Hinterlander | "Tethers"

Written and produced by Cory Graff

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Good times make weak men
Weak men make hard times
Hard times make strong men
Strong men make good times

And I....

Habitual hunger, harken back
Deep down, inherently
Fragments of fractal memories
Blood, mind, subconsciously

Ancestral echos stir my soul
Reverberate inside
The whispers of my ancient folk
In their resonance confide

Gravitation toward the source
An ethereal, mystic pull
Celts, Gauls, Proto-Norse
Born dyed in the wool

(They were who we are)

Deepening memory
Oceans of sound
Tethers of time
A knot un-bound

Wind, rain, toil, cold
The scorned scholars of our past
Cast to abyss modern blindness
And the scales fall at last

Amalgamation DNA
Your turn on earth in present day
Trials old, versions new
Encoded lessons guide us through

Transmuted code from those before
Who lived and died through love and war
The cyphers sewn in suffering...
Embrace the pain, give offerings!

(We are who they were)

Connections, expansions
The hot current flows
(Do you remember?)
Bondage is severed
As new circuits close

Visions of fractals
Orange, purple and green
Tethers maintaining
The distance between

What I am and what they were
Finally I understand how
The past never happened
The future is now