A Perfect Circle: Mer de Noms


| The Hollow | Magdalena | Rose | Judith | Orestes | 3 Libras |
| Sleeping Beauty | Thomas | Renholdër | Thinking of You | Breña | Over |



  1. THE HOLLOW

  2. Run desire run
    Sexual being
    Run him like a blade
    To and through the heart
    No conscience
    One Motive
    Cater to the hollow

    Screaming feed me here
    Fill me up again
    Temporarily pacify this hungering
    So grow
    Libido throw
    Dominoes of indiscretions down
    Falling all around
    In cycles
    In circles
    Constantly consuming
    Conquer and devour

    Cause it's time to bring the fire down
    Bridle all this indiscretion
    Long enough to edify
    And permanently fill this hollow

    Screaming feed me here
    Fill me up again
    Temporarily pacifying

    Feed me here
    Fill me up again
    Temporarily pacifying


  3. MAGDALENA

  4. Overcome by your
    Moving temple
    Overcome by this
    Holiest of altars

    So pure
    So rare
    To witness such an earthly goddess
    That I've lost my self control
    Beyond compelled to throw this dollar down before your
    Holiest of altars

    I'd sell
    My soul
    My self-esteem a dollar at a time

    One chance
    One kiss
    One taste of you my magdalena

    I bear witness
    To this place, this prayer, so long forgotten
    So pure
    So rare
    To witness such an earthly goddess

    That I'd sell
    My soul
    My self-esteem a dollar at a time
    For one chance
    One kiss
    One taste of you my black madonna

    I'd sell
    My soul
    My self-esteem a dollar at a time

    One taste
    One taste
    One taste of you my Magdalena


  5. ROSE

  6. Don't disturb
    The beast
    The tempermental goat
    The snail while he's feeding on
    the Rose
    Stay frozen, compromising
    What I will
    I am

    Bend around
    The wind silently
    thrown about
    Again I'm treading so
    Soft and lightly
    Compromising my will
    I am

    I am
    I will
    So no longer
    Will I
    Lay down
    Play dead
    Play your doe
    in the headlights locked down
    and terrified
    Your deer in the headlights
    shot down and horrified when
    Push comes to pull comes to shove
    Comes to step around this
    Self-destructing dance that never
    would've ended till I
    Rose,
    I roared aloud here
    I will
    I am.

    I am
    I will
    So no longer
    Will I
    Lay down
    Lay dead
    Play this
    Kneel down
    Gun-shy Martyr
    Pitiful
    I rose, I roared
    I will
    I am


  7. JUDITH

  8. You're such an inspiration for the ways
    That I'll never ever choose to be
    Oh so many ways for me to show you
    How the savior has abandoned you
    Fuck your God
    Your Lord and your Christ
    He did this
    Took all you had and
    Left you this way
    Still you pray, you never stray
    Never taste of the fruit
    You never thought to question why

    It's not like you killed someone
    It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
    Praise the one who left you
    Broken down and paralyzed
    He did it all for you
    He did it all for you

    Oh so many many ways for me to show you
    How your dogma has abandoned you
    Pray to your Christ, to your god
    Never taste of the fruit
    Never stray, never break
    Never---choke on a lie
    Even though he's the one who did this to you
    You never thought to question why

    Not like you killed someone
    It's Not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
    Talk to Jesus Christ
    As if he knows the reasons why
    He did it all for you
    Did it all for you
    He did it all for you...


  9. ORESTES

  10. Metaphor for a missing moment
    Pull me into your perfect circle

    One womb
    One shape
    One resolve

    Liberate this will
    To release us all

    Gotta cut away, clear away
    Snip away and sever this
    Umbilical residue that's
    Keeping me from killing you

    And from pulling you down with me in here
    I can almost hear you scream

    Give me
    One more medicated peaceful moment
    One more medicated peaceful moment

    And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
    Hostility
    Because I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
    Hostility

    Gotta cut away Clear away
    Snip away and sever this
    Umbilical residue
    Gotta cut away Clear away
    Snip away and sever this
    Umbilical residue that's
    Keeping me from killing you
    Keeping me from killing you


  11. 3 LIBRAS

  12. Threw you the obvious
    And you flew with it on your back
    A name in your recollection
    Down among a million, say:
    Difficult enough to feel a little bit
    Disappointed, passed over.
    When I've looked right through,
    To see you naked and oblivious
    and you don't see me

    Well I threw you the obvious,
    Just to see if there's more behind the
    Eyes of a fallen angel,
    Eyes of a tragedy.

    Here I am expecting just a little bit
    Too much from the wounded
    But I see,
    See through it all,
    See through,
    And see you.

    So I threw you the obvious
    Do you see what occurs behind the
    Eyes of a fallen angel
    Eyes of a tragedy

    Well, oh well...

    Apparently nothing.
    Apparently nothing at all.

    You don't
    You don't
    You don't see me
    You don't
    You don't
    You don't see me
    You don't
    You don't
    You don't see me
    You don't
    You don't
    You don't see me at all


  13. SLEEPING BEAUTY

  14. Delusional
    I believe I can cure it all for you, dear
    Coax or trick or drive or
    drag the demons from you
    Make it right for you sleeping beauty
    Truly thought
    I can magically heal you

    You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
    Failing miserably to rescue

    Sleeping Beauty

    Drunk on ego
    Truly thought I could make it right
    If I kissed you one more time to
    Help you face the nightmare
    But you're far too poisoned for me
    Such a fool to think that I can wake you from your slumber
    That I could actually heal you..

    Sleeping Beauty
    Poisoned and hopeless
    You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
    Failing miserably to find a way to comfort you

    Far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
    And hiding from some poisoned memory

    Poisoned and hopeless
    Sleeping Beauty


  15. THOMAS

  16. Humble and helpless
    Learning to pray
    Praying for visions
    to Show me the way
    Show me the way to forgive you
    Allow me to let it go
    Allow me to be forgiven
    Show me the way to let go
    Show me the way to forgive you
    Allow me to let it go
    Allow me to be forgiven
    Show me the way to let go

    Illuminate me,
    Illuminate me,
    Illuminate me,
    I'm just praying for you to show me
    Where I'm to begin

    Hoping to
    Hoping to reconnect to you..


  17. RENHOLDËR

  18. Instrumental (No Lyrics).


  19. THINKING OF YOU

  20. Lying all alone and restless
    unable to lose this image
    sleepless, unable to focus on
    anything but your surrender

    Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
    Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying
    So delighted with a new understanding
    Something about a little evil that makes that
    Unmistakable noise I was hearing
    Unmistakable sound that I know so well
    Spent and sighing with a look in your eye
    Spent and sighing with a look on your face like

    Sweet revelation sweet surrender
    sweet, sweet surrender
    Surrender...

    Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
    Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying
    So delighted with a new understanding
    Something about a little evil that makes that
    Unmistakable noise I was hearing
    Unmistakable sound that I know so well
    Spent and sighing with a look in your eye
    Spent and sighing with a look on your face like

    Sweet revelation sweet surrendering
    Sweet revelation sweet

    Thinking of you, thinking
    Thinking of you, Thinking of you, Thinking of you, thinking...

    Sweet revelation sweet surrendering
    Sweet revelation


  21. BREÑA

  22. My reflection
    Wraps and pulls me under
    healing waters to be
    Bathed in Breña

    Guides me
    Safely in
    Worlds I've never been to
    Heal me
    Heal me
    My dear Breña

    So vulnerable
    But it's alright

    Heal me
    Heal me
    My dear Breña

    Show me lonely and
    Show me openings
    To lead me closer to you
    My dear Breña

    (Feeling so) vulnerable
    But it's alright

    Opening to... heal...
    Opening to... heal...
    Heal.. Heal.. Heal...

    Heal me


  23. OVER

  24. been over, been over this before
    been over and over
    been over this before

    And over, been over this before
    so over this.
    Been over this.
    So over this.
    Been over this.
    Over this before


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