LYRICS

ANXIETIKA (LP & CASSETTE, 2024)

1. SHE LOOMS

   I’d like to remind you

   I’m here ‘til the end

   Mine for the keeping

   Mine ‘til the end

2. ABOMINATION

   I’m a virus, a minotaur
   You play me like a bleeding guitar
   I bring you jewellery and cigarettes
   But I haven’t tasted enough of you yet

   No I haven’t tasted enough of you yet

   I wanna be your abomination

   Bridle me down the thorofare
   And parade me around the old town square 

   The city folk, they don’t believe what they see 

   An angel walking with a hellish beast

   I wanna be your abomination

   Call my name, telling me lies 

   Pull my chain, making me cry

   Call my name 

   Pull my chain

3. ICE WITCH

   Tiefschwarze Spulen, unwiderstehlich
   Tote Augen Frau aus der Tundra (Tundra, Tundra)
   Ich Verlieben jedes Molekül
   Niemand sonst küsst mich so wie du (Nein, nein, nein nein!)

   Done it now, you've done it now 

   And I will pay, for you

   Kein anderes Element so weich wie du
   Ich bin ein Otter, ich möchte mich fürs Leben paaren (Paar fürs Leben) 

   Aber du bist eine narzisstische eisige Frau
   Was einmal war warm, eingefroren ist (Mit der Nacht, mit der Nacht)
   

   Done it now, you've done it now 

   And I will pay, for you
   Kill me now, oh kill me now 

   Strip me away, from you

4. BADMOUTH

   We burned a hundred years ago

   I wish I could let it go
   And I incinerated us
   But I didn't feel I was unjust

   You badmouthed me to everyone 

   The beginning of the great undone

   You rose to fame over the years 

   Haunting me and my career

   You and your friends glaring at me 

   At every show I went to see

   And I hear your faux punk band on the radio

   And I cringe, and I shudder,

   And the anger grows

   And you’re just a scratch,
   You should be a minor abrasion 

   But you feel like a gash,
   Gaping with hideous infection.

5. ANXIETIKA

   I feel her, cold at the back of my neck. 

   I feel her, constricting my chest.

   She’s always been there

   Stealing my breath

   Guiding me, straight towards death.
   

   A grown man at his end. 

   A crying boy with no friends.

   All of my life,

   She never ends.
   

   She looms! 

   Cold and transparent

   She looms!

   A mist rolling in.

   No remorse, no relent,

   Every soul, she infects

   She looms! 

   Anxietika.
   

   She devours me, and I’m locked away 

   She devours me, and I wither away.

   I fell her when she tells me

   That I'm not enough.

   Filling my brain, With horrible stuff.
   

   I’d like to remind you I’m here til the end. 

   Right here beside you until you ascended. 

   Wrapped in my coils and tendrils and hands. 

   Mine for the keeping, mine til the end.
   

   And this world is immense. 

   I’m sick of trying to pretend. 

   Because she knows no end.

6. CYANIDE

   I’m in love with a predator 

   But I love being the prey 

   Embracing every night 

   Hunting all the day

   Girl I need you!

     

   She’s off to hibernation

   Let the zombie reanimate

   I’m duckin-and-a-weavin’ lashes 

   She’s in an altered state

   Girl I want you!

   Tell me everything’s ok

   Girl I need you!

   Don’t push me away.
   

   She’s like cyanide

   She’s a warhead

   She rides the cumulonimbus

   Into the land of the dead

   Now we’re catatonic 

   Crying underneath the moon 

   All senses are amiss

   I’ll kiss your festering wound.
   

   Girl I need you!

   I can’t seem to re-align

   Girl I want you, I’m plunging.

   Into the deep dark brine.

7. WITCHES FALLS

   Off to my hideaway in fear

   To the place that no one ever goes 

   A place no one can see my tears

   Where the haunting sounds drift in the wind 

   And the jagged rocks and tangled trees 

   They will befriend me

   And meet me in the valley

   And If I want to cry alone

   And the city turns its back on me

   Into the mountains arms I crawl.

   And if I were were to die alone,

   There would be no deathbed.

   I’d rather be a body, a body at the bottom 

   Of Witches Falls.

   The way the trees whisper to me

   And the flowing water’s tranquility

   It’s an escape from the shouts and screams. 

   I can’t turn around and go back home 

   Where I'll only hate myself

   I wanna join the rocks in the valley

   Should I die right here in the valley?

   I need it so much I need nature's touch 

   This forest is my home 

   Laid to rest here alone

   Hide in fear, hide away my tears

   The rocks and trees, nobody sees

   A frail man, his head in his hands 

   Draped in black, there’s no turning back

8. ALONE

   We’ve sunk to a new low

   I feel you no more

   Over the hills, into the fields of ice

   Losing my grip, over the mountainside

   I tried to keep us warm

   But my matches are gone

   Lost in the snow, fading shadow

   I am no hero, I’m fading, I am overthrown

   Tama heema say, aufweidersen

   Losing my mind, I’ve never been so afraid (tana sumunyah)

   Is this the end, is this a cavernous grave? (tana sumunyah)

   It’s so hard to survive, it’s hard to stay alive, when we’re alone 

   (tama heema say, aufweidersen, tama nanyuh mumaseema munyah)

    

   We’ve touched each other again

   A glimpse in the dark

   Melting me down, thawing me from the ice

   Scolding me raw, holding me up to the light

   I will try to keep us warm

   But my fingers are gone

   Bodies below, a thousand lost souls

   You are no remedy, you’re an enemy, and I need to glow. 

   Tama heema say, aufweidersen

   Shatter your dome, I stagger the treacherous way (tana sumunyah) 

   Once was a home, it now is a frightening cage. (tana sumunyah) 

   You’re kicking and you scream, but you cannot hurt me. 

   Anymore (tama heema say, aufweidersen, tama nanyuh mumaseema munyah)

9. SHE LIES DORMANT

   Instrumental