Kae Tempest - Unholy Elixir lyrics
[Kae Tempest - Unholy Elixir lyrics]
I touch the beginning
Animating animals and tree gods
Scratching out legends in cave walls
The days pour down into night as we watched
We mapped stars and peaks, we fought beasts
We caught food for the feast
And we walked two abreast to
Receive the bound wheat
The grass, black and strange
As we razed plains to ash
We laid claim, we exchanged grains
And we made pacts
And we clashed, and we strained
And the rains lashed
The young maids were brave
But they were made to lay flat
The old ways were too ingrained
To make the reins snap so we laid traps
We gave our names back to the saints
We sang out thanks and complaints
We burned fat, arranged bones in the flames
Each bird a great catch
Our songs were spells
And our spells were plain facts
She laid down in the road
Where the people go by
And she declared herself willing to try
I laid down beside her
But all I could see were the
Feet as they walked over me
That's when she told me I was holy elixir
She said, "I thought I knew the world
But it was only a picture" she said
"We're all written in the holiest scripture
It's just we're living in this
Time that says no inhibitions
Get yours, keep going the distance
No limit's and don't bother protesting
Because nobody listens
Besides, all your solutions
Dissolve under scrutiny
You can't stand a note of derision
Instead, seek approval to
Justify your existence have opinions
But have no resolve or conviction
Just keep your head down
Breathe the fumes and indulge your addictions
Routine is healthy, ignore the affliction
The cost to the soul
And the constant constriction
Don't consider too closely
Have no intermission
Keep throwing your fists in slow repetition
Most of us manage
What makes you so different?
What makes you so different?
What makes you so
Now, you seem a bright spark
Go ahead, take the road with the pilgrims
Head for the temples of democracy
Freedom, growth, reason, liberty, hope
But don't pay attention to what's
Hanging from the rope
Decode the language, unfold the symbols
I'm told disciples got lost in the hillside
Following intellect, they let go of wisdom
Now they'll tell you the
Soul's a closed system
They sacrificed instinct to phony ambition
Now what they hold in their fists
Has become all that there is
But total existence needs meaning and myth
Many misjudged the way and got
Lost in the mist"
She said, "Your loneliness is the symptom
Not the sickness"
And the moment her lips said "peace
" my peace melted
I became a memory, I felt myself peel
I was atoms, I was Magnesium, I was Calcium
I was real
She said, "We are born of collision
We are divisions of a bigger vision and yet
We run around like hamsters
Spinning the wheel spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel spinning the wheel"
I was on my knees then
I was begging for pardon
I was old and I was clothed in white garments
In a vast red desert where the
Rocks were dark blue and varnished
That's when the voice said
"This is the garden
Now, you better start sowing or
There won't be a harvest"
Animating animals and tree gods
Scratching out legends in cave walls
The days pour down into night as we watched
We mapped stars and peaks, we fought beasts
We caught food for the feast
And we walked two abreast to
Receive the bound wheat
The grass, black and strange
As we razed plains to ash
We laid claim, we exchanged grains
And we made pacts
And we clashed, and we strained
And the rains lashed
The young maids were brave
But they were made to lay flat
The old ways were too ingrained
To make the reins snap so we laid traps
We gave our names back to the saints
We sang out thanks and complaints
We burned fat, arranged bones in the flames
Each bird a great catch
Our songs were spells
And our spells were plain facts
She laid down in the road
Where the people go by
And she declared herself willing to try
I laid down beside her
But all I could see were the
Feet as they walked over me
That's when she told me I was holy elixir
She said, "I thought I knew the world
But it was only a picture" she said
"We're all written in the holiest scripture
It's just we're living in this
Time that says no inhibitions
Get yours, keep going the distance
No limit's and don't bother protesting
Because nobody listens
Besides, all your solutions
Dissolve under scrutiny
You can't stand a note of derision
Instead, seek approval to
Justify your existence have opinions
But have no resolve or conviction
Just keep your head down
Breathe the fumes and indulge your addictions
Routine is healthy, ignore the affliction
The cost to the soul
And the constant constriction
Don't consider too closely
Have no intermission
Keep throwing your fists in slow repetition
Most of us manage
What makes you so different?
What makes you so different?
What makes you so
Now, you seem a bright spark
Go ahead, take the road with the pilgrims
Head for the temples of democracy
Freedom, growth, reason, liberty, hope
But don't pay attention to what's
Hanging from the rope
Decode the language, unfold the symbols
I'm told disciples got lost in the hillside
Following intellect, they let go of wisdom
Now they'll tell you the
Soul's a closed system
They sacrificed instinct to phony ambition
Now what they hold in their fists
Has become all that there is
But total existence needs meaning and myth
Many misjudged the way and got
Lost in the mist"
She said, "Your loneliness is the symptom
Not the sickness"
And the moment her lips said "peace
" my peace melted
I became a memory, I felt myself peel
I was atoms, I was Magnesium, I was Calcium
I was real
She said, "We are born of collision
We are divisions of a bigger vision and yet
We run around like hamsters
Spinning the wheel spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel spinning the wheel"
I was on my knees then
I was begging for pardon
I was old and I was clothed in white garments
In a vast red desert where the
Rocks were dark blue and varnished
That's when the voice said
"This is the garden
Now, you better start sowing or
There won't be a harvest"