As you lie there on your bed

Beneath the face of Louise Brooks

With your makeup and your teddy bears

And your C.S. Lewis books

Bad seed

You're a bad seed



You're a decadent in chrysalis

Waiting sleepily to emerge

When you'll visit every seedy need

Of your heartbreak obsessive urge



All the ruses that you use

All the food that you refuse

All the dust and tired air that feeds Interior Lulus

All the poisoned attitudes

And the lust for the unknown

And the second best that devils use

To make this world their own

Interior Lulu

Interior Lulu



In your soul are many mansions

And your heart are many mysteries

And you'll visit every room in time

Of your friends Henry and Anais



All the lost weekends and booze

All the complicated truths

Everything we prostitute to feed Interior Lulus

Interior Lulu

Interior Lulu



Use the anger

Paint a picture of it

Throw the colours

Use the pain, use the pain



Scream back a brand new emotion

As it runs across the skin

Fire across paper

Burn and curl



Discovering and remembering

You felt like this somewhere before

Stirrin up the bed of the river

Somewhere you don't like to go



You thought you couldn't feel like this

You said never again but you're waking up in pain

Tattooed in the private place

Intimately pierced

Intimately pierced



What do I know?

She told me what I already know

Then she said



"If you can carry it out you can take it away

If you can carry it out you can take it away

If you can buy it, it can be bought

If you can buy it, it can