SANDTIMER LYRICS
I. Ouroboros

Wrap around this seed of yourself in between these beliefs and doubts

And Create
        Your
        Cyclical
        Looping
        Eternity

before starting again once more

Intentional arrays of joined twisted crystal ladders
Wearing these temporary masks awhile
The life within is shifting into this anomaly
There's no end to begin
It's just a cycle

Serpent twins coiled within entangled in memories
Cellular arrangements of ritual behavior
Invisible reminder of knowledge remaining
essential, continual
It's all a cycle

All will be watching, thinking of you
Guiding the flow of these gradual waves
Through temporal spaces of love
Alone and never alone
Alone and never alone

Cocoon through this tunnel
Cocoon through this change

Keep it together
Control and surrender
Courageous and vulnerable
Alone and never alone
Alone and never alone

       One is the all
       and of it, the all
       and in it, the all
       All is one

Take a breath

Take a breath
Exhale

All is one 

 

II. 8 of Diamonds

Everything came to Nothing to speak of Truth
Then Meaning heard and spread the news
Confusion was there, conspiring
Purpose in turn gave a curious glance
They all agreed with the plan

Individual faces
Multiple styles
Feminine wiles
Masculine guile
When it comes down
to false control or certainty
Take the hit
Roll with it
Play the cards

Everything came to Nothing one day to speak of the Truth
Then Meaning heard and spread the news
Confusion was there, conniving
Purpose in turn gave a furtive glance
They all agreed with the plan

Individual faces
Multiple styles
Methodical candor
Anxious eyes
When it comes down
to gaining or losing it all
Take the hit
Roll with it
Play the cards

Unstoppable determination
The Visible Secret
written on
the thoughts
that walk
across these hands

All or none

(In the end, it’s the choices you’ve made that have brought you to this place. Acceptance first, action next... delivering a blow so full of surprise for what is coming and what is already here. This is a hole in time, a void in life, a view inside the mind’s eye, a direct entrance to renovate the rooms that hold the pieces always brought into question. And questions are really what we’re dealing with here. The answers lie beneath the surface of your conscious mind. You just have to acknowledge the existence, accept the consequence, regret nothing, and grow forever. This will be the test that wins or loses it all—or maybe both. At least, there is a solution.)

All or none

 

III. Mirrors and Hallways

Trapped in this maze
searching for any exits
Staring down these corridors
of mirrors and hallways

Recognizing the eyes upon
the patterns of shadows arising
Intersecting dead ends and reflections
of ripples, elixirs, and holograms

Mapping out projections of the path
with an unseen compass
Figments of future
fragments of the past
tangible illusions

Somewhere
there's a doorway leading out of here
Rooted indecision
my shadow runs right by

A window
Waiting for something to find
Longing for changes
to see through this labyrinth of truth and lies

Decisions
            drops in the pool of
            time
            lasting impressions surrounding
            where the conclusions hide

Finding an end to this endless endeavor

Little by little, inching along
in this house of myth
knowing the choice
could lead
to nowhere

Senses and signs amplified

While every movement leads
to something, somewhere
still every choice
could lead
to nowhere
            but here

Somewhere
there's a doorway leading out of here
Rooted indecision
my shadow runs right by

Trapped in
this maze
of mirrors and hallways

 

IV. Caressing the Silence

instrumental

V. Liminal Passage

Interpreting observing the layers divide
witnessing the witness inside
All of these systems of these systems of these systems
in design within design
Transformation of a dream
the symbols are manifesting

A voice speaks out, familiar yet unknown
Never mind, just throw the stones

Wading through the journey
yearning cataclysmic fate
to fade the will
in through this liminal passage
to experience myself
beyond me

A voice calls out
familiar yet unknown
Within or without?
The quest is shown

This mind-body change
            This mind-body change
            This mind-body change

Self becomes other
Self becomes other

Understanding who we are
the journey leads to this place
Understanding how we’re drawn into the core
Understanding who we are
the journey leads to this place
Understanding why we’ve come this far

A voice cries out
familiar yet unknown
Reveals to me
the source I’ve known
All along, discovering
What has always been calling

This mind-body change
            This mind-body change
            This mind-body change

Strength in understanding
Identity known
The lesson's learned
Questioning existence
As boundaries blur

Safe for now

 

VI. Leafless

Something is missing so close to home
Are we pretending?
Carefully following the routine of going through the motions

I fall away like leaves

Lifting your soul   –   to follow   –   Looking into my heart
Wanting to breathe   –   deeply
Watching the sea   –   it's silent   –   After all has been done and gone
Loving your tree   –   it's hollow
Drinking your tea   –   it's leafless   –   Looking into our hearts

Always

Calculating what to say, day to day
Measured responses
Finding myself amongst what remains
Leaving the comforts

I fall away like leaves

Lifting your soul   –   to follow   –   Looking into your heart
Wanting to breathe   –   deeply
Watching the sea   –   it's silent   –   After all has been done and gone
Loving your tree   –   it's hollow
Drinking your tea   –   it's leafless   –   Looking into our hearts

 

VII. Astral Peak

Atmospheric ocean
of light in time
Automatic motion
to converge
upon
this form

Shimmering, vibrant cord of silver
Intermittent sounds
Tingling sense
Immense and subtle
Phasing in and out

Navigating centers of gravity
intensify to guide
this whole tide in orbit
Coalescence of connectivity
Approaching new constellations
residual, scintillating, passing waves

As the world spins through time-space curvatures
Surfacing tunnels that emerge
Lead the path to these Astral Peaks
While Atlas dances with light
While Atlas dances with light

Laughing and crying
Seeking and hiding
Losing and finding
Falling and flying
Loving and hating
Giving and taking
Living and dying
Sleeping and waking
Ways we aim to get here

Astral Peak

Being and doing
Coming and going
Fleeing and fighting
Thinking and knowing
Pushing and pulling
Healing and aching
Living and dying
Sleeping and waking
Moves we make to get here

Counting all these grains
            falling through the glass

Breaking through the cover
            climbing up to hover
                        high above the rest

Arriving at the zenith
            right before another
                        appears just ahead

Harmonic blossoming: the vibration of all this light

At Zero hour

Astral Peak
Astral Peak

Just continue on
            on the continuum

Go
far enough
           to the edge
                        to touch the bounds

 

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Release date: 09/2007