HEXVESSEL LYRICS

1. Heaven And Earth Magic

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
[Carl Sagan]

She brings the harvest spiral dance
Fruit
Bone
Blood Earth

She is the ellipse of the heavenly bodies
Water Stars
Air
Birth

She calls each thing by its right name
Trees
Hearts
Breath
Plants

She renews the tide as it washes the land
Root Weed
Surf
Sand

She carries peace in the joyless void
Bell
Bird
Wing
Leaf

She is a circle with no beginning and no end
Sky Altar
Wand
Staff

She is above and below, without and within

2. Woods To Conjure

Oh this isn't walking in the forest with grandpa
When life was simple and honest
This is a cold wet camp when the fire wont kindle
And you're damp to the bone and miles from home
When the trees shiver all through the timbers
And the visions are embers of an unfinished sentence
Wrapped in the bleak creeping feeling
That something is missing
From the picture of the universe

A spirit form inside a tree
Blood seen in the creases of a palm
The saddest sign you'll ever read
Conjure me conjure me conjure me

Oh this isn't a sip of a spirit in an old bar
When your troubles all seem unreal
This is losing a war in a desert
Where you're gunned down, dry to the bone
And completely alone
For we creature the leashes
That strap us to leaches
That suck through the marrow
Of the altars of earth
Feasting on the brains of creation
In the graveyard of nature
We get stranger and stranger

A spirit form inside a tree
Blood seen in the creases of a palm
The saddest sign you'll ever read
Conjure me conjure me conjure me

3. Wilderness Is

“Is it because wilderness makes pretty picture postcards? Because it protects watersheds for downstream use by agriculture, industry, and homes? Because it’s a good place to clean the cobwebs out of our heads after a long week in the auto factory or over the video display terminal? Because it preserves resource-extraction opportunities for future generations of humans? Because some unknown plant living in the welds may hold a cure for cancer?

No – the answer is, because wilderness is. Because it is the real world, the flow of life, the process of evolution, the repository of that three and a half billion years of shared travel”

Dave Forman – from “Confessions of An Eco Warrior”

A humble and naïve dedication to the work of
Ryuchi Sakamoto & Shigeru Umebayasi

Inspired by the wise words of Dave Forman

4. A Letter In Birch Bark

Many winters winds have whipped me
Unseen runes of those who drew me
Rested in the bark of copper
Left behind by a long lost writer

Concealed in a plume of birches
Waiting for the ones who find me
Ancient magic communication
Bound by the arrows of god

Wisdom from the past within me
I can be your guide or master
Am I spell or am I promise?
Will you heed my words?

Many summers suns have blessed me
Unread truths of those who drew me
Scrawled into the riven driftwood
Locked inside a secret language

Exhumed into an older future
Waiting in the earth above me
Occult forms of conversation
Sealed by the sign of god

Hidden in a woodland coastline
I can be your spell or sermon
Am I oath or am I omen?
Will you know my name?

5. His Portal Tomb

I see your face
Painted rays through glass panes
Black pillars beneath your feet
If you could speak what would you tell me?

Hieroglyphic texts
spells that protect
universe descends
symbols that project
Into the underworld

Let's save a kiss
for his wooden lips
let's make a wish
let's take a trip
As in the afterlife

Funerary form
falcon wings adorn
vaulted eyes carved
staring out beyond
watching the sunrise

Transfixed by your portal eyes
Like passages to the next life
Sarcophagus dreams behind the lid
Carrying secrets meant only for the deceased

6. Elegy To Goyahkla

Saddle horn
Worn femurs
Worthy bones
Gunsmoke ghosts
The last lost outpost
No call from the wilderness
Can’t speak in stone wounds
Wine glasses chink down hollow rooms
No grave for a hero like you
No rest for a curiosity charm
Chime with the term bell toll
Gone with a lecture roll
Witness to vacant ritual assembly
Dormant prefectures

Spoken with a whisper
Used like an old scream
Sold to peering slavers
Another bio-piece on American TV
Distant relatives remember
Trees, dust, wind and mountains
Forever forever forever

7. Are You Coniferous

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
[John Muir]

Tell me my dears
Are you coniferous?
Do your leaves last all year?
Will you always be here
Are you coniferous?

8. Sacred Marriage

In forest heart the man of leaves is dancing
He is the source of stream and seed of life begun
At the edge of dawn his lithe green limbs are moving
Our thin flutes play and he steps the mystery round

Green Lord
Green Lord
Spring maiden dances with you
Green Lord
Green Lord
Spring maiden dances with you

Through ripened corn the golden man approaches
He wears the sun – the oldest light as a crown
His fertile magic staff he bears before him
The air is hot as he lays down upon the land

Corn king corn king
Harvest queen lays with you
Corn king corn king
Harvest queen lays with you

On open moor the man of stone is waiting
Between the worlds he guards the twilight hour
Through his eyes the ancient knowledge passes
His feet drum the throbbing beat of earth’s deep heart
 
Stone man stone man
Weaving woman waits with you
Stone man stone man
Weaving woman waits with you

Free running stag is riding from the darkness
The world hart he leaps across the sky
He carries deep the heartbeats of the old ones
He marks a trail into the wise and hidden ways
 
Horned god horned god
Moon goddess rises with you
Horned god horned god
Moon goddess river with you

9. Dues To The Dolmen

Inspired by the words of Carol Batton
For Niklas at Les Chaumieres de Kerimel and his ancient
Stone neighbours. Thank you!

Holy holy holy old friends
Rise sphinx-like
Ancient megalith
Whispered strangers breath
Coats the cold circumference
Tricks of the light wind wind kite style
The sunpipers shadows solo and riff their discords
Flap tap the frogs in the grass gorge
Uninvited eyes size
And scan up the solitary canopy
Minerals shimmer all
To bear witness and to be witnessed
Gather the modern-day druids
Air-conditioned polyester pilgrims
Folding fabrics fizzle in the wild woods
Souls drawn and magnetized by old stones
Abandoned churches within the great church
A door within a doorway
Our home is outside
Housed where the globe appears to rest on a pine
cone
Your voice like rain echoes like rain echoes like rain
Howl through the barrows ohs ohs ohs
Stone skeleton – spill your spells, secret intentions
A pause on the tape with no reset or rewind
Play button transmits two minds
Back to summer smiles
And dues to the dolmen…

10. Unseen Sun

Unseen sun that shines within us
Unseen sun that dwells within us
Unseen sun that grows within us
Unseen sun that lives within us

The sky rings out
Toward your holy seat
The sky sings out
Toward your holy seat

Carried by chariots
All is Void
Your flesh will shine
Until the end of time

Ancient totem
Cleanse me with emptiness
Liberate me
Into nothingness

Cloaked king of light
Cloaked king of light
Cloaked king of light
Cloaked king of light

The sky rings out
Toward your holy seat
The sky rings out
Toward your holy seat

Unseen sun that shines within us
Unseen sun that dwells within us
Unseen sun that grows within us
Unseen sun that dies within us

11. Your Head Is Reeling

[originally by Ultimate Spinach]

Collapsed laughter running, falling, drifting, across the mine field of your thoughts dissolved wondering: who am I? why should I be alone, alone?

Concrete forests loom into view
Steel throated robots tell you what to do
Look out big brother is lookin' at you
Look out big brother is lookin' at you

Your head is reeling
Your head is reeling

Flowered children dressed in a shroud
Are enveloped by a great flannel cloud
Because they go around acting too proud
Because they go around acting too proud

Your head is reeling
Your head is reeling

Plastic masses don't know what to say
But they want to make all the flowers go away
Or else take the sun away from your day

Your head is reeling
Your head is reeling
Your head is reeling
Your head is reeling







HEXVESSEL LYRICS