SUMAC LYRICS

1. Image Of Control

Turn aside / Steady eyes belie the fear
Small hollow words clatter to the ground
Broken // Ruin has come not fire / or in ashen rain
Only in turgid silence / Hanging. Flayed
Submerged in presence summoned
It expands with reach, filling rooms
Welling up from the tar choked springs
Reeking black star, shining weary light
Bloodied eyes, no tears / Bloodied eyes, no light
Know not to what this moment's owed
Only slipping in shuddering dance
Towards cold radiant dissolve

2. Rigid Man

Behind closed doors / Lanterns sway in pulsing dark
Though the body's near / Rigid man with soiled hands
Cannot touch, cannot feel // Between walls in narrow cell
Glaring light extinguished / cover tender scalp exposed
Rigid man falls to summons, red / Drained and weak
Flaccid body, bent in muddied gutter /
No truth unwrung from its marrow cold
Begs for mercy, for cleansing holy death
Only broken may it pass / into golden dawn / forgiven

3. Clutch Of Oblivion

Sons, weep in mothers arms / To the breast are clinging
From that clutch, by fathers torn / And thrust into the blazing fields
Cheeks still wet with cherubs tears / Across earth unscarred
Heavy blades are drawn / Gouges, fathoms deep / Well with blood //
Father's seed, Mother's seed / Seeds of war, seeds of lust
Tears of pain / Seem as joyous rapture / We claw, we point
At mutilated loins / Faces pushed into the soil, we are cleansed
We are cleansed / In the clutch of oblivion

4. Blackout

Words of summons / Long since blown / Into dust, beyond memory
What remains / Sting of dirt, in eyes / Clotted on wriggling tongue
Under bent cedar / low branches hang / Silent witness / to birth spasms
Bristling beast / Burning hot breath / Odor of violence / stammering wrath //
Ceremony of terrible emergence / Known without lesson / (knelt to pray)
Liberated in worship / devout in practice / delivering the sermon
To a subservient / congregation of one / submission, all must bend
Facade is broken

5. Will To Reach

In simple sermons it began:/ "You are not yourself, you are me /
There are only these words / and by them shall you live" /
So forged was the mask of thousands / As child's face dissolves /
Who so speaks shall name him / who so calls will bring him
To his knees / "I will dance for you" / behind the mask /
Something small fiercely gleams / all that's needed to claim the light
Is the will to reach







SUMAC LYRICS