Wayang Kulit (Where the Shadows Dance) ft. Iddie Mo Lyrics

The fire lights a story

Told in animal skins

Forms dance now across the walls

And soon the show begins

From mind to storyteller

From primordial start

A practise everchanging

For our ancestral art

And how it grips them

Captures minds and hearts

Left enraptured

And now the story starts

Stolen to worlds undreamed of

Meeting characters larger than life

A tradition that's often sacred

Seeing life through another's eye

It's a country that's seen through a keyhole

A painting that's built from a glance

Where reality and imagination meet

At the place where the shadows dance

It's in our hearts to wander

To let our minds explore

Through realms of firmament

Our craft unlocks that door

And now our caves are brighter

The dancing forms entice

They mesmerise they hypnotize

A glimpse of a paradise

Stolen to worlds undreamed of

Meeting characters larger than life

A desire that universal

To see life through another's eye

A castle that's built on quicksand

A portrait that's snapped by chance

Where the soul and soft machine dare meet

At the place where the shadows dance

Yearning for times you've dreamed of

Feel the sting of a lost romance

It's the land of infinite fascination

At the place where the shadows dance