Terry O'Leary - The Mighty Eye in a Brief Eclipse of Time lyrics

Umpteen billion years Big Bang, supernova, gas Brief eclipse of time Gases swirling, fall Sun and planets, water, life Brief eclipse of time Another billion goo, amoeba, fishes swim Brief eclipse of time Movement, changes, flux slither, crawl, climb, walk and talk Brief eclipse of time Ra, Sol, Helios, Mithra and the Mighty Eye Brief eclipse of time Life begins and ends birth, joy, laugh, cry, d**h, and dust Brief eclipse of time Waves cleave sea, shore, sky enfolding, watching, listening Brief eclipse of time The Mighty Eye - unfocused, stained, diffuse - began to slip and slowly sink, while frizzled waves imbibed her searing tears, with salted languid lips The Mighty Eye was weary, thin, peering through the frozen cracks, as some straying clouds, bloated, floated feebly by and waxed their billowed tracks upon the heated sky, and cooled the rush of rolling waves beneath the blotted sky The waves, they hung in time and space before me, - gently tumbling aging pebbles and lifeless shells across the shifting sands - seemed unaware as they once again began to veil the Mighty Eye, to close the Mighty Eye, to blind the Mighty Eye Or perhaps they really didn't care For, as the frazzled froth is rushing forward, slowly toward the sandy shores beyond, to retreat and then to rush ahead again, eternally, it matters little if the Mighty Eye casts her blazing glance from high above, or else retires for the night, kissed by liquid lips of distant faithless waves... in a brief eclipse of time The trees, they hung in time and space behind me - trees... which in time before had swayed, gently tugged by ocean breezes, trees... which in time before were lightly lit with emerald leaves, trees... which in time before had reached to space above with leafy fingers, grasping fingers, clutching fingers, fingers drenched with golden tears shed by the Mighty Eye The trees, they hung in time and space, frozen motionless behind me, - chilled with rooted premonitions of the void - their fingers clutching darkness and their leaves foreboding doom The muted winds began to whisper tales of many frightened things, which, with mournful apprehension, had ceased their joyful play And all the while dank shadows gaily danced a dismal dance, for their time was soon to come The fitful shore was suddenly still Unfeeling stones and hollow shells, were paused a little, stalled, and dropped haphazardly, midst mindless random journey, and abandoned by the sea For fickle waves had slipped away to greet a falling prey And as the Mighty Eye drooped lower, laminated molten lips pursed and puckered higher, s**ing in the sky Within a trice the Mighty Eye was swollen red, perhaps tormented by the thoughts of premature demise, or being lashed beneath a lid of distant faithless waves And as a dying flash dissolved, two lurid lips arose, three lusty lips... a thousand parted limpid lips which, quickly, though with little haste, consumed the Mighty Eye The trees were then but lurking shades amongst the murky shadows Relentless fog seeped slowly by, her floating tongues dripped silence as she pa**ed The lacerated savage lips had once again returned to kiss the vacant vapid shores... in a brief eclipse of time