The Alchemist

(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)

Wash away the blackness with the silver rain

Don't turn away, don't turn away

Wash away the blackness with the silver rain

Don't turn away, don't try to hide

 

Sulphurous and burning, spitting out the sun

The beginning of creation, of the golden one

A window to the West, a blazing star above

In Taurus we begin it, and the ladder has begun

 

Don't try and blame me for your sins

For the sun has burned me black

Your hollow lives, this world in which we live

I throw it back

 

Four headed dragon for the four degrees of fire

Purify the insane, bring the solution ever higher

Bring me all the elements, spread them round my head

Bring me mad men's bodies, I will break them all like bread

 

Don't try and blame me for your sins

For the sun has burned me black

Your hollow lives, this world in which we live

I hurl it back

 

Don't try and blame me for your sins

For the sun has burned me black

Your hollow lives, this world in which we live

I throw it back, oh, oh, oh...

 

Don't try and blame me for your games

Your games are death

My world is light, the angels fill my eyes

With every breath

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

"And all this Vegetable World appear'd on my left Foot,

As a bright sandal form'd immortal of Precious stones & gold:

I stooped down & bound it on to walk forward thro' Eternity."

(Poetry by William Blake; Spoken by Arthur Brown)

The Chemical Wedding

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