[ti:Baal's Hymn]
[ar:David Bowie]
[al:Sound And Vision]
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[00:00.08]Baal's Hymn - David Bowie
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[00:13.28]Whilst his mother's womb
[00:14.60]Contained the growing Baal
[00:16.74]
[00:17.59]Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale
[00:21.35]Naked  young  immensely marvellous
[00:24.53]
[00:25.09]Like Baal loved it  when he came to us
[00:29.04]
[00:30.33]That same sky remained
[00:31.86]With him in joy and care
[00:34.27]Even when Baal slept peaceful and unaware
[00:37.72]At night a lilac sky  a drunken Baal
[00:41.06]
[00:41.73]Turning pious as the sky grows pale
[00:45.54]
[00:46.93]So through hospital  cathedral  whiskey bar
[00:50.15]Baal kept moving onwards and just let things go
[00:53.45]When Baal's tired  boys  Baal cannot fall far
[00:57.28]He will have his sky down there below
[01:00.41]
[01:09.60]When the sinners congregate in shame together
[01:12.14]
[01:13.34]Baal lay naked  revelling in their distress
[01:15.98]
[01:16.97]Only sky  a sky that will go on forever
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[01:20.55]Formed a blanket for his nakedness
[01:22.93]
[01:24.57]And that lusty girl  the world
[01:26.05]Who'll laughing yield
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[01:28.02]To the men who'll stand
[01:29.49]The pressure of her thighs
[01:30.94]
[01:31.75]Sometimes gave him love-bites
[01:33.22]Such as can't be healed
[01:34.84]
[01:35.52]Baal survived it  he just used his eyes
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[01:39.25]And when Baal saw
[01:40.33]Lots of corpses scattered round
[01:42.01]
[01:42.97]He felt twice the thrill
[01:44.10]Despite the lack of room
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[01:46.39]"Space enough" said Baal
[01:47.82]"then I'll thicken the
[01:48.97]Ground
[01:49.99]Space enough within this woman's womb"
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[02:06.47]Any vice for Baal
[02:07.77]Has got it's useful side
[02:09.32]It's the man who practices it
[02:11.26]He can't abide
[02:12.49]Vices have their point
[02:13.77]Once you see it as such
[02:15.55]Stick to two for one will be too much
[02:18.47]
[02:19.25]Slackness  softness are the sort of
[02:21.17]Things to shun
[02:22.57]Nothing could be harder
[02:23.73]Than the quest for fun
[02:25.68]Lots of strength is needed
[02:27.27]And experience too
[02:29.19]Swollen bellies can embarrass you
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[02:41.49]Under gloomy stars
[02:42.84]And this poor veil of tears
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[02:45.10]Baal will graze a pasture
[02:46.48]Till it disappears
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[02:48.87]Once it's been digested to the forest's teeth
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[02:52.76]Baal trod singing
[02:53.72]For a well earned sleep
[02:54.84]
[02:56.71]Baal can spot the vultures
[02:58.08]In the stormy sky
[02:59.47]
[03:00.40]As they wait up
[03:01.24]There to see if Baal will die
[03:03.20]
[03:03.97]Sometimes Baal pretends he's dead
[03:06.02]But vultures swoop
[03:07.12]
[03:07.78]Baal in silence dines on vulture-soup
[03:10.67]
[03:11.57]When the dark womb
[03:12.56]Drags him down to it's prize
[03:14.60]
[03:15.27]What's the world still mean to Baal
[03:16.97]He's overfed
[03:18.05]
[03:18.89]So much sky is lurking
[03:20.40]Still behind his eyes
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[03:22.83]He'll just have enough sky
[03:24.12]When he's dead
[03:25.07]
[03:39.53]Once the Earth's dark womb
[03:41.27]Engulfed the rotting Baal
[03:43.42]Even then the sky was up there
[03:45.66]Quiet and pale
[03:46.83]
[03:47.37]Naked  young  immensely marvellous
[03:52.58]
[03:53.29]Like Baal loved it  when he came with us