The Ice Choir - Ice Choir

Spared of good tidings, not dressed in ribbons of gold

I’m gathering winter’s gifts untold

A vibrating crystal;

frost-whipped and singing through air

Wait not for me love, i won’t be there

Feel now for the heartbeat, feel now for the pulse

Look now, brittle treetops, look now, frozen pond…

(can you see yourself?)

I will sing the ice choir, oh transient defeat

Lifeless world, my heart aches like the wind through empty streets

Crushed and degraded, and mapped to the black and the white

Descending like snow, O' holy night

You were the whisper, beside the hardening fear;

We’ll melt to the language of the spheres

Feel now for the heartbeat, feel now for the pulse

Look now, brittle treetops, look now, frozen pond…

(can you see yourself?)

I have joined the ice choir

Contracted in the cold

I will sing the aria when all the birds have flown

Now we are the ice choir

In hibernating pose

To listen for the crack of spring or push against the rose…

(Can you see yourself?)