The Final Church
Current 93

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 their chains

And run through the lands

A prey to madness

With wild eyes dying

With wild eyes burning

They raise their heads

They swell their cold necks

Like a cat that's ripped it's guts

Like a hungry child's breath

Like a woman about to give birth

Like a young girl singing

At the stars in the north

At the stars in the south

At the stars in the west

At the stars in the east

At the moon

At the mountains

At the rocks

At the pain

At the thief

At the snakes


Reveal their black black backs

Fresh flesh

Glazed eyes stare

From long pale human faces

We cannot satisfy the hopes

We are now dead

We are all dead


The hammer breaks the anvil


From the cleft of it's hood

It was fair as morning and full of heaven dew

Then it put on darkness declined it's softness

And put on th symptoms of it's sickly age

It bowed it's head and broke it's stalk

It lost it's leaves and all it's beauty

Falling to weeds and unknown faces

Of man and woman

The black heritage

Of worms and serpents

Rottenness

And cold discharge

Out beauty is now so changed

My friends


By violence and secret influence

The aspect of a star and the stink of a mist

By emissions of a cloud

The meeting of a vapour


By the fall of a chariot and the stumbling at a stone

By a full meal or an empty stomach

By watching at wine or by watching at prayers

By the sun or the moon

By a heat or a cold

By sleepless nights or sleeping days

By water frozen

To the hardness of a dagger

Or water thawed into the floods of a river

By a hair or a current

By violent motion

By sitting still

Or severely

By dissolution

By God's mercy

Or God's anger


We take pains to heap up things useful to our life

And get our deaths in the purchase and the person is

Snatched away and the goods remain and all this is

The law and constitution of nature unveiled it is a

Punishment to our sins


The unalterable event of providence and the decree of

Heaven


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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 Ballad of the Pale Christ   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 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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