SUMAC LYRICS

1. A Prayer for Your Path

[Instrumental]

2. May You Be Held

What is to come
And what will be left?
After fires
Are swallowed by the floods
Will you
Offer balm to the wounded?
Shelter
To those cast from their homes?
Gather together
All those who remain
Shepherd hordes
Through fields of dust and bones

In this place
Bereft of light
Diamond waters
To blackened tar have turned
And now
Through cracking lips are they cursed
As they slake
The thirst of none

Hands that once
Cradled and caressed
Peel flesh from the bodies of children
Bathed in rubble

Now
A prayer to you
As this has yet to pass:
"May the sun shine
Through your hair
May the light dance
In your eyes"

"May your limbs move
Through gleaming waves
Your body rest upon the earth
To embrace, part, return
May you be held
In shadow
And in light"

"In laughter
And in silence
May you walk gently
On this path
Borne by courage
And by kindness"

3. The Iron Chair

A black chair
In an empty iron room
Air cold and brittle
No one left
Bodies hauled away
Vomit and ash
Spilled across the floor
Soon too
Will the light drain
From empty sockets

4. Consumed

No love within
Take love from him
He who cannot speak
He who has no tongue

So small
So tired
Crawling in circles
Safe in shadow
He's covered, fed
And sick

Behind a song
That hangs like smoke
Sweet and choking
A black radiant hum
That drives him
On and on and on

Pursued
Hot breath on neck
Watched by bloody eyes
Unblinking
Pursued
Watched
Held close
Consumed

That sacred thing
Made of salt and blood
And skin
Ripped from tender darkness
Left to dry
In the midday sun
Dancing
On the burning winds
His howling husk
Dreams of rain

Now up from the pit
To walk the soaking soil
His eyes lift
To behold the stars
Each breath a hymn
To a world reborn

5. Laughter and Silence

[Instrumental]








SUMAC LYRICS