Skyborne Reveries
Skyborne Reveries

Tracklist

• 1. Fjallir (04:04)
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  Fare away on this windy dawn
  Fare across the fells
  For the road seldom trodden
  Is quickly overgrown
  
  To a false friend the foot-path winds
  Though he lives beside the road
  To a true friend a short cut goes
  Though he lives far beyond
  
  Trust not an acre early sown
  Nor praise a child too soon
  Weather holds the fate of the land
  And wit the fate of the son
  
  The herd knows its homing time
  And leaves the grazing grounds
  The glutton never can grasp
  When his belly is full
  
  Elds er þorf
  þeims inn er kominn
  ok a kne kalinn
  matar ok vaða
  er manni þorf
  þeim er hefr um fjall farit
  
  The Wise One has spoken words in the hall
  
  Hail to the speaker
  Hail to who knows
  Joy be to he who understood
• 2. Hearth (05:06)
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  Home among the trees
  A resting place for the world-weary
  Circle of stones hidden away
  Testament to the old ways
  
  Night falls and we gather
  Somber reflection, mirth and laughter
  An offering made to gods of yore
  Sage and grain, forgotten lore
  
  See the fire burning in the hearth
  Illuminating the homeward path
  Gather, heathen kindred, feast and rest
  Hammer to the North, hammer to the West
  
  Secrets beneath the stars
  The forest holds much wisdom
  For he who listens
  For he who understands
• 3. Snowstar (04:01)
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  Fly away on this misty night
  Fly away, to the moon
  Be reborn by cold starlight
  On a journey to the snowstar
  
  Tonight you will hold no woe or strife
  Cast aside, forget life
  With wings anew take to the skies
  On a journey to the snowstar
  
  Gaze down at old fir trees
  Forgotten by new mankind
  A brief smile and fly onward
  On a journey to the snowstar
  
  Closer, closer to astral bliss
  Feel the frost, on your face
  The skies dance in lunar joy
  On a journey to the snowstar
• 4. Aurora (04:17)
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  In the still night air
  The arctic silence beckons
  Calling out to we
  Who hear the sky-bells tolling,
  Ancient winter nightborne music
• 5. Hiraeth (09:41)
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  Reading through journals of old adventures
  Their pages crumpled and faded
  Stories alive in one man’s memory
  Each year a little less
  
  Old eyes have seen so little
  Stolen skies and forgotten beauty
  The road is hard for frail knees
  And overgrown from disuse
  Hiraeth
  
  The hail must beat once more
  On my old travelling hat
  So harsh, so beautiful it is
  To be caught in midnight’s deluge
  Hiraeth
  
  Chained, tethered, bound, encumbered
  
  Bridge from here to the next
  Unreachable, strangling vines entangle
  Learn to love them as your own
  
  Inescapable tendrils grip
  Warm embrace, adoration
  Revered for treading the beaten path
  
  Wander
  Only the struggle is real
  Abandon ye chains
  And to the mountains, return
• 6. Senjogahara (07:54)
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  Here I stand, in the landscape of my dreams
  Endless plains surround me, windy moors
  I remember the mountains
  And I remember the falls
  
  The ripples of a leaf falling in the river
  The enshrouded island of rabbits
  The biting cold winds, the sun through the clouds
  The harmony of earthy petrichor and fresh fish roasting
  The mud and the moss, the clover, the fungi
  The berries on the trees
  
  The sights and the smells
  Across the plain, over the fells
  Tiny flowers and sweeping forests
  There is no wrong path to take
  To simply be here means
  To tread the right path
• 7. Wander (05:13)
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  Wander
  Through a hall of a thousand trees
  Over mountains cold and caverns deep
  See
  What no eyes have seen before
  Much to learn, much to explore
  
  How many lost souls tread this Earth?
  Blind to the beauty of the humble birch
  Believers of lies, minds and bodies weak
  Shrouded from the wonder of reality
  
  Do the cattle marvel as they graze?
  At the droplets on the leaves, the reflections in the lake
  Does the bird, when he soars, see the forest through the trees?
  The few who know are doomed to wander
• 8. Skyborne (11:06)
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  Why have I forgotten
  How to fly through frostbitten winds
  With a cloak of ancient memories
  And view the snows below?
  
  How tragic it is
  To lose one’s wings
  Were they stolen away?
  Or concealed by the cruel sands of time?
  
  Clouds cover the evening sky
  The amaranth wilts and dies
  
  Eyes too old to see
  Through windy moors of memory
  Skyborne reveries
  
  Oh, how I wish to fly above
  And greet the pale aurora bright
  Soar high above a plain of autumnal abyss
  
  A nightingale in a golden cage
  As I tread this maze of time
  Skyborne I lived, and skybound I’ll die
Délka: 51:22