A preview of the new recordings Sassafrass is currently working on, to create a new album of our non-Norse music with audio quality as good as "Sundown." This track is included as an extra with the digital songbook.
lyrics
Caravan on the dune-side,
Thundering comes the war-ride
Wild as the dragon, fierce as the dying flame.
Charging on through the deep night,
Blood and steel in the ghost-light
When you are riding, do you still call my name?
Riding the river of sand with a sword in your
Hand as the womb of the desert becomes the dawn
And the dying night screams, like my voice in your
Dreams, goading, leading you on like the firebrand
Shimmering on the dune-side,
Cold as steel in the ghost-light.
Bright as the suns come, all of them pass away.
Flesh on flesh where the night gleams,
Soul on soul where the sand dreams
Only one light remains, with the death of day
Two, then one, then everything
Falling where the frozen sand
Shatters and the desert flesh bleeds
Memories still falling like rain
Upon a
Firebrand on the dune-side,
Leading on to a new sight.
Rare as the water, dangerous as the day.
You and I always see through
What the world never dares do,
You on your westward, I on my eastward way.
Down the river of sand with a sword in your
Hand, as the sun comes & beckons your heart away
And the wealth of the west sets its lure in your
Chest, irresistible prey, like a caravan
Panicking in the thunder,
Rich in blood, rich in plunder.
Bright as the suns come, all of them go the same.
Take your west as a lover, tire of her, take another;
When you are dying, mine is the soul you name.
Riding farther each from each
Other, ever leaving the
Desert and the caravans too
Far to hear them calling my name
(But dream / on dream) I stay your firebrand.
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