Album: Schweinstein
2001.05.09 BMG Funhouse

Lard, Lips, Liquor
Lyrics: Raymond Watts/Sakurai Atsushi/Sascha Konietzko
Music: Raymond Watts

They draw back the curtain
And now, I'm Emperor
I consume the night
In fine wine, in your flesh
Half-crazed
The light of glory shines upon us

I whack off
Rotten to the core
Spilling through the world
Booze and gorgeous meat
And you
Rotten to the core
I whack off

"Margarita," that's your name
Dancing with the Angel of Death

Drink it down
The Age of Sin
We're both beasts
Wolves in sheep's clothing

Happiness
It's for the fools
I'm drunk and confessing
In a lust-and-murder whirlpool
Dancing and losing it
Half-crazed
Dark and decadence for the Empire

Drink it down
The Age of Sin
We're both beasts
Wolves in sheep's clothing
My lovely little piglet

I'm the lard
I'm the stretcher
Smacking my lips
Bootlicker
You're so smart, you're so young
Sometimes straight, sometimes warped
You're proudly mine
I gave you a thousand times
Time heals all my wounds

You've done the crime
Now take the time
Lie right back and praise the schwein
Emptiness that fills my cud
But I will keep on banging up
You know the captain he drunk
Of this ship that is now sunk

Lard lips liquor
Lard lips and I'll lick ya baby

They draw back the curtain

I whack off
Rotten to the core
Spilling through the world
Booze and gorgeous meat
And you

"Margarita," that's your name
Dancing with the Angel of Death
Drink it down
The Age of Sin

Happiness
It's for the fools
I'm drunk and confessing
In a lust-and-murder whirlpool
Dancing and losing it
Half-crazed
Dark and decadence for the Empire
They draw back the curtain
And now, I'm Emperor
I consume the night
In fine wine, in your flesh
Half-crazed
The light of glory shines upon us

Note: Thanks to Matael for help with the German translations! Also, a little sip of haterade: Sakurai has more lyric-writing talent in his little finger than Ray does in his whole body. Ray writes good music, but shut your mouth, Ray, I'm sick of the painfully cliched rhymes, misspellings, grammatical errors and just plain nonsense...and passing over the vaguely uncomfortable level of veiled misogyny. How is it that on this record Sakurai manages to make desecration, violence and nihilism sound all kinds of sexy, yet Ray just makes it sound revolting? Maybe that's the point but sorry, I don't find it artistically interesting or fun to listen to. Sascha's bit sounds a lot better in German because the rhymes and syllables flow better.