Current 93 - The Carnival Is Dead And Gone Lyrics

Dear sir, dear lady
This carnival is dead and gone
And never anyway
Alas this party never yet began

The chairs and tables, dust of dust
Yes, very dust of, very rust of
Very must and farewell trust

I thought I saw you in the crowd, dear heart
You turned away from me and dissolved into light
The broken lights and faded buntings
Call to us all the inmost light

And don't glare wide your eyes in wonder
They will flick back inside your mind
And on the bonescreen of your skull
They watch no musical salutes

So thoroughly modern now we are
But the last reel of all time
The inmost night
Its frames are glared and slow and out of focus

Valentino, Vallee Moss, all dead
The inmost night
And the little bells go tinkle
And your eyes begin to twinkle

And the joints and sinews crack
It's the expansion of your mind death
Death, death, death
The inmost night

The cat's face glares from shiny card
The dead cat from my past
You tumble you froth and fun forever
An orchestra from another time
Another world all dead

The church bells silent the rain
Stained glass of God is smashed
And you take your choice
You sup with the devil

You choke on your pride for ever and ever
My memory of my inmost light
Tumbles froth and fun forever
Vulvaic memories imagined of my would be life

Well, that won't be
And that won't be and that won't be
And for my troubles and my pain
And for the losses and the wains

I get a picture in my mind
The slyly smiley, smiling kiss
Of your sweet heart and face
And your legs in some final benediction

Your inmost warmheart says tax ra
The inmost light
And I wished to die inside of you
And push up into your heart so violently that
Face to face with matrix creatrix am

The inmost light
The inmost night