Momus - Gibbous Moon lyrics

Why not believe Christianity If it helps you through the day? It's useless as a crucifix Brandished in a vampire's face This world is lugubrious Aghast beneath a gibbous moon Waxing and waning with the d**h of all feeling But we will be free soon This ending is so curious To fry in a dying sun Alive and crying and gnashing teeth Thy nothing will be done Adrift in triviality Intoxicated yet becalmed The world longs for a better life But not for now, and not from him Dismissed summarily With a gesture of the hand I have become the thunderclown And so alone I stand The thunderclown is Heraclitus Weeping over the obscure Dressed in my dark colours Misunderstood and pure And the moon wanes gibbous And my face has grown hideous And on the raft, the great Lovecraft The noise has grown ridiculous Do not listen to the eldritch one The elders tell the young Do not listen to the thunderclown Because of what he's done The places he's been my dear The things we always fear Just keep calm and carry on By twilight he'll be gone