I bled on a pivotal stretch, Like a clockwork Christ
Bears sore stigmata, bored

And as I threw Job, I drove, Myself to a martyred wretch
To see if I drew pity, Or pretty litanies from the Lord

So the plot sickened, With the coming of days
Ill millennia thickened, With the claret I sprayed
And though they saw red, I left a dirty white stain
A splintered knot in the grain, On Eden's marital aid

So glad for the madness(x2)

I walked the walls naked to the moon
In Sodom and Babylon
And through rich w____s and corridors
Of the Vatican, I led a sordid Borgia on

I read the Urilia text, So that mortals wormed
As livebait for the dead

And as I broke hope, I choked, Another Pope with manna peel
Dictating to DeSade, In the dark entrails of the Bastille
And as He wrote, I smote, A royal blow to the heads of France
And in the sheen of guillotines, I saw others, fallen, dance

I was an incurable, Necromantic old fool
A phagadaena that crawled, Drooling over the past
A rabid wolf in a shawl, A razor's edge to the rule
That the stars overall, Were never destined to last

So glad for the madness(x2)

I furnaced dreams, a poet, foe of sleep
Turning sermons with the smell, On Witchfinder fingers
Where bad memories lingered
Burning, as when Dante
Was freed to map Hell

I sired schemes and the means, To catch sight of the seams
And the vagaries inbetween...

And midst the lips and the curls, Of this c___ of a world
In glimpses I would see, A nymph with eyes for me

Eyes of fire that set all life aflame
Lights that surpassed art
In sight , that no intense device of pain
Could prise their secrets from my heart

I knew not Her name, Though her kiss was the same
Without a whisper of shame, As either Virtue or Sin's
And pressed to Her Curve, I felt my destiny swerve
From d___ation reserved, To a permanent grin...

So glad for the madness(x2)

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