Work
His guttural and venomous vocals are a key identifying feature of his work. He is also well known for highly intelligent, literal and poetic lyrics, usually with a strong paganistic or environmentalistic message. A characteristic of his lyrics is the usage of puns and multiple meanings of words.
- Steel and concrete melanomas
- Punctuate the hot sunrise
- Spines now chilled by global warming
- Microwave their last goodbyes
(passage from The Ilk of Human Blindness from Skyclad album Jonah's Ark)
- I'm walking my personal Calvary mile to a do-it-yourself crucifixion,
- It's a kingdom of clowns wearing martyrdom's frown -
- I fight for my hammer and nails,
- We're an endless procession of lost, dispossessed unbelievers -
- Whose prayers go unheard and unanswered,
- unheard and unanswered like junk mail for Jesus
(lyrics of A Clown Of Thorns from Skyclad album The Answer Machine?)
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Famous quotes containing the word work:
“They that goe downe to ‘th sea in ships:
Their busines there to doo
In waters great. The Lords work see,
I’th deep his wonders too.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CVII (Bay Psalm Book)
“Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.”
—Daniel Barenboim (b. 1942)
“The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)