HEXVESSEL LYRICS

1. Masks Of The Universe

This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
this is the end of the world
this is the end of it all

I drank a dream that I was an oak on fire
where words became birds of a mirror-world
Fellow travelers under a buckling moon
a pack of tricks to play between ghosts
The sudden shadow and a clearing in the wood
astral chrysalis door to the abyss
filled with the origins of eternal things
spores that form into the teeth of mountains

And when the masks of the universe burn
The ancient light will return
And when the tide of the universe churns
A sea of wisdom will return

The iron marsh in a child of stardust
comets burn their tales in our mouths
the horizons of white holes opening and closing
a thunderclap of a universe spawning
Take me like the pacific sweeps the tides
Until every last light of starlight dies
And we're alone, clothed in infinite darkness
We stoop and beg for Sagan's forgiveness

And when the masks of the universe burn
The ancient light will return
And when the tide of the universe churns
A sea of wisdom will return

The only way into the universe is through a clearing in the forest.
Find the doorway to the end of the world and go through it
Reality is only what we make it!
Reality is only what we make it!

Into the nuclear womb of chaos
Lay your head down inside the fall-out

crossed the threshold, clashed together
life confronting life forever
our love is the fiery flames of a fountain of suns
burning in the constant conference of rebirth

2. Superstitious Currents

Conceived with the autumn
A viper at his feet
with eyes like the keyholes
of magic city gates
A crooked child of specters
A sign from above
Who saw the stars on gravestones
and sung the sky in blood

Born into the cauldron of the witch
superstitious currents pull me under
to deathward spirit spells of ghost-land rites
in a coven craft of mysteries and wonder
Incarnated over and over

With stories that raised all the hairs on their heads
He saw saints in the stairways
and spoke with the dead
They said he was a cursed child
Possessed by unclean forms
With angels at his bedside and devils at his door

3. Tunnel At The End Of The Light (Redux)

Blackness split my forehead
In an infinite truth
As the whole universe began playing
A terrifying tune
Thrown like a shadow
A veiled figure beckons
Framed by the dawn
And riding a dead horse

The tunnel at the end of the light
Igniting my gaze with irradiant fire
Dismantled my dreams in a skeleton pile
Transparent and askew
Under a stark white sky

The tunnel at the end of the light
Igniting my gaze with irradiant fire
Dismantled my dreams in a skeleton pile
Transparent and askew
Under a stark white sky

Skeletons chatter
Their moribund mantras
Calculations and curses
Scrawled in rough chalk
Cascading visions
Revolve in the moon
These eyes of death
Will not show any mercy to you

4. Woman Of Salem

[originally by Yoko Ono]
[feat. Rosie From Purson]

5. Don't Break The Curse

[feat. Alia From Blood Ceremony]

Ghost-wood bear-skull pines engulf us
primal ancestors
sons of an older cosmos
memory tree remember me when I am under the ground
beyond the aspens roots I see
wisdom centuries old abound
forests as graves of gods spoke
speaking through spores and the kernels of the oak
mirror-fencer's unhusked debris
mummified maps with no explanatory key
made from the death of an exploding star
what wonders more than they are?
Destroyed to find secrets in the ruins
where those who listen are transformed into magicians
enthroned by the great highways grin
the question we receive is the answer we put in
as we haul ourselves to the gates
but bound to our fates

Bring us back natures holy temples
Give us back the magic of the sun
Bring us back the mystery of the universe
Give us back our sacred mother earth

Winds whistle home the truth
here I stand truly written
ancient laws of the woods
far older than Akhenaten

Don't break the curse
we'll love what we once were
don't break the curse it's our sacred way of life
of life, of life

The barley that never rose
bathed in the shadowy sickle
cut through the floods of war
the smoke from our tongues seeks signal

Don't break the curse
we'll love what we once were
don't break the curse it's our sacred way of life
of life, of life

The forest is all and one
as far back as fish and further
sewn with seeds of the sun
where every grave is a mother

The pine tree calls,
opens the veil
“whom we adorn
we also invoke
by seed and stem
by bud and root
ritual of death
of life and truth
to the worlds waiting womb”







HEXVESSEL LYRICS