Batwings A Limnal Hymn chords by Coil

Artist: Coil
Title: Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)

Intro:

Am F C F x2

Verse:

Am          F                        C    F
A moon-piece to fetch up the golden cup
Am          F               C                  F
A snow-piece to avoid the great heat of the sun
    Am              F                         C      F
Is kept in the night and by the light of the moon

Am F C F

   Am       F                   C           F
An ice-piece so as they seem forever fallen
Am            F                  C                          F
A night-piece of the dismal supper and strange entertainment

Am F C F

              Am    F            C                 F
A rare chance-piece, a handsome piece of deformity
Am                 F                  C                   F
The skin of a snake bred out of the spinal marrow of a man

Am F C F

Am F

       C                            F
With stones and illegible inscriptions found about great ruins

Am F

C                               F                Am
Pictures of three remarkable steeples, or towers
                 F     C                        F           Am
Built purposely awry, so as they seem eternally tipping and falling

F C F

    Am                F              C              F
A transcendent perfume made of the richest odorates
Am                        F       C  F
Kept in a box of translucent scale

Am F C F

Am                F   C                 F         Am            F     C   F
A glass of spirits made of ethereal salt, hermetically sealed up
          Am                    F                   C        F
Kept continually in quicksilver, of so volatile a nature
               Am                     F  C  F
That it will scarcely endure the light
Am                                F   C   F
And therefore only shown in winter
                          Am   F            C   F
Or by the light of a carbuncle, or a firefly

Am F C F

      Am     F   C  F
And batwings
      Am     F   C  F
And batwings
      Am                 F         C   F
And batwings sing this limnal hymn
Am               F            C F          Am                       F  C  F
A wideness opening and closing   to keep the darkness sealed within
Am                                 F  C  F
To keep the darkness sealed within
Am                                 F  C  F
To keep the darkness sealed within
Am                                 F  C  F
To keep the darkness sealed within
Am                                 F  C  F
To keep the darkness sealed within
Am          F          C                F
A moon-piece to fetch up the golden cup

Am F C F
[Singing in a mysterious language]