David Keenan - The Grave of Johnny Filth lyrics

A patchwork of dreams came and went
Interwoven with juxtapositions
Mid-Atlantic waves of nausea and
Sweat Minimalistic scenes, copy and paste
Hand me my inheritance
Be it a concept or a notion
Or the seven sisters of sleep
Walking a limestone road
You look shaken Man, I've been shook
This is my first mouthful of
Clean air in eighteen months
They stuck me in a cell for
A wrong they couldn't understand
Now my primary purpose is to
Speak to the land

Glistening liquescent morning
There are those who have
Claimed you before me
But hear me now delirium of order
I bring word of rape and
Plunder from across the border lo and behold
There was no rumoured pot of gold
Only the grave of Johnny Filth
Who was loosely based on a
Member of the human race lo and behold
There was no rumoured pot of gold
Only the grave of Johnny Filth
Who was loosely based on a
Member of the human race

Landscape littered with bric-a-brac
Deck chairs stripped of their hides

Defects of character scribbled
On borrowed pages
Bottled up and flung far into the angry tide
They greet me with kisses on the lips
An occultist code I've yet to unlock
A woman with a face like a
Stopped clock hands me a flyer
Saying Free the innocent ferris wheel
And I wonder
How much the piper should be paid
Then I climb through the hail
And through the rain
And I hear my ancestors singing this song

Lo and behold
There was no rumoured pot of gold
Only the grave of Johnny Filth
Who was loosely based on a
Member of the human race lo and behold
There was no rumoured pot of gold
Only the grave of Johnny Filth
Who was loosely based on a
Member of the human race

The shoe shine boy holding a flame
He's been waiting for the change
Waiting for the change
The requiem bells bring an end to their game
We've been waiting for the change
Waiting for the change

Lo and behold
There was no rumoured pot of gold
Only the grave of Johnny Filth
Who was loosely based on a
Member of the human race lo and behold
There was no rumoured pot of gold
Only the grave of Johnny Filth
Who was loosely based on a
Member of the human race