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And I do walk upon Wan's Dyke |
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And I do survey the land |
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And I did become the Reaper with my own bare hands+ |
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For I am Wodan, |
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Though, some call me Hermes, |
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Some call me Roman Mercury, |
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God of cargos, |
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God of weather, |
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Hanging God of boundaries, |
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Hanging God of Gibbet Hill |
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Killing God of hidden doorways. |
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Spinning the yarn from Wansdyke to Silbury |
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Spinning the taelbook, telling the tale |
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Telling the tellbook to all and sundry |
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Keltiberians and Irish Gael |
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Then I hear camp followers bellow afar |
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Their shrieking lament for Johnny Guitar: |
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"Look to the farthest far horizon |
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Look to the bloodlust deepest scar |
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Look to the scattering Brythonic uprising |
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Lyrics |
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For this be the wall of Johnny Guitar |
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There be the ditch that you shall die in |
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Here be the wall that I shall cry on |
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Ditch dug with antler and ox bone shovel |
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This rising wall that shades our ancient hovel." |
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Look to the north a quick mile yonder |
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Look to our Yggdrasilbury |
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Look to the Saxon chasing Viking |
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Look to the Norman chasing Saxon |
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Look to the German chasing German |
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German German German German |
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Here in the bloodlust deeper scar |
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For here be the wall of Johnny Guitar |
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"Play your gloom axe Stephen O'Malley |
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Sub bass clinging to the sides of the valley |
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Sub bass ringing in each last ditch and combe |
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Greg Anderson purvey a sonic doom." |
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To rage in sound this valiant despair |
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Doom and gloom as each a splendid pair |
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To rage in sound the valiant despair: |
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Not Abraham, |
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Not Moses |
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And not Christ |
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Neither Jove to whom we sacrificed, |
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Not Attis |
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Not Mohammed, |
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But to hilltop Thor |
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We rave and dance and weep and we implore: |
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Look to the farthest far horizon |
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Don't blame the messenger, |
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Don't blame the messenger, |
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Look to the farthest far horizon |
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Don't blame the messenger. |
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Don't blame the messenger, |
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For I am Death so Ragnarock with me |
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For I am Doom so Ragnarock with me. |
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And I stood upon Wan's Dyke |
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And I did survey the land |
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And I did become the Reaper with my own bare hands... |
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And then I was King Vikar with his arms outstretched |
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And then I was King Vikar with his broken neck |
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And then I was the villain and the victim and the priest |
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Was grim misunderstanding and was grim as death itself |
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My Wall My Wall caught in the thrall of my Wall |
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My Wall My Wall caught beneath the thrall of my Wall. |
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Here in the bloodlust deeper scar |
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For here be the wall of Johnny Guitar |
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Here in the bloodlust deeper scar |
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For here be the wall of Johnny Guitar |
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Play your gloom axe Stephen O'Malley |
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Sub bass ringing the sides of the valley |
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Sub bass climbing up each last ditch and combe |
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Greg Anderson purvey a sonic doom. |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall of my tidal wall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall of my tidal wall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall of my tidal wall |
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Mothers to your bosoms, |
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Grab your child and sing, |
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As to your breasts cascade and sing: |
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Brothers and fathers, |
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Down to the thing in the middle of the town |
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To judge at the thing |
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These the effeminate priests of Frey |
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That don their drag |
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And shriek through the day |
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That drag their God through the muddiest fields |
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Spilling seed to raise the yields |
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These the odd castrated womb-men |
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On this onerous land of no men |
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There the infernal priestess of Freyja, |
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These her people layer on layer |
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There the infernal priestess of Freyja |
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Visiting the farms |
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The seething seer |
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Visiting the farms |
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And rarely leaving |
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Mounting the tumulus |
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The people grieving |
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Dodens doddering dead and dying. |
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Hear the modest priests of Ing |
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Who's harkening always let us sing |
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That let's us free our tightest waistband |
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Let's us fertilise our own land |
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Spunked entire nations from one phallus |
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Spunked the vegetation into being |
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Spilled the super seed into the one day superceded earth. |
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Old Mother Fucker |
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She was a cocksucker |
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To give her poor family a home |
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Went down on their ding dong |
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And drank for a sing song |
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But ended her sad life alone. |
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Around the church in Yatesbury the dead |
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Lie scattered underneath the sacred yew |
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As Sheila the Witch attending Sunday prayer |
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Praises a God but never tells them who |
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And from my Wall observing Sheila the Witch |
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Praises her God but never explaining which. |
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And every Monday night by the light of Moon |
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Those Meddlesome meddlesome meddlesome bells |
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And the heavy metal of the heathen bells |
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Meddlesome meddlesome meddlesome bells |
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And the bad heavy metal of the heathen bells |
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Meddlesome meddlesome meddlesome bells |
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And the heavy metal of the heathen bells |
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Meddlesome meddlesome meddlesome bells |
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And the bad heavy metal of the heathen bells |
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And Doggen can testify to my claim |
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That the Christians of Yatesbury are Christian in name |
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But their stomping pounding actions attest |
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To their Christianity happiest at rest |
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And Doggen who played at the John Stewart Hall |
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Can attest that its keeper is the heathenest of all |
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Is a shapeshifter tending to her hogweed hidden |
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And her dear Paul wallows in the village pond nay midden |
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For all of us are boundaried by Wan's Dyke at the west |
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And the great world hill which spies us and can never let us rest |
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Bringing on Iranian Mithra |
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From its home beneath the east |
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Caught always in the thrall of my Wall |
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Caught always in the thrall of my Wall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall of my wall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall of my wall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall |
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Stand in the thrall of my wall |
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Here in the bloodlust deeper scar |
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For here be the wall of Johnny Guitar |
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Here in the bloodlust deeper scar |
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For here be the wall of Johnny Guitar |
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Play your gloom axe Stephen O'Malley |
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Sub bass ringing the sides of the valley |
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Sub bass climbing up each last ditch and combe |
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Greg Anderson purvey a sonic doom... |
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Don't blame the messenger of gloom, |
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Don't blame the messenger of doom, |
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For this be the Ragmarockingest aeion |
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In stillness O'Malley and Anderson play on... play on... play on... |