Тексты песен «Current 93»

Hear thou the things which must come to pass in the last times There shall be famine and war and earthquakes in diverse places Snow and ice and great drought shall there be And many dissentions amongst people Blasphemy...

There was a man of double deed Who sowed his garden full of seed When the seed began to grow 'Twas like a garden full of snow When the snow began to melt 'Twas like a ship without a bell When the ship began to sail...

Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha Emptiness Nothing rests on the mirror Nothing to rest Nowhere to rest Clouds do not obscure Passing horses White snow melting Snowflakes falling Turn back into air The end is...

She came to me as blood and fluid Tides and sleep I caught her eyes saucerwide As she turned into the sky She bit her lips And stared sullenly into the bleached silence Her fingernails slowly brushing The snow from her...

("A penny for the old guy...") In the time we were lost and scarred in a moment Tortured by doubt and surrounded by ruins Yours was the pleasure and mine was the praying The works of our lifetime lay crumbled...

Once I read and so I thought (Firstly the red dragon rises in the east) So I sat and still I thought (Then the white dragon rises from the north) I start to walk, and my mind turns (Out of clouds a smokish dragon...

Let me take you On the sad go round In the twilight zone Hear the mournful sounds Of the carousel An the calliope Where you lose your will And abandon hope As you spin An the sad go round And the world is a blur Of...

Since disappointment and despair The vainness of al hopes declare Since toss'd upon this restless main I strive 'gainst wind and waves in vain The more I struggle for the shore Misfortunes overwhelm the more Then since...

Just close your eyes And then remember The thoughts You've locked away When tomorrow comes You'll wish You had today And as we sit here alone Looking for a reason to go on I's so clear that all We have now Are...

Have pity for the dead Sleep has his house And so all of your suffering And all of your pain All of your pleasures And all of your gain All of your losses All of your pastures All of your plains All of your fields All...

So: this Empire is nothing Before me the green fields are stretched out The broken body of a cat glows there And the shimmering flies fall This Empire is nothing I said "I guess this isn't real" This Empire is not real...

Little children snuggle under soft black stars And if you look into their eyes soft black stars Deliver them from the book and the letter and the word And let them read the silence bathed in soft black stars Let them...

Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk to you again Because a vision softly in-creeping Crushed my mind while I was sleeping And the vision like silent cancers stay Through nights and days And there was the...

And then when then I die I feel I shall say I have not understood I have not understood any of this My eyes are still coaldark I have not understood Around and in my eyes the tiny flecks Of swirling crippled...

King after king after king Then queen then queen then king Dead in lines and dead in singular They are dead they are dead Altogether...

One of them is all alone And evermore shall be so Two of them are lily-white Boys all clothed in green-oh Three of them are strangers O'er the wide world they are rangers Four it is the dilly hour When blooms the gilly...

The dream of a shadow of smoke "So is every man. he is born in vanity and sin. he comes into the world like Morning Mushrooms, soon thrustling up their heads into the air, and conversing with Their Kindred of the...

Christopher Robin, is saying his prayers But no one is up there, nobody cares Christopher Robin, he prayes to the lord For the starving young children, for the old and the cold Christopher Robin, he falls to his knees...

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...

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...