How The Great Satanic Glory Faded (Vocals - Tiny Tim)
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One night as I lay in my bed
Sings the Chinese chatter
Is chipping away
The white-lit clouds assemble
A small angel of God
Displays this
Shining black beetle-wing polished is he
Deep-sheened tortoise shell majesty
Almost as fur-clad in his peacock feathers he
Burnished dark rosewood embodied with mother-pearl
Son of the armour of the rainbow messiah
Bright fire of morning light-bearing foreland
Pulsifier telescope view topsy-turvy
Mother-licker light-flicker soul-licker
He comes and he goes
There where he wants
In the shining of your mind
Green-scaled flyback carapace she
Dark stars imploding and shuddering she
In the menstrual night she
She opens and she
Crows rose breath she
In her the flowers are all one
She stamen-lipped and hovering she
Beauty alone and unmirrored he
Black-haired black-eyed door she
Heart so lovely dewed labial she
Pearl-drop and dew-drop
Soft pillow sea spray and dark
Smoke-voice of evening
Wool-built and pinnacled gorgon is he
Snake-like and sulphurous serpentine
Emperor brass-lipped
And trumpeting discords he
Bone-voice and bone-throated
Sepulchral decadence
Claxson bone-set anklet
Of jade-green sugar-cane pomegranate
Blood-eyed and sea-wine lark-throated
Bird-winging cloud-swarming
Colder Lucifer
Lucifera luciferons
Stone heart and cold skin
And ice-rendered member
Bright cluster dark thruster
Coal-blackened smithy
Not saviour nor silence nor anything at all
Gold-plated illusion and fool's gold in heaven
Goodbye (goodbye) I say goodbye
Lucifer has two faces, male and female
Lucifer's beautiful eyes, two dark depths
In one is the sea-deep profundity
You may stare into his blue dark body forever
On his surface the waves come and go
The other, clouds breathe across her body
She is the night
They both lie