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Aurora
01:21
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Tropic Rising
05:02
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ISLAND:
what was I before you awoke?
an island with no anchor
a throat without a song
i felt the future
like an infinite sea
and from beneath the waves
you spoke to me
tropic rising bring us heat
in your heart prepare a feast
sons and daughters of paradise
i waited my entire life
to see you
young one, be brave
feel the wonder
and follow where it goes
i warned take only what you need
but you want it all
i'm in love
with the light that comes
my eden lay before your eyes
could all it's glory ever suffice?
you hold tremendous appetite
am I truly tropic rising?
does my heart contain a feast?
child of the waters
will I give you everything?
young one, be brave
feel the wonder
and follow where it goes
i warned take only what you need
but you want it all
i'm in love
with the light that comes
from you
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3. |
Creation Myths
06:36
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NATIVES:
we could be the equal parts
creation speaks a sacred truth
that each one is made from two
as the dusk opens an infinite mouth
to let the stars come pouring out
a quiet anoints the air
barefoot walking through the smoke of incense
paradise dripping from your hair
my fingers catch in a single snare
your image like mist in my mind
skin like gold
spread across water
in your palms
you hold the dawn
and morning’s thirst demands
that i take a drink from both your hands
the flowers in our skull bloom slow
and I wonder what becomes
but now i see
what we owe the serpent and the tree
in the garden we became more than beasts
will we age together,
at the edge of night?
in the slow heat
where each limb awakes
sweeter than honey what the body gives
the flowers in our skull bloom slow
and I wonder what becomes
but now i see
what we owe the serpent and the tree
in the garden we became more than beasts
one day the love that you gave
will crown the children that you shape
don't you know the universe grows
with you
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4. |
Infinite Tide, pt. 1
04:10
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OCEAN:
in whose image were you made?
of a hundred gods, am I not the one you crave?
the waters from which you came
bones that learned
how to gather upon the earth
but I gave you my blood
and your heart still beats in waves
your heart still beats in waves (echo)
one day i may rise
above the sacred palms
and holy mountain tops
shaped by the moon
to cover the summer you loved
on that day, will you embrace
where you came from?
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5. |
Red Salt, pt. 1
01:38
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6. |
River Hands
05:33
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NATIVES:
we stand naked in the river
like fingers pointing into the future
a rainbow of carbon in the mist
and in the distance the ocean calls us
but we’ve got something left to give
live long enough
and you lose the ones you love
if water rises to your lips
does the animal heart within
come to its senses?
can we ever tame
the ghost before we give it away?
let our children carry the flame
a gardens just another name
for ground that was once a grave
live long enough
and you lose the ones you love
cradled by the river
until it carries to the flood
maybe it’s our time
we’re all adrift in the infinite tide
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7. |
Sons & Daughters
06:17
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ISLAND:
fledgling bird, I watched you grow
heard your song, as you knit new bones
the spark in your lungs, a life awoke
as it blooms into fire, I breathe the smoke
my body dreamed of light that came
and in the morning you remained
no matter the life you create
just know, my love, you cannot separate
the night from the day
as the ocean darkens
it's white-toothed, eager waves
will show you how the body breaks
and if death emerges
to gather you from me
what shape will you take?
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Firstborn
02:43
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ISLAND:
my body dreamed of light that came
and in the morning you remained
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9. |
Bruised Earth
06:06
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NATIVES:
sacred fruit in the branches above
taste and know the thoughts of gods
we inherit what the ground will yield
our common language
the withered trees of paradise
coral feathered,
delicate red
the blood we share
our hearts tethered
with a strand of thread
to each other life we’ve met
my fingers traced the braille
of sown fields
to find what was buried inside
both hands came back with earth
our gift
our birth
and I was blind
until it's clay covered both my eyes
and now i see we share a light
coral feathered,
delicate red
the blood we share
our hearts tethered
with a strand of thread
to each other life we’ve met
i may never know
why we dream in imagined colors
i may never know
who we are to each other
but I think I may find
that we awake after our lives
to learn that the divine
was a light that clung to our insides
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10. |
Infinite Tide, pt. 2
03:35
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OCEAN:
are you in the mountains?
child, that’s not high enough
the wound I feared for you comes
it’s hidden in my love
you’re the dust of stars
but what’s a star?
just a memory of light
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11. |
Tempest Futurae
06:52
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STORM:
last night i had no name
just a whisper
on some distant wave
oh ye of little faith believe
you were given all the world
now you inherit me
can you feel that hunger on the wind?
the hundred hands across your skin
by dusk I’ll be with you in paradise
like the stars that make up your bones
eventually the light implodes
someday soon
you’ll be nothing but dust in the dark
all these feeble offerings
that litter oceans floor
your hopes, your dreams
such small, broken things
child, I want more
no hymn will ease the suffering
I carry in my teeth
I’ve never known the taste of flesh
but I will learn
watch me learn
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