Notes
- * appears only on CD release (taken from THE ANAL STAIRCASE 12").
- # titled "The First Five Minutes A.D." on label of vinyl releases
- The track listing above is the actual playing order of the CD; the
track "Ravenous" is listed on the cover as appearing on the end of the
disc (after "The First Five Minutes After Death"). Also, the tracks
"Blood From The Air" and "Who By Fire" are listed in the wrong order on
the US LP release (and possibly others?).
- First pressing of UK LP is on clear vinyl, limited to 1000 copies,
and comes with A5
card insert and stickers.
First pressing of US LP is on gold
vinyl, limited to 500 copies. First pressing of Dutch LP is on blue
vinyl, limited to 500 copies.
- Vinyl etching:
- Side A - WE ALL GET THE GODS WE DESERVE -
Side B - CHANTS DE MORT
- The pre-release promo cassette of this album has a different version
of "The Anal Staircase" that later appeared on the TOTAL VOLUME 1
compilation as "The Anal Staircase (relentless mix)". This cassette also
has the track "Herald" appearing under the name "Acapulco March".
- There was also a vinyl test pressing with "Herald" titled "Acapulco
March", as well as the track "Slur" titled "Silk".
Lyrics
The Anal Staircase
And the angels kiss Our souls in bliss Measure the extent
of a dizzying descent Down the Anal staircase. Put just one
foot on the staircase And the next step you're down here On
this face. And the rapids Of my heart Will tear
your ship of love apart And we'll End up wrecked We'll
end up at the start Of the Anal Staircase.
And the
angels kiss Our souls in bliss Measure the extent of a
dizzying descent Down the Anal staircase. Take a
hollowpoint revolver Shoot down the rapids
Of your
heart Blow the fucking Thing apart Blow the
fucking Thing apart. One step Two step Three
step Four Step.
Slur
Roman land Of Roman sands And Roman sons. As I watch the
sun sink down On the bloodred edge Of the bloodred
town There are shadows for sale On the edge of town At the
edge of the night Is a darkness seen From the side of the
light (From the side of the night). And the winds blow
round this sleeping town This sleeping town This Roman
land Of Roman sands And Roman sons. And it seems to
me That when I close my eyes All the lights in the world Go
out And the night passes by And you whisper to me A
thousand lies I stare in surprise Towards the desert's warm
black And the desert stirs And the desert stares back With
a thousand eyes Piercing eyes Ancient eyes And I ask my
lover "Do you know Where the desert roses bloom and grow?"
Ostia (the Death of Pasolini)
There 's honey in the hollows And the contours of the
body A sluggish golden river A sickly golden trickle A
golden, sticky trickle You can hear the bones humming And
the car reverses over The body in the basin In the shallow
sea-plane basin. And the car reverses over And his body rolls
over Crushed from the shoulder You can hear the Bones
humming Singing like a puncture Killed to keep the world
turning Throw his bones over The White Cliffs of
Dover Into the sea The Sea of Rome And the
bloodstained coast Of Ostia Leon like a lion Sleeping
in the sunshine. Lion lies down. "Out of the strong Came
forth sweetness." Throw his bones over The White Cliffs of
Dover And murder me In Ostia. The Sea of Rome. You can
hear his bones humming. Throw his bones over The White
Cliffs of Dover And into the sea The Sea of Rome Then
murder me, In Ostia.
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Circles of Mania
Nero's long hot tongue Nero's long hot tongue
licks.... This is the sound Of the world turning
round The underground sound This is the sound of the
w orld turning round The world spinning round. You get
eaten alive By the perfect lover. I fell in to a burning
ring A burning ring of knives And the knives slide
in They slide deep into my skin And they open me so
wide That you stick your head inside You get
sewn inside alive You get eaten alive By the perfect lover
When you've swallowed one You just swallow
another To drive away this hunger You stay in there
forever Caught in the centre Of a circle of manias
Chemical Angel Enters arena Toro D'Or falls to the
floor Fucking the ground The hole in the ground And hot
wires sing Deep in my skin I'm
writhing... perspiring... Like Dutch Schultz at 106
degrees... And I wake up licking I wake up licking the
bedsheets clean Licking and sucking........
Blood from the Air
A sleeping explorer his wandering mind crossed over the
border a mind like a cemetery where the corpses are
turning where the bodies twist deep in the frozen
grip of a dreamless sleep then the lowest comes up like
a wreck from the depths. He hears night calling and has
dreams of waking here in this brightness that burns like
slow lightening he sees words burnt in ice reads, "The
World is a Wound In the Body of Christ". Effects of the
animal - Animal sound effects He says, "Death, he is my
friend He promised me a quick end". Says, "The world is
in pain and should be put down and God is a sadist
and that he knows it". The depths of the night
sky reflects in his eye He says, "Everything changes
And everyone dies". And the night slits her veins and
the darkness drains and the void rumbles in like
an underground train... Forever comes closer the world is
in pain we all must be shown we must realise that
everyone changes and everything dies.
Who By Fire by Leonard Cohen
And who by fire, who by water, who in the sunshine, who in the
night time, who by high ordeal, who by common trial, who in
your merry merry month of may, who by very slow decay, and who
shall I say is calling?
And who in her lonely slip, who by
barbiturate, who in these realms of love, who by something
blunt, and who by avalanche, who by powder, who for his greed,
who for his hunger, and who shall I say is calling?
And
who by brave assent, who by accident, who in solitude, who in
this mirror, who by his lady's command, who by his own
hand, who in mortal chains, who in power, and who shall I say
is calling?
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Discussion
- Mark Coleman ([email protected]) says "The
song "Ostia" is about the death of Pier Pasolini, an Italian filmmaker.
The only Pasolini I have seen is "Salo: 120 Days in Sodom," his
adaptation of Sade's libertine classic set in the days of the Italian
Fascists. It is an excellent work, even though it features graphic
coprophagia (shit eating) and child sex. Apparently (correct me if I
err, I probably will) Pasolini had finished filming "120 Days" and
picked up a boy prostitute and took him to his coastal villa in Ostia on
the Italian Coast. The prostitute (an Italian government agent I've
heard) ran Pasolini over in his own BMW and left him dead in a ditch.
This is as much as I know, but the crickets at the beginning were
recorded at the Aztec Ruins of Chichen Itza (sp?) where Aztec priests
made human sacrifices. I could also be wrong about Aztec, it could have
been Mayan."
- Nisus ([email protected]) submits
"Aside from your general moral issues, he was rather straightforward
in his political attacks against the system in essays and articles he
wrote. But as I understand it, the thing that really brought up the
possibility of there being more to his murder than it seemed was
inconsistency in the story of the boy who supposedly committed it
coupled with statements made by other "hustlers" regarding another car
following them with four men in it. There is an interesting documentary
about Pasolini's death called "Whoever Says The Truth Shall Die" if
anyone wishes to pursue the matter, and it is also discussed a bit in
Enzo Siciliano's biography of Pasolini."
- In reference to the lyrics of Ostia, Matt Bartels ([email protected])
says "This is from Judges chapter 14, vs. 14.
"And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the
strong came forth sweetness." It is from the the story of Samson.
He had killed this lion on his way to meet- ing his soon to be first
wife, Timnath the Philistine. After hitting it off with her, passed the
lion's carcass on the way home and found a swarm of bees and honey in
the carcass. Samson eats the honey and gives it to his family to eat
without men-tioning its source.... Later his family is throwing a
feast for Timnath and 30 of her Philistine friends and Samson poses the
lines in question as a riddle, telling them if they figure it out he'll
give them 30 sheets and 30 garments. and if not vice versa. Samson's
wife begs the answer out of him and tells her 30 friends. Samson is
pissed that he lost, and his response is first to say "If ye had not
plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle". Then 'the spirit
of the Lord came upon him' and he went out and killed 30 people to take
their sheets and garments to pay off his debt. So, is the idea here
the parallel of betrayal by their lovers suffered by both Pasolini and
Samson, or is it elsewhere? The golden sticky trickles seem to also
stand on their own with nice multiple meanings...."
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