Antonin Artaud

by Bauhaus

From the album: Burning From the Inside

Track 2 of 14 on Burning From the Inside (1983).

Duration: 4:08

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Lyrics for Antonin Artaud

The young man held a gun to the head of God Stick this holy cow Put the audience in action Let the slaughtered take a bow The old man's words, white hot knives Slicing through warm butter The butter is the heart The rancid peeling soul Scratch pictures on asylum walls Broken nails and matchsticks Hypodermic hypodermic hypodermic RED FIX One man's poison another man's meat One man's agony another man's treat Artaud lived with his neck paced firmly in the noose Eyes black with pain, Limbs in cramps contorted The theatre and its double The void and the aborted THOSE INDIANS WANK ON HIS BONES (repeat)

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  1. She's in Parties
  2. Antonin Artaud
  3. Wasp
  4. King Volcano
  5. Who Killed Mr. Moonlight
  6. Slice of Life
  7. Honeymoon Croon
  8. Kingdom's Coming
  9. Burning from the Inside
  10. Hope
  11. Lagartija Nick
  12. Here's the Dub
  13. Departure
  14. The Sanity Assassin