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New Youth Bible

by Edinburgh School for the Deaf

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    The lost Scottish shoegaze classic on LP for the very first time and appended with the excellent "Orpheus Ascending." On Absolutely Kosher 25th anniversary silver vinyl. Buy now or cry later.

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1.
Soon we shall know If we learn to accept That the stars do not go out when we die Heavy is the head The head that wears the Crown It’s all down, it’s all down, down to me Let me be your Pope Or at least your Archdeacon Let my love, be your truth, be your beacon Let me build you a chapel Stained glass windows, stained glass windows The colour of your eyes, stained glass windows The world and its double Here I am, A derelict at last Before your eyes Such visions of your past An endless youth Only death will resolve A malformed future, too slow to dissolve Yet here I am I did pass through Whatever happens, don’t forgive me, don’t forget me I’m sick to death Sick to death of being brave Deliver me dreamlessly to the grave The word and its double Here I am, A derelict at last Before your eyes Such visions of your past Oh death, oh captain Let’s weigh anchor, let’s weigh anchor For this land bores us, Let us cast off, let us cast off
2.
We are going to go Kiss this goodbye We’re not going to argue Try to reason why We are going to let Let each others’ hands slip And raise a glass Take one last sip Then whisper goodbye Then whisper good riddance Good riddance and goodbye Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye...
3.
Can our perceptive god who knows your future find The all power to change his future mind Can can I go now can I go now can I go Can can I go now can I go now can I go When when on the holy ground I see you prowl around Then the rain it raineth down on the battle ground of Holy Crowns Of Holy Crowns Can I go now
4.
I pick up After a long time cast Words that now seem shabby to me And as cold as photographs All that which includes you Not us I need something better than this To stare into Something less haunted Something less haunted Something else Something less haunted Something less haunted Something else A sadness you can’t shift Brutal and deep Tied to the anchor Of a sinking, failing ship No Captain’s grace To name it is to kill it To name it is to kill it I need something better than this To stare into Something less haunted Something less haunted Something else Something less haunted Something less haunted Something else
5.
Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l   At first it hides its sickness, At first it wouldn't dare confess It hides its sores and dries its eyes It never complains and it's all brave smiles   Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l. Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l.   Chorus   Remission after tearful R-e-mis-s-hun! Love is such a Savage D-i-v-i-s-i-o-n Ashes to Ashes, Love is all Rashes Scabs, broken skin, and sores Knocking, then hammering on deaths door   Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l   Time drains away, as blood drains away, as youth drains away That sweet bird of youth, dead in the snow, the flock tear away I close my eyes and love hearts are tombstones Bluebirds are coal black crows All hope is rent asunder Love is dead were going under All hope is rent asunder Love is dead were going under Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l   Remission after tearful R-e-mis-s-hun! Love is such a Savage D-i-v-i-s-i-o-n Ashes to Ashes, Love is all Rashes Scabs, broken skin and sores Knocking, then hammering upon deaths door   Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-m-i-n-a-l Love is terminal, Love is terminal, Love is t-e-r-r-i-b-l-e
6.
Goodbye, I will see you in another world Goodbye, take care, I will see you on the other side The drinks we drank and the words we spoke last night The drinks were good but the words didn’t come out right Letters I didn’t write Words that you couldn’t even read I surrender, I surrender, I concede You look to me for absolution Some answers, some sublime solution To what you ask but all I’ve got Is this bottle and the same bon mots Sweetheart, you expect me to swoon Yet darling, am I so wrong as to assume That the only real memories are the memories of wounds That the only real memories is the memories of wounds Once we shared a bed And all the peculiar intimacies that we shared Were ours and ours alone And now they are dust dead monuments Never to be discovered And if we shall meet in the street That old and endless charade we shall repeat Make believe that we share no regret Talk about old times And the subsequent lives and fates of Minor players in our passion play And so it shall always be to end this way In denial and regret and awkward goodbyes And every time we meet Something irretrievable will die Until finally there isn’t much left to sacrifice We may pass and not look twice
7.
Saints I can’t name Martyrs I can’t place Nerves left frayed and testaments betrayed A single stroke of such savage joy Invoking all I did destroy Our hearts slowly crack Like ice tinkling in a glass The music surrounds us A blanket against the stars As we sadly tumble, stumble from bar to bar Lonely hearts beat as one Life ends as a party ends With the desperate clinging to the lonely People that they barely noticed before Lonely hearts beating, soon to be hammering on heartbreak’s door
8.
We held each other with a love The kind of love only drinkers such as us can muster We loved each other as only drinkers really can When we had been sipping And the opportunity for great drama opened before us Like a theatre curtain Deep down, we all dream of a dramatic love And alcohol, and the oceans of it in which we drowned, made this a certainty We drink and we drink; and we drunk and we drunk; and we drank and we drank and we drank ourselves to the ground We drink and we drink; and we drunk and we drunk; and we ground and ground and ground it all to the ground The eternal dalliance with oblivion Generation follows bastard generation We drink and gamely, grimly we invite the inevitable, the regrettable and thankfully Cometh the hour, cometh the theatre Alcohol never fails us, no no no Drink after drink trickling the length of my swollen, broken heart I know that your life is a book and I am but a chapter But I hope that I left a few lines inked in some kind of rapture I know that your life is a book and I am but a chapter But I hope a left a few lines inked in some kind of rapture Two lost souls, two lost souls who hammer the hammer With quite such a dedication Who feign or cherish or portray Such a terrible love Will produce such relentless, violent crises and dramas and desperations That shall demand of each other a blind devotion that asks us, asks us the question What a pair of sickly little twin vampires You drink like me with a desperate lust that leaves us both cruel and callous The terrible proofs that we demand of those we claim, pertain to love Irreversible, doomed tokens of devotion that we demand of each other And I will treat love like a fever It will leave you confused, cramped up in pain And in a foreign bed I know that your life is a book and I am but a chapter But I hope that I left a few lines inked in some kind of rapture I know that your life is a book and I am but a chapter And I hope a left a few lines inked in some kind of rapture
9.
For all you’re worth to me It’s not worth the empathy I’ll keep the memories I’ll make new you see Like an old time in my mind Like a fine line undermined Like an old wine take your time Like no friend no friend of mine Can’t call it young’uns luck Not sure I’d buy that much I killed your happiness I killed your happy (I think??)
10.
. 02:49
I feel like a cigarette burn On the landscape of a Polaroid My edges They are smoldering The centre Is empty Like a satellite Breaking orbit I build up speed To depart There's another knife, Pushed in, twisted around Life is Hell Death is pale Where there is death There is immortality Where there is death There is immortality I feel like a cigarette
11.
Everything was beautiful And nothing hurt All the stars shone And they bled white Your breath like paraffin My heart is a flame Still love lies dead And I just can’t explain So goodbye Goodbye [Goodbye Goodbye So goodbye Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye] Where I am, death is not Where death is, I am not So take a candle, join my mass Trace a heart, in broken chapel glass So goodbye Goodbye…

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released October 27, 2023

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