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my eyes are black and wide my eyes are black and wide hey ho the noddy oh my eyes are black and wide i crush the velvet mound i crush the velvet mound hey ho the noddy oh i crush the velvet mound mummy's teeth are cracked mummy's smile is cracked hey ho the...

I'm clicking your fingers for a gothic twilight That actually existed just in your head Your fingernails painted black Or bloodred I forget And your fake-leather volumes Jabbering on hell Manifest decadence was what you hoped to exhail Your eyes tried so hard...

There's the odour of incense And I double in pain And I flick through the past As arrayed in my mind On a bed in a room That's locked on some hill I'm gripping her hand As she cries to the wall The years stumble away And the pain dissipates Suzanne'...

When we touch the world And it falls away When we feel like we're born Just to fall apart And our mother lies in state And the broken pitcher glistens And the snow is at the window Making neither sign nor symbol And the earth covers earth And the mud lies in...

So much silence Stretching above me Around me too So much silence Stretching above me Around me too Has it deafened me? Has it closed my ears? Has the silence itself Brought about this rapture? Between silence and sound Between the cry an...

the pale dry, yet wet pasty skin of the face of my madness. reflects nothing but the darkness of the inside of saturn. spinning creakingly the parade of time which knows naught but blood and density stone and lust the release of the mob the shriek of...

I wasn't sure As the sky was toffee Feeding birds To the horses Killing the clouds And I cut off my face And made skittles With its theeth I ate the graveyard whole And holes open like candles becoming dogs Well there are Bluebirds Blackbirds Dead...

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 horsies All the pretty little horsies Blacks and bays Dapples and greys All the pretty little horsies Way down yonder In the meadow...

sorry then bird flight passes across my window sorry then dog crouches under the still sun sorry then moi je regrette tout ce que j'ai fait ou le soleil se couche i lie me down i lay with your body under the honeysun suckled lovewing mine you were i was not ye...

Whilst I thought I was climbing I found myself descending Having lost my way let me go up Having lost my way let me go down I have no other work to do It would have been better No to be the mother It is sorrowful When a son goes away Let alone And wh...

well hello angel a gift and a smile well hello angel as we walk a mile and a twisted man leans on twisted sticks with children's laughter hanging on swings well hello angel and the skipping rope turns whilst little bodies twist in caroused curves well hello an...

antichrist and barcodes in the air that we breathe with a little black box i hide in the sky in the water that trickles in our mouths in the codes that flicker are lives on and off does the carton nights starts to swallow and shiver and to freeze the fish be...

So when and where Were the revolutions? The deserts now Are full of the comas of stars Bone and memory of fallen faces Killing stars and wine So when and what Were the revolutions? The Saints offered Heads for halos Kissing silver rains Pulled jagua...

Bind your tortoise mouth With mist and curved teeth The main joke had been cracked And whilst the laughter melted Into smaller worlds like whirlpools Sucking in the slaughtering sheep I looked at your face in pearl light And sleepy the clouds that kiss your m...

I had already seen Black Ships ate the sky I was sweet sixteen The fences folded And the trees surrounded Black Ships in the sky Devouring the clouds And the thought came to me Just sweet sixteen and full of night Who will deliver me from myself? Who will deli...

Sudden the colours And I see peace Not as a sword But as a candle My legs were like frogs Bubble green blisters I was a dog or a calf Licking the Eucharist With my bride back lake Tigrous fibre blooming Shining like daffodils The clouds scud along the wires Le...

Black Ships seen last year south of Heaven In their wake Pharaoh stares into the Amentine Night And gives us a ghost and wraps it in gold A thousand years is nothing Two thousand years still less And it shone that We are all Pharaohs In our hearts The double c...

I have dug a cradle as red as dung And the dragonfly answers back “Hello monkey-paw!” Heartfaced Messiah Cradles of bark burn outwards The sunspider sleeps with a face so cosy warm The fire in my belly is oh so sleepy warm With chocolates and mountains And mot...

the sun turns black earth sinks into sea from their steadings in heaven the bright stars turn fire and reek burl upwards and break with hazy heat against heaven itself brother fights with brother they butcher each other daughters and sons incestuously mix man...

Cut the wind I see broken birds fly I hear dead children sing The wind moves again And when she awakens She shall shout "Thalassa" On all sides Broken birds soar The waves move The sound does not diminish The sound shall not diminish The crops shall cease Life...

as i have not trusted i have not hoped in the bleak alleyways and the secondhand streets where misery waits and the turn of your hand as i have no believed so i have not seen the uselessness the pettiness and in by the clouds are the sun and the stars by the...

hi hello to all my friends! you are my friend and i'm your friend consider all your years lying dusty before you your dreams that lived in your sleep nodlike are now dead fear for the future a tiny child's glistening hand wet with a hundred a thousand a millio...

christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus christus... 

Okay boys and girls, let's go Alright Another wretched morning A wretched october day No sound of angels in the trees Christmas is far away Yeah, listen, what's this? The televoice starts whipping round The vision comes today And this is what the voice declai...

Lust he follows virtue close Through the steaming woodlands His darkened blood through bulging veins Through the steaming woodlands Virtue knows he follows softly Through the steaming woodlands Travel light the deathly shudder Down the leafy pathway The dim li...

take the torch to daddy's house take the flame to daddy's house take the fires to daddy's house take the torch to daddy's house blood of my blood, dust to my dust blood to my blood, dust to my dust blood to my blood, dust to my dust blood to my blood, dust to...

In the mind of God The dead sleeping lie And the little cogs though unmoving Hover over the turning wheel All life's a farce The broken bird is draped over the paths And paths and paths and paths And those who say this world is not The bloody g...

the Wind blowes out the Bubble dies the Spring entomb'd in Autumn lies the Dew dries up the Starre is shot; the Flight is past and Man forgot. earth covers earth time tryeth truth 

the starlight has faded the lamplight is dimming and silence is growing all around all around the voice are stopping eyesight fading too all around we're covered by wind covered by wind and if the universe should decide to stop what then? what then? the starli...

In a foreign land In a foreign town Reaping time had come We fall back into Fields of rape My love And this was the way And those were the horrors As father went reaping He falls back into Fields of rape My love Crushed, crushed, crushed You s...

All is cold hard beauty, pain is never done And we remain clothed in space Forming from space Space we come and return And I saw within the mystery of god In the midst of the southern breezes A wondrously beautiful image It had a human form and it's cou...

good morning, great Moloch bright nothing sunflower selling your peacocks at the corner of sight good evening, bloodmother far-off and broken a nexus a typhon a walker on stilts shipdreaming and arctic a polar explorer a seagull and seahorse crossbred and un...

Now cursed be thee Who would ruin our fair land And cursed be thee That would seal up the wells And cursed be thee That abandon the god's hands And build a strange place For our people to dwell Now cursed be thy breath And cursed be thy breathing And...

These are the dregs The last grains of the age It may be the hourglass Or earth covering earth But not in Bethlehem Not in Jerusalem Not in Chorazaim And not in Bethsaida We will not again see God humbled on an ass But see See On a white horse he comes Blazing...

horses are riding into her arms she lost her own way years ago her sister calls her from the far side of night and she falls with that call it's the only way out she tells me i love you but it's only a game so she slides through the silence she's fixing her t...

My life is measur'd by this glasse, this glass By all those little Sands that thorough it passe See how they presse, see how they strive, which shall With greatest speed speed and greatest quicknesse fall See how they raise a little Mount, and then With t...

I Behind my walls are my Cats. And behind my Cats is a Peacock singing to me of my death and yours. I said to her "In the silence of an eye, I shall smile and arise, and see someone I used to know sleeping; in her room in her bed in her body I was in Paradis...

When I came over the water I saw her face glory on the sea And I have come to draw you to me BaalStorm—put yourself in my place The surface seas in the mirror, the grass, the gorge Mark Mark Mark this—"is everything all right?" The breeze filled with tee...

[Intro] (In her eyes tonight There’s a glow tonight They’re so bright they could light Fountainbleu tonight She’s so gracious So vivacious She is not thinking of me Bless her little heart Crooked to the core Acting out a part What a rollicking, fro...

Adam stands on docetic mountain The woman's face is full of stars In the words of the book And with the lips of the book And the trumpet and the seal And the candlestick that lights Up your bed with seeds and flowers And the lion on your rug That's roa...

And am I born to die? And lay this body down? And as my trembling spirits fly Into a world unknown A land of deeper shade Unpierced by human thought The dreary region of the dead Where all things are forgot Soon as from earth I go What will become o...

what drives us on? what drives us on? i left something of myself in you fourscore, twenty, thirty in your body and in your flesh in your vault of skin i was nothing for you but the shadow of another love that one day for you would shift the skies to pastures...

the Lord is my shepherd i shall not want he leadeth me into green pastures the Lord is my shepherd the Lord is my shepherd shall i see you again? imperium imperium imperium one generation passes away and another generation cometh in but this earth...

how can there be pleasure? how can there be joy? when the whole world is burning what joy is there in this body seeing these discarded bones scattered here and there where they were tossed upon the ground through the same moment of the night humans fir...

imperium imperium imperium this life of man is but a span we all come down in fields of rape our little eyes do glitter like the sun but the leaves do wither and the branches decay and all are born of will soon fall away he gave me honey all mixed...

imperium imperium Christ was born in Bethlehem Christ was born in Bethlehem Christ was born in Bethlehem and in a manger lay imperium imperium imperium imperium imperium and Judas he betrayed the Christ and sold him to the jews imperium imperium imperium th...

In dream: You are there As the tip of the tongue collapses towards the teeth And the waters of dream mass around You are there: You are there Suddenly and silently You are the force of the wave And birds, all birds, reel in the distance Their face at d...

In the heart of the wood In the closed forest Christ appeared to me In several forms One two three four Swastika I'm told On the Cliffs of Moher I walk with Mary Behind the eyes Of his innocence or guile The young old man talks Of the brittle walls...

In the middle of the night As the cats cry in the street And the scent of flowers Is heavy in your hair The car sweeps by with the murdered child The car sweeps by with the violated girl The car sweeps by with its trunk full of death What monsters we'v...

when you told me you heard the winds cry and then you told me you felt the seas die and then you showed me the flight of seagulls and whispered gently the party is over then then i knew it was time you looked so tired then bereft of beauty i knew that long ag...

what is all this love for if we have to go out in the dark lalalalalala what joy we had in the locust summer what fires we lit in the locust years black hundreds black thousands lalalalalala what joy we had in the locust summers what fires we lit in the locu...

is autumn the one? is brightness the one? can i interest you in death? can i...shall i move next door? would you like to touch this shadow of my s...? would you like to see how great the stairs are that i made to you? can i interest you in silence? can i inter...

The twisted wings and clouds unfold And the greatgape of He who fell Makes darkened shadows over pointed spires Little children point and sing And little children run and dance Over there the setting sun And under that the silent stars And under they th...

Maldoror is dead Little brick Buried in the earth Maldoror is gone Was I a man? Was I a stone? Maldoror is dead Chance meetings, Maldoror You are gone now, Maldoror The ship that sunk, Maldoror Dispatched by bullets, Maldoror Maldoror is dead Maldo...

I shall return no more The sea covers me To pick gold from the skies I shall wait beneath the spaces I shall return no more Imperium et nihil The silence has folded Inside and out And Mary waits in silence Imperium nihil est In the gap between His thought an...

I saw the back of the stars Tremble and fall While seahorses played On the slope of your breast I saw a hundred angels Rush to the ground They were giving you garlands And giving you crowns The flowers are everywhere Christ glorious entwined The tip...

I remember walking in the fields around York Miserere Oh miserere I remember sitting in a small room in London Miserere And I remember thinking Miserere Miserere I was sad Miserere Miserere This was the stage of building brokengods Oh miserere Mis...

i have to say i have to see the twilight moonlit the houses on hills all appear so blind at night the webs that bind them to the skies are golden, sparkling with blood and dust the angelic motes on beams of blood dance at night the trees turn under the rain pa...

Ruth and Naomi at rest In the people of their people The desert is awake Flicks its pale moon eyes Cows and crows roam And consume dead branches The Lord is on the hooves His vastness blinds the tombs And Aleph broods Creating starlings with brightnes...

Oh she looked out of the window As white as any milk But he looked into the window As black as any silk Hello, hello, hello, hello Hello you coal black smith Oh what is your silly song? You shall never change my maiden name That I have kept so long I'...

Children are scattered with sunlight And the falling clouds cover the skies Mothers hold colours of bloods And three jewels cover their eyes Blossomed Blessed And blistering Swastikas replaced by a cross Sickles replaced by the sun The stars turn to g...

Beyond I am Bails out the stars Starting the sound of First the air goes And then the heart So was that Omega point? Just butterfly to the sun Points fingers as the graves awake "The Moon is dead! Long live to the Moon" And Ms. Tricky hides Beside y...

gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha emptiness nothing rests on the mirror nothing to rest nowhere to rest clouds do not obscure passing horses white snow melting snowflakes falling turn back into air the end is painless already full we are a...

The rivers of Babylon flow And fall And carry away Jesus is alone on earth Not merely with no one to feel and share His agony But with no one even to know of it Heaven and he are the only ones to know Jesus is in a garden Not of delight Like the firs...

But meanwhile there was a ghost in my life And the pomegranate blues descended Heard voices of planets following Satellites in death's purple paws Mix the drains like golden dragon fever Shapur II Lord of Dust In the battefields of precrescent rain The...

she came to me as blood and fluid tides and sleep i caught her eyes saucerwide as she turned into the sky she bit her lips and stared sullenly into the bleached silence her fingernails slowly brushing the snow from her hair my flight from your face must finall...

A penny for the old guy In the time we were lost And scarred in a moment Tortured by doubt And surrounded by ruins Yours was the pleasure And mine was the praying The works of our lifetime Lay crumbled in dust And when Rome falls Falls the world...

There are broken birds scattered over the white cliffs of Dover Once i read and so i thought (firstly the red dragon rises in the east) so i sat and still i thought (then the white dragon rises from the north) i start to walk and my mind turns (out...

Let me take you On the sad go round In the twilight zone Hear the mournful sounds Of the carousel An the calliope Where you lose your will And abandon hope As you spin An the sad go round And the world is a blur Of confusing sound You forget your troubles You...

Since disappointment and despair The vainness of al hopes declare Since toss'd upon this restless main I strive 'gainst wind and waves in vain The more I struggle for the shore Misfortunes overwhelm the more Then since I struggle to maintain And strive...

[Boyd Rice] The end of the world doesn't come suddenly, without warning To imagine it does it to be fooled by popular misconception, and thus fail to recognize the larger picture. The end of the world is an on-going process It starts slowly, imperceptib...

have pity for the dead sleep has his house and so all of your suffering and all of your pain all of your pleasures and all of your gain all of your losses all of your pastures all of your plains all of your fields all of your bodies all of your joys all of yo...

Little children snuggle under soft black stars And if you look into their eyes-- soft black stars Deliver them from the book and the letter and the word And let them read the silence bathed in soft black stars Let them trace the raindrops under soft black...

He crouches on the floor, there's a mask on the wall And he leafs, through the pages of a book But wait as he may in the shadow of other leaves His heart, in embraces to times long since scorched The horizon folds over, with a purpose sun rise And the wi...

hello darkness my old friend i've come to talk to you again because a vision softly in-creeping crushed my mind while i was sleeping and the vision like silent cancers stay through nights and days and there was the sound of silence and the people bowed and pr...

Four four almost finite When I peeked inside I did not see chalice or grail God wasn't there In the darkness The curtain tearn I already saw Black ships ate the sky And flying moons Scare children The dusk blue breaks And the bluebottles laugh The...

lady margaret, lady margaret was sowing at the sea she's all dressed in black and a thought came in her head to roam in the woods to pull flowers to flower her hat, my boys to pull flowers to flower her hat so she hoisted up her petticoats a bit above the knee...

On bended knees we pray for war, a blade draws blood but often tarnishes Through blazing eyes I see new sunsets, sky now breaking different shades of red We pray for blades, ablazing locusts call for wars to wet the earth To cover the world in black and bra...

Your eyes are heavy with sleep The grass is deepest green And the flowering world lush around you Have no fear Have no fear You shall change in the blink of an eye Into the beautiful dancing dust 

Sell all you have give it to the kittens And pour the milk on Louis' grave And Catland sometimes called Pussydom Opens for you instantly it's the inmost light It's the inmost light Somewhere over the rainbow On the goodship lollipop There oh there Goo...

dear sir dear lady this carnival is dead and gone and never anyway alas this party never yet began the chairs and tables dust of dust yes verydust of veryrust of verymust and farewelltrust i thought i saw you in the crowd dear heart you turned away from me and...

The stars on horizon Five I see them and count They line up like a row of heads And I fall into their depths Of water water everywhere Oh let me fall into you Let me sleep long and quiet God watches all sparrows fall Both for Thanks The cat is dead...

And then when then I die I feel I shall say I have not understood I have not understood any of this My eyes are still coaldark I have not understood Around and in my eyes the tiny flecks Of swirling crippled confused lights And to my heart I will whisp...

through the marshes and through the flitering glades through the corn and through the scything fields the summer sun she dances and rages the summer sun flies burning into the light who will die for the death of the corn? and who shall cry at the death of the...

Long Satan and Babylon are walking They're talking of fire and of ice Of the silence that stalks in the forest And a Christ spun out of the worlds Long Satan and Babylon are moving Through a world ripped away from its centre They shear through the rushes They...

As for 'The Boat Millions of Years' I saw it sink crash explode implode How ever many years of destiny? Dead duck anyway Two crowns same end God holocaust in the sky over Memphitic mud Pharaonic massacre! Ten thosand years of blood in mud Despite the funerary...

"so is every man. he is born in vanity and sin. he comes into the world like morning mushrooms, soon thrusting up their heads into the air, and conversing with their kindred of the same production, and as soon as they turn to dust and forgetfulness, some of th...

In the moonlight By the sea In a country In a town Now quickly Now slowly Now in pain Now in love In different shapes When I was young When I was young I used to dream And the wind blows And the owl sings And dogs are driven wild And dogs break...

i take your hand we walk towards where the roses once grew i lie back in the grass and dream of how it once was the rubbishstrewn streets riperising smell of gutters and rain the children abandoned mother recalls child in pool what is that that lies? deadchil...

in a strange land the god of sleep has made his house of marvellous design under a hill there is a cave which of the sun may nothing have so that no man may know aright the point between the day and the night so that inward there is no light and so to speak of...

The great, bloody and bruised veil of the world The great, bloody and bruised veil of the world The trees wave in England The streams flow in England The poor halt in England The poor heart of England "And did those feet..." Hobbled and crippled as They...

The invisible church Born into your mouth Dreams purr into your cundom From your horizon of grace and bolts And heard the water breach in Cox Your children are my children I and you sourced them And soared up to the streams and quit Thus I misspelt all...

why can't we all just walk away? 

i saw the slot of the sun the final cut of the sun start like a hare over the shoddy grey walls i saw you dimple and crease and turn a card from the pack by your bed as though swords, cups, discs and wands might tumble into your head and give you a glimmer of...

When God created the worlds they were before then, without form A void except in his own great eye which had already seen everything that was, is and will The first thing he created I believe though the bible does not tell us so Is children's crying As thi...

The Seven Seals are Revealed at the End of Time as Seven Bows: I. The Bloodbow II. The Pissbow III The Painbow IV. The Faminebow V. The Deathbow VI. The Angerbow VII. The Hohohobow THEN the morning after A time and a time and a time and a time; all...

i had gathered some flowers to lay upon your face though you were not gone from the realm of the quick i saw all the rainclouds being driven on forward by horses long numbered and featureless and free and i wanted to call you a wife though i couldn't stop glan...

I am comely, because im black As the tents of Kedar The solomons veil Because the sun has scorched my skin As the seeded trees of lemonon My belowed is onto me As a cluster of camp fires In the vineyards of En Gedi As the apple tree Deep in the Otchet...

and shall i see You once again and see the flags of InmostLight and shall i turn towards the dusk and dream of dust and broken ships and shall they sink without a sigh and line the deeps and banners sleep and winds blow still and clouds amass so with a gun or...

feeling easy on the outside and not so funny on the inside hear the sound and pray for rain this is the night we ride and this ain't the Garden of Eden there ain't no angels above and things ain't what they used to be and this ain't the summer of love lock al...

I was awake dreaming Of new Dystopias to run to And hide within And new faces to wear And new bodies to inhabit And new lies to guzzle And how I loved the moon And its sheets of seeds The moon tiding in your body The smell of your blood breathing And its taste...

When serpents come They cover the Christ thorn Two heads And cock heads Serpents feet of emotion Lidded eyes and smudged reality Everything has two faces One is earthly without true form The other blackened and blackening And mother is in the fields...

This autistic Imperium With paint and spick and span Is Nihil Reich Whilst wine calls meat My friend at teatime Wonders at the weight Of the armies that wait For Golden Caesar Have face of Beast With lips of long love wasted In Trojan seas I called God on the...

If I cast my eyes before me Towards an infinite space in which I do not exist And if I look behind me, what a terrible procession there is in which I do not exist And how little space I occupy in this first bit of time Like to the falling of a star Or as...

Who will deliver me from this body of death? Who will deliver me from this body of death? Who will deliver me from this body of death? Who will deliver me from this body of death? There is no refuge I have found the word does not save There is no refuge...

hagalaz! hagalaz! hagalaz! know these! know these! know these! know these! isa! isa! isa! isa! thurisaz! thurisaz! thur! thurisaz! isa hagalaz 

And words of Romans creep in Not written but vengeful The dead are in the tortoise The dead are in their legions And the Trojan ponies trot by Graze My Little Pony Is there Torture in the Toybox? Or is this eternal Rome? Or is this infernal Rome? Before Black...

I lose myself and dream of worlds That lie between your fingers And hide behind your eyes And dream of forests And forts of snow Where we may kneel and hold each other In our still young arms Till the moon goes out And sleep and kiss You know it's tim...

Green are the streets The asfalt is glistening When the dust of the day Will be washed away The windows are closed And the rain is dripping From sill to sill And down to the ground When the May rain comes... Very young are the leaves of the trees and the sh...

When I wished upon a star I mistook the night for tar And so I was blind But no longer blind I saw I am passing a breath And I know now Wy Caesar is burning It's here already And not yet You are not ready Blink and die under hooves and theeth Cartoon doll and...