Paul Schütze's lyrics & chords

The gazing engine Remaking a world Born by clouds The company of geometry Frozen descent Lives contained The prayer Here was the supreme engine Hold the machine in the vertical plane This engine is a rectangular brass plate God box Two hemispheres representing the sphere of heaven comprise the two halves of this engine These steps enable the observer to see all aspects of the brass calibration below This chamber is filled with garden tools and broken furniture There is a brass pointer fitted with sights and pivoted to the centre of the circle by which altitude observations are made Every day at noon the sun shines through these apertures for the space of about a minute Access to any part of the engine is by steps which offer vantage points for various readings There is a huge calibrated sundial on each of its sides I have observed and measured for seven years And all the moon Fallen Ioascan incision These calibrations are no longer clearly visible There are pillars at the centre of each circular wall each open to the sky The pink masonry charges the twilight with a faint sound The mosaic of starlight slips back like the lid of an opening eye Here is an immense brass circle suspended vertically from stone supports The sound of insects here studs the night like a thousand fizzing stars Another flight of observation steps and the sense of quiet rotation as i ascend The whole brass circle can be revolved around its vertical diameter so that altitude observations can be taken of any object at any time I study the vaults of a shell in which we float At one moment in the year the sun shines through a hole in the wall on to a calibrated arc Some steps ascend past markings to a platform These structures are made in receipt of starlight Access by observers to each engine is gained by an imperfection which differs from one to another To move through these structures is to set them in motion A lofty but narrow chamber is contrived in the thickness of the walls and access is gained from a door opening from the masonry platform on which the engine stands The shadow can fall in the vacant sector of a drum The rim of each hemisphere is a horizon divided into degrees and minutes Here is a room to divide the sun like an orange This is the north pointer engine All the lead calibrations are warm to the touch These steps are worn to a ramp and lead nowhere The plants will steal this engine when we have gone The roofs of the enclosed drums are implied by shadows The central pillars are five feet three inches in diameter Seven of the eight rings indicate signs Pointing towards the pole an iron pin is fixed at right angles to the centre of a dial The ash plain Untrodden path Another slope with stars for the reading of figures Threads can be pegged to the centre of each quadrant and semicircle to enable observation The chamber is no longer accessible to visitors These arcs are also accessible by numerous flights of stairs The heavens were spherical The altitude of the body observed is given while observing the vertically hanging bar through the two brass rings Visible portions of the celestial sphere are represented by this map which has a movable elliptic which pivots at the point representing the pole This room is a lidless drum Near the bottom of the wall facing the south side of the eastern hemisphere there is a hole Into this chamber no ray of light can find its way except through two small squares high in the south wall We are closer to the sun now I have seen charts sent from portugal but they are flawed and full of error The movement of the engines produces a scent The stars are ranged across the inner shell of a vast hollow sphere in which hung the earth Some of the calibrations are now submerged beneath the ground and cannot be read There are arcs made of marble which are calibrated with inlaid lead in degrees and minutes The sun seen through the pair of brass rings is used by the bar to indicate the time from sunrise until sunrise Once complete engine is formed by two differently incomplete parts which combined provide total reference Lakes and plans And the light falls on the circular arcs The positions and altitudes of heavenly bodies may be gauged with this engine New maps of hell Traveling over Sight wave relock One armed sun ascending Eliptical twilight Falling bodies alight The stone dish is slotted with figures and shadow Beneath this circle is an arc of masonry steps for the convenience of observers The floor and walls are calibrated to read altitude and azimuth The engine of amplitude has a function which is no longer known Tombs and deceptions Codex bast Third site The skin of the face and neck ii