Look What I Stole For Us, Darling Lyrics - Fatima Mansions

[Irish news report:] ("The air corps helicopter took a five-year-old girl from Achain Island...") 

Aodhagan went hunting for food and money 

through the streets of Walthamstow 

but the dim Sunday passed with nary a catch 

and the dogs came home alone 

Eat me now... 

("We inspect our genitalia on a regular basis.") 

(I'm) Attacking the ones who are weakest of all 

on their dim walk to work with their eyes slit so small 

for the dawn and the path and their shekels of mine 

Fortune won't smile, I must be brutal or die 

Now I live by the railway with the rest of the coven 

in a hovel vibrating lit by tandoori ovens 

where we keep the ransomees 

We get raided on Fridays, we get drunk when they leave us 

We discuss ways to die, ways we could have gone wrong 

We don't mention the now 

We can see no way out 

We draw skulls on the walls 

We draw blood from our balls 

We play catch with the rats 

(Still) the silence won't crack though we heave and we hack 

Look what I stole! Look what I stole for us, darling! 

Look what I stole! Look what I stole for us, darling! 

Maybe we're dead, I forgot 

They're hunting us, so maybe not 

Oh, let us mention her torso: heat, electrical chaos 

If it burst she would die, oh, oh, oh 

Wasn't it kind of her to let me in? 

Will it get fat when it's older 

Get all riddled with cancer 

while she stays the same person who is fucking me now? 

See the view from above of the sofa of love 

with the roof cut away, cars and people out there 

and the stains spreading out and out, blood running cold 

Look what I stole! Look what I stole for us, darling! 

Look what I stole! Look what I stole for us, darling! 

We used to be human beings--not anymore! 

I'll have her washed and brought to you 

so you, my wife, can know her, too!