The Conqueror Worm-Sopor Æternus/The Ensemble Of Shadows

[ti:The Conqueror Worm] [ar:Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows] [al:Like A Corpse Standing In Desperation (DISC 3)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Conqueror Worm - Sopor Æternus/The Ensemble Of Shadows [00:20.18]Lo 'tis a gala night [00:22.29]Within the lonesome latter years [00:24.70]An angel throng bewinged bedight [00:27.05]In veils and drowned in tears [00:29.16] [00:29.77]Sit in a theatre to see [00:32.09]A play of hopes and fears [00:34.23]While the orchestra breathes fitfully [00:36.85]The music of the spheres [00:39.18] [00:58.63]Mimes in the form of god on high [01:01.07]Mutter and mumble low [01:02.56]And hither and thither fly [01:04.46]Mere puppets they who come and go [01:07.39]At bidding of vast formless things [01:09.81]That shift the scenery to and fro [01:12.24] [01:13.00]Flapping from out their condor wings [01:15.32] [01:17.04]Invisible woe [01:18.78] [01:36.57]That motley drama oh be sure [01:39.14]It shall not be forgot [01:40.96] [01:41.53]With its phantom chased for evermore [01:43.97]By a crowd that seize it not [01:45.82] [01:46.69]Through a circle that ever returneth in [01:49.94]To the self same spot [01:51.68]And much of madness and more of sin [01:53.69]And horror the soul of the plot [01:55.93]But see amid the mimic rout [01:58.30]A crawling shape intrude [02:00.30]A blood red thing that writhes from out [02:03.12]The scenic solitude [02:05.09]It writhes it writhes with mortal pangs [02:08.04]The mimes become its food [02:09.87] [02:10.40]And seraphs sob at vermin fangs [02:12.71]In human gore imbued [02:15.32]It writhes with mortal pangs [02:17.71]The mimes become it's food [02:19.42] [02:19.94]And seraphs sob at vermin fangs [02:22.36]In human gore imbued [02:24.30] [02:44.05]Out out are the lights out all [02:46.42]And over each quivering form [02:48.82]The curtain a funeral pall [02:51.21]Comes down with the rush of a storm [02:53.23] [02:55.32]Out out are the lights out all [02:58.20] [02:59.15]And over each quivering form [03:02.67] [03:03.76]The curtain a funeral pall [03:07.35] [03:08.70]Comes down with the rush of a storm [03:12.84]While the angels all pallid and wan [03:15.26]Uprising unveiling affirm [03:17.50]That the play is the tragedy man [03:20.02]And it's hero [03:20.99] [03:21.61]The conqueror worm