Primus — The Family and the Fishing Net

[Verse 1] Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams Her honey belly pulls the seams Curves are still upon the hinge Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin [Verse 2] Moist as grass, ripe and heavy as the night The sponge is full, well out of sight All around the conversations Icing on the warm flesh cake [Verse 3] Light creeps through her secret tunnels Sucked into the open spaces Burning out in sudden flashes Draining blood from well-fed faces [Verse 4] Desires form in subtle whispers Flex the muscles in denial Up and down its pristine cage So the music, so the trial [Chorus 1] Vows of sacrifice, headless chickens Dance in circles, they the blessed Man and wife, undressed by all Their grafted trunks in heat possessed [Verse 6] Even as the soft skins tingle They mingle with the homeless mother Who loves the day but lives another That once was hers [Verse 7] The worried father, long lost lover Brushes ashes with his broom Rehearses jokes to fly and hover Bursting over the bride and groom And the talk goes on [Bridge] Memories crash on tireless waves The lifeguards whom the winter saves Memories crash on tireless waves The lifeguards whom the winter saves [Verse 8] Silence falls the guillotine All the doors are shut Nervous hands grip tight the knife In the darkness, 'til the cake is cut [Chorus 2] Passed around (passed around) In little pieces (in little pieces) The body (the body) The body and the flesh The family (the family) And the fishing-net And another (another) In the mesh The body, the body, and the flesh