Future Bible Heroes

Having ended all life
Absorbed all other robots
Ruler of the cosmos
She walks into the sunset
But there is no darkness
Her laser-gaze is itself a weapon
And no sleep defends her from the nightmare of oblivion
So she wakes a new world made entirely out of lightwaves
Memories of movies, and chance determinations
Then she watches random characters and situations
Endless combinations with very little input
But she sees the ending
Every clock finds its equilibrium
So she introduces the absurdest contradictions
Anything can follow, but the actors can't believe that
So they keep pretending the script is real and means things
So the lonely robot, with no feeling for the actors
Just erased the whole thing
- which, true, had not existed
And a trillion stories all came abruptly to a non-ending
And a trillion people suddenly stopped non-existing

Thus was born a new world from the movies of the old one
And the lonely robot was given non-existence

You know me
I take nothing seriously
I can see a laughing face in every willow tree
But I'd rather be the queen at the guillotine
In a bloody insurrection
I would rather be king when the rooks take wing
Than be losing your affection

Willow trees lose their leaves in the autumn breeze
Then there's these trees that stay green for centuries

I would rather rub the hair of a bear in a lair
In the opposite direction
I would rather put the make on a rattlesnake
Than be losing your affection
I would rather be the frog speaking Tagalog
As they start the vivisection
I would rather be the dog food in front of the dog
Than be losing your affection

I never age and I'll never die
Unlike all the stars in the sky
I'll be young forever
But why?
Cause I'm a vampire
Dear, for whose victims I shed no tear
I am neither sweet nor sincere
And I'd rather drink blood than beer
Cause I'm a vampire
The sun will never touch me
I abhor its filthy light
I am the mistress of the damned
And of the children of the night
I have all the love I need
It is your blood I crave
I am the bitch goddess from beyond your grave
I can turn into a bat
I can cast the evil eye
I have ever so much money
I'm gorgeous
And I can fly
I survied the Inquisition
Been a harlot
Been a queen
Survived for seven hundred years
And still look seventeen
Hon, one from whom you really should run
I despise the light of the sun
And I kill your kind just for fun
Cause I'm a vampire
Damn, I am what?
I am what I am
And I am impossibly glam
And I am happy as a clam
Cause I'm a vampire
Blanche, with a blood flow no one can stanch
A blood flow
A blood avalance
I'm a tidal wave of tarantulas

You know me
I take nothing seriously
I can see a laughing face in every willow tree
But I'd rather be the queen at the guillotine
In a bloody insurrection
I would rather be king when the rooks take wing
Than be losing your affection

Willow trees lose their leaves in the autumn breeze
Then there's these trees that stay green for centuries

I would rather rub the hair of a bear in a lair
In the opposite direction
I would rather put the make on a rattlesnake
Than be losing your affection
I would rather be the frog speaking Tagalog
As they start the vivisection
I would rather be the dog food in front of the dog
Than be losing your affection

The world is a disco ball
And we're little mirrors
One and all
Remember when you feel very small
The world is a disco ball
From Havanna to Hong Kong
Someone's dancing all night long

You know me
I take nothing seriously
I can see a laughing face in every willow tree
But I'd rather be the queen at the guillotine
In a bloody insurrection
I would rather be king when the rooks take wing
Than be losing your affection

Willow trees lose their leaves in the autumn breeze
Then there's these trees that stay green for centuries

I would rather rub the hair of a bear in a lair
In the opposite direction
I would rather put the make on a rattlesnake
Than be losing your affection
I would rather be the frog speaking Tagalog
As they start the vivisection
I would rather be the dog food in front of the dog
Than be losing your affection

A DJ from outer space came
To make this planet dance
It had neither sex nor race
It looked like six legs in pants
All the records ever made
Seemed to be playing as one
To this beat, the whole world swayed
Till the DJ's work is done

Standing by the car in a silver thing
Staring into space like an astronaut
In a western town as the evening falls
In the late summer in the far future

You steal the scene

Standing on the set, curling cigarettes
In a body suit, getting in the mood
For an action scene in the madman's dream
When the camera's roll, you do your own stunts
Standing on a chair, noose around your neck
In a body suit catching everything
Kick the chair away as the cameras rock
Movies of your life flash before your eyes

Now you're underground, added to the gate
Tattered from the suit, every twitch and sigh
Lie before your art in the public eye
With your trademark smile changing all the time

It's the sound of lonely days
Falling down like rain on this place
Please don't count the lonely days
Let this town fade to gray

Endless rows of houses fuse
And there's never any news
Because there's nowhere to go but crazy
So we go

We just hang around in malls
Up until the army calls
Because there's nowhere to go but crazy
As you know

Nothing good is on TV
No one falls in love with me
And there's nobody to fall in love with
So I don't

Don't forget to stop and smell the glue
No one falls in love with you
And there's nobody to fall in love with
Just the phone

I loll on the porch swing
Tall mint julep in hand
Listening to the beach boys
- why don't they understand?
This is not what I call summer
Summer it's infinitely less than

We get one real summer
Only one in our time
Full of wine and wonder
- you were mine
We get one real summer
Ridiculous and sublime
Before we go under
- you were mine

I may drive my woody
Down to sandcastle beach
With my brave new boyfriend
But love is out of reach
Who lives in these crumbling castles?
Summer's promise honored in the breach

So lost without you
Haven't a clue what to do

Octagons fall from the sun
As we run through the grass
Let weathermen blether
This forecast is o'ercast
And the beach boys?
Hell, they might as well play "winter wonderland"
Summer, my ass

I believe you when you say
You're alone in every way
The sun comes up
And you go down into your hole
I don't believe you have a soul

A you you never knew
Lives in a better place
A you you never knew
One of a prettier face

I believe you when you cry
Even though you hide your eyes
I believe that you can't feel your life at all
Like the ghost of a doll

You know why the lemmings fly from high terrain
You know why most flowers don't bloom
You know why sad children stay out in the rain
Sitting in your lonely room

But you're so beautiful, you make me want to cry
And you're so sad and hopeless
Waiting 'round to die
You may be cruel and unkind in every way
Thinking up ways to hurt me all night and day
But you're so beautiful

One day you burned down all your dreams
With one lit match and gasoline
How could you be so old and lonely at 17?

One day your lost your only friend
To Jesus Christ and His henchmen
Where did you learn to have so many accidents?

You only go out when it rains
You're impossible to entertain
You collect songs about crime
I'm gonna kidnap you in the summertime

I'm the new greek statue
You can take home and enjoy
I'm the dream of every queen
The world's most gorgeous boy
I'm the billion dollar baby
With a million dollar smile
I'm the toast of every coast
And I can't sing - oh, honey

Blond adonis on the endless autobahn
Blond adonis on the cover of a magazine
Blond adonis on the golden streets of cannes
Blond adonis on the silver screen

I'm the new sex object
And I am god's gift to you
I'm the blond with tousled frond
And eyes of baby blue
I can't sing, but
I can do some things
That leave you breathless
Take me home and leave the light off
You'll see why I'm famous

I'm the last of the master race
The grand teutonic plague
My computer-generated face is all the rage
I'm continuously updated, I never age
I'm only an actor, and the whole world is a stage

You pretend to be the moon
Infinitely far away
And you're always leaving soon
But what you want, you'll never say

You pretend to be the moon
Looking down upon us all
Always taking a dim view
Feeling cold and blue and small

You've seen your friends and lovers die
The weepy ends, but you don't cry
Remember when we'd wave goodbye?
At least I tried

You pretend to be the moon
With another secret face
Always only passing through
Because you come from outer space

You pretend to be the moon
Old and fat and made of stone
But I've seen you in the nude
When you thought you were alone

On friday the 13th, death opened a boutique
On the champs elysees
Selling fear and dismay
Open seven days a week
It was de rieugur and chic
For the wicked and the weak
Death opened a boutique

People came from far and near
To buy poison and tears
The decor was delectable
The service impeccable
It was expensive - what isn't?
It sold black plague and socialism
There was no reason to exist
If you weren't on the mailing list

You've been tearing out your hair
And I've been drinking
Listening to music in the dark
And I've been keeping to myself
And you've been slinking
All around the trailer park

There's no use even trying
Because it's hopeless
All of our dreams are dying of overdoses
All of our plans are lying in ten-car road wrecks
There's just no point in crying
You know it's hopeless

You look at strangers like a kid in a candy store
I've been leaving on every train
And you don't keep a diary anymore
And I come home feeling no pain

Don't let me rain on your parade
Don't get your hair gray
It's just another wasted year
Nothing you can't forget in hours at the raceway
Nothing that can't be drowned in beer

Large, and full of ill-intent
Circling, gurgling
Cross-eyed and incontinent
Lurking, irking

Eyes are looking amorous
Fumbling, mumbling
Razor-fanged and humorless
She-devils of the deep

Gracelessly they prowl the night
Seeking young meat
Like demented stalagmites
Streamed with seaweed
Stalking all the surfer boys
Tearing, pairing
Cackling in chythonian joy
Mating, mutilating

She-devils of the deep
Their shadows creep when we're asleep
She-demons from the sea
Dismember you and eat me

Look in their amphibious eyes
You'll be sorry
Everybody hypnotized
Winds up splattered everywhere
In their nauseating voice
Sighing, lying
Seeking all the surferboys
Dying, dying