Dead Can Dance - Spirit Lyrics

Welcome ... to Satan's table. My name is Belfuery. I'm a minor demon of simple chores, a messenger, and a prince of Hell. I'm so pleased you could come. Here, on Earth, we deal in slaves. We deal in slaves of economics! We deal in slaves of religion! We deal in slaves of nature! We deal in information. And, we deal temptation, mostly banal... we deal work, we provide dreams and inspiration but really we control system slavery and watch everything. This concludes our meeting for the time. Have a pleasant day...

Best album and i have all, tks

Não existe nada mais lindo que DCD

THE LYRICS
I thought I'd found a reason to live
Just like before when I was a child
Only to find dreams made of sand
Would just fall apart and slip through my hands

But the spirit of life keeps us strong
And the spirit of life is the will to carry on

Adversity what have I done to you
To cause this reclusive silence
That has come between me and you?

And the spirit of life remains in light
And the spirit of life remains inside

I never thought it would be quite like this
Living outside of mutual bliss
But as long as the veins in our arm still stand up
The spirit of life keeps living on

Beautiful song specialy how it ends awesome..

goosebumps

A great song from the duo. Mesmerizing in it's aural message and musical simplicity. I love the sonic heritage sounds & historic variety DCD provide on their albums, but I would take an entire album of songs that they both sing with intent to provide more like this as well. Glad they are still active out there and working on projects. Thanks for posting this gem.

Why would they ban this from certain countries that shit makes no sense blood still pumping my veins Powered by my heart our spirit is alive

Love the single snare drum.

Lo star bene è per poco,
Ma è invero non poca cosa.

(Being well is for a while,
But it is indeed not a small thing).

Chales que hermosa!

Heaven is an idea-Life is a fact ; God is an ideal- the animal is a fact! ; Language is an idea- The Holy Ghost is a fact?

DCD Doors Can Dance love this song

ohne Worte ..... nehmt es mit der Seele auf Freunde....

This song starts out so grim with the line "I thought I found a reason to live" (past tense!) and it ends with "the spirit of life will keep living on" and it's so beautiful, powerful, and hopeful that it's been kind of my mantra for years.

I love this song...........

You end up in a cold room, dark and empty. Closed windows, locked doors. Your eyes have adapted to the small light that seeps into the holes of your curtains. You stand in the middle of the room and you have finally become that "nothing" you had seen in a dream!

My mom is listening to this song and i ask her ooooooooooooooooooooooohh do you wanna listen to a good song and she said no oh wait i am😆😆😆😀😄

Complex instrumentation beautifully executed.

Over and over for 5 hrs no matter after years and years. Love for ever

Una de las mas bellas canciones

Deep therapy for the grey cell.

🖤🖤that voice man...🖤🖤

Best Sound of 2001! Summer in Germany Lüneburger Heide!

One of the best lines of all time is "Adversity what have I done to you / To cause this reclusive silence /That has come between me and you..." Ugh! The agony and extreme beauty of this amazing piece of music.

Sounds like a hint to stop causing adversity!

And the spirit of life keeps living on.

i feel blessed that this people did such a strong infuence to whole my life music taste

Dat Bass

deAd T●p dAnCe!

I lived this album back in the early 90's.  It was a soundtrack to my life.  Still gives me chills.

Holly Thomas got into dcd during a mixed up time in my life Rollercoaster of emotions carnival is over favorite . by the way great last name be well out there in the world.

HOPE
(h)ELPING (E)VERYBODY (E)VERY (D)AY

Все готов отдать и даже то, чего не имею, что бы вернутся в то время

Full amazing music in!Greats powered!

I feel honesty in this melody.

best band in the universe.......

Sì! Questa fede tutto mi riempie.
Dell’umana saggezza, ecco l’estremo senso:
Merita libertà, merita vita,
Solamente colui che, in ogni giorno
Con aspra lotta,
Conquistar le deve.

(Yup! This faith fills me everything.
Human wisdom, here is the extreme sense:
He deserves freedom, deserves life,
Only one who, in every day
With bitter struggle,
Conquer the must)

.....and indeed. Dead can dance . .what a fantastic song.....

💖💖💖

sorrrrrrow!!!!!!! last level off.......

that Basssss :3

a masterpiece

for middle east etc

I recently almost died, and now I'm on the mend. I keep hearing the lyrics of this song " the spirit of life, keeps us strong, and the spirit of life is the will to carry on!" We must push through adversity! I wish peace to everyone.

Stephen Faherty
Yep. Having trouble with my iPad charger. Need a new one. I'll ask my friend then I'll try a search. If you do the same would you kindly let me know?

Jane Worrall they’re playing at the Hammersmith Apollo on the 4th and 5th of May

Stephen Faherty
Thanks for that. I'm usually in France by then!

Jane Worrall well, there at Grand Rex in Paris on the 10th and 11th. So all’s not lost:)

Stephen Faherty
Thanks!

Just telling a young man about DCD now after listening for 25 years. The cycle continues!

passionate and discipline

Limited release, extra track on compilation lp, 1 of mi FAv DCD trakz.

great...great... great

The Joy Divisioniest so far.

The words of these songs say it all !!!

+Kelsey Clark i just agree !!!

Kelsey Clark so true

Tão bela!

His voice is amazing!<3

Maria Kouroupi you are right greetings from germany to greece

And it's got better with age. :)

Que saudades...

Wonderfull music i liked it!!!!!!

Superb song !

Dead Can Dance   I love your music........

uuuuufffff... que recuerdos!!! que agradable sorpresa encontrarles aqui! 

Those that couldn't hear the music thought that those that were dancing were crazy.

Una de las mejores canciones que he escuchado en mi vida!

This just song of my life... Sorry friends for my bad english...

This 'is' just 'the' song of my life. xP You're good, dude. Your English is pretty swell.

don't worry bout the english our spirit knows what u mean

Been a fan since the 1980's love DCD <3

references ?! cheers! :-) formed 1981, before that they were both on different project, him, a punk band. wiki and their website, I do listen their music since their first album went out in 1984. Will listen till  probably death bed, but will be mostly "silence" at that moment.

Been a fan since the 15th century

+IraqiNoob Then you must need a nap !  LOL !

+vampirella67 for all of you idiots that love to correct over and over they had separate projects - and they had other projects in the 1970's - SO go fuck yourselves you are all so big and brave behind your computer screens -

+vampirella67 chill out douche! And why did you change your original comment? Fucking unnecessary cussing assface

divine

Un Clima simplemente espectacular!!!!...

She doesn't like it because he sounds like Frank Sinatra, or you think he sounds like Frank Sinatra? I'm seriously starting to doubt your mom's musical tastes ;)

HYPNOTIC...downloaded it immediately...

DeCaDence

peace

The "standing up of the veins" is a formulation that signifies a specific kind of will inherent in all that has life, human or not. This will is much more intense and fiercely driving man's life than a mere will to survival does - it is - a will to expand oneself, one's influence onto the world as far as the genes allow. In other words, as long as a living entity is following it's inherent drive to conquer it's environment and dominate with creative force, it can be said that it is fully alive.

We perceive it as dominance and conquering in reality it is expansion. We are in a constant struggle and many of the factors for that struggle are man made but this passing on the genes is.just the song that is sang for god, which is expansion, having the name-life

PRECISELY! The Universal Creative Force.

For those of you who have ever contemplated the enigma of "the meaning of life" The answer is contained in the line "As long as the veins in our arms stand up". It is simply to survive.

uno de mis temas preferidos.

Peace Of Mind

Teaars of Joy :')

This is great song to listen while driving a car:)

Just great!! *___*

Spiritus! A daemon sprite, or especially a ghost?!

Cheers!

Amazing!!!

SUNDAY at Syd Opera House - yes!

Video uploaded on my birthday !?!?! I love this YouTube user and Dead Can Dance !

Such a beautiful song!

dead can definatly dance with this song.just beautiful.tnxs

Excelente cancion nada mejor...

Reason to live

I remember this song from early 90's but it sounds even better now!I don't care that my mom dislikes the guys vioce~sounds like Frank Sinatra lol, I find it spiritually mystically calming..

I'm not found of arguing on youtube and I did check your link and I did like the cover but to say in capitals that it is 'way way too much better' than the original for me it means to be in a capital error and to have missed the deepness of the song altogether - the tribute is awesome indeed but the feeling, the subtlety even in voice are missing; to embellish a song doesn't necessarily makes it better.

here comes the spirit of life through music...

beautiful voice and wonderful music..

Could this song be about Brendan and Lisa?

the born of trip hop
fucking awesome

PERFECT!!!!G.G!!!!!!!!!!

te nagranie to jakaś masakra ,szok

@spaarkplug66 and not dancing. ;)

Humongous song for me. Well... For us.

I was also born late 50s. Kinda invokes Jim Morrison, as I listen, also the Moody Blues, but lyrically much different....more thought provoking.

time for ever......

dlishously GrOOvy :)