Germ Lyrics - Jihad - Otep

the enemy of the world 

our greatest defeat 

slave warfare 

our wings are almost dry and free 

absorbing violence [pain] 

punishing pain 

poetry is the perfume of the soul [no fear, no god, alternate 

staces take me 

places, the world, enemy] 

nightmare babies, fire gods 

speaking of dream time serpants 

and walking with the elder dead 

fear me mortal [fear me] 

fear me 

feed my disease 

feed my disease [the taste of fear in the seventh phase of the 

disease] 

and in tiny little houses 

on tiny little streets [everythings normal, everythings not ok, 

it's normal] 

voices raise and[as long as you're under my roof you will 

respect me] 

fear is alive [as long as you're under my roof you will respect 

me] 

and laughter 

he's knows tolerance [don't forget me] 

she only knows lonliness [not you, not you, not you] 

and in my blackness of sleep 

savages dance and scream 

but only truth is suffering 

bleeding like embryos [but only truth is suffering] 

starving with dreams [life, blood] 

you, single cell are commerse 

whoa, what happened to you last night? 

you've given up without a fight 

and learned the words thay say receit 

you killed the flower that blossoms in the night 

smothered and crushed 

rage gives way to a little giggle and sudden blush 

and in my molecules, the vast eternity of invention [can you 

smell my fever 

mama? can you smell my poor veins?] 

infected with the good disease 

intellect, rebellion 

finding the need in every single one 

...of you 

what's a matter you don't like it when i touch you? 

come here 

don't run, don't run 

hand me babies and nightmare gods 

i will shed my skin [but i can't get his sins off of me] 

he prefers pain to pretty 

death to daughter 

to the shivering creature that lay beneath him 

i will not be want you want me to be 

i will not be want you want me to be [nothings changed, go away, 

go away] 

people are evil and girls hate each other 

oh great devour of the dead 

i will know my demons names 

i will conquer them 

i will rise [rise] 

i will...fight 

why? 

coming... 

salvation... 

this is my holy war 

we come to you like desert warriors 

fresh from the cool dew of night 

in a sea of odor 

in a tapestry of pain 

absorbing violence 

feasting on hopelessness 

expand your mind 

expand your mind 

this is our time to shine [our time to shine, our time for 

justice] 

and out of the ashes 

only the holy will rise 

sweet paper messiah [die] 

sweet paper messiah 

how i sacrifice you, i sacrifice you [save me, save me] 

dear, sweet paper messiah [save me, save me, save me, save me] 

my offering 

my suffering [i speak to you on behalf of all of mankind] 

whatever you need 

what...ever you need 

whatever you... 

whatever you need 

unite 

messiah 

me