[Lyric] Minotaur (Sidi Bou Said)

The minotaur sleeps bound and gagged
Inside his room so small and cold
No speck of light invades his space
Its dank, damp darkness chills his bones

My minotaur, my secret life
Deformed in body, warped of mind
A man beneath his lumpen shape
With senses all too often numbed

Oh minotaur, with taunting horns
Your misshaped body, beautiful
Condemned forever in your form
Condemned to dwell in lightless hell

I’ll visit you by night’s fair grace
Abandoned heaven is the place
Spring takes me therе and back as well
Delivers mе from murky cell

Stuck helpless in captivity
Your bellows pierce the air around
I revel in my [?]
Sweet pleasure causing you distress
Sweet pleasure as your only guest
And means to live and life like them
Such power as I have in my hands
Falls just short of exquisiteness

A secret wish is mine to keep
A flower all too rare to find
Rejected by all company
Dependent on no one but me

Your limbs must still lie strangled for
My rich pleasure to behold
I trace your muscles with my fingers
Shame that you are bound in Hell

Your form, athletic and divine
Like that of gods, but better still
I’ll have you in my grasp once more
I’ll keep you ‘til I’ve had my fill

To make that with a horn-head man
To satisfy a greed within
Your nostrils flare, your toss of head
Your violence, you animal

I’ll keep you tied and have my fill
Defame you with my girlish grace
And when you cannot stand it more
I’ll let you loose about the place
My minotaur that never sleeps
But crouches full-on and steadfast
I’ll die at peace in knowledge that
I was the one that had you last