# Batwings (A Limnal Hymn) | | | | | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | | __Title__: | Batwings (A Limnal Hymn) | | | __Featured on__: | Releases/Musick To Play In The Dark,Vol. 2 | Musick To Play In The Dark,Vol. 2 | | __Original__: | | | | __Derivative__: | | | | __Previous Version__: | | | | __Next Version__: | | | | __Alternate Version:__ | | | | __Interpolated in:__ | | | | __Interpolates:__ | | | --- *__Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)__* is a song originally released on Coil’s 2000 album [[Releases/Musick To Play In The Dark, Vol. 2|Musick To Play In The Dark, Vol. 2]]. ## Lyrics > *The key to joy is disobedience* > *There is no guilt and there is no shame*… > A moon-piece to fetch up the golden cup > A snow-piece to avoid the great heat of the sun is kept in the night and by the light of the moon > An ice-piece so as they seem forever falling > A night-piece of the dismal supper and strange entertainment > A rare-chance-piece, a handsome piece of deformity > The skin of a snake bred out of the spinal marrow of a man > With stones and illegible inscriptions found about great ruins > Pictures of three remarkable steeples or towers, built purposely awry, so as they seem eternally tipping and falling > A transcendent perfume made of the richest odorants, kept in a box of translucent scale > A glass of spirits made of ethereal salt, hermetically sealed up, kept continually in quicksilver of so volatile a nature that it will scarcely endure the light, and therefore only shown in winter or by the light of a carbuncle or a firefly > And bat wings… > And bat wings sing this limnal hymn > A whiteness, opening and closing > To keep the darkness sealed within… > A moon-piece to fetch up the golden cup > > *Basi du veduse* > *Base du vasule monati de ru verusei* > *Vasi leimon* > *Lihaliha…* > *These, these, these, un enu sabuleiumon* > *Balideseirai* > *Badivuse, vuse rune to seiumon* > *Basilabi basi shone, o lasila* > *Baleiumon, baleiumon soleia* > *Sileija hola* > *Baleiu veso durolea* > *Velese u varuse uno* > *Wa, wa deu seru varu paruse* > *Vasi delatera* > *Abi ha paleon* > *Ese leme to varesama* > *Ave useru lanuram* > *Laserama le solami deserei* > *Wilsi enada deuge…* *Note: The final section of the song consists of indecipherable, non-lexical sounds. These were described by [[People/Peter Christopherson|Peter Christopherson]] at [[People/Jhonn Balance|Jhonn Balance]]’s funeral as “a language only he knows“.[^1] Balance himself also said that these are combinations of real words and improvised vocalisations[^2] The above transcription of this section is therefore only a best effort with no guarantees to accuracy.* ## Versions ??? ## Personnel |Name|Credit| |---|---| ||| ||| ## References [1]: <https://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/graal004.php?site=coil08> [2]: Nick Soulsby: Everything Keeps Dissolving, p.526