North Star, Inverted

I used to waste my skin, shed my time, change my colors, until I settled for black and white. I used to waste my skin, shed my time, change my colors, until I settled...

In circular dance
We call down the craft
Face the end

"Gods arrive
On the wings of the wind
Fade to black
How the mighty descend
Gods arrive
On the wings of the wind
Fade to black"
So it begins...

Out of body
Torn out of time
Diseased
Centers align
Revelations
Storm cloud swept signs
Whirlwind revolutions
Drifting by
At ease
Within decline
Out of body
Torn out of time
Grace redefined

Elliptical Trance
Flared prominence
Magnetic draft
Face the end...

The future can't sleep
It doesn't need to
It dreams standing up like the statues
In the gardens we'll pass through-
Past the guardians at the gatepost
The Light: how it gives and it takes

Pitch black, the poles lost their grip
Let the axis reverse-
Precious balance of mind now disturbed...
This world, it slips and tears
And if the smoke ever clears
Will the southern skies now host The Northern Lights?
Let's make pretend:

"It was all a delusion
It's all in your head
It was all an illusion
Like gold out of lead."

The present can't see
It is blind but has visions
Of pillage and pilgrimage
The purging of empires-
Tyrants, their treasonous wars...
Then without warning its done

A clean slate just feels like a dead weight
The burdens of surface stone
Scrapes skin from bones
As we crawled across dark parking lots
Felt the forest floor cringe...
And let the cities cave in

The past lost its voice
It can't speak but was spoken for
By pundit and prophet...
Until the dust clouds around us
Eroded our embellished belief
In some fixed history

Could we recognize
Symbols made of smoke?

Across the canopy
That soft-spoken sky
Burnt by the torchlight
As we chart out the ley-line
Pray the earth it won't break one more time
All the voices we heard
As we followed the fault lines

Devoured, digested, cast out...

Decomposed

"Gods arrive
Line of dark chariots
Starlight dies
I can't bury it yet
Wheels of fire
Swing they so low
Fade to black
Carry us home"

Polaris slips her tongue
Through a kiss made out of cinders
In a marriage of chemicals
The sky's sulphur heart
Carved-out veins of slate
The pulse of the earth-
How it sinks and it slows

An oil corn and wine coated keystone
The archway, two columns (now ash and dust)
Frame this path for us
The undeserved-
Brought low and unpreserved
From this unhallowed gaze, we profane;
The cursed abandon the weak
To stagger on in a stolen display
Of confusion, of faith

The North Star, she nods out
Doused her torch, left us forever
Without promise or penance
We're left to merge with the trench
Taught the cruelties that it takes to survive
"Just accept to be free."

I used to waste my skin
Shed my time, change my colors
Until I settled for peace...
In death, an emerald sea stands before me
Unveiled but unbowed-
Each wave's a rainbow of sound

Could we recognize
Any signal in the noise?

Across that static sea
O, crestfallen sky
Yearn for the currents
That carved out the ley-line
Pray the earth it won't break one more time
All the voices we heard
As we followed the fault line

Pray the earth it won't break one more time
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault lines
Pray the earth it won't break one more time
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault lines
Pray the earth it won't break one more time
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault lines
Pray the earth it won't break one more time
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault lines

Devour, break down and black out...

Decompose