"Sól tér sortna, sígr fold í mar, hverfa af himni heiðar stjörnur; geisar eimi ok aldrnari, leikr hár hiti við himin sjalfan." Prior to any pyre from the primal hands The black nimbus emerged from the southern banks' swamps Its speech of fire then scorched the virgin green lands And from its voice, down the basin, the deluge stomped In shades died the sun, in soot rain vanished the earth, In blaze fell the million whirling stars from the sky Volutes grew in wrath over the flames of all births And as they licked the heavens, he opened a foul eye [CHORUS] All witnessed him, coming with the clouds, Each friend or foe, every eye saw, And before the pokerman, they all bowed For the teller was king of their flaws [Bridge] And now once again, thy world is changed, Feel the water, dying the fields dark Feel the earth, treaded by the deranged Smell the air, for it is his vile mark Arise the pitch black nimbus Cover the homes, rot the wells And above the swarming maggots Spread the most fetid of nights The hudred bells have blessed us With another tale to tell Given to Rott-O'-Magguts To stir our shames and frights [Outro] All of you, witness him, coming with the clouds, Each friend or foe, every eye, see, Hearken to him under the shroud, The teller shall tell his stories

Let's dance... Firebug swarm invading the land Slaughter, butcher, blade by blade Roast in morass for Rollo's band All in the sludge : the toll for their raid Under the nimbus Smoulders of reek Dance in the limbos On boulders and weed Just stomp your feet On the swamp in glee And stain the streets And scream like you're free [CHORUS] Downpour city on fire Filled with mad creeps and liars Party in the ember and mire Dance in round and form a wire Downpour city on fire Filled with mad creeps and liars Party in the ember and mire Dance a round around the Pyre Pyre Dance, Pyre Dance Let's glance... Pyrelogs warmth invading her hands Stripped and licked, flame by flame Rats and maggots left abandonned Orlean's slut : the Seine has its claim Under the nimbus Smoulders of reek Dance in the limbos On boulders and weed Just stomp your feet On the swamp in glee And stain the streets And scream like you're free [CHORUS] Downpour city on fire Filled with mad creeps and liars Party in the ember and mire Dance in round and join the wire Downpour city on fire Filled with mad creeps and liars Party in the ember and mire Dance a round around the Pyre Aligned, about to wham, The pyres and the lambs A sign of what to come The riots and the bombs The filth, purifying the filth By ashes, amplifying the tilth The filth, multiplying the filth It dances, sets fires, spills its spilth [CHORUS] Downpour city on fire Filled with mad creeps and liars Party in the ember and mire Dance in round and break the wire Downpour city on fire Filled with mad creeps and liars Party in the ember and mire Dance a round around the Pyre Come along the country's dregs Come along the bastards prance Come along and feel the trance Come along the Pyre Dance

Guilty by and for your being Condemned to keep your fingers curled Looked away, even by the unseeings Lazarus people, you're dead to the world Rejected by everybody Ejected from the city Respected by nobody Expected dead already Rejected For the aspect of your skin Ejected From the swarming banks of the Seine Respected Nowhere among the livings Expected Nowhere but on the Mount of Ailings [CHORUS] Now that you're climbing the mount Now is not the time to doubt Anymore Now you'll live above the clouds No more spits from below crowds Nevermore Welcome to the Mount of Ailings Welcome to the Mount of Ailings "Leviticus 13:8 : The priest is to examine that person, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease" Down you were put, then up you fell Between crows and boxes of bars and stones Accused of spells and poisoning wells No worries, you'll sit on the upper throne Uncured heresy Obscured as your skin Impure for this city Endure what's coming Uncured From your lifetime burden Obscured Away from the so-called humans Impure From your fellows' pious writings Endure The shaming climbing [CHORUS] Now that you're climbing the mount Now is not the time to doubt Anymore Now you'll live above the clouds No more spits from below crowds Nevermore Welcome to the Mount of Ailings Welcome to the Mount of Ailings Welcome to the Mount of Ailings Welcome to the Mount of Ailings

"When the Hangman catches you, you're hanged." The window pane drums its incessant melody Of a thousand billion starving beaks And the faraway almighty timpani Mourns your embittered old man's past beliefs Your eyes suddenly feel so cramped and tight In a completely desperate will to leak And behind them swarm the squalid grubs Of your innumerable shabby griefs [CHORUS] Oh, anger and despair Oh, age, enemy of elders Oh, infamy has you ensnared Oh, time to call the doctor The cobblestones on Fir street shiver to reverberate The grim Doctor Hangman's loud and heavy paces And in Saint Hilary district, only they Witness the presage of another drastic treatment And as the rain stretches out its endless train Planting, on Gean Street, the bars of the vastest prison The silent loathsome Doctor smashes the baneful fate On his senile patient "Tell me if it squeezes too much..." Holy water, a nail and a rope Of one little finger wide Three and a half fathoms long Enough to cure you from your life You wasted all those years on hope You saw yourself decaying and cried Now let the Doctor chase the wrongs No need for your pointless strife The window pane drums its incessant melody Of a thousand billion shattered necks And the faraway almighty timpani Mourns your instinctive attempted breaths Your eyes suddenly feel so cramped and tight In a desperate will to escape their orbit And behind you smirks the grim roper His purse soon-to-be-filled, his eyes already lit [CHORUS] Oh, when tiredness hurts Oh, and life is a burden Oh, only for a purse Oh, you can call the doctor Doctor Hangman Doctor Hangman

Let me find shelter Behind your white eyes Protect the roamer From the empty skies I'll lay on the layer Of your worms and flies And stay forever Among your dead minds [CHORUS] I'm a tired lover I stroll and remember Please let me find shelter Inside your cadaver Your skin as a quilt Head on a pillow liver Now I will rest Rest in my shelter Bone-colored nature Oversized reptiles Spoiling the river Of your inner cries Hear all my prayers And sad lullabies Echo for hours And last until the last nights [CHORUS] I'm a tired lover I stroll and remember Please let me find shelter Inside your cadaver Your skin as a quilt Head on a pillow liver Now I will rest Rest in my shelter [CHORUS] I'm a tired lover I stroll and remember Let me find shelter Inside your cadaver Your skin as a quilt Head on a pillow liver A whole bed of silt My vision is blurred It was a sudden jilt It was a deadly error I don't feel no guilt In this passion slaughter Now I will rest Rest forever Now I will rest Rest in my shelter

From the dark depths of night Freezing to the core We, the suns, are brought to light In the shades no more Drying the dirt and cig stubs Erasing the stars Walking by, you all snub Society's scars And all suddenly, your crooked fingers hide Your guilt and your pride... Behind the vails of steam Left there, on the gray We pierce through, blush your skins Leave you in disarray We cross your parallel paths Our woe radiate Around your world's aftermath You all gravitate And all suddenly, the nearby skylights Look so golden bright... As you turn your eyes (Turn your eyes) As you turn your eyes (Turn your eyes) To avoid the suns Before you, the violence Of roaming and colliding entities After you, ignorance, Let us roam our way to infinity And all suddenly, your crooked fingers hide Your guilt and your pride As you turned your eyes to avoid the suns Before us, no conscience Yet the spores of misery leave traces After us, the silence Loudly digging cracks on your faces And all suddenly, the nearby skylights Looked so golden bright As you turned your eyes to avoid the suns As you turn your eyes To avoid the suns

"All aboard !" Come and get on the Broken Faces bus Speeding from beyond the skid rows' fence It catches them all, broken, wounded, mad, concussed, Come and witness their hollow existence All faces down To their small soul-sucking screens All faces down To their life-long unbreakable spleen All faces down Filling up the entire scene Slowly making it unclean [CHORUS] Ride the bus, ride with us Ride the bus, ride with us They fought this war for way too long Being told it's where they all belong They told the wives to stay at home Being told their lives wasn't worth the roam Same old power holds the masses Same old driver runs the races Today, you'll join the low classes Today, you'll join the Broken Faces bus Take a seat in the Broken Faces bus Smell its disgraceful air, foul and tensed Look in their eyes for the silent fuss And the frustration in its purest essence All faces frown Leaving their eyes in the deep shadows All faces frown Disgrace has them all slowly swallowed All faces frown All of them dreading their daily gallows It's the last of the last time for these fellows [CHORUS] Ride the bus, ride with us Ride the bus, ride with us We sat and held for way too long To positions we don't belong We let him drive us far from home, From love, from peace, he left us roam Same old power must be put down Be the drivers of our races It's time to take his wheel and throne It's time to drive the Broken Faces bus

Walls are thick in this prison Even minds don't leak from crooks' mansion And here, Nick, tramp from Hirson Has been bored and sick for three seasons A thought then kicks like a bison Between the bricks of his reason His stomach squeaks in starvation Time for picnic, take your basin Hunger hits in explosion His need for meat makes expansion The bowl ain't neat, such a treason "Your heart will fit", time for action Chest opened split, food horizon Right piece, right here, delectation Such treat, so sweet, nicely seasoned "It's good, tender, it tastes like deer" [CHORUS] Good-News jailhouse Personnal livestock Hunger arroused Within the old block With rice and garlic Shallots in oil Bon appétit, Nick The Good-News Cannibal

He's not existing yet (ooh) Already unwanted (yeah) Decision far too late (ooh) Lynerd is born wasted (yeah) Mum, is that all the few credit you give To that piece of mankind and its chances to live? He's not existing yet (ooh) Will he ever be heard? (yeah) He can't escape his fate (ooh) Garbage hell for Lynerd (yeah) Mum, is there any other talents you got Besides from recycling without getting caught? [CHORUS] Have you heard the cries? Sweet garbage surprise Small Lynerd won't rise Dump carriage where lies Trashborn Lynerd Oh, Lynerd, don't you fret (ooh) Baby won't get haunted (yeah) Your taste is not that great (ooh) Ghosts don't like it rotted (yeah) Mum, I tell you, I think it was the cleverest choice I neither would have stood his burdensome voice So many rats to pet (ooh) So much juice offered (yeah) Spores are spread, dinner's set (ooh) Trash heaven for Lynerd (yeah) Mum, I'm very sorry to make fun of you I can't imagine what your younger self has been through [CHORUS] Have you heard the cries? Sweet garbage surprise Small Lynerd won't rise Dump carriage where lies Trashborn Lynerd Grandma, couldn't you love him? (goo-goo) Grandpa, couldn't you raise him? (ga-ga) Would you now handle with kid gloves (goo-goo) Your daughter who was just badly taught how to love? [CHORUS] Have you heard the cries? Sweet garbage surprise Small Lynerd will rise Dump carriage where lies Trashborn Lynerd

In sewer's hole Blue children play A massacre Is on its way King eagles flying high in the skyway Along with the wolfpack Running on the light through the dust and grey Chariots beating the ground In thunder roll He goes astray A massacre Is on its way The stray blue child sunk deep in the sewers Alone on the death track Walking in the shades through the thick waters Unexpecting the hound A small grain of sand rolling underseas Congested the pipeline Letting some blood drain, such a cruel tease For the stray child to find Timid wavering steps on the tight wire Towards the sandy clot Unbalancing over the truthful mirror His growing despair's plot The scared child shrinked above the lower brine Fainting at each heartbeat Monkfish ahead lifting a glass of wine Such a promising treat All of a sudden, his dried self mouldered A blue mouthed autumn leaf Wetted by the softly kissing creature And love swiped all the grieves Little by little, Frost covered the warmth And immobilized All the lies around, As he landed on the ground Only veins could he Shelter in his arms, His ears, so brittle, Listened for the sound Of his heart, desperate to pound

"A feeling of loss in action Nothing is worth anything Constant neuronal congestion I'm guided in the void by the void My feelings in swirling distortion Saturation of the saturation What's the point ?" Going round and round Still in a daze I, raging hound Am trapped in a maze Going round and round Still bored to death I, lonesome hound Am losing my breath Gather around me and leave me alone Don't leave me, just go away Go and let go ("I'm guided in the void by the void") Nimbus of guilt invades A colosseus of shades Moisting me, tasting me, should I run? Deluge in my head Pouring tears on my bed It's all within, I can't shun [CHORUS] It takes all, doesn't give It lives behind my eyes It feeds on my lean will It leaves me zombified With no reason to live Yet no efforts to die Hear my neurosis shrill Hear my ghost parasite "I'm suffocating into nothing Nothing but remorse Wrapped and strangled, slowly fading Invisible force" Going round and round Convulsed in bed A mildew mound Is filling my head Going round and round Eyes burning red Four walls surround Me and my faithful dread Gather around me and leave me alone Don't leave me, just go away Go and let go ("Nothing is worth anything") Gather and hide until you die And the rest will magnify The way we all survive Parasites under parasites Paradise promised every night Call it "feeling alive" [CHORUS] It takes all, doesn't give It lives behind my eyes It feeds on my lean will It leaves me zombified With no reason to live Yet no efforts to die Hear my neurosis shrill Hear my ghost parasite "Cobalt phantom biting my head Crushing my skull, bursting my veins A hole in my head for seepage of rain Washing my brain, cooling the lead No more bones, rotten wood instead Nails bitten away, yet still in pain My weakened mind severely decaying My whole body, soon to be dead Face skin and muscles in coma All pulled down by gravitation Despite the bustling emotions Only maggots in a cadaver Trying to dream of blurred future Past then obfuscates my vision I trade courage for depression I live with a psychic cancer" "I'm suffocating into nothing Nothing but remorse Wrapped and strangled, slowly fading Invisible force"

The grey turns black Through blast and stench Arise the wrack The ten plagues drench Lubrizol... Our house has burned, we woke up under A smokescreen ceiling A mass concern has crept so far The fright is pealing Chemical catasrophe under radar Neglected infamy Horrid borealis, rancid odours Over the city [REFRAIN] What's gonna happen? Who here knows why? Why are we burdened? Will we all die? Just another pyre darkening the skies But it's unintentional Round of the liars, they all minimize The causes and downfalls "Drink the soot waters, it's safe and clear Just soaked in chemicals" Said the grim leaders in fear of the fear Of the condemned people [REFRAIN] What's gonna happen? Who here knows why? Why are we burdened? Will we all die? We wanna know! Lubrizol... "The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air." What's gonna happen? Who here knows why? Why are we burdened? Will we all die? The sky is blackened The air is rotten We stifle in abandonment What's gonna happen? Lubrizol...