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Great Criminal Minds

from Dream Worshipers by The Venus Cult

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Contains samples from the Winston's "Amen Brother" and the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows."

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Blood drop from a star
Fell in a sea of tar:
Ones, zeros cooking through the skin.
Ambitions of a brat
Reborn a diplomat.
Atlases we drew in Ritalin.
I-eye-eye-eye-eye’ve discovered
I’m terrified of history
And air-conditioned hypertension
Earns respectability.
We who found our way
In a volume of Jean Genet:
Stray kids seeking out a bed.
Found a rum soaked bash:
Sodomy and the lash.
Green flashes flashing in our head.
So-oh-oh-oh-oh we’re still waiting
For Godot to tell us where we stand.
Buying sleepless nights and stomach ulcers
From a dogma’s invisible hand.

Wasted!
The flesh love gave us.
Markets!
Ain’t gunna save us.
Grown up!
Knowing nothing at all about life.
Delinquent!
Making us pay now.
Prosper!
Wish I could say how.
Worship!
The great criminal minds, Oh!

Jefferson Street at dawn.
Rest at night long gone:
Strong egos sleeping through the day.
Leo DaVinci’s ghost
Derided in the Post.
Host of smears for living the wrong way.
No recantations
Explanations or apologies.
No regrets ‘bout taking the mantle
“First world refuges.”

Wasted!
The flesh love gave us.
Markets!
Ain’t gunna save us.
Grown up!
Knowing nothing at all about life.
Delinquent!
Making us pay now.
Prosper!
Wish I could say how.
Worship!
The great criminal minds, Oh!

Malapropos
And trim lawn comforts
Never show the way that they were
Were all the heroes
In tintype pictures
Sweating out la fee verte?

Fostered a callow heart.
Life ridiculing art.
Our part to bear a callous slur.
Streetlight halo glare.
Angels in toxic air.
Prayers sighed from a provocateur.
Why-eye-eye-eye fight the judgment
Of a sovereign who’s pronounced us naive,
When there’s not faith in hopes of fiction
Or what cynicism couldn’t achieve?

Wasted!
The flesh love gave us.
Markets!
Ain’t gunna save us.
Grown up!
Knowing nothing at all about life.
Progress!
A ruse of desire.
Anthems!
The ultimate liar.
Sing out!
Until they learn our game and we’re gone,
We’re gone, we’re gone, we’re gone.
Delinquent!
Making us pay now.
Prosper!
Wish I could say how.
Worship!
The great criminal minds, Oh!

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from Dream Worshipers, track released May 19, 2015

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