The opening track, from which Cardiacs' fan-dividing sixth studio album Heaven Born and Ever Bright derives its name, Home of Fadeless Splendour is half-hymn and half football-chant; an anthemic ode to the mysterious forces behind the band’s record label, the Alphabet Business Concern.
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(there be dragons)
Hail majestic corporate light
Heaven born and ever bright
How our spirit like the waves
At the breath of thine awakes
And now the night of weeping shall be
The morn of song
Ah! we are those whose thunder
Shakes the skies - the thin spun life
Home of fadeless splendour
Of flowers that bear no thorn
Here may the blind and hungry come
And light and food receive
Here mighty springs of consolation rise
To cheer the fainting mind
And re-creation find
So overcome thy fear and burst into sudden blaze
Come the blind fury with th' abhorred shears
And slit the thin spun life
Ah! sobbing with their human sort of wail
Thy justice fear
Walk in shadow, walk in dread
Loosefish walk as like one dead
One drop in a winter sea no more to rise forever
Anything down there about your soul
Will smash the sun alight
Ah! yield week in, weak out from morn to night
Feelers from across the sea come crawling over thee
One drop in a winter sea no more to rise forever
One drop in a winter sea no more to rise forever
Come the blind fury with th' abhorred shears
And slit the thin spun life
Ah! sobbing with their human sort of wail
The thin spun life
We are those whose thunder shakes the skies
Whose eyes this atom globe surveys
Thy justice fear
Hooray!
The Alphabet Business Concern (Home of Fadeless Splendour) was written by Tim Smith & Jim Smith (Cardiacs).
The Alphabet Business Concern (Home of Fadeless Splendour) was produced by Tim Smith.