This Is Not Paradise Lyrics - Singles - Death In June

Many blurred dead king's faces 

Move photolike through time's gape and gauge 

The dull drum's thud and drone 

Is not heroic battlebeat 

This is the grey clock's cog 

These are not the banners of heroes 

Or flags we should fly 

These are not proud pennants 

These are the clothes of prisoned mind 

These stumps of man on boxes 

Are not the vox or voces 

Of god or gods 

They are the forms of the breaths of dust 

This is the great ocean of birth and death 

Kye ma kya ma 

Oh paradise 

Never lost and not to be gained here 

These are not the heroes 

These are not more than drenched earthtops 

These are not more than you or I 

Listen: 

I swear by the blank of the moon 

(Under the archen stars I stand alone) 

I swear by the spiting sttreaming sun 

These cups of fire, of waterred scales 

That cover our laughing round of spaces 

Are nothing 

Nothing 

Like the mouse with horns 

A fable full of lightless dark 

You are now to me the lost queen 

The new age and her train moves on 

Behind the smiling lips concealed 

The clacking jaws of gummy rictus 

Not motionless but emotionless 

The savourless lines of open lies 

Proclaim: 

" This is the best 

It shall ever be 

Think of the things 

That shall never be" 

And our soul stalks empty hearted 

Empty-handed 

As it hangs its light 

On hooks of symbols 

Hooks of gods and goats and hooks of crooks 

You must know: this is not paradise 

Father time spins on and grins and skips his 

Scythe 

Over our flowered heads 

And takes us to the muddy house 

Of dreamless sleep 

Oh this is not paradise 

All the empty buildings clutching 

Bags of pain and bone and skin 

Masks of despair and waterruns 

The bells ring out and make no sense 

They make the skies bend 

Though you wait for me 

This is not paradise 

(Though you wait for me) 

This is not paradise... 

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