Serenity and Chaos

from The Wayfarer Triptych by Across The Sea

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lyrics

My eyes open to a tranquil forest glistening emerald
Dazed by the sun till I’m shielded from its glare
By the curious aura of three beings possessing a knowing empathic air

All I have faced: extremes of wonder and trauma
Leaves me doubting my sanity
I implore they tell me all they know
Of this broken world, The Wayfarer and The Myrehsia Tree

All life exists in a fine symmetry
Forged and held by The Myrehsia Tree
The source of its power resonates from within its core as a song

In a valley enveloped by a wall of mist
The first of mankind came to exist
Yearning for more than their primitive lives
They looked to the mist they all feared for a sign

From strange revelations a prophecy they did recite:
“One shall emerge from the veil of grey
Light the world with wisdom’s flame”

The Eytrva: magical entities, eight
Guardians of The Myrehsia Tree
Sought to ensure man evolve in accord with divine harmony
And so the one man would call The Wayfarer
A higher being born into this world from The Tree
And thus uniquely attuned to its Song
Was led by The Eytrva to a boat at the water's edge

The Wayfarer stepped from the mist’s shadow
With wisdom drawn from The Song to bestow
Upon man who gained insight, knowledge, and skills
And a magnificent city they built
Man deified their saviour with a temple raised high
And a triptych that, in its sanctum, was enshrined
But in their greed man would ever beseech
The Wayfarer take more from The Song of The Tree

Natural order began to fray
As one so pure of heart, to vanity, caved

Resplendent in silvern robes and stood before The Tree
For none but their own desire to uncover the ultimate mystery
The Wayfarer into The Song plundered deep, far too deep
Equilibrium forever broken, The Song convulsed into a shriek

The Eytrva frantically rushed The Wayfarer
But as they struggled in futility
Five to glimmers of insentient light were diminished
And eight became three

Chaos reigned as all existence reeled towards demise
Man, betrayed, turned against the one they’d idolised
The Wayfarer was dragged, bloodied, over mountains high
And under the mist’s shroud condemned to die

As the doomed city of man crumbled down
To the desecrated temple their saviour was chained
And, when its hallowed walls were torn to the ground
Buried beneath the monument raised in Her name

“Light the world with wisdom’s flame”

A chronicle of events retold hypnotises for one more moment
Till I’m captivated by five glimmering lights slowly closing in
Sensing a reunion of eight kindred spirits, I proclaim:
“Guardians severed to five and three, The Eytrva you must be!”

Truer words I ever did utter
As concern clouds the three
Their sudden pleas fade
As fragments of sound bind in unison
Creating a melody
Guiding me through the forest
To The Myrehsia Tree

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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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