Please Keep This Gate Closed
06-01-93ce
The Nemo-Dog: "Please Keep This Gate Closed" is a Dumb Cow Go Home, Inc. production
All Songs By Chaleptimos, Except Where Otherwise Noted.
7th ENTRANCE I
1 I GIVE UP
The silver crystal dripped across my hand
The sleeping masses stir and bustle and pretend to understand
While I sit gladly sleepless in a transparent shell of indifference
Peculiar that you cannot see me,
Even though I am nude...
2 NO HOPE (MUSIC:Chaleptimos/Loviatar)
Liquid nitrogen...
The coil around your neck is the first sign
Rope to tie the knot of the Mariner's design
Drowning in lava, melting with god above
Liquid nitrogen in the veins of the red-eyed dove
For everything I ever wanted to be,
It's time to give up; there's no hope.
I deny not a thing,
It's time to give up; there's no hope.
Ever on, oblivion,
It's time to give up; there's no hope.
Uncanny voices, through the tendrils they wreak
Crawl their way inside of everything you seek
I'll be here, numb and sightless, reflection in the creek
Donnot be surprised if I don't seem to hear you when you speak
C'est la vive, don't talk to me,
It's time to give up; there's no hope.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
It's time to give up; there's no hope.
When everything all around crumbles and falls to the ground,
Let's give up, there's no hope.
If you want to go to war, that's what you will do
If you want to find the Rupy Eye, well you can have that, too THERE'S NO HOPE
3 VENENUM ARACHNIS
"Come into my parlor", said the spider to the fly...
Inject you with my venom, leave you in my web to die
Lie back, child, as I drain you of your vitality
Your life blood feeds me, as does your submission unto me
And I know not what I do; everything I touch is ash
There's a cricket in my room, venenum in sanguis tuum sum
My spindly legs surround you, my arachnid web envelops you
I descend upon your quivering form and dip my fangs in...
4 ISOLATION
Inspiration...
Vaccination, there is no cure
Labored breathing, vision obscured
Microcosm, viral haven
Despair, for cure is nowhere in sight
Amputation, umbilical cord, and (of course!) loss of god...
Human contact, leprosy
Donnot get too close to me!
I am a virus, I am afraid
Donnot get too close to me
I have leprosy
The time I spent under your skin
in the Frozen Months was time well spent:
I have leprosy
Headless children, horror era,
Donnot get too close to me
Donnot hurt me, do me no harm,
Donnot get too close to me
Feel so cold, cause for alarm: leprosy, fragility
Plague infection, spreading fast, boiling blood and death: at last! Fire... Perspiration...
Vaccination, there is no cure
Labored breathing vision obscured
I have leprosy...
The children!
The world is ablaze with flame
And all things are devoured
except my withering corpus
I sit in a box of iron,
Shielded from the flames
Only hours though...
In only hours
In time
They will pass
They will come to me
And I alone wait
With sickness and flame
For the Fire of Change to come
All things passed are things dead
And that hour shall approach,
When it touches my skin...
Ripping...
Tearing...
Shriveling...
Burning up!
I am sick beyond redemption, alone I wait for this to pass...
5 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
Someone inside me has ripped out her hair
She has blood on her fingers and her skull is bare
In fear and in blood, now laying flat
The suffering is real and you can see where it's at
He still alive, he still alive
He still alive, he still alive
I can see his face, and I don't want to die...
In the core of the world there is a reddened sea
As the wind blows over it, it has to be free
There's this imp in my ear, always whispering
It tells me what to do, it tells me what to think
There's a tumor in the room where freedom screams
On the floor lies the root of these silent christenings
It fled me, and left me for dead
6 CATACLYSM
Blood and grain: No soft upgrade,
Just a silver bullet and a shot in the dark
Catalyst under lying winds
Decline in sharpened pinball landscapes: Again?
"Making love on the beach" is fine; whatever...
But there's no beach in my mind
If you don't see, then you're not looking
Doesn't work, alive like me, another speck of gruel
Cataclysmic!? Bowl down head dog
Grelch nach nackle hark, crahal canchan klarg
Tearing the pages of the paper tiger, it's time to die
"Making love on the beach" is fine
But there's just one problem...
There's no beach on the moon!
I've given up on giving up the ghost...
7 12 O' CLOCK IN BABYLON
Everything I've done is falling out
Everything I've had is slipping out
But above and beyond everything else
I must stop killing myself,
Maybe...
Anesthesia and turpentine
Chloroform becomes a friend of mine
The best I could hope for is numbness for awhile
Melancholia, blood, and bile
Laying helplessly collapsed on my front lawn,
As the witching hour strikes
In Babylon
12 O'clock in Babylon
12th hour past meridian
And I am wide awake, to feel the spiders crawling on my face... Everything I've done, I have done wrong
And worst is only to see that now
All I've believed is burnt to ash
And I can't even hide, because I've burnt my mask,
Maybe...
Have no trust and ye may yet survive
Show weakness and ye will be robbed blind
Show me to the door, I must escape
The unbearable weight of concern in this dismal world
Crawl through these passageways dank with shit
If this is height, then I want vertigo,
Maybe...
12 O'clock in Babylon
Lycanthropes come to sing their songs
And if you should live to see the fruit of your labor,
Then you will live to see it rot...
8 ODE TO THE MORNING SUN
Ooh, slice quickly, tearing through elastic skin,
Tender flesh giving way to the edge
Dreaming of thoughts and surrendering coups,
Nothing reminds me of you like ewe do
Now that my eyes are averted full down,
Recapture the fleeting thoughts of death-sounds
Don't know out of sight, but out of my mind,
Chunks of peacock flesh at the grind
Saving up tokens for the killing game,
As nothing else is free but pain
Departure, inversion, silence is death,
A cross-eyed peacock on crystal meth,
And woe
Deny me! Deny me! I deny everything but pain,
Closed & hidden snugly in the skull of a vulture
I do deny thee, the only comfort never
Denied is in great abundance to soothe the emptiness
Rejection, despondency, and loss;
Solitude without servitude
The only freedom left is the freedom of woe,
Harbinger of dawn, begotten without a Sun
Forbearer of youth, the birth of another son,
Serenity, obliteration: MY GOD, I AM UNDONE!
But the taste in your mouth of the starving maggots is
Just begun
The new plants on the horizon feed only on the moisture of blood;
Sometimes I wonder
If this is what it feels like
To be drawn and quartered...
9 ENTRANCE (Loviatar)
I could sit here for a life
unthreatened
just aging, just dying
'Tis the price of crucifiction
'tis the price of love
and I withdraw
left in the outside world
a burden
enveloped by the submerging walls of isolation
'tis of where I touch the rose's stem
her thorns pricking my black velvet fingers
ripping
tearing another page of the book I hold life
while a dripping red sky devours my unbathed intentions
which sleep of a soft bed anguish
resting
lying upon its once ageless hearth manifestation
10 THIRD FIGURE IN THE YELLOW ROOM
Are you half wolf, are you half man?
Are you too much Beast to understand?
I am not a name, I am a number,
Third Figure, in this yellow room
Please! keep this gate closed, to the yellow room,
And never unleash the wolves that live inside
I don't know where I'm going to:
It burns, but it burns like antiseptic...
ENIGMA II
11 FIFTH FIGURE(MUSIC:Loviatar/Chaleptimos)
Nosferatu in obscurum
Versipellis rex
In pellis lupum veni
Est nox versipellum!
Tonight we shall dine in festive garb
The fields afallow laid to waste
The rain drips down through the dark clouds
A mask of gold covers my eyes
Howling at the moon
I'm still in a coma;
Et oscularum strix
[and the kiss of the vampire]
Defilement!
12 CRYSTALLINE DAGGERS (MUSIC:Loviatar/Silver/Chaleptimos)
Close the gates to vision, for I do not want to see this.
Paint over the windows with coal, to disguise the horrid crimson of blood.
Leapt up through glass, up through silver, the soft, smooth texture of molten metal...
Sometimes we fall apart, like walls of glass
into shattered fragmentary shards: crystalline daggers
when that one crucial pin is pulled.
There we implode on ourselves, and crack apart
Reflecting your eyes, glistening in the Sun
What was once a human being, alive and feeling
has crumbled into a heap of rubble ice
like a blanket for the snow; the Yeti's carpet.
13 ADRENALINE NIGHTMARES
Slam the door down on my face
Love and war, Familie, disgrace
Blood and ash to smear on your face
Another worm doth know its place
But the drinking water has turned to piss
Another flat scream, and another kiss
For the love of gods, so missed
Acid in the sand, roaches in your cocktail
Acid reign on your parade.
14 CORPSE
Sit alone in a dark bucket, and contemplate desperation
I contemplate myself, for I cannot contemplate you
Relive; relive episodes of piercing failure and crushing rejection, And contemplate desperation
I'm so fucking sick of bearing rejection!
A plethora, a myriad, a cauldron, a head so filled with aspergium, that only in solitude can it be disguised by the shadowy cloud, once thought dispersion...
It was a soft day, early in Spring. The clouds split, as a corpse fell from the sky. Shreds of cloth, torn raw as the skin below it, clung loosely to the corpse's body, in tattered scraps. It splattered to Earth, hitting hard as the soft grass stiffened to the texture of concrete, and smashed the corpse's cheekbone and sternum with a sickening "thud", sending shards of thorax to pierce the corpse's worn heart.
Corpse
It rose slowly, its lifeless eyes peering through the souls of all it encountered; eyes what pleaded forgiveness and redemption: to no avail. And I contemplate desperation. And I contemplate life. The corpse lay down and went to sleep. Soon its pulverized flesh began to meld with the dirt and grass below it. Then, a hand rose from the clumps of dirt and took the corpse down, the corpse too weak to struggle, but now wide awake. Down through the Earth they did fall, to a safe, dark haven at the centre of the world... And I contemplate you...
15 EVOLUTION (MUSIC: Walter)
In this world of blood and death,
I am begotten once again: into this place alone.
Who would know me?
No-one does.
Close not your eyes one final time...
No special loss, no special war.
No special failure, defeats galore.
It's all the same, show me- show me a change!
Don't go away, I'm doing fine, close not these eyes one final time: NO!
Don't know the flight above the night, for now I fall-
I fall.
This life is death, only Nothingness is left,
If I could drown only the sorrow,
And meet a new emptiness tomorrow,
And find a new failure for me to borrow,
Woe!
Trembling in loss, the unluck of the toss,
I saw it once when I was 21,
And again 9 days before my birth,
How much the Earth,
6 feet of the Earth...
For I walk in darkness,
I fly in darkness.
I am the darkness...
Turning your stomach inside out,
Flight in the shade, as it rips your back out:
You seem to die!
Please, don't close these eyes one final time...
Six feet is a waste, here under this Earth,
I feel so trapped, but can't you see me?
Down in this hole, Please pull me out, I see you know!
Close not these eyes one final time, you seem to die,
Six feet is a waste!
All of this shit,
This whole fucking world!...
16 THE OTHER HALF
The other half!
Ice particles in the air, conspiracy in question:
Nay! out of the question!:
Denial.
All fears confirmed,
All confirmations feared
Taste the Other Half
Taste the Other Half
Taste the Other Half
Become the Other Half!...
"Nevaeh ni evres ot naht Lleh ni elur ot retteb..."
Delffum si maercs eht neve:
Hteet prahs htiw nepo deppir elppa S`mada.
Doolb eht no tsaef, selcsum eht gniraet.
Mrof enipul keels in, thgin yb gniklats.
Raef no gnideef, niks-flow eht fo gninnod.
Demrifnoc sraef lla!!
Enorht yht ecnuoned! Enorht yht ecnuoned!
Modgnik eht ni eman tsrif eht emoceb ot si eman ym.
17 CHESAPEAKE BAY (Loviatar/Chaleptimos)
Well she's ma Chesapeake bay-bay
She takes me all the way
You know, she's drivin' me crazy
`Cause I love her every night and day
One time, y`all
Y`all know what I'm talkin' 'bout, baby
Ain't gonna do you no harm
Move that thang on over here
She's ma Chesapeake lover
I love her like no other
We watch cartoons together
`Cause her name is Heather
18 VENENUM NEGRIS
...Fast for 98 days
There is a bee in the bridal bouquet
There is a wrench in the works
There is a ghost in the machine
Huddle above the dying flame
Kindle well, nurture the fire
But the wind keeps blowing it out
Pyrus, virus, the kindling is dwindling,
And I know not what I do...
And I know not what I do
Everything I touch is ash
There's a cricket in my room;
Venenum in sanguis tuum sum
Pink eyes
Skeletal remains
You will claim calamity as your home
Calamity shall be your comfort
And death shall be your feast
Meaninglessness shall be your company
And nil shall be the wind
That dampens your flame
Venenum negris in sanguis tuum sum!
[I am the black poison in your blood]
19 FINAL FIGURE: A PHYSICAL EXCHANGE (MUSIC:Loviatar/
Chaleptimos)
WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!
It was him, always him, why couldn't it be me instead?
Why couldn't I have been the one to die?
Morphine and amphetamine
Codeine and crystal methadrine
I need a fix
My fix of death
I have no place left
In this dismal world
I wanted him
To never leave...
Never, never, never, never, NOOOO!!!
Blood blood dripping from the ceiling to the floor
Into crimson little puddles of morose gore
Methadrine!
Amphetamine!
Morphine!
Codeine!
His body, my body
A physical exchange
Matter can neither be destroyed nor created
It can only be altered through a physical exchange
A physical exchange
Joseph!
A physical exchange, we share
Matter can neither be destroyed, nor created
Norpheus wisdom
Tiberius wisdom
Mountain of lust
The wind is warmer when you are in the nude
Tempest rise dawn
January 8 is Elvis's birthday
Norman, delve casaby
Norman was god at one time
Joseph and
A physical exchange
When I was a fare Egyptian god
I would always feed on the dung of rats
Dragonflies
Bite me
Amphetamine
Morphine
Codeine
Crystal methedrine
A physical exchange
The Signal
Independence
Despair
Infame
Awakening to a new dawn
101/2 years, one aeon to go
I free the image
I close the door
And always keep the gate closed
She creeps up on me
She is my friend
Her light shines through the crack below my door
She comes for me this night
I wait for her with open arms
The chariot of death approaches
And I do not struggle...
Samples were taken from The Company of Wolves, The Wolfman, and Dracula (which are movies). I didn't program the drums well enough on No Hope, so it's a little off in the chorus. We sampled Boy Scouts of Annihilation on Adrenaline Nightmares. Chesapeake Bay is a very serious song, and certainly not to be taken lightly. If you listen closely to Final Figure: A Physical Exchange, you will hear all the members of the band killing themselves, one by one. The suicides go as follows: flautist, guitarist, drummer, bassist, vocalist.
the Nemo-Dog in 1993 (during this album):
Chaleptimos: vox, guit., bass, perc., keys, etc.
Loviatar: bass, guit., flute, etc.
Jezebel: all kinds of stuff
Elisa Rowen: guitar, bass, vox.
Mary the Drummer: drums, vox.
Walter Douglass: keys, perc.
Patrick Collins: roadie
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