Current 93

Horsey

Current 93


horses are riding into her arms 
she lost her own way years ago 
her sister calls her from the far side of night 
and she falls with that call 

it's the only way out 
she tells me i love you 
but it's only a game 
so she slides through the silence 
she's fixing her time 
to fall back into darkness 
again with a smile 
don't touch me i'm falling 
she laughs in the night 
don't touch me i shall return 
when the wheel comes around 
you see we're all born to suffer 
we're all born to fall 
in a grey-shaded world 
that calls us to zero 

her mother's mouth slits 
her father lies taken 
she touches my body 
but i crouch up to die 
down the ramblas we're walking 
in Reykjavik we're talking 
the snow is moon-cold 
the roof freezes over 
she's reading a book 
she finished it years ago 
she's tearing up paper 
she's tearing up life 
but she only starts thinking 
when her blood is brown 

gold is the colour she promised me she'd wear 
but Christ's blood turns black 
his body she bears 
when she dips him in waters 
confession of faith 
it's hard to believe you 
when you spit in my face 
and i don't want to touch you 
i don't want to lie 
in the brown red gold slumber 
that you've taken to ride 

i remember i was thinking 
only of you 
but you shattered me nightly 
you broke all your oath 
i found myself falling 
and there 
and there 
and then 
through the ruins of this parched life 
and the pain of the next one 
i said fucking over 
all of this is shit 
but still the wind calls 
imperium 

when you rage at the conqueror you only rage at yourself 
when you torture the anointed you torture yourself 
and you've listened to Piaf but not to the Christ 
so you sparkle for seconds then dissolve into mist 
the fog closes in and you think about Crowley 
you think it's a game 
but the game is just you 
when shall you stop hiding in the heart of your night 
when the cold trapway beckons 
when the cold trapway stops 
and Christ i was thinking of your bended arm 
it's blue on the inside 
it's blue on the outside 
you said and then buckled as if you might die 
there's no point in living 
there's no point in life 

and sometimes i hear you at the back of my mind 
and a golden door opens but no light appears 
there's spit on the bridle and there's blood on the saddle 
and you slip in the shit you've shat in yourself 
and Christus is Equus and Equus is Lord 
and his name flies with fury and the wind cuts through you 
you following footsteps that shed by a flower 
then i wanted to hold you but you're destined to fall