The Sea Priestess Lyrics - Coil

On the sea coast of Tibet 

Egyptian Aztecs are arriving from Norway 

They've been varnishing the woodwork for forty-three centuries 

Here, Nature is naked, her acrobats bathed in blood 

There's a beast of prey on the threshold of pleasure 

And the giantess, sea priestess, beckons the passers-by 

"Do not lose sight of the sea. Do not lose sight to the sea." 

Her wizened mouthpiece whistles with silver fishes 

Swirls of spider-crabs crackle like Wimshurst mechanicals 

All around her, jellies are diaphanous 

After washing myself clean, I had breakfast with the sea priestess 

Whose sibilant esses are escaping gas from the sea floor 

The sea priestess lays on a bed of nails 

Twenty-seven lead soldiers at her head 

The sea priestess is escaping gas 

The grass that grows is turned to gas 

Gas fired from a gun, herbal hydrogen 

If it goes any faster there'll be an astral disaster 

If it goes any faster there'll be an astral disaster 

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We spent the rest of time 

With furious faking of dreaming 

Pissing tiny diamonds, and passing the time wondering 

Whether we should walk down the same path 

That had introduced us to the valley the day before 

I was woken three times in the night 

And asked to watch whales, listen for earthquakes in the sea 

I had never seen such a strange sight before 

Somehow I think the soft verges of insanity 

At the hard shoulders of reality 

Point past signs posted in the past sea 

It's probably a lack of poor visibility 

And something special in the sand 

And the essences the rocks on the seashore make 

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The men here are desiccated like mummies 

Been out in the sun for thousands of years, walking along 

The women stuff themselves full of collagen and other animal remains 

I don't think we'll stay here long 

As soon as the ships have been rebuilt, we'll be out of here 

Into the sun 

Our ship was wrecked on the sea coast of Tibet 

The first thing we saw were several Egyptian Aztecs arriving from Norway 

Here all nature is naked 

We watch acrobats bathing themselves in blood 

And over the doorway is a beast of prey 

Straddled on the threshold of pleasure 

And a giantess, sea priestess, beckoning the passers-by 

She implores them, "Do not lose sight of the sea." 

She says, "Do not lose sight to the sea."