Here is a collection of Herriges words from various projects—past, present, and future.
(Warning: they’re not all pretty!)
These words are copyrighted and published here for reading, not re-use
~ except by the author's kind permission.
(Warning: they’re not all pretty!)
These words are copyrighted and published here for reading, not re-use
~ except by the author's kind permission.
TRUE SMILE
Looking for a true smileIn between the white teeth
And the wrinkled noses
On the powder faces
Somewhere there are people
Smiling and they mean it
Laughing when they feel it
Nothing else beneath it
This isn't real life
It's a rehearsal
This isn't real time
It's artificial
Looking for a true kiss
In between the wax lips
And the candied apples
On the tree of knowledge
Somewhere there are people
Loving without motive
Giving and receiving
None of them deceiving
Imagine all things
As an expression
Of Universal
Imagination
Sending out a true smile
To the ones who'll see it
Throwing out a true kiss
Hoping you receive it
2009 (from the Telluric Currents CD)
WAITING ROOM
In the middle of a crossing lineThe intersection of space and time
Is a room that I sit inside
To the rhythm of a flashing sign
Space is yours and the time is mine
Take a number and fall in line
Take a number in the waiting room
In the shadow of a hanging cloud
In the covenant's hoary shroud
Lights are dim but the talk is loud
With a focus on the daily grind
And a weekly benediction time
Up the ladder to the cross you’ll climb
Take a number in the waiting room
Listen to the pacifying tune
Take a number in the waiting room
We’ve been waiting for a long, long time
For the glowing of the exit sign
And the ringing of seven chimes
Warm clock upon an empty wall
Time dying as the digits fall
Take a seat until your number’s called
Take a number in the waiting room
In the Mother’s artificial womb
Take a number in the waiting room
2007 (unreleased)
AT ALL
knows how to lightThe fireflies inside my mind
She knows how to wrap
My soul inside a veil of silence
Lying by her side
As the ceiling cries
She won't tell anyone why
She has such a mind
To make a lie of what's outside
Still I can't deny
Her liquid eyes, her silken smile
She knows how to write
Between the lines of my desires
People everywhere
Have a cross to bear
She knows I don't need mine
No, I suffer just fine
She knows better than I
Will this life be my demise?
Not at all
She came through the wall
To rest inside my tortured mind
She knows all the rhymes
That help untie the knots inside
Universal as
Flesh, machine and jazz
She knows how to make life
She knows how to live twice
She knows how to bend light
Will the sight destroy my eyes?
Not at all!
1998 (Produkt)
LA LA LA LA LA LUNA
La la la la la LunaToenail in the sky
Sliver yellow with a winking eye
The lotus opening will draw me in
Another lunatic in love again
La la la la la Luna
Egg of Orion
Face half-hidden and a teasing grin
Bleed in the windows of my solitude
Diana blossoming, I bow to you
La la la la la Luna
Pillow of amber
Brimming ecstasy about to burst
Slowly you turn away and leave my sky
Back to the egg and sliver, 'til next time
2002 (Trog)
BEAUTIFUL NASTY
(Includes a variation on the "Song of Songs")Who is this heaven-scented creature
Coming up like the rising dawn?
Beautiful as the sun
Fair as the moon
Terrible as an army of one
Would it be too much
If I were to jump
Into this unfolding flowerhead?
Terrible as the sun
Cold as the moon
Venus is a flytrap in full bloom
Who is this miracle of nature
Rising up like a thousand doves?
Shimmering as the sea
Endless as the sky
Terrible as the storm in Jove's eye
Would it be so wrong
If I were to dive
Into this inviting fountainhead?
Terrible as the sea
Angry as the sky
Venus is a flytrap in my bed
2002
IKONA
An ancient painting gives them lifeJohn on his left and Mary on his right
The blood is dripping from his side
A martyr on the plaster, crucified
And if his god controlled your mind
Would he bring order to your thoughts and life?
And if you died before your time
Would all the struggling be justified?
How many times can one man die
In all the images that sanctify?
How many tears did Mary cry
For human suffering personified?
1998 (Produkt)
MUSE
Vierge DoreStone mother
Seven hundred years your eyes have smiled
My love
I hear them
Whispering through a hole in time
Lucretia
Dying Martyr
Seven hundred tears, your eyes won't dry
Your paint still cracking
More alive than seven thousand gods
1997 (Produkt)
VIDEO NASTY
So long, the porch light's onWhere has the time all gone?
Into the mouth of the edible T.V.
Pizza for one and a video nasty
All of the things I consume that consume me
Ding-dong, the folks are home
Where has the money gone?
Into the place where the runaway socks go
Out of the dryer and into the foxhole
Everything I abuse will abuse me
So long, the song is done
Where have my songs all gone?
Into the fridge with the leftover bison
Frozen in time for your later consumption
Everything I don't do will undo me
2001
REPRODUCE
EatSleep
Work
Go to the bathroom
Reproduce
1991 (Us)
DESTROYER
Somewhere on this nightSomeone's ending life
Pawns die, driven by
The mass consumption mind
This life sacrificed
The flesh an empty shell
These lives reassigned
To Heaven or to Hell?
Cold cash blood bath
The prophets come in ties
Christ mass gas mask
The Man is on our side
This fight sponsored by
The mass production whores
These lies justified
To feed their holy wars
1992-2004 (AMLT)
NOT ME
Liquor-driven flesh machineScreaming down the angry street
Ice-cream truck cacophony
Heralds the good-humor fleet
Crooked saints control our fate
From inside these iron gates
One by one their pledges break
Who'll be blind to their mistakes?
No, not me
Infotainers don't betray
The Order's sinister designs
To butter up the common mass
And feed them to the drooling class
Promises of liberty
Threats of insecurity
Terror leads the terrorized
Who will live their giant lies?
No, not me
Martyrs of the Last Crusade
Won't be known by name or face
Filed with crosses, flown by night
Spectres of the Man's disgrace
Freedom-balking zipper suit
Oily fish in fossil slime
Power thieves in pointy boots
Who will serve your freedom fries?
No, not me
2005
DETOUR
You and I were far apartYou and I will be together now
On this Purgatory road
For a minute I was skyward bound
A waxing crescent in my night
An honest face among the thieves
This morning with a helpless look for me
More than just the naked face
More than just the melting eyes at me
You were something like a drug
Floating aether in my memory
But yesterday I said goodbye
To love that faded like a dream
How can I bring this dream back home with me?
You and I are far apart
But I remember you so clearly now
And the aether in your eyes
So delirious and so profound
And in between these walls at home
The dream is under lock and key
Your memory's an open door for me
1991/2002
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