Artist : Current 93
Title : Dormition And Dominion
Am7
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In the mind of god
Dm7 F
The dead sleeping lie
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And the little cogs though unmoving
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Hover over the turning wheel
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All life's a farce
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The broken bird is draped over the paths and paths
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And paths and paths
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And those who say this world is not
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The bloody gleaming paradise of blood and jewel
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Lie
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Opal and pearl bloodsocket castings
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Ruby jasmine jasper and onyx
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Chalcedonthrone and ambergriscrown
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Golden green leafwork
Dm7 F Am7 C
Scrolled with the farstars
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Pitted ~~~with the moonworlds
C F Dm7
Mother alldewey
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Arrayed with the twinkling lights
C F Dm7 Am7
The wovengold spungilded ~~~~blinking godeyes
C F Dm7
The spearshafts of heaven
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The souldwelling rockhomes
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Are...
Spoken:
Dormition and Dominion
Dormition and Dominion
The Mother is dead
The Mother awakens
Dormition
She sleeps
Dominion
He rules
She sleeps and rules
In her starry bodied glory
The Mother sleeps
The Mother loves
Dormition and Dominion
I wait
...Are the holders of the world and its dreams
I say there is no death
No death
Dm7
Am7 C
We have lived before and shall live again
F Dm7
And again
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We have slept before and shall sleep again
Dm7 Am7
We have danced through the shallow pools
C F Dm7
And shall rejoice
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Once again
C F
To those who say there is no hope
Dm7 Am7
I say... liars
C F
Liars
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Liars you are
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Over the starry dancing stars
F Am7
There is a land
C F
Under the sweatribbed brow
Dm7 Am7
There is a land
C F Dm7 Am7
And this is the globed world of ~~~~the Pantocrator
C F Dm7
[Died in lines and died in singular]
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Finally I have understood
F Dm7
I have understood
Am7 C
I have understood
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Though when I slip sleeping and silently
F Dm7
From this ribbed room of sighs
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You shall not find the history of His personal visit
C F
Sewn into my linings perhaps
Dm7 Am7
Nevertheless I have understood
C F Dm7
Where the logician watches god hinge all on a die
Am7 C
Nevertheless I have understood!
F Dm7 Am7
That all this is the breathbetween moment
C F
Our eyeslids open and close
Dm7
Between is the land
Am7 C F
Between the time I first was accepted
Dm7 Am7
In between Your brightboned body
C F Dm7 Am7
Between then and there and the time you, you wept:
C F
"Goodbye my love goodbye to you"
Dm7 Am7
Goodybye, oh goodbye
C
There was the land
F Dm7
In the pearls of our heart
Am7 C F
There is the immaculate heavenly loveland
Dm7 Am7 C F
In the middle of the forest Acton is slain by his own hounds
Dm7 Am7 C
In the middle of the forest Eustace meets the crisscross Stag
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There is the land he has reached paradise
C
There is no death
F
There is no death
Dm7 Am7 C
There as the stag turns and smiled loved
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There he was takencaught by the prey
C
All the flowers are blossoming
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And all the world calls to you:
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"Dormition" - so you sleep
F Dm7
"Dominion" - so you rule
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Dormition - oh You sleep, Mother
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Dominion - Father, You rule