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As an aside to the musical works realised by Church of the Cosmic Skull, I have decided to release some other material under my own name, via this new website, billfisher.net

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Lyrics

All Through The Night

All through the night
All through the day
All through the night she sang
And never saw the day

Mirror of Tomorrow

I always said there was something
Something on the cards for you
Always said there was something
Something in the way you moved

I don’t believe you when you say that it’s not real

Oh and I saw it in the mirror of tomorrow
Oh and I saw it in a painting of the sky
Oh and I saw that it was written such a very long time ago
Oh and I saw that it was coming from the night

I don’t believe you when you say that it’s not real

Celador

He met the girl
In the lonely hearts
Then he moved straight into her place
He never came out no more
Never even made a call
Till yesterday he finally showed his face
His eyes was sunken
Skin all white and pale
Looked like a dog been left for dead
I said hey buddy how do you do?

How’s it going, going for you?
Then he told me what she said

She said, “Close your eyes and do it like you wanna”

He said he found a door
Underneath the carpet
In the room beneath the stairs
He found the key
Hidden in the bedroom
Tied up with a lock of silver hair
And so with trembling hand
He took it to the keyhole
And opened up that secret cellar door
A flight of stairs
Leading down to darkness
And the words they came into his mind once more

She said, “Close your eyes and do it like you wanna”

What he found down there
No he never really told me clear
But when he reached the ground
A sound came from behind him
A silhouette at the top of the stairs
Closed his eyes to start saying his prayers
And in silence she descended

The Dark Triad

I wanna know
I wanna know how you keep your cool
I wanna know
I wanna know how you break the rules

And every moment of my life
I have been waiting for this special day
To be the only one who understands
The reasons why you are this way

I wanna know
I wanna know what you’re thinking now
And even though
It might be low
I want it anyhow

Anything you say
It can and will be used against you
But I understand
Forget your family and your friends
I’m gonna hold you in my tired hands

I wanna know
I wanna know every single thing
And even though
You wanna go
I’ll be listening

I’ll be the protector of your life
The world will never understand your mind
I’ll be here forever all alone
But you are tree to leave at any time

You gotta go
You gotta go and I understand
Don’t wanna go
Don’t wanna go and I understand

And now you’re back
Now your back and you understand
I can’t believe that you came back to me
Despite the crazy things you said
From your apology it’s clear
You understand it’s all inside your head
And as the master of your destiny
You know that I control your mind
I’m gonna hold you in my tired hands
Until the very end of time
Until the end of time

Psychopathy

Why you moaning baby
When there’s nothing left for you?
Why you moaning baby
Like the things you said were true?
When the morning comes
The sun will wash away
When the morning comes
There’s nothing left
No there’s nothing left to say

I sold my soul unto the devil just for you
Yeah I sold it
Yeah I sold it all for you

Days of Old

Way back in the days of old
When dreams were clearer than life
A great demon was raised
In the house down the road
And took flight
I’ve looked but no, she was forgotten
No, she’ll never be found
Till this mortal soul it lies asleep in its place
In the ground

Way back in the days of old
When all was darkness and light
All things of this world
Were merely patterns of thought in the mind
Why can’t we make it like we want to
Take control of it all?
They laugh for when they lift it up and let go
It will fall

Message from the Sky

Listen to the message in the sky
They’re sending us a message from the sky

And the angry people empathise
With an empty building barely standing on the hill
Like a temple to the hypnotized
Like a temple built to listen
To listen to the message in the sky

They’re sending us a message from the sky
Listen to the message in the sky

And the empty voices fill the brain
To guide the hands in such a way
It’s not the fault of what you say is really you
It’s not your fault if you listen
You listen to the message in the sky

Listen to the message in the sky
They’re sending us a message from the sky

Mass Hypnosis

How many more?
How many more to make it?

And there’s feeling deep in the heart
And it’s a feeling so uncertain
And there’s feeling deep in the heart
And it’s behind the big black curtain

I saw you in the orchard
Before the knowing torture
Was thrust upon the world
As consciousness unfurled
Everything you ordered
Has stopped it moving forward
And everybody knows themselves
To be the thing they hate

How many more?
How many more to make it?

And there’s feeling deep in the heart
And it’s a feeling so uncertain
And there’s feeling deep in the heart
And it’s behind the big black curtain

How many more?
How many more to make it?

Liner Notes

The arrangements on this album are drums, bass guitar, multi-layered guitars and vocals. During the drum recording for the second Dystopian Future Movies album ‘Inviolate’ in June 2019, we had a spare day of studio time so I recorded the drums you hear on this record over some prerecorded guide-tracks. Many thanks to Joff Spittlehouse and Elizabeth Dawn who worked their magic on those sessions at the Old Library. The large theatre space perfectly compliments Joff’s unmentionably priced custom made Craviotto drum kit, which he claims is ‘definitely one of the best drum kits in the world’. Thanks also to Caroline for enduring the extra day of unplanned drumming, the boundless enthusiasm, and the invaluable commentary as the songs came together.

The other instruments and vocals were tracked over the ensuing months, which also saw the release of the third Church of the Cosmic Skull album ‘Everybody’s Going To Die’. Mixing was completed in May 2020 during the unexpected planetary lockdown. Thanks to Michael Cawley and Rafe Dunn for lending their ears to the mixes-in-progress.

Some of the tracks feature riffs that have been lurking around for many years: a version of the riff from ‘All Through The Night’ was used in one of my first bands, Apeth Mannus; a different version of ‘Celador’ was almost on the Mammothwing album ‘Morning Light’ under the title ‘Do It’; and the original version of ‘Psychopathy’ had a chord sequence which became the verse of the COTCS song ‘Movements in the Sky’.

I hope this is of some interest.
Yours in peace and harmony,

All songs written, performed and produced by Bill Fisher in Nottingham, England.
Drums recorded at The Old Library, Mansfield by Joff Spittlehouse and Elizabeth Dawn.
Mastered by Lira Wish at Film-Maker Studios.
Photography by Laura Turner.
Art and design by Zorad.
©℗ 2020 Bill Fisher
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