Light the World with Wisdom's Flame

from The Wayfarer Triptych by Across The Sea

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lyrics

An ageless colossus from which all life became
Its celestial chorus ensuring a natural order eternally prevailed
This legend inspired me beyond the mist, mountain and sea
Here finally at journey’s end I reach The Myrehsia Tree

Gazing at its crown soaring high in the firmament
I am filled with reverence and ecstasy
Then, by an opening scored into its trunk
I enter a passage leading me to The Tree’s core

Through The Tree's vast centre its heavenly Song radiates
As a stream of light more mesmerising than The Triptych portrayed
And to my astonishment before this iridescent glare
Just as depicted a solitary figure stands - The Wayfarer
Perhaps The Wayfarer survived their fall from grace?
A chance to atone for their past mistakes
and regain what once was lost
Hope for answers spurs me forward but, something occurs
Now reaching their silhouette our shadows start aligning
Our bodies form as one
The Wayfarer truly perished beneath the temple
Only I remain

I long to know my origins, for my soul to be restored
Now my path’s become clear as The Song reveals a forgotten truth

Visions of another life, in another world
Seeking to procure absolute knowledge
The Sehtyri, advanced sapient beings
Learned how to manipulate The Myrehsia Tree’s Song
Ages passed, The Sehtyri empire rose
Yet, in their ruthless pursuit of supremacy
The Tree’s delicate balance was destroyed
And a ravaged world, by the void, was consumed

Within The Tree, at World's end, a Sehtyri girl took solace from The Song
And when, from The Myrehsia Tree, a new world formed
She too was reborn

A girl saved from another world, touched by powers divine
Foretold to be the saviour to the flawed race of mankind
Blinded by her selfish need to sacred wisdom hold
Doomed the new world to the fate her kind had doomed the old
Memories of a buried past, to me return
How one’s abuse of wisdom’s flame caused the world to burn
And only now, at journey’s end, her sins I understand
For The Wayfarer I am

What have I done?

I awoke in my tomb, beckoned by a voice
Led along a route I’d taken many times before
Edging closer to The Tree, illusions were conjured within
As I relived the rise and fall of my old world
The Eytrva realised my true identity
But deaf to their pleas and seeking the truth
I returned to The Tree
As from my destiny there can be no escape

My heart aches, I shake in fear, overwhelmed with guilt
I abandoned my sole purpose, inflicting such pain and misery
For in an act of betrayal I poisoned all of existence
Though I pray for absolution, in this world none shall I find

I hear the sound of the earth falling
Grieving for every lost soul
I now surrender to my fate
Let me be consumed by darkness

Oceans quake, empyrean sundered
Creation devoured by the void
Behold oblivion!

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from The Wayfarer Triptych, released October 1, 2021
Vocals - Hannah Katy Lewis
Guitar - Pete Ferguson

Written, recorded and performed by Across The Sea

Recorded at Humber Studios and The Mothership, August - October 2020

Mixed by Pete Ferguson
Mastered by Augmented Sounds

Soundscapes/Effects - Pete Ferguson

All field recordings captured by Across The Sea

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