ECHO & NARCISSUS

A track to be included in the album-in-progress Augural Carticles. #lynnheage #anthropodigital #echoandnarcissus #auguralcanticles Lyrics I had so many words to share with you A universe of dreams, my bleeding youth The secrets of the gods that scorch the skin With searing immanence and hollow truth I heard her moving on a fading cloud She had Hephaestus’ fire in her eyes With aeras of everlasting fear She pierced my throat, then kissed me with her spear Can you listen to my voice For if you can I’d break the cursed water with bare hands To set your image free and let it fly Across the vestal vapors of my mind Narcissus in your name the curse recites The fate of old desires never told Yet don't forget to say - I love you more For so shall I return it evermore I followed traces etched in waning light, Your mirrored steps dissolving into night. Each word I cast eludes me and leaves me undone A shattered hymn that dies before it’s sung I saw you from the forest’s darkest grove Your silhouette collapsing in your soul And I would give it all to bring you joy To save you from yourself, to bring you close I never had a choice I am just a goddess’ toy - a failing voice Can you listen to my voice For if you can I’d break the cursed water with bare hands To set your image free and let it fly Across the vestal vapors of my mind Narcissus in your name the curse recites The fate of old desires never told Yet don't forget to say - I love you more For so shall I return it evermore Now all is gone — my beauty, a dithyramb A withered wonder, a maenad’s lament And still within me you behold yourself A Styx of silence, dead of the unsaid