Annie Anxiety
The door is closed
Brain and fist clenched tight
The windows
Are white washed
With arsenic and tears
No light can come through now
Cotton-wooled and cocooned now
Dark for years now
We are safe in the plague
Rotting with fear
The air is thick
With amoebas and lice
In the sickrom we are musty
The fish have died
Of starvation and murky water
It’s over
Leather lover
Cups of flat beer
Line the walls
Fagends float on top
Sourmilk in puddles
The blood is curdled
In our force-field
Wе can break a mirror
Bleed and fuck and swear
Rolling in the dеbris
Crashing down the stairs
Punch smacks Judy in the telly box
Judy stabs Punch
Punch bleeds cathode radiation victim pounds at the door
Bloody stumps leave mark of Cain
Hang up
Do not disturb sign
Now there’s nothing more
Smiles fall from our faces
Like afterbirth to the floor
We can choke on them later
Now there’s nothing more
We can be like Jack Hawkins
And Helen Keller
Blind deaf mutes
Who castrate each other
All alone
Amongst the toxic fires
Together we can fester
And rot and die
All alone
Amongst the toxic fires
Together we can fester
And rot and die
The door is closed
Brain and fist clenched tight
Now there’s nothing more
We can choke on them later
Now there’s nothing more
We can be like Jack Hawkins
And Helen Keller
Blind deaf mutes
Who castrate each other
All alone
Amongst the toxic fires
Together we can fester
And rot and die
All alone
Amongst the toxic fires
Together we can fester
The door is closed
Brain and fist clenched tight
Closet Love is the opening track on Annie Anxiety’s Soul Possession album, which was first released in 1984. The album was produced by Corpus Christi independent label brought to life by several members of Crass and their collaborating sound engineer and producer John Loder. The songs were recorded at Southern Studios in London and produced by Adrian Sherwood. The recordings were attended by members of Flux of Pink Indians, Crass, Family Fodder, African Head Charge, London Underground and Art Interface.
Forty years on, the album is now available here. Little Annie’s website is here.