BE'LAKOR LYRICS

1. Locus

Sunrise, sunset, throes of time
Then a thousand more
Nightfall, daybreak, causes bind
Now, again, before

Pushed above colliding giants
Into air that roared
Forgotten fragments scarred my face
Sculpted, frozen, thawed

Towering, yet anchored
Holder of their breath
Locus, shadow, turning point
Backdrop to their death

The sweep of days that moulded me
Immense among the mists
Crafted also people who
Would struggle, grasp, resist

One such life unfolded here
She wept beneath the moon
Exiled from her former life
Hiding, waiting, soon

I saw around her all things change
Each a past component
And I, too, was nothing that
Endured beyond the moment
I watched her live among her thoughts
Consumed as each occurred
And as she drowned in memories
The past survived within her

Vicious fears and vicious frosts
Had followed her, it seemed
Through every moment of her life
Though sometimes my slopes gleamed

Dread dispersed and passed away
A process was undone
New coherence followed soon
But, in that, I found no one

Crumbling rocks near her old grave
I break and fall in time
And, as each piece is blown away
Which part of me am I?

2. The Dispersion

[Instrumental]

3. Foothold

The ridge had long hinted
At strong and at weak
Both threatening wall
And welcoming peak

A taunting horizon
For shortening years
One sun, but two shadows
Equidistant fears

For my life I have watched you
Like my father before

Do I die without knowing?
Or climb to find more?
Compelled to discover
With answers so near
And with thoughts so contorted
By a limbic leer

With the bristling awareness
Of a fate not yet sealed,
A decision is reached
That the great peak shall yield

Looking back, I now see,
Having long since set off
Though in first breaking trail,
Of course, I could not

That the struggle continues,
Tearing sinew each step

Sensing one fear replaced
By its twin, in regret

Sensing one fear replaced
By its twin, in regret

Growing nearer, hope holding
Simple foothold; a fall
Damaged limb, but not fatal
Just a moment, to stall

Rising up, now mere steps
From the summit, look down
To stare out across that
Which was already found

I am here, at the crest
Where my eyes always fell
Did I leave them for this?
Frozen lips cannot tell

Looking back I now see
Having long since set off
Though in first breaking trail
Of course, I could not

That my time, and this mountain,
And my father before

But a cycle of reaching
And striving to claw,

Moving higher, hands clasping,
Eyes looking for more

Not a thing left to find,
In all that I saw.

4. Valence

As his hands threw the net
His mind drifted away
Fragments of voices, faces, words
Yet each, having passed, was like a dream

Leaving echoes that brought others to life
A churning current carried him along
And barely noticing them writhe
The man pulled the fish out one by one

In the mountain's shade his shins grew numb
As stung fingers drew the final net
Within the lake, he heard a hum
And saw colours dance beyond the shoals

Its form seemed without boundary
Its message without words
Yet it whispered of his glory
And endless joys to hold

If only you could reach me
The others would admire
If only you could grasp me
The struggle would expire

Without heed without a doubt
He slogged into the lake's expanse
Resisting as he waded out
The water grew around him
But all those steps would lead to nowhere
His motion masked futility
For all the effort he could bear
That thing would come no closer
His motion masked futility
For all the effort he could bear

Its form seemed without boundary
Its message without words
Yet it whispered of his glory
And endless joys to hold

The zeal drained into regret
Had he been down this path before?
Each time, it seemed, he would forget
That it would never resolve

So, giving up, he turned away
But once again would find
That each and every move he made
Would simply bind him tighter

But all those steps would lead to nowhere
His motion masked futility
For all the effort he could bear
That thing would come no closer
For all the effort he could bear
Recursion without resolution
Purpose to justify itself
Boundless striving, fear and passion
To end in nothing, as it started

Perception collapsed around the shore
Where he could not believe
A fisherman, once lost in thought
Was staring back, and through, him

And as the man came ever nearer
Both entangled one aware
He mouthed a warning none could hear
And sank into the silt

5. Sweep of Days

[Instrumental]

6. Hidden Window

The mountain kept a trove inside
That was known only to the three
Closest friends now that their greed
Had burdened them with things to hide

The entrance was a hidden window
Punctured through a narrow vein
To crawl inside as light would wane
And come to pitch in caves below

In secrecy, they would converge
To split the rocks and mill to dust
Revealing spoils within the crust
From when those peaks had first emerged

Blurred intent through eyes that stung
Their fingers cut upon the slate
While stale air would suffocate
And sap the vigour from their lungs

The taper's flame was just enough
To see each pick from fall to rise
So desperate that they find their prize
Before the wick would finally snuff

But when one paused to heave a breath
Their friend's hand would conceal, it seemed
Which caused a thought had something gleamed?
And trust began to sense its death

What if he knows that I saw?
And what if he decides to strike?
But what if it was nothing more
Than light's deceit and failing sight?

From just a flicker in the mind
The thought would twist, consume, then grow
And with each wave, doubt would erode
'Til all he knew confirmed his bind

Those ancient paths bore only fear
That, left unchecked, had overflowed
To shatter balance he had known
As shrinking walls began to near

In pebble's bounce the avalanche
In falling drop the bursting dam
He gripped the pick, and looming, then
Swung an arc that killed his friend

He barely saw their third had fled
As febrile haze evaporated
And with it, certainty faded
Abandoned now for churning dread

Endless whispers from the void
Each offering narration
He searched the body frantically
And begged for vindication

7. Indelible

[Instrumental]

8. Much More Was Lost

In gleaming morning sun we ran
Each day the day it all began
A flare was lit between the worlds we wandered
We bounded over broken log
Across the steppe, beyond the fog
To life in tiny fragments all felt bonded

By chance one noon we saw someone
Our words reached out they heard us come
But when eyes met, we glimpsed their hopeless sadness
We asked but found we could not fathom
What had sewn their sorrowed pattern
So we fled that lake and all its madness

But still we knew that life was good
And through that scare, our joy withstood
We found new thrills to chase and thoughts to wonder
Our days unfurled with troubles not
Through thistles kicked and thorns forgot
'Til one day something new would drag us under

In dappled light that time we roamed
On higher land, our senses honed
A place so cold and new we had discovered
But then we saw we weren't the first
A dreamer lay there, frozen, cursed
Much more was lost than ever was recovered
We ran, but this time with no joy
Each stumble shaping man from boy
A truth wept through from just behind life's curtain
What drove them to that lonely end?
Is this the wound no one can mend?
A bleeding out of all that had been certain

Still others since have crossed our path
That man of buried aftermath
And she who seemed to wait and hide forever
So many moments came and went
Yet none were kept, as dreams were spent
And in this way old truths emerged together

We can recall, I think, a time
When footholds held and stories rhymed
And now we see that those we met were grasping
We know that they had felt it too
Until it left them, as they grew
To leave them looking back at us for asking

Those elders smiled through gritted jaw
A deluge held, but held no more
And as it broke, it brought new kinds of knowing
Return the mind to where it was
We try, but it won't go, because
That mind has gone, and with it went a glowing







BE'LAKOR LYRICS