Chords for Current 93 - The Seahorse Rears To Oblivion

_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [F#] The [F#m]
seahorse rears to [G] oblivion.
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ When [F#] God created the worlds, they were before [G] then without form, and were [F#] void except in
his own great eye, which had already [G] seen everything that was, is and [Bm] will.
_ _ _ [F#] The first thing he created, [G] I believe, though the [Bm] Bible does not tell us so, [F#] is children's
crying, [G] as this is still mirrored when [D] children are born, though [A] no doubt all the animals
weep for [F#m] birth in their own particular way, [G] _ but they must have someone human [Bm] to notice
it so it can be [F#] noted. _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ The second thing [F#] he created was two things [G] simultaneously to frighten children, _ [Bm] an old
rocking [F#] horse that moves of its own accord, [G] and a discolored [D] doll which seems to move [A] occasionally.
_ _ _ [F#m] The third thing he [G] did was to throw Lucifer out of heaven, [F#] so he would be waiting on earth
to destroy everything that people [G] try to do, and [B] to destroy what little happiness they [F#] scurry together. _
And he [G] became Satan, and waits here [Bm] still for all of us. _
_ [F#] That is three things, too.
[G] _ Lucifer to Satan, [D] _ destroying to do [A] and to enjoy.
_ [F#m] _ _ The fourth [G] thing he did was to laugh, [Bm] once, twice, thrice and [F#] fourth. _
The fifth [G] thing was to create one star, [B] one animal, one [F#] fish, one bird, one [G] human. _
These [D] five bred together to create the [A] entire moving, flying, spinning world [F#m] and what is in it.
_ [G] _ _
The stars he [Bm] sent to fly and lie [F#] in space. _
_ [G] The animal he made to [Bm] be our base nature and our state of [F#] nature and our innocence and
[G] our memento mori on earth.
[D] _ _ _ [A] The fish went to swim and drink the [F#m] waters of the sea world.
_ [G] The bird flies, [Bm] dies and falls.
_ _ [F#m] _ The human [D] lies, dies, destroys, [Bm] creates and seeks the stars [F#] that he sent up in space.
_ [G] _ _
The [D] stars try and try and try to [A] fly away from earth, but God has [F#m] caught them in a large
sling that holds them [G] from falling too near [Bm] or flying too far.
_ _ [F#m] _
The devil [G] creates black holes and sucks them [Bm] out of the visible universe to create [F#] decorations,
_ [G] baubles and globes full of light and [D] darkness in the ceiling sky of hell, [A] upside down if
we could [F#m] see it standing up.
_ _ [G] Then God decides that [Bm] it is time to blow the final trumpet and call all [F#m] chickens home to
roost [F#] in every way [G] and meaning.
_ [Bm] God then blows final [F#m] trumpet and withdraws the sling [G] from the sky.
The sling is [Bm] made of wire and wool and warp and weft [F#m] and is webbed together.
[G] And roost begins.
[D] _ _
The [A] stars are withdrawn from the heavenly [F#m] holder and attempt to rush away [G] from the stinking
world and Satan [Bm] simultaneously tries to snatch [F#m] all of them at once to bauble his [F#] infernal
[G] kingdom, _
_ [Bm] itself now doomed to his [F#] unknowledge. _ _
The stars are taken half by Satan, [Bm] dragged through an ever [F#] increasing black [F#m] rent in the night [C#] sky.
[G] The other half [D] run towards the Pleiades and [A] Aldebaran.
Oh stars [F#m] of the evening, how [G] swift you rush and roar away.
[Bm] _ _ Even Satan [F#m] in his great power and great [G] fury and great greed cannot stop them, [Bm] so eager
are they to dance in [F#m] different ways.
_ [G] _ But God [D] knows all, sees all and is [A] prepared for all. _
[F#m] He creates a huge net [G] made of spit and [Bm] throws it further than the furthest [F#m] star. _
[G] The stars are caught on [Bm] spit like the birds to the [F#] lime-covered [F#m] branch, [G] damned. _
God lectures [D] them with a whip.
_ [A] The spit shivers as the [F#m] whip quivers over the stars.
[G] The voice slathers and lathers [D] them with more of this same spit [A] that has caught them.
Forever [F#m] and ever and ever.
[G] _ _
The [Bm] stars only cause and stars only causes to obey [F#m] he who made them.
[G] _ The stars are [Bm] given great scars with the whip for [F#m] attempting to flee.
The [G] scars are blood courses for the liquid [D] proof of God's anger which pours from [A] them. _
The [F#m] bauble stars are brought back by a [G] stream of spit which cuts through the web [D] between the worlds.
[A] They too are slashed and [F#m] flashed.
_ The stars [G] are ordered by God to return to the [Bm] sling orbit to watch his [F#] mercy rain [F#m] down
like rain [G] on the earth.
_ And [Bm] all of those who are unfortunate enough to have been born in and of it.
[G] _ _
The stars do not wish to go.
They _ [Bm] march sadly to their home. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _