Swinburne Stomp-The Fugs

[ti:Swinburne Stomp] [ar:The Fugs] [al:The Fugs First Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Swinburne Stomp - The Fugs [00:21.73]Before the beginning of years [00:23.88] [00:25.19]There came to the making of man [00:27.04] [00:28.19]Time with a gift of tears [00:29.94] [00:31.05]Grief with a glass that ran [00:32.76] [00:34.02]Pleasure with pain for leaven [00:35.44] [00:36.66]Summer with flowers that fell [00:38.20] [00:39.34]Madness fallen from heaven [00:41.14] [00:42.10]And madness risen from hell [00:43.84] [00:44.95]Strength without hands to smite [00:46.60] [00:47.69]Love that endures for a breath [00:49.48] [00:50.40]Night the shadow of light [00:51.84] [00:52.91]And life the shadow of death [00:54.57] [00:55.65]And the high gods took in hand [00:57.27] [00:58.12]Fire and the falling of tears [00:59.86] [01:00.74]And a measure of sliding sand [01:02.26] [01:03.35]From under the feet of the years [01:05.13] [01:05.77]And froth and drift of the sea [01:07.37] [01:07.94]And dust of the labouring earth [01:09.54] [01:10.40]And bodies of things to be [01:12.14] [01:12.92]In the houses of death and of birth [01:14.67] [01:15.32]And wrought with weeping and laughter [01:16.87] [01:17.86]And fashioned with loathing and love [01:19.30] [01:20.12]With life before and after [01:21.51] [01:22.51]And death beneath and above [01:24.05] [01:24.98]For a day and a night and a morrow [01:27.04]That his strength might endure for a span [01:28.97] [01:29.89]With travail and heavy sorrow [01:31.85] [01:32.91]The holy spirit of man [01:35.28] [01:35.92]From the winds of the north and the south [01:38.32] [01:39.19]They gathered as unto strife [01:40.58] [01:41.72]They breathed upon his mouth [01:43.43] [01:44.30]They filled his body with life [01:46.19] [01:47.30]Eyesight and speech they wrought [01:48.51] [01:49.48]For the veils of the soul therein [01:51.05] [01:52.30]A time for labour and thought [01:53.79] [01:54.77]A time to serve and to sin [01:56.38] [01:57.47]They gave him light in his ways [01:59.03] [02:00.02]And love and a space for delight [02:01.60] [02:02.52]And beauty and length of days [02:04.18] [02:05.04]And night and sleep in the night [02:06.78] [02:07.66]His speech is a burning fire [02:10.49] [02:12.16]With his lips he travaileth [02:14.13] [02:14.93]In his heart is a blind desire [02:17.26] [02:18.14]In his eyes foreknowledge of death [02:20.15] [02:21.57]He weaves and is clothed with derision [02:26.02] [02:27.63]Sows and he shall not reap [02:29.82] [02:30.64]His life is a watch or a vision [02:33.45] [02:34.23]Between a sleep and a sleep