Hala hala fly

:Out on the edge are you standing over me standing there standing in a light are you far to fall:

Fish and birds are made from his hands magician o’ curiosities I’m a new bird in his hands waiting to be                                                        granted wings

Sixty-five foot baby of destruction casting shadows on my worlds beginning

his teeth crushing diamonds he taints everything

                                 makes cities from the nub of our bones

                                                                to tower above his laughing mouth

lyrics by Eliza 2009  taken from song Shiva, off forthcoming Ivy's itch album.

From our songs. Lyrics by Eliza Gregory Music by Ivy's itch

How D'you Get To Heaven?

The whip cracks ....

Her lipstick smears....

High-eyed trapeze....

S'all a paraffin blur....

.. ..

Ride smack smart....

The witch is released....

Moans t'the dark....

Oh God yes Billy please....

.. ..

She said I tried so hard/how'd you get to heaven?....

.. ..

Caught me a butterfly....

Spreads her coloured fury....

Blue veins pale bones....

Shows her thighs so tenderly....

.. ..

Look see inside her....

They burst her....

Wrist flesh....

But not me, no not me....

.. ..

Enter-rupture-bleed – Oh Billy....

Tighter-tighter-tighter – Don't fight it....

.. ..

I drown in you my drowning woman....

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Curious Curio Curiouser

Be careful for what you wish
'cause you just might
get it
get it
get it.

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Pomegranate

From the window
I watched him go
to get the better 
of the mountain
tried to follow
but it was cold
and the last time
that I ever saw

before that spring
before that time
she said
Dance with me Gemenohmy

To live in her would
be glory mine yet I see
all of the warning signs

my wings, my wings
rise from your cage rise in my name

The wind it whined
wrapped its way
'round cable lines
spoke out your name then mine
it spoke to me Gemenohmy
of bitter sweet lovers sighs
followed bitter sweet lovers sighs

my wings, my wings
rise from your cage rise in my name

Passed the church
left the car on the road
smelt the incense from the
funeral home
took off my skin in service to you
doused in sickly sweet perfume
then I knew but didn't believe
by the trees Devil waited for me

my wings, my wings
rise from your cage rise in my name

eat that bitter fruit

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Dear Sweet Aveline

Dear Sweet Aveline
I live by the sea
I live over water
once a lover
once a daughter
once I was a prescious flower
but now I wither on the edge
now I wither by the hour
I can't remember a time
when the minutes didn't fly

Dear sweet Aveline
she lights up the dawn
picking shells up off the shore
I'm alone now and that's
for sure
needing, wanting, waiting
for something
how I ache yet don't know
what I'm missing
eyes of blue eyes of green
change with the weather
a sight to see

oh desire its divine
all my life
into the fire

Dear sweet Aveline
living high atop o the hill
I am waiting waiting still
resting at the window true
you said you'd come back
and through
said you'd come but you never do
eyes of blue eyes of green
oh my dear sweet Aveline

oh desire its divine
all my life
into the fire

she burns she burns bright

gulls fly overhead

shame they say
'oh she never wed'


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Marionette

Hala di hala da
she prays she prays
hala di hala da
til the sun sets
on this day
can barely inhale
dared never to speak it
say its name repeat it

its from
the heart, my iron heart
wind it up take what you need
I ache so hard could break in half
if it fails well its from the heart

Cure kill drink down deep
she says she says
rose vessel kisses
a bee stung sweet
hala di hala da
can barely inhale
wrapped in pink ribbon
gave it away
jinxed in a passion
too high to speak

its from
the heart, my iron heart....


no face of the moon is too beautiful
no acid star too far to fall
to get and to give to the one you adore
do you feel pleasure

its from
the heart, my iron heart ...

suture that girl
she needs it she needs it
they say they say
what'll we do when her
heart strings break?
she doesn't look right
in the right way
bitter pill swallow me
doll baby better not play
such a dangerous game

ache so hard could break in half

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Diamantine

hey you
lay low
low light
dead trees
the river
bed's dry
enough for
us to sleep

here we lie in a shallow grave

hey did you
hear what I said
leave the car to overheat

earth is ours
cracked beneath
our blistered feet


as we breathe there'll never be another lovers sleep like this so sleep baby


king and queen
of this soil here
to do with
as we please
in your eyes
there is something
that should be seen
to be believed
there is something
diamantine
when you look at me

as we breathe there'll never be another lovers sleep like this so sleep baby


at days end
planets are
blazing rock
watching on
footprints
in red sand
erased by wind
fades everything
touched by hands

And dreaming on in those arms I'll be dreaming on