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The River Rises
03:27
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Let me speak first of revelations,
And next of dark deceit
Then I’ll speak of champions
Of Lovers, Gods and Beast
My song is long and twisted
It winds it worms it wends
It carries few, It drowns many
And those I love it rends
My song has taken hold of me
It grips my tongue, my throat
My voice cries truths I never knew
And to fight is just to choke
So let me dwell eternal
And in ruined flesh ascend
For my song has no beginning
Here are the lyrics written by me:
Times may pass, and come what will
The tide shall rise and drink his fill
The mind may rage, or soul submit
Nevertheless, the tide comes in
Be it a curse upon your name,
Or be it a blessing, it’s all the same
Sing in praise or proclaim your sins
Nevertheless the tide comes in
The world may refract in that crash of the wave
If drowned lungs could sing, what would they say?
“Am I descending?” Or “Am I set free?”
Dragged down to the river, and on to the sea
Come the shore will you wither? Not meant for dry land.
Or is this just the last of his gifts in the end?
Will you finally see clear, through compounded eye
The river rises
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2. |
Hallowed Ground
02:50
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If I may chart no path away
From hands that grasp and bind
Then forge my flesh a weapon ‘gainst
All their kith and kind
(Forge your flesh a weapon ‘gainst
All their kith and kind)
If they hold me broken
With my back bent and head bowed
Take me as a martyr
You who lies below the ground
(Lay flowers on my grave)
(We’ll take you as martyr we
Who lie below the ground)
(lay flowers on my grave)
If I cannot rise in victory
If my wounds can never mend
(lay flowers on my grave)
Let me be no captor’s saint
Make me a revenge
(Lay flowers on my grave)
(You shall be no captors saint
You shall be a revenge)
(Lay flowers on my grave)
Take the earth in which I’m laid
And make it hallowed ground
(Lay flowers on my grave)
Consecrated in thy name
Not those that struck me down
(Lay flowers on my grave)
(Consecrated in our name
Not those that struck thee down)
(Lay flowers on my grave)
Make the flowers of my memorial
A spear to pierce their hearts
(lay flowers on my grave)
I ask thee make my bitter end
Into a bloody start
(Lay flowers on my grave)
(We shall make thy bitter end
In a bloody start)
(Lay flowers on my grave)
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3. |
Tell Me Prophet
02:13
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Brother did you walk through hell
Did you drown and rise to tell?
Prophet are your marks engraved
Your verses there upon the page?
Brother did they cry your name,
When in triumph home you came?
Prophet was it as you thought,
To rightly be the voice of god?
Tell me brother did you weep,
To let your siblings die?
Prophet was it writ that you
Should fail at all you try?
Brother, did your sister save
You, risen from the grave
The water’s lonesome daughter
Who now has turned away
Brother did you rise again
The Rivers’s fury now made flesh
Prophet did you hatch a plan
The faithful safe within your hands
But as it always threatens too
The story gets away from you
And you you acted as you must
And won in back through blow and blood
Tell me brother will the water
Now wash clean your hands?
Prophet will your faithful just
Forgive and understand
No, If you’re to be the savior,
Someone must be writ the traitor
Prophet, did the river
Turn your hand against your sister?
Brother did you walk through hell
Did you drown and rise to tell?
Prophet are your marks engraved
Your verses there upon the page?
Brother when you’re down beneath
Will we know your melody?
Prophet when your work is done
Will your song and verse be sung?
Prophet when your work is done
Will your song and verse be sung?
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4. |
Return To The River
02:07
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All water returns to the rivers
And all the rivers are as one
And the current that flows
To the ocean knows
It's just waiting for the storm
That's yet to come
All water's like blood in a vein
Going, then returning to the heart
One father in the water,
We call you sisters and brothers
If creatures of the current's
What you are
When the river inherits the sea
When the ocean returns from the sky
Risen in the water we'll be
Shifted and changed by the tide
All water returns to the rivers
All the rivers are as one
As you have gone
Return to his arms
And see what you
Were mean to become
All waters just fragments of the whole
The Trawlerman of silt and shell and bonee
The river embodies the seas
And calls them back home from the skies
Ebb and flow
The current only goes
Until it's recalled by the tide
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