The Body

from The Body by Facel Vega

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You were born this weak
Body-bag skin – the slow growing of a seed
The stains of your sin and the dirty way that you bleed
Do you hate yourself? An invitation to feast:

Flesh is bread, eat and detest whatever you have left
Flesh is bread, eat and think of the end – how much you stand to suffer in death

The body aches, the body aches
Nails, bloody nails

And beyond, everything imperfect will burn
You are dying and eternity is earned
Crippled by desire, to the limits of what you know
Flaws are freckles, you are ugly under clothes

The body aches, the body aches
Nails, bloody nails
I graze my knee
Nailed feet
Under the burden of such swollen piety

Flesh is bread, eat and detest what’s left of yourself

Break the skin on your knee
As you kneel and you’ll bleed

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from The Body, released December 15, 2011

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