Horrible Skull from Swingers by Slug

Beautiful Marilyn, young and thin,
Someday your beauty will come again.
A thing of wonder, skin to envy,
Won't you trade your scars for mine?
It's just how well, we all conceal our dysfunction
And failure to withstand the passing of time.

What an old, horrible skull
What an old, horrible skull!

Tangled by webs, painful threads,
Time unfolding now before me.
Wrapped in finery's decoration
Searching for endless admiration
Living outside ourselves we are,
Helpless and melting in dissolution.
We are born alone, and we die alone.

What an old, horrible skull,
What an old, horrible skull,
What an old, horrible skull!
What an old, horrible skull!

Something happened to Marilyn,
I don't know what and I don't know when.
But time stands still for no one,
Remembers nothing and forgives no one.
We close our eyes, shut our mouths,
Lose ourselves -- dissolve.
Uncaring and cold and slowly frozen
By feelings that scald.

What an old, horrible skull,
What an old, horrible skull!
Horrible skin, horrible bones
Horrible, horrible, horrible skull!

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