lyrics: excerpt from "The Coming of the Watchers"
a testimony of the temple scribe, Ishur Ninku, circa 4000 BC

strangers came, and they were not like us. something else,
but wearing the skins of men and the eyes of men.
we took to collecting the sound of them in our flesh,
the aorisms of power, without substance,
yet entirely substance;
an unexplored integrity of sound.

in these waveforms of kelestic symmetry,
we felt the remote passing into the definite.
we saw the winds of change form within the ichor of their sound;
a thick smoke, sweet upon the tongue,
curling into unimagined shapes that suggested surrender,
ecstasy, pain, renewal.

we learned the names of these strangers,
the ancient names of the summerland.
in this place, on this earth of now reality,
the names are different,
but the old cadences can still be uttered, chanted;
they will still vitalise the call.

we stand together in the wildest places of earth,
and form a forest of hands against the black sky,
stretching up, reaching for what is ours to take,
yet never to attain.

our bodies begin to pulsate to a subliminal rhythm
and we feel the imminence of contained energy, soon to be released.
we dilate our throats to the air and resonate the ancient names.
we invoke the winds, and they come to us,
strangers with the eyes of men.