Coil - Batwings a limnal hymn
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Artist: Coil
Title: Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)
Intro:
Am F C F x2
Verse:
AmA moon-pieceF to fetch up the golden cCup F
AmA snow-pieceF to avoid the grCeat heat of the sunF
Is kAmept in the nightF and by the light of the mCoon F
Am F C F
An Amice-pieceF so as they seem forCever fallen F
AmA night-piece Fof the dismal suppeCr and strange entertainmentF
Am F C F
A rare chance-Ampiece,F a handsome pCiece of deformity F
AmThe skin of a snakeF bred out of the spCinal marrow of a manF
Am F C F
Am F
With stCones and illegible inscriptioFns found about great ruins
Am F
CPictures of three remarkable steFeples, or towers Am
Built purposely aFwry, sCo as they seem eternally Ftipping and Amfalling
F C F
A trAmanscendent perfumeF made of the riCchest odorates F
AmKept in a box of transluceFnt scaleC F
Am F C F
AmA glass of spiritsF madCe of ethereal saltF, hermeticAmally sealed upF C F
Kept contiAmnually in quicksilver,F of so volatile a naCture F
That it will scAmarcely endure the lightF C F
AmAnd therefore only shown in winterF C F
Or by the light of a carbuAmncle,F or a fireflyC F
Am F C F
And baAmtwings F C F
And baAmtwings F C F
And baAmtwings sing this liFmnal hymn C F
AmA wideness openinFg and closingC F to keep thAme darkness sealed within F C F
AmTo keep the darkness sealed within F C F
AmTo keep the darkness sealed within F C F
AmTo keep the darkness sealed within F C F
AmTo keep the darkness sealed within F C F
AmA moon-pieceF to fetch uCp the golden cup F
Am[SiFngCinFg in a mysterious language]