Prologue

Alas, we walk this world in quest
Of truth and ways to remain
Hoping to with love be blessed;
To dwell in tender reign
When greeting life, death and rebirth;
The cyclic passing of time
Seeking insight of great worth
A wish upwards to climb
Through practice and remembrance
Knowledge turns to faith
Our voices journeys will commence
With songs ascend the wraith

Words: A. Thim

Valensanimi

From the darkest cavern
Into the brightest glade
As the most pallid stone
Turned into the greenest jade

Out of the deepest sorrow
Into unstained delight
As the dimmest of shadows
Turned into a radiant light

From a still wilted garden
Into a verdant vale
As the most withering storm
Turned into a gentle gale

With the force of the wind
With the strength of the sea
While ascending within
Grief’s departure from me
With the firmness of rocks
With the purging of flames
As belief hearts unlocks
Your love all my fear tames

Out of a cold winter night
Into a warm summer day
As the reached dead end
Turned into a passage way

With the force of the wind
With the strength of the sea
While ascending within
Grief’s departure from me
With the firmness of rocks
With the purging of flames
As belief hearts unlocks
Your love all my fear tames

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Aoide

Ringing sounds of brilliance
Charmed by shadows’ dance
Eager shapes beseech to please
My soul of fire and passion

Take me in
Sing to awake
Call for bliss
Turn into airs

Words and laughter interwoven
With beautiful design

Take me in
Sing to awake
Call for bliss
Turn into airs

Sparkling spirits taking charge
Bemused by ardent play

Take me in
Sing to awake
Call for bliss
Turn into airs

Voices come together
Poets of invocation

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Dilmun

If we could find the grounds of verdure
And make them our own
Fields of purity and light; without plague
Where the ravens do not crow

If we could take this earthly haven
And together turn it divine
The beasts in search for prey would sleep
And the flowers with us align

If we could lay close in meadows
Coiled up in each others arms
Like serpents of Eden
And thrive with ardent charms

If we would beget the children of vigour
Diseased parts in us would heal
Gods and creatures join battles of love
Arcanum we would reveal

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Mabon

Waning sunlight
Impending dark
Restoring balance
Returning of gifts
Peaceful change
Disarming serenity
Prepare for rest
Time to reflect

Beautiful image
Wordlessly calling
Before repose
Catching alight

Lingering justice
Unshackled wishes
Winged solution
Ascending faith
Soundless landscape
Carries conviction
Calm departure
Insight sublime

Transforming nature
Elated sensation
Silent pledge
Composure inside

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Eostre

Drive away the lethargy of winter
Soon the fields will turn green again
Awake the slumbering will to live
Let the leaves return to the trees

Erect the temple; dance in circle
Join the chant and welcome spring
Pass the parchment; write your wishes
Plant the seeds to grow within

Come out of hibernation
Once more, the meadows shall bloom
Greet this time of new beginnings
Let the world yet again be reborn

Cease the dance and sow desires
Join the chant and welcome spring
Clear the temple; prepare the feasting
Rejoice the life that is to come

Light the parchment at the alter
Let the ashes fall to the ground
Blend the ashes with the soil
Celebrate the returning hope

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Soporanimi

Be still my heart; rest with a sigh
Hear my cradle song; this lullaby
To keep away from pain
Go back to sleep again

Still my heart; let drowsiness untie
Hear my cradle song; this lullaby
Stay veiled and rescued
In lethargic solitude

Slumber in; this wily charm defy
Repose and know that love belie
Fall into sweet oblivion
Before white is stained crimson

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Mneme

In remembrance of love
Wishes silent linger
Awake by sounds above
Hear the bells clear tingle
With cadence of the wind
Distant rhythms grow
Enchanting songs within
Calls of sirens flow

Regrets and repentance
Turn into hopefulness
Let contrition be departed
Revoke the barrenness

As holding hands at night
Disappear in musing
With vessels of delight
Dance in fiery ring
Dream joy back in mind
Sweet reveries evince
Departed thoughts rewind
To love again convince

Recall and recollect
The inner lustfulness
Let creation be wild hearted
Evoke the happiness

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Litha

Our sun the wheel of year salutes
As the veil between the worlds dilutes
The golden crown to carry midyear
While nature’s inner forces appear

Stay awake all night in the wilds
Until the rays of light arise
Between the darkness and the bright
The deities glow with healthy might

The nights mature until first day of fall
When the light again we recall
Once day and night are equally long
The growing darkness is reborn

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Melete

Born from the movement of water
Nymph of inspiring wells
Sprung up from heavenly sources
Honours with rousing spells

Unearthly transforming visions
Wrapped up in ethereal charms
Otherworldly vessel of wishes
Eagerly shyness disarms

Unleash, come alive
Passionate memories revive
Charmer of waking rill
Inflames the creative will
Spirit of allure
Awards with a bracing cure
Release, set free
Unrestrained, stage the reverie

Sister of song and remembrance
Muse of creative urge
Summons with yearn to perform
Calls for art to emerge

Unleash, come alive
Passionate memories revive
Charmer of waking rill
Inflames the creative will
Spirit of allure
Awards with a bracing cure
Release, set free
Unrestrained, stage the reverie

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Equianimi

When your day and my night meet
The moment we intertwine
When our yearnings are equally sweet
We will lock that hour in time

My wind will caress your ocean
Your water nourish my soil
My storm will rage your sea
Your fire fuel the flame in me

When our elements at last shall blend
We will turn lead into gold
All the rules of logic we shall bend
As our true intentions unfold

My wind will caress your ocean
Your water nourish my soil
My storm will rage your sea
Your fire fuel the flame in me

When your hope my withered trust defeats
In mutual faith we shall dwell
When your wit my melancholy cheats
Refused admittance to hell
When our paths meet at the crossroads
And we chose to walk the same
Sworn allegiance to all lovers’ codes
Heavenly entry we will claim

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Epilogue

As the wheel of year shall turn,
The dress of nature alters
Along with seasons hearts will burn;
Turn doubters into lovers
Devotion on esteem subsists
Thus begetting creativity
Once purest awe of life exists;
We manifest our beauty
Whilst in the promised garden;
Valleys of flowers and fruits
Merging with the dreamy haven
As allies in loving pursuits
Jointly through the fervent portal
From realms where hearts ignite
Arrival in the land of immortal
Unstained, pure and bright

Words: A. Thim

Bidding grief farewell

Greeting blissful joy
Regrets will never sound
Under lovers’ spell
Letting music dwell
Bidding grief farewell
Awakening hymn of love
Ringing out the tunes
Of undying flames

With the clearest light
And the spirits within
Through chanting divine
Bewitching charms entwine
Lustfulness is called
Craving thirst to quench
Roused from dreamless sleep
Drowsed into seduction

Vocation of nature’s poetry
Immortal voices of beauty
I call upon amorous tunes
I send for wings of desire

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

Winter

Dreamlike scenery
Intense biting frost
Stillness surrounds me
Keeps me paralysed

Falling crystals
Gracefully floating
Blinding beauty
Keeps me awake

Embracing coldness
Calming white presence
Nature is resting
Below the winter coat

Unbroken peace
Touched by silence
Revealing breath
Is evidence of life

Words: A. Thim / Music: C. Jago

De terra fons exoritur

“A column of smoke
And a pillar of fire…”
A column of smoke and a pillar of fire
Distraught souls celebrating their death
You look upon the face of night
As though it were an evil sight
And struggle on towards the light
Though darkness is the truer way
And never really goes away
But hides behind the mask of day

The shadows of your soul
Are crying out to you
Though you never hear their call
Afraid of being free
Your fearful spirit tears
Like a parting of the sea

And all the waters of the flood
Could not quench my thirst
For there’ll be no revelation,
No judgement, no rebirth
The only thing I understood
As prophets clamoured
From a crumbling church:
“The rocks shall fall from the mountains
And a fountain shall spring from the earth”

Sacred, sacred, bellow louder
Volume rising, seeking power
Strike down fear, release the beast
Upon whose table we shall feast
A column of smoke and a pillar of fire
Hear the holy choral choir
A column of smoke and a pillar of fire
Seize those agonizing criers
Freed upon these desert plains
We, who celebrate all days
Join us in our journey’s plight
Out upon eternal night

Words: K. Arnold, P. Nemeth / Music: C. Jago

Chains

I could have wrapped your soul in chains
Started a fire and watched you dancing in the flames
I wanted to wrap your soul in chains
Forever a prisoner caught between the joy and pain

You could have wrapped my soul in chains
Started a fire and watched me dancing in the flames
You wanted to wrap my soul in chains
Forever a prisoner caught between the joy and pain

Words: K. Arnold / Music: C. Jago

Page of wands

All that I am is a seeker of truth
The curious child who got lost in the woods
The servant of wisdom you take for a fool
The whispering trees
Hold the knowledge of all

All that I am is a seeker of truth
The sailor who followed his siren’s call
The servant of wisdom you take for a fool
The murmuring waves
Hold the knowledge of all

All that I am is a seeker of truth
The eagle who flies over mountains and hills
The servant of wisdom you take for a fool
The wandering clouds
Hold the knowledge of all

Words: K. Arnold / Music: C. Jago

Pass within

Time has fallen
Precious moments
Secrets stolen
Sacred Seven

Pass within
Into your heart
Silent sing
Sing from your soul

Words: P. Nemeth / Music: C. Jago

Promise of sacrifice

You came out of the creeping dawn
When summer’s flower was winter’s thorn
Daemons on the frozen air
Ran fiery fingers through your hair

The sun and the moon rested in your eyes
And your voice a torrent of fractured sighs
Healing my memory
Sealing my fate

Your wisdom was a morphic thing
Where truth would fly on fragile wings
Like a king upon his knees
Your arms the branches of the trees

A silent place inside a storm
A temple with its curtain torn
A journey to a distant shore
Your face became an open door

The sun and the moon rested in your eyes
On your lips the promise of sacrifice

Words: K. Arnold / Music: C. Jago

Icarus

As the sun with shining wings
Rises on the last day of winter
He can see the shape of things
Golden paths lead him to the centre

For this is the healing tide
That burns him up inside

And with laughter’s song calling down
To deep wells of silence round his head
The angels throng holding on forever
To one ecstatic moment

For this is the healing tide…

He sheds his mask
And crashes to the ground
His singing blood
The sea in which he drowns
His raging heart
The ship on which he sailed
His falled pride
Lies wrecked beneath the waves
A wreck beneath the waves

Words: K. Arnold / Music: C. Jago

Butterfly kiss

Take my hand
Let your fingers slip through mine
Like grains of sand
We are both children of this world
Naked and ephemeral
Just like a butterfly kiss
And I wished that I had never seen the stars
And never felt the sun
And realised that one day, some day,
All this will be gone

Take my love
I can feed it you in pieces
Or all at once
But don’t rely on love eternal
Don’t assume our soul’s immortal
I don’t want to spend my life
Just searching for the One
We are both children of this world
Naked and ephemeral
Just like the butterfly kiss
With which you woke me in the morning

And in the morning
All this will be gone
All this will be gone

Words: K. Arnold / Music: C. Jago

Inside the circle

Inside the circle she’s standing
And waiting for a sign
Sent in a vision to free her mind
Around her the four winds
Are howling to celebrate the tears
Of a spirit tormented for ten thousand years

And she turned into stone
As she stood there alone
And her energy’s borne
On the wings of the storm

And the prophecy lied
For her future’s denied
But the world goes on turning
While the circle is burning

Words: K. Arnold / Music: C. Jago

Parisina

It is the hour
When from the boughs
The nightingale’s high note is heard
And gentle wings
And voices near
Make music to
The lonely ear

Each flower’s the dews have lightly wet
And in the sky the stars met
And on the wave is deeper blue
And on the leaf a browner hue

And in the heavens that clear obscure
So softly dark and darkly pure
That follows the decline of day
As twilight melts beneath the moon away
Beneath the moon away

Words: Lord Byron / Music: C. Jago

A ship, dreaming

As she leaves her soul aflame
She whispers farewell to her name
The past a blank, the present clear
The future a final frontier
She rises on the wing
The angel in her starts to sing

Visions from a distant dream
Reflected in the darkened stream
As descent reveals the land
She sees her soul within the sand
The empty desert’s silent lure
A space so clean and quiet and pure
She bows unto the silent crew
And steps upon the land, anew
Her mind, her past she leaves behind
And walks into the unknown, blind…

Her feet they burn upon the land
‘Call me sky, sun, sand’
Haunted watchers on the wing
Tortured by the sound their newborn sing
She looks above and laughs, and cries
I will not lose, I will not die
The greatest challenge I await
To be reborn illuminate

Words and music: C. Jago

Marie Celeste

He climbed onto the ship, to die on the sea
To cast himself adrift, to find truer peace
He heard the bugle blow, he watched the land recede
The sunset’s aching glow
He left the sky to bleed
And as he went below, he thought he heard
Alongside the bell, a whispered word
He dreamt of finding warm elixir of release

As the moon shone on the sails
The servant boy grew ever pale
‘Eight days awake and all I see, white tongues of sirens calling me’

The table set, the glasses clean
We drink to sail, we drink to dream
As they fainted one by one
The sails were blinded by the sun

Words and music: C. Jago

Remembrance

I of everyears
Recall the fallen footsteps
Of those reaching for the stars

Whether he recalled the blazing sun
Wherefore does he hold the sky’s falling tears

For when it rains
He’s standing here with me
Our bare feet upon the ground
Springs now turned to dust
No longer green dried out naked trees

The parched earth waits to bud

Words: Fionna / Music: C. Jago

Inside

I stole some angel’s wings to make you fly
I drank all your tears to make you smile
And I drank all the rain of your sky
Since deep inside your love made me the strongest

I came from the light without fear
To your black kingdom

You and your darkness
You and your sadness
You and your madness
You and your devil
Let you take me to my heaven

You and your devil
I’ll keep you safe and insane
I have the power
To eat your anguish and your pain
Now and forever
There’s nothing that can stop me
Deep inside me
Your love made me the strongest

I can protect your devil from my god
Or I can make them be one
Like you and me…

Words: A. Ferrari / Music: C. Jago

Requiem

I’ve just seen my body next to yours
I don’t want to realise
That I’m reaching the sky
That they gave me the wings to fly

Ne laisses pas les anges m’emporter
Ne laisses pas les anges nous separer

C’est dans tes bras que je veux m’endormir
Dans tes bras, mon dernier sourir
Dans tes bras, mon dernier desir
Retiens moi ne me laisses pas partir

I can fly but I don’t want to without you…

Words: A. Ferrari / Music: C. Jago

Firedance

I was my own pain
I was feeding this pain
I was an eternal victim eternally guilty
But once I stopped thinking and realised that life is not for eternity
And the idea made me smile
And now I keep this smile
Now it feels like I can fly
Now it feels like I’ll never die

I’m dancing in the fire because it burns the pain
Because it melts my heart and burns gently my skin
I’m dancing in the fire until it dries my tears
I’m dancing in the fire until it burns my fear

I’ve never noticed the blue of the sky, the taste of the sun
It tastes so sweet on my lips
When fighting becomes dancing
When crying becomes laughing

Et j’attends que le feu me consume
Buite toutes les coutumes
Que les flames sechent mes larmes
Et buite mes etats-d’ame

Words: A. Ferrari | Music: C. Jago

Your sleep

Awake from the deep I reach for the sea
Feel the heat take a hold, through the body hides the soul
Each thought of her will torture me
I must remain cold…
The fear won’t unfold
Does the depth of my need
Penetrate your sleep

Awake from your sleep to reach for the dream
No longer to come unto me
In that breath of defeat I found my own peace
Our heaven brought hell
No water in this well

Words and music: C. Jago

The sun, the sea

The sun, the sea, the life in me that rises with the flood
Within these sparks I raise my heart and flow into the blood
Deep within the swell of fear
I watch it quelled when I am here
As I wash away the winter to let life take hold
The dream of the future
Return to the soul

Words and music: C. Jago

Paralysis

Need no drug to dull no pain
To prise the lock that keeps me sane
The maelstrom of my rising brain
Quiets me time and time again…

No feeling or compassion left
So tested by the past
Is it that to feel’s a fight
‘Some are born to endless night’

How can one so few of fears
Still contain so many tears
On the verge of all I’ve dreamed
And if it all ends unredeemed…

Words and music: C. Jago

Transformation

Je sais que je ne pouvais changer
Le cours des choses jamais je sais
Le cours du temps des saisons je sais

When the seasons change
Life is born again
The flower of your heart unfolds
The dreaming comes to an end

The long shadows of a winter’s day
Leave behind that solemn smile
Approach the sun, the wind, the rain
Summer’s on its way again
Sparkling jewels, the source of life
Prepare the way, prepare the way
For the coming of the sun, the shining one
To save us from self-made pain

The sun was lost from view forever…

Waken from timeless time
Savour the glory of summer wine
For the spell is broken
And the door is open
Sing the song of Aaron
Come to me my darling

Spring has come again…

Words: P. Nemeth, A. Ferrari / Music: C. Jago

B. C.

And the man creates God
And the man creates Satan and the guilt
They fear his hell
But I fear their heaven

You believe in what you fear
You fear the one you believe in
I believe in what I need
What I need is being free
From your blind church
For the love of your god
Burn your blind church
Burn your blind church

Sacred knowledge lost forever
Civilizations wasted
Your hell is the one you built
Your hell is your fake heaven
I would fight with any god
I would fight with any devil
Who would steal the freedom of my soul
Who’d steal the dignity of my heart

The more I pray, the more I make mistakes

We all come from the same place
We all come from some kind of heaven
From between my mother’s legs
There’s no priest, no master
We all come from the same place
We all come from some kind of hell
But from between our mother’s legs
There’s no god, no devil…

Words: A. Ferrari / Music: C. Jago

Swansong

Feel too little, think too much
The only thing that moves is touch
Alone I rape the ghost of love
The fire I drink from never enough
I fall into my shadow again
Fate predetermined by my pain
I melt… tears run like rain
The ice has frozen again

And in the bitter end the void was never filled
The visions merely emptiness and sentience slowly killed
But still I continued on the weakest quest
Submerged in blind pleasure I failed every test

The ice has frozen again
The ice is all that remains…

Words and music: C. Jago

The search

I know I cannot cease to dream
Words never mean just what they seem
Weaving in and out of time
Seeking endlessly the sign
Two steps forward, two steps back
Dancing on the beaten track
Yet to fall into the ground
With real pain I’d come around

Till then I’ll look inside to see
How can I touch outside of me
For everyone that reads this mind
Too many close are left behind
In places where you never slept
Doors close on things you won’t forget
No pain for tears never wept
I am the girl you’ll never get

Paralysed by hidden fear
You’ll scratch your dread across my back
Hope to lose your conscience here
On my body try to trace connection with your own
Intensity of intimacy after so much time alone
Drown in flesh
Hope to find home…

Words and music: C. Jago

The reflection

A mirror sleeps
And fills its pages
With memories of wistful past
With hope and fear and dust of age
Shattered dreams and silent glass
A vision shroud in fatal beauty
Hallucinate horror image fracture
An ice face no doubt won’t see
Time will poison your enrapture

A blank: doubt: no vision
The light’s reflection pale incision
The murdered ego starts to fall
Until there’s nothing left at all…

Words and music: C. Jago

Angel tears

In silence I dream
Aroused were the memories of yesteryear
Where summer’s ardent kiss of love
Twined hand in hand with winters loss

Awakening from slumber
The candle still flickers its living flame
A shrine to love as embers
Died in me so long ago

Therein chimes the hour of darkness
Haziness cedes, a wraith before me appears

Of iconic grandeur
Twixt his fingertips he holds
A gift for me, a burgeon rose
Dying flower, withered with sorrow

In the wisdom of his tears
I foresee a mirror to my soul
My waning heart, an ebon rose
Paling in the shadow of Luna

Whereupon her face I behold
The divine revelation of sorrow
For there belies a lonely fountain in ruins
Where the spring of sadness trickles forth unending…

Words: Fionna | Music: C. Jago

Each hour

Ride the flame that burns between you
Thrive on the faith that feeds you
Use the pain to feel and free you
Try to speak the world will see you

Lose all the blind ties
Come from the dark and raise your eyes
For fear must fade before we rise
To fly and free the truth inside

Use your eyes to break the lies that bind us
Believe the ones we need will one day find us
The chances, dreams and life fate brings remind us
Each hour can cure or confine us

Words and music: C. Jago

Oceanus

Come with me, to the darkened water
Come with me, swim the ocean of dreams
Close your eyes to the whispering tides
These waters forever witness our rites

You give me purity in a world of despondence
You gave me serenity when I had none
Forever does not seem long enough to love you
But forever is eternity with you to adore

Oceanus, the sweet taste of memories upon your shores
Oceanus, where we lay christened by the stars

Words: Fionna | Music: C. Jago

Buried dreams

Watch these words enchant me
Allude to a further reality
Removed from what I can see

But I must stay on stable feet
Remain in corporeality
Not disappear inside a dream

The will, the way
To transcend the day
When night’s life becomes the death of day
The time has come to break away

Be watchful when you sleep
Don’t hide in a dream
There’s always more to life than there might seem…

Words and music: C. Jago

Tireansamhraidh

Huair a eireas a ghrian air cearcall nan speur
Tha maduinn bhreagh air a breiith
Chi mi dealt a soillseachadh duileagan nan rosan
Solus na grein air na clachan bho chian

Eioin na cabhanaich ri seinn dhomh an oran eala
Fonnis milse chluichear a riamh rim chluais
Craobhan beltein ag aomadh gu socair san tla-ghaoth chubhraidh
Bho sgail a blath sgothan caidilidh mi gu siorruith

Na gul air mo shonsa na biodh do chridhe bho dheoir
Tha mi nis mar aon ris an talamh oigheil s lom
far ann a failas a bhan dhe ni mi dannsa
Air dian ghaothan, air iteag, ag iaradh dhachaidh

Words: Fionna | Music: C. Jago

The last goodbye

Tell me when the feeling died
All the different times we tried
In fire of passion we burnt our bridges
Consumed conflicting final wishes
Kiss away the tears we cried
The courage of our last goodbye…

Words and music: C. Jago