Wednesday, July 21, 2010
From the album "Untitled" by Current 93 - Michael Cashmore - Christoph Heemann (1999)
Showing posts with label Current 93. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Current 93. Show all posts
Where the long shadows fall
Thursday, December 3, 2009
though i walk through valley after valley after valley
and find only shadows
though i walk and find only shadow
the sun falls behind the yew bushes
i young in different shapes stand next to them
the old chapel is to my right
the shadows then lengthen and there again the long shadows fall
when i saw the shadows and starres fall around me..
as a boy
i knew this world
all we see
be
and are
is imperium
Empire of Nothing
Riverdeadbank
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Like dust
I'm lost in the world
I thought that I had
Had a place
Between the heavens and the earth
Between the starred sky
I feel the crunch of dirt
I smell the scent of flowers
My aimless feet
To be in the world
And not a part of it
That's the aim of the pain
That's the aim
I'm sorry that there seems
No happiness in life
I'm sorry that there seems
No one
Passing streams
Dying dreams
There seems to be no joy
There seems to be no joy
You cannot see the ships sailing
You cannot see the sails sailing
Amassing as Christ on the horizon
Outstretched
Outstretched...
Current 93, from the album "Thunder Perfect Mind" (1992)
Let us go to the rose
Friday, July 31, 2009
Mignonne allons voir si la rose
qui ce matin avait declose
sa robe de poupre au soleil
a point perdu cette vepree
les plis de sa robe pourpree
et son teint au votre pareil
las! voyez comme en peu d'espace
mignonne elle a dessus la place
las! las! ses beautes laisse choir!
o vraiment maratre est Nature
puisqu'une telle fleur ne dure
que du matin jusques au soir!
donc si vous me croyez mignonne
tandis que votre age fleuronne
en sa plus verte nouveaute
cueillez cueillez votre jeunesse:
comme a cette fleur la vieillesse
fera ternir votre beaute
Come, i shall show you where dreams go to, when they die
Friday, March 27, 2009
..all around you is the warm bluegreen breath of heavens
do not fear
around you is the vast blueblack space of stars
do not fear
this is the great ocean
on which the endless waves crash down
God is not dead
there is no death i say
(come i shall show you where dreams go to when they die)..
Current 93, from the album "Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre" (1994)
The Inmost Night
Thursday, February 19, 2009
..when i stand there at the piled bloodcamp
again i flick open the inner eye
if you too open your eyes you shall see
the entire sky filled with weeping angels
the entire heaven filled with weeping angels
and the centralsun and sum of all
God too weeping..
Current 93, from the album "All The Pretty Little Horses (The Inmost Light)" (1996)
Feeling disturbance inside
Friday, January 30, 2009
Oh Boy Harpsichord
by Current 93
from the album "I Am Black Ship" (2006)
The Teeth Of The Winds Of The Sea
Thursday, January 29, 2009
..Why I have failed?
And all I could have been
And am not
And all I had hoped for
And were not
And everything I hoped
And hoped and hoped and hoped for
I prayed in the morning
And I prayed in the evening
And I got not
From the rotgut God
When all the world starts to shiver
And shimmer and shake all around me
And all the world light was piecemeal and peaceless
This is the atomic pain of the world
The molecular tears
The final crystalline structure of misery
That wind it's way around the wooden snakejawed growing spine
Of the worlds..
Current 93 from "Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre" (1994)
Immortal Bird
Sunday, August 17, 2008
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 blue
streaked with passing and loss
tortoise green in my eyes
from the moss of my past
you arise
and lightly then i saw you smile
with ivory throat and ivory eyes
at night i catch you before i sleep
and if i died before i wake
i prayed that you my heart might keep
i cannot hold your tunnelled eyes
near my heart any longer
all this love is nothing truly:
mist of moons' breath
grit of evening
the grass was green (i now recall)
before my own particular fall
i saw we were both really
masks on nothing
(the moonlight sweeping over northern beaches)
all the trees stand stripped
just silhouettes of memories
at night i have started to dream of you:
your eyes are wide
and shot through with seablue
Current 93, "Immortal bird",
from the album "Sleep has his house" (2000)
Earth covers Earth
Monday, March 24, 2008
"if i cast my eyes before me, what an infinite space in which i do not exist;
and if i look behind me,
what a terrible procession of years in which i do not exist,
and how little space i occupy in this vast abyss of time..."
From the album
Earth Covers Earth (1988)
קֹהֶלֶת
Thursday, January 3, 2008
4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever.
5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose.
6 The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit.
7 All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again.
8 All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
