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Snake Head Moth
03:46
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A bird is a bird is a worm,
upon the firmament of the kingdom of heaven.
I hold heaven firm.
And I will not be the worm.
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Weak and Divine
03:51
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[INTRO]
Medicine is not a place where the ill can thrive.
Only the strong survive.
Pity he couldn’t meet the demands.
That man had the Lord’s hands.
[CHORUS]
I am Lord of the Butterflies,
Lord of the Moths-Who-Have-Eyes.
I am WEAK&DIVINE,
not meek, but sublime,
and in time,
you all shall see
true divinity.
[VERSE 1]
Oh we, oh woe?
You see me, how
pitiable?
Because I am indeed
a man whose fleet-
footed days are behind him,
not due so much to age
but to the rage
of such divine entities
as that I claim?
[CHORUS]
I am Lord of the Butterflies,
Lord of the Moths-Who-Have-Eyes.
I am WEAK&DIVINE,
not meek, but sublime,
and in time,
you all shall see
true divinity.
[VERSE 2]
Oh, darling, see,
this little thing about me,
it’s sheer luck, as you’ll have it.
That I got sick.
That there was no getting better,
No charm, no tincture, no have-you-ever,
only management. Chronic as Chronus.
I did nothing to deserve this,
I know I am worth this,
And so much more
beyond the door:
These mortal gates,
they are but
the first floor
To the kingdom of heaven.
[CHORUS]
I am Lord of the Butterflies,
Lord of the Moths-Who-Have-Eyes.
I am WEAK&DIVINE,
not meek, but sublime,
and in time,
you all shall see
true divinity.
[VERSE 3]
I do not speak of CHRIST
when I speak of heaven.
I am not your brethren,
you for whom singular God
is a man.
God damn, I am not a man.
But Amadeus Vu,
aren’t you,
and haven’t you always been,
a gentleman?
You can only say that
if you say I’m free of sin,
and to speak of sin,
is to speak of God-He,
not God-Me,
And darling dears,
I will be the only God
that matters. Look at Her,
in the heavens,
look at Her,
Amadeus-She,
and Seven, Seven, Severin.
[CHORUS]
I am Lord of the Butterflies,
Lord of the Moths-Who-Have-Eyes.
I am WEAK&DIVINE,
not meek, but sublime,
and in time,
you all shall see
true divinity.
[OUTRO]
The heart of the kingdom of heaven,
I will win.
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Lord of the Butterflies
03:15
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[CHORUS]
Who are you, who are you,
I am a man who will become God.
[FIRST VERSE]
No, not Christ--who is Christ to a man raised Buddhist?
God,
God, I say, in the same way some people say Human,
it is a species; some people become Human,
I will become God.
[CHORUS]
Who are you, who are you,
I am a man who will become God.
[SECOND VERSE]
To become divine,
you have to bring God inside you.
No, not through fucking,
though that is one form
of possession,
Through consumption.
What do the Christians do? The wine is the blood of Christ,
and the bread his flesh?
[CHORUS]
Who are you, who are you,
I am a man who will become God.
[THIRD VERSE]
A snake once said,
The kingdom of god is within you
because you ate it.
So I’ll eat the kingdom of god.
What else could you call the folk who live on this earth?
[CHORUS]
Who are you, who are you,
I am a man who will become God.
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[UTENA SAMPLE]
[ENG AFTER]
If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born.
[AMADEUS: chorus]
There is one thing not like the others,
whose mother was not like their mothers,
and whose egg came out cracked,
shattered in a way you’ll never get back.
[AMADEUS: verse 1]
It came to be
that I learned early on
No-one could understand me.
And the ones who tried, oh how they
denied what nature they didn’t want to see.
Oh me, oh me,
Am I worthy?
Of god? Of course. If you come
to worship--
The only god I’ll worship
is in my come.
Do you see me?
Do you know I could not run?
Did you know I was but one?
And I was the best of them.
[AMADEUS: chorus]
There is one thing not like the others,
whose mother was not like their mothers,
and whose egg came out cracked,
shattered in a way you’ll never get back.
[UTENA SAMPLE]
[ENG AFTER]
If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born.
[AMADEUS: verse 2]
You have to swallow the kingdom of god
To become holy, you have to swallow it wholly.
And what is a kingdom if not the folk of this air? The folk so very fair,
The folk over there. It used to be them, but oh,
wicked, clever darling, it used to be them, but now it is you.
[TEMPO SHIFT - romantic and dreamy]
[SEVERIN: verse 3]
You receive nourishment at the sight of me. The same as when you taste divinity.
I do, Amadeus says,
What about you?
What about me? What do you want me to say,
that I wanted it to be this way?
that I would make a shoddy Chevalier,
because the reason why the Rosebloods
and the forgotten Folk so very Fair
all the Folk of the Air,
have gone missing
is you.
God, I knew. I knew.
Amadeus smiles. [VICIOUS INTONATION]
What now will you do when
you cannot forgive, you cannot pity, and you cannot save?
Oh, I know you, I know how you crave
to remember the forgotten, to seek out what is sodden
with the guilt you have for Seeing.
You could not See me
until I let you, because even if
you knew, you knew,
it’s not the same as me telling you.
[REPRISE OF 1. SNAKE HEAD MOTH END TENSION EFFECT]
[SEVERIN]
I’ll love you,
I’ll love you.
[AMADEUS]
Can you love a monster,
Severin Lacandola?
[SEVERIN]
I’ll love a monster.
[AMADEUS: chorus]
There is one thing not like the others,
whose mother was not like their mothers,
and whose egg came out cracked,
shattered in a way you’ll never get back.
[UTENA SAMPLE]
[ENG AFTER]
If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born.
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