Odes to Joy

Tarot · Track 18 · middle

The Moon

RWS: a moon with a downturned face dripping dew, two grey towers, a pale path between them, a dog and a wolf howling up, a crayfish crawling out of the pool. Keywords: illusion, dream, the unconscious, the unlit path, what the tide drags up from below.

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Lyrics

The tide is breathing
Out of the black pool, the armored thing ascends
No eyes to see the shoreline where it meets the blackened stone
It drags its heavy claws across the bottom of the mud
To find the winding ribbon lit by cold and silver blood
Slip mind, sink mind
Fifteen drops of heavy dew falling from her chin
The sky is crying silver on the state we're living in
And the hound is singing to the wild
The wild is howling back
You walk the pale and narrow road across the pitch and black
Between the two grey towers where the boundary line is drawn
You have to wade the nightmare if you want the sun to come
Unlit, unlit, unlit
Look at the face suspended in the gloom
Half-closed and heavy, a cradle and a tomb
Your brain is throwing monsters on the static of the dark
But the shadow is a mirror and the mirror has a heart
Are you the tame beast by the house, or the wolf upon the hill?
The water keeps on rising, and the air is violently still
And the hound is singing to the wild
The wild is howling back
You walk the pale and narrow road across the pitch and black
Between the two grey towers where the boundary line is drawn
You have to wade the nightmare if you want the sun to come
Deep drag, unlit, bone pull
Do not trust the shape of the trees
Do not trust the bending of the breeze
The illusion is a language that the deep mind understands
The creature leaves its tracks across the pale and shifting land
It climbs out of the underneath, it does not know your name
It only knows the gravity that calls it to the game and it will never stop walking
So howl at the dripping face
Shell drag, pull down
Walk the unlit path
The towers are watching
The tide goes in, the tide goes out
Slip mind
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