Narcissus (album version, vocal - Andrew McDermott)
Narcissus
Caught in the headlamp glare of your own blinding vanity Mesmerised by the stare of your shallow personality Gorging the junk food of flattery you drag your fat ego around Everyone floored by the battering you give to whoever's around
Trapped in the personal hell of your own desperate addiction Frightened that others can tell of your expensive affliction With your happiness based on a chemical you wax lyrical with words so profound When your indulgence reaches that level it's safest not to be around
Oh narcissus you petulant child admiring yourself in the curve of my eyes Oh narcissus you angel beguiled unsated by self you do nothing but die
Wrapped in the transparent lies of your desperate situation You expound on imaginary ties expecting us to believe them In the absence of concrete commitment You've all the attention that money can buy Not caring that those who still love you are callously thrown to one side
Oh narcissus you petulant child admiring yourself in the curve of my eyes Oh narcissus you angel beguiled unsated by self you do nothing but die Oh narcissus you treacherous child admiring yourself in the curve of my eyes Oh narcissus you angel beguiled unsated by self you do nothing but die
Hey you dog man whelp of a litter of scavengers Bolting the flesh of your victims with a ravenous greed You work with your siblings up to a point 'Til your ego is sated or your wallet fulfilled Jealously guarding the bones of your kill With a malice that's born out of fear
Running with the pack your defence is to attack But I detect you in your stealth because you've rolled in your own filth You hope to gain my trust with your cowardly disguise Whispering such confidences my revulsion to a-wreck
You call yourself my friend you call yourself my friend And when I turn my back your fangs will feel my neck What is your domain but a barn where your runts roll in the reek? You would seek to steel my freedom and have branded me a freak I want nothing of your snarling mongrel strain your smarmy doggerel lies And if these words have singed your fur consider yourself a whipped cur
Gorging the junk food of flattery you haul your fat ego around Everyone floored by the battering you give to whoever's around
Oh narcissus you petulant child admiring yourself in the curve of my eyes Oh narcissus you angel beguiled unsated by self you do nothing but die