Starry Secrets from Small Flames by Dylan Blackthorn

This song came to me as I was traveling with a group of mystic philosopher artists and musicians from Oakland, California to Anchorage, Alaska. Although we resembled a school bus full of hippies at first glance, we were of a considerably more occult mindset. We traveled through the Yukon, visiting hot springs, making friends along the way, and I was working an acoustic black metal shadow puppet show entitled the Saga of the Burning Face Ork Tribe, with a little help from my wyrd friends. Upon arriving in Alaska during the height of Summer, it became apparent that the Sun would never truly set. The stars would keep their secrets, for a time, as lingering twilight drew on for hours, until the tail-end of the sunset became the dawn. Our ultimate adventure happened at Boot's Bison Ranch, MutantFestAK, a sparsely attended experimental music festival on the fringes of true Alaskan wilderness near Trapper Creek, Alaska. I would return to that same spot years later, performing as part of the Trapper Creek Bluegrass Festival - a bluegrass festival where yes, there are banjos, fiddles, guitars, mandolins, even upright bases - but no bluegrass music to be seen or heard! I highly recommend it, and accordions are welcome.

Tracklist

13.	Starry Secrets	8:11

Lyrics

The stars are keeping their secrets tonight
Veiled by gray clouds, the laughing goddess spins
The cosmic loom (womb) weaves (leaves) the roots of the tree ov life
Through this darkness shines an unseen light
WE TRACE THE SIGN WE TRACE THE SIGN
WITH THE BLOOD AND THEN THE WINE
AWAIT WITH SHINING KNIVES, THE KILLING OV TIME
Gird your heart, within serpent’s body coil’d
Black dragon scales blooded & oil’d
Our smile a mask in a foreign land
Release flows from the broken hand
WE TRACE THE SIGN WE TRACE THE SIGN
WITH THE BLOOD AND THEN THE WINE
AWAIT WITH SHINING KNIVES, THE KILLING OV TIME
The stars are weeping, we are weeping tonight
Veiled by gray clouds, the laughing god cries out
Peals of mirth that haunt this place from the depths inside
Pointed daggers drawn towards the infinite
WE TRACE THE SIGN, WE TRACE THE SIGN,
WITH THE BLOOD AND THE WINE
AWAIT WITH SHINING LIVES
THE KILLING OV TIME

Credits

from Small Flames, released April 1, 2021
Written and composed by Dylan Blackthorn
Produced by Dylan Blackthorn
Recorded, mixed, & mastered by Matt Smith at 6-String Ranch studio in Austin, Texas.
Dylan Blackthorn - lead vocal, accordion
Samantha Blackthorn - flute
Dr. $ick - fiddle, guitar, musical saw, percussion
Tom Crail - bass

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