# The Sea Priestess
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| __Title__: | The Sea Priestess |
| __Featured on__: | [[Releases/Astral Disaster\|Astral Disaster]]<br>[[Releases/Astral Disaster (Threshold House LP)\|Astral Disaster (Threshold House LP)]] |
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*__The Sea Priestess__* is a song originally released on Coil’s 1999 album [[Releases/Astral Disaster|Astral Disaster]].
## Lyrics
> On the sea-coast of tibet, Egyptian Aztecs, arriving from Norway, have been branching the woodwork for forty-four centuries
> Nature is naked
> Acrobats bathed in blood
> There’s a beast of prey on the threshold of pleasure there, and a giantess sea priestess beckoning the passers-by, “Do not loose sight of the sea.”
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> After washing myself in a bath of blood, I had breakfast with the sea priestess
> Her sibilant esses are escaping gas from the sea floor
> The sea priestess lays on a bed of nails, twenty-f— saddled soldiers at her head
> The sea priestess is escaping gas
> The grass grows, is turned to gas, gas fired from a gun
> Herbal hydrogen
> If it goes any faster, there will be an astral disaster…
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> We spent most of the time pissing tiny diamonds
> 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 listening for earthquakes at sea
> I’ve never seen such a strange sight before
> Somehow, I think the soft verges of insanity and the hard shoulders of reality point past signs here
> It’s probably a lack of poorer visibility
> Something special in the esses that the rocks and the sea-shore make
> ??? been desiccated like mummies
> Been out in the sun for thousands of years, walking along
> The women stuff themselves with collagen and other animal remains
> I don’t think we’ll stay here long
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> Soon as the ships have been rebuilt, we’ll be out of here, to the sun
> Our ship was wrecked on the sea-coast of Tibet
> The first thing we saw was several Egyptian Aztecs arriving from Norway
> ??? all nature is naked
> We watched acrobats bathing themselves in blood
> Over the archway, there’s a beast of prey on the threshold of pleasure, and a giantess sea priestess beckoning the passers-by
> She???, “Do not loose sight of the sea”
> She hisses, “Do not loose sight of the sea”
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