Track Insight / Lyrics
I drank the griffin's black ichor
Salt dried in my fuller's groove
Dawn paints the attic floor gold now
No monster left to prove
Whetstone sings its low litany
Arc and angle, breath and steel
Every notch a psalm of survival
Every shine a wound healed
Rag traces the curve I was forged for
Cotton catches on old nicks
Cat school medallion catches light
Iron faith in fingertip tricks
Whetstone sings its low litany
Arc and angle, breath and steel
Every notch a psalm of survival
Every shine a wound healed
Vesemir's voice in the winter yard
"Hold the angle, hold the line"
Thirty winters in my spine now
Morning geometry divine
No chantry bell calls me to matins
No censer swings in cedar smoke
Only bodhrán heart in the rafters
Only rooster crow and oak
Silver prays in a different tongue
Hymns hammered on the anvil face
Each stroke forgives the night's work
Each stroke reads mercy as grace
Whetstone sings its low litany
Arc and angle, breath and steel
Every notch a psalm of survival
Every shine a wound healed
Roof window frames the pale blue world
Dust motes ride the blade's long edge
I am clean and I am ready
For whatever walks the hedge
Whetstone sings its low litany
Arc and angle, breath and steel
Every notch a psalm of survival
Every shine a wound healed
Voices rise in rough unison
Silver catches every syllable
We are forged and we are faithful
Morning steel makes miracles
Oil cloth folded, job done
Light rides the length of me