Lyrics
1) Whitestone (3:50)
Lyrics Written by Catherine Lafuente
Vox by Catherine Lafuente
Music composed by James Cathey and JD Sexton
Whitestone looms against gray dusk sky
suspend in memory the last time i saw you
reach across an ocean
or a river i really don't remember
but mighty you were then and mighty you are now.
washed out into the pale.
one thousand storms later, i have grown
but you are still there:
an urban landscape, branded to me, towering upwards, towering over me.
(i never was a new york city girl
but at night i laid in bed and recited your name
just to hear how it would sound coming off my tongue.)
You may find me full of past ills, shielding myself from you
as though haunted
but you're luminescent and approaching, and i shall not grit my teeth
this time.
Struggle to release
to calm my blood
swallow the traffic and move on.
Ivory tower
Parallel monolith
forever open-mouthed and bare-boned,
I surrender.
2) Underbelly (4:22)
3) Concrete Horizon (5:48)
Music by James Cathey and JD Sexton
Lyrics by Catherine Lafuente
Vox by Catherine Lafuente
Tumbled, into dreaming sleep
a hall of lights
illuminate.
Nebulous Supernova
Inbound traveler drifts
in and out of crimson.
A simple sigh - indication,
lightning speed, my waking,
a flurry of flashes.
Next sequence:
images of a reluctant goddess
roused from her slumber,
feet planted firmly,
brush of cold air on my cheeks,
spinning in the city.
The horizon melts
into a wash of color
sun fading from the edge of the globe.
Circumnavigating
the perimeter, rectangular,
concrete steps; arrhythmic.
In perfect polarity,
uncomplicated breathing
seamlessly drawn in unison.
4) Vulture Song (6:08)
Lyrics Written by Catherine Lafuente
Vox by Catherine Lafuente
Music Composed by James Cathey and JD Sexton
Rings in the atmosphere.
Rings in the atmosphere.
Oh! My body lies paralyzed!
Oh! This spirit is hypnotized!
Moist black eyes, descend, descend!
Moist black eyes, descend!
Oh! This spirit is hypnotized!
Jagged circles casting shadows
pinpoints break in azure light
crackling cakes of sepia dirt
beneath this sloughing skin.
Sing for rain, oh sing for rain in
one last hopeless seranade!
Silhouettes graze cerulean
as last flashes begin and end.
Moist black eyes, descend, descend!
Moist black eyes, descend!
Oh! This spirit is hypnotized!
Pulsing heart, collapsing veins
a face harrows forward
bones hollow outward
as skin transforms to wing.
An ancient oath with goose bumps leant
I begin my ascent!
Broken body left behind
as skyspheres pilot in.
Moist black eyes, descend, descend!
Moist black eyes, descend!
Oh! This spirit is hypnotized!
A meal for my brothers and sisters
we shall not starve on this night
I drink the blood of former self
and swoon with drunken vigor.
And now a feast of bones is left
and now a feast of bones.
Cerulean turns to crimson -
with drunken song, we rise.
Moist black eyes, depart, depart!
Moist black eyes, depart!
Oh! My body lies paralyzed!
Oh! This spirit is hypnotized!
5) Ashé (5:39)
Music by James Cathey and JD Sexton
Lyrics credited to Awo Falokun Fatunmbi (Yoruba Prayers)
Vox by Catherine Lafuente
Ori mi ye o ja ja fun mi. Eda mi ye o ja ja fun mi. Ire gbogbo ma wa ba me. Ori mi da me da mi da iye. Ngo ku mo. Ire gbogbo ni temi. Ase.
Inner spirit please fight, fight for me. Creator please fight, fight for me. Let all good things come to me. Inner spirit give me life, I shall never die. Let all good things come to me.
La ro aki Alaketu. Esu ori mi ma je nkoo. Esu Alaketu ba nse ki imo. Esu Alaketu K'eru o ba onimimi. Esu Alaketu fun me ofo ase mo pele. Orisa ohun olohun ni ima wa kiri. Esu Alaketu alajiki ajuba. Ase.
You who see Alaketu without going to Alaketu. Divine messenger of Alaketu, guide my head towards my destiny. Divine messenger of Alaketu I honor your deep wisdom. Divine messenger of Alaketu, find a place for my sorrows. Divine messenger of Alaketu, give me the words of power so that I might greet the forces of nature; who has the voice of power that can be heard throughout the universe. Divine messenger we pay our respects by dancing in a circle. May it be so.
Ogun Elemona na ka nile. Ogun Elemona kobokobo alajere owo. Ogun Elemona fin malu. O Gbe leyin. A nda loro eku fe'ju. Tani wa ra guru? Osibiriki alase a juba. Ase.
The spirit of iron from Elemona points his finger from his home. The spirit of iron from Elemona, the whipper, the owner of money. The spirit of iron from Elemona carved the cow. He carved the back. We are making him suffer. The leopard opens its eyes. Who comes to buy a waistband of charms? The one who bursts out suddenly, the owner of power, we give you thanks. May it be so.
6) Sky Burial (5:06)
7) Threshold (5:58)
Lyrics Written by Catherine Lafuente
Vox by Catherine Lafuente
Music Composed by James Cathey and JD Sexton
be on this threshold with me -
i can sense you:
7 miles across oblivion.
i know i will taste you soon.
beyond the sweetness
of your smell, the longing
to know skin -
i must have you.
i will have you.
i know i will taste you soon.
visage, like a vision
of honey, you appeared to me -
smooth as milk, i dared to dip
my fingers in, i
burned to grasp, to claw.
tumbled and tossed, i
ebb towards you.
i know i will taste you soon.
recline in that shadow-
no ocean will stand between
or any sick cliche this
fervent heart can muster out, will muster out.
i know i will taste you soon.
i'm breathing, racing
i turn myself inside-out.
one gentle finger
will be your body tonight.
one gentle finger
will cool this body tonight.
i know i will taste you soon.
8) Without a Tongue (4:16)
Lyrics Written by James Cathey
Vox by James Cathey
Backing Vox by Catherine Lafuente
Music Composed by James Cathey, JD Sexton and Catherine Lafuente
This failure
I offer you
in broken skies
your love dilute.
This severed
indignity
of bloated heavens
and gifts to me.
This tension
a wretch release
in shaken anger
and grief disease.
This given
into your cries
without a tongue
to speak my lies.
9) Desert Son (6:12)
10) North (4:09)
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