WINE-DARK SEA 

Far from the shore
He sang
He sang
The stars

And drank down
the moon 

CHORUS

She pulls him
She pulls him in
She pulls him into the dark
The wine-dark
The wine-dark
Wine-Dark Sea

No tide, waves, or storm
She sang...
He sank
Like a stone

Still humming
her tune

CHORUS

She pulls him
She pulls him in
She pulls him into the dark
The wine-dark
The wine-dark
Wine-Dark Sea

--

A song about a lonely fisherman and the siren who loves him in the only way she knows how.

Painting "The Fisherman and the Siren" by Knut Ekwall.

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Wine-Dark Sea

INCANTATION 

Ash
Stone
Sky
Sea

Ash
Stone 
Sky 
Sea

CHORUS

It's an incantation
Wrapped inside a song
Wonder-filled 
She sings

(Ash Stone Sky Sea)

It's an incantation
Wrapped inside a song
Veil thin
She sings
She sings

CHORUS

It's an incantation
Wrapped inside a song
Wonder-filled
She sings

(Ash Stone Sky Sea)

It's an incantation
You're wrapped inside a song
It's an exhalation 
She sings
She sings

--

This song is about the wonder of feeling yourself being sung.

("Incantation": the art or act of enchanting through magical words. "Enchant" literally means "to wrap inside a song." See the books and essays of Patrick Curry for a trusty guide.)

Painting "Megalithic grave near Gützkow" (c. 1837) by Caspar David Friedrich.

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Incantation

HELIOTROPE

Sunlight
Daisies

Her eyes
Full of flowers

Sunwise
Stirring

Bright skies
Turning

CHORUS

She is a heliotrope
Head to the sun
She is a heliotrope
Spun from the starlight
Head to the sun

Daystar
Burning

Wayfind
Yearning

CHORUS

She is a heliotrope
Head to the sun
She is a heliotrope
Spun from the starlight
Head to the sun

She is a heliotrope
Head to the sun

Sunlight
Daisies
Her eyes
Full of flowers

--

The title comes from "heliotropism," the motion of plant parts in response to the direction of the sun, like the heads of sunflowers following the sun in the sky throughout the day. (People can be like plants sometimes....)

Although sunflowers are the main symbol, the word "daisy" literally means "day's eye" and couldn't be left out.

"Sunwise" is the same direction as clockwise, though of course it's the clocks which took after sundials, which took after the sun....

Painting "Six Sunflowers" (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh.

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Heliotrope

WE ARE MORE THAN HUMAN

We are more than
We are more than
We
Are
More
Than
Human

Lost
In a Hall of Mirrors

Lost
You will never hear us

Must
You forever fear us?

Come now
We will show you more than this

We are more than
We are more than

CHORUS

We are the clouds
We are the rain
We are the sunlight

We 
Are 
More
Than
Human

We are the soil
We are the flames
We are the splash of water

We
Are
More
Than
Human

--

In the book "The Spell of the Sensuous," David Abram coined the phrase "the more-than-human world" in order to speak of nature as a realm that thoroughly includes humankind (with all our culture and artifice), yet necessarily exceeds humankind; the phrase has now been taken up as a key term within the worldwide movement for ecological sanity.

This is a song about the more-than-human wild creatures and elements defending the Earth, and who we ourselves become when we join them...

Painting "The Seven Sisters" (1888) by Theodor Kittelsen.

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We Are More Than Human

Pop-Folk-Rock in the spirit of Nordic luminaries like Aurora and Kalandra.

Visit our Bandcamp page!  thebrightincantations.bandcamp.com/

THE BRIGHT INCANTATIONS