Ohh my god! I havent' heard this song before. I f***king love Comus so much. Ever since I discovered an album in my dads house couldnt stop listen to it!! It's amazing how something can be so beautiful and scary at the same time.
I saw them perform this at the Three Tuns in Beckenham (now yet another Zizzi restaurant) in the early 1970s. Great to finally hear it again after 40+ years. Roger Wooton has often been asked about the possibility of resurrecting it, but has always dismissed the idea.
This is a bootleg cut from the early '70's and was intended as the opening half of a two-part suite. Given its age and analogue format, I think the audio's exceptional.
Im almost floored after 40 years they created a new album, and it is a much more worthy successor to First Utterance then To Keep From Crying. First Utterance has been a big favorite for a long time now. To find this new album was just great news.
The confirmed lyrics do no exist. Comus has lost them to time. The little that exists is in the out of the coma booklet, which are all deciphered by ear.
Can someone please get me the lyrics to this thing??? I can't find them anywhere! Of course, this goes without saying - what an amazing song. I wish they'd done a proper version of this on their follow up to FU.
I know the unfinished lyrics, but im not sure if comus wants them public, as they haven't posted the work-in-progress lyrics in their site despite it being officially in the out of the coma booklet. The unfinished lyrics are in the out of the coma booklet, which also states that readers can request possible missing lyrics of which i managed to uncover some, but sadly its a bit of a lost cause as the writer of the lyrics, i believe being roger wooton, has lost the lyrics over time. What i can tell of the song, there is a powerful warlock ogre named Malgaard which has powers who captures a maiden who throws herself into a lake and freezes, and then malgaard and his minions try to take her out of the ice which results in her death.
@@Dwars Its good to find another Malgaardian excavator around! Here are my interpretations which are partnered with the Out of the Coma booklet lyrics. Some of these are incomplete mind you. But I found many of your additions to be VERY VERY COMPELLING HOLY CRAP, and much more meaningful than any of my additions to be honest. Serene, she shimmers, shine sheen, and a shimmer, BRIGHT LIGHT (? beside/he sighs ?) 'Neath your gleam, I'm a glimmer, me a dream, I'M MUCH grimmer (??????) Warm shafts of her glory radiated towards me and she goes! Like a sigh. Don't ***** fear. Went too high. Our parting is near. How (? swift, ???? ?), her foot upon its prey, bore her life away. Cherish OUR meeting, don't mourn the past, (Weak she lay, spirits ebbed each day x2) (? Long have we drifted, YET dreams may last ?) We buried her deep neath the chill of the ice-frozen ground! Cherish OUR meeting, don't mourn the past, (? After ground/torn borne away ?) ***** (?) ****** Cherish OUR meeting, don't mourn the past, ***** decay in my ***** fades, She shrouds my blazing memory BLANK She flies, in the precincts of my mind, Her voice weaves pulsing patterns behind my eyes Her voice weaves pulsing patterns behind my eyes Distorts the twisting torture in disguise Warps the countour cortex out of sight The carving bolts asunder through the skies Hovering her ***** spirit ****** she visits me. She took off ***** (? that I deride ?) she took off A PASSAGE ***** Malgaard the magician in his ?????? dominion of evil, ****** of jealousy, she took off A PASSAGE Straight from the mountain, From playing with luck in the fountain Shuffling and gloating and leering WITH HOPE DOMINION of Malgaard from EVIL Chill blue is your peace, The murky swampland reeks, Who could hear a sound, from the marshy ground Who could hear a sound, from the marshy ground (? Align the mire to see ?) (? THE CURTAINS KNOW/ THE CERTAIN SNOW, LEAVE MORE AGLOW ?) (? THE CURTAINS KNOW/ THE CERTAIN SNOW, LEAVE MORE AGLOW ?) from the mist, the (? shot to ?) ******** heralding the barren ******* I wake to find ropes that tightly bind We lead the horse on a crooked course Past dale and farm ******* sorrow (? leave more aglow ?) (??? PRAY FOR A???? ****, THE CERTAIN SNOW???, leave more aglow ???) Black gates, lock the secret of ages, (? Hold thy fate ?), the electric sky rages Still we wait, as the door gapes asunder Through the work of the ancient God. She steps from the rocky ***** DANGER SPOT ******** overhang, The Earth ******* ******** His voice like thunder 'cross the evergrades, ****** A CHILL (Hill?) ********** generates Naive to think you could betray the king, A love so ******** She like beneath the lake, She like beneath the lake etc..... Condition my captivity lady ******* away to late. (? design / resign ?) my head Enveloped in white winter's throes, I come upon the lake, her image ***** (? design / resign ?) my head Ice incarcerate, surface impregnate, shine of desecrate Splintering the shell, Conjurer create, surface radiate, form disintergrate Shattering the shell Ice incarcerate, surface impregnate, shine of desecrate Splintering the shell, Conjurer create, surface radiate, form disintergrate Shattering the shell WITH HEAT, ON THE FIRE IN MY HEARTH, ?????? ??????? DON'T YOU DIE! She breaks her tomb, ice carnal womb I break the surface, shatter the curse, her body exhumed The spell disperses with CONJURED RIP, ALL hope consumed, And all the birds have flown, from the skies, to my eyes, flying far away HE CANNOT WAIT, Malgaard must DATE suffer to me. And I know I know Straight from the mountain, From playing with luck in the fountain Shuffling and gloating and leering WITH HOPE DOMINION of Malgaard from EVIL COULD HEAR HER FROM THE MARSHY GROUND COULD HEAR HER FROM THE MARSHY GROUND (? THE CERTAIN SNOW, LEAVE MORE AGLOW ?) (? THE CERTAIN SNOW, LEAVE MORE AGLOW ?) There stood before us ***** ***** ***** ********** OF AN ANCIENT GOD THE CARVING bolts asunder THROUGH THE DAY GRIM GATES FORBODE ******* I was mostly filling in the blanks from Comus, all of my additions are capitalized. Your lyrics definitely add more meaning to it though, and could very likely be true, and it is also possibility some of the lyrics that comus came up with are incorrect! I RECOMMEND THAT YOU EMAIL COMUS IMMEDIATELY!
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Ohh my god! I havent' heard this song before. I f***king love Comus so much. Ever since I discovered an album in my dads house couldnt stop listen to it!! It's amazing how something can be so beautiful and scary at the same time.
I saw them perform this at the Three Tuns in Beckenham (now yet another Zizzi restaurant) in the early 1970s. Great to finally hear it again after 40+ years. Roger Wooton has often been asked about the possibility of resurrecting it, but has always dismissed the idea.
I think he just knows their voices couldn't pull it off anymore.
i am in tears
This is a bootleg cut from the early '70's and was intended as the opening half of a two-part suite. Given its age and analogue format, I think the audio's exceptional.
I just realized halfway through THERES NO DRUMS!!! It's quite hard to make a great song with out drums and have a person stick. What a song.
I wish they made the follow up album and it was good quality, this sounds like it would have been amazing.
with fuckin Lindsay Cooper playing in it !
They were about to make an album out of it before their record label prevented it. Fuck corporate interest!
who the fuck is disliking these videos... its been 40 years! This is amazing considering
Im almost floored after 40 years they created a new album, and it is a much more worthy successor to First Utterance then To Keep From Crying. First Utterance has been a big favorite for a long time now. To find this new album was just great news.
It's such a fucking tragedy that there are no versions of better quality, this could very well be one of my favorite songs from them.
Unique and wonderful, thank you!
this is definitely my favorite Comus song, if not one of my favorite songs at the moment
I've just looked through an old diary and managed to find the date of the Three Tuns gig - 21 May 1972. Could the recording have been made then?
i think the audio quality makes the song better.
just my opinion
Whaaaattt! I hadn't heard this one!
wow. what a challenging but rewarding piece of music to listen to...deeply vivid and unique. Better than 90% of the "prog" music out there
I feel it hinders the ability to hear all the instruments and voices. What I would give to be in the audience for this performance.
well said brother couldn't agree more
kvlt production from the first kvlt band.
Are there any live recordings of Comus from around the time they did First Utterance?
This one, actually. Recorded live in 1972 👀
Does anybody know if someome has ever tried to remaster it?
9:00 💓
Has anyone got the lyrics?
The confirmed lyrics do no exist. Comus has lost them to time. The little that exists is in the out of the coma booklet, which are all deciphered by ear.
andale! este album si tiene contenido (aunque no tanto como first utterance) no como el del 74...
Agreed. A re-recording still would have been nice. It just feels out of place on the new album.
I disagree. Lindsay Cooper was on this recording and she's dead now. She is an absolutely irraplaceabke musician.
Can someone please get me the lyrics to this thing??? I can't find them anywhere!
Of course, this goes without saying - what an amazing song. I wish they'd done a proper version of this on their follow up to FU.
I know the unfinished lyrics, but im not sure if comus wants them public, as they haven't posted the work-in-progress lyrics in their site despite it being officially in the out of the coma booklet. The unfinished lyrics are in the out of the coma booklet, which also states that readers can request possible missing lyrics of which i managed to uncover some, but sadly its a bit of a lost cause as the writer of the lyrics, i believe being roger wooton, has lost the lyrics over time.
What i can tell of the song, there is a powerful warlock ogre named Malgaard which has powers who captures a maiden who throws herself into a lake and freezes, and then malgaard and his minions try to take her out of the ice which results in her death.
If you want i can email you the lyrics
Some of my interpretations can be seen after this edited comment.
@@Dwars Its good to find another Malgaardian excavator around! Here are my interpretations which are partnered with the Out of the Coma booklet lyrics. Some of these are incomplete mind you. But I found many of your additions to be VERY VERY COMPELLING HOLY CRAP, and much more meaningful than any of my additions to be honest.
Serene, she shimmers, shine sheen, and a shimmer, BRIGHT LIGHT (? beside/he sighs ?)
'Neath your gleam, I'm a glimmer, me a dream, I'M MUCH grimmer (??????)
Warm shafts of her glory radiated towards me and she goes!
Like a sigh. Don't ***** fear.
Went too high. Our parting is near.
How (? swift, ???? ?), her foot upon its prey, bore her life away.
Cherish OUR meeting, don't mourn the past,
(Weak she lay, spirits ebbed each day x2)
(? Long have we drifted, YET dreams may last ?)
We buried her deep neath the chill of the ice-frozen ground!
Cherish OUR meeting, don't mourn the past,
(? After ground/torn borne away ?) ***** (?) ******
Cherish OUR meeting, don't mourn the past,
***** decay in my ***** fades,
She shrouds my blazing memory BLANK
She flies, in the precincts of my mind,
Her voice weaves pulsing patterns behind my eyes
Her voice weaves pulsing patterns behind my eyes
Distorts the twisting torture in disguise
Warps the countour cortex out of sight
The carving bolts asunder through the skies
Hovering her ***** spirit ****** she visits me.
She took off ***** (? that I deride ?) she took off A PASSAGE *****
Malgaard the magician in his ?????? dominion of evil,
****** of jealousy, she took off A PASSAGE
Straight from the mountain,
From playing with luck in the fountain
Shuffling and gloating and leering WITH HOPE
DOMINION of Malgaard from EVIL
Chill blue is your peace,
The murky swampland reeks,
Who could hear a sound, from the marshy ground
Who could hear a sound, from the marshy ground
(? Align the mire to see ?)
(? THE CURTAINS KNOW/ THE CERTAIN SNOW, LEAVE MORE AGLOW ?)
(? THE CURTAINS KNOW/ THE CERTAIN SNOW, LEAVE MORE AGLOW ?)
from the mist, the (? shot to ?) ********
heralding the barren *******
I wake to find ropes that tightly bind
We lead the horse on a crooked course
Past dale and farm ******* sorrow (? leave more aglow ?)
(??? PRAY FOR A???? ****, THE CERTAIN SNOW???, leave more aglow ???)
Black gates, lock the secret of ages,
(? Hold thy fate ?), the electric sky rages
Still we wait, as the door gapes asunder
Through the work of the ancient God.
She steps from the rocky ***** DANGER SPOT ******** overhang,
The Earth ******* ********
His voice like thunder 'cross the evergrades,
****** A CHILL (Hill?) ********** generates
Naive to think you could betray the king,
A love so ********
She like beneath the lake, She like beneath the lake etc.....
Condition my captivity
lady ******* away to late. (? design / resign ?) my head
Enveloped in white winter's throes,
I come upon the lake, her image ***** (? design / resign ?) my head
Ice incarcerate, surface impregnate, shine of desecrate
Splintering the shell,
Conjurer create, surface radiate, form disintergrate
Shattering the shell
Ice incarcerate, surface impregnate, shine of desecrate
Splintering the shell,
Conjurer create, surface radiate, form disintergrate
Shattering the shell
WITH HEAT, ON THE FIRE
IN MY HEARTH, ??????
??????? DON'T YOU DIE!
She breaks her tomb, ice carnal womb
I break the surface, shatter the curse, her body exhumed
The spell disperses with CONJURED RIP, ALL hope consumed,
And all the birds have flown, from the skies, to my eyes, flying far away
HE CANNOT WAIT, Malgaard must DATE suffer to me. And I know I know
Straight from the mountain,
From playing with luck in the fountain
Shuffling and gloating and leering WITH HOPE
DOMINION of Malgaard from EVIL
COULD HEAR HER FROM THE MARSHY GROUND
COULD HEAR HER FROM THE MARSHY GROUND
(? THE CERTAIN SNOW, LEAVE MORE AGLOW ?)
(? THE CERTAIN SNOW, LEAVE MORE AGLOW ?)
There stood before us ***** *****
***** ********** OF AN ANCIENT GOD
THE CARVING bolts asunder THROUGH THE DAY
GRIM GATES FORBODE *******
I was mostly filling in the blanks from Comus, all of my additions are capitalized. Your lyrics definitely add more meaning to it though, and could very likely be true, and it is also possibility some of the lyrics that comus came up with are incorrect!
I RECOMMEND THAT YOU EMAIL COMUS IMMEDIATELY!
I redid my interpretations of the lyrics here: docs.google.com/document/d/1MZKqUnesVzyEQPNrO5W5kCleaY430jdQsiong_C3wrw/edit?pli=1#
I wonder if there's any chance of using ai to clean it up a little
WHat's with the production? The rest of the album isn't like this?
recorded live in the 70s only recording