"In Ashen Wake" lyrics
The trees no longer care to whisper
Their limbs blackened with the char of years
Boughs once lifted in praise of dawn
Now hanging small in sombre decay
Rivers choke on remnants of intent
Where once life danced in floods of spring
Now floats the wretched carcass of empires
It's decay leeching into sacred lands
Above the heath, smoke coil like thoughts
From minds bereft of joyous memory
For the skies now carry a fateful omen
In the absence of empathy
In the deep vales where fire now breathes
Scorched figures lie beneath the tor
Features cracked in raging heat
As eyes reflect a landscape dying
Ash falls slowly on the pastures
And covers tracks of former kin
Flames now hollow in their conquest
Must all burn & start again?
This is not the wrath of gods
Nor punishment forged in the stars
This is nature shedding sickness
A body exhaling its fever in flame
Their limbs blackened with the char of years
Boughs once lifted in praise of dawn
Now hanging small in sombre decay
Rivers choke on remnants of intent
Where once life danced in floods of spring
Now floats the wretched carcass of empires
It's decay leeching into sacred lands
Above the heath, smoke coil like thoughts
From minds bereft of joyous memory
For the skies now carry a fateful omen
In the absence of empathy
In the deep vales where fire now breathes
Scorched figures lie beneath the tor
Features cracked in raging heat
As eyes reflect a landscape dying
Ash falls slowly on the pastures
And covers tracks of former kin
Flames now hollow in their conquest
Must all burn & start again?
This is not the wrath of gods
Nor punishment forged in the stars
This is nature shedding sickness
A body exhaling its fever in flame
Writer(s): Christopher John Naughton
