Monika Edvardsen & Co. - TG lyrics

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Tactile Gemma - lyrics for the unreleased tracks

Rain

Rub in fragrant mould
Weather-gods swing the rain-whip over me
Wash me, erode me, renew me, drop beads
Thread crystalline drops on my head
Adorn the fir’s beard
Dilute the arteries

Sink down in the soil
Sniff in autumn mould
Force way through rodents’ passages
Enter their green crypts
Absorbed by the walls
Reduced to moisture

Shivering stripes of silver
Flow down the spine
The teeth chatter
Grass and pins prick
Under the feet
As from far, far below

Sheltered by the pine tree
Correctly dressed in green - as always –
And with combed beard
For the occasion

Around us is nothing
Below us is nothing
Only rainfall
Rainfall only

The sky roars and renders
The hammer strikes
The heart ruptures
The world becomes red

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Flinged off the Globe

I was flinged off the globe
My screams fell heavily towards the ground
Accelerated, struck like lightning
Dropped dead and vibrated over you

I watched another globe from a distance
Whirling about like a merry-go-round
And the atmosphere was good
I stretched out my arm
And stole the atmosphere

Something must have gone wrong
Now I’m sleeping in the arms of… oh no no no no no!
Help me!

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Swarm

Like hungry flies
Like swarming flies alight
Melt, become fluid
Dripping like syrup

Can you drink when fluid?

Inebriate with senses
Or illusions of senses
The blood devours the intoxication

Can you drown when fluid?

Pour me, pour you into the goblet
I’m fluid, you’re fluid
We’re interfluent
My blues with your reds

Flow flow flowing
Violet wine
Amethyst sediment

Merge merge merging
Recreating
Wrapped in one skin

To whom does this heart belong?
Entwined, merged
Heart-rending sounds when they part

To whom does this heart belong?
Can you steal something that already belongs to you?

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Bereaved

The harmony of the spheres is audible to me
The thresholds of every era are open
I float through Gaia’s nerve net
I repose in her womb
I thread the paths of the Bright Orbs of Heaven
I seek to their craters to crouch inside and weep

My luminous knuckles are visible under translucent skin
But the mirror holds no image of me
The Force of Gravity do not weigh upon me
My tears do not spread circles in water

Too many white shapes tiptoe through the corridors
Their nipples bud, the blood leaves their faces
When they walk through me…

Under a waning moon
Within a circle in the dewy grass
I gently flick a bluebell to make it ring
I hum into the ear of a twinflower
My tremulous tones penetrate down through its stem, through its roots
My brother turns within the soil now
His features soften as he attentively listens…
Listens to the blue tinkle of the bell

Bereaved was I
And beyond boundaries
Still bereaved

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Magic Mirror

Above me black tower-trees spear the sky
Their twiggy boughs make an arch
Their cones are bells that soundlessly accompany
The sunrays’ play on the twigs
Through the dense thatch
Few rays reach the face of the water

But at night the trees straighten their spines
And spread to let in the moonbeams
The pool becomes a magic mirror
Decorated with colourless leaves and needles
Mosquitoes and crane flies stalk the water membrane
Fungus thrives on the roots in the water’s edge
Moss grows on the floating remains of inanimate creatures

Come come come

A dun shape steps forth from the trees
Blinded by this jetty cauldron
The water is rippled only by these meagre arms
Stretching up from the water

Come come come

Do not fear the sentiment, the grip round your wrists
Do not fear when you recognize my face filmed with water
Do not fear drowning is not a painful way to die

You’ll only feel the lungs burst, then tranquillity
You’ll sink into the cold water
And the pool will again become a mirror

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When Never Was

When horror was still only a word to me
And my fear didn’t know it existed
I brought you everywhere with me in my pocket
Hid you in my hand
Between my thighs

When lust is stillonly a word to me
And my love doesn’t know it exists
I leave my aches back at home
When I go outside I forget to bring them on purpose
And hope no one will notice that I’m euphoric

And I still don’t know who you are

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Hear the Cries

Lyrics by Ann-Mari Edvardsen

The wind chants from far off
The path is marked out
You’re the chosen one
Menacing clouds pour water drop by drop
Red rivers flow through my nerve net

Nailed to a tree
My feet are joined
My hands torn apart

A crimson caftan
In blood-red tide
Salty shores cross my eyes
You see right through me

Nailed to a tree
My feet are joined
My hands torn apart
Hear the cries

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