The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa) (2006 Digital Remaster)

Song The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa) (2006 Digital Remaster)
Artist Peter Hammill
Album The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage

Lyrics

[00:53.95] Genuflection, erection in church.
[01:07.52] Sacristy cloth, moth-eaten shroud.
[01:20.77] Secret silence, sacred secrets
[01:29.28] accumulate dust, aggravate the eye.
[01:49.16] Incautious laughter after confession.
[01:59.82] Benediction, fictional fear.
[02:08.49] Hidden faces...Grace is a name,
[02:16.05] like Chastity, like Lucifer, like mine.
[02:38.45] You took me through the window-stain,
[02:46.58] drowned in image, incense,
[02:49.92] choir-refrain and slow ecstasy.
[02:56.56] I'd embrace you if I only knew your name.
[03:10.41] The silent corner haunts my shadow prayers.
[03:23.40] ice-cold statue, rapture divine,
[03:42.26] unconscious eyes, the open mouth,
[03:48.25] the wound of love,
[03:50.67] the Lie.
[04:08.00] You took me, gave me reasons for
[04:15.72] saints and missals, vigils,
[04:19.63] all the more holy martyrs.
[04:25.30] I'd embrace you and walk through
[04:29.03] the one-way door.
[04:54.61] I'd embrace you, but it would be just another lie.