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Chemical Wedding Lyrics
How happy is the human soul
Not enslaved by dull control
Left to dream and roam and play
Shed the guilt of former days
Walking on the foggy shore
Watch the waves come rolling home
Through the veil of pale moonlight
My shadow stretches out its hand...
And so we lay
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
And so we lay
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
Floating in the endless blue
My seed of doubt I leave to you
Let it wither on the ground
Treat it like a plague you found
All my dreams that were outside
In living colour, now alive
And all the lighthouses
Their beams converge to guide me home...
And so we lay
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
And so we lay
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
And so we lay
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
And so we lay
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
Not enslaved by dull control
Left to dream and roam and play
Shed the guilt of former days
Watch the waves come rolling home
Through the veil of pale moonlight
My shadow stretches out its hand...
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
My seed of doubt I leave to you
Treat it like a plague you found
All my dreams that were outside
In living colour, now alive
Their beams converge to guide me home...
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
We lay in the same grave
Our chemical wedding day
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Submitted by
bruce On Apr 26, 2002
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My mistake, actually not every song off this album was a William Blake poem. Bruce originally made this a concept album about alchemy, until he discovered some poetry by William Blake about a world that he created in his later years.
Great song, a lot of this was inspired by "The Chymical Wedding" By Christian Rosenkreutz, and the book is a mane tome in the cult, the "Rosicrucians" or "Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross." Check it out at sacredtexts.com or alchemywebsite.com
Interesting stuff.
Great song. It sounded sad and beautifiul at the same time when I first paid attention to the lyrics.
Dead on, jpr. I don't want to explain the whole thing, but here's a link to Wikipedia to explain what it's about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chymical_Wedding_of_Christian_Rosenkreutz
Every song off this CD was once upon a time a poem by the great (if I say so) William Blake. Bruce, Adrian and the rest just put in a chorus and added music. I say they definitely do justice to the poems.