Some samples from the acoustic bonus cd “Baudelaire in Braille” that is on the deluxe edition of HIM’s Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice.
© Warner Music Group
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(Sample I: In Venere Veritas)
Zipping Cupid in a body bag well worn
next to the mausoleum he was born in
Picking up the pieces of this gory glory of it all
From eve to morn
For Eve to mourn
Have no fear
There are wounds that are not meant to heal
and they sing, In Venere Veritas
Come inside
Let fire burn you alive
and sing, Baby sing
There are wounds that are not meant to heal at all…
(Sample II: Scared to Death)
In the biblical sense and sensibility
let me know you
I’ll kiss that smile off your face
Just say when
(Just say when)
I’m not afraid to say I love you
any more than I used to be, babe
I am scared to death, I am scared to death
to fall in love
All these pick-up lines from hell,
ice breaker’s inferno…
(Sample III: Like St. Valentine)
Hey Baby let me be your valentine, St. Valentine
Suck the sorrow out of you
and try to keep the lie alive
Like St. Valentine
Like the couple from Pompeii
our drama’s put on display
along with a dove, stuffed
in a coffin of glass entitled
“Love, and The Holy Ghost”
Those were the days
Love’s the only war worth dying for
Lift me up to knock me down
I’m all yours for now…
(Sample IV: Ode to Solitude)
Left the scars of the heart
bruised and torn
Loosen the noose, Love
Loosen the noose with love
What I wanna know is why
you keep me hanging here
Here’s to the pain, the light of the oncoming train
Now come on
Ode to solitude in chains
Here’s to the pain, as always heaven in flames
Now bleedin’
Ode to solitude in chains
If I should fail (and I will) to stay (I’m leavin’)
Remember not to forget this feeling you have
(He’s too afraid)? and I fail (to say)
Please pretend this never happened Baby…
(Sample V: Love, The Hardest Way)
Love’s the Devil counting teardrops in the rain
to the sound of a chalkboard symphony
played with nails
For what its worth
I don’t wanna see you hurt anymore
than you have to
Dine on glass
Wine on blood
And Baby, love the hard way
Baudelaire in Braille
My Baby, love the harder way
Once you lose yourself, entomb
I promise you to love the hardest way
The way…
(Sample VI: Shatter Me With Hope)
The girl who cried Love,
would you come and play with me?
You can be Cassandra
underneath the sword of Damocles
We’ll tear this baby apart, wise like Solomon
Run, come shatter me now
Shatter me with hope
Crawl, come breathe me in, bleed out all sorrow
Scream me a dream, untouched by shadows
Baby, shatter me now, shatter me now
Shatter me with hope
She’ll be the witness to the repose of Evelyn
Push the needle in
to the canticles of ecstasy
Turn to page 43
and you’ll know how I feel
Run, come shatter me now
Shatter me with hope
Crawl, come breathe me in, bleed out all sorrow
Scream me a dream, untouched by shadows
Baby, shatter me now, shatter me now
Shatter me with hope…
(Sample VII: Dying Song)
I’ve seen you breathe life into the weakest of hearts
and heard you scream out loud the sweetest poem
Echoing across the ocean,
reminding me why I still try
to hold on to whatever is left of you and I
Shedding skin to a dying song
We hum along to the evening sun
’till we are no more
A little dance to a dying song
Sounds a lot like – Life
I’ve seen these dreams being crushed
by a single thought
and felt the envy of sadness engulf all warmth
Barely alive under ice by exchanging size
with tomorrow quivering in the loneliest light
Shedding skin to a dying song
We hum along to the evening sun
’till we are no more
A little dance to a dying song
Sounds a lot like – Life in love
Life in love
Life in love
Life in love with you…
(Sample VIII: Katherine Wheel)
Holding hands won’t be enough
in a world fellating a gun
Love in Theory and Practice, Chapter One
Lo and behold, Baby
These are the things you make me do
Katherine Wheel, I’m burning for you
Please don’t stop until my heart no longer screams
Katherine Wheel
Katherine Wheel
And I twist and turn in your arms swirl
The dizzier I get the clearer I see
With you I’m at peace with the war within…
Duration : 0:11:0
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