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Sacrament
07:04
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Sacrament
(Marsh)
The flame that burns me, keeps me warm
To cradle the burdens, that I have worn
The wound that pains me, the thorn in my side
Feeds on my envy and eats at my pride
Sacrament; the fire is breaking their bodies
Sacrament; their eyes staring out from the grave
Sacrament; the night-child is tearing their eyes out to see
Say a sacrament for me
Sacrament for me...
A time unwinding, the sands falling low
Tumbling beneath me, my destiny foretold
The embers are burning, the flames rising high
Flickering around me, they’re burning me alive!
Sacrament; the fire is breaking their bodies
Sacrament; their eyes staring out from the grave
Sacrament; the night-child is tearing their eyes out to see
Say a sacrament for me
Sacrament for me...
Woah-Woah!
Halleluiah
(Amen-amen!)
You take the poison, you feel the pain
You take the poison, but you’ll not live again
You take the poison, (take the poison), you feel the pain
You take the poison, but you’ll not live again
You take the poison, (take the poison) you feel the pain
You take the poison, but you’ll not live again
Not live again, not live again, no, no!
The lie everlasting, the serpent tongue of old
The scales that drip with snake oil
You’ve sold another soul!
The tail that feeds the hunger; ouroboros divine
The venom in your blood-flow, it’s poisoning your mind!
Sacrament; the fire is breaking their bodies
Sacrament; their eyes staring out from the grave
Sacrament; the night-child is tearing their eyes out to see
Save a sacrament for me!
It’s tearing their bodies away!
Sacrament; the night child is tearing their eyes out to see
Save a sacrament for me!
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Widdershins
13:32
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Widdershins
(Bell, Marsh)
Turning sunwise, feel the change on the breeze
Ghosts in your eyes, tear you down to your knees
Heavens turning, clouds that break and then die
Glow reversing, from the earth unto the sky and stars
Father’s footsteps, followed you, “step this this way”
voices whisper, to paths already paved
Lonely churchyard, there’s a sign don’t you know?
Choked in ivy; points the way to the road within
but you know that it leads widdershins
Standing on a frozen beach
Waves that roar and chase the thunder
Somewhere in my memories
Dry my eyes, don’t pull me under
Crack the air and break the dawn
A wisp glows through the storm;
Feel the wind and rain...
Sunset, following the tides
We’re sailing from left to right
Change!
As long as you forget
To turn from right to left
Change!
Following the tides
We’re sailing from left to right
Change!
As long as you forget
to turn from right to left
Left upon the open sea
Place my hand upon the compass
Moon descending in the east
Track the turns of dying tempests
Tear my heart and rush the shore
Fighting through it all
Time to make the change...
Eastern sunrise, clockwork in rewind
Weary on my eyes...
Needles inside, point where the path lies
Turning in my mind, don’t know how to navigate...
Deafening silence, scan the horizon
Chasing out my time, don’t know where the truth begins
Drifting far from home...
Widdershins! Widdershins!
You know the tide is turning!
The sun is rising in the western sky
(Turning widdershins!)
The moon a mistress to the ebbing tide
Silent thunder, oh it calls you home
Nature breaks her promise; changing winds upon us
The cave that haunts you springs from your dreams
(Turning widdershins!)
A premonition of uncertain means
Take me, to shore again
What’s that path I followed where the ivy led?
Winding outwards, talking without words
Choosing the wrong side...
Course grows narrow, straight as an arrow
Turn against the tide, won’t return this way again
A warning in the air...
Sunset, following the tides
We’re sailing from left to right
Change!
As long as you forget
To turn from right to left
Change!
Following the tides
We’re sailing from left to right
Change!
As long as you forget
To turn from right to left...
And turn from life to death...
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The Haruspex
08:26
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The Haruspex
(Marsh)
Now tamed in vision, lives forecast
By echoed lines of words once passed
Once caught the current, stretched in time
We bathed in stars to drink your wine
When open sails, they seized the sun
Caught solar winds to kingdom come
My air a ruin of your mind
Now drift away, you’re lost in time...
Awake is the night, alive is the song
Can you hear me on the wind?
Sail away with me, my love again,
Pray your heart will not give in
And my children sing their songs above,
Say their charm is not enough,
Sail away with me, my love again
Is eternity not a game we all play?
Beyond horizons, spirits yearn
For ghostly ports of no return
A spectral vision shrouds the way
The harbourmaster takes his pay
From eyes, your coin, it tricks him twice
The tune begins; a devil’s prize
And the river sings her song,
What cannot kill you makes you strong...
Awake is the night, alive is the song
Can you hear me on the wind?
Sail away with me, my love again,
Pray your heart will not give in
And my children sing their songs above,
Say their charm is not enough,
Sail away with me, my love again
Is eternity not a game we all...
...play in the night to dance in the sun
Read my future and my past
Sail away with me, my love again
Lash your hands unto the mast
Through my fingers pour time’s raging flood
Will the river take me home?
Sail away with me, my love again
‘cause eternity is the game, we all know...
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Dreamcatcher
05:24
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Dreamcatcher
(Bell, Marsh)
The world is fading
Mother spider’s waiting
And she weaves her dreams around your bed
Hesitating, by the threads light waning
As the shards of night are now ensnared
Leave its safety every day
Let me close my eyes
All these dreams you caught
Are just nightmares of mine
Shhh...
Purifying, all the Fireflies dying
Caught in fibres fraying from the dawn
Eyes an anvil, now the web entangled
As the grey mist seeps from every yawn
We leave its safety every day
Let me close my eyes
All these dreams we shared
Are just nightmares of mine
And then the curtain falls
A childhood’s play performing
You - recall your lines; they’ve changed
And now the stage-light burns to...
...wake me! Fall to your knees!
Throw the shutters open wide
Daybreak bathe my mind...
In sleep...
Who plays my part?
Who breaks my heart?
Mother spider, web’s on fire,
Mother spider...
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Wisp
06:56
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Wisp
(Marsh, Ewen)
Twisting, turning, breaking, burning
Extinguished light...
Breaking, waking, sinking, shaking
It springs to life...
Breathing, screaming, shrieking, deceiving
The agony thrives...
Breaking, burning, twisting, turning
And so it begins...
Never mind the light, the world is circling, resting on the tide
The falling embers on the breeze – the eyes that haunt me
I never wanted that old fear, cold and lonely – feel surrounded
Although I feel it’s wrong, something inside is crying out for more
Crying out for more!
Your mind is not your own, stricken, tired, your face torn the bone
You throw your heart asunder; stoke the fire you’re craving
It’s just a seed demonic, it’s a ride and you are on it
I don’t know where you are, but something tells me you have strayed too far
Take what you will, while the time stands still
Take what you will, for the whispering of the reeds,
It’s called the wisp...
And now the lights are gone, glance behind the darkness is your home
I caught the starlight in the breeze, my grasp betrayed me
And now the fear is haunting, wished for life – it feeds now on me
A stranger in a land my father hid away from me so very far...
Take what you will, while the time stands still
Take what you will, for the whispering of the reeds,
It’s called the wisp...
Wispy-willow-wispy-man has wished you down the drain,
He bought you for a bargain, now your life is not the same
The world is full of dark things and his light is just to blame
Oh, wispy-willow-wispy-man has wished you down the drain!
Upside down and inside out and spinning all around
You’re paying for your penance but no pennies could be found
Trying just to navigate, and trying to be sane
You’ve wished the wispy-willow-man down the drain!
Take what you will, while the time stands still
Take what you will, for the whispering of the reeds,
It’s called the wisp, it’s called the wisp...
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Man of Signs
08:21
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Man of Signs
(Marsh, Bell, Severn)
Some men fear it, some men run
Bought your future, now it’s gone
Saturn falling; the seed of Mars
Voices calling, from the Earth unto the Stars...
Chase the morning, kill the Sun
The sky was falling
But the Earth was young
Chase the morning to kill the Sun
The Man of Signs, you know your day is done...
Break the nightfall, bewitch the Moon
The ground was rising
But we woke too soon
Chase the morning, kill that Sun
Oh, Man of Signs you know your day is done...
All that’s written, all that’s gone
Steal the vision; time to run
The hanged-man smiling,
The Queen of Hearts
Darkness rising, from the Earth unto the Stars...
Chase the morning, kill the Sun
The sky was falling
But the Earth was young
Chase the morning to kill the Sun
The Man of Signs, you know your day is done...
Break the nightfall, bewitch the Moon
The ground was rising
But we woke too soon
Chase the morning, kill that Sun
Oh, Man of Signs you know your day is done...
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Witchmonger
04:18
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Witchmonger
(Marsh, Bell, Ewen)
Speak to me Witchmonger
Tell me what new have you learned?
Are the maids now in the courtyard,
watching distant fires burn?
And the flame of words – it warms you
Do you know what you have done?
Are the children raising torches to your song?
I walk (and it follows)
I run (and it follows)
I hide (and it follows me)
Follows me always!
I sleep (and it follows)
I dream (and it follows)
I die and (it follows me)
Follows me always...
(Burn the witch, burn the witch!)
Take back control...
(Burn the witch, burn the witch!)
Time for change...
(Burn the witch, burn the witch!)
Stop the vote...
(Burn the witch, burn the witch!)
Lock him up...
(Burn the witch, burn the witch!)
That’s fake news...
(Burn the witch, burn the witch!)
It’s all a joke...
What should we do with the truths, Witchmonger?
What should we do with the truth?
And who did you choose to speak it for you?
What should we do with these truths from you?
Speak to me Witchmonger
Tell me what news is your word?
Will you follow your own breadcrumbs,
as you sing now from your perch?
And the neon screens they warm you
Change your avatar and run
Does your real face show the world what you have done?
(Walk away, I walk, I walk!)
I walk (and it follows)
I run (and it follows)
I hide (and it follows me)
Follows me always!
(Walk away, I walk, I sleep!)
I sleep (and it follows)
I dream (and it follows)
I die and (it follows me)
Follows me always...
(Walk away, I’m blind, I sleep!)
I sleep (and it follows)
I dream (and it follows)
I die and (it follows...)
When you talk do they listen?
Are they following your lead?
Is the fear that’s driving us just words we heed?
Now you’re standing in the crowd
And directing our gaze,
Are we looking for the rest to feel afraid?
And no, you can’t drown out the noise
And you know it will not change
When they’re hiding from the rats
Caught in the maze
Still you’re standing in the crowd
And still holding our gaze
But we’re still burning Witches in your flames...
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Cave
19:45
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Cave
(Marsh, Bell, Severn, Farish)
Born in chains; all face the wall
Figures dance and play
The fire flickers, shadows fall
A theatre of our lives again
Don’t turn your eyes,
The mannequin of flame absolves
The lady on the river,
She cracked the mirror for us all
Watch the shadow puppets play
Where the figures never change
And the light remains the same
You watched the shadow puppets play
Though figures never changed
Stoke the fire for the puppets of the cave
Escape from the shadows
But the light will blind your eyes
Crawl back to the darkness
Scream that what you see is lies!
You climb, the air grows strong
The sunset bathes your mind
Reflections on the water
A mirror of a world deprived
Watch the shadow puppets play
Where the figures never change
And the light remains the same
You watched the shadow puppets play
Though figures never changed
Stoke the fire for the puppets of the cave
Follow the lines, see them forging on ahead
Fires they will die and the sun will set
Focus your mind, compass set now to your death
When you read from the walls of the cave
Magpies, mirrors, maids of brides
Cracks in pavements, cat’s nine lives
Lucky horseshoes, rabbit paws
Heather hanging on our doors
And would you stir up widdershins?
Carve the witch-post cross as the fire dims?
Close the window to the sparrow-call
The man you passed on the stairs wasn’t there at all
Idle hands do Devil’s bidding
Scent of burning sage leaves ridding
homesteads of the evil souls
who cast their shadows in the cold
Close the door to gypsy’s warning
Red sky at dawn to curse the morning
Ere the toll bell eerie rings
And would you stir up widdershins?
...would you stir up widdershins?
...would you stir up widdershins?
Blessed by change; the journey ends
The brave new world begins
A crusade to delusion
To break these chains all over again
Sanctum of the sermon
But the Priest has scarred his eyes
The flock turn to accusers
Then you see they’re really wolves inside
Watch the shadow puppets play
Where the figures never change
And the light remains the same
You watched the shadow puppets play
Though figures never changed
Stoke the fire for the puppets of the cave
Prisoner: Here the fire keeps us warm
Escapee: ...The flame has charred your backs
Prisoner: The world exists upon these walls
Escapee: ...A chasm filled with cracks
Both: What is true is real to me, and what is real is true
Your vision filled with storms and grey, just waiting to break through
Prisoner: Your eyes are hollowed by the sun
Escapee: ...The sun has set me free
Prisoner: Only fools renounce this home
Escapee: ...I’ll show you, follow me!
Both: What is pain is love to you, and what is life to me?
But growing shades against the wall, and fading memories?
Let the shadow puppets play
Where the figures never change
And the light remains the same
Let the shadow puppets play
Though figures never change
Stoke the fire for the puppets of the cave
Let the shadow puppets play
Where the figures never change
And the light remains the same
Let the shadow puppets play
Though figures they won’t change
See your world, is just shadows in a cave
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