Coil

A white rainbow under an unquiet skull (A roaring aura) (A tremulous column of air, hanging there) Moon's milk spills from my unquiet skull And forms a white rainbow (A psychosis, a roaring aura) (Aurora borealis) A white rainbow A lunar ascension, a solar dec...

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry Go to sleepy, little baby Go to sleepy, little baby When you wake, you shall have All the pretty little horses All the pretty little horses Blacks and bays, and dapples, and greys All the pretty little horses Way down yonder...

Amber rain is beautiful but wrong Caught between weak and being strong It seems these days the weaker ones survive What an awful way to find out you're alive A dull warm red water falls Flowing down to the sea Where deeper darker waters wait for me I don't e...

(Amethyst deceiver) Pay your respects to the vultures For they are your future Our fathers and mothers Have failed to release us Into the welcoming arms Of the amethyst deceivers (Amethyst deceiver) 

God told me to do it God told me to do it He said God told me to do it God told me to do it He said God told me to do it He said God told me to do it He said God told me to do it He said God has told me to do it He said God told me to do it He heard messages f...

Are you shivering? Are you cold? Are you bathed in silver or drowned in gold? This dream's a vitality With filaments as fine as a spider's web Pour through your mouth That pour through your mouth O river of silver, O river of flowers I lie down and shiv...

(The key to joy is disobedience There is no guilt and there is no shame) A moon-piece to fetch up the golden cup A snow-piece to avoid the great heat of the sun Is kept in the night and by the light of the moon An ice-piece so as they seem forever falle...

Don't believe A.E. See for yourself the summer fields See for yourself the summer fields Before the tractor comes and wakes you Before the cereal is sown Walk along on your own Don't believe the guidebooks See the glimmer on a wet stone surface Be an idiot Be...

Blue rats, what's the matter? Blue rats, pitter-patter Blue rats, what's the matter? Blue rats, pitter-patter I'm waiting for the scratch Of blue rats Of blue rats I'm waiting for the scratch Scritch, scratch Scritch, scratch Scritch, scratch I'm waiting fo...

sung (low, continuously): Wise words from the departing Eat your greens, especially broccoli Remember to say "thank you" for the things you haven't had By working the soil we cultivate the sky hm-m We embrace vegetable kingdom The death of your father, the...

God please fuck my mind for good, God please fuck my mind for good, God please fuck my mind for good, God please fuck my mind for good... 

Circle within Circle And when that hour came From words they passed to deeds Spires, Spirals, and Stones rise 'And in the distance A cathedral in flames' Given a chance to recover his breath And exposed To the process once more The youth squirmed In a shower o...

O Lord, save my sinful soul From local punishment From the far-away zone From being frisked From the tall fence From the severe prosecutor From the Devil or from the devil owner From small rations From dirty water From steel handcuffs From hidden obligations A...

Looking upon it with a sense of dread Facing it with a sense of dread Gazing upon it with a sense of dread Looking upon it with a sense of dread Facing it with a sense of dread Larks, carrion crows, ortolans Turkeys, peacocks, guinea-fowl Robin, redbreast, th...

Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock fo...

It's either ether or the other My mind is back to front And sometimes absent And slip the cup I've taken a sip from the cup that slips into ether It's either ether or the other I press my window to the glass The glass turns to gas I breathe out ether, a glas...

Does death come alone or with eager reinforcements? Does death come alone or with eager reinforcements? Death is centrifugal Solar and logical Decadent and symmetrical Angels are mathematical Angels are bestial Man is the animal Man is the animal The blacker...

See his hands Look at the fingers See his hands See his hands See his hands Tattooed fingers Tattooed fingers HATE See his hands Look at the fingers The fingers of the left hand Spell LOVE See his hands Look at the fingers Those of the right hand Spell HATE Th...

This is the dark age of love - And you better get me some LSD. Hurry then! - I'll get... I'll get you some LSD. (repeated) From the film The Wizard of Gore: - What is real? - Are you certain you know what reality is? - As it really is! (repeated) - How do y...

Waveform, variance, monolith, mask Reflection, hat, treestump, bin Where's the bells? Where's the bells? Where's the bats? Where's the summer? Where's the keyboard? Where's the instinct? Where's the patience? Where's the tiny golden books? Where's th...

Godhead turns Deathead Three in One, One in Three The crutch of Christianity 

Godhead turns death-head! Godhead turns death-head! Godhead turns death-head! Godhead turns death-head! Three in one, one in three The crutch of Christianity This is not Paradise Lost but Paradise disowned Virgin Mary, weak and wild, Rids herself of an unwa...

Are you ready to go now? (seems to be repeated) Ground floor: perfumery, Stationery and leather goods, Wigs and haberdashery, Kitchenware and foods Going up Going up First floor: telephones, Gents' ready-made suits, Shirts, socks, ties, hats, Unde...

Oooooooh There's too much blood in my alcohol (x3) Oooooooh Demons generally enter in Demons generally enter in through my ears I don't like what I hear (x2) I don't like what I see (x2) Ghosts vomit over me (x3) Liars through my eyes There's too much...

There's blood in the sun There's blood in the sun But I'm not afraid I cut myself with Heaven's blade Inside the wound I found my wings And walked away from this human skin I asked the earth to open up the sky To get inside and live with me for life I stand...

I am Angie Bowie I am Angie Bowie... no! [repeated] 

Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello! [repeated] 

I don't want to be the one When everyone has gone When everyone is gone I don't want to be the one I don't want to be the one I don't want to be the one To see so far ahead I have to live life looking back To see the skies turn red I don't want to be the one...

I am the loneliest link in a very strange chain (backwards:) When the gods want to punish you they answer your prayers 

It's in my bloodstream It's in my bloodstream It's in my blood, bloodstream Bloodstains 

I'm gonna drown myself in London's lost rivers I will walk down to the rain I have sat there and seen the winter days finish their short-spanned lives; and all the globes of light - crimson, emerald, and pallid yellow - start, one by one, out of the russet fo...

- And I've spent five hundred quid tonight. - He's a good lad, he is. - How much? - Here you are, you ugly. - What do I do with that? - Yeah? - Yeah. - Do you know, the daft thing is I never had a son. Got two daughters, but I never had a son. - He's a good la...

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons h...

There's honey in the hollows And the contours of the body A sluggish golden river A sickly golden trickle A golden, sticky trickle You can hear the bones humming You can hear the bones humming And the car reverses over The body in the basin In the sh...

Paint me as a dead soul With a halo of black joy Medusa in a mirror Etched out in acid The flesh, the image, the reflection One who dwells in scarlet darkness Like animals in palaces Drawing blood The flesh, the image, the reflection Let's complete th...

"Anything Will be alright If you come out In the night" With your life sewn open Breath in Put the bone back in Buried under the skin Murder in reverse Out of time Out of place Out of spite Swallow the spike The only thing to fear Is fear itself....

Serenity is a problem When you get this close to Heaven But you really want to see The wonders of the underworld They caught Saint Peter's disease As he rattled his keys Serenity is a problem Serenity is a problem Such a paranoid inlay Hand-painted, pain by n...

Is it easier to answer or harder to try To make all the questions ask themselves why? 

Now you've absorbed it into your system Now that you've allowed it to be true Now that you've neutralised it, made it safe, made it yours Now that you've been photographed, recorded What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Is it so unsafe when you are In...

Each time I wake up Each time I say The shifting slow beginning Another restless day Down damned indecision Push me on my way The shifting slow beginning Another restless day Supermarket Sunday Faces cold and grey No bread or milk or tea left No en...

Rose, I hear your voice near to me I've put away the poisoned chalice, for now And lie down amongst the flowerbeds Whichever stars we walk among We both seek out the darkest red The wine was turned to blood again Without this blood we'd both be dead I've wou...

Sun Ra was here in his element He invited me back for a ride I smiled, agreed, and we left for the place That is full of the reasons for time and for space He said he was leaving last tide Sun Ra was here in his element He invited me back for a ride I...

I see acid free Not an ideal homeland for you and me Desert venom Military temples Black wings flying out without management or plan Where the resonated rubs Against delinquent and compliant I will be all right if you kiss me I will be all right if you...

Roman land Of Roman sands And Roman sons As I watch the sun sink down On the blood red edge Of the blood red town There are shadows for sale On the edge of town At the edge of the night Is a darkness seen From the side of the light (From the side...

There's a man lying down in a grave somewhere With the same tattoos as me And I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him There's a man lying down in a bed somewhere With a different set of sex aspects And I hate him, I hate him, I hate hi...

Don't be alarmed It will not harm you It's only lightning Teenage lightning Don't be afraid Don't be expectant Don't be afraid Don't be reluctant Don't be afraid It's only lightning Teenage lightning It will not harm you Don't be afraid It will...

Was all in vain? Or did you cry? No need to ask, my tears have run dry This is the end of my pity I await to die You now the living, me now the dead To prove that you loved me Mere words could not have said Bitting into skin, into flesh, into me Taking...

The angels kiss our souls in bliss Measure the extent of a dizzying descent Down the anal staircase Down the anal staircase Put just one foot on the staircase And the next step you're down here on this face Down the anal staircase And the rapids of my heart W...

Now you see why I'm not scared to die I saw a vision of an angel of the world lay down and die The earth is full of ghosts now Ghosts that sweat and ghosts that cry Instead of peace just stop and cease A final end, a sweet release The language of love...

Hush; may I ask you all for silence? The dreamer is still asleep May the goddess keep us from single vision And you to sleep The dreamer is still asleep The dreamer is still asleep He's inventing landscapes in their magnetic field Working out a...

Now the dreamer is still dreaming The dreamer is still asleep The dreamer is still asleep The dreamer is somnambulising The somnambulist in an ambulance A somnambulist in an ambulance A somnambulist in an ambulance Somnambulist in an ambulance (r...

On the sea coast of Tibet Egyptian Aztecs are arriving from Norway They've been varnishing the woodwork for forty-three centuries Here, Nature is naked, her acrobats bathed in blood There's a beast of prey on the threshold of pleasure And the giantess, se...

The Spoiler follows you In Spoiler's time from place to place Old man's eyes In a young boy's face Walking in Another's skin Secrets inside The Spoiler The Spoiler's catch Boys who exist In the stories of shadows On our walls Who take to the floo...

(Kill the creator! Send them the bomb!) Daddie, do you have another Cigarette for me, I think Maybe is getting late Maybe time is running out You know, I knew somebody once Rifled through his drawers I wasn't that suspicious, but You know, th...

Dark they were, with golden eyes; Brought golden books from darkened skies Every word from every world within was written down They read it all aloud to us with silver tongues of fire That licked the sun and stars and moon All space became a choir Shining shin...

Titanic arch Crown the dark animal Black Jackal crawling Eternal returning An end to the waiting There are thrones underground And monarchs upon them They walk serene In spaces between At the head of the storm Darkness is rising In the Garden of...

And I swallowed the one you bury And then I swallowed the one you bury Then I swallowed the one you bury 

Where are you? Are you hiding from me? Are you still looking for things that no-one else can see? Where are you? Are you in some place that we cannot reach? Are you bathing in moonlight or drowned on the beach? Where are you? Are you surrounded by thi...

For I will follow you in (repeated) Ra, bai, be, om, uyi, ucha, beyom, om... (repeated)