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01. Yesterwynde

(Out of the darkness
And into the bright light
We carry the ties
That we bind to you)

I am the broken blooming bough
The countless sunsets of a lost world
See me. See me?
So alike we are, you and us, soon
See me, See you
On an island of a shipless crew

02. An Ocean Of Strange Islands

A mariner under a sky moonlit
On an island of a crewless ship
A few decades of immortality ahead
A one-man crew for a one-way trip
Islands, islands everywhere
I keep my range with crowded sails
My waves they kiss every shore I land
Steep cliffs will mock my waving hand

Islanders, villagers, universal mariners
Calling me, guiding me
Monsters far beneath
Hurricanes on the way
Lunatic weathervanes
Shipwrecked lovers on a faraway cay
Passing by butterflies, fluttering for a day
Jokers, jesters, goddesses hominidae
Deep delicious blue beneath
I'll steer wherever tomorrow is near

Light a beacon so I can navigate
Through the tempest
Through the madness
Light a home fire for the sad man
With a begging hand
Light a beacon so I can navigate
Through the tempest
Following the quintet
Ride on the highest wave
Bring me to life
To them who dance in the daylight

Sail and seek
The starbound quay
Calling you, calling me
To be a part of your story

Here raining ash to cover the dead
An island of the past wrecks
Of you of the endless sundown
Hemlock meadows, deepest quicksand
Empty harbor by a wasteland
Mirrors, mirrors, everywhere
For you of mad despair

Friends who were for a time
Now grapes of sour wine
Lords of a single fly
Still, I rue no island of shared solitude

You who glow in deepest woe
Let it be, retiree, the water's fine
Sail carefree

Sail and seek
The starbound quay
Calling you, calling me
To be a part of your story
On these strange islands

03. The Antikythera Mechanism

Unearth a weave of a lost world
Your fathers' voice no more unheard

Sixty times to the sun and back I return
Just imagine an awake tomorrow

Humankind, reconciled, human child, undefiled
Navigate, celebrate
History, mystery, afterlife will arrive
Outermost, reaches of human mind
Labyrinth, navigate, animate
Avatar of the tides
In the end, to the stars

Tools of mankind
All odds defied
This hour is ours
Dare us dare

From a brave old world, the days of yore
An ancient orrеry reading the gods
Aiming for truth, starbound, they saw
Thе library burns, prophets are crowned

Millenia of darkness for the fallow

Humankind, reconciled, human child, undefiled
Navigate, celebrate
History, mystery, afterlife will arrive
Outermost, reaches of human mind
Labyrinth, navigate, animate
Avatar of the tides
In the end, to the stars

Tools of mankind
All odds defied
This hour is ours
Dare us dare

From Lucy's prints
To those on the moon
And from the moon
To the...

Humankind, reconciled, human child, undefiled
Navigate, celebrate
History, mystery, afterlife will arrive
Outermost, reaches of human mind
Labyrinth, navigate, animate
Avatar of the tides
In the end, to the stars
Humankind, reconciled, human child, undefiled
Navigate, celebrate
History, mystery, afterlife will arrive
Outermost, reaches of human mind
Labyrinth, navigate, animate
Avatar of the tides
In the end, to the stars

04. The Day Of...

Take shelter, skies are humming
Harmageddon, 2nd coming
War of the worlds, the end of history

Take shelter, floods are rising
The Wrath of thunderous drumming
End of days
For mankind, and for your kin

Fill those empty moments, fear more
In this grave new world of `84
Fast death, last breath,
A.I. to kill us all

Horse waste covering London
Martians among us, Y2K
Hoard, all aboard, the end is near

We are the ill-starred kids of your junkyard
The innocent islands unscarred
The moment of our nadir
So many times passed the due date

Too late, gather up
It`s the day of

Purgatory, same old story
Cower before a caliphate glory
The Big Read of today will gallow you,
Keep you small

Here’s a million ropes for the hangman
Nightmare cavalcade for the sandman
Mind virus, fear of the well-known
Keep us safe

We are too many for our Mother
Crops will burn so why bother
A new strain sent you back into your cave

Obey, stay away, cover up
Fear the words, feeding humanity
Hide the unshot guns
And the crippled dancing

It`s a long road to a dreamworld
All the pain and suffering to feel for
It`s there, but yours is an empty sermon

Made up the sun rising
Made sense of equus flying
Time for another fear made real

A need to feel dread, gloom, awe
A lust for never-ending doom porn
A man-shaped evil walks among us

Obey, stay away, cover up
Fear the words, the feed, feed the human beast
Hide the unshot guns
The end is fear

05. Perfume Of The Timeless

Something from the earth came
Something for the world
Mosaic of broken fragile pieces
Tesserae of the deceased
Born to a novel world

Endless chain unbroken
Silent clocks rewinding
My song it is for mankind
Embers to the stars

We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a dеath bed
Time set for a curious ghost

Livеs lived plain and epic
Of eudaemonia
12 score and 1 chain of lives unending
Welcoming as my offspring
Walks me to the weave

My song it is for mankind
Embers to the stars

We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a death bed
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a death bed
Time set for a curious ghost

We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a death bed
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a death bed
Time set for a curious ghost

We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs on a death bed
We are their heir, dust on their palm
We are because of a million loves
We're the perfume of the timeless
Last sighs of a million loves

06. Sway

Child of mankind
Of yesterwynde
Sway away the woe in us
A grateful soul never needed much
Emanate the heavens
Through your touch

Sway over the mountaintops
Soar over the swaying crops
Adorn your garden with
A perfect day
Sway over the discontent
Ghost stories in a tent
Your house lands on the witch
See yourself

It has begun to snow again
In this perfect village, home
The birds have flown, the birds have known
Where you rest your worn out wings

Sway over the mountaintops
Soar ovеr the swaying crops
Adorn your garden with
A perfеct day
Sway over the discontent
Ghost stories in a tent
Your house lands on the witch
See yourself

Some stories heal and some will scar
The big reveal awaits in awe
The big reveal awaits us all
The big reveal
The big reveal awaits us all
The big reveal awaits us all

Sway over the mountaintops
Get that dance out of you
Sway away, sway away
Over the mountaintops
Sway away

07. The Children Of 'Ata

Fonu oku mafu he mamahi 'oka malu efiafi
Kuo hapax koe 'e 'oseni
Foki maiki “api hoku ngaahi foha

Still vastness in the horizon
Fifteen long months under mocking sun
Land threw us there, away from world
Plays to us music yet unheard
We were there
We were there

Still vastness in our heartbeat
Solitude and woe tear us apart?
They say that man is the foulest beast
Roaming the hills of self-deceit
But we came back
We came back

We are the ones to tell you why
The world of us, it will survive
Light a fire for the boat afar
Campsite Gaia
We all are
The children of 'Ata

This guitar we built still chimes with hope
Never gave our souls to the carrion crows
Every new day we saw the sun rise
Every new day we beat the lord of flies
We were there
We're still here

We are the ones to tell you why
The world of us, it will survive
Light a fire for the boat afar
Campsite Gaia
We all are
The children of 'Ata

Ko 'etu lotu ke tau mo'ui
'Oku mau keoi lepa atu pe
We are the ones to tell you why
We are the ones
Ko 'etu lotu ke tau mo'ui
'Oku mau keoi lepa atu pe

We're all here
On an island of black seas
Red in tooth
Red in claw
Red in love, the passionate young
We're still here
On an island of soon free
Learning to live
Yearning to give
The stranded a ride back home

We are the ones to tell you why
The world of us, it will survive
Light a fire for the boat afar
Campsite Gaia
Remember
The children of 'Ata

08. Something Whispered Follow Me

Came to be of this world
I see an open door
Her waters moonlight lit
Her secret ancient lore
A cleanest slate untouched
By a single wave or breeze
Standing on a birthplace of
A glorious yesterday

Then one day something whispered follow me
One life, one strike to follow something real
Once there was something hidden within me (Within me)
Stardust to dust, a tapestry in between

Go find your mountain
Go paint a forest blue
Go build a treehouse underground
And a graveyard with a view
Never miss a perfect storm
Always follow the herd uncalled
Welcome the heaven sent
Silence of a thrilling fall

Then one day something whispered follow me
One life, one strike to follow something real
Once there was something hidden within me (Within me)
Stardust to dust, a tapestry in between

Follow me
Follow me
Something in between
Something whispered
Something in between
Something whispered
Something within me
Something whispered
Something within me
Something whispered

09. Spider Silk

What did you weave during the moonlight hours?
Did you create or did you wait and trap the unaware fly?
Sucking him dry
Where did you get that little cross on your back?
Marked for life, a needle in a haystack
A laboring beast ready to feast

Spin away the delicate silver silk of your web
On your masterpiece
Cut the thread, once you're done with the newly dead
And weave a new one

Spider silk, cocooned in unsung wonders
Motionless, she looks for stolеn moments
Spinning away, a mystery play
Emotionless, shе picks a life in waiting
Cutting the yarn, another death creating
Spider silk, a beautiful spin

Spin away the delicate silver silk of your web
On your masterpiece
Cut the thread, once you're done with the newly dead
And weave a new one
Spin away the delicate silver silk of your web
On your masterpiece
Cut the thread, once you're done with the newly dead
And weave a new one

Spin away, spin away, spin away, spin away
Spin away, spin away, spin away, spin away
Spin away, spin away, spin away, come spin away
Spin away, spin away, spin away, spin away (Oh, come spin away)
Spin away, spin away, spin away, spin away
Spin away, spin away, spin away, come spin away
Spin away, come spin away

Spin away the delicate silver silk of your web
Cut the thread
And weave a new one
Spin away the delicate silver silk of your web
On your masterpiece
Cut the thread, once you're done with the newly dead
And weave a new one
Spin away the delicate silver silk of your web
On your masterpiece
Cut the thread, once you're done with the newly dead
And weave a new one

Spin away (Spin away), spin away (Spin away)
Spin away (Spin away), spin away (Spin away)

10. Hiraeth

Hiraeth

Walk with me a while
By this creek of life
Beneath a cathedral
Of trees cloud-high

Step in to this view
Get that dance out of you

Never-ending
Longing for the "what if"s
For a home that once was
For a ghost love lullaby

Ever-tending
Watering the dead fields
Living with the hurt will
Tear the blue from shining eyes

Loneliness
Caressing me
A beast still roams these hills

Long to belong
Bleeding birds singing songs
Nights filled with light we don't see

Never-ending
Longing for the "what if"s
For a home that once was
For a ghost love lullaby

Ever-tending
Watering the dead fields
Living with the hurt will
Tear the blue from shining eyes

Never-ending

Never-ending
Longing for the "what if"s
Home

11. The Weave

Light

First cry, language of the unheard
Old ghosts dancing to a new birth
Knit from souls vanished long gone
Into one, a Reaper's sideshow
First step, open gates to homesteads
Last thought innocent and unscathed
Tenth spring, sirens knitting mindscapes
Passion of the young, anchors aweigh

He of myriad songs
Of a lifelong call
Cries its moment to the stars
Rips a withering heart
To fall apart
The unweaving has begun

The unweaving has begun
To fall apart
Rips a withering heart
Cries its moment to the stars
Of a lifelong call
He of myriad songs
Thе unweaving has begun

Passion of the young, anchors awеigh
Tenth spring, sirens knitting mindscapes
Last thought innocent and unscathed
First step, open gates to homesteads
Into one, a Reaper's sideshow
Knit from souls vanished long gone
Old ghosts dancing to a new birth
First cry, language of the unheard

Light

12. Lanternlight

Gone is the hurt, the wait
Gone is the warmth of day
A stray boat saved, happy memories engraved
On into a velvety night
Beneath a lanternlight

Last night brought the heaviest of snows
Melting the songs of old
Tying the boat, write a new one soon
Sending me to the drowning moon
Far above a lanternlight

I'm in the light and flood
I'm in the four winds
I am the waves shaping pebbles flawless gems
I am the snow on your palm

I am the secret stream
Moss beneath your feet
I am you who climbed off of my back
Not long ago
A sheltered song in a world now gone
Petrichor
The timeless

Turn loose the swaying boat
Meltwater, sound of spring
I hear our song now, sung by the free
For a thousand more tomorrows
Of an incomplete weave
To the meadows I go
I’ll be waiting for you
Once upon a lanternlight

I walk now toward the trees
I am the secret stream
The night falling at my feet
Into the forest of Yesterwynde