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Hesten
03:37
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2. |
Black Water
03:31
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By black water in island night
Where a silence steals in on life
Warm blood is taken
By beast, or by cold
There is murder where life leaves bone
By black water, down in the loam
I see two bloody faces
One warm, and one cold
Mist settles on me
I cannot pick it from my clothes
I see a ganfer, a glimmer, as I arose,
From black water, from endeavour, alone
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3. |
The Storm
03:38
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Fighting a way through the grey
Trying to stay on my feet
There’s a way, there’s a way
Through this decay
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The Holy Name of Fire
04:00
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A king is in the mountain
Asleep within his tomb
Where he awaits the traveller
To tread upon his gloom
In shadow on the island
Where I walked out alone
I listen for the rhythm of
My footfall on the stone
The way before me withers as
The storm is coming on
A cowl of wind around me
And the beating of a drum
Where no name, will sound
Or shelter me
The life within the fire
Is longing for a name
That I can scarcely summon from
My fingers in the rain
I will her from the darkness
Until she stirs again, and
The holy name of fire
Is singing in the flame
A wave of glowing embers where
Her body comes away
Into some higher quarter
Where the air and spirit play
And her name, will sound
And sing to me
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5. |
Out from Black Water
12:00
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Half-dead in half-light
I shiver and sway
Out from black water
Like the fool in a play
Falling through fever
Pursued by shade
Death-breath wet on me
With the stench of a cave
Blood on my t-shirt
And blood in my hair
I feel bloody-handed
For wounds that aren’t there
No one has passed here
Since blue bit the hill
Shadow blind behind me
Feeling for its kill
The fool in his fire
Wears my mask as his own
Fell out from black water
Dripping in gloam
In limping midnight
I hear for the stream
As sisters of brilliance
Glimmer and gleam
Their beauty beacons
Wax-wane in the brim
That washes the shoreline
From dream into limb
The fool will wander
Through any gateway
And stand astride edges
He cannot convey
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6. |
Black Water (reprise)
02:40
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Ian Humberstone Edinburgh, UK
Musician and writer based in Edinburgh. Recording sound to magnetic tape since 2005.
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