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Lyrics
Lost Aaraaf
All lyrics written by Keiji Haino English Translations by Alan Cummings

Hell of Screams

My objective of coming here
To kill you all
Has value, that's what I'm saying

Your sin is

When a particle from the universe
Enters into you
And chews up your intestines
The world will change

A cloud-coloured sky
wants you wants you wants you
I will kill you all
I will kill you all kill you all
Die!


The Final Judgment

I watch the lightbulb swing like an acrobat
A scrap of paper that feels ecstasy
The water in the pond is wet
Around the keyboard that flew out of the darkness
I want to wrap your hair
You You I will kill
An emaciated youth kills the shining tomorrow
The man with the clown mask climbs into bed, laughing



Suite "1999 Smile"

A timetable, whereabout unknown
The director of an educational TV show
Gave an order to a murderer
"I don't mind if you kill"
Turned into automation
Words, words

In the arena a massive penis, the only thing on show
The king now has chosen death
La la la la la

A necklace made modest
What I end up missing is
Gentle violence
Attractive destruction
In a nightmare what I calculate is
Words without resonance
Faces without melancholy

The lava rotating on the street corner
What did it bestow on you?
The bloodlust that lurks in the 4th dimension
What has it awoken in you?
If you were used as raw material for an x-ray, it'd be over
If a vampire wasn't chasing you, die
The oboist who missed his chance to use his wah-wah
Has started to paint fire onto possibility
How did he alter the warning "fall"?

A waxwork dummy killing the world in search of energy
The cockroach from a jazz kissa
Prayed to encounter classical music
A heart fixed nine times with cosmetic surgery
The belle of the carnival
Milk over ice milk on ice
And the 1990 smile

A misunderstanding I passed by, and by chance
Coming dancing down
Right into the
Foetus-coloured oil paint milk tea
It was when Decatoro the morgue attendant was taking his meal
His belly is full but still he wants to know more

A dangerous, wonderful unique, unknown experiment
Uuuuuu

Tail of light evening metronome
Shower of silence sped-up drum collapsed duration
Amoeba in the freezer
The weighty past of an encyclopaedia
Stuck to my body in its entirety
It will cling to me like a bloodstain

It was god alone who gave Hitler alone a medal
The 1990 smile

Burning within a wild inferno
Grab power
The power that shines there
Is the kind of power that can encompass
Even the immensity of the cosines

The lava rotating on the street corner
What did it bestow on you?
The bloodlust that lurks in the 4th dimension
What has it awoken in you?
If you were used as raw material for an x-ray, it'd be over
If a vampire wasn't chasing you, die

A vending machine called fear was put in place
The prices are simply codes for the word "violence"
That which is carried on the wind that invisible poison

A greedy amphibian noticed the existence of treasure
and wanted wings
The murmuring above the sky is cold but
It throws a tantrum demanding control
A timetable, whereabout unknown

The white coat of a psychiatrist appears in the mirror
The absurd danger of understanding
Sadness weeping tears of joy at a hypocrite's agony
The secret of the messiah's formula
The exhausted goddess of death
Smiles faintly smiles faintly



Midnight Walk

In the black swamp
Floats a cursed blossom
A wind like lead caresses the water
Swelling the waves the uncanny the uncanny
The tortured angles of the white bones of a vanished tribe
Appear in the black swamp
Peeling back Salvador Dali's skin

Over the surface of the black swamp
Waits the miasma of death
For thousands on thousands of years
the black swamp stagnates, crawling in its depths
Awaiting the every-new evening banquet victim
Belching out a nauseous sulphurous stench
The cursed blossom in the black swamp
Eternally unable to escape the grasp of death
Battered by the wind, it sinks down
That blossom with a human face
Once again it cries and screams, screams and cries