A LONG WALK WITH THE DEMON

AND OTHER SHORT PIECES BY MICK FARREN

All his life he'd walked with the demon
From the Radium Room to the Palace of Mirrors
From the Canadian Border to the Place of Skulls

All his life he'd walked with the demon
At regular intervals, his friends had come to him
And pleaded that he cast it from him

The demon drove him to the madness
The craving for the adoration of the mob
The reason that all but one of his women left him

The demon might mutate and modify
Making him more comfortable
With the passage of the nightmare
But he would never be free

The demon would never let him be free
Never allow itself to cast out or put aside
Symbiosis, homeboy, it told him
A twin singularity

-- A version of this piece appears on the CD Mick Farren's Tijunana Bible -- Gringo Madness (Ace Records)

GOD'S WORST NIGHTMARE

Cathedral bells are ringing, cannon beating time
Survivors of the government running for the line
Shadow freaks, dixie geeks they come in all sizes
Break the wheel of fortune, boys
And carry off the prizes
Suture Queens, Slash Teens and Rocket Boys too
God's worst nightmare is coming after you

Still in the basement, dreaming up perversions
Deathcamp tickets with the video version
Insect secretions when the lights grow dim
Aztec rituals and gypsy hymns
Caligula and Sparky and Little Boy Blue
God's worst nightmare is coming after you

Shebazz is moaning and Ophelia weeps
Desdemona's going down
On the kid who never sleeps
Chained in the market place, crying in the rain
With a fatal attraction to new concepts of pain
Amazing Grace is maxed out
Stealing spiders from the zoo
God's worst nighmare is coming after you

-- A version of this piece appears on Wayne Kramer's CD Dangerous Madness (Epitaph Records) and Eating Jello With A Heated Fork -- deviants ixvi (Alive Records)

GASOLINE

Doesn't always come down to a bunch of men
Sitting in a basement room
That has been soaked in gasoline
Wonder which one will go for it
And strike a match?

-- This piece has never previously been published



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