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Under the Terebinth

from Under the Terebinth by Xerarch

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lyrics

while pining for sunshine, the mourning brings rain
there hiding in corners ‘til morning again
I pass the long night hardly sleeping at all
I hide behind doors listening for morning’s call
but all I can hear through my weak barricade are the dark things outside and the noises they make
I’ve tried everything, hum a tune, plug my ears
but what I can’t hear only adds to my fears

the dark like a blindness, the rain like a drum that’s beating to keep all the patriots numb
I can’t feel my hands and I can’t hear my heart
the fear of the moment grows on in the dark
I fumble with matches, I strain for the light
oh something please something to put out the night
but hands finding nothing return to my chest and folded there trembling they long for some rest

sometimes it takes darkness to see clearly

no it’s better to know to be sure of what’s there
so I peer through a crack ‘tween the blinds as I dare
there’s a man out there standing there meeting my stare
and he stands resolute with an angelic air
now he beckons me out now I open the door
now I’m scared but I have no control any more
now I walk out to him, now I fall to my knees
now he opens his mouth and he’s starting to speak (he says,)

"it’s not in your pain or the way that you run
it’s not in your tears for the things that you’ve done or the times you were wrong
you are an elm in october, you’re still standing strong
though your heart turns to fear as your leaves turn to brown and falling to the ground
it’s nothing you’ve done, it’s nothing you’ll do
for ten-thousand years I’ve been following you and I’m still after you
my brush strikes the canvas and colours appear
your heart and your hands, your smiles and tears are perfectly clear
they are perfectly clear"

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from Under the Terebinth, released October 18, 2013
with Cally Delorme (callydelorme.bandcamp.com)

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