The Lie

Song The Lie
Artist Peter Hammill
Album The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage

Lyrics

[01:47.83] Genuflection, erection in church.
[01:58.02] Sacristy cloth, moth-eaten shroud.
[02:09.97] Secret silence, sacred secrets
[02:20.31] accumulate dust, aggravate the eye.
[02:41.31] Incautious laughter after confession.
[02:51.98] Benediction, fictional fear.
[02:59.94] Hidden faces...Grace is a name,
[03:06.51] like Chastity, like Lucifer, like mine.
[03:27.05] You took me through the window-stain,
[03:34.99] drowned in image, incense,
[03:38.04] choir-refrain and slow ecstasy.
[03:43.76] I'd embrace you if I only knew your name.
[04:00.65] The silent corner haunts my shadow prayers.
[04:12.15] ice-cold statue, rapture divine,
[04:29.79] unconscious eyes, the open mouth,
[04:35.93] the wound of love,
[04:37.75] the Lie.
[04:58.57] You took me, gave me reasons for
[05:06.45] saints and missals, vigils,
[05:09.23] all the more holy martyrs.
[05:14.54] I'd embrace you and walk through
[05:18.29] the one-way door.
[05:41.72] I'd embrace you, but it would be
[05:49.82] just another lie.