[ti:A Sadness Song] [ar:Current 93] [al:Thunder Perfect Mind] [00:00.00]Current 93 - A Sadness Song [00:04.98]Lyrics by [00:08.18]QQ:404096078 [00:11.28] [00:18.87]When we touch the world [00:23.71]And it falls away [00:28.57]When we feel that we're born [00:33.39]Just to fall apart [00:38.24]And our mother lies in state [00:43.04]And the broken pitcher glistens [00:47.95]And the snow is at the window [00:52.75]Creating neither sign nor symbol [00:57.71]And the earth covers earth [01:02.46]And the mud lies in pools [01:07.69]Where the sand-dunes stretch unbroken [01:12.42]And the dry wind bends and sighs [01:17.28]And the geese are running harmless [01:22.18]And our desires are running wild [01:27.15]Then we're looking at the smoke [01:31.84]That's rising from the incense [01:36.76]Neither coming here nor going [01:41.25]Neither heaven here nor hell [01:46.12]Neither borning here nor birthing [01:50.90]Neither dying here nor death [01:55.86]And we're wrapped inside our troubles [02:00.67]And we're wrapped inside our pain [02:05.94]And wracked with fires with longing [02:10.70]And our eyes are blind with night [02:15.40]With our fingers clutching coins [02:20.18]And our thoughts burning with 'I' [02:24.93]And our eyes cannot be sated [02:29.80]With the world and its nightmares [02:34.83]With the world and its dreams [02:39.82]Though later they'll be filled [02:44.24]With a small handful of dust [02:49.21]And the gods appear on the altars [02:55.10]And we recognise their face [02:58.94]It's a face that we have carved there [03:03.85]And it's full of fear and longing [03:08.45]And promises and threats [03:13.07]But they neither stoop to conquer [03:18.04]Nor do they stoop to praise [03:22.85]And the mines are void of diamonds [03:27.86]That we carry in our rags [03:34.22]Then all the world seems [03:39.89]A sadness song [03:44.56]A sadness song [03:49.38]A sadness song [03:54.28]And all the world seems [03:59.02]A sadness song [04:02.90]- End - [04:04.35]Current 93 - A Sadness Song