GREEN CATHEDRAL LYRICS

1. Don't Look Back

Count my teeth and number my bones
The fossils of apostles are worshipped in stone
The sanctity of scorched earth
The tome of the past
Lies buried in earth and in ash

The heavens fall down
The mountains burn with fire
The Salt Wife looks back
A Lazarus denied
Don't Look Back

Burning of pitch and flames of revolution
Smashing in mirrors for the source of salvation
The old laws are cast upon the flame
And lie buried in earth and in ash

Count my teeth and number my bones
The fossils of apostles are worshipped in stone
The sanctity of scorched earth
The tome of the past
Lies buried in earth and in ash

2. Maps of Ancient Sea Kings

Stretching 'cross the waves of broken days
A captain peers through sea-green foam
Leviathan appears, mythos serene
Cerulean swirls in a tidal pool's whirls

A ship is lost, the sea is tossed
Deep within the ocean's thrall
The captain hears the seagull's call

In the cold kiss of ocean's mists
Embraced by the black abyss
Tides break away, the lighthouse dims and fades
Cerulean swirls in a tidal pool's whirls

A ship is lost, the sea is tossed
Deep within the ocean's call
A captain hears the seagull's call

In the belly of a whale
A sea king remembers forgotten tales
Far beneath the blue white of the foam
A creature stirs out of the gloam
Out of the ocean he will roar
Out of the ocean he will rise with venom and with spit
To take the sea king into his fathomless pit

3. Crimson

I sit and watch while you're sleeping
Beneath your lids plays a vision
I touch your cheek with burning envy
I want to sink inside of your skin

Constructing languages in dream time
Frustrated tears fill your day time
I long to be the one who gets in
Your sleeping mouth just whispers "crimson"

You need to be tied to your bed
So you won't float away from your head
One night control may desert you
And you'll remain in crimson

4. Sea of Rust

I call myself the captain
I sail the sea of rust
I am always starving
I feed off your trust

Weariness defines me
Makes me what I am
A solitary sailor
Who craves the promised land

The shore so far behind me
Before me endless glass
Drifting on my future
To others, tragic past

Refuse to honor history
To heed what has been said
The billion eyes of heaven
Has pinned me to my bed

5. Drink

She came by the morning light
Her hair rivaled the sun
Back-lit like a stained glass saint
I lie there staring, drunk again

I don't believe that the measure of love is pain
I don't believe I could pay that price again

A soul is not limitless
As my pride seems so bottomless
But her love stole my confidence
So I broke my own heart again

I don't believe that the measure of love is pain
I don't believe I could pay that price again

Who will judge the injustice?
To myself and the one I love
I shall nurse my solemnity
With sleeplessness and drink tonight

I don't believe that the measure of love is pain
I don't believe I could pay that price again

6. Return to You

When will we meet again? When will we feel again?
Open our eyes to the beauty of us again
How will it feel to be drowning in you again?
Time can't erase but the spirit grows weak....

The miracle of you was permission to live again
My lips brushed the hem of the robes of a goddess
Where do you go again, living white porcelain?
Leaving me here with the grace of a corpse…

Sacred Spaces that you haunt
I gave everything to keep you here
But my sacrifices were too dear
No burnt offering can hold you
When the supplicant is unclean

Release the birds
They'll return to you
Release the birds
I can read their signs
Release the birds
They'll return to you
No haruspex can tell me the truth

Nothing can hold us together now
The glue is gone
Nothing can keep us apart
As my thoughts return to you
Nothing can hold....

What does it mean for us to wake up in agony
Our pens full of blood as we write our own tragedy
Why do we treat hellishly a love once so heavenly
The brutalized icon will stand to remind us....

When we were young and we danced through the ritual
Laughing at sacrilege, we'd sing at our funeral
Why can't we return to the time of innocence
When in burning temples our devotion lasted hours

Nothing can hold us together now
The glue is gone
Nothing can keep us apart
As my thoughts return to you

Nothing can hold
Nothing can hold
Nothing can hold us together now
Nothing can hold
Nothing can hold
Nothing can hold us together now

Release the birds
Release the birds
Release the birds
And they'll return to you
Release the birds
Release the birds
No haruspex can tell me the truth

Nothing can hold us together now
The glue is gone
Nothing can keep us apart
As my thoughts return to you

7. Autumn

She said to wait
But it's getting late
More than a year
I wish that she were here

Autumn, it's almost autumn
Where is she now?

The country was cold
And I'm growing old
She called me "the one"
She'd be back with the warming sun

Autumn, it's almost autumn
Where is she now?

She said to wait
But it's getting late
More than a year
I wish that she were here

Autumn, it's almost autumn
Where is she now?

8. Winter's Veil

The twisted roots are grasping
In frozen darkness below
The serpent smiles with scintillating eyes
Opens its mouth to swallow its tail to move
Between worlds and push aside the veil

Snow lies thickly on the branches of the trees
Their arms bend heavily to the icy drifts below
On the spire the dark crow

In this quickly falling mystery
What was clear and what was bright
shall fade and hide from sight
On the spire the dark crow

Crescent crowned the Queen of Night
Lays her mantle of stars so bright
I dream of summer in this frozen light

Push aside winter's veil
And see the serpent sleep below
Coiled in roots and the darkness deep
I wait for a glimpse of his widening eye
High above

High above the dark crow is calling to me
Push aside the winter's white veil....







GREEN CATHEDRAL LYRICS