Recorded by Pain Teens and released on Trance Syndicate in 1993. Pain Teens for this release were:
Scott Ayers: guitar, tapes, sampler, drums, noise
Bliss Blood: vocals, percussion
Kirk Carr: bass guitar
Frank Garrymartin: drums, percussion
"The Story of Isaac" by Leonard Cohen (P) Stranger Music, Inc.
Recorded, produced and engineered by Scott Ayers at Anomie Studios, Houston.
Cover by X-Girlfriend Graphi-X (thanks to Kitchen Sink and Lorna Hicks).
Cool Your Power, Prowling, Tar Pit, RU 486, Dominant Man, Sexual Anorexia, Lisa Knew, Body Memory, The Story of Isaac, Shock Treatment
Lyrics:
COOL YOUR POWER
Let me into the rage, inside your mind,
the fire burning in your eyes, terrifies
But I can't look away from the light, if I do
I think I'll go blind
I just want to cool your power
Tell me about your pain, why it won't go away
Let me heal your soul where it's smashed and torn
Tell me about the pain, the pain of being born
It feels like death, but it's so slow
I just want to cool your power, feel that heat inside
Let me cool your power
I can see all the lies, when I look in your eyes
All the lonely nights, and all the ugly fights
When I want you I'm weak, because I want your strength
I want to feel your heat, I want to feel your length
I just want to cool your power, feel that heat inside
You can be alone all your life, you can die alone
Push me away, but later today, you'll come back
I just want to cool your power, feel that heat inside
Let me cool your power
PROWLING
A raging beast that nothing will silence
This dark hunger burning like a fire deep within me
Its anguishing throb seems to overtake my body
Penetrates every pore until it feels as if I could explode
But no explosion sets me free
Now, for the first time, I feel completely alive
A savage creature engorged with heat and desire
Prowling to satisfy my most essential need
My need to transform primordial energy
TAR PIT
I got a deep dark secret, that no one knows about
Deep dark secret that you can't live without
Deep dark tar pit, once it's got you it won't let go
Deep dark tar pit, sinking down below
I knew a man, slid right in, slid so far down,
and no one saw him again (2X)
Tar's black as night, and when you fall inside,
To move's like swimming in a dream, and thrashing to survive (2X)
Deep dark secret....
RU 486
It's for me, the wonder drug of the century
Now I will be all I can be, at last I'm free of my anatomy
You can't control me any more, you can't tell me what to be
I can walk through any door, just keep your judgements of me
RU 486
Now my live is all my own, I'm not forced to reproduce
Prudes and hypocrites will moan, they're the ones that stand to lose
There are too many of us now, we are starving every day
The benefits are so much more if there are less of us
We'll control our destiny, it'll take our sins away
Ending teenage pregnancy, setting all young women free
DOMINANT MAN
Five percent of the human race are dominant over the rest
I'm one of these and I need a man of the dominant five percent
I need a wild man, a dominant man, a man who's stronger than me
A man with wild eyes, and powerful hands, I need a dominant man
I don't mean cruelty or the ability
to strangle the truth to death
I need to find someone who takes away my breath
I need that intensity
I crave a wild man, a savage god, a powerful entity
A man with wild eyes, and powerful hands, I need a powerful man
I tend to wash over men like an angry wave
of ebullient sexuality
Some men are like rocks, others like sand
I need a powerful man
I need a wild man...
Five percent of the human race are dominant over the rest
I'm one of these and I need a man of the dominant five percent
LISA KNEW
When every hour is uglier than the one that passed before
A twisted world in a child's mind,
to her it's just the way things are
The horrible sights are lost in her eyes
The pain that was life is over
Nobody knows what Lisa knew, nobody heard her when she cried
Say the wrong word and get punished
Look the wrong way and get slapped
Don't listen at night, just pretend you're asleep
While you're wishing the nightmare would end.
Nobody cares when you're crying, they only tell you to smile
The acting is easy, reality's hard, even for the happiest child
They say you're learning a lesson,
they're teaching you how to be strong
They get older and older and they never learn--
Be happy, you're life's almost gone.
The horrible sights are lost in her eyes
The pain that was life is over
Nobody knows what Lisa knew, nobody heard her when she cried