Beyond The Pale

Pain Of Salvation

And SEX was always there from when I was only eight years - tempting me leave thirsty

Sweat, skin, a PULSE divine to balance this restless MIND - it seemed so wonderfully physical

Oh the BLOOD, the lust, the bodies that color the world: all drugs to die for! Won't you share my fire?

How can LOVE make that world a minefield of forbidden GROUND?

A map of untouchable skin and SILENCED desire?



And love was there in vain, PROFOUND and deep but traced with pain - too early for a child of TEN

Loving the pure and sane he sought the goddess unstained - watching them turn to flesh again

HUNGRY for both the PURITY and SIN

Life seemed to him merely like a GALLERY of how to be

And he was always much more HUMAN than he wished to be

But there is a LOGIC to his world, if they could only see



Wishing - Sickened - Ill - Ticking



SOMEONE still this hunger (it's in my blood) always growing stronger (ticking)

BUDAPEST I'm learning, Budapest you're burning me



This is not who I wanted to be, this is not what I wanted to see

She's so young so why don't I feel free now that she is here under me?



Naked - Touching - Soft - Clutching



And then after all it lead me here to wake up again

Seeking a love that might make me feel free in myself but then it proves to be

Something that hurts inside when we touch, so I move on, I lose my way

Astray I'm trying too much to feel unchained, to burn out this sense of feeling cold

And every day I seek my prey: someone to taste and to hold

I feel alive during the split second when they smile and meet my eyes

But I could cry 'cause I feel broken inside!

COME and DROWN with me- the UNDERTOW will sweep us away!

And you will see that I'm ADDICTED to my HONESTY

Trust! 'Cause after all my sense of TRUTH once brought me here

But I've LOST control and I don't know if I am true to my soul

I've lost CONTROL and I don't know if I am true to my soul

Losing control and I don't know if I am TRUE AT ALL



[Johan