The Ballad of the Pale Christ
Current 93

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 bracken, flaming stubble with church bell battles
And then I lie in the arms of a smiling girl who prays to Christ and the pale queens mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow

When did I stand before I touched the shadows of this life that touch the dark and dream of ice
An endless winter in this dogday-age, I kiss the cross but dream of wars
A bagatelle for a massacre or wars of fire were build to last
Old men die and stone will turn to stone
And then I kiss the mouth of a smiling girl who calls on Christ and the pale queens mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow

Immaculate heart of immaculate love a tawdry scarecrow for a tarnished crown
His five wounds bleed but only on his throne, his toothless smile cuts wide across his face
And then I kiss the mouth of a smiling girl who calls on Christ and the pale queens mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow

And what shall I receive a little drum to beat when I march with scorched earth's steps
A rocking horse for a little warrior to trample around and down from fields of rape
An alabaster doll for the little maid while she waxes and wanes through the blood of the moon
And camouflaged smocks for the purest of pure, a masculine mark, and the flag of their shame
And I kiss the lips of the smiling girl who calls on Christ and the pale queens mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow

And where shall I go back there and back, furthest and far, to the edge of the shore
The snow falls thick his mantle of strength descends with a winter on those in his service
The snow is the winner
Message of winter, your hope shall be crushed
The lightflame grows dimmer
Child’s laughter ceases on a front with no ending
Within words with no meaning
Child’s laughter sickens
Child’s fever rages
Smouldering pages
Inquisition!
And I die in the arms of a smiling girl who prays to Christ and the pale queens mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow
Mighty in sorrow


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  The Moons at Your Door   There Is a GraveYard That Dwells in Man   (Hey Ho) The Goddy (Oh)   (Hey Ho) The Noddy (Oh)   26 April 2007   A Beginning   A Gothic Love Song   A Gothic Lovesong (For N.)   A Sad Sadness Song   A Sadness Song   A Silence Song   A Song for Douglas (After He’s Dead)   A Song For Douglas After He's Dead   A Voice From Catland   Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer)   Aleph Is The Butterfly Net   All The Pretty Little Horses   All The Stars Are Dead Now   All The World Makes Great Blood   Alone   Alone   And Onto PickNickMagick   Angel   Anti-Christ And Bar Codes   Antichrist and Barcodes   Anyway, people die   Anyway, people die   Anyway, People Die (Dictaphone Recording)   At The Blue Gates Of Death   Be   Beausoleil   Benediction   Bind Your Tortoise Mouth   Black Flowers Please   Black Ship Bloodbells (Live)   Black Ships in the Sky   Black Ships Seen Last Year South of Heaven   Black Sun Bloody Moon   Bloodstreamruns   Bonewhiteglory   Broken Birds Fly   Calling For Vanished Faces I   Calling For Vanished Faces II   Chicka Woo   Christ And The Pale Queen Mighty In Sorrow   Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow   Crowleymass Unveiled   Dögun   Death Of The Corn   Diana   Dormition And Dominion   Earth covers earth   Epilogue   Epilogue to "All the Pretty Little Horses"   Epilogue to "Imperium"   Falling   Falling Back in Fields of Rape   Fields Of Rape   Fields Of Rape   Fields Of Rape (Sightless Return)   Forever Changing   From Broken Cross, Locusts   God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign   God Has Three Faces And Wood Has No Name   God Has Three Faces Wood Has No Name   Good Morning, Great Moloch   Happy Birthday Pigface Christus   Hitler As Kalki   Hooves   Hooves   Horsey   Horsey   Horsey (studio version)   Hourglass   Hourglass   Hypnagogue   I - A Voice From Catland   I Have a Special Plan for This World   I Looked To The Southside Of The Door   I Remember the Berlin Boys   Ii - Steven And I In The Field Of Stars   Iii - The Teeth Of The Winds Of The Sea   Immortal Bird   Imperium I   Imperium II   Imperium II   Imperium III   Imperium IV   Imperium V   Imperium V (live)   In The Heart Of The Wood   In The Heart Of The Wood And What I Found There   Into The Bloody Hole I Go   Into The Menstrual Night I Go   Invocation Of Almost   It Is Time, Only Time   Ix - All The World Makes Great Blood   Judas as Black Moth   Kings and Things   Lament For Her   Lament For My Suzanne   Larkspur And Lazarus   Let Us Go To The Rose   Locust   Lucifer Over London   Mary Waits In Silence   Misery Farm   Mockingbird   Moonbird for Jhonn (Feat. Ben Chasny)   Moonless (From O Po‡o)   Moonlight, Or Other Stars, Or Other Fields   Moonlight, you will say   Mourned Winter Then   Neimandswasser   Night! Death! Storm! Omega!   North   Not Because The Fox Barks   Not Because the Fox Barks (Live)   Oh Coal Black Smith   Oh Merry-Go-Round   On Docetic Mountain   Or   Panzer Rune   Passenger Aleph In Name   Passing Horses   Patripassian   Poppyskins   Quiero Hablarte   Raio No Terrasu (Jesus Wept)   Red Hawthorn Tree   Riverdeadbank   Rome For Duglas P   Rosy Star Tears From Heaven   Sad Go Round   She Is Dead And All Fall Down   She Took Us To The Places Where The Sun Sets   She Took Us to the Places Where the Sun Sets (Outt...   Silence as Christine (Dictaphone Recording)   Since Yesterday   Sleep Has His House   So This Empire Is Nothing   So: This Empire Is Nothing   Soft Black Stars   Spring Sand Dreamt Larks   St. Peters Keys All Bloody   Steven And I In The Field Of Stars   Suddenly The Living Are Dying   Sunset (The Death of Thumbelina)   Tamlin   Tanks Of Flies   Terra Tegit Terram   Terra Tegit Terram   The Bloodbells Chime   The Blue Gates Of Death (Before And Beyond Them)   The Carnival is Dead and Gone   The Cloud Of Unknowing   The Darkly Splendid World   The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon   The Dilly Song   The Dissolution of 'The Boat Millions of Years'   The Dream of A Shadow of Smoke   The Fall Of Christopher Robin   The Final Church   The Frolic   The God Of Sleep Has Made His House   The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of The World   The Heart Full of Eyes   The Inmost Light   The Inmost Night   The Invisible Church   The Long Shadow Falls   The Magical Bird In The Magical Woods   The Nudes Lift Shields For War   The Nylon Lion Attacks As Kingdom   The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion   The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion (Instrumental)   The Signs And The Sighs Of Emptiness   The Signs In The Stars   The Stair Song   The Summer Of Love   The Tale of the Descent of Long Satan and Babylon   The Teeth Of The Winds Of The Sea   Then Kill Caesar   They returned to Their Earth (for my Christ Thorn)   They returned to Their Earth (for my Christ Thorn)   This Autistic Imperium is Nihil Reich   This Shining Shining World   Those Flowers Grew   Thunder Perfect Mind I   Time Stands Still   Time Tryeth Truth   To Blackened Earth   Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil   Twilight, Twilight, Nihil, Nihil   Twilight, Twilight, Nihil, Nihil   UrShadow   V - Into The Bloody Hole I Go   Valediction   Vauvauvau (Black Ships in Their Harbour)   Vi - The Darkly Splendid World   Vii - The Cloud Of Unknowing   Viii - Let Us Go To The Rose   Walking Like Shadow   Walking like shadows   When The May Rain Comes   Where The Long Shadows Fall   Where The Long Shadows Fall   Where The Long Shadows Fall (beforetheinmostlight)   Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still   Why Cæsar Is Burning, Part II   Why Did the Fox Bark?   With the Dromedaries   Xi - Into The Menstrual Night I Go   Xii - Dormition And Dominion   Xiii - So: This Empire Is Nothing   Xiv - This Shining Shining World

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