Scorched Vision
by Scarcity
From the album: The Promise of Rain
Duration: 11:25
Lyrics for Scorched Vision
Rigors and strictures In the house of devotion To trespass with care and grace To conserve strength To consume salt, to shed dead weight Below a baleful sky, to seek my place I cast out for the parched ways I become what you need me to be Kneeling seared in the sand In blistered tones, I plead For the ghost of this fleshless land To alight in the shattered trees I am touched by exhaustion's hand Sweat-beads bejewel my face I abjure the strength to stand And persist in attitudes of faith Drained in delirium's canyon In awe of the mystery Vision, reveal yourself to me In the red My wretched crest Unwinds, cracks open Ashen, gasping The distal blade of hemotoxin Cleaves the horizon Cleansed by dust, at last I see That tender flower Scorched but lovely In mourning, secure From forgotten enemies In this abyss of rock and sun In this erased inland sea