Lyrics How The Great Satanic Glory Faded - Current 93

How The Great Satanic Glory Faded

«One night as I lay in my bed» sings
The Chinese chatter is chipping away
The whitelit clouds assemble
A small angel of God displays this:
Shiningblack beetlewings polished is he
Deepsheened tortoiseshell Majesty
Almost as furclad in his peackock feathers he
Burnished dark rosewood embodied with motherpearl
Some of the armour of the Rainbow Messiah
Brightfire of morning lightbearing fallen
Falsifier telescope viewed topsy-turvy
Motherliquor lif’s flicker soullicker
He coms and he goes
There where he wants in the Shinig of your mind
Greenscaled flybacked carapace she
Dark stars imploding and shuddering she
In the menstrual night she
She opens and she closes she
In her the flowers are all one she
Stamen lip and hovering she
Beauty alone and unmirrored she
Blackhaired and blackeyed door she
Hart so lovely dewed labial she
Pearldrop and dewdrop
Soft pillow of seaspray
And dark smokevoice of evening
Wallbuilt and pinnacled gorgon is he
Snakelike and sulphurous serpentine emperor
Brasslimbed and trumpeting dischordance he
Bonevoices and bonethroated sepulchral decadence
Crackedsun boneset anklet of jadegreen
Sugarcane pomegranate bloodeyed and seawide
Larkthroated birdwinging cloudstormy golden
Lucifer Lucifera Luciferens
Stoneheart and coldskin and icerendered member
Grapecluster darkthruster coalblackened smithy
Not saviour nor Silence nor Anything at all
Goldplated illusion and fool’s gold in heaven
Goodbye
I say goodbye…
Lucifer has two faces: male and female.
Lucifer’s beautiful eyes are two dark
depths.
In one is the seadeep profundity.
You may stare into this bluedark body
for ever.
On his surface, the waves come and go.
The other.
Clouds breathe
across her body.
She is the night.
They both lie