Current 93 - The Final Church lyrics

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 dogs are driven wild And dogs break their chains And run through the lands A prey to madness With wild eyes dying With wild eyes burning They raise their heads They swell their cold necks Like a cat that's ripped its guts Like a hungry child's breath Like a woman about to give birth Like a young girl singing At the stars in the north At the stars in the south At the stars in the west At the stars in the east At the moon At the mountains At the rocks At the pain At the thief At the snakes Reveal their black black backs Fresh flesh Glazed eyes stare From long pale human faces We cannot satisfy the hopes We are now dead We are all dead The hammer breaks the anvil From the cleft of its hood It was fair as morning and full of heaven dew Then it put on darkness declined its softness And put on th symptoms of its sickly age It bowed its head and broke its stalk It lost its leaves and all its beauty Falling to weeds and unknown faces Of man and woman The black heritage Of worms and serpents Rottenness And cold discharge Out beauty is now so changed My friends By violence and secret influence The aspect of a star and the stink of a mist By emissions of a cloud The meeting of a vapour By the fall of a chariot and the stumbling at a stone By a full meal or an empty stomach By watching at wine or by watching at prayers By the sun or the moon By a heat or a cold By sleepless nights or sleeping days By water frozen To the hardness of a dagger Or water thawed into the floods of a river By a hair or a current By violent motion By sitting still Or severely By dissolution By God's mercy Or God's anger We take pains to heap up things useful to our life And get our d**hs in the purchase and the person is Snatched away and the goods remain and all this is The law and constitution of nature unveiled it is a Punishment to our sins The unalterable event of providence and the decree of Heaven