Patripassian

by Current 93

From the album: The Inmost Light

Track 13 of 13 on The Inmost Light (1996).

Duration: 05:52

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Lyrics for Patripassian

The rivers of Babylon flow And fall And carry away Jesus is alone on Earth Not merely with no one to feel and share his agony But with no one even to know of it Heaven and He are the only ones to know Jesus is in a garden Not of delight, like the first Adam Who fell and took with him all mankind But of agony Where he has saved himself And all mankind He suffers this anguish and abandonment In the horror of the night Jesus will be in agony Until the end of the world There must be no resting in the meantime Jesus will be will be in agony Until the end of the world There must be no resting in the meantime To Eden with me, you will not leave To live in my cottage of crazy crooked Eves In your own heavy home, take care of this night When you let your little cat in, turn on the light Something scurries behind and finds a cozy place to stare Something sent to you from paradise, paradisaically somewhere Tongues flouring, they leap out laughing Lapping, disappear

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More from The Inmost Light

  1. The Long Shadow Falls
  2. All the Pretty Little Horsies
  3. Calling for Vanished Faces I
  4. The Inmost Night
  5. This Carnival Is Dead and Gone
  6. The BloodBells Chime
  7. Calling for Vanished Faces II
  8. The Frolic
  9. The Inmost Light
  10. Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil
  11. The Inmost Light Itself
  12. All the Pretty Horses
  13. Patripassian