Holy Elixir
(专辑: The Book Of Traps And Lessons - 2019)
I
touch the
beginning Animating animals and tree Gods Scratching out legends in cave walls The
days pour down into nights as we watched We mapped stars with peaks, we fought beasts We caught food for the
feast And we walked to a
breast to receive the
bound wheat The
grass, black and strange As we razed plains to ash We laid claims, exchanged grains, and made pacts And we clashed, and we strained, and the
rains lashed The
young maids were brave, but they were made to lay flat The
old ways were too ingrained to make the
reins snap We laid traps We gave our names back to the
Saints We sang out thanks and complaints We burned fat, arranged bones into flames Each bird a
great catch Our songs were spells, and our spells were plain facts She laid down in the
road where the
people go by And declared herself willing to try I
laid down beside her But all I
could see were the
feet as they walked over me That's when she told me, "I was holy elixir" She said "I thought I
knew the
world, but it was only a
picture" She said "We're all written in the
holiest scripture It's just we're living in this time that says no inhibitions Get yours, keep going the
distance, no limits And don't bother protesting because nobody listens Besides, all your solutions dissolve under scrutiny And you can't stand a
note of derision Instead, seek approval to justify your existence Have opinions, but have no resolve or conviction Just keep your head down Breathe the
fumes and indulge your addictions Routine is healthy, ignore the
affliction The
cost to the
soul and the
constant constriction Don't consider too closely, have no intermission Keep throwing your fists in slow repetition Most of us manage, what makes you so different? Now, you seem a
bright spark Go ahead, take the
road with the
pilgrims Head for the
temples of democracy Freedom, growth, reason, liberty, hope But don't pay attention to what's hanging from the
rope" She said, "Decode the
language, unfold the
symbols I'm told disciples got lost in the
hillside Following intellect, they let go of wisdom And now they'll tell you the
soul's a
closed system They sacrificed instinct to phony ambition And now what they hold in their fist has become all that there is But total existence needs meaning and myth Many misjudged the
way and got lost in the
mist Your loneliness is the
symptom, not the
sickness" The
moment her lips said "peace," my peace melted I
became a
memory, I
felt myself peel I
was atoms, Magnesium, Calcium I
was real She said, "We are born of collision We are divisions of a
bigger vision And yet, we run around like hamsters Spinning the
wheel Spinning the
wheel Spinning the
wheel" I
was on my knees then, begging for pardon I
was old and clothed in white garments In a
vast red desert where the
rocks were dark blue and varnished And a
voice said, "This is the
garden Now you better start sowing or there won't be a
harvest" I
came to under a
domed roof The
light was cold and clear and fragmented There was people, moving, I
watched them I
saw a
muscle of school girls performing I
saw the
ticket woman massaging the
small of her back And a
young gent, neat as a
crease in his work clothes And the
light, light as breath on the
dirty, old track