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Happy Birthday Pigface Christus

Current 93


In menstrual night 
When red is black 
And Christus crawls 
From Mary's crack 
Wrapped in tatters 
And flailing in mud 
Child defiled 
With tears and blood 
Pigface Christus is born 
Pigface Christus is born 

In menstrual night 
When red is black 
And darkness crawls 
Out of the crack 

Some were born 
In fields of mourning 
Some were ripped 
In fields of rape 
Some bowed down 
In echoed splendour 
All were torn 
In fields of tears 

Crushed by church 
And raped by father 
Bled by mother 
Torn and tearing 
In scarlet playgrounds 
On iron railways 
Christ's pale body 
Crucified 

Time was 
Time is 
Time shall be no more 

Some with tears 
And some with laughter 
Some in sadness 
All in vain 
In fields fresh crippled 
The glint of sickles 
The scars of sunset 
The sund of reaping 

You and I 
On threshing floors 
Lost and losing 
Parched and preying 
All have numbers 
None have names 

Here open the gates of heaven 
Here open the gates of hell 

Time was 
Time is 
Time shall be no more