Summit of No Descent Lyrics

Jolted awake by the crackling flame

In a shivering delirium

Gazing toward the bedside breathing again

Still imprisoned within the cycle of grief

Weeping apologies give way to clarity

As he starts to recall his unconscious sight

He finds duality

Of the whispered name

The Maize God and the peak

Purpose floods back to his life

Seeking origin of the spectral voice

Meditating on the otherworldly beckoning

He sets for Sacatepaquez

Night by night following the dreams and drones

Sending vivid guidance to his mind

Each morning with burning ears ringing clear

Empty of his kin's lament grabbing roots to scale the earth

The atmosphere begins to thin

Pressure growing behind his eyes

Reveries obscure inner cognizance

The visions augment deep senses of dread

Ambivalent pilgrimage

Recalling where he plunged his sorrows

A black sun looms over those waves

Volcanic heaps pile skyward

A tree of beheadings at it's crest

Chants rumble beneath the stirring currents

Hun-Kame, Hun-Kame

He focuses his eyes

Remembering where he stands

Returning to reality

On this mountain

Squinting eyes through the blistering winds

The sky is clearing and the ocean is gone

Hallucinations fade

Exhaustion surmounting

Clawing higher through the gravel

Breath is fleeting

The summit shows itself through his blurring sight

Hooded figures loom his conscience giving way