The Quickening Lyrics


They’ve scratched into stone chambered walls sonnets and poems

No key to decipher the code, of legends, of lore, of webs they have wove

To tangle ourselves into knots ‘til we fall right down the hole

To where no map can carry a man,

To where no man can call his home

Light gives light, to light discover light

Beware of the warning signs, the magick it fades at night

Light gives light, to light discover light

Beware of the warning signs, the magick it fades at night for the blind

We’ve latched onto the first familiar thing that we know

How to trust the eyes of a crowd

Tell me what to think, how to feel, what to know

Then rob us of sight until we’re blind, ‘til we fall right down the hole

To where no map can carry a man,

To where no man can call his home

Light gives light, to light discover light

Beware of the warning signs, the magick it fades at night

Light gives light, to light discover light

Beware of the warning signs, the magick it fades at night for the blind

There are things of dreams under the crust of the earth

Of Kings and Queens who ruled this place first

The weird giants sleep, we mustn’t be heard

Beware my warning or the magick fades away

Do you dare look into the glass?

Where lesser men prevail where the greater would stand

The measure of your being is the martyr of dreams

But the weight that you carry should be lighter than the feathers you preen

So you walk along brimstones to the looking glass

To see an elegant frame - but nothing looks back

You’re lost in the minutia where the Devil lies

But you’ve always been here - you were just closer to the sky

If we’re soon to die

At least we’ll fall not far from the Earth

Because we’re less in size

So lighter we’ll fall on the turn

At the quickening, it comes alive

Just to fade before your eyes

Oh because the magick fades away