Silence As Christine Lyrics

Current 93 Silence As Christine

Prophets of doom past times arising
In my mind's eye the sky smiles
A swastika black
Hitler's appearing with Micky Mouse ears
And I'm raped with a vision
Of cartoon messiahs
Naked women are dancing offering up vases
Sometimes filled with sadness
Sometimes with machines
A cemetery of Noddy caps
Fills up the starspaces
Black dogs are barking
And white dogs are laughing

This is how the silence
Manifests as Christine

Black geese are dying
And white geese are dying
And dun geese are dancing
Then fade into dying
Whilst the sound of child's laughing
Overflows kindness
Steven's appeared as the essence of smoke
Balance appears incarnate as earthstar
Douglas comes running muscled yet death's head
Christ hovers round me moistened and misty
The sky is metallic
It's trembling and savage

This is how silence
Manifests as Christine

All this is not real all this is not real
First the light's obscured
It's bee-stung with darkness
The twilight is blistered
The earth's form is blistering
Now - the silence speaks
And before my eyes sightless not shifting
Immaculate comes Christine manifest as silence
And then trough the forest
And there through the forest
With the rushing and whining
Of a wind cut in scarlet

This is how the silence
Manifests as Christine