A Silence Song

A Silence Song - Current 93

So much silence

Stretching above me

Arounds me too

Has it deafened me

Has it closed my ears

Has the silence

Itself

Brought about this rapture

Between silence and sound

Between the cry and the cull

If man raises one voice

I'll raise two then

One for loss

And one for losing

One for death

And

One for birth

He may hang

Bloodytorn

On this

Tree of moss

Though my grimace

When cuts my grin

I'll rise triumphant

I'll rise triumphing

You won't catch me

I fly unseen

Through the wind

Of the worlds

Missiles cut space

Spearing the starlight

Masking the moon

Wide of the march

Give me two reasons to stay here

Lostlight lostlove

Smudge the tracks

And smother the traces

Of the fires

Of your fear

Near the

Under the

Beside the

Beyond the

Flowers

Then further still

The children lie

In silent space

Wind shivers through

Their cornburnt hair

Silence immaculate

If they move

From silence to sound

Will the world shudder

Will my heart stop

In a cave

In her maze

The spring slides

Through my sadness

And my winter

The stars have now frozen into space

The stars have molten into space

Children wait

Flowers around

Burnish

Hair hair

With brazen

Gold

And heartred rose

If I move

Then I shall stop

Take a knife

To your heart

I'll take a knife

To your heart

I'll take a knife

To your heart

And london bridge no longer remains

Christ's face refracted

Through

The sky

Then bring except into

Different shapes