Every saint has a scab they keep framed in cellophane We crawl through the marrow-hours, a slow and taxidermied bane We're not the beautiful dead, but we photograph like we are A neat little apocalypse, sealed shut in a jar A neat little apocalypse, sealed shut in a jar Needle Saints of Perpetual Collapse The slipknot florists with their ribbon-wrapped mishaps Open the Atlas of Subcutaneous Truth Open the Atlas of Subcutaneous Truth Needle Saints of Perpetual Collapse The slipknot florists with their ribbon-wrapped mishaps Open the Atlas of Subcutaneous Truth The witnesses are arranged with their fingerprints varnished, mute You testify in silence, a tongue weighed and caged The report lists only the grammage of your rage I've got the serum to make your bone marrow inform A chemical confessional before the final storm Vagrants and disgraced consultants, line your pockets with disease So leave your skin in the lobby, arrive precisely on your knees You well-mannered stranglers with your silk-throated pleas Here is the wound that never heals, the evidence the body never frees Needle Saints of Perpetual Collapse The slipknot florists with their ribbon-wrapped mishaps Open the Atlas of Subcutaneous Truth Open the Atlas of Subcutaneous Truth A neat little apocalypse, fold it in gauze and wait A neat little apocalypse, delivered to your crate So my darling disasters, Jaw-wired Ophelia, tied in string Honey-sutured Collapse Dolls with their tracheae in a sling Glycerin-stitched Faint Girls, pale and preserved in bloom Sedation pavane, whittle your stare into a weapon in this room Pin on your display-case smile, pinned and trussed And your taxidermist is a needle-point of lust Needle Saints of Perpetual Collapse The slipknot florists with their ribbon-wrapped mishaps Open the Atlas of Subcutaneous Truth Open the Atlas of Subcutaneous Truth We hum the hymn of the severed vein We hum the hymn of the severed vein A chorus of the cut and drained We hum the hymn of the severed vein The vein The vein We hum the hymn of the severed vein
