[ti:Children of the Corn] [ar:Sopor Aeternus] [al:Children Of The Corn] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Children of the Corn - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows (永恒沉睡) [00:13.54]There's not a shred of beauty here [00:18.11] [00:19.48]Residing in the human flesh [00:23.42] [00:25.98]There's only sadness and confusion [00:30.61] [00:32.23]And the stench of sh*t and death [00:35.29] [00:37.92]In moments dull of self-pity [00:41.35] [00:44.04]Of insufficiency and doubt [00:48.36] [00:50.17]I catch myself black handed thief [00:54.24] [00:56.42]Wishing that there'd be someone else [01:00.23] [01:29.99]Sometimes ghosts are passing through [01:34.61] [01:35.73]The mind both labyrinth and tomb [01:40.11] [01:42.48]And yet its still unrivaled here [01:47.05] [01:48.17]Because things aren't born [01:50.85] [01:51.80]Only ideas [01:53.30] [01:54.73]Are sleeping safely [01:56.36] [01:57.42]Far beyond the horrors of decay [02:04.30] [02:07.11]And they are sacred and immortal [02:11.86] [02:13.29]Because they never have to fade [02:17.04] [02:50.44]Thumbing at times half-heartedly [02:52.32]Through flipbooks of a lonely child [03:00.19] [03:02.50]Old silent movies shake and flicker [03:07.44] [03:08.88]In the dark theater between my thighs [03:12.44] [03:14.88]Then countless are the handsome limbs [03:19.94] [03:21.01]That wildly jump and hop [03:25.07] [03:27.25]Soulless bodies unspecified [03:30.94] [03:32.07]As they are numberless and cropped [03:38.50] [04:09.94]When you close your tired eyes [04:14.75] [04:16.31]Does he then join you in this place [04:19.51] [04:22.69]Will he cross over share your dream [04:26.63] [04:27.25]Or does he vanish on the doorstep [04:30.63]All to quickly disappear [04:33.20] [04:34.76]Alas Reality is such a crippled whore [04:39.19] [04:40.82]All mortal things are sick and rotten to the core [04:45.57] [04:47.19]Only the mind a frail but kingly jewel [04:51.63] [04:52.38]Gives birth to beauty love and truth [04:56.75] [05:27.01]So why not stay and forever make a home [05:31.26] [05:32.39]In the darkness of the only place [05:35.50] [05:36.26]You never can belong [05:37.76] [05:39.32]In a land sublime that some call fantasy [05:44.01] [05:45.45]Our only hope of love [05:47.76] [05:48.70]Or immortality [05:50.39] [05:52.01]There's not a shred of beauty here [05:56.32] [05:57.57]Residing in the human flesh [06:01.50] [06:03.69]There's only sadness and confusion [06:08.57] [06:10.39]And the stench of sh*t and death