The following is my transcription of the words used for North, which I posted to the Coil mailing list on 2/20/99.
John Balance of Coil added some comments and corrections the following day:

"A White Rainbow"

a roaring aura
under an unquiet skull
                                  a tremulous column of air hang there
moon's milk spills from my unquiet skull
and forms a white rainbow
        a psychosis, a roaring aura
aurora borealis
a white rainbow
a lunar ascension
a solar declension
a tremulous column of air hanging there
a bleached beach
a psychosis
laughing like skeletons
clattering at mid-day
feel the moon's pull
feel the moon's pull
a moon's milk spills from my unquiet skull
a white rainbow
inverted vertigo
a psychosis
moon's milk spills
                          and overhead
feel the moon's pull
                     overhead
a tremulous column of air
hanging there
a white rainbow
laughing like skeletons
clattering at mid-day
and overhead
a white rainbow
under an unquiet skull
under an unquiet skull
feel the moon's pull
a white rainbow

"This was sung in one take and made up as I sang it.These lyrics are approximately right. In North I play with the words
  in repetition as I do in Magnetic North. I will listen and post the full Magnetic north lyrics up at a later date."
  - Balance

"North"

this black dog has no owner
this black dog has no odour

"Magnetic North"

heaviness
heaviness
a sapphire six pointed star
deep ruby red inverted pyramid
deep ruby red inverted pyramid
and red rose filled the skull
red rose filling the skull
red rose filling the skull
yellow cube in the lower pelvis
yellow cube
yellow cube
so alone
crescent
yellow the nail
red ruby inverted pyramid
white winged globe defines the forehead
between the eyes
between the eyes
a black oval
occupying the throat
black egg within the throat
and red rose filling the skull
red rose filling the skull
heaviness
heaviness
a sapphire six pointed stone
deep ruby red inverted pyramid
deep ruby red inverted pyramid
and red rose spilling the skull
red rose filling the skull
red rose filling the skull
yellow cube in the lower pelvis
yellow cube
yellow cube
so alone
crescent
yellow the nail
red ruby inverted pyramid
white winged globe we find the forehead
between the eyes
between the eyes
black over back
occupying the throat
black egg within the throat
and red rose filling the skull
red rose filling the skull
heaviness
heaviness

"Christmas is Now Drawing Near" (traditional)
(lyrics found on catholic.net:  http://www.catholic.net/RCC/music/midi/christmas/hand.html)

christmas is now drawing near at hand
come serve the lord and be at his command
and God a portion for you will provide
and give a blessing to your soul besides

down in the garden where flowers growing ranks
down on your bended knees and give the Lord thanks
down on your knees and pray both night and day
leave off your sins and live fro' pray tae pray

so proud and lofty is some sort of sin
which many take delight and pleasure in
whose conversation god doth smirch as lie
and yet he shakes his sword before He stri'

so proud and lofty do some people go
dressing theirselves like players in a show
they patch and paint and dress with idle stuff
as if God had not made 'em fine enough

even little children learn to curse and swear
and can't rehearse one word of godly prayer
oh teach them better, oh teach them to rely
on Christ the sinner's friend who reigns on high

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