darkness

oh my lover/do not believe
only in what/your eyes can see
there is a darkness

oh my lover /this is a fight
don't try to tell me /it will be all right
there is a darkness

the sky is crimson /like a wound
give me your heart/to consume
all of your darkness

they say there was/always a flame
in st Catherine’s breast
to meet you in your darkness

until the armies of the dark
the armies of the light
are broken now in loving arms 
and holy darkness

i see you leaving/with your heart angry
i see you grieving/for what is just a dream
running away into darkness

in unity/we were formed
in a bloody Eden /we were separated and torn
into this darkness

and love is no garden/until its been toiled
but so much blood/spilled on the soil
in our raging darkness

but i am just fighting/this man's fight
don't expect to get it right
i love you the darkness

Darkness

Blind River Seine
 Whores of Christ and Whores of Mary
All along the isle St Louis
The grey parade has come to town
Walk a crooked mile with me
Blind river
 
There is a poison man with a goats head
Weeping on a virgins bed
His eyeballs are made of lead
He wants to fly through a hole in the sky
Blind river
 
Let it flow let it dream blind river Seine
 
Go paint the palace walls with blood
And go back to the reptile mud
The flood is high the end is clean
Vomit up your bad dreams
Blind river
 
There is an empty hole in the empires head
So scream with your guts instead
And lay me down in a bed of leaves
There is a hole where God used to be
Blind River
 
Let it flow . . .


Blind River Seine

Lyrics

Why are you Sleeping

This great tree 
seems to be weeping
It seems to we weeping
and shedding its burden
And my love
she seems to be sleeping
beside the bridge of sighs
in the city of lights
the river moving quickly
she seems to be dreaming
she seems to reflect the sky
that seems to broken
why are you sleeping why are you sleeping
why are you so cold
This piece of meat
on a butchers block
that once was a dancer
that once was a giber
this piece of meat
Now immobile
Once moved through the grass
Like a antelope
She seems to be with me
She seems to caress me
She seems to bless me
With a body of extacy and stars
But something is missing
She seems to be sleeping
She seems to be sleeping
She seems to be sleeping

Why Are You Sleeping

Lyrics

Cain and Abel

Once I had a brother
My father’s favourite son
His sacrifice was perfect
I was the awkward one 

In envy I did burn 
In envy in did creep
My brother shone like sun
And haunted all my dreams

He shepherded the animals
I cut the bitter earth
And sin crouched at my door
I cursed by very birth

The cat howled in her heat
My heart just like stone
With multitudes of phantoms 
I shivered all alone

I took my brother by the hand
In envy and shame
I took him to a secret land
Down by the river bend

And there among falling light
The earth darkened with blood
It was there I cut my brother down
And betrayed by fathers love

My father looked upon me
My countenance it fell
He sent me to the country 
Some kind of heaven/hell

Where the blood cries from pavement
And machines tear up the wheat
And the skyscrapers grow
In a chemical sea

Now I have I come to wander
In this land so dim
Falling from the starlight
A mark upon my skin

The mark now lies upon me
The weapons now are piled
Upon the broken earth
Upon the great divide

Will truth and love melt the
Hard weapons of the beast
Till Cain falls down to Abel
Upon the golden wheat

Am I my brother’s keeper
I cried out in the din
Am I my brother’s keeper
I wandered in the restless wind

Cain And Abel

Sodom and Gomorrah

In front of you is a promise land
A city on the hill
And even though your eyes do sting
You can make it, I know you will

Just keep your vision in the front
And raise your eyes to glory
Behind you is a pillar of salt
A ghost inside a story

Don’t look back don’t look back
Or turn into a pilar of bitter things
Don’t look back don’t look back 
When the bells of the future ring

And no one knew good or evil 
In Sodomm and Gomore
But I know you are not like that 
You are neither thief nor whore

You have heard the 2 messengers
You know the dangers by now
There is nothing for your in this town lay down that bloody towel

Sodom And Gomrrarah

Adam and Eve

The serpent is a subtle beast as everybody knows
The serpent is a subtle beast
And Eden is his throne

The tree of knowledge it climbs up to the sky
The tree of knowledge 
And all of nature shines

Tell me darling oh what have you done
Why do you hide your nakedness
Underneath the sun 

Oh the serpent is a subtle beast 
He came into her mind
He promised her the knowledge 
The art of space and time

Oh the serpent had technology he had drugs and he had fun
And she was bored of dreaming here Under a perfect sun

He cast me there upon the dirt
And did with me his will
And my desire became a beast
And my innocence it died

And now the man he must toil And now the woman she does bleed And history shall be born In every soul a rivalrous seed

Adam And Eve

Lyrics 

What kind of man is Abraham
And what kind God would command him
To go up to mountain
To tie Issac to a table

What kind of man is Abraham
Not to hesitate for even a minute
When God said to him Here I am 
What kind of man is Abraham?

Issac asked the question
Where is the lamb of which you spoke
What kind of man is Abraham
To lie to his only son

And God then must be a madman
To test Abraham in such a manner
And Abraham did not even stammer
What kind of man is Abraham?

He’s a man like you and me
He’s a man afraid to be
He’s a man duty bound
Can he even hear the sound of Issac’s tears

The Sacrifice of Issac

Lyrics

Oh Jacob came in to this world
With his hand upon Esau heal
Trying to pull him back inside
He always wanted to be the first

Esau was the hunter
Jacob is the watched over the lamb
Esau was man of passion
Jacob was man of will

Oh Esau was Issac’s heir 
But Rebecca loved Jacob best
For Esau was covered in hair 
Jacob had fine features

The father blessed the hunter boy
The mother dressed the bureaucrat
And Esau was tricked from his his joy
For a bowl of stewed lentils

And we were all ready at war, in Rebeccas womb, in Rebeccas womb

The scholar and the warrior
Shall be cleaved and shall be torn
The chosen and the proletariat
Shall be bitter enemies

brother shall fight brother
And discord rein among among the tribes
Until the heart shall come again
And heal the great divide

And the body shall fight the mind
The the sex the intellect
Until Esau and Jacob combine Until they are ensouled in peach

And two peoples thus were made
The Gentile and the Jew
And build a wall of fire and dust
But reconciled they surely must

Jacob And Esau

Coat of many colours

Oh my father made me a coat/A coat of many colours  But my brothers they were Jealous/They coveted my fathers love

I dreampt the golden rods of wheat And all the sun and all the moon
The 11 planets at my feet with coat of many colours

But my brothers the would cut me down and throw me i	n the cold cold ground And wild beast all round/my coat of many colours

Though what my father gave me/Was not thread or cloth
Thought what my father gave me/could not be defiled could not be lost
 My coat of many colours 
My coat of many colours


You can’t sit on a throne until you have been a slave But in your rags you’ll be a king, alone you will be multitudes

You carry it inside ofyou/ The history of all humankind
The DNA the serpents coil/The coat of many colours 

Oh you don’t recognise me now/But I am your brother
Your evil ways will be transformed/Into a coat of many colours

Bring me to my father/from the bottom the ocean I am the resurrected son/With his coat of many colours

Coat Of Many Colors

Lyrics 

And if you find favor in the eyes of the Lord
And if you are a righteous one
And human wickedness has no end
Then just one thing can be done

Oh make an arc of cypress wood 300 cubits long and 50 wide
A lower a middle and upper deck
With a hole in the roof and a door in the side

Bring two of every bird and beast Of everything that creeps or flies
Fill it medicine, herb and seed
And your sons and daughters and their wives

For when the floodwaters come down
On every creature with the breath of life
But you who find favor in the eyes of the lord
I will make my covenant

So build yourself and arc over the waters dark

For one hundred and fifty days  
Waters prevailed on the earth
Above the mountains we floated there
Without the land or human mirth

And not a soul did remain
No creeping thing no bird of song
Annihilation was total
The world we once knew was gone

After 40 days and 40 nights
The dove it brought the olive leaf
The arc it settled on the earth
The land divided from the sea

Never again the Lord did say
Be fruitful and multiple
Day and night and man and beast
The lord he said will never cease

Andrew Sweeny

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