Venus Rising
Venus was thought to be the Earth’s beautiful twin sister but the reality is oh so different and a damned good metaphor for certain failed relationships to boot. The eerie sound of the constant lightning detected by the Venera probes led Russian scientists to nervously refer to it as the ‘electric dragon of Venus’.
VENUS RISING
Curtains close on twilight
When Venus casts her spell
Where her beauty shrouds
A sulphur-burning hell
Where titanium snow
Falls from her howling sky
As lightning sears her her soul
As her electric dragon cries…
She’s my Evening Star
Shine – seven deadly sins
It’s not the earth that moves me
It’s the world below that spins…
You rise before the sun
You set after the sun
You hold me in your arms
And you burn me.
Home with her sullied sister
In Gaia’s velvet night
Souls shining neutron-blue
In the flat-screen TV light
In a world full of ones and zeroes
There’s a stranger in your bed
Who cannot stay till morning
Now that her electric dragon’s dead. . .
She’s my Evening Star
Shine – seven deadly sins
It’s not the earth that moves me
It’s the world below that spins…
You rise before the sun
You set after the sun
You hold me in your arms
And you burn me.
She’s just so beautiful!
(c) 2014 Paul D E Mitchell – all music, vocals, lyrics and instruments by Paul D E Mitchell – copyright is PRS protected