Lyrics:

A magpie or a mockingbird
Made masks and worlds from what i’d heard 

A halformed creature from the dark
Crawled up with just my bloody heart 

Gathered up each missing piece,
To stretch my wings and dull my teeth 

Listened close to twist and twine 
A shape to fit in other minds 

I made myself a friendly face 
And learned to fit whatever space 
Or shape the comfortless might ask
A gentle memory of the past

I’m right here, you’ll be ok
You’ll be ok

Let’s talk awhile and I’ll
Remind of a better place

I’ll be a voice that whispers lullabies
And does her best to light the way

A dream of sky, A kinder lie
Hope enough to last the day 

In the sea of dark delusion
Let me spin from light, illusion
And believe in every desperate plan
The final refuge of the damned 

Bury me, where bird song sounds
In the forest that my heart has found 
That my roots might cradle and surround
The world grown from my soul unwound

My shining city, my roots my leaves
Look around and think of me

In dappled shade and soft sunlight 
I hope that I have done it right 

I’m right here
You’ll be ok, you’ll be ok

Delusions of Mercy

A song for Brother Faulkner

Lyrics <3

The youngest son
The least of three
Pulled up from obscurity

The youngest son
The thirsting one 
The chosen witness of the flood

Oh The prophet learned the song
Of water cold, of breath that’s gone

And the prophet held the weight of that
Revelation on his brothers back 

The young man caught, in rivers flow 
Had still a hundred miles to go 

Crushed and crumpled at the gate
He’d learn his lesson first to wait

Waist deep in mud and deathly still
The prophet knew the water’s will

He knew he had not come to fail
That his work would be to great avail

And when the young man first turned flesh 
To the form his rushing god had wished 
And formed a saint from heresy 
His failure was for none to see 

Upon deeper truth they would alight 
This is the part they will not right

The break in heart, or gut or will
Washed away with all the swill

The youngest son
The hungry one 
Has writ his name in silt and blood

And when his time and work is done
His melody 
Will still live on

Oh his verse will still be sung
Oh his verse will still be sung
Oh! His verse will still be sung

The Prophet’s Song

Another piece about the Silt Verses. This one begins with a recitation of the poem made by the episode titles before getting into the song itself.

Here is said poem:
Let me speak first of revelations,
And next of dark deceit
Then I’ll speak of champions 
Of Lovers, Gods and Beast
My song is long and twisted
It winds it worms it wends 
It carries few, It drowns many
And those I love it rends
My song has taken hold of me 
It grips my tongue, my throat
My voice cries truths I never knew 
And to fight is just to choke 
So let me dwell eternal
And in ruined flesh ascend 
For my song has no beginning 



Here are the lyrics written by me:
Times may pass, and come what will
The tide shall rise and drink his fill

The mind may rage, or soul submit
Nevertheless, the tide comes in 

Be it a curse upon your name,
Or be it a blessing, it’s all the same 

Sing in praise or proclaim your sins
Nevertheless the tide comes in 

The world may refract in that crash of the wave
If drowned lungs could sing, what would they say?

“Am I descending?” Or “Am I set free?”
Dragged down to the river, and on to the sea

Come the shore will you wither? Not meant for dry land.
Or is this just the last of his gifts in the end?

Will finally see clear, through compounded eye
The river rises

The River Rises

This is the way life has turned, life has twisted
(Where has your soul gone?)
This is a house, and I am within it
(I do not feel your heartbeat)
It’s bones are my bones, it’s walls are my skin
I shutter the windows, and let no one in
Sunk on the hillside we molder as one 
Oh house on the hill, thy will be done
You are no place of honor my dear,
(this house is for you, it is your place of honor)
But still i have chosen to lay my bones here
(Come up stairs and see the view)
Not built for my body, these hallways this home
(This house is for you, for so long it's been waiting)
I’ll shift and transform my dear exclusion zone
(Haven't you been waiting to?)
So now lay me down in this moldering bed
(Where has your blood gone?)
Forget and forsake them, you have me instead
(What heart have you to circulate)
I offer it, take of my blood and my flesh
(Whatever's lost, whatever's gone)
Thus that our souls will grow truly enmeshed
(I am here, it's not too late)
Open your rib cage, and make me your heart
Brick of my blood no more shall we part
I’ve grown scaffolds and plaster, you flesh bone and sinew
You are a home, and I am within you 
I love you eternal, your rotting facade 
My house, my home, my soul, my god
Bound deep on this hillside our roots become one
Oh house on the hill, thy will be done

A Haunting’s Love Song

Lyrics:
She’s ridden down to nowhere, 
I am calling out but they don’t care 

I guess I’ll go ignored 
I know God loves to close a door

And out the window 
I’ll watch the stars go 

By, far and high in the cool dark
Devoured by the sun as it embarks 

Pulls me from the dream 
When in its tendrils stream
To pull me ownward 
Upward as the dawn stirs

The conductors cries,
Our next stop
Awake O sleeper now
It’s time to get off

I hope when I step off this train,
All these sets will fall away
And I’ll be nowhere 
I’ll know. If she’s there.

I’ll tell you what I know to well
I’d ride this engine straight through hell!
If I could meet her 
Where my eyes cannot perceive her

In the station now, the rain falls
And all my pretty words meant fuck-all

I guess I’ll try again,
I’ll find another train

A lonely songbird
Ever forward, ever onward

Nowhere

I live in the dream from which I cannot wake
Above me the surface never shall break 

Of the vast and silent seething sea
My self sinks deep inside of me

Layers on layers on layers belie
The crumbling walls, the sagging sighs

Of centers that have never held 
Before the dark, the songs of hell

That fill the throat and burn the Eye
The lingering heart that will not die

Instead it blooms and bleeds and sees 
The light that splits inside of me

I live in the dream from which I cannot wake
Above me the surface never shall break 

Of the vast and silent seething sea
That stifles thought and garbles plea

Layers on layers on layers belie
The burning mind that cannot die 

O, God may light the corners well
But not drown out the song of hell

And there is so much left to do
Despite the fire no Word can soothe

Layers on layers on layers belie
The space where now no core doth lie 

(Piercing light, have mercy on me)
(And let thy waves crash down upon me)

(Take my heart, this wretched one )
(And let it hear no song unsung)

(But offer me no healing hand)                         Offer me no healing hand
(This burning mind *must* understand)            This burning mind must understand

(Uncomprehending, still I sing )                         Uncomprehending still I sing
(For I have see such awful/wonderous things)  For I have seen so many things

(Piercing light, have mercy on me)                    Though wrapped in dark, I can’t deny
(And let thy waves crash down upon me)          The light annihilating shines 

(Take my heart, this wretched one )                   A sword to pierce this rotten heart
(And let it hear no song unsung)                        The water whirls, things fall apart 

(But offer me no healing hand)                           The future dissolves and devours the                                                                                      past 

(This burning mind *must* understand)               The sets all resolve for the curtain and cast 

(Uncomprehending, still I sing )                           We’re down in the game though we already won

(For I have see such awful/wonderous things)     The moon breaks the waves and she swallows the sun


(Piercing light, have mercy on me)                       The moon breaks the waves and she swallows the sun

(And let thy waves crash down upon me)             The moon breaks the waves and she swallows the sun


(Take my heart, this wretched one )                      The moon breaks the waves and she swallows the sun

(And let it hear no song unsung)                           The moon breaks the waves and she swallows the sun


(But offer me no healing hand)                              The moon breaks the waves and she swallows the sun

(This burning mind *must* understand)                 The moon breaks the waves and she swallows the sun


(Uncomprehending, still I sing )                             The moon breaks 
 the waves and she swallows the sun

(For I have see such awful/wonderous things)      The moon breaks the waves and she swallows the sun

Layers on Layers

A fan song for the silt verses!

Lyrics:

All water returns to the rivers
And all the rivers are as one 

And the current that flows 
To the ocean knows 

It's just waiting for the storm 
That's yet to come 

All water's like blood in a vein
Going, then returning to the heart

One father in the water,
We call you sisters and brothers 

If creatures of the current's 
What you are

When the river inherits the sea
When the ocean returns from the sky

Risen in the water we'll be
Shifted and changed by the tide

All water returns to the rivers
All the rivers are as one 

As you have gone
Return to his arms 

And see what you 
Were mean to become

All waters just fragments of the whole
The Trawlerman of silt and shell and bonee

The river embodies the seas 
And calls them back home from the skies 

Ebb and flow
The current only goes
Until it's recalled by the tide

Return To The River

Lyrics:

Did we have to go? Did we have to wake?
The new dream "real" is a bitter ache

Still beating heart of what we want,
And is it left in the house we haunt?

The set remains, the center held
It isn't just an empty shell

And the dance floor clears, should we just pretend?
Where do you go when the music ends?

Does the future come when the world moves on?
What do you do when the angers gone?

What do you do when the angers gone?
Does the future come when the world moves on?

Where do you go when the music ends?
And the dance floor clears, should we just pretend,

It isn’t just an empty shell,
The sets remain, the center held. 

And is it left? In the house we haunt,
Still beating heart of what we want

The new dream, “real” is a bitter ache 
Did we have to go? Did we have to wake?

What do you do when the angers gone? (Did we have to go, did we have to wake?)
Does the future come when the world moves on? (The new dream "real" is a bitter ache)

Where do you go when the music ends? (Still beating heart of what we want)
And the dance floor clears, should we just pretend, (And is it left in the house we haunt)

It isn’t just an empty shell, (The sets remain, the center held)
The sets remain, the center held. (It isn't just an empty shell)

And is it left? In the house we haunt, (Does the future come when the world moves on?)
Still beating heart of what we want (Where do you go when the music's gone?)

The new dream, “real” is a bitter ache (Does the future come when the world moves on?)
Did we have to go? Did we have to wake? (What do you do when the angers gone)

When The World Moves on

A locked tomb fansong 

Lyrics:
Death is a girl
Her dark hair falling
In waves just like the sea

A girl is an end 
Who is cold as ice 
A girl who is tender as sleep

Death is a girl 
Death is a girl

Death is a gate 
and a name and a question
A girl is a queen and a key 

A queen is a keeper
A key is a traitor
A girl is the one who must see

Death is a doorway 
A girl has walked under
A girl is a flesh that must bleed

A girl is a sword
and an end and a promise
A girl is the heart’s battery 

Death is a girl
Death is a girl 

Death is an end 
That a girl has forgotten 
A girl is a wound and a tomb

A girl is a saint, 
A director, a witness
A girl is a room with a view

Death is a girl
And a love and a monster 
A girl is a beast from the deep

A girl is a god 
That death has begotten 
In a kingdom by the sea

Death is a girl
Death is a girl

Death is a Girl

Another song for Eskew

Lyrics:

Odd angled shadow, voice on the wind
Where do you end where do I begin?
Tangled in streets, caught in your veins 
The tune of my nightmares played on the rain

I have written your history 
You who makes sense of me
Let go I implore
You oh voice of my horror
Trapped in this game
I cannot hope to win 
With you, terrible thing 
Wrapped in a city’s skin

My towers, my bridges, my angles askew
Each scene I play out I’ve written for you
I’ve shaped out a life for you, made you a home
For a place cannot be a city alone


Write me a history, 
You who makes sense of me 
Cry out like thunder 
Oh voice of my wonders 
Ghost in my doorways
Where else would you haunt?
I know you, I see you
Is that not what you want?



Resetting the stage rewriting the song            In every new scene clawing 
out for the light 

Becoming by inches a city of sights                 Each day a new chance to 
get it just wrong




Rewriting the steps            Relearning the steps 

                          Day after Day 
             In the city where it always rains 



I have written your history               Write me a history, 
You who makes sense of me          You who makes sense of me
Let go I implore                               Cry out like thunder
You oh voice of my horror               Oh voice of my wonders
If you let me go                                You knocked on my door 
Would I really be free?                     That’s how I let you in
Were I not here,                                How can you run
Where would I be?                           From where you’ve always been?

A City of Wonders Too

Fog and Rain and Worms

Eye of the Storm

Changeling (COVER)

Sweet(Cover)

Down in the Dunes

Nobody Needs to Be Alone (A Jane Prentiss Fansong)

A Circus Most Peculiar (A Nikola Orsinov Fansong)

I Drown (An Archivist Fansong)

Round and Round (A Distortion Fansong)

Threadbare Web (A Martin K. Blackwood Fansong)

You Do Not Know (A fansong for The Stranger)

Within Her Web (An Annabelle Cane Fansong)

Blood Song (A fansong for The Hunt)

The Mind Electric (Cover)

Circus Waltz (Theia’s Song)

Dead Sailors Sing (A song for The Lonely)

Partner, mine (An Alice “Daisy” Tonner fansong)

Well, well, well (A Magnus Archives fansong)

The Voyeur’s Hymn (A song for Beholding)

Find no-reverse version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eSYjbdAwxI

The Mind Electric (Cover, With Reverse)

An I Am In Eskew fansong

Lyrics:
I am learning the steps, day after day
Dancing with doors and the rules they obey 
But the music evolves in unpredictable ways 
In my spiraling out ever lengthening stay 

In the city where it always rains 
Where the edges of bridges call your name 
A shifting anatomy of streets and veins 

Each day I unwind, one new piece at a time
Some grisly scene, written with me in mind
My hopeful hearts solved the puzzle this time
Though it’s foolish to try to do more than survive

In the city, where it always rains 
Where the soil and the water call out your name 
Intractably trapped and enraped in the game

I claw the walls till nails bend back 
Play though I know the deck is stacked 
Each time i’m crushed, still reach for that 
Illusion of a chance

In the city where it always rains 
And evening streets forget your name 
And you’ve lost every place from whence you came

Am I an insect on the skin
Of a creature I cannot hope to begin
To understand or find a reason for 
A city not made, not built, but born 

It’s a curious kind of bloodless hope
Burning when I slip back down the slope
Again, and again, and again and again
Can’t run from where you’ve always been

In the city where is always rains 
The abyss and the tower call your name 
Again, again, again, again
Can’t run from where you always been

Where it always rains

A Silt Verses fan song

Lyrics:
The river inherits the sea
When the ocean returns from the sky
The river inherits the sea
The debt will be paid when you die

Hands go numb
Lungs gasp and fill
The Tide rises as it will

Flesh intertwined 
In muck and silt 
The tide rises as it will

The river inherits the sea
When the ocean returns from the sky
The river inherits the sea
The debt will be paid when you die

The crawlers feed 
On bodies bloat 
Swept away and dragged below

The tides arise 
And rivers run
All the water moves as one

The river inherits the sea
When the ocean returns from the sky
The river inherits the sea
The debt will be paid when you die

The river inherits the sea
When the ocean returns from the sky
There's nothing forever or free
Our debt will be paid when we die

River Chant

A Silt Verses fansong, For Carpenter.

Lyrics: 

I walk down by my still waters 
Await the flood to rise
Swallow the streets, come up through the gutters
Cast this world aside

You the terror in my heart,
With surface mirror still
And riptides calm, I carry on
And trudge down through the silt

I walk down by my rivers edge 
Alone, wait for the tide 
Over the banks, through the reeds and sedge
To cast this world aside

The quiet of the drowning deep
And rolling rage that lies beneath
With lonely heart and spiteful hand
At the water’s edge I stand

I walk down by my still waters 
Await the flood to rise
Swallow the streets, come up through the gutters
Cast this world aside

My river, carry me alone
As tides rise in my blood 
The current flows, through flesh and bone
The fury and the flood

Still Waters

A Silt Verses fansong

Lyrics:
Lay down your head for the rising tide
Twist in the mud on the hook and line 
But the water must rise and a god be fed
Lay down your head on the river bed

Lay down your head in among the reeds
Where the cold shivers and water seeps 
In through your skin till it chills the blood
Lay down your head for the coming flood

Lay down your head in the current’s grasp
As the song of your cries gargles into gasps 
You’ll sing as your throat fills and your lungs burn
Lay down your head where the water churns

Lay down your head below the waves 
Forget what you were and from where you came
As the dark claims your eyes the deeps music plays
Lay down your head and be washed away

You’ll twist and reshape as your flesh unfurls 
‘Round barnacled bones the green weeds curl
The hermit crabs crawl through your chest gaping wide
Lay down your head in the rising tide

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