Work
His guttural and venomous vocals are a key identifying feature of his work. He is also well known for highly intelligent, literal and poetic lyrics, usually with a strong paganistic or environmentalistic message. A characteristic of his lyrics is the usage of puns and multiple meanings of words.
- Steel and concrete melanomas
- Punctuate the hot sunrise
- Spines now chilled by global warming
- Microwave their last goodbyes
(passage from The Ilk of Human Blindness from Skyclad album Jonah's Ark)
- I'm walking my personal Calvary mile to a do-it-yourself crucifixion,
- It's a kingdom of clowns wearing martyrdom's frown -
- I fight for my hammer and nails,
- We're an endless procession of lost, dispossessed unbelievers -
- Whose prayers go unheard and unanswered,
- unheard and unanswered like junk mail for Jesus
(lyrics of A Clown Of Thorns from Skyclad album The Answer Machine?)
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Famous quotes containing the word work:
“When I first heard Elvis’s voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody and nobody was gonna be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty ... but in no time you’d be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.”
—Edward Blishen (b. 1920)
“The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer’s life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)