Beast Rider - Panopticon

Foot left the road

By the temperance river

Superior ringing dreams

She passed through valleys

Upon scalloped hills

Now thick as the aspen woods

Winter was short

Abnormally dry

Snowfall had been so slight

The sun had set

Yet the journey she made

Under the Northern Lights

But the cabin wasn’t far

For a drunkard

So she followed the guide of the stars

The thaw had been early

But not a stitch of green

And the fear grew in her heart

She stumbled through the spruce

Turned a blind corner

Just shy of a cabin up the way

There it stood

Like a tall dark shadow

Bringer of her last day

Morning came;

They scoured the woods

But there was neither sight nor sound

And to this day

There are no remains

A wallet is all they found

But if you listen

Between the waves

There echoes her last breath drawn

Under the northern lights

By the temperance river

She rides that beast into the dawn