Lyrics as carved stone
The album’s own words. The title mantra is cut into the main stone, and each song’s key line and what it faces is etched beside it. Every stone opens its song.
Words can’t be unsaid
Deeds are undead
Facing what I avoid
Reflections against the void
Echoes of Our Scream
"Cold like the mountains tops / and firey like lava inside it"The mountain cracks and the future slips out through the void. What’s left is moving forward inside the same life.
On the demoUnchoke Unblind
"I can’t quell the fire inside / I can prevent the burn outside"Love becomes force, and force becomes a knife. The song faces what good intentions still cost.
On the demoFreedom in Mind
"roots inside were never disentwined"Leaving is necessary and it still doesn’t cut clean. Freedom arrives carrying its consequences.
On the demoTrust in Us
"With our honesty / Our love is, is not blind"Two people find light in each other without pretending the grey away. Hope that survives honest sight.
On the demoUnfrozen
"warmth without melting, a light that stays lit"A fire that burned down to ice, and the long search for a heat that can be lived with.
In the forgeHorrors Beyond the Veil
"My eyes warped by contempt, with a heart that is blind"Dogma blinds the believer and contempt blinds the critic. The song turns its own question on itself.
In the forgeWe Stand Tall
"climbing up the mountain with zeal / The path we dreamed starts to be real"Purpose, a crew alongside, and the demons that attack from inside as well as out.
Still climbingFragments of Memories
"The days come and go / But the memories won’t let go"Scars that stay, a wound with no single culprit, and forgiveness as the road to peace.
Still climbingAll Are One
"A brain like a sponge / Trapped in the cosmic web"A transcendent certainty that turns into a trap. The way out is evidence, not a bigger revelation.
Still climbingFathers of Hubris
"The nature of the beast, in me"Seeing the lie outside, and then the part of yourself that wanted to believe it.
Still climbingThe same images return across songs with their meaning moved. Follow a symbol at the Reflecting Pool →