Spoken word intro and outro is a clip from a reading from the book, Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (Clio Medica 77) by A.W. Bates.
[SPOKEN WORD INTRO]
The sixth: the narrowness or smallness of the womb
The seventh: the indecent posture of the mother, as when being pregnant, she has sat too long with her legs crossed
The eighth: through a fall, or blow struck
The ninth: through hereditary or accidental illnesses
The tenth: rotten or corrupt seed
The eleventh: through a mixture or mingling of seed
The twelfth: through the artifice of wicked spital beggars
The thirteenth: through demons or devils
Besides these, one cannot give any reasons that are sufficient or probable
Sound the alarm
Sky's a swarm
Not in my house
Stabled up
Leave me with my books
Do I escape?
Maybe I leave?
Ride out?
I don't think so
Milky eyes upstairs
Should I tell them to bug?
Plan an escape
See where they go?
Follow them down
To where they can see
Ride out?
I don't think so
They lie, they lie, they lie, they lie
They lie, they lie, they lie, they lie
In the same year the King of France
Made peace with Swiss
A monster was born in Germany
With a head in the middle of its stomach
That took food just like the other
They lie, they lie, they lie, they lie
They lie, they lie, they lie, they lie
Everyone's burning with cupidity here
Engendered to the sea
With an eye in the middle of the forehead
Liver upside down
And I?
Ride out?
I don't think so
They lie, they lie, they lie, they lie
They lie, they lie, they lie, they lie
Ride out
I summon the cull
And it's coming around
There's a knot in the sky
And it's going down
And I don't wanna leave
Think I'll stay
Ride out?
I don't think so
[SPOKEN WORD OUTRO]
The first is the glory of god
The second: his wrath
The third: too great a quantity of seed
The fourth: too little a quantity
The fifth: imagination
The sixth: the narrowness or smallness of the womb
The seventh: the indecent posture of the mother, as when being pregnant, she has sat too long with her legs crossed
The Hermit was written by Protomartyr.
Protomartyr released The Hermit on Fri Oct 09 2015.