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CURSED EARTH LYRICS
"Symbiosis" (1994)
1. Sleep
2. I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
3. Sorrows End
4. Exile
5. Forbidden Tree
6. Symbiosis
7. Perfect Armour
8. Within it Lies
1. Sleep
(Downling)
Getting cold
Now the buzz is gone
And my hands are starting to shake
Brain fever
Rising – life signs subsiding
And limbs are starting to quake
I don’t feel angry anymore
I can’t feel anything
I don’t feel nothing anymore
I just feel like sleeping
All my senses
Expand to their limits
But I can’t think sensibly
Filled my blood
With a shot of Bacchus’ love
But things are starting to change
I don’t feel angry anymore
I can’t feel anything
I don’t feel nothing anymore
I just feel like sleeping
Ashamed
Of what I had not become
I tried to find something
That would lead me toward
A better quality
Of life
Instead I found opened the door
To something I can’t see
The length, depth
Breadth or width of
Now
I find myself
Afflicted with more pain,
Suffering, warfare, anguish
And distaste
Than any man could ever
Possibly hope to achieve
So in the end
If you find me
I’m not dead
I’m just trying to sleep
Disease of the soul
Disease of the soul
2. I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
(Lyrics from the poem of Emily Dickinson (1830-86). Note that the first printed version of the poem which is very widespread omits the “plank in reason” verse.)
I felt a funeral in my brain
And mourners, to and fro
Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
That sense was breaking in
And when they all were seated
A service like a drum
Kept beating, beating, till I thought
My mind was going numb
And then I heard them lift a box
And creak across my soul
With those same boots of lead, again
Then space began to toll
And then a plank in reason, broke
And I dropped down, and down
And hit a world, at every plunge
And finished knowing then
As all the heavens were a bell
And being but an ear
And I and silence some strange race
Wrecked, solitary here
And then I heard them lift a box
And creak across my soul
With those same boots of lead, again
Then space began to toll
And then a plank in reason, broke
And I dropped down, and down
And hit a world, at every plunge
And finished knowing then
3. Sorrows End
(Dowling)
Bring no flowers to my grave
I have seen
Beauty’s end
Take no tears to my tomb
I have seen
Sorrows end
I have seen the end of the world
Wrought about by Godlessness
Turn your back on Satan’s lies
We are the authors
Of our own demise
Will I be forgiven
For all I do?
I do this for you
CHORUS:
I am Messiah for the lost
Died
And came back alone
I am Messiah for the lost
Crucified
Resurrected for none
A neophyte of decadence
Newly born
To fire conceived in innocence
But stripped
And cast upon the Pyre
I rationalise
Everything I do
I do it for you
Repeat CHORUS
Repeat verse I
Fade
4. Exile
(Downling)
Cast myself
From the garden of Eden
Inner demons
Or the voices of angels
Beckoning
Challenge me
Judge ye not of God or man
Just seek the truth
You – a good friend
Fail the test of this
Ask the truth of me
Dislike my answer
Tell me that I lack respect
CHORUS:
Here I stand
Stubborn as a child
Born to life
In exile
Belief in goodness
Has only brought me pain
All my honesty
Brings tears to those
I wish to save from suffering
So turn
Your back on me
I’ll turn mine
On the world I knew
Was never meant to support me
CHORUS
Fall feet first
Into a void
I jump from grace
Sanity calls from beyond
The walls I build
To protect from reality
My words
Aren’t meant to hurt you
Only want to show you
Where you’re wrong
But you
Don’t need to hear me
Know it all
From where you stand it’s easy
All I ever wanted
Was a chance to tell you
All I feel
Don’t exile me
Complacency is easy
When you’ve nothing left to lose
I’m not bitter now
Or even hurt
There’s just a sense
Of being used
5. Forbidden Tree
(Kinane)
For forty days
And forty nights
In solitude with Satan
He told me he could
Give me
Everything the world had to offer
Will you deny me?
He brought me to his whore
The whore of Babylon
She told me she
Could give me everything
The world had to offer
Will you deny me?
Will you deny me?
She wrapped her arms
Around me
In the heat of her claws
I called up
On the Heavens
Lying there clutching at straws
Will you deny me?
Will you deny me?
Don’t eat
From the forbidden tree
For I once was blind
But now I can see
As I sweated
Blood
Red Gethsemane
And I carried my cross
To my Calvary
Turned my back
On my God
Now he’s forsaken me
I hang my head
In shame
On my Calvary
When the cock crows
Thrice shall you deny
When the cock crows
Thrice shall you deny
When the cock crows
Thrice shall you deny me
6. Symbiosis
(Downling)
Take my hand
Don’t think of me
As mortal man
For I can show you wonder
In a golden land
Don’t look back
The life you led
Is far behind
Think only of your world
As memories
In your mind
I stole you from your people
For reasons known to me
And I shall give you
Knowledge
The gift is given
Free
CHORUS:
If I took you from your world
And brought you into mine
Would you still believe
In miracles
Would you see the sign
Or would you choose to stay
Blind
Now I can see your
Commitment is not
What it should be
A consequence – of wanting
What is not for me
Experience the only gift
I could bestow
Remember what you learnt, child
For now you must go
The choice was yours
You joined me
I gave you company
You took
All that I offered
Nothing in life is free
CHORUS
Could you see the sign
This miracle
Is in what could not be
You came I saw we learnt
It’s over now
Goodbye
7. Perfect Armour
(Gilligan)
Sometimes a hero, sometimes a foe
Sometimes the murderer of mister John Doe
I’ve done things that I never will do
Some good, some bad, but none of them true
A playground for life, surreal and unreal
For the way I act, the way I feel
Anger, hate, love, lust and lies
My imagination is the key to surprise
CHORUS:
I’ve got perfect armour
No. one here hears me think
It’ perfect armour
The good and the evil
Am I on the brink?
Am I on the brink?
I choose from myself what I want from me
But the person I am may not be what you see
Where’s the boundary
Between thought and desire
If you lie to yourself no one calls you a liar
The perfect armour is a silent brain
Alive with thought, a runaway train
Evil images, sorelid and torn
Blended in with the good to be born
CHORUS
Inn-o-cence was the middle ground
Both of these forces circle around
Disgust myself within my brick wall
Any chink in the armour better be small
No leaked information if you please
(Or) I’ll be treated like a freak disease
(Am I) one of the many or one of the few
Another thought for you to chew
8. Within it Lies
(Keogh)
Stories that our fathers told
A house they never sold
With the cemetery so near
The graves of those with no fear
Time has passed but the story still remains of the rituals held and of the Demons Games
CHORUS:
The time has passed this house
I must seek
Prove the legend wrong or hear the Demons speak.
The five are alive and will forever survive
Through a portal for which I am the key
Their evil chant holds my life in their hands
Slave to the dead, no way to break free
One year at the tavern seemed to prove the legends wrong
Till I heard the voices cry “we don’t belong”
The demons now recruit me for their stepping stone
My body is their key to more human bone
CHORUS
Now I wish I never tried to prove the legend wrong
But when I hear the evil chant no choice but go along
They sacrifice or they please the key never stops turning
Humans are but mere mortals whose souls they’ll keep burning
The five are now strong enough to survive on their own
No more do they need me bum me for my soul
The strength to rule the dark side they have it once again
Come and hear the voices cry “save us from this hell”
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