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Parish
05:37
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Steady John the blacksmith
Took a horseshoe to the head
He arose like Lazarus
When it should've knocked him dead
He ascribed his recovery
To a ‘noon in bed
I suspect a different cure
Might have been found instead
Something strange is afoot in the parish
Something strange is afoot in the parish
The case of the butcher's wife
Was a curious case indeed
When a slip of the butcher's knife
Made her bleed and bleed
They all said she was done for
Her husband paid no heed
Took her away and the very next day
She was back to cutting meat
Something strange is afoot in the parish
Something strange is afoot in the parish
Something strange is afoot in the parish
Something strange is afoot in the parish
Then the sound of singing
Lured me like a siren's call
To a midnight gathering
Taking place in the village hall
Where a feast was prepared
For the wounded, sick and the old
Who took it in turns
To drink blood from a human skull
Something strange is afoot in the parish
Something strange is afoot in the parish
Immortality's yours if you drink from
the chalice
Something strange is afoot in the parish
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Cunning Murrell
03:32
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It was a wicked curse
That you gave the girl
Black magic had her down
Howling at the walls
Conniving gypsy witch
Darkness you unfurl
I’ll show you agony
Like I’ve shown them all
Woah, oh girl
I’ll save you from their heathen ways
Woah, oh girl
The evil, wicked and depraved
I am the seventh son
As father was before
Give me your blood my child
At midnight it will boil
All witches fear my
Silent ritual
I’ll burn her without fire
She’ll release the spell
Woah, oh lord
I, master of the Devil’s ways
Woah, oh lord
Will make you writhe in burning pain
Woah, oh lord
For mercy, begging witches cry
Woah, oh lord
It’s too late - now it’s time to die
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Lucinda
04:44
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I'm not too satisfied
With my lot in life
Drunk, tired, abandoned by
My unfaithful wife
With a crash of thunder she arrives
The wicked one who calls herself Lucinda
She's not familiar
With these modern times
She cast a spell that rescued her
From threat of Puritan fire
Now she weaves her magic once again
And I belong, belong to mad Lucinda
My thoughts are not my own
It's more than I can take
My wife is my prisoner
I’ll burn her at the stake
But she manages to break the curse
And drown the witch - the cruelhearted Lucinda
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Creation Myth
03:31
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Transcendent mind formed the stone
A distant time never known
Demon arise from fire
Demon arise from fire
Serpents crawling in the sand
Monolith ascend the land
Demon arise from fire
Demon arise from fire
Regolith painted by man
Cast by cosmic archer’s hand
Demon arise from fire
Demon arise from fire
Born of the eternal light
Time to breathe your final sigh
Demon arise from fire
Demon arise from -
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Soil and Scythe
04:33
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Place your hands into the land
Let the life flow through
Gaze your eyes up to the skies
Rain will fall on you
Take my hand to guide you
Work with strength and truth
Thriving life sewn into
Once deprived now new
Toil and strife, soil and scythe
Know my heart was true
Fertile and plentiful land
Was my gift to you
Wilting words have failed us
Dying love where nothing grew
Now we make our fate together
As the earth falls over you
Flowing through your body is our land
Torn contorted leather skin
Drowning in the soil that you once knew
Held forever in this tomb
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The Earth Stopper
03:47
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Disturbed was my old friend
When he joined me for a pint of ale
By a stranger
He met on the road out of town
This encounter
Turned his blood cold and his skin pale
It was no traveller
For it had two horns, hooves and a tail
And when the creature
Looked upon my friend with a fiery stare
He lost all control
And he took a tumble from his mare
As he lay there
With his blood and dirt all in his eyes
He screamed
“The Devil has come for me to take my life!”
A crowd had gathered
To hear how my friend had been cursed
They gave him whiskey
But alas it did not calm his nerves
Out the window
Was a sight that filled his eyes with fear
Then in a whisper
My friend said to me, "He's here"
I followed his gaze
And I thought I saw a silhouette
Of a beast with bright eyes
And it had two horns upon its head
It was no devil
I saw how my friend had been fooled
When he met a chimney sweep
Being followed home by his mule
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Cutting the Stone
04:31
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I will free you, dear fool
Of madness from inside
A plant has taken root
That grows not in the light
I've read a thousand scrolls
So heed what I prescribe
I've learned a truth so olde
Trust me, I'm no liar
Master, cut away the stone
Devil's flower I have grown
Burr in to your sickened mind
Transformation sacrifice
A clove and cat's claw brew
Will help to ease the pain
Essence of lavender
Will help to keep you sane
And as the brew takes hold
I'll gladly show you how
To kill the demon weed
With a blade, I harrow
Master cut away the stone
Devil's flower I have grown
Tortured visions I possess
For my name is madness
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Pilgrim's End
03:34
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Pilgrim of the illusion path
Attending suicidal mass
In sermon fed their words of fear
Never truth
Forever deafened by the sound
Of our doom
I am the will of all demise
The dormant evil in your mind
I am the thorn beneath your skin
Relentless force you hide within
Sightless disciples of the mad
Earthen destruction by their hand
Grave walkers, slaves within the grasp
Of the few
Only the wisdom of the past
Can save you
I am the will of all demise
The dormant evil in your mind
I am the thorn beneath your skin
Relentless force you hide within
In sermon fed their words of fear
Never truth
Forever deafened by the sound
Of our doom
Our doom
Yeah it’s true
Yeah it's true
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Gaolbreak
05:45
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Locked away for a crime I didn’t commit
In a room where stale air makes my skin itch
Another man should be in the spot where I sit
Counting the walls of this prison brick by brick
In the dark I beg for freedom
No one seems to hear my screaming
I pick the moss and lick the damp off the walls
It’s the only food and drink I get at all
I don’t know when the sun rises or the night falls
What life is like outside, I cannot recall
In the dark I beg for freedom
No one seems to hear my screaming
Rotting away here for no reason
Missing the days, the months and the seasons
In the dark I hear a whistling
The sound of wind that comes to me from
A loose brick that with some persuasion
Creates a path toward my freedom
The sun’s too hot, this breeze is freezing
Hunting for food’s not easy
Slowly I’m realising
How good life was inside my prison
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Poseidon Song
03:43
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Annetta the bride
Of the Captain Reed
Took a ride on the pride
Of the Seven Seas
A woman on board
Was unlucky
The captain and crew
Were in jeopardy
Poseidon the great
God of all the seas
Looked upon the Lady
Unfavourably
Strong winds and waves
Lead the ship astray
Into waters known
For their treachery
Oh Poseidon, don’t you take
My love away from me
Oh Poseidon, don’t you keep
Her at the bottom of the sea
Oh yeah
Alright now!
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