Towards the still ft. Poulpie Lyrics

I travelled all the way here in the humus

I drink of the nourishing, amniotic juice of the soil

I'm unfolding in it, little by little

Soon I will take root and cling like a mighty vine

And already I'm rising from the ground and blooming

Gathering up the air and shouting out to the peaks of my ancestors

Here I am, among my own kind

Rooted, my arms reach for the sky

The rhythm of the adagio carries me through the seasons, the rains and the tempests

A never-ending music to which my body and limbs freeze

But towards the light I must rise

Mother, Earth, release me ! Cut my vine !

The storm broke my trunk, blowing me on its dizzying journey

I have crossed so many wondrous roads

Flying over the forests of my fellow creatures and the great shimmering lochs

And ever since then I've been following my path, carried on the living waters

An everlasting roar of foaming rapids splashes my face and my shaking limbs

My drifting wooden body begs for a truce

Water, release me ! Let me rest !

You are talking about being freed, you beg the river to extract you from these streams

Is your mind so obscured that it can't see the shape that these perpetual flows gave me ?

I must admit that my body may not be the most attractive

It no longer even looks like what I really am

It faded away, rigid, static, darkened and icy

Because I am a descendant of these mountainous heights, magmatic and rocky

A worthy successor, watching over his kingdom

All these years as proud as a guardian, even more frozen in the ground than candles in the sky

I am a landmark for the moon and the sun

Permanently stuck in a limping motionless, wet and muddy, steep and traversed

Yet I am not drowned in loneliness. Sometimes a dragonfly lands on me

She carols some old folk songs for me with her wings

At dusk, naiads charm owls while swimming into phosphorescent waves

Souls pass by and trample me to cross the torrent, I remain here for them

Then children have fun ricocheting my kind

Today, you came to meet me

In the midst of a turbulence, looking for rest

And I, in my endless lethargy, hunger for life

Life is a star whose glow is you

You are passing by the point

And the point passes me by

Yet, even though I know I am just a numb and stony crossroad,

I want you to take root near me

So I could try to feel

Both the wistfulness of memories being born,

And the delight of an impatience that ignites then perishes forthwith

May my dreams could find the sparkling strength

To grow me legs out of deer antlers and a heart out of bird songs

And one sweet dawn with you, I am sure I will know the meaning of my words

I thought I was uprooted

But fate has guided me to you

Sentinel of the mountains and woods

I'm gripped by you, sliding to the shore

I am born again, by your side