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Grave Robber

from GIVE ME VIDEO, GIVE ME AIR by Placentaur

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inspired by Jaromil Jire's film, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

thank you Bunny for Valerie vox

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Raising the door to her coffin
And you ask: “do you recognize her?”
“Wed to my father,
the happiest of brides, grave robber.”
Holding her body rotting
She’ll dance with me,
Her carcass crawling in my arms
And he gives me her rings
With rust and dust,
Coating the stones,
Please give her away.

Counting sheep, she sleeps again
(Day to day, we are filth)
She must have known he was the weasel
(Gray is gray, we are still)
He wanted her blood, her virgin blood
He was her master,
She was all alone,
He broke inside her pubic bone

Blood on the flowers
A parade has come
We dance, we wine
We feast again!
Light at the windows
My husband has returned
You will come to love yr father

Must I love you?
Yes, child
Can I look through?
Just wait
Do you love her?
No, child
Is this the end?
Just wait
Has she left me?
Yes, child
Where are my earrings?
They’re gone
Must I love you?
Yes, child
Then I’m yours
(x2)

Graverobber, I want the life of a loved one
In my arms, and he pulls the rings like teeth
And he gives them to me, it’s a gift for free,
Looking underground for my father’s will
Dreading the haunt of a necrophilic white eye
To lie inside a tomb of doom
The feeling is meaningless

We change rooms as the haunting subsides,
the window asking for its veil to be lifted,
for the light to claim us in eternal love. The
moment growing ominous as circus filth
mate with shadows behind corpses, lifting
coffin doors to whisper curses in between
our vows. I look to the mirror and watch my
reflection decorating father’s trident with
mother’s favorite rings, begging her to look at me.
All she sees is another body.

Must I love you?
Yes, child
Can I look through?
Just wait
Do you love her?
No, child
Is this the end?
Just wait
Has she left me?
Yes, child
Where are my earrings?
They’re gone
Must I love you?
Yes, child
Then I’m yours

Blood on the flowers
A parade has come
We dance, we wine
We feast again!
Light at the windows
My husband has returned
You will come to love yr father.

Your father, you will come
To love your father
Your father, you will
Come to love your father.

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from GIVE ME VIDEO, GIVE ME AIR, released September 25, 2012

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