Name: Alphonse Daudet's Boring Syphilis
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Description: The ending of this song includes lines from Alphonse Daudet's In The Land of Pain.

Alphonse Daudet's Boring Syphilis

from Sweeping Tendrils by Superintendent Idle Tiger

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The ending of this song includes lines from Alphonse Daudet's In The Land of Pain.

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Like all the stupid things you dream your pain is always new to you.
Like all the things you dream your pain is only interesting to you.

You’re like Jesus on the cross discussing agony with the thieves
But my caring instinct’s leaving me
My maternal instinct’s withering
You’re sleeping on the edge of life, and then… the void beneath

Then you’re
Away in empty space. In empty space.

So you snacked on sensuality
Before you met me; after you met me
When you were after the kind of filth
that you could not quite request of your wife

The sudden lapse of memory; the effect of chloral on your skin: patchy blobs like make-up on your face
Your hand was shaking when you signed the register at Victor Hugo’s funeral; it was a disgrace
You signed a declaration stating Drumont’s father was by far the sanest syphilitic maniac who ever walked the earth
The nurse admires your wound like one admires a fresh-bloomed flower and she nods off reading novels by the hearth

My father gave you morphine
Again this morning, didn’t he?
I am not your mother, you are not Christ
A prostitute can wash your feet
But I have grown bored of your pain

Then you’re
Away in empty space. In empty space.

In pursuit of the kind of filth
you could not quite request of your wife
With your morphine in the morning
my husband it is boring
The doctors will inspect you
and my father will inject you
But where does that leave me?
Where does that leave me?

Great flames of pain furrowing my body, cutting it to pieces, lighting it up
Erebus, thick black waves
… As delightful as slipping inside a warm bath
You feel yourself taken in, enfolded

Sweetness. The garden. Blackbird singing. Leg cut off. No pain. Horrors.

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from Sweeping Tendrils, released July 29, 2019
Voice: Lieke van der Voort

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