Nine Lights from The Wound by Vulning

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3.	Nine Lights	9:56

Lyrics

Dreamer of the dead
Fast, soft to your brow
This image of the end
This storm of light surrounds

Passage and burial breathe
Failure and yours entwine
Like stone and indemnity
And make faithful chains with time

The acme of your entropy
The blood of the sleeping world
The death that you swallow
Bathed in the bleakness and noise

You spent a lifetime adrift in the void
And the silence of it grew roots in your heart (in your heart)
But the crying whistles and carries like a song
Over the crags of our cairns, we sing our part

I don’t know
If dawn will come alone
But I know
The stars will always light my way back home
And I don’t know
If dawn will come at all
But I know
The stars will always light my way back home

Nine lights ascend to crown
This empty house
Nine lights ascend to crown
This empty house

Nine lights ascend to crown
This empty house
(You can save your life)
Nine lights ascend to crown
This empty house
(You can save your life)

Nine lights ascend to crown
(You can save your life)
This empty house
(You can save your life)
Nine lights ascend to crown
(You can save your life)
This empty house
(You can save your life)

And I had a vision;
My entire body, emptied
And a white dressed man
Lay hands on me silently
And I was lifted to the sky
And the sky was white and red
I said “my verse is ending”
He said “now is not the time for rest”

He said “child, my child, my daughter
I wasn’t born to be your father
But I took you out from the void
And the silence of honor
And I washed you of the amniotic fluid
Of your dreaming mother
Now is not the time for rest”
And I woke up, baptized in blood and sweat

The gravity of unfeeling eyes
My words dissolve before they reach you
Something precious, something real
Left hanging in between us

Body undone, bleeding sun
Breath and belief
Holy denial, locked inside
But I’m not yours anymore

May shrouded cold north winds cure this brother
This barren womb fetid, breathing, alone
Still bone-wrought, lost pilgrim upon the path
May this ache keep his heart beating, that dawn may come

Dawn may come
That dawn may come

Credits

from The Wound, released July 4, 2025

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