History TearJerker / Current93

* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece about [[spoiler: accepting your imminent cessation of existence at the hands of the Black Ships,]] coming right on the tail end of the [[DarkReprise ominous]] Chris and Cosey version of "Idumaea."

** "The Bloodbells Chime," which states the AwfulTruth that innocence, once lost, is irretrievable. David himself couldn't help but break down in tears during the sessions.

* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece about [[spoiler: accepting your forthcoming destruction at the hands of the Black Ships,]] coming right on the tail end of the [[DarkReprise ominous]] Chris and Cosey version of "Idumaea."

* "Sleep Has His House," a rather downcast ListSong, concerning that which death itself renders meaningless. The studio version, from the album of the same name, is particularly hard-hitting, as it's lead up to by a very long harmonium drone that makes great use of LoopedLyrics.

* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece about [[spoiler: suddenly ceasing to exist,]] coming right on the tail end of the [[DarkReprise ominous]] Chris and Cosey version of "Idumaea."

* "Sleep Has His House," a rather downcast ListSong, concerning that which death itself renders meaningless. The studio version, on which it's the title track, is particularly hard-hitting, as it's lead up to by a very long harmonium drone that makes great use of LoopedLyrics.

* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece about [[spoiler: having your very existence undone,]] coming right on the tail end of the [[DarkReprise ominous]] Chris and Cosey version of "Idumaea."

** Current 93 and Nick Cave's cover of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWg4dnXCpt8 "All the Pretty Little Horses"]]. The original itself is already heartbreaking when you learn its origin: it was traditionally sung by African-American women who, as slaves, were often forced to care for their masters' children while neglecting their own (which is referenced in the song itself).

* "The Seahorse Rears To Oblivion," a gloomy, introspective song regarding Tibet's beliefs on creation and the {{apocalypse|wow}}.

* "The Seahorse Rears To Oblivion," a gloomy, introspective song regarding Tibet's beliefs on creation and the end.

* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece about [[spoiler: having your very existence undone,]] coming right on the tail end of the [[DarkReprise ominous]] Chris and Cosey version of "Idumaea."

** "The Bloodbells Chime," which states the AwfulTruth that innocence, once lost, is irretrievable.

* "Sleep Has His House" from the album of the same name. Written by vocalist David Tibet as a threnody to his father, it's an incredibly lengthy harmonium drone interlaced with soft, mournful voices, leading up to a long list of objects one realises are meaningless in the face of death. It culminates with David Tibet [[MadnessMantra nearly screaming, over and over, a variation on the lines spoken beneath the opening drone]]

** "The Bloodbells Chime," dealing in loss of, and reminiscence on, childhood and innocence.

*** Shirley Collins' version of at the end of "The Star(re)s are Marching Sadly Home," which is made all the more poignant by a slight, if disturbing, rewrite.
* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece about [[spoiler: your forthcoming removal from reality itself by a horde of malevolent {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.]]

* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece about [[spoiler: your forthcoming removal from reality itself by a horde of malevolent EldritchAbominations.]]

* "Sleep Has His House" from the album of the same name. Written by vocalist David Tibet as a threnody to his father, the song itself comes at the tail end of a massive twenty-minute harmonium drone (interlaced with soft, mournful voices), and consists primarily of a long list of objects that, one realises, are meaningless in the face of death. It culminates with David Tibet [[MadnessMantra nearly screaming, over and over, a variation on the lines spoken beneath the opening drone]]
* Current 93 and Nick Cave's cover of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWg4dnXCpt8 "All the Pretty Little Horses"]]. The original itself is already heartbreaking when you learn its origin: it was traditionally sung by African-American women who, as slaves, were often forced to care for their masters' children while neglecting their own (which is referenced in the second verse with a lamb "crying for her mammy").
* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece so sweet and sincere that it might actually make you accept [[spoiler: your forthcoming, immediate destruction.]]

* "Sleep Has His House" from the album of the same name. Written by vocalist David Tibet as an elegy to his father, the song itself comes at the tail end of a massive twenty-minute harmonium drone (interlaced with soft, mournful voices), and consists primarily of a long list of objects that, one realises, are meaningless in the face of death. It culminates with David Tibet [[MadnessMantra nearly screaming, over and over, a variation on the lines spoken beneath the opening drone]]

* "The Beautiful Dancing Dust", off ''Black Ships Ate the Sky''. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece so sweet and sincere that it might actually drive you to accept [[spoiler: your forthcoming, immediate destruction.]]

* "Sleep Has His House" by Current 93. Written by vocalist David Tibet as an elegy to his father, the song itself comes at the tail end of a massive twenty-minute harmonium drone (interlaced with soft, mournful voices), and consists primarily of a long list of objects that, one realises, are meaningless in the face of death. It culminates with David Tibet [[MadnessMantra nearly screaming, over and over, a variation on the lines spoken beneath the opening drone]]
* Current 93 and Nick Cave's cover of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWg4dnXCpt8 All the Pretty Little Horses]]". The original itself is already heartbreaking when you learn its origin: it was traditionally sung by African-American women who, as slaves, were often forced to care for their masters' children while neglecting their own (which is referenced in the second verse with a lamb "crying for her mammy").
* The Beautiful Dancing Dust, off Black Ships Ate the Sky. It's a beautiful, calming, almost lullaby-like piece so sweet and sincere that it might actually drive you to accept [[spoiler: your forthcoming, immediate destruction.]]