The cuckoo sleeps, hungry and wild and crawling

Through the storm that breaks

Clears away the vicious and violent heat

Breathe deep, breathe long and hard

Kiss and caress the hands that feed

Love me primitive, betray my lips

And the treacherous heart, the savage breed



Hollow eyes only cry hollow tears

And the tinselling flesh melts away

The scars and fears that the shameless years

Leave laughing and dancing

On a wasted and tattered dream

Cry hollow tears, stifle the totured kiss and scream



Screaming in the darkness, torn and ravaged

Spinning round in circles

And in the crazy and the howl of the naked and savage



The cuckoo sleeps, hungry and wild and crawling

Through the storm that breaks

Clears away the vicious and violent heat

Breathe deep, breathe long and hard

Kiss and caress the hands that feed

Love me primitive, betray my lips

And the treacherous heart, the savage breed



Screaming in the darkness, torn and ravaged

Spinning round in circles

And in the crazy and the howl of the naked and savage



Tarnish, taint and punish me softly

Kiss the heavens where the angels tread

Love is the corpse that crawls on dreams

Rips them apart and tears them to shreds



Screaming in the darkness, torn and ravaged

Spinning round in circles

And in the crazy and the howl of the naked and savage



Savage, savage, savage, savage