PETROGLYPHS

ITEM NO. ???


There's a place in space
Where violence and love
Collide inside
And solid is wide
And heat is cold
And birth is death
And creation and time
Are made from destruction


- Swans, "Mother/Father," The Great Annihilator, 1995.

ITEM NO. 9


It wasn't me
Forget about me
I'm just a ghost
So forget about me

I thought I saw it all
But I was in love
I thought I saw it all
But I was in love
I was in love


- Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, "_The Sniper," The Attitude Era, 2012.

ITEM NO. 8


Goodbye, Evergreen
You know I love you
But everything heaven sent
Must burn out in the end
I promised you
Just as you were in my dream
Now let me off easy
And I'll slip down through the drain
To release my scattered brain
My enemy


- Sufjan Stevens, "Goodbye Evergreen," Javelin, 2023.

ITEM NO. 7


I see all too clearly now
Why you could be discarded
And though I could pray for you
I probably shan't
Having had my cup filled up
With your lies
And your makeup
You were nothing
Thinking you're something

And nonetheless I still write this gothic lovesong
A sign to myself
And the memory of my past
I still write this gothic lovesong
A sign to myself
And the memory of my past
And a way to shut out your face


- Current 93, "A Gothic Love Song," Soft Black Stars, 1998.

ITEM NO. 6


I give you money
You're superior
I don't exist
You control me
You're corrupt
You're deformed
You're corrupt
You control me

Own me
Own me
Own me

I'm your property


- Swans, "YRP," Soundtracks for the Blind, 1996.

ITEM NO. 5


Hunter, I'm laid out on the forest floor
Arrows in my back and sides
Down among the leaves and stones

You can wear my skin as armor
You can eat my flesh and bones
Leave nothing that is needed
All I have is yours


- Have a Nice Life, "Hunter," Deathconsciousness, 2008.

ITEM NO. 4


I went out last night to forget that
I went out and stared it down
But the moon just stared back at me
And in its light I saw my two feet on the ground


- The Microphones, "the Moon," The Glow pt. 2, 2001.

ITEM NO. 3


No pattern
No bloom
Where I'm taking you

Flat and static
Just a room
Just a room


- Perfume Genius, "Just a Room," Ugly Season, 2022.

ITEM NO. 2


Message in a hammer
Burning down the order
Tearing down the walls for a new day
A new breath
I can feel the tide turn
Let the fire pour
Can't you see it's time for a new day
New dawn, new dawn


- Obongjayar, "Message in a Hammer," Some Nights I Dream Of Doors, 2022.

ITEM NO. 1


Sors immanis
Et inanis
Sors immanis
Et inanis


- Nobuo Uematsu, "One-Winged Angel," Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack, 1997.