Current 93
Current 93 - The Nudes Lift Shields For War lyrics
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The West got the rest it deserved assured Drowning under oysters Sailing on their disappearances Underwater, but infallible the blossoms In the far night under the tabernacle The mermaids drift joylessly Queer metermaids Snapdragon elves Invert against Aeons That guided missiles Into the Alchemist's home The credit card is cancelled The Storm, her eye on the sores And the eyes and ears Of wild blind eyes The buckethome Of the unready phrase Grand marsch of the Nife Naught. Death. Storm. Omega, The traffic-lights flicker out at Mamre The last thing I saw were your eyes (they were) as loud as stars As mute as the twilight sinking Over the olive tree Licking the flames from The burning bush Scales (...] stairs, always up. +++ The monsoon was drive by storm(s) Into the valley(s) By chic tombs the swallows drift Ironic to their end The kittens fill turquiose cages In time to the milkmaid's slow calling Pain in the plough in the fields The green greedy fields Bleed lace and dream (I dream I saw the cogs as seraphim) Machines and chips And Aladin('s)wires The alleluia buzzes Brimming with sounds of storm(s) and vowels As voiced by the deaf On the palates the shapes and their heads Like berries lush in the summer We were all ready to drop The sound of the storm was spears Ripped phrases from the 'First Garden Log' Sensational news! The nudes lift shields for war! (but) swivel and bank to the left Breast bared, the amazon and Blind lens shut(s) over rivers Hovering illlly over the mist The cataract approaches might in grins Growls borrowed histories Maps are scored and scraped Debris, white pens, rust, root Swarf, machined, bad fait To (Ususususususus) us, us, us The clouds drown in mists Covers the sow, the bristle The tiny mouth huddled in the box Of blisters