THE WHEEL
Would you believe she's gone from the world
Following nighttime noises, the innocent little bird
That cruel pretender fooled you again, dear
By the bend in the river all will be shown
And you will know
With all that you see in this labyrinth
Wide eyed wonderer reaching for the
Golden rose-water scented dearly departed
She falls to death as you stumble
Back where you started
You fought so hard but your relentless heart
Could never bear to let it go
When everything that you wanted
And all the truth that you hunted
The promise is broken
You're spinning the wheel again
Do you hear the passing locomotive
Westward thundering
Do you remember?
The dirt is hard where we danced
It grows even harder
Passing under the wheels
Forever onward
You fought so hard but your relentless heart
Could never bear to let it go
When everything that you wanted
And all the truth that you hunted
The promise is broken
You're spinning the wheel again
And now you know
Spinning the wheel again ...
THE TOWER
Bar all the doors and board up the windows
Set fire to the table and burn all the bedclothes
Wrap me in shadow, close your eyes, you will see
It's a relationship formed at the speed of light tonight
They say that the lightning will never strike the same place twice
The spread of our culture likened to fire
The spread of our cultured likened to a fire
We'll make it better for the unbelievers
With plastic parts and burnt out hearts
It's a relationship formed at the speed of light tonight
They say that the lightning will never strike the same place twice
Don't give up
It's getting harder now
These waves of light are unpredictable
When what we know, when what we claim to know
Let it go
It's a relationship formed at the speed of light tonight
They say that the lightning will never strike the same place twice
Colliding in pictures of possible futures
Reach out to me
Across the divide of a billion dimensions simultaneously
CRADLED IN BONE
Hear me, listen
Long have we wandered
Always searching
We look for the place where
We began
Cradled in bones
Our souls entwining
Already home
Spinning outward
In radiant circles
We revolve, and go back to the start where
We began
Cradled in bones
Our souls entwining
Already home
I’ve traced the stars on your fingertips
The heavens clenched in your grip
(Radiant circles)
The hand I hold isn’t yours alone
But all your nameless kin
(look for the place where we began)
The red road stretched out long before us
Our faces to the wind
Hand-in-hand, we begin again
At the place where our footprints end
TORCHBEARER
At the waterfall
You felt the river pulling you in
Branching beneath your skin
The source was within you
Cut yourself open
Cut yourself open
Show me
Water falls
Slips between your fingers, your open palms
The truth is finally coming out
The mystery is spelled out in light, and I have seen it,
I think that I’ve touched it
I found it in the waves, and all around me
Rising to take me
Rising to take me
Standing before the crowd
With your accusers gathering round
They’re lighting the fire now
Up there on the pyre
Could you see it?
Did you reach out and touch it?
The truth was in the flames, and all around you
Spinning around you, turning in orbit,
All the universe inside of you
When the spark begins to catch
Will it burn, will it burn,
Will it burn these pages black
When the torchbearer lifts the lantern high
No disguise will survive in the light
Like seeds taking root in the ash
All that was meant to will come to pass
The fire’s beginning to catch
I AM THE ALTAR
Bone rattle shakes in the long summer grass
A fire in the hearth
And I am the ash
Lasting past the spell that is cast
You're tracing symbols along the new earth
I am the altar, I am the drum
The nameless one
Secrets
You carry around
From a cup of bones: revelations
But when it weighs heavy on your soul
It'll come crashing down and let us reveal it all tonight
I had a dream I was a birch tree aflame
Standing over all those who came to say,
Please don’t break this holy curse
We’ll love what we were
We’ll love what we are
We are all liars, We are all framed
By nature’s ways
Secrets
You carry around
From a cup of bones: revelations
But when it weighs heavy on your soul
It'll come crashing down and let us reveal it all tonight
THIN MAN
(Instrumental)
THE SEER
It's not that I don't feel bad
It's just that I can’t feel worse
Rise up from the unexplored hidden domain
Up to where the atom reigns
Carelessly, he said, this engine will burn us,
It doesn’t need a reason
But is it better leaping into the void
Than to stand at the edge
The colors of a used-up earth
In the midst of a sea of shadows
Hiding out in a sunken eye
Can good deeds defend
The violence of a simple plan
Navigating between the arrows
Like that of an animal
Please be careful
Where you’re walking there’s no light
And the grave is too wide
White light burns the seer’s eyes with wisdom
Insight will overpower reason
The hole that exists in everything
We’ll fill it all with light
Blown apart, reunified
KING OF SWORDS
Before time was time
When your atoms clung to mine
And all of everything, combined
Then at once the light
Driving us apart
We’re stumbling through the dark
Did you find what you were looking for?
Did you find what you were looking for?
Tell me
All behold the King of Swords
The silence that you broke
Among other things
The bell that you rang once
Still rings in me
It echoes in my thoughts
Resounding in my bones
I’m fumbling for the door
Am I everything you’re longing for?
Did you find what you were looking for
All behold the King of Swords
Approach the throne, the King of Swords
And all the bonds you broke
Tearing every string
How did you think it would end
With you, with me?
And everything you said
I remember every word
We're falling through the dark
Did you find what you were looking for?
THE WHEEL (REPRISE)
The cracks that we have mended
Fractures filled with gold
Seeds we have planted
In perfect, crooked rows
Re-making, re-destroying
On and on it goes
So it goes
The treasures we have lost
Lie shining in the snow
Shining in the snow
The places we have faltered
Promises that we broke
All the wasted hours
Let them become our yoke
And we will pull each other
Further down the road
The cracks that we have mended
Fractures filled with gold
Seeds we have planted
In perfect, crooked rows
Re-making, re-destroying
On and on it goes
So it goes...
Released August 11, 2017
Sonia Even: Vocals
Travis Even: Guitar and Vocals
Al Erbach: Bass and Vocals
Ben Johnston: Drums
Max Becker: Drums
Jon Hunt: Guitar and Vocals
with:
Jourdan Meyers: Background Vocals
David Mercer: Orchestration and Piano
Kara Haro: Flute
Charlie Beckey: Cello
Leah Ott: Violin
Recorded and Mixed by Ben Durrant at Crazy Beast
Mastered by Huntley Miller at HM Mastering
Artwork by Kieran Wakeman at Divine Chaos