Goblin Ballroom

from Potions of Pre-villainy by Death and The Poetess

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This song uses in part collaged/erasure/re-envisioned lyrics from The Higher Pantheism by poet ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.
*Only in verses 5 through 9.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45323/the-higher-pantheism

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GOBLIN BALLROOM

You’ve bitten the peach
You’re trippin into a ballroom
Glowing gowns in the dark
Shrouds and masks
Specters dance

Goblins and skeletons
Waltzing to xylophones
Wizards are making out
How far does the magic roam

Wraiths watch us from the walls
Hades floor beneath us crawls
Stay asleep a chance to meet
Death for the last dance

a sense 'twere better / To fail (He calls)
a sense 'twere better / To fail (Specters dance)
a sense 'twere better / To fail

Dreams are true while they last,
and do we not live in dreams?
Stay asleep entranced to meet
Death demands

This dance of body and limb
This weight of body and limb.
This dance of body and limb

Dark is the world to thee;
thyself art the reason why,
For is He not all but thou,
that hast power to feel "I am I"?

You’ve bitten the peach ("I am I"?)
You’re trippin into a ballroom ("I am I"?)
Glowing gowns in the dark
(PEACH…)
Shrouds and masks
Specters dance

Glory about thee,
and thou fulfillest thy doom,
Making Him broken gleams
A splendor and gloom. . . (a sense 'twere better / To fail)
fulfillest thy doom, (a sense 'twere better / To fail)
(a sense 'twere better / To fail)

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from Potions of Pre-villainy, released March 1, 2024

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Death and The Poetess Boston, Massachusetts

Blake Girndt (The I Want You, AxeMunkee, With Uncle Bones) and jojo Lazar (Burlesque Poetess, Army of Toys) bringing you crypt-folk tunes & spare bones for your spare change.

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