"Ginnungagap" lyrics
"Ginnungagap"
This first and elemental flesh
Both man and woman – falls awake
From void and darkness, frost and flame
From sleeping Ymir, a world to make
The wordless voice, the scream, the howl
Pure essence fills new earth and sky
Ancestral form of myth and legend
Giants, gods to glorify
Father, mother to them all
The bleak betrayal comes to pass
As daughters, sons, bad families
Are cut from stone to break like glass
I dream of spaces, emptiness
Deserts golden, endless dome
Dome of blue with white clouds scudding
Folded origami, home
Home to all creation, vistas
Of foreign lands. We conjure ghosts
Of pre-birth state, primal recall
The calm amongst the heavenly hosts
Writer(s): Ian Scott Anderson
"Ginnungagap" is the first single from Jethro Tull's 23rd studio album, "RökFlöte". The song was premiered on January 20, 2023, accompanied by the animated
music video created by Costin Chioreanu. The band's new music is based on the roles of old Norse gods. According to a press release, this particular track was inspired by the mythological god Ymir,
"the proto-being, a primeval being, who was born from venom that dripped from the icy rivers called the 'Elivagar' and lived in the grassless void of Ginnungagap".
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