Nik List - Red Chapel Lyrics

In this red chapel
There's blood on the floor
I cut my apple with a scalpel
My apparel don't need anything more
Than a bed a blanket a bible
And a bouncer at the door

Consumerists sold me a toy
An experience I'm expected to rate
Boy you call this joy?
Me I think I'll wait

I thought of a dream I once forgot
A tune too extreme to be taught
A bare room with only a pot
One in which love
Couldn't be sold or bought

On Sunset Boulevard
A fortune teller read my cards
She said I put in the hard yards
And that cold sweat
Got me passed the guards

I no longer pay rent
I only make amends
I collect the letters I sent
I dance on Lent with my friends

I smear myself
In filthy shades of gray
It might sound weird
But for the sake of my health
I do it every day

My dance with the devil
Came with a cost
I danced and I fought
Some tales I can't tell
For my answers might shock

I opened my guts
Color came out
Kept my door shut
I smothered a shout
Felt like a slut a mother a scout
A kick in the butt is how I got out

Don't expect white collar
Drug dealers to heal
They'll fight for every dollar
Steal wheel and deal
Plug a pill and leave you to rot
These thugs kill with every drug they drop

I'm on the Midnight Express to nowhere
A flight by night to an address out there
I stripped my needs and my leaves bare
My kite's now carried by the breeze in the air

Rich in goods
Ragged in spirit
I ditched what I could
Bagged it and cleared it

Kneel in a pew
Or deal with my ghosts
I'll be damned if I do
But I'll be damned if I don't

When my ship sank
I drank myself dead
I peered in the dark
And I found a friend
Our talks appear weird
So we pretend
Life is a lark we don't recommend

No tree can grow to heaven
Without roots in hell
Fruits are rotten
Gains ill-gotten
As far as I can tell
This garden of Eden isn't a garden
I beg your pardon
It's plainly a cell

Captain of whatever is within me
My sand castles and the skeleton key
My rascality is totally free
Acid and alkaline
It's the only one you'll ever need