Top Songs By Drouth
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Drouth
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Matt Stikker
Songwriter
John Edwards
Songwriter
Patrick Fiorentino
Songwriter
Tyler Wolfe
Songwriter
Lyrics
Scarcely I slept, restless and fitful Tossed ashore by oneiric tides Waking, walking, sand in my hair Blood shivering in the dark
I have held my heart in my hands Tested its sustenance, useless and cold Crouching among the circle of stones Flickering stars merely pinpricks of regret
Dreaming the stark and sunlit thresholdOver and over slipping closer to the door
I transmute delirium to substance Dripping with sweat, cursed and feeble I cannot recall the form of a tiger The fragrance of wood, the slickness of deceit
I reject, I deny, I lament that which I create Curling inward, cower-ing from lightLurching from idyll again into ruination
I drag my raft by night to the current's edgeShoreline strewn with glass, like fistfuls of teeth Cast upon wine-dark seas of timeOver the scuttling things that wreathe the innards of the earth
Behold the sum of man, behold the price of rest One forbidden sight, one familiar sin To soar into the sun, to crush that which you hold most dear
I have felt its breath in my sleeping mouth A bitter taste I cannot coax or reproduce Now, dragged into the moaning daylight I feel it slip forever from my trembling hands
For each attempt to produce a form in perfect structure The more distended and grotesque my progeny I resign myself to slump at last into the pyre But with relief, with humility, with terror I am unharmed
Steady my hand, light of the morning Denuder of self, destroyer of all, deposer of kings, diminisher of man.
Un hombre se propone la tarea de dibujar el mundo. A lo largo de los años puebla un espacio con imágenes de provincias, de reinos, de montañas, de bahías, de naves, de islas, de peces, de habitaciones, de instrumentos, de as-tros, de caballos y de personas. Poco antes de morir, descubre que ese paciente laberinto de líneas traza la imagen de su cara. JLB
Written by: John Edwards, Matt Stikker, Patrick Fiorentino, Tyler Wolfe