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1. |
The Tundra Is Awake
04:43
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The Tundra Is Awake
It’s a dangerous trail
That we navigate
Death
Transcends all mystery
A vast and unknown casm yawns
Clarity unbound by law
messages sent from outer space
valley floor to pinnacle
There’s a fire in the soul
A howling in the blood
Wilderness beyond belief
The paradise we hold within
Forever out of reach
Outside the walls
The wild world awaits
Escape
to our true self
Pine sap, elm and juniper
origins of the universe
The tundra is awake
While the world is sleeping
The tundra is awake
While the world is sleeping
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2. |
Older Than The Gods
06:09
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OLDER THAN THE GODS
I breathe
I speak
I sing
for the dawn
I grow
I sigh
I echo
Through the oak
I melt
I boil
I toughen
Like iron
I’ve weathered all these years
A riddle in the stone
For too long my story’s been untold
Thaw my songs from the frost
Cast the spell of words unspoken
Older than the gods
We are tales that never should be buried
Pass my wisdom on
Where golden fields gamble with the sunlight
Older than the gods
I reach
I spread
I rake
Through the ground
I shine
I glide
I descend
into swamps
I colour
I copper
I brighten
The fires
I’ve forested the seeds
From marshes out-spreading
For too long my story’s been untold
Thaw my songs from the frost
Cast the spell of words unspoken
Older than the gods
We are tales that never should be buried
Pass my wisdom on
Where golden fields gamble with the sunlight
Older than the gods
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3. |
Listen To The River
04:54
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Listen to the river
When the cities turn to deserts
And we carry our weightless bones
Our bodies will need no marker
And our ashes will need no urns
HEAR THE LANDSCAPE
LISTEN TO THE RIVER
THE ANCIENT LANGUAGE
RIVEN IN WATER
There's a whisper in the ether
Rising and falling in flow
If you only stop to consider
What it means to know and to be known
HEAR THE LANDSCAPE
LISTEN TO THE RIVER
THE ANCIENT LANGUAGE
RIVEN IN WATER
In the primitive museum
The gods will start to dance
The totems come to life
The totems come to life
On the altars of their temples
The forests repossess
The totems come to life
The totems come to life
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4. |
A Cabin In Montana
06:55
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Cabin In Montana
North-ward song
Crystalline woods
Rainfall on moss
Life begins anew
Who speaks for the wolf?
Freedom
Who speaks for the wolf?
Freedom
I think I will send you a letter
From a cabin in Montana
Follow the wings of the morning
To a deeper sense of belonging
I think I will send you a letter
From a cabin in Montana
Following the bends of the river
To a deeper sense of meaning
Mist on pines
Stumps, stars and moon
Seasons expire
Day turns to night
Who speaks for the wolf?
Freedom
Who speaks for the wolf?
Freedom
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5. |
Eternal Meadow
05:00
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ETERNAL MEADOW
There is a birch
Standing
In a hollow
The birds sit within it
Eagles nest in the boughs
The ancients took you in
Become pure inspiration
Transformed animal
Occult illustration
Beyond abstract shadows
In the eternal meadow
We watch you fill the sky
Ever ascending
Thus spake the eagle
In sacred song
Forever thankful for
Their place of nesting
No limitation
Where vistas look within
And outside limitation
We’re left to find you
On brighter horizons
If I step within your inner temple
A nocturnal eclipse of ancient wisdom
The secrets of life
And death are revealed
In memory of our friend
“Eternal” Timo Ketola (1975 - 2020
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6. |
Crepuscular Creatures
04:07
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Crepuscular Creatures
This is the
opening door
Where ancestors peer inside
Take off your skeleton
You’ll become
space between stars
We didn’t come here
To gently sway our limbs in the breeze
We came to lose our wings
grown up on roots
And an aura of gloom
The mad earth draws us up
into the curve of a moon’s wound
We travel vespertine
Crepuscular creatures
These are
Insatiable fields
Demanding meditation
pricked by the glow
Of something
transmogrified
From this life
Or before
Cloak-world opens up
Death brings us on
Dawn is off to call on a friend
Night erupts a tidal wave
The magic dusk of our chosen blood
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7. |
Ring
04:40
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RING
The sun sinks below the earth
each aching minute
the sky grows darker
I pull my body to the soil
the moon is leaking
underneath an ocean
The trees that circle in a ring
will see me leaving this being
and like a supernatural dream
I will rise and cease to exist
Spirits swim within my bones
each step we take
is ancient conversation
my body watches as they call
behind the clearing
my name's the word they're mouthing
The trees that circle in a ring
will see me leaving this being
and like a supernatural dream
I will rise and cease to exist
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8. |
Homeward Polar Spirit
05:12
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Homeward Polar Spirit
The ways of the land
The old beaten track
Treescapes smoulder blue
Star-lake on loop
Glow-eyed windows
Mist in the hollows
kinship of the seasons
keeping colder currents
horsepower of hope
Well-spring of gratitude
Let the world break down
While you remain ours
Under the polar moon
Loyal to this soil
Under the polar night
Feel my force field
I am this holy landscape
Here my heart breathes & dies
Homeward polar spirit
Here my Inner life thrives
revel in the grace
Roots regrow
Necessary opposites
My ageless abode
A friendly welcome
Sun sinks so low
Frozen in beauty
Pupils dilate
horsepower of hope
Well-spring of gratitude
Let the world break down
While you remain ours
Under the polar moon
Loyal to this soil
Under the polar night
Feel my force field
I am this holy landscape
Here my heart breathes & dies
Homeward polar spirit
Here my Inner life thrives
Homeward polar spirit
Take me away
Homeward polar spirit
I am yours
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