A Thousand Cuts - Ulver

This is the story of two young lovers on a beach

Who found each other by the end of the war

They set out to explore the bodies on the shore

And what they found — it would hurt them

Smoke mixed with fire

Pity mixed with pain

The waves came crashing

Swept them away

Confessions written in the sand

The pleasures of the flesh

The passion

Sex and death

By a thousand cuts

The pleasures of the flesh

By a thousand cuts

It’s a moonlit night in a small town

A headless man, scissors in his hand

Cuts the hair, cuts the tongues

A chalice smashed against the stone

The victim’s eyes

A Satanic church

A woman leaps out of the window

Two young soldiers at the very end

They simply waltz the night away

The palace of excess

The madness

Life and death

The breaking need

The palace of excess

The breaking need