Echoes on the ice
Echoes on the ice – Song and lyrics
[Verse 1]
White breath
On blue air
I call your hidden name
Into the hollow sky
My voice
Cracks like river ice
Carving old lines
Through the stone of my chest
[Chorus]
(Hei-yo) I call
You answer from the mountain
(ha-ya, ha-ya) far and small
Like a fire in the snow
(Hei-yo) I call
Your echo climbs inside me
(ha-ya, ha-ya) rise and fall
Till my bones begin to glow
[Verse 2]
Low throat
Like grinding rock
I sing the shape
Of your shadow on the ridge
Your song
Returns in overtones
Thin and bright
Like antlers in the dusk
[Chorus]
(Hei-yo) I call
You answer from the mountain
(ha-ya, ha-ya) far and small
Like a fire in the snow
(Hei-yo) I call
Your echo climbs inside me
(ha-ya, ha-ya) rise and fall
Till my bones begin to glow
[Bridge]
[Voices answer from far left and right
Staggered echoes]
Ho-loi
Ho-loi
Names older than our tongue
Yo-lei
Yo-lei
We breathe them
We become
[Chorus]
(Hei-yo) I call
You answer from the mountain
(ha-ya, ha-ya) far and small
Like a fire in the snow
(Hei-yo) I call
Your echo climbs inside me
(ha-ya, ha-ya) rise and fall
Till my bones begin to glow
