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The Path, Pt. 1
02:39
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THE PATH: PART I
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Stars paused their Allemande
When I spoke my name,
I felt the pull toward the sun,
Flaming chatter waned.
Old one that I fear,
Old one that I love,
Old one that subsumes me,
Passions won.
When the circle closes in,
I press my wings firmly out,
With burned intent.
I am unraveling, untying time.
To the void that sings to me,
I toss the line.
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2. |
Scorched Earth
04:32
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SCORCHED EARTH
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Verse 1
On the edge of a knife,
I feel I’m falling over Life.
Fling open wide your Citadel
At the precipice of Hell.
I feel the mantle of a soldier
My existence smolders.
I toss the flame through the veil
At the precipice of Hell.
Chorus
I clear my path, A Scorched Earth
My flame births the ashes,
Here I’ll grow my worth.
Verse 2
It is time I heed the call,
Voice steely from the Fall.
Fling open wide your Citadel
At the precipice of Hell.
I feel the roar of my soul,
Fighting pain, becoming whole.
I toss the flame through the veil
At the precipice of Hell.
Chorus
I clear my path, A Scorched Earth
My flame births the ashes,
Here I’ll grow my worth.
I clear my path, A Scorched Earth
My flame births the ashes,
Here I’ll grow my worth.
Chorus
I clear my path, A Scorched Earth
My flame births the ashes,
Here I’ll grow my worth.
I clear my path, A Scorched Earth
My flame births the ashes,
Here I’ll grow my worth.
Tag
Up through flames I rise—
Finding breadth in the skies
Up through flames I rise.
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3. |
Blood
05:21
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BLOOD
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Verse 1
Dry lips taste death on salty seas
Are you beyond the swell?
I feel brittle sand ‘neath my knees
It knows, but it won’t tell me—
Pre-Chorus
Where are you?
Where are you?
Chorus
In the mist of dreams I sense you,
Damp on my skin, absorbed like tears
I need you, stay in my blood.
I am you, we are one.
Verse 2
Numb hands in snow will freeze
If I dig my way to Hell.
Truths hide in tendrils of jungle trees,
They know, but they won’t tell me—
Pre-Chorus
Where are you?
Where are you?
Chorus
In the mist of dreams I sense you,
Damp on my skin, absorbed like tears
I need you, stay in my blood.
I am you, we are one.
Verse 3
I wake to dream, I dream to see
Aural visions of the knell.
Through the haze your hand
Reaches out to me,
But where? Why won’t they won’t tell me—
Pre-Chorus
Where are you?
Where are you?
Chorus
In the mist of dreams I sense you,
Damp on my skin, absorbed like tears
I need you, stay in my blood.
I am you, we are one.
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4. |
Lilith
04:10
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LILITH
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Verse 1
Ash crumbles from your tongue,
Earth beneath your nails.
I prefer to spread my avian scales,
Finding perch in the heavens.
Chorus
From the light,
I fly into the night,
Finding places for my soul to breathe.
In the fight,
I stand up for the might
Of my voice,
It cries to be free.
Verse 2
Are you from above?
Are you from below?
You have no power to tell me,
With your earthen lips, where to go.
Chorus
From the light,
I fly into the night,
Finding places for my soul to breathe.
In the fight,
I stand up for the might
Of my voice,
It cries to be free.
Chorus
From the light,
I fly into the night,
Finding places for my soul to breathe.
In the fight,
I stand up for the might
Of my voice,
It cries to be free.
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5. |
Eve
06:28
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EVE
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Verse 1
I was nothing, You were Time—
Cold, wet, reclining.
Deep into Dawn I felt your breath
Slither in my ear.
Pre-Chorus
You said for a taste
There’d be no fear!
Chorus
Up I rise from Seas Immortal,
Feel my timeless reach.
Suns may die and moons they rise
At my word, for I am Eve.
Verse 2
Haloed, naked, moon behind,
I feel wet clay dry.
Nightmares forged in seams of dreams,
Wrap your scales around me.
Pre-Chorus
I stand, baked by heat.
You could set me free!
Chorus
Up I rise from Seas Immortal,
Feel my timeless reach.
Suns may die and moons they rise
At my word, for I am Eve.
Bridge
In my dreams I see the Door…
Floating, wrapped in blue.
In my dreams I pass on through—
Dancing on Star.
Chorus
Up I rise from Seas Immortal,
Feel my timeless reach.
Suns may die and moons they rise
At my word, for I am Eve.
Eve—
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6. |
Alchemy
05:03
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ALCHEMY
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Verse 1
Your fires freeze me,
Rivers of icy flame
That flows from your tongue,
Envelops me, envelops me again.
Your agate streams to my tiger’s eye,
A journey into your lust.
A fire beneath
Blackened crust, blackened crust.
Chorus
Oh— a universe of sighs
Oh— how far between?
Oh— how far between?
These ridges of identity,
These ridges of identity.
Verse 2
Your hot winds, they floor me,
Breath released, a smog
That sticks and obscures,
Smothers me, smothers me in fog.
Your granite Zenith,
Hides me from solarity.
Too much to bear, you are
Towering, towering into polarity.
Chorus
Oh— a universe of sighs
Oh— how far between?
Oh— how far between?
These ridges of identity,
These ridges of identity.
Chorus
Oh— a universe of sighs
Oh— how far between?
Oh— how far between?
These ridges of identity,
These ridges of identity.
These ridges of identity,
Ridges of identity.
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7. |
Wayfaring Stranger
03:35
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WAYFARING STRANGER
(traditional, adapted by Moira Murphy)
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Just traveling through this world of woe.
Yet there’s no sickness, toil, or danger
In that bright world to which I go.
I’m going there to see my father.
I’m going there no more to roam.
I’m only going over Jordan.
I’m only going over home.
I know dark clouds will gather round me,
I know my way is rough and steep.
Yet golden fields lie just before me
Where the gods their vigil keep.
I’m going there to see my mother.
She said she’d meet me when I come.
I’m only going over Jordan.
I’m only going over home.
Over home.
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8. |
Through The Veil
04:03
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THROUGH THE VEIL
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Verse 1
Looking back at the shadows
in the thickness,
At your form so close…
Can’t shake this sickness.
Verse 2
Looking back at
Hands I adore.
At your form so close…
Why couldn’t you be more?
Chorus
Be more than streams of gray,
More than shadows weeping.
Substantial beyond tears,
Strong for arms’ keeping?
Verse 3
Looking back, looking back
At your freezing, hovering breath,
At your form so close…
I part the veil of Death.
Chorus
Be more than streams of gray,
More than shadows weeping.
Substantial beyond tears,
Strong for arms’ keeping?
Chorus
Be more than streams of gray,
More than shadows weeping.
Substantial beyond tears,
Strong for arms’ keeping?
Tag
Strong for arms’ keeping
Strong for arms’ keeping
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9. |
Slice Of Time
06:29
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SLICE OF TIME
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Verse 1
My wild heart grieves
Seeing how the night leaves
Shadows from my sight.
Verse 2
My hands become granite
placed in the light velvet
Touch I lost in dark.
Pre-Chorus
Like the distant static of memory,
Like the ghost touch sensory…
Chorus
The light, it drives the hellhounds away
If I can hold it;
Time, it drives a blade through the voices,
Cutting through words and through dreams.
Time is a sword, a sword.
Verse 3
My wild heart cries
Blindness in cruel light,
For I’m wounded by day.
Verse 4
My hands become stone.
No more fire in my bones,
Left cursed by this mark.
Pre-Chorus
Like the distant static of memory,
Like the ghost touch sensory…
Chorus
The light, it drives the hellhounds away
If I can hold it;
Time, it drives a blade through the voices,
Cutting through words and through dreams.
Time is a sword, a sword.
Final Chorus + Vocalise + Tag
The light, it drives the hellhounds away
If I can hold it;
Time, it drives a blade through the voices,
Aah–
Time is a sword, a sword.
Time is a sword, a sword.
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10. |
The Path, Pt. 2
02:57
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THE PATH: PART II
Lyrics by Moira Murphy
Dusk falls upon Gavottes
I have yet to dance,
I feel the pull toward the moon,
Waxing in her glance.
Old one that I know,
Old one that I am,
Old one whispering sylvan songs,
Rooted where I stand.
When the circle closes in,
I press my wings firmly out,
With burned intent.
I am unraveling, untying time.
To the void that sings to me,
I toss the line.
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