effigies Lyrics

Where does the moment go that you have witnessed?

Where does the moment go that you have seen?

I found it in my life as a rambler

Burning in an effigy of trees

The shadowboxing spirit of my childhood

Had all but grown old and cold and bare

But still those tears, they fell like embers

from those effigies of burning everywhere

There's no chains upon the ocean

For its blue will surpass any line

And it's you that I still come to

Beneath the million burning effigies of time

I tamed, perhaps in vain, my true compassion

My faith had withered on the vine

When everyone you meet, takes a little piece

Soon enough, there's nothing left behind

So came the morning, like the dawning of all time

And there were you, my great defender

Those effigies a-burning in your eyes

Now the trees bleed yellow in twilight

As the horizon pays its respect to the cold

There's a red dirt road heading nowhere

And a desert bird perched right on my soul

But broader than the cosmos, you return to all sight and all sound

Leaving me, gratefully wounded, as your effigy is scattered on the ground

Leaving me, woundedly grateful, as your effigy is scattered all around