A Thousand Cuts

This is the story of two young lovers on a beach Who found each other by the end of the war They set out to explore the bodies on the shore And what they found – it would hurt them Smoke mixed with fire Pity mixed with pain The waves came crashing Swept them away Confessions written in the sand The pleasures of the flesh The passion Sex and death By a thousand cuts The pleasures of the flesh By a thousand cuts It's a moonlit night in a small town A headless man, scissors in his hand Cuts the hair, cuts the tongues A chalice smashed against the stone The victim's eyes A Satanic church A woman leaps out of the window Two young soldiers at the very end They simply waltz the night away The palace of excess The madness Life and death The breaking need The palace of excess The breaking need