The Twelve Dancing Princesses
A silly grotesque yet entertaining song which was originally meant to be a kind of a joke. It gave rise to the whole idea behind The Murders in the Nordmund Strasse.
work, office, pseudo-anarchy, laziness, degenerating imagination
There's Evil at the office.
Story behind the song
It's a part of a project that was originally meant to explore the black/goth metal convention (though ultimately I didn't really stick to it). Nearly all lyrics on the album are composed out of quotations that I found to suit the purpose. Lyrics to this song are constituted by quotes from John Milton's Paradise Lost, "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by Bothers Grimm plus a few words from Blake's "The Sick Rose".
Lyrics
... the neighbouring Moon / [...] her aid / Timely interposes, and [...] With borrowed light her countenance triform / [...] enlighten[s] the Earth, / And in her pale dominion checks the night.
On the other side of the lake stood a fine illuminated castle, from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets. There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess (the Sick Rose); and the soldier, who was all the time invisible, danced with them too; and when any of the princesses (Sick Rose[s]) had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth it was empty.
