OD'd on Life Itself
How could I fool you, I rest and assure you.
Take you off from here, put you on the line.
Your back to the pistol, iron bullets whistle,
Landscapes open, and the world it's mine, it's still mine.

OD'd on life, life itself
OD'd on life, life itself
OD'd on life, life itself

Writings appear on the wall,
Curtains part and landscapes fall.
And then writing's done in blood,
Like a mummy's inscription and a bat wing tongue.

Well then the mouth of the cave
Will open up wide, wide as the world
That's mine, mine, still mine.

So don't you fear the trade in lives.
Life loves force, but force loves life.
This wedding in heaven was made up in hell,
With the victim as bride and life, life itself.

OD'd on life, life itself
OD'd on life, life itself.

from Tyranny And Mutation, 1973