The Call Of Nature (7:56)

‘The Call Of Nature’ is a song from Torture Garden’s debut full length album ‘Dead Romantic’. It was the third song to be completed for the release.

Strongly influenced by black metal, the song does retain some of the atmospheric doom flavour that the band is known for. Lyrically, it references Ursula Le Guin, William Blake, Percy Shelley and Charles Darwin.

Credits

Adam Ford - Lyrics, lead vocals
Matt Ford - Music, guitars, bass, backing vocals, drum programming, mix

Guitar tuning

C F B♭ E♭ G C

Bass tuning

C F B♭ E♭

Lyrics

Praise then darkness and creation unfinished!

I am your lost lust, exuberance and joy
Passionate instincts unbridled by shame
Desire is consummation is beauty
Seeking enough or too much of life
My bounty yours as yours is mine
Forever reaching towards swirling skies

I live for the violence unleashed
Thrill of the chase
Across blasted heath
Snarling at phantoms
Baring flesh flecked teeth
As my flowing coat flails behind
Caught in the moment
Each beat is a thump
Ears prick up and smell the trees
My snout drinks in the flooding scenes
And conspiracies of fallen leaves
I and the foaming oceans are one!
I and the foaming oceans are one!
I and the foaming oceans are one!
I and the foaming oceans are one!

Mankind denies its evolution
Mab tears through grey and neon alike
Everywhere flaunting her defiance
Outliving all of their palaces
Survival of her fittest adaptation
Ever in flight, she respires in eternity