The King's Throat Lyrics

Moonlight spills through the door

Wind through the mountains howls a mournful call

Over barren land, toppled cairns

Bone-dry rivers

You sleep alone

Wrapped in a warm fleece on a hearth stone

A pillow of seeds, a tablet of bone

A wreath of clover

Key in the corner

Key in the dust

Hidden beneath

A green velvet cloth

Green as the moss

Green is the endless

Knot at the center

Of the maze

Full of leaves

You found your way

Slipped like a shadow

Beneath a thousand walls

Under gardens

Under trees

Through passageways

Into the cellar

Beneath the palace halls

Remember the riddle:

You are the knife

That cuts clean through the shadow

Wake now my child

Wake my dear one

And follow the path of the west climbing sun

To the hinterlands where new life is spun from the

shards of mirrors

Plant the seeds along the way

Beneath the fortress towers

In the burned out ruins where children play

Plant the seeds of wild flowers

Guard the key

Sharpen the knife

Drink from the springs

Under the roots

Beneath the course of time

One for the arrow

One for the stone

The one for the many

Who carries the blade

In the dark spaces alone

Let it come

Let it come raining down

Let it come

Let it come raining down

Let it come

Let it come

Let it come raining down

Let it come

Let it come

Let it come raining down

Remember the riddle:

You are the knife