Mountains of Madness

Selections from Mountains Of Madness. Directed and performed by Danielle de Picciotto, Alexander Hacke and The Tiger Lillies. The drawings and animation are by Danielle de Picciotto.

Do You Know What's Wrong?

Now his souls an empty cup.
Like a vampire of the night,
Shies away from the daylight.
Does he know what's wrong?
So edward is eaten up,
By somethign so corrupt.
What is left?
A poisoned shell
And his own living hell.
Does he know what's wrong?
Oh Edward, you should've been
This castles king.
Now you're left in dungeons dim,
To mourn, mourn your sin.
Does he know what's wrong?
What is left is raw regret.
Like a man who's lost the bet.
Just a case of might have beens.
How you pay for your sin?
Do you know whats wrong?
So the thing under the doorstep
Is just your regret,
In your funeral shroud.
I will sing, sing it loud-
Do you know whats wrong?
And right?

The Mountaintops

On the tallest of earth's peaks, live the gods of whom I speak,

In the wastes where no-one treads, except those who are dead,

Climb the mountaintops and have no fear.

Barzai The Wise dreams, seeks god before he dies,

He believes it to be a lie, to see them means that you must die,

Climb the mountaintops and have no fear.

So he climbed to the peaks, to see the god whom he did seek,

Though all around they cried: "Barzai is sure to die",

Climb the mountaintops and have no fear.

So strong is his belief, or is it just deceit,

So onward he does climb, to god and the divine,

Climb the mountaintops and have no fear.