Thread by @MusicSwasey

It's time for A Perfect Circle
Let us begin with there 1st album...

Mer De Noms

1. The Hollow

Run desire, run, sexual being
Run him like a blade to and through the heart
No conscience, one motive
Cater to the hollow

Screaming feed me, here
Fill me up, again
And temporarily pacify this hungering

So grow, libido, throw
Dominoes of indiscretions down

Falling all around in cycles, in circles
Constantly consuming, conquer and devour

'Cause it's time to bring the fire down
Bridle all this indiscretion
Long enough to edify
And permanently fill this hollow

Screaming feed me, here
Fill me up, again
And temporarily pacifying

Feed me, here
Fill me up, again
And temporarily pacifying

2. Magdalena

Overcome by your moving temple
Overcome by this holiest of altars

So pure, so rare
To witness such an earthly goddess
That I've lost my self control
Beyond compelled to throw this dollar

Down before your holiest of altars

I'd sell my soul and my self-esteem
A dollar at a time

For one chance, one kiss
One taste of you, my Magdalena

I bear witness to this place
This prayer, so long forgotten
So pure, so rare
To witness such an earthly goddess

That I'd sell my soul
My self-esteem a dollar at a time
For one chance, one kiss
One taste of you, my black Madonna

I'd sell my soul and my self-esteem
A dollar at a time
For one taste, one taste
One taste of you, my Magdalena

3. Rose

Don't disturb the beast
The temperamental goat, the snail
While he's feeding on the rose
Stay frozen, compromise, what I will, I am

Bend around the wind
Silently thrown about again
I'm treading so soft and lightly
Compromising my will, I am

I am, I will
So no longer will I lay down
Play dead, play your doe

In the headlight
Locked down and terrified
Your deer in the headlights
Shot down and horrified

When push comes to pull comes to shove
Comes to step around this self-destructive dance

That never would've ended 'til I rose
I roared aloud here, I will, I am

I am, I will
So no longer will I lay down, play dead
Play this beat down, gun-shy martyr, pitiful
I rose, I roared, I will, I am

4. Judith

You're such an inspiration for the ways
That I will never, ever choose to be
Oh, so many ways for me to show you
How your savior has abandoned you

(Fuck your God!) Your Lord and your Christ
(He did this!) Took all you had and

(Left you this way!) Still you pray, you never stray, you never
(Never taste of the fruit) Never thought to question why

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side

Praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed
He did it all for you

He did it all for you

Oh, so many ways for me to show you
How your dogma has abandoned you

(Pray) To your Christ, to your God
(Never taste of the fruit) Never stray, never break never

(Choke on a lie) Even though he's the one
(Who did this to you) Never thought to question why

Not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why
He did it all for you

Did it all for you
He did it all for you!

5. Orestes

Metaphor for a missing moment
Pull me into your perfect circle
One womb, one shape, one resolve
Liberate this will to release us all

Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
That's keeping me from killing you

And from pulling you down with me, here
I can almost hear you scream

One more medicated, peaceful moment
Give me one more medicated, peaceful moment

And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming hostility
I don't wanna feel this overwhelming hostility

Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this umbilical residue
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this umbilical residue
That's keeping me from killing you

(Snip away and sever this)
Keeping me from killing you

6. 3 Libras

Threw you the obvious
And you flew with it on your back
A name in your recollection
Down, among a million same

Difficult not to feel a little bit
Disappointed and passed over
When I look right through
To see you naked, but oblivious

And you don't see me

But I threw you the obvious
Just to see if there's more behind
The eyes of a fallen angel
Eyes of a tragedy

Here, I am, expecting just a little bit
Too much from the wounded
But I see, see through it all
See through, see you

'Cause I threw you the obvious
To see what occurs behind
The eyes of a fallen angel
Eyes of a tragedy, oh well

Oh well, apparently nothing
Apparently nothing, at all

You don't, you don't, you don't see me
You don't, you don't, you don't see me
You don't, you don't, you don't see me
You don't, you don't, you don't see me

You don't see me
You don't, you don't, you don't see me, at all

7. Sleeping Beauty

Delusional
I believe I could cure it all for you, dear
Coax or trick or drive or drag the demons from you
Make it right for you, sleeping beauty
Truly thought I could magically heal you

You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
I'm failing miserably to rescue

Sleeping beauty

Drunk on ego
Truly thought I could make it right
If I kissed you one more time
To help you face the nightmare
But you're far too poisoned for me
Such a fool to think that I could wake you from your slumber
That I could actually heal you

Sleeping beauty
Poisoned and hopeless

You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
Failing miserably to find a way to comfort you
Far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
And hiding from some poisoned memory

Poisoned and hopeless
Sleeping beauty

8. Thomas

Humble and helpless and learning to pray
Praying for visions to show me the way

Show me the way to forgive you
Allow me to let it go
Allow me to be forgiven
Show me the way to let go

Show me the way to forgive you
Allow me to let it go

You'll allow me to be forgiven
And then show me the way to let go

Illuminate me
Illuminate me
And illuminate the way
I'm just praying for you to show me where I'm to begin

Hoping to
Hoping to
Hoping to
Hoping to reconnect to you
Hoping to reconnect to you

9. Renholdër

[Instrumental]

10. Thinking of You

Lying all alone and restless
Unable to lose this image
Sleepless, unable to focus on
Anything but your surrender

Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes that
Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound that I know so well

Spent and sighing with a look in your eyes
Spent and sweating with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrender
Surrender, surrender, surrender

Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying

So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes that
Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound that I know so well
Spent and sighing with a look in your eyes
Spent and sweating with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation
Sweet

Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking

Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking

Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking

Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation

11. Breña

My reflection
Wraps and pulls me under
Healing waters to be
Bathed in Breña

Guide me safely in
Worlds I've never been to
Heal me, heal me
My dear Breña

Vulnerable
It's alright

Heal me, heal me
My dear Breña
Show me lonely and
Show me openings

To lead me closer to you
My dear Breña

Vulnerable
It's alright

Opening to heal
Opening to heal
Heal, heal, heal
Heal me

12. Over

Been over
Been over this before
Been over and over
Been over this before

And over
Been over this before

So over this
Been over this
So over this
Been over this
Over this before

[This is the end of the album]