And I came to mid stride
With a limp in my step and the sun in my eyes
Withered and dry
I collapse in the cold as I follow a trail of footprints in the snow
They look like my own
But I couldn’t know
My memories blacker than ravens and crows
So what do I do
Alone and confused
Walking a desert without any shoes
Oh what I would do for some water and food
Fan out my feathers and fly out this coup
But I’ve nowhere to go so I follow this trail of footprints in the snow
-
Tripping on daylight
But I walk the line
I want to be where the sun doesn’t shine
I don’t know the time
The sky doesn’t move
I’m chilled to the bone as I’m broken and blue
Snow in a desert of questions and clues
Follow the footsteps with nothing to lose
With nothing to do
I survey the sight
Blank as a canvas
Endless and white
Empty as air
There’s nothing in sight
Except for my shadow, darker than night
It never leaves
The only thing here with me I can believe
A silhouette silently following me
Whispering nothing and sounding as sweet
Giving directions and taking the lead
Pointing his finger at somewhere to be, what?
-

Did I see what I see?
I must delirious; it couldn’t be
The shadow is stepping along with my feet but its moving its body and waving at me
I can’t shake the breeze
I can’t shake the feeling I’m being deceived
Like this is a dream, and I’ve been asleep
like a bird in a cage that fate never released
But I see what I see
The shadow is staining the snow at my feet
Blacker than pitch, I’m almost relieved to discover the shadow can speak
Says, “hi, I’ve been watching you
It’s about high time for our rendezvous
I’m overdue, for my big debut
You look confused, but you’ll get it soon (I promise)”

- (3:21)

I have nowhere to go so I follow this trail of footprints in the snow
I have nowhere to go so I follow this trail of footprints in the snow
I have nowhere to go so I follow this trail of footprints in the snow
I have nowhere to go so I follow this trail of footprints in the snow

-

What’s wrong, cat’s got your tongue?
Jaw-dropped, awe-struck, blind, deaf, and dumb
Like death stole air right out your lungs
As you’re trying to disentangle the web we’ve spun
Oh come now, I’m no ghost
Won’t haunt the nightmare you self-impose
Don’t want what’s right there beneath your nose?
Only one that might care is me, your host
I’m Shadow

- (4:08)

I am suffering a paranoid delusion
You’re the pink elephant in the corner of my room
I have fallen under guile of an incredible illusion
And I’m falling shorter still of really what the fuck to do
Ankle-deep in a flurry of white winter
Frozen by the circumstance, staring at the snow
My shadow mentions that we’re expecting a blizzard
And I’ll surely meet the end if I get stuck out here alone

- (5:05)

I swallow my tongue
And choke on the breath I gasp into my lungs
Before I know it I’ve started to run
And I’m running but what is it I’m running from?

Hot damn, what a piece of work
This no man’s land got your feelings hurt
Don’t go berserk, just take it easy
Let’s shoot the breeze, believe you need me

Tell me what you are
How do you know me and where did we start
My memories fractured and fallen apart
Though I’m curious don’t think I’m dropping my guard

Oh don’t play coy with me
Do this dance with death so lonesomely
Show of hands! Who’s what their supposed to be?
No one, like we all are supposedly
(No one, there’s no one here do you fucking get it?)

(Stop!)
A zephyr swoops in from above
An oracular Raven whose speaking in tongues
He sunk his claws into my flesh
As I’m bleeding he opens his mouth and he says:

“We put faith in the fool
For passion, not purpose
Your body is only a tool
So use it, and flourish”

“Life is a generous critic
Death is a witness, death is a witness”

And the bird flew away
Speaking a language that man couldn’t make
Tearing the skin from my body and bone
I succumb to a vision of fire and smoke
Over the mountain, billowing black, higher than heaven
Just follow the tracks
Over the mountain, billowing black, higher than heaven
Just follow the tracks

- (6:45)

It’s starting to snow
Just like the shadow had mentioned before

It’s cool, just ride the snake
Two fools wide-eyed riding wide-awake

A blizzard is coming and Mary be damned if I die in this desert alone

Its two tickets to the magic show
Death defying; redefining magical

-

The footsteps are fading away
Not unlike a trail of tears in the rain

Twist both those kaleidoscopes
And fest your eyes on the mountainside!

I am David and this is Goliath
Welcome to the art of battling Giants
I am David, the mountains Goliath
This is the art of battling Giants
And I have no experience battling Giants
And I am unschooled in the art of battling Giants

It aint the monster that you have to conquer
For at the top of the mountain is the bottom of another

And I climbed the summit with bare and calloused hands and feet and nothing else and stood atop the peak to find a fire so large it melts the snow
The Great Raven is present and pecking the flesh it stole from my body between its talons
It motions me over to the fire and beckons me to jump into the flame and be reborn or don’t and return to the footsteps leading down the other mountainside and into the cold

So what do you think?

Oh you want my opinion?

Admittedly we’re pretty in sync

Learn to trust your intuition

I could still walk away

And just where do you think you’ll go?

Too comfortable to make a change

And that’s why you follow a trail of footprints in the snow

Throw yourself in the fire