1. |
Germ(innate)
04:03
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Lyrics:
A seedling sprouts from Earth
Reaching, yearning for the Sun
Innocent green birth
Pure and without intention
Light bathes
Light heals all
Bathe a plant in light
Watch it grow up toward the Sun
Subject a plant to cold
Watch its roots gnarl, leaves curl up, and fold
What if it’s one great circle?
What if it’s wrapping all around?
What if it’s one great circle?
What if it’s wrapping all around?
Oh well, what then? What now?
Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top
Then the bough breaks
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Crystallization
08:19
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Lyrics:
Liquid
Swim through this fluidity of mind
Open
Embrace mutability divine
Unbeknownst to us we begin
We begin our dance
Our dance with death
Unbeknownst to us we begin
We begin our dance
Our dance with death
Refract
Words as light, their angles sharpening
Harden
Truth and lies as one, crystallizing
Unbeknownst to us we begin
We begin our dance
Our dance with death
Mirror
Reflection inspires introspection
Crystal
Chilling stare that lacks all affection
Unbeknownst to us we begin
We begin our dance
Our dance with death
Perhaps there’s no answer
Possibly, these lines don’t intersect
Except at some strange place
That we will never…
Memory
Remind me who I am
Shades of sunset paint your face
Perhaps there’s no answer
Possibly, these lines don’t intersect
Except at some strange place
That we will never…
Here
Deep in the wood
Stands a tree where I once stood
Presence towering
Dead
No longer flowering
Branches carve a fractal in the sky
Wrapping around
By the serpent vines they’re bound
They’re devouring
Darkness overpowering
All resilience fades now into gray
Turning away
As the night envelops day
What just might have been
Something so benevolent
Transformed into something so austere
Do you recall?
Something?
Anything at all?
What you once had been?
Before you were captive in
Gnarled prison
Fortress arboresque
Leave the crying for the weak
Be the refuge that you seek
Grant no one entry
To this conjured world so bleak
And it’s wrapping all around
Stifles sight and snuffs out sound
What I’ve created
Rooted firmly in the ground
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Gnarled
04:55
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Lyrics:
Sickly sequoioideae
Rests in catatonic state
Moat of thorns surround
Crawled out on a limb
Too far away from home
So far below me
Cradle oaken
Bough has broken
Dragged down by the
Weight of all the world
Knotted roots tangle below
Draining from the Earth’s marrow
Growing stronger
Crawled out on a limb
Too far away from home
So far below me
Cradle oaken
Bough has broken
Dragged down by the
Weight of all the…
Spire of brier the crown
Animosity unbound
Ghastly flora
Crawled out on a limb
Too far away from home
So far below me
Cradle oaken
Bough has broken
Dragged down by the
Weight of all the world
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4. |
Cycles
03:15
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Lyrics:
Sort the
Soil from seed
Tilling the Earth with your hands
Everything in
Cycles ’round
Rings of Saturn
Circling ’round overhead
of this precious
Gardening
Wand’ring the fields
Roaming the rolling green hills
Enchanting and
Freeing the
Mind and the soul
Duality of it all
Everything in cycles
Sort the
Soil from seed
Tilling the Earth with your hands
Everything in
Cycles ’round
Rings of Saturn
Circling ’round overhead
of this precious
Gardening
Wand’ring the fields
Roaming the rolling green hills
Enchanting and
Freeing the
Mind and the soul
Duality of it all
All is cycle
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Lyrics:
Light bathes
Light heals
Light bathes
Light heals
Feel the Earth beneath your feet
Grass so green and fruit so sweet
Sort the soil
From the seed
Till the Earth
’Til you’re freed
They grow toward the light
Light bathes
Light heals
Light bathes
Light heals
Blades of green ’twine ’tween the toes
Pollen tickles at your nose
Sort the soil
From the seed
Till the Earth
’Til you’re freed
They grow toward the light
Remind me who I am
Shades of sunrise paint your face
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6. |
Roots and Petals
02:34
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7. |
At Infinity
05:36
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Lyrics:
Perhaps there’s no answer
Possibly, these lines don’t intersect
Except at some strange place
That we will never get to
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