歌词
When we touch the world
And it falls away
When we feel that we're born
Just to fall apart
And our mother lies in state
And the broken pitcher glistens
And the snow is at the window
Creating neither sign nor symbol
And the earth covers earth
And the mud lies in pools
Where the sand-dunes stretch unbroken
And the dry wind bends and sighs
And the geese are running harmless
And our desires are running wild
Then we're looking at the smoke
That's rising from the incense
Neither coming here nor going
Neither heaven here nor hell
Neither borning here nor birthing
Neither dying here nor death
And we're wrapped inside our troubles
And we're wrapped inside our pain
And wracked with fires with longing
And our eyes are blind with night
With our fingers clutching coins
And our thoughts burning with 'I'
And our eyes cannot be sated
With the world and its nightmares
With the world and its dreams
Though later they'll be filled
With a small handful of dust
And the gods appear on the altars
And we recognise their face
It's a face that we have carved there
And it's full of fear and longing
And promises and threats
But they neither stoop to conquer
Nor do they stoop to praise
And the mines are void of diamonds
That we carry in our rags
Then all the world seems
A sadness song
A sadness song
A sadness song
And all the world seems
A sadness song
- End -
专辑信息
1.A Gothic Love Song
2.All The Pretty Little Horses (Vocals - Nick Cave)
3.Imperium I
4.Lucifer Over London (Vocals - John Balance)
5.Christus Christus (The Shells Have Cracked)
6.Ach Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)
7.Be
8.Oh Coal Black Smith
9.Loony Runes
10.Black Flowers Please
11.Anyway, People Die
12.Dögun
13.Hourglass (For Diana)
14.Falling (Vocals - Akiko Hada & Björk)
15.In The Heart Of The Wood (And What I Found There)
16.Mary Waits In Silence
17.A Sadness Song
18.The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home
19.How The Great Satanic Glory Faded (Vocals - Tiny Tim)
20.The Seven Seals Are Revealed At The End Of Time As Seven Bows
21.Bloodstreamruns
22.All The World Makes Great Blood
23.The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of The World
24.Calling For Vanished Faces I
25.The Bloodbell Chime
26.Calling For Vanished Faces II
27.The Dead Side Of The Moon
28.Sea Armchair
29.All The Pretty Little Horses (Vocals - Shirley Collins)
30.So: This Empire Is Nothing