Blue Hour Lyrics

1. WATER SONG

Well they all walked down to the ocean
Just to see her drink the sun
A predictable display of her devotion
And the other stars undone

The water knows
Where the daylight goes
And the clouds, they retain
Any glow that remains

So they all walked into the ocean
At another closing day
And they opened up their mouths and drank the potion
As the sunlight washed away

The water knows
Where the memory goes
And the waves they retain
Any thought that remains

It’s reserved for the turn of the wheel
And the surf moving earth underneath
For the kin, and the sea, and the Sidhe
They were first, and then came the wind

Over the ocean

2. BIRD

Autumn evening
Blackbird on the windowsill
Can you wait until the night
Before you change

Low light glow
Can you feel it moving in
Your shadowy figure
Is a story on my empty page

And the night falls
And the night falls

For you
For you

Feel the air
I can see my life from here
The roads become smaller
Until they nearly disappear

I can grow
I can let the outside in, but
Would they still know me
If I wore your feathered skin

When the night falls
When the night falls

I’m you
I’m you

When the night falls

3. SNAKESKIN

Snakeskin
Velvet of the stag
I want to be new
A better view

If I let it go
Unfurl and open out
Collect the embers in your mouth

Harvest ritual
In my cocoon, awaiting
We are the dream that is becoming

In time, the fire goes
And I wake up before it dies
And through your eyes I’m seeing clearly

Burn

Rise

Feel the heat grow
Then you’ll know

Seed, sprout, sapling, tree
Deepest woods find me wrapped
In ferns and leaves, regenerating

Undercoat, undertow
The heavy fist of winter lifts
And I am light enough to fly

Feel your bones glow
Then you’ll know

How to be new

4. KNIGHT

With your metal sword
And heart of wood
You now raise your arm, to fight
You defend our lives, theirs and mine

And protect your heart, while it burns
In the dark, light our way

But if you stay in the field below
Down in the place where nothing can grow
Under a shadow that you've never known

Don't let your heart become cold as your steel
For as impenetrable as you feel
Storms are deceptive but your light is real

Please believe me
Please believe me

Well you've felt your share of hearts in knots
Weave your fingers through the cords
Until they feel loved and nothing else

The iron now freely flows
The iron encases you, nothing else

But if you stay in the mire below
Down in a place where no one else goes
Held by a silence that you used to know

Don’t let your heart become weary or rough
What if I told you that you are so loved
What if I told you that you are enough

Please believe me
Please believe me

You are not alone

Please believe me
Please believe me

You are not alone

5. THORNS

Every night in your kingdom
Thorns grow on the roses
You remove them every morning
And bring them to your daughters as a warning

Hide your teeth
And your claws
'Til the darkness falls
And the winter thaws

I am waiting here
We are quiet mice
As the sun comes up
We are under ice

Every morning in your kingdom
Blood flows from the roses
Down the stems into the soil
Fingers lose their grip and vines uncoil

You say
Teeth cut
Claws cut
And something tears
I don’t know what

Teeth cut
Claws cut
Thorns cut
Words cut

6. OTHERWORLD

In otherworlds
We are
I am
Falling

In otherworlds
We have
I have
It all

And I, ooh

Strings and layers
Ghosts and sailors and I

When all of this is gone
And I'm gone
Quiet
Will you remember when
We had
It all

And I, ooh

Strings and layers
Ghosts and sailors and I

7. FALLOW

You say you want the answer
Nothing else will do
Sitting poring over words
Broken and untrue

For you
Nothing
Nothing grows

You feel there's something out there
Seek and ye shall find
But your fingers cannot separate
The smile from the lie

And there's a chill in the air
And there's a chill in the air

Now you hold your question
To your chest so tight
The jewel in the cabinet
The flower on the vine

And there's a chill in the air

For you
Nothing
Nothing grows

For you
Nothing
Nothing grows

For you
Nothing
Nothing grows

When there's a chill in the air
Nothing grows

8. ULTIMA THULE

I’ll write a song for you
Sing me under the waterfall
I’ll send my bones to you
Bring me to the ultima thule

I’ll write a song for you
Sing me inside an ancient grove
I’ll take a breath for you
Run with me into an open field

9. Blue Hour

The air is stained blue
The bats and crickets too

The dog becomes the wolf
In the reverent heart of the woods

Beat the heart gain its power
In the window of the blue hour

The dog becomes the wolf
In the darkest part of the woods

Between the sun and moon flower
In shadows of the blue hour

The dog becomes the wolf
In the quiet hum of the woods

Feel the song gain its power
In whispers of the blue hour

The dog becomes the wolf
In the reverent heart of the woods
In the reverent heart of the woods
In the reverent heart of the woods

10. Heathen

I am the darkest part of the woods
And we are umbra, rolling
Unwoven

Let me live in your emptiness
We’ll gather handfuls of the earth
And become unbroken

Inside the lungs of those who sing
And elven blood in roots of trees
The power that the woods can bring

A heart of the very deepest green
A perfect silence falling
Unnoticed

And after the night has passed
The winds of change are at your back
And you’re understanding
The earth as it moves
The underground

The woods are where we go to be
A song, a river wandering
Remember why we still believe

It's a prayer for the unseelie
And a prayer for what's beneath
And a prayer for a haunted woman
A song for heathen woman

Become unbroken

11. Monster

You were born of the sea
I know
You were forged in a wave
The flow
Magic words spilling out
Like blood
Salt water

And from the flood a memory
Will speak your name and set you free
Enchanting those who long to see
And even those who don’t believe

At all
At all
It won’t matter
At all

You’re alive in the wind
Of sails
You speak in the tongue
Of whales
Just a story we’re told
But I thought
In a grotto I heard...

In time the tale will bend and change
So many voices rearrange
The words of those who claimed to know
But through the winter ocean snow

I saw
I saw
From another world
I saw
I saw
From another world
I saw

Again

12. Boat Song

Midsummer breeze
Skeleton keys
When will we go sailing?

Walking the land
Skeleton hand
When will we go sailing?

A tidal wave

Winter is fine
The pit and the rind
When will we go sailing?

Wandering through
Skeleton crew
When will we go sailing?

Open expanse
Floating on glass
When will we go sailing?

Gliding apart
Skeleton heart
When will we go sailing?

A tidal wave

13. Thirteen

It was not yet the night
But all I could see was

Fathoms, so recondite
Is all that the sea was

Blue
Blue
Blue
Blue

I looked up
And all I saw was

I looked down
But all I saw was

Blue
Blue
Blue
Blue