Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer)

by Current 93

From the album: Black Ships Ate the Sky

Track 12 of 21 on Black Ships Ate the Sky (2006).

Duration: 3:20

Black Ships Ate the Sky cover art

Lyrics for Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer)

I wasn't sure As the sky was toffee Feeding birds To the horses Killing the clouds And I cut off my face And made skittles With its teeth I ate the graveyard whole And holes open like candles becoming dogs Well there are Bluebirds Blackbirds Deadbirds Totembirds Baked in pies and praying to die I made them rise From their pies And married the moon And killed my face And threw its quincunx into space The cats are like furry constellations They lap up the Milky Way Speak tongues with windows open In the fabric skulls We wear like bonnets To cover up our empty eyes. Behind such emptied eyes The everything bubbles and laughs. No empty sketch But quite as vast as children's dreams Who sleep outside of manmade cogs No barking disturbs the sketch of Kosmos yet to come. Abba amma (Babylon Destroyer) King of dust I swept up With pan and brush In a rush whilst the berries explode

More from Black Ships Ate the Sky

  1. Idumea
  2. Sunset (The Death Of Thumbelina)
  3. Black Ships In The Sky
  4. Then Kill Cæsar
  5. Idumea (Vocals Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
  6. This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich
  7. The Dissolution Of The Boat "Millions Of Years"
  8. Idumea (Vocals - Baby Dee)
  9. Bind Your Tortoise Mouth
  10. Idumea (Vocals - Antony)
  11. Black Ships Seen Last Year South Of Heaven
  12. Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer)
  13. Idumea (Vocals - Clodagh Simonds)
  14. Black Ships Were Sinking / Idumea (Vocals - Cosey Fanni Tutti)
  15. The Beautiful Dancing Dust
  16. Idumea (Vocals - Pantaleimon)
  17. Vauvauvau (Black Ships In Their Harbour)
  18. Idumea (Vocals - David Tibet)
  19. Black Ships Ate The Sky
  20. Why Cæsar Is Burning Part II
  21. Idumea (Vocals - Shirley Collins)