Dormition And Dominion Chords by Current 93

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In the mind of God, _ _ _ the dead [F#] sleeping lie, [F] _
[Am] And the little cogs though _ [Am] unmoving,
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[Am] Hover over the [F#] turning wheel.
[F] _ _
[Am] _ _ All lives [F] pass,
[Am] The broken [C] bird is draped over [F] the passing [A] pass,
[Am] And pass [C] and pass.
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[Am] And those who [C] say this world [F] is not, _
[C] The bloody gleaming paradise [F] of blood and jewel,
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ Open and [F#] _ [F] blood-socket, [Am] castings, ruby, [F#] jasmine, [F] jasper, [C] and onyx,
Chalcedon [F#] throne and anvil-y [F] crown, _ [Am] golden green leaf-work,
[F#] Thrown [F] with [Am] the far [C] stars, _
[F] pitted [A] _ [C] with the moon-world's mother [F]-wall [A] dewy,
[Am] Arrayed [C] with the [F] _ [A] twinkling [Am] light, the woven [F] gold spun [Dm] gilded,
[Am] Blinking good-eyes, the spear [F]-shots of [Dm] heaven,
And [Am] the soft [F] dwelling [Dm]-rock of [Am] _ _ _ _
[F] _ God's [Fm] house.
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[G] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
The cold [G] moon, the cold day, the night, _ _ [C#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ the sun, the cold, [Am] the night, the sea,
The [Gm] night, the [G#] cold, the night, the sea,
Are the folders of the [F] world and extremes, I say, there is no death, no death.
[C] We have lived before and shall live again [F] and again,
[G] We have [C] slept before and shall sleep [F] again,
We've danced [D] through the shallow [C] pools and shall [F] rejoice,
_ [D] Once [C] again, to those who [Fm] say there is no hope, I [Am] say, _ _ liars.
_ _ Liars, [F#] liars, [F] liars, you [Am] are over the starry [E] dancing stars,
There [Am] is a land [C] under the sweat-wet [F] brow,
[A] There is a [Am] land and this [C] is the globe [F]-world of [A] the [Am] pantocrators.
[C] _ _
[F] _ _ [D] And [Am] finally I [C] have understood, I [Am] have understood, I have [C] understood,
[F] Though when [Am] I slip, sleeping and silently [G] heave from [F] this wind-room of sighs,
[Am] You shall not mind the [F] history of [C] his personal [Am] visit sewn into my lightning [F]-straps.
[D] Nevertheless, I've [Am] understood, however the kitchen [F]-watches dot hinge [E] on everything on a [C] die.
Nevertheless, I've understood that all this is the break-between [G] moment,
Our [C] eyelids open and [G] closed, between [Am] is the land,
[A] Between the time [Am] I first was [F] accepted, in [D] between your [Am] bright-blown body,
[C] Between then and [F] there and the time [A] you, you [Am] wept.
[C] Goodbye, my love, goodbye [A] to you, goodbye, oh, [Am] goodbye.
There was the land [E] below, in the pearls of our [Am] heart,
There in the macula, heaven-beloved life, in the [G] middle of the forest,
Actaeon is slain by his own [F] hounds, in the middle of the forest,
[Am] Eustace meets the criss-crossed eye, [F] there is the [D] land, he's reached paradise,
[A] There is no death, there is [F] no death, [A] there is the stake, [Am] turns of [C] spire of love,
There he's taken [G] court by the prey, [F#] all the flowers of phloxery,
[F] All the world calls to [A] you, Domitian, so you sleep, Dominion, so he rules,
Domitian, oh, you sleep, [F] mother, [D] Dominion, [A] you rule. _ _
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