He draws near the periphery
In disbelief and delivery
Came child from the deep inferno
Crusty head of dead volcano
Heartless coward, brittle beak
When life's too short to speak
Lilac dust of a woman's hair
Wind cross the paper prayer
A strong will her body lay
A stack of feathers, a pile of hay
A mushroom for an eyeball
A mustache from the snowfall
Worms weave a ring where fairies square dance
Queens and kings fairies weave works with eyelash
Trance music make the fairies dance
From the cage of snail shells
Of course their mother made evil spells
Mystery flows through a wicked river
Of thorn and blade and silver sliver
Bending around the clover fields
Their sapling stems don't break but heal
Her pain inflicts no arguments must
Learn to sway and unarrange
As earth, she makes her final passage
After humans long have ravaged
Vanished with all maps for motion
Upward angels last devotion
One by one escort us home
To leave the elementals free to roam
To bathe in the last of oceans foam
To beach comb
The nuclear debris of plastic toys
And a meadow trees on the perfect day
You'll find the breeze once
Blew the pollen to feed the bees
Now cried the stars when upon the earth
Their gaze might rush, their nostalgia burst
Elements be heard through all the cosmos
For the dying planet with fallen foes
I'm sure that this isn't 100% accurate. As with most CocoRosie songs, the lyrics are both abstract and hard to decipher.
This is what I hear:
He draws near the periphery In disbelief and delivery Came child from the deep inferno Crusty head of dead volcano Heartless coward, brittle beak When life's too short to speak Lilac dust of a woman's hair Wind cross the paper prayer A strong will her body lay A stack of feathers, a pile of hay A mushroom for an eyeball A mustache from the snowfall Worms weave a ring where fairies square dance Queens and kings fairies weave works with eyelash Trance music make the fairies dance From the cage of snail shells Of course their mother made evil spells Mystery flows through a wicked river Of thorn and blade and silver sliver Bending around the clover fields Their sapling stems don't break but heal Her pain inflicts no arguments must Learn to sway and unarrange As earth, she makes her final passage After humans long have ravaged
Vanished with all maps for motion Upward angels last devotion One by one escort us home To leave the elementals free to roam To bathe in the last of oceans foam To beach comb The nuclear debris of plastic toys And a meadow trees on the perfect day You'll find the breeze once Blew the pollen to feed the bees Now cried the stars when upon the earth Their gaze might rush, their nostalgia burst Elements be heard through all the cosmos For the dying planet with fallen foes
I'm sure that this isn't 100% accurate. As with most CocoRosie songs, the lyrics are both abstract and hard to decipher.