Singing Stones
Music: Eire, Mist
Vocals: Mist, Ailey
Low ye hills in ocean lie
Hide not Meirion from my eye
Still one view oh let me take
Ere my longing heart do break
O'er the seas hath flown my heart
O'er the seas my sighs depart
And o'er the seas must she be sought
Who lives yet always in my thought
Neath the waves I shall reside
Neath the water and the tide
For my longing heart did break
When she another love did take
Music: Arrangement: Ailey
Vocals: Ailey
Harking is bonny and there lives my love
My love lies on him and cannot remove
It cannot remove for all that I have done
And I never will forget my love Annachie
For Annachie Gordon he's bonny and he's bright
He'd entice any woman that e'er he saw
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
And I never will forget my love Annachie
Down came her father and he's standing at the door
Saying Jeannie you are trying the tricks of a whore
You care nothing for a man who cares so much for thee
You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie
For Annachie Gordon is barely but a man
Although he may be pretty but where are his lands
The Sultan's lands are broad and his towers they run high,
You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie
With Annachie Gordon I beg for my bread
And before I marry Sultan his gold to my head
With gold to my head and straight down to my knee
And I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie
And you who are my parents to church you may me bring, But unto Lord
Sultan I'll never bear a son
To a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee
And I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie
Jeannie was married and from church was brought home,
When she and her maidens so merry should have been, When she and her
maidens so merry should have been
She goes into her chamber and cries all alone
Come to bed my Jeannie, my honey and my sweet
To stile you my mistress it would be so sweet
Be it mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to me
but in your bed Lord Sultan I never will lie
And down came her father and he's spoken with reknown, Saying you who
are her maidens
Go loosen up her gowns
And she fell down to the floor, and straight down to his knee, saying
Father look I'm dying for my love Annachie
The day Jeannie married was the day Jeannie died
And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide, And down came
her maidens all wringing of their hands,
Saying Oh it's been so long? You've been so long on the sands, So long
on the sands, so long on the flood
They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead
You who are her maidens come take me by the hand
And lead me to the chamber where my love she lies in
And he kissed her cold lips till his heart turned to stone, And he died
in the chamber where his love she lies in.
(instrumental)
Music: Shade, Pax
Vocals: Mist, Ailey
This is all we have
This part of fortune
Lies
Deep within
The weight of it all,
Can you carry?
And it all fades
And have you gone astray?
This is all we have
This part of fortune Lies
With a tongue-tied drifting
Can you carry the weight of it all?
And it all fades
And have you gone astray?
Music: Rhymer, Mist
Vocals: Mist
wrapped around her spine
coils inside her mind
bleeds her eyes so blind
she is killing time
casting pearls to swine
trapped beneath her crime
burnt, her skin seeps wine
moon turns red, silence speaks
...she is lead
welcome sleep...lost her head
monster dreams
...she is dead
see the serpent twine
crush her alibi
intoxicating lie
devils sing their lullaby
caught up in their schemes
drops down to her knees
begging baby pleas
serpents have their needs...
devils have her. (serpents twine)
Music: Mist, Rhymer
Vocals: Mist
Journey'd by the colder sun
Knocked at the chamber's gate
Yet this sleeper does not wake
In the oracle overhung
With careless whispers, ivystung
Their tiny fingers cling to warmth
A home for the love weary heart
Onward sacrarium, time sojourns
Polanquin leads this path adorned
While reverent creatures soft prepare
The slumberous beauty carried there
And lay their hands on silken skin
As through these veins the gods did run
Two thousand arms in twilight
Endless dream and endless night
Past echoed ruins overgrown
Small voices drift in ancient tongue
Mindful to their deepest wish
For a home to the love weary heart
In soft embrace I now arise
And search for peace in hungering eyes
Thy faces change: my love renames
Our starlit world, the past remains
Forgotten by linnear spite
One thousand pairs of second sight
Who through my eyes at last may see
We are divinity
We choose to be
Music: Shade, Rhymer
Vocals: Shade
It's wonderful here it's really quite grand
The moment still, await the hour
The Masquerade for Time's dead flowers
Dancing and reeling
We move beneath shadows
We've hung from the ceiling
All memory receding
Take leave of reason
In step with the bleeding
Chapter & Verse the lyric takes flight
Red is the day as red is the night
The hours pass, the years expire
The dance goes on, we spin on fire
Laughing and screaming
A wide-awake nightmare
Diseased and believing
In mourning-deceiving
Ever in motion and ever in grieving
Welcome my dear please take my hand
It's wonderful here it's really quite grand
Dancing and reeling
We move beneath shadows
We've hung from the ceiling
All memory receding
Take leave of reason
In step with the bleeding
Shadows now descending
To join in the Madness
The song never-ending
Wounds never mending
Wretched in countenance
The fear now transcending
Music: Shade, Mist
Vocals: Mist
I bequeath
Confusion of my sole belief
Consider: Am I god in mortal shell ?
Yet shine no brighter than myself
Invaded by life's patriarch
Who conquered me through hatred's art
With fists of all unspoken sin
Agrip'd my angered heart within,
And blood unknowing humble flows
Deity's miscarried ghost
For here my innate children prey
Un-nursed and unhealed wounds betray
A swollen rage:
My numen's breath of fire
Yet demotic sense weakens me
Mysterious misanthropy
Rejects its own humanity
I give thee name,
Yet keep the Blame
That is my one Possession
Wherein lies the Lesson ...
Music: Shade, Pax
Vocals: Shade
Drawn into a corner
A symphony of resounding shrieks in my head
I court a sure, sudden death
But give no quarter
A paper soul tears the heart from the mind
Searing is the morning, a tenement of lights
Lost inside the attic
On the floor again with a head full of rain
Wander with the shadows of shelter and smiles
Bleeding in a stairwell
Fever-staggered steps and a mouth so dry
Three liquid words collapse
Blind and chasing sirens
Five years of night time and a heart made of tin
Allow your sympathies the length of a table
I recognize no brother
Lash out at their smiles and walk in through their eyes
As my knowledge, does the knowing
Split my being from past days
In decision, in departing
In the severance of old ways
With precision, in my silence
I perceive the bitter still
Imposition, these young calling
Withered kisses, or the kill?
Together we stand
We stand so still Indifference, hollow laughter
Bathes the walls of this lost home
So futile, all attempts
Affectations, long to roam
Ever spinning, vile actress
Answered blindly to the call
The price, child yet again we sit
And watch our private rome fall
I am not well
No, not well at all
Music: Eire
Vocals: Ailey, Mist
o what can ail thee knight at
arms
alone and palely loitering
the sedge has withered from the lake
and no birds sing!
i see a lily on they brow
with anguish moist and fever dew
and on thy cheeks a fading rose
fading fast and withering too
he met a lady in the meads
full beautiful, a faery's child
her hair was long, her foot was light
and her eyes were wild
he made a garland for her head
and bracelets too, and fragrant zone
she looked at him as she did love
and made sweet moan
and then she lulled him fast asleep
and there he dreamt the strangest dream
he saw pale kings and princes too
pale warriors, death pale they all seemed
they cried la belle dame sans merci
a faery's song hath thee in thrall
and he awoke and found himself
on the cold hillside
and this is why he sojourns here
alone and palely loitering
the sedge has withered from the lake
and no birds sing
Music: Eire
Vocals: Ailey
And a winter's worth of rain
I never had but one true love
In cold grave she was lain
Oh I adored my sweetest love
As any young man may
So I'll sit and weep upon her grave
For twelve-month and a day
One true love is eternity for two
Three four nevermore
Will I see my love true
The twelve-month and a day foregone
The dead began to speak
"Oh who sits weeping on my grave
And will not let me sleep?"
"'Tis I, m'love, upon thy grave
Who will not let you sleep
For I crave one kiss of your lips
And that is all I seek"
"You crave one kiss of my cold lips
But I am one year gone
If you have one kiss of my lips
Your time will not be long
Let me remind thee, dearest one
A patient heart to keep
For we professed eternal love
That lives though I may sleep"
There down in yonder garden grove
Love, where we once did walk
The finest flower that ever was seen
Has withered to a stalk
The stalk is withered dry, my love
Though our hearts shan't decay
So make yourself content, my love
Till god calls you away"
Music: Lyra, Shade
Vocals: Lyra Shade
Behold this pale offering
Whose essence feeds your every need
Entwined divine in this sleepless heart
But what's to become of me?
Wake the walls of rememberence
Sing tenderness my silent ones
your eyes of wonder
Shake the walls with this severence
Cry bitterness the passionless stained with dishonour
Behold this frail offering
These weighted words fall as autumn leaves
Confined in the sleepless heart
While an audience still deafens me
Behold this grail offering
A quickening kiss for those who live
Illuminations price it is your sleepless heart
And the gift of voice that sets you free
Wake the walls of rememberence
Sing tenderness my silent ones your eyes of wonder
Shake the walls with this severence
Cry bitterness the passionless stained with dishonour
Wake the walls of rememberence
Wake the walls of rememberence
Wake the walls of rememberence
Wake the walls of rememberence