A Gothic Love Song

from Thank You A Worthwhile Thing To Pray by Doors In The Labyrinth

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Originally by Current 93 from the album "Soft Black Stars"

I was supposed to open for Rose McDowall in Pittsburgh, but her visa was denied and the show was cancelled. At the same time Terentyev Music put out a book of sheet music for Soft Black Stars

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And clicking your fingers for a Gothic twilight
That actually existed just in your head
Your fingernails painted black
Or bloodred
I forget

And your fake-leather volumes
Jabbering on hell
"Manifest Decadence" was what you hoped to exhale
Your eyes tried so hard to glitter

A StarSnuffing Black
So you opened your books
And you opened your legs
And so opened your heart
And let in the badness
You claimed
As your friend
With un-angels hovering
Like flies round the ordure
That had covered your soul
Their empire increasing
And your country
Deserted by yourself

The bells of St. Mary call us to remember
That life is with end
And the gestures can kill us
Moreover destroy
And there is one Judgement only

Your letters came daily
In French or in German
But they meant to me nothing
I caught the slow chords
And dry ice fogging your mind
I see all too clearly now
Why you chould be discarded
And though I could pray for you
I probably shan't
Having had my cup filled up
With your lies
And your makeup
You were nothing
Thinking you're something

And nonetheless I still sing this Gothic Love Song
A sign to myself
And the memory of my past
I still sing this Gothic Love Song
And the memory of my past
And a way to shut out your face

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from Thank You A Worthwhile Thing To Pray, released June 14, 2021
Written by Current 93
all sounds and voices by josh

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Doors In The Labyrinth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

postgoth/darkwave from Pittsburgh

Doors In The Labyrinth is the work of josh loughrey, seeking to bring his past experiences (noise, folk, ambient, film scores, synthpop, techno) together to create dark narrative songs.

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