Wide Earth Choir

from Tundra Divine by Seismograph

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lyrics

Cut the rope from the mooring
Loose the sails, keep your bearing
Carried out by the warm wind,
Worn as cloaks over our skin

We’ll use the sun to carve a path
From golden sand through crystal land

I know that this is futile
The ice holds nothing useful
It’s become a fixation;
A place for resignation

If I don’t survive, at least I’ll die
For something worth finding

There are things I'll see but never mention
I have too much doubt to seek attention
Spend two years at sea to find a place where
I can feel in control and lay my mind bare

Don’t depend on the ice blink
To guide you when the light sinks
Listen close for the tolling
Of the bell rung by frozen swells

I know there are those who hope
To be lionized and idolized
But there’s no way to know
If you’ll be remembered as Barrow

“Sea and Salt and Earth, who dost show
Thy splendor in the ice and snow,
Bless those who live in waning light
And through the cold of arctic night,
As they Thy frozen wonders learn;
Bless those who wait for their return.
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the Sea.”

Phantom suns, arranged
Their halos slip away
From us
All at once, revealed
A lunar landscape left
For us
As the light retreats
Things dimly shadow forth
Towards us

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from Tundra Divine, released November 4, 2014

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