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Xiii So: This Empire is Nothing Lyrics

In the mind of god

The dead sleeping lie

And the little cogs though unmoving

Hover over the turning wheel

All life's a farce

The broken bird is draped over the paths

And paths and paths and paths

And those who say this world is not

The bloody gleaming paradise of blood and jewel

Lie

Opal and pearl bloodsocket castings

Ruby jasmine jasper onyx

Chalcedonthrone and ambergriscrown

Golden green leafwork

Scrolled with the farstars

Pitted with the moonworlds

Mother alldewey

Arrayed with the twinkling lights

The wovengold spungilded blinking godeyes

The spearshafts of heaven

The souldwelling rockhomes

Are...

 Dormition and Dominion

 Dormition and Dominion

 The Mother is dead

 The Mother awakens

 Dormition

 She sleeps

 Dominion

 He rules

 She sleeps and rules

 In her starry bodied glory

 The Mother sleeps

 The Mother loves

 Dormition and Dominion

 I wait

..Are the holders of the world and its dreams

I say there is no death

No death

We have lived before and shall live again

And again

We have slept before and shall sleep again

We have danced through the shallow pools

And shall rejoice once again

To those who say there is no hope

I say liars

Liars

Liars you are

Over the starry dancing stars

There is a land

Under the sweatribbed brow

There is a land

And this is the globed world of the Pantocrator

Finally I have understood

I have understood

I have understood

Though when I slip sleeping and silently

From this ribbed room of sighs

You shall not find the history of His personal visit

Sewn into my linings perhaps

Nevertheless I have understood

Where the logician watches god hinge all on a die

Nevertheless: I have understood!

That all this is the breathbetween moment

Our eyelids open and close

Between is the land

Between the time I first was accepted

In between Your brightboned body

Between then and there and the time You wept:

"Goodbye my love goodbye to you"

Goodbye oh goodbye

There there was the land

In the pearls of our heart

There is the immaculate heavenly loveland

In the middle of the forest Actжon is slain by his own hounds

In the middle of the forest Eustace meets the crisscross Stag

There is the land he has reached paradise

There is no death

There is no death

There as the stag turns and smiled loved

There he was takencaught by the prey

All the flowers are blossoming

And all the world calls to you:

"Dormition" -- so you sleep

"Dominion" -- so he rules

Dormition -- oh You sleep, Mother

Dominion -- Father, You rule