Lone Tree Domain Lyrics

(Lyrics: Jaime Torres) The day couldn’t find a semblance of respite Nor the mantle of light could bring the colors back The sight that met the eye, what the gaze revealed A lingering vastness, a land with no sound And amid this barren land, a tree Tall and proud, yet incomplete Its branches scratching aimlessly A shell hardened by time Roots that no longer know their ground Oblivious to the life that lies around When was then, the time it lost its grip? The moment when the eyes were turned within So deep, they never found their way out? The moment when the Other was cast out, To become a still life Yet left to die Now its domain is fading, It’s sinking in the grey No wind blows No breeze to feel The Silence. The Void. Memories that wither as they dwindle with the leaves Senses that are crippled as if trapped beneath the stones Memories that wither from an age left in the white Senses that are crippled as the soil enfolds all life The will to forget The will to dissolve The will to lift the weight of the world The quicksand below The graceless fall The embrace of the abyss The call of the void Upon the timeless hill it waits Engulfed in muteness and decay “Lightly, lightly a wind starts to blow. Lightly still, the wind goes away. And I don’t know what I think and have no wish to know”* *Adapted from Fernando Pessoa’s The Keeper of Sheep