Germ Songtext
von Otep

The enemy of the world
Our greatest defeat
Slave warfare
Our wings are almost dry and free

Absorbing violence
Punishing pain
Poetry is the perfume of the soul
Altered stasis takes me places
Nightmare babies, fire gods
Speaking with dream time serpents and walking with the elder dead
Fear me mortal, fear me
Feed my disease, feed my disease


And in tiny little houses on tiny little streets
Voices raised
Feel the heat of the
He knows tolerance
She only knows loneliness
In my blackness of sleep
Savages dance and scream
Bleeding like embryos
Starving with dreams

You single cell are commerce
Whoa, what happened to you last night?
You′ve given up without a fight
And learned the words they say, recite
You killed the flower that blossoms in the night
Smothered and crushed

Rage gives way to a little giggle
And a sudden blush
In my molecules
The vast eternity of evention
Infected with the good disease
Intellect rebellion
Finding the me in every single one of you


What's the matter, you don′t like it when I touch you?
Don't run, don't run
Like Hindu babies and nightmare gods
I will shed my skin
He prefers pain to pretty
Death to daughter
To the shivering creature that lay beneath him

I will not be what you want me to be
I will not be what you want me to be
People are evil
And girls hate each other
Oh great devourer of the dead
I will know my demons′ names
I will conquer them
I will rise, I will fight

Coming salvation
This is my holy war
We come to you
Like desert warriors fresh from the cool dew of night
In a sea of odor
Tapestry of pain

Absorbing violence
Feasting on hopelessness
Expand your mind
Expand your mind

This is our time to shine
Out of the ashes
Only the holy will rise

Sweet paper messiah
Sweet paper messiah
Oh, I sacrifice you
I sacrifice you
Dear and sweet paper messiah
My offering
My suffering

I speak to you on behalf of all who have become blind
Whatever you need
Whatever you need
Whatever you need
Unite messiah
Me