Paroles de 'The Horror In Clay' par The Fall

MES: The most merciful thing in the world is man's
inability to correlate all of his mind's contents. But
the sciences one day, some say it is already upon us,
will eventually open up such terrifying vistas of
reality that we will either go mad from the revelation
or flee into blissful sleep, peace and safety of
another new dark age.

I'm Mark Edward Smith, these words are HP Lovecraft's.
We give you the horror in clay.

<techno bit> <footsteps>

Voice 1: Yes just working on this head at the moment.
Need to put some scales on the body as well.tend to
flow a bit more with the body get a few more curves in
<voice fades down as second fades up>

Voice 2 see voice 7 later:: the garden girdled babylon
that lies next to and above it'ssss Cornwall.

Voice 2 & MES: It's slight accent into (CC
Sheffield Cornwall).

MES: The professor knows the youth is completely
ignorant of pagan, (cryptioch) or biblical law. He
ponders and reflects over the sculpture. Professor
phones sculptor who says:

Voice 3: As I said, it was a dream of dark dripping
stone, of a fractured voice whose vowels were
impenetrable <music fades up, powderkeg key
riff?> I was not stoned professor, honestly, my
grant has run out. But the only two vowels or sounds
frequently repeated that I could make out were
<cchhhh-shhhllmm>

Voice 4, in music initially very hard to hear: ???? he
brings out the key given to him by his uncle's
executor. Contents are a clay bas relief with bits of
(fevered jotting and) strewn around inside the
packing. The bas relief is - rectangle, six inches by
five inches, one inch thick (With hieroglyphics)
neither ancient nor modern, sort of
Cornwall-slash-modern art. On top is a creature as if
just made - description - a cross between octopus,
human, dragon, ------, tentacled head, scaly body,
(half are wings) ?????? behind this is a small two by
four vista, ionic columns, attached is a large sheet
of paper with large felt pen writing saying Cthulhu,
Kith-UH-loo, cthulhu cult. ---- --- the two columns
one dream and dream work of HA Wilcox no relation of
Toyah. Seven Hubert a - ur -urry Street Penzance
<cut>

MES: The professor phones the sculptor who says

Voice 5: As I said, it was a dream of dark dripping
stone, of a fractured voice whose vowels were
impenetrable

Voice 6, newspaper headline?: Mental illness group
folly, see inside.

MES: (Better get) Penzance Bay gazette heading dated
1969. Comfortable leafy suburb, green, lilac German
type houses, a lot of dark green, ominous, pale thin
youth (pretentious), walks up to hesitatingly to the
front of a house with a package. He looks like a cross
between so and so and the singer out of Orb. He is
nervous and affected. A balding (Mike Hill) type opens
the door he is the professor, Martin's great uncle
<note a bloody plane passes over at this point in
the tape making it very difficult to decipher!!! MES
records on the move> (His uncle recognises him as
the son of respected family noted and he'd been in
sculpture college) Youth hands prof package. It is
clay bas relief, but not before saying

Voice 7: I made this last night in a dream of cities
new and old, dreams older than the Gaelic sea or the
old Atlantic or the garden girdled babylon that lies
next to and above it'ssss Cornwall.

Voice 7 & MES: It's slight accent into CC
Sheffield Cornwall

MES: The professor knows the youth is completely
ignorant of pagan, (cryptioch) or biblical law. He
ponders and reflects over the sculpture. Professor
phones sculptor who says:

Voice 8: As I said, it was a dream of dark dripping
stone, of a fractured voice whose vowels were
impenetrable <music fades up, with chittering
bird/insect noise this time> I was not stoned
professor, honestly, my grant has run out. But the
only two vowels or sounds frequently repeated that I
could make out were Cthulhu<guitar riff, old
gang>

Voice 9, singing muffled at start: Penzance Bay
gazette heading dated

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