The Frolic
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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? deadchilddead
I have such nightmares and you're all in all of them
It's worse than you or I can ever know

On the edge of the clouds we crouch
We smile and spit
The pool of saliva carrascates below our feet
It shifts
Children with knives begin to rise from it
They laugh and blow kisses at the moon

We think it's the rain
I see a bird move onto the table in my garden
Its beak scoops up the seeds
The green of the grass and the blue of the sky
Are immense and terrifying
Everything seems so close
So very very close
Should a storm come
Should a storm break and halo all around us
As some savage and blind god
Jerking his hands out to us
The birds drop all around us

I walk into the altar room
All the buddhas are smashed there
Avalokitesvara's hundred faces lie shattered
I have done this
I walk to the makeshift redbrick altar a hundred years ago
There is a small brass image there
I have built this
The red and black ants mill around
Unknown journeys
I take my lighter and torch them
I take my lighter and torch them
I weep, I weep
The ants scatter or writhe
I take my lighter and torch them torch them
I have done this
I am surrounded by butterflies
The chid's legs lay smashed
Please pray for him she says to me
Too late
Alas, oh so too late

I see the twinkling stars
I drop a photograph
I bend to pick it up
My heart leaps as i see your face
Stare up at me from the paper
As if still alive on this earth
When I return my eyes to the stars
They gathered
They pucker
And are blind
And are blind

So lost are we
Oh what have I become
I have become that I hate
I have become that I shall say no

The bird is dead now alas

A voice whispers to me
And says nothing nothing
There is nothing

I look to my right and see her face again
And again the world disappears

And all fall down
All fall down
All fall down I all fall down
All fall down I all fall down
We all fall down
We all fall down


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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 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 Final Church   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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