…Let every tacit ego
Of the son, and its inert
Gate, cure none and only none
Other than what the power
Of Qì may unite for all
Humankind to find a longed
And divined hymn of a rind.
Amidst the silence, it spoke;
Splitting darkness into light.
Through shades of grey, hazy smoke,
Clasher and his dreams unite.
Through cogitation, he knew
That, in his own quietude,
His fire would render all bliss.
His mind was a conduit
Starving for the freedom to
Integrate blissful doings.
No such idleness would cease
Him from synthesizing with
A state of self that put his
Conflagration above all.
The truth reigned warmth, as the sun
Consoled and shined a light that
Guided him to honesty.
The road that could take him to
A place only he would find.
Because everybody’s sun
Gleams a different color.
A festering condition,
Frivolous and turbulent,
Once inhabited his life.
Renouncement of the cancer;
Drifting away from the shore
Whilst friends and foes alike are
Left out to dry with the rest.
Forces sway us left and right
But equanimity is
To be strived for in this life.
When the world called, he answered
And coalesced his passion,
The embers of the soul, with
A frigid, aphotic, sky.
By cogitating true bliss,
Integrating happiness,
Being honest to himself,
Renouncing shallowness, and
Seeking equanimity,
He could find true harmony.
It's now your turn, your time to…
about
Hymn of a Rind is Clockwork in Action's first full-length concept album--one grandiose song, encompassing over ten genres, with an apparent conceptual intricacy greater than anything you've ever heard of before as well as a paralleling work of poetry that compliments the music and seals the deepest parts of the concept firmly in place while leaving an abundance of space for interpreting that which is ambiguous.
credits
released July 7, 2012
Drum sound by Ney Mello. Produced, composed, arranged, recorded, and performed by Charles Augustine.
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