1. |
Before The Cock Crow
04:37
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The fall of a Star – arise now, arise
Who knows we ride abroad tonight
The highest expect, the valley lies deep
The waking world prepares for sleep
South gate of the sun; the year’s end has passed
Our time has come, will come again
For that which we seek is that which we all see
The light now dimmed will blaze anew
Before the cock crow
Before Aurora’s tears run cold
Before the cock crow
All I take I have and hold
The spiraling path invoking the airs
That bruise the earth and touch the sky
The fruit that is borne upon the bare bough
Has seed as barren as a wish
And when all is done the price of them all
Is all remains of dust and bones
So what will arise, oh what will arise
Who knows what rides abroad tonight
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2. |
The Chymical Wedding
03:15
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Clothed in red, clothed in white
Buried dreams and hidden light
Beyond the veil; beyond the veil
The perfect skin of silver trapped
The perfect eyes, but yet no lids
The perfect eyes that cannot close
Amok with blood, for death will out
And conquer all and yet she walks
The past is lost the path is closed
The body sleeps in sweet repose
Clothed in red clothed in white
Beyond dreams and beyond light
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3. |
In The Red Of The Moon
04:26
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In the fields we shall meet
In an ear of ripe wheat
So that death we will cheat
In the red of the moon
As the bonfires twist
As the fingers of mist
Taste the cold lips that kiss
In the red of the moon
Oh, the first will be last
Oh, the first stone be cast
In the well of the past
In the red of the moon
In the woods we will bind
Root and leaf will we find
The caul and the sign
In the red of the moon
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4. |
Above Us Is Heaven
05:09
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Dancing with shadows and twisting in lies
As grey wreathing fingers caress and incise
Above us is Heaven, within us the spark
Illumines the darkness and shows us the path
As flesh turns to liquid and bones turns to ice
As opalescence and temperatures rise
We don’t know what love is, and don’t even try
And reaching for nothing is reaching too high
The eyes of the ibis, the tongue of the snake
As ants drown in honey the gods will awake
Above is starsong, below us the earth
And what is this life but misfortune of birth
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5. |
This House Of Shadows
04:10
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Jackal night of silver black
Above the heavens’ arching back
Stars shine through us
In this house of shadows
A gallery of painted names
Hanging sparks in gilded frames
Storms rise through us
In this house of shadows
In the arms of silence
Time falls like stardust
Rain falls below us
In this house of shadows
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6. |
Per Tropo Fede
05:58
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Per tropo fede talor se perigola!
Non è dolor né più mortale spàsemo
come, senza falir, cader in biàsemo:
el ben se tacie e lo mal pur se cigola.
Per tropo fede talor se perigola!
Lasso colui che mai se fidò in fémena.
Chè l'amor so veneno amaro sèmena.
onde la morte speso se ne spigola!
Per tropo fede talor se perigola!
Oimè, ch'Amor m'à posto in cotal càrçere.
onde convienme ognor làgreme sparçere.
si che de doglia lo mio cor forìigola.
Per tropo fede talor se perigola!
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7. |
The Changeling
03:17
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8. |
The Caul Of The Sun
04:42
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9. |
Fair Is The Rose
03:10
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Fair is the rose, yet fades with heat or cold.
Sweet are the violets, yet soon grow old.
The lily is white, yet in one day 'tis done.
White is the snow, yet melts against the sun.
So white, so sweet was my fair mistress' face,
Yet altered quite in one short hour's space.
So short-lived beauty a vain gloss doth borrow,
Breathing delight today, but none tomorrow.
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10. |
Lacunga
04:28
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Feverfew and red nettle grow through the house
Shot to the skin shot to the flesh
Shot to the blood shot to the bone
Shot of gods shot of elves
Shot of iron, work of witch
Work of witch now melt and fade
Melt and fade
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11. |
Aurora
04:29
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Through the half remembered trees
Shadowed blue and underfoot
Her heralds call the passing hours
And guard the door of sleep
When first she stirs the stars shine cold
Reflected in the midnight dew
Collected by the ancient craft
The mirrors of the hills
The paths cut deep by countless years
That spiral to the summit stones
Await again the dancing feet
Of those who passed before
As she ascends they gather light
The fallen stars of heaven’s host
To film brimful the shining bowl
And cast it eastward from the stones
So dawn may come once more
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12. |
Anadiomene
06:40
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Look, look why shine
Those floating bubbles with such light divine?
They break, and from their mist a lily form
Rises from out the wave, in beauty warm.
The wave is by the blue-veined feet scarce pressed,
Her silky ringlets float about her breast,
Veiling its fairy loveliness, while her eye
Is soft and deep as the heaven is high.
The Beautiful is born; sea and earth
May well revere the hour of that mysterious birth…
Anadiomene…
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13. |
Searching For Lambs
02:03
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As I went out one May morning
One May morning betime
I met a maid, from home had strayed
Just as the sun did shine
‘What makes you rise so soon, my dear
Your journey to pursue?
Your pretty little feet, they tread so sweet,
Strike off the morning dew’
‘I’m going to feed my father’s flocks
His young & tender lambs,
That over hills and over dales
Lie waiting for their dams’
‘O stay, o stay, you handsome maid
And rest you here a while
For there is none, save you alone,
That I do love so dear’
‘Now gloriously the sun do shine
And pleasant is the air
I’d rather rest on a true love’s breast
Than any other where’
‘For I am thine and thou art mine
No man shall uncomfort thee
We’ll join our hands in wedded bands
And married we will be’
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Orchis UK
Orchis, one of the first of the English apocalyptic / dark / wyrd folk bands formed in 1992 and released the first of their four studio albums in 1994 and the final one in 2013. They contributed to many compilation albums over their career, as well as a some reissues and 'best of's, plus a handful of singles and e.ps. They have now retired to separate corners of the world. ... more
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