Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Dead Can Dance
Canonical path: /dead-can-dance/the-arcane
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The Arcane
Read The Arcane lyrics by Dead Can Dance on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Arcane
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Here in the garden of the arcane delights
Dark shadows overwhelm us and and we become blind
Blind to the needs of those who would be free
From the breath of fear and the prisons of the mind
Amidst the throes of perplexity
???...moves amongst us in her hand is held the seed
Extermination angels stood beside the road
In violent retribution for the seeds that we have sown
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Dead Can Dance performs "The Arcane", and this lyric page sits inside the Dead Can Dance catalog on LyroVerse.
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