[Verse 1]
H-H-H-Halogen strobing, coals in my caddy
The elevator's filled with whoever's in it
Myth, hear me, press Erdgeschoss, keep it inside
Hi-hi-hit of the squirrel is ruby, the pulse is a locomotive (Erdgeschoss)
Above the abyss, on a cable the cab
S-s-s-s-s-so tight, I'm in the middle of nowhere
Sorry, Mom, your embrace is suffocating
I'd rather smoke than your broken whispers:
“It's all college kids in there!”
In the elevator mirror, your profile is humped with biblical sorrow
Insulted pridе shines through childish flesh
Slavic noses, boyish basics
Thеy're clearly not the ones their fathers messed with, Easter without matzah
The esophagus pulses
The creepiness is traveling down my stomach
What if I said out loud all the things that live inside? (Erdgeschoss)
Above the abyss, on a cable the cabin
The song is sung
What if the tape comes off the reel?
Oh, inside me is my mother's worry
Away from home, the lair is pulling me back
My stomach twists into a knot till I'm a lamb's horn
I wish I didn't puke on the corrugated metal floor
[Bridge]
Ooh, shame on the family, with a son who's a stiff
Boo-hoo, the overprotective, sweet-talking
On the elevator guys with everything inside to throw up
Right on their needlepoint ninety-eight's max's
[Chorus]
Initiation, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers
Initiation, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers
Initiation, fathers, fathers, fathers, but where are the father's fathers?
Initiation, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, I am father's son
[Verse 2]
Son of a father that was himself descended from his father's testicles
But like me, I'm the only one who's struggling with a father deficiency
How can you not get hung up on fathers?
It's a cycle of evil, no priest to initiate a son into his father's world
To the world of fathers, where the chick has no shell to protect him
Out of the nest, out of the egg, out of the bubble
Out of the nest, out of the nest, out of the nest, out of the nest, out of the bubble
Where it's soft and damp, dreaming dreams, the earth nursing a son
I'm coming to my senses, I thought I was going out of my mind
I'm laughing my ass off
I thought I was walking on my own, I thought I was having a good time
My frightened look and the beak of a fragile chick
No, it's my imagination
They're all closed in on themselves
I exhale, I should be brave, but I'm meat
And fears are stronger, alas
Somewhere a Z's are born, a century grows old while a skit is being staged
In the elevator, doubts cling to the most precious thing - self-esteem
Why am I breaking like a chick?
I'd take a joint, I'd take a drag, I'd fuck up the back wall
I'd lie there while my neighbor calls the cops, but...
That's not for me, but for those who are born whole
And fragments of me have been flying around in the mirror since I was little
I'd like to put them together in a stained glass window and let it play with colors
But now I'm just a pile of colored glass
[Chorus]
Initiation, fathers, into fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers
Initiation, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, I'm a son in a father
Initiation's mustache, but son's mustache into father's mustache
Initiation, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers
[Verse 3]
Give me back all that was missing when the scrolls were handed out
With the cheat codes of fate whose patsies skimmed the cream
I unwrapped mine, it's pure chatter and flimsy
A spacesuit, Our Father, thank you
My father and God the father are one and the same
He's kind, he's kind, he's kind, but he can't protect me
Not from the company of men, teaching me how to take arrows from a quiver
Nor from the all-consuming feminine
Coughing: the shaft is coughing up the elevator
It's been an hour since our floor and we're mercilessly dumb
Let's go, we're at zero, the landscape reminds me of a music video
By Viva Zwei, but how can I love my mom and forgive my dad?
Ha- Halogen was strobing, my head was spinning
Spliff wandered back and forth, Alaverdy
I'm going to my folks, I'm followed by sticky smoke
I was raised by them, but I'm soaked in it