I Have A Special Plan For This World - Current 93.mp3

[00:01.638](In her eyes tonight
[00:02.973]There’s a glow tonight
[00:04.830]They’re so bright they could light Fontainbleu, tonight
[00:09.114]She’s so gracious
[00:11.008]So vivacious
[00:14.210]She is not thinking of me
[00:18.294]Bless her little heart
[00:20.169]Crooked to the core
[00:22.326]Acting out a part
[00:23.930]What a rollicking, frollicking bore!
[00:27.170]She’s such fun tonight
[00:28.510]She’s a treat tonight
[00:30.641]You could spread her on bread
[00:32.299]She’s so sweet tonight)
[00:33.625]When everyone you have ever loved is finally gone
[00:36.330]When everything you have ever wanted is finally done with
[00:41.957]When all of your nightmares are for a time obscured
[00:44.978]As by a shining brainless beacon
[00:46.883]Or a blinding eclipse of the many terrible shapes of this world
[00:52.526]When you are calm and joyful
[00:55.207]And finally entirely alone
[00:57.876]Then in a great new darkness
[01:09.351]You will finally execute your special plan
[01:34.126]One needs to have a plan, someone said who was turned away into the shadows
[01:38.992]And who I had believed was sleeping or dead
[01:43.287]Imagine, he said, all the flesh that is eaten
[01:46.235]The teeth tearing into it
[01:48.394]The tongue tasting its savour
[01:51.890]And the hunger for that taste
[01:54.839]Now take away that flesh, he said
[01:58.878]Take away the teeth and the tongue
[02:00.792]The taste and the hunger
[02:04.026]Take away everything as it is
[02:07.227]That was my plan
[02:08.852]My own special plan for this world
[02:13.671]I listened to these words and yet I did not wonder
[02:16.664]If this creature whom I had thought sleeping or dead would ever approach his vision
[02:22.285]Even in his deepest dreams
[02:25.211]Or his most lasting death
[02:28.450]Because I had heard of such plans, such visions
[02:31.953]And I knew they did not see far enough
[02:35.206]But what was demanded in a way of a plan
[02:40.025]Needed to go beyond tongue and teeth and hunger and flesh
[02:44.064]Beyond the bones and the very dust of bones and the wind that would come to blow the dust away
[02:52.994]And so I began to envision a darkness that was long before the dark of night
[02:59.147]And a strangely shining light
[03:01.852]That owed nothing to the light of day
[03:36.204]That day may seem like other days
[03:39.171]Once more we feel the tiny-legged trepidations
[03:42.908]Once more we are mangled by a great grinding fear
[03:47.510]But that day will have no others after
[03:50.207]No more worlds like this will follow
[03:54.781]Because I have a plan
[03:57.486]A very special plan
[04:01.214]No more worlds like this
[04:03.384]No more days like that
[04:36.287]There are but four ways to die, a sardonic spirit might have said to me
[04:42.771]There is dying that occurs relatively suddenly
[04:46.805]There is dying that occurs relatively gradually
[04:51.634]There is dying that occurs relatively painlessly
[04:55.883]There is the death that is full of pain
[04:59.935]Thus by various means they are combined
[05:03.175]The sudden and the gradual
[05:04.816]The painless and the painful
[05:08.865]To yield but four ways to die
[05:12.646]And there are no others
[05:16.987]Even after the voice stopped speaking
[05:19.143]I listened for it to speak again
[05:23.162]After hours and day and years had passed
[05:26.675]I listened for some further words
[05:30.169]Yet all I heard were the faintest echoes reminding me
[05:35.822]There are no others
[05:38.250]There are no others
[05:42.821]Was it then that I began to conceive for this world
[05:45.506]A special plan?
[06:18.351]There are no means for escaping this world
[06:21.838]It penetrates even into your sleep
[06:25.851]And is its substance
[06:29.067]You are caught in your own dreaming
[06:31.225]Where there is no space
[06:33.374]And are held forever where there is no time
[06:37.482]You can do nothing you are not told to do
[06:40.932]There is no hope for escape from this dream
[06:44.448]That was never yours
[06:47.654]The very words you speak are only its very words
[06:51.937]And you talk like a traitor
[06:55.674]Under its incessant torture
[07:26.873]There are many who have designs upon this world
[07:30.390]And dream of wild and vast reformations
[07:35.232]I have heard them talking in their sleep
[07:38.205]Of elegant mutations
[07:39.829]And cunning annihilations
[07:43.602]I have heard them whispering in the corners of crooked houses
[07:47.631]And in the alleys and narrow back streets of this crooked creaking universe
[07:54.110]Which they, with their new designs, would make straight and sound
[08:01.880]But each of these new and ill-conceived designs
[08:06.195]Is deranged in its heart
[08:09.136]For they see this world as if it were alone and original
[08:13.975]And not as only one of countless others
[08:16.377]Whose nightmares all proceed
[08:19.072]Like a hideous garden grown from a single seed
[08:26.350]I have heard these dreamers talking in their sleep
[08:30.646]And I stand waiting for them
[08:32.800]As at the top of a darkened flight of stairs
[08:37.368]They know nothing of me
[08:40.353]And none of the secrets of my special plan
[08:44.428]While I know every crooked creaking step of theirs
[09:21.525]It was the voice of someone who was waiting in the shadows
[09:25.852]Who was looking at the moon and waiting for me to turn the corner
[09:30.484]And enter a narrow street
[09:33.434]And stand with him in the dull glaze of moonlight
[09:38.540]Then he said to me
[09:41.468]He whispered
[09:42.814]That my plan was misconceived
[09:45.234]That my special plan for this world was a terrible mistake
[09:49.575]Because, he said, there is nothing to do and there is no where to go
[09:56.886]There is nothing to be and there is no one to know
[10:02.791]Your plan is a mistake, he repeated
[10:06.285]This world is a mistake, I replied
[10:41.149]The children always followed him
[10:43.604]When they saw him hopping by
[10:46.053]A funny walk
[10:47.112]A funny man
[10:48.441]A funny, funny, funny man
[10:52.208]He made them laugh sometimes
[10:56.306]He made them laugh, oh yes he did
[10:58.418]He did, he did, he did, he did
[11:01.926]Oh how he made them roll
[11:05.963]One day he took them to a place he knew, a special place
[11:11.063]And told them things about this world
[11:14.033]This funny, funny, funny world
[11:17.272]Which made them laugh sometimes
[11:21.047]He made them laugh, oh yes he did
[11:24.258]He did, he did, he did, he did
[11:27.247]Oh how he made them roll
[11:31.821]Then the funny little man who made them laugh
[11:34.770]Sometimes he did
[11:37.462]Revealed to them his special plan
[11:40.691]His very special funny plan
[11:43.663]Knowing they would understand
[11:45.577]And maybe laugh sometimes
[11:50.453]He made them laugh
[11:51.524]Oh yes he did
[11:52.357]He did, he did, he did, he did
[11:56.148]Their eyes grew wide beneath their lids
[11:59.651]And how he made them roll
[12:31.414]I first learned the facts from a lunatic
[12:34.372]In a dark and quiet room that smelled of stale time and space
[12:41.131]There are no people
[12:42.747]Nothing at all like that
[12:45.451]The human phenomenon is but the sum of densely coiled layers of illusion
[12:51.638]Each of which winds itself upon the supreme insanity
[12:57.293]That there are persons of any kind
[13:00.788]When all there can be is mindless mirrors
[13:04.550]Laughing and screaming as they parade about
[13:07.800]In an endless dream
[13:11.578]But when I asked the lunatic what it was that saw itself within these mirrors
[13:16.959]As they marched endlessly in stale time and space
[13:21.801]He only rocked and smiled
[13:26.375]Then he laughed and screamed
[13:28.805]And in his black and empty eyes
[13:31.695]I saw for a moment, as in a mirror
[13:35.712]A formless shade of divinity
[13:38.384]In flight from its stale infinity
[13:41.333]Of time and space and the worst of all
[13:45.351]Of this world's dreams
[13:48.288]My special plan for the laughter
[13:50.447]And the screams
[14:21.606]We went to see some little show
[14:23.489]That was staged in an old shed
[14:25.668]Past the edge of town
[14:28.609]And in its beginnings all seemed well
[14:31.602]The miniature curtain stage glowed in the darkness
[14:36.154]While those dolls bounced along on their strings before our eyes
[14:42.116]And in its beginnings all seemed well
[14:46.930]But then there came a subtle turning point
[14:49.913]Which some had noticed (and I was one)
[14:53.152]Who quietly left the show (no, I did not)
[14:57.157]Because I could see where things were going
[15:00.419]As the antics of those dolls grew strange
[15:03.634]And the fragile strings grew taut
[15:06.294]With the tiny pullings of tiny limbs
[15:10.019]The others around me became appalled
[15:12.169]And turned away and abandoned the show
[15:14.607]That was staged in an old shed
[15:16.768]Past the edge of town
[15:19.435]But I wanted to witness what could never be
[15:22.108]I wanted to see what could not be seen
[15:25.055]But the moment of consummate disaster
[15:28.353]When puppets turn to face the puppet master
[16:03.183]It was twilight and I stood in the greyish haze of a vast empty building
[16:08.025]When the silence was enriched by a reverberant voice
[16:13.725]All the things of this world, it said
[16:16.918]Are of but one essence
[16:19.622]For which there are no words
[16:23.384]This is the greater part which has no beginning or end
[16:27.669]And the one essence of this world for which there can be no words
[16:33.600]Is but all the things of this world
[16:36.840]This is the lesser part which had a beginning and shall have an end
[16:41.135]And for which words were conceived solely to speak of
[16:46.048]The tiny broken beings of this world, it said
[16:49.815]The beginnings and endings of this world, it said
[16:52.734]For which words were conceived solely to speak of
[16:58.390]Now remove these words and what remains, it asks me
[17:02.987]As I stood in the twilight of that vast empty building
[17:06.781]But I did not answer
[17:08.706]The question echoed over and over
[17:12.507]But I remained silent until the echoes died
[17:17.105]And as twilight passed into evening I felt my special plan
[17:21.386]For which there are no words
[17:23.524]Moving towards a greater darkness
[17:57.157]There are some who have no voices
[17:59.294]Or none that will ever speak
[18:01.453]Because of the things they know about this world
[18:04.677]And the things they feel about this world
[18:07.387]Because the thoughts that fill a brain
[18:09.547]That is a damaged brain
[18:11.153]Because the pain that fills a body
[18:12.751]That is a damaged body
[18:14.931]Exist in other worlds
[18:16.802]Countless other worlds
[18:19.239]Each of which stands alone in an infinite empty blackness
[18:22.991]For which no words have been conceived
[18:25.436]And where no voices are able to speak
[18:28.917]When a brain is filled only with damaged thoughts
[18:32.128]When a damaged body is filled only with pain
[18:35.890]And stands alone in a world surrounded by infinite empty blackness
[18:40.734]And exists in a world for which there is no special plan
[19:10.023](When everyone you have ever loved is finally gone)
[19:14.028]When everyone you have ever loved is finally gone
[19:20.738]When everything you have ever wanted is finally done with
[19:27.771]When all of your nightmares are for a time obscured
[19:35.017]As by a shining brainless beacon
[19:40.661]Or a blinding eclipse of the many terrible shapes of this world
[19:50.296]When you are calm and joyful
[19:53.503]And finally entirely alone
[19:59.470]Then in a great new darkness
[20:04.077]You will finally execute your special plan
[20:10.022]When everyone you have ever loved is finally gone
[20:21.052]When everything you have ever wanted is finally done with
[20:35.901]When all of your nightmares are for a time obscured
[20:49.893]As by a shining brainless beacon
[21:01.745]Or a blinding eclipse of the many terrible shapes of this world
[21:21.133]When you are calm and joyful
[21:27.369]And finally entirely alone
[21:38.978]Then in a great new darkness
[21:48.105]You will finally execute your special plan