Song Lyrics
Eternal Fast
In the dawn
In the morn
I wake to your dream
O’er the plain and wind and rain
Nevermore will they strike your cheek
A light fills the room
In the dark and the gloom
A final morsel found between your teeth
We shan’t sup tonight
The crops the fields the blight
Your one desire is to be set free
Life’s long walk to a shadowland
Bells of hunger toll and then
Never to return again
The bells ring on ring on ring on
Eternal fast
I lay awake at night
And soon your spirit washed over me
The table was laden as far as the eye could see
A last supper between us
And you’ve yet touched a crumb
Ragged breath belies a plea to be numb
Eternal fast
Premonition
Look how the star on the horizon
Pierceth the night, an orb arisen
Behold its light on the horizon
Blazoned and bright, a lucid vision
Look to the horizon
See the light that tarries there
See the light that lingers there
A vision of the path away from evil
Even eyes of oracles, the seer sage
The seer sage knoweth not
What darkness shall divide us, bind us
Eyes of oracles, all ancestral
Lonesome Bridge
How the poisoned misty depths do swallow!
Cried the mourner drawn away in shadow
Pulled each moment, nigh to a place forsaken
Want: a fashion of mind
The waters within, a grown divide
Solitude when drowning deep in longing
Fools the self to feel one's non-belonging
Running out of time
Taste the fruit so bitter
Yon the wastelings ride
The salt in their teeth, their infinite stride
Running out of time on the lonesome bridge
Rally ‘round a heart when it’s breaking
Now the morning sparrow's song is nearer
Last the night and greet once more your mirror
Running out of time
Taste the fruit so bitter
Yon the wastelings ride
The salt in their teeth, their infinite stride
Running out of time on the lonesome bridge
Rally ‘round a heart when it’s breaking
Le Sang (The Blood)
Verse tes larmes dans ma tasse jusqu'à ce qu’elle déborde
Des larmes pour arroser le jardin
Les larmes laveront le sang et nourriront le sol
Ensemble nous ferons pousser les fleurs, les fleurs, les fleurs
Verse tes larmes dans ma tasse jusqu'à ce qu’elle déborde
Des larmes pour arroser le jardin
Une fleur, tu verras, un jour nous guérira
Nos larmes tombent en bas
Et nourrissent la terre, la terre, la terre
Verse tes larmes dans ma tasse
Nous guérirons la terre
Des larmes, des larmes
Nous guérirons la terre
Pour your tears in my cup till it overflows
Tears to water the garden
The tears wash away the blood and nourish the soil
Together we will cause the flowers to grow, the flowers, the flowers
Pour your tears in my cup till it overflows
Tears to water the garden
A flower, you will see, one day will heal us
Our tears fall down
And nourish the earth, the earth, the earth
We will heal the earth
Solstice Kiss
Behold the snow by moonlight, falling down
The gale, the frenzied bluster
All life underground
All in caves as deep as we are now
For see the snow-white burrows of the shrew
For hear the brazen skylark
Cold fields, frozen sound
Dormant creatures buried in the shroud
A warmth of ages, this solstice kiss
Forsooth, the wild wind raging grips the heart!
So too, this fire eternal
Its heat rages long
In flames, we too must carry on
Breathe the fire in the night
Unworldly delight
A warmth of ages
This Solstice kiss
Wind and Wave
Feel the wind and wave
Feel it roil and toss and churn
'Til the evening knell resounds
Wildered and worn, awoken by the sword
A lost lamb to be found
A lost lamb to be found
Bow down to the water
Bow down to the wind and wave
The wind and roil, they're drowning me
Wind and wave
Wind and wave
Come on Down
Come on down with your love and dance to the drum of your heartbeat
Enter into the atmosphere
Be one with the one that you love
Pass the time with me, you've a tale to tell
And you must know all is well, all is well
Fear not the whispers in the stillness
Drink, breathe your heart’s desire
‘Til they snuff your fire
The Grave
The grave was marked “Be kind to your heart.
The loneliness will tear you apart.”
The ground had not yet settled
Scattered around lay lily petals
Deep in the night, I saw Aurora’s light
The shades of green filled me with delight
Someone appeared, encroaching
My breath was stilled, their steps approaching
In silent awe, I feared what I saw
What had been borne of darkness and naught
Her image stood before me
The skin she wore of my own body
Forces after dark, into dawn, life moves on
The grave was marked “Be kind to your heart.
The loneliness will tear you apart.”
The ground had not yet settled
Scattered around lay lily petals
Forces after dark, the loneliness will tear you apart
Winter Panes
In the vast alone I call my winter home
The panes of ice enclosing
Lean on me not, lean on me not
I’d break by morning
And if I should break, your lifeless body take
Beneath the frozen water
Lean on me not, lean on me not
We’d stay there forever
Walking under there, I’ll show you places where
The waves above can’t harm you
Lean on me not, lean on me not
Lest darkness surround you
In the vast alone, inside my winter home of ice
I hear you calling
“Lean on me not, lean on me not
I’ll break in the morning.”
Lean on me not
Lean on me not
Tether
Walk around in circles
Our shadows lap each other’s ankles
In rhythm, in time
We breathe in the other’s carbon dioxide
Tethered together whether or whether we know
Around in circles
Our shadows lap each other’s ankles
In rhythm, in time
We breathe in the other’s carbon dioxide
Tethered tethered together
Whether or whether we know
Spiritual Bloodletting
Eyes forward
Spotting prey
See the look of fright before the light pulls you away
There’s a certain understanding that makes all of this alright
Wolves to drain your blood, anemic
Tuck the babies in at night
Corrections to your mind, body
You are never right
Spiritual bloodletting of the eternally contrite
There is no brokenness where a full heart can’t be found
There are no more secrets where the truth abounds
If you want to know the answer to the pounding at your door
Never answer to the blood wolves
Let his blood upon the floor
In the Wood
I felt a presence behind me
The echo of my voice absorbed by matte black
Upon further inspection,
There stood erect a wall of moss
It smelled of green and must and earth
[Cowgirls]
Feathers on the wind will fall
Tethers to the world be gone
Drink the dew of night
Cast away the evening light
Vigours wane at close of day
Withered, dank decay
Peace, peace unwinding
Peace, peace, unwind, resign
Peace, peace, freedom
Vigours wane at dusk and trust what might
We will then see what is to be,
Trembling, lingering at night
Unending hour
Letting Go
We were far from home
Our kin was gone
Sombre, silent, hushed
Pain had known no succor
Thirst had known no slake
On and on, but we were not alone
We are not alone
We were far from letting go
Far from the deep’s swallow
On a grassy knoll far away there
We are not alone
Though some have lain below ne’er again seen
We are not alone