This Mortal Coil, Tarantula

I'm living, but I'm feeling numb
Can see it in my stare
I wear a mask so falsely numb
And I don't know who I am
This void that wells inside of me
Is eroding me away
I've noticed in other eyes
Time's closing in 

But when the thunder breaks
It breaks for you and me
Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula

The future's looking rather grim
Strange black tide
Decisions lie with stupid men
Alone with my life
That choking and the hype in me
Expecting me to fall
But only if I'm threatened
Will the tables turn

But when the thunder breaks
It breaks for you and me
Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula

My world's under a sentence of death
I was born underground
But when the pressure gets too much for me
I bite

Michael Pacher , Saint Augustine and the devil (part of Altarpiece of the Church Fathers), c1475

Dean Cornwell , It's Hard to Explain Murder, 1920

Francesco Hayez , Melancholy , 1841

Auguste Levêque , Bacchanalia , c1900

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ~ Viktor Frankl

Henri-Léopold Lévy, The Death of Orpheus, 1870

Zbigniew Herbert

”Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

August Rieper, Medusa, c1900

August Rieper, Medusa, c1900

Joseph Tomanek , Nymphs Dancing to Pan's Flute , 1920

John William Waterhouse , Hylas and the Nymphs, 1896

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.” ~ Charles Bukowski

”Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.” ~ Alain de Botton

Peter Paul Rubens , Saturn Devouring His Son , 1636

Eugène Trigoulet, The Precursor, 1894