for me to show you
How your savior has abandoned you

Fuck your god
Your lord, your christ
He did this
Took all you had, and

Left you this way
Still you pray never stray
Never taste of the fruit
Never thought to question why

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
Praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed
He did it all for you, did it all for you

Oh so many ways
For me to show you
How your dogma
Has abandoned you

Pray to your christ to your god
Never taste of the fruit
Never stray
Never break, never

Choke on a lie
Even though he's the one who
Did this to you
Never thought to question why

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to jesus christ as if he knows the reasons why
He did it all for you, he did it all for you, he did it all for you

---

Orestes
Metaphor
For a missing moment
Pull me in
To your perfect circle

One womb
One shape
One resolve
Liberate this will
To release us all

Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
That's keeping me from killing you

And from pulling you down
With me here
I can almost hear
You scream

One more medicated peaceful moment
One more medicated peaceful moment
I don't want to feel this overwhelming hostility
I don't want to feel this overwhelming hostility

Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue

Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
That's keeping me from killing you

Snip away and sever this
Keeping me from killing you

---

3 Libras
Threw you the obvious
And you flew with it on your back
A name in your recollection
Down among a million same

Difficult not to feel a little bit
Disappointed and passed over
When I've looked right through
See you naked but oblivious

And you don't see me

But I threw you the obvious
Just to see if there's more behind
The eyes of a fallen angel
Eyes of a tragedy

Here I am expecting just a little bit
Too much from the wounded
But I see, see through it all
See through, and see you

Cause I threw you the obvious
To see what occurs behind
The eyes of a fallen angel
Eyes of a tragedy

Oh well
Oh well
Apparently nothing
Apparently nothing at all

You don't, you don't, you don't, see me...

You don't see me at all

---

Sleeping Beauty
Delusional
I believed I could
Cure it all
For you dear

Coax or trick or drive or
Drag the demons from you
Make it right for you sleeping beauty truly thought
I could magically heal you

Far beyond a visible
Sign of your awakening
Failing miserably
To rescue

Sleeping beauty

Drunk on ego
Truly thought I could make it right if I
Kissed you one more time to
Help you face the nightmare but you're

Far too poisoned for me
Such a fool to think that I could
Wake you from your slumber
That I could actually heal you

Sleeping
Beauty
Poisoned and
Hopeless

Far beyond a visible
Sign of your awakening
Failing miserably
To find a way to comfort you

Far beyond a visible
Sign of your awakening
And hiding from some
Poisoned memory

Poisoned
And
Hopeless
Sleeping beauty

---

Thomas
Humbled and helpless
Learning to pray
Praying for visions
To show me the way

Show me the way to forgive you
Allow me to let it go
Allow me to be forgiven
Show me the way to let go

Show me the way to forgive you
Allow me to let it go
Allow me to be forgiven, and
Show me the way to let go

Illuminate me
I'm just praying
For you to show me
Where I'm to begin
Hoping to

Reconnect to you
Reconnect too

---

Renholder
I could know who you are
I could know you're mine, lies
I'm out
Out of my full town

---

Thinking of You
Lying all alone and restless
Unable to lose this image
Sleepless unable to focus on
Anything but your surrender

Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying there
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes that

Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound I know so well
Spent and sighing with the look in your eye
Spent and sweating with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrender, surrender
Surrender
Surrender

Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying there
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes that

Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound I know so well
Spent and sighing with the look in your eyes
Spent and sweating with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation
Sweet

Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking...

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation

---

Breña
My reflection
Wraps and pulls me under
Healing waters to be
Bathed in Breña

Guide me safely in
Worlds I've never been to
Heal me, heal me
My dear Breña

Vulnerable
But it's alright

Heal me
Heal me
My dear
Breña

Show me lonely and
Show me openings to
Lead me closer to you
My dear Breña

Vulnerable
But it's alright

Opening to
Heal
Opening to
Heal...heal

---

Over
Been over
Been over this before
Been over and over
Been over this before

And over
Been over this before

So over this
Been over this
So over this
Been over this

Over this before

*at the end of this song, there are samples of lyrics from throughout the album
inserted at any point and overlapping each other
(eg. "Unmistakable noise I was hearing", "I am, I will", etc.)

---

Live: Diary of a Madman / Lovesong / Ozzy's Cure
Screaming at the window
Watch me die another day
Hopeless situation
Endless price I'll have to pay

Diary of a madman
Walk the line again today
Entries of confusion
Dear diary, I'm here to stay

Sanity now and beyond me
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
There's no choice

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again

Voices in the darkness
Scream away my mental health
Can I ask a question
To help me save me from myself?

Sanity now and beyond me
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
There's no choice

I will always love you.

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I'm whole again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I'm whole again

I will always love you
There's no choice

All lyrics by Maynard James Keenan, ASCAP
except 'Diary of a Lovesong', lyrics by Ozzy Osbourne and Robert Smith,
medley as performed live by A Perfect Circle

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