Celestine

from Live In Session Spring 2009 by Alchemeon

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Celestine by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.

* Celestine is a song of several parts.
* Sometimes it seems to be in the key of B minor, other times G major.
* In the end it resolves to D major.
* Celestine is an Alchemeon exclusive, having not been performed by the Spacegoats, nor any of the Masters of Drone bands such as Now or Laughing Sun.

lyrics

CELESTINE
Celestine they make their way
Brothers to the water
To cleanse the crystal in the head
Still in silent laughter

The drop into the forehead
Silver people roam
To lace the time
With story rhyme
And drink the river’s daughter
Drink the river’s daughter

Oh! La la la la…

Pyramids inside the mind
They walk the crystalline
To trade their scarlet thoughts for talk
All wisdoms from the grail

Tower stands against the sky
The people are not there
Stone’s old voice speaks of an age
The brothers hear and reel amazed
The brothers hear and reel amazed

Oh! La la la la...

Wind through stone
Your eyes and your ears
Our time has come
Wonder begun

Wind through stone
Your eyes and your ears
The time has come
Wonder begun
Wonder, wonder

Now to be
Now to be
Now to be
Now to be
Now to be

La la la la la …

credits

from Live In Session Spring 2009, released September 14, 2020
Original release date: 10th April 2009

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 22nd February 2009.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1993 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/celestine
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