Snowtorch I

1. STAR OF LIGHT

Star of light, see what you gave

You cheated away the cold dark night

Edge of a blade, let's meet at the grave

Of the wax figurines

Ice melts, upsets the sea, submit, follow me

Walk with me now in the sunlight

Daylight, down with the night

Invincible light, are you back with us now?

Source of all reason, I've come alive

"Finally," I cried. And it's me, I have arrived

Now, is this the seed rooting in me?

Is it the tree that I wanted to climb?

Down or high, my senses strive on

For all I can see

Tell me how the planet was formed

In a gas cloud, out of dust we were born

Are you dusty, my figurehead friends?

What's it feel like to come to the end?

So tell me, have you any regrets?

From your glass house can you see what you've set

Are you listening to the things that they've said

In your diary - the book of the dead

See the helix alive, we cast you aside and thrive

So come now and we'll settle the bet

It's a dark hour that you'll never forget

Is it lonely as you take in the next to last breath

And die

2. RETROGRADE

I bring to you the words you threw

into my face once before

I'm only here to spread some fear

I need you to know you will die

And not very nicely - surprise!

I know what you need

I promise you, when we get through

You might not believe but I tried

Your head will scream: divide with me

Emerge like a new butterfly

Purge all the worms left inside

(birds want a good time)

So don't evade the surgeon's blade

Cos the answer could be in your mind

Maybe one cut and we'll find

We're just a wavelength behind

But we are entwined

And I know what you need

3. FOX ON THE ROCKS

When is a fox not a fox?

When it hides in the rocks and prepares to reveal itself

Dropping the guise to expose

That it knows what you don't want to show

Why are we swerving to stop at the top of the clock

Like we really could save ourselves

What if I said that the world doesn't end in the end

But continues to mend itself

How can you count the amount

Of a mountain that sprouts

If you're not there when it comes out

4. CELESTINE (instrumental)