Anti-Christ and Barcodes

by Current 93

From the album: Soft Black Stars

Track 7 of 12 on Soft Black Stars (1998).

Duration: 2:24

Soft Black Stars cover art

Lyrics for Anti-Christ and Barcodes

Antichrist and barcodes In the air that we breathe With a little black box I hide in the sky In the water that trickles in our mouths In the codes that flicker are lives On and off Does the carton nights Starts to swallow and shiver And to freeze The fish belly up The unborn served up Obeying the planets No insense is strong enough To make this life complete Alpha and omega The great in the small The butterflies flutter by The foxes stop running The moon As sharp as a sickle And as bright as a pin Breathed its heavy sick breath As we fitfully slept And heavily dreamed To awake Back into endings And quietly wait For the trains to stop chugging And the clocks to implode His name is under our skin And so by the hair Of my chinny chin chin By hook or by crook Our necks are in the news

More from Soft Black Stars

  1. [untitled]
  2. Larkspur and Lazarus
  3. A Gothic Love Song
  4. Mockingbird
  5. Soft Black Stars
  6. It Is Time, Only Time
  7. Anti-Christ and Barcodes
  8. The Signs in the Stars
  9. Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still
  10. Moonlight, or Other Dreams, or Other Fields
  11. Judas as Black Moth
  12. Chewing on Shadows