THE BEGGAR

by Damien Youth

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released 24 July 1989

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Track Name: The Beggar
There's an apparition flowing through the current
cherub wings are spreading colorful array
I can see the Seraphim descending
mending souls of spirit children as they kneel to pray

How long, must I charade?
How long must I decay?

Maybe this isn't now, but what is to come
Maybe this isn't real
From the grip of these impotent people
My spirit is soring away
raise me now, raise me now,
raise me now, raise me now

I can see a tunnel elongating turning
yearning souls be cleansed by this immortal flame
I can feel the chariot ascending to the eye of god
I didn't know I passed away

Hang on, don't be afraid
Hang on to the spiritual plane

Maybe this isn't now, but what is to come
Maybe this isn't real
From the grip of these impotent people
My spirit is soring away
raise me now, raise me now,
raise me now, raise me now

Last night I saw you walking in the mourning fields
I called your name but then you turned and walked away
I followed you across the moors into the woods
I saw you standing there beneath the Lilac tree

Come on, don't run from me
Come on, don't slip away

Maybe this isn't now, but what is to come
Maybe this isn't real
From the arms of my impotent lovers
My spirit is soring away
Now I don't believe in anything, Now I don't believe in anything,
Track Name: I Didn't Die
Here in my sitting room
I look past Chester field
Beyond the orchid bloom
just behind the wishing well
There lies my mother's grave
a cross stands made of stone
When I turn out my lights
she creeps into my home

And the porch light breaks
and the doors swings back
and she pulls me to her side
And I push away
from her flesh decayed she screams
I didn't die, I didn't die, I didn't die
I didn't die, I didn't die, I didn't die

Here in the psycho ward
I don't know what is real
The cold asylum walls
or the shrieks from Chester field
When I was a young boy
I heard my mother scream
I swung back the bedroom door
where she hung by apron strings

Now her head floats 'round
and she's haunting me
with forks stuck in her eyes
And she drags me down
to the soul pit ground, she screams
I didn't die, I didn't die, I didn't die
I didn't die, I didn't die, I didn't die
Track Name: Mister Spaceman
Hey mister spaceman we've got another song
It will probably make you millions if you'd only sing-a-long
So hey mister spaceman we're waiting for a sign, if you will

Hey mister spaceman we've been here for some time
And we've seen you in your spaceship as you swim through Hailey's sky
So hey mister space man oh please give us a sign if you will

I am hiding in your mind
I have been here for some time
We are running out of life
Looking through your aging eyes
We don't know if you will ever get to
see inside our minds.

I am hiding in your mind
I have been here for some time
We are running out of life
Looking through your aging eyes
We don't know if you will ever get to
see inside our minds.

So hey mister spaceman we've got another song
It will help to introduce you if you only sing-a-long
So hey mister spaceman oh please give us a sign, if you will
Track Name: Oria
I reached to touch her golden hair
The girl in the electric chair
So frail beneath my fingertips
I leaned & kissed her hateful lips

Oh, why can't you remember me
Jesus Christ, I was in your dreams last night
Oh, I was laying next to you, your sacred muse for your abuse... The canopy came down

I stooped to touch her pale remains
Her eyes they died like simple flames
Celestial rose, virgin soul, infant sores
An orison, a chorus from an orphan song

Oh, yes I do remember you
Oria, you were in my dreams last night
You, you were in the orphan choir
with fixed mortality, you were a gleaming spire
With cloven hoofs & burning hair
Childhood braids & twisted stare
The passion post, the holy ghost
with locks & chains & a list of names
Wandering lost by the easter cross
that's old & gray & clothed in moss
By Posey's grave in the labor fire,
I beheld the burning choir

I turned to leave her body there
Twas then I felt her golden hair
She raised her head, she looked at me
her body bucked in misery
Her eyes were red, her eyes sunk in
Then Oria awoke again.... Oria