Odes to Joy

Tarot · Track 20 · middle

Judgement

RWS: a great angel with a trumpet and a cross-marked banner, the dead rising from open coffins with their arms flung wide, grey figures, far mountains. Keywords: awakening, reckoning, the call, rising to be counted, rebirth by summons.

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Lyrics

[Intro]
The stone was heavy.
The water was perfectly still.

[Verse 1]
You made your quiet bed in the floating box
Convinced the dark was a permanent lock
But there is a pressure dropping in the air
A shadow of wings casting over the clear
The grey of your skin begins to itch and flush
Something breaks the centuries of hush

[Pre-Chorus]
Look up at the cloud, the blinding white seam
This is not the end of a fevered dream
This is the morning demanding your name.

[Chorus]
Hear the brass split the roof of the sky
Fling your arms wide to the golden eye
A square red cross stitched into a snow-white flag
Pulling every heavy body from the ash
You don't get to rest in the dirt anymore
You are called to the terrible, open door
Rise.

[Verse 2]
The auditory cortex catches the blast
A shockwave of sound erasing the path
The stone lid slides off and sinks in the sea
You stand up naked, shivering, and weak
The snowy mountains watch from the cold
As the grey figures step from the mold

[Pre-Chorus]
Look up at the cloud, the blinding white seam
This is not the end of a fevered dream
This is the morning demanding your name.

[Chorus]
Hear the brass split the roof of the sky
Fling your arms wide to the golden eye
A square red cross stitched into a snow-white flag
Pulling every heavy body from the ash
You don't get to rest in the dirt anymore
You are called to the terrible, open door
Rise.

[Bridge]
Did you want to be summoned?
Did you want to be weighed?
Every shadow you cast is suddenly displayed
The great angel doesn't ask if you are ready to stand
He only tips the horn to the waiting land
And you stand up anyway, because the frequency demands it.

[Chorus]
Hear the brass split the roof of the sky
Fling your arms wide to the golden eye
A square red cross stitched into a snow-white flag
Pulling every heavy body from the ash
You don't get to rest in the dirt anymore
You are called to the terrible, open door
Rise.

[Outro]
The trumpet fades into the ocean breeze.
Your arms are up.
The coffin is empty.
You are awake.
Now what?
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